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Chicago man charged with threatening judge in court: ‘As soon as she gets off that bench, I’ll shoot that b****’

A man has been jailed as a public safety threat after prosecutors accused him of threatening to kill a Cook County judge who is handling a civil domestic matter that he is involved in.

“I’ll beat the f*** out of you, you stupid b****,” Marcos Ramos allegedly threatened while standing before Judge Debjani Desai. “As soon as she gets off that bench, I’ll shoot that b****.”

Ramos, 35, allegedly made the threats during a January 8 hearing in Desai’s courtroom at the Cook County Juvenile Center, 1100 South Hamilton. The judge hears cases in the Child Protection Division.

The next day, prosecutors say, Ramos called the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and identified himself as Ramos’ brother, Brandon.

“How can you take my kids away from me?” he allegedly asked, apparently forgetting that he was supposed to be his brother.

Ramos went on to threaten to file a federal lawsuit through the state of Michigan and warned that he couldn’t control his brother, the state’s criminal complaints said. He allegedly gave the receptionist a 24-hour deadline “or bad things will happen,” adding that Ramos would “shoot up the courthouse” and he could not stop his brother from doing it, according to the complaints.

He is charged with five counts of harassment, two counts of intimidation, two counts of filing a false report, threatening a public official, and misdemeanor resisting.

Judge Deidre Dyer granted the state’s petition to keep Ramos in custody. In their petition, prosecutors said Ramos has two convictions in Ohio for “similar charges.”

According to court records, Ramos has two misdemeanor cases pending in the court’s Domestic Violence Division; one alleges battery, and the other alleges assault and violating an order of protection. Judge Desai is not handling either of those matters.

Source; CWB Chicago

In the dog house. Richland deputies arrested, fired after allegedly stealing from K-9 unit

As the Richland County Sheriff’s Department last year mourned the loss of two K9s killed while pursuing thieves, two of the department’s own K9 handlers were stealing from it, Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday.

Two K9 specialists ? Kory Mayo and Issac Page ? were arrested and charged with misconduct in office, according to Lott. Both men are facing up to 10 years in jail

Lott said Mayo and Page were stealing K-9 equipment from the sheriff’s department and selling the items online via social media. The sheriff said the deputies were fired from the department last week and were arrested at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

“I apologize to the community,” Lott said during a Wednesday news conference, adding that Mayo and Page had “tarnished the badge.”

The sheriff said an investigation showed that the thefts and subsequent selling of the stolen items had been going on since February 2024. The deputies brought in less than $10,000, he said.

Lott said that Mayo and Page worked the same shift together at the department. Page had been working for about four years at the sheriff’s department, while Mayo had been there for about three years. A third deputy on the shift is angry about the suspects’ alleged crimes, Lott said.

The stolen equipment includes vaults placed in the back of patrol vehicles to lock up guns, muzzles, leashes and “a lot of different things that go with the K-9 unit,” Lott said.

Lott said the scheme was discovered after an investigator noticed equipment being offered for sale online. That sparked an undercover operation in which an investigator went to a social media platform one of the suspects had created under a false name and arranged to purchase some of the stolen equipment.

The undercover officer was directed to make the purchase at the sheriff’s department’s parking lot. The seller drove a sheriff’s department patrol vehicle.

“While [the suspects] were supposedly working, they were stealing,” Lott said in Wednesday’s news conference. “They were using some of our own equipment to steal the stuff they were stealing, and then when they were selling it, they were selling it while they were on duty.”

The arrests came about a month after the sheriff’s department lost its second K-9 of 2024. K-9 Bumi was killed Dec. 23 while pursuing suspects of a stolen vehicle after deputies attempted a traffic stop on Parklane Road.

In June, K9 Wick was killed on I-77 while pursing a stolen car suspect. of a stolen car.

Despite the community’s potential for outrage about the arrests, Lott said these were only two bad apples out of of 900, and that the investigator who uncovered the thefts “did the right thing.”

“When the investigator came across it, she didn’t ignore it,” Lott said. “When our investigators started working (the case) they put the full weight on them both,” referring to Mayo and Page, who were booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center Wednesday.

Source; The State

Hunters who didn’t want to stop shooting get ‘sad slap on the wrist’

Four duck hunters attempted to deceive Texas Game Wardens over the number of ducks they shot before three of them from Louisiana finally admitted to exceeding their daily bag limit of six each, and for a rather disgusting reason.

The three Louisiana poachers said they didn’t want to stop shooting, claiming this was more ducks than they had seen all season in Texas and Louisiana, the Texas Game Wardens related in a Facebook post.

Game wardens from Hamilton and Bosque counties were patrolling the Brazos River in Bosque County when they heard several volleys of gunfire nearby. They found no violations. But when loading up their boat, they heard more gunfire from the same area.

They used a satellite mapping program to pinpoint several private lakes in the area that could be potential hunting locations.

Near one entrance, they encountered a man in camouflage exiting an equipment shed. He appeared evasive and was seen urgently texting.

From the Texas Game Wardens report:

“The man directed the wardens to a nearby duck blind, where three nervous hunters were packing up their gear and offered conflicting details about their group size. Initially claiming there were eight hunters—then seven—none of the remaining hunters could name the hunters who had allegedly left.

“As one warden interviewed the hunters, the other went to inspect a pile of ducks on the opposite bank. As he was checking the ducks, the warden discovered a fourth individual behind the dam, dressed in camouflage with a stringer of ducks he was attempting to hide. The hunter lacked a valid hunting license and had crossed two fences to conceal the 16 birds. When confronted, the group falsely claimed he was retrieving a lost bird.

“Further investigation revealed numerous violations. Near the blind, wardens found additional ducks and roughly 250 shotgun shells and hulls containing prohibited lead shot. The hunters admitted to using leftover shot from dove season, knowing it was illegal for waterfowl hunting.”

It was determined that four individuals were hunting, and only three had valid hunting licenses. In all, the men used four shotguns to illegally harvest 54 ducks, 30 more than their combined legal limit.

“Multiple citations were issued for exceeding the bag limit, hunting without a valid license, and using lead shot for waterfowl,” the Texas Game Wardens post stated. “The hunters were also charged civil restitution for the illegally taken ducks. The fines and restitution total for the group was more than $7,000.”

Commenters on the Texas Game Wardens Facebook page took exception to the fine, most saying it should have been much more. A sample of comments:

“Good job busting the outlaws, but what a sad slap on the wrist. That’s not nearly enough to discourage that kind of behavior.”

“Take their hunting privileges!! This is absolutely insane!”

“My opinion is the total fines and restitution should have been a lot more than $7,000. Maybe jail time and loss of equipment and firearms. Does that sound too tough? NO they stole from us.”

“People like this are why hunters get a bad rep. Shame on them. Hopefully lesson learned. They got off easy with only $7,000 fine for the group.”

“I’m glad the wardens trusted their gut and found these poachers but also wish the punishment would have been harsher. Especially since they actively tried to deceive the wardens and knowingly broke so many regulations/laws.”

“They should never be able to purchase a Texas hunting license. $7,000 is not nearly enough.”

The ducks were seized, cleaned and distributed to families in Hamilton and Bosque counties.

“This case serves as a clear example of the need for adherence to hunting regulations to preserve wildlife populations,” the Texas Game Wardens stated.

Source; For the Win

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