Condom maker seeks endorsement deal with Miley Cyrus
H/t: The Superficial (NSFW)
Weekly News Media Briefs – Week Ending July 26, 2008
From the Caroline County Sheriff’s Office:
On July 24, 2008, Deputy J.K Miller and Investigator M.M. Ellett conducted a follow-up investigation of a destruction of property, which occurred on October 17, 2007 in Ruther Glen. After investigating, Lloyd W. Thompkins, Jr., 22, of Ruther Glen was charged with Breaking and Entering and Destruction of Property. He was released on his own recognizance and a court date of August 1, 2008 was set.
On July 19, 2008, Deputy F.L. Brennan responded to Ruther Glen for a domestic disturbance. After investigating, Adam S. Seal, 32, of Ruther Glen was charged with Domestic Assault. He was arrested on July 20, 2008 by Sgt. M.W. Turner. He was released on his own recognizance and a court date of July 24, 2008 was set.
On July 19, 2008, Deputy J.K. Miller responded to Milford for a domestic disturbance. After investigating, Tony D. Barner, 23, of Milford was charged with domestic assault. He has a pending court date in Caroline Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
On July 20, 2008, Sgt. R.L. Hixson stopped Annmarie Lampersberger, 48, of Prince George for a traffic violation. Upon further investigation, Lampersberger was charged with Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol. She was held on a $2,000 secured bond and has a pending court date.
On July 21, 2008, Deputy B.N. Doucet responded to a Ruther Glen business for a shoplifting. After investigating, a female juvenile was charged with shoplifting. She has a pending court date in Caroline J&DR Court.
On July 21, 2008, Deputy S. Mullane stopped Alvin L. Shepherd, 46, of Bowling Green for a traffic violation. Upon further investigation, Shepherd was charged with Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol, 2nd offense, and Driving Suspended. He was held on a $2,500 secured bond and a court date of July 23, 2008 was set.
On July 22, 2008, Deputy T.P. Connolly stopped Gustive P. Stephens, 34, of Woodford for a traffic violation. Upon further investigation, Stephens was charged with Driving while Revoked, Driving after Forfeiture of License and Possession of a Concealed Weapon by a Convicted Felon. He was ordered held without bond and a court date of July 23, 2008 was set. Additionally, a passenger in the vehicle, Christopher A. Thomas, 24 of Spotsylvania was arrested on an outstanding Possession of Marijuana warrant out of Orange County and an outstanding Capias out of Spotsylvania County. Thomas was ordered held without bond and a court date of July 24, 2008 was set.
On July 23, 2008, Deputy J.K. Miller responded to a Ruther Glen business for a disorderly subject. Upon further investigation, Richard P. Bender, 54, of Vero Beach, Florida was charged with being Drunk in Public. He was released on his own recognizance and a court date of September 17, 2008 was set.
On July 23, 2008, Deputy J.K. Miller charged Sandra F. Phelps, 42, of Woodford for Filing a False Police Report. This incident was related to an incident, which occurred on March 23, 2008. Phelps was released on her own recognizance and a court date of August 8, 2008 was set.
On July 24, 2008, Deputy C.M. Hall responded to Bowling Green for a protective order complaint. Upon further investigation Kimberly S. Ackerman, 46, of Woodford was charged with Violation of a Protective Order. She was released on her recognizance and a court date of August 5, 2008 was set.
On July 25, 2008, Deputy J.O. Cecil responded to Milford for a domestic disturbance. Upon further investigation, Michael D. Minnick, 24, of Milford was charged with Domestic Assault. He was released on a $2,500 unsecured bond and a court date of July 31, 2008 was set.
On July 25, 2008, Deputy C.M. Polliard stopped James S. Green, 44, of Maryland for a traffic violation. Upon further investigation, Green was charged with Driving a CMV While Under the Influence of Alcohol. He was released on a $1,500 unsecured bond and a court date of August 1, 2008 was set.
On July 25, 2008, Sergeant R.L. Hixson stopped Marshall D. Waggy, 30, of Mechanicsville for a traffic violation. Upon further investigation, Waggy was charged with Possession of Marijuana and Improper Stopping on the Highway. Waggy was released on a summons and a court date of September 3, 2008 was set.
On July 25, 2008, Deputy P.E. Ford responded to a Milford business for a report of an intoxicated person. Upon further investigation, William E. Bartges, 35, of Woodbridge was charged with being Drunk in Public. He was released on his own recognizance and a court date of August 19, 2008 was set.
On July 26, 2008, Deputy J.K. Miller stopped Bow M. Little, 40, of Newport News for a traffic violation. Upon further investigation, Little was charged with Possession of Marijuana. Little was released on a summons and a court date of August 15, 2008 was set.
On July 26, 2008, Deputy J.K. Miller stopped Katita L. Criego-Leonard, 36, of Culpeper for a traffic violation. After nearly striking the Deputy with her vehicle, Criego-Leonard was charged with Assault on a Police Officer. She was ordered held on a $1,500 secured bond and a court date of August 6, 2008 was set.
On July 26, 2008, Deputy P.E. Ford stopped Gregory W. Deloach, 23, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland for a traffic violation. Upon further investigation, Deloach was charged with Reckless Driving by Speed. He was released on a $2,500 unsecured bond and a court date of August 6, 2008 was set.
Caroline County Sheriff’s Office’ Wrap Up
According to Sheriff Tony Lippa, Caroline Deputies made 6 drug arrests, 5 DUI arrests, 15 domestic violence arrests, and 66 other criminal arrests during the past week. The deputies served 226 civil papers, issued 229 traffic summonses, handled 9 motor vehicle crashes, responded to 40 alarm calls, and dealt with 12 juvenile offenders. The Sheriff’s Office Communications Center dispatched 579 calls for service and handled 2,001 telephone inquiries. The CCSO also logged 32 calls assisting outside agencies and had 278 self-initiated calls.
One year anniversary of the creation of this “hate blog”.
To quote a relative of a certain local politician.
And actually, it’s a year and 13 days since I forgot the anniversary.
And if you guys and/or gals thought the writing is horrible now, you should read some of the old posts from last year.
Caroline County’s Telecom Consultant: “Conflict of interest? What’s that? …Seriously?”
At the July 22, 2008 meeting of the Caroline County Board of Supervisors, there was a public hearing about a proposed special exemption permit (SPEX-01-2007) for a communications tower in the Reedy Church District.
The proposed location is approximately 1.7 miles away from the soon-to-be new home of the State Fair of Virginia. The company pursuing the new tower is National Communication Towers, LLC (NTC).
AT&T, nTelos (a provider of PCS coverage in Virginia), as well as wireless broadband provider CVA Link, have all sent letters of intent expressing their interest in this communications tower to NCT.
AT&T even sent an engineer to the meeting to express their support for the tower and to provide information on how much more coverage the tower would provide to the surrounding area, including areas that currently have little to no coverage.
Caroline County employs Atlantic Technology Consultants, Inc. (ACT) as consultants on telecommunication issues. The president and chief operating officer (COO) of ATC is George Condyles.
Condyles stated that based on his analysis, this tower in Caroline County is not needed due to the fact that Hanover County is building a tower in Hanover for their emergency communications system.
However, both AT&T and nTelos both refute this assertion and even provided maps showing that the Hanover County tower would provided little areas of new coverage, and might even interfere with existing tower locations in the area.
So it seems that Condyles thinks he knows more about AT&T’s and nTelos’s equipment than the respective companies do: He says that the companies would get just as good coverage from the Hanover County tower as from NCT’s, assertions that both companies refute. Let’s see, who would know more about the way a wireless company’s equipment works? A “consultant” with no experience at the companies, or the people employed by AT&T and nTelos that set up new antennas tens, if not hundreds, of times a year?
Every other sentence out of Condyles’s mouth was about how great the Hanover County tower would be.
At one point, when talking about Hanover’s tower, Condyles stated, “I’m not a business agent of Hanover County, I just live there.”
Well, you do more than just live there Mr. Condyles, you happen to be on Hanover County’s Architectural Review Board and you just happen to list Hanover County as a client on your company’s web page.
Who is the sole beneficiary of Hanover County having the only tower in that area?
Why, that would be Hanover County, of course.
If Hanover County had the only tower, they would have a de facto monopoly in the area.
Caroline County and its citizens wouldn’t benefit, either.
If the NCT tower in Caroline County was built, Caroline County would have free access to place antennas on the tower for its police, fire, public works, and public utilities radio frequencies, per the terms of the special exemption permit. If Hanover County had the only antenna, Caroline County would have to pay Hanover County for the use of their antenna.
The citizens of Caroline County wouldn’t benefit either. AT&T and nTelos won’t use the Hanover County tower because it wouldn’t provide any service to areas that lack service currently. However, the NCT tower in Caroline County would. The NCT tower would get AT&T cell phone coverage to the Route 301/Route 30 intersection as well as several miles of Route 301 north of the intersection as well.
Further, since the NCT tower already has a letter of intent from a wireless broadband provider, CVA Link, the NCT tower would provide broadband service to currently unserved areas of Caroline County, something that the Hanover County tower wouldn’t.
And if Virginia Broadband wants to provide coverage to that area of Caroline County, which would they prefer: a tower in Hanover County or one in Caroline County? Well, I would guess a tower inside Caroline County since that would provide more coverage for Caroline County (duh).
Murder a newborn, get 8 months in prison.
An Anne Arundel County judge has released a 19-year-old woman who served eight months in a juvenile detention facility for the death of her newborn baby.
The judge ruled the woman had been rehabilitated and the woman was released to her father’s custody. The woman had been sentenced last December to stay at a juvenile facility until she was 21, but the juvenile services department asked Thursday for the sentence modification.
The former Broadneck High School student was 17 in December 2005 when she delivered the full-term baby boy in a bathroom at her home in Arnold, then put him in a trash can. An autopsy showed the baby was born alive but died from asphyxiation.
No need for another bullet; POS manages to accomplish one thing in his life.
A man suspected of raping at least nine women in Prince George’s County, many of whom he met through the popular Web site Craigslist, died after shooting himself in the head yesterday while barricaded inside a Hyattsville apartment building, Prince George’s police said.
I say give the guy another bullet.
WTOP:
Prince George’s County police say a Suitland man suspected of raping at least nine women shot himself in the head yesterday while barricaded inside a Hyattsville apartment building.
Police say 33-year-old Mark Antonio Humphries shot himself Wednesday and was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
They say Humphries visited Craigslist and chat rooms to set up dates with professional escorts. When the women showed up, police say they were attacked by a masked man.
NBC4 should check their dateline before they publish a story.
NBC4:
CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. — Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man who died while police were preparing to take him for an emergency evaluation.
The man is identified as Raymond H. Bartles, Jr., 43, whose last known address was in Woodbridge, Va. Bartles was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon at the Easton Memorial Hospital.
Three judges I would support for the Supreme Court.
NBC4:
Three Frederick County judges have doubled a man’s sentence for sexually abusing two young girls after he asked the judges to reduce his sentence.
Donald Fox, 62, asked Judges Edward Dwyer, Julie Solt and Theresa Adams to reduce his 40-year sentence Tuesday.
But within 20 minutes, the three judges came back and decided to double his sentence to 80 years. Whenever judges review a sentence, they have the option of reducing the sentence, leaving it the same or increasing it.
The judges ruled the sentence should be increased and said there’s no reason to go below the state sentencing guideline of at least 60 years.
Forget the Obamessiah; Rob Wittman will save us all!
There have been cracks made about the media’s relationship with Barack Obama and the fact that they portray Obama as a messiah.
Well, apparently Rob Wittman gets the same treatment from certain people (The Free Lance–Star):
A silver lining? Yes, with Rob Wittman
America is in a time of foreboding, we are told. Global warming is catastrophic, the economy is in a nose dive, our president should be tried for everything, and only more taxation will fix our troubles.
Last summer, the nation’s 1st District had a dark cloud hanging over it, and, try as we might, we could see no silver lining.
But by the middle of December, we had found and elected Rob Wittman to fill our vacant congressional seat. Now, after a close check of his voting record and legislative efforts, we can definitely see the silver lining to last year’s ominous cloud.
The silver lining doesn’t lessen the darkness of the cloud and the hurt it presented, but it does give us hope for the future.
Recently, Rep. Wittman was here talking about energy, and he’s got it right [“Wittman: Congress ‘must get it done’,” July 5].
We need to drill and build. Now what we need is a couple hundred more politicians just like him to get this situation turned around.
The nation’s 1st District is in good hands. We are indeed very fortunate to have Rob Whitman working for us in Congress.
Keith Angle
Stafford
What in the hell is this guy smoking?
Seriously, police need to obtain a search warrant for this guy’s house and search for meth and/or crack cocaine.
What the hell was this “dark” and “ominous cloud” that was hanging over the 1st Congressional District last summer?
This sounds like some stupid narration from the opening of a Star Wars movie:
It is a dark and ominous time for the Republican Party. The charismatic leadership of Senator Obama has put the Republican Party on the run. But from the shadows, comes a ray of hope: Rob Wittman, the former director of field operations for the Division of Shellfish Sanitation for the Virginia Department of Health. Etc., etc…
Sure, Jo Ann Davis passed away in October from breast cancer but that was the fall, not the summer.
And what exactly have Rob Wittman’s legislative efforts been composed of?
Putting a campaign contributor in for $3,125,000 worth of federal earmarks (link)?
Supporting a pork laden, $290,000,000,000, corporate welfare bill (link)?
Putting out information that the House Armed Services Committee held a “top secret briefing” on bombing Iran (link)?
The fact that Wittman thinks so little of our fighting men (and women) that they can’t decide for themselves what they should read and watch (link)?
And the only bill that guy has managed to pass so far was a bill renaming a bloody post office (link)!
Further, would the readers of The Free Lance–Star be interested in the fact the author of this letter, Keith Angle, is the Stafford County Republican Committee’s secretary and Chairman of their Finance Committee (link)?
That seems kinda relevant to the [supposed] independent nature of letters to the editors, right?
UPDATE: D.J. McGuire (The right-wing liberal) has his take here.