In this episode of Crime Wire Weekly, hosts Jim Chapman and Kelly Jennings discuss a series of trending crime stories, including possible failures in the alert system for the Texas floods, The Gulf Coast Stapleton’s go viral after Joshua Stapleton’s guilty plea, The family of Kaylee Goncalves seeks to return 85k collected on GoFundMe, and so much more today! (See topics below)
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- Texas flood rescue teams continue search for missing.
- Gulf Coast Stapleton’s: Josh Stapleton’s guilty plea.
- Kaylee Goncalves family seeks to return 85k
- Woman’s death ruled a homicide while paddle boarding.
- AZ woman assaulted and locked in shed for weeks.
- Teenage girl turns herself in for parents murder.
- (10) people charged with attempted murder after ICE ambush.
- Woman bludgeons man to death and leaves PEDO note on his chest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, so hopefully everyone had a fantastic Fourth
of July. This is our first episode recording since and
we're going to start off by telling you the topics
we're covering today in the world of crime. And the
first thing we are gonna discuss today the absolute sad, tragic,
unimaginable story that is unfolded in Texas with the flooding
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along the Guadalupe River. Now you might be wondering where
is the crime in that, And while the occurrence itself
was no one's fault per se, there was definitely some
failures there as it relates to advanced notice that may
have helped save some lives. So we're going to discuss
that give our opinions on it. We're also covering several
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actually cases out of Georgia today, one involving the Gulf
Coast Stapleton's a very popular TikTok couple and the likely
canceling of this couple due to not only Josh Stapleton's
recent guilty pleaded child sex exploitation charges, but also his wife,
Brittany's response to that plea. And also in Georgia, a
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seventeen year old girl is charged with the murder of
her mother and her step father after months of pleading
with TikTok creators to help find the killer.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
In Texas, ten people.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Had been charged in an ambush at an ICE detention center.
We're going to discuss that as well as the violence
rising overall against ICE agents throughout the country. Kayleie Gonsalvez
family is giving eighty five thousand dollars in donations back
to go fund Meet. We're going to tell you why
that is a woman in Florida stabbed demand to death
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and left a note on his chest with the word
PETO for police to find.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Is she justified. We're going to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
An Arizona man is in deep trouble after he is
charged with kidnapping, raping, and locking a woman up for
weeks inside of a shed. We're going to talk about
that a woman's found dead after going paddable and this
occurred in Maine. Her death was ruled as a homicide
and people are fearful in that state. We're going to
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tell you about that a Pennsylvania man beheaded his father
live on YouTube and he had his day in court.
This is a not only a tragic but very bizarre
story that we're going to be discussing. So with that,
welcome to Crime Wire Weekly.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennys Kelly.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
We got a lot of news to cover today.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm talking about a lot, a long.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Way to go in a short time to get there.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, and all over the place too.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I'm seeing states that we don't normally have a lot
to go out of too.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, Maine, of all places. I didn't think crime occurred
in Maine.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I didn't either.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I thought it was just the best people just just
do everything right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah in Maine.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, and it's so small, but they got their share
of crime, I guess, just like everywhere else in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But we're going to start this one.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Off today in Texas, and let me tell you, tragedy
doesn't do it justice. Horrific doesn't do it justice. The
search for more than one hundred and seventy people still
missing after flash floods has devastated Central Texas. This is
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stretched into as of this recording its seventh day, and
the death toll just continues to rise. At least one
hundred and twenty people are confirmed dead, according to local
law enforcement. Ongoing search operations are still underway to find
anyone lost in the debris after the catastrophic weekend storm,
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which caused the Guadalupe River to swell rapidly in near
unprecedented levels.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There are one.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hundred and sixty one people known to be missing in
Kerr County alone. All of this is located in what's
known as the flood prone Texas Hill Country west of Austin,
the state capital, of course, of Texas. Ten others are
missing in other parts of the Statesident Trump has signed
a federal disaster declaration, and what that does is it
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allows FEMA to be deployed, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Without federal help, obviously this would be even more of
a mess than it is currently. And what really makes
this difficult in the realm of recovery of victims, etc.
Is that ongoing storms are rolling through daily, so it
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just hampers a lot of the efforts to rescue people.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
A large majority of.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The flooding desks have occurred in Kerr County, where ninety
five of those people died. That one county camp Mystic,
of course, we've all heard about that, a girls summer
camp that has cabins along the river. It's in a
rural part of Kerr County. Twenty seven campers and councilors
have been confirmed dead, and surviving campers described it as
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catastrophic the flooding. Some survivors said they woke up and
water was rushed through the windows. Crews continue to search
for five missing campers as of this recording, and one
council or one child not associated with the camp is
also missing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Friday of last week was the last time a missing
person was found alive in Kirk County, but search cruise
continue to serve a miles of the Guadalupe River in
hopes of locating others lost in that flood. The river
runs for approximately two hundred and thirty miles through a
region that sits between Austin and San Antonio. Starts in
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Kirk County and then ends along the Gulf Coast. Now,
the nickname for this area is flash flood Alley because
the terrain makes it vulnerable to inundation. And the reason
for that is is a sealed country. It doesn't have
soil like we have here in Louisiana, where the water
drains into the soil and it serves as kind of
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a sponge. This is rock underneath this. There's not a
whole lot of dirt. It's like mountainside. So water doesn't
doesn't it doesn't soak into the ground. It just kind
of runs off as it hits the ground.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So, first of all, I'm not in any way comparing
the loss of life to what we experienced in twenty sixteen.
So in twenty sixteen, we had what we locally referred
to as the Great Flood, and all of us were
impacted by this. I think it was like ninety two
percent of our parish was wiped out. And we understand
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as far as the loss of property, okay, which does
not equate to the loss of life that we're about
to discuss. But to see everyone, everyone, y'all, not not
a few people, not just a roadway, not just some people.
Everyone's possessions stacked what felt like miles high, all the
way down the road, every road you went down. We
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understand how that feels here. But these children and these
adults that lost their lives in a horrific way. I
was seeing some people ask questions media, of course, about
like how come.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They couldn't get out of the way. Why didn't they
you know, how could this happen?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Listen to a guy and I wanted to share this
because it impacted me, And he said, this is how
it happened because this was not a curated waterway that
all of this water rushed through, meaning it was not smooth.
Underneath this water. There were obstacles, and there were stop signs,
and there were houses, and there were cars, and there
were campers. So when the water rose, just because you're
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thinking you could tread this water, what happens is it
creates that tumble roll underneath that suction. Plus you're slamming
into things, you're getting stuck underwater.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Because most people don't die in floodwaters.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
They die as a result of what's in the water,
so and being unable to get away from it. So
then they just made it even more tragic to think
of all the and I know there's adults that we've lost,
but these kids and the elderly, those tug at my heart.
And to know that they were terrified and it was
really just a free for all. It sounds like when
the water took them, you just did the best you could.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Of course, anytime you have a tragedy like this, you
look at Wow, what could have been done better.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Nobody's signing fault here. This was nobody's fault.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Nobody intentionally did this, but there were some things that occurred.
As I read you in that article, this was known
as as flash flood Alley basically, and so this isn't
the first time that this has happened, it's just the
first time it's happened to this extent. This is one
of the biggest ones, if not the biggest one, definitely
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the biggest loss of life because of the fact that
these campers happened to be camping at the time that
this occurred. So the issue becomes what was missing?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Why was there not more warning?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And when you ask those questions, Look, they've been debating
for years getting sirens in that area because it is
prone to flooding, and red tape kind of got in
the way.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
You're well, And to add to that too, they use
a system there and I can't remember the exact name
of it, but it's where basically the highest person on
the stream would call downstream and alert those neighbors, who
would then called down and alert those neighbors. And they
believe in that system and it's worked. But I saw
that I don't know if it was a council meeting
or what it was. That they thought that it was
too extravagant and that it would kind of ruin the
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culture of their area to put those sirens in, and
so they shot it down.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And it was a councilman, and it was a counselman
for that county, and it was an old timer and
it is a guy that, hey, we don't need all
this stuff. And then the issue became, we can't afford
all this stuff. Well they're putting that stuff in now
because the governor of Texas said, we're going to pay
for it, and we're going to put it in because
one of the issues and I don't know the expense
of this stuff, but apparently it's not cheap.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And one of the issues was we.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Just don't have the money. We're not a rich county.
You know this in Dallas, Texas right here. Yeah, So
we don't want to change the culture of our area,
and it becomes city fied.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You know, people get to that age where they don't
like that.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Flock there too, because it is country I'm gonna say
country living, but it's laid back pace and it's you know,
and they and people like that when they're vacation.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Sure, had they had that, certainly there would have been
more warning. But let me say this, when the river
rises twenty six feet and forty five minutes, I don't
care how many sirens are going off, You're gonna have problems. Yeah,
there's just not enough time. And this is the middle
of the night. This isn't two o'clock in the afternoon
on a Wednesday, right, this is the middle of the
night and you're asleep. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's instances like this too that are bringing out the
best of people, but also the worst. And I know
I'm not gonna harp on that, but there are some
people that have said some things that are.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You can't take back. Just I want to hug these.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Strangers, you know, and tell them, God, yeah, I can't
fix it, you know, but I want you to know
how much people care.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
We care. All over the world.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
People care, Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And look, I'm glad you brought that up because a
lot of people have stepped up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Of course, the Cajun.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Navy right here in this area is there now and
working with agencies rescuing people. They're going through cars that
were flooded and have now stacked on top of each
other where sadly they're finding bodies left and right.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
My nieces inside these vehicles.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Teacher at my school was one of the dead that's
been found. It's far reaching, and so I'm bowing my head.
Maybe you can join in and we can find more
miracles and have this happen.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All right, Well, let's go to Georgia.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
A seventeen year old girl in Georgia has been arrested
in charge on the suspicion that she murdered her own
mother and stepfather. On Tuesday, July eighth, the Carroll County
Sheriff's Office confirmed in a press conference that Sarah Grace
Patrick voluntarily turned herself in for arrest in relation to
the February twentieth, twenty twenty five murders of her mother,
Kristin Brock, who is forty one, and stepfather, James Brock,
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who was forty five. A press release shared on Facebook
said that the victims died of apparent gunshot wounds. The
couple's bodies were discovered in their bedroom. Patrick was charged
with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
The press release cited mountains of physical and digital evidence
and countless interviews as what led to the charges. From
the very moment the nine one one call was received,
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a relentless investigation began, one that would span months, assume
thousands of hours, and require the full weight of local
and federal law enforcement partnerships. According to the press release,
Carroll County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Ashley Halsey addressed the case
during a press conference, and she said the Sheriff's office
had charged Patrick as an adult, noting that they were
still working to determine a motive. We don't know what
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goes through the mind of a child that wants to
harm her parents, Halsey said to the assembled press. Halsey
noted that it was possible others were involved with this case,
and the press release stated that additional arrests are possible.
Speaking to the press, she said that it was hard
to tell if other family members had been involved in
the crime or its cover up. However, she added that
they had been nothing but cooperative during the investigation. Now,
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Patrick's biofather was with her whenever she turned herself in
for arrest for the very horrific and sad case. According
to Halsey, the teen is the one who called nine
one one after her six year old sister discovered the
victim's bodies. Halsey referred to the young girl as the
saddest victim in the case. A big takeaway from this
story is a mother and a stepfather will never be
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able to raise their children. According to Hulsey, police say
that they have a mountain of digital evidence that points
only to this seventeen year old girl.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and the most shocking thing about this story was
the fact that this girl, this seventeen year old girl
who has now turned herself in for the murder of
her mother and stepfather, was going on TikTok for the
last three or four months, and she was making videos
asking people to help her solve the case, acting like
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she was grieving on these tiktoks for months. As a
matter of fact, she was reaching out to high profile
true crime folks on TikTok and saying, hey, can you
help me?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Can we do like.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Cold case type stuff or help find the killer things?
And these people were feeling sorry for this girl, and
the whole time it was a sham because it appears
allegedly that she killed her own parents.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What drives somebody to do this without a mental defect
is beyond me, you know what I'm saying. And if
you don't have a mental defect, all we can says
you're evil. I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I mean, if you kill your parents, you got to
have some sort of defect somewhere, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And then to know that you're gonna you did this
knowing that a six year old child, yeah, would be
the one to find the body. And I'm saying that
because if the teen called nine to one one, then
she knew what they were walking into and she had
the six year.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Old obviously there one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
This clearly sounds premeditated. And then to try to seek fame.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, and I did.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I did go check out that TikTok and I mean
she's on there and she's, you know, telling this story
and supposedly it heard people going into her house and
all this is a line she's been lying for like
three months about this.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Not cool.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
All right, We're gonna stay in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And one of the most trending stories there is right
now out there on Google is the fact that a
Georgia influencer apparently has been living a double life. Joshua
Stapleton has been sentenced to prison for child pornography crimes.
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The Georgia native and social media influencer was sentenced to
twenty years in prison. However, before we all get excited
that finally someone who commits these kind of things got
a stiff sentence, well, fifteen of that was suspended for
probation following his guilty plead in court. Yees sexual exploitation
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of children was his actually final charges. Times twenty counts now.
Stapleton maintained a virtual presence as part of the Gulf
Coast Stapleton's with his wife, Britney Moore's Stapleton. They gained
over nearly one hundred thousand followers through content such as
workout videos, trivel posts. They're living the perfect life right.
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His online activity extended beyond his home town in Georgia,
where he previously owned a state farm agency. Him and
his wife are actually state farm agents. Between twenty eighteen
and twenty twenty, authorities reported that he downloaded images involving
pre pewbescent children. This ain't not that it's any better,
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but this isn't sixteen seventeen year olds this is pre
pubescent twelve years or younger children in sexually abusive situations.
Now I'll leave it up to you to figure out
what sexually abusive situations are.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But it's not good. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The investigation began following a tip submitted through IKAC Internet
Crimes Against Children Program and was conducted by Bartow's law
enforcement in coordination with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and
US Department of Homeland Security. The investigation's findings and ensuing
legal proceedings placed Stapleton in the Bartoo County Sheriff jail
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with this sentencing marked by non negotiated plea deal. And
just quickly, what a non negotiated plea deal, y'all is.
Let's say you were trying to plea bargain. See, originally
he had forty counts. So he goes to the prosecutor
and hey, let's make a deal. And the prosecutor makes
a deal, but it's he didn't like the deal, and
he says, Okay, I'm going to roll the dice. I'm
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going to let the judge pick the deal. And the
judge in this case picked the deal. Cut that sentence
from forty counts to twenty counts the charges rather and
he got the sentence I just readie.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Now. Since the news of this sentencing.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Became public knowledge, reactions have been absolutely crazy all over TikTok,
especially where they had a big following. His wife actually
came out with a video in response to this sentencing
and look, I'm not bad idea and appeared to be
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defending this guy to an Not only that, but it
means that she knew about this even before she married them.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
These charges they had no secret.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
She said, what you think that helps you, lady? That
didn't help you out to say we had no secrets.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
When the police approached him and the policeman actually asked him, so.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What are you doing with these pictures?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
He said he was masturbating to them, and he actually
told the policeman he didn't realize it was illegal to
do that.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Get out here.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He's in a state farm agent and y'all, if you saw,
look this guy, good looking guy.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Both of them are a couple of wife.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Very attractive and that's what obviously the appeal to this
case is because it proves to everybody that sex offenders
don't have a look.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
She's not a sex offender. She wasn't with him when
he was.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Doing this, but she said she she knew about the charges.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
She obviously I would assume doesn't believe them.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But for her to have the audacity to then put
your face on camera were people who are you're an
influencer and then say.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I knew about this, Okay, but he's a good man.
The fuck he is. Leave kids alone in it.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Sorry, I know I'm being aggressive here, but there's no
excuse and shame on you. Let's go back to Texas,
all right, I gotta, but it ain't gonna get much better,
all right. Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged ten people
with attempted murder following what they called an ambush of
law enforcement late Friday outside in Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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detention facility. Authorities alleged the suspects conspired to create a
disturbance outside of the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, which
is located about forty miles southwest of Dallas, in order
to lure ice personnel outside of the facility where they
could shoot and kill them. A number of shots were fired,
and the Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck.
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Acting US Attorney Nancy Larson for the Northern District of
Texas said each has been charged with three counts of
attempted murder of a federal officer and three counts of
discharging a firearm in relation to.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
A crime of violence.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
If convicted, they each face a mandatory sentence of ten
years to life behind bars, and eleventh suspect also faces
up to ten years in prison on charges of obstruction
of justice and conspiracy for attempting to conceal and destroy
evidence in connection with the attack.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
We want to.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Tell everyone out there, this will not be tolerated, Larson said.
Those who use violence against law enforcement officers will be
found and they will be prosecuted with the toughest criminal
statutes and penalties that we have available to us. The
incident occurred shortly before eleven pm Central time last Friday
outside the prayer Land Detention Center. Larson alleges ten to
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twelve people dressed in black military style clothing began shooting
fireworks and vandalizing vehicles and graffiti the facility to draw
the ice personnel outside when an Alvarado police officer arrived
on scene. One of the suspects is alleged to have
open fire, wounding the unidentified responder in the neck. Another
suspect shot between twenty and thirty rounds at unarmed Corrections
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officers who exited the facility. The suspects fled the scene,
but were later arrested during traffic stops, Larson said, adding
that they were found in possession of twelve sets of
body armor, spray paint, and a flag that said resist Fascism,
Fight Oligarchy, as well as flier stating fight ice terror
with class war and free all political prisoners. Over the weekend,
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officers executing search warrants discovered masks, goggles, tactical gloves, a
large load of weapons, and what Larson called insurrectionist material.
Let's discuss this incident. It was a planned ambush with
the intent to kill ICE Corrections officer, she said, Make
no mistake, this was not a so called peaceful protest.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was indeed an ambush.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
No employees at the correction facility were injured, and the
Johnson County Sheriff's Office has said the injured officer was
flown to Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, where they
were treated and released.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Thoughts on that Jimith th Well.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
First of all, thank god that this officer was released
and appears to be okay.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Even after being shot. This is shit. Has got to
stop with the end.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Look, this ain't a political post or political comment right here,
anything of that nature. This is bullshit, total to be
ambushed like this. And if you saw the lineup of
these guys that did this and gals, it looks like
some Opie Taylor some bitches.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's just a total joke.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
That they even think that this is going to have
some sort of effect that.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Would help their calls. Whatever that is right?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And what kind of world are we living in?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I even told my kids this recently, I said, what
kind of world are we living in? Where people are
willing to go attack people they don't know over people
that they don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's a great point.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You what in the world would make you and these
correction officers are unarmed?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What an ultimate active cowardice.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
These people are just doing their job whatever it is.
If you don't agree with that, there are ways to
handle that, and this certainly ain't the way to handle it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You can voice your opinion to your congressman or.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Whoever find somebody in power, talk to them.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
These ICE agents are everyday people that are doing everything
they can to protect borders.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Many prayers to all the ICE agents out there, men
doing the best they can.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Mad respect.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
All right, we're gonna go to Idaho.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The family of Kailee Gonzalveez, one of the four University
of Idaho students murdered in twenty twenty two, says they
want to return eighty five thousand dollars raised through go fundme.
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of July. This is our first episode recording since and
we're going to start off by telling you the topics
we're covering today in the world of crime. And the
first thing we are gonna discuss today the absolute sad, tragic,
unimaginable story that is unfolded in Texas with the flooding
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along the Guadalupe River. Now you might be wondering where
is the crime in that, And while the occurrence itself
was no one's fault per se, there was definitely some
failures there as it relates to advanced notice that may
have helped save some lives. So we're going to discuss
that give our opinions on it. We're also covering several
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actually cases out of Georgia today, one involving the Gulf
Coast Stapleton's a very popular TikTok couple and the likely
canceling of this couple due to not only Josh Stapleton's
recent guilty pleaded child sex exploitation charges, but also his wife,
Brittany's response to that plea. And also in Georgia, a
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seventeen year old girl is charged with the murder of
her mother and her step father after months of pleading
with TikTok creators to help find the killer.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
In Texas, ten people.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Had been charged in an ambush at an ICE detention center.
We're going to discuss that as well as the violence
rising overall against ICE agents throughout the country. Kayleie Gonsalvez
family is giving eighty five thousand dollars in donations back
to go fund Meet. We're going to tell you why
that is a woman in Florida stabbed demand to death
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and left a note on his chest with the word
PETO for police to find.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Is she justified. We're going to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
An Arizona man is in deep trouble after he is
charged with kidnapping, raping, and locking a woman up for
weeks inside of a shed. We're going to talk about
that a woman's found dead after going paddable and this
occurred in Maine. Her death was ruled as a homicide
and people are fearful in that state. We're going to
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tell you about that a Pennsylvania man beheaded his father
live on YouTube and he had his day in court.
This is a not only a tragic but very bizarre
story that we're going to be discussing. So with that,
welcome to Crime Wire Weekly.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm Jim Chapman and I'm Kelly Jennys Kelly.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
We got a lot of news to cover today.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm talking about a lot, a long.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Way to go in a short time to get there.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, and all over the place too.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I'm seeing states that we don't normally have a lot
to go out of too.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, Maine, of all places. I didn't think crime occurred
in Maine.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I didn't either.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I thought it was just the best people just just
do everything right.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah in Maine.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, and it's so small, but they got their share
of crime, I guess, just like everywhere else in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But we're going to start this one.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Off today in Texas, and let me tell you, tragedy
doesn't do it justice. Horrific doesn't do it justice. The
search for more than one hundred and seventy people still
missing after flash floods has devastated Central Texas. This is
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stretched into as of this recording its seventh day, and
the death toll just continues to rise. At least one
hundred and twenty people are confirmed dead, according to local
law enforcement. Ongoing search operations are still underway to find
anyone lost in the debris after the catastrophic weekend storm,
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which caused the Guadalupe River to swell rapidly in near
unprecedented levels.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There are one.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hundred and sixty one people known to be missing in
Kerr County alone. All of this is located in what's
known as the flood prone Texas Hill Country west of Austin,
the state capital, of course, of Texas. Ten others are
missing in other parts of the Statesident Trump has signed
a federal disaster declaration, and what that does is it
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allows FEMA to be deployed, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Without federal help, obviously this would be even more of
a mess than it is currently. And what really makes
this difficult in the realm of recovery of victims, etc.
Is that ongoing storms are rolling through daily, so it
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just hampers a lot of the efforts to rescue people.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
A large majority of.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The flooding desks have occurred in Kerr County, where ninety
five of those people died. That one county camp Mystic,
of course, we've all heard about that, a girls summer
camp that has cabins along the river. It's in a
rural part of Kerr County. Twenty seven campers and councilors
have been confirmed dead, and surviving campers described it as
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catastrophic the flooding. Some survivors said they woke up and
water was rushed through the windows. Crews continue to search
for five missing campers as of this recording, and one
council or one child not associated with the camp is
also missing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Friday of last week was the last time a missing
person was found alive in Kirk County, but search cruise
continue to serve a miles of the Guadalupe River in
hopes of locating others lost in that flood. The river
runs for approximately two hundred and thirty miles through a
region that sits between Austin and San Antonio. Starts in
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Kirk County and then ends along the Gulf Coast. Now,
the nickname for this area is flash flood Alley because
the terrain makes it vulnerable to inundation. And the reason
for that is is a sealed country. It doesn't have
soil like we have here in Louisiana, where the water
drains into the soil and it serves as kind of
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a sponge. This is rock underneath this. There's not a
whole lot of dirt. It's like mountainside. So water doesn't
doesn't it doesn't soak into the ground. It just kind
of runs off as it hits the ground.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So, first of all, I'm not in any way comparing
the loss of life to what we experienced in twenty sixteen.
So in twenty sixteen, we had what we locally referred
to as the Great Flood, and all of us were
impacted by this. I think it was like ninety two
percent of our parish was wiped out. And we understand
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as far as the loss of property, okay, which does
not equate to the loss of life that we're about
to discuss. But to see everyone, everyone, y'all, not not
a few people, not just a roadway, not just some people.
Everyone's possessions stacked what felt like miles high, all the
way down the road, every road you went down. We
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understand how that feels here. But these children and these
adults that lost their lives in a horrific way. I
was seeing some people ask questions media, of course, about
like how come.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They couldn't get out of the way. Why didn't they
you know, how could this happen?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Listen to a guy and I wanted to share this
because it impacted me, And he said, this is how
it happened because this was not a curated waterway that
all of this water rushed through, meaning it was not smooth.
Underneath this water. There were obstacles, and there were stop signs,
and there were houses, and there were cars, and there
were campers. So when the water rose, just because you're
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thinking you could tread this water, what happens is it
creates that tumble roll underneath that suction. Plus you're slamming
into things, you're getting stuck underwater.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Because most people don't die in floodwaters.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
They die as a result of what's in the water,
so and being unable to get away from it. So
then they just made it even more tragic to think
of all the and I know there's adults that we've lost,
but these kids and the elderly, those tug at my heart.
And to know that they were terrified and it was
really just a free for all. It sounds like when
the water took them, you just did the best you could.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Of course, anytime you have a tragedy like this, you
look at Wow, what could have been done better.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Nobody's signing fault here. This was nobody's fault.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Nobody intentionally did this, but there were some things that occurred.
As I read you in that article, this was known
as as flash flood Alley basically, and so this isn't
the first time that this has happened, it's just the
first time it's happened to this extent. This is one
of the biggest ones, if not the biggest one, definitely
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the biggest loss of life because of the fact that
these campers happened to be camping at the time that
this occurred. So the issue becomes what was missing?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Why was there not more warning?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And when you ask those questions, Look, they've been debating
for years getting sirens in that area because it is
prone to flooding, and red tape kind of got in
the way.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
You're well, And to add to that too, they use
a system there and I can't remember the exact name
of it, but it's where basically the highest person on
the stream would call downstream and alert those neighbors, who
would then called down and alert those neighbors. And they
believe in that system and it's worked. But I saw
that I don't know if it was a council meeting
or what it was. That they thought that it was
too extravagant and that it would kind of ruin the
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culture of their area to put those sirens in, and
so they shot it down.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And it was a councilman, and it was a counselman
for that county, and it was an old timer and
it is a guy that, hey, we don't need all
this stuff. And then the issue became, we can't afford
all this stuff. Well they're putting that stuff in now
because the governor of Texas said, we're going to pay
for it, and we're going to put it in because
one of the issues and I don't know the expense
of this stuff, but apparently it's not cheap.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And one of the issues was we.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Just don't have the money. We're not a rich county.
You know this in Dallas, Texas right here. Yeah, So
we don't want to change the culture of our area,
and it becomes city fied.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You know, people get to that age where they don't
like that.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Flock there too, because it is country I'm gonna say
country living, but it's laid back pace and it's you know,
and they and people like that when they're vacation.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Sure, had they had that, certainly there would have been
more warning. But let me say this, when the river
rises twenty six feet and forty five minutes, I don't
care how many sirens are going off, You're gonna have problems. Yeah,
there's just not enough time. And this is the middle
of the night. This isn't two o'clock in the afternoon
on a Wednesday, right, this is the middle of the
night and you're asleep. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's instances like this too that are bringing out the
best of people, but also the worst. And I know
I'm not gonna harp on that, but there are some
people that have said some things that are.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You can't take back. Just I want to hug these.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Strangers, you know, and tell them, God, yeah, I can't
fix it, you know, but I want you to know
how much people care.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
We care. All over the world.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
People care, Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And look, I'm glad you brought that up because a
lot of people have stepped up.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Of course, the Cajun.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Navy right here in this area is there now and
working with agencies rescuing people. They're going through cars that
were flooded and have now stacked on top of each
other where sadly they're finding bodies left and right.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
My nieces inside these vehicles.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Teacher at my school was one of the dead that's
been found. It's far reaching, and so I'm bowing my head.
Maybe you can join in and we can find more
miracles and have this happen.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All right, Well, let's go to Georgia.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
A seventeen year old girl in Georgia has been arrested
in charge on the suspicion that she murdered her own
mother and stepfather. On Tuesday, July eighth, the Carroll County
Sheriff's Office confirmed in a press conference that Sarah Grace
Patrick voluntarily turned herself in for arrest in relation to
the February twentieth, twenty twenty five murders of her mother,
Kristin Brock, who is forty one, and stepfather, James Brock,
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who was forty five. A press release shared on Facebook
said that the victims died of apparent gunshot wounds. The
couple's bodies were discovered in their bedroom. Patrick was charged
with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
The press release cited mountains of physical and digital evidence
and countless interviews as what led to the charges. From
the very moment the nine one one call was received,
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a relentless investigation began, one that would span months, assume
thousands of hours, and require the full weight of local
and federal law enforcement partnerships. According to the press release,
Carroll County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Ashley Halsey addressed the case
during a press conference, and she said the Sheriff's office
had charged Patrick as an adult, noting that they were
still working to determine a motive. We don't know what
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goes through the mind of a child that wants to
harm her parents, Halsey said to the assembled press. Halsey
noted that it was possible others were involved with this case,
and the press release stated that additional arrests are possible.
Speaking to the press, she said that it was hard
to tell if other family members had been involved in
the crime or its cover up. However, she added that
they had been nothing but cooperative during the investigation. Now,
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Patrick's biofather was with her whenever she turned herself in
for arrest for the very horrific and sad case. According
to Halsey, the teen is the one who called nine
one one after her six year old sister discovered the
victim's bodies. Halsey referred to the young girl as the
saddest victim in the case. A big takeaway from this
story is a mother and a stepfather will never be
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able to raise their children. According to Hulsey, police say
that they have a mountain of digital evidence that points
only to this seventeen year old girl.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and the most shocking thing about this story was
the fact that this girl, this seventeen year old girl
who has now turned herself in for the murder of
her mother and stepfather, was going on TikTok for the
last three or four months, and she was making videos
asking people to help her solve the case, acting like
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she was grieving on these tiktoks for months. As a
matter of fact, she was reaching out to high profile
true crime folks on TikTok and saying, hey, can you
help me?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Can we do like.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Cold case type stuff or help find the killer things?
And these people were feeling sorry for this girl, and
the whole time it was a sham because it appears
allegedly that she killed her own parents.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What drives somebody to do this without a mental defect
is beyond me, you know what I'm saying. And if
you don't have a mental defect, all we can says
you're evil. I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I mean, if you kill your parents, you got to
have some sort of defect somewhere, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And then to know that you're gonna you did this
knowing that a six year old child, yeah, would be
the one to find the body. And I'm saying that
because if the teen called nine to one one, then
she knew what they were walking into and she had
the six year.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Old obviously there one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
This clearly sounds premeditated. And then to try to seek fame.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, and I did.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I did go check out that TikTok and I mean
she's on there and she's, you know, telling this story
and supposedly it heard people going into her house and
all this is a line she's been lying for like
three months about this.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Not cool.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
All right, We're gonna stay in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And one of the most trending stories there is right
now out there on Google is the fact that a
Georgia influencer apparently has been living a double life. Joshua
Stapleton has been sentenced to prison for child pornography crimes.
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The Georgia native and social media influencer was sentenced to
twenty years in prison. However, before we all get excited
that finally someone who commits these kind of things got
a stiff sentence, well, fifteen of that was suspended for
probation following his guilty plead in court. Yees sexual exploitation
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of children was his actually final charges. Times twenty counts now.
Stapleton maintained a virtual presence as part of the Gulf
Coast Stapleton's with his wife, Britney Moore's Stapleton. They gained
over nearly one hundred thousand followers through content such as
workout videos, trivel posts. They're living the perfect life right.
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His online activity extended beyond his home town in Georgia,
where he previously owned a state farm agency. Him and
his wife are actually state farm agents. Between twenty eighteen
and twenty twenty, authorities reported that he downloaded images involving
pre pewbescent children. This ain't not that it's any better,
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but this isn't sixteen seventeen year olds this is pre
pubescent twelve years or younger children in sexually abusive situations.
Now I'll leave it up to you to figure out
what sexually abusive situations are.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But it's not good. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The investigation began following a tip submitted through IKAC Internet
Crimes Against Children Program and was conducted by Bartow's law
enforcement in coordination with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and
US Department of Homeland Security. The investigation's findings and ensuing
legal proceedings placed Stapleton in the Bartoo County Sheriff jail
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with this sentencing marked by non negotiated plea deal. And
just quickly, what a non negotiated plea deal, y'all is.
Let's say you were trying to plea bargain. See, originally
he had forty counts. So he goes to the prosecutor
and hey, let's make a deal. And the prosecutor makes
a deal, but it's he didn't like the deal, and
he says, Okay, I'm going to roll the dice. I'm
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going to let the judge pick the deal. And the
judge in this case picked the deal. Cut that sentence
from forty counts to twenty counts the charges rather and
he got the sentence I just readie.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Now. Since the news of this sentencing.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Became public knowledge, reactions have been absolutely crazy all over TikTok,
especially where they had a big following. His wife actually
came out with a video in response to this sentencing
and look, I'm not bad idea and appeared to be
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defending this guy to an Not only that, but it
means that she knew about this even before she married them.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
These charges they had no secret.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
She said, what you think that helps you, lady? That
didn't help you out to say we had no secrets.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
When the police approached him and the policeman actually asked him, so.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What are you doing with these pictures?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
He said he was masturbating to them, and he actually
told the policeman he didn't realize it was illegal to
do that.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Get out here.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He's in a state farm agent and y'all, if you saw,
look this guy, good looking guy.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Both of them are a couple of wife.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Very attractive and that's what obviously the appeal to this
case is because it proves to everybody that sex offenders
don't have a look.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
She's not a sex offender. She wasn't with him when
he was.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Doing this, but she said she she knew about the charges.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
She obviously I would assume doesn't believe them.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
But for her to have the audacity to then put
your face on camera were people who are you're an
influencer and then say.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I knew about this, Okay, but he's a good man.
The fuck he is. Leave kids alone in it.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Sorry, I know I'm being aggressive here, but there's no
excuse and shame on you. Let's go back to Texas,
all right, I gotta, but it ain't gonna get much better,
all right. Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged ten people
with attempted murder following what they called an ambush of
law enforcement late Friday outside in Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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detention facility. Authorities alleged the suspects conspired to create a
disturbance outside of the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, which
is located about forty miles southwest of Dallas, in order
to lure ice personnel outside of the facility where they
could shoot and kill them. A number of shots were fired,
and the Alvarado police officer was shot in the neck.
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Acting US Attorney Nancy Larson for the Northern District of
Texas said each has been charged with three counts of
attempted murder of a federal officer and three counts of
discharging a firearm in relation to.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
A crime of violence.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
If convicted, they each face a mandatory sentence of ten
years to life behind bars, and eleventh suspect also faces
up to ten years in prison on charges of obstruction
of justice and conspiracy for attempting to conceal and destroy
evidence in connection with the attack.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
We want to.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Tell everyone out there, this will not be tolerated, Larson said.
Those who use violence against law enforcement officers will be
found and they will be prosecuted with the toughest criminal
statutes and penalties that we have available to us. The
incident occurred shortly before eleven pm Central time last Friday
outside the prayer Land Detention Center. Larson alleges ten to
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twelve people dressed in black military style clothing began shooting
fireworks and vandalizing vehicles and graffiti the facility to draw
the ice personnel outside when an Alvarado police officer arrived
on scene. One of the suspects is alleged to have
open fire, wounding the unidentified responder in the neck. Another
suspect shot between twenty and thirty rounds at unarmed Corrections
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officers who exited the facility. The suspects fled the scene,
but were later arrested during traffic stops, Larson said, adding
that they were found in possession of twelve sets of
body armor, spray paint, and a flag that said resist Fascism,
Fight Oligarchy, as well as flier stating fight ice terror
with class war and free all political prisoners. Over the weekend,
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officers executing search warrants discovered masks, goggles, tactical gloves, a
large load of weapons, and what Larson called insurrectionist material.
Let's discuss this incident. It was a planned ambush with
the intent to kill ICE Corrections officer, she said, Make
no mistake, this was not a so called peaceful protest.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was indeed an ambush.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
No employees at the correction facility were injured, and the
Johnson County Sheriff's Office has said the injured officer was
flown to Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, where they
were treated and released.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Thoughts on that Jimith th Well.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
First of all, thank god that this officer was released
and appears to be okay.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Even after being shot. This is shit. Has got to
stop with the end.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Look, this ain't a political post or political comment right here,
anything of that nature. This is bullshit, total to be
ambushed like this. And if you saw the lineup of
these guys that did this and gals, it looks like
some Opie Taylor some bitches.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's just a total joke.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
That they even think that this is going to have
some sort of effect that.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Would help their calls. Whatever that is right?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And what kind of world are we living in?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I even told my kids this recently, I said, what
kind of world are we living in? Where people are
willing to go attack people they don't know over people
that they don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's a great point.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You what in the world would make you and these
correction officers are unarmed?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What an ultimate active cowardice.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
These people are just doing their job whatever it is.
If you don't agree with that, there are ways to
handle that, and this certainly ain't the way to handle it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You can voice your opinion to your congressman or.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Whoever find somebody in power, talk to them.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
These ICE agents are everyday people that are doing everything
they can to protect borders.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Many prayers to all the ICE agents out there, men
doing the best they can.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Mad respect.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
All right, we're gonna go to Idaho.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The family of Kailee Gonzalveez, one of the four University
of Idaho students murdered in twenty twenty two, says they
want to return eighty five thousand dollars raised through go fundme.
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