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.

Paul Babeu:

Rep. Paul Goser responding to Democrats calling for gun control:

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.

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.

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.

h/t Crime in Charlotte

I used to cover Juggalo crimes alot, and unlike many bloggers I was pretty fair to them. But even with my even handed treatment I received barrages of poorly written comments and emails from Juggalos claiming I was being unfair to them, Juggalos never commit crimes etc. I eventually lost interest in dealing with them because frankly Juggalos are simply an asinine drug sub-culture which is somewhat more violent than most other stoner groups. Stories like this don’t help them disprove that point:

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – A Bartlesville man was sent to the hospital Tuesday night after a car driven by a man wearing black and white face paint struck him and dragged him for 100 feet before fleeing the scene, according to police.

Police later arrested 20-year-old Andrew Joseph Davis, the alleged driver, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and a felony count of hit and run.

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According to the affidavit, shortly after 10 p.m. police were dispatched to the 3800 block of N.E. Ohio Avenue where a car had reportedly struck a pedestrian and fled the scene.

The officer arriving on scene found a man lying on the ground with “multiple bleeding abrasions to his entire body.” An ambulance arriving at the scene transported the man to Jane Phillips Medical Center for treatment.

Witnesses told police the victim, their neighbor, had been walking northbound on the west side of Ohio when a black sedan also traveling northbound swerved from the east side of the road and struck him. Neighbors said the car then drug the man approximately 100 feet into a neighbor’s yard before backing up and fleeing the area.

One neighbor reportedly said the two occupants in the car were yelling “Woop! Woop!” during the incident. He told police he had seen the car two-and-a-half or three hours earlier driving slowly past the house and had noticed its driver was wearing black and white face paint.

Another neighbor that had witnessed the event and who had called police after checking on the man’s condition told police the car’s occupants had been yelling throughout the incident.

The Smoking Gun seems unsure if the driver is in fact a Juggalo but I will point out that the term “Whoop Whoop” is Juggalo slang for “I’m high and want to be arrested!” though that translation is somewhat controversial. The icing on this cake – the driver says he ran the victim over and dragged him 100 feet because he was being attacked by the victim. While he was in a car.

There are apparently several gangs active in the state now that target mainly Latinos including MS-13. This rumor might just be gang members using the news to scare people they’re shaking down.

A tipster tells me that Oscar Eduardo Munoz-Portella is here illegally, but I haven’t seen evidence one way or another. WYFF says this scumbag’s rampage was part of a 20 man brawl in Greenville on Saturday night and the world on the street is that alcohol was definitely a factor. But so far the official facts are sparse:

On Saturday night the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office responded to 11 Security Dr. in reference to a large crowd fighting. Upon arrival deputies observed three victims who suffered from stabbed wounds and cuts.

Santiago Prieto-Rusino died on the scene while the other two were transported to the Greenville Memorial Hospital to be treated. They are listed in stable condition.

Deputies have arrested Oscar Eduardo Munoz-Portella and charged him with on one count of Murder and two counts of Attempted Murder. Munoz-Portella has been placed in the Greenville County Detention Center on a No Bond.

The area is known to be one in which illegals congregate, it’s also seeing some gang activity which is a natural consequence of illegal immigration – there are a number of gangs whose business model is targeting illegals because they won’t go to the police. However, though this was a fairly large brawl there’s no evidence I’ve seen that it is gang related.

Bottom line though is that the Hell’s Angels are top dog and other clubs criminal activities are always going to be aimed ultimately at knocking them off. Here’s the Department of Justice press release in it’s entirety:

WASHINGTON – The national president of the American Outlaw Association (Outlaws) motorcycle gang was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for leading a violent criminal organization.

U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride of the Eastern District of Virginia; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; and Rich Marianos, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) Washington Field Division made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson.

“Jack Rosga led an outlaw motorcycle gang that was violent at its core,” said U.S. Attorney MacBride. “As the gang’s national president, Mr. Rosga declared war on the rival Hell’s Angels and ordered violent acts on rival gang members.  Mr. Rosga admitted to undercover federal agents that he expected to go to jail for leading this violent motorcycle gang, and the jury convicted him of conspiracy to commit racketeering and violent acts.  He spent decades dedicated to a criminal way of life, and he’ll now spend decades in prison paying for those crimes.”

“The Outlaws motorcycle gang that Jack Rosga led is responsible for numerous crimes across multiple states,” said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.  “Mr. Rosga’s conduct, and the violent activities of his organized criminal enterprise, must have severe consequences.  Today’s sentence reflects that.  We will not tolerate organized criminal gangs in our communities.”

“This investigation is one of many that reinforces ATF’s commitment to fighting violent crime,” said ATF Acting Special Agent in Charge Rich Marianos.  “In partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, we will continue to focus our efforts on putting the worst of the worst violent criminals behind bars so that our neighbors can feel safer in their communities.”

The national president of the Oulaws organization, Jack Rosga, aka “Milwaukee Jack,” 53, was found guilty on Dec. 21, 2010, of conspiring to engage in racketeering activities and conspiring to commit violence in aid of racketeering. To date, 27 individuals have been charged as a result of a long-term investigation into criminal activities of the Outlaws motorcycle gang. Twenty have either pled guilty or were convicted at trial.

According to court documents and evidence at trial, the Outlaws motorcycle gang is a highly organized criminal enterprise with a defined, multi-level chain of command that is ultimately overseen by Rosga, the national president.  Leaders and members of the Outlaws in multiple states including Wisconsin, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia are charged in a June 2010 indictment.  Under Rosga’s leadership, the enterprise is alleged to have engaged in violent racketeering activities with the intent to expand its influence and to control various parts of the country against rival motorcycle gangs, particularly the Hell’s Angels.

Court records indicate that the Outlaws planned multiple acts of violence against rival motorcycle gangs, including shows of force at the Cycle Expo in Henrico County, Va., in 2006; Dinwiddie Racetrack in Virginia in 2008; the Cockades Bar in Petersburg, Va., in 2009; Daytona Bike Week in Florida in 2009; and the Easyrider Bike Expo in Charlotte, N.C., in 2010.  The indictment alleges that in the Cockades Bar show of force, members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club joined the Outlaws in the assault against rival gangs.

In addition, the evidence showed that in 2008, the Outlaws established a clubhouse in Rock Hill, S.C., in territory traditionally controlled by the Hell’s Angels.  The Outlaws understood that this act would create violent friction between the two organizations.

Court records also established that in September 2009, two members of the Outlaws were assaulted in Connecticut by members of the Hell’s Angels.  This caused the Outlaws to increase their already violent approach to the Hell’s Angels in retaliation.  In October 2009, this led to the alleged attempted murder of a Hell’s Angels member outside the Hell’s Angels’ clubhouse in Canaan, Maine.  The victim was seriously injured from gunshot wounds to his neck.

In addition, the evidence showed that on April 17, 2010, Outlaw members of the Milwaukee and other Wisconsin chapters in the Gold Region participated in a charitable event known as the Flood Run, crossing from Wisconsin into Minnesota where they brutally beat members of the Hell’s Angels and stole their club patches, also known as “colors.”

Witnesses at the trial also testified that the Outlaws regularly used and distributed narcotics and regularly used firearms or other dangers weapons.

The case was investigated by the ATF’s Washington Field Division; the FBI’s Washington Field Office; the Virginia State Police; the Chesterfield County Police Department; the Maine State Police, and numerous other law enforcement partners throughout the country. The prosecution was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dennis Fitzpatrick and Peter S. Duffey, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Sam Kaplan, and Trial Attorney Theryn G. Gibbons of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division’s Gang Unit.

h/t Jailbirds Online

Via Fugitive Watch TV