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• Off-duty Orange County DEA agent arrested on Capitol riot charges By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JIM MUSTIAN | Associated Press An off-duty Drug Enforcement Administration agent from Orange County posed for photographs in which he flashed his DEA badge and firearm outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, according to a court filing Tuesday following the agent’s arrest. A video posted on the internet also showed Mark Sami Ibrahim carrying a flag bearing the words “Liberty or Death” outside the Capitol, about 12 minutes before a mob of people…
• Off-duty DEA agent arrested on Capitol riot charges An off-duty Drug Enforcement Administration agent posed for photographs in which he flashed his DEA badge and firearm outside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, according to a court filing Tuesday following the agent's arrest. A video posted on the internet also showed Mark Sami Ibrahim carrying a flag bearing the words “Liberty or Death” outside the Capitol, about 12 minutes before a mob of people pulled apart a nearby set of barricades, authorities said. Ibrahim, of Orange…
• CNN+ Bets It Can Spin the News Cycle Enough to Make News Junkies Pay Another day, another platform launch. Today it’s CNN and CNN+, scheduled to debut in the first quarter of 2022. Promising a “new experience for CNN superfans, news junkies and fans of quality non-fiction,” IndieWire editor in chief Dana Harris-Bridson and Deputy TV editor Ben Travers wanted to take a deeper look at the latest platform to join the Plus Connected Universe. Their conversation follows. DANA: My first question upon reading the CNN+ announcement this morning was: Why? The obvious reasons…
• Ban cocaine users from football matches, top officer says Cocaine use has been ‘prevalent’ at football grounds for years, a top police officer has said (Picture: AP)A police chief is seeking new powers to ban cocaine users from football games as the fallout from the Euro 2020 final continues. Experts have suggested the Class A drug may have fuelled the violent and disorderly scenes outside Wembley. Hundreds of ticketless fans forced their way into the stadium, while glass bottles were thrown recklessly into crowds, and stewards and spectators were…
• Drug dealer granny kept £2,000 of amphetamines in child’s highchair Monica Sheeran, 48, was given a 12-month community order after police found her stash of drugs (Picture: BPM Media)A drug-dealing grandmother who kept nearly £2,000 worth of amphetamines in a children’s highchair has avoided jail. Monica Sheeran, 48, had her home raided twice in one year by police who found dealer bags and scales with traces of illegal drugs. They also went through her phone and found a text from an unhappy customer demanding a refund after claiming her drugs…
• Woman fatally struck after falling, crawling under vehicle in South Chicago: police A woman died after being struck by a vehicle July 15, 2021, in South Chicago. | Adobe Stock PhotoAn autopsy ruled the woman’s death an accident, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. A woman was fatally struck by a vehicle Thursday in South Chicago. The 31-year-old was on the sidewalk about 3:45 a.m. when she fell and crawled in front of a parked vehicle in the 8100 block of South Houston Avenue, Chicago police said. Later, a male entered…
• Bottle smashed on man’s head as row over dogs turns into bloody brawl To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A man smashed a wine bottle over another man’s head yesterday as a bloody brawl broke out over dogs. Footage shows a calm, sunny evening on the Thames Path in Greenwich descending into chaos as violence broke out in front of a crowd of terrified onlookers. The trouble appeared to start when a large dog pounced on a smaller dog that was…
• Oakland: Guns, drugs, gambling machines seized after breakup of alleged underground casino OAKLAND — Police say public tips helped them break up an illegal casino this past week, with authorities confiscating guns, drugs and more than a dozen gaming machines. Officers served a search warrant Thursday at a building in the 1400 block of 14th Avenue. One person was arrested. According to Oakland police, they seized eight guns including two assault rifles, 30 illegal high-capacity magazines, and assorted amounts of drugs including methamphetamine and heroin worth about $76,000. Officers also took $21,000…
• Drug firms reach $26B settlement over opioid crisis — will Utah sign on? This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of Oxycodone pills in New York. A $26 billion settlement between the three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and thousands of states and municipalities that sued over the toll of the opioid crisis is certainly significant, but it is far from tying a neat bow on the tangle of still unresolved lawsuits surrounding the epidemic. | Mark Lennihan, Associated PressUtah among more than 40 states deciding…
• Case for 9 who led or helped run multimillion opioid drug ring comes to a close Two men in protective suits exit a residence as local and federal law enforcement agencies respond to a drug bust in Cottonwood Heights on Nov. 22, 2016. The criminal case tied to a multimillion-dollar drug ring that operated from a Cottonwood Heights basement drew to a close Friday as those who helped run the scheme were sentenced to prison. | Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News The criminal case tied to a multimillion-dollar drug ring that operated from a Cottonwood Heights…