Police Blotter

Fugitive Polygamist Leader Arrested

Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, was taken into custody after he and two other people were pulled over late Monday by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, FBI spokesman David Staretz said.

The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was wanted in Utah and Arizona on suspicion of sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.

Since May, Jeffs has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, with a $100,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture.

Jeffs was in federal custody in Las Vegas pending a court hearing on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Staretz said. It was not immediately clear if Jeffs would face extradition to Arizona or Utah.

Jeffs was indicted in June on an Arizona charge of arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old girl and a married man, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He is charged in Utah with two felony counts of rape as an accomplice, for allegedly arranging the marriage of a teenage girl to an older man in Nevada.

The FLDS Church split from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the mainstream Mormon Church disavowed plural marriage more than 100 years ago.

The FBI couldn't catch him but the Nevada Highway Patrol could!!!

What's up with these church people and young children? The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and The Independent Baptist Church go for the underage young girls, and the Catholic Church goes for the underage young boys. Seems like a lot of pedophiles on the loose!

I wonder who will play him in the movie?









Lawyer accused in neighbor’s fatal stabbing

Connecticut attorney suspected of killing over child-molestation suspicions

FAIRFIELD, Conn. - A lawyer climbed through a neighbor’s bedroom window and stabbed him to death after being told by a family member that the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, authorities say.

Barry James, 58, was stabbed in the chest nearly a dozen times Monday. The lawyer, Jonathon Edington, 29, was charged with murder and burglary and was released on $1 million bail Wednesday.

Capt. Gary MacNamara said that police had not received a complaint about the child being assaulted before the killing, and “we have no indication it’s true or not true.”

Edington’s attorney, Michael Sherman, said the information came from Edington’s wife. “The daughter gave the mother information which was alarming and disturbing. The mom relayed it to her husband. That was the spark,” Sherman said.

James’ 87-year-old mother discovered his body. When officers went to Edington’s home, they found him standing by his kitchen sink with what appeared to be blood on him, and a large kitchen knife next to him on a counter, authorities said.

“He’s in shock,” Edington’s attorney said. “This is the most unexpected turn of events one can imagine with this young man’s background.”

Police had gone to the neighborhood before, when Edington called to complain that he could see James through a window, police said. “Either he was partly clothed or revealed parts of his anatomy that were inappropriate,” MacNamara said.

Edington, a graduate of Syracuse University and Fordham University Law School, has been practicing patent law.

“James had some bizarre behavior over the last month,” said Darrell Maynard, a neighbor. “He drove his car through his garage, hit the other neighbor’s building.” Another time a neighbor found James intoxicated on the street, Maynard said. James shouted obscenities at children, he said.

As for Edington, Maynard said: “Something had to happen that was terrible for this to have occurred.

If this proves to be true, this is one attorney I like. If his 2-year-old daughter was molested by this guy, then the attorney should be set free with the thanks of the people of Fairfield, Conn.









Student With Dynamite on Plane Released

HOUSTON - A college student who packed a stick of dynamite on a flight to Houston from Argentina was granted bond Monday on a federal charge of carrying an explosive aboard an aircraft.

No future court appearances were scheduled for Howard MacFarland Fish, a 21-year-old junior majoring in biology at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. Fish had been in federal custody since early Friday when agents found a stick of dynamite -- as well as a black powder-based fuse and a blasting cap -- in his checked luggage upon his arrival in Houston on a Continental Airlines flight that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His carry-on luggage contained two more fuses. "My son is a college student and a boy who would not hurt anyone," Howard Fish of Connecticut said after signing his son's $75,000 bond. Fish told authorities he got the explosive devices during a tour of a mine in Bolivia, an affidavit said.

Another good kid, right. He had not only the stick of dynamite, he also had a black powder-based fuse and a blasting cap. That combination is not something someone would have unless they are up to no good!!!

Why are there no future court appearances scheduled? Let's see, nail clippers no, dynamite well OK this once!!!








Montana Man's Suicide Bullet Kills Girl

EUREKA, Mont. - A man who committed suicide at a party also killed a 16-year-old girl when the bullet traveled through his head and struck her in the chest, authorities said.

"It was just a total freak thing."

Be careful who you sit by!!








Kids Watch as Clown Is Crushed to Death

DUBLIN, Ireland - A hot-air balloon caught fire during a circus stunt, killing a clown acrobat as dozens of children watched. The Royal Russian Circus was performing in Scariff, County Clare, a village in western Ireland. About 100 people were in the audience, most of them children.

Witnesses said the man, dressed in a clown outfit, was hanging from a cage suspended by ropes and a hot-air balloon inside the canvas tent. When the balloon exploded in flames, the cage fell on top of the man.

I guess this guy wasn't clowning around!!






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