A sheriff’s office in Washington state tells the Associated Press that a U.S. Forest Service ranger has been shot at Mount Rainier National Park. According to KATU , 34-year-old park ranger Margaret Anderson was fatally shot following a traffic stop in the 368-square-mile park Sunday. “At around 10:20 a.m. Sunday, another park service employee had tried to stop a man in his vehicle. He didn’t stop, so Anderson set up a road block with her vehicle in the middle of the road, said park spokeswoman Lee Taylor. The man pulled up to Anderson about 11 a.m., jumped out, fired and ran off, she said. Troyer said when authorities arrived they were also shot at, but no one else was hit.” Anderson died from her injuries. Officials closed the park after the shooting, and KATU reports that investigators are searching for 24-year-old Benjamin Colton Barnes, a “strong person of interest.” Investigators recovered a car in the park filled with weapons, body armor and survivalist gear, but would not yet say to KATU whether the car belongs to Barnes. The News Tribune reports that the shooting happened just before 11 a.m. near the Longmire Ranger Station. The Tribune writes that Anderson is married to a fellow park ranger an has two daughters, who are approximately 2 and 4. “She loved people and she loved being outside,” Paul Kritsch, Anderson’s father, told KOMO News Radio.
A police chief accused of stealing $714 from a former stripper’s wallet after a car chase is now facing a federal lawsuit that alleges he “violated her constitutional rights.” The ex-stripper, Justina Cardoso, 21, filed suit on Dec. 22 claiming Col. John Whiting, 57, violated the rights protecting her from illegal searches and granting her due process. The 21-year-old Cardoso, who lives in Pawtucket, R.I. and performed at the Satin Doll strip club in Providence, is seeking $250,000 in damages from Whiting. Justina Cardoso (Source: National Confidential) What’s the story behind this? Whiting was driving to work in an unmarked police SUV on Aug. 28 when he tried to pass Cardoso’s Ford Explorer. It was raining and driving conditions were poor. Maybe it was because he “aggressively” passed her Explorer, which had slowed down to get around a fallen tree, that one of its 3 passengers decided to throw “an object at his vehicle,” the three-decade veteran of law enforcement told police. As anyone who has ever had a rational thought knows, throwing something — anything! — at another car (whether it’s a marked squad car or not) is a terrible idea. Whiting turned on his emergency lights and tried to get the Explorer to pull over. Cardoso’s vehicle took off and the officer pursued. Why in the world didn’t the Explorer just pull over? Well, perhaps it was because Cardoso “had just spent the night with a man who paid $600 for her company at a Comfort Inn” and that on her way home she had picked up two men, one of whom was driving the Explorer, according to the New York Times . Or maybe it was because Cardoso had an outstanding warrant related to a “drug-fueled extortion plot that can only be described as idiotic, and another pending charge for the illegal possession of controlled substances allegedly found in her Coach purse,” according to the Times. So how did the chase end? The green 1999 Ford Explorer veered onto a dead-end street, ran out of road and smashed into a parked pickup truck. All three passengers in the Explorer immediately fled the scene leaving Whiting alone with the Explorer and a Coach pocketbook stuffed full of cash. This is where Whiting made his mistake. Cardoso’s lawsuit claims Whiting illegally went through her SUV after the crash and took money from the Coach wallet she had left behind. There was a total of $714 dollars which police say she earned at the Satin Doll and from the man who paid her for “her company.” Whiting later admitted to a Pawtucket officer that he stole money from a pocketbook “loaded with cash” that he found inside the SUV, investigators wrote in an affidavit. The Pawtucket officer said Whiting gave him the money and told him to spend it in Las Vegas and not discuss it. Whiting, has been suspended without pay from his job as North Providence police chief since he turned himself in to state police in September. He was charged with one count of larceny over $500 and two counts of obstruction of justice. He pleaded not guilty earlier this month to charges that he stole money and then tried to cover it up. His next court date is Feb. 16. Col. John Whiting (Source: turnto10.com/NBC10) “He spent 29 years in the Pawtucket Police Department, where he was respected if not universally liked, earned a law degree, and won praise for his work in a case against a corrupt, politically connected police officer,” writes the Times . “Finally, in 2008, he landed a prestigious police chief job, in North Providence.” But now his long and proud career has been permanently tarnished for allegedly stealing a measly $714 and trying to cover it up; adding insult to injury, he’s also being sued for a quarter of a million dollars by an ex-stripper whose privacy he allegedly “violated.” So what about Cardoso? After the car chase, she was arrested on a warrant for an unrelated criminal matter. She pleaded no contest last month to three charges in an extortion and blackmail case and to one count of marijuana possession. Cardoso, who the New York Times describes as a “runaway” and as being involved in the kinds of incidents that create first-name relationships with the police, was given a five-year suspended sentence in the blackmail case and a year of probation in the drug case. Defense attorney John Grasso has said she avoided jail time by getting treated for drug abuse. He also said she is pursuing a GED. Grasso added that Cardoso stopped working at the Satin Doll after Whiting’s arrest and was unable to find new work as a stripper. Her stolen earnings and SUV were returned, but Cardoso could not afford to keep the vehicle, Grasso has said. Ah, there it is. Perhaps her decision to sue the police chief was influenced more by the fact that she can’t pay her bills and she has a rap sheet a mile long than by feeling he ” violated her privacy .” The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A 55-year-old woman shot in the foot during a Black Friday robbery attempt at the Walmart in Myrtle Beach, SC did not freeze up in shock. She came back guns blazing. After a robber put a round into her foot, the middle-aged woman ripped her own pistol out of her vehicle’s center console and fired 2 or 3 warning shots in the air. Her two assailants ran from the scene with the victim’s purse. Police then arrived at the scene. Another woman with the victim at the time of the assault told officers the victim and a 25-year-old male were at the trunk of their vehicle when she heard the victim scream, according to a police incident report . After the warning shots were fired, the witness stated, one suspect headed toward the Walmart parking lot and the other toward a wooded area on Grissom Parkway in Myrtle Beach. The 55-year-old victim and the male bystander were taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center for treatment. Their injury status was not disclosed at the time of this report . Police are still searching for the two suspects.
A high-speed chase turned into a wide-eyed arrest in Bainbridge, OH earlier this month. That’s because when the woman behind the wheel stepped from the car at the end of the ordeal, she was wearing nothing but fishnet stockings, a g-string, and high heels. The woman, 28-year-old Erin B. Holdsworth, led the cops on the wild chase on October 11. She was only stopped after cops used spike strips to disable her tires. It was then that the officers got quite the surprise. Fox 8 in Cleveland explains : When officers approached her vehicle, according to Bokovitz, they discovered that she was topless and wearing only a fishnet stocking body suit, g-sting panties and high heels. Holdsworth’s docket filed in Chardon Municipal court says she has been charged with one count each of OVI, refusing a blood alcohol content test, fleeing and alluding, criminal damaging, driving under a suspended license, speeding and reckless operation. You can watch the report below: (H/T: Daily Mail )
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See IBD , ” Union Thugs? No Kidding .” An Ohio contractor was wounded by gunfire Wednesday by a shadowy man vandalizing his SUV with union threats. Where’s Washington’s outrage at such lawlessness? Had King Electrical Services owner John King been shot by, say, a Tea Partyer, there’d be no end to the public pontificating from Washington’s politicians and media commentators about their rhetoric or protests inciting violence. It’s quite a different story for the Lambertville, Mich., contractor who woke up in the dead of night a week ago found a silhouetted figure on his driveway spraying “SCAB” on the side of his vehicle. The figure fired a gun at him before fleeing. King runs a small business employing 40 people at high wages with good benefits. His success at a time when unionized contractors are failing made him the target of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which has unsuccessfully sought to unionize his workers. Now it’s come down to guns, and Washington’s chattering classes are strangely silent. RTWT. To say these developments are troubling is putting it mildly. And from John Hinderaker, ” DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT ACTUAL POLITICAL VIOLENCE? ” Well, yeah. They care enough to cheer it on and deny that progressive ideology is the cancer of American politics. ASFLs. And video at Breitbart TV: ” OHIO BUSINESS OWNER SHOT FOR BEING NON-UNION .”
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The Left’s Escalating Union Violence
A Joplin, Missouri, couple survived one of the worst tornadoes in decades by hunkering down inside of a truck. The powerful twister literally tossed their vehicle in the air. Miraculously, William Lynch and his girlfriend escaped the incident with only a few scratches. FOX & Friends interviewed Lynch about his amazing tale of survival (interview starts around 1:18):
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Astonishing Tale: Man and Woman Survive Tornado by Hiding in a Truck
According to TMZ , famed wrestler “Macho Man” Randy Savage died earlier this morning after suffering a heart attack while driving: TMZ spoke with Randy’s brother, Lanny Poffo, who tells us the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack while he was behind the wheel around 9:25 AM … and lost control of his vehicle. Earlier this month, Savage celebrated his 1-year anniversary with his new wife Lynn. Savage was 58. RIP Macho Man.
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ROLLA, Mo. (The Blaze/AP) — Police said Thursday that they captured a man who tried breaking into an Army base and fired on police during a high-speed chase before entering and leaving a university building: Rolla Police Chief Mark Kearse said officers took Cody N. Willcoxson, of South West City, into custody Thursday afternoon, hours after they say he tried sneaking into nearby Fort Leonard Wood using a fake ID. Willcoxson was released from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in 2008 after serving about 3 1/2 years for burglary, escaping from jail, and other felonies. Fort Leonard Wood spokesman Mike Warren said a man tried entering the base through its west gate Thursday morning but was told to leave by a security guard, who determined the man’s identification card didn’t look legitimate. Instead of leaving, the driver accelerated rapidly and drove through the gate, then led military police on a chase that ended when he drove back out through the front gate and the St. Robert Police Department began the pursuit, he said. St. Robert Police Chief Curtis Curenton said the officers had been on Interstate 44 for only a couple miles when the driver began firing shots from what appeared to be an AK-47. Curenton said he followed the gunman about 32 miles to Rolla when his driver’s-side mirror was hit with one round and his engine compartment was hit by another. Officers put “stop sticks” on the road and punctured a tire before the driver reached Rolla. He eventually had to ditch the vehicle and fled on foot before stealing another vehicle and heading toward the interstate, according to the sheriff’s department website. Just before 9 a.m. the Missouri University of Science and Technology received a report of a gunman entering McNutt Hall, which houses the school’s Department of Mining and Nuclear Engineering. There were no classes in session in the building at the time. A university spokeswoman said the gunman was seen leaving the campus. Campus police issued an alert at 8:50 telling those on campus to remain indoors and everyone else to stay away. The suspect left campus without firing a shot, a campus police official said. Willcoxson was among nine inmates who attacked a jailer and fled on foot from the Delaware County Jail in Oklahoma. He had escaped twice previously, and authorities suspected him of masterminding the jail break. During the escape, a prisoner attacked the jailer, stole his keys, kicked in the door to the sheriff’s office and stole a .22-caliber rifle before all nine slipped out the side door of the courthouse, the Tulsa World reported at the time. — Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth and Bill Draper contributed this report from Kansas City.
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