And the media got worked up into a tizzy over nothing…
From the Massachusetts US Attorney’s Office:
An MS-13 member was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 15-year-old boy in East Boston.
Joel Martinez, a/k/a “Animal,” 23, a Salvadoran national formerly residing in East Boston,...
Maxine Thompson, a 70-year-old grandmother, heard sounds in the night and found a man climbing through a smashed window into her home.
The alleged intruder was greeted by a very angry—and armed—Thompson, whose son is a Philadelphia police officer. Thompson shot him in the arm, and the suspect fled on foot...
A man wearing only a green jacket shot up a Waffle House in Tennessee, killing four people and wounding several others. The suspect has been identified as 29-year-old Travis Reinking from Illinois. Police state that they are currently unaware of a motive, but “suspect some mental issues.”
After being disarmed by a...
A Brooklyn, NY postal worker has been arrested and “charged with knowingly holding onto mail.” Police found 17,000 piece so undelivered mail, some dating back to 2005.
The New York Daily News reports:
Postman Aleksey Germash dumped upwards of 17,000 pieces of mail instead of bringing them to the right addresses, authorities...
A 13 year old Virginia girl is in big trouble for giving a false report to police about a man ripping off her headscarf and calling her a terrorist.
After a months-long investigation, ICE and the IRS raided a Tennessee meatpacking plant whose owners are suspected of hiring illegal aliens to avoid paying payroll taxes.
Federal agents raided a Bean Station, Tennessee slaughterhouse Thursday after a months-long probe into allegations the owners were...
Christopher Thomas, the perpetrator of the infamous “Palm Sunday Massacre” that left ten people dead, has been released from prison. In 1984, Thomas slaughtered these people, eight of whom were children, for reasons still unknown.
The fiend behind one of the most infamous mass shootings in city history...
While the German police struggle to take back control of their streets, the Merkel government has been “concerned by the situation in Gaza.” The German Foreign Ministry called for “resumption of negotiations to find a solution that would be suitable to all people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.”
This week,...
What in the world is going on at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School?
Tuesday, two students were arrested for bringing weapons to school (one brought a knife, the other brought a razor), a third was arrested for making threats on Snapchat, and a Broward County deputy assigned to patrol the high school...
Last month, Kemberlee asked, What in the world is going on with the Broward County Sheriff’s Department?, and this week we learn that Broward Country school officials and at least one sheriff’s deputy recommended in September 2016 that...
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, an illegal immigrant who had been deported numerous times and was a convicted felon, was acquitted of murder by a San Francisco jury in the July, 2015 fatal shooting of Kate Steinle while she was walking along the city’s famous pier with...
Reading reports of so many high-profile murders by teenagers, it’s not unusual for people to assume that there’s been a big increase in killings by young people, both murder and suicide. But statistics tell a much more complex story.
To the question of whether there been a rise in teen suicide, the...
The New York Times has experienced an amazing epiphany: Sweden’s open-door policy to refugees from Muslim countries has created a crisis of violence and crime in Sweden. While they myopically attribute this crisis to “gangs,” they do dabble with the idea that integration of foreign nationals into the existing socio-cultural framework...
The latest Florida school shooting is not just tragic, but as one reader pointed out, atrocious. Atrocious because every law enforcement agency involved ignored eleventy billion (approximately) red flags.
As more information becomes available, it’s looking more and more like there are some serious problems within the Broward County Sherrif’s department....
The corruption of Mexican law enforcement has long been known, and it looks like little has changed. Four Mexican police officers have been arrested on charges related to the abduction of three Italians.
Apparently, the police officers in question were ordered—possibly by the dangerous Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)—to abduct and deliver...
The Florida school shooting story gets worse.
According to the Sun Sentinel, Deputy Scot Peterson resigned Thursday.
After video surfaced, corroborating witness reports confirming the absence of Peterson’s involvement an investigation was initiated Wednesday and Peterson was suspended without pay.
Back in November, Kemberlee reported on Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) being attacked so severely by his neighbor that Paul suffered broken ribs.
The neighbor, Rene A. Boucher, has been charged with—and intends to plead guilty to—assaulting a member of Congress resulting in personal injury. While the charge carries a maximum sentence of...
