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A former Columbus vice detective pleaded guilty to federal accusations Thursday that he kidnapped sex worker victims under the guise of an arrest, according to federal prosecutors.

Andrew Mitchell, 59, of Sunbury, pleaded guilty to two counts of depriving individuals of their civil rights while acting under color of law and one count of obstructing justice, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.

Mitchell spent more than 30 years with the Columbus Division of Police and was assigned to the vice union for the final two years of his employment, which ended in 2019, prosecutors said.

While working as a detective in July 2017, Mitchell wore plain clothes and drove an unmarked car when he handcuffed a sex worker to his vehicle, then drove to a parking lot and detained the woman against her will after identifying himself as an officer, prosecutors said. Two months later, while again working as a plainclothes detective, he questioned a sex worker about rates before he said he was an officer and then kidnapped her, prosecutors said.

Mitchell was acquitted earlier this year of murder and manslaughter charges stemming from the death of a woman he shot while he was working undercover.

He was indicted after shooting and killing Donna Castleberry, 23, as she sat in his unmarked police vehicle in August 2018.

He said he acted in self-defense after she stabbed him in the hand during an undercover prostitution investigation. The jury in that trial reached its verdict after deliberating for about five hours.

Mitchell faces up to 11 years on the three charges. Credit for time served could knock five years of the sentence. Under the terms of the plea deal, Mitchell will not have to register with the state as a sex offender.

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy hit the campaign trail Wednesday with former Rep. Steve King, a controversial figure who lost his seat in 2020 after gaining notoriety for making racist remarks.

King once told The New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” He also earned condemnation from members of his own party for comments he once made about whether humans would exist if not for babies born as a result of rape and incest.

A onetime Republican power broker in northwest Iowa, King has receded from the public spotlight since losing his House seat to now-Rep. Randy Feenstra, a fellow Republican who challenged him three years ago. But King appeared Wednesday with Ramaswamy, and while he hasn’t formally endorsed in the 2024 presidential race, his words left little doubt about how he felt.

Hey gang.

We're gonna pull this one form the Manchester Evening News.

The wrap up article is well done and from there, we'll still have our ear to the street while waiting for the Sentencing on February 2nd of 2024.

The 16-year-old was stabbed 28 times in a Cheshire park in February.

Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said jurors might find it difficult to fathom how two children could do what was alleged but urged them not to look for an explanation.

 

The pair, who were 15 at the time, deny murder and blame each other.

In her closing speech, Ms Heer said the jury may be tempted to look for an explanation as "they are children after all", but added the prosecution do not have to prove why a crime has been committed, only that it has been.

 

"Don't be tempted to try and work out why they did what they [allegedly] did if you're sure they did it," she told Manchester Crown Court.

Ms Heer said both encouraged the other in the attack, adding the evidence showed both defendants participated in Brianna's murder by encouraging the other, by contributing to a plan to kill her, by taking part in the plan and by trying to conceal evidence afterwards.

 

Ms Heer said the prosecution accepted some of the messages the boy and girl, identified only as girl X and boy Y, exchanged were initially fantasies about killing people.

Folks.

Everything these kids say pisses me off.

I'm exhausted and I'm happy some folks are tuning in and staying up on this story as it plays out.

Rest in peace to that poor baby.

VIRGINIA, USA — Tangier Island sits in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay between the Eastern Shore and the Northern Neck of Virginia, accessible only by boat or a small plane. Everyone knows everyone, cars are replaced by golf carts and bikes, a unique dialect is spoken and being on the water is a way of life.

"People out here are the watermen and they're pretty self-reliant, but this issue of the erosion is something bigger than we can handle on our own," said James Eskridge, better known as Ooker.

Eskridge is Tangier-born and raised, with a long family history on the island.

"My father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather were all crabbers," he said.

More than a crabber, he's also been the town’s mayor for the past 15 years.

"It would be unthinkable just to abandon this and start over somewhere," Eskridge said.

But for the residents of Tangier, it's a race against Mother Nature.

Coastal erosion is one part of the equation, sea level rise is another. Whether it's a nor'easter or tropical storm, four to five times a year more and more of the island gets inundated.

Since 1850, Tangier Island has lost two-thirds of its landmass and surrounding neighbors.

"I've seen islands disappear, some islands around Tangier," Eskridge said. "We've lost about six or seven other smaller communities that used to be around Tangier. They're just underwater now. They had no means to get protection for their community, so they just abandoned their community, and they're just underwater now. So that's what we don't want to happen here."

Hey gang.

This particular day of the trial will be a 2 part episode.

This one is starting with the brief breakdown from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

After I get some rest and work and shift and get some rest, we'll be doing the second part coming from the Manchester Evening News.

A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit over the state’s six-week abortion ban has learned her embryo no longer has a heartbeat, her legal team said Tuesday.

The plaintiff, who is identified as Jane Doe, is eight weeks pregnant, and, according to court documents, “decided that the best course of action for herself and her family is to terminate the pregnancy.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, one of the groups representing Doe, filed the lawsuit on Friday, asking for a temporary restraining order that would allow her to get an abortion.

Hey, gang.

So it looks like Boy Y has a diagnosis that I'm generally unfamiliar with. This diagnosis of which we've included a bit of informative audio about has given him the option to type his answers in court.

So from the initial interrogation to actually communicating in court, he has gone from lying through his teeth to lying through his fingers.

Hey, gang.

We're still trucking along with this story.

Girl X is on the stand lying every bit of her ass off to dodge prison.