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[JsMom]

Police: Woman Left 4-Month-Old Child In Stairwell

JACKSON, Tenn. - A West Tennessee mom was arrested for allegedly abandoning her four-month-old child.

Police said 23-year-old Barbara Labossiere and her mother got into an argument on Saturday night because the mom suspected Barbara was stealing money from her.

She told Labossiere she had to leave, so she grabbed some things along with her infant daughter and left.

About thirty minutes later, the child was found lying inside a car seat in a stairwell at their apartment complex. It was not air-conditioned and an outside door was unsecured.

Police arrested Labossiere on Sunday at 10 a.m. Sunday. She was charged and arraigned on aggravated child abuse and neglect charges on Tuesday.

She was jailed on $5,000 bond. DCS is investigating the incident.

Link~
http://www.newschannel5.com/story/152395...-stairwell

WORTHLESS

[Lady Cop]

jeffs previous page posts 134, 137, 140.
booked into his new forever home. not looking happy. die in there fucker.

[Lady Cop]

makes me wish i had arrested the bitch thug.

COLUMBIA, SC (WISTV) - A Lexington County woman will stay in jail after deputies say she attacked another woman while helping her load groceries into her car over the weekend.

Whitney Deandra Wilson, 21, is charged with robbery and assault in connection with the attack, which Sheriff James Metts said happened around 3:30pm on Saturday at the Food Lion on St. Andrews Road. A judge denied Wilson's bond on Wednesday.

Metts said Linda Sarvis Canady, 64, of Columbia, was bagging her groceries to take them to her car when Wilson offered to help load the groceries into Canady's car. Canady said she was grateful when Wilson came over to help, because she's disabled and has difficulty reaching some items.

"I thought that girl fell right out of heaven," said Canady. "I needed help this afternoon."

But what happened next caught Candy by surprise. When she got in the driver's seat and started the car to provide air conditioning, Metts said Wilson hit Canady in the forehead with a can she had taken from the grocery bags. "It was so fast, I'm telling you," said Canady. "Right in the middle of my head. My body was saturated with blood."

Metts said Wilson ran toward Landmark Apartments with Canady's wallet. "I ran after her with my car," said Canady. "I was gonna catch her and tell her what she did. I just wanted to stop her."

Investigators were able to take still pictures from the surveillance video and show them to area businesses and identify Wilson. Metts said Wilson gave investigators a statement about the incident after her arrest.

Now with 19 stitches on her forehead and two black eyes, Canady says the incident was a wake-up call. Next time she won't be so trusting with strangers who put up a nice front. "I want somebody to ask her why did she want to hurt me," she said. "I still don't know it."





bitch thug

[Lady Cop]

i wish i could find his original booking photo. somebody sure screwed up! my jail showered everybody in, and observed gender. i know this is prison, but he had to start out in a jail. and of course was supposed to be cavity-searched at prison intake.


Family worries about transfer of transgender woman to male prison

Philadelphia Daily News


GET NAKED, squat and cough.

That's what inmates are supposed to do when they enter the Philadelphia prisons, at least those charged with felonies, or who are drunk or acting suspiciously.

The exercise expels whatever contraband they could be concealing up their keisters. In the rare cases in which authorities aren't sure if they have a John or a Jane, it also would confirm the inmate's gender.

But Jovanie Saldana, of Kensington, somehow suckered the system.

Saldana, 23, a transgender woman, spent the last 14 months incarcerated at Riverside Correctional Facility, the city's only female prison.

Authorities discovered the situation last week, after launching an investigation into Saldana's complaint of being forced into oral sex with a corrections officer, sources said. During that probe, investigators recorded Saldana's phone conversations and overheard the inmate's mother chiding Saldana into telling authorities the truth about Saldana's gender, a source said.

Since then, Saldana, of Water Street near Venango, has been transferred to a male prison, prisons spokeswoman Shawn Hawes said.

"We're not quite sure how this mistake originated," said Hawes, adding that "the entire process" is now under investigation by prison and police officials.

Saldana had long hair, arched eyebrows and cleavage when arrested in June 2010, relatives said, and has been dressing as a female since age 12. Saldana does have male genitalia, Hawes confirmed.

Saldana's cousin, who did not want to be identified, said that Saldana called and asked her to three-way-call Saldana's mother, who lives in New Jersey. Their conversations were in Spanish, she said, adding that after 14 months in the women's prison she believes Saldana was transferred primarily because of the accusation against the guard, not because of gender.

Saldana told relatives about the transfer, they said, adding that no one from the prison or police department contacted them about the mix-up.

Hawes declined to comment further on the investigation or about Saldana's allegations against the corrections officer.

But she said Saldana - who was charged with several felonies June 11, 2010, including armed robbery - should have undergone a cavity search during the initial intake into the prison system and after each subsequent outing for court appearances. Inmates also must submit to cavity searches during shakedowns, which occur routinely and randomly throughout the city's six prisons.

"That [cavity searches on Saldana] appears not to have been done," she said, noting that prison intake forms denote Saldana as male.

A source close to the prison system, who asked not to be identified, complained that the slip-up "jeopardized a lot of women over there [at Riverside]," adding that Saldana tallied at least two infractions for fighting with other inmates during Saldana's stint in the female jail. On average, Riverside houses about 730 inmates daily, Hawes said.

Lorenzo North, president of the union representing corrections officers, declined to discuss the officers' failure to perform the required cavity searches.

"I don't know how [Saldana] got through," North said, adding that all inmates should be searched. "If you don't strip-search somebody thoroughly, then you're not 100 percent sure of getting whatever [contraband] that inmate has. He may have something up his butt."

But North claimed the goof proved that the officer whom Saldana accused of sexual abuse is innocent.

The officer was transferred to another prison after Saldana's recent complaint.

"I'm trying to get him back to RCF [Riverside] as soon as possible, because he didn't do anything wrong," North said.

Saldana's next scheduled court appearance is next Monday for trial in the armed-robbery case, court records show.

[Lady Cop]

too bad, they'll hydrate and stabilize the bitch.

jeffs posts 134, 137, 140

(CNN) -- Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was in critical condition in a Texas hospital Monday after falling ill during a fast, a state prison official and his attorney said.

The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a breakaway Mormon sect, was sentenced early this month to life in prison plus 20 years for sexual assault. Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said Jeffs was sent to a hospital in Tyler on Sunday night and was in critical but stable condition Monday.

[HairOfTheDog]

Convicted polygamist and child rapist Warren Jeffs is apparently comatose and may be nearing the end of his life.

A source close to ABC News said that the radical polygamist Mormon leader had been fasting for days and doctors were forced to induce a coma. Jeffs is in critical but stable condition, according to the Associated Press. Many of Jeffs' followers revere him as a prophet, and it was expected that the sect would continue to be led by him despite his imprisonment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29...40656.html
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He didn't want to eat. Too bad. None of his underage wives was able to make him a sammich in solitary confinement. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Pussy.

[RaisingAPrince]

Mother kills daughters, hacks self with hatchetAug 28, 2011 9:18 AM

ASHEVILLE, NC (WYFF) - A gruesome discovery inside an Asheville home on Saturday led to double murder charges against a wife and mother.

Police said Naiyana Patel, 33, bludgeoned her two young daughters with a hatchet and then tried to kill herself.

Investigators say Patel used the ax to repeatedly strike herself in the head.

"It's just a terrible, terrible incident that occurred," Lt. Wallace Welch, interim chief of police, told WYFF.

Welch said the father of Jiya Patel, 7, and Piya Patel, 4, found his daughters dead and wife injured, after returning home from work.

Lalji Patel, who friends and relatives call Lalu, owns a convenience store a short distance from their home on Shannon Drive.

http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/15346866/p...-daughters


NC mom accused in hatchet deaths blames ghosts Aug 30, 2011 9:57 AM

ASHEVILLE, NC (AP) - A North Carolina woman accused of using a hatchet to kill her 8-year-old and 4-year-old daughters is blaming ghosts for their death.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Tuesday that a request for a search warrant includes a statement saying 33-year-old Naiyana Patel told a police officer that a ghost killed her children.

Patel is recovering from self-inflicted injuries at Mission Hospital in Asheville.

She's charged with first-degree murder in the slayings. Lt. Wally Welch says detectives have not had a chance to ask her about what happened.

Patel and her husband operated a convenience store and had lived in Asheville for about 20 years.

http://www.wect.com/story/15358192/nc-mo...-of-ghosts#

[BlueTiki]

Patel and her husband operated a convenience store and had lived in Asheville for about 20 years.

Sure . . . stereotypes are a myth.

It's really a front for a call center.

[Lady Cop]

holy shit, you HAVE to read this one! self-defense!! and he just happened to have his pants down and a condom on!

Daily Breeze CA

VERDICT JUST IN: Man found guilty in Hawthorne rape, beating.


A former U.S. Marine accused of kidnapping, raping and beating a 69-year-old Hawthorne woman into a coma insisted Monday that he acted in self-defense because he feared for his life and believed she was a gang member.

During his closing argument before an Airport Courthouse jury, Gary DeVaughn LaBon, 50, denied raping the senior citizen, claiming she crashed into him on her bicycle as he ran from two men.

"This was self-defense," said LaBon, who represented himself in the now 2-week-old trial. "I was in fear for my life. ... These people told me they would make me disappear."

Judge Kathryn Solorzano ordered jurors to disregard most of what LaBon said during his argument.

By late afternoon, jurors announced they had reached verdicts on two of three counts of rape, attempted murder and kidnapping and would continue deliberating today.

As LaBon addressed the jury, Solorzano and Deputy District Attorney Robin Allen interrupted repeatedly, saying his statements were not based on any evidence produced during the trial. LaBon did not testify on his own behalf and presented little evidence during the proceedings to dispute the prosecution's case against him.

LaBon, a trained truck driver, either did not understand rules of evidence or was trying to tell a story without facing cross-examination.

He is charged with attacking the woman Sept. 18, 2009, at Jefferson Avenue and 129^th Street as she collected aluminum cans on trash day in her neighborhood. Police officers, responding to a resident's 911 call that two people appeared to be having sex on her lawn, testified that they found LaBon on top of the victim, his hands wrapped around her throat, choking her.

LaBon, his pants down, ran from officers, but tripped in the street . He fought with two officers until a third shot him with a Taser. Testimony during the trial revealed he was wearing a condom that tests revealed contained the victim's DNA. ::dick::

The victim, in a coma for three weeks, suffered serious brain damage. LaBon is accused of punching her repeatedly in the face, so hard that it caused bleeding in her brain. The grandmother remains hospitalized in a nursing home, where she is unresponsive, unable to feed herself, speak or stand.

In his argument, LaBon tried to explain that he was in an altercation with two men at a convenience store at El Segundo Boulevard and Prairie Avenue. The men chased him, he said.

LaBon, who is black, said he believed the victim on a bicycle was a Latino gang member because she was clothed in a dark jacket with a hood. Telling jurors that there is a war in the streets, LaBon said he collided with the bicycle as he fled from the men.

"I was trying to protect my life," he said. "I had no intention of raping this woman. ... I didn't rape this woman. I didn't attempt to rape this woman. I didn't know her age."

However, no evidence was presented at trial about any men chasing him.

LaBon contended he did not drag the woman away from her bicycle, which was found two homes from where officers found her lying unconscious on the ground.

Allen told jurors in her argument that there was no way LaBon could mistake the small Asian woman for a gang member, and he should have recognized she was a senior citizen. Allen said the evidence clearly showed - from the victim's injuries to forensic evidence to the testimony of police officers - that the victim was knocked off her bike, dragged, raped and nearly killed.

"You have a right to your personal safety," Allen said. "She had a right to be out there and to be safe on the streets."

LaBon, who could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted, previously served time in Pennsylvania for sexually assaulting a woman and drug charges.

[Lady Cop]

a Shakespearean tragedy.



LATimes
Investigators have concluded that Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai, committed suicide at his Coronado mansion, according to Zahau's sister, who was briefed by San Diego County Sheriff's Department detectives.

Mary Zahau-Loehner, in emails and interviews, told reporters Thursday night that the family does not believe Zahau took her own life.

But San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, backed by detectives and the medical examiner, plans a news conference Friday morning to explain how forensic evidence and interviews with people who talked to Zahau in the days before her death led to the overwhelming conclusion that she committed suicide and was not the victim of foul play.

Zahau may have been despondent over a sense of responsibility for the injury suffered by Shacknai's 6-year-old son Max during a time when Zahau was supposed to be watching him.

Retired San Diego homicide Det. Rick Carlson, who was not involved in the case but has investigated hundreds of traumatic deaths and written a book about suicides, said one sign that sheriff's detectives have concluded it was suicide was that they have not named a "person of interest" who might have killed Zahau.

Zahau’s nude body was found in the courtyard of the historic Spreckels mansion on the morning of July 13. Her hands and feet had been tied, a noose was around her neck, a rope was tied to a second-story balcony.

She had apparently jumped off a small table in the courtyard. Her lifeless body was found by Shacknai's brother, Adam, a guest at the mansion.

Almost immediately, a media-fanned “mystery” suggested that the 32-year-old Zahau may have been murdered.

But investigators said that it is not unknown for suicide victims to tie their hands and feet to avoid having “second thoughts.” The Sheriff's Department delayed making its determination until forensic tests were completed and interviews done to assess Zahau's mental state; Shacknai, his brother, and his ex-wife were interviewed.

Two days before Zahau’s death, Max Shacknai suffered what proved to be a fatal fall when he tumbled down the staircase inside the Ocean Boulevard mansion.

The home was built in 1908 by John D. Spreckels, a major business and philanthropic figure in San Diego in the first third of the past century.

Jonah Shacknai , 54, was not at home when Zahau’s body was found by his brother. Shacknai and his ex-wife, Dina, were keeping a vigil at their son’s bedside.

Max Shacknai died July 17 at Rady Children’s Hospital, a week after the fall. He had never regained consciousness. His organs were donated for transplant.

“His loving, kind and vibrant spirit will forever be in our hearts and those whom he touched every day,” Shacknai said in an email announcing his son’s death.

Shacknai is chairman and chief executive of the firm he founded, Medicis Pharamaceutical Corp., based in Scottsdale, Ariz., a leader in skin care and beauty aid products. He is active in charitable organizations, including funding the Whispering Hope Ranch Foundation, which pairs special needs children with abused, abandoned or injured animals.

Zahau, whose married name was Rebecca Nalepa, was an ophthalmic technician in the Phoenix area before quitting her job to spend more time with Shacknai and his children. After a divorce, she took back her maiden name.

Shacknai, twice divorced, lives most of the year in the affluent community of Paradise Valley, Ariz., to be near his business. The Coronado house was considered a summer home.

[Harvest Moon]

I just don't get the part as to why she was nude. Why would you take your clothes off to hang yourself? To add to drama?

[Lady Cop]

presser today on case:
Jonathan Lucas, M.D., San Diego County Medical Examiner, told the reporters gathered for the more than an hour-long panel that he would be the first to admit this was a unique and unusual case.

After learning about the grave medical condition of her boyfriend's son, Rebecca Zahau painted a black message inside a Coronado mansion, bound her own feet and legs, and then hanged herself from a second-story balcony, authorities announced Friday.
Her DNA alone was on the rope. Only her footprints were found on the balcony. There were no drugs in her system.

“There is really no logical explanation for what happened except that she took her own life,” San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said Friday in a public briefing of the investigation into the death of Rebecca Zahau.

investigators revealed new details into both deaths including a message left in black paint on a door, the same paint found on Zahau's hand and torso. They did not reveal what was contained in the message saying only it was not clearly a suicide note.

Detectives said the red rope tied around Zahau's neck was attached to a bed inside the home and the foot and toe impressions found on the balcony were hers.

Forsenic evidence showed Zahau leaned over the railing and fell to her death, investigators said. They said that the railing disturbances were consistent with Zahau's petite torso. Toe impressions were consistent with person leaning up over railing and going over railing officials said.

[blueberryhill]

More information re message written in black paint
www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/sep/01/coronadomansiondeath

[Lady Cop]

this is not from your post, but i think you wanted to post this? --->

Before she died a distraught Zahau painted a message in black paint on a door revealed San Diego Country Sheriff Bill Gore, as he said police had concluded the death was suicide not murder.

According to Zahau's ex-husband, Neil Nalepa, it read: 'She saved him, can he save her.'


nice to see you Blueberry...a little tip, click on 'preview post' first to test links etc.
if it's what you intend, then click 'post reply'.

[blueberryhill]

yes, thank you. i managed to get to preview post, but didn't "post
reply" on first go around.

[Lady Cop]

i see you edited it after my post, it still does not work, says "page not found". keep trying! ( HQ is a good place to practice tech stuff.)

http://mockforums.net/forum-8.html

[Lady Cop]

re post #152

interesting.






CORONADO, Calif. (CBS 8) -- A renowned forensic pathologist said Sunday that injuries on the top of the head of Rebecca Zahau described in her autopsy are unexplained by the circumstances of her hanging death, which was officially ruled a suicide by the San Diego County Medical Examiner.

Pathologist Cyril Wecht reviewed Zahua's entire autopsy report, obtained Friday by News 8.

"She has subgaleal hemorrhages; those are hemorrhages on the undersurface of the scalp. I see no reason why she should have those." Dr. Wecht said. "You get those when your head strikes something or is struck by something."

Wecht said the scenario described by investigators where Zahau used a rope to tie her own hands, feet and neck before rolling off the balcony of her boyfriend's Coronado mansion leaves many unanswered questions.

"Even if (her) scalp hit bushes, that kind of impact would not produce subgaleal hemorrhage," Wecht said. "We're talking about contusions on the top of the head. So, even as the body is falling down – let's say there are branches – how do you get bruises on the top of the head as the body is falling vertically downward?"

The autopsy report describes four hemorrhaging injuries under Zahau's scalp:

"On the right superior parietal scalp there is a 2 x 1 inch subgaleal hemorrhage. On the right lateral frontal scalp there are two subgaleal hemorrhages measuring ³⁄₄ x ¹⁄₂ inch and ¹⁄₂ x ¹⁄₄ inch. On the right lateral frontotemporal scalp, there is a ³⁄₈ inch diameter subgaleal hemorrhage."


On Friday, investigators with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department closed their criminal investigation into the case, saying there is no evidence of foul play in Zahau's July 13 death, a conclusion questioned by Dr. Wecht.

"I don't have enough to come right out and say this is a homicide. As a medical examiner, as a coroner, in my opinion the manner of death should have been left as undetermined. Sometimes we can't be sure and sometimes you leave it as undetermined because more investigation is to be conducted," Wecht said.

Wecht said Zahau's head injuries – which caused bleeding underneath her scalp – would have occurred while she was still alive or in the minutes shortly after her death. He said it is impossible to determine whether Zahau's head traumas would have rendered her unconscious.

"A blow or blows sufficient to produce subgaleal, subscalpular hemorrhage could be sufficient for someone to be knocked out, just temporarily, not to produce any damage to the brain, not to cause any prolonged unconsciousness; but one cannot say," Dr. Wecht said. "They are clearly indicia of some kind of blunt force trauma. So, for someone to say there is no evidence whatsoever of any kind of a struggle is not correct."

Wecht, 80, is a former president of the American Academy of Forensic Science who has consulted on numerous high profile death investigations, including the murder of JonBenet Ramsey and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

He also questioned why, according to the autopsy report, sticky tape residue was found on the legs of Zahau. Investigators have said Zahau used rope, not tape, to bind her feet.

"Where is the tape and what was it used for?" Wecht asked. "Let me give you two scenarios. One could say maybe she was going to bind her feet with duct tape and she switched to the rope. Well then, where's the duct tape if that's the case?"

"And, the other scenario is maybe somebody else was attempting to put duct tape around her feet, or maybe did put duct tape around her feet when she was being subdued, and then took it off."

"Those marks – clearly from tape like duct tape – where do they come from? Why are they there?" asked Wecht.

[Lady Cop]

if you go to this link and click on each individual photo, you will see them enlarged greatly. they were too big for me to post here. they are San Diego Sheriff Dept. crime scene photos.

link:

http://www.sdsheriff.net/coronado/

[Duchess]

Blood & guts stuff?

[Duchess]

Never mind. I read it too fast & wasn't paying attention. Oops.