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3 Arkansas Cops Suspended Amid Probe of Brutal Beating Caught on Video
J. Williams August 22, 2022 Political News Leave a comment
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
Three Arkansas law enforcement officers were suspended Sunday and a state investigation was launched after the trio was recorded brutally attacking a man who was pinned to the ground.
KARK reports Arkansas State Police special agents are investigating two Crawford County Sheriff's deputies and a Mulberry Police Department (MPD) officer who were recorded earlier Sunday kneeing and punching 27-year-old Randall Worcester of Goose Creek, South Carolina and slamming the man's head into the pavement while holding him down a short distance from a convenience store in Mulberry. Employees at the store had called police after Worcester allegedly spat on and threatened them.
"In reference to the video circulating social media involving two Crawford County Deputies, we have requested that Arkansas State Police conduct the investigation and the deputies have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation," Crawford County Sheriff James Damante said in a statement. "I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter."
In a similar statement, MPD said that "the officer is on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation."
Arkansas cop seen kneeing, face punching then grabbing hair of person & smashing person's head into cement
From @MitchellMcCoy: Arkansas State Police launch investigation into this incident, captured on camera, outside a convenience store in Crawford Co. pic.twitter.com/UrZU2dq3PN
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) August 21, 2022
"The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department [take] these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions," the agency added. "We will take the appropriate actions at the conclusion of the investigation."
Local media report the officers in the recording have been identified as Thell Riddle of MPD and Crawford County deputies Levi White and Zack King.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, tweeted Sunday that "the local arrest incident in Crawford County will be investigated pursuant to the video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney."
Worcester was transported to an area hospital where he was treated before being released and taken into police custody. He faces charges including battery, assault, and resisting arrest.
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Del Rio Sector Border Patrol Agents Seize 1,000 lbs of Marijuana, $200K Worth of Meth
Five Apprehended in Three Separate Cases
DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Del Rio Sector seized 1,007.3 pounds of marijuana, valued over $805,840.00, as well as 6.4 pounds of methamphetamine, worth $201,389.00, in five separate incidents. Three United States citizens and two Mexican nationals were arrested in conjunction with these seizures.
The military-style duffels yielded 335.6
pounds of marijuana worth $268,480.00.
"The men and women of the Del Rio Sector Border Patrol fight against extensive networks of drug trafficking organizations on a daily basis," said Acting Chief Patrol Agent Matthew J. Hudak. "I am proud of the personal commitment and perseverance of our agents that are inherent in these seizures."
On Feb. 1, an agent from the Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station was conducting line-watch operations from a concealed position slightly north of Eagle Pass. The agent observed five subjects emerge from the brush and load large, green military-style duffel bags into a waiting automobile. Shortly thereafter, another agent attempted to interdict the vehicle on an adjacent highway. The driver failed to stop and after travelling several miles, the man bailed out of his vehicle near Quemado. He attempted to flee on foot but was apprehended after a short distance by multiple law enforcement officers. In total, 435.6 pounds of marijuana valued at $348,480.00 was seized from the car; and the driver, a United States citizen from Eagle Pass, was arrested. The man, the vehicle, and the seized contraband were turned over to Homeland Security Investigations. On Feb. 21, Eagle Pass agents were alerted to several individuals traversing a remote area of Normandy. Agents proceeded to the general vicinity and located an abandoned feed sack of marijuana in the brush. Other agents continued to comb the area where they found two Mexican nationals and two other feed sacks of marijuana. After a brief foot chase, both subjects were apprehended. The total amount of marijuana seized was 236.1 pounds valued at $188,880.00. Both subjects and all narcotics were turned over to DEA.
On Feb. 2, Del Rio Sector Agents were contacted by a citizen in Del Rio who reported a suspicious vehicle. Agents responded to the area and discovered a truck with bundles of apparent narcotics wedged in between the bed wall and bed liner of a truck. The contents of the bundles tested positive for methamphetamine - a total of 6.2 pounds, valued at $198,369.00, was seized and turned over to Homeland Security Investigations.
On Feb. 5, agents from the Uvalde Border Patrol Station were patrolling an area commonly utilized for alien and narcotic smuggling when they discovered foot sign of suspected traffickers. The agents followed the foot sign and, with the assistance of a Border Patrol canine, were able to locate seven abandoned duffel bags of marijuana strewn in some brush near a trail. The military-style duffels yielded 335.6 pounds of marijuana worth $268,480.00. The narcotics was turned over to DEA. On Feb. 14, a Uvalde Station agent, patrolling near Crystal City, performed a vehicle stop in an area commonly utilized for alien and narcotics smuggling. Assisted by a Dimmit County Sheriff's deputy, the agent discovered drug paraphernalia within the car and recovered a package thrown from the vehicle prior to being pulled over. The package contained approximately 127.5 grams of methamphetamine worth approximately $3,150.00. The Dimmit County Sheriff's Office took custody of the subject, vehicle, and narcotics.
For Fiscal Year 2017, which began on Oct. 1, 2016, the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector has seized more than $5.8 million worth of narcotics. The Del Rio Border Patrol Sector is part of the South Texas Corridor, which leverages federal, state and local resources to combat transnational criminal organizations. To report suspicious activity, call the sector's toll free number at 1-866-511-8727.

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In the case of Tshombe Anderson, ripping off the Department of Labor was a family affair. So is incarceration. On April 19, Anderson, a Dallas-based union lawyer and owner of a number of medical supply companies, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to 10 years in prison for his role as chief organizer in a scam that fraudulently obtained worker's compensation benefits. He also was ordered to pay $26,572,458.93 in restitution. Anderson had pleaded guilty last August to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Deemed a flight risk, he's been in custody since his August 2015 arrest. Three family members are awaiting sentencing. The actions follow a probe by the Offices of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Postal Service.
The saga of Tshombe Anderson, whose roots lay in Zimbabwe, overlaps with a similar one from the Lone Star state masterminded by one Garry Craighead, a name that should be familiar to Union Corruption Update readers. The now-convicted Craighead, an Austin chiropractor and owner of a chain of Texas physical rehabilitation clinics known as Union Treatment Center (UTC), during 2008-15 falsely obtained nearly $18 million in worker's compensation benefits on behalf of state, federal and postal employees. Many, if not all, were covered by union benefit plans. He solicited bribes from a variety of health care providers in exchange for steering patients their way. With the help of sister-in-law Christine Craighead (the wife of his twin brother, Larry), who served as UTC chief operating officer, Garry Craighead also concocted or inflated medical bills for excessive reimbursements from the Labor Department. The indictment read: "Defendants unlawfully enhanced their revenue by engaging in overbilling and kickback schemes. As a result of these schemes, the defendants were among the most prolific billers in the FECA (Federal Employees Compensation Act)." Garry Craighead pleaded guilty in December 2015, and was sentenced to 14 years in prison, plus three years of supervised release. He also had to pay full restitution. A number of pharmacists also pleaded guilty. Union Treatment Center in June 2017 settled whistleblower claims for $3 million.
This brings us to Craighead's former business associate, Tshombe Anderson. Anderson, now 55, is a lawyer with an ethically challenged background. Admitted to the Texas bar in 1999, his license to practice is currently under suspension. That's nothing new. His license had been suspended four previous times, and in 2007 he had been publicly reprimanded. But those events proved to be warmups to the main event. During February 2010-July 2011, he represented Union Treatment Center. His tenure would be brief for a reason. According to federal prosecutors, Anderson, along with his wife, sister, sister-in-law and niece, used UTC as a conduit for bilking the Labor Department's FECA program until Christine Craighead fired him. Anderson's attorney claimed the Craigheads were trying to cover their tracks, but Mrs. Craighead, currently awaiting trial, insists she was simply a whistleblower trying to bring a bad situation to light.
Either way, Tshombe Anderson was a man with a license to steal even while making very little use of his license to practice law. As far as theft went, Anderson arranged for his niece, Lydia Taylor, to obtain an internship with the U.S. Department of Labor. Taylor in fact was a "mole" within the department, snooping through files of workmen's compensation claims under the cover of learning about agency programs. She extracted more than 250 claim numbers on the DOL computer system and share the information with co-conspirators for filing claims from July 2011 to September 2015. Meanwhile, Anderson, his wife Brenda Anderson, and his sister Lydia Bankhead had launched a medical equipment company, Best First Administration (BFA), during their association with the Craigheads to handle patient referrals. Armed with Union Treatment Center claims data, they could bill the DOL for excessive or nonexistent services.
That wasn't the only family business. In April 2013, Tshombe Anderson and his sister created a company called Union Medical Supplies and Equipment. Four months later, Anderson opened Skycare Medical Supplies and Equipment. These two firms were created for the purpose of submitting exaggerated or fake worker's compensation claims. Each entity used information that BFA had received from UTC and then billed claimants for duplicate or unnecessary medical equipment services. Anderson, noted prosecutors, billed the Labor Department's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) for items not associated with claimant injuries. Indeed, many claimants had refused or rejected offers of use of equipment for which they were billed. Lydia Taylor, the OWCP mole, doubled as a lookout for her uncle's billing companies, alerting family members to possible suspicions by her supervisors. Anderson's sister, Lydia Bankhead, meanwhile, had a side project going in which she used stolen funds to buy construction equipment from a seller in Maryland and then ship it to a family business in Zimbabwe.
The house of cards began to unravel in June 2015 when federal prosecutors, in the wake of the above-cited whistleblower civil suit, charged the Craigheads with concocting or inflating medical bills for Labor Department reimbursements. That opened the books on the couple's business relationship with Tshombe Anderson, which in turn uncovered a similar and even bigger scam. A federal grand jury returned indictments against Tshombe Anderson, wife Brenda Anderson, sister Lydia Bankhead and niece Lydia Taylor. He pleaded guilty on August 3, 2017. Shortly thereafter, the court issued an asset forfeiture order against him. Federal agents seized $375,000 in cash, a 2015 Mercedes, and his share of $8,383,075 worth of financial assets scattered about 25 separate accounts.
The three females in the case, facing a September trial, decided to cop a plea. Brenda Anderson pleaded guilty to making a false statement by the year's end; Lydia Taylor plead guilty this March to billing fraud; and Lydia Bankhead pleaded guilty in April to aiding and abetting. They, too, had assets seized, including $295,000 in cash from the residence of Lydia Bankhead, plus several late-model luxury motor vehicles. Things could have been worse. A fourth defendant, Janet Anderson, Tshombe Anderson's sister-in-law, had been charged, but prosecutors dropped their case. Tshombe Anderson, shamelessly enough, also had attempted to recruit his elderly mother into the scheme, but prosecutors declined to charge her. The case affirms a common tendency in organized crime: The family that stays together, steals together.
Federal officials following Tshmobe Anderson's sentencing expressed satisfaction that he is headed for prison. "The sentence imposed today reaffirms the long-standing message that fraud committed against federal benefit programs is a serious crime and will not be tolerated," said U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent-in-Charge Christopher Cave. And Steven Grell, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Dallas Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor, put it this way: "Tshombe Anderson and others conspired to defraud the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs of more than $26 million. Anderson stole patient information from over 200 injured federal workers and then used the information to fraudulently bill OWCP, enriching himself and others with taxpayer dollars intended for the treatment of injured federal workers." Perhaps trustees and managers of the affected union benefit plans will exercise greater due diligence in selecting business partners.


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Dexter Season 7 - [Major Spoiler] From Miami Metro's Briefing Room
Check out after the jump a new spoiler from the set of Dexter, this time from the Miami Metro Police Department. Major spoilers ahead. See it at your own risk...
*UPDATED: The photo has been removed.* In the first episodes of Season 7 Miami Metro will be investigating a new case of murdered women. The woman and the suspect has Russian names.
MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD
UPDATED 6/26: *The photo has been removed*
Detective Mike Anderson's photo is between the victims of the new case, which in all probability means that he got killed.
What do YOU think? Comment!
Posted by JOHN on Monday, June 25, 2012
Labels Dexter Season 7, photos, season 7, set photos, spoilers
BreeB714 June 25, 2012 at 5:45 PM
WHO the hell let this happen? WTF how did some fans get to go on the set and take pictures
Patrik June 25, 2012 at 5:48 PM
Fuck sake if this is for real. He was one of he better things of season 6. This night can't get any worse. Oh wait never mind Men in Black 2 is on tv....
I'm sorry, but MiB 2 is a very good movie mister, sincerely thas Turles
im sorry but MiB 2 is trash
HOLY SHIT!!
omg omg! can't wait. poor chicago mike...
He got a role on SOA kinda fig he was gone
kjac12 June 26, 2012 at 1:03 AM
he's gonna be on sons of anarchy? awesome!
Well that's why Billy Brown took recurring role on Sons of Anarchy Season 3... thanks for this!!
Looks like OJ Simpson to me...
he could just be the suspect who did all this (ala Doakes again)
Can't you see that it says "Murder victim" at the right corner of his picture?
lol no i dont know how you can make out those words... I see the words "detective mike anderson" I also think i am going to stop reading spoilers
Pastapwr June 25, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Sorry but that picture is fake. Here is the orignial :
http://i.imgur.com/3EPQ6.jpg
It is obvious that your photo Pastapwr is photoshoped.
It ain't photoshopped. Just the orignial.
Hahaha. I give you a +1 for effort.
Needlestickinghedonist June 25, 2012 at 7:20 PM
You don't want Mike to die, right? i dont mind that much as long as he dies on the hands of the right person. :P just kidding. also, i hate stupid kids going around on sets taking pictures and posting them on the internet, all proud and shit. plague of fools.
what effort?
No I don't want him to die but it is what it is I guess. I'd prefer if they killed someone who would have a greater impact. After the episode noone will care anyway. If it was Laguerta I'd be doing backflips for weeks.
On topic. A cop killer if that's what this is might be a good idea. It could make it a little bit easier for Deb to accept who Dexter is and what he does. Not saying she'll be fine with it right away but as a part of the build up to the inevitable.
It's not really a big spoiler. We knew he was leaving...
Lewis June 25, 2012 at 11:01 PM
At least they acknowledged his existence, unlike Sonya who was just dropped without a single word in season six.
They really didn't do enough with his character.
LaRay June 25, 2012 at 11:26 PM
Hey, maybe he's just been shot/attacked. TV Line/Deadline reported that Billy Brown will continue on Dexter and they're a reliable source
"Billy Brown has nabbed a major role on the upcoming season of "Sons of Anarchy". Per Deadline, he'll play the right-hand man to Harold Perrineau's Big Bad Damon Pope. Meanwhile, TVLine has confirmed that Brown will also continue with Dexter next season (premiering Sept. 30) as Miami Metro's new straight-laced cop, Mike Anderson."
http://tvline.com/2012/06/11/showtime-ray-donovan-masters-of-sex-sons-of-anarchy-season-5-casting/
The information around him is geographical and lacks any image of his corpse. This all implies they're tracking him. He may not actually be dead. This means he's either missing/kidnapped (possibly a raid gone wrong), or he's a suspect in the crimes shown. I'm leaning more towards the former, unless the writers are just trying to destroy Deb's psyche this season by having her grilled over hiring a mafia assoicate. Laguerta would love it. Anyway, I doubt it.
I already have a theory that the sydnicate will easily figure out it's Dex who killed the "associate" via security footage at the strip bar. They'll reconize his stalking behavior. Rather than kill him, they'll see how efficient he is and force him to work for them. They'd use coercive tactics such as taking out someone close to him, but who he wouldn't really care about - someone like Mike. If they can get to Mike, really they can get to anyone. Dex can't say no, or turn on them without putting more people at risk. It satiates his DP and The Code since the people a syndicate would take out are more likely than not to be worthy of The Code. Plus, we get to see Dex evolve a bit, finally having people he can relate to and be open with - no need for the facade. It also puts him in the role of assassin, not killing completely for his own desires anymore.
Of course. Dexter was clever enough to evade the police for decades, even the FBI couldn't hunt him down, and know some mobsters find out who he is?
I have one dolla say Dexter will not go to work as an assassin for the mob.
This is, not, of course, based on any preconceived idea's about what the show is, or that I have a handbook on scriptwriting on my shelf that says "WTF!!! Don't go there!" to idea's like that.
It's just my special ESP power. Which also tells me (Hold on, adjusting my wheely beanie and consulting the crystals) - Neither will Dexter become a contract killer for the CIA, nor will he join a group of dangerous mercenaries and go to war in the Sudan!
If this all comes true, - just call me "The Swami"!
On the right board, it says "victim" above the pictures of the woman and "suspect" above the picture of the man.
Mike's picture is just labeled "Detective Mike Anderson". So obviously he's neither a suspect nor a victim. He's just Mike.
Joe June 26, 2012 at 3:14 AM
Shows with short seasons like these two can allow an actor to double up. I'm not sure I'm buying it yet.
Needlestickinghedonist June 26, 2012 at 5:35 AM
I also thought that we cant tell he's a victim by this pic. we can assume he is, but this picture is not enough to make us sure of it. its not clear why his picture is up there.
Dubbed Out June 26, 2012 at 7:28 AM
Obviously he is a victim. It has crime scene photos next to his face. And why would they put a photo of him if he wasnt dead? They know who mike anderson is. And also, if he was missing, why would they have a crime scene with evidence markers.
Sara Colleton pretty much confirms that Mike dies in the TV Guide interview. She doesn't say his name, but she says that a Miami cop is killed by a lieutenant in the russian mafia and the lieutenant goes missing afterwards.
Patrik June 26, 2012 at 8:45 AM
I think you're right, sadly. Single tear..
Yep. She does confirm it. Shame. I thought if they killed anyone, it'd be Quinn - who'd at least give some of the audience more emotional ties to. Mike is new and funny he was a better cop than him 2 episodes into the show. And more interesting.
LaGuerta will find out that the BHB is still out there. Maybe she will talk to Quinn, who then tells her about Dexter: He thinks that Dex is Kyle Butler, he knows Dex and Lumen have been hiding something, he is very sure that Dex killed Liddy.
Put this together with LaGuerta remembering Doakes suspecting Dex and Doakes having an alibi for some of the BHB killings and you get:
The two most annoying characters investigating Dex on their own... hopefully Dex bought enough tape ;)
tht is true (to the person who commented under joe. But Quinn cant say a damn thing bout Dexter killing Liddy bc Dexter saved his ass from the bloodwork...So if it wasnt for Dexter, Quinn wud be in prison for life or on death row.
-Jenn
The black guy always dies.