Toronto Woman Googles Fiance, Finds Out He Is Most Wanted (in a bad way)

You have to love the internet. A woman who was engaged to a young man in Toronto had a heart to heart with him. He told her that he was using a different name and his real name was Mikhail Drachev.

In the internet era she did want most people should do and did a Google seach on him. What she came up with was this, a profile of him on America’s Most Wanted and his picture. Thank God she had the moral and ethical backbone to turn him in to the police for extradition in the murder of Konstantin Simberg.

Mikhail Drachev, 24, who has been on the run since the “horrific” slaying of Konstantin Simberg in December 2001, was arrested by police Friday in the Rexdale apartment the pair had been sharing for more than five years.
“About a week ago, he decided to come clean and give her his real name because they were thinking about marriage,” Staff-Sgt. Paul MacIntyre said yesterday. “She Googled his name and learned he was in fact on America’s Most Wanted.”
The fugitive’s girlfriend, whose name was not released, was initially “conflicted,” MacIntyre said. Although it took her a week to tell police, she eventually “did the right thing” and should be commended, he said.  via CANOE

What Was the Jury Thinking??? Kenneth Glenn Hinson Found Not Guilty in Dungeon Rapes

What were these jurors thinking? NOT GUILTY??? A previously convicted sex offender who had raped a 12 year old girl is given the benefit of the doubt over two teens. What is this world coming to? We all know there is no such thing as a one time rapist and what the repeat rate is  among sex offenders. Why exactly does one own an underground bunker any how? If the day has come that we are giving sex offenders a greater benefit of the doubt over rape victims, then the sex offenders have won. I hope these jurors know what they truly have done.

Kenneth Glenn Hinson, 48, appeared to cry after the jury read its verdict, which followed about four hours of deliberations over two days.

Then after he cried and out of the cameras view, the formerly convicted sex offender probably did a jig and thought to himself, they bought that defense?

He was charged with kidnapping, sex crimes and assault with intent to kill.

“We are shocked and stunned. We believed Mr. Hinson was guilty as charged. We still believe he is guilty as charged,” said Attorney General Henry McMaster, who helped prosecute the case.

Hinson testified that the girls had consensual sex with him. He said they made up the story so they would be able to take drugs from the bunker, which he used to store marijuana.

Hinson said he panicked when he saw police cars arrive at his property and hid in nearby woods. He assumed they were after four pounds of marijuana stashed in the bunker, he said.

The two young women were not in the courtroom when Hinson was acquitted. Their mothers and other relatives wept. They declined to comment after the verdict. (Yahoo News)

So the two teens supposedly did it to get pot? Not crack, meth, cocaine or heroine, but pot. Something that is so easy to get in high schools these days. Consensual sex with a person that looked like Kenneth Hinson. If it was consensual why did he have to take them to the dungeon and not just his home? One really wonders what was a jury of his peers, previously convicted sex offenders or people who just stereotyped all people of poor backgrounds as the same? Some thing is just seriously wrong when a sex offender is given greater deference. Wrong indeed.

Daily Commentary – Tuesday April 24th, 2007 – Media: Let The VT Healing Begin

Dana asks the media

• to let the healing begin at Virginia Tech.

Border Patrol Agents Vote No to Chief Over Jailing of Agents

As has been covered at Scared Monkeys and on Dana Pretzer’s Radio Show, Border  Patrol agents have been up in arms over the treatment, arrest, and jailing of Border Patrol agents serving time for shooting a drug smuggling illegal alien.

Now the National Border Patrol Council, which represents the 11,000 agents have now had a No Confidence vote on Chief David V. Aguilar. The border agents have had  enough of the politically motivated head of the agency that essentially has sacrificed these two agents to appease the Mexican government and those that are advocates of rights for illegal aliens.

In a unanimous decision agreed to on Sunday, the top leadership of the National Border Patrol Council lambasted Aguilar for his silence on behalf of Ignacio Ramos, 37, and Jose Alonso Compean, 28. The two are serving 11 and 12 year prison sentences, respectively, as a result of testimony given by a a drug-smuggler who claimed his civil rights were violated when he was shot in the buttocks trying to run across the Mexico border after dropping 743 pounds of marijuana during their pursuit of him. via FOXNews.com

First The Children, Now The Dogs

First they came to medicate our children who are active and too full of energy for their teachers and parents. Now they are coming for our pets. Reconcile, the new Prozac for the pooch.

I am afraid to think of whats next…

The latest hype in pet prescriptions is a new drug called Reconcile, a beef flavored pill that dogs can take to help alleviate its anxiety. According to veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker, Reconcile could help ease a real pet problem.

Becker ran down the list of symptoms of pet separation anxiety:  Destructive chewing,  Excessive barking or whining, Pacing, Drooling,  Yawning,  Inappropriate urination or defecation via ABC News