It’s tough being a criminal, especially when like this team of would-be thieves in Houston, Texas, you pick the wrong target. It turns out the clerk at this gas station, Mayura Dissanyake, is not just a convenience store clerk — he’s also an accomplished MMA fighter. Mr. Dissanyake, a five time national champion in his native […]
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U.S. Charges Five Chinese Army Officers With Hacking
From the Wall Street Journal: The Justice Department indicted five Chinese military officers, alleging they hacked U.S. companies’ computers to steal trade secrets, a major escalation in the fight between the two superpowers over economic espionage. The indictment, unsealed Monday, marks the first time the U.S. government has publicly accused employees of a foreign power […]
Madman Kills 26 at Connecicut Elementary School
I’m reluctant to write about the act of evil visited on my neighbors in Newtown yesterday… To be honest I’m a bit numb, and still trying to make sense of senselessness. I live a little more than 10 miles from the Sandy Hook Elementary School where a madman went on murderous rampage that left 20 […]
12 Year Old Girl Thwarts Home Invasion
From KWTV, News 9 Oklahoma: News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports | BRYAN COUNTY, Oklahoma – A 12-year-old girl took matters into her own hands during a home invasion in southeast Oklahoma. It happened on Wednesday when the girl was home alone. She told police a stranger rang the doorbell, […]
Ouch, That’s Gonna Leave A Mark
It’s a good thing this happened in Chicago, where strict “gun control” laws ensure convicted felons, like Anthony Miranda, don’t have access to firearms: Robbing a man who turned out to be an ultimate fighter proved to be a bad decision for a convicted felon, who is now in bad shape as he is held […]
Mother Shoots, Kills Would-be Kidnapper
I guess this guy didn’t memo… You don’t mess with a Mama Grizzly: Sheriff’s officials in southwest Florida say a clerk at a 24-hour food store shot and killed a man who tried to rob her and take her 1-year-old daughter. According to news reports 22-year-old Elizabeth Easterly was alone in her families landmark corner store […]
Acting ATF Director Likely To Be Ousted Over Gunwalker Scandal
From CNN: Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, in the wake of the ongoing controversy over Operation Fast and Furious, two senior federal law enforcement sources said Monday. In the operation, straw buyers were allowed […]
Palin E-mail Hacker Gets One-year Sentence
David Kernell the 20 year old college student who was convicted of breaking into Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account during the 2008 Presidential campaign has been sentenced to one year in prison: The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election was sentenced to […]
Mojave Cross Replaced… Then Removed
Sometime late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning someone erected a replacement for the “Mojave Cross” which was torn down and stolen by vandals a week ago. The replacement cross was promptly removed by the park service: The Mojave Cross saga took yet another unexpected turn Thursday, when the contested symbol that vanished last week […]
Mojave Cross Torn Down and Stolen by Vandals
The Mojave Cross, a memorial to World War I veterans, which has stood in various forms for more than 75 years was torn down and stolen by vandals sometime late Sunday or early Monday morning: The 7-foot-tall metal cross in a 75-year-old war memorial that withstood the heat of the Mojave Desert and a blazing […]
Palin E-mail Hacker Convicted on Two Counts
A federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee convicted David Kernell, the 22 year old son of Democratic State Representative, on two of four counts related to the intrusion into former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo! Mail account during the 2008 elections today: (Reuters) – A college student who hacked into former Republican vice […]
And the Stupidest Criminal of the Year Award Goes to…
This guy, I guess no one ever warned him about the big blue spark: An attempted copper theft at an Eagan substation early Wednesday knocked out power for thousands of residents and sent a would-be thief to Regions Hospital. Eagan police said the 33-year-old suspect from St. Paul suffered severe burns but was in stable […]
Breaking: Four Police Officers Shot Near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Wash.
Details are still sketchy, but KING TV in Seattle is reporting that four police officers where shot and killed near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Washington: Four police officers have been shot and killed near McChord Air Force Base. Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer says that the officers were in a coffee shop […]
Crime Doesn’t Pay: Business Owner Fires on Robbers, Killing 2, Police Say
Things went horribly wrong for the four men who tried to hold up a Harlem restaurant-supply shop on Thursday afternoon… The four men burst into Kaplan Bros. Blue Flame Corp. around 3:00 p.m. and things went downhill quickly for them: “I’d do it again if I had to.” Those were the first defiant words out […]
Breaking: Military Recruiter Murdered in Arkansas
A gunman opened fire on two soldiers outside an Army Recruiting center in Little Rock Arkansas earlier today. Both of the victims were taken to a nearby hospital, where one of them died a short time later: A gunman opened fire Monday at an army recruitment center in Little Rock, Ark., killing one army recruiter […]