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☆ New Jersey Gamer Flew to Florida to Attack Rival With Hammer, Police Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A New Jersey man who the police said had flown to Florida and attacked a fellow gamer with a hammer over an online dispute was charged with attempted second-degree murder on Sunday. Sheriff Leeper said that Mr. Kang had never met the gamer he attacked in person, but that they knew each other from playing ArcheAge, a fantasy online game where players pursued their own adventures of exploration and conquest in a mythical world. An arrest report identified the target of Mr. Kang’s attack as Zachary Dinh, who declined to comment on Tuesday. It was unclear what interactions Mr. Kang and Mr. Dinh had online. Sheriff Leeper said that the episode “originated from an online altercation.”

Persons: Edward Kang, Bill Leeper, Sheriff Leeper, Mr, Kang, ArcheAge, Zachary Dinh, Dinh, ” Locations: Jersey, Florida, New Jersey, Nassau County, Fla

☆ A 4-year-old boy was rescued after surviving nearly 24 hours alone in California woods
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A 4-year-old boy who went missing at a lake in Fresno County, California, on Thursday has been found safe after surviving nearly 24 hours alone in the woods, the sheriff’s office said. “We’re fortunate this morning that as these searchers were calling out for the boy, he called back,” Fresno County Sheriff’s Lt. Brandon Pursell told KFSN. The boy is very, very fortunate to be with his family,” Pursell told CNN affiliate KABC. Fresno County Sheriff’s OfficeThe family reported their son was missing from their campsite at the Rancheria Campground in Huntington Lake around 11 a.m. Thursday. There were more than 50 deputies and volunteers who combined to participate in this search,” the sheriff’s office said.

Persons: Christian Ramirez, “, Brandon Pursell, KFSN, Christian, ” Pursell, Pursell, “ Huntington, That’s Organizations: CNN, Team, KFSN, KABC, Rescue Team, Fresno County Sheriff’s, Air Support, Forest Service, California Department of Fish, Wildlife Locations: Fresno County , California, Tulare, Fresno County, “, Huntington Lake

☆ Hiker missing for 10 days in California mountains survived by drinking a gallon of water each day
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A California man spent ten days stranded in the mountains after he got lost on a hike, relying in part on large volumes of water to survive. Lukas McClish, 34, set out for what he thought would be a three-hour hike in the Santa Cruz Mountains on June 11, according to CNN affiliate KGO. But he became lost in the mountains – partially due to the destruction of local landmarks in recent wildfires. His family officially reported him missing when he didn’t show up for a Father’s Day dinner on June 16, triggering search and rescue efforts, KGO reported. Speaking with KGO, McClish said he was “tired and a little sore” after his ordeal.

Persons: Lukas McClish, McClish, ”, “, ” McClish, Lukas McClish’s Organizations: CNN, KGO, Santa Cruz Sheriff’s, Cal Fire San, Big Basin Redwoods, Cal Fire, KSBW Locations: California, Santa Cruz, Cal Fire San Mateo, Big

☆ A family of taekwondo athletes heard a woman’s screams and jumped into action
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Paradise Afshar | Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —When Simon An and his family heard screaming from a store next door to their family taekwondo studio on Wednesday outside Houston, Texas, they knew they had to find out what was happening. An told CNN Friday the family was returning from their lunch break and were parking at the Yong-In studio in Katy when his father heard a “loud scream” as he exited his car. Then the whole family heard “a second scream, and it was loud. Very loud.” “I would describe it as a horror scream.”His father led the family into a nearby Cricket Wireless store. “I’m very proud of my family.”The Harris County Sheriff lauded the An family as “good samaritans” and thanked them for their “quick action in protecting others.”

Persons: Simon An, –, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, “, ”, Alex Robinson, Robinson, KHOU, Hannah, Han Organizations: CNN, Harris County Sheriff, Cricket Wireless, KHOU, Sheriff Locations: Houston , Texas, Harris County, Katy, Harris

☆ Nearly 100 Million Under Temperature Advisories as Heat Wave Lingers
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Liam Stack | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The heat shattered temperature records and altered daily routines from the Midwest river valleys to the pine forests of New England, and left roughly one-third of Americans under extreme heat advisories, warnings or watches on Thursday, according to the National Integrated Heat Health Information System. In rural Indiana, sheriff’s deputies conducted wellness checks on older residents. And in the New York region, students left school early — some because their schools closed at midday, and others because worried parents took matters into their own hands. Simone Machado pulled her son Bryan, 10, out of school at Ann Street Elementary School in Newark, the largest city in New Jersey, early on Thursday because of the heat. By the time she got there, a bright red heat rash had already bloomed across his neck.

Persons: sheriff’s, Simone Machado, Bryan Organizations: National, Ann Street Elementary School Locations: United States, New England, Indiana, In Maine, New York, Newark, New Jersey

☆ Post Fire: Los Angeles County blaze has consumed nearly 15,000 acres
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Paradise Afshar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A fire in Los Angeles County that forced the evacuations of hundreds of people from a state park has burned nearly 15,000 acres, authorities said Sunday, just one day after it started. A red flag warning was issued for the I-5 corridor in Los Angeles County and the Ventura County mountains until 5:00 p.m. Monday afternoon. The wildfire began Saturday afternoon in Gorman, an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County. California State Park Services evacuated 1,200 people from Hungry Valley Park, Cal Fire said. The fire had damaged two commercial properties by Saturday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

Persons: Crews, Marcio Jose Sanchez Organizations: CNN, California Department of Forestry, Cal Fire, National Weather Service, Cal Fire ., Park Services, Angeles County Fire Department, Firefighters, AP, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Locations: Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, Ventura County, Gorman, Cal Fire . California, Angeles, Pyramid, Old, Angeles County, Gorman , California, Northern California, Sonoma County

☆ American tourist found dead on small Greek island. Three other tourists are missing
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

ATHENS, Greece AP —A missing American tourist has been found dead on a beach on a small Greek island west of Corfu, local media reported. He had been reported missing Thursday by his host, a Greek-American friend. Mathraki, which has a population of 100, is a 3.9-square-kilometer (1.2-square-mile) heavily wooded island, west of the better-known island of Corfu. On Friday, two French tourists were reported missing on Sikinos, a relatively secluded Cyclades island in the Aegean Sea, with less than 400 permanent residents. US media identified the missing tourist as retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Albert Calibet of Hermosa Beach, California.

Persons: Michael Mosley, Sheriff Albert Calibet, Tourism Popi Despotidi, Calibet, Amorgos “ Organizations: Greece AP, Los Angeles, Sheriff, Tourism, CNN Locations: ATHENS, Greece, Corfu, Mathraki, British, Symi, Amorgos, Los Angeles County, Hermosa Beach , California

“When I got on scene, I started to cry,” said Rochester Hills Mayor Bryan Barnett Saturday night. “Because I know what a splash pad is supposed to be. The scene of a shooting at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on Saturday, June 15, 2024. Police respond to the scene of a shooting at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on Saturday, June 15, 2024. “I am heartbroken to learn about the shooting in Rochester Hills,” she wrote.

Persons: Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, ”, John James, Bouchard, “, Bryan Barnett, ” Bouchard, “ We’re, WDIV, Gretchen Whitmer Organizations: CNN — Police, Oakland County Sheriff, Michigan, Rochester Hills, Michigan State University, CNN, Brooklands, Rochester, Police, Investigators, Authorities, Oxford, Gov Locations: Rochester Hills , Michigan, Brooklands, Oakland County, Rochester, Oxford , Michigan, Oxford, Rochester Hills

☆ Rochester Hills, Michigan shooting: At least 9 shot, including an 8-year-old, at recreation center; suspect contained in home nearby, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Emma Tucker | Sara Smart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —At least nine people were shot at a recreation area in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on Saturday, and a suspect is contained at a home surrounded by officers near the crime scene, police said. One of the victims was 8 years old, said Bouchard, who added he could not comment on the age of the other victims. Bouchard said it appears the suspect pulled up to the recreation area, exited a vehicle and opened fire roughly 20 feet away, reloading multiple times. Authorities are bringing in additional assets, including SWAT teams and armored vehicles to assist officers at the scene, Bouchard said. “A vehicle that matched what had been described as a vehicle leaving the scene was there,” the sheriff said.

Persons: Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, “, Bouchard, ”, Bryan Barnett, “ We’re Organizations: CNN, Brooklands, Oakland County Sheriff, Rochester Hills, Authorities, ” Investigators, Sheriff’s Locations: Rochester Hills , Michigan, Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Rochester, Detroit, Oxford, Oakland

☆ A photographer spent years memorializing some 300 sites of fatal police shootings across America
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Suyin Haynes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

110 of these images are published now in the monograph “My America;” quiet, monochromatic images of everyday sites like parking lots, rural roads and suburban sidewalks. Diana MatarMonique Deckard, 43, was shot and killed by police officers outside her apartment in Anaheim, California, on March 8, 2015. Two chairs on a sunny sidewalk in Los Angeles, California, indicate where 37-year-old Norma Guzman, 37, was shot and killed by police officers in 2015. Terence Crutcher, 40, was shot and killed by a police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 16, 2016. Diana MatarClemente Najera, 38, was shot and killed by a sheriff's officer in Elsinore, California, on April 15, 2016.

Persons: Diana Matar, —, ” Matar, “ Timewise, ”, Matar, Saycon, Diana Matar Charles Pettit Jr, Diana Matar Monique Deckard, Terence Crutcher, Jose Cruz, Norma Guzman, ” Norma Guzman, Guzman, Diana Matar Rodney Turner, Diana Matar Ian King, “, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, — Matar, Diana Matar Clemente Najera, Diana Matar Jose Rodriguez, Diana Matar “ Organizations: CNN, The Guardian, Los Angeles City Council, Columbia University’s Barnard College Locations: California, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Long Beach , California, Midwest City , Oklahoma, Anaheim , California, Tulsa , Oklahoma, Addison , Texas, Los Angeles , California, Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, Ponca City , Oklahoma, New York City, Libya, North Africa, Italy, Ukraine, Ferguson , Missouri, Cleveland , Ohio, Charleston , South Carolina, America, Elsinore , California, Albuquerque , New Mexico, “

☆ For Rogue Smoke Shops in New York, the ‘Party’s Over’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Ashley Southall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Similar scenes have played out across New York City as a task force led by the Sheriff’s Office has flexed its new emergency powers to lock down unlicensed cannabis shops, which officials recently estimated outnumbered licensed retailers in the city by about 2,900 to 62. From May 7 to June 3, inspection teams closed 311 stores, seized $10.4 million worth of products and issued $23.4 million in fines, according to the mayor’s office. An additional 325 shops were put on notice. Previously, shuttered stores could reopen within hours of inspections while officials sought court orders to shut them down permanently. But changes enacted in this year’s state budget and the city code have given the Sheriff’s Office the power to declare the shops an imminent threat to the public and close them immediately for up to a year.

Organizations: Sheriff’s Locations: Zaza, Queens, New York, New York City

☆ I became homeless at 17 after I came out. At 40, I'm now stronger for having survived.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Sassafras Lowrey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I started visiting a drop-in center for homeless youth. I also couch-surfed until I was able to rent a basement room near the homeless youth drop-in center. I turned 40 this year — an age that so many of my homeless queer peers are never lucky enough to see. The queer youth I met at that time built a family with me and saved my life. I was immediately adopted into a community of other homeless queer youth.

Persons: —, Trevor, wasn't, There's Organizations: Service, Business, University of Chicago

☆ After he drove off an embankment and became stranded in a ravine, this man’s dog traveled 4 miles to find help
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Kaila Nichols | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In town, no one had seen or heard from Garrett, Millhollin said. “I thought for sure when I was making the 911 call that I was calling just for a body recovery,” Tyree Garrett told CNN. The accident had happened when he started to fall asleep while driving, Garrett told CNN: “I thought I’d make camp and I didn’t. Garrett told CNN he sustained a hairline fracture in his foot and some lacerations. Three of Garrett’s dogs – including Blue – are with him as he recovers, but one still isn’t back from the veterinarian.

Persons: Troy Millhollin, Brandon Garrett’s, ” Millhollin, Garrett, Millhollin, Tyree Garrett, ” Tyree Garrett, Blue, ‘, Brandon Garrett, “, I’d, ” Garrett, ”, Tyree Garrett’s, Sheriff Travis Ash, Brandon, Ash, “ I’m, Pitbull, Shepherd, Whippet, “ I’ve, “ They’ve, they’re, ” Brandon Garrett Organizations: CNN, US Forest Service Locations: Halfway , Oregon, Baker, County

☆ Torture Accusations Could Lead to Civil Rights Case in Mississippi
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Brian Howey | Nate Rosenfield | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than two months after deputies were sentenced for torturing two Black men in central Mississippi, federal prosecutors have widened their investigation and may sue the Rankin County sheriff’s department for civil rights violations, a serious escalation that could lead to federal monitoring. Todd Gee, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, talked about the possibility at a meeting last month, where he urged local residents who attended to come forward if they had experienced violence or discrimination at the hands of deputies. More than 50 people, including defense attorneys and civil rights advocates, packed into a library outside Jackson, Miss. Some shared stories of being harassed or falsely accused of crimes by deputies, according to several people who attended the meeting, which was closed to the press. “Information from people like you can make a difference,” Mr. Gee told the crowd, according to video of the meeting obtained by reporters.

Persons: Todd Gee, Mr, Gee Organizations: Southern, Southern District of Locations: Mississippi, Rankin County, U.S, Southern District, Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss

There are more than 70 cases in which Tren de Aragua is mentioned in law enforcement documents or prosecutors’ complaints. Castro-Mata entered the country illegally last July, a member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN. The Venezuelan has tattoos associated with Tren de Aragua – which court documents for a suspected gang member in Georgia describe as five-pointed crowns, five-pointed stars and teardrops – the New York Police Department told CNN. A fellow police officer who refused to cooperate with the gang in his native Aragua state was shot 50 times, Boza says. They tied his body to a motorcycle and dragged it throughout the San Vicente neighborhood to demonstrate the power of the Tren de Aragua,” Boza said.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, “, Óscar Naranjo, Aragua, Yuri Cortez, Primeiro Comando, ” Britton Boyd, Jason Owens, Tren, ” Owens, Bernardo Raul Castro, Mata, Castro, teardrops, –, Allbert Herrera Machado, Vanesa Chourio, Diaz, Josmar Jesus Zambrano, Zambrano, Herrera Machado, Chourio, Álvaro, Boza, ” Boza, Florida Sen, Marco Rubio, Ana María Salazar, Joe Biden, ” CNN’s Jaide Timm, Garcia Organizations: CNN, Chicago . Local, Transnational Criminal Organization, ”, South, Colombian National Police, CNN Tren, ‘, Transparency Venezuela, Venezuelan, Bolivarian National Police, Gang, Getty, National Liberation Army, Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander, US State Department, Police, Customs, Border Protection, FBI, Border Patrol, “, Enforcement, New York Police Department, Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department, Tren, San, Florida, Republican Locations: South Florida, New York, Chicago ., Aragua, Venezuela, United States, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Peru, America, Carabobo, Tocorón, AFP, Venezuelan, Brazilian, South America, Tren, Villa, Norte, El Paso , Texas, Texas, Georgia, Queens . Castro, Louisiana , Texas, Virginia , New Jersey, Florida, ”, San Vicente, Central, Ecuador

☆ How scammers used 'social engineering' to steal over $1 million from an Idaho town of less than 4,000 people
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Scammers tricked Gooding, Idaho employees into sending over $1 million to fake contractors. The payment was intended for a wastewater project but was diverted into the criminal's account. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. Officials in Gooding said this week that an employee sent a payment of $1,092,519 meant for contractors working on a wastewater project, but it went to scammers instead. According to a city press release, the scammers impersonated representatives of a contractor hired by city officials, using a tactic called "social engineering" to gain the employee's trust.

Persons: Scammers, Gooding Organizations: FBI, Service, Business Locations: Gooding, Idaho, scammers

☆ Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders who took iconic ‘Earthrise’ photo dies in plane crash
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Joe Sutton | Ashley R. Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew who were the first three people to orbit the moon, has died in a plane crash in Washington state, according to his son, Gregory Anders. Anders served as a fighter pilot in all-weather interception squadrons of the Air Defense Command in California and Iceland, according to NASA and the US Naval Academy. Taken aboard Apollo 8 by William Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell aboard. Anders served as the lunar module pilot for the historic flight. Anders served as Executive Secretary for the National Aeronautics and Space Council from 1969 to 1973, according to NASA.

Persons: William Anders, Gregory Anders, ” Anders, Anders, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, ”, Lovell, Borman, Gerald Ford, Bill Nelson, “ Bill Anders, ” Nelson, Valerie, CNN’s Ashley Strickland Organizations: CNN, NASA, San Juan County Sheriff’s, United States Coast Guard, United States Naval Academy, US Air Force, US Naval, Air Defense Command, US Naval Academy, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Apollo, Time Magazine, National Aeronautics, Space Council, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Locations: Washington, San Juan Islands, San Juan County, Jones, Seattle, Hong Kong, California, Iceland, New Mexico

☆ Airline passenger tracks missing bag to home of airport worker, who is charged with felony theft
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Rebekah Riess | Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Junior Geneus Bazile, 29, of Fort Lauderdale has been charged with grand theft in the third degree. Paola Garcia told CNN affiliate WPLG in Miami that she usually takes her suitcase onboard, but this time, she was told she had to check it. In her WPLG interview, Garcia said that Spirit Airlines told her that her luggage had been sent to her house. Garcia told WPLG that she dialed 911. A WPLG video shows pictures of a man holding a plastic bag containing a pink suitcase and holding a laptop.

Persons: Geneus, Paola Garcia, Garcia, WPLG, “, Bazile, Paradies, ” CNN’s Melissa Alonso Organizations: CNN, Hollywood International Airport, Spirit Airlines, WPLG, Apple, Apple Watch, Broward County Sheriff’s, Fort Lauderdale Police Department Locations: Florida, Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Belize

CNN —Constance Glantz had been in a nursing home – in hospice care. No evidence of criminal intent had been found, Chief Deputy Ben Houchin told reporters. She again was pronounced dead, Houchin said later, adding an autopsy was conducted Tuesday morning. Constance’s family was told all about what happened, Houchin said, and the sheriff’s office started an investigation, including visiting the nursing home. The funeral home and the nursing home have been “totally cooperative” with the sheriff’s office investigation, Houchin said.

Persons: CNN — Constance Glantz, –, ’, Ben Houchin, “, ”, Constance, Houchin, Constance –, ” Houchin, “ I’m Organizations: CNN, KOLN, Lincoln, “, Rescue, Lincoln Police Department Locations: Lancaster County , Nebraska, Waverly, Lincoln, Butherus

☆ Roger Fortson: Florida deputy who fatally shot a Black man in his home has been fired, sheriff says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Kaila Nichols | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The Florida sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a Black man in his home has been fired, the sheriff’s office announced Friday. The decision followed an internal investigation into the former deputy, Eddie Duran. A separate criminal investigation into the deputy’s actions is ongoing with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Mr. Fortson did not commit any crime. He joined the sheriff’s office again in June 2023.

Persons: Eddie Duran, Eric Aden, “, Roger Fortson, Fortson, Duran, ” Aden, ” Duran, Christina Maxouris, Shawn Nottingham, Melissa Alonso, Dakin Andone Organizations: CNN, Florida Department of Law, Sheriff’s, Okaloosa Locations: Florida, Okaloosa

☆ ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: A Foursquare Western From Viggo Mortensen
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Ben Kenigsberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In making an honest go at reviving the movie western, Viggo Mortensen — who directed, wrote and stars in “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” in addition to composing its score — delivers a few different westerns in one. Not counting a deathbed prologue, the film initially seems to be staking out a claim in the law-and-order corner of the genre. Mortensen, as a bereaved sheriff named Holger Olsen, appears skeptical when a town dullard stands accused of six murders and apparently claimed not to remember any of them. The local courthouse — a makeshift affair cobbled together in the saloon — is not the most forgiving place for the wrongfully accused, or for anyone. We’ve already seen the killer.

Persons: Viggo Mortensen —, Mortensen, Holger Olsen, dullard, We’ve, Weston Jeffries, Solly McLeod, Alfred Jeffries, Garret Dillahunt

☆ Photos Show Strength of Asian American Activism Throughout US History
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Momo Takahashi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

The term "Asian American" was first coined in 1968 amid the rising voices of the Third World Liberation Front student movements in California. With tensions from protests against the Vietnam War and calls for universities to invest in ethnic studies programs, the Asian American identity was born out of advocacy for multiethnic unity among the Asian diaspora. Historical photographs showcase the history of Asian American resistance movements from the 1960s to the 1980s, demonstrating the strength and resilience of the Asian American community among tenants, students, and laborers. For the next five years, Filipino and Mexican American workers continued to strike for economic justice for all farm workers. AdvertisementThe same year, Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, both graduate students and key organizers of the Asian American Political Alliance, coined the term "Asian American."

Persons: Delano, Cesar Chevez's Huelga, Julio Hernandez, Larry Itliong, Cesar Chavez, Gerald French, Chavez, Ted Streshinsky, Slava J, Garth Eliassen, Yuji Ichioka, Emma Gee, Dave Randolph, Sheriff Richard Hongisto, Terry Schmitt, Emil de Guzman, May Chen, Walter Leporati, Chol Soo Lee, Yip Yee Tak, Lee, John O'Hara, Chol, Lee's, Jerry Telfer, Vincent Chin, Vincent, Lily Chin, Detroit . Chin, Ronald Ebens, Michael Nitz, Ebens, Helen Zia, Victor Yang, Chin, Chin's Organizations: Liberation, Business, American, Agricultural Labor, Committee, Delano, Getty, Labor, National Farm Workers Association, United Farm Workers, Migratory Labor, National Farm Workers, University of California, University of California Regents, Black Student Union, UC Berkeley, Asian American Political Alliance, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, . Police, Chinatown Community Development Center, Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Images Garment Worker, Ladies Garment Workers Union, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, San, Korean American Journalists Association, Asian, Lee Defense, Hall of Justice, The, American Citizens, Justice, Department of Justice, FBI Locations: California, Vietnam, Asia, San Francisco, Mexican, Bakersfield , California, Spanish, Washington, Delano, Sacramento, American, Berkeley, Berkeley , California, Africa, America, San, Los Angeles, Kearny, New York, Chinatown, Columbus, councilmen, San Quentin, Detroit ., Detroit

☆ Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Steven Lee Myers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A dozen years ago, John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Palm Beach County, Fla., sent voters an email posing as a county commissioner, urging them to oppose the re-election of the county’s sheriff. He later masqueraded online as a Russian tech worker with a pseudonym, BadVolf, to leak confidential information in violation of state law, fooling officials in Florida who thought they were dealing with a foreigner. He also posed as a fictional New York City heiress he called Jessica, tricking an adviser to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office into divulging improper conduct by the department. “And boy, did he ever spill ALL of the beans,” Mr. Dougan said in a written response to questions for this article, in which he confirmed his role in these episodes.

Persons: John Mark Dougan, Jessica, Mr, Dougan Locations: Palm Beach County, Fla, Russian, Florida, New York City, Beach

Between vacation photos and cookout invitations posted on their private text thread, a group of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who called themselves the Goon Squad traded pictures of rotting corpses and joked about rape and shocking people with Tasers. An encrypted WhatsApp group chat obtained by The New York Times and Mississippi Today provides a yearslong record of the day-to-day conversations of a patrol unit involved in terrorizing residents across a central Mississippi county for a generation. The Goon Squad came to national attention last year after Rankin County sheriff’s deputies tortured two Black men in their home and shot one of them in the face, nearly killing him. Six officers, including three from the Goon Squad shift, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to federal prison in March. An investigation by The Times and Mississippi Today last fall revealed that nearly two dozen residents experienced similar brutality when Rankin deputies burst into their homes looking for illegal drugs.

Persons: Rankin Organizations: Goon Squad, The New York Times, Mississippi Today, The Times, Mississippi Locations: Mississippi, Rankin

☆ Teen’s Missing AirPod Leads to Arrest of Driver Accused of Hitting Him
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Lochlan Nicol, 15, of Jensen Beach, Fla., was biking to a gas station and convenience store near his home to buy ice cream last week when a driver heading in the opposite direction suddenly turned into the station and hit him, he said. It was about 10:30 p.m. on May 22, and Lochlan was hit so hard that his head crashed through the rear passenger-side window, breaking his nose, cheekbone and eye socket, and knocking him unconscious. The driver pulled Lochlan out of the road, left him outside the gas station and then drove away, according to Sheriff William D. Snyder of Martin County. What the driver didn’t know was that he had driven away with a tracking device — the AirPod that Lochlan had been wearing, which had been knocked out of his ear and had lodged under a floor mat inside the car, Sheriff Snyder said.

Persons: Lochlan Nicol, Lochlan, William D, Snyder, Sheriff Snyder Locations: Jensen Beach, Fla, Martin County

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