5/8: KKK-9 Cover Up
8:30 p.m.
• I wonder what it would be like to be the target of a GLOBAL man-hunt?
A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor, who painted faces at children's parties and performed as "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen."
Wayne Nelson Corliss told authorities he had sex with three boys in Thailand six years ago, an experience he described as "euphoria," a prosecutor said Thursday at Corliss' first court appearance.
The arrest of the bespectacled, gray-haired 58-year-old at his Union City apartment late Wednesday capped a two-day global manhunt, just the second time Interpol has sought the public's help in tracking down a suspected pedophile. He is believed to have sexually abused at least three boys thought to have been 6 to 10 years old, according to the international police agency.
Corliss is charged with producing child pornography and could face 10 to 20 years in federal prison if convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark.
That's when you know you done fucked up. Then again, I'm sure I could sleep at night knowing the Frenchies are after me.
• Idiot.
A man with a guitar and a megaphone climbed atop a convenience store roof to serenade commuters with his musical protest of high gasoline prices—until police halted the impromptu concert.
Once atop the roof of the Family Express store Monday, and above pumps dispensing fuel at $3.78 per gallon, Jay Weinberg, 29, performed his ditty called "Price Gouge'n."
Dozens of supporters chanted: "I can't afford it. I'm banging on my dashboard. I can't believe they think I'm a fool."
The performance lasted about 15 minutes before three Valparaiso police officers arrived and arrested Weinberg on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct. Police said he was cooperative.
The crowd, made up of Weinberg's friends and other people who just happened to be pumping gas, continued singing. Then some, including his wife, Danielle, drove to Porter County Jail to bail him out.
Weinberg left the building around 7:30 p.m. and was greeted with cheers.
It's not like the poor gas station owner is reaping the profits. You know, what the hell is going to happen when there's a real fuel shortage or when rationing is forced upon us? Maybe having a Democrat in office, along with a Democrat congress, won't be so bad. After all, Medium-Large Media would then tell us what a bargain $4/gallon gas really is.
• I've been meaning to talk about this gem of a story for a few days now. Here's the latest.
Justin J. Jackson's family would not deny that he was troubled.
He spent much of his high school years in juvenile custody for assault, weapons and robbery charges as a minor and was convicted of assaulting a neighbor in April 2007.
But they said the 19-year-old had paid for his crimes and worked briefly at a nursing home before his life was cut short Tuesday evening, when a police officer shot and killed him in Mount Oliver after he fatally shot the officer's K-9. Police said the shooting was justified because Mr. Jackson failed to comply when ordered to show his hands and opened fire.
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police would not identify the K-9's handler, but sources within the bureau said that it was Christian A. Sciulli, an eight-year veteran with the bureau and a member of the Street Response Unit. His dog, Aulf, died at the scene.
God bless the K-9 unit. Too bad the dog did more for society than that two-bit piece of shit who shot it. The sad thing about all this? When I first heard this story on the drive in to work earlier this week, I joked to the better half that the cops shot the dog on purpose so they could then kill another young black man. Why am I not surprised by what happened next?
At his parents' house in the West End yesterday, Mr. Jackson's relatives gathered to mourn. In addition to grief, they expressed anger over what they believe was an unjustified shooting. Many family members do not believe he had a gun and theorized that police shot both the K-9 and Mr. Jackson.
Donald James Jackson, his father, said he has witnesses to back up this theory, but he did not want to provide their names yesterday.
He said witnesses told him that they saw one of the officers hover over his son's body and he suspects the officers planted a gun and other evidence there. The family said it wants to look at footage from security cameras in the area to get more information about the incident. Police said they also will review the footage.
Justin Jackson's sister-in-law, Raynelle McCarthy, with whom he lived on Arlington Avenue, said she never knew him to carry a gun because her four children also lived with her.
"He would have never brought guns around [my] kids," she said.
Police refuted the suggestion that Mr. Jackson didn't have a weapon.
"Eyewitnesses, evidence at the scene and trace evidence from the crime lab will prove beyond doubt he had the gun," said Lt. Daniel Herrmann of Major Crimes. Chief Harper said that the gun recovered from Mr. Jackson had been reported stolen in 2006 from a home in Elliott.
And here's the real payoff...
The family said even if Mr. Jackson did have a gun, it did not warrant police fatally shooting him. In their view, the officers may have shot Mr. Jackson to make him pay for killing the dog.
Denise Bazemore, his aunt, said she was infuriated at the way the police reacted.
"Is a dog's life worth more than a human life?" she asked.
Do I even need to answer this one? Here's some more about the framed innocent.
Mr. Jackson had a lengthy criminal history as an adolescent, according to court records. When he was 14, he was charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession and went to a locked-down juvenile facility until he was 16. In April 2005, either while he was completing a day treatment program or shortly afterward, he committed a robbery and once again found himself in juvenile custody, where he remained until June 2006.
The following April, he was convicted of assaulting his neighbor. He also was charged with weapons possession and police alleged that his mother, Anna Jackson, tried to hide the weapon. The weapons charges against Mr. Jackson and his mother were dropped and his father denies there was a gun involved in the fight.
That spring, he began working construction. In January, his mother helped him get a job doing housekeeping at ManorCare, a nursing home in Green Tree. He worked there until two weeks ago, when he decided to go back to construction.
"He just snapped to it," said Mr. Lambert. "Getting in trouble wasn't the right thing so he kind of started realizing that."
Mr. Jackson had planned on going to night school and getting his GED, his father said.
"He decided he wanted to make a change in his life," he said. "At the hands of the city police department, it was taken away."
God, Democrats must be glad to have these peons in their back pocket, even if a sliver of them bother to vote. And thank Christ for that.
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