it ain’t what it seems
The recent roundup of alleged drug dealers in Central Vermont was the supposed pushback to drug related violence – particularly the fatal shooting of Carlos Vasquez in an apartment near the Rutland Middle School. According to one account Ramel Ramos and Vasquez intended to put rival drug dealer Javon Shelton out of business. Shelton was [...]
A couple of weeks ago law enforcement responded to recent drug-related violence by rounding up over three dozen people in the Rutland region. Newspaper accounts have some prosecuted by state or local authorities, and others by the federal government, but no explanation has been given as to why all were not prosecuted by the same [...]
Due to strict firearms laws, few Japanese possess them. However, the lack of guns hasn’t prevented either murder or mayhem; it’s just changed the weapons of choice. Tomohiro Kato recently ran down a crowd of shoppers with a two-ton rented truck, and then began stabbing the victims and people in the crowd of onlookers, leaving [...]