Curiously Uncurious - The Strange Slow Walk And Shut-Down Of A Human Trafficking Investigation In Dearborn

Picture this if you will:  A Fire Marshall does an inspection of an "abandoned" hotel and finds evidence that families including children are residing there, there's padlocked doors and signs of a machete, indicators of people being held there against their will.

She apparently reports it - a day later - and the police just happen to take another 36 hours to decide to go over and investigate.  

By which time everyone there is gone.

The investigation is closed. 

Oh, and the Fire Depart in response to a FOIA states they have no documentation about the incident.

No need to picture it, it just happened:  

The Detroit News: Dearborn closes hotel probe despite finding 'possible human trafficking'

Dearborn Police waited 36 hours to search a hotel that's not authorized for occupancy after a deputy fire marshal reported seeing "evidence of possible human trafficking," with dozens of people, including children, potentially being held captive there, according to a Dearborn police report detailing the Sept. 22 discovery. 

 Douglas Topolski, a former Dearborn police officer who obtained the report under the Freedom of Information Act, said multiple questions about the case remain unanswered

. . . 

Topolski said he also requested any Dearborn Fire Department reports about the incident, but was told no such records existed.

"I can't imagine why the Fire Department doesn't have a report on this," he said.

Curious, isn't it? Also curious how the article fails to mention who owns the hotel, who was managing its security or any other pertinent details, at all.

Nothing to see here, move along. 

Leftist Physically Attacks Conservatives And Septum Ring Theory Wins Again

 The New York Post: Crazed University of Michigan student pushes conservative influencer to the ground in unhinged attack: ‘I should’ve f–king killed you’

Yep, Temulun Togochog hits a guy calmly seated at a table and claims she didn't do it even as it is on camera, then does a sucker take-down on a girl. The lunges at her again after getting peeled off and then resists arrest.

Yep, Temulun Togochognis just another violent and crazy leftist, and crazy is descriptive here - while being arrested she stated she had already been i na  mental hospital - oh and she did videos showing off all her rather extensive psych meds for bipolar and other conditions. 

Yes, the Left will physically attack you for your speech. 

Oh, and she's already been released, and not kept in custody, after assaulting two people and resisting arrest, because it's progressive Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County. Oh, and Eli Savit the progressive prosecutor for Washtenaw County is now running as the Democrat for Attorney General for Michigan.

Vote accordingly. 

Meanwhile, The Ann Arbor News downplays the two attacks and resisting arrest with the following headline: 

1 arrested for pushing conservative commentor on University of Michigan campus 

You may hate the media for their dishonesty and bias, but you really can't hate them enough.

Even in Detroit, Those Are Not Standard Commands

The Detroit Free Press: Detroit police bodycam video shows officer chase, shoot man in back

This is a likely lawful but ugly police defensive shooting of a fleeing armed felon. 

It really doesn't help when the officer's command to stop and drop the weapon is not "Stop and Drop the Weapon!" but instead is:

“I’m ‘bout to shoot you, b–ch,” repeatedly, Detroit police body camera video shows.

“B--ch, come here b--ch, I’m ‘bout to shoot you, I’m ‘bout to shoot you, I’m ‘bout to shoot you b–-ch, I’m ‘bout to shoot you, b–-ch, “I’m ‘bout to –”

Yep that's a very non-standard string of commands that end in: Bang. 

Officer David Gonzalez fires four times, hitting the 18-year-old in the back as he runs through a downtown parking lot before the June 22 Ford Fireworks event, Gonzalez’s body camera footage obtained by the Free Press shows. Lee-Perkins survived.

Police have said Lee-Perkins’ hands made him look armed and that Gonzalez fired because he feared for his safety and the safety of others.

Even in Detroit, these are not appropriate commands to give to an armed fleeing felon and they really didn't help in the matter. 

Yes, the felon in question was indeed, illegally concealing a firearm in his waistband and likely reaching toward it at the time.  He fled from police while armed, and he got shot in what appears to be a furtive movement shooting.  However, police and indeed armed civilians are held to a better standard than saying "B--ch, come here b--ch, I’m ‘bout to shoot you" as a defensive command.  

The Same People

That say a woman's hormonal changes are responsible for her postpartum depression and subsequently killing her kids, are also advocating for pumping mentally ill people full of hormones to change their sex and then celebrate them as stunning and brave.

Leading to similar outcomes:

The New York Post: Trans killer blames transition for stabbing hiker 15 times on trail: Victim was ‘what I want to look like’ as one of many examples.

Consistency is not their forte, is it? 

Two-Tier DUI Justice In Arlington Virginia

If you're an American in Arlington Virginia, expect to get the full-on punishment and record for driving under the influence, which after all you should because you should not be drunk driving.

But, If you're an illegal under DACA driving under the influence, expect to get a lesser punishment and more favorable treatment to protect you from deportation.

The Post Millenial: DACA recipients charged with DUIs get special treatment from Arlington Commonwealth's Attorney to shield them from immigration law

 It has been revealed that the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the County of Arlington in Virginia testified over the summer that her office has a DUI policy that pertains only to DACA recipients. Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti had been subjected to a closed-door deposition in July, and the transcript for the hearing was released on Monday.

That gets the DUI off their record - which gives them a nice privilege that Americans do not get. 

 

The other "feature" of such a program is if they get caught a second time its still a first conviction, and not a DUI second conviction, which typically has a higher punishment than being caught only once - assumign they don;t dicvert it yet again.

 

Got to wonder how many other blue counties have these kind of special programs that put illegals ahead of Americans and give them ore favorable status.

Imagine, If You Will, If It Had Been Three Puppies

That Lindsay Clancy had strangled to death instead of her children.

Do you really think all these women would be lining the entry to the courthouse and sitting in wearing pink on her behalf?

PBS: Women rally in support of Lindsay Clancy at her trial

Court TV:  ‘Team Lindsay’: Hundreds line the street outside courthouse in silent support of Lindsay Clancy 

Note the pictures, every single one attending is indeed a white female and almost certainly can be classified as an AWFUL - an American, White Female University-educated Liberal.

The Suicidal Empathy of the AWFUL is fully on display here.  

But now, with ten states allowing abortion up until the very moment of birth, there is room for the suggestion of a modest proposal here:

We simply need states to respect women's choices and bodily autonomy, and to do so to meet the AWFUL's needs. We therefore must extend that cut-off to permit post-partum abortions until the child reaches real viability. 

 Perhaps that should be six years old where the child can prove they can sleep through the night and get up and feed themselves without their mother's intervention. Perhaps longer, maybe even up to 18, for after all, it depends on how the mother is feeling at the moment, and it is her choice, of course.

In all seriousness however, while she has certainly committed murder and had a multitude of options to handle the situation other than killing her children, this is again a case where mental health care in this country needs a major rework. 

It is well past time that choices are made and resources are dedicated to the  institutionalization and treatment of those who are a harm to themselves or others until it can be shown they will not be such a harm.  It is long overdue.

Stupid Criminals: Let's Play Name That Party

So Jabran "Jim" Manna, a West Bloomfield Township Truastee is alleged to have placed cameras and spied on some women in their bedrooms and sent the feeds from the cameras allegedly to his cell phone.

Rather creepy and criminal behavior, that.

MSN/The Detroit News: West Bloomfield trustee hid spy cams in women's bedrooms, prosecutors say

Board of Trustees member Jim Manna has been charged with seven felonies after Oakland County prosecutors said Thursday he hid spy cameras in smoke detectors in two women's bedrooms.

Manna, 65, is charged with two counts of capturing an image of an unclothed person, a five-year felony, and five counts of installing a device for eavesdropping, which carries up to two years in prison.

Two adult women discovered surveillance cameras hidden in smoke detectors in their bedrooms, according to a release from the prosecutor's office....

Nowhere in the article is his political affiliation mentioned. 

Click on Detroit:   West Bloomfield Township trustee faces 7 felony charges over alleged hidden cameras, nude videos

Nor in this article is his political affiliation mentioned, but it does have a great mugshot photo.

WXYZ Detroit: West Bloomfield Township trustee charged, accused of planting hidden cameras

No mention here either, but the mugshot photo is still a great feature.

The Detroit Free Press:  Why a West Bloomfield trustee is facing felony charges for spying

Nor here.

As one might suspect from the rather uniform omission of his political affiliation as an elected official, this is indeed a case of a (D) thinking with his d. 

Yep, he's a proud member and trustee of the Democrat party.

Democrats Love Illegals So Much

They will even pardon convicted pedophile rapists to stop them from being deported.

Yes, really. 

The Daily Mail:   Minnesota's Democrat Governor Tim Walz pardons illegal migrant PEDOPHILE who raped girl aged 10 to stop the predator from being deported

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has pardoned an illegal immigrant who was convicted of raping a ten-year-old child to stop him from being deported. 

The Democrat was part of a three-person panel that granted clemency to Tou Lue Vang, 42, who was set to be sent back to Laos due to his horrific child sex crimes. 

Vang admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing the child for four years when he pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in 2006, and at the time he justified his actions by claiming it is a 'cultural thing' to 'marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.' 

 This gets even worse as the scumbag had been given a reduced sentence and no jail time on the condition that he was to be deported. 

His plea deal allowed him to avoid jail time but face deportation, a fate he has now been spared by Walz and the other two members of the panel, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota's Chief Supreme Court Justice, Natalie Hudson.  

Yep, they really did it, and let a pedophile walk.

AG Keith Ellison even defended it and compared the pardon to those made by Trump - which is quite the what-aboutism. The reaosning seems to be since Trump pardons people, Ellison can pardon pedophiles.  Quite an argument, that.

So yep, the Party that keeps yelling "Epstein"-- even when it is clear that had Trump been in the files having done anything criminal it would have been leaked by Democrats long ago now, seems to have no problem pardoning pedos.

Funny, that. 

Rapper Reinforces His Rap Sheet

And his rap sheet goes back as far as 2001.

One might say that Detroit Rapper Brian Brown has methed up.

The Detroit News: Detroit rap mogul Brian Brown gets in fresh trouble with feds

A Detroit music mogul, once described in a sealed federal search warrant as one of the largest heroin dealers in the Midwest who used his rap label to launder drug money, is in fresh trouble along with his wife after being accused of heading a nationwide drug ring linked to Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel. 

Right after being celebrated for turning his life around, post-incarceration (for apparently a far too-short sentence that did not, in fact, cause him to reform) too: One West: Reformed Detroit Drug Kingpin-Turned-Grammy-Nominated Music Mogul Releases Documentary, Detailing His Unconventional Life Of Crime And Transformation Into The World Of Entertainment 

Who knows, maybe his turning point was going from heroin to meth? 

Livonia Says No To Teen Takeover

Summer is here, and the hoodrats are out and about,trying their best to ruin the fun for law abiding citizens.

A bunch of "Teens " decided to put on Facebook a pronouncement that they would be taking over Livonia's Spree fair.

 

The City of Livonia PD and The City have stated clearly that it is not going to happen.

The Detroit News:  Livonia Spree tries fee, rule to limit crowds. Takeover threat blasted

 The Detroit Free Press: Livonia police warn of zero tolerance at Spree ahead of teen takeover

"Teens" like these are why we can't have nice things.

This area has already lost the Saint Mary's Polish Country Fair (after it lasted for 50 years) due to "Teens" running wild and causing problems, before these actions were fashionably and disarmingly called a Teen Takeover.

Good on the Livonia and the Livonia PD for proactively not putting up with a "teen takeover" threat. 

Verdict Is In But Not Out On The Pacific Palisades Fire Arsonist (Update: Apparently Not So Much)

The jury has reached a verdict ion the case of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the left wing arsonist who set the Lachman fire that became the Palisades Fire in California.

NBC News: Jury reaches a verdict in trial over deadly, destructive Palisades Fire

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, faced three federal charges of destruction of property by means of fire, arson affecting property used in interstate commerce and timber set afire for the January 2025 Palisades Fire. 

 The former Uber driver pleaded not guilty in October and faces up to 45 years in prison. Prosecutors argued that Rinderknecht intentionally and maliciously started a previous fire on a popular hiking trail known as Skull Rock on Jan. 1, called the Lachman Fire, that smoldered for days before metastasizing into the giant Palisades Fire six days later.

“On Jan. 1, 2025, Jonathan Rinderknecht started a fire on a hill in the Pacific Palisades,” prosecutor Danbee C. Kim said in closing statements. “He was angry all the time. He believed he was enslaved by the wealthy. He didn’t understand why the ‘rich losers’ and the ‘motherf----- at the top’ had it all.”

In short, he bought fully into the DSA and progressives propaganda, tropes, and bromides about the rich and apparently acted on it, as shown in his digital footprint showing his researching about setting fires at being at the ignition point of the fire right before it was reported.

As of now, they still haven't released the verdict.

Well, update a few hours later. 

 The Narrator: They do not, in fact have verdict. 

Instead, they have a deadlocked and potentially hung jury.

The same link above now goes to this page: NBC News:       Jury deadlocked in trial over deadly, destructive Palisades Fire 

Guess they called that one a tad early.  We will see if they are hung tomorrow or can get to a verdict.  

Further Update:  It ended in a hung jury and a mistrial.   New trial is set for October.

Of Course She Didn't Vote For It

Every Michigan representative, Republican and Democrat alike voted on a bill to fight organized retail crime and cargo theft and impose more severe sentences on the criminals performing those acts.

All except one that is.

You guessed it, the rep who voted against it was, of course, Rep Rashida Tlaib (D-Dearbornistan).

 The Detroit News:  Michigan lawmakers join push to cut cargo theft, gift card scams

All but one member of Michigan's U.S. House delegation — progressive Detroit Democrat Rashida Tlaib — supported the CORCA bill when it passed the chamber in May.

"I voted against this bill because it would vastly expand the power of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security to surveil and criminalize our communities," Tlaib said in a statement.

Too many of her constituents are criminals and she clearly doesn't like the idea of cracking down on international criminals that she supports, and not leaving these large scale thefts in the hands of soft-on-crime local prosecutors that slap them on the wrist as they steal billions from law-abiding Americans.

It's the National Institutes of Health, Not the National Institutes of Hijinks

Hijinks, in this case, of a very serious pathogenic nature.

The Detroit News: Feds: 2 researchers brought vials of monkeypox to DTW

The Detroit Free Press: Feds: 2 researchers smuggled monkeypox through Detroit airport 

Two researchers with the National Institutes of Health have been charged with smuggling monkeypox into the United States and lying about it — an alleged crime that was detected at Detroit Metro Airport.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday, June 2 in U.S. District Court, one of the defendants is from the Netherlands, the other from Cameroon. Both are virus experts who work for the NIH at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana, in a lab that, according to the government, has the highest level of biosafety precautions for scientific research of known and potential human pathogens. 

The "highest level of biosafety precautions".

Well, according to federal prosecutors, they allegedly bypassed proper procedures for transporting and importing dangerous pathogens, instead bringing the materials into the country in luggage and then lying about it.

Given their scientific expertise and workplace responsibilities, the allegations are especially striking.

This is the latest in a series of biological-material smuggling incidents uncovered at the Detroit Airport.

Midwesterner: UM faces federal investigation after students from China repeatedly busted for crimes in Michigan

 USDOJ: Three Chinese National Scholars from University of Michigan Laboratory Charged for Conspiring to Smuggle Biological Materials into the U.S. 

NIH Scientists acting like Mad Scientists is just not a good look. 

Compare And Contrast The Response To "Teen Takeovers"

CBS News: Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield says city will address downtown teen takeovers:

 After several incidents in which large groups of teenagers took over  downtown Detroit, city leaders say they are developing a plan to address it.     

. . . 

While there is some perception that Detroit officials and the Detroit Police Department have been somewhat silent on the issue of these downtown takeovers, since these events began, Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield says a lot is happening behind the scenes to ensure that these takeovers don't get out of control. 

"It's a comprehensive, interdepartmental, all-hands-on-deck approach to assure that we're addressing the needs of our young people," Sheffield said. 

In a one-on-one interview with CBS News Detroit on Wednesday at DPD headquarters, Sheffield says the social media trend is top-of-mind with city officials, police and community intervention groups. Sheffield says the city is taking a holistic approach to addressing the issue and believes it's also an opportunity to serve the youth. 

"We didn't experience what other cities did as far as safety," Sheffield said. "Kids came out; they wanted to hang out; they wanted a place for something to do. So we're trying to make sure that we're addressing that need of making sure that young people have a safe space to be occupied and engaged throughout the upcoming summer months." 

The response from the teens in addition to continued takeovers, some fights and a shooting clearly has taken this strong and unambiguous message to heart: 

Deandrae Morgan said he plans to continue organizing Detroit "teen takeovers," despite Detroit police officers asking him last week to remove social media posts calling for young people to congregate downtown during a weekend that saw one peaceful gathering and another marred by a nonfatal shooting and brawls involving hundreds of combatants. 

Compare Detroit's wishy-washy response to that of Mayor of Pontiac and Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard when a  Teen Takeover was threatened for Pontiac: 

ClickonDetroit: Teen takeover gatherings spread to Pontiac, prompting safety warnings following Detroit chaos 

Similar unpermitted gatherings are now being advertised on social media in Pontiac.

Mayor Mike McGuinness said Pontiac officials and the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office moved quickly after seeing one such event promoted online Friday.

“If folks are looking to get crazy or act up, Pontiac, Michigan, ain’t the place,” McGuinness said.

McGuinness said deputies were stationed “at every major intersection in downtown Pontiac” as a precaution this past Friday. 

Result:  No teen takeover and no mass teen violence in Pontiac. 

Funny how enforcing the law and not putting up with disorder and crime works.

Electing Progressive Prosecutors Has Consequences

A car jacking took place yesterday in Oakland County, resulting in a woman being shot during the event. The woman was with her child at the time in the parking lot of the mall.

Click on Detroit: Man who fled after shooting woman in random Oakland County carjacking arrested following police pursuit

The Detroit Free Press:  1 shot in carjacking in Orion Township Panera, Old Navy parking lot

Fox 2 Detroit: Carjacking suspect randomly targeted mother, shot her before stealing car in Orion Township

 Do note that none of these stories identify the attacker, even as they note he is an "Ann Arbor Man" and is on probation for a prior violent offense.

Yes, you know why.

And the attack should never have been able to take place, as he should have been in jail at the time of this attack.

The Detroit News: Carjacker should have been in jail for prior violent attack, sheriff says

 The "Ann Arbor Man" was previously convicted for a crime committed in late 2024. Said assault consisted of hog-tying and suffocating a woman in Washtenaw county. He should have been in jail for the assault with intent to do great bodily harm in Washtenaw County.

But he was not.

Instead, he was released on probation, because of the Washtenaw County prosecutor's progressive policies. 

The Washtenaw County prosecutor is the woke progressive Eli Savit.   The same Eli Savit that unleashed a raft of progressive policies in the County like ending zero tolerance policies, not accepting prosecution for illegal items discovered during traffic stops and for minor offenses, and other progressive pro-criminal policies. For equity and racial justice, of course. 

This is the same person the Democrats are running for election this year as Attorney General of the State and who as Washtenaw County prosecutor.

So the criminal the progressive prosecutor let off on probation after assaulting a woman now went ahead and shot a woman. 

Democrats talk about a war on women, and they are indeed fighting it - but not on behalf of women.

The "Teens" Of Summer

Summer is here, and the media,  obfuscating as usual,  describes the latest round of disorderly issues in Blue State Cities to be created by"Teens" just happening to be out and about:

The New York Post: ‘Teen takeover’ descends into wild brawl inside DC Chipotle — as feds promise to charge ignorant parents 

The Detroit News: Teen takeover in Detroit results in brawls, shooting. Sheffield responds

The choice of words by the media is typical in that it is technically accurate yet does not nearly accurately describe the perpetrators of the disorder. These deliberate word choices are interesting as an apt demonstration in how the media chooses to obfuscate the facts. 

Apparently, Detroit Mayor Sheffield's response to the "teen takeover" is to re-establish midnight basketball and other activities to give the "Teens" something to do other than blocking the streets, starting brawls, and assaulting people - instead of severely cracking down on the behavior and heavily prosecuting the miscreants to deter such behavior.  That should work just swimmingly.  

You Make That Deal? I'd Make That Deal!

A Somali has culturally enriched Minnesota by stealing at least $11 million dollars from the state's Medicaid program and was caught doing so.

He was given a choice at his arraignment:  

1. Pay $50k in bail money and surrender his passport; or

2.  Pay $150k and keep his passport.

Being a criminal but not a complete idiot, Abdirashid Ismail Said chose option #2, and promptly took his passport and fled with the country with the stolen $11 million dollars.

American Wire: $11M Medicaid fraud suspect flees US after judge lets him post bail, keep passport

I'd make that deal, how about you, you make that deal? I don't blame ya! Damn good deal!

That he was given such a deal is a sad commentary on the state of the justice system and judges in Minessota.   I mean, they clearly cannot do math, and have never heard of game theory at all.

The Catch And Release Of Illegal Alien Criminals Kills Yet Again

The illegal alien, Abdul Jalloh, that is the center of this story was arrested not once, not twice, not three times, but THIRTY times.

Before he was released yet again to stab Stephanie Minter to death in Virginia.

Because Virginia is not just soft on crime, but it also doesn't turn over illegal criminals to ICE even when there was already an order issued for their removal from the country . . . in 2020.

NBC 4: How Fairfax County bus stop stabbing suspect avoided jail and deportation

So, how much longer will people put up with sanctuary states and cities letting illegal criminals keep going free until they kill someone? 

Virginia under Dem Gov Spanberger is doubling down on the policy, and Democrat Congress-critters have already demonstrated that they do not support American Citizens over illegal alien criminals.

AWFULs, while supporting such sanctuary state and city policies, are very much in the pool of victims from the failure to deport criminals under these  polices they support. 

Must be something about AWFULs and not understanding the concept of consequences from the support of these virtue-signalling policies.

Muslim Grooming Gangs Now In Canada

The ongoing scandal of multiple Muslim grooming gang scandals in the United Kingdom continues.

Now Muslim Grooming gangs may be spreading to Canada.

The Toronto Sun: WARMINGTON: 15-year-old boy charged by Peel cops in human trafficking of girls as young as 11

The perpetrators have, as one might have expected good Canadian "suburban youth" names: Mohamad Omar Al-Saleh, Mustafa Abdo and Yousif Al-Gburi. 

Import the third world and all that. 

Unlike in the UK, at least the police in Peel Region seem to be actually enforcing the law against the perpetrators rather than either ignoring or outright aiding and abetting it.  

I will note Peel Regional Police tend to have a positive reputation as hard chargers and solid law enforcement, and it is good to see them going after these scum.

Detroit Police Chief To Police: If You Don't Ignore Crime, You'll Be Fired

Traffic stops often catch criminals goign about their criminal business

For most people, traffic stops that help prevent crime and catch criminals is a good thing. 

In these two cases, it caught illegal immigrants, one with a felony warrant who apparently did not (or decided not) to speak English.

The officers contacted border patrol to communicate with them and indeed detain them as illegals. 

For this the Detroit police chef is going to fire them. 

The Detroit News: Detroit police chief plans to fire officers who used border agents at traffic stops

This won't make Detroit safer, indeed it will result in the opposite, but it will make the progressives feel good about themselves.

What other ongoing law violations, pray tell, are supposed to be ignored by police officers in Detroit?