Crime

Search warrants for accused Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger’s home unsealed

Washington State University Police recovered a possibly blood-stained mattress cover, human hairs, a glove and a computer from University of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s apartment, according to a search warrant unsealed in Washington Court on Wednesday.

Police executed a search warrant at the 28-year-old Ph.D student’s residence and office at Washington State University in Pullman on Dec. 29, the same day as Pennsylvania police and a SWAT team had raided his parents house and taken him into custody in the early hours of the morning.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Townhall: We Investigated a Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring. Here’s What We Found – Part 2

Part 2: Just How Big Was the Operation Led by the LGBTQ Couple Who Abused Their Adopted Sons?

Part 1 of the Zulock saga covered how gay activists William Dale Zulock Jr. and Zachary “Zack” Jacoby Zulock, the adoptive fathers of two boys, have been indicted by a grand jury on a slew of felony child sex charges, including prostitution of a minor.

Count 16 and Count 17 of the indictment charges the Zulock couple with soliciting 27-year-old Hunter Clay Lawless and 25-year-old Luis Armando Vizcarro-Sanchez, both of Loganville, to engage in “an act of prostitution” with their 11-year-old adopted boy.

Be warned, this is pure evil.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant, Crime

FTX Founder Gamed Markets, Crypto Rivals Say

Sam Bankman-Fried found ways to control the prices of digital coins to benefit his companies, FTX and Alameda, according to cryptocurrency investors.

In Sam Bankman-Fried’s quest to keep his cryptocurrency empire looking profitable, the disgraced founder of FTX often promoted newfangled digital currencies that crypto aficionados came to call “Samcoins.”

Mr. Bankman-Fried wooed the developers of these new coins with names like Serum and Maps, insisting that they make their trading debuts on the FTX exchange. Then his hedge fund, Alameda Research, would buy some of these newly listed Samcoins to prop up their value, while Mr. Bankman-Fried used FTX’s influence in the crypto industry to drum up interest in those coins and convince other investors to also buy significant amounts.

Mr. Bankman-Fried was thus able to inflate the coins’ value artificially, making Alameda look healthier than it was and papering over problems at his companies until they imploded in November.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

‘Cartel-Style Execution’ Kills 6, Including Baby, In California

At least six people, including a 17-year-old mother and her six-month-old baby, were killed in what California’s Tulare County Sheriff’s Office described to CNN as a “cartel-style execution” early Monday morning.

“While investigators cannot confirm the shooters were from a cartel, the sheriff thinks it appears to be a ‘cartel-style execution,’” CNN reported. “Drug cartels have notoriously engaged in deadly violence, including the deployment of hit squads against perceived enemies and members of law enforcement that threaten their drug trafficking efforts.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Crime

Townhall – We Investigated a Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring. Here’s What We Found.

A months-long Townhall investigation reveals disturbing new details about the affluent LGBTQ-activist couple accused of sodomizing their young adopted sons—now ages 9 and 11—and distributing “homemade” child pornography of the sexual abuse. Half a year after the shocking story made national news, Townhall is the only outlet following up on the criminal case in Georgia that has since seen zero headlines written about it. We’ve found that it’s far, far worse than what was first reported.

Consider yourself warned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant, Crime

Idaho suspect may have left ‘calling card’ to claim murders, possibly killed before: experts

University of Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger may have left behind a “calling card” to show he was at the scene of the grisly killings in Moscow, Idaho — and the brutality of the crime suggests that he possibly has killed before, according to experts.

In a “Dr. Phil” special on Friday, experts speculated that Kohberger, 28, purposefully left an empty knife sheath in the room where students Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were murdered on Nov. 13.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Metropolitan Police officer admits to 48 rapes

A Metropolitan Police officer has admitted more than 80 sex offences, including 48 rapes against 12 women during two decades at the force, making him one of the country’s worst sex offenders.

David Carrick, 48, a firearms officer in the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, pleaded guilty to dozens more offences, including sexual assault, false imprisonment, coercive control and assault by penetration.

More … Horrific crimes of Met cop David Carrick who inflicted 71 sex attacks on 12 women who he called his ‘slaves’, controlled what they ate and cut them off from their families – as he is revealed as one of UK’s worst rapists

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Trudeau says Ottawa looking at bail reform after premiers demand action

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is looking “carefully” at a letter from Canada’s premiers calling for reforms to the country’s bail system.

Premiers from all 13 provinces and territories signed the letter sent to Trudeau on Friday. In it, they say the time for action is now and “our heroic first responders cannot wait.”

The letter was initiated by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office following the late December killing of an Ontario Provincial Police officer.

What BS. They’ve lessened sentences for gun crime, and are on a path to create a two tiered justice system.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Shot in the act: How an explosion in surveillance video is transforming the justice system

Highway cameras track an accused killer in an SUV travelling across Toronto before and after a double murder. A neighbour’s street-facing home security camera captures a man slashing his estranged wife to death with a machete in a driveway across the street.

These are just two examples from recent murder trials at the downtown Superior Court, where judges and juries routinely gaze for hours at computer monitors showing video footage and other digital evidence.

Fifteen years ago it was rare for a killing to be caught on video.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Crime

Premiers urge Trudeau to tighten Canada’s bail system

Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders are pushing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to consider changes to Canada’s bail system, especially when it comes to some firearms offences.

In a Jan. 13 letter to Trudeau, the 13 premiers said they wanted to see a specific change that would make bail harder for those accused of a charge related to the offence of possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm. They also called for a review of other firearms-related offences.

“There have been a growing number of calls for changes to prevent accused persons, who are out on bail, from committing further criminal acts,” reads the letter. “The justice system fundamentally needs to keep anyone who poses a threat to public safety off the streets.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Sam Bankman-Fried ordered $65B ‘secret backdoor line of credit,’ lawyer says

Sam Bankman-Fried ordered the co-founder of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX to create a “secret” backdoor that allowed his hedge fund Alameda Research to borrow $65 billion of clients’ money without their permission, according to testimony over the firm’s implosion.

Gary Wang was told to create a secret line of credit using customer funds from FTX to Alameda, said Andrew Dietderich, an attorney for FTX, in Delaware bankruptcy court on Wednesday.

“Mr. Wang created this backdoor by inserting a single number into millions of lines of code for the exchange, creating a line of credit from FTX to Alameda, to which customers did not consent,” Dietderich testified.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Vigilante who killed robber in Houston restaurant breaks silence

A lawyer for a customer who shot and killed a robber in a Houston taqueria last week said his actions were justified because he was ‘in fear of his life.’

Eric Eugene Washington, 30, died after being shot nine times – with one bullet hitting him execution-style in the head – by a vigilante customer who was said to be ‘protecting everyone’ in the restaurant.

A Texas grand jury will decide whether or not criminal charges should be brought against the still unidentified shooter, but in a statement, attorney Juan L. Guerra Jr. said he was within his rights and that the jury will agree.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger appears in court with cuts and bruises on face, neck

Accused killer Bryan Kohberger looked roughed up and had mysterious cuts on his face during a courtroom appearance Thursday in Moscow, Idaho, where a judge set his next court date.

The 28-year-old criminology PhD student had two gashes near his chin and apparent bruises on his neck as he was escorted by a sheriff’s deputy into the courtroom for the five-minute hearing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime