Posts Tagged ‘suspect’
This is Norway’s Oklahoma City not Norway’s World Trade Center
Anders Behring Breivik is a conservative Christian who enjoys classical music and the video game World of Warcraft.
Breivik has been named by several Norwegian media outlets as the suspected shooter at a youth camp in Oslo, where 10 80 people were killed Friday and he may be linked to a bombing near the prime minister’s residence that killed seven others.
On his Facebook page, which appears to only have been started July 17, Breivik mostly posted music videos and said his interests include hunting and bodybuilding…
His profile also says he’s a director at a company called Breivik Geofarm.
He lists himself as single and has five profile photos – four of which are headshots…
A Twitter account is also being linked to Breivik, although there is just one tweet on July 17.
“One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests,” he wrote.
The television station TV 2 in Norway reported Breivik had right-wing extremist tendancies and had two guns registered under his name.
The headline is from some unnamed official who was asked about “international” terrorism.
Copper makes arrest despite being tasered — by his mate
Jason Mepham on a happier day
A police officer managed to arrest a suspect despite being squirted with his own pepper spray, punched and kicked in the head and then shot with a Taser by a colleague.
Pc Jason Mepham had been called out to deal with a drunk troublemaker when the series of unfortunate incidents began:
Finding the suspect, Jason King, aggressive and threatening, the officer deployed his pepper spray.
He sprayed once – which temporarily halted King – but a second burst of gas then blew back into his own face, leaving him disorientated with a burning face and watering eyes.
By this time a police colleague had arrived at the scene, but so had a friend of King’s who struck Pc Mepham in the face, dislocating his jaw.
The other officer responded to the attack by releasing the first suspect and firing his Taser gun at the new assailant
However, only one electrode hit its intended target, the other striking Pc Mepham and knocking him off his feet.
With the policeman on the ground, King seized his opportunity to kick him in the head, an action which jarred his jaw back into place.
Only when further police back-up arrived were both offenders finally subdued…
Jason King, of Camborne, Cornwall, pleaded guilty via video link from Exeter Prison, at Truro magistrates Court to assaulting a police officer.
He also pleaded guilty to being drunk, two charges of travelling on the railway without paying a fare, and two of threatening behaviour towards a train manager.
Something rather like shoveling out the Augean stables comes to mind for this lout.
Naked man found in chimney – burglary suspected
A naked man found wedged in the chimney of a Lancashire supermarket has been arrested for burglary.
Police officers discovered him trapped in a chimney breast of a Tesco Express store in Pemberton, Wigan, reports the BBC…
Police said that because the man was naked he was taken to hospital as a precaution but was treated and discharged before being arrested.
A GMP spokeswoman said: “It is believed some his clothes came off as a result of him struggling to get out of the chimney.”
A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of burglary and remains in police custody.
Sounds about right to me. He’d qualify for dumb crook of the day – except his plight is pretty common.
No one ever said crooks were especially bright.
Teenager charged with murder of Northern Ireland policeman
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A Northern Ireland teenager has been charged with the murder of PSNI constable Stephen Carroll earlier this month.
The 17-year-old appeared at Lisburn magistrates court shortly before 11am today where he faced four charges including murder, possessing of an AKM assault rifle and 26 rounds of ammunition, gathering intelligence likely to be of use to terrorists, and membership of the Continuity IRA.
The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, denied all the charges, according to his solicitor.
Carroll, 48, was shot dead as he answered a call for help in Craigavon on 9 March. He was the first Police Service of Northern Ireland officer to be murdered by terrorists.
No just reason to comment on the individual arrested. That’s for the law courts to bring forth.
Just another opportunity to offer an observation drawn from a half-century of supporting guerilla movements and wars of national liberation, trying to free individual nations from the colonial past. Terrorist attacks on non-military targets are the work of ignorant fools.
When you have a chance to achieve liberty through democratic and peaceful means, involving the whole population – that’s where you put all your efforts.
UPDATED: Second man arrested and charged. And a third.
