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All right, folks, welcome back. In today's episode is jam
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packed with the crime headlines from all over the country.
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Just gonna give you a few of the topics we're
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gonna be discussing today. In California, Shannon O'Connor, also known
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as the Parting Mom, is in the middle of her trial,
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with numerous teens having testified over the past few days.
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We got the details. In Texas, a twelve year old
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girl is rescued by police after being kidnapped while walking
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her dog. A true crime themed restaurant in Ohio is
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I'm expansion, but not amiss some loud opposition. We're gonna
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discuss all that. We have an update rolling out on
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an at that carnival cruise line in the murder of
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eighteen year old Anna Kettner. Big time update. There, of course,
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welcome to Crime War Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman.
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Now, I'm Kelly. Oh I think I just hit puberty. Yeah,
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I'm Kelly Jennings.
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Hello, Kelly Jennys. Hello, how was your weekend?
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It was fantastic. My husband built me a brand new
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deck and I love it. A deck A deck he did.
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He built me like a Sunday No, he built me
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like a walkway, like if you were going to like
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a nature thing like at a at like a park
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or something. You know, it's kind of raised and it's
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got lights on the side of it and you can
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walk on it.
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Oh that's cool.
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It really is cool. I love it.
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Awesome, I love it. He did a great to walk
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on your deck one day.
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It's beautiful. Come welcome my deck, will do it. God,
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I just sounded forty celtic. I sound old. Apologies, apologies.
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All right. Let's get into the crime related topics, and
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we're going to start off in California, and a jury
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is hearing from teenagers who have testified about being victims
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of a California mom and it's facing there. She is
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facing dozens of charges after allegedly hosting secret alcohol soaked
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benders in which high school freshmen were encouraged to engage
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in sexual behavior at her family's very swinky mansion. This
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lady had some money. Shannon O'Connor is on trial after
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she was slapped with sixty three charges stemming from her
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allegend vomit in throwing alcohol and sex field parties for minors.
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This is during the twenty twenty twenty twenty one school year. O'Connor,
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who has been dubbed the los got those party Mom
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hosted chaotic alcohol soap vendors, primarily for fresh men at
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the high school in twenty twenty, with the first experience
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in with alcohol for many of these freshmen, leading to
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over consumption, vomiting, blackouts, etc. The house was described by
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prosecutors as a place for children to engage in sexual conduct,
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and that the defendant groomed those children, normalized sex andcouraged
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hookups and sexual behavior. O'Connor allegedly served as the only
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adult supervising the parties, and these parties were hosted up
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to five times a week. Prosecutors alleged O'Connor used her
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son's status on the school's football team and cool mom
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reputation to communicate daily with the freshmen through Snapchat without
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their parents' knowledge. On Tuesday, one female minor identified as
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Jane Doe number six testified the social environment at the
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gatherings were misogynistic, while coroborating prior statements from the victims,
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alleging O'Connor pressure teams to sneak out of their homes
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to drink heavily and hook up. Jane Doe number six
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reportedly went on to allege her best friend a fourteen
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year old girl identified as Jane Doe number four experienced
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symptoms of depression and alcoholism after being sexually and physically
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abused by boys at that party. John Doe number seven
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would touch her in front of everybody. Jane's Doe number
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six told the court it was bad and it was weird.
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The young girl reportedly went on to testify that when
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John Doe number seven drank alcohol, he would act violently
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towards the girls at the party, and that no one
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reacted to it. On one occasion, Jane Doe number four
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was sitting in O'Connor's kitchen in her swimsuit when John
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Doe seven began to punch Jane Doe four on her leg.
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Lee wrote in court documents that O'Connor was drinking a
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glass of champagne and laughed as she watched. John Doe
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number seven stood over her continued to kick her legs
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and stomach all while O'Connor was sitting in the kitchen.
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Jane Doe number six told the prosecution that her friend
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was totally alcohol dependent and had to take shots of
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alcohol before she could leave the house. The mother of
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Jane Doe number four also took the stand this week
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and told the court that her daughter first visited O'Connor's
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home in the fall of twenty twenty to work on
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a school science project with O'Connor's son. Quote, it all
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seemed normal in the beginning. She was an innocent kid.
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She never dated, the mother said, adding that when she
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dropped Jane Doe number four off of the house, it
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was a very fancy, beautiful home. O'Connor's son seemed to
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be a nice kid. After the child made several trips
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to the home, however, the behavior changed, The mother testified
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and added her daughter acted really tired and closed off.
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Jane do number four's mother went on to add that
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she confronted her daughter after noticing bruises on her body,
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but her concerns were brushed off. The mother noticed Jane
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Doe's breath smelled like alcohol and told her, no matter
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what it is, I will help you, The mother added,
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and her child felt a lot of shame and was
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trying to escape. Another mother reportedly told the jury in
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previous testimony that she one hundred percent trusted O'Connor as
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a mom. I have guilt for not seeing the signs
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center and O'Connor has pleaded, of course, not guilty to
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the charges.
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I think I have so many thoughts here. You know,
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you come at this from a parent, You look at
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this from a legal standpoint, you look at this from
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a social emotional, you know standpoint, And the fact that
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she allowed it first of all, tell me you weren't
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cool in school. Without telling me you weren't cool in school,
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that you would need to be popular amongst teenagers, I
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have no desire ever to be popular amongst teenagers, you
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know what I mean? Like this seems like arrested the
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cool mom. Yeah, like on mean girls, I'm not a
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regular mom. I'm a cool mom when she's like, you know,
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offering alcohol to her daughter. And that's what made the
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show so ridiculous, is that that's absurd. But then what
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happens here too, is that these girls go over there,
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and boys too. I'm not saying the boys weren't you know,
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involved in this, but the girls go over there. They
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want to participate and have fun in a party. I mean,
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I'm thinking from a teenage viewpoint, I want to this
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is cool. Oh hell yeah, you know we're being offered alcohol.
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But then then things happen and I think the keyword
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here is shame. You feel shame because you know that
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you weren't supposed to do it, but you never thought
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it was going to go that far, or you never
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expected it to become what it did, and then you,
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of course, you would become closed off. You know, you
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don't want to tell your mom that, you don't want
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to let your parents down that you were behaving in
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this way, when the reality is your parents need to
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know so that they can help to protect you. That,
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right there is the worst type of adult in a
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society full of teenagers.
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Yeah, it really is, and a lot more serious to
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me than it comes off, because the issue here is
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both of us have kids, and I'm sure many of
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the people listening have kids, and in our cases, my
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kids are in college now, but they're not super far
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out from high school. I remember those days, and I
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can tell you that I, as a parent, would feel
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like an idiot number one if that was occurring, and
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I was basically, these are freshmen in high school, so
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you're you're allowing every bit of this. It ain't like
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this as seniors and they're supposedly going to spend the
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night at someone's house and they're drinking over there, and
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you don't know these are freshmen. These are really babies
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years Yeah, and so everything they do has to be
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seen through by a parent. And five days a week.
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What that's not a clue.
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I know, it's like a club you're throwing crazy. This
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is some Epstein like not obviously Epstein's, you know, way
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off kilter, but this is kind of how that shit starts.
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Yeah, and you're giving someone else's kid alcohol. You don't
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know if they're taking medicine, that alcohol may affect that.
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People don't think that far ahead. But what if they're
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on like an antidepressant or something, or what giving them alcohol?
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Yeah? Or what if these girls would have become pregnant
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or you know what I'm saying. These could have become
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very very long term consequences beyond the scope of just
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you your being an immoral adult here. So I hope
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they throw the book at her. I know these parents
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feel horrible that they let their children go there, and
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she needs her ass beat too, But I didn't say that.
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Well, she definitely does.
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I agree allegedly. I'm not gonna say.
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By Kelly Jennings, Kelly gonna go beat that out, Yeah.
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That's yeah. I'm on my way one way flight, all right. Now,
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let's go right here in our backyard. In Livingston Parish, Louisiana,
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because this is huge, federal prosecutors indicted two men who
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are illegally here in the United States on charges related
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to possessing more than three hundred and sixty pounds of
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methamphetamine following a traffic stop on Interstate twelve in Livingston Parish.
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The bust occurred on Saturday, February seventh, twenty when a
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Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office deputy pulled over a vehicle on
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I twelve. A subsequent search revealed a hidden compartment containing
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approximately one hundred and sixty four kilos, which is about
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three hundred and sixty pounds of methamphetamines and seven one
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hundred dollars in cash, two digital scales, plastic baggies, and
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rubber bands. Louisiana highways are often used to transport narcotics
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from cartel operations towards the major distribution hubs, and in
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this case, the narcotics were headed to the streets of Tennessee.
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On Wednesday, February eleventh, a federal grand jury in the
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US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Louisiana indicted
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Justin Antonio Aregna Romera, who was twenty two, a citizen
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and national of Honduras, and Ed Nilson Alexander Castaneda del Valler,
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twenty two, a citizen and national of El Salvador. Both
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men face charges of possession with intent to distribute more
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than five hundred grams of methamphetamine. US attorney Kurtwall described
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the seizure as one of the largest methamphetamine busts in Louisiana.
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Just because you're not in Miami or New York doesn't
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mean that the tentacles of the cartels don't reach you,
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Wall said, noting that the operation appears to involve cartel activity.
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He thanked the Homeland Security Investigations Team and the Livingston
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Paris Sheriff's office for their work. Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason
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Aard praised the swift federal indictment and the proactive efforts
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of his deputies. He highlighted the significance of removing such
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a large quantity of myth from the streets, potentially saving lives,
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and expressed relief that the law enforcement priorities aligned with
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the aggressive action against illegal immigration and drug trafficking under
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the current administration. The suspects remain in federal custody following
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the indictment.
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Huge you know, the largest meth bust in the history
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of the state of Louisiana, three hundred and sixty pounds
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and the you know, I talked to the sheriff yesterday
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about this, and that is about six million dollars worth
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of methamphetamine. And you know, you just don't see bus
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like this in this case. Interesting that you mentioned it
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wasn't headed towards where it was. This bus went down,
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which was Livingston Parish, Louisiana's that's actually headed to Tennessee.
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And the interstate that runs through Livingston Parish is like
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a hub for people coming from Texas going to Florida
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or Tennessee or wherever they're headed to deliver these drugs. Right.
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They call it the I twelve Corridor because it's really
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you have to come through here to get from point
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A to point B. Now, because I'm a total nerd,
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I look this up. Okay. I was curious how many
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hits that would be because that's a that's a crap
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ton of methamphetamine. And so according to what was done
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online here, so the weight conversion of six three hundred
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and sixty pounds equals one hundred and sixty two hundred
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and ninety grams if a common dose. Now someone might
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argue this, but if if an average dose or a
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point is going to be considered a point one gram, okay,
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that basically means that that amount could contain roughly one
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point sixty three million hits of methamphetamine.