Armantia Wright Arrested for Dixie Tavern Shooting
The perpetrator of the late night shooting at Dixie Tavern is named Armantia. I’ll assume that his parents didn’t know that Armantia is a French name for females. Though he may have found out later in life which is why the bad attitude:
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – Greenville police said Tuesday they arrested a man in connection with a shooting at a downtown bar early Sunday morning.
They said there was some sort of argument at Dixie’s Tavern on East North Street, and one person pulled out a gun and fired.
Officials said one person was hit by a bullet in the arm. The victim was treated and released.
Police said they don’t believe the victim was involved in the fight.
Lots of women are bad shots. Here’s Armantia’s Facebook page. Surprise! He’s friends with a bunch of bar whores and underage girls.
Word on the street is that Armantia either was or pretended to be a Crip.
He’s getting hit with an attempted murder charge and weapons charges.
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Backpage Used to Traffic Underage Sex Slaves in New Mexico
Though this is a problem all over the country – including here in Greenville County. From Trench Reynolds:
Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico say that 22-year-old Kendel Morrel (or Kendel Merrell) lured a 17-year-old girl into prostitution over Facebook.
The girl posted on her Facebook that she needed a job. Morrel is said to have offered her a job selling hip-hop magazines and CDs. Instead Morrel forced her to have sex with him and then turned her out for $150 a pop which she was ‘allowed’ to keep $50. He advertised her on backpage.com and tried to sell her for $3000 to other traffickers. Luckily the girl was able to escape and contact her family.
Here’s video from KQAT about the case.
Platinum Plus Stripper Advertising “V.I.P.” Dances in Escort Section of Backpage
Let me start out by stating two things:
1) I don’t have anything against strip clubs or adult entertainment. Were it not for the exploitative nature of prostitution (taking advantage of drug addicts and sex slaves) I wouldn’t care about hooking either.
2) Having lived a full life I will point out that as sleazy as strip bars are they are actually less sleazy than most bars. Ladies, most strippers aren’t looking to hook up with your man, can you say the same about the skanks getting drunk in some dive?
Anyway, strip clubs are like any other club – lots of drug users work there. With the sex industry there’s extra pressure to make money while a girl is still unhaggard – before she ends up in the bush leagues so to speak. So there is prostitution in clubs that have “V.I.P. rooms” or what are called “lap dance parlors” which don’t serve alcohol. But I’ve never seen such a blatant advertisement for illegal acts as this:
Coming to your number one gentlemens club, Platinum Plus. Day shift and night. I have the best customer service! Available for V.I.P dances. Come see how I work the pole. Only here for a week, don’t miss out.
For those of you that can’t break the code I’m pretty sure this is an offer to work your pole. The tip off might be the fact that this ad appears in the escort section and not the stripper section, which they have. There is a rumor the girl is being trafficked but I assume that’s because she claims to be passing through for a week which is the MO of biker gangs running a sex slave ring. So if you see her make sure she’s OK:
A few years ago a Platinum Plus made the girls fork over their first $70 a night for the honor of dancing there so this might just be good advertising. I’m not sure how much girls pay now.
Chaos in Charlotte Leaves One Dead, 70 Arrested
I was in Charlotte, NC the night before this incident happened. My wife and I were having a very pleasant dinner with Chris Barnhart in that city and even the night before this mayhem – which the Charlotte Observer is calling “unrest” – I admit to being concerned for my safety. I’m not sure what the reciprocity agreements are like but I will never travel to Charlotte again unless I’m armed.
Anyway, basically Charlotte was turned into a war zone by gangs who were basically able to overwhelm the heavy police presence there:
One person was fatally shot and another wounded early Sunday after several hours of trouble in uptown Charlotte that ended with police in riot gear trying to break up crowds and making 70 arrests.
The shootings took place shortly after 1 a.m. across 3rd Street from the Hilton hotel, two hours after Food Lion Speed Street had closed. Antwan Terrell Smith, 22, was shot in the head and died at the scene. Durante Kavon James, also 22, was shot in the leg and taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where he was in stable condition late Sunday.
The gunfire followed reports of unrest – which police say could be gang-related – centered largely around the Charlotte Transit Center between 4th and Trade streets. The charges were one of the city’s largest mass arrests in memory.
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Early Sunday, groups of 50 or more people “began confronting each other” and refused to leave as police closed in around the transit center, Fey said.
Police arrested 70 people, including 15 juveniles, he said. Most arrests were for disorderly conduct, fighting, assault and impeding traffic.
The melee was one of the worst in Charlotte’s uptown since violence broke out among large crowds after a Fourth of July fireworks show in 2006. In the years that followed, police cracked down heavily on uptown revelers during major events, arresting 169 people during July 4 celebrations in 2007.
At the time of the incidents, officers said the troublemakers were flashing gang signs, challenging officers and other people and attempting to block sidewalks and streets, Fey said.
Police said large crowds – as many as 30,000 people – gathered in and around the transit center after Speed Street ended at 11 p.m.
On-duty officers from CMPD’s Central Division worked the Speed Street event, along with off-duty CMPD officers working for the Speed Street producer, Fey said. After disruptions broke out, members of CMPD’s Civil Emergency Unit, dressed in riot gear, were called in to help manage crowds. The unit is trained to respond to large public disturbances and catastrophic events.
Police tried to separate the trouble from Speed Street, the NASCAR-related event that draws thousands to the center city to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend races at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Gods help us if we get a hurricane Katrina style storm in Charlotte because there is an army of lawless thugs less than two hours drive away from us. Stay out of Charlotte if you can – the place is a ghetto and it’s getting worse every day.