- Enjoy that Guatemalan vacation, former governor of
Mexico's Veracruz state Javier Duarte? Hopefully you did because as a fugitive
from justice, that’s probably the last time you’ll be enjoying a cozy, tropical
getaway for the foreseeable future, what with being accused of running a corruption ring to
plunder state coffers and being detained with the cooperation of Guatemalan
police and the country's Interpol office in the municipality of Panajachel. If
this really was Duarte’s last hurrah, he went out in style, living it up in a
picturesque tourist town on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala's highlands. Javy D. was
wanted on suspicion of money laundering and organized crime, which are some
heavy charges for a guy once entrusted with running an entire state. In the
wake of his arrest, prosecutors directed the Foreign Relations Department to
request Duarte's extradition via its Guatemalan counterpart. It was quite a
scene as a bespectacled Duarte, decked out in a gray shirt and black
jacket-vest, was escorted by Interpol agents and the ironically named Manuel
Noriega, deputy director of Interpol in Guatemala, confirmed that Duarte was
located at a hotel where he was staying with his wife. His capture was a bit
anticlimactic as he was asked to leave his room, did so voluntarily and then
was arrested without incident in the lobby. It was an ignominious ending for a
guy who was governor of Veracruz from 2010 until he left office Oct. 12, 2016,
fleeing justice while not-so-believably denying having links to phantom
businesses that allegedly won state contracts and insisting that he had not
stolen a single peso of state money or diverted government funds overseas………
- They’re the most natural pair in hip-hop circles since
Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart teamed up for a basic cable reality show. It’s
the dynamic duo of Tyler, The Creator and Bill Nye, TV scientist and host of
old-school children’s science show “Bill Nye The Science Guy.” Nye is making a
quasi-comeback with his new Netflix show “Bill Nye Saves The World,” in which
he won't actually do any world-saving, but will have a theme song written and
performed by Tyler, The Creator. The show will debut on the streaming service
this week and to promote the show, the streaming service shared a chat between
Nye and the rapper, who discuss the theme song for Nye’s old program. “The
first one is really sick,” Tyler said. “I love the fast pacedness of it. You
take out that snare, it could be a house song.” Yes, because house music and
Bill Nye are the peanut butter and jelly of the entertainment world. It really
goes without saying why Nye chose Tyler to write the new theme song, as getting
one of the biggest rappers in the world to do a theme song for a TV show about
a scientist’s small-scale attempts to save/better the world is something anyone
in Nye’s shoes would embrace. “He’s the man. He got the beat,” Nye said of his
new collaborator. Whatever makes the two of you happy……..
- Riot on, soccer, riot on. No matter where in the world one
of your glorified pickup games on a grassy knoll takes place, there’s a legit
chance that something will be set afire, looted or assaulted - be it before the
game, after the final whistle or right on the damn pitch in the middle of the
second half. The first soccer riot of what will surely be a busy week of them
came during a Ligue 1 match between Bastia and Lyon that was abandoned after
home fans invaded the pitch at the Stade Armand Cesari and attacked players on
two occasions. France is not normally considered a violent place - surrender is
more its thing - but this was a different day, as kickoff was delayed by almost
an hour after Bastia fans came onto the pitch and appeared to attempt to attack
Lyon players as they warmed up. Stadium security quickly got the players away
from the pitch-invading kooks and somehow, officials managed to convince
visiting Lyon to go forward with the game even after initially refusing to do
so, but a second incident as the teams tried to leave the field at halftime
ended the game and prompted a rather weak statement from the French Football
League. "Following the incident at the end of the first period, the LFP
decided to stop SC Bastia-Olympique Lyonnais,” the statement explained.
"The LFP condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the incidents which
occurred.'' And yet, there will be another ugly incident involving hooligans,
an excess of alcohol and a paucity of intelligence and common sense before
long……..
- Dear would-be criminals of the world….don’t half-ass it if
you’re looking to be America’s next great bank robber. That means do your
research before looking to plunder the safe at your local banking
establishment, making sure you have the proper tools for your plot and of
course, not dressing like some couch-dwelling slacker who stumbled out the door
at the last minute with Cheetoh stains on their ratty t-shirt and rocking a
pair of pajama pants on their lower half. That goes out to you, wanted Utah
woman whom police are searching for after you and your pajama-pants-wearing lazy
self tried to rob five banks in a 90-minute period in Salt Lake County between
9:21 a.m. and 11:55 a.m. This lackluster attempt at a fast payday also includes
a robbery the previous afternoon at a sixth Salt Lake County bank and while
police say the woman netted cash in five of the heists, her run ended poorly as
she ran out of a bank empty handed apparently after becoming spooked. “It’s
very brazen; she feels like she can get away with it,” Unified Police Lt. Brian
Lohrke said. “Maybe she is from out of town because she is not covering her
face and hopefully somebody would have recognized her by now.” Or she’s just
such a lazy ass that she never ventures out of the house and expects other
people to do her tasks and chores for her - except trying to illegally obtain
money, of course. The M.O. was the same at each bank, as the woman handed a
teller at each bank a note demanding money, but never displayed a weapon. The
suspect is described as a white 5-foot-5 female in her 30s with dark hair in a
ponytail, wearing prescription glasses, with a noticeable mole under her right
eye and rocking a blue bandana wrapped around her head……….
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