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Postal Worker Stabbed to Death at NYC Deli by ‘Transgender’ Suspect With Lengthy Rap Sheet

A ‘transgender’ suspect arrested for stabbing a postal worker to death at a New York City deli has a lengthy criminal history, including multiple arrests for crimes involving blades, according to reports.

The horrifying attack unfolded just after 2:30 p.m. on Thursday in Harlem.

Ray Hodges, 36, was on-duty as a USPS letter carrier when he popped in for lunch at a deli where he was well-known as a regular, the New York Post reports.

While preparing to order, another customer cut in front of him, sparking a dispute, witnesses say.

Multiple customers and employees tried to break up the altercation, which escalated when the suspect spat on Hodges, prompting him to throw a “bottle of lemon juice at her,” one worker said.

“That’s when she took the knife and came to him and I had to move.”

The suspect reportedly slashed Hodges repeatedly in the neck and stomach.

Hodges was rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Jaia Cruz, 24, was taken into custody at the scene and charged with murder.

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U.S. Army Soldier Arrested for Allegedly Hacking Trump and Kamala Harris’s Phones, Selling “Confidential Phone Records” Online

U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius, 20, has been arrested and charged with unlawfully transferring confidential phone records.

Federal authorities accuse the young soldier of participating in a cybercriminal ring that sold sensitive data, including alleged phone records of President-elect Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, on the black market.

The indictment, unsealed this week, reveals two counts of unlawful transfer of confidential phone records filed against Wagenius, according to KrebsonSecurity.

The charges follow a December 20 arrest near Fort Hood, Texas, a base associated with Fort Cavazos where Wagenius was stationed.

Wagenius, described by his mother as a tech-savvy soldier, worked on network communications at an Army base in South Korea before returning stateside.

His mother, Alicia Roen, told cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, “I never was aware he was into hacking. It was definitely a shock to me when we found this stuff out.”

In a comment to Krebs website, Mrs. Roen wrote, “I am his mother and I am not an open book, I was asked general questions about my sons age and if he was a solider! That is all I said and Krebs already had this information. I never knew my son was involved in any of this or involved with others until I read Krebs 1st article following my sons arrest, which was all new news to me! Do you really think a child would ever tell his parents he was involved in criminal activity?”

Operating under the online alias “Kiberphant0m,” Wagenius is accused of participating in multiple high-profile data breaches. He allegedly sold confidential phone records on online forums in November, claiming to have hacked 15 telecommunications firms, including AT&T and Verizon.

In November, “Kiberphant0m” posted what were purported to be AT&T call logs for President-elect Trump and Vice President Harris, though the authenticity of these records has not been confirmed.

The arrest follows an investigation into a series of data breaches affecting numerous organizations. Wagenius’s alleged accomplices include Canadian national Connor Riley Moucka, known online as “Judische,” who was arrested in late October, and John Binns, currently detained in Turkey.

These individuals are suspected of involvement in the theft and extortion of data from customers of the cloud service Snowflake, among other targets.

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The CFPB Wants You To Pay For Mistakes Of Others

Imagine receiving an email from a stranger offering you one hundred thousand dollars in a week if you send them ten thousand dollars today. Most of us would immediately recognize this as a scam and avoid it. However, what if you were guaranteed to get your initial ten thousand dollars back, even if it turned out to be a fraud? It seems obvious that removing such risk would encourage people to make reckless financial decisions – to everyone except President Biden’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB.) This is evidenced by their recent lawsuit against the fintech payment service Zelle.

The CFPB is suing Zelle arguing that it should be forced to reimburse anyone who unwittingly transfers their own money to a scammer. Its actions seem all the more disingenuous given that no federal law endorsed or approved by Congress saddles fintech payment processors with such liability — but progressives have long been trying to create one.

Now with a new administration incoming, CFPB Chair Rohit Chopra and his army of bureaucrats are making a final push to circumvent Congress and enact laws themselves to burnish their resumés before Trump cleans house. If Chopra’s policies are so beneficial or popular, why can’t they receive a vote in Congress? 

What the CFPB is asking Zelle to do is akin to forcing us to reimburse others for their online gambling losses. It presents a unique moral hazard by effectively making Zelle provide ‘scam insurance’ on its peer-to-peer platform where users directly self-authorize transactions. How could such platforms possibly ensure that any and every time its customers send money to another (at their behest) it’s not a scam? The notion that people should be able to irresponsibly send money – despite receiving warnings from the app, already in place – to an unvetted dubious recipient without consequences is one of the more wrongheaded ideas to have ever been floated when it comes to regulating our banks.

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Corrupt Postal Worker Sentenced to Four Years in Prison After Stealing Over $750K in U.S. Treasury Checks, Federal Authorities Reveal

A North Carolina postal worker was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing over $750,000 in U.S. Treasury checks, including tax refunds, Veterans Affairs benefits, and Social Security disability payments.

Zerion Marcos Franklin, once entrusted with handling Americans’ most sensitive documents, was caught red-handed during a routine traffic stop in Fayetteville.

As a U.S. Postal Service employee at the Fayetteville mail processing annex, Franklin systematically intercepted Treasury checks destined for hard-working Americans, including elderly recipients and veterans. His greed extended to altering stolen checks to cash them for personal gain.

According to the news release, in June 2024, Fayetteville police officers stopped Franklin’s vehicle and noticed drug paraphernalia in plain view. A subsequent search revealed not only 47 U.S. Treasury checks but also marijuana packaged for sale, a loaded 9mm handgun, and over $22,000 in cash. These checks represented lifelines for citizens awaiting crucial benefits.

Among the victims was an elderly New Hanover County resident whose tax refund check was stolen, altered to bear Franklin’s name, and cashed at a Fayetteville Walmart.

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Illegal Immigrant Gang Member from Honduras Kidnaps Texas Woman: Police Reveal Chilling Plot to Sell Her Organs or Force Her Into Prostitution

A 35-year-old Honduran national, identified as Eduardo Javier Ordonez Godoy, has been arrested following the abduction of a 22-year-old woman in Haltom City, Texas.

The incident occurred on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, when the victim was walking to her vehicle at the Acacia Apartments around 4:45 a.m., WFAA reported.

According to police reports, Godoy, who was previously deported back to Honduras for a similar crime, was armed and masked when he forced the woman into her car at gunpoint.

He forced her to withdraw money from a nearby bank and made disturbing threats, including selling her organs or forcing her into prostitution, according to charging documents obtained by Fox 4 News.

After driving her approximately 22 miles to an apartment complex in Grapevine, he restrained her by tying her hands to a tree with her shoelaces before fleeing in her vehicle. The victim managed to free herself and seek help.

Law enforcement agencies tracked the stolen vehicle, locating it in Oklahoma City on December 25.

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Portland DA Tries To Reduce Sentences For Convicts Days Before Tough-On-Crime Replacement Takes Over

Portland’s leftist district attorney is trying to reduce the sentences for several violent prisoners, including a convicted murderer just days before his tough-on-crime replacement takes over.

Mike Schmidt, district attorney of Multnomah County, was voted out of office on Election Day last month, but that has not stopped him from petitioning an Oregon judge to reduce or get rid of charges for eight people, some convicted of murder, violent assaults, or robbery, The Oregonian reported.

Schmidt will be replaced by Nathan Vasquez, who has promised a tougher approach to crime in the Portland area.

“These have all the appearance of a last-minute giveaway,” Vasquez said of his predecessor’s petitions for lenience. “They’re extremely violent individuals who have committed horrible crimes, and they’re being given some kind of a break.”

Vasquez starts his term January 6.

Districts attorneys and convicts can petition a judge together to reconsider a conviction and reduce a prison sentence, according to a 2021 state law. This can result in a judge releasing a convict from prison.

One convict petitioning the court is Frank F. Swopes Jr., who was convicted of murder, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and eluding police in 1993 when he was 30.

Swopes was convicted of killing a 75-year-old woman by asphyxiation as he and another person robbed her Portland home. She died after his fellow robber pushed her to the ground when Swopes said to “keep her quiet,” the case found. The robbers took her wedding ring and $8.

Swopes then robbed another 76-year-old woman a week later, tying her to a bed frame. He “terrorized” her until she gave him her ATM code, “touched her sexually” and took her robe off, “at which point she believed he either urinated or ejaculated on her,” documents say. Swopes had a cocaine habit, court documents said.

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Wanna Know the Downside of Diversity? Look at the Prison System.

Prison is a deeply segregated environment. It’s expected that the whites stay with the whites, the blacks with the blacks, the Latinos with the Latinos, and never should they mix.

So Blagojevich met with the leaders of the Aryan prison gang and ceded to some of their demands: He wouldn’t sit with the blacks or Latinos anymore and agreed to hang with the whites. He didn’t like it, but he did it.

“And then they told me something which I respected,” Blagojevich told Rogan. “They said, look, you’re not in the real world anymore. This is not a place where you could be a civil rights advocate or a civil rights activist. This is a prison. You don’t have the same rights here that you have out there. …So, if you’re gonna sit with somebody outside your race in the chow hall, that’s a direct affront to us and there are measures that we can take to make sure that you don’t do those sorts of things. And I respected the fact that they said it was to keep order, and it was the culture, and pretty much everybody in the prison system accepts it anyway.”

According to the Aryan gang leader, segregation is what kept people safe.

It’s curious, isn’t it? Outside of prison, we keep hearing that diversity is our greatest strength — and to be fair, sometimes it is. Sometimes, when diverse skill sets converge, the sum total is exponentially greater than all the individual parts.

But sometimes, diversity leads to wars, violence, hatred, and death. Even in a tightly controlled, highly regimented place like a prison.

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FBI Discovers Largest Homemade Explosives Cache in History at Virginia Man’s Home — Allegedly Used Biden Photos for Target Practice

A Virginia man, Brad Spafford, 36, was arrested earlier this month after authorities discovered what they claim is the largest stockpile of homemade explosives in FBI history.

Spafford, who reportedly used images of Joe Biden for target practice, is being labeled by federal agents as an “extreme danger to the community.”

During a search of Spafford’s 20-acre property, authorities found over 150 homemade explosive devices, including pipe bombs labeled as “lethal.”

The arrest initially stemmed from a comparatively minor charge of possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle, Court Watch first reported.

In a sworn affidavit, an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force agent alleged that Spafford had disfigured fingers from a homemade explosion dating back to July 4, 2021.

The agent also noted suspicions that Spafford was stockpiling weapons and ammunition for some time, making him a “clear and present danger.”

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Missouri Postal Supervisor Busted for Stealing Nearly 100 Checks from Mail, Federal Authorities Reveal

A former U.S. Postal Service supervisor in Missouri has been charged with stealing nearly 100 checks from the mail, further eroding public trust in an institution long plagued by inefficiency and corruption.

Federal authorities revealed the shocking allegations in a Dec. 26 news release.

Benita D. Randle, 42, has been charged with stealing nearly 100 checks from the mail while employed at a St. Louis processing and distribution center.

According to a Dec. 26 release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, Randle was indicted earlier this month and pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Prosecutors allege that on October 31, 2023, Randle, then a postal supervisor, stole approximately 90 checks entrusted to the Postal Service for delivery.

While the exact value and nature of the stolen checks remain unclear, the case underscores the growing mistrust in an agency plagued by inefficiency and systemic issues.

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Fears grow over spread of sadistic super gang Tren de Aragua across America… as expert issues chilling new warning

Fears are growing over the spread of a violent Venezuelan gang across the US, with experts warning the mobsters could have a foothold in more than half the country by February next year.

It emerged earlier this month that Tren de Aragua, which has been dubbed the ‘epitome of evil’ and ‘MS-13 on steroids’, is already operating in 18 states.

This includes some of the most remote corners of the America in Colorado, North Dakota, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming. The bloodthirsty criminals also maintain strongholds in major cities across Texas as well as New York and Chicago. 

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, former immigration and customs enforcement director for Colorado and Wyoming, John Fabbricatore, said: ‘We’re going to start hearing stories about them getting arrested everywhere.

‘They’re in 17 states now. I wouldn’t be surprised if by February, that’s higher than 25.’

Known as TdA to law enforcement, the gang originated in a Venezuelan prison. 

Members of the South American mafia have since crept into the US via the southern border, hidden among the one million Venezuelan migrants who have entered the country under the Biden administration.  

They can often be identified by telltale tattoos, including a train (‘tren’ is Spanish for train), a crown, a clock and an AK-47.

Earlier this year, Daily Mail revealed how the gang set up its new headquarters in the Mexican city of Juarez on the US border, just across from El Paso, Texas. 

And startling police investigations have showed how the mob is behind a spiraling crime wave across America, with gangsters accused of murders, violent attacks on cops and sex trafficking. 

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