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Bigot Jailed For Threatening to Burn House Being Bought by Muslim Family

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David Howard (l) threatened to burn his neighbor’s house down rather than have a Muslim move in

TAMPA, Florida  —  A Muslim-hating homeowner was sentenced to eight months in prison for threatening to burn a neighbor’s house to the ground rather than let a Muslim family buy it.

David Howard, 59, was accused of accosting Kaderbhai Ali Asgar and his wife in 2016 as they were doing the final walk through before plunking down $658,000 to buy the house next door on David Islands in Tampa, Florida, prosecutors said.

“This sale will not take place,” Howard said, according to court documents. “I will break all of your f—— windows and I will burn your f—— house down.”

The outburst so unnerved Asgar that he and his wife backed out of the sale and lost their  $30,000 deposit.

Howard pleaded guilty in February to a felony civil rights violation and now has been sentenced to eight months behind bars, two years probation and $30,000 in restitution.

“This Justice Department will not stand by when individuals use violence and intimidation to deny fair housing rights,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore. “The Civil Rights Division will continue to prosecute crimes like this one that deprive families of a safe place to live.”

Howard testified that his outburst was driven by testosterone supplements he takes because he has AIDS. He claimed he was not racist, although he said he was not fond of Muslims as he had lost a loved one in the September 11 attack.

Prosecutors say Howard later boasted to friends and neighbors about driving the couple out and made derogatory remarks about Muslims.

Asgar said that he was very pleased at the punishment Howard received.

“I’m very happy that the judge did a very fair judgement,” Asgar said after court.

 

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Oregon Motorcyclist Killed After Colliding With Bear

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A bear, like this one, was also killed in the crash

WARM SPRINGS, Oregon — He met a grizzly fate.

An unlucky motorcyclist was killed after hitting a bear on an Oregon highway and then being thrown into the path  of an oncoming car, police said.

Authorities say 39-year-old Rhett Larsen was driving along Highway 26 in Warm Springs Saturday night, when he struck and killed a large bear that was in the roadway.

Larsen, a firefighter in Bend, Oregon, was thrown from his bike and into the opposite lane where he was hit by an oncoming SUV that was pulling a utility trailer.

The SUV, driven by 57-year-old Margaret Sweo, went off the road and rolled onto its side, cops said.

Larsen was declared dead at the scene, and Sweo was transported by a helicopter to a nearby hospital

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Caregivers Forced Disabled Residents Into Fight Club, Leaving 1 to Die: Suit

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Carl Debrodie was forced to fight other residents at his senior home

FULTON, Missouri — The sadistic staff of a care home forced a developmentally disabled resident to spar with other residents and then left him to die when he began having seizures following one brutal brawl, a bombshell lawsuit alleges.

Carl DeBrodie’s body was found entombed in a block of concrete in a Missouri storage locker, months after he had died at the home of one of Second Chance Homes’ employees, the Fulton Sun reported.

In a civil lawsuit, DeBrodie’s family alleges that he had regularly been forced to engage in a kind of fight club with other Second Chance residents, solely for the amusement of staff members.

During the course of many beatings, the suit said DeBrodie suffered multiple broken ribs and routinely had black eyes and other facial swelling.

Sometime between Oct. 25 and Nov. 24 in 2016, the suit alleges employee Sherry Paulo, took DeBrodie and another resident to her home to perform unpaid manual labor and to fight each other.

While there, DeBrodie, 31, went into a seizure. But instead of calling for help, the suit alleges that Paulo and her husband, Anthony Flores. Sr. placed him in a tub under a running shower, failing to perform CPR even though he was convulsing and had blood coming from his mouth.

“Carl remained in the bathtub for two or three days until he was ultimately placed into the city of Fulton trash can, encased in concrete and placed into a storage unit,” the suit said.

DeBrodie was declared missing until the following April, when employees at Second Chance told authorities that he may have wandered off. His body was found days later.

No one has yet been charged criminally in the case. The civil suit names 18 defendants in all, including state social workers for allegedly failing to monitor his case well enough.

 

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Doc Who Slipped Abortion Drug Into Pregnant Gal Pal’s Tea Sentenced to 3 Years

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Sikander Imran poisoned his girlfriend, Brooke Fiske, after she refused to have an abortion

ARLINGTON, Virginia — A doctor who spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s tea with an abortion drug, causing her to have a miscarriage, has been sentenced to three years behind bars.

Sikander Imran, 32, was arrested last May and pleaded guilty in March to fetal homicide. He was given a 20-year sentence on Friday, but 17 years of it was suspended by the judge, court records show.

Imran’s on-again, off-again girlfriend, Brooke Fiske, 37, was 17 weeks pregnant when she went to talk to him about raising the child.

‘He didn’t want to have a baby so he tried to talk me into having an abortion… which I didn’t want to do,’ Fiske told WROC-TV last year.

Then he placed the drug in her drink.

“When I was drinking my tea in the evening I got to the bottom of the cup. There was a gritty substance in there and when I looked at it, I could tell that it was a pill that had been ground up,’ she said.

A few hours later, she went into labor and lost the baby. Doctors conducted a blood test and found that she had an excessive amount of the prescription abortion pill Misoprostol in her system.

‘I felt very betrayed and devastated,’ she said about the man she had been involved over three years.

Despite her loss, she argued against a stiff penalty for Imran.

“To me, the length of time that he serves in prison isn’t what’s important,” Fiske told WJLA-TV. “I think that it is really important that people know that if they are dealing with depression before they do something, they should reach out and get help.”

The doctor lost his medical license following his arrest, and will likely be deported to his native Pakistan after he finishes serving his sentence.

 

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Killer Cougar Kills Washington Cyclist, Seriously Injures Pal

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This wild cat had a taste for human flesh, killing one man and wounding another on a cycling trail

NORTH BEND, Washington — A bloodthirsty cougar stalked and killed a cyclist and seriously injured his friend in a terrifying attack on a bike trail in Washington State, police said.

Authorities say the animal, which is also known as a mountain lion, began following the two men as they cycled in the woods northeast of Snoqualmie.

“They were riding when they saw a cougar, kind of stalking them. They did what they were supposed to, which is make noise and distract the cougar. The cougar ran away,” Sgt. Ryan Abbott, of the King County Sheriff’s Office, told the Seattle Times.

But as the men paused for a rest and began discussing how scary it was that the big cat had followed them, the ferocious feline struck, attacking one of the men, and closing its vice-like jaws around his head.

“He said he had his entire head in the jaws of the animal,” Capt. Alan Myers of the Washington State Fish and Wildlife unit told KIRO-TV.

The man’s friend began to run away, which caught the beast’s attention, prompting it to give chase and take the man down to the ground, and eventually kill him.

The first man, 31, rode off to get help, but by the time officers arrived at the scene, they spotted the cougar standing over the body of the dead man.

Eventually, police dogs were able to corner the animal and it was killed. A necropsy will be performed to see if there was any clue as to why it would at this way.

“The fact that it stayed in close proximity to these folks and attacked and stayed with them is highly, highly unusual,” Myers said.

The animals usually go to great pains to avoid human contact, and it was the first fatal mountain lion attack Washington State in nearly a century, authorities said.

 

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Bad Dad Kills Daughter’s Dogs After She Failed to Do Dishes

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Jeffrey Don Edwards took his frustration out on his daughter’s two helpless dogs

HARRAH, Oklahoma — An ogre of an  Oklahoma dad has been charged with teaching his teenage daughter a particularly cruel lesson when he ruthlessly shot her two dogs after she failed to clean up the house, cops said.

Jeffrey Don Edwards, 35, allegedly “got mad” at his 17-year-old daughter for not having done the dished or straightened up the house, triggering the bloodshed.

“Her father was mad … and began throwing dishes,” an investigator with the Oklahoma County sheriff’s office reported in a court affidavit, according to the Oklahoman.

The girl then called her mother to come pick her up. When she returned the next morning, she found “blood all over the place” and her two dogs missing, cops said.

According to investigators, the girl’s uncle told her Edwards “shot her dogs to punish her.” She then found dried blood in the bed of her pickup and investigators found tire tracks that led to a wooded area near the house, where the two dogs were found shot to death.

Cops say that after the shootings, Edwards visited a nearby convenience store and told two employees there about killing the animals. One employee said Edwards told them “his house was dirty and he lost his temper then shot the dogs without remorse,” according to investigators.

Investigators recovered at least two rifles, a handgun and a huge cache of bullets on the property.

In 2011, he was sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty to firing a shotgun out the window of a pickup.

 

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Nearly 200 Wild Horses Found Dead on Drought-Plagued Navajo Territory

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The horses were found dead around a dry watering hole in the midst of a drought

TUBA CITY, Arizona — Nearly 200 wild horses were found dead around a dried-up watering hole on Navajo land in Arizona, with officials blaming drought and famine for their deaths.

Navajo leaders said the area near Gray Mountain — about 45 minutes north of Flagstaff — has struggled to cope with overpopulation of wild horses in recent years and there have been similar die offs at the same pond in the past.

“Gray Mountain has faced a growing feral horse problem for years. The occurrence of horses dying at this particular watering pond is not a new but a seasonal issue. There is an estimated amount of 50,000 to 70,000 feral horses on the Navajo Nation,” the nation’s president, Russell Begaye, said in a statement.

Officials said the 191 horses were found submerged in mud — some up to their necks — and would have to be buried on site. The watering hole will then be covered over and another one created a different location.

“These horses weren’t shot or maliciously killed by an individual,” Vice President Jonathan Nez said. “These animals were searching for water to stay alive. In the process, they, unfortunately burrowed themselves into the mud and couldn’t escape because they were so weak.”

In late February, the Navajo Nation canceled a hunt meant to thin a herd in one part of their territory after horse advocates protested it.

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Tough-as-Nails Dad Turns in Own Son for Burglary Spree and Stolen Police Gun

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Dad Theodis Daniel (l) says he was just trying to save his son, Christian’s (r) , life by turning him in

AUSTIN, Texas — A parent’s love is the toughest kind.

A Texas dad turned his 18-year-old son into police after the teen confessed that he’d been breaking into cars and showed his old man a police gun he’d stolen from one vehicle.

“I decided to put my foot down and I stopped it for him,” Theodis Daniel told KVUE-TV. “If he would have stayed out here doing what he was doing, he was going to die.”

When Austin police came to Christian Daniel’s home, they found several handguns, including the one that was reported stolen from Houston Police Department, as well as. several ammunition magazines, a gas mask and the bag with other police equipment.

The Austin teen’s undoing came when he was having a FaceTime call with  his father in Houston and then showed him the police gun and other department equipment.

“He was like, making a joke, bragging about it. ‘Yeah I broke into 250 cars last week,’ and I was like, ‘How in the hell did you do that?!’ ‘Oh I just went after one after another one after another one,'” Theodis.said.

Cristian has been charged with theft of a firearm, out of county felony, and unlawful carrying of weapon. He was held on a $40,000 bond.

“I’d rather him be upset with me than me burying him because he was on a path to self destruction,” his father said

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Woman Arrested for Beheading Beau, Asks Cops to ‘Let Me Get My Heads’

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Roena Cheryl Mills is undergoing a mental health evaluation in the slaying of her boyfriend

LERONA, West Virginia — A woman who allegedly chopped her boyfriend’s head off, chillingly told cops, “You have to take me back and let me get my heads,” as they put her in the back of a squad car, police said.

Roena Cheryl Mills, 41, was found covered in blood and wearing a glove on her left hand when cops arrived at her Lerona, West Virginia home on April 1, cops said.

Using a fake name, Mills claimed she had been bloodied after being pushed through a glass door, officers said.

But she the grew combative and officers arrested her. Once inside a police cruiser, Mills said: “You have to take me back and let me get my heads,” said, according to WVNS-TV.

Later that day, cops found the decapitated body of a man, who was later identified as 29-year-old Bo Allen White, was  found on another block in town.

A judge ordered that Mills undergo a thorough mental status evaluation to determine if she is capable of standing trial in White’s brutal death.

Mills, of Rural Retreat, Virginia, remains in custody on $210,000 cash-only bail, jail records show.

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Twin Sisters Who Received Pioneering Surgery Dead in Apparent Suicide Pact

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Twin sisters Sara and Amanda Eldritch suffered debilitating OCD

CANON CITY, Colorado — A pair of twin sisters who had undergone a pioneering surgery three years ago to cure their extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder, have been found dead in what appears to have been a suicide pact.

The Fremont County Sheriff’s office in Colorado, said Sara and Amanda Eldritch, both 33, had been found dead of gunshot wounds in a car parked near Royal Gorge Bridge and Park.

Police said the deaths appeared to be self-inflicted, the Canon City Daily Record reported.

The sisters were the first people to receive deep brain stimulation — a procedure often used for patients with Parkinson’s disease — to treat their debilitating OCD.

Before the spring 2015  surgery, a story in a publication put out by the Littleton Adventist Hospital, described the sisters as feelin “at war with their own existence. And in a desperate cry for help as adolescents, they tried taking their own lives.”

The deep brain stimulation was intended to inhibit overactive parts of the brain, halting anxiety and making therapy more effective.

A year after the surgery, the twins said they had begun to feel at peace with themselves.

“I feel like I can identify my anxiety. I can actually see where it’s coming from. And I feel like I can deal with it,” Sarah Eldritch said.

A year later,  the sisters were featured on an episode of the TV show, “The Doctors,” where they were taken for spa treatments separately from each other to “help them break through their codependency.”

They also spent the night in two separate hotels as part of the show.

“I did kind of like the contrast of, this is what it’s like to be alone, and this is what it’s like to be back with my sister and friends,” Amanda Eldritch said at the time. “I like having two things to compare.”

 

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