Sentenced to three years probation
Green is sentenced to three years of formal probation and 360 hours of community service after pleading no contest to drugs charges. The singer is accused of secretly slipping ecstasy into the drink of his dinner date at a sushi restaurant in July 2012.
I shared ecstasy with the female but I did not slip her the drug.
Texan pleads guilty to terror support
Texas native Michael Todd Wolfe, also known as Faruq, pleads guilty to ‘attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.’ Wolfe was caught in an FBI sting as he sought a contact to help him enter Syria and join ISIS. A court complaint describes how he and his wife watched a video of ISIS activities with an FBI agent posing as a contact:
While watching the video, Wolfe occasionally stopped the video to explain the current allegiances of the various groups fighting in Syria. They include ISIS, al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, the Free Syria Army, and Dawla
Class-action lawsuit filed
Levi & Korsinsky law firm launches class-action lawsuit on WWE over securities fraud stemming from the company’s latest NBC Universal television deal. The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period defendants violated securities laws by failing to disclose the Company’s true ability to command a premium fee in upcoming negotiations to renew its television license agreement.
Assault rifle found, arrested
Irvine police department obtained a search warrant on Jeezy’s tour bus where they find an assault rifle that belongs to Jeezy. Jeezy and several members of his entourage are arrested for gun possession. He is held on $1 million bail and is still in custody.
Teen girls arrested for jihad plans
France arrests two girls aged 17 and 15 in Lyon, Rhone, and Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrenees for alleged involvement in jihad. The arrests form part of a broader enquiry into jihadism in the country. Around 900 French citizens are implicated in jihad – meaning that they have either taken part in a conflict, plan to participate in one, or are returning from one. Both girls are reported to have been planning to travel to Syria to join militant activities there. Paris-based international security consultant Samuel Laurent:
Obviously this is proof of how appealing caliphate ideology is for French and European citizens
Judgement date set
After the prosecution and defense end their final arguments Judge Thokozile Masipa announces she will give a verdict on 11 September 2014.
Home invasion arrests
Phoenix, Arizona, police arrest three male suspects believed to have attempted the burglary at Bryan’s home. Alexander Olvera, Edwards Alexander Johnson, and Gilberto Gil Gastelum are all taken into custody.
Foreclosure
After being five months behind in mortgage payments on her Beverly Hills home leaving her over $100,000 in payments, Barton’s $8 million Beverly Hills home is in foreclosure and she will lose the estate unless she makes payment arrangements or gets current on her mortgage soon. She has been splitting her time between her London and Los Angeles properties.
I’ve learned a lot. I’m stronger now, and I’m excited for what’s ahead.
Arrested
Couture-Rouleau is arrested on suspicion of planning terror actions abroad. He is preparing to leave Canada to travel to Turkey. He is released after questioning. Federal police spokesman:
We weren’t able to determine that he wanted to commit an act abroad. If we had had reasons to believe that Mr. Rouleau would commit a terrorist act or a criminal act, we wouldn’t have let him go.
‘Death to Jews’ arrests
Two 32-year-old men are arrested in connection with an investigation into chants at a Hague protest. The public prosecutors office says the men, one from Amsterdam and one from the Hague, are suspected of inciting violence against a population group on the basis of their beliefs and race after it determines that they chanted ‘Death to Jews’ at the protest. Dutch-language tweet from Israel information center CIDI:
People who made themselves unrecognisable, Isis flags, death to Jews and journalists take to safety. The Netherlands 2014.
Wins defamation suit
Ventura wins over $1.8 million in damages. The lawsuit began when author Chris Kyle claimed to have punched out Ventura in a bar over criticisms of Navy SEAL involvement in Iraq. After Kyle dies in 2013 Ventura continued his lawsuit against the author’s estate.
I can’t go to UDT-SEAL reunions anymore because that was the place I always felt safe, and who will be next to throw me under the bus? I’d have to spend my time looking over my shoulder.
Concert attendee charged with rape
18 year old Sean Murphy, of Boston, pleads not guilty to a rape charge filed after concert attendees told officers that they saw a possible assault on the venue’s lawn at Urban’s concert in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Onlookers recorded the scene on their cellphone cameras. Murphy says that the act was consensual. The presumed victim, an 18 year old female, tells the individual who intervened that the act was against her will. Police:
Officers conducting the investigation were assisted by patrons that had been concerned and took photos and video of the assault on their cellular phones. Those phones are being processed to recover the digital evidence of the assault.
£134,000 used for Goa trips, cosmetic surgery
Fifty-two-year-old Karen Trant of Dartmouth is sentenced to 27 months by the Plymouth Crown Court after pleading guilty to three counts of dishonest representation for dishonestly claiming £134,000 benefits over a 13-year period. She used the proceeds to holiday in Goa and get cosmetic surgeries done in India.
Liable over 300 Srebrenica deaths
The Hague district court finds the state liable for the death of more than 300 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995, but clears the state over the deaths of more than 7,000 other men killed in and around Srebrenica . The said deaths were among the 5,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) sheltering with Dutch UN peacekeepers at that time. The case was launched by the “Mothers of Srebrenica”, a group of relatives of the victims of the Srebrenica massacre. The district court rules that the Dutchbat, the Dutch peacekeeping forces, did not do enough to protect more than 300 Bosniaks and should have been aware of the possibility of genocide to be committed when they handed the Bosniaks over from their UN compound.
It can be said with sufficient certainty that, had Dutchbat allowed them to stay at the compound, these men would have remained alive. By co-operating in the deportation of these men, Dutchbat acted unlawfully.
Man who gave suspects gun identified
Federal prosecutors file charges against a Cambridge, Massachusetts man saying he supplied the gun to the Tsarnaev brothers that was used to kill MIT police offer Sean Collier three days after the bombing. Drug and firearms charges filed against Stephen Silva last week are made public. The indictment states he had a Ruger model 95 9mm pistol with the serial number obliterated as of February 2013; this is the same kind of gun was used to kill Collier.
Bombing suspect’s friend guilty
Azamat Tazhayakov is found guilty of conspiracy and faces up to 25 years in prison for removing a backpack from bombing suspect Tsarnaev’s room at a college dorm. Tazhayakov’s mother sobs loudly in the courtroom as the jury’s decision is read. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin said Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev, another friend of Tsarnev, removed the backpack after the FBI released images of Tsarnaev and his brother as suspects in the 2013 marathon attack. Tazhayakov’s attorney Matthew Myers:
We understand that the judge is under a certain amount of pressure in the case to put it to this defendant because of the backdrop of the case.
Arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes
Garner is confronted by police when he sells illegal cigarettes, he raises both hands in the air and tells the officers not to touch him. Officers grab Garner, place him in a choke hold and pull him to the sidewalk. Garner:
I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!
Blogger fined for Google placement
A French court rules that food critic Caroline Doudet must pay a fine of €1,500 ($2,000) because her negative review of a restaurant is too high on the Google search results and may affect business. She also must rename her post, The Place to Avoid in Cap-Ferret: Il Giardino, to something that is less likely to drive business away from the restaurant. The owner acknowledges that the complaints in the blog are possibly true but says her post causes unwarranted harm:
Maybe there were some errors in the service, that happens sometimes in the middle of August – I recognise that. But this article showed in the Google search results and did my business more and more harm, even though we have worked seven days a week for 15 years. I could not accept that.
Sues Walmart
Morgan sues Walmart over the crash in New Jersey that left him and several others critically injured and killed James McNair. The complaint was filed in the US District Court in New Jersey this week. A Walmart truck traveling 20 miles over the speed limit with a driver operating at almost over his sleep time limit rear-ended the limo bus. The complaint states:
The defendants’ negligence was a substantial contributing factor in causing plaintiffs’ injuries.
Kidnapping ringleader arrested
The alleged ringleader of the 2014 Israel kidnappings has been arrested in connection with the abduction of 19-year-old Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-ad Shaar, both 16, from a West Bank hitching post and their subsequent murder. Hussam Kawasme, a 40-year-old resident of the West Bank city of Hebron, is detained while trying to cross the border with Jordan with false documents/ His arrest and investigation will remain secret for close to a month before being revealed to the public in court proceedings over whether punitive demolition of homes belonging to him and other suspects in the case can be carried out.