Singer Wayne Newton says he sleeps with a gun after 'serial burglar' robbed his Vegas home TWICE, threatening his wife and injuring his two dogs - as defiant thief is given 22 years in prison
- Long-time Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton told a judge on Tuesday he has no 'compassion' for a man who allegedly broke into his home home twice
- Weslie Hosea Martin, 22, was accused of burglarizing Newton's home on June 3 and 13, 2018, including once when the singer and his wife walked in on the crime
- Burglars, both wearing bandanas over their faces, wielded a tire iron that was used to attack one of Newtown's Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs, the singer said
- Newton said his wife was in 'hysterics' crying out for him to shoot the burglars and that he fired off one round in the air from a gun as the two men fled
- Martin was arrested last July, after an inventory of items he sold to a coin and jewelry business matched items from the Newton home
- A judge sentenced Martin to a minimum of 22 years in prison on convictions for 11 felony counts
Entertainer Wayne Newton said he has no 'compassion' for the man convicted of burglarizing his Las Vegas home, and added that he now sleeps with a gun by his side.
Weslie Hosea Martin, 22, was given a minimum 22-year prison sentence for burglarizing Newton's home on June 3 and 13, 2018, including once when the 77-year-old 'Danke Schoen' singer, his wife and their teenage daughter walked in on the crime in progress.
Newton said his wife Kathleen went into 'hysterics', crying out for him to shoot the intruders, who were wearing bandanas, and that they fled after the singer fired off a single round from a gun.
Long-time Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton (pictured) told a judge on Tuesday he has no 'compassion' for a man who allegedly broke into his home home twice
Weslie Hosea Martin (pictured) was accused of burglarizing Newton's home on June 3 and 13, 2018, including once when the 'Danke Schoen' singer and his family walked in on the crime
Martin was arrested last July, after an inventory of items he sold to a coin and jewelry business matched items from the Newton home.
The alleged burglar was convicted in June on 11 felony counts, including home invasion, in connection with the burglaries of Newton's home near South Lamb Boulevard and Oquendo Road, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
District Judge Michael Villani sentenced Martin on Tuesday to serve a minimum of 22 years and maximum of 64 years in prison. Martin, representing himself, maintained he was innocent.
Newton, prior to the sentencing, told the judge his family was still unnerved by the burglaries, and to have no mercy on Martin.
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'It would be impossible for me to articulate what happened to our home, our family and those things we believed in prior to this happening,' he said, reported the Review-Journal.
'I'm still angry,' Newton told Villani. 'And I realize there should be some compassion. I have none for this defendant'.
Martin's public defender, Will Ewing, conceded during opening statements that his client's face was captured on a doorbell security camera at a neighboring home the night of the first Newton home robbery.
The Newtons were in New York at the time.
But the burglars, who 10 days later apparently tried to pry open a safe in Newton's dressing room, had bandanas on their faces and Ewing told jurors during his client's trial that only a vague video image of someone with a similar body shape and size on the Newton home stairway might tie Martin to the break-in the Newtons interrupted.
Newton's wife, Kathleen, told Villani that the couple's teenage daughter, Lauren, continues to suffer from nightmares about the burglaries, reports the Review-Journal.
'My family's lives will never be the same because of the criminal actions of this defendant,' she said. 'Fear is a terrible way to live'.
Her singer husband commented to a reporter after the sentencing that he now sleeps with a 'weapon by his side, because of the burglaries,' according to the Review-Journal's report.
Wayne Newton had told the judge that he did have compassion for Martin's mother, 'because with the holidays coming up, to think that she gave birth to that (Martin) has to be something that haunts her for the rest of her life'.
District Judge Michael Villani sentenced Martin (pictured) to serve a minimum of 22 years and maximum of 64 years in prison. Martin, representing himself, maintained he was innocent
THE DEPRAVED GHETTO
BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the
world’s most violent subculture?
Dr.
Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed
robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more
than whites
So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats
on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and
children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the
murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department
employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen
on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who
posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.
WINDO INTO THE DEPRAVED BLACK
SUBCULTURE
Heather Mac Donald
Public safety
The Social Order
As for interracial violence generally,
blacks disproportionately commit it. Between 2012 and 2015, there
were 631,830 violent interracial victimizations, excluding homicide,
between blacks
and whites, according to the Bureau of
Justice Statistics. Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the U.S.
population, committed 85.5 percent of those victimizations, or 540,360
felonious assaults on
whites, while whites, 61 percent of the
population, committed 14.4 percent, or 91,470 felonious assaults on
blacks. Regarding threats to blacks from the police, a police officer is
18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male
is to be killed by a police officer.
Anti-cop activist Shaun King says that his
involvement in the campaign around the Jazmine Barnes murder was not driven by
reports that a white man had killed the seven-year-old girl, who was gunned
down in Houston on December 30. According to Barnes’s mother and 15-year-old
sister, the white driver of a pickup truck had pulled up next to the family’s
car before opening fire. The accusation set off a frenzy of hate-crime
allegations and blanket coverage by the New York Times. King offered a $100,000
reward to anyone who located the suspect.
As it turned out, Jazmine Barnes was
killed by two black men, who opened fire on her mother’s car because they
thought that they were targeting enemies of their gang. King passed along a tip
about the real killers to the Houston police, and now says that he merely
“internalized the pain of the family and tried to search as if it were my own
child who was killed.” Race, in other words, had nothing to do with his
activism.
It’s worth remembering, though, the many
other black children who have been victims of drive-by shootings without
leading King to launch a national crusade.
A sampling: in March 2015, a six-year-old
boy was killed in a drive-by shooting on West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis,
as Black Lives Matter protesters were converging on the Ferguson, Missouri,
Police Department to demand the resignation of the entire department. In August
2015, a nine-year-old girl was killed by a bullet from a drive-by shooting in
Ferguson while doing her homework in her bedroom, blocks from the Black Lives
Matter rioting thoroughfare. Five children were shot in Cleveland over the 2015
Fourth of July weekend. A seven-year-old boy was killed in Chicago that same
weekend by a bullet intended for his father. In Cincinnati, in July 2015, a
four-year-old girl was shot in the head and a six-year-old girl was left
paralyzed and partially blind from two separate drive-by shootings. In
Cleveland, three children five and younger were killed in September 2015,
leading the black police chief to break down in tears and ask why the community
only protests shootings of blacks when the perpetrator is a cop. In November
2015, a nine-year-old in Chicago was lured into an alley and killed by his
father’s gang enemies; the father refused to cooperate with the police. All
told, ten children under the age of ten were killed in Baltimore in 2015;
twelve victims were between the age of ten and seventeen.
In 2016, a three-year-old girl in
Baltimore was partially paralyzed by a drive-by shooting. In Chicago in 2016,
two dozen children under the age of 12 were shot in drive-bys, including a
three-year-old boy mowed down on Father’s Day 2016 who is now paralyzed for
life and a ten-year-old boy shot in August; his pancreas, intestines, kidney,
and spleen were torn apart. A Jacksonville 22-month-old was shot to death by a
passing car last June. In September, three men killed three-year-old Azalya
Anderson in a drive-by in Sacramento, and a week before Christmas in
Bridgeport, a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed on his way home from the
candy store in a drive-by shooting.
Why did King let these shootings of black
children go by without responding as he did to Jazmine Barnes’s murder? Could
it be because the perpetrators were black? You could end all white shootings of
black children tomorrow and it would have zero effect on the death rate of
black children by homicide, because such white-on-black shootings are extremely
rare. Moral abominations, like the 2015 Charleston church massacre by white
supremacist Dylann Roof, are aberrations that belong to the outermost lunatic
fringe of American society. The country’s revulsion at the Charleston carnage
was immediate and universal, resulting in a movement to banish the Confederate
flag, embraced by Roof as a white supremacist symbol, from official
sites.
If Shaun King and other Black Lives Matter
activists really want to save black children from the trauma of urban violence,
they should put their efforts into rebuilding inner-city culture—above all, by
revalorizing a married father as the best gift a mother can give her child.
Fantasies about white violence against “black bodies” are a distraction from
what is actually happening on American streets.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and
the author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes
Everyone Less Safe and The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering
Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
Walter Williams tackles the elephant
in the room on crime
Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime
John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author
of 12 books and syndicated columnist. In the past, he has been
substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program. He is almost
like family to me, and I have benefited from his essays and books over the
years. This past week, I saw and read his essay on disparities in crime rates among races that was picked up
by Military in its October 2019 issue. What got Dr. Williams going
was the article by Matthew DeLisi of Iowa State U and John Paul
Wright of the U of Cincinnati titled "What Criminologists Don't Say and
Why."
Dr. Williams confirms that the writers are right about the liberal
tilt of criminologists — "If criminologists have the guts to even talk
about a race-crime connection, it's behind closed doors and in guarded
language. Any discussion about race and crime ... can mean the end
of one's professional career."
Dr. Williams points out teen black-on-white predatory behavior —
chronicled in detail by many, particularly Colin Flaherty, whose investigative reports appear frequently (more than 100) at American Thinker — cannot be reported,
mentioned, or considered by the media, politicians, criminologists,
commentators, politicians, even law enforcement people without risking being
called racist, the easy epithet used to enforce a ban on talking about the
realities of racial disparities in crime and the increasingly violent nature of
black violence against whites — the knockout game, polar bear hunting, flash
mob violence against people and property.
Referencing the Wright and DeLisi report, Dr. Williams comments on
another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as
other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites, for example, and he points out the silliness of criminologists'
claims that mass incarceration rather than criminality has decimated the black
community. He favorably quotes Wright and DeLisi when they say,
"What they [criminals] did, in reality was to prey on their neighbors."
Dr. Williams returns to a theme he has explored many times before
in this essay and commentary when he points out that the black family of the
past was two parents and stable, even back to days of slavery, and that the
black community was moral and law-abiding. "The strong
character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from
emancipation to today. ... [T]oday's conduct among black youth wouldn't have
been tolerated yesteryear."
My regret is there aren't enough Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell
types to engage the nutty attitudes of liberal chatterbox experts.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. is an
emergency physician, sheriff's medical officer and inactive attorney, policy
and science adviser to the American Council on Science and Health of NYC and
the Heartland Institute of Chicago.
CITY JOURNAL
BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE Data,
of crime and policing than this weekend’s demonstrations suggest.
The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data
flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived
Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend. Nearly 900 additional
blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black
homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of
Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in
this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are
only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide
deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014
and 2015.
Who is
killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks.
In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and
dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings
as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent
resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police
have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the
police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a
black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.
Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade,
though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly
worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of
officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all
homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only
243.
Violent
crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The
total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated
homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and
estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years
in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have
called the Ferguson Effect. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in
high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened.
Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter
activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning
someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 AM, many officers are
instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make
them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive
policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of
it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their
colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons,
according to a Pew Research poll released in January 2016. The reason is the persistent
anti-cop climate.
Four
studies came out in 2016 alone rebutting the charge that police shootings are racially biased.
If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against
whites. That truth has not stopped the ongoing demonization of the
police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes.
The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of
law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection.
Man, 54, serving life sentence in Florida for sex crimes is charged in Tennessee with two rapes more than 30 years ago
- Prosecutors say Jimmy Love, 54, has been charged with two rapes in Tennessee 30 years ago
- Love has been serving a life sentence in Florida since 1994 for sex crimes and assault
- DNA was used to link Love to the cold cases from 1986 and 1987
Prosecutors say a man who is serving a life sentence in Florida for sex crimes has been charged in Tennessee with two rapes more than 30 years ago.
The Shelby County district attorney's office said Tuesday that 54-year-old Jimmy Love has been extradited to Memphis from the Hardee Correctional Institution in Bowling Green, Florida.
Prosecutors say DNA evidence matched Love to the 1986 rape of a 21-year-old woman in the Raleigh neighborhood in Memphis. Prosecutors say his DNA also linked him to a rape in Memphis in 1987.
Mug shot of Jimmy Love, who is serving life in prison, has been charged with two rapes from more than 30 years ago
Love's 2015 indictment as a John Doe was based on the DNA profile developed from biological evidence in the rape of a 21-year-old woman in the summer of 1986.
The profile had been entered into the FBI’s national DNA database in 2017, which triggered a potential match with Love, the District Attorney's office said.
Love had been an inmate in Florida since he was convicted of sex crimes, assaults and other offenses in 1994.
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Indictments were handed down in 2015 and 2018. The indictments remained secret until he was taken into custody this week.
A Memphis native, Love was extradited this week on two counts of aggravated rape, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery.
The case is being handled by Assistant District Attorney Gavin Smith of the DA’s Special Victims Unit, which prosecutes cases of child sexual abuse and severe physical abuse of child victims; rape and aggravated rape of adult victims, and abuse of elderly and vulnerable adults, the D.A.'s office said.
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Teen mom found murdered after robbing an Alabama hotel with her boyfriend in a Bonnie and Clyde-style stick-up told a friend she was scared of him and wanted to come home after he left her with a busted lip
- Baylee Wall was found dead in Ohio on October 23 after two days on the run
- The teen was wanted for allegedly helping her 25-year-old boyfriend Gary Eubanks Jr rob the Microtel Inn in Daphne, Alabama, on October 21
- Baylee's stepfather, Steven Tillman, said she told a friend Eubanks Jr had been violent toward her and sent a photo showing her with a busted lip
- Authorities are still searching for Eubanks Jr, who is reportedly being treated as a person of interest in Baylee's murder
- Her stepmother, Angela Wall, slammed trolls she said were attacking the slain teen's Facebook page on Monday as news of the murder broke
- 'People are going to judge her for one stupid act that we don't even know the full details of,' Angela wrote. 'Regardless, she was only 18 and still our daughter'
- She urged people who knew Baylee to share positive memories of the slain teen
- A GoFundMe to help cover funeral costs has raised $600 as of Wednesday
Baylee Wall, 18, was found murdered two days after she allegedly robbed an Alabama hotel with her boyfriend. She is pictured with her two-year-old daughter
The teen who was found murdered after she allegedly robbed an Alabama hotel with her boyfriend told a friend she was scared of him and wanted to come home after he assaulted her.
Baylee Wall, 18, was found dead in Cincinatti, Ohio, on October 23 after two days on the run from police who claimed she helped her 25-year-old boyfriend Gary Eubanks Jr rob the Microtel Inn in Daphne, Alabama, on October 21.
Authorities are still searching for Eubanks Jr, who is reportedly being treated as a person of interest in Baylee's murder.
The slain teen's stepfather, Steven Tillman, told Fox Cincinnati that she and Eubanks Jr began dating in August 2019 and that she had recently sent a photo to her friend showing her with a busted lip.
Tillman said that his stepdaughter told the friend she was 'scared [and] wanting to come home'.
He expressed shock over the idea that Baylee, who lived in Hurley, Mississippi and was the mother of a two-year-old girl, would be involved with someone violent and that she would participate in an armed robbery.
'I still can't believe it. I really can't on either issue,' Tillman said. 'That's not how she was raised. That's not how she was.'
He added: 'She was a very outgoing person. Loved to laugh and you know, just your typical 18-year-old girl.'
Baylee (left) allegedly told a friend she was scared of her boyfriend, 25-year-old Gary Eubanks Jr (right) and wanted to come home after he assaulted her and left her with a busted lip
Baylee's stepfather, Steve Tillman, expressed shock over the idea that she would be involved with someone violent and that she would participate in an armed robbery. 'I still can't believe it. I really can't on either issue,' he said. 'That's not how she was raised. That's not how she was'
Eubanks Jr (pictured) is reportedly being treated as a person of interest in Baylee's murder
A woman named Erin Vinson claimed that the couple had been staying at her apartment before Baylee's death.
'If I had any idea she was going to be murdered two weeks later, I would have never let her out of my sight,' Vinson told Local12.
She said that Baylee told her that Eubanks Jr had been violent to her.
'We knew it was unhealthy, but obviously what can you do to someone who is 18 years old to say go back home to your parents who care about you,' she said.
'Now I feel like I have some responsibility in the fact that I was the last person to see her and that I could have potentially saved her from that situation.'
Baylee's stepmother Angela Wall (pictured) hit out at trolls attacking the teen in a Facebook post Monday as news emerged that she had been murdered
As news emerged that Baylee's death was being investigated as a homicide, her stepmother, Angela Wall, took aim at trolls she said had been spamming her stepdaughter's Facebook page.
'So it's already starting with rude/negative comments. People are going to judge her for one stupid act that we don't even know the full details of,' Angela Wall wrote in a Facebook post Monday.
'Regardless, she was only 18 and still our daughter. So please everyone share something positive about Baylee Wall so people remember her how she really was, and for all the stalkers coming to her page can see she was truly loving person and was loved.
'Baylee was always a fighter and hard headed but that is what got her through all of this. We love you BayBay and will forever be in our hearts.'
Angela included a pair of photos of Baylee, one 'first day of school' snap and another from her high school graduation day.
In a later post, the stepmother shared a link to a GoFundMe campaign set up by Baylee's uncle, Tim Wall, to help cover funeral costs. The campaign has raised $600 toward its $5,000 goal as of Wednesday morning.
Baylee's stepmother Angela Wall hit out at trolls attacking the teen in a Facebook post Monday (pictured) as news emerged that her death was being investigated as a homicide
Investigators said Baylee entered the hotel on the night of October 21 to ask about room rates and then left, as seen on surveillance footage.
Later in the footage, Eubanks was seen entering the hotel and holding the receptionist at gunpoint, demanding cash.
Police said they believe Baylee was the gunman's accomplice.
'There was a third person seen in the Microtel video. We still don't know who that person was, but there was one other person outside,' said Sgt Jason Vannoy of the Daphne Police Department.
Eubanks Jr was last seen driving Baylee's 2015 black four-door Volkswagen Passat with license plate JGE1791.
Police said surveillance footage showed Baylee and Eubanks Jr at the Microtel Inn in Daphne, Alabama, on the night of the October 21 armed robbery
Baylee allegedly entered the hotel and asked the receptionist about room rates and then left before Eubanks Jr came in and demanded money at gunpoint
Eubanks Jr was last seen driving Baylee's 2015 black four-door Volkswagen Passat (pictured)
After Baylee's body was found behind a baseball field at Woodward High School in Cincinnati, police described her death as 'suspicious' and said it is being investigated as a homicide.
Detectives have not confirmed the cause of death, but sources told WLWT she was shot in the head.
The body wasn't identified until five days after it was discovered as she was found without any identification.
Loved ones described Baylee as a 'fighter' and 'just your typical 18-year-old girl'
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