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Polish general fired after anti-tank mines found in Ikea warehouse

A Polish general was dismissed last week by the nation’s defense minister after reportedly misplacing a batch of anti-tank mines that were later found in an Ikea warehouse, according to Polish news outlet Onet.

Maj. Gen. Artur K?pczy?ski was fired Jan. 9 for reasons that were not specified by Polish military officials, though numerous local reports suggested the missing explosives were — naturally — the catalyst for his dismissal.

In June 2024, a train carrying more than 1,000 tons of explosives was improperly unloaded by Polish troops, the report said, who mistakenly left the anti-tank mines to continue their rail-bound journey around the country until they were eventually offloaded in the furniture behemoth’s warehouse.

K?pczy?ski, meanwhile, reportedly kept the mishap from his superiors while furnishing subsequent supply reports that featured false numbers.

That approach appeared to have worked — at least until an Ikea warehouse representative telephoned military officials and inquired about “when they would collect their mines,” according to one report.

The Polish defense ministry posted on X confirming the dismissal of K?pczynski, who was reportedly a lead figure in the service’s logistics support element. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, the report said.

Though the story is indeed eccentric, Ikea, which was once exposed for using horse meat in over a dozen countries to craft their delectable Swedish meatballs, is no stranger to outlandish episodes. The furniture store’s cavernous confines, surpassed only by Moria when it comes to mine-hosting capacity, has playing host to all manner of stranger-than-fiction tales.

In 2012, for instance, a Japanese macaque monkey named Darwin escaped his Ontario-based owner’s crate and was later seen galavanting through an Ikea store wearing a sheepskin coat and diaper.

The following year, New Jersey-based couple Rashid Smith and Shirley Stewart were married in the same Ikea where they’d met eight years prior. It’s a Jersey thing.

And who could forget 12-year-old Peng Yijian of China, who in 2014 ran away and hid for six days in a Shanghai Ikea before he was found by local police.

Classic Peng.

Whether K?pczy?ski will face further punishment remains to be seen, though the sheer humiliation of the ordeal may offer retribution enough.

It is, after all, an incident come to life out of every veteran’s nightmares, those unique post-service cerebral ticks that yield “Here I am deployed to combat, but I’ve forgotten my rifle” terrors.

Source; Military Times

Body cam shows officers walk away from man found shot, still breathing: ‘Let’s cruise around and come back’

Shocking body camera footage shows two St. Louis Metropolitan Police (SLMPD) officers walking away from a still-breathing victim of a gunshot wound to the head because they said they did not want to take the call.

The footage obtained by KMOV contains the body camera video of several responding officers at the scene.

Law enforcement experts said the inaction of the first two officers is in stark contrast to the proper actions of the other officers who arrived on the scene.

The footage from Sept. 10, 2023, shows the response by former SLMPD officers Austin Fraser and Ty Warren to a 911 call placed by Urayoan Rodriguez-Rivera saying he planned to take his own life.

Warren’s body camera recorded the response. Fraser’s did not, though the reason is unclear.

At 6:26 p.m. on the date Rodriguez-Rivera took his life, the officers discovered him beneath a tree on the east side of the popular Forest Park in St. Louis, still breathing, with a gunshot wound to the head.

Warren can be heard telling Fraser that Rodriguez-Rivera is still alive and that they need to transport him to the hospital.

“We better take this motherf***er then,” Warren tells his partner.

Fraser replied that he didn’t want to take the call because his shift ended in 30 minutes.

“We aren’t taking this sh*t,” Fraser responds. “I get off in 30 minutes. Let’s cruise around and come back.”

The officers leave Rodriguez-Rivera with a gunshot wound and still breathing beneath the tree. Neither officer calls for medical help for the victim or tries to render any first aid. Neither officer reports to dispatch that the victim was discovered. They also walk away laughing.

Nothing on Warren’s body camera video shows either of the officers tried to find or secure a firearm used by Rodriguez-Rivera. His death was determined to be a suicide, but the gun was never found.

Mitch McCoy, a spokesperson for SLMPD, said in a statement that the firearm is listed as stolen and the investigation into it is ongoing. The department is monitoring hits in the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN).

“To date, there have been none,” McCoy said.

As the two officers walk away from the dying man, Fraser says to Warren, “They’re [other officers] gonna find this mother****er and we’re gonna be like, ‘Oh sh*t you found him.’” The two officers can then be heard laughing on body camera audio.

The two officers drive through several city streets and return to the victim about 10 minutes later. They arrive just before another officer does. In that officer’s body camera footage, Fraser and Warren can be seen “looking” for the victim they had walked away from minutes earlier, pretending as if it was the first time they arrived at the scene.

The third officer then spots Rodriguez-Rivera and immediately notifies dispatch. He then makes a priority request that EMS come to the scene for a person still breathing with a gunshot wound to the head.

Other officers also arrive shortly after and tape off the scene. One officer checks Rodriguez-Rivera for a pulse and finds one, which he describes as “super weak.” As that officer searches the area for a firearm, another officer tries to render first aid.

At 6:38 p.m., an officer’s body camera shows Warren and Fraser walking to their police cruiser and leaving the scene for a second time. At least two other officers mention it.

“You know what’s f***ed up? Warren and Fraser just left,” one of the officers says in body camera audio.

“Why?” asks the other.

“I don’t know,” he replies.

Another officer said he was going to “out the f*** out of Fraser” for leaving the active scene at 6:38.

“You can’t just leave,” the officer said to a colleague while in a police cruiser.

EMS arrived at the scene at 6:53 p.m. and transported Rodriguez-Rivera to the hospital. That was about 27 minutes after Warren and Fraser arrived the first time and 40 minutes after the victim made the initial call to 911.

Rodriguez-Rivera later died at the hospital. The St. Louis Medical Examiner’s Office determined the death a suicide by gunshot to the head. It was later discovered he left a note and paid his share of the rest of the year’s rent before taking his own life.

Warren’s peace officer license has been revoked through the disciplinary process. A disciplinary hearing in Fraser’s case was set for last week.

Both officers were fired from the department after police administrators found the footage during a routine review of body camera recordings.

“The two individuals are no longer employed by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department,” agency spokesperson McCoy said in a statement. “While we are unable to comment on specific personnel matters, SLMPD holds its officers to the highest of standards. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken if an officer is found to have violated policies.”

Rodriguez-Rivera’s mother, who lives in Puerto Rico, expressed disbelief at what transpired. In a text message in Spanish, she described the officers’ actions as a “lack of humanity,” saying, “I hope the full weight of the law falls on these so-called police officers.”

Warren and Fraser have not returned KMOV’s multiple attempts to contact them for comment.

Source; KPTV

Woman arrested after accidentally texting sheriff’s department instead of drug dealer

A woman was arrested after accidentally texting a sheriff’s department investigator instead of the drug dealer she was trying to contact.

According to the Bay County [Florida] Sheriff’s Office, Octavia Wells, 41, sent a text asking to purchase fentanyl before she left town. She thought she was texting a drug dealer, but accidentally texted a narcotics investigator with the sheriff’s office.

The investigator began communicating with Wells and went undercover, setting up the “sale of fentanyl.”

Wells went to a gas station to meet the man she thought was a dealer. Instead, she met authorities.

Wells was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a two-way communication device, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license.

Click through to the link for a copy of her booking photo. It’s clear she is not the brightest.

Source; Action 5 News

Man arrested after attempting to direct I-79 traffic with a gun: Police

A man is facing charges after officers with the Bridgeport Police Department say he tried to direct interstate traffic using an illegally owned gun.

According to a criminal complaint, on Jan. 12, officers responded to Interstate 79 South near the Meadowbrook Mall for a vehicle accident where one of the vehicles caught fire.

When officers arrived on the scene, they said they noticed a man, later identified as Aaron Misner, standing in the middle lane and waving traffic with what they initially believed was a flashlight, but later noticed it was a firearm.

Officers said that Misner was “waving the firearm around dangerously, pointing the muzzle toward the cars in traffic to direct them around the vehicle fire.” Officers then were notified of Misner’s criminal history and noted that he had a felony charge in South Carolina, prohibiting him from having a firearm.

Misner has been charged with wanton endangerment and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. As of Monday evening, he is no longer in the West Virginia Division of Corrections system.

A 12 News reporter captured the scene of the wreck Sunday night which you can see below. No injuries were reported.

Click through to the link for a copy of his booking photo. It’s clear he is not the brightest.

Source; WBOY

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