More than 20 suspected Internet drug dealers were arrested by the NYPD amid renewed efforts to crack down on online drug dealing.
Police said they launched "Operation Dot Com" to stop some alleged online drug dealers who were using Craigslist to sell heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy as well as hundreds of prescription pills.
Undercover officers bought more than 1,000 pills off Craigslist, including drugs like Ambien, Percocet, Vicodin, Xanax and Valium. Investigators said $19,000 dollars in drugs were purchased over an 11-month period.
“There is an epidemic of and abuse in New York that is ruining lives and producing violent crime,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Among those charged in the ongoing operation: former New York City teacher’s aide Mariel Javier; Jennifer Sultan, a dot-com entrepreneur accused of selling 300 pills online; Scott Aria of West 186th Street; and Nicholas Baily of Remsen Avenue in Brooklyn.
Information on their attorneys was not immediately available.
"Whether the drug deal occurs on the corner or on the Internet, it’s a crime," said New York Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan.
The arrests began as early as December 2011 and continued through Thursday with two new arrests.
Many of the 21 suspects have pleaded not guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance charges that have been filed in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Bachelor party-goers were rescued from a sinking boat in San Francisco Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. /KPIX
Bachelor party-goers were rescued from a sinking boat in San Francisco Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. /
SAN FRANCISCOA group holding a bachelor party was forced to cut short their celebration on San Francisco Bay Friday night when their boat started to sink.
According to the San Francisco Fire Department, the 40-foot party boat called The Neptune hit a rock and began taking on water near Pier 39 around 8:30 p.m.
Witnesses told CBS Station KPIX said a Coast Guard cutter and other smaller boats came to the rescue, taking 18 passengers and 4 crewmembers back to shore.
No one was hurt during the incident.
"I think I was the only one concerned, because I really don't like boats, but everyone else was loving it," expectant groom Matthew Rice, who is getting married on Sunday, told KPIX. "I was loving it as soon as we got off the boat that was sinking."
As of late Friday night, the Coast Guard was in the process of pumping water out of The Neptune, before towing the vessel back to shore.
The Face will feature 24 aspiring models vying to be the face of Ulta's campaign
Tyra Banks and her troupe of top models better watch their backs because soon there will be a rival group in town. Supermodel Naomi Campbell is launching her own reality TV show, The Face, on the Oxygen Network. The premise, much like Banks' America's Next Top Model, will have 24 aspiring models competing to be the face of Ulta's fall and holiday 2013 campaign.
Nigel Barker, who was on ANTMuntil he got the boot in April 2012, will host the show. Models Karolina Kurková, Coco Rocha, and Campbell will serve as the contestants coaches, and top designers like Marc Jacobs and Zac Posen may pop in as well.
Contestants will be recruited by Kurková, Rocha, and Campbell who will then lead the three teams of hopefuls through real-life assignments including photo shoots, runway shows and commercials. The winner will be the new spokesperson and ambassador for Ulta Beauty's fall and holiday 2013 national ad campaigns, have personal appearances in stores around the U.S., provide blog and behind-the-scenes photos on Ulta.com, represent the brand at Fall Fashion Week 2013, and other initiatives.
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There has been a lot of speculation recently regarding an apparent conflict between longtime friends 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Until now none of the reasons seemed legitimate, but a series of letters written to Floyd while he was in jail may provide a clue.
Former Floyd Tommy Summers, A.K.A. Tommy Smalls, reached out to the boxing champion while he was incarcerated and tried to convince him that his longtime adviser, Al Haymon, had cut deals behind his back to hold fights at the MGM in Las Vegas costing Floyd millions of dollars in the process. Summers also accused Haymon of funneling all of his fighters to rival promotional company Golden Boy instead of Floyd's Mayweather Promotions.
"All the fighter that Al Haymon got he signed them to Golden Boy, not with us," Summers wrote. "You let him eat with you and you can't eat with him. HBO told 50 Cent on the low that Al Haymon has 20 dates over a period of years on your name. F*ck that."
Summers goes on to explain further how Haymon basically stole money from Floyd by doing side deals.
"You fought Oscar [De La Hoya], [Ricky] Hatton, [Shane] Mosely, [Manuel] Marquez, [Victor] Ortiz, [Carlos] Baldimore and [Miguel] Cotto. All at the MGM Grand. The deal was cut under the table. That site fee and gate money ain't sh*t. G.B. and Al already took the money to bring you to Vegas and fight here at MGM. It's worth over $150 million dollars. D. King did not bring Tyson to Vegas at MGM for only gate money. You are worth more, do your own thing. You never got the things you wanted from MGM because they got it already. Over $100 million over 8-fights. Trust me I know."
Summers explained that when Floyd got out of jail there would be big money deals on the table from people like Jerry Jones, Steve Wynn and either Hank Steinbrenner orHal Steinbrenner to hold fights at their stadiums in front of 75,000 to 100,000 fans each time out.
"You can make $500 million to $1 billion before you quit and after," Summers insisted. "That old Golden Boy sh*t is over. You gonna make $100 million or more a fight. You made Golden Boy and Al Haymon a . Game over!"
Floyd evidently did not believe Summers. Summers and 50 Cent are now in negotiations to do business with Manny Pacquiao by forming a new boxing promotion company. Could that be the reason for the recent friction between Floyd and Fif?.
" It’s unbelievable video that is sending shock waves through Cleveland. Cell video of a punching a passenger that went viral recently. The woman who was on the receiving end of the punch is talking only to Fox 8′s Melissa Reid.“I don’t remember everything, because I was so hysterical at the time,†said Shidea Lane, 25, of Cleveland. Lane says she was getting on an RTA bus back on Sept. 18 to go to work. “" - Fox 8. Submitted by Ozzy
Professional athletes are making more money now than ever before. Unfortunately, many athletes have no experience managing such massive amounts of cash, so they often become the victims of unscrupulous parasites or live unsustainable lifestyles that eventually wipe out their finances. Here,NewsOne put together a list of seven pro-athletes who lost their fortunes to frivolous mistakes. These players can certainly be poster children for “Lifestyles of the Rich and Stupid”!
1) How is it that an NFL rookie signs a contract in 2006 for $26 million then five years later goes reportedly broke? Vince Young (pictured) has proven that he possesses the financial savvy of a mental midget! Should we really give a boo-hoo for a 29-year-old bottle-popper who allegedly dropped $5,000 a week at the Cheesecake Factory and once bought all of the seats on a Southwest Airline flight because he wanted to be alone?
Watch news coverage of Vince Young being broke here:
2) Baller, shot caller Allen Iverson (pictured), who earned more than $154 million in salary alone and another $50 million in endorsement deals over his superstar playing career, has nowfallen in to hard times. Reportedly, the man who was once referred to as “the Answer” apparently doesn’t have any answers as to why he is as broke as a joke. Iverson’s high-roller lifestyle included excessive jewelry-buying and splurging on sponging relatives and associates. His chief downfall, though, was gambling. At one point, it was so reportedly extreme that he was banished from casinos in Detroit and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
3) Boxing icon Evander Holyfield (pictured above), a four-time heavyweight champ, made a mint in his career with a reported $250 million. Unfortunately, all of those millions were reportedly squandered away on women, child support, and fancy do-dads. This past summer, Holyfield had to sell his 25,000-square-foot mansion for a mere $7.5 million because he owed his creditors more than double the amount. The legendary athlete held an auction for the belongings, such as his 1984 Olympic Bronze Medal.. In the words of the famous Mr. T., “I pity the fool!”
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4)Iron Mike Tyson (pictured) was one helluva boxer and he was also one helluva bad business man, with money seeming to just evaporate in his hands. Tyson earned an estimated $400 million as a heavyweight boxer and now only owns that tribal tattoo on his face. Tyson filed for bankruptcy in 2003 and had to pay for a costly divorce settlement, a cocaine habit, as well as extravagant expenditures like jewelry, luxury cars, and designer duds. Tyson was also known for spending lavishly on nonsensical items, such as a $2 million tub. Unfortunately for Tyson, it is common knowledge that the 3-year prison sentence he served for rape did him in because he lost three years of income while he was still in his prime in the mid-nineties. So the question remains, “Kids, do you REALLY want to be like Mike?”
5) Who says male jocks are the only ones who make bad money moves? Marion Jones(pictured left) was a former-world champion track and field dynamo and B-ball player for the WNBA. Jones won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, for track, but after it was discovered that she “enhanced” her way to the top by taking illegal steroids then lying about it, she wasstripped of all of her Olympic medals.
Jones, who was one of track’s first female sports millionaires, brought in at least $7 million per year. Yet, she eventually filed for bankruptcy. The athlete’s lies cost her to lose the $2.5 million mansion she lived in and other properties she owned wound up being foreclosed. The once-celebrated Jones found herself heavily in debt, battling court judgments, and entangled in a check-counterfeiting scheme. She received a 6-month sentence for perjury with regards to the check fraud case and for denying the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Watch Jones entering prison here:
6) “Round-the-way boy” Kenny Anderson was a powerhouse on the courts but a fool regarding finances. He earned about $60 million during his playing heyday in the NBA during the ’90s through early 2000s, but it somehow turned into dust. Anderson allegedly loved to spend his money on items, such as pimped-out rides, and he also idolized the ladies. He has seven children with five different baby mommas and has been to the alter three times. He used to give himself $10,000 a month for “hang out” money and would regularly dole out thousands of bucks to friends and family members. Shortly after he retired from the game, Anderson filed for bankruptcy in 2005. In addition to his spendthrift ways, divorce and excessive child support payments also emptied out his “Big Daddy” pockets.
Watch Anderson talk about going broke here:
7) With 11 mouths to feed and 10 baby mommas to go along with the mouths, why wouldn’tTravis Henry (pictured) be broke? Henry signed a $25 million contract in 2007 and had a base salary of $50,000 per month. The former NFL running back who played for three teams from 2001 to 2007, had children who were born just a few months apart. The player’s eye-raising procreation agenda has cost him dearly with numerous child support disputes. In 2009, Henry was even placed behind bars for falling behind $16,600 in his child care obligations to one Mother. Travis’ total child care support payments lie somewhere around an estimated $170,000 per year. The ex-Denver Broncos running back was also sentenced to three years in federal prison but served two for financing a cocaine-trafficking operation. This past summer, shortly after his release from prison, Henry was reinstated back in to the NFL. While he was handed down an indefinite suspension after his drug involvement, Henry now hopes to generate interest from an NFL team. Let’s hope he stops generating interest from any more potential baby mommas!
Neighbors who heard the gunshot that hit a 1 1/2-year-old boy awoke to another surprise Thursday: a first-ever police shift line-up right out on their street.
Four rows of A Squad patrol officers and detectives from around the city lined up at 8:30 a.m. to start their shift—not at headquarters, as usual, but on Kensington Street.
They stood in front of the porch of 58-60 Kensington, where a gunman riding by in a car fired bullets at 2:31 p.m. Wednesday. One of those bullets struck 1 1/2-year-old Tramire Miller in the stomach —and ignited citywide grief and outrage.
Tramire’s condition had improved and was no longer critical Thursday morning, according to Yale-New Haven Hospital spokesman Mark D’Antonio. “Good news,” D’Antonio said. “He’s been upgraded” to “fair” condition. Tramire was feeling well enough to high-five the nurse who moved him from a gurney to a bed at Yale-New Haven’s Children Hospital.
Meanwhile, cops fanned out in the Dwight-Kensington and Hill neighborhoods through the night and morning following what a top cop called “strong leads” in the drive-by shooting.
And at 8:30 a.m., dozens of officers lined up to hear Capt. Joann Peterson call the roll and Assistant Chief Luiz Casanova give them their marching orders.
“We want all hands on deck,” Casanova declared. (Click on the play arrow to the above video to watch highlights.)
“The reason we’re doing this line-up out here today is because we want to reassure the communitythat the New Haven police department is on the scene. That every cop working in this city, every detective working in this city, is going to be on the case. A 1-year-old kid got shot in our community. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. Some of you guys are parents. Some of you guys are fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts. Pretend like this is a of your family. I want this investigated like if it was a kid that belonged to you.”
A few doors down the block, Celena Jones woke up her sister Kianna Jones. Kianna rushed out to her porch in her sweats to watch the show.
She’d seen police line-ups “on TV or the movies” before but never in person, Kianna said.
“I thought they was gonna bust somebody’s house in” at first, she said. Then she saw the lectern.
“Thank God they’re coming here,” she said. “It should have been sooner.”
“It’s good,” said a neighborhood who stood right behind the line-up, watching. He declined to give his name. “But it’s like a war zone. These dealers don’t care about show time.”
Chief Dean Esserman, who also addressed the line-up, said he had previously held an out-in-the-street line-up following a major crime when he ran Providence’s department. “I stole the idea from London [police],” he said. He had told Assistant Chief Casanova about it. Casanova remembered the idea and decided Tramire’s shooting was the right time to try it out.
Elisa Castillo hopped into her 1996 Camry right after the line-up and turned on the ignition—with trepidation.
The car was parked right in front of 58-60 Kensington; she lives there, in the same house as Tramire’s family. One of the gunman’s bullets Wednesday hit her car, right by the gas tank.
“I just hope nothing happens when I turn it on,” she said as she prepared to head for class at GatewayCommunity College.
The key turned. The car started. She went on her way.
Meanwhile, officers left the line-up and swarmed the block talking to every neighbor they could find, resuming the hunt for evidence.
Officer Arpad Tolnay speaks in Spanish with neighbors across the street from Tramire’s house.
THOMAS MACMILLAN PHOTO
Cops gathered back at the intersection for another line-up at 5 p.m., at the beginning of the evening shift. Assistant Chief Casanova and Chief Casanova again delivered remarks to the cops, this time with a bank of TV cameras looking on
President Obama says he thinks Vice President Joe Biden did great in Thursday's debate. The President watched the debate aboard Air Force One while returning from a campaign trip to Florida. (Oct. 12)
Jennifer Hudson, Britney Spears and LL Cool J were amongst the many stars involved in a special television tribute to honor the late singer Whitney Houston. (Oct. 12)
Stacey Dash interview with Piers Morgan, defends herself for voting for Mitt Romney in 2012 election! http://bit.ly/SubClevverNews - Subscribe Now! http://Facebook.com/ClevverNews - Like Us! http://Twitter.com/ClevverNews - Follow Us! It's been quite a few years since Clueless hit theatres and became a cult-favorite amongst people everywhere, but now seemed like a good time for actress Stacey Dash to speak out on a topic she's pretty passionate about, the 2012 presidential election. It all started when Stacey, who's 46 years old, tweeted out that she's voting for Mitt Romney this year, calling him "the only choice for your future." She followed that tweet up with, "my humble opinion, everyone is entitled to one." Well, shortly after, she received an influx of racist and terrorizing tweets from angry people who don't agree with her choice. This led her to do an impromptu interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, where she cleared the air and spoke out on how disappointing the backlash was. She said, "I don't understand it. I don't get it...I was shocked, saddened. Not angry. Saddened and really shocked. But you know what, you can't expect everyone to agree with you." Even though she voted for Obama in 2008, Romney is the guy for her now, because she's concerned about the state of the country and wants the next four years to be different. Stacey said she thinks Governor Romney and his wife are authentic and genuine, and thinks they see the need for us to be united and move forward. Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan has since called Stacey and thanked her for her support and called her brave—he even sent her a tweet too. But of course, there's always gonna be some people who still disagree! Actor Samuel L Jackson tweeted, "Wait, did Stacey Dash really endorse Romney today? Really!?!? Is she cray!?!" Russell Simmons also wrote a whole blog post about it—he doesn't agree with her choice, but certainly respects it. I'll post a link below in the description box for you to check out Stacey's full interview with Piers Morgan, but of course, let me know in the comments section if you think Stacey is endorsing the right candidate! Vote below, and make sure to sub to our channel for more scoop on all the best in Hollywood. Hosted, Produced,and Written By: Deidre Behar
