SAN DIEGO( MOTHER gets 15 yrs in prison for beating 9 yr old to DEATH) Crystal Cardenas

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego mother who tortured her daughter with punches, kicks and insults for 17 months, until her blows killed the 9-year-old last year, was sent to prison Tuesday for a term of 15 years to life.

Elizabeth Holloway is shown on Christmas Eve 2010 at a family party. The 9-year-old died Jan. 17, 2011, after a blow to her body by her mother, Crystal Cardenas. — Family photo

Willie Holloway Jr. speaks in San Diego Superior Court on Tuesday during the sentencing of his daughter's mother, Crystal Cardenas, in the girl's killing. Elizabeth Holloway was 9 when she died. — K.C. Alfred

San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenie Eyherabide sentenced Crystal Cardenas, 27, for the second-degree murder of Elizabeth Holloway.

 

Faced with a torrent of scorn and anger from family members in the downtown courtroom, Cardenas bowed her head and cried at times.

Elizabeth’s father, Willie Holloway Jr., wiped tears from his eyes, looked at Cardenas and told her, “I don’t know how you could do this to her. I just want justice. I’m going to leave it in God’s hands.”

He then turned and bolted from the room.

His father, Willie Holloway Sr., told the judge he felt partly to blame for not knowing what was happening to his granddaughter.

“Who would stoop that low to do that,” he said.

TUCSON Az ( ROAD Rage man DIES SHOT) Gotham city -Police need help

An incident of road rage was elevated to a homicide case overnight when a man died of injuries from the Oct. 4 shooting.
David Uribe, 22, died Monday night at a local hospital. Tucson Police Department investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the shooting, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson police spokeswoman.

The night of the shooting, Uribe was a passenger in a white pickup truck headed west on East 22nd Street about 7:30 p.m. When the driver stopped at the intersection of 22nd Street and South Tucson Boulevard the occupants of a red passenger car “began to engage in an altercation with the occupants of the white pickup truck,” said Hawke, who did not know the nature of the confrontation.
Both vehicles continued in the same direction and near the intersection of East 21st Street and South Highland Avenue someone in the red car shot at the pickup truck. More shots were fired near the intersection of East 21st Street and South Mountain Avenue before the red car sped away.
Anyone with information can call 911 or 88-CRIME.

DALLAS ( Mother who SUPER glued 2 yr old to wall) Faces Life in prison

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the girl so badly that she suffered bleeding on her brain, a doctor testified Monday during the mother's sentencing hearing.

Elizabeth Escalona faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty in July to attacking her daughter, Jocelyn Cedillo, last September. Police say the 23-year-old mother attacked the toddler due to potty training problems.

UPDATE : Judge throws book at her (99 years in prison) justice served.

During a sentencing hearing that began Monday, prosecutors presented gruesome photos and details of the attack.

Jocelyn was hospitalized for about one week with injuries that included bleeding on her brain, a fractured rib, severe bruises and others likely caused by direct blows, according to Dr. Amy Barton, a former child abuse specialist at Children's Medical Center of Dallas.

"When I think about the time involved in that and what that scene must have looked like, it's overwhelming," Barton said.

Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Abel Lopez, who interviewed Escalona after the attack, showed a bottle of super glue taken out of the family's apartment as well as a section of an apartment wall with Jocelyn's handprints.

The sentencing hearing is scheduled to continue Tuesday. Escalona's attorney, Angie N'Duka, said she hadn't decided if her client would take the stand. A state district judge will decide her punishment.

MEXICO (Salvador Alfonso Martinez ARRESTED) Los Zetas "The Squirrel"

The Navy presented Salvador Alfonso Martínez Escobedo, "Ardilla", alleged regional commander of Los Zetas in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, considered responsible for more than 320 executions, including those of the narcofosas of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, and the "release" of than 280 inmates in the last two years.

During their presentation in the la Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada (SIEDO), Martinez Escobedo spent time 'mugging" to mass media

The zeta leader, arrested on October 6 in Nuevo Laredo, hours after an attack on Marines in the city, had been imprisoned in Veracruz in 2008, but was released by a group of assassins, reappearing the same year in the dispute for the places of Durango and Chihuahua.

Martinez Escobedo, 31 years of age, is held responsible for killing with his own hands 50 people in several States of the country, as well as the recent "release" of 131 inmates of the criminal of Piedras Negras and the 151 prisoners of prison again Laredo, so far largest evasion in criminal in the country.

TUCSON Az (Man Capsized Boat) Night Fishing-Rescued by Fire Department

A 58-year-old man was rescued by firefighters after he fell into Kennedy Park Lake Sunday while night fishing.
Several 911 calls were received about 6:30 p.m. from the park reporting that someone out on the lake was yelling for help, said Capt. Jeff Langejans, a Tucson Fire Department spokesman.
Firefighters arrived within four minutes to the lake at the park, 3700 S. Mission Road, and learned that a man had lost his only oar and when he tried to grab it from the water he fell into the lake, Langejans said.

When he tried to climb back into the boat, the boat capsized and the man held onto the boat and began yelling for help, said Langejans.
One firefighter put on a floatation device and swam out to the man who was about 50 feet from the shoreline. The firefighter aided the man and both made it back to shore, Langejans said.
The rescue took eight minutes. The man, who did not suffer any injuries, was treated at the scene, and firefighters assisted him in getting home, Langejans said.
Langejans said water activities should not be done alone. He said if no one had heard the man yelling for help, the incident "could have resulted in a tragic ending."

TEXAS (U.S woman GETS JUSTICE after HUSBAND KILLED) DRUG Cartel member Arrested

Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged drug cartel leader known as Commander Squirrel who they say is linked to the 2010 murder of American jet skier David Hartley on a border lake, as well as to more than 200 other deaths in Mexico.

After a gunfight on Saturday evening in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexican Marines captured Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, AKA the Squirrel or Commander Squirrel, who earned his odd nickname for his permanent smile and allegedly helped direct operations for the violent Zetas cartel in Coahuila, Tamalapais and Nuevo Leon states.

David Hartley's wife Tiffany says that she and her husband were jet skiing on Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border on Sept. 30, 2010, when unknown assailants shot David Hartley in the head. Tiffany Hartley says she sped back toward the U.S. shore of the lake, and was unable to pull her husband's body onto her jet ski.

Hartley's body has never been recovered, and a Mexican official who attempted to investigate the death was found beheaded. Authorities speculated that the Hartleys had interrupted a drug transaction on the Mexican side of the lake.

In a written statement, the Mexican Navy did not elaborate on Martinez Escobedo's alleged role in the Hartley killing, but did say he was believed linked to hundreds of deaths. They alleged that he ordered the killing of 72 undocumented migrants who were found dead on a ranch in Tamaulipas state in August 2010, and was responsible for hundreds of other deaths.

"Squirrel is credited with being the mastermind of the deaths of 72 undocumented migrants in San Fernando," said the statement. "[He] is the alleged perpetrator of the narco graves found in Tamaulipas state, with more than 200 bodies and the execution of more than 50 people by his own hand in different parts of the republic, [as well as] the murder of David Hartley, an American citizen killed at Falcon Dam on September 30, 2010."

IN and OUT BURGER (ABUSE of CATTLE Meat COMPANY) Shut Down

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating "disturbing evidence of inhumane treatment of cattle" at a California meat supplier, the agency said.

After receiving video from an animal welfare group, the USDA sent investigators to the Central Valley Meat Co. and found violations of humane handling, the agency said in a statement.

Jane Velez-Mitchell: Slaughterhouse video shows USDA needs to clean up its act

 

"We have reviewed the video and determined that while some of the footage provided shows unacceptable treatment of cattle, it does not show anything that would compromise food safety," said Al Almanza, administrator of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The USDA suspended inspections at the Hanford-based company, effectively halting slaughter operations there.

The agency said Wednesday it bought 21 million pounds of beef for federal food programs in fiscal year 2011, nearly one-sixth of its beef purchases.

Would you eat a burger grown in a lab?

Company officials have not seen the video, Brian Coelho, president of the Central Valley Meat Co., said Tuesday. He said he was "extremely disturbed" to learn that inspections were suspended.