DUCK!! Muck!!

Sounds like the muck is flying in Kerr County.

DA candidates trade accusations of campaign violations

By Zeke MacCormack - Express-News


A week after returning illegal campaign contributions from corporations, Scott Monroe has accused opponent Brad McCullouch of improprieties in their Republican primary race for district attorney in the 198th judicial district.

Monroe said McCullouch declared his candidacy before designating a campaign treasurer, campaigned while working as assistant district attorney, and parked a campaign van on private property without the owners' permission.

“I was going to ignore these... but since you have gone to the media and law enforcement, you have left me no choice but to do the same,” Monroe, a Kerrville lawyer, told McCullouch in a letter.

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Rest in Peace

Rest in Peace Shelly.

My condolences to your family.

Area attorney killed in crash

By Ana Ley - Express-News

An area attorney was killed in a crash Monday on a rural highway in Wilson County.

Shelly Siegfried, 39, was driving west along FM 1681 near Nixon about 8:20 a.m. when she lost control of her vehicle on a curve, according to officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The 2000 Lexus reportedly veered off the roadway and overturned, killing Siegfried. No one else was involved in the crash.

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Bye!

Your client is drunk, driving the wrong way down the highway and collides head-on with another car, resulting in the death and severe  injuries to the folks in the other car and you call EMS despicable?

IMHO blaming EMS and calling their actions despicable is going to "blow-back" badly on the Defendant.

Badly.

Defense: EMS shares blame in death

By Jessica Kwong - Express-News

Even though Jenny Ann Ybarra was drunk and driving the wrong way, her defense attorney said Wednesday the “despicable behavior of EMS” was as much to blame for the death of a passenger in the car she collided with — pronouncing the victim dead, he said, while she was still gasping for air.

At least four paramedics arrived at the scene of the December 2007 collision shortly before 4 a.m. on the East Side.

One of them covered the body of Erica Nicole Smith, 23, with a yellow tarp, and it wasn’t until a San Antonio Police Department traffic investigations detective lifted it that he saw she appeared to be breathing.

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Hmmm? Is he really that stupid?

How could anyone be so ignorant?

Let alone a teacher? 

Unless of course he can't be fired and the District has to keep paying him and he doesn't have to teach anymore?

Teacher accused of racial discrimination on paid leave

CBSMinnesota -

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A St. Paul teacher is on paid leave after being accused of racial discrimination in his own classroom.
Parents of some black students said their children have faced discrimination for months at the Heights Community School.
Latasha Tolbert said sixth grade teacher Tim Olmsted told her daughter that she’d be standing on the corner with a sign begging for money on the expressway.

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Child porn distributor as well

I guess the lure of getting to be on TV was too good to pass-up.

Man arrested in reality TV con

By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News

A San Antonio man accused of conning several youths into believing they were going to be on TV was arrested Tuesday and charged with distribution of child pornography.

Gemase Lee Simmons, 35, had been featured in news segments on Dateline NBC and MSNBC, which aired accusations he exploited several people, sexually and mentally, with promises of a reality television show about modeling that turned out to be fake.

FBI agents arrested him at his Northwest Side apartment. The child porn distribution charge, punishable by up to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of federal supervision, is unrelated to the allegations in the Dateline segments.

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Hope you enjoy your well-deserved retirement

Enjoy your retirement John!

We will miss you here at the courthouse.

Barber-turned-peace officer giving up gun, keeping clippers

Bailiff, 71, ends 44-year Comal career
By Zeke MacCormack - Express-News

NEW BRAUNFELS — John Calentine hung up his holster Tuesday after 44 years behind a badge in Comal County, but he's not quite ready to relinquish his hair clippers.

“Time flies when you're having the time of your life,” said Calentine, reflecting on a career that included 28 years as a sheriff's deputy here before becoming a bailiff in 1995.

He's been a courtroom fixture since then, standing just behind thousands of criminal defendants and civil litigants — prepared to intervene if they approached a judge or tried any other questionable activity.

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Stick 'em up!

Arrested?

Really?

Arrested, Arrested?

Wow!

Boy, 10, arrested in Burbank for pointing gun at woman

CBSLosAngeles -


BURBANK (CBS) — A 10-year-old boy was arrested Sunday after reportedly pointing a toy gun at a woman who believed it was a real weapon.

The boy knocked on the front door of the woman’s house and allegedly pointed the plastic gun at a 67-year-old woman who answered the door, according to the Burbank Leader. The boy picked the house because the woman’s grandson reportedly beat up his friend at school, Burbank police Lt. John Dilibert told the paper.

The boy yelled “you suck” at the woman while pointing the gun at her, then running away, Dilibert said.

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He who talks walks (or at least gets a lighter sentence)

Thanking him for his co-operation.

Cooperative defendant draws 15-year term

By Craig Kapitan - Express-News

A San Antonio man whose testimony at his two co-defendants' murder trials helped prosecutors obtain 144 years in combined sentences received his own punishment Monday.

Dominque Lenzy, 25, was ordered by state District Judge Juanita Vasquez-Gardner to serve 15 years in prison for a reduced charge of aggravated assault connected to the July 2009 shooting death of Jimmy Arizah Wilson, 33. He was killed outside a Northeast Side apartment complex.

It was the maximum sentence allowable under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors. Lenzy asked the judge for deferred adjudication probation.

 

 

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Gracias

He's lucky.

Mexico does not have the death penalty regardless of how many innocent folks he pulled off of buses and murdered, senselessly and cowardly.

Mexico cops nab suspect in 75 drug cartel killings

Porfirio Ibarra - Associated Press

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Police in northern Mexico have captured an alleged member of the Zetas drug gang who confessed to killing at least 75 people, including many who were pulled off buses, authorities said Monday.

Enrique Elizondo Flores told investigators 36 of his victims were bus passengers traveling through the town of Cerralvo, near the border with Texas, said Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene.

Elizondo was detained Jan. 20 in the town of Salinas Victoria, but authorities delayed announcing his arrest so they could verify details of his confession, state Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said.

 

 

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Tooting his own horn

Ted?

Conflate your role much?

Woman gets probation for witness tampering
By Dalondo Moultrie New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung


NEW BRAUNFELS — A Comal County judge on Monday gave a woman probation instead of a possible two-year state jail term in her case of tampering with a witness and endangering a child.

Judge Gary L. Steel sentenced Nancy Carolyn Knowles, 38, of New Braunfels, to 75 days in Comal County Jail, and ordered that as long as Knowles continues working her job at The Scooter Store, she can serve the time on weekends only.

“I saved her from prison,” Knowles’ defense attorney Ted Wood said outside the court after the punishment hearing Monday afternoon.

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Let them..*ahem*..eat panties?

Michelle Obama purchases $50,000 in lingerie??

Normally I'd say big deal, but these days?

A little tone-deaf no?

Agent Provocateur sales boosted by US First Lady Michelle Obama

The Telegraph

Agent Provocateur saw sales jump by more than 12pc, helped by US First Lady Michelle Obama spending $50,000 (£31,794) in one shopping spree.

The First Lady – better known for shopping at more modestly-priced High Street stores – along with the Queen of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah, closed off part of Madison Avenue to spend time in the luxury lingerie shop.

Their purchases contributed to a market-spanking 12.5pc lift in sales.

Agent Provocateur, which is styled on vintage Hollywood glamour, sells handmade Calais lace corsets that sell for up to £900, which could ruffle the feathers of more than just President Barack Obama in an election year.

Gary Hogarth, Agent Provocateur's chief executive, refused to be drawn on the store's closely kept "secret client list". But he admitted the brand had attracted a high number of "unexpected famous names" – especially in the US, where sales have overtaken the UK.

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The Mummy lies prostrate in his tomb

Well that's all well and good, now can you cure him?

Researchers find cancer in ancient Egyptian mummy

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CAIRO (AP) — A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.

The genetics-environment question is key to understanding cancer.

AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties.

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Fresh Meat!!

Wow Mr. Pearis you are just too pretty a fellow to go to prison.

There are gonna be a lot of happy inmates if and when you get convicted and show up at the prison. 

Good Luck with that Buddy!

Man accused in aggravated robbery fled to El Paso

By Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News


A man accused of exchanging gunfire with people inside an apartment while he allegedly tried to rob them was arrested last week in El Paso, officials said.

Reese Pearis, 21, is being held in the El Paso County Jail without bail. He faces an aggravated robbery charge out of Bexar County and two charges — evading arrest and possession of marijuana — out of Guadalupe County, according to records.

According to the U.S. Marshals' Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, Pearis was wanted in connection with a home invasion and robbery that took place at an apartment complex last Monday. Pearis and two others reportedly broke into an apartment, a news release states, and Pearis exchanged gunfire with the apartment's occupants. He fled the scene, and the task force learned Pearis may have headed to El Paso.

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West Side Story

The news on the radio this morning says the shooter was the ex-boyfriend of the girl who was dating the now deceased victim.

Another example of a macho asshole whose ego couldn't stand rejection.

Man shot, killed on West Side

By Michelle Mondo - Express-News


An argument about a woman reportedly led to a shooting Sunday night on the West Side that left one man dead, officials said.

The shooting happened around 8:45 p.m. near the H-E-B grocery story and bus stop at the intersection of West Commerce and South Calaveras streets.

San Antonio police Lt. Lee Rakun said the man killed apparently had argued with another man over a woman but early in the investigation information wasn't available on what the disagreement was about or why it started.

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You auto not steal!

Jeeze Louise!

Folks will steal anything not nailed down, won't they?

Potty-room pilfering:  Auto flushers stolen in Ohio

Associated Press -

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A restroom rip-off in central Ohio has automatic flushers disappearing from the bathrooms at restaurants and other businesses.

Police say it's been happening in at least a couple Columbus suburbs. Investigators don't know if the thefts are related.

Handyman John Hahn tells WBNS-TV (http://bit.ly/yGqJ3c ) the flushers are likely being stolen for scrap because they contain a metal called red brass that can bring $2.50 per pound.

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