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Fake robberies for illegal immigrants: Six arrested in elaborate scheme to obtain visas reserved for crime victims
CHICAGO, IL - A series of robberies at liquor stores, gas stations, and fast-food restaurants throughout Chicago, Tennessee, and Louisiana were staged by six men in an elaborate scheme to illegally obtain immigration visas. On Friday, a federal indictment was unsealed in Chicago outlining more than a dozen staged robberies,...
Veterans rally to gain public access to the memorial site that is now housing shelter for illegal immigrants
CHICAGO, IL - A former Marine Corps building in the North Park neighborhood has been turned into a housing center for illegal immigrants, no longer allowing for public access to a memorial, even to those who are veterans. According to ABC 7, on Friday, May 17th, a group of veterans...
A guy shot his wife in the face - so the husband used a knife to "cut to pieces" the attacker
AVON PARK, FL- A Florida man is being hailed as a hero for fatally stabbing a home intruder who shot his wife in the face. The incident took place on May 16 in Avon Park, a town about 75 miles south of Orlando. Law enforcement officers from the Highlands County...
Six-month-old baby fighting for his life after man shoots him multiple times during police standoff
SURPRISE, AZ - Arizona police officers burst into a house Friday to rescue a six-month-old who had been shot multiple times after the child's father, 51-year-old Todd Christopher Marchetti, took the infant and its mother hostage, according to a police statement. Marchetti, police said, ultimately died from a self-inflicted gunshot...
Biden 'forgets' to list luxury vacations at homes of billionaires on his ethics disclosure form, a violation of federal law
WASHINGTON, DC- The New York Post reported that Joe Biden refused to reveal his stays at the vacation homes of rich mega-donors in apparent violation of federal law. The revelation comes after leftist-rag ProPublica was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for attacking conservative Supreme Court justices for ostensibly the same thing.
'We're all border states': Another illegal immigrant, another killing, this time in West Virginia
BERKELEY COUNTY, WV- Chalk another one up to the Biden criminal alien invasion…another American citizen has been murdered by a ruthless future Biden-voter and all we hear from the White House is gaslighting and crickets. Breitbart reports that an illegal alien from El Salvador stands accused of murdering a...
Urgent alert: DHS is now reportedly protecting the privacy of potential terrorists
As the invasion at the southern border becomes worse by the day, the Department of Homeland Security appears to be gatekeeping information about those who have entered the United States that are on the terror watchlist. Bill Melugin, a reporter with Fox News, has received a response to his recently...
High speed chase in police-defunded LA results in miles-long backup during the morning commute
LOS ANGELES, CA - A high-speed chase of a wrong-way driver on Friday morning ended in an accident involving multiple vehicles in West Los Angeles on the 405 freeway. What FOXLA called “one of the wildest pursuits to occur in the city that is known for its chases” led to northbound 405 being backed up for miles and the impact lasted for hours.
"We are here to save cops lives": Nonprofit InVestUSA.org offers additional programs beyond issuing free vests to LEOs
Law Enforcement Today periodically covers nonprofit organizations to let our readers know of the great work many of them are currently doing. However, the unfortunate truth is that many originally well-meaning nonprofit organizations eventually lose their way and become less effective - sometimes even corrupt. But not nonprofit In-Vest USA.
"Homicidal empathy": There's a catastrophic new threat to officers - and you can thank a local "activist"
Written by Von Kliem for Force Science. Republished with permission. -- National Police Week is our time to pause and recognize those officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. It is about honoring the selfless service of fallen officers and a reminder and celebration of the over 800,000 officers who continue to serve at great personal risk.
Chilean gangs entering U.S. under Visa Waiver program behind wave of home burglaries
OAKLAND COUNTY, MI - Sheriff Mike Bouchard of Oakland County, Michigan revealed to reporters on May 16th that a wave of sophisticated burglaries targeting high-value homes yielding millions in stolen goods is being carried out by highly trained criminal gangs from the South American nation of Chile. Bouchard told News...
"The Constitution matters": Governor Greg Abbott issues full pardon to Army Veteran in 2020 BLM Riot defensive shooting
AUSTIN, TX - Daniel Scott Perry, the former U.S. Army Sergeant found guilty of murder after he shot and killed armed rioter Garrett Foster in self-defense in 2020 has been issued a full pardon by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Perry reportedly was driving for Uber on July 25th, 2020 when...
"Let's honor God and our heroes": New law enforcement tribute song released by veteran Dave Bray USA
National Police Week is always a week filled with emotion. We take the time during that special week to thank all our heroes serving and protecting our communities, and we also honor those who have given their lives as the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) is actively involved in the planning and execution of activities during the national event in Washington, DC, including providing tributes to the officers.
Family attempts to legally adopt baby from Guatemala, years later US won't grant him legal citizenship
-- My name is Courtney, my husband is Bern and this is the love story of the adoption of our son, Joseph Strathmore, born Jose’ Mario. Just a couple of weeks before Christmas of 2006, I received a call from the adoption agency to inform us that we were the legal parents of the son we were praying for. Later that night, we found out we were granted the VISA we needed to go to Guatemala and we scheduled our fight to get to our son on December 18, 2006.
San Fran jails reach breaking point with overcrowding and staffing shortages, and the Board of Supervisors want answers
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - On Tuesday, May 14th, during a nearly three-hour long hearing, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were hit with a stark reality about the City's tumultuous conditions in their jails. According to a report from Mission Local, several people present at the hearing pointed their fingers...
Well-respected Florida deputy police chief fired for taking picture with Dem representative's political opponent
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Here's the moral of this story: Don't take a harmless picture with someone belonging to the opposite political party to your mayor and potentially running against his hero. That has cost a Florida deputy police chief his job. Meet Mayor Keith James of West Palm...
In just two days this month, more Chinese nationals illegally crossed into U.S. than the entire year of 2021
Right in the nick of time, right Mr. Biden? In the same week where the White House has been floating the idea of a border “crackdown” comes news that the invasion of our country by Chinese nationals has been hitting a fever pitch. In fact, more illegal Chinese nationals entered the U.S. in two days this month than all of 2021,
Principal with a history of harming young kids arrested for physically assaulting a 13-year-old student
OCALA, FL - A school principal has been arrested after allegedly physically attacking one of his students and detaining that student against their will for over an hour. According to ABC News, the school principal has been identified as 33-year-old Dontay Akeem Prophet and he has been arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse and false imprisonment of a child under 13 years of age. The incident happened on Friday, May 10th, at Destiny Leadership Academy, a private school in Ocala.
Nonprofit In-Vest USA has been saving police lives for decades - here's how
Anyone who works in government, whether local, state, or federal, knows that there is one universal truth – the budget is critical, and agencies have to spend as little money as possible. This is a hard truth with any publicly-funded organization. And that reality trickles down to the line...
Op-ed: Biden insults fallen law enforcement officers and their families by pretending to know their pain
WASHINGTON, DC - Joe Biden blundered yet again when he compared losing his son to the loss of police officers killed in the line of duty. Speaking at the National Peace Officer’s Memorial Service in Washington DC on Wednesday, Biden had the nerve to pretend to understand how the families of those killed in the line of duty feel by sharing about his son, Beau.
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