FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A man who killed himself inside a federal courthouse in North Dakota after he was convicted for brandishing a weapon at a minor faced a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in prison and a maximum term of life, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Jurors had just departed the Fargo courtroom on Monday when Jeffrey Sahl Ferris, 55, of Belcourt, North Dakota, slashed his throat with what an FBI spokesman called “an easily concealable instrument” and died after U.S. marshals and other court personnel attempted life-saving measures. An autopsy was being conducted Tuesday.
FBI spokesman Kevin Smith said his agency will investigate whether any federal criminal laws were broken in the incident. The U.S. Marshals Service is responsible for security of the courthouse.
“Officials there will review their security procedures to ensure the safety of the courthouse family and those visiting the facility,” Smith said.
Acting U.S. Attorney Nick Chase of North Dakota declined to comment about any details of the incident other than to say there were five employees from his office in the courtroom at the time and “none of them were physically hurt.”
Ferris was found guilty of terrorizing, reckless endangerment and the most serious charge, use of a firearm in relation to a felony crime of violence. Federal sentencing guidelines, which take into account criminal history, acceptance of responsibility and other factors, would have helped determine Ferris’ sentence.
Ferris’ attorney, Ward K. Johnson III, did not respond to email inquiries from The Associated Press.
Ferris was arrested for an incident in April 2020 on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, in northern North Dakota near the Canadian border. Ferris was not an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, according to court documents.
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Los Angeles police detectives are investigating a sexual assault report in which a woman accused rapper Clifford “T.I.” Harris and his wife, singer Tameka “Tiny” Harris, of sexual assault in 2005.
LAPD officials confirmed that the department received a report last month & initiated an investigation.
It is one of at least two police reports made in recent months that allege the couple sexually assaulted women after they were drugged. In March, attorney Tyrone A. Blackburn said he had been contacted by more than 30 “women, survivors & witnesses” who accused the couple of “forced drugging, kidnapping, rape & intimidation.”
The woman spoke to an LAPD detective on April 8 & alleged she had received a drink at a bar from Tiny & later was sexually assaulted by T.I. before vomiting & blacking out.
Steve Sadow, the attorney for the couple, said the Harrises have not been questioned or contacted by any law enforcement agency. Sadow said that because the woman making the accusations has not been identified, it is “preventing us from being in a position to disprove or refute her allegations — or even examine them.”
Earlier this month, a woman also filed a report with the Las Vegas Metro Police alleging she had her drink spiked before engaging in nonconsensual sex with the couple in August 2010.
Public allegations against the couple first appeared in January, leading to the suspension of filming of T.I. & Tiny’s VH1 reality show, “The Family Hustle.”
In March, Sabrina Peterson filed a defamation lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court against Tiny, T.I. & hairstylist Shekinah Anderson, one of Tiny’s best friends. Peterson alleged the rapper pointed a gun at her head when she got into an altercation with his assistant. She sued after the Harrises responded with an extensive denial.
The guy who led cops on a wild chase that landed on Rick Ross' front door has died while in custody.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation tells TMZ ... 40-year-old Chaka Stewart was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday at the Clayton County Jail in Georgia. We're told a guard & a medic who were making the evening rounds noticed Stewart lying there, & they attempted life-saving measures when they realized something was seriously wrong.
We're told he was pronounced dead at the jail. Our law enforcement sources say Stewart was alone in his cell & no foul play is suspected. An autopsy is underway to figure out what happened.
Stewart's mother, Jacqueline Gordon, confirmed her son is the man who was arrested outside Rick's Georgia estate last week -- where cops say he crashed his truck & was carrying a firearm ... only to finally be apprehended at gunpoint following what was described as a crazy pursuit through the streets.
She says she last spoke to her son Friday, & claims he told her he was being mistreated behind bars. Gordon alleges Stewart said he was being beaten -- unclear if he was blaming officials or other folks behind bars -- wasn't allowed to shower & was confined to his cell for 23 hours a day.
Gordon also claims one of the deputies told Stewart he'd never be getting out of there ... while also asserting Georgia authorities have been ducking her and her inquiries.
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New York Post - The former NYPD cop who allegedly left his 8-year-old autistic son locked in a freezing garage also kept a family dog in a heated room inside at the same time, pre-trial testimony revealed Monday.
Michael Valva & his then-fiancee Angela Pollina have been charged with murder in the Jan. 17, 2020 death of Thomas Valva with authorities accusing the couple of locking the child overnight in a frigid garage while it was 19 degrees outside.
Housekeeper Tyrene Rodriguez testified at a pre-trial hearing on Long Island about the boy’s final moments, noting she got her cleaning supplies from a mud room where the dog “Bella” slept.
“And that’s a heated room?” the Suffolk County prosecutor asked Rodriguez.
“Yes,” Rodriguez answered.
Rodriguez told the court she had heard Thomas crying when she arrived that morning to clean Valva’s house & saw the couple escort Thomas to the basement. Minutes later, Pollina returned frantically saying Thomas wasn’t breathing.
Rodriguez helped while Valva tried to administer CPR to the dying boy, with the housekeeper leaning Thomas’ head back to open his airways.
“He was very cold,” she said, according to Newsday. “He was damp.”
Valva & Pollina have both pleaded not guilty to second degree murder charges.
WASHINGTON (SBG) — A 19-year veteran New Jersey police officer is facing a list of serious charges after his fellow officers discovered a methamphetamine lab inside of his home in Long Branch, according to police and prosecutors.
Upon hearing the news, Long Branch Police Department's Acting Chief Frank Rizzuto immediately suspended 50-year-old Christopher Walls without pay.
At approximately 10:36 p.m. Saturday, Walls' fellow officers were called to a domestic disturbance at his home. A person living in the home told police that "Walls was involved in suspicious narcotics activity."
The New Jersey State Police hazmat team that was called in to respond found materials, chemicals & instruments "consistent with a methamphetamine laboratory in both the basement of the residence & in a shed on the property," the Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor stated on its website.
Police said Walls had everything in his home he needed to manufacture meth, along with the discovery of methamphetamine residue on glassware that's typically used to make the drug. Walls also had books related to "making methamphetamine, explosives & poison."
Police also found a large, open gun safe that was accessible to a child who lives at the home. " Inside the gun safe were two long guns, four handguns, eight high-capacity magazines & a large quantity of ammunition," prosecutors said.
Wells is facing the following charges:
*First-degree maintaining or operating a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) production facility *Second-degree possession of a firearm during the course of a CDS offense *Second-degree risking widespread injury *Second-degree endangering the welfare of a child *Third-degree manufacturing CDS (methamphetamine) *Third-degree possession of CDS (methamphetamine).
Wells faces 20 years in prison if convicted of the first-degree charge & 10 years in prison if found guilty of any of the second-degree charges.
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The suspect arrested in connection to the murder of a young boy who was found in the middle of a street in Dallas has been identified as 18-year-old Darriynn Brown.
Police said Brown, so far, has been charged with kidnapping and theft. Further charges are expected pending forensic results, according to police.
The 4-year-old victim was found in the 7500 block of Saddleridge Drive Saturday morning after police received a 911 call. Police said the 911 call did not come from the boy’s home.
The cause of the death has not yet been released, but police said they believe the suspect used an “edged weapon.”
At around 10 p.m. Saturday, police said they had a suspect in custody. Further details, such as location of the suspect, were not immediately released.
“Through the hard work of the men and women of the Dallas Police Department this criminal was brought to justice and it would not have been made possible without the Dallas FBI Evidence Response Team and the public’s assistance,” the department said in a statement.
Investigators believe the boy lived in the neighborhood. The woman who called 911 spoke to CBS 11 News about what she saw.
“I see something laying in the road and my initial thought was that it was a dog. The closer I get to it I can tell it’s a human cause I see a hand and I see legs. Very traumatizing. I have three kids. To see a child covered in blood in the middle of the street, it’s truly traumatizing,” she said.
CBS 11 News found the FBI’s evidence response team searching and removing items from a house located in 7500 block of Florina Parkway on Saturday evening. It’s in the same neighborhood as where the boy was found dead. The Dallas Police Department confirmed this location was also a part of their investigation.
(Reuters) Israel pummeled Gaza with air strikes on Monday and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israeli cities despite a flurry of U.S. and regional diplomacy that has so far failed to halt more than a week of deadly fighting.
Israel's missile attacks on the densely populated Palestinian enclave killed a top Islamic Jihad commander and left a crater in a seven-storey office building that Israel's military said was used by Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas.
Rocket barrages, some of them launched in response to the killing of Islamic Jihad's Hussam Abu Harbeed, sent Israelis dashing for bomb shelters with direct hits on a synagogue in Ashkelon and an apartment building in Ashdod.
Gaza health officials put the Palestinian death toll since hostilities flared up last week at at least 204, including 58 children and 34 women. Ten people have been killed in Israel, including two children.
The cross-border hostilities have been accompanied by an uptick of violence in the occupied West Bank, and by riots involving Arab and Jewish mobs within Israel and clashes in Jewish-Arab communities. Police said an Israeli man died in hospital on Monday after being attacked by Arab rioters last week.
As Islamic Jihad mourned Harbeed's death, Israel's military said he had been "behind several anti-tank missile terror attacks against Israeli civilians", and an Israeli general said his country could carry on the fight "forever".
At least seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza on Monday by evening. Two died in the missile attack on the office building, which Israel's military said was used by Hamas internal security.
"My children couldn't sleep all night even after the wave of intensive bombing stopped," said Umm Naeem, 50, a mother of five, as she shopped for bread in Gaza City.
Militant groups in Gaza also gave no sign that an end to fighting was imminent. Rocket sirens blared into the evening, and medics said seven people had been injured in a rocket strike in Ashdod.
Earlier on Monday, Israel bombed what its military called 15 km (nine miles) of underground tunnels used by Hamas. Nine residences belonging to high-ranking Hamas commanders in Gaza were also hit, it said.
"We have to continue the war until there is long-term ceasefire - (one) that is not temporary," Osher Bugam, a resident of the Israel coastal city of Ashkelon, said after a rocket fired from Gaza hit a synagogue there.
Hamas began its rocket assault last Monday after weeks of tensions over a court case to evict several Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, and in retaliation for Israeli police clashes with Palestinians near the city's al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Palestinians have also become frustrated by setbacks to their aspirations for an independent state and an end to Israeli occupation in recent years.
World concern deepened after an Israeli air strike in Gaza that destroyed several homes on Sunday and which Palestinian health officials said killed 42 people, including 10 children, and persistent rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
U.S. President Joe Biden's envoy to the region, Hady Amr, met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday. Blinken said U.S. officials had been "working around the clock" to bring an end to the conflict.
"The United States remains greatly concerned by the escalating violence. Hundreds of people killed or injured, including children being pulled from the rubble," he said after talks with Denmark's foreign minister in Copenhagen.
Despite the flurry of U.S. mediation, Biden's administration approved the potential sale of $735 million in precision-guided weapons to its top ally Israel, and Congressional sources said on Monday that U.S. lawmakers were not expected to object to the deal despite the violence. read more
Blinken and other top U.S. officials put in calls to leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates on Monday.
While the devastation in Gaza was likely to make it harder for Israel to expand its ties with Arab countries, Gulf states that invested in opening ties with Israel last year are showing no public sign of second thoughts. read more
Brigadier General Yaron Rosen, a former Israeli air division commander, gave no indication on Monday there would be a let-up in attacks in what he called a "war of attrition".
"The IDF (Israeli military) can go with this forever. And they (Hamas) can go on with their rockets, sadly, also for a very long time. But the price they are paying is rising higher and higher," he told reporters.
The Israeli military said at least 130 Palestinian combatants had been killed since fighting began.
Diplomatic efforts are complicated by the fact the United States and most western powers do not talk to Hamas, which they regard as a terrorist organisation.
Abbas, whose power base is in the occupied West Bank, exerts little influence over Hamas in Gaza.
Tensions have surged between Israel's Jewish majority and 21% Arab minority in what the country's president has warned could devolve into "civil war".
General strikes over Israel's Gaza bombardment were planned for Tuesday in Arab towns within Israel and Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb.
The court’s order sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall, with a more conservative court seemingly ready to dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights.
The court first announced a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision & reaffirmed it 19 years later.
The case involves a Mississippi law that would prohibit abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The state’s ban had been blocked by lower courts as inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent that protects a woman’s right to obtain an abortion before the fetus can survive outside her womb.
The justices had put off action on the case for several months. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an abortion-rights proponent, died just before the court’s new term began in October. Her replacement, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is the most open opponent of abortion rights to join the court in decades.
Barrett is one of three appointees of former President Donald Trump on the Supreme Court. The other two, Justices Neil Gorsuch & Brett Kavanaugh, voted in dissent last year to allow Louisiana to enforce restrictions on doctors that could have closed two of the state’s three abortion clinics.
Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Ginsburg & the other three liberal justices, said the restrictions were virtually identical to a Texas law the court struck down in 2016.
The Mississippi law was enacted in 2018, but was blocked after a federal court challenge. The state’s only abortion clinic remains open. The owner has said the clinic does abortions up to 16 weeks.
A central question in the case is about viability — whether a fetus can survive outside the woman at 15 weeks. The clinic presented evidence that viability is impossible at 15 weeks, and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the state “conceded that it had identified no medical evidence that a fetus would be viable at 15 weeks.”
The Mississippi law would allow exceptions to the 15-week ban in cases of medical emergency or severe fetal abnormality. Doctors found in violation of the ban would face mandatory suspension or revocation of their medical license.
Maroon 5's Adam Levine goes Sneaker Shopping with Complex's Joe La Puma at SoleStage in Los Angeles and talks about Kanye West giving him Red October Yeezys, his memories of Kobe Bryant, and Travis Scott gifting him with friends-and-family Air Jordans to perform at the Super Bowl.
Philly artists Pillz and ACF Leem link up to drop a new music video called “Cadillac” out now via YouTube. Directed by MajorMotion. Watch below and follow Pillz and ACF Leem on social media.
Memphis native Big Folk is back this week with another music video, this time for his "Houdini" single featuring LilSlimey. Directed by LMBFilmz. Watch the visual below and check out the rest of his catalogue on Spotify.
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