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One Sick Mama

The FBI has filed a criminal complaint against Alejandra Arriaza,39, of Miami. She is facing federal kidnapping charges along side her boyfriend Angel Ponce, 37, and his nephew Joel Boza, 29.

Arriaza is accused of staging her own kidnapping, abducting her son, and standing by as an accomplice held a blow torch to her son’s leg to convince the father the ransom demand was serious.

New details have been released about the charges and details on what exactly happened. Arriaza’s plan was to get money that her ex-husband had received after selling a business, of which he stored some of the money at his home.

The complaint goes on to state that Ponce bought a pair of cell phones and Boza placed one in the back seat of the ex-husbands car. Of course they called the cell phone to demand money, but the ex-husband had called authorities who had recorded the conversations.

According to the complain, Boza had the idea to use the blow torch on the son to get get information on how much money the ex-husband had and they to use it to get him to cooperate with them He would place the blow torch close to the phone so the ex could hear it and then move it close enough to the boy to burn his leg hairs.

Once investigators tracked down the location of the trailer they were using, police arrested Ponce. He quickly revealed that Arriaza was in on the abduction. Boza was arrested last and confessed to the whole plan.

All three are facing possible life sentences if they are convicted of the kidnapping charges. The three amigos will be arraigned on April 27th.

She’s Hot for Minors

Wendy White, 22, has been charged with 2 felonies for allegedly having sex with a 15 year old boy in May. The first charge is for forcible sodomy (which is a first degree felony) and the second is unlawful sexual activity with a minor (a 3rd degree felony).

Police Sgt. Manny Escoto interviewed the alleged victim, who states that he had taken some medication on May 21st that made him drowsy and he went to bed. The boy woke to White having sex with him.

“He woke up and told Wendy to get out of his room,” Escoto said.

“Wendy was crying and sobbing a lot when she was talking to me,” Escoto wrote in his statement, noting that when he first contacted White she asked if she was going to be arrested. “Wendy’s demeanor was that of a person who did something wrong and was trying to hide it.”

White told police during the initial interview that she had been drinking and entered the room to talk to the boy. She then went to tell investigators that the boy asked her to have sex with him and she briefly consented.

White was arrested and booked into the county jail. She posted a $10,000 bail and was released. She faces 5 years to life in prison if convicted of the forcible sodomy charge and 0 to 5 years on the charge of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. She makes her initial court appearance on July 14th in the 8th District Court.

He Just Loves the Kids, Just A Bit Too Much

Seattle Children’s Theatre was informed that one of their employees was arrested on charges of child pornography.Homeland Security presented the company with a search warrant and conducted a search on the facility.

Jim Jewell said that the person arrested “pretty much worked in a room with a computer.” He also stressed that the person was part of the administrative employee, not a teacher or director.

The US Attorney’s office has since filed charges against William Hoke, who is the Children’s Theatre IT director. He was arrested at his house and the charges are a result of a two year global child pornography investigation.

Hoke has been linked to a private server that was used to pass child pornography around to others through a password protected bulletin board system. Hoke joined the server in November of 2005 and made 260 posts. The server was seized and another server was setup. The second server was seized in September of 2008, which Hoke had posted 60 times between April and September of 08. When tracing the ip’s, they traced bake to Hoke’s address and work.

A Free Middle East Introduced to Western Scam Artists

Singer sewing machines are flying off the shelves in Saudi Arabia. Saudi police say that they have been investigating a hoax that has people rushing to buy the old fashioned model singer products.

The hoax states that the older versions of Singer products contain traces of red mercury (a substance that may not exist). Some believe that trace amounts could sell for millions of dollars according to the Saudi Gazette.

Rumors started spreading by word of mouth, then of course online. Some joke that the trace amounts could be used to find treasure, ward off evil spirits or even make nuclear bombs.

People have broken into tailor shops stealing the machines and some people have been seen holding cellular phones up to the machines, trying to detect the red mercury.

A ministry spokesman said,”We have to find out who started this hoax. People hope to make profit, this is no different to cases of citizens who put their money in untrustworthy schemes.”

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He’s the Firestarter, Twisted Firestarter

Let’s meet Mark Panko, 48, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was charged with domestic violence and aggravated arson, due to the fact he shoved his wife and set their home on fire Thursday night.

Firefighters are saying that he lost his cool, because his wife and 4 year old son left him. The fire destroyed the couples house and put the firefighters life at risk. Firefighters believed that Panko was still inside the house and conduced several searches, until they were 100% certain that he was not inside the home.

“One possible theory based on their domestic history is that his setting the fire was revenge,” Springfield Township Fire Chief Rob Leininger said

Panko was arrested in 2003 and was accused of grabbing and pushing his wife around when she told him that she wanted a divorce. A grand jury declined to deliver any charges against him.

Darwinist Heeds the Fall

A 39 year old Polish man tumbled to his death on Sunday in Seaton, Devon. The man was posing for a photographer, as if he was saved from falling off the cliff by a tuft of grass.

The Coastguard was called into the scene for rescue efforts, only to have paramedics declare the mad dead at the scene.

Maddy Davey, Portland Coast Guard watch manager, said: “The 39-year-old Polish man was posing for a photograph whilst holding on to a tuft of grass at the top of the cliffs. The grass gave way and he was seen by some tourists on the scene to fall down the sheer face of the cliffs and land in bushes at the bottom. It was the middle of the day. All the tourists were there, people along the cliff path, who witnessed it.”

She Wants Your Teens…Sex

Now introducing Jacquelynn Faye Fielding, 29, from Marysville, California. She is facing up to 4 years in prison, after being convicted for having sex with a 14 year old Redding, California boy. She was also convicted of annoying or molesting a child and furnishing alcohol to a minor, which are both misdemeanor charges.

Fielding met the boy at a go-kart racing event in Red Bluff and Chico, California. They then developed a friendship using Myspace to communicate. According to Deputy District Attorney Michael Hemker, many of the communications between the 2 revolved around sex.

Hemker also went on to say that after months of conversations, they came up with a plan to meet at a friends house where the family was away for Christmas. This is where she provided alcohol and had sex with the young man. The prosecution was able to copies of the sexual conversations from MySpace, which helped to secure the convictions.

Bizarre Love Triangle

We end our little adventure in Chandler, Arizona. Students of El Dorado High School received terrible news that one of their fellow students was fatally stabbed last week.

Samuel Valdivia, 18, was purportedly stabbed due to being in a love triangle involving one of his teachers. Students of El Dorado spent Monday morning writing down what they would miss about Valdivia.

The man accused with stabbing Valdivia, is Sixto Balbuena, 20, from Tempe, Az. The incident occurred early Friday morning in the house rented by El Dorado High School teacher Tamara Hoffman, 48.

Hoffman has been romantically involved with the former student Balbueno and Valdivia, according to Chandler Police. She has since been suspended by the high school, pending an investigation.

El Dorado High School Principal Ramona Gonzales said, “He was a very well-liked young man, It’s a big loss for us. (Staff and students) are very saddened and devastated.”

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Wicked Firestarter

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Possible Darwin Award Winner

Welcome to the Lovely Northern Territory of Australia. Early yesterday morning, a 20 year old man and a friend had been drinking when they decided to swim across crocodile infested waters to get more alcohol.

Northern Territory police have found his remains near the Daly River Community, about 150 Kilometers south of Darwin. Police had set up an exclusion zone on the river as part of their search for the young man.

The Daly Superintendent Jamie Chalker said, “It’s apparent that family members have seen the head of a crocodile making its way towards the man who’s now missing, plus the other person he was crossing the river with. As we now know, one made it and one didn’t.”

She Eight and Already Wed

We go back to Saudi Arabia. Back in Feb. I posted an article about a father in Saudi Arabia that traded his 8 year old daughter to pay off his outstanding debts. Click here for the original article.

Today a Saudi Arabian judge has refused to overturn a ruling that allowed the arranged marriage between the 8 year old girl and her soon to be 47 year old husband.

Judge Sheikh Habib Habib, ruled for the second time in Onaiza that the girl’s marriage to the older man was legal and binding. He did state that the child wife would be able to file for divorce, once she reached puberty.

Hair Today, Nipple-less Tomorrow

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had started to make public a list of patient-protection measures to ensure safety, due to a botched plastic surgery last year. These corrective actions are in response to a Department of Public Health investigation report.

The report indicated that the hospital failed Michael Hick, 40, last summer. Dr. Loren J Borud, was impaired and operated in Hicks and then sent him home without proper care. Hicks went in for a chest reduction and liposuction which has left him with scarring, pain, mental anguish, and caused him to lose his left nipple.

At the time of the surgery, hospital administration was aware that Borud had twice undergone substance-abuse treatment. Borud has since been fired and Hicks has agreed to a settlement.

“We recognize that our previous process did not result in timely reporting up the internal chain of command, and are confident the corrective actions we have taken will prevent that from happening again and greatly improve our entire process going forward,” Patricia Folcarelli, director of patient safety, said in a statement.

Hicks’ case was the subject of an expose in the Sunday Herald. Hicks’ lawyer said that he believes that the Herald’s inquiries helped prompt the DPH’s about face.

World Record Get a Tree

Lets met Otok Ben-Hvar, 71, decided that he was going to set a world record for the longest time spent in a phone booth. He climbed inside a 1940′s era phone booth with wheels attached to it. He equipped the phone booth with everything he needs to live inside of it. He even went as far as having an old college buddy fashion it with a makeshift air-conditioning unit.

Ben-Hvar thinks that winning a World record will have 2 effects. The first would be for coursework at Pasco-Hernando Community College. The second is to get America’s First National Tree planted on the White House lawn. He wants to see a silver leafed Maple tree planted in the front lawn.

“Every American can identify with that tree,” he says. “That’s why it belongs there.”

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Crocodile Darwin Nominee

She’s Married only 8

Telephone Booth Living, Plant a tree

Its all fun till you loose a nipple

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