Tag: murder

Massachusetts Sanctuary Politicians Released A Man Charged With Vehicular Homicide Three Times — ICE Finally Got Him

Massachusetts Democrats protected an illegal immigrant three times while one of their constituents lost his life.

Heriton Da Silva Aredes is a deported Brazilian national who came back to the United States and continued to engage in a career of criminality by committing assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, reckless operations of a motor vehicle, and furnishing a false ID among other illegal acts.

He started to come on ICE Boston’s radar in August 2023, after the Massachusetts State Police apprehended him in Middleboro. He was released by the state authorities before immigration agents were able to act. Not long after his release, he was arrested for the same transgressions by the Stoughton Police Department. Once again, ICE was unable to act before he was released.

The situation was the most grave in July 2026 when Aredes was charged with the negligent homicide of a motor vehicle victim. With his posting of bail, the Bristol House of Corrections released him without notifying ICE or honoring the immigration detainer.

It was not until August 6 of 2026 that ICE was able to arrest Aredes in the targeted operations in Taunton, Massachusetts.

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Judge denies Karmelo Anthony’s request for new trial in Austin Metcalf murder case

A judge denied a request from Karmelo Anthony seeking a new trial in the murder case of Austin Metcalf.

Retired District Court Judge Michael Chitty handed down the decision on Saturday.

Anthony, now 19 years old, was convicted by a jury in June for fatally stabbing Metcalf, 17 years old, at a Texas high school track meet in 2025 and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Last month, Anthony’s defense team filed two motions, one seeking to disqualify State District Judge John Roach Jr. from overseeing posttrial proceedings, and the other requesting a retrial.

The defense argued that the judge’s posttrial comments and rulings created an “appearance of bias” and deprived Anthony of his right to a fair trial.

Roach was recused and Chitty was appointed to review the motion for a new trial.

The request for the retrial also reportedly involved an off-the-record “gentleman’s agreement” between the defense and the prosecution to not bring up the backgrounds of the defendant and the victim.

The day after his conviction, Anthony had also filed a notice of appeal. According to The Dallas Morning News, after Chitty’s Saturday decision, the case now moves to the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas.

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Convicted Murderer Karmelo Anthony’s Terrifying School Records and More Stunning Texts are Revealed for the First Time, Including “Imma Shoot the School Up Tmr”

Karmelo Anthony’s re-trial bid continues to go off the rails for him as more shocking information comes to light about his past.

As The Daily Mail’s MaryAnn Martinez reported, Collin County prosecutor Bill Wirskye delivered explosive new evidence on Friday that was never heard by the jury in Anthony’s June trial for killing Austin Metcalf, which took place in Collin County.

Such evidence included Anthony’s school disciplinary records, which date back to when he was just 6 or 7 years old in Baton Rouge.

His problems were so severe that he was placed on a behavioral plan at the LSU Psych Department when he was just 10 YEARS OLD!

From Martinez:

He lived in Louisiana before moving to the Dallas area for high school. His discipline history began when he was just 6 or 7 years old in Baton Rouge.

There’s an incident where Anthony punched another student despite being repeatedly asked to keep his hands to himself. There were other incidents of “willful disobedience,” or habitually violating rules.

This led to Anthony being placed on a behavioral plan at the LSU Psych Department when he was 10.

However, the problems did not stop. In 2021, he was “getting into it with teachers” again.

But this was just the beginning of the revelations. The state also showed Anthony’s writing racist slurs on his phone and admitting to assaulting an innocent girl.

He also boasted about shooting up a school.

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Fake News New York Times Loses Defamation Lawsuit — Ordered to Pay $9.25 Million After Falsely Linking Innocent Alabama Basketball Player to Deadly Shooting

The failing New York Times just suffered a massive and historic defeat in court.

An Alabama jury on Thursday ruled that the Fake News New York Times defamed Kai Spears, a former University of Alabama Crimson Tide walk-on basketball player, and ordered the paper to pay him $9.25 million in damages, according to CBS News.

Spears was just an 18-year-old freshman walk-on when the Times swept him into a 2023 story about a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa.

The paper’s report falsely claimed he was a passenger in a car at the scene of the January 15, 2023, killing of 23-year-old mother Jamea Harris.

Three Alabama basketball players were connected to the incident; Spears was not one of them. He was never charged with any crime and had no involvement.

After a nine-day trial in federal court in Tuscaloosa, the eight-person jury found the Times liable for defamation and false light invasion of privacy.

The original March 15, 2023 article by Times sportswriter Billy Witz relied on an anonymous source described as a “person familiar with the investigation.”

It wrongly placed Spears in the car with star player Brandon Miller when the shooting occurred. University of Alabama officials and Spears’ father immediately denied it.

The Times stuck with its story until after Spears filed suit in May 2023. Only then did the paper issue a correction admitting the passenger was actually student manager Cooper Lee, not Spears.

Spears has said the false report was “100% inaccurate” and that the writer showed “complete disregard for the truth.” He described trying to cope with being permanently linked in the public mind to a murder he had nothing to do with. His lawsuit argued the article caused severe emotional distress and mental anguish.

The Times, true to form, is spinning it as an “honest mistake.” Spokesman Charlie Stadtlander said the paper is “disappointed the jury found The Times liable for an honest mistake” and is reviewing its legal options. Jurors clearly disagreed.

This is the same New York Times that lectures the country about “disinformation” and “threats to democracy” while publishing anonymous-sourced claims that can destroy a young man’s reputation overnight.

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Derek Chauvin’s Attorney Makes ‘Bombshell’ Motion to Dismiss, Alleging ‘Fraudulent’ Conduct by Tim Walz and Keith Ellison

Attorneys for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin filed a petition Tuesday seeking a dismissal of the state murder charges against him, arguing that it was unlawful for Gov. Tim Walz to assign Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to prosecute the case

In April 2021, Chauvin, 50, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd in police custody in May 2020. Video showed that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes.

An autopsy revealed that there was both fentanyl and methamphetamine in the man’s system, which may have been contributing factors to his death. Floyd would not comply with police orders to stay in the squad car, prompting Chauvin to eventually get on top of him and put a knee on his neck to subdue him.

Chauvin is currently serving a state sentence of 22 years, in addition to a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights, The Hill reported.

The former police officer’s latest petition seeking to get his conviction overturned was filed with the Minnesota Court of Appeals. That court has denied two previous petitions by Chauvin.

Chauvin’s attorneys argued in their Tuesday filing that Walz’s assignment of the case to Ellison was “illegitimate” and therefore violated their client’s due process rights.

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Report Suggests Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs May Face Charges Linked to Tupac Shakur’s Murder

Duane Davis – on trial for the murder – reportedly told police Diddy offered him $1 million to kill rival rapper.

30 years after the drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur at the height of his fame, Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis is on trial for masterminding the murder.

According to prosecutors, Tupac’s shooting was part of an LA gang war.

And legal sources suggest to The Telegraph that disgraced rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs could face charges linked to the murder.

The Telegraph reported:

“The prosecution’s case hinges on Mr Davis’s own claims to police, in documentary interviews and a memoir, that he sought out Shakur after his nephew was targeted as part of a rival gang feud. They also allege that he was in the white Cadillac from which the fatal bullet was fired, and that he ‘tossed’ the gun to the rapper’s killer.”

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Judge John Roach Recused from Karmelo Anthony Murder Appeal After Defense Challenged His Post-Trial Comments About the Verdict

A Texas judge has granted a motion to recuse Collin County District Judge John Roach Jr. from presiding over the appeal proceedings for Karmelo Anthony, the 19-year-old who was found guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

This development comes as Anthony’s new legal team continues its aggressive push for a new trial, citing alleged “irregularities” while the underlying facts of the killing remain undisputed.

Anthony, who is black, was convicted in June after a nearly weeklong trial for the April 2, 2025, stabbing of Metcalf, who was white, during a rainy track meet at David Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco.

Witnesses testified that Anthony was in the tent belonging to Metcalf’s Memorial High School team, refused repeated requests to leave, reached into his bag, and warned “Touch me and see what happens” before pulling out a pocketknife and stabbing Metcalf in the chest.

Metcalf died while being held by his twin brother.

The jury deliberated for less than three hours before rejecting Anthony’s “self-defense” claims and handing down the 35-year sentence.

Following the conviction, Anthony’s trial team was replaced by a pro bono appellate group led by attorney Russell Wilson.

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OUTRAGE IN VIRGINIA: Islamist Illegal Immigrant Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Landlord’s Killing Flees to Tajikistan After State Hospital Grants 48-Hour Pass

The Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute handed accused killer Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda an unsupervised 48-hour weekend pass, DESPITE a court order that he “shall not be released from custody and inpatient hospitalization without further order of this court.”

Toshpulodzoda then headed straight to Washington Dulles International Airport, boarded a one-way Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul, and continued on to Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He never returned.

This is the latest outrageous failure of Virginia’s Democrat-run mental health and criminal justice system under Governor Abigail Spanberger.

In 2019, Toshpulodzoda stabbed his roommate and landlord, Mohammed Hemmatian, to death in their Vienna, Virginia home, according to FOX 5 DC. Investigators found him “covered in blood from head to toe.” He told police, “I am guilty.”

Despite his confession, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2022. Court records show his attorney argued he was “fixated on religious topics and he was illogical and nonsensical,” with delusions intertwined with Islam. He was committed to the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute.

On June 11 and again around June 29, 2026, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Shannon ruled that Toshpulodzoda remained mentally ill and in need of inpatient hospitalization. The judge ordered that he shall not be released from custody without a further court order.

Prosecutors had opposed permanent release, citing public safety. Court records even noted concerns that deportation would prevent him from receiving treatment.

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Autopsy reveals chilling new details in mysterious death of missing scientist found skeletonized in the woods

Shocking new details have emerged concerning the mysterious disappearance and death of a New Mexico woman who worked at a secretive US nuclear lab.

Authorities have revealed that Melissa Casias, whose body was discovered on May 28, was shot in the head at or around the time of her death, but it remains unclear if this was murder or a suicide. Her body was found well after her death.

Casias, an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, vanished without a trace on June 26, 2025 after strangely walking out of her home without any identification, keys or way of contacting her.

Her skeletal remains were discovered 11 months later in Carson National Forest, propped up against a tree with a handgun near the body.

The official autopsy noted that Casias had been shot through the base of the skull, with the bullet exiting through the left side of her head. However, the Office of the Medical Investigator could not say if this wound was what killed the 53-year-old.

Due to the amount of decomposition of Casias’s remains when she was found, the medical examiner could only say that the gunshot occurred ‘perimortem,’ meaning it took place around the time she died but may not have been the actual cause.

The medical examiner’s report added that the woman’s left hand and left leg were both found about 20 feet away from the body and showed signs of being attacked by wildlife who likely scavenged through the remains after death.

While the medical examiner could not tell if Casias’s death was a suicide or involved foul play, an anonymous law enforcement source told the Daily Mail the new details in the case point to murder.

The newly released autopsy noted that the bullet was fired into the right side of Casias’s cranial base, hitting the bottom of the skull near the large hole where the spinal cord connects to the brain.

It also damaged the topmost neck bone, known as the C1 vertebra, before exiting through the left side of the head, through the flat, thin part of the temple.

‘There’s no way this was suicide, not from that angle,’ the law enforcement source claimed, noting the reported position of the bullet when it entered Casias’s skull. 

The source believed that, if Casias was really holding the handgun at that angle, the gun would have recoiled, causing the bullet to change direction instead of passing straight through her skull.

‘The kickback would have made the gun go straight up. That’s ridiculous. She was murdered,’ the source alleged.

Officially, the medical examiner has labeled Casias’s cause of death as ‘undetermined,’ adding that the autopsy could not even determine how close the gun was to the nuclear lab worker’s head when it was fired.

New Mexico State Police told the Daily Mail that their investigation is still active, but did not reveal if investigators have interviewed any new suspects in the case.

Casias’ husband, Mark, was one of the last people to see his wife alive in 2025, when he was dropped off at LANL for work on the morning of her disappearance.

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A Flock Camera Flagged Her Car in a Homicide by Mistake. Police Pulled Her Over at Gunpoint Twice

A Wisconsin woman was stopped by police with guns drawn twice in one week after an automated license plate camera wrongly linked her car to a Milwaukee homicide. Milwaukee police say the alert should have been deleted days earlier, but a staffer never cleared it.

According to Local 12, Amber Newell was driving on I-94 in Brookfield, west of Milwaukee, on the afternoon of August 6 when a Flock camera flagged her vehicle as connected to a homicide investigation. FOX6 Milwaukee reported that video from the interstate showed multiple officers with guns drawn and a passenger sticking their hands out the window. After Brookfield officers reached out to the Milwaukee Police Department to verify the alert, MPD responded that the vehicle and its occupants were no longer of interest, and the people were let go. Newell told FOX6 the same thing had happened to her earlier that week.

The issue was not the camera reading her plate wrong. Milwaukee police said this was a personnel problem, not a Flock problem: staff failed to remove a wanted vehicle alert from the system after it was no longer needed. Brookfield Police Chief Christopher Garcia has defended the stop, and Milwaukee police back him up, saying his officers acted on the information they had. Newell described the fear in plain terms. “I haven’t been asleep since this has happened,” she said. “Every time I close my eyes, all I can see is guns.” She also said her young daughter is now afraid to ride in the car.

Flock Safety operates a network of roughly 120,000 cameras across the country, and the system works by photographing plates, timestamping them, logging a location, and checking each read against police hotlists. When a plate matches, officers get an alert. That means your car’s movements can land in a searchable database whether or not you are suspected of anything, and the accuracy of any given stop depends entirely on whether the underlying list is correct and current.

The louder story this year has been deliberate abuse. Milwaukee alone has seen two officers charged: Josue Ayala, who prosecutors say searched a partner’s plate and that partner’s ex nearly 200 times, and internal affairs detective Tehrangi Chapman, who was later charged after allegedly misusing the same system he was assigned to investigate. The Institute for Justice has documented at least a couple dozen cases nationwide of officers using plate readers to track romantic interests, and a Washington Post review found at least 50 officers accused of misusing these systems. Cities are reacting. Chandler, Arizona pulled 40 Flock cameras this month after an audit turned up an anomaly it could not explain through normal police work.

What happened to Newell is different from stalking, but it comes from the same weak point: an audit trail and an accuracy check only work if a person is actually watching them. A separate running tally of reported Flock errors found drivers who were repeatedly stopped after their own plates were mistakenly added to hotlists, and one man who spent 13 days in jail after a camera capture misidentified his car. Flock has said its cameras are about 99% accurate, but at tens of billions of reads a month, even a tiny error rate becomes a steady stream of real people staring down real guns. 

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