Feb. 19, 2026

Crime Wire Weekly 2/20/26 | Shia LaBeouf’s Big Easy Beat-Down, Pickleball Brawl, Pizza Stalker (Preview)

Crime Wire Weekly 2/20/26 | Shia LaBeouf’s Big Easy Beat-Down, Pickleball Brawl, Pizza Stalker (Preview)
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Season 9
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In today’s  episode KJ and Jim bring you the week’s trending crime related headlines including the Louisiana beat-down of Shia LaBeouf at Mardi Gras. In Florida a friendly game of Pickleball turned into a 20 person brawl. The trial of a Georgia father who supplied the gun his son used in a school sh&&&ing has started.These stories and so much more today!

Timestamps
04:00 Shia LaBeauf’s Big Easy Beat-Down.
10:00 Carrollton Parade Float Halted After Police Are Pelted.
16:00 Florida PickleBall Game Turns into 20 Person Brawl.
20:00 UPDATE: Devil of the Ozarks Sentenced.
25:00 Louisiana Father Killed by Son In Mississippi Over Gaming System.
29:00 Former Police Chief Convicted of 16 Arson’s of Political Rivals.
36:00 Pizza Shop Workers Obsession Leads to Co-workers Murder.
40:00 18 Year Old Scams Was-Mart Gift Cards Like a Pro.
44:00 Man Urinates on Strip Mall Owners Property and is Killed For It.
47:00 Georgia School Shooter’s Dad Goes On Trial For Gifting Gun.

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Hey, folks, welcome back to your favorite podcast covering true

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crime headlines from all over the United States and even

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a few globally. A click, a click, a click, We're

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going to have a click look at some of the

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topics we have come in your way today. Carnival season

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is wrapped up in the Bayou State and it wasn't

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without a little bit of crime coming with it. Transformer

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store Shia Labuff caught a beat down and an arrest

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in the Crescent City during Mardi Gras, and we're going

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to be talking about that. Police became a target of

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a crew on one float in New Orleans where they

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were intentionally pelted with beads, and we're gonna be talking

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about that. In Florida, a pickleball match. Have you ever

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played pickleball?

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I have, and I love it. I hate to admit it,

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but I love it.

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Well. They have one in Florida that turned into a

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twenty person brawl that led to the arrest of a

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Florida couple. A former chief of police in Maryland has

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been sentenced for a nearly decade long arson's arson incident

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targeting rivals. The trial has started in Georgia for a

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father link to a Georgia high school shooting by gifting

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the weapon his son used in the shooting. We're gonna

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be talking about that. In Arizona, a man is sent

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to life in prison over a jealous obsession with a

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pizza shop co worker. We've got all these stories and

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much more for you today on Crime Wire Weekly. I

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am Jim Chapman.

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And I'm Kelly Jennings. And you did not see me

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just now, Jimothy, But I hold my phone up because

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we started this podcast at exactly nine one one, nine eleven.

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Uh well, hitting.

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It's crime got You don't like numbers, like you're not

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one of those people that likes numbers on things.

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No, that's pretty cool. I did that on purpose, exactly.

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It's intentional. Everything I do is with intent.

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I never doubted you.

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All right, Look, just a quick reminder before we get

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into today's topics. There's a lot of people, Kelly. They've

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been saying the hour we spend covering the crime headlines

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every Friday just is not enough, which is why we

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started Overtime. A reminder. Overtime is a full time video

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version of not only Crime Wire Weekly, but we have

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additional topics. You're not going to hear on this regular broadcast.

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It's completely commercial free. It features segments like True Crime

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Time Machine, where we take a look back at crimes

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throughout history, and you can find overtime on either of

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our individual Patreon pages and I link those in the

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description of the podcast you're listening to now, so you

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can just go and check it out. Is the reason

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you took my I'm just curious.

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Oh, I feel like I needed it? Sorry, got you? Sorry?

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Kelly's a pen thief. Y'all. Let's get into today's stories,

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and we're going to start out with Hollywood actor Shi Labuff,

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who is all over the news, of course, best known

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for his roles in blockbuster films like Transformers. Well, he

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found himself in handcuffs during the height of Mardi Grass

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celebrations in New Orleans. The thirty nine year old star

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was arrested early Tuesday morning on two counts of simple

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battery following an alleged physical altercation outside a bar in

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the French Quarter. The incident occurred just after midnight as

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revelers packed the streets for the annual Fat Tuesday festivities.

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Lebuff described by witnesses as inebriated and on a bar

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crawl reportedly got into a heated confrontation at a bar

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on Royal Street when bar staff attempted to remove Leabuff,

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which initially he left the bar, y'all. He comes back

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a little while later and he continues antagonizing patrons inside

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and outside of the bar. He was removed yet again,

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and this time he got really aggressive ONTs outside. He

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actually punched a staff member a couple of times, and

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allegedly also punched a bystander. In the news, he was

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restrained by several people. Paramedics from New Orleans EMS were

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called to the scene and they treated the actor for

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injury sustained in the scuffle. And there's actually video footage

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of him not only in the ambulance, but also during

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the scuffle. I'm sure a lot of you have seen that.

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Laboff was captured looking very dishoveled, to say the least,

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and local authorities confirmed the arrest, and they noted he

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was taken into custody shortly after and was released on

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his own recognents. Now, the disturbing thing here is this

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comes after years of Laboff publicly discussing his journey to sobriety.

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He's got some struggles there, and his of legal troubles

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seems to be kind of mounting for him. He's had

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multiple arrest in the past. As a matter of fact,

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when I was looking for some pictures of this incident,

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I came across probably I don't know, four or five

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booking photos of him over the last couple of years.

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So he's been having a fight with a demon on

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his back. But it looks like he's getting probably the

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worst press so far with this incident, and I think

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a lot of it has contributed to the fact that

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cell phones are so prevalent now and people are just

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recording him looking like an idiot quite frankly.

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All right, So I'm gonna just tell you this. I

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have a soft spot for him, and I don't I

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can't explain it, but I think it's from interviews that

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I've seen him do in the past, and one in

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particular really pulled up by heartstrings because he and what

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he did here was wrong. Okay, I'm not justifying this

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in any way, but he was doing an interview with

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the guy that played Shane on The World Walking Dead,

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John Burnhaal, who I also have a soft spot for.

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But anyway, they were talking about like addiction, and Shylah

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buff was like crying in it and yeah, and he

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was like, you know, I've gone to rehabit. My family

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didn't show up, and obviously I would say they probably

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didn't shut up for a reason because you've been problematic

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for a while. But he was hurt, you know. And

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then I guess it was his wife or his girlfriend

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at the time or whatever, she showed up a few

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weeks in and it really meant a lot to him.

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But he does have some demons, and I don't know

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what they are. But I also know that when he

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was a kid, he was so promising. Do you know

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how he got famous? By the way, how he got

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his first acting job. He was like nine years old

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or something young, I don't know, he was young, and

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he just called up a talent agency and claimed to

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be an agent for himself. Now clearly he was a kid, okay,

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but he thought he just nailed it. But they were

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so tickled by that, from what I understand, Obviously I

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wasn't on the phone, but from what I had seen,

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they were so tickled they called him in and that

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is actually how he got his first gig. If I

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if I remember that correctly. He had so much promise.

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Yeah, and Bill when he's still Look he's quite honestly

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an amazing actor, and he is known for being very

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intense in his craft. As a matter of fact, a

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lot of people felt very intimidated by him because he

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would outwork everybody on the set. That was a thing

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that caused a lot of riff with other actors because

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they felt like he was kind of peacocky. Yeah, you

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can't take it this series, you know that sort of thing.

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I know. I heard in one film he felt like

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whatever character he was playing needed to have one of

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his teeth missing, and he actually pulled his own tooth out.

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Yeah that's wild, That's that's a little bit far there.

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Show. Yeah, they got they got cgi man, they could

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make you look like you don't have it. I don't

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know if anybody told you that, but that's how serious

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he took his craft. There's no doubt I believe that

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alcohol is his drug choice. He is certainly an alcoholic,

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and he'd be the first one to tell you that

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he was claiming sobriety for the last several years. But

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you know, he's been living in New Orleans for the

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last year So he wasn't just here down here for

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Mardi Gras. He's been amongst the people.

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Proof that money and fame and all of that they

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don't solve anything. If anything, it probably compounds when you

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have yes people around you all well.

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And you gain that money. It's sung at such a

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young age, now fifty one. I'll take it. And I

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promise you, I ain't gonna go off the deep Endhya,

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fight people in New Orleans. When I'm ship.

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Faced, Hya, you're just like an hour down the roadbro,

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call me and I'll be happy to get a bar

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fight with you. Yeah, you just foot the bill.

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Yeah, I really do, honestly, And you know, we laugh

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about this, but I really do hope that he gets

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a hold to the demons that he's facing right now

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because he's he's on a dark path man, And I

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know that's a tough habit.

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It is an every day battle for the rest of

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your life. So and anybody who's kicked that man, shout

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out to y'all, I know how hard that's got to

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be to kick that. All right, we're going to stay

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in New Orleans and this is going to involve a

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float that may have messed up okay, so all forty

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one riders aboard Float ten in the Crew of Carlton

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Parade were ordered off the float Sunday afternoon after New

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Orleans Police said they intentionally hurled beads at officers in

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a quote aggressive manner, bringing the procession to a brief

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halt and leaving the elaborate Carlton Boots themed float to

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roll empty through the rest of the route. The incident

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unfolded as the Crew, the fourth oldest parading organization in

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New Orleans founded one hundred and two years ago, made

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its way along the traditional uptown route. NPD spokesperson Jonathan

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Morris confirmed that officers deemed the bead throwing intentionally directed

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at law enforcement personnel stationed along the path of the parade.

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Video footage shared on social media showed officers in high

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visibility vests directing ry writers, some still in their pink

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or their pale green and silver costumes, to disembark. Amid

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the chaos, the float, adorned with oversized boots and festive decorations,

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proceeded without its revelers past the reviewing stand on Saint

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Charles Avenue, causing a minor delay for subsequent parades. No

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arrests were made, and npde Chief An Kirkpatrick announced Tuesday

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that the department would not pursue criminal charges, leaving the

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matter to the crew for internal handling. The crew will

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handle this internally, she said, adding that leadership has already

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denounced the behavior. In a statement issued Monday evening, the

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Crew of Carlton expressed outrage and vowed swift accountability. The

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Crew of Carrollton, the fourth oldest parade crew in Marty Grass,

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is fully aware of the unfortunate incident that occurred during

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yesterday's parade, The group said. The safety of our riders

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and parade goers is paramount. The crew's disciplinary board will

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thoroughly address this matter, along with any related issues, to

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ensure all facts are obtained and properly reviewed. Captain Wayne

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Lee emphasized the crew's support for law enforcement. We stand

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in full support of the New Orleans Police Department and

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all supporting law enforcement agencies, and we recognize that without

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their dedication and service, Marti Gras parades would not be possible.

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Mayor moreno who had preemptively directed NPD to remove site

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or arrest anyone engaging a dangerous behavior, including empty including

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emptying floats if necessary, issued a stern rebuke. Our law

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enforcement officers work long hours during carnival to keep residents, visitors,

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and parade participants safe. They deserve our gratitude and cooperation,

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not hostility. Marti Gras. Parades are for all audiences and

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had time to come together with our families to celebrate

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our community, city, and culture. I won't tolerate anyone intentionally

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trying to harm kids, spectators, or officers. And that's that's

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a good. That's good.

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I like that.

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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Merles called the actions absolutely appalling

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and demanded accountability, while US Senator John Kennedy slammed the knuckleheads,

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as he called them involved from the senator's the Senate floor.

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Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser labeled it as unac acceptable and

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deeply disappointing. The New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation, which

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met with crew leaders, noted the writer's apologies and the

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group's commitment to identifying those responsible, with plans to ban

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them permanently from future rides. The Foundation is now collecting

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or collaborating excuse me on enhanced safety measures, including potential

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technology for writer accountability. Crew leaders met with NOPD Captain

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Anthony Buddy Mishu immediately after the parade to discuss these details,

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and an internal review is underway. While the crew has

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not confirmed how many individuals were involved, sources say it

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was a small group, though the collective removal underscored the

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severity of that breach.

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Yeah, and look, this almost never happens. It is a

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very out of pocket experience for this to occur. Where

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it's horrible. First of all, to look, Marty, gral beads

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are made joke, you hum them suckers hard enough.

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Really it hurts.

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It's like a sack of man. Yeah, you know, thrown

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at the right speed. I can tell you that the

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parades that I've been to over the years especially I've

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noticed that this year with the Denim Springs parade is uh,

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they would if you're a police officer, and they'll line

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up on the roads, you know, is to surf for

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protecting the public, and these floats go down. They give

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the best stuff to the officers so they'll they'll get

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their attention and they'll toss them like a giant giant

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bead or whatever something that lights up. And I remember thinking,

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well that ain't fair I need to wear a uniform.

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They're doing all the good stuff. So usually it is

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there is an overabundance of a respect shown for these officers.

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This is definitely an isolated incident, but I hope they

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get the max of whatever it is for doing that.

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Yeah, and you know who else I feel bad for

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in this are those crew riders who didn't do it.

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And then if you don't know this, so we have

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people listeners all over the US here, but parades cost

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a lot of money to be a rider in. So

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these people have spent thousands.

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Yeah, literally in addition, you got to buy your own beads.

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Yeah, you buy your own beads, your seat, everything. And

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if I had to be removed off of that float

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and paid all that money because some knucklehead, that's the

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nice way to put it, was pelting officers in the

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face with beads, you'd have a hearing from me, yeah,

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because that's despicable. And if you've never been to a parade,

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which to me is just unbelievable, right because that's our culture.

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But those beads, like you said, it's like a missile.

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And my kid, my own child, actually got smoked in

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the face at the same parade, by the way, we

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were there Saturday, and you know, a kid, she was crying.

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It hurts. It hurts a lot. And so then to

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know you were targeted. That's some bullshit there, especially the

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people that are keeping you, you know, keeping the drunks

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at baby. You say, yeah, that's crazy.

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All right, Let's go to Port Orange, Florida, and look,

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I've never played pickleball. It looks fun and it is

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something that all over the country people are really taking to.

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We just got a huge new center right there in Walker. Yeah,

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that's right, pickleball courts.

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That's right. All over the country they're building these pickleball

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courts and things like that. It's known as like old

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people tennis. Basically, you don't have to run anywhere. The

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ball just comes right to you.

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Pretty much make a whiffleball, is what it is.

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Yeah, yeah, it looks like a fun game. I'll have

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to play it sometime. But it wasn't very fun apparently

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this day, because a seemingly friendly pickleball doubles match at

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a country club erupted in kaot kaos in Melee, quite frankly,

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involving more than twenty people with a husband and wife

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team from one side accused of using fist, insults, and

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even a paddle as a weapon against their opponents, including

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a seventy year old man, before fleeing the scene. Anthony

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Saponzia and his wife, Julianne, they were fifty one years old,

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both of Florida, were arrested after the brawl at Bruce

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Creek Country Club. The couple were not members of the

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exclusive gated community, but they now face fell any battery

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charges and a lifetime ban from the club and its facilities.

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So the incident unfolded around eleven am during a mixed

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doubles game match between two husband and wife teams on

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one of the club's pickleball courts. Tensions bowled over when

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Anthony Sapanzia accused his opponent of violating a fundamental role

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of the fast growing sport, apparently stepping into the kitchen,

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which I had no idea what that was. It's apparently

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something in pickleball a reference.

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Okay, maybe I don't know how to play pickleball because

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I've never heard of stepping in the kitchen.

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Well, what it is is it's a seven foot non

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volley zone near the net where the players are barred

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from hitting the ball in the air. What started as

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a heated argument over the infraction escalated into a barriage

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of verbal insults. As the opposing couple began walking away

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after the match, Sapanzia allegedly yelled at the woman, your

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wife is a cunt. Yeah, I don't like that word,

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but he called her that. The victim's husband immediately confronting him,

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don't talk to my wife that way. That's when the

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fight turned physical. Sapanzia punched the man in the eye,

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then swung the pickleball paddle at him, striking him above

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the left eye and opening a deep laceration that sent

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blood all over his face. When the injured man's wife

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rushed to help her husband, Sapanzia pushed her forcefully to

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the ground. A seventy year old bystander tried to intervene

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and was punched him a face by Sapanzia. Julianne Sapanzi

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allegedly piled on attacking the elderly man while he was down.

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A frantic nine one one call captured the pandemonium. In

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that call, you can hear people saying it's bleeding and swollen.

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He's got blood all over his face. Over twenty individuals

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were involved in the fight. At the end, pons he

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had bolted from the club before law enforcement arrived, driving

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twelve miles to their gated condominium. They were arrested later

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that day and booked into jail. So pickleball is supposed

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to be fun. These people took it way too far.

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Of course, anytime you're involved in competition, that could happen.

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But twenty people involved in a pickleball brawl you don't

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see every day.

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Okay, So I'm tickled about the pickle fight. However, who

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the hell's hitting a seventy year old? They should have

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gotten abuse again, firm, that's ridiculous. And you know what,

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if you can't take the heat, stay out the kitchen,

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all right, you didn't like that, remember he went in

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the kitchen?

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Very good. Thanks, I thought it was great, pointed out.

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Yeah, oh my god, oh my god. You know what,

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you've got to have a little cheese in your life.

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I like a little cheesy joke every now and then.

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Apparently I'm not playing pickleball, right because I've never been

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in a fistfight at a pickleball of course.

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You know, anytime you involve competition. You may have a

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little heated argument.

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But you know a friend, and I say friend because

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I'm old enough now that our friends range like thirty

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years apart, like I'm forty. But I have a friend

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who's in her mid sixties and she's actually the state

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pickleball champion in Louisiana.

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Awesome.

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And she sews the patches on for the swat team

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out here.

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Awesome.

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So now you know pickleball and sewing. Okay, all right,

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So let's go to Arkansas and we're going to give

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you an update on this guy. So, the man that

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was known as the Devil in the Ozarks was sentenced

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to thirteen more years behind bars after poleting guilty on

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Tuesday to escaping from an Arkansas prison last year while

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serving an eighty year sentence for rape and murder. Grant Harden,

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fifty seven years old, will serve the thirteen year sentence

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for second degree escape consecutively to the eighty years he

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is currently serving. Harden is currently being held at the

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Varner Supermax in Gold, Arkansas. The convicted murderer and rapist

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was captured on June sixth, approximately one and a half

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miles north northwest of the North Central Unit prison facility

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in which he escaped on May twenty fifth. Harden had

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fled the prison around three pm through a sally port

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in the detention facility, wearing a makeshift ADC style uniform.

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Official set at the time, noting that the uniform he

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had been wearing was not official. Officials also said that

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at the time, Harden apparently used a black magic marker

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to dye his clothing as part of his disguise. Multiple federal, state,

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and local agencies were involved in the search for Harden

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in the weeks following his escape. The Arkansas Department of

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Corrections said that at the time of Harden's capture, tracking

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dogs were able to pick up a scent near Moccason

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Creek and Harden was apprehended a short time later. Harden

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was serving that eighty year sentence for the twenty seventeen

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murder of James Appleton and a nineteen ninety seven rate case.

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Yeahd dude, man, we covered this story initially. I don't

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know how many months ago it was. But when this

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guy escaped and they couldn't find him for a little while,

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and this is the problem with Yeah, he got thirty

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years for this escape, but he already had.

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Yeah, he was.

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He was in jail for the rest of life.

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Anyway, we call that practical line of I don't know what.

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The what could be done that would make it even

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worse on these guys. But when you escape from president,

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you got life in prison and you get an additional

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thirty years, what does it freaking matter?

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Yeah? The problem here is that he got out, and

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if he would have hurt somebody else and not just

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been captured, we would add a you know, obviously a

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much bigger he was a murder, yeah, and rapist. So

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this is not the one. This isn't some little doped

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that you know, escaped and we had to go tackle

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a field, right, And so this also makes you wonder

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and I know it sounds like a Karen, but I

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go very I go right back to the basics here.

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He used a magic marker on his uniform and was

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able to escape through a sally port. Where what was

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security doing at this point? Who was monitoring the cameras?

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Who was you know, what the hell was going on here?

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Because someone needs to be held accountable for that. The

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citizens deserve better. Yeah, and I feel like that's a

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big one. Yeah, that's a big one.

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Well, and like I say, covered it at the beginning,

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and and uh, those people were dealt with. Yeah, but

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I don't know what you know, My question is what

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can you possibly dated somebody that's already got life in

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prison to keep them from escape and is watch them

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and monitor.

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Well, no, he needs to go to max. He needs

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to go to lockdown. They didn't say what so when

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you're in prison, By the way, I know when I

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say sometimes i'll say they, well they locked him up.

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And people are confused by that because like he's in

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prison when you mean locked him up. Well, there's different

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levels in certain prisons, so I don't know if this

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is a max prison, yeah, super max facilities.

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Well he went to supermax after this.

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Well that's my point is that we do have different

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levels of lockdown. So like in prison, there's minimum, medium

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of maximum custody. Minimum is like they're they're able to

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like walk around them like trustees. You got your medium custodys.

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They're in the fence, so to speak, but they're able

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to moll around and walk around. He needs to be

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in max. He needs to be in a SiZ max. Yeah,

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but he wasn't in a cell block.

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No, he was. He was in a max prison facility.

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But I'm saying he needs to be in.

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Max multiple murderer, but he.

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Needs to be in max custody within the max prison,

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which means the highest level. He needs to be in

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a single man's cell block, locked up, and he's not.

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He's not got that movement.

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Well that's where he's at now, right, So that was

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the kind of the uh, the consequence for this as

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he's now been moved to another person that's considered a

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super max prison. And what happens here because he's all

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single cell there is no trustees.

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And I did I did classification for a living, and

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I can tell you this, once you escape, you have

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fucked yourself for the rest of your stay there because

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you're going to lose all freedoms or privileges that you

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would have once had. So you know, but they need

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to I mean, come on, you got to do better.

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Yeah, all right, let's go to Liberty, Mississippi. Tragic Store Here.

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A sixteen year old boy from Denim Springs, Louisiana, has

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been charged with first degree murder in the shooting death

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of his father, who had just taken away the teen's

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phoning game system as punishment. Sean Kevin Dozat, who is

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fifty one, a longtime tug boat pilot in Denham Springs residence,

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was killed February eighth at a family home in this

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small Ama county which is near the Louisiana border. And

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some people say a met. Some people say a meet.

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What do you say?

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I say a meet because the river is named am

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Amy Ver. But if you're from there, you say amit.

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I know, but I don't like that.

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Whenness is well, I don't think anybody cares. Kelly Jenny

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witness has told investigators that a fatal confrontation stem from

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the punishment dozah. And I think it's Dozat, y'all. If

465
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:45.400
I'm mispronouncing that, I apologize. It's either doz that or dose.

466
00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.319
But his son, who was not named in court records

467
00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:50.559
due to his age, was arrested at the scene and

468
00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:54.160
booked into the a Meet County jail on a murder charge.

469
00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:56.880
He is being held on a fifty thousand dollars bond,

470
00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:01.079
which I found low for murder. The incident has devastated

471
00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:05.759
the close net Livingston Parish community, and this father was

472
00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:09.920
a well known guy for his decades in the maritime industry.

473
00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:13.480
At the time of his death, he worked for Turned Services,

474
00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:17.599
overseeing more than twenty tugboats along the Mississippi River. He

475
00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:22.279
and his wife, Melissa had recently purchased a home in Liberty, Mississippi.

476
00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:25.880
They had dreams of operating a family farm. According to

477
00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:29.440
his obituary, the couple have been married to for twenty

478
00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:33.799
one years and they shared one son. I'm not going

479
00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:36.799
to name him right now. Me. Moral service was held

480
00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:40.319
Saturday at Emmanual Baptist Church in Denim Springs. This is

481
00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:44.640
this past Saturday, drawing hundreds of mourners. Visitation preceded the

482
00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:50.000
service and several people spoke at that. But big problem

483
00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:54.359
here with these gaming systems, and I mean a son

484
00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:57.799
killing his father, the fact that he got his fulled away.

485
00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.440
So my thoughts are this, we are are in a

486
00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.599
society right now where uh, we are hyper fixated on

487
00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.880
devices and on gaming devices, especially for young people. And

488
00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:10.839
this is absolutely no shade towards this family at all.

489
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:13.039
This is just a generality that I'm saying right now

490
00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:17.599
is that the limiting of these these systems and these

491
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.599
gaming times seems to be paramount as a for you know,

492
00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:23.400
as a former teacher, I can tell you that these

493
00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:26.759
gaming systems are affecting these kids more than I think

494
00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:28.839
a lot of us realize. Even if they were just

495
00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:30.920
playing a basic like Mario game. I'm not even saying

496
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.839
they're they're doing some you know, crazy grand theft auto

497
00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:35.200
game or something like that, because I know there's a

498
00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:37.319
whole argument there on that. But let's say you're just

499
00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.000
playing a generalized game. It becomes an addiction, just like

500
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.680
we're addicted to our vice devices, just like vaping, just

501
00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:47.240
like anything else, and the over stimulus of the brain

502
00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:49.400
of a young person. And I don't mean to get

503
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:51.640
too technical here, but you know, they you take away

504
00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:53.759
something that someone depends on, and that's what they want

505
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.160
to do all day, every day. It's almost like think

506
00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.599
about taking a drug from an addict. He slipped out.

507
00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.000
Obviously he did something I would hope that he is

508
00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:05.000
totally mortified by at this point.

509
00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:08.960
But it can't be undone, right, it will, I agree

510
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:14.079
with you, and it will affect your your brain chemistry

511
00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.440
quite frankly, as a matter of fact, just yesterday before

512
00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.799
you know, prior to this recording, Uh, the CEO of

513
00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:25.599
Facebook actually is involved in a lawsuit right now and

514
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:30.119
testify for over five hours in California. Because Facebook has

515
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:34.240
been doing some things that are not exactly on the

516
00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:39.680
up and up allegedly as it were, allegedly, we don't

517
00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:43.319
want them coming after us. But some things like if

518
00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:48.960
Kelly were to take a selfie and Facebook notices, these algorithms, notice,

519
00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:53.359
this will blow your mind that she deleted that selfie.

520
00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:58.119
In some cases, that algorithm, algorithm will assume that Kelly

521
00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:02.720
is very self conscious and so it will start sending

522
00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:08.400
her advertisements based off of, you know, books related to

523
00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:11.519
people being self conscious and how to overcome that, things

524
00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.480
of that nature. These algorithms will actually manipulate based off

525
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.240
of your behavior on Facebook and.

526
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:19.240
Those reels that play.

527
00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:21.960
Now, I know that's not a game, yeah, such as

528
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.880
this situation, but it shows you technology and what it's

529
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:27.839
doing to braink chemistry.

530
00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:29.799
Well, I was gonna say something else, but I want

531
00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:31.880
to jump real quick. I know for a fact that

532
00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.839
this is the case, but from personal experience, like I

533
00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:37.920
if I'm just watching a baseball game on TV, I

534
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:40.440
also have a device in front of me at the

535
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.039
same time, Like, what is happening now? What is it doing?

536
00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:45.079
To us that we have to have multiple things go

537
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.519
like this constant stimulus. You've got to be just bombarded

538
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:50.960
with images and things. It's like your brain is craving

539
00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:53.960
more and more and more and more more. And while

540
00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:56.039
this is going to be horrific, just that this case,

541
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:59.079
we were just talking about these gaming systems. I think

542
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.759
we've got to come up with a plan as parents

543
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:05.920
of young people that this is not going to be

544
00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.559
the only thing that they are dependent on to bide

545
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:10.960
their time, you know, get them outdoors, get them playing.

546
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:12.400
And I'm not saying they didn't do this. I'm just

547
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:14.319
saying in general, we got to get them off that.

548
00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:14.960
I agree.

549
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.799
All right, Let's go to Rockville, Maryland, where a former

550
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.359
Maryland police chief who spent decades in law enforcement was

551
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.319
sentenced Friday to fifty five years in prison for a

552
00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:28.680
string of deliberate fires he set over nearly ten years,

553
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:32.960
targeting people he viewed as personal enemies. This included his

554
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.119
own step son, and what prosecutors called a shocking betrayal

555
00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:40.319
of the badge he once wore. David Michael Crawford, seventy four,

556
00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:44.039
of Ellacott City, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Circuit Court

557
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:46.759
to two counts of first degree arson and one count

558
00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:50.079
of second degree arson for fires at family properties in

559
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:53.920
Clarksburg between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty. The sentence which

560
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.359
was handed down by Judge Christopher Keyhoe, which that's an

561
00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.279
interesting last name, Jim. Do you remember me doing the

562
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.319
Keyho murders? Wow? Wasn't it in that same state? I'm

563
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:06.640
not sure anyway. These will run concurrently with the two

564
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.480
consecutive life sentences plus seventy five years. Crawford is already

565
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:13.680
serving from a twenty twenty three conviction in neighboring Howard County.

566
00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:17.000
At seventy four. Crawford, who was a one time major

567
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:20.240
in the Prince George's County Police Department and chief of

568
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:24.200
the Laurel and District Heights departments, is effectively imprisoned for life.

569
00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:27.200
He is not, or he is only not a killer,

570
00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:29.559
by the grace of God. And that's what his stepson,

571
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.279
Justin Schermstrom told the court, his voice breaking as he

572
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:35.880
described the terror of discovering that the man he had

573
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:39.279
known since age seven had tried to burn his family alive.

574
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:43.599
Investigators say Crawford orchestrated at least thirteen arsons across five

575
00:30:43.640 --> 00:30:48.559
Maryland counties, Prince George's, Montgomery, Howard, Frederick, and Charles from

576
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:53.359
twenty eleven to twenty twenty. The blazes destroyed or damaged homes, garages,

577
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:57.400
and vehicles belonging to relatives, former colleagues, and others who

578
00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.759
had crossed him from a school board dispute to a

579
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:06.559
professional slight. What in the world now his target list?

580
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.079
This was discovered on his cell phone and cataloged his

581
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:14.279
victims using coated symbols and initials. Surveillance footage captured him

582
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:17.960
in a hooded sweatshirt dousing properties with gasoline and flicking

583
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.440
a lighter. One video even recorded the three distinct clicks

584
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:25.200
as flames ignited. In one case, he accidentally set his

585
00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:28.319
own leg on fire and later emailed a medical forum

586
00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:32.880
about the resulting scar. The Montgomery County fires were intensely personal.

587
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.440
In twenty sixteen, he poured gasoline along the garage of

588
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.799
his stepson's town home at three seventeen am, igniting a

589
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:43.559
blaze that could have spread to neighboring homes. Man a

590
00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:46.519
freaking town home, Jim, imagine that lose everything because the

591
00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:50.359
neighbor has unknown beef, I guess with his stepdad. Two

592
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:53.640
more followed, another one at the same address in twenty seventeen,

593
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:57.119
and a third at Shirstrom's new home in twenty twenty

594
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.440
while his pregnant wife and young children slept inside. This

595
00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:03.279
is a deeply personal case causing my family a lot

596
00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:05.319
of stress over the years. This is what he said

597
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.519
outside of the court. I mean this is someone that

598
00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:11.160
I knew intimately for over thirty years. Montgomery County State

599
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.960
Attorney John McCarthy called the crimes evil and terrifying, noting

600
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.160
that homes were attached to others in a dense neighborhood.

601
00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:21.279
If you fired him, you'd be a target. McCarthy said.

602
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:23.960
If he had a dispute with you over some schoolwar matter,

603
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:27.480
you became a target. The fifty five year sentence, he added,

604
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:31.359
serves as a backstop to ensure that Crawford dies behind bars,

605
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:35.279
even if his prior convictions are overturned on appeals. Montgomery.

606
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:39.599
Montgomery County Fire Lieutenant Chris Moe, who led the investigation,

607
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:43.279
expressed relief after a decade of dead ends. It's nice

608
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.000
to finally see after ten years that we can finally

609
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.359
bring some sort of resolution to the case and to

610
00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:51.680
the family and give them some closure. Crawford, who resigned

611
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.200
as Laurel's police chief in twenty ten amid unrelated scrutiny,

612
00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:58.039
showed little emotion during the hearing. His attorney said that

613
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:01.400
he had apologized to the victims and accept responsibility. The

614
00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:04.640
case unraveled in twenty twenty one when Prince George's County

615
00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:09.640
detectives posted surveillance video online. A Montgomery County investigator recognized

616
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.400
the pattern, linking it to Crawford throughout shared grudges. The

617
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:17.880
followed or what followed, was a sprawling probe involving multiple agencies,

618
00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:21.240
culminating in his arrest and convictions that exposed a double

619
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:25.240
life the protector turned predator. Crawford's fall from grace has

620
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:27.559
left a community reeling. We wanted this to be a

621
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.440
backstop to ensure that the defendant, who is now seventy

622
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.319
four years old, would spend the rest of his life

623
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:36.359
behind bars. For the victims, it was a long overdue reckoning.

624
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:42.440
Yeah, and former police chief, I mean political rivals. This

625
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:46.920
is like small town politics going wild with this guy.

626
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:51.559
And look, these are arsonists, they are their own breed.

627
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.319
These people that just love to watch fire and they

628
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:57.480
don't give a shit if people are in a house

629
00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:01.240
or the property they're destroying in there. Those are real.

630
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:02.920
Arsonist is real.

631
00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:07.519
Yeah, it's a real thing. Also, excuse me medically speaking

632
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:10.119
that I read a study on arsonists and like it

633
00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:16.119
triggers certain levels of dopamine and other neuro transmitters that drop,

634
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:22.239
and they found it in arsonists specifically that were studying. Yeah,

635
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:24.559
but this level of betrayal, and I agree with that

636
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:28.159
word betrayal because there are good officers out there who

637
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:30.760
dedicate their lives to help and protecting others. And you

638
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:33.599
have this moron who's not only willing to hurt anybody

639
00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:36.480
that got in his way, but his own family and

640
00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:40.840
young children, and dying by fire would have been the

641
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:44.599
most horrific death. Sure, this could have been way worse

642
00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:47.559
than just property. And shame on him. He does deserve

643
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:51.639
to die behind bars. Shame on you. Hey everyone, Crime

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