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  • N.H. man sentenced for shooting bride and the bishop officiating her wedding

    NASHUA, N.H. (TCD) — A judge sentenced a 41-year-old man to a minimum of 40 years in prison for shooting a bishop and a bride in the middle of a wedding ceremony in October 2019.

    WMUR-TV reports Dale Holloway was sentenced to 40 years to life for shooting and injuring Bishop Stanley Choate and Claire McMullen at the New England Pentecostal Ministries in Pelham. He was convicted last year of attempted murder, first-degree assault, being a felon in possession of a firearm, simple assault, and other related charges.

    According to The Associated Press, the groom’s son shot and killed Holloway’s stepfather, who was a pastor at the same church, about two weeks prior to the wedding. Holloway was reportedly upset because a celebration of life for his stepfather was supposed to occur a few hours after the nuptials.

    The groom’s son, Brandon Castiglione, was sentenced to 42 years to life in prison for fatally shooting Holloway’s stepfather, Luis Garcia, in the back of the head, WMUR reports.

    Holloway also reportedly attacked McMullen’s husband hit him in the head.

    Court records show Holloway initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

    Choate sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and was hospitalized for several months, according to WMUR. McMullen was shot in the arm, which resulted in nerve damage.

    She said in a victim impact statement at Holloway’s sentencing, “The physical impact left me disabled.”

    Choate said he felt “fearful going to the church.”

    Prosecutor Seth Dobieski reportedly said at the sentencing Holloway “turned a marriage into mayhem.”

    MORE:

    • Man sentenced to decades in prison for New Hampshire church shooting – WMUR
    • Man gets 40 years to life for shooting bishop and assaulting the bride and groom at a wedding – The Associated Press
    • Londonderry man sentenced to prison for decades for killing pastor, 8/25/2023 – WMUR

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  • 5 arrested after 6 men were found fatally shot and burned in remote California desert

    SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (TCD) — Five men were arrested on suspicion of murder less than a week after six men were shot and killed in a remote desert area during an alleged drug-related interaction that turned deadly.

    According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 8:16 p.m., one of the victims, 22-year-old Franklin Noel Bonilla, called 911 to report he had been shot. He could not provide dispatchers with his exact location, but officials determined the call had been made from near Lessing Avenue and Shadow Mountain Road.

    In an initial press conference, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Public Information Officer Mara Rodriguez said the California Highway Patrol’s Aviation Division accompanied deputies to the call due to the fact that it was such a “remote desert area.”

    Deputies arrived at the scene and found 34-year-old Baldemar Mondragon-Albarran, 25-year-old Kevin Bonilla, a 45-year-old Hispanic male whose name has not been released pending next of kin notification, and two other adult Hispanic males who have not been identified yet all deceased from gunshot wounds. They later located Franklin Bonilla, the caller, nearby.

    The sheriff’s department said in addition to the gunshot wounds, four of the victims had been partially burned.

    On Sunday, Jan. 28, detectives arrested 34-year-old Toniel Baez-Duarte, 24-year-old Mateo Baez-Duarte, 33-year-old Jose Nicolas Hernandez-Sarabia, 34-year-old Jose Gregorio Hernandez-Sarabia, and 26-year-old Jose Manuel Burgos Parra for murder. The sheriff’s department said the six victims “arranged to meet at the location for a marijuana transaction.” The reason for the shootings remains under investigation.

    Detectives reportedly seized multiple firearms and additional evidence.

    Sgt. Michael Warrick spoke at a press conference Monday, Jan. 29, and said deputies located a Dodge Caravan and Chevrolet Trailblazer at the scene. One of the vehicles had multiple gunshot strikes in it. Warrick said one of the victims was found deceased inside the Trailblazer.

    Warrick is “confident” that all suspects have been arrested, but he could not comment on if the crime was cartel-related.

    Sheriff Shannon Dicus said the area where the shootings occurred is known for drug activity. In the last year alone, the department’s Marijuana Enforcement Team executed 411 search warrants for illegal grow operations and seized 655,000 marijuana plants, 74,000 pounds of processed weed, and $370 million.

    The suspects are all being held without bail.

    MORE:

    • UPDATE: Investigators Arrest Five Suspects in the Homicide of Six Men in the Rural Desert Area Outside of Adelanto – San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department
    • Press Conference – Multiple Arrests Made in Connection with El Mirage Killings – San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office
    • 6 people found dead in remote part of California desert, 1/25/2024 – TCD
    • 6 people found dead in remote Mojave Desert area in San Bernardino County – KABC-TV

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  • Man accused of killing University of Delaware student, leaving body on sidewalk in 2012 cold case

    NEWARK, Del. (TCD) — Police made an arrest this week in connection with the 2012 cold case killing of a 20-year-old University of Delaware student.

    According to the New Castle County Police Department, on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, at around 9:20 p.m., officers responded to the area of Studio Green Apartments on Thorn Lane in reference to a shooting. Authorities found Peter DiSabatino on the sidewalk with apparent gunshot wounds, and he was transported to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.

    Nearly 11 years after DiSabatino’s death, detectives with the Cold Case Homicide Squad identified 33-year-old Alando Dale as the primary suspect. According to the Delaware News Journal, another man had been charged with the killing, but his charges were dropped the day before his trial was set to begin.

    Court documents reviewed by the paper allege Dale and the other man planned to purchase marijuana from DiSabatino outside his apartment on Thorn Lane. Dale reportedly went up to DiSabatino in his vehicle, and the other man waited outside. Dale allegedly gave DiSabatino fake money and tossed the drugs to the other person. The two men got into an argument after DiSabatino realized it was counterfeit money, and he got shot during the altercation.

    A grand jury indicted Dale on Jan. 16, and the United State Marshals Task Force and the New Castle County Police Department Special Investigations Squad took him into custody on Jan. 29. In addition to the counterfeit money confrontation and shooting, the indictment suggests robbery was involved, the Delaware News Journal reports.

    Dale was charged with first-degree murder, and he was booked into the Howard Young Correctional Institution with his bail set at $1 million.

    At the time of his death, DiSabatino was reportedly attending the University of Delaware’s Associate in Arts program.

    MORE:

    • County Police Make Arrest in 2012 Cold Case Homicide – New Castle County Police Department
    • Arrest made in 2012 cold case killing of Delaware student, Appoquinimink High graduate – the Delaware News Journal

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  • California’s Cash Handout Program For ‘Trans’ Residents Is ‘Illegal,’ Lawsuit Alleges

    From The Daily Caller:

    “The transgender extremists running San Francisco are illegally using taxpayer money to hand out free cash to transgender individuals based on race and sex in blatant violation of the state’s constitution,” President Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in a press release.

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  • Portland woman wanted after allegedly killing husband and fleeing

    PORTLAND, Ore. (TCD) — Police are actively searching for a woman they allege fatally shot her 37-year-old husband at a home and fled by vehicle last week.

    On Friday, Jan. 26, at approximately 8:45 a.m., East Precinct officers with the Portland Police Bureau responded to the 9300 block of Southeast Sun Crest Drive in reference to a missing man, Phillip Pierce. Police arrived on scene and after an “extensive effort” to find him, they learned he might have been locked inside the home.

    Officers forced entry, conducted a welfare check, and discovered Pierce deceased. The medical examiner determined he died from a gunshot wound.

    Police detectives identified the victim’s wife, Analiesa Golde, as the primary suspect, and said she is wanted for second-degree murder in connection with her husband’s shooting death.

    Investigators believe Golde is driving a 2015 orange Toyota 4Runner with Oregon license plate 501HSB, and she should be considered armed and dangerous. Police are asking anyone with information regarding her whereabouts to come forward.

    MORE:

    • UPDATE: PPB Needs Public’s Help Locating Homicide Suspect – Portland Police Bureau

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  • ‘Migrant’ homeless family camped outside George Soros’ lefty group’s NYC offices

    From NY Post:

    Tom Fitton, president of conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, ripped Soros for pumping money into lax-border policies yet not doing enough to help migrants when they arrive – even at his own doorstep.

    “It’s not surprising to me that the left doesn’t want to deal with the consequences of their policies in a direct way,” he said.

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  • Alabama nurse faces murder charge after allegedly starving and drowning 6-year-old son

    AUBURN, Ala. (TCD) — A grand jury recently indicted a 53-year-old nurse in connection with the drowning death of his malnourished son last year.

    The Auburn Police Department announced Tuesday, Jan. 30, that Mark Watford was charged with felony murder in connection with his son’s death. Watford was initially charged with aggravated child abuse, but the grand jury indictment upgraded the severity of the crime. The arrest comes a little over six months after his wife, Kelly West Watford, was arrested on suspicion of murder.

    On June 14, 2023, the Auburn Police Department, Auburn Fire Department, and Emergency Medical Service personnel responded to the 2200 block of Core Drive, where they found an unresponsive 6-year-old boy, identified by WRBL-TV as Sullivan Watford. Medical personnel began lifesaving measures before the child was transported to East Alabama Health and later died.

    Police learned of “suspicious circumstances” surrounding the child’s death and obtained evidence suggesting the boy had drowned.

    The victim, who appeared severely malnourished and weighed approximately 21 pounds, reportedly suffered “willful abuse and maltreatment” for an extended period of time. According to WRBL, the boy’s low weight hindered his ability to walk or sit up on his own.

    Kelly Watford reportedly told officials she treated her son’s cough with vapor rub but had never used that kind before. Watford, who worked as a licensed counselor, said her son went unconscious while she was bathing him, and she believed he died from an allergic reaction, WRBL reports.

    An autopsy later showed the boy drowned, and fluid reportedly traveled into the top of his nasal cavity and into his lungs. The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences conducted a final postmortem examination and submitted the additional evidence to police.

    According to WRBL, Auburn Police took photos of Sullivan Watford shortly after his death, and Judge Russell Bush stated they are “like nothing he has ever seen outside of Holocaust documentaries.”

    Officers took Mark and Kelly Watford into custody. Kelly Watford was charged with felony murder and booked into the Lee County Jail without bond.

    Mark Watford was arrested on an initial charge of aggravated child abuse but posted $30,000 bond and was released. Mark Watford remains held in the Lee County Jail without bond.

    MORE:

    • UPDATE: Parents arrested on felony murder and aggravated child abuse charges – Auburn Police Department
    • Alabama nurse and wife arrested after malnourished 6-year-old son drowns, 6/22/2023 – TCD
    • Judge: Autopsy photos of Auburn boy echo Holocaust images, 6/21/2023 – WRBL
    • Lee County Jail records

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  • Federal Judges Enact Policies Granting Oral Argument Based on Lawyers’ Sex, Race

    The robust woke movement gripping the nation’s private and public sectors is also threatening judicial impartiality with three federal judges enacting unlawful race and sex discrimination policies that grant oral argument in cases based on a lawyer’s gender and race. The goal is to give young women and minority attorneys greater opportunities to argue in court, according to the judges, who benefit from lifetime appointments. Two of the federal judges—Nancy J. Rosenstengel and Staci M. Yandle—were appointed by Barack Obama and one—David W. Dugan—is a Donald Trump appointee. All three sit on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

    The unconventional policies adopted by the three jurists constitute judicial misconduct because they unlawfully discriminate, evidence judicial bias, undermine faith in the judiciary’s integrity, and violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment, according to a judicial misconduct complaint filed this month. To “encourage the participation of newer, female, and minority attorneys in proceedings,” the judges instituted a two-part process of discrimination, says the complaint filed by a conservative legal group. After a motion is fully briefed a party may alert the court that, if argument is granted, it intends to have a newer, female, or minority attorney argue the motion or a portion of the motion. The court will grant the request if practicable and “strongly consider allocating additional time for oral argument beyond what the Court may have otherwise allocated” but for the sex or race of the lawyer, the complaint reads. “The judges’ policies are essentially oral-argument affirmative action for lawyers,” according to the complaint, which points out that “the policies expressly reward female and minority lawyers.”

    In the two-page orders, which are identical, the three judges explain that they are cognizant of a growing trend in which fewer cases go to trial and in which there are generally fewer in-court advocacy opportunities. “This is especially true for newer attorneys (attorneys practicing for less than seven years) in general, and women and underrepresented minorities in particular,” the orders state. “Recognizing the importance of the development of future generations of practitioners through courtroom opportunities, the undersigned Judge encourages the participation of newer, female, and minority attorneys in proceedings in my courtroom; particularly with respect to oral argument on motions where said attorney drafted or contributed significantly to the briefing for the motion.” The reality is that the judges have a legal duty to grant oral argument requests based solely on the case’s legal merits and not the lawyer representing the parties engaged in the litigation.

    The judicial misconduct complaint stresses that few judicial acts are as confidence-shaking as an announcement by a federal judge that he or she will manage a case depending in part on the sex or race of a litigant’s attorney. “Judges do not promote public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary when they announce policies expressly favoring persons with certain immutable characteristics,” the document states. “Public confidence in the judiciary is especially threatened when judges effect those policies through contemplated and actual exercise of the judicial power of the United States.” The document further points out that ratifying the discriminatory policies as standing orders creates an official acceptance of long-outlawed forms of discrimination in the federal judiciary.

    In a press release announcing the judicial misconduct complaint, the Washington D.C. group, America First Legal, writes that all Americans deserve equal treatment and opportunity under the law and the legal profession has a special duty to serve as an example for the rest of society. “This is particularly true for federal judges, whose conduct must be beyond reproach–particularly when it comes to policies that overtly discriminate against attorneys appearing before them based on their race or sex.” The group adds that the Constitution forbids using sex and race preferences to provide parties with in-court argument time. The practice leaves less time available for lawyers of non-favored races or the wrong sex, which of course, is not legal and cheats both plaintiffs and defendants.

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  • NYC woman arrested after man’s dismembered body was found in taped-up refrigerator

    BROOKLYN, N.Y. (TCD) — A 45-year-old woman was taken into custody last week after a man’s dismembered body was discovered in her apartment during a wellness check.

    According to NBC New York, on Monday, Jan. 22, someone sent NYPD Crime Stoppers an anonymous tip claiming Kawsheen Gelzer’s body was being stored inside Heather Stines’ fridge. Officers went to Stines’ residence on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood and reportedly noticed a refrigerator with tape on it.

    One of the officers reportedly asked about its contents, but Stines allegedly began arguing with the cops. NBC New York reports she was ultimately removed from the apartment.

    Police opened the refrigerator and found Gelzer’s head and other body parts inside black garbage bags.

    The New York Times reports Stines said her husband killed Gelzer in September during a fight over drugs and his body had been in the refrigerator for many months. She allegedly argued she did not see the killing take place.

    According to NBC New York, Stines’ husband is currently incarcerated in Virginia.

    Gelzer’s cause of death has not been announced yet.

    Records show Gelzer is a registered sex offender because he was convicted in 2005 of deviate sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old boy.

    MORE:

    • Woman charged after human head found in her Brooklyn fridge – NBC New York
    • Woman Charged With Hiding Corpse Over Body Parts Found in Refrigerator – The New York Times

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  • Judicial Watch Sues for Details of Fani Willis’ Controversial Hiring of Special Prosecutor

    (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia for records regarding the hiring of Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor by District Attorney Fani Willis. Wade was hired to pursue unprecedented criminal investigations and prosecutions against former President Trump and others over the 2020 election disputes (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fulton County, Georgia).

    Judicial Watch sued after Fulton County failed to respond to a January 11, 2024, Georgia Open Records Act request for:

    All County public records, as defined in O.C.G.A.§ 50-18- 70(b)(2), related to the hiring/appointment/procurement of the professional services of Nathan Wade (or his law firm) as Fulton County Special Prosecutor. This includes any request for services/proposals, contracts, invoices, or correspondence (physical or electronic) related to his hiring/appointment/procurement.

    Any applicable procurement policies and procedures related to Mr. Wade’s hiring or appointment.

    Wade and Willis are allegedly involved in a romantic relationship. Earlier this month, records relating to Wade’s divorce were unsealed by a judge, which included evidence of his relationship with Willis such as “credit card charges for trips the pair took together to Florida and California.” His wife’s attorneys also asserted that Wade hid his true earnings, “totaling almost $700,000 for his work as special prosecutor.”

    “Fani Willis’ politicized and unprecedented prosecution of former President Trump has been further compromised by credible allegations of personal corruption tied to the hiring of Nathan Wade as special prosecutor!” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “That Judicial Watch had to a file a lawsuit to try to get records about this scandal further suggests that there is something to hide.”

    In October 2023, Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Department of Justice for records and communications between the Office of U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney’s office regarding requests/receipt of federal funding/assistance in the investigation of former President Donald Trump and his 18 codefendants in the Fulton County indictment of August 14, 2023.

    John Monroe Law, P.C. in Dawsonville, GA, is assisting Judicial Watch with the lawsuit. 

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