60 People Busted At Alabama Cockfights - 5 Were American Citizens

(Maybe we ought to have a few more ICE raids in Alabama.)

BLOUNT COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) — Sixty people face charges after a crackdown on an illegal cockfighting exhibition in Blount County, Alabama over the weekend. Just 5 of those arrested are in the U.S. legally, according to a news release.
The June 14 raid was carried out by the Gulf of America Homeland Security Task Force, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
The multiagency team executed search warrants targeting the prohibition of animal fighting ventures, the presence of illegal aliens, and illegal gambling activities.
Among those arrested were 55 illegal aliens and five U.S. citizens. Authorities seized more than $100,000 in bulk currency and recovered two firearms. Five federal indictments are pending against the U.S. citizen organizers of the criminal operation, and four aliens have been charged with illegal reentry after deportation.
"This illegal cockfighting operation wasn’t just about animal cruelty — it was tied to a broader network of serious crimes, including illegal gambling, drug trafficking, and violent offenses," said Steven N. Schrank, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Georgia and Alabama. "These criminal enterprises endanger our communities, and HSI remains steadfast in its mission to disrupt and dismantle them. This operation underscores our commitment to public safety and the strength of our law enforcement partnerships."
Schrank explains that six special response SWAT teams and two helicopters were used in Saturday's raid in a wooded area of Blount County. He added there were over 250 birds at the location.
The operation was supported by a coalition of federal agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, IRS, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and others.

Grand Jury Recommends Hanceville, Alabama PD Be ‘Immediately Abolished'

(There are probably other crimes that will never be revealed to the public but the most outstanding crime was that the PD and 'multiple others' had unfettered access to the drugs in the unsecured evidence room.)

An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers, including its police chief.
Five Hanceville police officers were arrested and charged amid a probe into the department, Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker said. The spouse of one of the officers was also charged, he said.
Crocker provided limited details on the case. Though the investigation encompassed the department's evidence room and the death of a Hanceville dispatcher, 49-year-old Christopher Michael Willingham, who was found dead from a toxic drug combination at work, officials said.
The Cullman County grand jury found that the Hanceville Police Department has "failed to account for, preserve and maintain evidence and in doing so has failed crime victims and the public at large," making the evidence "unusable," Crocker said.
The grand jury further found that Willingham's death was "the direct result of the Hanceville Police Department's negligence, lack of procedure, general incompetence and disregard for human life," Crocker said.
None of the defendants were charged in Willingham's death, Crocker said. Though the "unfettered access that a lot of people had" to the evidence room is the basis of the grand jury's finding regarding the dispatcher's death, Crocker said.
"One of the most concerning things that we discovered in this process is that the Hanceville Police Department's evidence room was not secured," Crocker said.
Crocker said that Willingham was given access, "like a lot of other people," to the evidence room, including on his last day at work. The dispatcher died on Aug. 23, 2024, with the cause of death determined to be the "combined toxic effects of fentanyl, gabapentin, diazepam, amphetamine, carisoprodol and methocarbamol," and the manner of death an accident, according to the state medical examiner's autopsy report.
When asked if Willingham may have been exposed to fentanyl that was not kept in a secure place, Crocker said, "Nothing was secure about the evidence room. And when Mr. Willingham was discovered, there was evidence in his office."

 

Mongo just pawn in game of life.

The rest of the story is here:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/hanceville-alabama-police-department-officers-indicted-grand-jury-abolish/story?id=118989336

Louisiana Snow Chains

Some areas of LA have gotten close to a foot of snow. 

It's also snowing in Tallahassee, Fl. as I type this. Headed my way.

This photo was taken in Century, FL. around noon today.

Trans Antifa member arrested over bombing at Alabama Attorney General's Office.
"That device had the characteristics of an IED, and Calvert added a substantial number of nails and other shrapnel to increase its destructive capability."

A trans person with links to Antifa was arrested and charged with the February detonation an improvised explosive device, a nail bomb, outside the Alabama attorney general's Montgomery office.
Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale, Alabama, was indicted on Wednesday and charged with malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
The charges per the indictment allege that Calvert "maliciously damaged, and attempted to maliciously damage, by means of fire and explosive materials, the Alabama Attorney General's Office," and that Calvert "knowingly possessed a firearm, to wit: a destructive device... which was not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record."
A detention memo from a US attorney's office stated, "That device had the characteristics of an IED, and Calvert added a substantial number of nails and other shrapnel to increase its destructive capability."
The explosion was outside the office of Attorney General Steve Marshall on February 24, in the early hours of the morning, at approximately 3:42 am. Surveillance footage showed an individual wearing dark clothes, a mask, and goggles near the statehouse. 
In addition to the explosive device, law enforcement officers discovered that Calvert vandalized state buildings with stickers that were advocating for various political ideologies. These included Antifa and anti-police sentiments as well as sentiments expressing opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Some of those stickers read, "Support your local antifa," and surveillance footage showed the individual putting the stickers on the doors of the Alabama State Capitol Building. Shortly thereafter, the suspect could be seen near the attorney general's office, right before the explosion. They were then seen walking away.
A security officer working at the Southern Poverty Law Center nearby called police to report the explosion, but when Montgomery officers arrived, they cleared the call as they were unable to see anything wrong. The damage was discovered the following Monday morning.

Calvert also identifies as trans nonbinary.
The memo from the US attorney's office stated further that Calbert had a "belief that violence should be directed against the government, and he described his inability to control his own violent, aggressive impulses."
Prosecutors have asked for Calvert to be detained without bond. Prior to the arrest, Calvert posted videos showing office his extensive Antifa propaganda before the attack he is accused of carrying out.
Marshall was pleased that a suspect had been apprehended. In a statement Marshall said, "My staff and I are breathing a collective sigh of relief this morning knowing that this individual has been taken off the streets."
"Although more information will be provided in the weeks to come," he continued. "I think it is safe to say that this was not a random act of violence. We are grateful to our federal and local partners for their assistance in this matter and are pleased that the offender faces federal charges carrying significant prison time."
Calvert could face up to 20 years if convicted of the crime. A mandatory minimum would require Calvert to serve at least five years.
Calvert has also posted videos on TikTok in support of Palestinian terror group Hamas. He said, "This might be a bit of a deep cut but um," and went on to explain that supporting Hamas is the same as supporting the American Revolutionary War fighters overthrowing the British or supporting the South Vietnamese fighters against the North Vietnamese during the conflict in that nation in the 1970s.
That detonation happened one day after the controversial decision from the attorney general's office to not prosecute fertility doctors and providers who provide in vitro fertilization, despite the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling declaring that the embryos created as part of that process are life. However, a motive has not been released by prosecutors at the publication of this report.

https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-antifa-member-arrested-over-bombing-at-alabama-attorney-generals-office?utm_campaign=64499

Mahogany Jackson suspects in court, denied bond for ‘horrific, barbaric’ acts.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Monday morning, five out of the eight suspects were in court for their initial appearance under Aniah’s Law. Teja Lewis, 25, Si’nya McCall, 23, Blair Green, 25, Giovonnie Clapp, 23, Airana Robinson, 23 were in Judge Kechia Davis’ courtroom for the bond hearing for the murder and kidnapping of Mahogany Jackson.

Birmingham Police Homicide Detective Mark Green was the state’s only witness who described what he saw in five videos recorded by suspects.
He says the 20-year-old mother initially came to the house of another suspect, Brandon Pope, 24, thinking she was about to hang out with friends. But according to the prosecutor, that’s where one video picks up, showing her outside, naked, with Lewis on top of her, beating her while McCall can be seen kicking her. Green says. A short moment after that, McCall can be heard saying, “Put her in the trunk.”
They believe that was when she was taken to another location, an apartment Lewis and McCall shared. The violent acts there were recorded as well. Investigators say Jackson could be seen naked and handcuffed while she was beaten, slapped, spat on, and pistol-whipped.
They recovered two weapons, but they are still collecting evidence to determine which one was used as the murder weapon. Green says they also have all of the suspects’ cell phones and are working to go through those for evidence to determine a timeline.
Police say they know Jackson contacted her family the morning of February 25th, shortly after 8 a.m., saying, “I’ve been kidnapped. Send help. Don’t call.” The following morning, Jackson’s body was found with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Detectives say she was found at an illegal dumping site at Cedar Avenue and 17th Street Southwest; one attorney described it as a “dead man road.”
Another disturbing fact in this case is officers say she was forced to perform sexual acts with a gun to the back of her head. Some of the suspects even recorded these horrific acts, and the videos were posted on social media. Detective Green says on the videos, the suspects can be heard telling Jackson that she’s going to die.
Mahogany’s family, including her mother, Gail Maddox, were present at today’s hearing, and you could hear them getting emotional as details were shared. Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr met with them afterward.
“They’re shaken,” says Carr, “It’s one thing to hear a lot of chitter chatter out there, but to be in a formal setting and hear what happened to a loved one like that could be very disheartening, obviously. I talked to the family members today, the ones who were here, and encouraged them.”
Many of the defendant’s attorneys requested a bond for these suspects, stating some of them had nothing to do with Mahogany Jackson’s murder. Judge Davis denied these requests and said they all played a role and that keeping them behind bars would protect the community.

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https://www.wbrc.com/2024/03/05/mahogany-jackson-suspects-court-denied-bond-horrific-barbaric-acts/

Alabama Murderer Kenneth Smith Executed UPDATE:

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall Statement on the Execution of Murderer Kenneth Smith by Nitrogen Hypoxia
(Montgomery)—Attorney General Steve Marshall issued the following statement tonight after the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama:
Justice has been served. Tonight, Kenneth Smith was put to death for the heinous act he committed over 35 years ago: the murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, an innocent woman who was by all accounts a godly wife, a loving mother and grandmother, and a beloved pillar of her community.
I ask the people of Alabama to join me in praying for Elizabeth’s family and friends, that they might now better be able to find long-awaited peace and closure.
Tonight also marked the first time in the nation – and the world – that nitrogen hypoxia was used as the method of execution. The law authorizing the execution method was enacted in 2018 and was intended to be—and has now proved to be — an effective and humane method of execution. The Federal District Court that considered Smith’s challenge to the method found “there is simply not enough evidence to find with any degree of certainty or likelihood that execution by nitrogen hypoxia under the Protocol is substantially likely to cause Smith superadded pain.” And tonight’s events show that the dire predictions of activists and the media were as speculative as Smith’s claims.
Alabama has achieved something historic. Like most states, Alabama has made the judgment that some crimes are so horrific that they warrant the ultimate penalty. But anti-death-penalty activists have worked to nullify that moral judgment through pressure campaigns against anyone assisting states in the process. They don’t care that Alabama’s new method is humane and effective, because they know it is also easy to carry out. Despite the international effort by activists to undermine and disparage our state’s justice system and to deny justice to the victims of heinous murders, our proven method offers a blueprint for other states and a warning to those who would contemplate shedding innocent blood. This is an important night for Liz Sennett’s family, for justice, and for the rule of law in our great nation.
Attorney General Marshall cleared the execution to commence at 7:56 p.m.
Kenneth Smith’s officially pronounced time of death was 8:25 p.m. 

*****

The first-ever execution by nitrogen gas is set to go ahead in America using a method so cruel and painful the UN calls it torture.

(First: Who gives a shit what the UN says and Second: He deserves to do a little suffering*)

Alabama hitman Kenneth Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for killing a woman on behalf of her preacher husband in 1988 and was due to be executed by lethal injection in November 2022 but survived after it was botched.
Alabama – one of only three states to have legalized nitrogen executions, ruled that Mr Smith would be put to death via nitrogen instead.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12997689/nitrogen-execution-method-alabama-hitman-death.html

*What the article doesn’t mention is the horrific way in which Smith and Parker killed Mrs. Sennett. Who gives a shit if he suffers during his long overdue death, which I hope goes slightly awry and he suffers like she must have.
In 1988, Charles Sennett, a Church of Christ minister out of Colbert County, Alabama, began making arrangements to have his wife, Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, killed, according to court documents.
Testimonies allege that Charles was dealing with a substantial amount of debt and that he had taken out a large insurance policy on his wife. He was also allegedly engaged in an extramarital affair.
Evidence established at trial states that Sennett recruited Billy Gray Williams to carry out the murder, who in turn recruited John Forrest Parker and Kenneth Eugene Smith. They were to be paid $1,000 a piece for the job.
On March 18, 1988, Smith and Parker drove to Sennetts' home on Coon Dog Cemetery Road, where they were met by Elizabeth, who was alone at the time.
The pair told Sennett that her husband had given them permission to explore the property as they wished to use the surrounding land for hunting. Sennett then called her husband to verify the request before giving the two men the go-ahead.
After wandering the property for some time, Parker and Smith returned to the house and asked if they could come inside to use the restroom and get some water.
Once inside, the pair allegedly attacked Sennett using "their fists and other objects such as a poker, walking cane, fireplace tongs," as well as a survival knife, according to trial documents. Several of these weapons were later found in a pond behind the home.
The coroner testified that Sennett was stabbed "eight times in the chest and once on each side of the neck, and had suffered numerous abrasions and cuts."
(The ONLY redeeming that that happened according to the article is:)
On the day of the murder, Charles Sennett arrived home and "discovered" his wife's body. The investigation quickly focused on him as a suspect, and exactly one week later, he died by suicide at his son's home, according to court documents.

https://www.wvtm13.com/article/gas-alabama-execution-nitrogen-kenneth-smith-murder/46448728#

 

 Alabama Democrat Who Made ‘Kill’ ‘em Now Or Kill’ ‘em Later’ Remark On Abortion Indicted On Federal Charges.

Alabama State Rep. John Rogers (D) — who previously gained national attention over controversial remarks that he made about abortion — has been indicted on federal obstruction of justice, according to prosecutors.
Rogers was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of obstruction of justice in case that centers around an alleged scheme to defraud the Jefferson County Community Service Fund.
“A 25-count superseding indictment filed this week in United States District Court charges Varrie Johnson Kindall, 58, of Chelsea, with one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, 11 counts of wire fraud, 3 counts of mail fraud, 1 count of money laundering, and 4 tax related charges,” said a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Additionally, the superseding indictment charges John Rogers, 82, and Kindall with 2 counts of obstruction of justice,” the statement continued. “These charges arise from an investigation of wrongdoing in connection with the Jefferson County Community Service Fund. In June, former Representative Fred L. Plump, Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiring with Kindall and resigned from the Alabama House of Representatives.”
Rogers made highly controversial remarks on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives back in 2019 about abortion, saying: “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later,” Rogers said. “You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”
“Some parents can’t handle a child with problems,” Rogers continued, according to a local media report. “It could be retarded. It might have no arms and no legs.”

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Rogers remarks came as the Republican-controlled chamber voted overwhelmingly — 74-3 — to outlaw nearly all abortion in the state.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-democrat-who-made-killem-now-or-killem-later-remark-on-abortion-indicted-on-federal-charges-report

Black Alabama Woman Who Claimed She Was Kidnapped by White Man With ‘Orange Hair’ Admits She Made It All Up.

A black woman who sparked a nationwide manhunt by claiming she was kidnapped in Alabama by a white man with “orange hair” admitted through her lawyer on Monday that she made it all up.
From The Independent, “Carlee Russell claimed she was kidnapped by a man with orange hair. It was all a lie”:
Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell seemed to vanish on 13 July after calling 911 to report she had seen a toddler walking on the side of Interstate 459 in Alabama.
The 25-year-old told dispatch she stopped her car to check on the child, and called a family member before losing contact, according to the Hoover Police Department.
By the time officers arrived five minutes later, Ms Russell had seemingly disappeared, with her car engine still running, and the toddler was nowhere to be found.
Law enforcement and family members mounted a desperate search for the missing woman and pleaded with the public for help.
Then just over 48 hours later, police were notified that Ms Russell had returned home on foot.
She told detectives that she had been kidnapped by a white man with “orange hair”, and held captive in a semi-truck trailer and house before escaping.
However, less than two weeks after making headlines for a harrowing tale of disappearance, child neglect, and kidnapping, the Alabama woman admitted on 24 July it was all a lie.
NBC News reported that police said “Russell told them she was forced into an 18-wheeler truck and taken to a home where a man and a woman told her to get undressed and then took photos of her.”
The Independent continues:
She told detectives she was placed in a car, and was able to escape and flee into woods and came out near her home.
Detectives noted she had a minor injury in her lip, and a torn shirt. They also found $107 in cash tucked in her right sock.
“Out of respect for Carlee and her family, detectives did not press for additional information in this interview, and made plans to speak with her in detail after giving her time to rest,” Mr Derzis said following her return.
The Secret Service analyzed her phone and computers, and found internet searches that are “very relevant to this case,” Mr Derzis said.
On July 11, Ms Russell searched: “Do you have to pay for amber alert or search.”
On the day of her alleged abduction, she searched “how to take money from a register without being caught”. She also searched for a one-way bus ticket from Birmingham to Nashville departing that day, Mr Derzis said.
She searched for Taken, a 2008 thriller about an abduction starring Liam Neeson.
“There were other searches on Carlee’s phone that appear to shed some light on her mindset, but out of respect to her privacy we will not be releasing the content of those searches at this time,” the police chief said.
On Sunday, Ms Russell’s boyfriend Thomar Latrell Simmons claimed that she had barely survived her ordeal after being kidnapped.
“She was literally fighting for her life for 48 hours, so until she’s physically & mentally stable again she is not able to give any updates or whereabouts on her kidnapper at this very moment,” Mr Simmons wrote.
[…] “There was no kidnapping on Thursday, July 13. My client did not see a baby on the side of the road,” according to a statement from Ms Russell’s lawyer. “My client apologizes for her actions to this community, the volunteers who were searching for her, to the Hoover Police Department and other agencies as well, as to her friends and family.”
“My client did not see a baby on the side of the road,” the statement continued. “My client did not leave the Hoover area when she was identified as a missing person. My client did not have any help in this incident, but this was a single act done by herself.”
The Alabama woman asked the public for forgiveness and prayers as she continues to “address her issues.”
Police have yet to say whether Russell will face charges for filing a false police report but her lawyer said “he is expecting charges to be filed against her,” The Independent reports.

https://summit.news/2023/07/27/black-woman-who-claimed-she-was-kidnapped-by-white-man-with-orange-hair-admits-she-made-it-all-up/

 Man w/ Knife Attacks Ex at Traffic Light, Armed Friend Shoots Him in the Face. Dothan, AL

As the old saying goes, don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. I guess the man shot in this incident didn’t get the memo.
A man, who had been estranged from his children’s mother, attempted to meet up with her. The woman refused. As she drove with an acquaintance, the two realized the man was following them. They attempted to get away from him, but when they stopped for traffic, he exited his vehicle with a large knife and approached the two.
The acquaintance, who was legally armed, instructed the man to retreat. Instead of retreating, he swung the knife at them. The armed acquaintance then fired at the man striking him in the face.
The wounded man was able to get back into his truck and drive to a nearby business to obtain help. The woman and her acquaintance drove to a separate business to report the incident to the police.
The wounded man was transported to the hospital for medical treatment. The woman and her acquaintance were unharmed.
It sounds like the woman and her acquaintance did everything correctly in this incident. She did not meet up with the man. She attempted to get away from him after seeing him follow her. The acquaintance warned the man to stop, and when he didn’t, they shot him in self-defense.

 

 (Darwin rears his ancient head in Alabama and laughs maniacally.)

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 Lightning strike kills 31 cows in northern Alabama.

More than 30 cows were killed Saturday when lightning struck in Cullman County, according to reports from news outlets.
WVTM reported that the beef cattle were sheltering under a tree during a severe storm on Daymin Gardner’s farm in Berlin, when lightning struck the tree, killing 31 of the cattle.
A Facebook post from the Cullman Daily News showed an image of the cows lying lifeless below a tree on Gardner’s farm.
His brother, Tim Gardner, told WVTM that they plan to give the animals a proper burial and that the meat was not salvageable because of how the cows died.
There were scattered severe thunderstorms across northern Alabama on Saturday, bringing rain, lightning, wind and possible hail to some areas. More severe weather is possible Sunday and Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
The weather service says lightning kills about 20 people in the United States annually. This year, there have been six lightning fatalities in the U.S., including a 6-year-old in Texas.
(When I was young, I worked on a farm from the time I was 7 until about the time I graduated. In 1975 or ’76 we lost 8 cows that had their heads sticking through a barbed wire fence that was nailed to a long dead huge longleaf pine tree. It was a hard Florida rain with quite a bit of lightning. We heard a loud crack while we were in the dairy barn and looked out and they were on the ground.)