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Did an alert retired cop just thwart another Fort Hood massacre?

Did an alert retired cop just thwart another Fort Hood massacre?

LA Times
July 28, 2011 |  2:26 pm
 
 
 

A Fort Hood headquarters building

Texas police say a newly-arrested Muslim American Army private has admitted planning to attack fellow troops at the famous Fort Hood Army base in Killeen.

Following a tip from a suspicious retired policeman now working at a local gun shop, Killeen police arrested Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo Wednesday during a traffic stop.Pfc Naser Jason Abdo booking photo 7-28-11

He'll likely face federal charges after FBI agents found a large amount of bomb-making materials in his hotel room not far from the base.

The 21-year-old had gone AWOL from Fort Campbell, Kentucky after refusing deployment to Afghanistan on religious grounds and then being charged with possession of child pornography during his discharge process.

Kileen is the site of Fort Hood, scene of the 2009 massacre of 13 military personnel. Another American Muslim soldier, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, has been charged with those killings. He faces the death penalty if found guilty in a trial set to begin in early 2012.

"Thanks to quick action by a Texas gun dealer in alerting local police to a suspicious character," Rep. John Carter said today, "and a prompt and vigorous response by the Killeen Police Department, we may well have averted a repeat of the tragic 2009 radical Islamic terror attack on our nation's largest military installation."

Abdo appeared in a local gunshop Tuesday afternoon, according to Greg Ebert, a retired police officer now working there. Ebert said Abdo purchased shotgun shells, a magazine and six one-pound canisters of gunpowder.

But he then asked Ebert numerous questions indicating little knowledge of the gunpowder.

"That's a red flag for me," Ebert said. "He should know" if he's buying that much. Ebert checked with his boss and then alerted police.

In the hotel room police say they also found uniforms with Fort Hood patches, battery-powered clocks and shrapnel.

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Man dressed like armored truck guard walks out of store with $15k

Thief dresses like armored truck guard -- and walks out of Queens check-cashing spot with $15K

Joe Kemp
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, July 28th 2011, 4:00 AM

A man disguised as an armor truck guard said he was at the Queens check-cashing spot for a pickup. He walked off with $15,000.
 
NYPD
 
A man disguised as an armor truck guard said he was at the Queens check-cashing spot for a pickup. He walked off with $15,000.

 

A clever crook, dressed as an armored truck guard, waltzed out of a Queens check-cashing joint last week with almost $15,000 in cash, cops said.

After stepping into Lorenzo's Enterprises on 31st St. in Astoria about 10:15 a.m. Friday, the disguised bandit said he was there for a pickup and was given the load of cash, police said.

The employees never suspected the man, who was clad in a GARDA Armored Courier uniform, was a thief.

It wasn't until a few hours later, when an actual guard from the same armored truck company arrived for the cash, that the workers realized they had been had, cops said.

But the suspect - a Hispanic male, believed to be in his early 30s - was long gone. Police are investigating whether the man is a former employee or has other ties to the armored truck company.

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Brothers attack pilot at airport after getting booted off plane

Thug brothers, Jonathan and Luis Baez, attack pilot at Miami airport after getting booted off plane

 

Philip Caulfield
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, July 28th 2011, 2:26 PM

Jonathan and Luis Baez were arrested for attacking an American Airlines pilot who kicked one of them off the plane for appearing to be drunk or high.
 
Miami-Dade Department of Corrections
 
Jonathan and Luis Baez were arrested for attacking an American Airlines pilot who kicked one of them off the plane for appearing to be drunk or high.
 
A pair of thuggish brothers brutally attacked an American Airlines pilot after he kicked one of them off a plane for being passed out drunk, officials said.

Jonathan and Luis Baez, both of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, were arrested at Miami International Airport on Wednesday night for the assault, which left the pilot bruised and bloodied and delayed the San Francisco-bound flight more than two hours.

The scuffle started after a flight attendant noticed that Jonathan Baez, 27, had passed out without buckling his seat belt as the plane pulled away from the gate.

The attendant tried to wake Baez, but he was groggy and appeared plastered on booze or high on drugs, cops said.

After the attendant told the crew that Baez wouldn't buckle up, the pilot stopped taxiing and turned around, cops said.

When Baez finally came to, the attendant told him he had to get off the plane.

"He was apparently barely compliant at that point," American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said. "He was exhibiting symptoms of intoxication. He was not walking well when he went up the aisle."

Luis Baez, 29, decided to follow his brother, and the two screamed obscenities at the pilot.

"When you fly to San Juan, I will have you killed," one of the goons shouted, according to police.

Crew members escorted the brothers off the plane, but Jonathan ran back, punched the pilot in the face and then punched a female flight attendant who tried to step in, cops said.

Luis then joined in the vicious beatdown, and the two hoodlums chased the pilot into the terminal, cops said.

Eventually, some passengers and crew members tackled the brothers and held them down until police arrived.

"There was a scuffle … so about three or four of us went out there and tackled the guys," passenger Ken Venting told KGO television. "So we just did what we needed to do to help out."

The Miami-based pilot was cut up, bruised and shaken after the attack, police said.

Another pilot showed up, and the 176 passengers and six crew members took off for San Francisco at around 11:30 p.m., two hours after the scheduled take off.

Jonathan and Luis Baez were held at Miami-Dade County jail on $9,000 bond and $12,500 bond on assault and battery charges.

"I think it's fair to say that both these gentlemen won't be flying with us again," Smith said.

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Officials fear for babies born to oxycodone addicts

Officials fear for infants born to prescription drug addicts

Steve Turnham and Amber Lyon
CNN Investigative Unit
July 27, 2011 3:13 p.m. EDT
 
Two-month-old Casey got a clean bill of health after her mother, Jessica, stopped using drugs late in her pregnancy.
 
Two-month-old Casey got a clean bill of health after her mother, Jessica, stopped using drugs late in her pregnancy.
 
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Hundreds of Florida babies have been born addicted to drugs
  • Infants "go through withdrawal symptoms," nurse says
  • Government says prescription drug abuse is nation's fastest-growing drug problem
  • Mothers are often reluctant to seek help
 
(CNN)-- According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription drug overdose deaths in Florida are up a staggering 265% since 2003. But it's not just the deaths that have Florida officials worried; it's the births.

"We saw the number of crack babies that died, and this is just another version of that," Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti said. "We all need to be concerned."

According to state health records, 635 Florida babies were born addicted to prescription drugs in the first half of 2010 alone. South Florida doctors and intensive care nurses report an dramatic uptick in babies born hooked on pills that their mothers abused while pregnant.

"They go through withdrawal symptoms," said Mary Osuch, the head nurse at Broward General Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit. "They're crampy, miserable. They sweat. They can have rapid breathing. Sometimes, they can even have seizures."

According to the White House Office on Drug Control Policy, prescription drug abuse is the nation's fastest-growing drug problem.

Marsha Currant, who runs the Susan B. Anthony Recovery Center near Fort Lauderdale, says prescription drug addiction overtook crack in 2009 as the main problem afflicting the pregnant women who are treated there.

"In the very beginning, it was really 100% crack cocaine," said Currant, who started keeping track of drug trends in 1995. "We see a lot more prescription drugs now."

Currant says new mothers who are hooked on prescription drugs are often reluctant to seek help for fear the authorities will take their babies from them.

"We wanted to have a place where women didn't have to chose between getting treatment and having their children go into foster care," she said.

Compounding the problem, women who are addicted to prescription drugs and find themselves pregnant cannot safely go off the drugs without medical supervision. They need to be weaned off slowly, or the baby will go into withdrawal in the womb.

At the Susan B. Anthony Center, one mother who became hooked on prescription drugs after her husband died says she felt her baby suffering while she was getting clean.

"I know that I'm going through stuff getting off the pills. So what's she going through? She can't talk. She's just a baby," Jessica said.

Thanks to the center, Jessica was weaned off oxycodone before her baby, Casey, was born. But she fears the long-term effects of her drug abuse on her daughter, who has been suffering from respiratory problems.

"I want to make sure that she doesn't hurt anymore," Jessica said. "She doesn't deserve that, because she's a princess."

Jessica graduated from the center's recovery program last week.

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Bank robbed by man in wheelchair

Ahwatukee bank robbed by man in wheelchair, police say

Matt Haldane - Jul. 26, 2011 09:48 PM
The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team

 

Police are looking for a man who used a wheelchair as part of a disguise just before robbing an Ahwatukee bank Tuesday morning, according to officials.

The robber rolled into the bank at about 10:30 a.m. and waited for customers to leave, according to Phoenix police. Once the customers were gone, the man got out of the wheelchair and used a handgun to demand money.

With the money in hand, the man fled on foot through a strip mall, leaving behind the wheelchair.

Police say they are looking for a 180-pound, Hispanic male in his late 20s or early 30s, about 5 feet, 7 to 9 inches.

During the burglary, the man was clean-shaven and wore sunglasses, a straw hat, a blue pinstriped dress shirt and jeans.

 

LINK TO VIDEO:

http://www.azcentral.com/video/1081506553001

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Man files lawsuit for his right to beg for maijuana money

Times Square 'weed man' files lawsuit for his right to beg for marijuana money

Scott Shifrel
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, July 26th 2011, 7:50 PM

Times Square's "weed man" Joshua Long, 30, filed a federal suit to protect his right to beg for money to buy marijuana Tuesday.
 
Jefferson Siegel for News
 
Times Square's "weed man" Joshua Long, 30, filed a federal suit to protect his right to beg for money to buy marijuana Tuesday.

The "Weed Man" of Times Square demands his constitutional right to beg.

Joshua Long - who carries a sign saying "Help! I need money for weed" - filed a federal suit Tuesday complaining that his First, Fourth and 14th Amendment rights have been violated by repeated arrests.

"Though the First Amendment protects Mr. Long's right to stand on the sidewalk with his sign, he has been, and continues to be, regularly and wrongfully, arrested, charged and harassed by police officers," the suit says.

"These arrests and other harassment have diminished Mr. Long's ability to lawfully beg in Times Square."

Long, 30, has been issued multiple summonses, arrested at least six times, pepper sprayed and harassed by cops, according to court papers in Manhattan Federal Court.

"He certainly has the right to stand on the sidewalk and ask for money," said Long's lawyer, Matthew Brinckerhoff. "I can only conclude that the police don't like his message."

Long is seeking a court order protecting Long's right to beg and unspecified damages and lawyer fees.

City officials declined comment pending receipt of the suit.

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