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‘The Five’: Is Lori Lightfoot trying to cover up soaring crime?
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At least 25 people were shot and six died over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago, which included the deceased Vera, Pozeulos, and Tavares.
VIDEO: Parolee Denied Bail After Allegedly Killing Three at Chicago Bar
A man in Chicago was denied bail following a shooting that left three people dead outside a bar Sunday during a birthday party.
Thirty-two-year-old Samuel Parsons-Salas faces three felony counts of first degree murder, one felony count of attempted first degree murder, and one felony count of kidnapping after the incident that happened outside Vera Lounge on W. School Street, Fox 32 reported.
The party was for a 25-year-old woman and the defendant was there with his girlfriend. When a fight broke out inside the building, the woman being celebrated was reportedly hit and a crowd spilled out onto the street.
The Fox article continued:
A 50-year-old man, identified by police as Rickey Vera, father of the woman who was hit, approached Parsons-Salas in the middle of School Street wanting to know who hit his daughter, prosecutors say.
Parsons-Salas’ girlfriend stood in between the two men. The defendant then fired his gun past his girlfriend three times striking Vera in the head and chest. He was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
Meanwhile, surveillance footage captured the moment the group came outside the building and also recorded the sound of gunshots.
“Parsons-Salas has been convicted of robbery, aggravated battery, and was on parole for a 2010 home invasion. He was released only three months ago,” according to the Fox 32 video report.
The suspect allegedly fired six more times toward a 27-year-old man later identified as Mario Pozuelos, who was struck in his head and throat.
As Vera lay shot in the street, his daughter knelt near him and the defendant shot her in the head, then approached Pozuelos and shot him again in his head. After being taken to a hospital, the man was pronounced dead.
While running to the car where his girlfriend was, the suspect noticed a young woman named Mercedes Tavares hiding behind a van, whom he also allegedly shot once, then again when she fell on the ground.
When the suspect jumped in the car with his girlfriend, he allegedly held her at gunpoint and instructed her to drive to his home near Irving Park.
He later “forced her to go with him to an apartment on Montrose and when they got there she was not able to leave, prosecutors say,” the Fox report stated.
At least 25 people were shot and six died over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago, which included the deceased Vera, Pozeulos, and Tavares.
Per the Fox report, authorities arrested Parson-Salas Monday and they eventually located the girlfriend at the apartment but did not report she had been hurt.
Meanwhile, the young woman who had been celebrating her birthday was listed in critical condition at a local hospital.
As the crime wave sweeps across President Joe Biden’s (D) America, citizens are “more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago,” Gallup reported in October.
“The 56% of U.S. adults who report an increase in crime where they live marks a five-percentage-point uptick since last year and is the highest by two points in Gallup’s trend dating back to 1972,” the article read.
Florida Pastor, Son Accused of Fraudulently Obtaining $8 Million in Covid Relief Funds
A Florida pastor and his son are accused of fraudulently obtaining over $8 million in federal coronavirus relief funds for their family-run Christian ministry.
Evan Edwards and his son Josh Edwards were arrested early Wednesday morning in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The two men are facing six charges, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and visa fraud, according to NBC News.
The charges come two years after federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint against the family in December 2020, including against Evan’s wife, Mary Jane, and daughter, Joy.
The complaint alleges that Josh Edwards, on behalf of ASLAN International Ministries, Inc., submitted a false and fraudulent loan application seeking a $6 million loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that was created under the CARES Act during the early days of the covid pandemic in March 2020.
In the loan application, Josh Edwards claimed ASLAN had 486 employees and a monthly payroll of $2.7 million. ASLAN ended up receiving $8.4 million from PPP.
However, prosecutors say that the Edwards family used that loan to purchase a $3.7 million luxury home near Walt Disney World Resort. “The remaining funds were transferred among multiple bank accounts held by the conspirators in an attempt to hide and conceal their whereabouts,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
Furthermore, the recent federal indictment alleges that Josh Edwards wrote false information in their loan application on behalf of ASLAN, where their monthly payroll expenses, number of employees, and annual revenue were “significantly lower” than what was stated in the application, Law & Crime reported.
In April 2021, a federal judge ordered the family to forfeit the $8.4 million it obtained from PPP. The family did not challenge the ruling. Federal authorities also seized the $860,000 that was being held for the down payment on the luxury home, according to the civil forfeiture complaint.
A source familiar with the investigation told NBC News that officials started moving the case along after a report from the outlet that questioned why no family member had been indicted, despite the complaint being filed in December 2020.
Evan and Josh Edwards were set to appear before a federal judge in Orlando Wednesday, but Evan’s lawyer told the judge that he did not want to leave his wheelchair due to medical concerns, NBC affiliate WESH reported. Evan also was seemingly nonverbal.
The judge then requested U.S. Marshals bring Evan to a medical facility.
Josh Edwards was present for the hearing but also appeared to be nonverbal with the judge. Despite the judge ordering a psychiatric evaluation of Josh, a federal attorney claimed he spoke to agents before appearing in court.
Evan Edwards grew up in Edmonton, Canada, and founded ASLAN International Ministries in 2005 in Ohio.
The Edwards family lived and operated ASLAN in Turkey, acting as missionaries in the predominately Muslim country, before applying to move the nonprofit organization to Florida in 2018, the Daily Mail reported. The family eventually purchased a property and moved to the Sunshine State that same year.
The family is also accused of fraudulently obtaining funds from Canada’s covid relief fund in 2020, receiving $2,000 each, ClickOrlando.com noted.
You can follow Ethan Letkeman on Twitter at @EthanLetkeman.
Homicides Surge to Nearly 250 for the Year in Democrat-Run New Orleans
Homicides have surged to nearly 250 thus far in 2022 in Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s (D) New Orleans.
New Orleans police noted the city was at 248 homicides as of Monday of this week, FOX News reported. There were 218 homicides during all of 2021, and those 218 were the highest the city had seen in a year since 2005.
The death toll in 2022 has far surpassed 2021, and there are still two weeks left in the year.
FOX News observed that in September 2022 New Orleans became “the so-called murder capital of the country.”
The Metropolitan Crime Commission noted that as of September 18, “homicides [were] up 44 percent compared to 2021.”
By September 20 there “[had] been 218 carjackings in 2022, 343 shootings, and 397 armed robberies” in the city.
Mayor Cantrell is in the hot seat as homicides surge, FOX News pointed out, facing a recall effort amid allegations that the surge in violence has coincided with “questionable trips and expenditures” by the mayor.
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Police: Elderly Woman Fatally Stabbed in Affluent Atlanta Neighborhood, Suspect Arrested
An elderly woman was found fatally stabbed in her home in the affluent Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead Saturday, according to the Atlanta Police Department (APD).
Eleanor Bowles, 77, was discovered by her son with multiple wounds in her home garage at around 5:30 p.m. on Paces West Terrace. The son had come home to visit Bowles for the holiday season, APD Deputy Chief Charles Hampton said at a press conference Sunday.
“This is not a way that a family should have to spend their holiday season, mourning and grieving the death of a loved one,” Hampton said.
Police later identified Antonio Brown, 23, as the suspect who allegedly broke into the gated community and killed Bowles. He was arrested Monday night and is being held in a Fulton County Jail.
At some point between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Brown allegedly was in the process of stealing Bowles’s 2021 Lexus RS350 when it is believed she interrupted him. He then stabbed Bowles several times before taking off with the vehicle.
The SUV is believed to have been driven around Atlanta before it was discovered in DeKalb County Saturday night. It is unknown how Brown broke into the gated community, police say.
The APD released a person of interest photo Sunday. A resident later spotted the suspect and called the police, which led to the arrest of Brown, according to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.
The 23-year-old man has since been charged with murder, aggravated battery, elder abuse, possession of a knife during the commission of a felony, and hijacking a motor vehicle.
Police say they are aware that local businesses are claiming to have had prior incidents with Brown but noted the investigation is still ongoing.
Brown’s arrest was announced at a press conference Monday night, where city officials also announced the arrest of a 16-year-old accused of murdering a 15-year-old and a 12-year-old.
Bowles’s family and friends have organized a GoFundMe page with all money raised going to the Atlanta Humane Society & Society For Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Georgia, an organization she loved.
“She was a kind, precious, funny, loving mother, grandmother, and friend — and so much more,” page organizer Alyssa Pettus wrote. “It is unbelievable that crimes like this continue to happen in Atlanta, and it must stop.”
You can follow Ethan Letkeman on Twitter at @EthanLetkeman.
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