14 More bodies (Dumped) In the Middle of the City (MEXICO) DRUG CARTEL

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fourteen dismembered bodies were found in a truck in the center of a town in northern Mexico on Thursday in what appeared to be the latest atrocity committed by rival gangs battling over drug-smuggling routes, local media said.

The bodies of 11 men and three women were discovered in the sugar-cane farming town of Ciudad Mante in the south of Tamaulipas state, which borders on Texas, daily Milenio reported on its website.
Officials at the state attorney general's office could not immediately confirm the report. Tamaulipas has been one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Mexico's drug war.
More than 55,000 people have been killed in the conflict since President Felipe Calderon sent in the army to fight drug gangs shortly after he took office in December 2006.
Calderon's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, looks likely to lose power in the presidential election on July 1, due partly to rising frustration with the violence.

The government has blamed the turf wars between the brutal Zetas gang, founded by army deserters, and the Sinaloa cartel of Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, for an escalation of killings in recent weeks.
Suspected drug cartel killers dumped 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies on a highway near the affluent northern city of Monterrey in May. Days before, 18 mutilated bodies were found near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
At the beginning of May, the bodies of nine people were hung from a bridge and 14 other dismembered victims were found in the city of Nuevo Laredo, also in Tamaulipas state and just across the border from Laredo, Texas.
Seven people were wounded on Thursday, including a boy who was seriously hurt, when a male suspect threw a grenade into a restaurant in the town of Amecameca outside Mexico City, a state of Mexico official said.
Authorities are investigating a possible extortion attempt against the business as well as the conflict between two gangs in the area, she said.

MOTHER (HIGH on WEED) Forgets BABY in CAR SEAT ON ROOF OF CAR !

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have arrested a woman who allegedly drove off after forgetting that her 5-week-old baby was in a car seat on the roof of her vehicle.

Officer James Holmes said officers were called out early Saturday after witnesses found a child strapped in a safety seat in the middle of an intersection.

The boy wasn't hurt. He's now in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services.

Authorities say the child's mother, 19-year-old Catalina Clouser, her boyfriend and their friends had been smoking marijuana earlier in the evening at a nearby park.

Upset that her boyfriend was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence, police say Clouser went to the home of friends and smoked more marijuana.

Clouser left around midnight. Police say she apparently put the sleeping baby on the roof and drove off, forgetting he was there.

ATTORNEY (Anne Bremner ) PRESSES -ATTORNEY GENERAL for INVESTIGATION (Rebecca Zahau Case)

CORONADO — The attorney for the family of Rebecca Zahau has submitted a detailed request to the state Attorney General’s Office asking for an independent investigation into her hanging death at her boyfriend’s Coronado mansion last summer.

COVER UP   (THIS CASE STINKS)

Rebecca Zahau — AP

Seattle-based attorney Anne Bremner said the Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office have turned down similar requests she submitted, paving the way for the official request to the attorney general.

Zahau’s family continues to suspect foul play in her death.

Zahau, 32, was found hanging nude and bound at her wrists and ankles at the historic Spreckels mansion on July 13. The vacation home was owned by boyfriend Jonah Shacknai, CEO of Arizona-based Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp.

Sheriff’s investigators ruled the death a suicide, saying she was apparently distraught over the grave injuries suffered by Shacknai’s 6-year-old son, Max, who had fallen over a second-story railing while she was babysitting. He died days after Zahau.

COLD BLOODED (KILLER) SEATTLE (Carjacking)

 A shooting at a Seattle cafe and an apparent carjacking have left two men and woman dead and three others seriously wounded, police reported Thursday.

Two men were killed at a coffeehouse in the city's University District, while a woman died in the carjacking, Seattle police said. Three more people -- another two men and a woman -- were wounded at the coffeehouse.

Investigators were looking for any connections between the two incidents, which happened about four miles and a few minutes apart, police spokesmen said.

Suspect shot and killed himself (above picture of suspect in cafe)

"We're definitely in a dynamic situation right now," Deputy Police Chief Nick Metz told reporters.

The gunman ran away from the coffeehouse shooting.

"Whether he is armed at this time, we don't know," Metz said. But he added, "We're assuming he's very dangerous."

One of the wounded had life-threatening injuries, while the other two were seriously hurt, the department said. The black sport-utility vehicle was found empty a few miles southwest of downtown, police reported.

(SHOOTING) in SEATTLE Police Seach for SUSPECT (multiple victims)

SEATTLE – Police are responding to a shooting in the 5800 block of Roosevelt Way NE in the Ravenna neighborhood. Seattle police say there are multiple victims.
The shooter was seen running away from the scene northbound, armed with a gun. He is described as a white male, 30 to 40-years-old. He is 6 feet tall with a medium build, brown hair and a goatee or beard. He was wearing a dark shirt.
The public is advised to stay away from the area.
More details to come. (Two people Killed)

Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting this morning in North Seattle.
Seattle police say the shooting happened at Cafe Racer Espresso in North Seattle. Seattle police say two people are confirmed dead and one person has life-threatening injuries. Two others also suffered gunshot wounds.
A law enforcement source says it could be a domestic violence situation.

PIMA County ARIZONA (CHILD KILLER) HANGS Himself in CALIFORNIA Prison

The state budget got a boost--a drop-in-the-bucket boost--when the lifetime incarceration of James Lee Crummel was cut short Tuesday.

The murderer of a 13-year-old Costa Mesa boy hung himself in his San Quentin prison cell, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations.

Crummel, 68, had been on Death Row since 2004, when he was convicted of the 1979 kidnapping, sexual abuse and killing of James Wilfred Trotter, just one young victim authorities suspect Crummel preyed on over the years.

He was convicted of the 1967 murder of a 9-year-old boy in Pima County, Arizona, but a judge later overturned it after Crummel had served five years in prison. He'd also been questioned about 1981 and 1995 murders of boys in Anaheim Hills and Big Bear City respectively.

Much to the chagrin of residents in pre-Megan's Law Newport Beach, "high-risk" sex offender Crummel resided there. Eleven years after Trotter disappeared while walking to school, Crummel posed as a random person in calling police to report finding charred human bones while hiking near Ortega Highway in Riverside County. The bones were later identified as Trotter's.

Crummel's reputation as a sex offender and proximity to Trotter's home--about a mile away from his--led him to be suspected and ultimately convicted of the boy's murder.

KILLERS (BUST out OF JAIL) Miller County ARKANSAS

MILLER COUNTY, AR - Two accused killers are on the loose at this hour from the Miller County jail near Texarkana, according to CNN.

According to reports, inmates Cortez Hooper, 23. and Quincy Stewart, 36, were last seen in their cells around 3:00 am Monday. Police believe the pair used a hacksaw blade to cut through iron bars, squeezed through a narrow cell window, leaped from a second story window and scaled a 10-foot razor wire-topped fence.

Hooper is from Texarkana, Arkansas, and was jailed on a charge of first-degree murder, assault and probation violation. He is described as 5'4" tall and weighs approximately 130 pounds.

Stewart stands about 5' 7" tall and weighs approximately 160 pounds. Stewart is from Texarkana, Texas, and was being held on a capital murder charge in Bowie County. He's also charged with possession of a controlled substance