13 corrections officers indicted in Md., accused of aiding gang’s drug scheme
(Michael S. Williamson/ The Washington Post ) – The Baltimore City Detention Center is the site where officials allege scores of crimes were committed by a prison gang and correctional officers.

By Ann E. Marimow and John Wagner, Published: April 23

More than a dozen Maryland state prison guards helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Thirteen female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders, prosecutors said. The officers were charged Tuesday in a federal racketeering indictment.

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Sex, drugs and prisoners were all involved in this recent FBI sting. The Washington Post’s Ann Marimow explains what was happening behind the prison walls.
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The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers became pregnant by one inmate. Two of them got tattoos of the inmate’s first name, Tavon — one on her neck, the other on a wrist.

The guards allegedly helped leaders of the Black Guerilla Family run their criminal enterprise in jail by smuggling cellphones, prescription pills and other contraband in their underwear, shoes and hair. One gang leader allegedly used proceeds to buy luxury cars, including a Mercedes-Benz and a BMW, which he allowed some of the officers to drive.

“The inmates literally took over ‘the asylum,’ and the detention centers became safe havens for BGF,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt, using shorthand for the prison gang’s name.

The indictment, unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, puts the spotlight on the enduring power of gangs in jails and prisons. In particular, prosecutors were highly critical of Maryland’s facilities in Baltimore, with procedures and personnel that were “completely inadequate to prevent smuggling” and lacked “effective punishment.”

The Black Guerilla Family was founded in California in the 1960s but now operates nationwide in prisons and on the streets of major U.S. cities, including Baltimore. It arrived in Maryland’s prison system in the 1990s, according to the Justice Department, and is increasingly involved in narcotics trafficking, robbery, assault and homicides. By 2006, federal authorities say, the BGF had become the dominant gang at the Baltimore City Detention Center.

Gary D. Maynard, head of the Maryland agency that oversees the prisons, appeared at the Baltimore news conference where prosecutors announced the charges, and took responsibility for ongoing problems.

“It’s totally on me. I don’t make any excuses,” said Maynard, who was appointed by Gov. Martin O’Malley in 2007, when the prison system was experiencing a spate of inmate violence and corrections officers’ complaints of staffing shortages. “We will move up the chain of command, and people will be held accountable.” A spokesman said late Tuesday that all of the officers have been suspended without pay and that the department will recommend that they be fired.

In a statement Tuesday, O’Malley said the indictment arose in part from the efforts of a Maryland prison task force that includes state and federal officials.

It comes at a sensitive time for the Democrat, who is weighing a 2016 presidential bid. Aides have said that part of O’Malley’s political pitch would be his record as a “performance-driven” manager of state government. “We have zero tolerance for corruption among correctional officers, and we will continue striving to make all correctional facilities as secure as they can possibly be,” the governor said.

SHAME: Pastor steals female church member’s PANTS

The Nigeria Police on Monday arraigned 25-year-old Pastor Tommy Issachar over an alleged stealing of a married woman’s underwear and N10,000 cash. The woman, Mrs Gift Bassey, is a member of the same church with him.”The accused, a pastor of All Nations Evangelical Church in Oshodi, Lagos, was invited to a programme at the headquarters of the church which was the complainant’s church. “The complainant and her husband accommodated him (Pastor Issachar) in their house for three nights to conduct a special prayer session related to her husband’s business…The prosecutor Cpl. Kehinde Olatunde said, adding that after the pastor had left, the woman discovered that two of her pants (her only black and white pants), one black brassier and the sum of N10,000 were missing.”In the process of finding, it was discovered that the said underwear were taken by the accused without the complainant’s consent. At first, the accused (Pastor Issachar) denied taking the underwears but later confessed that he actually took them.”He claimed that he wanted to use them to pray for her, but denied taking the money.”Cpl. Olatunde said that after the underwear was recovered from Pastor Issachar he had been sending series of threat text messages to the woman. “The accused always send her text messages, threatening to eliminate her on or before August ending,” he added.The offence was committed on April 12 at Mafoluku, Oshodi and contravened Sections 166 and 285 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.Pastor Issachar, who resides at 35, Mafoluku St., Oshodi, appeared before an Oshodi Magistrates’ Court on a two-count charge of breach of public peace and stealing. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.Section 285 provides that if convicted of stealing, Pastor Issachar is liable to three years imprisonment. The magistrate, Mr Akeem Fashola, granted him bail and adjourned the case till May 8 for trial.I wonder why some Pastor’s do these crazy things

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California Woman Pleads Guilty to Feeding Whales in Marine Sanctuary
A California woman pleaded guilty to illegally feeding killer whales in the wild this Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, Calif., the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced.

Nancy Black of Monterey, Calif. pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), specifically the MMPA’s feeding prohibition. The MMPA regulations make it a crime to feed marine mammals in the wild. The prohibition applies to commercial and recreational boaters, and applies to all species of marine mammals.

Killer whales (orcas) prey on gray whales in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. On the occasions when orcas manage to kill a gray whale, the pod of orcas does not always eat all of the gray whale at once. Often, portions of the carcass, including strips and chunks of blubber (some over six feet in length and weighing over a hundred pounds), remain floating or semi-submerged after a kill. Orcas and sea birds feed on these chunks of blubber while they are still available in the area.

According to the factual basis of the plea agreement, on or about April 25, 2004, Black was on her boat in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, when she and her assistants encountered a place where orcas had killed a gray whale calf. She was observing the orcas as they fed on pieces of gray whale blubber that were floating in the water. In an effort to facilitate their viewing, she or her crew grabbed the blubber, cut a hole through the corner of the blubber chunk, and ran a rope through the piece of the blubber. Shortly thereafter, they returned the blubber to the water and monitored the feeding behavior of the orcas as they ate the blubber off of the rope. Black and her crew repeated the process with the rope and other pieces of the blubber. In court papers, Black admitted that she did not have a permit that would have allowed her to engage in this conduct. She also admitted that on or about April 11, 2005, she was involved in a similar incident involving the collection of floating blubber and offering it to orcas utilizing the same rope method.

In a separate incident on or about Oct. 24, 2005, Nancy Black met with a sanctuary officer and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigative agent at their offices in Monterey. The sanctuary officer was investigating a reported harassment of an endangered humpback whale earlier that month in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The interaction with the humpback whale was filmed by one of Black’s crewmembers. Before Oct. 24, the sanctuary officer had previously asked Black to provide the videotape of the humpback whale encounter.

Black voluntarily agreed to provide the videotape, but prior to doing so she edited the video footage to remove several minutes that included footage of the humpback whale between two vessels that belonged to Black’s whale watching business, among other footage, and sounds. Black did not tell the officer that she had edited the tape. In filed court papers, Black admitted that by not disclosing the editing of the video, she could have impeded or influenced NOAA’s investigation into the humpback whale incident.

Sentencing in the case is set for Aug. 6, 2013.

The case was investigated by agents of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the FBI with support from enforcement personnel from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The case was prosecuted by Christopher L. Hale of the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and Jeffrey Schenk of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Jose, California.