Know Your Rights--How to survive a traffic stop.

Do you live in Alcona County? Then you probably just contributed to the Nigerian Royalty Fraud.

Alcona County, MI: Thomas Katona, former treasurer of Alcona County is accused of embezzling over $1,200,000 from tax payers, part of which he used to pay a Nigerian 419 scammer. Katona is being charged with NINE felonies. Bank officials even told him that the investment was a scam, but he didn't listen. Prepare to see this email coming to your inbox:

To: FaithfulReader
From: tkatona@alconacountyjail.gov
Subject: Investment Opportunity

Hello. You do not know me but I am an official being held prisoner in Alcona County Jail, Michigan. I have over $1.2 MILLION dollars in a hidden account that I cannot access to free myself. I need a checking account that I can move this money into so that I can pay for lawyers and / or shovels. If you provide me with this account, I will let you keep 50%. I may need you to advance me a small amount to cover my bail bond, but this is a small investment that will earn you $600,000.

Please reply with your routing and checking account number.

Tom.

Source: The Register.

Archaic law and Prosecutorial over-reaching result in tragic conviction.

For an in-depth examination of the story of Genarlow Wilson, high school football star and victim of the perfect storm combination of archaic laws, over-reaching prosecutors, and the current RSO regime, please click here.

Election Staff Convicted of Rigging Recount!

Cleveland, OH: Cuyahoga County, which was crucial to delivering Ohio to Bush in 2004, should have received a full, in-depth hand recount. In order to avoid such a (required by law, democratic, American) result, two election workers tampered with and pre-selected ballots that would not show a discrepancy when checked by hand. Because these pre-selected ballots seemed to match the machine count, a full hand recount was never ordered.

Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee. They also were convicted of one misdemeanor count each of failure of elections employees to perform their duty.

Current Official American Casualties in Iraq: 3,063 killed, 22,951 wounded.

But who's counting? Not Cuyahoga County, that's for sure.

Source: The Associated Press

Possible 295-Year sentence for conviction in Hobart drug slayings

Crown Point, IN -- After seven hours of deliberation, a jury delivered a guilty verdict for the third defendant in a 2005 drug-related triple homicide. Sajjad Q. Rasheed was found guilty on three counts of murder during a robbery and two counts of attempted murder.

Rasheed faces a possible prison term of 295 years and will be sentenced on February 15th.

Source: The IndyStar

Never bring a knife to a gunfight...unless it's this one.

The Drug Enforcement Agency is putting out an alert regarding a new weapon hitting the streets. A new "knife" that fires bullets may begin appearing in the hands of gangbangers and lawbreakers, and the DEA wants local police departments to know about it.

The weapon can fire up to five rounds, and officials speculate that they are manufactured overseas, in someone's garage.

Source: WCBS TV.

Fresh Start: Wayne County, MI program gives women caught up in drug and prostitution a way out.

Instead of slapping prostitutes with a misdemeanor charge, giving them 30 day jail tour, and tossing them back onto the streets to continue their downward spiral, Wayne County authorities are taking a new approach.
The program, called Fresh Start, is a collaboration between Detroit Health and Law departments, the city's Bureau of Substance Abuse and 36th District Drug Court and Probation. Fresh Start keeps the women for 15 to 24 months, rehabilitating them, and combating the cycle of self-abuse and hooking. Of the 100 women that have entered the program, 18 have graduated and 59 are still working their way through it. None of the 18 have relapsed.

Source: The Detroit Free Press