Posts Tagged ‘arrested’
What is Wrong With This Damn Katt? »
On November 8th, the Comedian Katt Williams was arrested on charges of allegedly stealing $3,555 in jewelry and collectible coins. After posting $41,150 bond in Coweta County, Georgia, he was released. On November 10th, Williams was reportedly re-arrested on a bond payment related issue. A little less than a month after being charged with [...]
Heather Ellis and the Bizarre Walmart Incident »
By Charles S. Mombo CNN News reported last night that Heather Ellis, a 24 year-old African American Xavier University graduate could face fifteen years behind bars for assaulting police officers and resisting arrest after she cut the line at Wal-Mart store in Kennett, Missouri. On Nov. 18, her case went to trial in Dunklin County, Mo., on two [...]
Why Plaxico Burress and not Dick Cheney? »
They say Lady Justice is blindfolded, but I am starting to believe that she occasionally peeps through her blindfold with with one eye open. There is a perception that low tolerance, lack of patience and lack of sympathy is hardly applied whenever an African American, especially a wealthy athletics, acts “stupidly” and [...]
Nigerian born British citizen faces death for heroin »
A Nigerian born British citizen, Samantha Orobator, 20 year-old was arrested at Wattay Airport, Laos in August 2008 for allegedly having 1.5 pounds of heroin in her possession. She was arrested while trying to board a plane to Thailand. She is expected to face the firing squad if convicted of drug trafficking. Her trial is scheduled to [...]
Illinois Governor Blagojevich in Federal Custody »
Illinois' Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was arrested this morning at his Chicago Northside home for conspiring to sell an appointment to president-elect Barack Obama's recently open US senate seat, prosecutors said. Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Illinois said that around 6 a.m. he called Governor Blagojevich's house and [...]
Custom official arrested for harboring illegal alien »
Lorraine Henderson, Boston, Massachusetts-area port director for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was arrested today on suspicion of encouraging one of her cleaning ladies, an alleged illegal immigrant to stay in the country. Henderson was officially charged in federal court with the crime of harboring an illegal alien. Prior to her [...]
FBI Arrest Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford »
-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> by: Tolbert Yarkpawolo BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – FBI spokesman Paul Daymond, announced today that Mayor Larry Langford, 60-year-old, was arrested and taken into custody around 7 a.m. on federal bribery and fraud charges [...]
Rapper DMX arrested again, this time for false id »
DMX, 37-year-old, has been arrested again. He was arrested at a shopping center in Phoenix on Saturday. This time, he is arrested on suspicion he gave a false name and false social security number to get out of paying for hospital medical expenses, US police said. The rapper and actor whose real name is Earl Simmons, has seemingly spent more time [...]
