Brazilian inmate who dressed as his daughter in failed escape found dead in cell
A Brazilian inmate, who went viral around the world for his attempt to escape prison disguised as his daughter, was found dead in his cell on Tuesday.
Prison officials told CNN that Clauvino da Silva, 42, appeared to have taken his own life. He was serving a 73 year sentence for drug dealing.
On Saturday, da Silva disguised himself as his 19-year-old daughter hoping to escape from the high security prison where he was detained. The prison guards recorded the convicted drug dealer taking off his clothes, when they noticed it was not the man’s daughter.
The video was then released by Brazil’s prison authorities, where it was promptly picked up by the international media.
Images of da Silva’s escape ruse, a silicone mask with long black hair and a teenage themed t-shirt, made headlines throughout Brazil.
Silva’s death comes on the heels of a massive gang battle in a prison in northern Brazil that killed 57 people on July 30. Sixteen prisoners were decapitated.
The riot was the latest violence to have taken place in Brazil’s often overcrowded and underfunded prison system. 55 inmates were also killed in gang-related riots at four prisons in western Brazil in May of 2017.
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Man accused of fracturing 13-year-old’s skull for not removing hat during national anthem
SUPERIOR, Mont. – A Montana man is accused of assaulting a teenage boy during the national anthem at the Mineral County Fairgrounds this weekend, according to KPAX.
Witnesses told deputies the suspect grabbed, picked up and slammed the boy on the ground — apparently because he did not remove his hat during the national anthem.
Within minutes after dropping her son off at the fairgrounds, Megan Keeler says she received a phone call stating her son was on his way to the hospital.
“Dude come up and grabbed him by his neck, picked him up and threw him to the ground head first,” Keeler told KPAX.
The suspect, Curt Brockway, is accused of assaulting the 13-year-old.
Witnesses say Brockway tried to justify his actions because the boy was disrespecting the flag by not removing his hat during the national anthem.
“He’s deathly afraid of strangers. He doesn’t remember anything. All the witnesses I have talked to said this was completely random,” Keeler said.
“There was no exchange – nothing! He targeted Wally and took him down,” she added.
The boy was flown to Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital in Spokane after receiving temporal skull fractures.
Keeler says the child was bleeding from his ear for nearly six hours after the incident.
He’s since been released from the hospital and is back home where he will continue healing.
Brockway arrested and made his initial court appearance on Monday in Mineral County.
“I want to know Curt is put away and I would like compensation for the damages and bills,” Keeler said. “But most of all, my son to heals.”
The state requested that Brockway’s bond be set to $100,000, but a judge ruled that Brockway can be released on his own recognizance.
This is not Brockway’s first run in with police. KPAX obtained court documents from a 2010 incident where he plead guilty to an assault with a weapon charge.
In that 2010 incident, Brockway pulled up to a parked vehicle, got out and pulled a gun on a family and stated he was going to kill them.
Brockway’s friend persuaded him to put away his weapon and leave.
He was sentenced to 10 years with the Montana Department of Corrections, all of which were suspended.
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Woman threw pot of hot grease at armed man who broke into her home
DECATUR, AL — An armed man’s face was burned when he broke into a Decatur home on Thursday, police said.
Larondrick Macklin allegedly attempted to burglarize a home on Wimberley Drive, officials said. A woman inside defended herself “with a pot containing hot grease.”
Macklin suffered burns to his face. Police determined he was the “primary aggressor in the altercation.” He was arrested and charged with burglary in the first degree and domestic violence in the first degree.
After receiving medical assistance, he was taken to the Morgan County Jail.
He’s being held there in lieu of $300,000 bond.
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Man threatens to shoot up Florida Walmart a day after deadly attacks at El Paso store
(WFTS/CNN/Meredith) — Authorities say a man is facing charges after he threatened to shoot up a Florida Walmart.
Officials evacuated the Walmart in Gibsonton Sunday, just a day after the mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas Walmart that left 22 dead and another 24 injured.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says an employee received a call from a man warning that he was going to open fire on the store in five minutes.
The sheriff’s office investigated and found the threat was not credible, but 31-year-old Wayne Padgett was arrested for the threat.
Padgett is now facing a charge of false report of using a firearm in a violent manner.
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British man has been awarded more than $24,000 after going into a hospital for a bladder procedure — and coming out circumcised.
“It was a real surprise,” 70-year-old Terry Brazier told the Daily Star of the accidental snip at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
Brazier was supposed to get a cystoscopy, where Botox is injected into the bladder wall to help control incontinence, and was too busy chatting with staff to realize he was instead receiving the personal procedure, he told the UK paper.
“They didn’t know what to say when they found out they’d done it. They said they can’t send me back to the ward and they needed to talk to me,” he said. “I went in the surgery for some Botox and they ended up circumcising me.”
He was awarded more than $24,000 in compensation for the surgical screw-up that’s being blamed on staff mixing up their notes, according to the Guardian.
“We remain deeply and genuinely sorry that this mistake occurred, and I would like to take this opportunity to once again apologize to Mr. Brazier,” Andrew Furlong, medical director of the trust that runs the hospital in Leicester, told the paper.
“We take events like this very seriously and carried out a thorough investigation at the time to ensure that we learned from this incident and do all we can to avoid it happening again.
“Whilst money can never undo what happened, we hope this payment provides some compensation.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/accidentally-circumcised-man-awarded-24k/
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McDonald’s employee fired after telling paramedic they wouldn’t serve ‘his kind’
Madeira Beach (WFTS) — A McDonald’s employee was fired after turning away paramedics Wednesday night.
Anthony Quinn, a paramedic with Sun Star Inc., claimed in a Facebook review of the Madeira Beach McDonald’s that he and his partner were denied service at the restaurant.
In his review, Quinn said that he went in to use the bathroom when the employee told him that the restaurant “doesn’t accept officers in here.” When Quinn told the employee he wasn’t an officer, the employee said he wouldn’t serve “anyone with a badge.”
Later, Quinn says his partner went to order and the employee said he wouldn’t serve “his kind.”
Casper’s the company that runs the McDonald’s location, released the following statement.
“We are aware of the unfortunate incident that took place at one of our restaurants last night. We, like you, were upset and disappointed and took immediate action. The employee has been terminated. What occurred does not reflect the values of our brand, our franchise, or the love and admiration we have demonstrated consistently for our friends in law enforcement and first responders. We have reached out to offer our sincerest apology.”
This story was originally published by Sarah Hollenbeck on WFTS in Tampa, Florida.
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Dayton gunman had ‘kill list’ for boys, ‘rape list’ for girls, former classmates say
As a high school student, the gunman in the Dayton, Ohio, massacre had a “hit list” of classmates he wanted to kill or hurt, according to four former students who said they were told by school officials they were on the list.
Spencer Brickler said a counselor at Bellbrook High School told him that he and his sister were on Connor Betts’ hit list. Brickler said he was riding on a school bus when he saw Betts getting escorted off by officers who were investigating the threats.
“He was kind of dark and depressive in high school,” said Brickler, who recalled the incident occurring about nine years ago when he was a freshman. He said he had no idea what prompted Betts, then a sophomore, to put him or his sister on the list.
The information has taken on new significance now that Betts has been identified as the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday morning in a popular nightlife district in downtown Dayton, authorities said. Police officers on patrol nearby immediately responded and killed Betts less than a minute after he opened fire, authorities said.
In response to CNN’s inquiries about the hit list, Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Schools Superintendent Douglas A. Cozad said, “At this point, I can confirm that Connor Betts was a student at Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Local Schools his entire school career and graduated from Bellbrook High School in 2013.
“Since he has not been a student here for over six years, we are still gathering additional information and will release it as soon as we can,” Cozad said.
Another former classmate, who asked not to be identified out of concerns for his privacy, also recalled being summoned to a school administrator’s office and being told he was “number one” on the list of students Betts wanted to kill.
He said the list was separated into two columns: a “kill list” for boys and a “rape list” for girls.
A third person, who also asked not to be named for privacy reasons, told CNN that Betts sent messages about the list to one of his classmates, who told her mother. Her mother then notified the police, who came to the school and interviewed people on the list individually in the school’s office.
“Personally, it freaked me out,” said the classmate who was told she was on the list. “I started having panic attacks in the school building.”
A fourth person, who also asked not to be named for privacy reasons, said, “All I know is there was a list of violent actions and a list of names including mine.”
She said some of the names were female students who, like her, turned him down for dates. She said Betts often simulated shooting other students and threatened to kill himself and others on several occasions.
“He loved to look at you and pretend to shoot with guns, guns with his hands,” she said.
Another former classmate, who was not on the list, said that he met Betts through a “friend of a friend.” He said whenever they hung out, Betts would talk about violence and use harsh language about women, like calling them “sluts.”
Betts’ former classmates told CNN that they recalled Betts being removed from the school for at least a year, but that he later returned to Bellbrook High.
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West Virginia man arrested in NJ for unlawful possession of assault rifle
JERSEY CITY — A West Virginia man was arrested in Weehawken, New Jersey for unlawful possession of an assault rifle Thursday, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Officers from the county’s narcotics task force arrested 23-year-old Kyle Gresak shortly after 11 p.m. on Thursday. He was found with an illegal Daniel Defense assault rifle equipped with a flash suppressor, pistol grip, collapsible stock and 32-round high capacity magazine.
Gresak was arrested without incident after a vehicle search.
He faces charges of unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a prohibited weapon and devices.
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Police say child ‘thrown’ from Tate Modern
A 17-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a boy of six was allegedly thrown from the tenth floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, police have said. The youngster is in a critical condition in hospital after being flown there by London’s Air Ambulance.
‘My Goal Is to Kill 500, Not Three’: Gilroy Man Arrested After Making Online Threats Referencing Festival Shooting
Police arrested a man after he made threats online that apparently referenced the deadly shooting at a Northern California food festival, authorities said.
Jose Pinon of Gilroy posted Wednesday on Facebook that read “my goal is to kill 500, not three,” believed to be a reference to the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival that killed three people Sunday, police said.
Gilroy police Capt. Joseph Deras said officials did not seize any weapons from Pinon’s home Thursday and do not believe he was planning an attack.
Pinon, 40, is charged with making criminal threats, which is a felony, and violating a domestic violence-related restraining order, which is a misdemeanor, Deras said. He was in jail Friday on $30,000 bail.
It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Authorities say they don’t know what prompted gunman Santino William Legan to open fire at the festival. Legan was shot and killed by three police officers within a minute.
Pinon’s comments on a Gilroy neighborhood watch page alarmed other members of the online group, some of whom told police they had canceled plans, like attending a vigil to honor the victims, because they were afraid.
Another man, whom police did not identify, posted on Facebook soon after the shooting that he had participated — prompting a SWAT response to his Gilroy home. Authorities believed he may have been a second shooter.
Some witnesses had reported seeing another person with Legan, but officials say their investigation has not shown that anyone else was involved.
The 22-year-old man was arrested on unrelated warrants but police did not charge him in connection with his Facebook post, Deras said.
“We don’t think he had any criminal intent,” Deras said. “It was just ignorance.”
The man later asked for police protection because others had found out about his post. Deras said his request was not granted.
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