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Police: NJ teen sold sister, 7, for sex at party.

TRENTON, N.J.

Police in New Jersey's capital city say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old sister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home.

Police in New Jersey's capital city say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old sister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home.

Trenton police said Wednesday the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital.

Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at the party in an apartment Sunday.

The older girl is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age.

Police are trying to track down the men and boys who attended the party.

The girls' parents reported them missing Sunday afternoon and police were at the home when the 7-year-old returned.

OUTRAGEOUS!

John Gamble, Amy Frink's killer, released early from prison | StarNewsOnline.com.

John Gamble, Amy Frink's killer, released early from prison

John Gamble, 46, was released early from prison, according to the N.C. Department of Correction. (File photo)

By Shelby Sebens
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Published: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 11:02 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 5:47 p.m.

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A man convicted for his part in the murder, rape and kidnapping of a Shallotte teenager in 1994 was released early from prison Monday, despite a petition from family and friends to keep him behind bars.

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John Gamble, 46, was released after spending a little more than nine years in prison for the murder of 18-year-old Amy Frink. He is now in Brunswick County, said Patsy Joiner of the state’s administrative parole commission.

Gamble started serving a 30-year prison sentence July 17, 2000, for being an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder, rape and kidnapping.

Amy Frink’s mother Birdie Frink said Gamble is now living within a block of where her daughter’s car was found, and that it “is like a slap in the face.”

Gamble was released as part of The Mutual Agreement Parole Program, which is available to inmates who committed crimes before Oct. 1, 1994, and were sentenced under the state’s Fair Sentencing Act. They also must be within three years of parole eligibility and be infraction-free for 90 days prior to being recommended for parole, according to the Department of Correction.

Joiner said Gamble will be under supervision for 90 days, and if he breaks parole he’ll be sent back to prison. He does not have to register as a sex offender because being an accessory after the fact doesn’t require it, she said.

Frink’s family and friends circulated an online petition and sent it to the parole board, asking that Gamble not be released early.

Amy Frink’s friend Connie Babson said they gathered 757 signatures but did not get a response from the parole board.

“We are all heartbroken and devastated over this,” she said in an e-mail.

Birdie Frink said that she and her husband did not know about the petition until a few days ago and that by 5 p.m. Tuesday the signatures had grown to around 1,400. She said she was grateful for all the support.

Birdie Frink said she knew the petition would have no impact on the parole board’s decision but she will use the support to advocate for legislation to change the lingering effects of the Fair Sentencing Act.

Joiner said Gabmle’s release had already been determined before the petition was received.

“The commission basically had no choice in that,” she said.

On June 23, 1994, Frink was tortured, raped, stabbed and eviscerated in Brunswick County. Her killers left her to bleed to death across the state line in South Carolina, authorities said.

Gamble previously told the Star-News he is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit and regrets helping prosecutors.

The other man convicted of being an accessory to Frink’s murder was set free in 2008. John Paul Counts, 42, was released early from prison for good behavior.

There were three other suspects in Frink’s murder. None has been charged in the case, although they have served time on unrelated charges.

District Attorney Rex Gore has said the case remains open.

Babson said she could not believe Gamble and Counts do not have to register as sex offenders. “I just don’t understand what legal logic makes that acceptable,” she said.

She said the online petition against Gamble’s release will stay up, and she and others plan to help Birdie and Barry Frink advocate for tougher laws.

“We are rallying with Barry & Birdie Frink to help them change the laws that gave these murderers more rights than the victim they slayed, and to enforce stiffer sentencing,” she said in the e-mail.

Birdie, founder of the victims’ support group Justice for Citizens, said she and Barry plan to fight to change the system.

“We still need more changes in the judicial and the correctional systems,” Barry Frink said.

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String of killings went hidden for 2 weeks

String of killings went hidden for 2 weeks - Crime/Safety - NewsObserver.com.

CHARLOTTE For two weeks, police said, a 10-year-old girl went to school terrified that her father would kill her and her 2-year-old brother if she told anybody what had happened at home.

Her mother was missing, and her two sisters, ages 13 and 1, had already been killed. Their bodies were locked in an upstairs bedroom of the family's south Charlotte apartment, police said.

So the little girl said nothing - until Monday, when police began to unravel a grisly series of crimes they say were committed by a package handler who hinted at family troubles on his Facebook page.

"What this man did was despicable and cowardly," Homicide Capt. Paul Zinkann told reporters, fighting tears at one point.

"She continued to go to school. ... She felt that she needed to maintain some composure," he said. "She did not ask any questions because she didn't want her little brother killed."

The killings began about two weeks ago, police said, with the slaying of 35-year-old Nateesha Ward Chapman. Police say her husband, Kenneth Jermaine Chapman, 33, suffocated her in an apartment on Via Romano Drive, from which the family had recently moved.

Within a day of her killing, police say, two of Nateesha Chapman's daughters were also slain, in the family's new apartment at the Berkshires on Providence, around the corner on Providence Square Drive. Nakyiah Jael Chapman, 1, was suffocated andNa'Jhae Parker, 13, was stabbed.

Late Monday, a family member asked police to check on Nateesha because he hadn't heard from her. When officers knocked on the family's door, police said, two children ran out and Chapman fired a shot at the officers. Chapman then fatally shot himself.

Investigators gleaned most of their information from the 10-year-old girl who escaped with her 2-year-old brother Monday. She attends Lansdowne Elementary, but police have not released her name. The children are with relatives.

The girl told police she knew her mother was dead in mid-March, after her parents had a fight one night. The next day after school, "She came home and she never saw her mother again," Zinkann said.

Later that day, the girl heard her sisters screaming upstairs. Then silence.

After that, the door to an upstairs bedroom remained locked.

Over the next two weeks, the girl's father didn't talk about her missing family members, she told police. He only asked her occasionally if she smelled anything. The girl tried to protect her little brother by acting as if she suspected nothing.

Playmates would come to the door asking for her older sister, and the girl's father told her to lie about her sister's whereabouts, police said.

Worried family members would call the house, police said, and Kenneth Chapman would say his wife was busy or at work or not available by cell phone.

Officials at McClintock Middle School called the home twice after eighth-graderNa'Jhae Parker began accumulating absences. They spoke to the father, who said she had health problems.

Principal Pamela Espinosa said the killings devastated the faculty. Both parents were involved in the school, she said.

"We take care of our children," Espinosa said. "It grieves me that we were not able to take care of her."

"Na'Jhae was just a wonderful, outgoing, bright child," she said. "It's hit the school so hard."

Na'Jhae was not Kenneth Chapman's biological daughter, police said, but the other children were. The girl told police that played a role in why he spared her and her brother.

At one point, Zinkann said, Chapman held a gun to the 10-year-old girl's head while she begged for her life. "He said, 'I'm not going to kill you, basically because you're my firstborn daughter, and he's my firstborn son.'"

Money trouble

The family moved to Charlotte less than a year ago. Public records show they moved from Martinsburg, W.Va., last year and resided in New York and New Jersey before that.

Chapman family members declined to comment Tuesday. Neighbors said they barely knew the family of six, who had moved into their new apartment less than a month ago.

Kenneth Chapman got a job working for FedEx, but the family struggled with money problems.

Nateesha Chapman declared bankruptcy in New York in 1998. The family was sued by creditors in at least three states. In 2008, a pediatric practice took her to court in Virginia for a debt of $855. She paid that debt last July.

Landlords at the apartment complex where Nateesha Chapman was found dead began eviction proceedings against the couple three times since last September.

But neighbors never saw troubling signs - the children seemed well cared for, the couple never had public arguments. There was no history of domestic violence in Mecklenburg, according to records.

James Nash, who lives two doors down from the apartment where the children died, said he had only nodded to his new neighbors in passing. He remembers seeing the kids playing outside.

Over the last two weeks, family and friends twice called police about the Chapmans.

On March 19, a friend called 911, saying he feared Kenneth Chapman might be suicidal.

"He called me Tuesday and told me to check the news in a few days, he was gonna be famous," the man told 911 operators.

The caller said Chapman had also sent personal goodbye messages on Facebook. The Web page shows Chapman recently changed his marital status from "married" to "single."

The 911 caller also told police that Chapman had a .45 caliber pistol and a rifle.

In response, an officer went to the family's old apartment on Via Romano Drive and found the door locked. Police would find Nateesha Chapman dead there 10 days later.

A second call to 911 came about 11:15 p.m. Monday, when an uncle reported that he hadn't been able to reachNateesha for two weeks.

He'd stopped by at least four times, he told dispatchers, and her husband had a different story each time for why she wasn't there.

"It's 11 o'clock at night and she's always there, and she hasn't made contact with us in two weeks," he says on the 911 recording. "There's always an excuse - she went to work, she went to Wal-Mart."

"They've had arguments in the past, so after two weeks ... I'm a little concerned."

Police went to check on the Chapmans late Monday, and found the door to apartment 179 standing open.

They saw Kenneth Chapman inside and asked if they could speak with his wife.

He called upstairs for her, police said, then invited them in. Officers were suspicious and stayed outside.

Then the two children came running out.

Chapman fired shots toward the officers.

When the shooting stopped, they went inside and found Chapman on the stairs, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Researcher Maria David and Staff Writers Lisa Hammersly and Ann Doss Helms contributed.

Madoff Was Beaten in Prison - WSJ.com

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Madoff Was Beaten in Prison - WSJ.com.

Bernard Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence in North Carolina for running a fraud scheme that cost investors billions of dollars, was physically assaulted by another inmate in December, according to three people familiar with the matter.

After the attack, Mr. Madoff, who pleaded guilty a year ago and was sent to a federal prison in Butner, N.C., was moved on Dec. 18 to the prison's low-security medical center for treatment. At the time, the Bureau of Prisons said that rumors of an assault were false and that Mr. Madoff suffered from dizziness and hypertension.

One of his lawyers, Ira Sorkin, added at the time that Mr. Madoff was experiencing high blood pressure and heart palpitations. Mr. Sorkin declined to comment Wednesday on whether his client was beaten, saying, "I don't comment on prison conditions or his family. That has been my policy."

Mr. Madoff was treated for a broken nose, fractured ribs and cuts to his head and face, according to a felon currently at Butner serving time on drug charges who was familiar with his condition at the time. The details of the injuries couldn't be independently verified.

WOMAN TRADES 10 YR OLD DAUGHTER FOR COCAINE

Saginaw woman awaiting trial on pandering charges : News : WEYI NBC25.

A Saginaw woman is in custody for allegedly prostituting her 10-year old daughter to a local drug dealer and businessman.

Angela Blackwell, 47, is awaiting her preliminary trial for charges of pandering, also known as pimping, and one count of criminal sexual conduct. Police say Blackwell is accused of selling her granddaughter in exchange for cocaine and other narcotics.

The suspected drug dealer, Johnnie Lee Griffin of Saginaw, is on the Crime Stoppers list of wanted criminals.

"It's alleged that she traded the granddaughter to this gentleman for narcotics and in exchange he was allowed to sexually assault her," said Sargent Joseph Dutoi.

Now police are on the lookout for Griffin, who faces multiple criminal charges.

If Griffin is convicted, he will face a mandatory 25-year jail sentence because the victim is under the age of 13; however, the charges won't end there. Once convicted, Griffin will face two counts of criminal sexual conduct one, one count of criminal sexual conduct two, and additional charges for the narcotics found in his home on Owen Street. Blackwell, on the other hand, could face a 20-year prison sentence for pandering and pimping. She also faces charges of conspiracy to commit criminal sexual conduct.

Police say they learned of the incident from another minor involved in a second criminal sexual conduct case pending against Griffin.

Police are not releasing information on this case, but say it is being investigated. In the meantime, the Crime Stoppers Unit is asking for help pinning down the suspect.

"We would like to get his picture and his face and his name out to community members in hopes that he will either turn himself in or that someone might see him and call either the Saginaw Police Department or local authorities," said Dutoi.

$75 Million Worth Of Prescription Drugs Stolen From Enfield Warehouse - Courant.com

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$75 Million Worth Of Prescription Drugs Stolen From Enfield Warehouse - Courant.com.

Sometime in the early morning Sunday, thieves scaled the walls of the Eli Lilly warehouse on Freshwater Boulevard.

As a light rain fell, they cut a hole in the roof of the 70,000-square-foot building and slid down ropes to get inside.

They disabled the building's alarm system, and police believe they loaded several dozen pallets of prescription drugs — worth $75 million — into at least one truck parked at the rear of the building, and drove away.

The heist wasn't discovered until the afternoon, when an employee went to work.

Rape-aXe: The Anti-Rape Condom | Arkitip Intel

Rape-aXe: The Anti-Rape Condom

This is so brilliant! An anti-rape female condom invented by Sonette Ehlers… A South African women working as a blood technician with the South African Blood Transfusion Service, during which time she met and treated many rape victims.

The device, known as The Rape-aXe, is a latex sheath embedded with shafts of sharp, inward-facing microscopic barbs that would be worn by a woman in her vagina like a tampon. If an attacker were to attempt vaginal rape, their penis would enter the latex sheath and be snagged by the barbs, causing the attacker pain during withdrawal and (ideally) giving the victim time to escape. The condom would remain attached to the attacker’s body when he withdrew and could only be removed surgically, which would alert hospital staff and police. This device could assist in the identification and prosecution of rapists.

BRUTAL KILLER TO BE RELEASED EARLY

Amy Frink's killer due to be freed early | Best Web | StarNewsOnline.com.

Amy Carolina Frink, was 18 when, on June 23, 1994, she was tortured, raped, stabbed and eviscerated in Brunswick County. Her killers left her to bleed to death across the state line in South Carolina, authorities said.

The other man convicted for being an accessory to Frink's murder was set free in 2008. John Paul Counts, 42, was released early from prison for good behavior because he was eligible for the state's Mutual Agreement Parole Program. The program applies to offenders who committed their crimes before Oct. 1, 1994, and were sentenced under the state's Fair Sentencing law.

John Gamble, 46, will be released in less than two weeks after serving since July 17, 2000, on convictions of first-degree murder, rape, kidnapping and accessory-after-the-fact. He was sentenced to a total of 30 years. He has 23 violations on his prison record, including a weapons charge  in 2007.

U.S. Department of Education Buying Short Barreled Shotguns

Remington Shotguns - Federal Business Opportunities:.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14" - PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT - XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID - 14" LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
The required date of delivery is March 22, 2010.
Interested sources must submit detailed technical capabilities and any other information that demonstrates their ability to meet the requirements above, no later than March 12, 2010 at 12 PM, E.S.T. Any quotes must be submitted electronically to the attention of [email protected], Contract Specialist (Contract Operations Group), with a concurrent copy to [email protected], Contracting Officer (Contract Operations Group).

GOT A FEELING THIS WILL GET YOU 6 MONTHS IN HELL

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Woman charged with hiding contraband in Bible | Local | StarNewsOnline.com.

Bolivia | Deputies say a 26-year-old woman tried to bring contraband into the Brunswick County jail Friday by hiding items in the cut-out pages of a Bible.

The items found in the Bible were among the contraband deputies say they found hidden in the personal property of Nicoll Christine Brennan of Southport.

In all, authorities found an ice pick, marijuana and pills, which are a controlled substance, and drug paraphernalia hidden in Brennan's property, according to a statement from the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies charged Brennan with numerous allegations including carrying a concealed weapon, possessing a controlled substance with the intent to sell and deliver, and possessing a controlled substance on jail property.

She is being held in the jail in lieu of a $30,000 bond.

– David Reynolds