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FBI Agents Had Sex with Prostitutes While on Overseas Assignment

FBI boys apparently didn’t learn from their Secret Service brothers.

Four Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents allegedly had sex with prostitutes while on an overseas assignment, according to an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).

The OIG investigation reported:

The OIG substantiated allegations against six FBI officials as follows. The OIG investigation found that four FBI officials solicited, procured, and accepted commercial sex overseas, and that a fifth FBI official solicited commercial sex overseas, in violation of DOJ and FBI policies.

Four of the five officials “lacked candor” during interviews and polygraph examinations under the OIG’s investigation. One agent lied to the OIG “when the official denied having engaged in sex acts with a prostitute.”

Further, three of the FBI agents “may also have failed to report unofficial contacts with foreign nationals.”

One agent gave another agent “a package containing approximately 100 white pills” to deliver to a foreign law enforcement officer, according to Tuesday’s report.

The agents’ names, the dates, and the foreign countries involved were not made public. However, of the five officials accused of misconduct, “two resigned, two retired and one was removed.”

The OIG’s report on the agent’s violation of FBI sex policy comes two weeks after recent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents revealed CIA staffers were never prosecuted for numerous child sex crimes.

In addition to the agents who violated the FBI’s sex policies, the investigation uncovered a sixth agent who committed misconduct by failing to report suspected violations of Justice Department guidelines.

After completing the investigation, the OIG provided its report to the FBI “for appropriate action.”

“We have already completed numerous measures during the OIG’s investigation to ensure this type of behavior does not happen again,” the FBI said. “We will not tolerate these few individuals, who chose to disregard their oath and the public we serve, tarnishing the good work the rest of the FBI accomplishes each and every day.”

Source; Breitbart

Idaho sheriff charged after pulling gun on youth group leaving thank you notes

This is a long read, but it don’t get much stupider than this.

The sheriff of Bingham County [Idaho] is facing felony charges after investigators say he pulled a gun on a group of girls, dragged their youth group leader out of her car by her hair, and threatened to shoot her while holding a gun to her head.

The Idaho Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday charged Sheriff Craig Rowland with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, and exhibition of a deadly weapon.

Rowland told Blackfoot Police Chief Scott Gay that he had “really screwed up” during the Nov. 9 confrontation, which happened after a youth group came to his door.

According to a probable cause affidavit, the seven girls, ages 12 to 16, were delivering paper “thankful turkeys” to people around the neighborhood as part of a youth group activity.

The girls would deliver the turkey thank-you notes by taping them to a recipient’s door, ringing the doorbell, and running away before the person inside could see who had left the note.

Rowland told investigators that at about 8 p.m., his Yorkie began to bark so he went outside and saw two people running away from his house.

According to the affidavit, the girls returned to their youth leader’s car giggling, and told her they had tried to leave the turkey, but had nearly been caught by Craig Rowland so had been unable to deliver it. The group delivered another “thankful turkey” to a house nearby, then returned to the sheriff’s home to try again.

Rowland told police that a few minutes after he had seen people running away from his house, his Ring doorbell activated and he heard his front door rattle.

The sheriff said he got his gun, and stepped outside wearing long johns and socks.

The woman supervising the youth group told investigators that the girls returned to her car after leaving the turkey, and she was driving away past the sheriff’s home when she saw Rowland standing in the road waving her down.

The youth group leader stopped and opened her car door, illuminating the inside of the car where the seven girls were sitting, and told Rowland that they had just been dropping something off for his wife.

She said Rowland looked into the car, pointed his gun at her, then pointed it at two girls sitting in the front passenger seat. The sheriff then aimed the gun back at her, the woman said, and told her to “get the f– out of the car,” the woman reported.

As she moved to put the vehicle in park, the woman said, Rowland grabbed her by the hair, yanked her from the car, and aimed his gun at her face, holding it just inches from her forehead.

Multiple girls inside the car reported hearing the sheriff ask the woman who she was and say “I will f—-shoot you,” according to investigators.

The youth group leader, who grew up in the house next to Rowland and considered him a family friend, said she told Rowland her name and that she was his neighbor, but added that the words did not seem to register.

“That’s when I really got scared because the gun was still at my head and he didn‘t know who was,” she said, according to the affidavit.

Rowland told police that he did not recognize the woman but she was “terrified,” and that he ultimately told her to “get the f— out of here.”

The sheriff admitted to investigators that he had pulled the woman out of her car by the hair and pointed a gun at her, demonstrating aiming it at her head or neck, according to the affidavit.

Rowland said he had had one alcoholic drink earlier in the night, but was not drunk or impaired.

“I had all of my facilities with me, I was clear as a freakin bell,” he told investigators.

Rowland told investigators that the recent time change had “really messed me up” and said he was on edge because of interactions he and his wife previously had with members of the community.

“I have been doing this job for 36 years. I’ve had drunk Indians drive down my cul-de-sac. I’ve had drunk Indians come to my door,” he said. “I live just off the reservation, we have a lot of reservation people around us who are not good people.”

Investigators with the attorney general’s office reviewed footage captured by the sheriff’s Ring doorbell camera, including a video that shows the girls taping the turkey to the door and running away.

In the video, Rowland steps outside, looks at the note, and appears to read the words “thank you” aloud.

“That’s frickin’ bullsh–,” the sheriff says in the video, before calling to his wife to “get my gun.”

The Idaho Attorney General’s Office was called in to investigate and prosecute the case to avoid any conflict of interest with the Bingham County Prosecutor’s Office. A summons was issued for Rowland on Tuesday.

Rowland remains the elected sheriff of Bingham County, but agreed to take a leave of absence after the investigation started, according to East Idaho News.

Shoshone-Bannock tribe spokesman Devon Boyer called the sheriff’s comments about Native Americans “extremely offensive.” No tribal members were involved in the incident, the tribe said.

“We ask Rowland to officially step down as Sheriff and offer a public apology to the Fort Hall community,” Boyer said in a Thursday statement. “We hope the woman and the children involved will be able to heal from this traumatic incident. This incident should not have occurred but proves racism still exists. We need major relationship building between our communities.”

The sheriff previously generated controversy in 2016 when he said that a statewide bill to streamline the collection and tracking of rape kits was unnecessary because most reports of sexual assault are untrue.

Aggravated battery carries a possible 15-year prison sentence, while aggravated assault is punishable by up to five years.

Rowland is due to appear in court Dec. 22 for an initial appearance.

Source; KREM

Instacart driver ran over groceries because of Blue Lives Matter flag

An Instacart driver in Minnesota ran over an elderly couple’s groceries after she delivered them and called police “racist pigs” on the receipt — because she saw a Blue Lives Matter flag in their driveway, police said.

The residents said they placed an order from a local Cub Foods on Dec. 6 and requested delivery via the Instacart delivery service, the Blaine Police Department said in a statement.

They stepped outside to meet the driver because they were worried the woman — identified as 36-year-old Tara Olivia Plum — might get stuck in their snowbound driveway, police said.

But rather than thanking the couple, the purple-haired suspect yelled at them to check the Christmas wreath on their front door, where they discovered the offensive holiday message about law enforcement scrawled on their order receipt, police said.

“Instacart doesn’t pay employees. Sry [sorry] find another slave,” the driver allegedly wrote on the receipt, which also included the words “police pigs,” the Star Tribune reported.

The shocked residents then realized that their $50 in groceries also had been run over.

Police Chief Brian Podany said Plum was reacting to the couple’s sign that read, “Thank you Blaine P.D,” NBC News reported.

The letter O was replaced with a heart filled with the “Thin Blue Line” flag, which some view as a sign of support for police while others see it as a symbol of white supremacy.

Plum, of Coon Rapids, was cited for criminal damage to property. If found guilty, she could face up to 90 days in the slammer, said police spokesman Capt. Mark Boerboom.

He said that while the incident remains under investigation, it does not meet the standards of a hate crime.

“We would have to prove the act was committed based on the victim’s perceived race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age or national origin,” Boerboom said, the Star Tribune said.

Instacart has issued the couple a full refund.

“We’re appalled by the unacceptable actions of this shopper, who has been removed from the Instacart platform as a result. We’ve been in direct contact with the customers to refund their order and provide additional resources,” the company told KARE 11 in a statement.

“We’ll continue to provide support to the impacted customers and will also work directly with local law enforcement on any investigations into this matter,” it added.

Amber Gray, who said she is a relative of the couple, said in a GoFundMe post for them that “supporting law enforcement doesn’t make you racist. And it absolutely doesn’t give anyone the right to destroy your things or shatter your sense of safety,” NBC News reported.

Not sure why the NY Post is propagating the line that the blue line is somehow “white supremacy.” Source; NY Post 

Car Crushes Catalytic Converter Thief to Death, Sheriff’s Office Says

Finally, our favorite kind of story. A karmic end!

A North Carolina man was crushed to death by a car on Wednesday evening while he was attempting to steal a catalytic converter, authorities said.

The incident occurred at “a residence in the 3900 block of West Unionville Indian Trail Road,” the Union County Sheriff’s Office (UCSO) stated in a Facebook release.

Deputies, crime scene investigators, and detectives responded to the residence at 5:45 p.m. and discovered the man underneath a Toyota Prius.

“Detectives found evidence on scene that would indicate the male was in the process of cutting off and stealing the catalytic converter belonging to the Toyota Prius prior to his death,” the sheriff’s office wrote.

Evidence at the scene indicated that while the subject was cutting the exhaust pipe, the car jack failed, and the vehicle landed on top of the man, the office stated.

The subject was not a resident of the home, but deputies informed the News & Observer the man was a “local resident.”

The identity of the subject will not be released as the investigation remains ongoing, according to UCSO.

Catalytic converters are targeted for theft because of their metals, including “platinum, rhodium, palladium,” the Washington Post reports, citing police. The car parts can be scrapped at junkyards and earn anywhere from $150-$200.

The UCSO hopes the story “will highlight the dangers associated with the theft of motor vehicle parts and will serve to discourage anyone actively involved in this type of criminal activity.”

“A catalytic converter and the small amount of scrap value it holds is not worth the risk of losing your life,” the sheriff’s office added.

Source; Breitbart

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