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U.S. Issues Shelter-in-Place Warnings for Popular Tourist Destinations in Mexico After Major Cartel Leader Is Killed

The United States Department of State has issued shelter-in-place warnings for Americans at several popular tourist destinations in Mexico.

The official alert was issued on Sunday, Feb. 22, for the Mexican state of Jalisco — which includes popular tourist spots such as Puerto Vallarta, Chapala and Guadalajara — as well as the states of Tamaulipas, Michoacan, Guerrero and Nuevo Leon.

“Due to ongoing security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity, U.S. citizens in the named locations should shelter in place until further notice,” the department said.

The alert additionally advised U.S. citizens in the affected areas to “avoid areas around law enforcement activity,” “avoid crowds” and “seek shelter and minimize unnecessary movements.”

The U.S. Department of State and Mexico’s Ministry of National Defense did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

The warnings come after the Mexican government initiated a military operation against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a major drug cartel in the region, on Feb. 22, per a press release from Mexico’s Ministry of National Defense.  

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Fake Immigration Law Firm Busted in Brooklyn Federal Indictment

A five-count indictment was partially unsealed in the Eastern District of New York that charged five defendants with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy, and two counts of false impersonation of an officer or employee of the United States.  

Three of the defendants, Daniela Alejandra Sanchez Ramirez, 25 of Ibagué, Colombia and Green Brook, New Jersey, Jhoan Sebastian Sanchez Ramirez, 29, of  Ibagué, Colombia and Green Brook, New Jersey, and Alexandra Patricia Sanchez Ramirez, 38, of Ibagué, Colombia, were arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport while attempting to board a flight to Colombia with one-way tickets.  

Marlyn Yulitza Salazar Pineda, 24, of Ibagué, Colombia and North Plainfield, New Jersey, was arrested at a restaurant in New Jersey. 

A fifth defendant is not in U.S. custody.  

Daniela and Jhoan Ramirez, and Marlyn Pineda are immigration parolees, and Alexandra Ramirez is in the U.S. on a tourist visa. Daniela, Jhoan, and Alexandra Ramirez are siblings.  The four defendants who were arrested will be arraigned tomorrow morning at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn before United States Magistrate Judge Peggy Cross-Goldenberg.

Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Joseph V. Cuffari, Ph.D, Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, and Ryan Hill, Acting Special Agent in Charge, United States Customs and Border Protection, Office of Professional Responsibility, New York Field Office, announced the arrests and charges.

“As alleged, the defendants undermined the integrity of our immigration system by impersonating judges, law enforcement officers, and lawyers, and targeting vulnerable members of our community who sought to hire attorneys to help them navigate sensitive legal issues,” stated United States Attorney Nocella.  “The defendants brazenly stole their victims’ money and deceived them by sending fictitious documents and holding sham court proceedings. I commend our Office’s prosecution team and the law enforcement agents whose hard work has disrupted this elaborate and outrageous scheme.”

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Guatemalan Citizen Admits Using Stolen Identity to Obtain Custody of Teen Migrant

A Guatemalan national unlawfully residing in the United States pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated identity theft and false statements related to the submission of a fraudulent application to sponsor an unaccompanied alien child.

Court documents say that Felix Coc Choc, 29, of Rogers, Arkansas, submitted an application to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement under penalty of perjury to sponsor and obtain custody of a UAC after the UAC entered the United States illegally.

As admitted in the plea agreement, after the 16-year-old Guatemalan UAC entered the United States illegally in Jan. 2023, Coc Choc submitted an application to sponsor the UAC, falsely claiming to be the UAC’s brother, J.C.J. Coc Choc also provided to ORR J.C.J.’s Guatemalan national identification card and birth certificate in support of the sponsorship application. 

After initially denying that he was using another individual’s identity, Coc Choc admitted to impersonating J.C.J and then submitted a sponsorship application in his true name. ORR denied this application as a result of the fraud.

Coc Choc pleaded guilty to one count of making a false, fictitious or fraudulent statement and one count of aggravated identity theft. At sentencing, Coc Choc faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison on the false statement count, and a mandatory consecutive penalty of two years in prison on the aggravated identity theft count. The Court will schedule Coc Choc’s sentencing at a later date.  A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

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Thanks to Woke Judge and DA, Cold-Blooded Killer with Chilling Manifesto Receives NO PRISON TIME Despite Gunning Down CEO While He Slept by His Wife in Bed

The legal system in Northern Virginia has allowed an evil man to completely get away with a cold-blooded murder despite overwhelming evidence.

As WUSA9 reported, a cowardly judge in Fairfax County, Virginia, accepted a plea agreement on Thursday that found a man not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2022 shooting death of DonorSee CEO Glen Glyer.

37-year-old Joshua Danehower, who killed Glyer, will go to a mental health facility after awaiting his future inside a prison cell, where he belonged.

This decision comes after the prosecution led by Soros-funded Fairfax County District Attorney Steve Descano and the defense struck a deal last month that would allow Danehower to escape justice.

In the proceedings, the clinicians from both sides claimed that Danehower was legally insane at the time of the killing.

But the evidence strongly suggests that Danehower knew precisely what he was doing. For example, Danehower had authored a chilling manifesto called “The Plan” detailing the murder plot before carrying it out.

He also had a gun and a lock-picking kit.

Moreover, prosecutors were able to establish that Danehower committed this act because he had worked up an unhealthy obsession with Glyer’s wife after seeing her for the first time in a decade at a church function.

The two had previously gone on a date several years ago.

A jealous Danehower then decided Gret needed to die. Danehower broke into Gret’s home and shot him 10 TIMES as he slept in bed next to his wife.

WUSA9 noted that the couple’s young kids were home the night their father was murdered.

Does this sound like an insane individual or a calm, calculating assassin? Most people would say the latter.

The victim’s mother, Silvia Glyer, was rightfully furious after this outrageous travesty of justice.

“Justice is not served today,” she said outside the courthouse. “An evil man took his life in the middle of the night. A coward.”

“Somebody who planned step by step a murder and who is backed up by the justice system in Virginia.”

Heather Glyer, the victim’s wife, said on the stand she was “robbed of her life partner” and her kids were “robbed of their father.”

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Illegal Alien Accused of Trying to Randomly Drown Woman at Florida Beach Was Shielded from Deportation by Biden Admin.

An illegal immigrant who is accused of attempted murder in a Florida incident was in the country because the Biden administration allowed him to stay.

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said a man identified as Said Alexander Hernandez-Gonzalez, 26, a Venezuelan, was charged with attempted first-degree premeditated murder in connection with the Feb. 12 incident, according to WPEC-TV.

The suspect, a resident of Port St. Lucie, Florida, is in the country illegally after his work visa expired.

Hernandez Gonzalez illegally entered the country in 2023 and was paroled by being granted temporary protected status, the Department of Homeland Security said in a news release.

“Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez — a product of the Biden administration’s open-border policies — brutally attacked a woman on the beach and attempted to drown and kill her,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

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Renowned scientist who discovered water on distant planet shot dead on front porch of California home

A renowned scientist who contributed to the discovery of water on a distant planet was mysteriously shot and killed on the front porch of his desert California home. 

Carl Grillmair, 67, was identified as the victim of a fatal shooting in Llano, a rural area of northern Los Angeles, on Monday morning. 

Colleagues called Grillmair’s research ‘ingenious’ and said that discovering water ‘is a telltale sign the conditions of the planet are auspicious for life.’

The astrophysicist was found with a gunshot wound on his front porch after detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide responded to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon just after 6am. 

Emergency responders attempted life-saving measures, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. 

While investigating the shooting call, the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station responded to a carjacking in the same area and arrested a man named Freddy Snyder, 29, who was named as a person of interest in Grillmair’s homicide case. 

Snyder was arrested for murder, carjacking, and burglary on Wednesday. He is in custody with a $2 million bail. 

Law enforcement has not released a motive in the alleged homicide. It’s unclear if the two men knew one another or whether the shooting was targeted. 

The LACSD hasn’t released Snyder’s booking photo or any further information on the case. 

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Mamdani Told New Yorkers How He Felt About the Police, Now He’s Showing Them

There were plenty of New Yorkers who did not vote for Mayor Zohran Mamdani because they knew what would happen to their city if he were elected. Since he has been in office, the predictions of those New Yorkers are sadly coming true. No snow removal after snowstorms, garbage piling up, and most recently, a mayoral visit with a man in the hospital who wielded a knife at police and was charged with attempted assault. But now that he is safely ensconced in the mayor’s office, Mamdani is carrying out his vision for New York, and that vision does not include a fully staffed New York Police Department (NYPD).

On Tuesday, Mamdani claimed he “inherited a historic budget gap.” But is that just a cover for doing what he has supported in the past, defunding the police? Former Mayor Eric Adams’ plan for the NYPD was to add 300 new officers by July of 2026 and increase that number to 2,700 by 2027. Adams’ plan would eventually bring the total number of new officers to 5,000 by July 2028. Adams’ plan would also enable the NYPD to put roughly 40,000 officers on the streets of New York. But all of that will come to an abrupt halt under Mamdani. The NYPD budget for fiscal year 2027 is $6.4 billion. Mamdani would decrease that by $22 million and would cap the number of officers on the street at 35,000. 

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Millionaire Philanthropist Found Shot Dead at Assisted Living Facility in Maryland

An investigation is underway after a millionaire philanthropist was found shot dead at his senior assisted living facility in Maryland.

On Valentine’s Day, Robert Fuller, 87, was found dead with a gunshot wound in his apartment at the Cogir Potomac Senior Living facility in Potomac, Maryland.

The Montgomery County Department of Police is investigating his death as a homicide, but gave no information on whether Fuller’s killer was from the inside of the facility or the outside.

Detectives handling the case further added, Fuller was “taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for autopsy to determine cause and manner of death.”

Per People:

Police are investigating after a millionaire philanthropist was shot dead at a senior living facility in Maryland.

On Saturday, Feb. 14 at approximately 7:34 a.m. local time, the Montgomery County Department of Police and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officers “responded to the Cogir Potomac Senior Living facility in the 10800 block of Potomac Tennis Lane for a reported code,” per a news release.

First responders then located 87-year-old Robert Fuller, Jr. “unresponsive inside an apartment within the senior living facility,” the release stated.

Police said, “Life-saving measures were attempted, but he was pronounced dead at the scene,” adding that officers at the scene “observed that Fuller had trauma to the head and Major Crimes was notified.”

In a statement, the Cogir Potomac Senior Living Facility sent a memo to residents that reads, “This was an isolated incident, and there is no ongoing threat to residents or staff. ”

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Leftist Lawyer Causes Day One Mistrial at the First Federal Antifa Terrorism Trial

A mistrial has been declared on the first day of the historic first federal Antifa terrorism trial after a woke lawyer for one of the defendants engaged in misconduct.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman halted the jury selection process after noticing that MarQuetta Clayton, a BLM-activist attorney for one of the defendants, was wearing a politically-charged t-shirt with images of Martin Luther King, Jr. and messaging about civil rights.

Judge Pittman found her clothing could prejudice jurors. His ruling came on the first day of jury selection in Fort Worth, weeks after nine federal defendants were indicted on charges stemming from a July 4, 2025 shooting ambush on the Prairieland ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. A local police officer responding to the riot was shot in the neck. One of the defendants escaped from the scene, leading to a Texas-most-wanted manhunt for almost two weeks.

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11 arrested in France for beating death of far-right student

 French police investigating the beating of a far-right militant who died of brain injuries have arrested 11 people, prosecutors said Wednesday, in a case adding fuel to long-standing divides in French politics ahead of presidential elections in 2027.

Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old student described as a fervent nationalist, died in a hospital on Saturday.

He was beaten two days earlier by a group of people in the city of Lyon, in fighting that erupted between far-left and far-right supporters on the margins of a student meeting where a far-left lawmaker, Rima Hassan, was a keynote speaker.

An autopsy found that Deranque suffered a fractured skull and fatal brain injuries, according to Lyon’s prosecutor, Thierry Dran.

He launched the police investigation for homicide and other potential criminal charges.

Dran’s office said police detained a man and a woman on Wednesday morning, with nine other people taken into custody on Tuesday night.

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