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This is me talking about Mexico. 5-21-25

These are reports about the cartels in Mexico.

The personal secretary and an adviser to Mexico City’s mayor have been shot dead by gunmen in a brazen daylight attack in a central part of the city. Mayor Clara Brugada called the murder of her personal secretary Ximena Guzmán and adviser José Muñoz a “direct attack”. The motive is under investigation, but Brugada promised that her government would “continue its relentless fight against insecurity”. The attack took place at about 7am on a busy road in the Moderna neighbourhood, near an entrance to the Xola metro station. Initial reports indicate that Muñoz was waiting in the street for Guzmán, who came to pick him up. Video from a security camera show a man in a white top and a motorbike helmet waiting by Guzmán’s car before he suddenly pulls out a pistol and starts firing – first at Muñoz, then Guzmán – before running off screen. He reportedly fled with a partner on a nearby motorbike. It had the hallmarks of an organised crime hit – incidents that are relatively rare in the capital. As mayor of Mexico City, Brugada holds one of the most powerful political posts in the country after President Claudia Sheinbaum, and they are allies in the Morena party. Sheinbaum condemned the killings and said during her morning press conference that there would not be impunity. Neither Guzmán nor Muñoz had a security detail, but Sheinbaum said she was not aware of any threats against them. Guzmán had worked with Brugada for years and was reportedly one of the people closest to her in government. At a press conference shortly after the attack, Brugada, dressed in black, paid tribute to the two victims in a strained voice.

Seven Mexican youths have been shot dead at a festivity organised by the Catholic Church in the central state of Guanajuato. Gunmen opened fire on a group of people who had stayed behind in the central square of the village of San Bartolo de Berrios after an event organised by the local parish. Eyewitnesses said the assailants had driven straight to the village square in the early hours of Monday and fired dozens of shots seemingly at random. The authorities have not yet said what the motive behind the shooting may have been but messages scrawled on signs left at several nearby locations appear to indicate it was carried out by the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel.

There was no further news of the pact for several months, until now. Disregarding the statements of an alleged member of Los Chapitos speaking to reporters, or the information revealed in a propaganda video disseminated by alleged criminals, might seem reasonable, mainly due to the opaque nature of their motivations. But this case is different. Late last week, the DEA confirmed the rumors, stating that “a strategic alliance between CJNG and Los Chapitos has the potential to expand these groups’ territories, resources, firepower, and access to corrupt officials, which could result in significant disruption to the existing balance of criminal power in Mexico.” This month thus appears as a kind of turning point in the war. Since May 5, clashes between the two sides, which had occurred mainly in the capital of Sinaloa, Culiacán, and the southern municipalities, have spread to the mountainous area north of the city. Trucks with armed men have circulated in broad daylight through municipalities like Guamuchil, and gunmen have exchanged fire in Choix and Badiraguato. Shots have reached the once peaceful municipality of Mocorito, known for its mining activity.

This is me talking about Mexico. 5-20-25

Drinking and then reports about due process.

A Mexican security consultant who recently did contract work for the U.S. State Department has been shot and killed in what appears to have been a cartel ambush at a restaurant in Guadalajara. The brazen killing took place Friday after 9 p.m. as the man, César Guzman, was dining with two fellow instructors with whom he had just completed a security and intelligence training course for police from Jalisco state, according to Arturo Fontes, a retired FBI agent who worked with Guzman. Fontes, in a message posted on LinkedIn, said he and Guzman over the past two years taught counter-drug classes to Mexican police officers for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement in Mexico City and Queretaro state. Carlos Amador, the former undersecretary of security for Hidalgo state, was also killed, Fontes said. A third instructor, Pablo Cajigal, the former secretary of security for Chihuahua state, is in critical condition. "They were true heroes — some of the bravest individuals I have ever known," Fontes wrote, saying that he had just celebrated Guzman's 50th birthday a week ago. Local news reports said the men were dining at a local taco joint when unidentified gunmen shot at them before fleeing in a red Nissan. According to the state prosecutor's office, in addition to the two deaths, a total of two men and two women were injured in the attack, which took place at about 9:49 p.m. in San Pedro Tlaquepaque. The U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, in a statement, said the men were not currently working for the diplomatic mission. It declined to provide further details about their past affiliation with the State Department, citing security and privacy limitations. "We are deeply concerned about any act of violence and express our condolences to the victims and their families," the consulate said. The violence marks the latest in a series of brazen attacks in Jalisco. Last week, Mexican social media influencer was shot dead during a live stream on TikTok, also in Jalisco. Officials said Valeria Márquez was handed a stuffed animal and a bag of Starbucks coffee while she was on the livestream, and was shot in the head and the chest, collapsing on camera.

MANILA, Philippines — The Court of Appeals has reversed a regional trial court’s (RTC) ruling that allowed the release of Australian fugitive Gregor Johann Haas, who is believed to be part of the notorious Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel. Haas is included in the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) Red Notice that stemmed from a criminal complaint filed by Indonesian authorities. The Indonesian authorities accused Haas of attempting to smuggle drugs hidden in floor ceramic from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Indonesia. Haas’ name surfaced following reports that the Indonesian government wants to trade former Bamban Mayor Alice Guo for Haas. On May 15, 2024, Haas was arrested in Poblacion, San Remigio, Cebu by operatives of the Bureau of Immigration (BI), in coordination with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine Naval Intelligence and Security Group. His mother, Soledad Tolentino-Haas filed a petition for habeas corpus for her son’s release. She said there was also no compliance with due process in effecting her son’s arrest.

In 2008, Mr. Davis deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, and worked with the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group.

He used to work for a police department in Arizona. And so he's wanting now to do army make no mistake and we are treating this as.

Yesterday our efforts to positively identify the deceased individual here has been found. We are fairly confident that that subject is Guy Edward Barkus twenty five year old from again Palm Springs I'm sorry from again twenty nine Palms.

Um we are working through some other technical means but we believe at this moment…

Make no mistake that we are treating this as an intentional act of terrorism.

This is me talking about Oliver Stone. 5-19-25

I think Agent Davis is a corrupt policeman.

May 28, 2005 — Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was arrested for investigation of drug possession and driving while intoxicated, police said Saturday.

Yesterday our efforts to positively identify the deceased individual here has been found. We are fairly confident that that subject is Guy Edward Barkus twenty five year old from again Palm Springs I'm sorry from again twenty nine Palms.

"We are working through some other technical means to positively identify the decedent here, but we believe at this moment based on the evidence that we've gathered that that is Mr. Bartkus as the decedent here," Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, said at a Sunday morning press conference.

This is me talking about Houston. 5-17-25

How this seems like the sailors on the boat's fault the ship crashed.

A majestic tall ship collided with the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday night, injuring at least two people, FDNY sources said. Videos on social media show the boat drifting backwards around 8:30 p.m. toward the famous span on the Brooklyn side of the East River, with a huge Mexican flag fluttering off of its stern, as a tugboat motors next to it a little distance away. In one video showing the aftermath of the crash, a person appears to be dangling from the sailing ship’s crow’s nest. Alicia Jones, 39, was near the Dumbo ferry dock when she witnessed the crash. “I was actually so confused by what was happening, because it seemed like it was so obvious that it wasn’t going to clear the Brooklyn Bridge…as it was approaching,” she said. “I saw when it came across from the Manhattan side, and everyone was looking at it. It was blaring music. The music was so loud,” she said. “And then it kept getting closer to the Brooklyn Bridge. And I just kept thinking, ‘There is absolutely no way that they’re going that way. They’re gonna turn around right?’ And they didn’t.” The Cuauhtemoc — about 297 feet long and 40 feet wide, according to the Mexican Navy — sailed for the first time in 1982. An academy training vessel, each year it sets out at the end of classes at the naval military school to finish cadets’ training.

A 31-year-old man collapsed and died while running the Brooklyn Half Marathon this morning, police and race officials said. The runner, who police identified as Charles Rogers, of Manhattan, was participating in the race for the first time. He made it to about the 8-mile mark at Ocean Parkway and 18th Ave. when he experienced a medical incident and collapsed at 8:11 a.m., race organizers said. Medics administered CPR at the scene, then rushed the man to Maimonides Hospital but he could not be resuscitated. “It is with sadness and heavy hearts that we confirm the passing of one of today’s race participants,” Rob Simmelkjaer, CEO of New York Road Runners, said in a statement. “On behalf of the whole running community, we extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and loved ones.” Rogers lived in the Two Bridges neighborhood of the Lower East Side. He was a top high school football quarterback in Iowa, went on to play Division I college football, first as a cornerback at Iowa State, then transferring to the University of Minnesota, where he played safety. For the past five years, he worked in business-to-business sales for Verizon in New York City. In 2022, 32-year-old David Reichman collapsed at the finish line of the Brooklyn Half Marathon and later died at a nearby hospital. Runners in the half marathon — which is 13.1 miles long — kick off by the Brooklyn Museum, complete a loop through Prospect Park, and finish at the Coney Island Boardwalk.

This is me talking about the Mexican foreign ministry. 5-17-25

Radio capability of the cartels. Also, a report about the NYPD.

NOGALES, Ariz. (KVOA) - U.S. Border Patrol and the Government of Mexico have successfully dismantled a cartel surveillance site near Nogales, Arizona. The site, equipped with gear to monitor law enforcement activity, was targeted in a coordinated patrol on May 12. "This is another blow to transnational criminal organizations," said Chief Michael W. Banks. The operation aims to curb the efforts of these organizations to evade border security. The dismantling of such sites is crucial for maintaining the integrity of border operations and ensuring the safety of the region.

There aren't ICE agents in Sinaloa or HSI agents.
Ciro Gómez Leyva @CiroGomezL La @USAmbMex informó a #PorLaMañana que no hay agentes de Fuerzas Especiales estadounidenses operando en México y que el operativo para desmantelar 3 laboratorios clandestinos en Sinaloa, estuvo encabezado por agentes mexicanos de la AIC de la @FGRMexico.

A former NYPD officer who sexually exploited nearly 50 children online by manipulating them into sending him nude photos and videos and engaging them in lewd conversations in which he sometimes encouraged them to hurt themselves, was sentenced to a whopping 23 years in prison on Friday. “Carmine Simpson betrayed his badge by preying upon minors for twisted sexual gratification. Simpson repeatedly prowled online for minor victims before coercing them to provide sexually explicit and degrading content,” Christopher Raia, assistant director in charge of the FBI New York field office, which led the investigation into Simpson, said in a statement.

Kudi is from Ohio like Travis Kelce.

Singer Cassie Ventura confirmed her brief relationship with rapper Kid Cudi while testifying this week in the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. In her testimony on Wednesday, Ventura said Combs threatened to hurt her and Cudi, including blowing up Cudi’s car, after he found out the two had been seeing each other.

Authorities are investigating what they believe to be human remains found near Taylor Swift’s oceanside mansion in Rhode Island. The gruesome discovery was made on Wednesday around 9:30 a.m., just a few blocks from the popstar’s Westerly estate, according to Providence NBC affiliate WJAR. Police called to the scene told the outlet they found a leg bone that appeared to previously belong to a person. It’s currently unclear how or when the bone got there, or who it belonged to.

This is me talking about Kid Kudi. 5-16-25

If the report is too heavy on this and that faction of the cartel then we wonder about due process.

Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzmán Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the U.S. Guzmán Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was imprisoned in the U.S. Video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U.S. agents. He said that none of the family members were being pursued by Mexican authorities and that the government of U.S. President Donald Trump "has to share information" with Mexican prosecutors, something it has not yet done. The confirmation by García Harfuch comes the same day that the U.S. Attorney General’s Office announced it was charging a number of top cartel leaders with "narcoterrorism" for the first time since the Trump administration declared a number of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. While prosecutors declined to comment on the video of the family, U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California and other officials sent a warning to cartel members, repeatedly citing the Sinaloa Cartel by name. "Let me be direct, to the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, you are no longer the hunters, you are the hunted. You will be betrayed by your friends, you will be hounded by your enemies, and you will ultimately find yourself and your face here in a courtroom in the Southern District of California," Gordon said.

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — An indictment was unsealed Tuesday morning in the U.S. Attorney’s Southern District of California charging alleged leaders of the Sinaloa cartel with narco-terrorism and material support of terrorism in connection with trafficking massive amounts of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin into the United States. According to the U.S. Attorney, the indictment is “the first in the nation.” The Sinaloa cartel’s rise to prominence happened under the infamous Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman in the 1990s and 2000s. Guzman is now serving a life sentence in a Colorado prison. His accomplice, Ismael Mario Zambada, known as “El Mayo,” has been in U.S. custody since July 2024, but has yet been brought to trial. Until his arrest, Zambada was said to be the leader of one faction within the Sinaloa cartel; Guzman’s sons, the “Chapitos,” were in charge of another splinter group. The current leadership of the Sinaloa cartel was named in the indictments including Pedro Inzunza Noriega and his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel. Justice Department brings first terrorism case against alleged high-ranking TDA gang member Both are charged with narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering as key leaders of the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO), a powerful and violent faction of the Sinaloa cartel that is believed to operate the world’s largest known fentanyl-production network.

This is me talking about the border. 5-15-25

Полчаса без тебя.
Half an hour without you.

Two Syrian nationals, aged 24 and 32, have been charged by the Haskovo District Prosecutor's Office for kidnapping and raping two Moroccan citizens in the Bulgarian village of Harmanli, BNR reported. The charges relate to an incident at the end of 2024, where the suspects, along with unidentified accomplices, abducted a 33-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman. Their goal was to extort money from the victims' family members. According to the prosecutor's office, one of the accused repeatedly sexually assaulted the woman during the ordeal, threatening her with violence. The victims, a couple, had entered Bulgaria without documents and were staying at the Harmanli Registration and Reception Center, operated by the State Agency for Refugees.

At least 17 relatives of Ovidio Guzmán López, the youngest son of the notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal with the Trump administration, Mexico’s top security official confirmed Tuesday. Omar García Harfuch acknowledged in a radio interview that members of the El Chapo family crossed into San Diego from Tijuana, calling the move part of “negotiations” between U.S. authorities and one of El Chapo’s sons. Guzmán López, aka “El Ratón,” was arrested by Mexican authorities in January 2023 and extradited to the U.S. to face drug-trafficking charges eight months later.

A hotline meant to connect the Pentagon with air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., has been broken for three years. The Federal Aviation Administration was unaware of the busted connection until earlier this month, FAA official Frank McIntosh testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill. The lack of a working hotline may have contributed a near-miss on May 1, when two aircraft arriving at Reagan were forced to circle around and wait for an Army helicopter to clear the area.

This is me talking about the border with Mexico. 5-13-25

The border with Mexico and the computer hardware at the border.

In the coming months, anti-drone systems will be deployed at Bulgarian airports. This was confirmed by Transport Minister Grozdan Karadjov during a parliamentary session, in response to a question about the drone incident at Vasil Levski Sofia Airport and the steps being taken to prevent similar occurrences.

A total of 2815 ml. of e-cigarette liquid in 111 devices was confiscated by customs officers from Blagoevgrad. The e-cigarettes were found in a courier shipment with a recipient, a natural person from the region. Customs officers selected the shipment and found that it contained 110 devices with 25 ml. of liquid each, and one device with as much as 40 ml., which is 20 times more than the volume of liquid allowed for disposable vape devices regulated in the regulatory framework.

A mayoral candidate and three of her supporters were shot dead on Sunday at a campaign event in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, the state governor said, marking the latest politician to be targeted by violence in the country. Yesenia Lara, the candidate of President Claudia Sheinbaum's Morena party for mayor of Texistepec, was identified by local media as the slain politician. Footage posted online during a Facebook Live broadcast by the politician shows people running and screaming as gunshots ring out at a procession of motorcycles and supporters carrying Morena flags. Other images shared online appeared to show bodies in the street. "We will find those responsible for the cowardly murder of the Morena candidate and supporters in Texistepec; four dead and three wounded," Veracruz state governor Rocio Nahle posted on social media.

The technology used at the border with Mexico.

What they're saying: For the last 18 months, the Texas Republican has led a task force aimed at neutralizing the cartels and the clear, present and continuing danger that comes with them. "There's a new administration in Mexico, which has opened up a huge amount of opportunity. They want to partner with us in a way that Mexico has not wanted to partner with us before," Crenshaw said. "They need help, right? They don't have close air support assets like we would have. They don't have enough Blackhawk [helicopters] for transport. They don't enough intelligence and ISR platforms. We need to have a program where we deliver this." To cement the alliance, Crenshaw is crafting a measure known as the North America First Security Assistance Initiative.

Two police officers are in the hospital after a suspect opened fire at them from his car while trying to evade police on Staten Island Sunday night, police said. The suspect was driving a silver Nissan SUV when cops ordered him to pull over for a traffic stop near Port Richmond and Post Aves. in Port Richmond around 7:30 p.m., police said. Instead of stopping, the 31-year-old driver attempted to flee but was headed off by another police vehicle, and shot at the officers inside before crashing into a parked car, police said. The officers were not hit by the gunfire but were taken to an area hospital to be treated for injuries from broken glass. Law enforcement agents recovered two firearms from the vehicle, according to police. In addition to NYPD officers, federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were at the scene on Sunday night, S.I. Advance reported.

The panic buttons in the Bodegas.

Two men died after being found unconscious in the stairwell of a building in Manhattan’s Little Italy where they were doing work, cops said. One of the victims, a 34-year-old, died at the scene in the stairwell on Mulberry St. near Hester St. at about 3:45 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Medics rushed the second man to New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital, but he could not be saved. Relatives told ABC 7 New York the men were part of a work crew painting one of the apartments in the building and that their boss called the crew down for lunch but the men never responded. The building has a smoke shop on the ground floor. “She go upstairs, she check him, but she find him on the floor,” Maria Juarez, the girlfriend of one the two men, told ABC 7. Cops have not released the men’s names. The city medical examiner’s office will conduct autopsies to determine how both men died.

A Bronx man planning to bring flowers to his mom’s grave for Mother’s Day was shot to death down the block from the smoke shop where he was wrapping up his shift. Darren Davis, 30, was shot in the chest and a 42-year-old woman was blasted in the leg outside a bodega on Willis Ave. near E. 138th St. in Mott Haven at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. Minutes later, his girlfriend of several years showed up to meet Davis at the end of his shift only to find him mortally wounded outside a bodega a few doors down. “I was pulling up to meet him,” said the girlfriend, who gave her name as Melissa. “When I came, he was already in the ambulance. They was trying to revive him, and they didn’t know his name.”

This is me talking about the border with Mexico. 5-12-25

This is me talking about Newark. 5-11-25

I think Justin's lawyer isn't very good. I can't know what will happen.

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has officially been dragged into Blake Lively's legal war with her "It Ends With Us" co-star, Justin Baldoni. Swift, who is close friends with the actress, was first named in Baldoni's countersuit, where he alleged that Lively called the singer one of her "dragons" and tried to use her to pressure him. Before being subpoenaed, reports claimed that Taylor Swift was displeased about being pulled into Blake Lively's legal drama and felt "used" by her friend. Swift has issued a scathing response after being officially subpoenaed as a witness in Lively and Baldoni's legal war. The "Blank Space" hitmaker was sent a subpoena on Friday by Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, who has been vocal about his desire to question her in relation to claims made by his client. After Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni in December 2024, the actor hit back at his former co-star with a $400 million countersuit. In the countersuit, he claimed he met Swift during a meeting at the "Gossip Girl" actress's home. The meeting was meant to be between him and Lively to discuss a scene rewritten for "It Ends with Us," however, he ended up being in the presence of her husband, Reynolds, and close pal, Swift. Baldoni claimed this made him feel ambushed as he accused Lively of using her celebrity friends to pressure him into accepting her rewrite. While Swift and Reynolds' presence at the time appeared to be a calculated move to intimidate Baldoni, sources close to the singer told TMZ she felt "used" by her friend. An insider said that Swift was unaware Baldoni would be at Lively's apartment that day and had only attended upon the actress's invitation.

He's being accused of obstruction of justice.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said he’s been “shocked by all the lies” told so far about his arrest at a New Jersey immigration detention center, specifically the false claims that he’d been trespassing before he was taken into custody. “No one else arrested,” the mayor noted, “I was invited in, then they arrested me on the sidewalk.” Baraka has been pushing back against the opening of the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, embracing the battle against the Trump administration over its illegal immigration crackdown. In February, ICE awarded a 15-year contract to Geo Group Inc. to run the 1,000-bed detention center in New Jersey’s biggest city. Still, the mayor has maintained that he was not at the site on Friday in protest. He said he was there to participate in a press conference with a congressional delegation, including Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver. Watson Coleman said the trio showed up unannounced because they planned to inspect the facility — not take a scheduled tour, as previously reported. She also accused the Department of Homeland Security of being intentionally misleading with the information they released in wake of Baraka’s detainment. “Contrary to a press statement put out by DHS we did not ‘storm’ the detention center,” she wrote. “The author of that press release was so unfamiliar with the facts on the ground that they didn’t even correctly count the number of Representatives present. We were exercising our legal oversight function as we have done at the Elizabeth Detention Center without incident.”

This is me talking about the Boston Celtics. 5-10-25

Reports about Mexico.

Jalisco Councilwoman Shot Dead As Cartels Keep Targeting Public Officials In Sinaloa Three masked gunmen entered a hospital during the early hours of May 9 and immediately opened fire at Cecilia Ruvalcaba A municipal councilwoman in Jalisco and head nurse at the Teocaltiche Community Hospital was shot and killed early Friday by three armed individuals, marking yet another act of violence in the troubled region. The victim, Cecilia Ruvalcaba, was both a health care worker and an elected official with the Citizens' Movement (Movimiento Ciudadano) party. Her death follows a string of killings targeting public officials in the area in recent weeks, including two police officers and the city council secretary. According to witness accounts, three masked gunmen entered the hospital during the early hours of May 9 and immediately opened fire. Responding officers found Ruvalcaba's body with at least two gunshot wounds, while investigators recovered spent shell casings and a bullet near the scene. The Jalisco Attorney General's Office said the investigation is ongoing as authorities work to identify and locate those responsible. According to Animal Político, Ruvalcaba had been a prominent figure in Teocaltiche politics. She ran for municipal president during the 2023–2024 election cycle, ultimately losing to Silvia Margarita Villalobos, the candidate from the opposition coalition Fuerza y Corazón por Jalisco (comprising PAN, PRI and PRD).

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum recently announced it was time to implement a nationwide 40-hour work week for employees instead of the 48 hours most people in Mexico now work. She said she wants this done by 2030. In the last few days, 15 factories in Tijuana have reduced their employees work-schedules to act in accordance with Sheinbaum’s directive, according to Diana Reyes Herrera, president of the Industrial Human Resources Association in Tijuana.

I think she isn't a credible witness.

Sokola’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in her teens, portraying her as a wannabe actor who tried to leverage the former studio boss. “You believed that if you had consensual sex with Mr. Weinstein, you’d get your foot in the door and become a movie star,” defense lawyer Mike Cibella said. “No, that’s not what happened,” Sokola responded. “I never had a consensual relation with Mr. Weinstein.” Throughout a day of questioning, Cibella sought to suggest that Sokola hadn’t told the full story of her interactions with Weinstein. At one point, Cibella repeatedly asked whether she invited Weinstein up to a New York apartment — and into the bedroom — where she was staying in 2005. She denied it. “I didn’t want any shortcuts from Mr. Weinstein. I wanted him to be honest with me,” Sokola testified at a later point, her voice growing heated. She said the Oscar-winning producer promised to help her fulfill her acting ambitions but instead “broke my dreams, and he broke my self-esteem.” The Polish psychotherapist has accused Weinstein of repeatedly sexually abusing her when she was a teenage fashion model. Some of those allegations are beyond the legal time limit for criminal charges, but Weinstein faces a criminal sex-act charge over Sokola’s claim that he forced oral sex on her in 2006. Prosecutors added the charge to the landmark #MeToo case last year, after an appeals court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction. The guilty verdict pertained to allegations from two other women, who also have testified or are expected at the retrial. Weinstein, 73, has pleaded not guilty and denies ever sexually assaulting anyone. The
Polish-born Sokola, 39, had a jet-setting modeling career as a teen. She testified earlier this week that Weinstein exploited her youthful interest in an acting career to subject her to unwanted sexual advances, starting days after they met in 2002, while she was a 16-year-old on a modeling trip to New York.

This is me talking about Blake Lively. 5-9-25

In Jalisco the mayor and police were implicated in a racket.

A mayor from a western Mexico town was arrested as part of a probe into a suspected drug cartel training camp where human bones and clothing were found, a federal official said. Teuchitlán Mayor José Murguía Santiago was arrested as part of an investigation by government prosecutors into probable omissions or complicity of authorities with the Jalisco New Generation cartel, a federal source told AFP on Saturday. The source requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Murguía was arrested late Saturday afternoon, according to federal arrest records. The cartel, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says has some 19,000 in its ranks, developed rapidly into an extremely violent and capable force after it split from the Sinaloa cartel following the 2010 killing of Sinaloa cartel capo Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal by the military.

A massive and sophisticated car theft ring based in Queens that sprawled across the U.S. has been uncovered, with 20 people indicted after a years-long investigation, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Thursday. The “massive criminal ecosystem,” which involved individuals who teamed up to steal, broker and sell the stolen vehicles using high-tech as well as traditional methods, is “one of the biggest auto theft rings that we have seen in the last decade,” Katz said at a press conference announcing the takedown. Of the 20 people indicted, 14 are facing the top charge of criminal enterprise, which carries a sentence of up to 25 years in prison. The other individuals are variously charged with possession of stolen property, grand larceny and conspiracy, and two people are charged with weapons possession after investigators uncovered four illegal firearms in connection with the case. The three-year investigation involving the Queens D.A.’s Office, the NYPD, state police and other agencies that led to the takedown was dubbed Operation Hellcat by police, “because it began with a pattern of thefts of Dodge Hellcats, traditionally identified by their high horsepower and noise to attract attention,” Katz said. “This was a multistate, multimillion-dollar auto theft operation,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at the press conference.

I think the judge shouldn't let in this testimony.

May 7, 2024 — Adult film actor Stormy Daniels took the stand in the criminal trial against Donald Trump on Tuesday, offering details about an alleged sexual encounter.

Blake Lively is preparing to testify in the trial against her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni, whom she accused of sexually harassing her on the set and waging a subsequent smear campaign. A lawyer for the 37-year-old “Gossip Girl” alum confirmed in a statement to People that she will “of course” take the stand against the “Jane the Virgin” alum, 41. Lively and Baldoni have been locked in a tense legal and PR battle ever since December, when Lively first leveled her allegations in a complaint, followed by a formal lawsuit. Baldoni then filed a $250 million libel lawsuit against The New York Times for a deep-dive into Lively’s claims, titled “We Can Bury Anyone.”

The former co-stars' trial is not set to take place until March 2026 in a New York City federal court.

This is me talking about London. 5-8-25

It seems like hyperbole about the allegations.

Six Bulgarians, part of a spy ring known as the “Minions,” are facing prison sentences of up to 14 years in the United Kingdom for espionage activities conducted on behalf of Russia. The sentencing is set to take place on Monday, May 12, following four days of hearings at London’s Old Bailey. Between 2020 and 2023, the group operated across multiple European countries, targeting journalists and a former Kazakh politician. Their operations included plans to kidnap and lure targets into traps, tracking them across the UK, Austria, Spain, Germany, and Montenegro. Dominic Murphy, head of the London police’s counterterrorism unit, described the group’s actions as “industrial-scale espionage for Russia.” The group’s leader, Orlin Rusev, 47, along with his deputy, Bizer Dzhambazov, 43, and Ivan Stoyanov, 32, have all pleaded guilty to espionage charges.
Prosecutor Alison Morgan detailed their roles, emphasizing that they were fully aware of their operations’ connection to Moscow. Three other members, Catherine Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, were convicted in March after a three-month trial. The six-member cell, which dubbed itself the “Minions” after the animated film characters who work for the villainous Gru, had ties to the GRU (the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation), Russia’s military intelligence agency. According to British police, their espionage efforts were uncovered through over 100,000 messages found on Rusev’s Telegram account, which led to a property in Great Yarmouth packed with spy equipment, including hidden cameras, microphones, and disguises such as a stuffed toy and a soda bottle. The group also received instructions from Jan Marsalek, a former chief operating officer at the payments company Wirecard, who fled to Russia in 2020 to escape fraud charges in Germany. Marsalek, acting as a contact for Russian intelligence services, tasked Rusev with finding resources to execute operations. Rusev claimed in his messages to Marsalek that he would “satisfy the Russians,” suggesting plans to kidnap individuals or collect information on figures of interest to Moscow. Among the group’s targets was Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist from the Bellingcat investigative journalism group, known for exposing Russian involvement in the 2018 Novichok poisoning in Salisbury and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Another plot involved plans to spray a Kazakh embassy building with fake pig blood in 2022, aiming to intimidate its occupants. The group also monitored a US military base in Stuttgart, Germany, where they believed Ukrainian soldiers were training to use the Patriot missile system. Additionally, they tracked British-based dissident journalist Roman Dobrokhotov and former Kazakh politician Bergei Ryskaliev, who had been granted refugee status in the UK. UK Security Minister Dan Jarvis stated that the convictions should serve as a clear warning to those attempting to harm the country. Relations between the UK and Russia have remained tense since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Why did it take the NYPD so long to arrest him?

"Boardwalk Empire" actor Michael Pitt was arrested and indicted in Brooklyn on Friday on charges of sexual abuse, criminal sex act, assault and strangulation, according to court documents. The actor pleaded not guilty and was released until his next court date in June. The charges stem from alleged incidents that occurred in 2020 and 2021, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. The indictment alleges Pitt sexually abused an unnamed individual in April 2020 "by means of forcible compulsion." In August 2020, the indictment claims he allegedly forced oral sex on an individual. The indictment claims Pitt allegedly injured an individual with "a four by four" that same month. In June 2021, the indictment claims Pitt allegedly assaulted an individual with a cinderblock. In August 2021, the indictment claims he allegedly tried to strangle someone. Individual identities are redacted in the indictment, so it is unclear if one or more persons is making allegations against Pitt. In a statement to ABC News on Wednesday, Pitt's attorney James Goldman said, "Unfortunately, we live in a world where somebody like Mr. Pitt -- an accomplished professional who would never so much as contemplate these crimes -- can be arrested on the uncorroborated word of an unreliable individual. In reality, this baseless claim is suspiciously raised some four or five years after the alleged incident, from a time when the two parties were in a completely consensual relationship. We have already uncovered exonerating evidence and this case will be dismissed."

This is me talking about Sinaloa. 5-6-25

The New York state government:

The highway superintendent in Chester, N.Y., was charged Saturday with shooting a DoorDash delivery driver in the back, police said. John Reilly, 48, was arrested Saturday at his home in the small Orange County town, New York State Police said in a press release. He was charged with first-degree assault and two weapons crimes. A food delivery driver working for DoorDash got lost on Reilly’s street on Friday night and started going door to door asking for directions, according to investigators. When the driver knocked on Reilly’s door, Reilly told the driver to get off his property, police said. As the driver left, Reilly pulled a gun and fired multiple bullets at the victim, striking the driver once in the back, state police said. The driver suffered “serious physical injuries” but was expected to survive. Cops picked up Reilly on Saturday, and he was arraigned and sent to Orange County jail in lieu of $250,000 cash bond. Reilly, a Republican, was first appointed to the highway superintendent position in March 2021, then elected later that year and reelected in 2023. Chester Town Supervisor Brandon Holdridge told the Albany Times-Union that village leadership was monitoring the situation. “We are deeply troubled by what has been reported so far,” Holdridge told the paper. “We hope the person who was injured in the incident makes a full and healthy recovery.”

The interview in Sinaloa:

Es peligroso y no hay trabajo ni cómo comer.
It's dangerous and there is no work and how to eat.

CNN roasted for interviewing Sinaloa Cartel gangster, asking how he felt about Trump labeling him a terrorist CNN is being mocked for sympathetically asking a Mexican cartel gangbanger how he felt about President Trump branding them as terrorists — just for him to say he respects the commander in chief. The lefty outlet aired the stunning interview with the masked Sinaloa Cartel gangster on Saturday after Trump vowed to clamp down on the murderous drug trafficking group and the stream of fentanyl currently pouring into the US. “According to the Trump Administration, you are a terrorist … What do you make of that?” CNN’s Isobel Yeung asked the cartel member.

CNN's Isobel Yeung speaks to members of the Sinaloa cartel near Culiacan, as President Donald Trump pressures the Mexican government to crack down on drug cartels, officially labeling them a terrorist group and threatening more tariffs and even military strikes inside Mexico.

This is me talking about Brooklyn. 5-5-25

Reports about the Pacific Coast of Mexico.

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — Before dawn, an elementary school principal in the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state checks various chats on his phone for word of shootouts or other incidents. If there’s danger, he sends a message to his students’ parents suspending classes. It isn’t the only new routine in Culiacan, a city of 1 million residents that for the past six months has been the battlefield for the two main factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel. He, like most others, requested anonymity because of the danger. An old man there said he saw gunmen dump two bodies in the street. And sometimes people just disappear. Julio Héctor Carrillo, 34, never arrived home from visiting a relative in late January. According to his brother-in-law, Mario Beltrán, his only transgression was not respecting the locals’ self-imposed curfew.

Federal authorities in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur have arrested seven individuals linked to the Sinaloa cartel, including the alleged leader of the criminal cell, Isidro Enrique Ulibarria Cortez, also known as "El 90." The incident took place in the municipality of Mulegé, a coastal community along the Gulf of California. Mexico's Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) reported that federal agents were ambushed by a group of armed men while conducting surveillance patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Gunfire reportedly came from inside a property, but agents were able to repel the attack without injuries, multiple media outlets reported. Following the shootout, authorities arrested seven individuals — including a minor — and seized two properties used as safe houses. Personnel from the SSPC, National Guard, Secretariat of National Defense, Navy, and the Attorney General's Office (FGR) confiscated three modified vehicles used by the group to transport drugs, seven firearms, 2,559 cartridges, four grenades, 69 magazines and doses of suspected marijuana. Authorities believe the arrests in Baja California Sur may be connected to a separate operation in Mexico City that led to the capture of Joel Alfonso Urrea Yuriar, also known as "El Gangoso," on April 14. Intelligence reports allege that El Gangoso oversaw the production of crystal meth in clandestine labs in Puebla and Sinaloa and used properties in Mexico City as storage units. He and another suspect arrested in the same operation, Javier Ernesto "N," are believed to have ties to the Sinaloa cartel. Authorities say both may be linked to recent armed drone attacks targeting federal forces in Sinaloa. According to investigators, El Gangoso allegedly ordered an explosive drone attack against Mexican armed forces on March 23, in retaliation for a large drug shipment that had been seized from his criminal cell.

The Bulgarian economy has undeclared employment.

In 2024, 64 workers in Bulgaria lost their lives in job-related accidents. Asenova warned that some of these victims were working without formal contracts, highlighting that undeclared employment strips workers of crucial labour and social security protections. She stressed the ongoing issue of employees compromising both on safety and on the legality of their employment.

This is me talking about the BBC. 5-4-25

Saraceno put his retirement papers in at the pension board Thursday, according to an internal police document obtained by The Post. He left under a state clause enacted in 2011 that allows NYPD members to retire if they are dismissed with 20 years or more on the job. Saraceno, who was initially demoted from his position after the allegations first came to light, will hang onto his pension but won’t receive a letter that indicates he left on good terms or keep his gun, another police source told The Post.

The NYPD is demanding nearly $232,000 in overtime wages be returned by former Lt. Quathisha Epps, who accused disgraced ex-Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey of forcing her to perform “unwanted sexual favors” in return for the extra pay — a move her lawyer called “retaliatory, discriminatory, and illegal.” An April 22 letter from the department addressed to Epps with the heading “Overpayment Notification” states that after a review of her overtime records from July 2023 through October 2024, it determined she was paid $231,896.75 in overpayments, adding she owes the NYPD the full sum. “As we started to look into the allegations of overtime abuse, we found that she claimed overtime for work she didn’t do,” a source familiar with the investigation said. NYPD Deputy Chief Paul Saraceno was recently terminated in April when it was determined he had signed off on nearly 200 overtime slips submitted by Epps last fall, the source said. Saraceno approved more than 170 of Epps’ backdated slips in a single day. Epps’ lawyer Eric Sanders slammed the NYPD’s request in a May 2 reply.

A man with dark glasses, a hoodie with the logo of the movie "Joker", a scarf covering his face and gloves hiding tattoos, in front of him a Kalashnikov, two radios and a gloomy room with a painting of Christ on the wall. Thus begins the CNN journalist's meeting with a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal networks in the world, which has now been declared a "terrorist organization" by the US. “Yes, it's sad,” he says. “But life goes on. Families need to eat.” "To meet this man in Culiacán, the heart of this cartel, it took weeks to verify his identity and convince him that we are not part of any law enforcement agency," writes CNN. The circle was clear: no cops, no DEA, no CIA. The meeting place WAS an ordinary house in a cartel-controlled neighborhood. He admits to being a producer of fentanyl – the most deadly synthetic opioid in the US, where just two milligrams are enough to kill a person. Thousands of National Guard soldiers have been sent to the northern border to stop drug trafficking, while hundreds more have been deployed to Sinaloa.

This is me talking about the jury trial. 5-3-25

The Congress is interviewing the DEA nominee.
He and the Congress agree there are cartels in Mexico.
I wonder then if the Justice department and their posture toward that border.

Former federal agent and his wife shot dead after he testified against son of powerful Mexico cartel leader Former federal agent and his wife shot dead after he testified against son of powerful Mexico cartel leader A former Mexican federal agent who testified against the drug trafficker son of the country's most wanted man was shot dead in the central state of Morelos, authorities said Thursday. Ivan Morales was a prosecution witness in the U.S. trial of Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, a leader of Mexico's violent Jalisco New Generation cartel, who was jailed for life by a Washington court in March. Gonzalez's father is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — better known as "El Mencho" — who heads the cartel and has a $15 million U.S. bounty on his head. Morales and his wife were shot dead on Wednesday morning as they were traveling in their vehicle in the Temixco area, around 60 miles from Mexico City, according to a police report. State prosecutors are investigating the crime and have not ruled out revenge as a possible motive, local media reported.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – President Trump’s nominee to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration appeared this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. What Terrance Cole had to say appeared to leave some committee members cold and might add fuel to the fire of an already tense U.S.-Mexico relationship. “What percentage of the country of Mexico would you say is dominantly governed by cartels?” asked committee member U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. “I would say a majority,” Cole responded at the hearing. “I left DEA in 2019 from Mexico City and saw the dominance the cartels had at that time. (The Jalisco New Generation Cartel) controlled 24 of the states in Mexico.” 17 cartel members arrested in wake of shootout that left 6 dead Graham stopped him to emphasize the point. “You’re telling us that our neighbor in Mexico, when it comes to law enforcement and other activities, is pretty much controlled by cartels?” Graham asked. “They work hand in hand. Yes, sir,” Cole responded. US sanctions fuel theft ring tied to Jalisco cartel Graham has long pushed for more cooperation from Mexico and a more decisive law enforcement response from the United States when it comes to stemming the flow of fentanyl and other drugs coming across the Southwest border. “Did you directly transfer the intelligence to the Mexican authorities?” asked Committee Chair U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “No, sir. I did not,” Cole said. “Did you follow all DEA policies and get all proper supervisory approvals regarding the handling of the intelligence?” “Yes, sir. We did.” “Were you ever investigated or accused of any wrongdoing?” No, sir. I was not.” Cole told the committee both Trevino brothers are now in U.S. federal custody after Mexico “extradited” them earlier this year.

This is me talking about Long Island. 5-2-25

These are reports about Mexico.

The Pentagon is preparing to deploy counter-drone capabilities around the U.S.-Mexico border as part of its ongoing support of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and security mandates there, two senior defense officials told lawmakers Tuesday. “[President Donald Trump] has issued several executive orders directing the Department of Defense to take all appropriate and lawful measures to ensure the complete operational control of the border.

As the United States tightens its trade posture under President Donald Trump, Mexico is making a bold infrastructure play with geopolitical and economic implications. President Claudia Sheinbaum is overseeing a major expansion of the Port of Manzanillo—Mexico's largest and most strategic seaport—in a bid to transform the country into Latin America's leading maritime hub and a potential cornerstone of U.S. supply chains.

The first one is about a policeman who borrowed money from a man and then didn't pay it back. The second one is an attorney who took money from his clients' accounts.

An NYPD cop was arrested Thursday for taking a $1,700 “loan” from a driver he pulled over during a car stop, prosecutors said. Officer Armando Silvestre, 29, was in uniform and behind the wheel of a police cruiser the morning of March 1 when he turned on his emergency lights and siren and pulled over a man driving a Toyota Highlander on Hillside Ave. near 160th St. in Jamaica, a police source said. “I have a question real quick,” Silvestre said after approaching the passenger side window to talk to the driver, according to the criminal complaint against him. “Can you park right there?” The officer then pulled his patrol car up alongside the Highlander, the complaint says. “Can I borrow $1,700?” Silvestre asked, the complaint said. The driver complied, the source said. The deal, according to a second source, was that Silvestre would pay the driver back, with interest. But that never happened and a complaint was made to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. At no point during the interaction did Silvestri turn on his body-worn camera, as required during cart stops, nor did he document the interaction. Silvestre joined the NYPD in November in 2020 and was assigned to the 103rd Precinct Public Safety Team at the time of the alleged shakedown. He was earlier this month transferred to a Housing Bureau unit tasked with monitoring surveillance cameras. He was suspended without pay following his arrest. He is charged with official miconduct and was released without bail after his arraignment in Queens Criminal Court. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Silvestre has been the subject of three civilian complaints, including one in which a woman in her 30s said excessive force was used on her in a February 2024 incident, according to records. She also said police abused their authority and used discourteous and abusive language. The case was closed when she decided ​to withdraw the complaint because she and her husband were worried it would endanger their pending citizenship application, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. In another complaint, a man in his early 30s said that in an incident last August he was put in a banned chokehold. The case​ was closed when ​the Civilian Complaint Review Board, to which the case was referred by Internal Affairs, could not locate the complainant, a source with knowledge of that case said. The first complaint involving Silvestre, for an October 2023 incident, included accusations of excessive physical force and wrongly pulling a gun. But the CCRB ruled Silvestre acted within police guidelines.

A 36-year-old Long Island real estate attorney was indicted Wednesday for allegedly using $1.2 million stolen from escrow accounts to pay for strip clubs, night clubs and luxury lifestyle purchases “unrelated to the victims’ real estate transactions.” Terrance Dougherty of Oyster Bay pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of grand larceny and plotting to defraud, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. “Instead of acting as a fiduciary and safeguarding his clients’ funds, this defendant allegedly burned through their money on high-roller nights out at gentleman’s clubs and other entertainment venues,” District Attorney Anne Donnelly reportedly charged. Prosecutors said checks totalling $1,202,600 were deposited into an account managed by Dougherty between August 2023 and November 2024. By November 29, 2024, the balance was $5.35. The money was allegedly spent between May and August in 2024. Dougherty’s actions allegedly impacted 20 clients involved in buying or selling property. Some of the transactions he was handling are said to have collapsed because of his alleged malfeasance. The suspect was ordered to surrender his passport and return to court next Thursday. Patch.com reported that Legal Aid Society is handling his case. They didn’t immediately return a request for comment. Dougherty faces up to 15 years in prison. Nassau County officials are asking that anyone who believes they may have been scammed by the defendant to file a complaint.

This is me talking about Eddie Howe. 4-30-25

A report about Brighton Beach.

A confrontation over a stolen Porsche erupted in gunfire Tuesday night, with a police officer firing a fatal shot at the 28-year-old driver on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn Tuesday night, authorities said. According to police, officers attempted to pull over the Porsche that had different plates on the front and rear of the car around 8:16 p.m. near the Coney Island exit in Brighton Beach. Another man was a passenger in the vehicle, cops said. A confrontation over a stolen Porsche erupted in gunfire Tuesday night, with a police officer firing a fatal shot at the 28-year-old driver on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn Tuesday night, authorities said. According to police, officers attempted to pull over the Porsche that had different plates on the front and rear of the car around 8:16 p.m. near the Coney Island exit in Brighton Beach. Another man was a passenger in the vehicle, cops said. At that time, Chell said, an officer “discharged one fire, one bullet striking the driver of this vehicle.” “The vehicle proceeded to go a further exit to Pennsylvania Avenue, where it struck another department vehicle,” he recounted. “The passenger of this vehicle is quickly apprehended and our officers performed life saving measures on the driver. The driver was removed at Brookdale Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.” Officers injured in the chaotic takedown were being treated at a local hospital, Chell said, adding the driver was on federal probation for stolen vehicles, and interstate transport of stolen vehicles out of Pennsylvania. “Everything I described to you was captured on body-worn camera,” he said of the deadly confrontation. Chell said the driver of the stolen vehicle was on federal probation for stolen vehicles, and interstate transport of stolen vehicles out of Pennsylvania. The names of the driver and passenger were not immediately released.

These are reports about the Mexican Pacific coast.

En el mayor decomiso registrado hasta ahora durante la actual administración estatal, la Fiscalía General del Estado de Guanajuato (FGEG) aseguró más de 43 mil dosis de metanfetamina, así como armas de fuego, vehículos robados y una fuerte suma de dinero en efectivo.

León, Guanajuato.- El cuerpo de un hombre desmembrado envuelto en bolsas y cobijas, fue abandonado junto a un diablito, en la colonia Cañada del Real. En menos de dos días, este sería el cuarto homicidio doloso en la misma colonia, sin contar un ataque a balazos la tarde de este lunes donde un pepenador resultó gravemente herido. Pese a estos hechos violentos, Jorge Guillén Rico, Secretario de Seguridad Pública de León, reveló que los ataques son por el control de la zona entre grupos criminales. El hallazgo ocurrió alrededor de las 7 de la mañana de este martes 29 de abril sobre el camino La Nopalera esquina con calle Azurita. Vecinos de la zona caminaban por el lugar cuando se percataron que estaba un diablito abandonado y a un costado varias bolsas de plástico y cobijas.

A local Mexican politician was shot and killed on Monday while dining at a restaurant in western Mexico's troubled Jalisco state, authorities said. Jose Luis Pereira, a senior member of the Teocaltiche city government, was attacked at around 5 p.m. at a seafood restaurant, according to the local prosecutor's office. "Police officers responded to the scene after receiving a report of a person injured by a firearm," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

These are stories about people who live in the Bronx and work in Manhattan.

The ambulance driver who fatally hit a Manhattan pedestrian last year has been arrested on charges that he failed to yield to the woman, who was crossing the street as he was making a turn, police said. Driver Juan Santana, 28, remained on the scene after the Nov. 12 incident, and even transported the victim, Miriam Reinharth, 69, to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where she later died from injuries that included a broken left leg and pelvis fractures that resulted in significant blood loss, officials said. Santana, of the Bronx, was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care. The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that the 2014 Ford ambulance was traveling northbound on Amsterdam Ave. when it turned left onto W. 96th St. where Reinharth was crossing. Reinharth, who lived just blocks away on W. 93rd St., was struck along a stretch that includes a truck route and is a double-wide east-west artery.

A Manhattan paralegal was fatally stabbed by his girlfriend inside his Bronx apartment, police said Tuesday. Dwayne Valentine, 40, was stabbed in the chest at his home on Grand Ave. near W. 190th St. at about 11:05 p.m. Monday, cops said. Cops took Valentine’s girlfriend, Cynthia Phillips, 37, into custody for questioning following the horrific incident. She was charged Tuesday afternoon with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. She has no criminal history, police said. Phillips’ arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Tuesday evening. Phillips told police that Valentine went out to buy cigarettes and came back with a stab wound. She later admitted to stabbing him herself after an argument, according to police sources. Two children were inside the apartment where the stabbing occurred. They were put into the care of the Administration for Children’s Services following the incident, family and sources said. Valentine was a father of three — two girls and a boy — and was known as a “quiet” and “hardworking” paralegal who worked for a year and a half at the law firm, Gallo Vitucci Klar, in Manhattan, family members said.

This is me talking about Colorado Springs. 4-28-25

That she was out really late singing on a Thursday.

Authorities say a Crown Heights woman was fatally struck by a motorcycle in Queens on Friday. The incident happened at 2 a.m. at the intersection of Woodhaven Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue. Breanna Henderson, 23, was crossing the intersection when a 34-year-old man riding a motorcycle ran into her. No arrests have been made.
The crash left a trail of blood half a block long.

An up-and-coming soul singer fatally struck by a motorcyclist in Queens was on her way home from a performance as she continued to build her status as a rising star in New York’s music scene, friends and family said. Breanna Henderson, 23, who performed rhythm and blues and neo-soul under the stage name Freddie Makenzie, died after a Yamaha motorcycle rider slammed into her early Friday.

Reports about Mexico.

MEXICO CITY, April 25 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called on Friday for part of a controversial telecommunications bill to be changed or eliminated, after critics said the legislation could limit free speech and permit government censorship. The bill moved quickly through Senate committees on Thursday less than 24 hours after Sheinbaum proposed it, after the local broadcast of a U.S. government advertisement discouraging migration stirred controversy. Sheinbaum argues the legislation would prevent foreign governments from broadcasting political or ideological propaganda in Mexico. Critics say the bill would deliver control of telecoms to the state through a new agency to replace Mexico's previous telecoms agency, which Sheinbaum's allies in Congress voted to abolish last year. At a press conference on Friday, Sheinbaum said one of the bill's articles, no. 109, should be "clarified" to curb criticism. "If it's causing confusion and people think it's about censorship, that has never been the goal. In any case, the article should be removed or its wording modified to make it absolutely clear that the government of Mexico is not going to censor anyone, especially not what is published on digital platforms," she said.

Two former Mexican police officers were arrested for alleged links to a suspected drug cartel training ground where bones, shoes and clothing were found earlier this month, authorities said. The "ranch of horror," as some local media called it, in the Izaguirre Ranch in Teuchitlan in the western state of Jalisco was first discovered in September 2024. Six months later, people searching for missing relatives found clothing and human remains, raising questions about the initial investigation, including a failure to search the site thoroughly. Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, who took over the investigation last week, promised there would be no cover-up in the investigation, saying extensive evidence meant that the "truth will come out." On Sunday, the state attorney general's office said one of the former police officers arrested is accused of kidnapping a man who was held at the ranch. The former officer and colleagues detained the victim for a supposed search as he was riding a motorbike, before handing him over to a group who took him to the site, the statement added.

The Treasury Department late last month sanctioned Enrique Dann Esparragoza Rosas for allegedly operating a money laundering organization that transferred millions of dollars in illicit narcotics proceeds on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel’s warring factions: “Los Chapitos” and “La Mayiza.” A Kharon investigation into Esparragoza’s sanctioned company, Tapgas Mexico S.A. de C.V., and its current ownership revealed a broader network of stakeholders that are not sanctioned, associated IT companies and commercial relationships across Mexico and the United States. Esparragoza’s designation followed an alert by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control warning of heightened exposure risks from transnational drug cartels, like Sinaloa, that the Trump administration recently designated as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Esparragoza’s network illustrates those risks in practice.

This is me talking about Mexico. 4-27-25

If the CJNG is set up to cyberattack Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense.

A young man found dead, floating near a dock on Long Island this month, has been declared a homicide victim, Nassau County officials announced Friday. The body of the unknown victim, described as Black or Hispanic and between the ages of 15 and 20, was recovered by Nassau County police on April 8 in the Village of Island Park, near Long Beach. Police responded to a dock on Railroad Place just after 11 a.m. for reports of a “body in the water.” Officers recovered the victim from the water near Reynolds Channel, officials said. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. On Friday, Nassau police released an investigation update saying that a forensic review by the county medical examiner’s office concluded that the victim “sustained injuries consistent with being beaten and stabbed” and that the case is now being investigated as a homicide. The victim was 5-feet-4 and weighed around 130 pounds, police said. He was wearing black cargo pants and a beige T-shirt sporting black lettering that read “ARCH” and several other designs.

(NewsNation) — Border Patrol agents in Tucson, Arizona, shared real-time intelligence with the Mexican government, leading to a major dismantling of cartel lookout sites on the U.S. southern border. Mexican forces arrested four suspects and seized a stockpile: 10 loaded magazines, 300 rounds of ammunition, a bulletproof vest and 30 blue wrappers filled with methamphetamine. There was another bust along a popular tourist route, just north of Puerto Peñasco, less than an hour’s drive from the U.S. border at Lukeville. There, authorities found an AR-15 rifle, multiple solar panels and radio communication gear ready to guide cartel smuggling ops across the border.

Recent investigations by the Mexican military revealed that cybercriminals tied to the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) have attempted to infiltrate the networks of security agencies, including the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, the National Intelligence Center, and state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Military sources familiar with the matter told local outlet Milenio that the Jalisco Cartel is recruiting young tech experts to breach the computer systems of security agencies through methods such as vulnerability scans, intrusions, phishing, and by using malicious software in order to infiltrate the systems. A military official told the outlet that despite thousands of attempts to breach security systems, Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense (Defensa) has not reported any damage to its IT infrastructure thanks to constant updates aimed at containing cyberattacks. Between 2021 and 2023, the official said, the agency recorded a 529% increase in cyberattacks, rising from an average of 6.2 per day to 39. Last year, the Mexican Army averaged 27 attempted intrusions per day, most involving direct breaches and phishing — the practice of sending fraudulent messages through email and text messaging that appear legitimate.

This is me talking about the US Attorney in New York City. 4-25-25

Reports about Long Island:

A man who directed rapes and murders during the 1994 Rwanda genocide lied to U.S. immigration officials about his role in the 100-day massacre and started a new life as a Long Island beekeeper, federal prosecutors allege. The feds on Thursday arrested Faustin Nsabumukunzi at his Bridgehampton home, accusing him of making false statements in his applications for a visa, green card and for U.S. citizenship.

That hopefully the Justice Department is working effectively with the Mexican police.

Groups of armed men torched vehicles and blocked roads across Mexico on Wednesday, police and local media said, as a turf war rages between the influential Jalisco New Generation drug cartel and local criminal groups. Gunmen seized cargo trucks and set them on fire on a highway connecting Mexico City to Guadalajara, before police reported at least 18 similar cases in the neighboring states of Michoacan and Guanajuato. A Michoacan police source said on condition of anonymity that the attacks were a reaction by Jalisco New Generation to a military operation in the area.

The federal courts will bring a case to trial after a long time since the crime.

NYPD cops are taking a fresh look at the murder of a Queens blackjack dealer 26 years ago — and are asking the public’s help to finally crack the case. Jeffrey Blackman, 42, was found dead in the trunk of an abandoned Buick parked illegally on Park Drive East near 72nd Ave. just outside Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Kew Gardens Hills at about 5 a.m. on April 20, 1999, cops said. The NYPD released a photo of Blackman this week in the hopes it generates leads in the case. His body was badly decomposed when it was discovered, but the city medical examiner determined he had been strangled. A sharp instrument had also been shoved up his nose, the Daily News reported at the time. Blackman lived in Kew Gardens about 2 miles from where he was found. At the time of his death, he was a blackjack dealer with close ties to reputed Gambino mobster Bartolomeo (Pepe) Vernace, who was awaiting trial for two slayings. He was last seen alive on Feb. 28, about seven weeks before the grisly discovery was made. At the time of his death, cops theorized the killers thought Blackman was an informant responsible for Vernace’s arrest for the April 11, 1981, murders of bar owners Richard Godkin and John D’Agnese over a spilled drink. Vernace was acquitted of state murder charges that year after several witnesses, including the late crime boss John Gotti’s niece Linda Gotti, were too fearful to testify. He was ultimately convicted of the killings in Brooklyn Federal Court in 2014 and sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years for the dual murders. Blackman’s murder has remained unsolved for 26 years, but in the past year NYPD Crime Stoppers has received a few tips, a police source said.

I wonder about due process and calling these crimes a group of murders.

New York City architect, Rex Heuermann, is set to be charged with first-degree murder in connection to the Gilgo Beach murders — a series of killings of mostly young women that confounded investigators on Long Island for more than a decade. A married dad of two, Heuermann, 59, was busted by a special task force focusing on the murders, numerous sources told The Post on Friday as cops swarmed his home in Massapequa Park, LI. Regarding his professional life, the suspect founded his architectural firm RHC Consultants & Associates, Inc., with offices at 385 Fifth Ave., in 1994. All of his projects are centered in the New York City area. According to the firm’s website, RHC “has extensive experience providing over thirty years of service dealing with the New York City Building Code, the New York State Code, the NYC Department of Buildings and all major city agencies.”

This is me talking about Long Island. 4-23-25

The first woman went missing in 1993. The truck was seen and a different woman made a phone call in 2010.

1993 November 19, 1993: Sandra Costilla last seen, New York City, New York. November 20, 1993: Remains of Sandra Costilla found, North Sea, New York. 1996 February 14, 1996: Karen Vergata last seen. April 20, 1996: Partial and then-unidentified remains of Karen Vergata found, Fire Island, New York. 1997 June 28, 1997: Partial and then-unidentified remains of Tanya Jackson found, Hempstead Lake State Park, Lakeview, New York. 2000 2000: Valerie Mack last seen by family members in spring or summer, Port Republic, New Jersey. November 19, 2000: Partial and then-unidentified remains of Valerie Mack found, Manorville, New York. 2003 July 21, 2003: Jessica Taylor last seen, Port Authority Bus Terminal, Manhattan, New York. July 26, 2003: Partial remains of Jessica Taylor found, Manorville, New York. 2007 July 9, 2007: Maureen Brainard-Barnes last seen, Manhattan, New York. July 2007: A friend of Brainard-Barnes', Sara Karnes, receives a phone call from a man claiming that he had just seen Brainard-Barnes and that she was alive and staying at a "whorehouse in Queens." 2009 July 12, 2009: Melissa Barthelemy last seen, Unionport, Castle Hill, Bronx, New York. July 17, 2009 – August 26, 2009: Amanda Barthelemy, sister of Melissa Barthelemy, receives a series of "vulgar, mocking and insulting" calls from a man using Melissa Barthelemy's cell phone. There are additional calls on July 23, Aug. 5, Aug. 19 and Aug. 26. The caller eventually tells Amanda Barthelemy that her sister is dead.
2010 May 1, 2010: Shannan Gilbert makes a panicked phone call to 911 after fleeing a client's house; she bangs on the doors of several neighboring houses and disappears, Oak Beach, New York. June 6, 2010: Megan Waterman last seen, Hauppauge, New York. September 2, 2010: Amber Lynn Costello last seen, West Babylon, New York. December 11, 2010: Remains of Melissa Barthelemy found, Ocean Parkway, Long Island, New York. December 13, 2010: Remains of Megan Waterman, Amber Lynn Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes found, Ocean Parkway, Long Island, New York. 2011 March 29, 2011: Further partial remains of Jessica Taylor found, Ocean Parkway, Long Island, New York. April 4, 2011: Remains of Valerie Mack, "Asian Doe", and Tatiana Dykes found in brush area, Ocean Parkway, Long Island, New York. April 11, 2011: Further partial remains of Tanya Jackson found, Jones Beach State Park, Nassau County, New York. April 11, 2011: Further partial remains of Karen Vergata found, Tobay Beach, Nassau County, New York. September 20, 2011: "Baby Doe" (later identified as Tatiana Dykes) identified as the daughter of "Peaches" (later identified as Tanya Jackson); partial remains found in 1996 and on April 11 matched to the same person (later identified as Karen Vergata); partial remains found in 2000 and on April 4 matched to the same person (later identified as Valerie Mack); a composite image of the unidentified "Asian Doe" released. December 13, 2011: Remains of Shannan Gilbert found in a marsh, Oak Beach, New York. 2012 May 4, 2012: Shannan Gilbert's death ruled an accidental drowning by Suffolk County medical examiner. 2016 December 13, 2016: "Peaches" and "Jane Doe No. 3" positively identified as the same person, later identified as Tanya Jackson. 2020 May 6, 2020: Suffolk County ordered by New York State Supreme Court to release the recording of Shannan Gilbert's 911 call. May 28, 2020: Police announce forensic identification of formerly unidentified remains of Valerie Mack. 2022 2022: Remains first found in 1996 identified as Karen Vergata. May 23, 2022: Recording of Shannan Gilbert's 911 call released. 2023 July 14, 2023: Rex Heuermann charged in relation to the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, and Amber Costello and named as a suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. August 4, 2023: Police publicly announce forensic identification of formerly unidentified remains of Karen Vergata. 2024 January 16, 2024: Heuermann indicted for the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. June 6, 2024: Heuermann indicted for the murders of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla. September 16, 2024: Updated forensic sketches of "Asian Doe" released, this time both male- and female-presenting versions. December 17, 2024: Heuermann charged in relation to the murder of Valerie Mack. 2025 April 23, 2025: Police publicly announce forensic identification of formerly unidentified remains of Tanya Jackson and Tatiana Dykes.

This is me talking about Portland, OR. 4-23-25

I wonder how they know the group is a member of the Sinaloa Cartel.

David Reames, Special Agent in charge of the regional DEA office, says the operation uncovered a Portland connection to the Sinaloa cartel. "Our intelligence indicated Honduran drug trafficking organizations that were working with the Sinaloa Cartel have infiltrated Portland and are flooding the region with deadly fentanyl and other drugs. Nearly all of those arrested selling drugs were illegally present in the United States," Reames said. "These same traffickers had been exploiting children by using them to sell dangerous drugs."

Greensboro, NC – A Mexican national and high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested today in Nogales, Arizona after being indicted for allegedly helping lead a large drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy. Emmanuel Martimiano Leon-Soto, age 42, of Naco, Mexico, is the last person arrested of 38 total individuals charged in November 2024 by a federal grand jury seated in the Middle District of North Carolina with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine hydrochloride. Leon-Soto is also known as Manny, Jose Manuel Lopez-Castro, Jesus Lopez Castro, Pedro Beltran Zazueta, Pedro Zazueta Beltran, Emmanuel Gomez, Emanuel Leon, Emanuel Leon-Soto, Manuel Leon Soto, Jose Manuel Lopez Castro, and Emanuel Pena Gomez. He is one of 10 of the defendants also charged with conspiracy to launder the proceeds of the drug trafficking scheme.

You wonder about Uzbek nationals in New York City if they trade in gold coins.

A Brooklyn man has admitted to running a “cocaine delivery service” in East Hampton, officials announced Tuesday. Michael Khodorkovskiy, 44, pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance for selling cocaine with attempt to distribute in Suffolk County, according to District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney. “Our East End is not a dumping ground for dangerous narcotics from New York City,” Tierney said in a news release, adding that Khodorkovskiy’s admission demonstrates his office’s commitment to “disrupting the flow of dangerous narcotics anywhere into Suffolk County.” According to prosecutors, undercover police officers managed to infiltrate the defendant’s network by posing as customers. Overall, Khodorkovskiy and a co-conspirator, 39-year-old Alexander Dyatchin, of East Hampton, sold “significant quantities of cocaine” to investigators multiple times, including four instances in which two ounces of cocaine were sold. Both men were arrested on Aug. 2, 2024. At the time, Khodorkovskiy was found with a kilo and a quarter (approximately 2.2 pounds) of cocaine and an undisclosed amount of MDMA, which police found in a hidden compartment in his Mercedes-Benz known as a “trap.” During the execution of a search warrant at the defendant’s home in Brooklyn, investigators also recovered $38,550 in cash and 39 gold coins with an estimated value of $100,000. Additionally, nearly $400,000 was seized from bank accounts linked to him, officials said. On Monday, Khodorkovskiy pleaded guilty in Suffolk County Criminal Court to one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance. a felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. He is due back in court on May 29.

This is me talking about Tijuana. 4-22-25

How the border between Tijuana and San Diego is a lot of money.

A 61-year-old Bronx family law attorney has been criminally charged with paying a 16-year-old girl $1,000 to have sex in his office, the Daily News has learned. Adam Brown, who once worked for the city’s Law Department, was busted April 10 for third-degree rape, patronizing a minor for prostitution and endangering the welfare of a child. The Bronx district attorney’s office asked that bail be set at $10,000, but Brown was let go on supervised release during his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court. An order of protection was issued barring him from contact with the girl. The encounter happened Jan. 17 in Brown’s E. 162nd St. office, right around the corner from Bronx Family Court, where Brown spends much of his time, authorities said. Brown had allegedly responded to the teen’s online ad in which she said she “basically was looking for a sugar daddy type arrangement,” a police source said. The teen, who turned 17, the legal age for consent, this month, reported the encounter to police after family members pressed her about how she got the $1,000. Brown, who lives in Mount Kisco, Westchester County, did not respond to a request for comment. His lawyer had no comment. An online bio describes him “as a force to be reckoned with” and notes his previous work with the Law Department’s Family Court Division. A Law Department spokesman confirmed he worked for the city from 1989 to 1997.

The cities of Tijuana in Mexico and San Diego in the US make up a tightly knit metropolitan area spanning two countries. Manufacturing has long been a lifeline for industries on both sides, with products traveling across the border many times as they’re being assembled. But recently, that smooth back-and-forth has hit some bumps as new tariffs begin to disrupt the flow of goods. The Trump administration recently imposed a 25% levy on imported vehicles and automotive components, as well as a similar tariff on imports containing aluminum and steel, which is significantly impacting cross-border manufacturing operations in Baja California. Due to shifting policies, businesses in Tijuana, historically dependent on frictionless trade with the US, are now hesitating to invest. Tijuana has been a powerhouse for the automobile, electronics and aerospace industries. And in recent years, it has also emerged as a leading center for medical device production, hosting more than 40 plants and employing nearly 42,000 workers in the sector. For decades, hundreds of companies in this region have been able to send goods into the US without being taxed — thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dating back to 1994. The region’s GDP, which combines Southern California and the Mexican state of Baja California — nicknamed CaliBaja — has grown to $250 billion. Mexico has been the No. 1 US trade partner for the past two years — thanks, in part, to flourishing border regions like this one.

For many years, drug cartels in Mexico have used the United States as not only its main market for fentanyl trafficking, but also to launder their profits. According to a recent report, the Sinaloa cartel and the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) use casinos in the U.S. to launder profits from drug trafficking and other illegal businesses. Financial institutions estimated that last year alone at least $1.4 billion in transactions were linked to these two criminal organizations. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a financial trend analysis identifying fentanyl-related illicit transactions tied to Mexico's two largest cartels.

Mexican authorities arrested two alleged high ranking members of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel this week, just days before the Trump administration designated that group and others based in Mexico as foreign terrorist organizations. The list includes transnational gangs MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, as well as several cartels including the Sinaloa, Jalisco, Zetas, and Gulf cartels, Cartel Unidos, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana (LNFM). Jose Angel Canobbio Inzunza was arrested in the city of Culiacán in northwest Mexico Wednesday, according to Omar Hamid García Harfuch, secretary of Security and Citizen Protection of Mexico.

At least nine people were killed and four others were wounded in a ‘cartel’ attack on a drug rehabilitation center in northwestern Mexico, according to local media. The attack took place around 1:45 a.m. at the “Shaddai” rehabilitacion center in the city of Culiacan, in the state of Sinaloa. According to Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, gunmen forced their way into the building, asked the patients if they belonged to a criminal group, and then opened fire when no one responded. The violence is taking place against the backdrop of an internal war within the Cártel de Sinaloa between the Chapitos—the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán—and the La Mayiza faction, loyal to Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. The conflict began after El Mayo’s arrest near El Paso, Texas on July 2024.

This is me talking about Southern California. 4-21-25

Reports about the police and the navy in California.

FIRST ON FOX: United States Senator Tim Sheehy, R-Montana, called out Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum in a scathing letter addressing the large amount of raw sewage and waste the neighboring country has dumped in the Tijuana River. The letter outlines Sheehy’s concern not only for the health and safety of local residents, but also points out that the toxic leak could potentially be jeopardizing U.S. national security. "This continuous discharge is sickening thousands of Americans annually, including U.S. Navy SEALs and Marine special forces who train in the affected waters," the letter to the president of Mexico reads. "In February 2025, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General concluded that, absent action, Navy Special Warfare Command would be advised to cancel or relocate up to 75 percent of water training exercises at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado due to elevated bacterial contamination levels." Last week, the International Boundary and Water Commission stated that Mexico is dumping 5 million gallons of sewage a day into the Tijuana River. The toxic waste then flows up into the United States, and can even make its way into the Pacific Ocean. "For decades, Mexico has been dumping toxic waste into the water where our most elite servicemen train, causing serious health issues and harming our readiness," Sheehy told Fox News Digital. "The problem is only getting worse, and their failure to do anything about it is harming our troops and our national security. Mexico needs to put a stop to this toxic tide immediately." While Sheehy is sounding the alarm from Congress, local leaders have also confirmed that the Mexican government’s intentional waste dump has left residents with dangerous and harmful environmental conditions. "This sewage isn’t just disgusting — it’s dangerous. It contains E. coli, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, arsenic and other toxic chemicals," San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond explained in a recent Fox News op-ed. "Our water is contaminated. Our air is polluted with aerosolized waste. Residents are reporting everything from skin infections to viral pharyngitis — and even family pets have gotten sick after exposure." "We have heard far too many horror stories of Navy SEALs – some of the bravest and brightest service members in the military – falling ill from training in waters that have been contaminated by Mexican sewage that has flown into our nation," Zeldin told Fox on Friday. "This has been a human health crisis that has lingered for decades."

A convicted murderer who escaped custody in Southern California late last year and who is now accused of killing a Mexican police officer in an elite unit known as “the Gringo Hunters” was arrested last week in Tijuana, according to media reports. Cesar Hernandez, 35, a United States citizen, was convicted in June 2019 of killing a man outside of a Southeast Los Angeles bar and sentenced to 80 years to life with the possibility of parole. On Dec. 2, 2024, he escaped custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shortly before arriving at the Kern County Superior Courthouse in Delano where he was expected to enter a no-contest plea for manufacturing a weapon in his cell, a “third strike” that could’ve resulted in him losing any chance of parole. While CDCR officials would neither confirm nor deny it, there were some reports suggesting Hernandez used a makeshift key to shed his handcuffs and shackles during the drive to the courthouse. If accurate, the claim answers a question posed by many after exclusive video obtained by KTLA sister station KGET showed the unshackled inmate easily outrunning a guard. Despite a significant manhunt, the 35-year-old made it all the way to Mexico. On April 9, the “Gringo Hunters,” a Mexican police unit formed to cooperate with U.S. authorities in the apprehension of fugitives who cross the border, conducted an operation to capture Hernandez in the border town of Tijuana, Reuters reported. Allegedly dressed as a cleaner, the 35-year-old opened fire on the Mexican police unit, striking and killing 33-year-old Abigail Esparza Reyes, the commander of the unit, and was able to escape. A little more than a week later, on April 17, the 35-year-old fugitive killer was located and successfully arrested by Mexican authorities in Tijuana, the Los Angeles Times reported. It’s unclear if Hernandez will face prosecution in Mexico, California or both.

A promising Missouri State University football player has died after a possible accident with a gun at his home, police said. Todric McGee, 21, a star safety on the Bears, died Saturday from gunshot wounds at a hospital, authorities said. He was injured Friday at his home, according to the university. Cops in Springfield, Mo., responded to a call for a “possible accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound” on Friday, the Springfield News-Leader reported. After police found McGee, he was transported to a local hospital.

This is me talking about jazz. 4-20-25

When the mom doesn't have the same name as the kid.

A 7-year-old nonverbal autistic boy with a gift of remembering maps was on his way to the Empire State Building when he disappeared from a Queens restaurant and traveled alone to Midtown Manhattan, his mother told the Daily News on Saturday. “He was very, very close [to getting there],” grateful mom Farjana Akond said about her son Ruwaid Karim’s wild, two-borough journey to try to reach the famed landmark. “I never thought that he could do that.” After walking out of the Dera Restaurant on Broadway in Jackson Heights around 11:45 a.m. Friday, Ruwaid surfaced about three hours later, four miles away, walking past 58th St. at Lexington Ave. “I went to the restroom to wash my hands, and just in two minutes, I see he disappeared,” the stunned mother recalled. “He’s never been out on the street, so I was very worried. Ruwaid was less than 25 blocks from the iconic skyscraper when a woman spotted him darting into traffic. She managed to grab him before he was hit and called 911. “He went across the crosswalk when it was still red, and there were cars coming,” the Good Samaritan, who Akond identified as Christina, said at a press conference Friday. “And then when we hit 57th, the cars were going both ways and he ran into the middle of the street. There were two different cars going each way that stopped and they were honking their horns, and he just kept going, and I was trying to get him but I didn’t want to get hit either, so he was a little more of a hero than I was running into the middle of the street.” Cops quickly brought Akond to Midtown to be reunited with her son.

An FDNY fire truck fatally struck a cyclist Saturday afternoon in Queens, police said. Cops responded to a vehicle collision around 4:02 p.m. near 80th St. and Juniper Blvd. North in Middle Village. An FDNY fire truck was traveling north on 80th St. and was turning onto Juniper Blvd North just outside Juniper Valley Park when it collided with an unidentified man riding a bicycle, police said. The cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no arrests in the incident. It was unknown if the fire truck was responding to an alarm call at the time. The NYPD Collision Investigation Squad is continuing to investigate the incident.

This is me talking about Ireland. 4-19-25

A British group is researching fake documents from South America.

A pair of killings in New York City bodegas has led workers to demand panic buttons be installed in their stores to alert police to any emergency, advocates said Friday. Fernando Mateo of the United Bodegas of America said state and city officials have promised to fund the panic buttons, but the money hasn’t materialized. “In the last 48 hours, we’ve had two people killed inside of a bodega,” Mateo said, standing outside the Ameer Deli & Grill, where a 24-year-old man was fatally knifed in the neck during a brawl with two other young men Wednesday evening. “Let’s stop the killings. We don’t want to get up tomorrow and know that another person got killed in a bodega. We need to stop it.” On Thursday afternoon, Sorai King, 20, was shot in the neck and chest outside the Shak Deli at E. 217th St. and Bronxwood Ave. in Williamsbridge, Bronx during a fight with another man. King was on an errand to pick up a snack for his mom when he was shot, heartbroken relatives said.

British investigative media outlet Bellingcat managed to geolocate the last video Christian posted. It was filmed in Libya, near the town of Al Jawf, the last Libyan town on the road to the Sudanese border, making it likely that Christian filmed this video while on the road towards the border between Libya and Sudan. Three days after this video was posted, his papers would be in the hands of fighters belonging to the Joint Forces. Christian was part of an arms convoy transporting Bulgarian-made weapons to the Rapid Support Forces, according to these fighters.

That community groups in New York City lobby for the courts to hand out lengthy sentences.

The mother of slain Brooklyn teen Davonte Lewis slammed a Kings County Supreme Court judge for allowing one of her son’s three killers to wrap up a college course before kicking off his 15-years-to-life prison sentence. Supreme Court Justice Matthew Blum on Thursday handed down the negotiated sentence to Quran Smith, 20, for Lewis’ murder, but not before granting the killer’s request to finish a college-level course at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center before shipping him upstate on June 27.

This is me talking about the Irish parliament. 4-18-25

That the fireman who was involved in the February crash was operating an OnlyFans account.

The former FDNY firefighter charged with killing a 23-year-old man in a drug and booze-fueled crash was sent to Rikers Island Thursday after prosecutors argued his “pseudo” OnlyFans business gave him a source of income that could allow him to flee. Michael Pena, 28, driving his Mercedes-Benz 83 mph in a 25 mph zone, blasted through a red light just before he t-boned victim Justin Diaz as the younger man drove a BMW to his baggage handler job at LaGuardia Airport at about 4:15 a.m. on Feb. 26, according to prosecutors. During his arraignment on a grand jury indictment in Queens Criminal Court Thursday, prosecutors revealed he’d racked up 25 tickets for speeding in school zones in the last couple of years. His $100,000 bond was revoked by Judge Michael Hartofilis during the appearance and he was sent to Rikers Island. Pena faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. He is charged with 14 offenses, including manslaughter, assault, speeding and driving while intoxicated. He was fired from the FDNY in the wake of his arrest. “We do have reason to believe that he might be operating some sort of pseudo OnlyFans account where he can post and sell content online,” Assistant District Attorney Vivian Gonzalez said in court, arguing for Pena to be held without bail. “The ties that he used to have with the community through his employment with the FDNY no longer exist. And if he is making money through any internet means, he can do that through anywhere in the country.”