Illegal Gun Dealing

On Friday, January 11th, a Virginia woman was accused of purchasing twenty-five firearms in a fifteen day period, planning on trafficking the firearms. Although their is no law indicating how many firearms one can purchase, Kimberly Dinkins went to sell them to other people and make her own profit. The Bureau  of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives said the Kimberly stated she sold all the firearms, but lied when the police found some still under her possession. According to the authorities, one of the  firearms she sold was to a drug trafficker in Maryland. Kimberly is soon to be in court represented by the federal public defender's office.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/11/justice/virginia-woman-indicted/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

Police Standoff in Aurora, Colorado

Early Saturday morning, a woman fled from an apartment complex that was being held hostage from a gunman. The woman that fled the apartment, uninjured, reported to the police she saw the three victims, dead, once she heard gunshots at about three in the morning.  Once the police showed up at the scene, they tried everything from calling the gunman on the phone, using bullhorn commands, and tear gas to get the gunman to come out of the building. According to reporters, five hours into the incident SWAT was called in and drove an armored  vehicle into a window of the house, which caused the man to fire at the vehicle, the police didn't return fire. Minutes after the vehicle incident the man once again started firing at the police from an upstairs window, this time the police returned fire and killed the man. No officers were injured and the  names of the victims are to be announced.

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/05/justice/colorado-aurora-standoff/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

New Year's Stampede

One in the morning on New Year's day, a total of 60 people were killed due to a stampede of people leaving a firework show in Abidjan in Ivory Coast. A total of twenty-six children, twenty-eight women, and six men were killed in addition to 49 other citizens being injured. Reporters claimed that the deaths occurred due to suffocation and being trampled on by other men and women. Almost all the victims were young because they wanted to be apart of the yearly celebration while the elder people stayed home. Police say that there were no other reasons why the stampede occurred other than carelessness and the narrow streets that thousands of people were compacted in.  

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/01/world/africa/ivory-coast-deaths/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 

The Days After Friday 2

I honestly don't think the world will end Friday, I just think the Mayans got lazy and didn't want to add more years to their calendar, but if the world did end, I honestly don't think I'd survive in any case. I think in 2013 and the years to come rumors/assumptions will continue to be made about the world ending sometime soon. Until then, I think the world will just continue to be how it is today. I also think that issues like gun control, gay marriage, and legalizing marijuana will grow. I also think more discoveries will be made on Mars. In conclusion, it would be same stuff, different year. 

Woman asking Police for $300,000

In Brunswick County, North Carolina, Jennifer Herring, was being followed by a police officer with his sirens on. She called the 911 operator and told them she wouldn't pull over unless they paid her $300,000 due to a "false sense of emergency." Throughout the whole time she was being followed by the cops and refusing to pull over, she was on the phone with the operator trying to bargain with the police station. Deputy Joe Cherry, who managed to arrest Herring stated she is a "sovereign citizen." She claimed she was not running from the cop and she wasn't speeding. When asked by the operator her name, Herring stated, "My mother named me Jenna and that's the only name I have. That is my name. My name is what I say it is and I approve this message," she told the operator." She is being charged with reckless driving, DWI, fleeing to elude arrest, and driving without a license. She also didn't receive her $300,000 she asked for. 

http://www.wect.com/story/20310937/sc-woman-arrested-after-chase-through-brunswick-county?hpt=ju_c2

Hospital Employee Causes Hepatitis C Breakout

Thirty three year-old, David Kwiatkowski, a former hospital worker has been charged with "fraud and product-tampering" with connection to the recent outbreak of Hepatitis C in New Hampshire, which has sickened over 30 people. Before he was hired at New Hampshire's Exeter  Hospital in April of 2011, he was fired from another hospital in Arizona for being found in a bathroom passed out with a syringe in the toilet, ten months later he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and began working in New Hampshire. Sources say David stole syringes that were painkillers for patients who went through surgery and use them for himself,  which in result would infect the syringes with his blood and be used on the patients later on.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/29/health/hepatitis-infections-indictment/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

3-Year-Old Body Found

On Sunday the 25th, twenty-year-old mother, Camilia Terry called the police while she was at a local park and reported her son, Emilliano, missing. While sobbing to the police dispatcher, she was trying to tell them details of what her son looked like, what he was wearing, and also when was the last time she saw him, which according to her was "fifteen minutes ago." While the FBI was investigating the story they found "inconsistencies" in her story, from forgetting her alleged story she began with. While searching her house, the FBI also noticed a garbage pickup truck leaving her house the day after she reported her son missing. Later on, the FBI went to the waste plant and found Emilliano in a plastic bag. An autopsy  is being held later on.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/27/justice/ohio-child-dead/index.html?hpt=ju_c2