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GeneChing

05-01-2012, 11:16 AM

San Jose software engineer Jason Cai found guilty of murdering lawyer Xia Zhao (http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20372089/san-jose-software-engineer-jason-cai-found-guilty)
By Tracey Kaplan tkaplan@mercurynews.com
Posted: 04/11/2012 09:30:40 AM PDT
Updated: 04/11/2012 05:09:44 PM PDT

A San Jose software engineer's long winning streak against the criminal justice system finally ended Wednesday when a jury convicted him of murder after a previous panel in 2010 couldn't agree on a verdict.

This time, the jury deliberated only two days before finding Jason Cai, 53, guilty of ambushing lawyer Xia Zhao in the parking lot of her San Jose office on Hamilton Avenue. Cai shot Zhao, a 32-year-old wife and mother, twice -- the second time at such close range that the muzzle left an imprint on her chest.

Many in the courtroom audibly gasped as the clerk read the guilty verdict, including four jurors from the first trial who attended Wednesday's brief hearing in hopes he would be convicted. Cai sat stone-faced.

"The guilty never react,'' said prosecutor Brian Welch, who handled both trials. "They know it's the right verdict.''

Cai now faces a mandatory term of life without parole when Judge David A. Cena sentences him May 24.

The quick resolution Wednesday came as a relief to Zhao's bereaved relatives, including her husband, architect Kevin Schwarckopf. The couple had a 2-year-old son when she was slain.

"This is a good day,'' Schwarckopf said, praising San Jose police and prosecutors for their perserverance. "It's been a long time coming.''

It was the third time Cai had been tried on a murder charge.

Nineteen months ago, Cai was tried for the first time for killing Zhao, including the circumstances allegation of lying in wait. But the jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction after struggling for about four days to reach a consensus. Cai has been in custody since shortly after Zhao was killed in 2008.

Cai racked up his first victory against the criminal justice system six years ago, after his wife, Ying Deng, drowned in 2003 in the pool of their Cupertino home. The murder trial in 2006 was closely covered by the Chinese media. Despite evidence Deng had been hit on the head, the jury acquitted him of murder and deadlocked on manslaughter, prompting prosecutors to dismiss the case.

District Attorney Jeff Rosen prosecuted the Deng case. Wednesday, he was in court and heard the verdict with what appeared to be grim satisfaction.

"This time, Mr. Cai did not escape justice,'' Rosen later said in a written statement.

Jurors said they carefully reviewed the evidence before arriving at a final verdict, including having the court reporter read back much of Cai's testimony. From the first, they said, there was little doubt the short, slim man with glasses was guilty; by the end, there was none.

"He hung himself,'' said one juror who declined to give his name. "He was very arrogant.''

Others had even less flattering thing to say about him, calling him "smug,'' "smirking,'' a "liar'' and "blank.'' Cai did not testify in the first trial on Zhao's murder.

The evidence in Zhao's July 1, 2008, slaying immediately pointed to Cai, including a videotape of a man who closely resembled him running away from the crime scene. But Cai had built an almost-perfect alibi for that morning and early afternoon, forcing the prosecution to make do with a mountain of largely circumstantial evidence.

Welch painstakingly proved that Cai had stalked and threatened Zhao and other lawyers in an effort to stop them from representing his dead wife's mother in a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit she filed against him.

Zhao, the only lawyer in the case who spoke Cai's native language of Mandarin, also helped the wife's family block him from inheriting her property in China. Cai also was frustrated because the wrongful death lawsuit prevented him from collecting on his wife's $250,000 life insurance policy.

Zhao was so fearful of him she took pictures of him with her cell phone, bought a life insurance policy and pursued a restraining order against him to protect herself.

Cai tried to outwit police by rigging his computers to make it appear as if he was working on them at home, according to prosecution expert Tim Weaver. The wily software engineer also went to the Sunnyvale Rod and Gun Club to practice shooting, rendering the gun residue test he was given after his arrest useless.

Besides Cai's dismal performance on the stand, another factor favored Welch -- the judge allowed him to present evidence about Zhao's helpful role in impeding Cai's inheritance, which had been excluded in the previous trial, the prosecutor said.

Cai was defended by renowned San Francisco lawyer Tony Serra, who argued his client was a warm-hearted father who did tai chi and had no need of money because he'd figured out a "magic formula'' to succeed in the stock market.

But the tactic flopped.

"Tai chi and with looking at birds with his daughter in the back yard?'' jury forewoman Mary Goray scofffed. "It was insulting.''

Serra couldn't be reached for comment after the verdict. He also argued during the trial that Cai couldn't be the man captured on the video fleeing the crime scene because he was too old and out of shape to run.

The jury didn't buy it, said juror Cary Cerbasi, a plumber.

"He looked exactly like a guy,'' Cerbasi said, "who couldn't run, trying to run.''
The tai chi defense doesn't work.

GeneChing

05-14-2012, 09:39 AM

Two arrested after Kung-fu brawl (http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6912934/Two-arrested-after-Kung-fu-brawl)
CHE BAKER Last updated 15:30 13/05/2012

Queenstown police have arrested two men after a violent brawl broke out this afternoon.

A witness, who called police, said a fight broke out between a group of six to eight men on Shotover St.

The witness was walking down the street when a ''prolonged scrap'' broke out between the men.

The men were kicking and punching each other Kung-fu style and clothes were being flung around, the witness said.

''People were standing around watching the fight but no-one wanting to get involved,'' she said.

A man who appeared to be intervening, pushed two of the offenders but was seen getting into a truck and fleeing the scene, the witness said.
Why was this a "Kung-fu style" brawl? Because clothes were being flung around?

xcakid

05-14-2012, 09:53 AM

I think they called it kung fu fighting cause:

Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chinese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip

Yeah,

I think Everyone was Kung fu Fightin'

:D

GeneChing

05-14-2012, 10:09 AM

xcakid

05-17-2012, 08:20 AM

xcakid - have you been following the Kung Fu Fighting protest song news (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1169833#post1169833)? I'm still hoping to find video of that to post on that thread. All the news is about the politics but none of the actual singing and dancing.

Well being Filipino myself, I tell, we love our music. :D Even in protest we sing and dance. hahaha.

Maybe that has something to do why I DJ on the side too.

GeneChing

05-17-2012, 10:06 AM

Go to that thread above, xcakid. I just posted video of that protest. ;)

xcakid

05-18-2012, 12:51 PM

We always partyin' :D Even in protest.

TaichiMantis

05-22-2012, 02:29 PM

Frank DeMaria, Kung Fu "Grandmaster," Taught Kids The Art Of ***** Pulling. Now He's Going To Prison (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/frank_demaria_k.php)

Just...ick

GeneChing

05-22-2012, 03:24 PM

I guess cucumbers (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63674) were out of season?

doug maverick

05-31-2012, 08:32 AM

i just posted this on facebook of reading the article and was hoping i got to post it here before gene...so far...so good.

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/538760_10150997272089085_156397957_n.jpg

and if you wondering how she looks

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/387376_330222733659049_315487121_n.jpg

MightyB

05-31-2012, 08:45 AM

I'm calling Shenanigans!!!

There's no way that a woman that looks like this:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/387376_330222733659049_315487121_n.jpg

would need to force a guy to have sex.

mickey

05-31-2012, 08:53 AM

Greetings,

For him to run to the police like that suggests, as MightyB pointed out, bogusness; or, that she strapped on something and took him for three days, in addition to whatever else she did. He WOULD need a new pair of jeans after that.

mickey

GeneChing

05-31-2012, 09:09 AM

But the story is allegedly two years old. :eek:

Real or not, I think this needs to be merged to the BM artists thread here.

7/14/2011 @ 6:42PM |31,143 views
Russian Sex Slave Media Mystery (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2011/07/14/russian-sex-slave-media-mystery/)
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kiriblakeley/files/2011/07/pari-199x300.jpg
You just can’t keep a good sex slave down.

As I wrote on Tuesday in my blog “Same Old Sex Slave, Brand New Gawker Story,” Gawker and The Daily Mail in the UK both published a sensationalistic story about a man who broke into a hair salon in the small Russian town of Meshchovsk and was quickly overpowered by the 28-year-old black belt female owner, who then dragged him to a back room and tied him to a radiator with a hair dryer cord. Must have been a long cord because he was kept there for three days, force fed Viagra (glad she had it on hand!) and repeatedly raped.

Today, the story is spreading quicker than Viagra through the bloodstream. Many more media outlets, including Slate and various Russian papers, have repeated the story. PerezHilton gets so upset that he editorializes about how “disgusting” it is. Commenters on many sites are heatedly debating over whether or not a woman can rape a man. And, in a game of sex slave telephone, each outlet is adding their own little twist to the story. The Irish Independent, for example, claims that the salon owner kicked the robber in the privates.

All these media outlets are taking their information directly from the July 12 Daily Mail story. The problem is that this story—and it’s quite a whopper—is over two years old. It first appeared in April 2009 in The Moscow Times, which even questions if it’s real, noting that Life.ru, which originally posted the police complaint, has been “setting the bar high for sensationalist scoops.” The Moscow Times then links to the complaint on Life.ru, but that link is now dead. Life.ru is now Lifenews.ru, and since it’s in Russian, I had my Russian-speaking friend do a search for the complaint, which was supposedly on the site. No dice.

Something that looks like a police complaint (or a scribbled-on napkin, depending) can be found on a site called News.ru, which got its information from Life.ru, but it is too blurry to read. There’s also a picture of a man and a woman, with their faces blurred. Is this the rapist and her sex slave? Who can tell?

Indeed, many commenters on the various articles about this story have mentioned that the story was previously proven to be a fake, but I couldn’t find anything about that on Snopes.com.

One bit of new information the Daily Mail published that was not in the original April 2009 Moscow Times story nor the April 2009 News.ru story that summarized the Life.ru story, was the last names of the hair salon rapist and her sex slave. They went from just Olga and Viktor in the Moscow Times story (and in all of the outlets that picked it up) to Olga Zajac and Viktor Jasinki in the July 12, 2011 Daily Mail story.

Presumably their last names were never on the original Life.ru story, or The Moscow Times would have published them. But now everyone picking up the Daily Mail story is using those last names, which didn’t exist two days ago—at least, not in the general media. Meanwhile, the two are becoming famous: “Olga Zajac: World’s Greatest Salon Owner” now has her own Facebook page with almost 2000 likes.

So the question is, where did the Daily Mail UK get the last names? And why did they publish a two-and-a-half-year-old story as if it happened two days ago?

I’ve spoken to two different people in the news room of the Daily Mail, and emailed these questions twice. I’m still awaiting a response. Hopefully they can clear up the Russian sex slave mystery once and for all.

Heck, maybe those two kids are happily married now.

ngokfei

06-14-2012, 10:57 AM

"Martial arts entrepreneur kills self as molestation case looms"

By Robert Nolin, Sun Sentinel

2:20 a.m. EDT, June 14, 2012
The owner of a string of martial arts schools killed himself at his Fort Lauderdale home early Monday, days before local police were to file charges he sexually molested an associate.

Stephen LaVallee, 55, who owned five USA Black Belt Champions schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties, hanged himself, the Medical Examiner's Office said. Fort Lauderdale investigators were poised to file a charge of simple battery this week against LaVallee, accusing him of improperly touching a man during a massage in May 2011.

"Mr. LaVallee was aware that charges were being presented against him this week," Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Travis Mandell said.

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Local police had also been reviewing reports from upstate New York, where LaVallee owned eight training centers, accusing him of molesting two teenage boys. Police there never prosecuted LaVallee because the crimes' statute of limitations had expired, said Sgt. Bob Marshall of the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office, which includes Syracuse.

In the South Florida case, according to police reports, a man affiliated with LaVallee's school said he was at LaVallee's Fort Lauderdale office last May when the instructor offered to demonstrate new massage techniques. The man told police LaVallee touched him inappropriately during the massage.

In the New York state cases, Marshall said a man accused LaVallee of molesting him when he was about 13 or 14 years old. The offense allegedly occurred in 1993, Marshall said, but the man didn't report it until this January, after a 10-year statute of limitations in which LaVallee could be prosecuted had run out.

Fort Lauderdale police said there was another incident from New York state in which a man said LaVallee sexually molested him from about age 13 until he graduated from high school. Both jurisdictions closed their investigations after LaVallee's suicide.

LaVallee, five times named man of the year by the International Martial Arts Association, left a wife, Kim, and toddler son. His attorney, Ron L. Baum of Fort Lauderdale, said they are "grieving over the devastating loss." He declined to comment about the accusations against LaVallee.

Kim Ling, owner of Kim Ling's Academy in Oakland Park, said LaVallee formerly fought matches, then devoted himself to running his schools. "One of the top guys in the martial arts world, business-wise," he said.

Many in the martial arts community were long aware of the accusations against LaVallee, Ling said. "All the good stuff he did got tarnished," he said.

LaVallee operated schools in Fort Lauderdale, North Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Coconut Creek and Lighthouse Point. He had studied martial arts for 35 years, earned a 7th degree black belt, and had been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Martial Arts Association. He led seminars and acted as a speaker and consultant for several martial arts organizations.

rnolin@tribune.com or 954-356-4525

http://usablackbeltchampions.com/videos/35-years-of-lavallee-martial-arts-video

ngokfei

06-14-2012, 11:03 AM

http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=764477

sanjuro_ronin

06-14-2012, 11:27 AM

The moment one is a child molester then ANY "good stuff" SHOULD be tarnished.
If the man did do those horrific things then it should be made public because there may be people that were abused and have not come forward yet.

Lucas

06-14-2012, 11:52 AM

hes also a coward. suiciding so he doesnt get his in prison

sanjuro_ronin

06-14-2012, 12:20 PM

hes also a coward. suiciding so he doesnt get his in prison

You know what they do to child molesters in prison...

Although we must give the benefit of the doubt - innocent till proven guilty- it isn't looking to good right now.

taai gihk yahn

06-14-2012, 12:42 PM

You know what they do to child molesters in prison...

Although we must give the benefit of the doubt - innocent till proven guilty- it isn't looking to good right now.

I know that Mike Parella is up in arms about it on a FB site dedicated to MA businesses and Ross commented about it in his blog - from what Mike was saying, a lot of people contacted him privately over the last few days confirming that this was not unknown w/in the community; don't know if that's credible, but just saying...

typically, once the ball starts rolling, it picks up steam quickly - when a victim no longer thinks he / she is the only one, it's easier for the truth to come out (a typical tactic for abusers is to isolate their victims, for example getting them to believe that they are the only one, so that no one would believe them if they said something);

personally, I never even heard of the man before all of this, so all of his supposed greatness has had no impact on me; and of course innocent until proven guilty - but there appears to be a lot of movement against his being innocent...

sanjuro_ronin

06-14-2012, 12:44 PM

I know that Mike Parella is up in arms about it on a FB site dedicated to MA businesses and Ross commented about it in his blog - from what Mike was saying, a lot of people contacted him privately over the last few days confirming that this was not unknown w/in the community; don't know if that's credible, but just saying...

typically, once the ball starts rolling, it picks up steam quickly - when a victim no longer thinks he / she is the only one, it's easier for the truth to come out (a typical tactic for abusers is to isolate their victims, for example getting them to believe that they are the only one, so that no one would believe them if they said something);

personally, I never even heard of the man before all of this, so all of his supposed greatness has had no impact on me; and of course innocent until proven guilty - but there appears to be a lot of movement against his being innocent...

For the man to commit suicide...well.

taai gihk yahn

06-14-2012, 08:21 PM

For the man to commit suicide...well.

yeah, it's really not the mark of someone who knows they have been falsely accused, nor even someone who has only one thing against them - and in this case, it was a suit brought by another adult who had felt violated - I mean, something like that, you can survive even if you are guilty - heck, you can always claim it was consensual, and while you may take some heat, it's not like you will be considered a predatory monster;

but as soon as you are found to have molested a child, even one, even just a little, you're done...

so it certainly seems like he realized he was in a no-way-out situation...

Happy Tiger

06-18-2012, 09:39 AM

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e55_1250787987
I don't know if this old clip has been seen by y'all so here it is.
Carried out by 'master' Bob Joe Blythe and William Dennis. Real American Heroes :(

GeneChing

06-28-2012, 09:42 AM

Here's the initial post on this (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1125471#post1125471). I still can't quite get my head around this.

The Weirdest Art Case Ever, Part Deux: 5 New Details About the Todd White/Margaret Howell SpongeBob Ninja Art Feud (http://artinfo.com/news/story/811082/the-weirdest-art-case-ever-part-deux-5-new-details-about-the-todd-whitemargaret-howell-spongebob-ninja-art-feud)
by Shane Ferro
Published: June 27, 2012

It's back! We know readers have been dying to know what's going on in the strange legal battle between Todd White — the former SpongeBob SquarePants character designer, Ren & Stimpy animator, and sometimes fine artist — and his 62-year-old Orange County dealer, Margaret Howell. This week, venerated cultural rag Vanity Fair dug into the case, publishing a long exposé getting to the heart of what really happened on that August 2011 evening when Howell accuses White of hiring three "martial arts experts" to attack her and steal $1 million in inventory from the gallery she owns, Gallery HB. White, on the other hand, maintains that the "ninja attack" incident was really nothing more sinister than a sit-down with Howell that ended in a tearful confession that she had printed extra copies of his glicées and forged edition numbers, as well as his signature.

The truth is murky. Who, finally, to believe in this crazy he said/she said case at the weird outer fringes of the art world? It's hard to say — but it is fairly easy to pick out plenty of zany details. Here, ARTINFO breaks out the five craziest new tidbits uncovered by VF's David Kushner — who, by the way, refers obliquely to our previous coverage when he says "one blogger" called the original incident the "weirdest art case ever" (get caught up here and here if you need a primer on the story's background):

"A SPARTACUS FIGURE"?

The VF story gives new insight into the characters at the center of this story, who take on almost mythical dimensions. White originally broke into the fine art realm, we are told, because of his undeniable "swagger." Cleveland-based gallerist Kevin O'Donnell, who also represents White, goes so far as to say, "he’s a genuine charismatic character, not unlike Warhol." His U.K. publisher, Rod Lacey, calls him "John Lennon with a paintbrush." Later in the story, Lacey goes on to claim that White's "been taken on as almost a Spartacus figure for the art world," referring to his attempt to start a guild to help his fellow artists navigate the gallery business (Wait — what?) However, after the lawsuit ordeal, White has reportedly been so depressed he couldn't even bring himself to follow his normal routine: painting late into the night while listening to Howard Stern.

THE WEDDING CRASHER

Howell, for her part, is presented as a pretty slick character. White told VF that she once sold artwork to a bride in the bathroom before her wedding — the benefit of having a gallery in a hotel, ARTINFO presumes. As for her crimes against the SpongeBob artist, in addition to selling a forged print to a private investigator White hired, she also admitted to using a substance called "Goo Be Gone" to remove markings from one of his prints, relabeling it so as to make it seem more rare and expensive.

ENTER SYLVESTER STALLONE...

White, we are told, is apparently the "poster boy" for glicée prints — digital photos printed to look like they have been painted. He's achieved quite a following, scoring deals with Coca-Cola and the Emmys, and his work is now sold at "major retail operations like Bed Bath & Beyond." As for collectors, Sylvester Stallone owns one of White's prints, for which he supposedly paid $280,000 (there's a new one for ARTINFO to list of celebrity collectors)!

A NEW FOE

We also learn that White has at least one nemesis besides his former dealer: A rival L.A. artist, Clifford Bailey, has accused White of making work that is just a little bit too similar to his own. And after the Howell/White martial arts scandal went down, Howell did what any smart dealer would do: She picked up the next best thing. Bailey's works now adorn the walls of Gallery HB.

FOLLOW THE MONEY

According to White, the stunt he had his friends pull — which was either ninja attack or just a very forceful business meeting, depending on whom you believe — was a result of not wanting to "contaminate his hard-earned market" by reporting Howell's fraud to the police. It's not clear that his power play worked, though. Today, ARTINFO found several Web sites selling his prints for around $1,000, a far cry from the six figures that Sly Stallone forked out for a White original (full disclosure: we have no idea if they are genuine or not, since it's the Internet).

But, at the end of the day, it all might be water under the bridge. Vanity Fair reports that the parties recently reached a confidential out-of-court settlement.

GeneChing

08-16-2012, 09:44 AM

...but strangely relevant here...

Thursday, Aug 16 2012 6PM
Bodyguard says he saved Neil Heywood and his Chinese lover from kung-fu assassin after their affair was found out (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186939/Neil-Heywood-murder-Michael-Wright-says-saved-businessman-Gu-Kailai-Chinese-assassins.html)

Michael Wright protected Bournemouth flat where the murdered businessman lived with Gu Kailai
Neil Heywood lived in fear after affair with 'China's Jackie Kennedy' was exposed
Gu Kailai appeared in court on Wednesday where her lack of objection has been considered an admission of guilt
Foreign media denied access, blogs deleted, online searches disabled
Guilty verdict may lead to the death penalty

By Sam Greenhill and Sara Malm

PUBLISHED: 07:23 EST, 11 August 2012 | UPDATED: 10:17 EST, 11 August 2012

A bodyguard who protected Neil Haywood during his affair with his alleged murderer Gu Kailai has spoken of how he fought off three Chinese assassins in an attempt on the old Harrovian’s life.

Michael Wright and his team were protecting the couple during the time they shared a flat in Bournemouth and revealed that the exposure of the affair led to a serious threat to Neil Heywood's life when three men tried to break into their home.

His interview comes the days after Gu Kailai appeared in court in China accused of killing Neil Heywood after he made a threatening demand for £13million from her playboy son.

Mr Wright said the team were surprised by three Chinese henchmen under orders to kill Mr Heywood after a spy, posing as a cook, has exposed the affair in 2001.

He said the three men attempted to break into the flat using martial arts.

‘They didn’t speak any English but they wanted to get upstairs to the flat where Neil and Mrs Gu was hiding,’ Mr Wright told The Mirror.

‘They were under orders to kill someone and it was my job to stop them. I was confronted by one of the guys at the front and wrestled him to the ground to restrain him.’

‘It was brutal. Those guys wanted blood. Eventually we got the better of them and they didn’t want the British police turning up so they jumped in a car and sped off.’

The attempt on his life terrified Neil Heywood and Mrs Gu was ‘shaking like a leaf’.

Mr Wright also revealed that despite the attempt on his life Mr Haywood and Mrs Gu became increasingly relaxed about their affair and would enjoy romantic dates at local restaurants calling themselves Neil and Gu Horus for protection.

Mr Wright described Neil Heywood as a nervous ‘old English colonial’ in linen suits who would chain-smoke at least three packs a day.

Gu Kailai has admitted to Chinese police in a pre-trial interview that she lured her former lover to a hotel room where she got him drunk and then laced his drink with cyanide.

The alleged motive behind 41-year-old Mr Heywood’s grisly death was revealed at the murder trial of Mrs Gu, dubbed the Jackie Kennedy of China.

Her lawyer even argued that affable Mr Heywood, a father of two young children, ‘should bear some responsibility’ for his own murder.

Mrs Gu appeared in court on Wednesday alongside her co-accused – family bodyguard Zhang Xiajun, 33, who is alleged to have prepared the poison – where they both entered pleas but they did not contest the murder charge against them.

The court heard the Jaguar-driving Englishman had fallen into an ‘economic dispute’ with Mrs Gu’s party-loving son Bo Guagua, 24, whom Mr Heywood had once mentored to secure a place at his alma mater, Harrow School.

Mr Bo, known for a love of champagne and shisha parties while studying at Oxford University, was allegedly told by Mr Heywood: ‘If you do not give me £13million, you will be destroyed,’ the judges heard, according to a reliable source who was in the courtroom.

These threats, in an email or letter, were said to have been forwarded by Bo to his mother.

International media were banned from the highly-politicised trial, which concluded in less than seven hours in the Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei.

The source added that the court heard it was not the first assassination plot on Mr Heywood, with Mrs Gu having previously conspired to kill him with a local police chief.

The court’s deputy director Tang Yigan announced: ‘Gu Kailai believed that Neil Heywood had threatened the personal safety of her son Bo and decided to kill him.’

Gu summoned him to Chongqing, the mega-city in southwestern China where her husband was Communist Party Secretary, on November 13 last year.

They drank tea and wine together in room 1605 of the ‘Lucky Holiday Hotel’, before Mr Heywood became drunk and was sick.

After he had vomited, Gu, 53, helped him drink a glass of water – which she had mixed with a lethal draft of potassium cyanide.

A student who was allowed to witness the case said Gu had appeared ‘calm’, despite the possibility she could be sentenced to death.

‘There were no tears. Both looked quite calm, peaceful. Both said they accepted the court’s authority,’ said the student.

Mr Tang said prosecutors believed the facts of the ‘brutal’ crime were clear and backed by ‘ample evidence’, and that ‘Gu Kailai is the main culprit and Zhang is the accomplice’.

Gu had reportedly made a full confession to police, which it was in her interests to do because it will act in her favour during sentencing deliberations.

The judges reserved their verdict to an unspecified date within the next 30 days

She will almost certainly be found guilty, but could be spared the executioner’s bullet because of her defence that she was only trying to protect her son.

In a bid to further lighten her sentence, Gu was said to have made accusations about ‘other people’s crimes’, although no details were given.

GeneChing

09-10-2012, 09:57 AM

That's got to be the worst defense ever. 'Oh, I was just reenacting a scene from Caligula. :rolleyes:

I want to know which Jackie movie now...

Burnsville Man Charged with Domestic Assault Claims He Was Reenacting Jackie Chan Movie (http://burnsville.patch.com/articles/burnsville-man-charged-with-domestic-assault-claims-he-was-reenacting-jackie-chan-movie)

Qiang Du, 22, faces charges for an assault that police say occurred on Aug. 28 in Eagan.
By David Henke
September 7, 2012

A Burnsville man facing domestic assault charges had an unusual excuse for police investigators: He claims he and the victim were reenacting a fight scene from a Jackie Chan movie.

Qiang Du, 22, faces one felony count of domestic assault by strangulation, one felony count of terroristic threats and two misdemeanor counts of domestic assault for his alleged role in the incident. If convicted on the terroristic threats charge, Du could face a maximum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Eagan police interviewed the victim, who allegedly told investigators that she recently ended a business arrangement with Du's mother. On Aug. 28, the victim was leaving the business when Du allegedly followed her outside, grabbed her by the throat with one hand and squeezed until his mother rushed outside and told him to stop. Once Du released his grip, the victim collapsed to the ground, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Dakota County Attorney's Office.

The victim also told police that Du threatened her and her daughter several times over the phone.

When police interviewed Du on Aug. 30, he allegedly became excited and told police "it was all a misunderstanding." Instead of assaulting the victim, Du claimed he was performing a scene from a Jackie Chan movie where one character yells at and chokes another. Du also stated that he yelled lines from the movie at the victim during the alleged assault.

Du allegedly told police that he stopped the reenactment when his mother, who felt Du's actions were "very dangerous," told him to stop. Based on his own admissions during the interview, police arrested Du.

GeneChing

10-10-2012, 09:17 AM

Perhaps 'Kickboxing rape' is more appropriate. The judge is weirdly civil. I guess it wasn't any of his daughters who were statutorily raped.

Martial arts instructor faces jail for sex attack (http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/Martial-arts-instructor-faces-jail-sex-attack/story-17056218-detail/story.html)
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

A MARTIAL arts instructor and former World and British kickboxing champion has been told to prepare for jail after he admitted sexual activity with two under-age girls.

Adam Rocky Beniston, 27 – who was well known on the local martial arts circuit – pleaded guilty to 11 charges of sexual activity with a child when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court.

Seven of the charges relate to kissing and touching a teenage girl between July and December 2010. The four other offences relate to kissing and touching another teenage girl between February and November 2011.

Both girls cannot be named for legal reasons.

Beniston, of High Street, Mablethorpe, denied two other charges of possessing indecent photographs of a child on his mobile phone and causing or inciting a child into pornography.

Phil Howes, prosecuting, told the court the Crown Prosecution Service would not be seeking a trial on those matters.

Sarah Munro, defending, asked for sentence to be adjourned for the preparation of a probation report on Beniston.

Miss Munro told the court: “He has been on bail. There has not been a condition of residence.”

Judge Sean Morris granted Beniston bail for the report but warned him prison was inevitable when he is sentenced in three weeks’ time.

“Having made this mistake in your life you have done absolutely the right thing in admitting your guilt at the first opportunity,” Judge Morris said.

“You will be given credit for that and I will adjourn sentence for a pre-sentence report.

“But you must understand a custodial sentence is inevitable, so you have got some time to put your affairs in order.”

Beniston moved from Mansfield to Lincolnshire three years ago and was crowned coach of the year at the Lincolnshire Sports Awards last year, presented by BBC Sport presenter Dan Walker, and runner-up in the overall sportsman award.

GeneChing

12-07-2012, 04:25 PM

...and six months.

Fullerton coach gets 298 years for 11 molestations (http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/state&id=8911814)
Thursday, December 06, 2012

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A former martial arts instructor has been sentenced to nearly 300 years in a California prison for molesting 11 students.

During the sentencing of 31-year-old Luis Alberto Pineda Thursday two of the victims and one mother gave impact statements to the court.

Pineda was convicted of 17 felony counts of lewd acts on a child under 14, two felony counts of sodomy by force and other sex crimes.

The Anaheim man molested 10 boys and one girl after practices, games or when he took them to movies or dinner while he was an instructor at Moo Yea Do Martial Arts in Fullerton from 2005 to 2010.

He was also a soccer coach for the North Orange County Youth Soccer Premier League.

He received 298 years and six months in prison.

Shadow_Trickery

12-08-2012, 06:08 AM

...and six months.

Weirdly specific. Not to mention extremely disturbing...

Syn7

12-09-2012, 05:18 PM

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e55_1250787987
I don't know if this old clip has been seen by y'all so here it is.
Carried out by 'master' Bob Joe Blythe and William Dennis. Real American Heroes :(

Wow. I dunno about the murder. I mean the guy was all over the place ****ing people off. But the fact that this so called "master Blythe" was willing to mock the man in front of his class shows his lack of character and integrity. The guy in the white Gi is worse tho. First the jesus guy said "I don't want to hurt you" so the guys response is to attack him? So the jesus guy defends and yields like 3 times that I heard and they still attack him? I'm so lost as to what point these two idiot marines thought they were making? Don't mess with a marine? is that it? So senseless and irresponsible. I feel so sorry for parents that sent their kids to a guy like this thinking their kid would learn respect. Semper fi? whatever *******...

Anyone know if that one went anywhere? Anyone charged for the murder? Why was the man in the white Gi not charged with assault? It's unfortunate when law enforcement and military get special treatment from eachother. Weak sauce. Like those douchebag cops that flash their badge when they are off duty just to get ahead in a line up or something. That happened to me once, I said no, **** off, and management refused my service from that point on. :rolleyes: The cop was infuriated and made a huge deal about it. Something about having a new born baby, I dunno, I couldn't stop laughing and I think that just made it worse for me. I was still laughing when they told me to leave. That's what I get for challenging dickhead authority I suppose.

The really sad part was that had he just walked up to me like a man and asked for my spot in line, I would have gladly let him have it. I was in no hurry. It just ****ed me off that he assumed a badge gave him the right to make demands.

Syn7

12-09-2012, 05:26 PM

...and six months.

Must have had an uneven amount of consecutive sentences that where X and a half years. It happens sometimes. Just looks funny when their is no chance of anyone living long enough to serve it. I don't see the point in giving sentences that are greater than life. In Canada you get very specific sentences sometimes. I got a 243 day sentence once. Which was awesome since I was hoping for a deuce less. Gotta love fast tracking, you can walk out in 3 months. I thought for sure I was going federal.

JamesC

12-09-2012, 05:58 PM

You know what they do to child molesters in prison...

Although we must give the benefit of the doubt - innocent till proven guilty- it isn't looking to good right now.

A local man from my hometown was just killed in prison.

He was a child molester sharing a cell with a guy that murdered his parents. This was the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Not sure which unit.

The murderer strangled him to death with his bedsheet.

Lebaufist

12-09-2012, 09:09 PM

I remember that. Somebody did a facial study and noted similarities in the description. A body was found of a homeless man that fit the description that had died a decade later. His malformed jaw had swollen from a long time untreated injury. It could have been him. Either way, Bobby Joe is worse than scum. :mad:

Syn7

12-10-2012, 12:20 AM

A local man from my hometown was just killed in prison.

He was a child molester sharing a cell with a guy that murdered his parents. This was the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Not sure which unit.

The murderer strangled him to death with his bedsheet.

Usually they go to PC for good. Most of their abuse comes from corrections rather than other convicts. Had they been in GenPop then that is an administrative abuse. How we feel about them is irrelevant. If you want them beaten to death then have the balls to make that their sentence.

JamesC

12-10-2012, 02:02 AM

Usually they go to PC for good. Most of their abuse comes from corrections rather than other convicts. Had they been in GenPop then that is an administrative abuse. How we feel about them is irrelevant. If you want them beaten to death then have the balls to make that their sentence.

A lot of the time PC is shared. Especially when over crowded.

Syn7

12-10-2012, 05:45 PM

A lot of the time PC is shared. Especially when over crowded.

Well, I can't speak for where you're at, but here it's run differently than GP. It's more like the SHU than GP. And yeah, people get hurt in PC all the time, but it's a lot less than GP. Most people in there are more sympathetic. Not that some rat won't cave a skinners head in for clout. It's just a lot harder. Like SHU they are grouped accordingly. If this is not the case, then the administration is failing in their duties. I mean, they do a pretty bad job anyways, you would think they could at least keep people alive. But that speaks more to attitude by corrections than any sort of admin errors. I know that corrections abuses their authority. I've been a party to it. I've seen lots of stuff that is just wrong, on both sides of the door. It's pretty counter productive and hard to deny corruption when people in seg get murdered. It's a very US vs THEM atmosphere and it's fostered by both sides of the gate, and neither have any valid excuses for being like that other than the whole circular revenge thing. Human nature I guess. The job attracts certain types, and of course the convicts aren't the best class of people either. Not that I haven't met some good people on both sides.

MasterKiller

12-11-2012, 09:33 AM

What does raping children have to do with kung fu? This discussion is not very family oriented, unlike our other discussions related to maiming and killing other human beings.

Did the rapists wear panda suits?

David Jamieson

12-11-2012, 09:55 AM

MasterKiller

12-11-2012, 09:56 AM

You're a mod here. Why don't you ask the person who started the thread? :confused:

I think I just did, Monsieur!

Dale Dugas

12-11-2012, 09:56 AM

Has MK been hacked?

strange behavior out of left field.

MasterKiller

12-11-2012, 09:58 AM

Has MK been hacked?

strange behavior out of left field.

I can assure you, good sir, that I am in total control of my faculties.

GeneChing

12-11-2012, 12:04 PM

Like I said at the beginning:

It seems like I'm getting more and more of these sorts of news stories, sad to say. I can't tell if I'm just hyper-sensitive or it's a growing phenomena. So I'm going to start compiling them here, just to see where it goes. I know there's some archived threads too, which could be linked in to this one. :(

Seeing these stories in the newsfeeds hasn't ceased. In fact, they are rather constant and often dominate the newfeeds. This is how the martial arts is perceived on the web when Googled, so I find it highly relevant. Part of my purpose behind it is to set an example to others, to let them know that offenders do get caught and that they should be recognized not only as criminals but as those that dishonor our arts.

Also, and this is a double-edged sword, I am for the regulation of martial arts schools that teach children. It should be the same as with day-care centers and such. Right now, martial arts are completely unregulated. This is a double-edged sword because it would crush our economy for a while as so many schools make their gate on kids and they are totally unprepared to get certified by some national body. Many schools wouldn't survive a background check. So it would be hard at first, but in the end, it will improve our community.

Right now, no one is looking at the martial arts industry in this way, but I feel it is inevitable, given the content of this thread.

David Jamieson

12-11-2012, 12:08 PM

Like I said at the beginning:

Seeing these stories in the newsfeeds hasn't ceased. In fact, they are rather constant and often dominate the newfeeds. This is how the martial arts is perceived on the web when Googled, so I find it highly relevant. Part of my purpose behind it is to set an example to others, to let them know that offenders do get caught and that they should be recognized not only as criminals but as those that dishonor our arts.

Also, and this is a double-edged sword, I am for the regulation of martial arts schools that teach children. It should be the same as with day-care centers and such. Right now, martial arts are completely unregulated. This is a double-edged sword because it would crush our economy for a while as so many schools make their gate on kids and they are totally unprepared to get certified by some national body. Many schools wouldn't survive a background check. So it would be hard at first, but in the end, it will improve our community.

Right now, no one is looking at the martial arts industry in this way, but I feel it is inevitable, given the content of this thread.

Indeed. I think setting the same standard and duty of care as required by a children's learning center or a day care is absolutely necessary. As for the schools that wouldn't pass muster, let them fall bad economy or not. If they don't measure up, let them go.

MasterKiller

12-11-2012, 12:18 PM

JamesC

12-11-2012, 12:45 PM

Well, I can't speak for where you're at, but here it's run differently than GP. It's more like the SHU than GP. And yeah, people get hurt in PC all the time, but it's a lot less than GP. Most people in there are more sympathetic. Not that some rat won't cave a skinners head in for clout. It's just a lot harder. Like SHU they are grouped accordingly. If this is not the case, then the administration is failing in their duties. I mean, they do a pretty bad job anyways, you would think they could at least keep people alive. But that speaks more to attitude by corrections than any sort of admin errors. I know that corrections abuses their authority. I've been a party to it. I've seen lots of stuff that is just wrong, on both sides of the door. It's pretty counter productive and hard to deny corruption when people in seg get murdered. It's a very US vs THEM atmosphere and it's fostered by both sides of the gate, and neither have any valid excuses for being like that other than the whole circular revenge thing. Human nature I guess. The job attracts certain types, and of course the convicts aren't the best class of people either. Not that I haven't met some good people on both sides.

I worked in law enforcement here for six years. One of the complaints from our state prisoners( I worked in a county jail) was that our state prisons were really cramped.

I'm not saying it wasn't planned that way, because I don't know. Just saying that I don't know the specifics or the situation well enough to say it was the fault of the administrators or supervisors for placing him with the killer.

David Jamieson

12-11-2012, 02:22 PM

MasterKiller

12-11-2012, 02:47 PM

When 1 in 10 persons is incarcerated, it's hard to argue that the system is not intentionally flawed for the profit of others.

David Jamieson

12-11-2012, 03:05 PM

When 1 in 10 persons is incarcerated, it's hard to argue that the system is not intentionally flawed for the profit of others.

Many American prisons are private businesses.

In Canada, where we have a Queen and speak French, we have provincial prisons for 2 years less one day sentences and federal prisons for anything over 2 years.

the federal and provincial prisons are run by government workers and guards etc all are employees of either the provincial or federal government.

No company anywhere is allowed to employ prisoners, but they may be used to carry out public works from time to time.

there isn't the opportunity given to profit.

Syn7

12-11-2012, 05:37 PM

I worked in law enforcement here for six years. One of the complaints from our state prisoners( I worked in a county jail) was that our state prisons were really cramped.

I'm not saying it wasn't planned that way, because I don't know. Just saying that I don't know the specifics or the situation well enough to say it was the fault of the administrators or supervisors for placing him with the killer.

Ok well then you know all too well that corrections is quite often guilty of instigating violence in one way or another. And quite often the perp themselves. I've seen it, lived it, been a part of it. So I KNOW. It's a shame so many are unwilling to see the truth. It's a fair assumption that cons will be disruptive at times. But it's such a bull**** assumption the corrections are just guys caught in a ****ty situation. I mean, they are in a ****ty situation, no doubt, but their actions are a BIG part of the problems that infest your prisons and ours.

I've met corrections that are great people but more often than not they take out their frustrations on people when they can't fight back. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen it.

You know the "torpedo" concept then? Quite often it's a guard who makes that happen. For kicks, out of anger, to shut somebody up, whatever. Doesn't matter. It's all wrong.

I also have an issue with regular shakedowns but no searches on officers. I mean, we all know how the dope gets in. It's not a secret.

Syn7

12-11-2012, 05:45 PM

Because of the private prisons for profit system that goes on in the states, people lose sight of what they are doing in favour of getting some for themselves. Prison management wants to turn a profit. Who are the commodities to do this with? the prisoners.

The American prison system is in some respects a weakly veiled system of indentured slavery with prisoners being stick and carrotted to do piece work for major corps that use the prisons for cheap labour.

Not unique to the US anymore, David. Private prisons and private administrators are officially running strong in Canada. They have a huge lobby and a lot of friends. It starts with privates administrating public works and end with the outright sale of the service. It's not long before we have 100% private prisons from the ground up.

And I agree, it's wrong. I have no problem with my tax dollars going to prisons to create a functioning environment.
Maybe we can stop giving subsidies to everyone with a grip of money in order to pay for a better system.

Syn7

12-11-2012, 05:47 PM

Many American prisons are private businesses.

In Canada, where we have a Queen and speak French, we have provincial prisons for 2 years less one day sentences and federal prisons for anything over 2 years.

the federal and provincial prisons are run by government workers and guards etc all are employees of either the provincial or federal government.

No company anywhere is allowed to employ prisoners, but they may be used to carry out public works from time to time.

there isn't the opportunity given to profit.

You may wanna google that, David. You had one in your backyard recently.

http://www.straight.com/news/stephen-harper-opens-door-prison-privatization

Kellen Bassette

12-11-2012, 06:19 PM

Syn7

12-11-2012, 06:24 PM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/19/private-prison-companies-canada-lawsuits

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07/13/prison-privatization-canada_n_1670755.html

This one is interesting because the US lobbied to have us crackdown on asylum then private US prisons just happened to be right behind them with all sorts of solutions. :rolleyes: I'm not saying it's some crazy conspiracy, just opportunistic *******s who may have very well influenced policy south of the border with intentions of international expansion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/29/canada-asylum-seekers-private-prison-companies

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/canadian_news/2006/04/20/criminolog.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-10/canada-studying-private-firms-for-prisons-as-budgets-fall.html

Syn7

12-11-2012, 06:28 PM

The very idea of private, for profit prisons is abominable. It's a glaring testament to the fact that business always takes precedent over people, in the USA at least. It's a wonderful example of the worst and darkest sides of capitalism.

Your free market is not very free. That's like saying a rigged boxing match was fair because it had a rule set. Bull****!

Not that Canada is much better. And US policy is spilling over into Canada by the trainload! Legal, Political, Economical, all of it.

Kellen Bassette

12-11-2012, 06:40 PM

Your free market is not very free. That's like saying a rigged boxing match was fair because it had a rule set. Bull****!

Exactly, the market is never free when the lines are constantly blurred between what industries are public and which are private, or when congress writes laws to benefit their own, manipulate currency, or inflate/deflate certain markets. There's very little true free market in existence. This, however, is a natural byproduct of "capitalism."

Syn7

12-11-2012, 06:42 PM

Maybe, but it doesn't have to be. Capitalism is a very diverse theory.

Kellen Bassette

12-11-2012, 06:59 PM

Maybe, but it doesn't have to be. Capitalism is a very diverse theory.

Of course. There's capitalism as a true, free market, state capitalism, as in the current Chinese model, there's what is "described" as capitalism by western countries, actually being a mix of heavily regulated capitalism and socialism...and there's the train wreck we have here.

MightyB

01-09-2013, 11:42 AM

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/01/matthew-maldanado-nicholas-schultz-accused-in-new-year-s-eve-rape-83850.html

Two men are in police custody following accusations they committed a vicious crime.

Matthew Maldanado, 26, and Nicholas Schultz, 21, are accused of repeatedly raping a 20-year-old Fairfax woman as she fell in and out of consciousness in the parking garage of St. Matthews Cathedral on New Year's Eve.

According to court documents, the young woman, Maldanado and Schultz all know each other from the Lloyd Irvin Martial Arts School in Camps Springs where they trained.

Police said the woman bumped in the two men at a club in D.C. They offered to escort her to an instructor's home, because she was too drunk to drive.

But the men took her to the St. Matthew's Center parking garage instead, police explained, where surveillance cameras captured Maldanado raping the woman and Shultz joining.

After Maldanado left, police said, the tape shows Schultz raping her repeatedly. She told police he said at one point, "I am sorry. I am a sick *******."

A roommate in the Clinton home where both men live said he was out of town when the alleged rape occurred.

"I have no idea. I know nothing," he added

Schultz told the court after he was arrested that he lives in a Jiu Jitsu fighter house.

"What I know is they have always been real nice to me, really good friend. I like them a lot," the roommate said.

Neighbors said police had the area blocked off the night Maldanado and Schultz were arrested.

"Swat team, riot van, one man in riot gear...," one neighbor said. "Well, I'm glad they caught then...," another neighbor added.

Detectives said the woman claimed she had been raped, but it wasn't until they saw the tape, that the extent of the allegations emerged.

They wrote of the alleged attack "She fell backwards...striking her head against the wall...later struck her head again...and noted she collapsed to the ground...several times...he head again hitting the ground."

At the end of the report, the police said the two suspects left the victim on the concrete. A passerby later heard her cries for help.

Maldanado and Schultz will appear in court Thursday.

ngokfei

01-31-2013, 11:51 PM

interesting video on the statistics of how many crimes are committed by martial artists.:eek:

Martial Arts Dirty Secret (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWRtHpQQgU)

TaichiMantis

03-14-2013, 07:23 PM

Prison time for martial arts teacher who solicited sex from student (http://m.daily-journal.com/dailyjournal/pm_105523/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=4N4N5kFz)
Kankakee County: 03/14/2013 10:13 AM

A 38-year-old former martial arts instructor — who was out on bond and awaiting sentencing on federal drug charges when he committed a new crime in Kankakee County — was sentenced to three years in state prison Monday after pleading guilty to attempting to solicit sex from one of his students.

According to Kankakee County prosecutors, Leon Battiste asked the student, who was under the age of 17 at the time of the June 2011 offense, to stay after class and then solicited her during a telephone conversation later that day.

Battiste also will serve a year in federal prison after being convicted for growing 100 pot plants on his rural Colfax home in McLean County sometime before February 2010.

He was out on bond when he committed the other offense in Kankakee County while working at a martial arts studio here.

The victim said the incident left her shaken and distrustful of men, according to her victim impact statement prosecutors read in court Monday.

Battiste will be required to register as a sex offender and will serve his two sentences back-to-back and in separate prisons. He also will receive credit for the 13 months he's already served in the county jail and will be released from state prison within five months.

pazman

03-14-2013, 08:22 PM

interesting video on the statistics of how many crimes are committed by martial artists.:eek:

Martial Arts Dirty Secret (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWRtHpQQgU)

That video was very poorly done, with very few useful statistics. A cursory glance over the user's other videos and it's clear he's a crackpot.

rett

04-28-2013, 06:22 AM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/27/us-usa-security-ricin-arrest-idUSBRE93Q07420130427

A former martial arts instructor has been charged on suspicion of sending the ricin-laced letter to president Obama and possibly having tried to frame the previous person of interest in the case. He denies involvement.

What style did he teach? Anyone know more about the martial arts side of the story?

TaichiMantis

04-28-2013, 07:15 AM

We live in a world where "Taekwondo instructor arrested in ricin case after Elvis impersonator released" is a real thing.

rett

04-28-2013, 09:33 AM

We live in a world where "Taekwondo instructor arrested in ricin case after Elvis impersonator released" is a real thing.

Thanks. Yeah, you couldn't make this stuff up.

It appears the suspect’s strip-mall martial arts school closed after allegations that he fondled young female students. Again, he contests the charges.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/28/ricin-letters-elvis-impersonator-mississippi/2117451/

Egg fu young

04-29-2013, 04:28 AM

Martial arts instructor charged over deadly ricin letters sent to Obama after Elvis impersonator claims he was 'framed' by him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315748/Everett-Dutschke-Martial-arts-instructor-charged-deadly-ricin-letters-sent-Obama-Elvis-impersonator-claims-framed-him.html

GeneChing

04-29-2013, 09:05 AM

Real Elvis impersonators practice Kenpo (http://www.martialartsmart.com/kb-110.html).

What style did he teach? Anyone know more about the martial arts side of the story?
I posted a link to this story on the Boston Marathon Bombings thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1226571#post1226571) last week because it was mentioned previously there. I thought about posting it here but I generally don't do double posts as there's plenty of that already. Nevertheless, I'm glad you mentioned it here too, rett, as it certainly has its place here.

Weird story.

No bond for martial arts instructor charged with sending ricin letters (http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/29/17969620-no-bond-for-martial-arts-instructor-charged-with-sending-ricin-letters?lite)

James Everett Dutschke of Tupelo, Miss., has been arrested, accused of sending letters containing deadly ricin addressed to President Obama and a senator. He has feuded with Paul Kevin Curtis, who was charged with the crime and later released. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

A judge declined to set bond Monday for a Mississippi martial arts instructor charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and other government officials.

Prosecutors said they believed James Everett Dutschke was dangerous and a flight risk, according to NBC affiliate WTVA.

Dutschke was arrested Saturday morning at his home in Tupelo and charged with attempted use of a biological weapon — the poison ricin, which authorities say turned up in letters to the president, a senator and a Mississippi judge.

The arrest was the latest bizarre twist in the case. Authorities first arrested another man, an Elvis impersonator named Paul Kevin Curtis, who frequently writes to Congress and who has a longstanding feud with Dutschke. Charges against Curtis were dropped.

Curtis says he was framed. He has said Dutschke snubbed him after showing interest in publishing his book on a black market for body parts. Curtis also acknowledged posting a fake Mensa certificate online as part of a trap he set for Dutschke.

Law enforcement officials said they found traces of ricin after searching Dutschke’s home, business and cars. Dutschke has said that he is a patriotic American, holds no grudges and didn’t do it.

“I wouldn’t recognize ricin if I saw it,” he told reporters last week. “Would you?”

Dutschke, 41, who earlier this month pledged not guilty to two child molestation charges, faces life in prison if he is convicted on the ricin charge.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130429-paul-kevin-curtis-vmed-830a.380;380;7;70;0.jpg
Paul Kevin Curtis speaks to reporters last week in Oxford, Miss.

Besides Obama, the ricin letters were sent to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and to Judge Sadie Holland of Lee County, Miss. The letters to Obama and Wicker were intercepted at screening facilities. Holland’s letter reached her, but she was unharmed.

“Boy, I must be important,” she joked to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper of Jackson. “I’m right up there with the president and Senator Wicker, huh?”

Ricin is made from castor beans and can kill, but an FBI agent testified in court that the ricin in the letters was crude and not very potent, and looked like castor beans ground in a blender.

GeneChing

05-01-2013, 09:56 AM

It really sucks when stuff like this comes up in the martial arts news feeds. :(

FBI finds ricin in martial arts studio run by letter-writing suspect (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/1/fbi-finds-ricin-martial-arts-studio-run-letter-wri/)
By Cheryl K. Chumley
The Washington Times
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Federal authorities say they’ve found evidence of ricin in the Tupelo, Miss., martial arts studio that is run by the suspect who’s accused of sending poison letters to the president.

James Everett Dutschke is also charged with sending ricin-laced letters to a politician and a judge.

The FBI said Tuesday that agents discovered ricin in the studio as well as on items that police observed him taking from his studio and depositing in the trash, The Associated Press reported. Among the items: a dust mask, AP reported.

Moreover, the FBI said the suspect purchased castor beans — which are used to make ricin — online, AP reported.

The studio was sealed after FBI collected “trace levels of ricin,” FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden said.

GeneChing

05-17-2013, 08:43 AM

Well, the art next door was busted. :o

We had a similar problem with a neighboring tenant at a strip mall school I was at. The neighbor was a skate shop. Unfortunately, we had mounted our bags on the shared wall, and I guess it was rattling their deck display. But it was easily resolved as they weren't always open during class time, so we just didn't do bag work when they were open.

There's a vid if you follow the link (w/busted art :()

Fight brews over loud martial arts studio (http://longisland.news12.com/news/fight-brews-over-loud-martial-arts-studio-1.5277192?firstfree=yes)
Published: May 16, 2013 3:43 PM

A fight is brewing over a martial arts studio located next to an Islip art gallery. (May 16, 2013)
ISLIP - A fight is brewing over a martial arts studio located next to an Islip art gallery.
The owner of the art gallery says the vibrations from the martial arts studio are causing some of the gallery's collectibles to fall off of shelves and break.
The owner of the martial arts studio says the dispute should be with the landlord, not with the studio.
The landlord's lawyer says the legal battle has been happening for more than a year and is still ongoing.

sanjuro_ronin

08-12-2013, 09:57 AM

Obviously a cultural misunderstanding.
It is quite clear He was only perfecting is "jing retention" technique.
:D

bai she

08-14-2013, 01:38 PM

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-08-09/news/ct-tl-lk-0815-prostitution-charge-20130809_1_martial-arts-studio-prostitution-kung-fu-power

Kung Fu Power owner charged with promoting prostitution, soliciting sex act

Highland Park business opened in May

August 09, 2013|By Gregory Trotter, Chicago Tribune reporter

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Richard Baron.

Richard Baron. (Highland Park Police Department photo)

A Highland Park business owner has been charged with promoting prostitution and soliciting a sexual act, according to Highland Park officials.

Richard Baron, 33, owner of Kung Fu Power at 1770 First Street, was arrested Aug. 6, according to a Highland Park Police Department news release. After receiving a complaint on July 29, police launched an investigation in coordination with the Lake County Sheriff's Department and the Lake County State's Attorney's Office, the release said.

When contacted by the Tribune, Baron, now out of jail after posting bond, said that he made some personal mistakes but that the charges didn't accurately portray what happened and had nothing to do with his martial arts studio.

"First, (the charges) are completely blown out of proportion," Baron said. "My school is a place where adults, kids, everyone can do martial arts in a way that is awesome."

Highland Park Deputy Police Chief Dave Schwarz declined to provide additional information about the case, or describe evidence beyond the complaint, saying the investigation was ongoing.

It's also unclear what connection the charges may have with Baron's business. The news release issued by Highland Park noted that Baron's business opened in May.

Asked to clarify why that was included in the release, Deputy City Manager Ghida Neukirch said village officials felt it was important to fully disclose to residents because he's a Highland Park business owner and because children take martial arts lessons at his school.

"We're not saying he's guilty. … It will go through the trial process," Neukirch said.

Kung Fu Power was "the central location" for the alleged crime, she added.

Baron also did not want to go into details. But he repeated the charges have nothing to do with his school. Kung Fu Power offers instruction in kung fu, qi gong and tai chi for people of all ages, according to the website.

"It's my problem. This doesn't reflect on the school," Baron said. "Mistakes were made but they're my mistakes."

He regretted any impact the charges could have on his school's community.

"I've worked for many years to build up a reputation. This is very painful. It could cause a lot of harm to a lot of people," Baron said. "I'm not a predator. I'm not a monster. I'm a good man."

Baron is due back in court on Aug. 15.

gtrotter@tribune.com

Twitter: @NorthShoreTrib

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"Kung Fu Power Owner Charged with Sex Crimes

Richard Baron, owner of Kung Fu Power in Highland Park, was charged with promoting prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act, according to police.

Posted by Angela Sykora (Editor) , August 12, 2013 at 02:33 PM

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Richard Baron, owner of Kung Fu Power in Highland Park, is facing charges of promoting prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act. Photo Credit: Highland Park Police

Richard Baron, owner of Kung Fu Power in Highland Park, is facing charges of promoting prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act. Photo Credit: Highland Park Police

The owner of Kung Fu Power in Highland Park has been charged with promoting prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act, according to a Highland Park Police Department press release.

Richard Baron, 33, of Highland Park, was arrested Aug. 6 after a complaint was brought to the police department on July 29.

"As soon as the complainant came forward, the Highland Park Police Department launched an immediate investigation," said Police Chief Paul Shafer. "Our police department takes all information provided by the public seriously and investigates all claims thoroughly and expeditiously."

With the assistance of the complainant, the Lake County Sheriff’s Department and investigators from the Lake County State’s Attorney Office, the Highland Park Police Department was able to obtain enough information to lead to an arrest, according to the press release.

"The Highland Park Police Department continues to do exemplary work and we appreciate their swift action in this case," said Mayor Nancy Rotering.

Search warrants obtained from case related information were executed at the time of Baron’s arrest. Baron was transported to the Lake County Court building on Aug. 6, where bond was set at $25,000.

Baron told the Chicago Tribune the charges were blown out of proportion and that he "made some personal mistakes but that the charges didn't accurately portray what happened and had nothing to do with his martial arts studio."

Baron is due in court Aug. 15, reported the Tribune.

Baron, owner of Kung Fu Power located at 1770 First Street in Highland Park, opened his Highland Park location in May 2013. His studio was previously located in Vernon Hills.

Anyone with additional information regarding this case is asked to contact the Highland Park Police Department at (847) 432-7730 or their local law enforcement agency."

TaichiMantis

08-31-2013, 06:04 PM

Highland Park Kung Fu Instructor Faces Sex-Related Charges (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/08/12/highland-park-kung-fu-instructor-faces-sex-related-charges/)

HIGHLAND PARk, Ill. (STMW) – The owner of a martial arts studio has been charged with promoting prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act in north suburban Highland Park.

bai she

09-02-2013, 12:04 PM

He appears to have been long time student of James McNeil and is part of the Little Nine Heaven group. Does practicing lovemaking arts qualify for a defense? McNeil still appears to be teaching his lovemaking classes.

GeneChing

10-15-2013, 08:42 AM

I think not. However, given the situation, it should be posted here.

‘Ninja’ serial rapist Adam Downworth read martial arts books to perfect attacks (http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/14/ninja-serial-rapist-adam-downworth-read-martial-arts-books-to-perfect-attacks-4146241/)
Monday 14 Oct 2013 10:05 pm
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Vile: Adam Downworth has been jailed for life (Picture: PA)
A ‘sadistic’ serial rapist who taught himself ninja techniques to choke and sexually assault drunk and vulnerable woman has been jailed for life.

Adam Downworth kerb-crawled streets in his work van to pick out lone victims making their way home through secluded areas.

The 32-year-old cleaner would then sneak up to the women and attack them before raping them as he spoke of ‘teaching little *****es’ a lesson.

‘A striking feature of these attacks is the use of gratuitous violence against his victims, violence beyond that necessity to fulfil his sexual purpose and seemingly unleashed simply to increase the suffering of the women,’ said Alaric Bassano, prosecuting.

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Police found martial arts and forensic science books at Adam Downworth’s home (Picture: PA)

‘He spoke in hateful and degrading ways whilst attacking them and appeared to be deriving sadistic pleasure from their suffering.’

Downworth, who had highlighted passages on strangulation and surprise attacks in ninja books found at his home, assaulted his first victim on December 3, 2011, in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

He grabbed the 28-year-old from behind, telling her, ‘Don’t move or I’ll stab you’.

After choking her unconscious, he raped her before punching her repeatedly in the face.

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Hunter: Adam Downworth leaves his flat before getting into the Citroën Berlingo to search for his final victim on July 1, 2012 (Picture: Nick Razzell)

Downworth claimed a further four victims during his ten-month raping spree, although he had claimed he was simply a street mugger with a rapist accomplice.

The Stockport resident was eventually arrested after his final victim escaped his clutches and ran for help, with police finding him standing by his company Citröen Berlingo nearby.

As judge Jeffrey Lewis sentenced Downworth to a minimum of 23 years, cries of ‘Rot in hell’ and ‘I hope you die a slow death’ were heard from the public gallery at Minshull Street crown court in Manchester.

Det Insp Rebecca Matthews said Downworth, who was found guilty of 13 charges including rape and GBH, may have claimed several other victims.

GeneChing

11-14-2013, 10:05 AM

Any So Cal members know this school?

Martial Artists Tortured Teen With Samurai Swords, Police Say (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/martial-artists-torture-teen_n_4256432.html)
Posted: 11/11/2013 5:05 pm EST

Two martial arts instructors were behind bars over the weekend after they allegedly tortured a teen by beating him, cutting him with samurai swords and burning him with lit cigarettes.

Brothers Ston Lee, 34, and Skoth Ly, 33, of the Ston Skoth Martial Arts Academies in Lancaster, Calif. were arrested Thursday at an apparent marijuana grow house, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The brothers allegedly kidnapped an 18-year-old on Sept. 25, tortured him and then released him.

Detectives Thursday served a search warrant at Lee’s home, where they found a firearm, drug paraphernalia and a hydroponic marijuana grow, the LASD said in a statement. A third man, Anthony Valdizia, was arrested along with Lee for being a felon with a firearm.

Police also searched two locations of the Ston Skoth Martial Arts Academy and recovered samurai swords from both locations, authorities said.

Lee and Ly were booked for kidnapping, torture and cultivating marijuana with additional charges pending. They are being held in lieu of $100,000 bail. Valdizia’s bail was set at $35,000.

Detectives did not reveal a suspected motive for the attack.

Anthony Martinez, a longtime acquaintance, said he was the brothers' first student and eventually ran the academy before leaving six months ago to teach martial arts on his own, the Associated Press reports.

Martinez, 38, said it was "mind-blowing" to hear of their arrests.

"These guys are very humble martial artists. They're good, respectful people," Martinez said to the AP. "Those were my masters. If anything, they were there to help people out." I'm sorely tempted to remark on the fact that the accused's name is Ston.

hskwarrior

11-14-2013, 10:13 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCW-Mgxr2T0

Alex Córdoba

11-14-2013, 01:35 PM

I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but it has to be the worst case.

The case started some years ago, and finally this year Fernando Torres Baena, along with 2 female colleague,s was sentenced to 302 years in prison for repeatedly abusing more than 40 kids during 20 years.

If you read the whole case in Spanish it's really depressing.

Here's a brief in english:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/spain-news/mallorca/Karate_teach_sentenced_to_302_years_for_abusing_ch ildren.shtml

GeneChing

01-17-2014, 05:55 PM

Martial arts guru pleads guilty in Obama ricin plot (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5huWAl347HKJ0UTwBucpNvrKBfKtA?docId=bd374a8b-de7a-4a01-a90f-ea25d5002d4b)

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

Washington — A 41-year-old martial arts instructor on Friday pleaded guilty to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials, the United States Justice Department said.

James Everett Dutschke triggered widespread alarm last April after the emergence of the potentially lethal letters, as the United States reeled in shock from the Boston Marathon bomb attack.

The incident carried an eerie echo of the anthrax letters sent to public officials shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Appearing in a federal court in Oxford, Mississippi on Friday, Dutschke pleaded guilty to charges of developing and possessing ricin, and mailing ricin-impregnated letters, including one that threatened Obama.

According to the terms of his guilty plea, Dutschke has agreed to a 25-year jail term. His sentence will be formally confirmed by federal judge Sharion Ay**** in two months time.

The Justice Department said Dutschke had used the Internet to research how to produce and use ricin, a biological agent and toxin which can be lethal in only the tiniest amounts.

Dutschke purchased castor beans or seeds -- from which ricin is made -- via the Internet before buying tools to process and develop the poison, such as latex gloves, grinders and masks from vendors in the area.

He then sent three ricin-laced letters to Obama, a US Senator, and a Mississippi Justice Court Judge.

Authorities had initially arrested another man in the aftermath of the letters' emergence: Elvis impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis.

However Curtis's attorney insisted his client had been framed, and suggested Dutschke was responsible.

Dutschke was also known to have had a long-standing dispute with the Mississippi justice who received one of the letters.

Dutschke was arrested on April 27 last year before being indicted in June.

I really want to pronounce his name like douche.

Previous on Dutschke (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1227106#post1227106)

SenseiShellie

01-21-2014, 04:26 PM

An instructor at a karate studio in Tierrasanta has been arrested for child molestation.
Juan Melesio Flores, 38, is charged with 15 felony counts, including lewd acts with a child and oral copulation, according to Deputy District Attorney Wendy Patrick.
Flores is co-owner and lead instructor at Z-Ultimate Studio in the 10600 block of Tierrasanta Blvd. He was arrested outside the studio last Thursday.
According to San Diego police, an investigation started last week after one male student came forward. This led investigators to another possible victim. The two boys apparently do not know each other.
Patrick says the alleged abuse took place between 2012 and Dec. 2013 at the studio, or dojo.
“They did things like ‘Ninja Nights,’ where lots of the kids would sleep over and play video games all night at the dojo," Patrick said. "As they spent time together, what happened, this defendant would make advances toward these two victims.”
Patrick says Flores knew the two boys for years and that their relationships escalated from being "good friends, to massages, to oral copulation."
Classes took place as usual on Monday at Z-Ultimate Studio. One longtime student, who calls Flores "a role model," says he's shocked by the allegations.
“I’ve known him since I was 14 years old. I’m 23 years old now. He’s always been a fatherly figure to me," Steven Lundberg said. "I’ve never had any inclination anything like this would have been happening. My whole life, he’s been there for me."
Flores pleaded not guilty to the charges during a court appearance Monday afternoon. Despite his defense attorney's argument that Flores is not a flight risk and very involved in the community, the judge set bond at $350,000.
“Our concern at this point is we have two victims. Worse case scenario, there are additional victims," Police Lt. Chuck Kaye said. "We want to make sure the public is aware of the arrest."
Anyone with additional information is asked to call the police department's Sex Crimes Unit at 619-531-2210.

Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Karate-Instructor-Juan-Flores-Arrested-for-Child-Molestation--237083841.html#ixzz2r4vXD8XD

GeneChing

02-18-2014, 09:50 AM

There's a vid if you follow the link.

Prison guards beat inmates to death in martial arts training (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/prison-guards-beat-inmates-to-death-in-martial-arts-training/story-fnb64oi6-1226830817312#)
DAVID CHARTER THE TIMES FEBRUARY 19, 2014 12:00AM

PRISON-CAMP inmates were used as human punchbags for martial arts training by North Korean guards who were given a free hand to torture, mutilate and kill, survivors have told a UN commission of inquiry.

“Sometimes the instructors would summon inmates who were working in the field so that we could practise our skills on them,” said Ahn Myong Chol, a former camp guard. “The reason for actually practising our skills on these inmates was to make them stay alert and to instruct us that those are our enemies.

“We did not have people to practise on, so they summoned the inmates so that we could practise our kicks and hits on them ... We really didn’t care if we were going to kill them or let them live.”

The punishment for attempting to escape from a prison camp was summary execution. One survivor, Jeong Kwang Il, said a man left his work unit at a prison to take potatoes from a store because he was hungry. Fearing the guards would consider this an attempted escape, he tried to hide. “The guards chased tracker dogs after him. The dogs found and mauled the man until he was half-dead. Then the guards shot the victim dead on the spot,” the commission reported.

Brutal punishment was routine, witnesses said. Kim Song-ju saw a cellmate punished for speaking without permission. A guard ordered him to stick his hand through the narrow gap between the cell bars and beat it about 30 times, using a metal gun-cleaning tool swung with full force.

“Seeing this prisoner’s hand, I was shocked,” Mr Kim said. “He had a lump as a result of the hitting with this device that was as thick as his own hand. The guard told the prisoner to return to the cell but the prisoner could not retrieve his (device) and the prisoner just squatted down and continued crying; he couldn’t do anything else.”

Shin Dong Hyuk was tortured for six months to establish whether he knew about escape plans discussed by his mother and brother. At one point, he was strung over a fire until his back was burned.

On another occasion, Mr Shin accidentally dropped a sewing machine. “The guard told the floor manager to cut off my finger,” he said. “I thought my whole hand was going to be cut off, but it was just a finger. So, at that time I was grateful, really grateful to the guard because I was only losing a finger instead of a hand.”

Kim Eun Chol escaped from Political Prison Camp camp Number 15 to South Korea. He said the authorities retaliated by executing his brother. This caused his sister to take her own life.

GeneChing

02-24-2014, 09:44 AM

Benefit cheat claimed £35,000 in disability aid despite teaching Kung Fu as a black belt (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/461299/Benefit-cheat-claimed-35-000-in-disability-aid-despite-teaching-Kung-Fu-as-a-black-belt)
A KUNG FU con artist has pocketed £35,000 in disability benefits despite traveling the country the country to teach martial arts.
By: Nicole Morley
Published: Sat, February 22, 2014

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Mark Kemp cliamed 35 000 in disability benefits despite being a kung fu artist Mark Kemp cliamed £35,000 in disability benefits despite being a kung fu artist [MEN]

Despite being a skilled trained fighter, Mark Kemp, 50 has played the benefits system to claim tens of thousands of pounds by claiming he could barely walk.

Kemp claimed Disability living allowance over a 15-year period, despite being well enough to travel the UK teaching ancient forms of fighting such as Ju-Jitsu.

The black belt benefit cheat, who lives on Cunliffe Drive in Oldham, was exposed when investigators infiltrated his tutoring session where he was throwing punches and high kicks.

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Kemp claimed disability living allowance over a 15-year period [MEN]

Kemp was also caught playing golf and working as a minibus driver , despite his claims that he needed a stick even to walk a few steps.

Narrowly avoiding jail, the welfare scrounger plead guilty to two charges of falsely claiming benefits at Manchester Crown Square.

Manchester Evening News report that the prosecutor Nicola Daley said: "It was apparent to investigations that by 2012 Mr Kemp's health had significantly improved which had not been reported."

Following the case the Department for Worl and Pensions north west fraud manger, Roy Paul said: "It is our duty to ensure that benefit payments go to those who really need them and we are committed to cracking down on those who play the system."

Kemp received a six-month suspended sentence and was ordered to adhere to a curfew for four months.

http://bcove.me/o2f2acg3
There's even a vid. Who makes a claim like this and then makes a vid?

Dale Dugas

02-24-2014, 09:51 AM

a total and complete fraud.

nice going doofus.

David Jamieson

02-24-2014, 10:44 AM

There's even a vid. Who makes a claim like this and then makes a vid?

Assuming the guy's a Brit due to the mention of money etc, I would guess he's a little bit ignorant and a keeper of the dole mentality that is pervasive in the UK.
It has gotten really bad over there with many people just playing the system because they can. That's the price they pay over there.
You try to take care of people and they take advantage of you. It's an age old story.

GeneChing

04-10-2014, 09:30 AM

See? It doesn't have to be the realz Kung Fu at all. :o

Jailed for ‘kung-fu type’ kick on female garda (http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/jailed-for-kung-fu-type-kick-on-female-garda-264930.html)
Thursday, April 10, 2014
By Liam Heylin

A man has been jailed for a kung-fu style kick on a garda which resulted in her requiring medical attention.

Keith Rock, aged 38, of 10 Woodside, Ballinora, Waterfall, Co Cork, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to a charge of assault causing harm to Garda Hilary Daly.

Defence solicitor, Emmet Boyle, said Rock was deeply remorseful and apologetic for what he did on the night before New Year’s Eve.

Rock had been visiting a number of pubs at a Christmas party and had too many spirits to drink, Mr Boyle said on Rock’s behalf.

Judge Olann Kelleher said: “This is a very serious matter. Serious injuries were sustained by the guard. It is not acceptable to assault anyone in public. It is not acceptable to assault a female or indeed a male.

“This was a kung-fu type kick and she did sustain injuries. I have to take into account that was a ‘kung-fu type’ kick.

“It is a very serious matter. Gardaí have to do a difficult job.”

The judge jailed Rock for four months for the assault and two months concurrently for engaging in threatening behaviour.

Inspector Michael McGuire outlined the background to the incident, which occurred at Coolroe, Ballincollig, where the gardaí found Rock walking in the middle of the road.

“He was obstructive, aggressive and abusive and resisted arrest violently,” the inspector said.

Mr Boyle said Rock had fallen on a grassy verge at the side of the road and he lashed out in the manner described after gardaí assisted him to his feet.

The events were a blur to him, Rock’s solicitor said. He brought €1,000 to court for Garda Daly as a token of his remorse.

Also in today's news...

Pontypool teacher 'touched schoolgirls inappropriately' and 'practiced kung fu in class' - hearing (http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11140821.Pontypool_teacher__touched_schoolgirls_in appropriately__and__practiced_kung_fu_in_class____ hearing/?ref=var_0)
1:56pm Thursday 10th April 2014 in News

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Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Pontypool Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Pontypool

A MATHS teacher touched schoolgirls in an inappropriate manner and practiced kung fu moves with boys in the classroom, a teaching council hearing was told this morning.

Paul Griffiths also invited a female pupil to go to the ballet and sent a Valentine's poem to another girl, the General Teaching Council for Wales conduct committee hearing was told.

The teacher at Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Pontypool once made an inappropriate comment after a schoolgirl bent down to pick up a pencil from the floor, GTCW presenting officer Lousha Bryl told the hearing.

He also gave a Christmas present to a female pupil and turned up at a shop where she worked, the conduct hearing was told.

Griffiths practiced kung fu, taekwondo and judo moves with the boys at the front of the classroom, Ms Bryl told the committee.

He also talked to female pupils in the corridor, leaving his class unattended for up to 45 minutes, the committee was told.

The conduct hearing was told the teacher was interested in martial arts and Chinese medicine and claimed he could help to cure ailments by touching parts of the body.

Ms Bryl said that he touched a girl's bottom at a school prom, checked if a girl's throat was swollen when she had a cold and touched other parts of pupils' bodies including their arms and back.

He also sent inappropriate emails to a pupil discussing his personal life including health issues and the breakdown of a relationship, the hearing was told.

Some of the messages ended with Lots of Love - LOL, Ms Bryl said.

The professional conduct committee hearing opened in Griffiths' absence in Cardiff today.

During disciplinary proceedings, the teacher did not deny sending emails to the pupil and said the purpose had been to make her feel better about herself and raise her spirits.

He also said martial arts moves were introduced to break up prolonged maths sessions in the classroom.

The GTCW alleges that Mr Griffiths exchanged inappropriate emails with pupil A between October 2001 and March 2003.

It is also alleged that he developed inappropriate relationships with several female pupils at the school.

It is alleged he had inappropriate physical contact with female pupils at the school.

It is further alleged that he engaged in inappropriate activities during lessons by allowing pupils to participate in martial arts.

The GTC also alleges that he left his class unattended for lengthy periods during teaching time whilst talking to female pupils.

The GTC alleges that these allegations constitute unacceptable professional conduct.

Proceeding.

Mutant

04-10-2014, 08:48 PM

Here's one right in Massachusetts from a couple months ago. A lot of us knew this guy was a fraud and thought he was a douche, but were shocked to find out that he was also a total psychopath. Joseph Louf, fraudulent martial artist and owner of the American Total Defense mixed martial arts gym in Beverly, MA was arrested this past February for beating up and disfiguring his girlfriend... and is being charged with attempted murder. People like this do such a disservice to the entire industry. Total fraud. He claimed to have been a kru under Master Toddy in NV and that turned out to be a complete lie, and American Top Team in FL (where he claimed to have gotten a black belt) said he never actually got past white belt there. One of our pro fighters crossed trained a bit cause Louf's gym was right in Salem where he lives, and quickly realized that Louf was a fraud when the guy totally sucked at sparring, lame stand-up and weak ground skills. But apparently tough enough to beat up his girlfriend... The guy will most likely (hopefully) be incarcerated for a long time and end up somebodies chew-toy in prison, but i wanted to share this to get the word out in case he somehow gets out so that people will never be fooled by him again.
Check this out: http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1262...-on-girlfriend
http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1262...ds-to-be-caged
Man held in 'disfiguring' attacks on Gloucester Girlfriend
-Gloucester woman disfigured, police say-
By Julie Manganis Staff Writer

SALEM — Her parents knew something was wrong when they would get responses to their text messages that didn’t sound like their daughter.

But for months, the 27-year-old Gloucester woman insisted that things were fine with her new boyfriend, with whom she was now living in Salem.

Then, last month, she returned home, with just the clothing on her back and disfiguring injuries that made her almost unrecognizable and in need of reconstructive surgery.

The man who did that to her, police say, is Joseph Louf, 37, of 171 North St., Salem, the owner of the American Total Defense mixed martial arts gym in Beverly.

Louf was arrested Friday and held in custody over the weekend. He was arraigned Monday in Salem District Court on charges that include attempted murder and aggravated assault and battery. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

He will be back in court today for a hearing to determine whether he poses too great a danger to the woman or others if released. In the meantime, Judge Matthew Machera ordered that he remain in custody.

The charges stem from an investigation that started last fall, when the young woman’s parents went to police with their concerns.

They had learned from a relative about Louf’s “controlling and violent past,” prosecutor Lindsay Shaheen told the judge yesterday. They were also concerned about the lack of contact they had with their daughter.

A few months later, Salem police Detective Kathleen Rocheville got another call, telling her that the young woman had returned home about a week earlier, on Jan. 7. She had told them little — other than that she was “lucky to be alive.”

The young woman, once a nursing assistant at Beverly Hospital, was suffering from two detatched retinas.

Her face, Rocheville noted in her report, “has been completely transformed.”

She had “cauliflower” ears, a nose that had been broken multiple times, a small piece of her lip missing, broken teeth, and scars, bruises and bumps all over her body and under her hair.

The fingers on one hand were broken, and she needed help walking when Rocheville spoke to her on Jan. 14.

But she continued to insist that the injuries were the result of mixed martial arts fighting.

Then, late last month, she admitted that she’d never been in an MMA fight.

During a second interview with Rocheville, she detailed numerous beatings, strangulations, and incidents in which she was made to engage in strenuous acts for long periods.

The woman had met Louf on Match.com, a dating website, and the two had spoken on the phone for weeks, until she joined his gym in the spring of 2012.

Soon, she had moved to his apartment. His controlling behavior escalated, she told the officer. He controlled her phone and her social media pages, and would respond to messages for her.

By the winter, she told police, she was suffering daily beatings, including beatings while she was pregnant. One of the beatings left her with broken teeth.

When her co-workers at Beverly Hospital, where she worked as a nursing assistant, asked her about her injuries, she told them she was doing mixed martial arts fighting. She eventually lost that job. Later, she worked at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Beverly, where, she said, any money she made she was forced to turn over to Louf.

One customer there was so alarmed by her appearance that she gave the young woman a brochure for Healing Abuse, Working for Change (HAWC), a Salem program for victims of domestic abuse.

Her injuries also caught the attention of at least one parent whose child studied at Louf’s studio; when the young woman showed up with massive swelling in her legs following an incident in which Louf sat on her chest until she heard a crack, the parent pulled her child out of the class.

In December, she told Rocheville, she was beaten so severely that both of her eyes swelled shut.

During another beating, her cheek was split; Louf later punched her and caused all of the stitches to break, she said.

Louf allegedly stabbed her ears with scissors, and delivered “body shots” to her as she washed dishes, sending her into a cabinet. He allegedly also put her into chokeholds until she passed out.

And she told police that Louf had broken and then tried to “reset” her nose multiple times.

When she bled, she said, Louf would force her to clean up her blood and beat her again.

As Shaheen read details from the police report, onlookers in the courtroom who had no connection to the case could be heard gasping.

Louf will remain in custody at least through today’s hearing.

GeneChing

04-11-2014, 08:12 AM

We covered Louf already on the Busted-MMA-fighters-and-fights (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?52219-Busted-MMA-fighters-and-fights&p=1261225#post1261225) thread.

GeneChing

04-23-2014, 08:24 AM

Do you consider a cat's eye kunckles as a "martial arts weapon"? It's not like anyone trains these in the martial arts. I remember getting one for my girlfriend in high school. She loved it.

Man with loaded gun, martial arts weapon arrested at JFK airport (http://pix11.com/2014/04/16/man-with-loaded-gun-martial-arts-weapon-arrested-at-jfk-airport/#axzz2zitumZNr)
7 days ago
by Jeremy Tanner
Web Producer

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NEW YORK – OCTOBER 22: A TSA officer stands next to the first Advanced Imaging Technology unit during a demonstration at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 8 passenger security checkpoint on October 22, 2010 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

JFK AIRPORT (PIX11) - A Central Pennsylvania man was arrested Wednesday after trying to pass through security with a loaded handgun and a martial arts weapon.

http://tribwpix.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/gun.jpg?w=150&h=135
This gun was caught by TSA officers at the security checkpoint at JFK International Airport. The passenger was arrested by Port Authority Police.(Photo courtesy of TSA.)

TSA officers stopped the man, from Lebanon County, PA, after he took off his vest and put it in one of the plastic bins before walking through the X-ray machine.

Inside his vest pocket was a loaded .32 caliber handgun with five rounds, according to TSA officials. Along with the handgun, the man was also armed with a “cat eye-knuckles martial arts weapon” which appeared in the X-ray image.

http://tribwpix.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/knuckles.jpg?w=150&h=104
This cat eye-knuckles martial arts weapon was also found in possession of the passenger with the handgun. This too is a prohibited item. (Photo courtesy of TSA.)

GeneChing

04-24-2014, 08:10 AM

Who here owns a Tesla?

Why Is This Naked Man Doing Kung Fu In A Tesla Model S? (http://jalopnik.com/why-is-this-naked-man-doing-kung-fu-in-a-tesla-model-s-1566715467)

Michael Ballaban

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FCw2S6Yq--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/yw1701ze6t9nzt2qzzw6.gif

A man in a Tesla Model S decided that this scenic spot on the Pacific Coast Highway was a good place to get naked, stand up out of the sunroof, and work on his martial arts regimen. And that's about all we know.P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZT_jrw7_3I

I kinda feel bad for the paramedics, who seem to sway back and forth between desperation and exasperation, in any attempt to get the man back into this car and on his way (assuming it is his car). Maybe this is what happens when you run out of charge. Maybe this is what happens in a world where you can wear a Tesla as pants.P

If you know what happened to this poor fellow motorist, who he is, or what inspired his enlightened actions (Earth Day?), please send all tips and/or Naked Tesla Kung Fu advice to tips [at] jalopnik [dot] com.P

This is a very serious matter.P

UPDATE: A "Captain Scott" of Pacific Palisades Fire Station 69 told the local Palisadian-Post that the man in question had a "meltdown or psychiatric episode or was on a controlled substance." You don't say.

Worth it for the 'gif alone, yes?

Naked Man on Top of Tesla Stops Traffic on PCH (http://www.palipost.com/breaking-news/naked-man-top-tesla-stops-traffic-pch/)
April 22, 2014 | By Post Staff
At approximately 3 p.m. today, a man driving a red Tesla Model S on PCH near Entrada Drive in front of Patrick’s Roadhouse crawled through his sunroof and then took off all his clothes on top of the car. The bizarre sight brought traffic to a standstill and caused massive delays. According to Capt. Scott of Pacific Palisades Fire Station 69, which responded to the scene, the man had a possible “meltdown or psychiatric episode or was on a controlled substance.” The man was taken to a local hospital and by 3:30 p.m. the incident was over. Traffic continued to remain snarled for hours afterward.

http://www.palipost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/naked_man_on_Tesla-232x300.jpg

Photo courtesy of Lydia Simon

I live just off the PCH. This sort of stuff happens all the time. :o

Faux Newbie

04-24-2014, 08:19 AM

That man is showing the secret stuff.

GeneChing

05-14-2014, 08:10 AM

So George Lucas is his lawyer? :rolleyes:

And how do you pronounce his last name exactly?

For more, revisit last year's comments on this very thread.

Miss. ricin letters suspect pleads not guilty (http://kansasfirstnews.com/2013/06/05/miss-ricin-letters-suspect-pleads-not-guilty/)
By Robbie ByrdPublished: Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 10:55 am

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge.

The plea was made in a court filing Tuesday on behalf of James Everett Dutschke of Tupelo.

Dutschke is charged with sending the poison-tainted letters on April 8 to Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Lee County Justice Court Judge Sadie Holland.

Dutschke had been scheduled for arraignment Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oxford.

His lawyer, George Lucas, waived Dutschke’s right to appear and entered not guilty pleas to all five charges.

Lucas had no comment when contacted Wednesday.

Dutschke, a former martial arts instructor, was arrested April 27. He is being held without bond in the Lafayette County jail.

GeneChing

05-20-2014, 08:32 AM

So tempted to make a Jailhouse Rock pun here...

May 20, 2014
Mississippi martial arts instructor gets 25 years in ricin case (http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80248200/)

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Man gets 25 years in ricin letters case
MICHAEL MUSKAL,
Matt Pearce
May 19, 2014, 2:25 p.m.
A man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on Monday for mailing ricin to President Obama and other officials in the latest turn through the legal maze involving a martial arts instructor, an Elvis impersonator and a plea deal that was again on after the defendant initially pleaded guilty and then changed his mind.

U.S. District Judge Sharion Ay**** in Aberdeen, Miss., sentenced James Everett Dutschke, 41, to 25 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release after the taekwondo instructor decided not to withdraw his guilty plea after all.

At his hearing last week, Dutschke withdrew that plea and launched into a 30-minute rant, lashing out at Paul Kevin Curtis, the Elvis impersonator who said he was framed by Dutschke in the ricin case.

Dutschke, when asked by the judge whether he would like to make another statement before sentencing, replied: "I think it would be best if I don't," and then laughed, according to the Daily Journal in Tupelo, Miss.

In April 2013, letters containing ricin were sent to Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Judge Sadie Holland of Lee County Justice Court in Tupelo. Ricin is a deadly toxin refined from the castor oil plant and its seeds, known as castor beans.

On April 17 last year, Curtis, the Elvis impersonator, was detained on suspicion of sending the letters. But officials cleared him after no ricin was found during a search of his home. Curtis, through his lawyer, maintained that he probably had been framed by Dutschke, with whom the impersonator was locked in an online feud.

Ten days later, Dutschke was arrested in connection with the ricin mailings and in January of this year pleaded guilty to one count of developing and possessing ricin, and three subsequent counts of mailing threatening letters laced with the substance.

Last Tuesday, the day he was scheduled to be sentenced, Dutschke said he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea and launched into his tirade, again accusing Curtis, whom he compared to Barney, the purple dinosaur and beloved children’s character. Dutschke offered to eat the contents of the letters to show that they weren't poisonous and blamed the government for conspiring against him.

The sentencing was delayed to allow Dutschke time to file the appropriate papers, but he never did. Withdrawing the guilty plea could have opened Dutschke to a possible life sentence as well as a longer sentence in a state court proceeding where he had pleaded guilty to fondling charges. The two cases had been linked in the January plea agreement.

Federal prosecutor Chad Lamar said the judge found the agreement appropriate.

"She found our agreement to be a fair sentence and one that represented the severity of the crime committed," Lamar said after the hearing.

GeneChing

05-21-2014, 08:25 AM

I'm only posting this one because I'm amused by the notion of some pothead using Kung Fu'd as a verb so. ;)

Robber karate kicks man in Liverpool city centre before demanding 'do you want to get Kung fu'd?' (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/robber-karate-kicks-man-liverpool-7152951)
May 21, 2014 15:54
By Gary Stewart

Jason Whybrow had been drinking and smoking cannabis before stealing iPhone

Robber karate kicks man in Liverpool city centre before demanding 'do you want to get Kung fu'd?'

A robber launched a karate kick at a man in Liverpool city centre before demanding "do you want to get Kung fu'd?"

Jason Whybrow, 39, attacked Sean Brady as he was walking down Wood Street at 6.10pm on April 29 checking his iPhone.

Simon Duncan, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court today how Mr Brady had been about to meet a friend when he noticed Whybrow and another man looking at him.

Whybrow, who had been drinking and smoking cannabis, grabbed the phone and a struggle followed as they fought over it.

Mr Duncan, said: "He swung his left hand towards him near his mouth, this is described as a punch but it's all one fluid motion, the grab and the swing. He said there was some contact with his mouth but there was no injury.

"The defendant said 'do you want to get jabbed? Do you want to get Kung fu'd?'"He carried out a karate-style kick designed to intimidate his victim but there was no contact."

Police were quickly on the scene and the victim was able to identify Whybrow's friend who said he had nothing to do with it and identified who they were looking for.

When he was arrested the next day Whybrow, of Balmoral Road, Fairfield, said it was him who acted alone and he sold the phone for £160 to buy cannabis.

Whybrow, who was on bail at the time, was said to have a lengthy record including offences of dishonesty, burglary and robbery.

He pleaded guilty to robbery but Brian Heckle, defending, said he had been institutionalised and had gone immediately into custody on each of the last 14 times he had been before a court.

Judge David Aubrey, QC, jailed him for a year, saying: "It may be that you find yourself feeling more secure in a custodial institution than otherwise.

"With respect you do paint rather a sad and forlorn figure. But that was not how you painted yourself to your victim on the day of your offence.

"He was simply walking down Wood Street. He was doing that which many person does on a public highway - using his mobile phone."

TaichiMantis

05-23-2014, 08:59 PM

Felled by his own heart...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/guilty-plea-delayed-after-key-defendant-las-vegas-hoa-scheme-suffers-heart-attack

By JEFF GERMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Ricky Anderson was supposed to plead guilty Friday in the massive scheme to take over Las Vegas-area homeowners associations.

But a heart attack he suffered roughly 10 days ago in federal custody prevented that from happening.

At the request of his lawyer, Travis Shetler, his plea was continued until June 6. Shetler told U.S. District Judge James Mahan that Anderson, 50, spent three days in the hospital.

A shackled Anderson, regarded as an “enforcer” for Leon Benzer, who is accused of being the mastermind of the HOA scheme, was in court Friday as Shetler disclosed his health problems. Shetler said Anderson needed more time to go over the plea agreement.

Charles La Bella, a deputy chief with the Justice Department’s Fraud Section in Washington, D.C., told Mahan that Anderson signed the agreement days before he suffered the heart attack.

Anderson’s claims of being a ranking kung fu grandmaster led the FBI to name the long-running investigation Operation Grandmaster.

Three other defendants in the high-profile case — Maria Limon and brothers Jose Luis Alvarez and Rudolfo Alvarez-Rodriguez — each pleaded guilty Thursday to one felony count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.

The trio and Anderson were indicted by a federal grand jury with Benzer and six others last year in the Justice Department’s final push to charge conspirators in the HOA fraud scheme. Anderson was imprisoned on a sexual assault conviction in Texas at the time of the indictment.

Prosecutors have alleged that 11 HOAs were defrauded of millions of dollars in the takeover scheme, which occurred between 2003 and 2009.

The investigation is thought to be the largest public corruption case federal authorities have brought in Southern Nevada. A total of 35 defendants have pleaded guilty.

This week’s plea deals follow a February plea agreement by co-defendant Barry Levinson, 47, a suspended attorney facing disbarment.

Benzer, 47, a former construction company boss, and five co-defendants are left to stand trial in October on conspiracy and fraud charges.

The defendants are accused of conspiring to pack HOA boards to gain legal and construction defect contracts. Straw buyers were recruited to purchase condominiums at developments and then get elected to the HOA boards through bribery and rigged elections.

The long-running investigation became public in September 2008, when FBI agents and Las Vegas police conducted raids across the valley.

GeneChing

06-09-2014, 09:54 AM

Egypt martial arts instructor jailed over sex scandal (http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/06/07/Egypt-martial-arts-instructor-jailed-over-sex-scandal-.html)

http://vid.alarabiya.net/images/2014/04/13/fc778ea7-eea3-42b2-a420-ea094bc8431c/fc778ea7-eea3-42b2-a420-ea094bc8431c_16x9_600x338.jpg
Saidi was reportedly a Karate instructor and his case was widely publicized in Egyptian media. (Al Arabiya)
By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Saturday, 7 June 2014

An Egyptian martial arts instructor embroiled in a sex scandal has been sentenced to two years prison with hard labor for promoting vice after having sexual intercourse with women at a health club in the country’s Nile Delta.

The court in El-Mahalla El-Kubra found Abdel Fattah al-Saidi guilty of promoting public disorder, sexual intercourse with a number of women at a rented gym, filming women in compromising situations without their knowledge as well publicizing the fact.

Saidi was reportedly a Karate instructor and his case was widely publicized in Egyptian media.

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(Al Arabiya)

The court declared the sentence with immediate effect.

Earlier this week, Egypt passed a law criminalizing sexual harassment.

Last Update: Saturday, 7 June 2014 KSA 15:25 - GMT 12:25

Sexual harassment just became illegal in Egypt last week? Hmm. Where is it still legal?

Almost A Ghost

06-09-2014, 10:38 AM

Felled by his own heart...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/guilty-plea-delayed-after-key-defendant-las-vegas-hoa-scheme-suffers-heart-attack

Thank you for posting this. I was wondering what happened with this guy. After the two head people involved in this scheme committed suicide (one right across the street from my former residence), it wasn't deemed news worthy as the only people left were the henchman.

Jimbo

06-10-2014, 11:37 AM

And another one...

:mad:

http://www.kusi.com/story/25734749/deputies-arrest-poway-karate-instructor-in-child-sex-abuse-case

GeneChing

06-30-2014, 08:08 AM

Alchino is clearly posed next to some monk in this photo. Too bad that monk is cropped out as I'm idly curious who it might be.

Last Updated: June 27, 2014 5:00 pm
Former Omagh martial arts teacher admits £15,000 fraud (http://ulsterherald.com/2014/06/27/former-omagh-martial-arts-teacher-admits-15000-fraud/)
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A FORMER Omagh martial arts teacher has pleaded guilty to defrauding a woman out of £15,000.

Dannio Alchino (44), with an address now in Tildarg Avenue in Belfast, appeared at Dungannon Crown Court on Tuesday to be arraigned on three counts of fraud by false representation.

Formerly of Knockgreenan Drive, Omagh, Alchino previously ran a number of Shaolin Kung Fu classes in Omagh, Stewartstown and Dungannon.

He was originally charged in respect of the fraud offences in May 2011, however an arrest warrant was issued for Alchino in September 2011 after he failed to attend court.

The warrant was not executed until May this year, when Alchino was arrested in Belfast following information received by police.

When he appeared back in court, it was heard that the 44-year-old was working under a new identity ‘Marco Morello’ in a salon in Belfast which provided botox and fillers.

Standing in the dock of the Crown Court this week, Alchino entered a plea of guilty to one charge of fraud, but entered ‘not guilty’ pleas to the two remaining fraud charges.

The 44-year-old admitted dishonestly making a false representation that £15,000 belonging to a woman would be used for investment in the Japan Finance Company.

Defending barrister for Alchino, Ian Turkington, said part of the defendant’s previous bail conditions included the lodgement of a surety of £15,000.

He said the sum was lodgement in the event of his client either pleading guilty or being convicted.

He said in effect restitution was already there.

GeneChing

07-03-2014, 03:28 PM

The caging is ironic, yes?

Martial arts expert smashed his brother-in-law's head into the floor (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/merseyside-martial-arts-expert-smashed-7368275)
Jul 03, 2014 17:06
By Gary Stewart

Lithuanian born Kestusis Lukosevicius launched unprovoked attack and was so drunk he could not remember incident

A martial arts expert who attacked his brother-in-law by smashing his head into the floor was spared jail.

Lithuanian born Kestusis Lukosevicius launched the unprovoked attack and was so drunk that afterwards he could not remember the incident, but accepted it was him.

Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, told him: “That night you behaved like a wild animal”.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that on July 5 last year the victim, Edris Nosrati went to visit his girlfriend, whose sister was the defendant’s girlfriend, at her home in Springwood Way, Rock Ferry .

He found that Lukosevicius and others were already there being very loud and drunk. About an hour and half later the defendant and Mr Nosrati were outside in the garden.

David Potter, prosecuting, said: “The defendant was boasting about his strength, his body and his expert knowledge of martial arts.”

He also told Mr Nosrati he liked his writ watch which had a touch screen and should give it him as a gift which he found intimidating.

Mr potter, said: “Without warning the defendant punched Mr Nosrati to the face with sufficient force that it knocked him to the floor. Mr Nosrati was face down and describes that the defendant grabbed his head with both hands and smashed it into the floor at least twice.

“He could hear his girlfriend’s father shouting ‘stop’ and as he tried to get to his feet the defendant struck him with an object across the right hand.”

He fled into the street bleeding heavily and neighbours called the police.

Lukosevicius, 29, was arrested but was extremely aggressive and had to be put in a cage because he was kicking and punching from within the police car.

Lukosevicius, of Old Chester Road, Rock Ferry, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, the Recorder of Liverpool, sentenced him to 16 months in jail suspended fot two years, ordered him to carry out 180 hours unpaid work, pay his victim £500 compensation and £500 towards the prosecution costs.

He also imposed a six month curfew with a tag between 6.30pm and 6.30am and placed him under supervision for six months.

He told Lukosevicius that if it means he cannot go on holiday with his partner and their baby or go out celebrating at Christmas “just spare a thought for Mr Nosrati because he is scarred permanently as result of violence towards him.”

Anna Duke, defending, said that the defendant, who is working and has a four month old baby, did not normally drink and felt ashamed.

GeneChing

07-09-2014, 08:43 AM

A garage-Karate teacher, with priors. :mad:

Martial Arts Instructor Who Molested Girls Gets 161 Years in Prison (http://murrieta.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/martial-arts-instructor-who-molested-girls-gets-161-years-in-prison)
A Murrieta jury last month convicted Albert George Williams on several molestation charges related to a trio of young girls he taught martial arts at his Lake Elsinore home.
Posted by Renee Schiavone (Editor) , July 07, 2014 at 10:59 PM

A martial arts instructor who molested three girls during private lessons at his Lake Elsinore home was sentenced Monday to 161 years in prison.

A Murrieta jury last month convicted 65-year-old Albert George Williams of nine counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old, two counts of digital penetration of a child under 10 and one count of witness intimidation. Jurors also found true sentence-enhancing allegations that Williams targeted multiple victims in a sex crime.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Angel Bermudez imposed the sentence required by law.

Williams was arrested in early November 2012 after a 10-year-old girl told her mother that the assailant had groped her several times during a karate lesson in the garage attached to his home in the 15600 block of Laguna Avenue.

According to a trial brief filed by Deputy District Attorney Julie Baldwin, the child also told authorities that the defendant had inserted his fingers into her privates after getting her into his bedroom on the pretext of helping him with his computer.

Following Williams' arrest, deputies circulated a public notice about the case, asking any other alleged victims to come forward. Two girls did -- both alleging that Williams had molested them during one-on-one karate lessons, typically groping them while they were stretching or as he was having them demonstrate a particular move learned in class.

All the children lived in the defendant's neighborhood, Baldwin said. Due to their ages and the nature of the alleged crimes, all the victims were identified as Jane Does in the criminal complaint.

According to Baldwin, Williams used fear to keep the victims' from talking, suggesting that they would be beaten by gang members or worse.

One girl told detectives that "she was fearful of defendant because he would tell her and the other children stories about getting the letter 'S' carved into their faces for snitching," according to the brief.

Just before his arrest, Williams also tried to frighten the father of a child during a conversation in which the defendant said his son was a gang member who had just been released from prison after serving time for killing several people.

"(Williams) said that if anyone ever hurt him or any of his family members, his son would have his back," according to the brief.

Most of the sexual assaults occurred in 2011 and 2012, according to court papers.

Williams has a prior sex-related conviction in Los Angeles County, according to prosecutors.

— City News Service.

bai she

07-21-2014, 08:01 AM

http://deerfield.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/kung-fu-power-owner-charged-with-sex-crimes_3bf3de0d
https://circuitclerk.lakecountyil.gov/publicAccess/html/common/courtCaseDetails.xhtml

"Case Number 13CF00002193, PEOPLE VS RICHARD BARON"

"Offense Date,Count,Nature of Offense,Charge,Date,Disposition,Date,Sentence,Leng th,Unit

2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 PROBATION SPEC CONDITIONS 30 MO
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 COSTS AND FEES
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 PROBATION SERVICE FEE
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 TESTING
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 TESTING
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 NO ALCOHOL CONSUMED
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 NOT POSSESS ILLEGAL DRUG
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 JAIL-COUNTY 180 DA
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 PUBLIC SERVICE 150 HR
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 NO CONTACT
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 ATTEND PROGRAM
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 EVALUATION
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 EVALUATION
2013-07-25 1 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE AGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE 2014-06-16 GUILTY 2014-06-16 RESTITUTION
2013-07-25 2 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE PROMOTING PROSTITUTION/ADVANCE 2014-06-16 NOLLE PROSEQUI
2013-01-01 3 SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSE SOLICITATION OF A SEXUAL ACT 2014-06-16 NOLLE PROSEQUI"

Total Assessments: $2,421.00

Non-Cash Applied: $0.00
Cash Applied: $0.00
Bond Applied: $0.00

Looks like he was found guilty of charges.

GeneChing

08-13-2014, 08:50 AM

Not quite a bust, just a retraction.

“martial arts therapy” :rolleyes:

Agency pulls ad for school aides with martial arts training (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/agency-pulls-ad-for-school-aides-with-martial-arts-training-20140813-103plt.html)
Date August 13, 2014 - 5:58PM
Henrietta Cook

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Julie Phillips said martial arts therapy training encouraged the use of restraint on children. Photo: Sylvia Liber

A recruitment agency has pulled an ad for integration aides with “martial arts therapy” training after disability advocates raised concerns about the use of violence and restraint in schools.

The online ad was placed last week by recruitment companyanzuk, which said it was looking for “martial arts therapy aides” to work in special needs and primary schools in Melbourne's eastern suburbs.

Children with Disability Australia executive officer Stephanie Gotlib said the ad reflected a system in crisis, where physical restraint was increasingly being used on disabled children to control their behaviour.

“If this was happening in a local primary school, with disability taken out of the equation, and a whole lot of martial arts therapy aides were employed, there would be community uproar.”
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It comes as more than 11,300 people have signed a petition calling for the Napthine government to end the use of restraint - which includes physical restraint such as force and mechanical restraint such as straps - against disabled children in school.

Disability advocate Julie Phillips said integration aides usually did not require any qualifications and it was disturbing that schools were demanding they had martial arts therapy skills.

She said martial arts therapy training encouraged the use of restraint on children.

“The use of martial arts or violence against students with disabilities is a long-standing problem. The Department of Education seems to prefer the use of physical violence to address challenging behaviours rather than psychological interventions, despite the evidence of the success of such interventions.”

Croydon Community School has provided “martial arts therapy” training for the last 14 years for hundreds of Victorian aides who work with children with extreme behaviours.

Principal Bronwyn Harcourt said learning how to restrain children was only “a very small part of the program”.

She said the school was in the process of renaming the program because of the negative connotations associated with martial arts.

“Martial arts does not equal restraint. The program does not encourage restraint, it does exactly the opposite, it encourages building a relationship with the kid, it teaches them about their triggers and how to self regulate, and how to de-escalate situations.”

She said restraint was necessary in extreme situations where a child was putting themselves and others at risk.

“If you have a kid carrying a bat and hitting a teacher or kicking a teacher or another kid then they have to be stopped."

Shadow parliamentary secretary for education Colin Brooks said the Napthine government had ignored Office of the Public Advocate and Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission recommendations for independent oversight of the use of restraint and seclusion in schools.

“The recruitment of staff skilled in martial arts to work with children with disabilities highlights how badly this oversight is required. The Napthine government should be ashamed it is allowing this to occur to some of our most vulnerable children."

An Education Department spokesman said restraint was only ever used as a last resort when someone was in danger - “for instance, if a student is about to harm another student or a staff member by throwing a chair, a teacher may intervene and restrain the student to prevent them from causing injury.”

anzuk did not want to comment.

ShaolinDan

08-13-2014, 11:09 AM

Not quite a bust, just a retraction.

“martial arts therapy” :rolleyes:

Ouch. That's some pretty rough press. I'm guessing the point of the program was actually to teach disabled kids martial arts...

GeneChing

08-29-2014, 08:39 AM

How is this dude a 'martial arts expert'?

29-stone martial arts expert facing eviction for attacking workmen who disturbed his pet snake (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/29-stone-martial-arts-expert-facing-4129228)
Aug 29, 2014 13:41
By Luke Traynor
Huge Christopher Lee was under orders to behave after repeatedly abusing contractors, forcing one group to form a human chain to stop him attacking them

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Facing eviction: Christopher Lee has had several run-ins with contractors at his home

A vast 29-stone 'martial arts expert' could be evicted for attacking workmen trying to upgrade his kitchen and bathroom because he claims it unsettles his pet SNAKE.

Huge Christopher Lee was under orders to behave after regularly abusing contractors, once lashing out because they dared to wear baseball caps next to his Buddha statue, which he deemed offensive.

Now, the 37-year-old has possibly thrown away his last chance by this time refusing entry to gas safety experts needing to check his meter at his Liverpool home.

On one occasion Lee ejected workers because they offended him by calling him “mate” and his partner “love”.

Workmen became so frightened they had to form a human chain to stop unemployed Lee attacking them.

Aggressive Lee, who is known for constantly interrupting previous civil court hearings in Liverpool with torrents of abuse and regular swearing episodes aimed at the bench, failed to attend an appearance on Thursday.

It was heard how, along with barring gas contractors, he has carried on abusing Liverpool Mutual Homes staff, who own his property.

The case was adjourned for a month while experts assess if he has any health problems. He has previously complained of having gout.

Last time at court, when told he could be arrested, the man mountain raged: “There’s no point sending hairy-***ed coppers round!” And he added: “You’re going to need the 22 Squadron!”

His girlfriend Nicola Coghlan has admitted: "His vocabulary can be quite raw at times”.

In February last year, the court instructed the trained fighter to pay costs of £4,805 – which he refused to cough up.

He was banned from being at home when workmen came to repair his property.

Jimbo

08-29-2014, 10:16 AM

How is this dude a 'martial arts expert'?

Nowadays in the media, the title 'martial arts expert' is bestowed way too liberally on way too many people.

GeneChing

09-12-2014, 09:07 AM

Are there extra points for a TKD Deputy? There's a vid if you follow the link (although that vid went pretty viral already).

Deputy Suspended For Using Taekwondo Kicks On Inmate (http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/09/10/deputy-suspended-for-using-taekwondo-kicks-on-inmate/)
September 10, 2014 9:13 PM

DENVER (CBS4) – Another Denver deputy misbehaving has been caught on camera. The deputy has been suspended for using martial arts moves on an inmate.

The incident happened in the spring but the video wasn’t made public until Wednesday.

Deputy Roberto Roena is in the midst of a 90-day suspension, not only for his behavior on the video, but also for lying about it in a follow-up report.

The video shows Roena demonstrating his taekwondo kicks and moves inside the Downtown Detention Center and at one point it turns in to a scuffle with inmate John Cardenas.

Roena is a taekwondo instructor.

A disciplinary letter outlining the incident says the inmate began to taunt the deputy after seeing his taekwondo. That’s when the Roena turns his attention to the inmate and instigates the fight. As things escalate other deputies rush in to separate the two men.

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According to the disciplinary letter, Cardenas told the deputy, “That’s not a kick.”

Initially Roena reported that the inmate became physical first. Later review of the video by the Internal Affairs Bureau revealed that Roena was in fact the person who started the altercation.

His suspension will be complete by early December.

GeneChing

09-24-2014, 08:52 AM

There's a vid if you follow the link.

Customer sues Costco, claims employee used martial arts to break leg (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Customer-sues-Costco-claims-employee-used-martial-arts-to-break-leg-276883721.html)
By Emily Sinovic Published: Sep 23, 2014 at 11:07 PM PDT

In a lawsuit filed in Multnomah Circuit Court, a Costco customer accused employees of holding him against his will and breaking his leg after he was asked to show his receipt.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Court documents filed in Multnomah County Circuit court claim Costco employees asked customer Timothy Walls for his receipt as he left the Costco on NE Sandy Blvd. Employees say Walls refused to show him their receipt, violating Costco policy.

The lawsuit alleges employees made Walls feel as though he was "held against his will" (click here, to read entire comlpaint). The timeline of events details in the lawsuit include Walls response. The lawsuit states, Mr Walls grabbed the first Costco employee by the shirt collar, "pulling him away from the shopping cart holding his personal property."

Walls claims a second employee then intervened and, "...employed a martial arts type strike with his leg... fractured Mr. Walls' tibia."

A police report filed that day, January 28, 2013, details accounts from store employees including a handwritten statement from the employee Walls accuses of attacking him and breaking his leg. The employee writes, the Walls had pressed the other employee against the wall and the custoemr had his hands around that employees' throat.

The second employee goes on to write, "I stepped in, pulled member off--asked him to calm down. He put his hands on me and then I put him on the ground, to calm down. Then I left upon members' request."

When KATU asked, Bill Stockton, the attorney representing Costco, "Does Costco believe its employees were right in everything they did?" Stockton replied, "Yes."

Attorney Clayton Morrison represents represents Timothy Walls. Morrison told KATU, "Our goal is to have this issue resolved and to obtain compensation for Mr. Walls in regards to some pretty serious injuries he sustained."

Morrison went on to say, "If you’re a customers and you decide to walk out without a showing a receipt what can the store do in that situation can the store detain you?" He added, " We would like to clearly establish under Oregon law that you have a right to walk out of the store without being detained."

GeneChing

10-16-2014, 10:22 AM

another pedophile :mad:

T&T martial arts instructor accused of molesting three boys (http://www.stabroeknews.com/2014/news/regional/10/16/tt-martial-arts-instructor-accused-molesting-three-boys/)
October 16, 2014 · By Stabroek editor · 0 Comments 1 hour ago

(Trinidad Express) Martial arts instructor Anthony Charles was yesterday denied bail on sex charges against three teenage boys.
Charles, 50, of Cocoyea appeared on 12 charges, including six for buggery and five for serious indecency against the boys ages 16, 14 and 13.
The acts were allegedly committed between April 30 to September 1 this year at his home and at the San Fernando Hill.
Charles also faced one charge of grievous sexual assault.
Seven of the charges were against one alleged victim, with four of the alleged sexual acts happening between June 30 and August 1.
The charge of grievous sexual assault, allegedly committed against the same boy during the same time frame, was also read to Charles yesterday.
Charles was charged under the Sexual Offences Act by Constable Cedeno-Figaro.
The court was cleared for his appearance before San Fernando Deputy Chief Magistrate Mark Wellington around noon yesterday.
As he waited for the matter to be called, a handcuffed Charles stood alone in the prisoner’s dock.
He interacted with defence attorney Ainsley Lucky.
Lucky held for attorney Trevor Peters who, he said, was unwell.
In asking for bail, he said his client was a health and safety consultant with no previous matters before the court.
Lucky said Charles, who lived with his brother, was willing to relocate should he be granted bail.
Police prosecutor Cleyon Seedan objected to bail on the ground that there was a series of offences allegedly committed against the three victims over a period of time.
He also said the teens had been entrusted to Charles when the acts allegedly happened.
Wellington refused bail based on the number of separate charges and the ages of the victims who were allegedly in Charles’ care at the time.
He was told he could apply to a judge in chambers for bail and ordered to return to court on November 12.

GeneChing

11-07-2014, 10:36 AM

If any of you are nurturing hired goons at your school, please stop. It is tarnishing our reputation.

Today's Paper » NATIONAL » KERALA
November 6, 2014
Martial arts centres to come under scanner (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/martial-arts-centres-to-come-under-scanner/article6569796.ece)

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Investigations by city police find that some such centres have a role in nurturing hired goons.

Martial arts training centres in the city limits will come under the scanner of City Spiders, the newly formed police wing, so as to keep track of their suspected alliance with hired goons and ‘quotation gangs.’

The move comes as recent police investigations have found that some karate training centres have a key role in nurturing and promoting hired goons.

Under the drive, the police will collect details of various martial arts training centres, trainers, and their affiliation particulars.

The wing mostly has policemen trained in various martial arts. Some personnel from the Armed Reserve force too have been made part of the team constituted under the City Police Commissioner.

During its ‘Kuber’ drive, the police had exposed the role of a prominent karate trainer from the city in illegal money-lending activities.

The police had later sealed his centre. Some of the trainees at the centre too had been found to be involved in various ‘quotation attack’ cases in the city.

The Railway police on Wednesday arrested a 39-year-old man from the Eranad Express on the charge of trafficking a minor girl from Orissa for household work at the residence of a doctor in Mangalore.

Assainar Ussan was arrested by a police team led by sub-inspector Muraleedharan from the Kozhikode railway station.

He will be presented before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-1 on Thursday.

“The doctor who sought the service of the 15-year-old girl hails from Kollam and action will be initiated against him also,” the police said.

The girl would be presented before the Juvenile Court after conducting a medical check-up at the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital.

Sources said that it was some passengers who alerted the police on the trafficking of the girl. “On detailed inspection, we found that the complaint was genuine,” they said.

(Reporting by Mithosh Joseph)
Luv the title 'City Spiders'. This has the makings of a great Bollywood (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48576-Bollywood-Kung-Fu!!) action flick.

GeneChing

01-13-2015, 11:30 AM

Tempted to make a Saruman/Dooku joke, but I won't. More on Lee here (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1275958#post1275958).

29-stone martial arts expert evicted for attacking workmen who 'unsettled his snake' (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/29-stone-martial-arts-expert-evicted-4969049)

Jan 12, 2015 23:43
By Luke Traynor

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Huge Christopher Lee has a month to move out after repeatedly abusing contractors, forcing one group to form a human chain to stop him attacking them

Kicked out: Christopher Lee has had several run-ins with contractors at his home

A 29-stone “martial arts expert” who threatened workmen for unsettling his pet snake has lost his home.

Christopher Lee has been given less than a month to move out of his property after Liverpool Mutual Homes took him to court over his persistent bad behaviour.

On one occasion Lee charged at workers trying to carry out repairs to the property and they were forced to form a human chain to protect themselves.

Another time he refused to let electricians work because he said they were unsettling his pet snake, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Lee and his and girlfriend Nicola Coghlan were both found to have breached their tenancy agreement because of their anti-social behaviour and now have until February 20 to leave.

Lee, 37, who also breached an injunction which demanded he vacate the property ahead of workmen visits, was also given a 28-day suspended prison sentence by a judge at Liverpool Civil and Family Court on Vernon Street.

Complaints about the couple first came to the attention of the housing firm in 2013.

They launched an investigation and in February 2014 managed to get Lee and Coghlan before the court.

LMH said the couple, of Springwood Avenue, had threatened contractors who were trying to upgrade their kitchen and bathroom.

Despite warnings, the final straw came when they refused to let gas safety engineers check their appliances last summer and they were brought before the court again.

Brave neighbours and LMH staff told the court on Friday how they had suffered ongoing nuisance, abuse, threats and anti-social behaviour from Lee and Coghlan.

Director of Landlord Services at LMH, Angela Forshaw, said: “Evicting tenants is always a last resort and we warned Christopher Lee and Nicola Coghlan on numerous occasions to improve their behaviour.

“This was the third time we had to go to court in order to stop them making tenants and staff members’ lives a misery.

“Despite warning them their home was at risk, they continued behaving aggressively and refused to let us in to check gas appliances – something we are legally required to do.

“The tenants who testified against the pair showed great courage in the face of extreme provocation. I hope this case will give anyone else who is suffering from anti-social behaviour the confidence to report it so we can take action.”

Lee was not present at Friday’s hearing and failed to attend the last court case although Coghlan did attend.

At the court appearance Lee did turn up for he was warned he could be arrested but said it would take an RAF rescue helicopter to budge him. He shouted: “There’s no point sending hairy-***ed coppers round! You’re going to need the 22 Squadron!”

GeneChing

02-20-2015, 09:51 AM

There's been so many busts in the Mixed-Martial-Arts (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?10-Mixed-Martial-Arts) forum lately that I kind of forgot about this thread...:o

Former martial arts teacher charged with abusing student for 10 years (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/former-martial-arts-teacher-charged-with-abusing-student-for-10-years/2015/02/19/799110dc-b882-11e4-a200-c008a01a6692_story.html)
By Julie Zauzmer February 19 at 7:02 PM

A martial arts teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a student over a 10-year period beginning in 1984.

Montgomery County police said Thursday that they believe that Jorge Raul Allica, 56, who also taught in the Prince George’s County school system, may have abused other victims as well.

The victim came forward to police in September 2014, Cpl. Rebecca Innocenti said. In a statement, police said that Allica, who also goes by the name George Paul Allica, had sexual contact with the victim from 1984 to 1994 at his home in Silver Spring and the victim’s home in Chevy Chase. During most of that time, the victim was a minor.

Allica taught the boy martial arts at Aikido Shobukan Dojo in Northwest Washington, coached him in another sport and tutored him in an academic subject, police said.

Allica was arrested on Jan. 29 and charged with 11 sexual offense counts, Innocenti said. She said that police did not announce the arrest until Thursday because another potential victim had been identified in the course of the investigation, and they were waiting to see whether they would charge Allica right away with abusing that victim as well. He has not been charged in that case.

Police encouraged any other potential victims to contact authorities.

Police said that Allica, who now lives in Northeast Washington, taught at the martial arts school from 1983 to 1994, and taught at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Prince George’s County from 1989 to 1991.

According to the D.C. sex offender registry, he was convicted of child sex abuse in Maryland in 1995.

Since about 2000, he has worked as a landscaper, the police statement said.

GeneChing

02-26-2015, 10:35 AM

29 stone Liverpool martial arts expert denies causing a nuisance to his former neighbours (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/29-stone-liverpool-martial-arts-8728043)
14:53, 26 February 2015 By Olivia Rudgard
Christopher Lee appeared in court accused of breaching a civil injunction

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Christopher Lee denies breaching a court injunction by causing a nuisance to his former neighboursChristopher Lee denies breaching a court injunction by causing a nuisance to his former neighbours
A 29 stone snake-loving ‘martial arts expert’ has denied breaching a court injunction by causing a nuisance to his former neighbours.

Christopher Lee, 38, denied causing a nuisance to residents on Springwood Avenue, in Allerton, at 12.30am yesterday.

He was arrested by Merseyside Police at 3.30pm the same day.

Liverpool Mutual Homes took Lee, of Crocus Street, Kirkdale, to court last year over antisocial behaviour and intimidation of workers at his former home.

One one occasion workers were forced to form a human chain to protect themselves after Lee charged at them and on another he refused to let electricians work because he said they were unsettling his pet snake.

An injunction was made on August 28 last year, and a second order was made on January 9 this year, when Lee was also given a 28-day prison sentence, suspended until August.

He and his partner Nicola Coghlan were finally evicted last month after it was found that they had breached the terms of their tenancy agreement, and given until February 20 to leave.

This afternoon he appeared at Liverpool Civil and Family Court on Vernon Street court where Circuit Judge Peter Gregory made an exclusion order, forcing Lee to keep out of the area around Springwood Avenue.

Lee was bailed until April 8 for a hearing were it will be decided if he breached the injunction, and if so whether he should sent to jail under the terms of his suspended sentence.

The court heard that Lee and Coghlan have not yet handed over the keys to their former property, but have moved to a different address.

When asked by Judge Gregory if he understood the terms of his bail and the three orders, Lee responded by saying: “What protection do I get?”

Judge Gregory said: “Provided you conform with the terms of the injunctions you have nothing to fear.

“Stay within the terms of the injunctions or you will be back before the court.”

He added: “Stay away from that area and stay away from that property. You have no business being there any more.”

Mr Lee appeared wearing a grey tracksuit, and was wheezing and breathing heavily throughout the hearing.

This report is irksome. Clearly he's not a martial arts expert. He just said that and the reporters ran with it.

More on Lee here. (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1279952#post1279952)

David Jamieson

02-26-2015, 10:49 AM

This report is irksome. Clearly he's not a martial arts expert. He just said that and the reporters ran with it.

More on Lee here. (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1279952#post1279952)

crikey. 29 stone! That's 406 lbs for you non british number types. no wonder he's wheezing and having difficulty breathing. He probably faints passing a turd! :eek:

GeneChing

02-26-2015, 12:12 PM

He probably faints passing a turd! :eek:
I :mad: @ u 4 putting that image in my head, DJ.

One of my old Deadhead friends was looking at elective surgery to tie off his stomach to lose weight. He had to go to meetings of what he called the 'elephant & hippo' club. He said there was a significant break point when people got so obese that they couldn't wipe their own ass. That woke his own ass up and he dropped 150 lbs on his own, mostly by stopping drinking diet soda.

I'm pretty lenient about the general criteria for what makes a 'martial arts expert', at least publicly so because I earn my living here by selling stuff to people who consider themselves martial arts experts (privately, I'm more rigorous about my standards). But I do think that a basic criteria for martial arts expertise is that you have to be able to wipe your own ass.

boxerbilly

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Scott Larson

04-15-2015, 08:07 AM

It surprised me as well. Just sad.

GeneChing

04-15-2015, 08:23 AM

I can't remember if I was at the '97 one. Probably...might have been tabling for WLE. Was that one at SFSU?

Jimbo

04-15-2015, 08:48 AM

I can't remember if I was at the '97 one. Probably...might have been tabling for WLE. Was that one at SFSU?

Yes, it was!

GeneChing

04-15-2015, 09:19 AM

I was definitely working the WLE table.

I stopped competing in '95. I usually say that I stopped because that was after my first trip to Shaolin, and I could see the incoming horde of immigrants poised to knock me off the podium, but in truth, I got tired of losing. ;)

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GeneChing

04-22-2015, 08:42 AM

Law Minister slams teen who beat up foreign workers to practise his martial arts (http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/courts-crime/story/law-minister-slams-teen-who-beat-foreign-workers-practise-his-mart)
PUBLISHED ON APR 22, 2015 9:56 PM

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The actions of an 18-year-old, who beat up smaller foreign workers to practise his martial arts skills and even taunted them, was described as "completely unacceptable" by Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam on Wednesday.-- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA

BY LIM YI HAN AND HOE PEI SHAN

SINGAPORE - The actions of an 18-year-old, who beat up smaller foreign workers to practise his martial arts skills and even taunted them, was described as "completely unacceptable" by Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam on Wednesday.

On Monday, Daryl Lim Jun Liang was given a short detention order of 10 days by a district judge for attacking two foreign workers last year. He was also ordered to report to a supervision officer every day and remain indoors from 10pm to 6am for a year, and has to perform 150 hours of community service.

Speaking at the sidelines of an event by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Shanmugam said: "(The foreign workers) have come here and are helping us build our infrastructure. Instead of being grateful to them, and recognising that they're doing a hard job... to help their families, we go and attack them, it's bullying of somebody who's vulnerable. It's sickening conduct..."

The Minister also wrote about it on his Facebook page, adding: "I hope that people who think and behave like Daryl are a tiny minority."

Last year, Lim, together with two 15-year-old friends and another who is 18, had in separate incidents targeted a Chinese and an Indian worker, because they were smaller and deemed less likely to fight back. Lim even mocked the victims by dancing in front of them and pushed one on the head.

The prosecution has filed a notice of appeal against Lim's sentence.

Wonder what style he practices...

boxerbilly

04-22-2015, 10:21 AM

Wonder what style he practices...

Quick search and all I find is he was a ITE student.

http://ce.ite.edu.sg/

boxerbilly

04-22-2015, 10:36 AM

http://onefc.com/media-gallery/in-the-news/36-cnn-asia-s-martial-arts-capital-is-singapore.html

GeneChing

04-27-2015, 08:10 AM

Another ugly story.

Martial arts studio owner kills self in jail (http://koin.com/2015/04/26/martial-arts-studio-owner-kills-self-in-jail/)
Eben Kaneshiro was due in court on Monday on sex charges
By KOIN 6 News Staff Published: April 26, 2015, 1:47 pm

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Booking photo of Eben Kaneshiro, the owner of New Breed Jiu Jitsu Academy, April 21 2015 (Deschutes County Sheriff's Office)

BEND, Ore. (KOIN) — The owner of a Portland martial arts studio accused of sodomizing a child under 12 committed suicide in the Deschutes County Jail.

Eben Kaneshiro was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after 3 a.m., the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said. Emergency life saving efforts began immediately, but Kaneshiro did not survive.

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Eben Kaneshiro has owned the New Breed Jiu Jitsu Academy in Southeast Portland since 2007. It now has a “closed” sign after his arrest on sex charges involving a minor boy, April 22, 2015 (KOIN 6 News)

The 35-year-old was the owner of New Breed Jiu Jitsu Academy on SE Foster and 92nd Avenue. He was charged with sex abuse and sodomy stemming from an incident that happened overnight on April 18-19, Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said.

“He had inappropriate sexual conduct with a child under the age of 12,” he said, and added the alleged incident happened just outside Sisters.

The boy is known to Kaneshiro, Hummel said. “We don’t know of any other victims but the investigation is continuing.”

Kaneshiro was due in court on Monday.

GeneChing

04-29-2015, 08:09 AM

Suicide note indicates more victims by Portland martial arts instructor accused of sex abuse (http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/04/portland_martial_arts_instruct.html)
By David Stabler | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on April 27, 2015 at 9:51 PM, updated April 28, 2015 at 11:23 AM

Before he killed himself in jail, Sunday, a Southeast Portland martial arts instructor left a note telling detectives where to find information on "numerous" other victims in the Portland area.

Eben Kaneshiro, 35, was arrested last week for child sex abuse in Deschutes County. He hanged himself in his jail cell early Sunday morning. He was charged last week with three counts of first-degree sodomy and three counts of first-degree sexual abuse involving a boy in Deschutes County. He was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.

Kaneshiro, the owner of New Breed Jiu-Jitsu, a martial arts gym at 9213 S.E. Foster Road, left "numerous notes" said John Hummel, Deschutes County District Attorney. "Some were for family members, but one particular note he left for detectives involved in his case indicated additional victims. He didn't name the victims, but he said, 'Here's where you can look' to find information about them."

Hummel passed the information to Portland Police detectives, he said, because Kaneshiro's note indicated the victims lived in the Portland area.

Officials said Kaneshiro was found unconscious in his cell at about 3 a.m. Sunday. An autopsy on Monday confirmed he died of asphyxiation due to hanging, Hummel said.

The Deschutes boy is believed to be Kaneshiro's only victim in that county, Hummel said.

He praised the boy for coming forward. "That young man is responsible for protecting numerous other kids around the state. We're really proud of him."

Creepy from every angle. :mad:

herb ox

05-04-2015, 04:13 PM

Was his honor somewhat restored by admitting to the other crimes he committed?

I would venture to say that was his attempt but failed by taking the "easy" way out :(

GeneChing

05-06-2015, 08:50 AM

Slashing someone with a machete? Burning another with an iron? And now this? I don't think a reference from a martial arts studio would help at all in this case.

Martial arts man 'beat the living daylights' out of girlfriend for wearing dress and no knickers (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-man-badly-beat-woman-accusing-affair/story-26441642-detail/story.html)
By Plymouth Herald | Posted: May 06, 2015
By Stuart Abel

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A THUG has been jailed for “beating the living daylights” out of his girlfriend as she lay in bed – after falsely accusing her of having an affair.

Martial arts instructor Barry Hartshorn, aged 27, repeatedly struck the woman, leaving the woman’s face cut and badly bruised and splattering the room with blood,

Jailing him for a total of 11 months, Recorder Robert Linford told him: “Because you believed your partner had been messing around behind your back you beat the living daylights out of her.

“It has to be said you are a violent man. You have an appalling record which includes some quite sickening offences.”

Plymouth Crown Court heard that the former drug dealer was jailed for three years in 2008 for slashing a teenager with a machete and burning another with a hot iron.

Hartshorn, of Hanover Court, the Barbican, pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman causing actual bodily harm on February 1.

A university student working part-time in a pizza chain, he admitted being in breach of a suspended prison sentence for a previous offence of common assault against the same woman.

Sally Daulton, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Hartshorn went to the woman’s room and accused her of having an affair during a row.

The court heard he punched her once to the face and slapped her with the back of his hand several times.

Mrs Daulton said he grabbed the woman by her hair as she tried to escape the room.

She added she needed three stitches beneath her eye and her face was badly bruised.

Mrs Daulton said police found blood all over the bed, on the floor, on the wall and even on items on shelves.

The woman said in a statement that the student had mental health problems and she believed he needed help.

The court heard she denied having an affair and now accepts that the relationship is over.

Geoff Parlby, for Hartshorn, said he had “snapped”.

He added: “He is very regretful and accepts full responsibility for his loss of control.”

Mr Parlby said he lashed out because he saw that she was lying under the bed clothes wearing a party dress but no underwear.

He added that he did not accept that he had mental health problems and was studying a sports degree at university.

Mr Parlby said that he accepted the relationship was over and he would move away and try and resume his studies and find work elsewhere.

He handed a reference into court from a gym where Hartshorn helps with martial arts instruction.

Recorder Linford jailed him for eight months for his latest offence, plus three months for the earlier assault made subject to the suspended sentence.

Plymouth Crown Court heard in 2008 that Hartshorn tortured two teenagers over a £195 drug debt. One man was cut at the knees with a machete and the other was burnt with a hot iron to his hands.

GeneChing

05-12-2015, 09:04 AM

Three held for physical abuse of fellow martial arts club member at Osaka school (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/11/national/crime-legal/osaka-universitys-martial-arts-pair-arrested-inflicting-violence-member/#.VVIj7pPUW_t)
Kyodo May 11, 2015

OSAKA – Three male students involved in the Japanese martial arts club at Osaka University of Commerce have been arrested for alleged physical abuse of a fellow club member, police said.

According to the Osaka Prefectural Police, both Hideto Yata, 21, a former captain of the martial arts club, and a 19-year-old former club member were arrested Sunday on charges of assault and coercion.

The third person arrested was former club member Naoya Inoue, 20, who was charged with assault and other violations, the police said.

All three have been suspended from the university indefinitely.

Police are also questioning two other club members — one 21 years old and the other 19.

The university’s martial arts club was the runner-up in the men’s group competition category at last year’s All-Japan Intercollegiate Martial Art Championship.

Yata is suspected of instructing club members to inflict violence on the 19-year-old victim at a college facility between March 6 and 8.

The victim, a freshman at the time, had his face shoved in a bathtub and was head-butted, investigators said. He was also forced to remove all his clothing and chug down drinks, according to investigators, who noted that the alleged abusers also scribbled graffiti on the student’s back and tried to burn his back with a lighter.

Yata has told police that the series of acts was to discipline the victim, who he described as rebellious. While Yata has admitted to the charges, the other suspects have partially denied involvement, the police said.

Osaka University of Commerce, a private university located in the city of Higashiosaka, released a statement saying it regrets the incidents and will work to ensure similar incidents don’t occur.
Sounds more like hazing than disciplinary actions. The back burning really crosses the line.

GeneChing

07-01-2015, 08:41 AM

Tunisia beach killer trained with museum gunmen (http://www.timesofisrael.com/tunisia-beach-killer-trained-with-museum-gunmen/)
Authorities find links between the two assaults as all three attackers were together at a jihadi camp in LibyaBY BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA AND ANDREA ROSA July 1, 2015, 2:37 am 1

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The Islamic State releases a picture online it says is of the Tunisian gunman who mowed down at least 37 people, most of them tourists, on June 26, 2015 at a beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia. He was named as Seifeddine Yacoubi, 23, from Kairouan, also known as Abu Yahya Qayrawani by IS. Authorities later named him as Seifedinne RezguiNEWSROOM

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The student who massacred tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort trained in a jihadi camp in Libya at the same time as the two men who attacked a leading museum in March, a top security official said Tuesday, enforcing the notion of a link between the two assaults and raising fears of more attacks from an underground world clawing at this North African nation’s budding democracy.

Investigators were searching nationwide for accomplices in the attack that killed 38 tourists and questioning a handful recently detained.

“It has been confirmed that the attacker trained in Libya with weapons at the same period as the Bardo attackers,” said Rafik Chelli, the secretary of state for the Interior Ministry. “He crossed the borders secretly.”

Chelli said Seifeddine Rezgui, a 24-year-old who obtained a Master degree in electrical engineering, left his studies at Kairouan University and sneaked into the western Libyan town of Sabratha in January — when the two young men who carried out the museum attack in Tunis were there.

Sabratha, the site of Roman ruins, is one of several places in chaotic Libya where radical groups have training camps. The Islamic State, which has a strong Libyan presence, claimed responsibility for the beach resort attack.

There has been no previous indication that Rezgui had left Tunisia.

Rezgui has been portrayed as a good student. He received his one-year Masters degree, at one point liked break dancing and even getting a certificate, and practicing Kung Fu, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be identified.

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Seifedinne Rezgui, the gunman who allegedly murdered dozens in Tunisia on June 26, 2015, is shown walking with his weapon on the beach after the massacre in this still from Sky News footage. He was later shot in a side street, Sky reported. (Sky News screenshot)

A fellow student in Kairouan, Saidi Fedi, 25, described him as a model of magnanimity — but a member of the student branch of Ansar al Sharia, an Islamist group,

“Seif participated in the meetings … on a lower level. He was not one of the leaders,” Feidi said in an interview, referring to the university’s Islamic Youth group.

“He was the least radical of the group in which he was active. He was one who took part in the debates, and he accepted different views. He didn’t argue aggressively,” Feidi said. “He didn’t answer with anger” when debating with students who supported the Syrian government. “He didn’t do anything that could give us a clue.”

The head of post-graduate Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, attended by the attacker expressed equal shock.

“We informed the police so they could be sure of his identity and personal data,” said Karim Ben Elgharat. “We didn’t see anything strange about him. He was a good and assiduous student.”

The invisibility of the attacker, like those who carried out the Bardo attack, is for Tunisia and elsewhere, the biggest challenge in preventing terrorism.

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Illustrative: Tunisian security forces secure the area after gunmen attacked Tunis’ famed Bardo Museum on March 18, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/ FETHI BELAID)

The spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Mohamed Ali Aroui, said it was not immediately clear whether Rezgui trained in the same group as the Bardo attackers or whether they were linked to the Islamic State organization.

But the presence of radical groups in Libya increases the threat level to its Tunisian neighbor, as does the approaching end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and its “night of destiny,” which falls in mid-July this year.

It is a night that holds risks, said the person with knowledge of the investigation.

The “night of destiny” is considered a propitious time for good actions, which for jihadis means killings, said Mathieu Guidere, an Islamic scholar at the University of Toulouse.

Tunisia has struggled since its 2011 revolution to maintain the fragile democracy it has managed to put in place — the only one to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings. At the same time, it is has seen the highest number of its citizens, some 3,000, head to Syria and Iraq to fight with radical jihadi groups, including the Islamic State group. They usually travel via Libya, getting training on the way. Increasingly, they have trained there before returning to carry out attacks in Tunisia. Tunisia’s most well-known Islamic radical Seifallah Ben Hassine, fled to Libya in 2013 taking many supporters with him into exile.

Guidere, who tracks Islamist groups, cited the Soldiers of the Caliphate of Tunisia, a recent group linked to the Islamic State group, as the most likely suspect behind the Sousse attack. It claimed responsibility for the Bardo Museum attack. The small group, he said, is made up of some of the 400 to 500 returnees from Syria and Iraq.

There has been criticism of the government’s handling of security, especially since tourists had clearly become a target after the museum attackers killed 22 people in March.

President Beji Caid Essebsi revealed Tuesday morning that heightened security measures had been scheduled to be put in place just days after the beach attack.

“It is not a perfect system — it is true we were surprised by this affair,” he told France’s Europe 1 radio. “They took measures for the month of Ramadan but they never thought the attack would be on the beaches against tourists and the system of protection was set to start July 1.”

Armed tourist police are to be stationed at hotels and army reservists called up in a bid to staunch damage to the vital tourism industry — a lifeline for the Sousse region.

At least 25 of the victims were British in the approximately half-hour rampage from the beach through the hotel, according to the latest figures from Tunisia’s Ministry of Health. The ministry said 33 of the 38 victims have now been identified, also including 3 Irish, 2 Germans, a Belgian, a Portuguese and a Russian.

The fury of the attack was evident days later. A trail of blood from escaping tourists ran along the sidewalk to the gate of a hotel down the road. The caked pool of blood where the attacker was gunned down near a bend in the road was intact and the white walls lining the street were pocked with bullets.

Friday’s attack was not the first in a hotel in Sousse. Two years ago, a gunman with a suicide belt strapped around him assaulted a beach hotel in the downtown area, but killed only himself. This makes me sick. Reminds me of Tamerlan Tsarnaev (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?65761-Boston-Marathon-Bombings&p=1226181#post1226181)

GeneChing

07-14-2015, 01:25 PM

Mesa bookkeeper admits stealing $1.6M for son's martial arts studio (http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumer/2015/07/12/mesa-bookkeeper-admits-stealing-sons-martial-arts-studio/30000329/)
Robert Anglen, The Republic | azcentral.com 9:50 p.m. MST July 11, 2015
Embezzlement by Mesa bookkeeper

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A bookkeeper who stole $1.6M from a Mesa medical company will be charged with one count of tax evasion as part of plea agreement
Deanna Frader faces a maximum 37 months in prison in deal that will require her to make full restitution to her employer and repay $497,000 to the IRS
Frader admitted to using the money to bankroll a Mesa martial arts studio she owned with her son

A Mesa bookkeeper who embezzled $1.6 million that helped fund her son's martial-arts studio will plead guilty to a single count of tax evasion as part of a plea deal.

Federal authorities have agreed to drop 47 of 48 charges against Deanna Frader, who admitted writing checks to herself while employed as office manager of Ardent Sound Inc., a Mesa-based ultrasound imaging company.

Frader told authorities she wrote $43,603 worth of checks to herself, $786,812 to a company she created and $708,311 to a related business account from 2008 to 2012, when she left the company.

Authorities say Frader cooked the company's books and fabricated a loan agreement between herself and the Ardent's president, forging his signature, to hide the theft.

They say she used some of the money to pay her personal bills and living expenses. Records show she plowed the rest of it into a martial-arts studio she operated with her son called Kaizen Martial Arts Academy in Mesa, which is now closed.

Officials with Ardent could not be reached for comment Friday.

Ardent, founded in 1994, runs laboratories and prototype facilities. Its website bills the company as an industry leader in research, development and manufacture of diagnostic ultrasound imaging products and technologies.

Frader set up two checking accounts for the martial-arts academy, where she moved about half of the stolen money, court documents show. She also used money to pay the academy's rent, which averaged about $14,756 a month over four years.

Frader's son, Derek Frader, was not named in the indictment. Records show he is now a master instructor at East West Karate in Mesa, which opened in 2014. Deanna Frader was the only person listed in East West's corporation documents when the company was formed, records show.

Neither Deanna Frader nor Derek Frader could be reached for comment Friday.

U.S. District Court records show Deanna Frader filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2010, asking the court to dissolve her debts. She told the court that she had about $410,000 in liabilities and $162,000 in assets.

She claimed to have a monthly income of $3,800 and expenses of $4,635. At the same time she filed bankruptcy, she had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars, records show.

The accounts and the companies Frader used to hide the stolen money were not listed in her bankruptcy, which records show was closed in 2012. The bankruptcy was not mentioned in the indictment.

Internal Revenue Service agents arrested Frader in February. She initially was charged with 35 counts of mail fraud, four counts of tax evasion and one count of identity theft.

Authorities said Frader didn't pay any taxes on the money she stole and consequently underpaid her federal income taxes in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012, for a total of $497,763.

"I willfully failed to include these embezzled amounts as income on those returns, knowing that this would result in the underpayment of income taxes due," Frader said in the plea agreement.

As part of her deal, Frader pleaded guilty only to the 2010 tax evasion charge.

A tax evasion charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, $100,000 fine and five years' probation. But under terms of the agreement, Frader faces no more than 37 months in prison.

Frader also agreed to repay $1.6 million to Ardent and $497,763 to the IRS.

She is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 28.

Not sure which is worse: having your mom embezzle $1.6M to keep your school running or having $1.6M invested in your school and not being able to keep it running...

Bullworker64

08-07-2015, 09:32 AM

Fourteen thousand plus a month for rent? What was the square footage on that property?

David Jamieson

08-11-2015, 08:24 AM

Not sure which is worse: having your mom embezzle $1.6M to keep your school running or having $1.6M invested in your school and not being able to keep it running...

Pretty sure that besides being engaged in Fraud, mom's probably a filthy liar too. lol

Mor Sao

08-12-2015, 07:35 AM

d ick moves by d icks.

GeneChing

08-13-2015, 08:09 AM

Posted 9:35 AM
Updated at 9:35 AM
Former Augusta martial-arts instructor loses court bid in child porn case (https://www.centralmaine.com/2015/08/13/former-augusta-martial-arts-instructor-loses-court-bid-in-child-porn-case/)

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Wade Hoover, who was claiming he should not face state indictment on 13 counts of gross sexual assault.

The state supreme court ruled this week that Wade Hoover, who was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography, is also subject to state level charges for similar crimes.

Hoover, through his attorney, had argued that he should not have to face state indictment on 13 counts of gross sexual assault, claiming it constituted double jeopardy. Double jeopardy bars “multiple punishments for the same offense,” according to the law court decision.

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Hoover

However, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that the double jeopardy exception did not apply.

“Contrary to Hoover’s argument, there is no evidence of a ‘sham’ prosecution here, nor is there evidence that the state prosecutors acted merely as ‘tools’ of the federal prosecutors,” the justices wrote.

Kennebec/Somerset District Maeghan Maloney handled the appeal for the state, and wrote in an email that she is pleased with the decision.

“I appreciate this decision for the opposite would have forced shorter investigations and a rush to indictment,” she wrote. “It is important for the state to be able to pursue charges of gross sexual assault even when the person has already plead guilty to production of child pornography. I argued that they are different crimes and the person needs to have both on his record.”

At his sentencing in federal court in 2013, Judge John A. Wood**** Jr. described Hoover’s conduct as masochistic and sadistic and included violence.

“It is hard for me to find words to describe your conduct in this case because your conduct is simply unspeakable,” Wood**** said. “You have not merely violated the law, you violated the most basic moral code in society. You preyed upon young boys when they were vulnerable.”

Hoover was a martial-arts instructor in Augusta, and will spend the remainder of his life under supervision of federal authorities.

This story will be updated.

Double jeopardy? Send this one away.

David Jamieson

08-13-2015, 08:17 AM

Double jeopardy? Send this one away.

According to the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna instructs that it is perfectly sensible to just kill these beings as an act of destroying evil.

I'm with Krishna on this.

GeneChing

08-20-2015, 08:56 AM

If this article said BJJ instead of just JJ, I would have posted this in Busted-MMA-fighters-and-fights (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?52219-Busted-MMA-fighters-and-fights). :rolleyes:

August 18. 2015 3:20PM
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RAYMOND SHAWDEE
Salem officer fires shot at local martial arts instructor he thought was armed (http://www.unionleader.com/article/20150818/NEWS03/150819289)
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent

SALEM — A local jiu-jitsu coach was shot at by a police officer and arrested outside a martial arts studio after police were told he was possibly armed and threatened a utility worker who was trying to shut off the power to the studio.

Raymond Shawdee, 31, of Nashua was charged with reckless conduct and criminal threatening after a tense confrontation with Salem police on Tuesday morning.

The face-off between Shawdee and police happened outside 286 North Broadway, which houses a martial arts studio and a local cross-fit gym. Police were called at 10:42 a.m. and told that a Liberty Utility worker had been threatened by a man believed to be armed with a handgun. He allegedly told the utility worker, that "he would do what he had to do to keep the power on."

Police later learned that Shawdee did not have a firearm.

Salem police Lt. Joel Dolan said that when officers arrived at the business, there were two people on the scene.

"We see one person who ultimately begins to comply with our orders of getting down on the ground and another person who is walking away from us," Dolan said. "As we are engaging that guy, he spins and his hands are at his torso. The officer made a split-second decision and felt he was holding onto a gun. He fired one round."

The shot missed.

Dolan said the man walking away from police was identified as Shawdee. He was immediately taken into custody once police determined that he was not armed.

The other man, who owns the local cross-fit gym and complied with police officer's orders, was found to be legally carrying a firearm in a side holster, according to Dolan.

The gun was "never brandished," Dolan said.

Police interviewed Shawdee on Tuesday afternoon at the police station. He was later released of $5,000 cash bail.

Dolan said Shawdee placed himself in danger by not complying with police officers.

"He exercised some very poor judgment," Dolan said. "By refusing to listen to our verbal commands, he escalated the situation to where it ended up."

jkimble@newstote.com

GeneChing

09-11-2015, 08:01 AM

Martial Arts Instructor, 50, Sentenced To Prison For Sexually Abusing 3 Teens In El Monte (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/09/10/martial-arts-instructor-50-sentenced-to-prison-for-sexually-abusing-3-el-monte-teens/)
September 10, 2015 5:00 PM

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A 50-year-old Temple City man was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in state prison for sexually abusing three teenage girls in El Monte.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announced that Derick Lee pleaded guilty to three counts: sexual penetration by foreign object, lewd act upon a child and child molesting.

In addition to a three years and eight months prison sentence, LA County Superior Court Commissioner Wade Olson also ordered Lee to register as a sex offender for life.

Deputy DA Kelsey McKeever-Unger said, at the time of the crimes, Lee was a martial arts instructor at Elite Kung Fu in El Monte.

Between July 2014 and April 2015, Lee sexually assaulted and inappropriately touched three students, all teens.

In April 2015, one of the victims revealed to authorities that Lee had sexually abused her. El Monte Police began an investigation into her account and learned there were two additional victims.

Lee was subsequently arrested and charged. Wonder how well his Kung Fu will work in the joint.

herb ox

09-21-2015, 07:56 AM

He claimed 100% success rate with reforming bullies... hmm, I wonder how he did that?

From http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/72204138/hamilton-martial-arts-instructor-found-dead-after-sex-abuse-claims

A Hamilton martial arts instructor who worked with young bullies has been found dead days after police launched an investigation into claims that he sexual abused young men.

Stephen John Wallace was a well known martial arts instructor at Incorporated Martial Arts club on Colombo St in Hamilton.

A police spokesman said Wallace was found dead at his home after the investigation was launched last week following complaints of sexual offending against young men.

"Police had not yet spoken with Mr Wallace as the investigation was still in its very early stages at the time of his death," police said in a written statement.

"The priority for police now is to identify victims of Mr Wallace's alleged offending who have not yet come forward.

"It is important that these individuals have the opportunity to speak to police so that they can be provided with all appropriate support."

A woman at Incorporated Martial Arts, who refused to be named, said the group had brought in Victim Support workers to speak to younger members of the club.

"The club are doing everything we can to support the members and the victims."

The woman said staff at the club did not know of the alleged offending and were still coming to grips with what had happened.

"We didn't know that there was an investigation until after he died. We are broken."

Chris Jones, executive pastor of Hamilton's Gateway Church, confirmed Wallace attended the church but said Wallace had no involvement in the youth section of the church.

Jones would not comment when asked if any of the victims were members of the church, saying a statement from the church would be made later this week.

Wallace's death has been referred to the Coroner.

In 2011, in a interview Wallace said he was running programmes to straighten out young bullies.

READ MORE:

* Bullies turn to martial arts

At the time he said 15 of approximately 100 children and teenagers who came to his Frankton martial arts gym were bullies who had harassed or assaulted other children.

He said that children who bullied others usually need boundaries, discipline and to learn respect for others - all of which are offered by sports such as kickboxing, judo, karate and mixed martial arts.

Wallace said teaching bullies martial arts didn't make them better at dishing out beatings - claiming a 100 per cent success rate with reforming bullies.

In many cases, the children "had incredibly brilliant parents", who had been searching for a solution to curb their children's violent behaviour and aggressive attitude.

He believed martial arts, which requires intense training, mental discipline and respect for oneself and others, offered that solution - what he termed "old-school values".

"What I have found, over the years, is the bullies have the lowest self-esteem," he said.

Bullies would be immersed "in the values we have at the school - wanting to achieve, wanting to be recognised".

Wallace said a violent 13-year-old, on the verge of being removed from his school, had been brought to Incorporated Martial Arts to try to modify the boy's behaviour.

"His temper had got out of control, " he said.

Wallace said stroppy or aggressive children quickly learned to respect him and other instructors, and that filtered back to parents.

"I get parents ringing me saying, hey, can you just get Jimmy to do his homework? They have a respect here."

- Stuff

GeneChing

10-12-2015, 10:43 AM

Former martial arts instructor gets prison (http://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/2015/10/11/former-martial-arts-instructor-gets-prison/73732678/)
Action Reporter Media 1:21 p.m. CDT October 11, 2015

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A former Campbellsport martial arts instructor convicted of sexually assaulting one of his students is going to prison.

William Schellinger, 44, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Oct. 9 during a hearing before Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Peter Grimm. He was also ordered to serve 15 years of extended supervision following incarceration.

Schellinger was found guilty at a jury trial that ended on July 22. He was charged with six felony counts of child exploitation using video, records, etc; six counts of child pornography, two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child and repeated sexual assault of the same child.

A 15-year-old teenage girl told investigators from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office that she and Schellinger were engaged in a sexual relationship from March to August 2014 that took place at Kettle Moraine Martial Arts Academy in Campbellsport, according to the criminal complaint.

Information retrieved from Schellinger's cell phone turned up numerous photos of naked women -- including 71 photos of the underage girl -- engaged in sexual explicit conduct, the complaint stated.

The teen told authorities that Schellinger told her not to tell anyone about their relationship, or he would shoot himself. Schellinger admitted "sexting" the teen and buying her a sexual device, the complaint stated. He also told detectives that he thought of her as a daughter and that he tried to keep the girl single through high school and during any future college years in the event they had a future together.

So messed up. Poor girl.

GeneChing

10-23-2015, 09:13 AM

Sex abuse victim of local martial arts instructor speaks out (http://www.news3lv.com/content/news/local/story/tae-kwon-do-instructor-sex-abuse-las-vegas/IgRmPw3g1EmiQgU7c2LcCg.cspx)

Reported by: Antonio Castelan
Email: acastelan@sbgtv.com
Posted by: Tony Garcia

Published: 10/22 5:28 pm
Updated: 10/22 6:19 pm

LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) – A victim of a local martial arts instructor convicted of sex crimes in Nevada and California said she was not surprised that there were multiple victims in this case.

Marc Gitelman, 50, had been a top-ranked tae kwon do instructor with a studio in northwest Las Vegas. Prosecutors say Gitelman had sex with at least two teenage girls for a span of six years from 2007 to 2013.

"He would take athletes to California and have them go under the influence of alcohol for travel tournaments," said one of the victims, who wished to remain anonymous.

"I didn't think what was happening was rape until after."

The victim says her life has never been the same since she was molested. She has a message for any other students who were abused.

"I would just like to tell them it wasn't their fault,” she said. “No matter what anyone says, an actual predator, it wasn't their fault." So true. That's such a major point when counseling rape survivors.

GeneChing

10-27-2015, 11:38 AM

This story boggles my mind. :confused:

Police raid pizza and karate business in south St. Louis (http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-raid-pizza-and-karate-business-in-south-st-louis/article_0b982af9-79a8-55fa-88dd-369ff8f4d218.html)

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DoJo Pizza at 4601 Morgan Ford Road was raided by police on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015.
October 24, 2015 5:45 am • By Jesse Bogan

ST. LOUIS • Police raided a business on Morganford Road that houses a pizza parlor and a karate school on Friday.

The reason for the raid was unclear. Neighbors said boxes were carried out. Dojo Pizza at 4601 Morganford Road was boarded up and condemnation notices were posted on its doors by Friday evening.

The business is run by Loren Copp, a former pastor and builder with a history of failed financial dealings in Southern Illinois and the St. Louis area. Dojo Pizza is in an old church and a former Christian school that Copp used to be associated with.

Copp, the subject of a 2011 Post-Dispatch report about his path to be pastor of now-defunct Southwest Christian Church near Fenton, could not be reached Friday evening for comment.

Before the raid, police responded Oct. 13 to the building on Morganford following a child endangerment complaint. Police said the investigation is ongoing, but no one has been charged with a crime.

Some people who live nearby described the business as a sort of community center. They said people referred to Copp as "sensei," a term for a martial arts teacher.

A flier near the entrance advertised a karate fundraising campaign for at-risk children in St. Louis. Another one advertised an upcoming karate tournament.

Meredith Bousman, 41, said she had recently used a discount coupon at Dojo Pizza and talked with the man who runs it.

“I said it was nice to see something in the neighborhood that seemed to be an anchor,” Bousman said.

She said she and her family were the only customers at the time of their visit and she remembered finding it odd that one of the servers was a child. She said the man she talked with said he allowed students to use a computer in the building’s basement to take online courses. She said the man also mentioned that he taught self-defense and lived in the building with his children.

“He just seemed like an interesting guy,” she said.

According to the Dojo Pizza website, the business operates as a nonprofit organization, with free karate classes funded by donations and pizza sales.

According to social media announcements, police were to teach self-defense courses at Dojo Pizza last February and August. There was to be a recent fundraiser for a nearby police substation.

Robert Patrick of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.

GeneChing

10-28-2015, 12:31 PM

Saugus High School placed on lockdown after report of student with knife (http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2015/10/false_report_of_student_with_k.html)

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Saugus High School was briefly placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after police in this Essex County community just up the coast from Boston received a report of a student armed with a knife. The "knife" turned out to be a piece of martial arts equipment that had no blade, according to Saugus police. (Saugus Police Department)

Conor Berry | cberry@repub.com By Conor Berry | cberry@repub.com
on October 27, 2015 at 4:55 PM, updated October 27, 2015 at 5:02 PM

SAUGUS — Saugus High School was briefly placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after investigating a report of a student with a knife at a school bus stop.

The supposed weapon turned out to be a piece of martial arts training equipment, not a knife, and the community was never in any danger, Saugus Police Chief Domenic DiMella and Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith said in a joint statement Tuesday afternoon.

"After an investigation, police determined that the student had a piece of martial arts training equipment that is not dangerous and not considered a weapon. Police do not believe there was ever any danger to the schools or community," the chiefs' statement said.

Saugus police responded to a 7 a.m. call for a student with a knife at a bus stop at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Central Street. "Out of an abundance of caution, Saugus High School was placed on lockdown as police investigated the report," the chiefs said, noting that the lockdown order was lifted around 8:30 a.m., once officials determined there was no threat.

Officers located and spoke to the male, a student at the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School, who had a piece of martial arts training equipment with no blade, police said. The student did not make any threats and no criminal charges were filed.

"We appreciate the diligence of the community in reporting this," DiMella said. "Thankfully, it does not appear as if there was ever any danger to residents or students. We are glad to see our emergency practices work effectively and that there was minimal disruption to the schools."

Wait...what was the alleged piece of martial arts training equipment?

GeneChing

11-18-2015, 10:25 AM

Bad Muay Thai cop. But given some of the other transgressions on this thread, this seems minor.

23 hours ago
Respected Guelph Police officer and martial arts instructor charged with professional misconduct (http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/6121724-respected-guelph-police-officer-and-martial-arts-instructor-charged-with-professional-misconduct/)

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Jay Bathija
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Jay Bathija poses at a Guelph Muay Thai facility.
Guelph Mercury
By Chris Seto
GUELPH—A veteran Guelph Police officer who is also a respected figure in the province's Muay Thai fighting community is facing two counts of professional misconduct under the Police Services Act.

Const. Jay Bathija, a 10-year veteran with the police service, remains on active duty but is assigned to front-desk duties pending the resolution of his Police Services Act case.

Bathija was formally charged Tuesday with breach of confidence and discreditable conduct under the Police Act. A public hearing was held at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Centre on Scottsdale Drive on Tuesday morning.

According to the notice of hearing in his case, the charges were laid after a Guelph Police officer obtained confidential information from a police computer system, on Jan. 27, and divulged that information to a member of the public.

Insp. Chris Goss, of the Waterloo Region Police Service, was the presiding officer at the hearing.

Prosecutor for the matter was Judith Stoffman and legal counsel for Bathija was Bill MacKenzie.

The public side of the hearing lasted less than 10 minutes and was put over until Dec. 2 at 10 a.m. to be held at 160 Clair Rd.

Stoffman said the matter arose from a public complaint brought forward by Guelph Police Chief Jeff DeRuyter. The matter did not come from a public complaint to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director.

No plea was given. Bathija and his legal counsel were to be given time to review the allegations and respond by the next meeting.

Bathija made no statement at the hearing Tuesday.

Guelph Police Insp. Dave Pringle spoke briefly after the short hearing.

He said the mattter stems from a complaint received from a member of the public. "Due to the full transparency that the chief has within our organization, it's important that these matters are investigated."

Pringle said Bathija was reassigned to front-desk duties when it became clear this matter would lead to a Police Services Act hearing. When asked when Bathija was first served notice about the alleged misconduct, Pringle said he didn't have that information.

Bathija has gained acclaim away from policing as an instructor and competitor in the martial arts sport of Muay Thai.

He once captured the World Amateur Muay Thai Association of Canada North American middleweight title belt.

cseto@guelphmercury.com

GeneChing

12-09-2015, 10:42 AM

You'd think they'd at least reveal full names.

Wushu Coach Booked in Sexual Harassment Case in Haryana (http://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/news/252887-wushu-coach-booked-in-sexual-harassment-case-in-haryana)
Wushu coach Rajesh and team manager Sandeep have been accused of molesting a female athlete during a senior state tournament in November 2013.
Reported By Press Trust of India Last updated on Wednesday, 09 December, 2015 00:50 IST

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The coach also allegedly threatened the Wushu player to spoil her career by not allowing her to play further.
© NDTV

Chandigarh: Two persons including a coach were booked on the charge of sexual harassment following a complaint lodged by an 18-year old Wushu player in Rohtak, police said on Monday.
Accused identified as Rajesh (coach) and Sandeep have been booked under section 354 A of the IPC at women police station at Rohtak, police said.
As per complaint lodged by the Wushu player on December 5, Rajesh had been allegedly pressurising her to have physical relations with her. He allegedly even threatened her to spoil her career by not allowing her to play further, as per victim's complaint.
Victim, a resident of Bhagwatipur in Rohtak, alleged that she had gone to Narwana (Jind) to play senior state tournament in November 2013. There she was called by coach Rajesh and he allegedly held her and started molesting her, she said in the complaint.
When she started crying, coach felt sorry for the act. But later he threatened that if she did not maintain physical relations with her, he would not allow her to play again, the complainant alleged.
She said that she had been constantly pressurised by accused to be physical with him.
Complainant alleged that when she reported the matter to Sandeep (team manager), he also allegedly asked her to give into the demand of Rajesh.

GeneChing

12-14-2015, 02:50 PM

But really needs to be included here, just cuz we ain't got no sumo on this thread yet.

Former sumo stablemaster accused of abusing assistant (http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1613662)
Posted on 17 November 2015 - 07:38pm

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This picture taken on Sep 2, 2015 shows former Japanese sumo stable master Kazuyuki Yamamura (C) at a police station in Tokyo after he was arrested for the alleged abuse against the man hired as a driver. AFP
TOKYO: A former Japanese sumo stablemaster has admitted to abusing an assistant, including beating him with a bat, stuffing a towel in his mouth and forcing him to eat a full wasabi container, reports said on Tuesday.

Kazuyuki Yamamura, who once headed the stable of record-breaking Mongolian sumo wrestler Hakuho, told a Tokyo court Monday that he had repeatedly hit his former assistant with a metal bat, the Nikkan Sports newspaper and other reports said.

Yamamura allegedly stuffed the mouth of his 31-year-old aide with a towel and slammed his fingers, elbows, knees and ankles with a bat or a hammer, the reports said.

The alleged abuse against the man, hired as a driver and personal assistant, started early this year and escalated to the point of forcing him to eat an entire container of wasabi, a notoriously hot Japanese condiment and *****ing a needle under his fingernails, reports said.

Yamamura reportedly justified the abuse by blaming the man for making mistakes when he went grocery shopping for his boss and for not speaking clearly, Nikkan Sports said.

He also threatened to crush the assistant's testicles, bore an eyeball and break his teeth, it said.

The Tokyo District Court would not comment on the case when contacted by AFP.

The abused man told Nippon News Network TV that he thought he could get killed any time.

He also said he felt he could not immediately report the abuse to police out of consideration for Hakuho, but later relented, saying the abuse was intolerable.

Yamamura was expelled from the sport last month by the Japan Sumo Association over the abuse allegations.

Yamamura, who remained affiliated with Hakuho's stable until his expulsion from sumo, was demoted as stablemaster after a magazine reported in 2007 that he had told a mistress about fixing critical bouts involving the Mongolian.

The sumo association later won a lawsuit against the magazine publisher over the report.

Hakuho, a 30-year-old yokozuna grand champion, won a record 35th Emperor's Cup this summer, surpassing legendary Japanese wrestler Taiho who had held the record of 32 titles.

The reports of abuse are only the latest revelations of aggressive bullying in Japan's ancient sport.

The ritual-heavy Japanese national sport characterised by harsh training and strict hierarchy, is no stranger to bout-fixing rumours, illegal gambling and tales of extreme physical abuse.

In 2007, a 17-year-old sumo apprentice died after a hazing incident involving his stablemaster and senior wrestlers.

The stablemaster, who struck the teen with a beer bottle, was sentenced to five years in jail for negligence resulting in death. – AFP

herb ox

12-27-2015, 10:31 AM

If at 21 you are a black belt and you think that in conjunction with some random Chinese writing tatooed on your arm makes you "da chit", think again...

http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/27/martial-arts-teacher-arrested-for-knocking-out-a-five-year-old-5586402/

A martial arts teacher has been arrested for allegedly knocking out a five-year-old child.
Justin Branick, 21, taught Taekwondo at the Tiger Martial Arts Academy in Virginia, USA.

But a class went wrong when he allegedly became angry, picked the boy up by his ankle and slung him over his shoulder, causing him to fall to the ground and suffer ‘serious injury’, the Washington Post reported.

But he has now been charged with child abuse after reports of an assault on December 21, police said.

‘The investigation revealed that the accused grabbed the victim, a 5-year-old male… by the ankle then threw him over his shoulders and onto the ground causing the victim to lose consciousness,’ the paper reported a police log said.

Branick was released on $5,000 bail.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/27/martial-arts-teacher-arrested-for-knocking-out-a-five-year-old-5586402/#ixzz3vXkjwDCN

GeneChing

01-14-2016, 09:21 AM

This perp does not deserve the title of 'martial arts enthusiast'. Clearly he didn't even glean our most fundamental lessons on honor.

Martial arts enthusiast guilty of murdering ex-girlfriend at horse sanctuary (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/martial-arts-enthusiast-guilty-of-murdering-exgirlfriend-at-horse-sanctuary-34364348.html)
PUBLISHED
14/01/2016

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Laura Davies died after the attack at the Essex Horse and Pony Protection Society base in Basildon (Essex Police/PA)

A jealous and controlling martial arts enthusiast has been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend in a brutal attack.

Laura Davies, 21, died after the attack at the Essex Horse and Pony Protection Society base in Basildon, Essex, where she lived and worked as a groom.

Chelmsford Crown Court heard she suffered at least 80 stab wounds and the attack was so forceful that the knife used was bent to a 45-degree angle.

Unemployed Jordan Taylor, 22, of Basildon, had denied the murder on July 3 last year but was found guilty by a jury on Thursday. He will be sentenced on Friday.

The court heard Miss Davies ended their relationship moments before her death.

She had cooked a meal for Taylor in the flat they shared and told him that although the relationship was over, he could continue living there as she did not want to make him homeless.

Prosecutors said the attack began in the flat then continued outside as she fled in her pyjamas.

CCTV footage showed the defendant attempting to hoist Miss Davies's near-lifeless body over a hedge out of view.

Her family said she had been unhappy after he had begun telling her what to wear, prevented her going out and had taken control of her bank account.

Giving evidence, her mother Dyanne Lambert said he would not allow her to wear short-sleeved or low-cut tops and they would often argue.

Ms Lambert added: "She became very quiet and didn't want to talk about what was going on."

Giving evidence on the third day of his trial, Taylor - who was born in Carlisle before moving to Annan in Scotland and Swindon - described the moment he "stupidly" grabbed the knife he alleged his partner of six months had lunged at him with.

He denied purposefully making "disfiguring" cuts to Miss Davies's face and left breast as "punishment" for trying to end the relationship before eventually killing her.

Punam Malhan, senior district crown prosecutor for East of England Crown Prosecution Service, said: "This was a vicious and sustained attack involving 80 separate wounds.

"Jordan Taylor's actions were a result of a jealous rage after Laura ended their relationship. His actions have needlessly ended a young woman's life and robbed her of any future.

"We are committed to bringing cases of domestic violence to court and to securing a conviction; in this case it means Taylor will spend many years behind bars for this horrific attack.

"Laura's family, friends and work colleagues all spoke of a beautiful young woman who loved her work with animals at the sanctuary and we hope the conviction of Mr Taylor for her murder brings some comfort to them in their loss."

Speaking after the trial, Miss Davies's family said in a statement: "Through Laura's death the world has lost an amazing person and our lives will never be the same without her.

"Laura was a loving, caring person, who didn't have a bad bone in her body. She had a passion for animals and devoted her life to caring for and protecting them.

"Laura was beautiful and loved by all who knew her. She is greatly missed and will always be in our hearts and never forgotten."

Her friends and colleagues at the Essex Horse and Pony Protection Society have set up a memorial fund in her name.

GeneChing

01-25-2016, 01:22 PM

Lehigh Valley karate teacher sent to state prison for sexual assault of student (http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-lehigh-valley-karate-teacher-sex-with-student-20160109-story.html)

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Christopher Calcagni, a Lehigh Valley karate teacher, will serve up to four years in state prison for sexually assaulting a student. (MORNING CALL FILE PHOTO)
Riley Yates
Of The Morning Call

Lehigh Valley karate teacher has twice faced sex assault allegations

A Lehigh Valley karate instructor who had sex with a 15-year-old student will serve 1 1/2 to four years in state prison under a plea bargain.

Christopher Calcagni, 52, received the sentence Friday from Northampton County President Judge Stephen Baratta after reaffirming a guilty plea to charges of statutory sexual assault and corrupting a minor.

Calcagni, who ran Saucon Valley Martial Arts in Salisbury Township when he was arrested in late 2014, gave the girl private lessons at his school and his Bethlehem home beginning when she 14 years old, prosecutors said.

After she turned 15 several years ago, Calcagni began to flatter her and tell her she was pretty and they eventually started to have sex, according to authorities.

Calcagni will have to register for life as a sex offender, and will serve two years of probation once he completes his prison term.

Originally, Calcagni pleaded guilty to the charges in April, but he later withdrew that plea for procedural reasons. At issue was his desire to dispute a state psychologist's conclusion that he is a sexually violent predator, given a decades-old prior sex assault case.

In 1988, Calcagni was accused of sexually abusing five girls while he worked at Children's Home of Easton as a house parent. He ended up pleading guilty to corrupting minors, receiving a sentence of probation.

That case was cited in August by Veronique Valliere of the state Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, who recommended that Calcagni be labeled a predator, a designation that would bring enhanced reporting and counseling requirements once he is released from prison.

Valliere said that in both instances, Calcagni took advantage of children by using threats and abusing a position of authority.

But Calcagni's defense attorney, Philip Lauer, says his client's 1991 plea bargain was to steeply reduced charges after the girls' larger allegations proved unfounded. Because of the age of the case, Lauer said he needed time to uncover details of it, which is why the April plea was ultimately withdrawn.

Whether Calcagni will be classified as a predator remains unresolved. Baratta scheduled a hearing in March over the issue, when Lauer could present an expert of his own, said Assistant District Attorney Anthony Casola.

riley.yates@mcall.com
Twitter @riley_yates
610-253-5751

Scott Alan Flood update: Chandler karate teacher gets prison for child molestation (http://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/chandler/scott-alan-flood-update-chandler-karate-teacher-gets-prison-for-child-molestation)
Associated Press
4:51 PM, Jan 22, 2016

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CHANDLER, AZ - A Chandler karate instructor who pleaded guilty to child molestation has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

Scott Alan Flood also was sentenced Friday to lifetime probation.

Flood was arrested on suspicion of two counts of child molestation in June 2012 when he was 47.

Authorities say Flood had been instructing karate to 3-to 6-year-olds in the Chandler area for the past decade.

A 5-year-old girl told Chandler police that Flood allegedly touched her inappropriately at school and told her not to tell her parents.

The other victim's allegations stem from a case in 2010 in Tempe.

Tempe police say those allegations didn't meet the statutory requirements for a sex crime, so they investigated them as an assault.

He also pleaded guilty in August to aggravated assault and voyeurism.

Former karate instructor sentenced to 9 years (http://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/former-karate-instructor-sentenced-to-years/article_03629938-c608-5b03-a6cb-56b0e0264e14.html)
Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 7:26 pm
Bill Grimes Daily News
CAPE GIRARDEAU — A former karate instructor from rural Altamont has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison in connection with taking one of his teenage students across state lines and having sex with her.
Steven C. Larson, 61, had pleaded guilty last October in U.S. District Court in connection with an alleged violation of the Mann Act, which prohibits taking minors across state lines for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity. U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh imposed the sentence on Larson.
Larson also faces charges in Effingham County in connection with the incident last Jan. 30, which began when the girl's parents dropped her with Larson, her karate instructor at the time. They were found early the next morning in a Sikeston, Missouri, motel. Both later admitted engaging in sexual activity.
Effingham County State's Attorney Bryan Kibler said Wednesday that he planned to meet with the girl's family before making a decision on whether to press the case against Larson in this county. Kibler said that once Larson is transported to a federal prison, having him released for state court appearances can be complicated.
"Once he goes to federal prison, getting him back is kind of a pain," Kibler said.
Larson is scheduled for a status hearing at 9 a.m. Feb. 3. Kibler said he hopes to have a decision made by then.
Kibler said Larson can receive no more than seven years in prison on his state charges, which include unlawful restraint, indecent solicitation of sex from a minor and obstructing justice. Moreover, the prosecutor added, any state sentence would run concurrent to his federal sentence.
Bill Grimes may be reached at 217-347-7151, ext. 132, at bill.grimes@effinghamdailynews.com, or via Twitter @EDNBGrimes.

I was curious what might be happening in the Karate world and got these three hits. :o

GeneChing

01-28-2016, 11:09 AM

Remember this guy? No? Let me refresh your memory:
Martial arts instructor charged over deadly ricin... (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1227106#post1227106)
You know a TKD Elvis impersonator is fake... (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1227122#post1227122)
More on the Elvis impersonator (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1227423#post1227423)
Dutschke pleads guilty (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1260056#post1260056)
quarter century (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1268636#post1268636)
Return of the TKD Ricin Elvis impersonator (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1268053#post1268053)

Former Tupelo martial arts instructor wants to appeal conviction, again (https://djournal.com/news/former-tupelo-karate-instructor-wants-to-appeal-conviction-again/)
Posted on January 27, 2016 by Patsy R. Brumfield in Crime & Law Enforcement, News

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DUTSCHKE

Special to the Daily Journal

ABERDEEN – James Everett Dutschke represents himself in a federal appeal to overturn his 2014 conviction that he sent poison-laced letters to President Obama and others.

Dutschke, a former Tupelo martial arts instructor and political candidate, asks the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn dismissal of earlier conviction appeals in the Northern District of Mississippi. Most lately he appeals U.S. District Judge Sharion Ay****’s decision to deny him a public-paid attorney to make the appeals.

In a five-page, hand-written document filed Monday, Dutschke insists his request was not “frivolous” because he is “without any legal counsel or guidance” to properly proceed in the courts.

Dutschke pleaded guilty in early 2014 to four counts that he manufactured the poison ricin and mailed it in threats to the president and others, including Sen. Roger Wicker and Lee County Justice Court Judge Sadie Holland.

Authorities said Dutschke hatched the poison-letter plan to frame Elvis tribute artist Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth, with whom he had a long-standing feud. Curtis was first arrested in the scheme, but later his legal counsel discovered the connection to Dutschke and alerted prosecutors.

Curtis is suing the U.S. Department of Justice and others claiming damages for his false arrest, incarceration and loss of his career potential.

Dutschke is serving a 300-month sentence in the Florence, Colorado, super-max prison.

Ay**** dismissed Dutschke’s first efforts to overturn his convictions.

In his latest appeal, he insists he is innocent.

In a return letter to Dutschke, 5th Circuit Court Clerk Lyle W. Cayce instructs him as to the procedure involved with making an appeal, which first requires him to secure Ay****’s approval for a certificate of appealability, which she denied him in Oct. 19, 2015.

If he could secure such a certificate, he is required to pay the $505 docket fee to file his appeal.

GeneChing

02-10-2016, 09:05 AM

There's a pic of McInally that I couldn't cut&paste. No pic of Ktori.

MARTIAL ARTS MAN ‘ORDERED ESCORT GIRL AFTER DRUG-FUELLED MURDER’ (http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2016/02/10/martial-arts-man-ordered-escort-girl-after-drug-fuelled-murder/)
By Tele Reporter,10 Feb 2016 6.00am

A MARTIAL arts expert ordered the services of an escort girl just hours after stabbing a Dundee man to death at his home in a drink and drug fuelled jealous rage, a court heard.

Troy Ktori had become furious after 55-year-old Charles McInally, originally from Menzieshill, had asked his girlfriend whether she wanted a “threesome”, it was alleged.

Ktori, 27, of Shenstone Road, Erdington, has denied charges of murder, attempted wounding with intent and assault.

Adrian Keeling QC, prosecuting, said that Mr McInally, a design engineer for the railways who lived in Brewers Square, Edgbaston, Birmingham, had gone out with Carl Martin to a pub.

It was there they met the defendant who was with his girlfriend and another man. They initially got on well and while in the pub Ktori had shown Mr McInally a video of him being interviewed about being a martial arts champion.

Mr Keeling said they then decided to continue the party back at the victim’s home.

At one point Ktori arranged to buy cocaine from a dealer, he said.

Mr Keeling said: “It was the cocaine that had a real effect on this defendant. His girlfriend was getting a lot of attention, it seems, from the other men and the defendant was jealous.”

He said Ktori got into a “play fight” with Mr Martin before walking out and returning to his home.

With Ktori out of the house the party continued for a while before his girlfriend went back to Ktori’s home and told him about the request for a threesome. The defendant then headed back to Brewers Square with his girlfriend running after him, trying to stop him.

When he arrived, Mr Martin answered the door and Ktori is said to have lunged at him with a knife he had hidden in the waist band of his trousers.

Mr Keeling said Ktori found a drunk Mr McInally in the lounge, adding: “With a single blow from the knife in his throat he killed him. A short time later Ktori called an escort agency called Lush Escorts.

Mr Keeling said this might give a “disturbing insight” into how distressed or not Ktori had been about what he had done.

He said the defendant later got a taxi to Bromsgrove and then camped out in the Malvern Hills for a few days before handing himself in to the police.

Mr McInally’s funeral was held in Dundee last year. The trial continues.

GeneChing

02-12-2016, 10:01 AM

For nearly the last three decades, I've worked in 'martial arts stores' (the first one was actually a sword shop, but that qualifies as we did carry many real swords). I've had this nagging martial-nerd fantasy that one might get robbed and I could use one of the many weapons that are within arm's reach.

It's just a fantasy. It's not the real thing. :o

Man charged with robbing martial arts store, restaurant (http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/crime/2016/02/11/man-charged-robbing-martial-arts-store-restaurant/80252654/)
The Courier-Post 5:30 p.m. EST February 11, 2016

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RIVERSIDE – A Beverly man has been charged with robbing a Chinese restaurant and a martial arts store last month.

Jerome T. Barber, 54, is also suspected in four other commercial break-ins, police said.

Barber allegedly robbed China Garden restaurant Jan. 27 on Scott Street in Riverside and then burglarized a martial arts store Jan. 28 on North Pavilion Avenue, police said. He made off with about $1,000 in the two break-ins, authorities said.

Detectives with Riverside, Edgewater Park and the NJ Transit Police identified Barber as a suspect shortly after the crimes.

Barber was arrested Thursday when a Riverside detective spotted him in the business district, police said.

Police said he is also responsible for break-ins in Burlington Township, Burlington City and Edgewater Park.

Bail was set at $50,000 for the two Riverside crimes.

GeneChing

02-19-2016, 09:19 AM

Martial arts expert who stabbed ex-soldier to death jailed for 12 years (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/martial-arts-expert-who-stabbed-7399050)
22:54, 18 FEB 2016 UPDATED 22:55, 18 FEB 2016
BY ROSS MCCARTHY
Troy Ktori, 27, knifed Charles McInally , 55, in the throat then left him to die, going on the run for six days

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West Midland Police
Guilty: Troy Ktori was convicted of manslaughter

A martial arts expert has been jailed for stabbing an ex-soldier to death in a drink and drug fuelled rage.

Troy Ktori, 27, knifed Charles McInally , 55, in the throat at his Birmingham home then left him to die as he went on the run for six days.

He was found hiding out in the Malvern Hills, the Birmingham Mail reported .

Ktori, from Edgbaston, was found guilty of manslaughter at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday.

He was acquitted of murdering the railway design engineer.

Ktori confronted Mr McInally and housemate Carl Martin at the home they shared in Brewers Square, Edgbaston, after becoming enraged at claims they wanted a “threesome” with his girlfriend.

After chasing Mr Martin through the property, he stabbed Mr McInally who had stumbled towards him.

In passing sentence, Mr Justice Neil Garnham said: “Thereafter your conduct was cowardly and appalling. You simply made off and did nothing to assist the dying Mr McInally.

“You did not call an ambulance. Instead you set about organising your own escape.

“I have read a moving statement from Paul McInally (the deceased brother) written on behalf of him and their mother and it paints a very clear picture of the anguish and loss you have brought to them.

“It is perfectly plain that you have a temper that is made worse by drink and drugs, both of which you abuse regularly.

“Your behaviour in this offence demonstrated that when you are irritated by others you resort to violence.

“Yours was a slow burning fury. You act in a cool, calm and determined manner, inflicting violence on those you take against. You are a dangerous man.”

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West Midlands Police/PA Wire
Stabbed to death: Former soldier Charles McInally

Crystal Jeffries, 30, the defendant’s girlfriend and Matthew Roper, 24, both of Shenstone Road, had previously admitted a charge of assisting an offender.

Roper was jailed for 20 months while Jeffries was handed a 20 month sentence, suspended for two years.

Adrian Keeling QC, prosecuting, said Mr McInally and Mr Martin met the defendant and Jeffries at a pub in Edgbaston where Ktori had boasted about his martial arts expertise.

They continued the party at Brewers Square where cocaine and alcohol were both consumed but Ktori stormed out after punching Mr Martin in the face.

After Jeffries later told her boyfriend that she had been propositioned, Ktori stormed back to the address and attacked both men.

After the stabbing Ktori had taken refuge at a friend’s home in Northfield before later buying camping equipment. He and Jeffries and Roper had then hidden out in the Malvern Hills for two days before the killer handed himself in.

Ktori went on to claim that he had been acting in self-defence when he stabbed Mr McInally.

Wonder what made him a 'Martial arts expert'?

sanjuro_ronin

02-19-2016, 09:25 AM

Supposedly he is a Thai boxer world champ...

GeneChing

02-22-2016, 11:22 AM

Here's another ambiguous 'martial arts expert'. It's slightly OT, as he wasn't busted. He was shot dead.

Grand Jury Declines To Indict Man In Shooting Of Drunk Martial Artist (http://bearingarms.com/grand-jury-declines-indict-man-shooting-drunk-martial-artist/)
Posted by Bob Owens on February 21, 2016 at 3:11 pm

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Mario Perez was shot and killed after threatening to kill a man, his wife, and his children.

After reviewing the evidence, a grand jury in Maryland has declined to press charges against a businessman who shot and killed a drunken man who threatened to kill his family during a holiday party.

A grand jury declined to indict Francisco A. Trujillo in the killing of Mario Alberto Perez, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Friday afternoon.

Trujillo, 35, said he shot and killed Perez, 40, early the morning of Dec. 21 after Perez threatened Trujillo inside his own home in Damascus, Maryland.

“It was a surreal, tragic experience,” Trujillo told News4 on Friday.

The construction executive was hosting a small holiday gathering on the 24600 block of Ridge Road just days before Christmas when his acquaintance drunkenly started an argument with him, he said. Perez threatened to kill Trujillo, his wife and his children, who are 8 and 4 years old and were home at the time.

This case is the textbook justification for an armed citizen to shoot an unarmed man.

Perez was a much larger man than Trujillo and a known “martial arts expert” (precisely which martial art he practiced was not mentioned in the article).

Perez was also in Trujillo’s home, threatening Trujillo’s wife and two small children. Even in those localities where there is a duty to retreat, he did not have the practical option of retreat.

When Perez would not back down, Trujillo had little choice other than to fire in his own self-defense before Perez could get into range to disarm Trujillo. When Perez ceased to be a threat—after one well-aimed shot—Trujillo did not fire his weapon again.

I’m not surprised in the least that Trujillo was arrested by police, or that a district attorney in an anti-gun state such as Maryland would attempt to charge Trujillo with murder in what seems to be a relatively cut-and-dried case of self-defense. These people simply don’t think correctly.

What is somewhat amazing is that the grand jury looked at the evidence and declined to prosecute. Grand juries typically only see a one-sided case, heavily biased by the prosecutor. They do not get both sides of the story. That comes later in the criminal trial.

That Trujillo wasn’t indicted suggests that there was no ambiguity at all in this incident.

By the way, the next time you hear someone saying that only cops can get away with shooting an unarmed suspect, feel free to cite this case.

It has always been about the disparity of force, which is far more complex than just “armed” or “unarmed.”

GeneChing

02-26-2016, 10:09 AM

Double jeopardy? Send this one away. I got this wish. There is still some justice in the world. :cool:

More on Hoover here (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1285881#post1285881).

Former Martial Arts Instructor Sentenced to More Time in Prison (http://wabi.tv/2016/02/24/former-martial-arts-instructor-sentenced-to-more-time-in-prison/)
FEB 24, 201612:15 PM EST
JOHN KRINJAK

A former martial arts instructor from Augusta has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for raping two young boys and videotaping it.

That sentence will be served concurrently with a federal sentence for child pornography charges.

“There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with its children. That’s what we’re here for today your honor,” said Kennebec County Deputy District Attorney Paul Cavanaugh.

Invoking the words of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, prosecutors asked for a long sentence for 38-year-old Wade Hoover.

The former martial arts instructor pled guilty in November to sexually assaulting two boys under 12 between 2008 and 2010.

The state asked the judge to consider additional video evidence they say shows Hoover drugged his victims–one in Kennebec, the other in Somerset County.

“Mr. Hoover needs to be punished for this conduct. It is reprehensible, it is heinous, it is vile,” said Cavanaugh.

A mother of one of the victims took the stand, asking for the maximum sentence…we’ve taken steps to protect her identity.

“A man who has committed these types of crimes with such intensity and severity should never be allowed on the streets again. How many more children do we really not know about that he has harmed,” said the mother.

Hoover is already serving a 40-year sentence for federal child pornography charges.

“It deserves a significant sentence but this isn’t a murder case,” said Hoover’s attorney Scott Hess.

Hoover himself spoke as well, addressing each victim.

“I am sorry for what I have done, and hope you can forgive. Hopefully your mother can move forward as you. We all need to move forward, because forward is where we may find peace. Thank you for listening,” said Hoover.

Prosecutors say they’re skeptical of Hoover’s show of remorse this time around.

“It seemed a little more rehearsed to me, like the first one didn’t get him what he wanted, so he came up with a different one to see if he got a better result,” said Cavanaugh.

Cavanaugh says he hopes a 60-year sentence sends a message to would-be abusers.

“We seem to be seeing a lot more child pornography and we seem to be seeing a lot more sort of hands on child abuse. I hope people understand that conduct is going to get severe life sentences. We will do everything we can to keep the children safe,” said Cavanaugh.

Hoover is set to remain in federal custody until at least 2047.

At that point he will be transferred to state custody for the remainder of the state sentence.

herb ox

03-15-2016, 09:43 AM

http://www.metro.us/new-york/queens-martial-arts-teacher-accused-of-sexually-abusing-four-students/zsJpcn---quYyCTEs4m3/

Queens martial arts teacher accused of sexually abusing four students

A 26-year-old Queens man has been charged with sexually abusing four female students while he worked as a Tae Kwon Do instructor, prosecutors said.

Lorenzo Ramos of Elmhurst, Queens, was arraigned earlier this month on criminal charges involving one of the girls. He was later arraigned on March 11 on a criminal complaint involving the other three girls. Ramos is charged with sexual abuse, attempted sexual abuse, forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment.

“These are serious allegations. As a martial arts instructor the defendant was supposed to train his students to protect themselves from unwanted advances. Instead he is accused of taking advantage of his teaching position to touch his students in inappropriate ways,” Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said in a statement announcing the charges Monday.

Ramos is accused of sexually abusing and forcibly touching two 12-year-old girls and two 14-year-old girls at various times over the last 19 months.

According to the district attorney’s office, “Ramos, while working as an instructor at United Tae Kwon Doe, located at 97-12 Roosevelt Ave., and on multiple occasions between May 1, 2015, and Feb. 25, 2016, approached his four female victims individually and touched them in an inappropriate manner —such as hugging them, picking them up, grabbing their breasts and squeezing their buttocks.” He also allegedly rubbed himself inappropriately against one of the victims.

He additionally is accused of giving or offering money to three of the girls, telling one of them, “Don’t say anything because both of us will be killed.”

Ramos was allegedly caught when the "victims voiced concern among themselves and the owners of the martial studio spoke with them,” prosecutors explained. After Ramos was let go from the studio, one of the victims told her mother what had happened, and she contacted the police.

District Attorney Brown asks anyone who believes that they may have been a victim of this same abuse to contact the NYPD’s Queens Special Victim Squad at 718-520-9277.

Ramos, who faces up to seven years in prison if convicted, was ordered held on a $31,000 bail and to return to court on April 1.

GeneChing

03-24-2016, 09:21 AM

LSD + TKD (http://www.martialartsmart.com/tae-kwon-do-styles.html) don't mix.

UW student charged with first-degree murder, allegedly used martial arts training during LSD-fueled beating (http://q13fox.com/2016/03/23/uw-student-charged-with-first-degree-murder-allegedly-used-martial-arts-training-during-lsd-fueled-beating/)
POSTED 6:01 PM, MARCH 23, 2016, BY DUSTY LANE

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SEATTLE – A 21-year-old University of Washington student was charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday after prosecutors said he beat and strangled his girlfriend during a bad acid trip.

Casey Henderson is accused of killing Katy Straalsund, 22, Sunday afternoon at her apartment on NE 50th in Seattle. Police say he told them he grew paranoid after they’d spent the night and morning high on LSD they’d purchased on the street Saturday evening.

Charging documents show Henderson told police things “started to get weird” and that he began to believe she was “plotting against him.” They say he admitted to punching her in the face and head, and to kicking her using techniques he’d used in taekwondo.

Henderson allegedly told police he strangled her with both hands while yelling “do you want to live?” He told detectives she “kept saying stop, what are you doing.” Police said when they sent him to the hospital because his hand was “extremely swollen and red,” and learned he’d fractured his wrist.

Henderson told police he and Straalsund had been dating for about six months.

Police said they were called in at about 2 p.m. on Sunday by a neighbor who heard a man yelling “you wanna die” and “I will kill you.”

Once they got there, one of the officers reported seeing Henderson strangling Straalsund. The officer said both were naked, and that by the time they got inside he was holding her in a chokehold from behind.

Police broke it up and attempted CPR.

Straalsund died later at the hospital.

Charging documents also show that police talked to Straalsund’s cousin. The cousin told them that Straalsund had recently confided that she’d learned Henderson was dating another woman, with whom he planned to move to Paris.

The cousin said Straalsund didn’t consider her own relationship with Henderson serious.

GeneChing

04-07-2016, 08:45 AM

More on the Kung Fu Judge (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=990995#post990995).

Lawyer probed in ‘Kung Fu Judge’ missing $700K inheritance (http://nypost.com/2016/04/06/lawyer-probed-in-kung-fu-judge-missing-700k-inheritance/)
By Emily Saul April 6, 2016 | 8:09pm

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Judge John L. Phillips in 1997. Photo: Steven Hirsch

A Queens lawyer accused of looting the estate of a Brooklyn judge is being probed by a grand jury over seven counts of grand larceny that accuse him of pocketing more than $700,000 in inheritance, The Post has learned.

Attorney Frank Racano — currently serving a 30 day contempt-of-court sentence for not accounting for funds taken from the estate of the late Judge John Phillips — admitted to a Brooklyn surrogate’s court judge in March that he’d written checks to himself from the deceased jurist’s escrow account.

Phillips was known as the “Kung Fu Judge” because of his black belt and habit of breaking out martial arts moves during court proceedings.

The Brooklyn DA’s office is “moving forward with an indictment on the criminal charges,” Phillips’ nephew, the Rev. Samuel Boykin, said Wednesday.

“My family and I are alleging that he has ripped the estate off for 713,000,” Boykin said of Racano, who he had hired to help handle the estate.

A law enforcement source confirmed Racano was “under investigation.”

The disgruntled nephew also recently filed a $160 million notice of claim against the city, saying he was improperly removed as executor of Phillips’ estate in January 2015 and “illegally” replaced with public administrator Charles Fiori.

Fiori then went on to settle the family’s $40M wrongful death suit against Prospect Park Residence — where the judge froze to death in 2008 — for just $750G, without consulting any of them, Boykin said.

‘My uncle served as a civil court judge for 17 years, and the system he served so diligently has really let him down.’
- Rev. Samuel Boykin, nephew

“None of the seven heirs have any idea what happened to the $750,000. We have no idea where it is,” Boykin told The Post. “Many of my family members believe he stole the money. Fiori has been over the estate since January 2015, and not only do we not know where the money is, but we have no idea what he’s doing with it.

“These people have taken that money, pretended it was theirs, and disappeared,” a frustrated Boykin continued, referring to both Racano and Fiori.

“All seven heirs are highly upset, and wondering how the courts could let these people get away with this,” he added. “My uncle served as a civil court judge for 17 years, and the system he served so diligently has really let him down.”

Boykin says he also intends to sue Queens DA Richard Brown, because he filed a complaint with his office asking them to investigate Racano’s actions in February 2016, and they never responded.

It wasn’t until Boykin reached out to Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson following Racano’s admission of theft in court that the claims were taken seriously, he said.

BM2

04-08-2016, 01:32 PM

From Gene's post from a couple of years ago, a follow up

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/11/costco_shopper_who_broke_leg_a.html

Customer sues Costco, claims employee used martial arts to break leg
By Emily Sinovic Published: Sep 23, 2014 at 11:07 PM PDT

In a lawsuit filed in Multnomah Circuit Court, a Costco customer accused employees of holding him against his will and breaking his leg after he was asked to show his receipt.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Court documents filed in Multnomah County Circuit court claim Costco employees asked customer Timothy Walls for his receipt as he left the Costco on NE Sandy Blvd. Employees say Walls refused to show him their receipt, violating Costco policy.

The lawsuit alleges employees made Walls feel as though he was "held against his will" (click here, to read entire comlpaint). The timeline of events details in the lawsuit include Walls response. The lawsuit states, Mr Walls grabbed the first Costco employee by the shirt collar, "pulling him away from the shopping cart holding his personal property."

Walls claims a second employee then intervened and, "...employed a martial arts type strike with his leg... fractured Mr. Walls' tibia."

A police report filed that day, January 28, 2013, details accounts from store employees including a handwritten statement from the employee Walls accuses of attacking him and breaking his leg. The employee writes, the Walls had pressed the other employee against the wall and the custoemr had his hands around that employees' throat.

The second employee goes on to write, "I stepped in, pulled member off--asked him to calm down. He put his hands on me and then I put him on the ground, to calm down. Then I left upon members' request."

When KATU asked, Bill Stockton, the attorney representing Costco, "Does Costco believe its employees were right in everything they did?" Stockton replied, "Yes."

Attorney Clayton Morrison represents represents Timothy Walls. Morrison told KATU, "Our goal is to have this issue resolved and to obtain compensation for Mr. Walls in regards to some pretty serious injuries he sustained."

Morrison went on to say, "If you’re a customers and you decide to walk out without a showing a receipt what can the store do in that situation can the store detain you?" He added, " We would like to clearly establish under Oregon law that you have a right to walk out of the store without being detained."

GeneChing

04-13-2016, 09:42 AM

To the uninitiated, Kung Fu moves look like the fits of crackhead junkies. :o

By Nikki DiRico
Man performs 'kung-fu-like moves' at convenience store, police say (http://www.wmur.com/news/man-performs-kungfulike-moves-at-convenience-store-police-say/38912282)
Tige Dyer, 42, charged with possession of heroin and cocaine

Published 1:12 PM EDT Apr 07, 2016

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Furnished by Manchester police

MACNHESTER, N.H. —A 42-year-old man who police say performed "kung fu-like moves" at a convenience store Wednesday night was arrested on drug charges and outstanding warrants, Manchester police said.

Manchester police Officer Richard Valenti responded at 11:24 p.m. Wednesday to TN Convenience at 90 Bridge St. on a report of a disorderly person.

Valenti said he found a man flailing his arms while kicking his legs in the air.

Tige Dyer, 42, of Manchester, was wanted on several warrants involving stolen property and theft and was taken into custody. Police said they searched Dyer and found approximately 9 grams of heroin and .55 grams of crack cocaine in his possession.

Dyer was taken to police headquarters and placed on a 72-hour hold for a parole violation. He was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled drug and was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.

GeneChing

04-13-2016, 09:51 AM

We've heard this one before (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=957206#post957206)...more than once (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1262345#post1262345) actually. :o

There's a vid behind the link.

Former Firefighter Convicted Of Fraudulently Collecting Disability, Found To Be Doing Martial Arts (http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/04/12/former-firefighter-convicted-of-fraudulently-collecting-disability-found-to-be-doing-martial-arts/)
April 12, 2016 9:52 PM

TRENTON, Nj., (CBS) — New Jersey’s acting Attorney General, Robert Lougy, announced that Shane B. Streater, a former Camden Firefighter, was convicted of stealing more than $82,000 by fraudulently collecting a disability pension from the state’s Police and Firemen’s Retirement System. While doing so, Streater was working as a martial arts instructor and participating in competitive mixed martial arts.

Streater, 41, was convicted of second-degree theft by deception. Sentencing is scheduled for May 20.

“Streater portrayed himself as a firefighter permanently disabled in the line of duty, but it was all a shameful charade, as he demonstrated by engaging in strenuous martial arts activities,” said Lougy. “His ploy to steal pension benefits was a slap in the face of the honest firefighters and officers who continue to serve the public bravely and who are counting on that pension fund for their retirement.”

Streater applied for accidental disability pension in January, 2010, claiming that he was disabled as a result of two accidents while on duty.

Doctors concluded that his disability was caused by a pre-existing condition and therefore, he qualified for ordinary disability pension, which pays out 40 percent of a person’s salary and is taxed. Streated appealed for accidental disability pension which is not taxed and pays two-thirds of the person’s salary.

Investigators unearthed video or Streater taking part in martial arts as he was collecting pension, which was as a result, revoked in April, 2012. By that time, Streater had collected $82,488 in benefits.

“I didn’t take advantage of the system in anyway,” Streater told Eyewitness News.

“Today I can feel fine. Tomorrow I can wake up and barely be able to climb up the steps,” Streater said.

GeneChing

04-21-2016, 10:12 AM

Given the cursory nature of this news report, it's impossible to really say what happened. Perhaps Guo did use excessive force. But still, it all feels so wrong. It sounds like he tried to do the right thing and is getting severely punished for it.

Young man defends victim of harassment, receives jail time and a fine (http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0421/c90000-9047823.html)
(People's Daily Online) 11:08, April 21, 2016

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Picture of Guo Gang at training.

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Guo Gang's release certificate.

Guo Gang is a 17-year-old student who saved a woman from harassment on the bus. However, his righteous behavior not only went unrewarded, he was actually punished for it. Recently his story was posted on Weibo, and many netizens are forwarding and reposting it, hoping to locate the female victim to testify for him.
On March 23, 2015, Guo and his friends took a bus from Dujiangyan to Luzhou in Sichuan province. On the bus they saw a man around 30 years old pawing at a girl who was clearly uncomfortable with his advances. When they arrived at Luzhou, the man even held the girl to stop her from leaving. After they confirmed with the girl that she did not know the man, Guo and his friends tried to stop him. They got into a fight, during which the girl ran away. Guo called an ambulance for the man after he fainted.
At the hospital, the man was declared to have several significant injuries and level VII disability as a result of the fight. On August 4, 2015, Guo was accused of intentionally injuring the man.
Guo has always been a top student at school. However, because of the incident, he did not even get to take the national college entrance exam. And because of the charges against him, no company wants to hire him. On April 18, Guo was sentenced to two years and six months in prison with three years’ probation. He was fined 157,173.76 yuan.
Now Guo’s former classmates and teachers are trying to help him to find the victim so she can testify on Guo’s behalf.

GeneChing

05-17-2016, 01:47 PM

Follow the link for vid of the fight

Children's European Championship in Kung Fu ends in chaos as adults brawl with bars and poles in ring (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/childrens-european-championship-kung-fu-7982607)
15:01, 16 MAY 2016 UPDATED 16:16, 16 MAY 2016
BY KELLY-ANN MILLS
The shocking scenes were caught on camera as people used bars and poles to attack each other

This was the moment a children's kung fu competition ended in a mass brawl as adults piled into the ring.

The brutal scenes took place at the European Championship in Kung Fu being held in the Ukrainian city of Lviv.

As the footage shows, the brawl started when two youngsters in the ring from Armenia and Azerbaijan refused to stop battling it out despite the bell being sounded.

It was a semi-final match and 12-year-old Armenian David Petrosyan was about to win, when support staff from the Azeri athlete ran into the ring and joined in.

Then about around 50 men started fighting, using bars and poles to attack each other.

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The two boys are fighting

Even the President of the Kung Fu Federation of Europe, Nikolai Matulevskiy, ended up being hit, apparently by a member of the Azerbaijan team when he was trying to hide the Armenian athlete Nikolai Matulevskiy behind him.

The fight escalated quickly, moving from the fighting ring to rest of the gym, with some of the people using sticks and poles to fight each other.

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The brawl erupted inside the competition ring

The fight was eventually stopped by security guards.

Read more: Dad films moment he grips son to stop him falling from rollercoaster

The team from Azerbaijan has been disqualified for inappropriate behaviour at the competition.

This better not happen this weekend (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68985-2016-Tiger-Claw-Elite-amp-Kung-Fu-Tai-Chi-Day-May-21-22-San-Jose-CA). ;)

GeneChing

06-21-2016, 10:37 AM

If this were a guy, it would be totally creepy. But as it's a cute gal, it's something new to this thread.

Orlando karate instructor solicited, sent nudes to 11-year-old boy, police say (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/orlando-karate-teacher-nude-pics-boy-class-article-1.2681186)
WFTV - Orlando, FL
BY TOBIAS SALINGER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, June 20, 2016, 9:18 PM

An Orlando karate teacher sent an 11-year-old boy in her class nude pictures and told him she wanted to have sex with him, police said Monday.

Stephannie Figueroa, 21, faces charges of attempted lewd or lascivious conduct, solicitation and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, showing a minor obscene material and child abuse, according to the Orlando Police Department.

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Stephannie Figueroa, 21, faces multiple sex crime charges. (ORLANDO POLICE DEPARTMENT)

The boy’s mother opened the his Kik social messaging app on his phone last week and found Figueroa’s sick messages to him, according to a police report cited by the Orlando Sentinel.

N.J. substitute teacher admits to sexual activity with students
“I want to have sex with you,” she told him in one message inviting him to her 21st birthday party, investigators said.

“OK IDC," the boy replied, using a shorthand for “I don’t care.”

Figueroa told the boy nobody else would be home during the party, according to police. She began making advances on him in February and kept telling him that she liked him, the boy told police. Investigators believe she sent him 15 nude or racy photos.

An image of Figueroa in a red karate uniform above a caption identifying her as a forms and weapons champion could be seen on a poster outside Next-Gen Xtreme Martial Arts on S. Goldenrod Rd. in a WFTV report on Figueroa’s arrest.

Jimbo

06-21-2016, 11:02 AM

If this were a guy, it would be totally creepy. But as it's a cute gal, it's something new to this thread.

It's still creepy, Gene. I don't care if it's every pubescent and pre-pubescent boy's fantasy to get it on with his teacher, or if the boy is physically big or tall for his age. Even though she's quite young at 21, the difference in the mental/emotional development between a 21 year old woman and an 11 year old boy is tremendous (among normal people, that is).

GeneChing

07-15-2016, 09:26 AM

Chinese boss attacked mzee kung-fu style (http://www.sde.co.ke/thenairobian/article/2000208647/chinese-boss-attacked-mzee-kung-fu-style)
By Robert Amalemba | Thursday, Jul 14th 2016 at 17:41

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Lu Ti Ti at a Kakamega court where he charged with Caleb Jumba for affray (fighting in public). Picture:Robert Amalemba/Standard.

A Kakamega man left a packed court in stitches after claiming that a Chinese construction boss attacked a worker’s union leader using tactics only seen in Kung Fu movies.

Paul Omondi told the Kakamega Senior Resident Magistrate’s court that Lu Ti Ti deftly employed kicks and blows against Caleb Jumba and himself. Omondi, a tyre puncture repairer at Covec, a Chinese road construction company, was testifying as a witness in a case in which Lu Ti Ti and Caleb Jumba, a workers’ union leader, have been charged with fighting in public on April 13, 2016.

Omondi said trouble started when Jumba visited their work station at Iguhu along the Kisumu-Kakamega road in a routine meet-the-workers tour at about 11.30am.

“Lu Ti Ti and Jumba engaged in a quiet conversation, and when all seemed well, Lu Ti Ti grabbed the mzee’s collar and roughed him up. The mzee panicked, lost balance and fell on the ground. Lu Ti Ti then started stepping on the old man’s chest. It is then that I jumped in to rescue mzee who was panting heavily,” Omondi told the court.

He went on; “Before I knew it, the Chinese man turned on me with kicks and blows. He then hit me with a piece of wood. Fellow workers had to carry mzee out of danger.”

During cross examination, Lu Ti Ti’s lawyer took Omondi to task on how a human being can kick, throw a blow and use timber at the same time.

“I think Chinese are born fighters. They do it so unbelievably,” said Omondi eliciting laughter in the court.

Questioned by Jumba’s lawyer, as to whether there was actually a fight between the two, he responded that, “Hakukuwa na vita, ilikuwa ni mzee Jumba kuchapwa (there was no fight between the two, it was the old man being beaten)!”

He said he had no ill feelings against Lu Ti Ti, besides that small matter of Covec settling an outstanding Sh5,000 wage balance.

Lu Ti Ti was arrested at Kisumu International Airport allegedly on the run after a warrant of arrest was issued against him.

“We have information that Lu Ti Ti was boarding a flight from Kisumu to Nairobi then to Tanzania where there is a branch of Covec,” explained Ondieki to the court.

The accused are out on a Sh70,000 bond each, with Lu Ti Ti’s passport having been deposited with the court. Caleb was also asked to have a Kenyan surety.

Their case will be heard on August 9.

“I think Chinese are born fighters. They do it so unbelievably,” :eek: :rolleyes:

GeneChing

07-21-2016, 11:06 AM

Another terrorist. :(
Time to start a Martial Arts Terrorists thread. :o

The karate killer: Video emerges of Bastille Day terrorist injuring an opponent during martial arts bout (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3701620/Video-emerges-Bastille-Day-killer-injuring-opponent-martial-arts-contest.html)

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was filmed taking part in a contest in 2010
His opponent, who does not wish to named, recalled the match
He said he struck with his head and elbows which are banned by the rules
Comes after selfie photos emerged of Bouhlel before his Nice attack
With friend in a Paris St Germain top he took pictures hours before attack
He posed for pictures both inside and outside the 19-tonne white lorry
He turned truck into deadly weapon that he used to plough into crowds

By SARAH DEAN and FLORA DRURY IN NICE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:02 EST, 21 July 2016 | UPDATED: 12:06 EST, 21 July 2016

Video has emerged of Bastille Day killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel injuring an opponent by using banned moves during a martial arts contest.
The clip, filmed in a sports hall in 2010, shows the truck terrorist wearing a red belt as he struggles with another fighter on a mat.
The pair can be seen kicking out at each other as well as tussling as they both brawl on the floor.
After the fourth whistle is blown, Bouhlel appears to punch his opponent in the stomach. The man falls to his knees in agony and the game is temporarily suspended.
The footage was filmed six years before the French-Tunisian decided to drive a 19-tonne lorry through crowds on a promenade in Nice on Bastille Day, killing 84 people.
Nice attacker 'injures' opponent during martial arts contest

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Bastille Day killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel is filmed holding his opponent's head up after hitting him in the stomach

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Bouhlel (left) is seen kicking his opponent while competing in a martial arts competition in 2010

His opponent, who asked not to be named, said he remembers Bouhlel as a novice who repeatedly made mistakes during the fight, saying he would strike with his head and elbows which are banned by the rules.
The video comes after pictures of Bouhlel posing for a selfie in the truck he used to massacre 84 people emerged.
Taken just hours before he ploughed into crowds on Nice's Promenade des Anglais, the smirking killer looked relaxed as he prepares to commit mass murder.
In the first picture, taken on July 12, two days before the massacre, he sits in the cab of the rented 19-tonne truck next to a friend and sticks his middle finger up.
The second picture showing him grinning next to a friend wearing a Paris St Germain shirt of them stood next to the lorry was taken on July 13, just 24 hours before the horror which killed 10 children.
Gym-loving Bouhlel, a father of three, who used dating sites and had a 73-year-old gay lover, is said to have sent the pictures to friends and family back home in Tunisia before the attack.
It is unknown if the friend he is pictured with is an accomplice and whether the man next to him in the pictures has been questioned by detectives.

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His opponent, who asked not to be named, said he remembers Bouhlel as a novice

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Bouhlel repeatedly made mistakes during the fight, striking with his head and elbows which are banned by the rules

French anti-terror police retrieved the photos from his mobile phone after he was shot dead in the carnage.
‘The photos are part of a body of mobile phone evidence,’ said a source close to the case. ‘His device is loaded with pictures like this.’
Bouhlel was wearing a black-and-white checked shirt, and had a friend sitting next to him, when he took the photo on July 12th – last Tuesday.
His opponent in the blue belt is forced to take a break and regain his composure during the brutal fight

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His opponent in the blue belt is forced to take a break and regain his composure during the brutal fight

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The pair can be seen kicking out at each other as well as tussling as they both brawl on the floor

This has been pinpointed by as the day Bouhlel started staking out the Promenade des Anglais in the hired lorry.
He drove up and down the famous beachside strip where – on July 14th, Bastille Day – he would strike during a holiday fireworks display.
The second picture, taken on the eve of the attack, shows Bouhlel grinning broadly as he and a friend stand by the lorry.
The front of the lorry looks very different to the bullet-holed wreck which was riddled with gunfire and had its panels smashed off during its horror drive along the promenade.

continued next post

GeneChing

07-21-2016, 11:07 AM

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Wearing a black and white checked shirt Mohamed Bouhlel grins and puts his middle finger up to the camera on July 12 as he sits in the cab of the 19-tonne truck he used to murder 84 people on Bastille Day

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The second picture was taken on July 13, the eve of the attack, and shows Bouhlel grinning broadly as he and a friend wearing a white Paris St Germain football top stand by the lorry

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Boulel loved sending selfie photos to people, and would record all of his relationships with other people, however brief

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French anti-terror police retrieved the photos from ISIS killer Bouhlel's mobile phone after he was shot dead in the carnage

A prosecuting source confirmed that the photos ‘are genuine’ and that the second man in the photo taken outside the truck ‘is now in custody along with five others.’
The photos were leaked to TF1, the French private TV channel that is one of the most watched in Europe, and executives there took the decision to post them online.
It came as French detectives have interviewed the truck killer's male lover amid revelations he was a 'sex maniac' and an 'ultra-violent bisexual sadist'.
As his male and female lovers were interviewed in the wake of the massacre, it emerged he was sex-obsessed before his rapid decision to convert to Islam.
The killer had told a friend he had regularly watched videos of hostages being decapitated by ISIS online, and detectives described finding 'very violent' pictures of corpses on his computer.
Bouhlel's favourite lover was the 73-year-old male pensioner, but others described him as a 'sex maniac' and an 'ultra-violent bisexual sadist' when interviewed.
The 'sexually obsessed' killer had male and female conquests that he found on dating sites.
But the pensioner was described as his 'principal' lover by detectives who have unearthed details of his personal life by examining his mobile phone.
Bouhlel also regularly viewed sites showing violent sex as well as propaganda and graphic scenes of torture and beheadings.
A cousin described him as an 'unlikely jihadi' who drank alcohol, took drugs, ate pork and never went to a mosque.
Officers discovered the phone inside the bullet-riddled white lorry after his mile of carnage on Thursday when he was shot dead.

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His phone was picked up by police officers after they shot him dead last Thursday in a lorry that he had used to kill 85 people on the Promenade des Anglais, in the French city of Nice

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Bouhlel also talked of his delight in obtaining a 7.65 pistol and his hope for getting other weapons. Pictured his family home in Tunisia

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Memorial of hate: A mourner spits on the pile of rubbish and stones at the exact spot on the Nice promenade where Bouhlel was shot dead

It has since emerged his estranged wife was planning on heading to the fireworks display but pulled out at the last minute citing 'personal reasons', according to local media.
Both his wife and her mother had been the victims of his domestic abuse, according to French detectives.
Bouhlel visited gyms and salsa bars regularly, and would also visit website 'showing pictures of executions', said BFM TV.
'The busy sex life of a man who had recently discovered a religious faith is shown by the data on the device,' BFM added.
The phone has also revealed chilling details of how the divorced father-of-three prepared his attack - revealing his delight in obtaining a 7.65 pistol and his hope for getting other weapons.
'Bring more weapons. Bringing in 5,' read one text, according to judicial sources.
An earlier text said: 'It's good. I have the equipment.'
The last text was sent at 10.27pm to one of the men now in custody following police raids over the weekend. It ended 'Bringing in five to C'.
Most of those arrested had been in contact with Bouhlel on a number of occasions, added the judicial source.

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Anger: Another mourner kicks the shrine daubed with the word 'assassin' on the ground where Bouhlel was killed by police
Hero motorcyclist launches himself at terror truck in Nice

One theory being looked at was that Bouhlel was 'intent on committing suicide' and had designed his death 'in the style of a terrorist attack'.
This theory is supported by information gleaned from those in custody, according to the source.
These included Ramzie Arifa, 22, who 'spent time talking with Bouhlel before the attack'.
One of the police officers who shot Bouhlel dead has also spoken about the ordeal for the first time.
'He had stopped. The front of the vehicle was completely torn to pieces. The motor was off,' the unnamed officer revealed.
'I was completely sure what was happening. I saw a shadow emerge from the driver's side. He had a weapon.
'I aimed for the head – that's all I could see. He disappeared in the cabin and then reemerged.
'I shot twice more. His head fell back.
'Without knowing whether he was dead, I heard the order "stop shooting".'
Three of the six still in custody have been transferred to Levallois-Peret near Paris for further questioning by the Directorate of Internal Security (RPS).
I clung to the handle. I tried three or four times to open the door. I could see he was looking for something as the truck slowed down.
Alexandre Migues
But France's Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, said today that the links between the killer and 'terrorist networks' had not yet been established.
However, he said: 'The MO is borrowed completely from that of Daesh [ISIS].'
Speaking on RTL he added: 'We cannot exclude that an unbalanced and very violent individual, as his psychology shows he was, in one moment, rapidly radicalised and then committed this absolutely appalling crime.'
But he said it was clear from the first moment it had all the elements of a suicide attack and initial inquiries seem to show premeditation.
'There are people who are in custody, in the entourage or among those who at some point were in contact to supply him with arms.'
Meanwhile a modest hero has come forward to tell how he tried to stop killer Bouhlel's rampage.
Alexandre Migues said he saw the truck as it neared the end of the promenade.
Throwing his bike to one side he ran for 20 metres to catch up with Bouhlel, who had now slowed the truck to between five and 10km.
'I clung to the handle,' he told MBF TV. 'I tried three or four times to open the door. I could see he was looking for something as the truck slowed down.
'He pulled up a weapon. He waved it at me looking me straight in the eyes. I let go of the door handle.
'He was in command of that truck, that wheel. He was the master of the vehicle.'
He continued: 'I'd seen a person get crushed in front of me so my reaction was to follow and run.
'I tried to do my best to slow it down. But when he threatened me with his pistol, I let go of the handle.'
He said that he had also seen the motorcyclist caught on camera trying to stop the vehicle, but didn't know what had happened to him.
The man has never come forward or been found.
He added: 'You can see on video we managed to slow the truck. I wish i could have clung on longer to force him into the central reservation or at least to slow him down enough so that people could flee.
'From where we started to slow down the truck for 150 metres there were no victims. I was so relieved.'

There are more photos but I only posted a few because it was making me sick. There's a video too.

GeneChing

07-27-2016, 08:59 AM

A wetsuit? Drugs are terrible things....

Kung-fu champ ‘choked stepdaughter so hard she blacked out'
EXCLUSIVE Tim Clarke - The West Australian on July 27, 2016, 1:11 am

An international martial arts champion has been accused of choking his 11-year-old stepdaughter so hard she blacked out — before he was arrested wearing a wetsuit and allegedly possessing an unlicensed starter pistol.

Graham Samuel Downey, 43, has competed and won honours at national and international wushu, or kung-fu, competitions, but until yesterday was in custody on charges relating to an alleged assault on his stepdaughter this year.

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Armadale Magistrate’s Court was told Mr Downey was in the grip of a drug-induced psychosis — brought on by a ****tail of prescription painkillers, methylamphetamine, cannabis and alcohol — when he went into his stepdaughter’s bedroom as she slept at 3am.

Police say he then placed a chokehold around the girl’s neck and under her chin, which caused her to pass out and was so rigorous it burst several blood vessels in her eyes.

Mr Downey then allegedly left the girl, before coming to his senses and trying to shake her awake.

After Mr Downey phoned his partner to tell her what he had done, police attended the Armadale address to find him dressed in a wetsuit.

He also allegedly had illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia and the starting pistol.

During a bail application yesterday, prosecutors argued the offence was extremely serious given Mr Downey’s martial arts background.

Police said there was also no guarantee the alleged drug use and violence would not happen again.

Defence lawyer Jeremy Scudds told the court Mr Downey had no history of violence and had an extremely close relationship with his stepdaughter — so close that she had even written to the court saying she forgave him. “He realises that something went wrong, and he wants to do something about it,” Mr Scudds said.

“And the fact he was arrested in a wetsuit goes to illustrate the state he was in.”

Mr Downey competed in the 2014 World Traditional Wushu Championships in China, winning two silver medals in the nanquan and double weapon disciplines.

A back injury had meant an increasing reliance on strong painkillers, the court was told.

Mr Downey wept as the allegations were aired in court and said he was concerned about the welfare of his tropical fish.

Magistrate Stephen Wilson granted Mr Downey $6000 bail with strict conditions he not contact his stepdaughter, or go within 100m of her and to report daily to police.

He will also have to have regular drug tests.

Mr Downey will appear in court again next month.

GeneChing

07-28-2016, 10:08 AM

Young mother tells of horrifying attack at the hands of ex-boyfriend and admits: "I thought he was going to finish the job" (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/young-mother-tells-horrifying-attack-8503838#wKOfe47ePixMs8pS.97)
13:45, 27 JUL 2016 UPDATED 13:52, 27 JUL 2016
BY FRASER N WILSON

Danni Wolschke's ex Kris Auld is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to her abduction and assault.

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Danni Wolschke's facial injuries were severe

A trained fighter left his former girlfriend for dead in a sickening attack that changed her life forever.

Danni Wolschke was battered beyond recognition by jealous ex Kris Auld in a sustained attack in April.

Now the young Darvel mother wants her side of the story to be told.

In an exclusive interview with the Kilmarnock Standard, Danni says her life will never be the same and admits her family are having to move to escape the evil clutches of the Muay Thai fighter.

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Danni Wolschke had bad bruising on her eye from the attack

The 19-year-old was repeatedly knocked out by her 16st martial arts ex in a frenzied attack – and she thought she was going to die.

Brave Danni said: “I honestly thought he was going to finish the job.

“He told me, ‘tonight’s the night you die; I’m murdering you’. He left me to die.”

Earlier this month Auld, 22, who is awaiting sentence in Barlinnie Prison, pleaded guilty at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court to Danni’s abduction and assault.

But it wasn’t always like that for the young couple who had their first date at a Hallowe’en party in 2014.

Danni said Auld was “shy” and admitted she didn’t know too much about him.

Even Danni’s mum Jaclyn liked Auld saying: “He was always polite and helped out when he was in the house.”

But little did they know what was hiding beneath the facade. Now Danni wants people to know the true nature of Auld and wants safety for her and her beautiful son.

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Victim Danni

Customer service adviser Danni said: “We were together throughout, we weren’t on and off again. But things changed about four months in.

“We started to bicker constantly but he was always able to justify himself and make me feel like it was my fault. He manipulated me.”

The pair split up just two weeks before the attack, leaving Danni to raise their then six-week old son Leo alone.

Danni said: “Leo was a novelty to Kris at first, he liked the title of dad but he couldn’t be bothered after a while. He was always on his phone when he had him and would never help out.

“He would never feed Leo or change him and I had to do all of it – that caused a lot of arguments.”

The final straw was when Auld, of New Farm Loch, used Leo as an excuse for kicking Danni’s family door in after an argument, leaving the tiny tot and the family terrified.

Hearing it was over led to a string of obsessive, grovelling texts from Auld. Looking back, it was a pre-cursor for what was to come.

Of the fateful night of the attack earlier this year, Danni said: “It was my first night out after having Leo, I was just going for drinks with a friend in Kilmarnock.

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Danni wants to move on with her life

“He was texting me loads asking me where I was and what I was doing but I totally ignored it. Then he started calling me. When I didn’t answer I started getting calls from blocked numbers – it went on all night.

“I knew it was him so I just ignored it. But I knew he would keep going so I waited till I was back in the house and answered.

“He was raging from the off and screamed ‘Where are you’.

“He said I better meet him at the end of the street and if I didn’t he would come through the house and do whatever to everyone that was in.”

Danni was at home with her friend, her mum, Leo, and brother Taylor, 15.

Wanting to put an end to the late-night drama, she took out her extensions and wiped off her make-up. She changed into her jammies and walked along to appease the insecure brute.

She hoped it would be a quick meeting, the usual thing, putting up with his jealous rants. But Auld had different ideas.

“He told me to get into the car, so I did,” said Danni. “He asked me where I had been and I said I was in the house.

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Bruising on Danni's leg, she claimed Auld tried to kneecap her

“Then he snatched my phone off me and started going through my texts – he saw messages between me and my pal going for drinks and texts to my mum. He started driving and asking ‘Why did you lie to me’.

“He told me if I got out the car he would run me down. Then he started going off his head.”

As he drove like a maniac one-handed, Auld repeatedly smashed Danni on the face, punching her till she passed out.

“He was constantly swearing and punching me,” Danni said.

When the car broke down, Danni thought there may be some reprieve from Auld’s vicious onslaught but she couldn’t be more wrong – Auld was just getting started.

She said: “He dragged me out the car by my neck – it was so bad he left his hand-print on my throat.

“I don’t remember what happened but I woke up on the ground with him kicking and punching me.

“He was stamping on my leg repeatedly – I honestly think he was trying to kneecap me. He walked away and was on the phone, he left me for dead at that point.

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Victim Danni

“Then he came back and saw I was still alive and told me to get a taxi for us to Kilmarnock. He said if anyone heard us I was dead.

“I thought he was taking me to a house to finish the job off.”

Even then the ordeal was far from over for the teenager as Auld dragged her through the streets of the Valley, eventually ending up in Newmilns.

She said: “He didn’t care about me or his son. I begged him to stop and said I had to go look after Leo.

“But he screamed at me ‘I don’t give a f**k about your wean’.”

So out of it was Auld that he willingly took Danni to the first house he saw with its lights on, making up a lie and demanding Danni told homeowners she had been in a fight with a girl and that Auld had come to her rescue.

By this time it was 5am and Auld was demanding Danni ask people to call a taxi.

When he was out of earshot, she begged them to see beyond his lies, telling them it was him that did this to her.

Danni finally managed to escape out of the back door of the house and clamber over the garden fence. As her heart pounded through her chest, Danni made one last-ditch run for safety.

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Danni after the attack

Banging on the first door of a house with lights on, she came across a family she knew. The ordeal was finally over and they called for an ambulance.

But her worried mother didn’t know what was happening. Auld, who still had Danni’s phone, had gone back to Kilmarnock and put her mobile on charge.

Frantic Jaclyn managed to get through, but when he answered, Auld told her: “She’s lying dead in a ditch you fat cow.”

Soon after, the hospital made contact with the family to let them know Danni was safe – but not well.

She had suffered severe bruising and swelling all over her body, had had hair ripped out, teeth chipped and a suspected fractured cheek bone.

She may have recovered physically, but Danni has been left mentally scarred for life, battling anxiety and depression. She is on several anti-depressants and is due to undergo counselling.

Earlier this month Auld was convicted of a number of charges, including the vicious beating of his ex.

He will face sentence on August 4 and has already been warned he faces a ‘lengthy’ jail sentence.

Danni admits it took the brutal beating for her to come to her senses about the father of her child.

She said: “I don’t have any feelings for him now. I just want safety for me and my family – unfortunately that means we are having to move.

“If it wasn’t for my family and the support they have given me, I think I would have been sucked back in by him. It took this for me to realise what was going on.

“I needed this shock to realise it – but I’m lucky to be alive.”

I was asked again why I feed this thread recently. I think it's very important. These are martial artists who lost the way. Some people go on and on about teaching street effective martial arts, but when those teachings lack wude, it's evil, pure and simple. I hope these news posts serve as a point of reflection to our members here. Be good.

GeneChing

08-30-2016, 09:22 AM

See the post two up.

Kung fu champion admits choking sleeping stepdaughter (https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32486404/kung-fu-champion-admits-choking-sleeping-daughter/#page1)
Shannon Hampton - The West Australian on August 30, 2016, 5:43 pm

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Martial arts expert Graham Samuel Downey. Picture: Facebook.

An international martial arts champion has admitted choking his sleeping stepdaughter so hard while he was in the grips of a drug-induced psychosis that she was left unconscious and “staring lifeless at the ceiling”.

Graham Samuel Downey, 42, who has competed in national and international wushu, or kung fu, competitions, pleaded guilty in Armadale Magistrate’s Court today to the assault.

The court was told Downey had taken a ****tail of prescription and illicit drugs and alcohol before he went into his stepdaughter’s room as she slept about 3am and placed her in a stranglehold.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Kim Greenwood said after Downey choked her using the crook of his arm, he left his daughter lying on her bed “staring lifeless at the ceiling”.

Sgt Greenwood said Downey came to his senses and went to help the girl when he heard her gasping for air.

At bail application hearing last month, the court was told that after Downey phoned his partner to tell her what had happened, police arrived at the home to find him dressed in a wetsuit, which his lawyer said
illustrated his state of mind at the time.

The girl, who had numerous burst blood vessels and soft tissue swelling in and around her eyes and ears, was taken to Armadale Hospital and later received treatment at Princess Margaret Hospital.

Downey also pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis, after a hydroponic set-up was found in his backyard shed, and possessing an unlicensed air-rifle and starter pistol, which was found by police in his bedroom.
The 42-year-old also admitted possessing ammunition and drug paraphernalia.

Downey competed in the 2014 World Traditional Wushu Championships in China, winning two silver medals in the nanquan and double weapon disciplines.

His lawyers will make submissions at his sentencing in October, after psychological and pre-sentence reports are completed.

GeneChing

09-07-2016, 07:55 AM

This guy (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1279952#post1279952) again... :rolleyes:

Morbidly obese ‘martial arts expert’ intimidated social worker at her home during dispute over his daughter (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/morbidly-obese-martial-arts-expert-8782523)
22:46, 6 SEP 2016 UPDATED 23:53, 6 SEP 2016
BY NEIL DOCKING
Christopher Lee, who weighs 29st, made “implicit and explicit” threats to the woman leaving her extremely shaken

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Liverpool Echo
Christopher Lee made threats to the woman29-stone Christopher Lee sought out the social worker at her home to intimidate her

A ‘martial arts expert’ weighing 29 stone sought out a social worker at her home and intimidated her during a dispute over his daughter.

Morbidly obese Christopher Lee made “implicit and explicit” threats to the woman when she met him and his partner Nicola Coghlan.

The 40-year-old trained fighter – thrown out of his previous home for anti-social behaviour – then went to her home, leaving the victim extremely shaken, the Liverpool Echo reported .

Lee, from Kirkdale, Merseyside, denied the allegation and was set to stand trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

But today he appeared via video link from HMP Preston and admitted intimidating her.

Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said the Liverpool council worker met with Lee and Coghlan from July 2014 onwards.

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Lee made “implicit and explicit” threats to the woman

He said: “Each time she met the defendant, she says he tried to intimidate her by saying things like ‘if I wanted to attack you I could, but I’m not going to’.

“She describes the defendant as being very aggressive and a bitter man.”

He said Lee called the woman a “f***ing scummy c***”.

Mr Blasbery said: “This was worrying and caused her some distress.”

The victim got into her car to go to work at around 8.20am on September 14 last year, when she heard a car “revving its engine”.

Mr Blasbery said: “She described it as being pretty loud and the vehicle blew its horn about four times. All of a sudden the blue vehicle pulled up beside her car.

“She immediately recognised Mr Lee as the driver. She could also see Ms Coghlan was the front seat passenger.

“She described the window being drawn down and Mr Lee shouting her name.”

He said Lee sped away, while continuing to shout at the victim.

Mr Blasbery said: “This left her feeling extremely shaken and scared because she knew Mr Lee’s past history.

“She also feels shaken because she now understands he knows where she lives.

“Due to her role she was extremely careful of protecting her personal information.”

Mr Blasbery said Lee had a “long record of public order offences” and was last convicted in 2011.

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Trinity Mirror
The case was heard at Liverpool Crown Court

Dan Travers, defending, said he had been in custody since the incident and found prison “particularly difficult, bearing in mind his health problems”.

Judge Alan Conrad, QC, said Lee had an “unattractive record”, but had made verbal rather than physical threats and already served the equivalent of a five-month sentence.

The judge gave Lee eight months in jail, suspended for 18 months, and an indefinite restraining order. He said unpaid work was “impractical given his physical state”.

Judge Conrad said: “This was a social worker trying to do her job. She is entitled to be protected from intimidation.

“It is a serious matter to threaten somebody in that position.”

Liverpool Mutual Homes took Lee to court in 2014 over anti-social behaviour and intimidation of workers at his former Allerton home.

He threw out electricians, claiming they unsettled his pet snake, and workmen, after one wore a baseball cap near his Buddha statue.

Workers were forced to form a human chain to protect themselves after Lee – said to have “expertise in the martial arts” – charged at them.

He was barred from being at home during repairs, but said there was no point sending “hairy-***ed coppers round”.

Lee added it would take an RAF rescue helicopter to budge him, shouting: “You’re going to need the 22 Squadron.”

The couple were evicted in 2015, when Lee was given a 28-day suspended prison sentence for flouting the injunction.

GeneChing

09-30-2016, 09:37 AM

Lincoln Martial Arts Studio Owners Arrested (http://fox40.com/2016/09/29/lincoln-martial-arts-studio-owners-arrested/)
POSTED 5:32 PM, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016, BY ALI WOLF, UPDATED AT 04:43PM, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

LINCOLN -- They teach martial arts to youth in downtown Lincoln, but this week, two men listed as founders of the STKD Tae Kwon Do studio, Brandon Cronkhite and Joshua Szlachciuk, were arrested.

They're accused of mailing thousands of dollars worth of marijuana products out of state.

"There were several parcels that were leaving that location and being shipped across the country to Florida and Tennessee," said Lt. Troy Minton-Sander with the Placer County Sheriff's Office.

Jeff Perry owns the coffee shop next door to the studio which opened just a few months ago.

"It's really scary when you don't even know," Perry said.

He's surprised hearing men who teach children to protect themselves are in trouble with the law.

"I had no clue, they just kind of, they go over there, I see a lot of people coming in and coming out. I've dealt with one of them, he was really nice," said Perry.

With help from the U.S. Postal Service, the Placer County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation in July, following complaints about a marijuana grow on Wise Road in rural Lincoln.

"We were able to determine what appeared to be a legal operation appeared to be something that had some criminality behind it, and based on that we were able to write a search warrant," said Lt. Minton-Sander.

Tuesday investigators arrested Cronkhite and Szlachciuk for numerous felony drug and weapons charges.

Investigators recovered 60 plants, 65 pounds of processed marijuana and concentrated cannabis, plus several illegal assault weapons.

Investigators say both the suspects lived on the property in rural Lincoln.

It's the same address where a 3 and 5-year-old boy died in an ATV crash in April 2015.

Following that accident, Brandon Cronkhite was identified as the father of one of the boys who crashed into a pond on the property.

On the Tae Kwon Do studio's website, Szlachciuk is described as a third-degree black belt who served in the Army.

The Placer County Sheriff's Office is still looking for a third person of interest, Stephen Starner.

There's a vid too. Weird about the two boys dying.

wolfen

09-30-2016, 01:50 PM

This story boggles my mind. :confused:

DoJo Pizza at 4601 Morgan Ford Road was raided by police on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015.
October 24, 2015 5:45 am • By Jesse Bogan

I didn't see a follow-up to this story.

The story confused me a bit, it sounded like a new comedy film with Steven Chow "Kung Fu Pizza" so I looked it up,

Not that I trust the North American MSM or the progressive-leftist government police agendas but the following story looks legitimate.

Dojo Pizza's Loren Copp Appears in Court in Child Porn Case as Support Fades (http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/04/08/dojo-pizzas-loren-copp-appears-in-court-in-child-porn-case-as-support-fades)
Posted By Doyle Murphy on Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:11 PM
Loren Copp appeared Friday in federal court on a child pornography charge. - STEVE TRUESDELL

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Loren Copp appeared Friday in federal court on a child pornography charge.

Dojo Pizza owner Loren Copp arrived handcuffed and shackled at the ankles on Friday in federal court for his first appearance since his arrest on child pornography charges.

His attorney had dropped him overnight. Some of his strongest supporters have backed away now that the FBI says it has photographic proof he sexually abused a girl over the course of several years, starting with a stomach-churning snapshot of the two of them in a sex act when she was just twelve years old.

Copp, 47, faces a maximum of 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if he’s convicted.

See Also: The Curious Case of Dojo Pizza (http://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-curious-case-of-dojo-pizza/Content?oid=3046418)

Until a series of law enforcement raids in October and November, he’d lived with four teenage girls in a converted church at 4601 Morgan Ford Road in Bevo Mill where he taught karate, established a school and operated a pizzeria.

Federal authorities claim they found the pornographic photos on a computer hard drive seized during one of the raids. Investigators showed the pictures to the girl on Wednesday, and she identified herself and Copp, according to the criminal complaint released on Thursday following his arrest.

Tauna Cowin, whose two oldest daughters lived with Copp most of their lives, says she cried all night after reading the newly revealed allegations.

“If he did do this, I hope he rots in jail,” she told the Riverfront Times. “I’m sorry, but I hope he rots in jail.”

It seems much that power corrupts. That's if we consider they may have had some good intention to begin with.
Not enough Karate and too much Pizza

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GeneChing

10-05-2016, 08:57 AM

I was tempted to post this one in Busted MMA fighters and fights (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?52219-Busted-MMA-fighters-and-fights), but this guy doesn't sound like a fighter.

Kennewick teacher charged with molesting martial arts student (http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/crime_and_courts/kennewick-teacher-charged-with-molesting-martial-arts-student/article_9e119e7c-8afe-11e6-b74f-772cf3044363.html)
Kristin M. Kraemer
Tri-City Herald 2 hrs ago (0)

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Oscar Garnica (Tri-City Herald file)

A Kennewick teacher who owns a Richland martial arts school is accused of inappropriately touching a girl and trying to set up a secret rendezvous to have sex.

Oscar Perez Garnica, 47, teaches math at Kennewick High School and “was placed on paid administrative leave before the school year began when the school district learned about the allegations from law enforcement,” said district spokeswoman Robyn Chastain.

The district is fully cooperating with the Richland Police Department, added Chastain, who had no further comment because it is an active criminal investigation.

Garnica has been a Kennewick High teacher since 2006. He also was the girls bowling coach from 2008 to 2016, stepping down in February after the season.

The incident with the young teen girl allegedly happened Aug. 7 at Choice Martial Arts on Wellsian Way. The next day, the girl disclosed the encounter to her counselor, who explained he was required by law to report it to police.

State Department of Revenue records show the martial arts business is registered under Garnica’s home address in Pasco. Court documents say he is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu sensei, or teacher, at the school.

Garnica was charged Monday in Benton County Superior Court with third-degree child molestation. The charge includes the aggravating circumstance that Garnica used his position of trust or confidence to commit the crime.

He has been sent a summons to appear in court Oct. 19.

Garnica had been helping the girl “work through some difficult personal problems,” according to court documents.

They were alone when he invited the girl to sit on his lap. They eventually began kissing and he touched her inappropriately, documents said.

The teacher and student left the center together to get something to eat, and then Garnica drove her home, documents said.

The two allegedly talked about having sex the next day, with Garnica saying he would bring a “glove,” referring to a condom.

After the girl learned her counselor was going to call police, she asked her mother to drive her to the martial arts school so she could talk to Garnica. The mother waited in the car but after some time went inside, where Garnica approached her and said there had been an allegation of inappropriate contact, court documents said.

He explained that he hugged the teen while she was sitting on his lap and that his hand must have slipped, but denied any intentional wrongdoing, documents said.

Deputy Prosecutor Megan Whitmire wrote that Garnica told the mother he had “been through this type of thing before,” that there would be interviews and his name would be placed on “a list” for a year, and then everything would be fine.

Police found the girl and Garnica both deleted all communications with each other from their cellphones, but some segments of conversations were retrieved, court documents said.

Phone records showed more than 400 text messages between the girl and Garnica from late July until Aug. 9, when the girl’s mother took her phone away and got a civil court order for Garnica to have no contact with the teen.

Many of those messages were sent between midnight and 3 a.m., including after Garnica knew police were being contacted, documents said.

The girl allegedly sent one text saying “I’m done … all I do is cause pain,” with a response from Garnica saying “You bring happiness and smiles to my life.”

wolfen

10-16-2016, 06:03 AM

Another terrorist. :(
Time to start a Martial Arts Terrorists thread. :o
continued next post
(Part 1)
The correct title of that would be an Islamic Martial arts Terrorists Thread if you were able to stand up to the punishments of any possible leftist community environment. You probably will find more martial artists in the Islamic Terrorists group because adherents to an ideology of civilizational conquest as dictated by the Koran and the Sharia are likely to practice various arts of war.

A cousin described him as an 'unlikely jihadi' who drank alcohol, took drugs, ate pork and never went to a mosque.

The article quoted is a complete obfuscation and misdirection but this is the most striking lie presented.The authors of the article for sure knew it was a lie but the MSM has kept the public ignorant and they are counting on that.
This item is a common misunderstanding. Much of the general population in the West is kept in the dark about the nature of political Islam and the teachings of the Koran, the Hadith and the Sira and the codification of Islamic Law in the Sharia.

What the cousin described is exactly what motivated this act of violent Jihad as opposed rather than a condition that didn't motivate him. The Koran promises that all Muslims will spend some time in Hell for their sins before going to heaven and that hell described is very horrifying
If a Muslim does all the things the cousin mentioned then the Koran promises them an even worse time in Hell but there is a loophole. If the Muslim decides to commit an act of Jihad and dies in that act then the Koran promises that Allah will completely forgive all his past sins and he will go to heaven and be rewarded with the 72 virgins and other things. Being committed to Jihad is a license to sin.

So a Muslim suddenly splurging in the sins of all things Non-Muslims is certainly a danger sign worth profiling. Some of the 9-11 hijackers did the same thing. They went to strip clubs etc. They knew they could enjoy any sin and Allah would forgive all.. so long as they died in Jihad. So as you can see, once they start sinning, it commits them to Jihad, they have to pay the Bill to Allah. . The only way out of Hell at that point is to die in Jihad,

Killing to Avoid Hell (http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/killing-avoid-hell.aspx)
Does Islam teach that a person may avoid Hell by killing for Allah?
According to the Quran, all Muslims will spend time in hell for their sins. After paying the price, Muslims will then be allowed into paradise.
Muhammad made an exception for prophets (ie. himself) and for anyone dying in battle for the cause of Allah's religion.

Punishment in Islam for Not Going to Jihad and Killing Kuffar is Hellfire (http://www.islam-watch.org/home/53-ayesha/300-punishment-in-islam-for-not-going-to-jihad-and-killing-kuffar-is-hellfire.html)

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The article is an obfuscation, a wall of lies and misdirection (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3701620/Video-emerges-Bastille-Day-killer-injuring-opponent-martial-arts-contest.html).
Everything the MSM says about Muslims, Islam, Immigration "Migrants, Terrorism etc etc is a complete deception. It's not the only thing they are lying about , it's just one of the main things.
Every migrant is a vote for the Left and a means of economic gain by the Globalists by exploiting cheap imported labor and a broken nation state with a population in chaos unable to protect it's human rights.
And behind the wall of lies is another wall of lies and behind that is the graveyard of Western Civilization and America.

This has been pinpointed by as the day Bouhlel started staking out the Promenade des Anglais in the hired lorry. Wrong! He cased it more than a year previously.

One theory being looked at was that Bouhlel was 'intent on committing suicide' and had designed his death 'in the style of a terrorist attack'.
The MO is borrowed completely from that of Daesh .'
Speaking on RTL he added: 'We cannot exclude that an unbalanced and very violent individual, as his psychology shows he was, in one moment, rapidly radicalised and then committed this absolutely appalling crime.'
'theory'?? :rolleyes: 'in the style of a terrorist attack'. :rolleyes: It's called Jihad!!, it comes from the Koran and is one of the foundations of the Ideology of Political Islam from the word of Allah from the book that is considered perfect by worldwide Islam.

Jihad is a part of Sharia law since jihad is part of the Trilogy (https://www.politicalislam.com/a-short-overview-of-sharia-law/).
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Jihad means to war against kafirs and derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion. …
o.9.1 Jihad is a communal obligation. When enough people perform it to successfully accomplish it, it no longer obligatory upon others.
o.9.4 Those called upon (to perform jihad when it is a communal obligation) are every able-bodied man who has reached puberty and is sane.
(Note: By logical deduction, Jihad in itself is considered sane)

25 Jul 2016
French authorities now reveal that the Nice terrorist was not only religious, and not “fast radicalized” as previously asserted, but planned his attack along with accomplices over many months.

Top anti-terror prosecutor François Molins on Thursday revealed that Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel showed ties to Islamic terrorism at the time of the January 2015 jihadist attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and a kosher market, according to the Wall Street Journal. The magazine had run satirical cartoons depicting Muhammad. The new report from Molins contradicted statements in recent days from Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Prime Minister Manuel Valls that Bouhlel had become “fast radicalized” before killing 84 and injuring many more with a large delivery truck and other weapons in a Bastille Day terror attack.

Molins indicated that a year before his Islamic terror attack, Bouhlel surveilled the scene of the murders and communicated with accomplices more than 1,000 times, according to WSJ.
in just the two weeks before the attacks — [Bouhlel] searched ‘on a near-daily basis’ for information on suras, or chapters of the Quran; on nasheeds, or chants, that have been used by jihadist groups like the Islamic State; on Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan; and on attacks in Orlando, Dallas and Magnanville, France, where an Islamic State militant killed a police captain and his companion last month,” according to the New York Times.

Bouhlel appears to have moved to France in 2005 and may have had little contact with family back home in recent years. Bouhlel’s brother back in Tunisia indicated to Reuters that he had sent money back home regularly at times, as many other Tunisians working abroad also do. Days before committing the terrorist attack in Nice, Bouhlel sent funds worth £84,000.

Bouhlel was said to have begun growing a beard for religious purposes in recent months. In May 2015, Bouhlel saved an article about a stimulant used by jihadists according to WSJ. In July 2015, he took photos of Bastille Day celebrations and in July and August photographed crowds at the promenade in Nice. In January of this year, an article about using a car in an attack was saved by Bouhlel.

Both his wife and her mother had been the victims of his domestic abuse, according to French detectives.
That is not "domestic abuse according to Sharia Law, That is his culture and his right under Sharia Law.
In fact as has been reported:

Despite the violence Khalfallah still looked upon her husband before the attack with “eyes of love,”

The whole narrative that this guy was "crazy" is an obfuscation.
Violent yes, crazy no.
If he is crazy then so are the 16-33 percent of Muslims (depending on demographic) living in the USA and Europe who are enthusiastic about supporting ISIS and terror attacks (PEW Research) and the 66 percent that treasonously want Sharia Law to replace all American Law.I would go with "crazy" but we don't have enough mental hospitals to house them all

Some other things to know about the suppression here.

Gene had to get this news from online UK media because all the media in North America had limited news and they said "TRUCK kills people" as if the people were killed by a transformer! Watch out for self-willed trucks!!!! They are insane!
The picture of the dead little girl in the body bag was pulled in the European MSM after this. They don't want their populations getting angry and actually doing something about policing Political Islam and Islamic Migrant Immigration.[I] 'Only Teddy Bears and Tears are permitted, comrades! And don't forget the hashtag #prayfor ..whatever'..just don't do anything to stop this.. Contrast this with the picture of the dead Muslim child on the beach which the Globalists used profusely in the media to garner sympathy for their leftist immigration policy of importing "migrants" which has actually become an Islamic Hijira - conquest by immigration. .
There was more video of the attack,the Central Globalist owned French Government (Lalonde) ordered the local authorities to delete it. They refused.

Nice Terror Attack: What They're NOT Telling You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwp4znSQ3WM

Robert Spencer on the Global Outbreak of Mental Illness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yC8COv6DE4

wolfen

10-16-2016, 06:05 AM

There are more photos but I only posted a few because it was making me sick. There's a video too.]
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Another terrorist. :(
Time to start a Martial Arts Terrorists thread. :o

(Continued.... Part 2)

Again, you probable won't need to, not because the attacks will abate (they will certainly increase) but because the news of them in the entire Western world has been ordered suppressed either by law or by willful co-operation by the Globalist MSM .
Furthermost google is now censoring skewing and it's results to fit the narrative (duckduckgo may be preferable) Similarly youtube , facebook twitter have found ways to censor and ban whatever the globalists dislike. People are being arrested in Germany (by the Stasi 2.0 ) in Sweden for mere criticism of the migrant policy and on and on. Europe is a horror story.
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IMO all the major terror groups got their agents in place in America We are only seeing now the few hotheads that are jumping the gun.m America is wide open, hardly anyone is manning the gates and every Islamic Terrorist group in the world knows it. Obama has turned the FBI into social workers for terrorists.
If Trump is elected the organized and sophisticated terrorist groups will act immediately to try to prevent the immigration door from being closed and in the process get Trump blamed for their activity. They will have to act immediately because they will actually be hunted by American Authorities instead of being indirectly protected by political policy.
If Hillary is elected, they have no need to destroy America immediately they will just sit back and let Hillary do it. (This strategy is now being used in Europe - they are waiting for their numbers to increase a little more). When she declares open borders and gives 30 million plus illegals immunity there will be major system collapse. The Islamists will wait til Hillary gets in another million Muslims or wait at least a year and they have their communities cemented in before they open up on us. Then the avalanche will start both terror and insurrection and the CBRN attacks. At the same time the Migrants are flooded into America Hillary will clamp down on that "Free Speech etc" that she so disdains thus enabling the process of Islamification even further.

The real threat is not terror.
The terror is there to make us shut up while the real process of Islamification allows the Sharia to dominate America. Islam has compromised every legal, political educational and judicial system in America. We are dying the death of a thousand cuts as inch by inch they destroy Western Civilization with the help of the suicidal left and the power mad Globalists that back the left.

One to two years AH (After Hillary, After Hellfire, after the gates of Hell have been opened) is my estimation.

OK. Done! People have been warned.
Every day without an Islamic Terrorist attack is a bonus. And every day without the Sharia means we are still free.

I've seen the future, baby: It is murder

Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned
The order of the soul
Leonard Cohen

Mark Steyn - The Official Lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iv0aiAth8o

GeneChing

10-18-2016, 08:45 AM

Mitchell's instructor charged with sexually abusing teens
Henry Culvyhouse , hculvyhous@dmg.gannett.com 3:59 p.m. EDT October 17, 2016

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(Photo: Image by Wicomico County Detention Center)

An instructor at Mitchell's Martial Arts is believed to have sexually abused at least three teenage girls, according to court records.

Zachariah Justice Bennett, 26, of Bridle Court in Salisbury, is being held without bond at the Wicomico County Detention Center after 27 charges were filed against him on Oct. 13. Bennett is facing a number of sexually related offenses, including first-degree rape and first-degree sexual offense, each of which carries a penalty of up to life in prison.

A second employee involved in the case, 21-year-old Leah Corinn Wright of Princess Anne, turned herself to authorities on Monday morning, according to Lt. Rich Weisrberg of the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office. He said Wright had a warrant out for her in regards to the case, but he could not elaborate on her role.

The Maryland Judiciary Case Search shows she has been charged with 21 offenses, many of which are sexual in nature. Wright is currently being held without bond at the Wicomico County Detention Center.

The Wicomico County Child Advocacy Center, according to charging documents obtained by The Daily Times, was alerted to the suspected abuse on Oct. 12. However, the sexual acts are believed to have occurred as early as October 2014, according to the charging papers.

Investigators say each of the victims were "groomed"---meaning manipulated to trust Bennett--over a period of time prior to the suspect engaging in sexual contact. One victim was assaulted in the bathroom and a D.J. booth at the martial arts facility located at 1305 South Division Street in Salisbury, according to court documents.

Another victim was 13-years-old when Bennett began grooming her by texting explicit pictures of his private parts, investigators said. While charged in Wicomico County with acts committed against this victim, Bennett may also be facing charges in Ocean City as well for other acts, the charging documents mention.

The charges against Bennett and Wright are not the first sex crimes accusations leveled at a Mitchell's Martial Arts employee. In 2011, David M. Gunzburg, a black belt assistant instructor at the time, was charged with soliciting a minor after exchanging lewd emails with an undercover detective posing as a 13-year-old girl, according to reports at the time.

Gunzburg pleaded guilty in 2012 to the solicitation charge and was granted two years' probation. He currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to court records.

Weisrberg said Monday that the current investigation is still underway due to the fact Bennett "had contact with multiple juveniles in his capacity as an instructor." Weisrberg could not confirm whether or not any more victims have been located, due to the pending investigation.

When called for comment on Monday afternoon, Mitchell's Martial Arts offered the following statement:

"We are aware of the incident and take the safety and security of our staff and guests very seriously. We intend to uphold and enforce the highest standards of conduct as we move forward with our business," the statement read.

Anyone who believes she or he may have been victimized by Bennett is urged to the call the Wicomico County Child Advocacy Center at 410-713-3497.

This story will be updated

410-877-4221

Twitter: @hculvyhousedmv

UPDATE: Second martial arts employee charged with sex abuse of a minor (http://www.wmdt.com/news/more-local-news/update-second-martial-arts-employee-charged-with-rape-of-a-minor/42140168)
Julian Sadur, Reporter, julian_sadur@wmdt.com
POSTED: 02:06 PM EDT Oct 17, 2016
UPDATED: 03:23 PM EDT Oct 17, 2016

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Leah Corinn Wright, age 21, Princess Anne, Md.

SALISBURY, Md. -
New details show that a second Mitchell's Martial Arts employee may have been involved in the sexual abuse of underage female students. Zachariah Bennett is facing 27 child sex abuse charges, however it appears 21-year-old Leah Wright was also involved with one of the alleged victims.

According to court documents, Bennett admitted in a police interview that Wright took turns with a victim performing sexual acts on him. He also says that Wright served as a lookout for Bennett while he engaged in sexual acts with the same victim several weeks later.

Both sexual acts allegedly occurred at Mitchell's Martial Arts in Salisbury.

In total Wright faces 21 child sex abuse charges for her alleged involvement in this crime.

Wright is currently being held at the Wicomico County Detention Center.

Two in collusion. So horrible.

GeneChing

12-30-2016, 09:40 AM

This is OT because no charges were filed and I'm not sure that Kung Fu backflips while blacked out counts as being a martial artist.

But still, it's totally worthy of posting here, yes? :p

Police: Missing PS4 Controller Leads to ‘Blackout Kung Fu Fight’ (http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/12/30/missing-ps4-controller-leads-to-blackout-kung-fu-fight/)
December 30, 2016 10:16 AM

https://cbsphilly.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/gettyimages-170344227.jpg?w=640&h=360&crop=1
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 11: A Playstation 4 and its controller is on display at the Sony Playstation E3 2013 booth at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Thousands are expected to attend the annual three-day convention to see the latest games and announcements from the gaming industry. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J. (CBS)—Police in Gloucester City responded to an incident of kung fu fighting last week and a missing video game controller may be to blame.

It happened on Dec. 21 in the 200 block of North Willow Street for a report of two men fighting in the street.

Police say the two men in their 30s were arguing about a missing PS4 paddle when one of the men spat in the other’s face.

“The male who was spat on stated he then apparently blacked out and began to do kung fu and backflips,” police said in a news release.

During the “blackout,” the backflipper apparently managed to damage his friend’s fence.

No charges were filed in the incident.

“Neither male wished to sign complaints and the male who blacked out agreed to fix the fence,” said police.

GeneChing

01-03-2017, 09:40 AM

This is an ugly story from any perspective. :mad:

Violent martial arts instructor searched his baby for drugs (http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/violent-martial-arts-instructor-searched-his-baby-for-drugs/story-30027079-detail/story.html)
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Barry Hartshorn

A PARANOID Devon martial arts instructor who attacked his partner before searching their newborn baby for drugs has been jailed.

Barry Hartshorn, 29, assaulted the mother as she cradled the eight-week-old in her arms on the sofa.

He then punched her in the head and put his hand over her mouth so she could barely breath and started bleeding, a court heard.

Homeless Hartshorn accused her of hiding his drugs and then pulled at his baby's clothes to search them.

He was jailed for 18 weeks by magistrates in Plymouth after pleading guilty to assaulting the woman by beating on New Year's Eve.

The court heard the mum-of-three was left with severe bruising and swelling to her head and concussion.

In a statement, the victim said: "I wanted us to be a family and am angry he has done this to us. He has destroyed our family. I have to put the children first."

The court heard that Hartshorn, who featured on Sky TV for a Thai boxing bout, had mental health problems and had not worked for about a year.

He had become 'increasingly paranoid' after taking cocaine, the court heard.

Jodie Leonard, for Hartshorn, said he did not seek to excuse the attack and accepted he was going to jail.

The former drug dealer was jailed for 11 months last year for beating another former partner after falsely accusing her of having an affair.

He was also was jailed for three years in 2008 for slashing a teenager with a machete and burning another with a hot iron in a drug debt revenge attack.

GeneChing

02-07-2017, 10:34 AM

Wife Slain in Murder-Suicide Had Accused 'Martial Arts' Expert Husband of Inflicting ‘Severe’ Skull Laceration (http://patch.com/illinois/joliet/wife-slain-murder-suicide-had-accused-martial-arts-expert-husband-inflicting-severe)
The husband accused his wife of trying to run him over with an SUV.

By Joseph Hosey (Patch Staff) - February 6, 2017 2:33 pm ET

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Wife Slain in Murder-Suicide Had Accused 'Martial Arts' Expert Husband of Inflicting ‘Severe’ Skull Laceration

JOLIET, IL — A woman apparently killed by her husband before he took his own life had accused him of once bashing in her head, and he claimed she tried to run him over with a sport utility vehicle, according to filings in Will County court.

Angel Morgan, 42, and Patrick Morgan, 49, were found dead in their North Bluff Street apartment early Sunday by a concerned relative who went looking for them.

Angel Morgan had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and Patrick Morgan had been shot just once, according to Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil’s office. A handgun was found by the bodies, police said.

Angel Morgan had filed to divorce her husband in May. In her petition, she said she “suffered a severe laceration to (her) skull at (her) spouse’s hand in the past, and years of physical abuse where he used martial arts on” her.

Patrick Morgan denied the allegations. Angel Morgan dismissed her divorce case less than four months ago.

In March, Patrick Morgan claimed his wife slammed the trunk of their SUV off his head before attempting to run him over. He also told of a “verbal altercation” with his “supposed friend Johnny Ray, about coveting (his) wife and frequenting (his) home.”

The Morgans’ two sons, Amari Morgan, 18, and Blaique Morgan, 20, are in custody at the Will County jail for allegedly murdering their 62-year-old next-door neighbor, Robert Bielec, in January 2016.

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Bielec had just pulled into the driveway of his Houston Avenue home when the Morgan brothers walked up and confronted him about an “ongoing dispute,” Assistant State’s Attorney John Connor said during their bond hearing.

During the ensuing argument, Bielec made a sexual remark about the Morgans’ little sister, Connor said. Amari Morgan then allegedly swung a bat at Bielec’s head, killing him.

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Bielec’s “skull was caved in,” Connor said.

Bielec’s female roommate reportedly heard the commotion outside her home. When she went to see what was going on, she found Bielec dead in the driveway.

Wonder what style he practiced...

GeneChing

03-07-2017, 09:53 AM

More on Zachariah Bennett here. (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1297126#post1297126)

Former martial arts instructor pleads guilty to sexual abuse of a minor (http://www.wmdt.com/news/maryland/former-martial-arts-instructor-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-abuse-of-a-minor/382101894)
Posted: Mar 07, 2017 10:32 AM EST
Updated: Mar 07, 2017 10:32 AM EST

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Zachariah Bennett, 26

SNOW HILL, Md. - A former martial arts instructor pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor Tuesday. Zachariah Bennett entered the plea as a part of a deal in Worcester County. He was facing a total of five charges in Worcester County, but as part of the deal the State did not move forward with the other charges at this time.

Bennett, a former instructor at Mitchell's Martial Arts in Salisbury, engaged in sexual acts with a then 13-year-old student. The incident took place inside a van during a field trip to Jolly Roger in Ocean City in August of 2016.

Tuesday the State recommended 15 years for the crime with all but 10 served, meaning he would only spend five years behind bars. He would also have to register as a tier-3 sex offender. Sentencing has been delayed until a pre-sentencing investigation and mental health evaluation can take place.

Bennett is also facing similar charges in Wicomico County. Bennett will answer 29 charges Wednesday, involving alleged sexual acts with minors inside the martial arts facility.

Also accused in Wicomico County, Leah Wright, another former Mitchell's employee. She is accused of standing lookout during some of the alleged acts and participating in others. Wright's trial is scheduled for this May.

GeneChing

03-10-2017, 12:40 PM

How horrible.

‘CHILD KILLER’ CAUGHT Martial arts fanatic who filmed himself ‘stabbing boy, 9, to death’ hands himself in to German cops – as another body is found in blazing flat
Marcel Hesse, 19, walked into a fast-food restaurant and told the owner to call police (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3055579/martial-arts-fanatic-marcel-hesse-who-filmed-himself-stabbing-nine-year-old-boy-to-death-hands-himself-in-to-german-cops-as-another-body-is-found-in-blazing-flat/)
By Allan Hall
10th March 2017, 8:01 am Updated: 10th March 2017, 11:47 am

AN accused child killer who allegedly filmed the brutal murder of a nine-year-old boy for a ‘snuff film’ has handed himself in to cops.

Marcel Hesse, 19, walked into a fast-food restaurant in the German town of Herne where he lived and said: “Please call the police – they are looking for me.”

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The suspect, identified as Marcel Hesse was on the run following the brutal killing EPA

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Jaden, nine, was found lying in a 'lake of his own blood' by his stepfather CEN

Shortly after the arrest, police reported that they had found the body of another potential victim in a blazing flat.

They initially announced that two bodies were discovered but later corrected this, according to Spiegel.

Hesse had been on the run since being accused of killing a neighbour’s child on Monday.

GeneChing

03-29-2017, 11:10 AM

Teenager saved sister's life when knife-wielding kung fu champion burst into home (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/teenager-saved-sisters-life-when-knifewielding-kung-fu-champion-burst-into-home-a3501681.html)
TRISTAN KIRK 2 hours ago

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Attacker: Walter Pantellaro, 27, had not taken medication for his schizophrenia

A judge has praised the “extraordinary courage” of a teenager who saved his sister’s life when a knife-wielding kung fu champion burst into their home.

The 15-year-old was stabbed in the arms and chest as he defended his 22-year-old sister from Walter Pantellaro.

The Italian, who was in the grip of a bout of insanity, had kicked his way into their Vauxhall flat in the middle of the night, launching a “frenzied” attack on the woman in her own bedroom.

Yesterday, Judge Jeremy Donne QC ordered that Pantellaro be locked up indefinitely and hailed the boy’s bravery. He told Inner London crown court: “But for his intervention, we would quite likely be dealing with a death.

“Entirely regardless of his own safety, he fought with the defendant and left his sister only to get a chair as a weapon with which he was able to force the defendant out of the flat. He showed quite extraordinary courage.”

After hearing that the boy was forced to miss his GCSEs due to his injuries, the judge awarded him £750. His sister, who suffered wounds to her left arm and shoulder, is now afraid to leave her own home and fearful of being out at night.

Pantellaro, 27, a world kung fu champion, had been in the UK on holiday for less than two weeks when he carried out the attack on May 1. Armed with a knife from a stolen multi-tool, he stabbed the woman as she lay in bed. He later attacked bouncers at a club.

When questioned by police, he said: “I do what I like because I am God.” He claimed to have taken 10 grams of cocaine which made him “furious like a tiger”, but tests revealed he had only cannabis in his system. He said he wanted to take “possession” of the flat so he could sleep there.

Asked why he stabbed the woman, he said: “Because I am racist.” Pantellaro, of no fixed address but originally from Acireale in Sicily, revealed he had been diagnosed as schizophrenic in Italy but had not taken his medication. Police found his notebook, with a swastika drawn in it, and later discovered letters signed “W Lucifer J” in his cell.

Pantellaro denied attempted murder, wounding with intent, and racially aggravated assault by beating, by reason of insanity. The prosecution urged the jury to come to the special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity so he could continue to receive treatment.

After the jury did so, Judge Donne ordered Pantellaro to be detained in Broadmoor until a mental health tribunal is convinced he can be released.

Kung-Fu champion 'tried to stab girl and her brother to death' (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/kungfu-champion-tried-to-stab-girl-and-her-brother-to-death-a3500871.html)
TRISTAN KIRK Courts Reporter a day ago

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Pantellaro, 27, was said to have carried out the “frenzied” knife attack during a bout of insanity

A kung-fu champion who stabbed a brother and sister in a “racist” attack after bursting into their home in the middle of the night said afterwards: “I do what I like because I am God”, a court heard.

Walter Pantellaro, 27, carried out the “frenzied” knife attack during a bout of insanity, kicking his way into the Vauxhall flat while armed with a knife, it is said.

The Italian first attacked the sister, 22, as she lay naked in bed, stabbing her repeatedly while she screamed for help and tried to fend off the attack, Inner London Crown Court heard.

Pantellaro then allegedly turned on her 15-year-old brother as he bravely intervened during the incident on May 1 last year.

Prosecutor Jonathan Polnay told jurors they will be asked to reach a “special” verdict, finding Pantellaro not guilty of the charges by reason of insanity so that he can be held securely for mental health treatment.

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Pantellaro stabbed a woman as she lay naked in bed before stabbing her brother as he rushed to help

The court heard the Italian-born martial arts specialist admitted to police that he had carried out the attacks, saying he did it “because I am racist”.

While being held at HMP Belmarsh, guards found letters penned by Pantellaro signed off as W. Lucifer J., the court heard, and one of his notebooks found near the scene of the attack contained a drawing of a swastika.

“The defendant admitted carrying out the attacks, he said he did that because he was racist”, said Mr Polnay.

“They are undeniably shocking acts, and when you hear what he did and his account why he did it, you may think there is no other description but insanity for what took place.”

Witnesses saw the Italian trying to get into the block of flats in Vauxhall at around 3am, and after two failed attempts he managed to kick his way into one of the homes.

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Walter Pantellaro, 27, near the houses of Parliament

Mr Polnay said the female victim, who was on the cusp of taking her university final exams, woke up just after 3.30am to see Pantellaro’s silhouette in her bedroom doorway.

“He came towards her and started to hit her - she didn’t realise she was being stabbed at first, but being stabbed she was”, he said.

“Near the end of the attack, her brother shouted ‘what are you doing to my sister?’ And very bravely he threw a punch at the man, but then this defendant lunged at the boy and stabbed him repeatedly.”

The wounded teenage boy then grabbed a chair from his mother’s bedroom and hit Pantellaro with it, forcing him to flee the flat, it is said.

The court heard a short time later, Pantellaro was spotted loitering outside the Ashtar club on the Thames embankment, and was caught on camera launching a “ferocious attack” on bouncer Raymond Osoba.

Pantellaro, whose clothes were blood-stained from the earlier knife attack, was eventually pinned down by club staff and arrested.

At the police station, Pantellaro claimed he had taken ten grams of cocaine which made him “furious...like a tiger”, but tests revealed he only had cannabis in his system.

Pantellaro said he stabbed the woman because he “wanted to killed her”, and also told detectives he wanted to take “possession” of the flat so that he could sleep there.

He claimed he had come to the UK ten days earlier “for a holiday”, the court heard, he said he had been prescribed medication by a doctor in a white coat in Italy but had not taken it, and when quizzed over his symptoms of schizophrenia, Pantellaro replied: “I do what I like because I am God.”

“He confirmed he had attempted to kill the female in the flat, stabbed the male in the flat, and attacked the male outside the nightclub - he said his behaviour was motivated by racism”, added Mr Polnay.

Pantellaro, wearing glasses and a brown anorak, sat in the dock at Inner London crown court accompanied by two medical professionals and followed proceedings with the help of an Italian interpreter.

At the start of the trial, Judge Jeremy Donne QC told the jury that Pantellaro “is sadly very mentally unwell”.

“He is improving and able to take part in proceedings, but because of his ill health he is accompanied by psychiatric nurses”, he said.

“There’s going to be no dispute that Mr Pantellaro did all the things the prosecution allege he did, but he was so unwell at the time that he didn’t know what he was doing.”

Pantellaro, of no fixed address and originally from the Italian City of Acireale in Sicily, denies attempted murder, wounding with intent, and racially aggravated assault by beating, by virtue of insanity.

The trial continues.

'a world kung fu champion' :confused:

Jimbo

03-29-2017, 11:25 AM

'a world kung fu champion' :confused:

Looks like he was a wushu performer. I'd take the title 'world kung fu champion' with a big grain of salt. Anyway, methinks his 'kung fu' days are over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IizEZhKU0nM&sns=em

GeneChing

03-30-2017, 08:45 AM

What is going on in Russia now? :confused:

1:09 / 28.03.2017
Martial arts coach was accomplice of Voronenkov’s murderer (https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/martial-arts-coach-was-accomplice-of-voronenkov-s-murderer/)

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‘Freedom to Ukrainian patriots’, Levents Yaroslav Anatolyevich
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Media named the second possible participant of attempt at ex-deputy of the State Duma Denis Voronenkov. It is supposed that it is Yaroslav Levenets.

Today, the Ukrainian media published information on the possible accomplice of Pavel Parshov, who shot former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Denis Voronenkov in the center of Kiev on March 23.

According to journalists, the second participant of attempt is former serviceman of the Ukrainian nationalist Donbass battalion Yaroslav Levents, who is already wanted. Meanwhile law enforcement authorities suspect him of the illegal address of weapon or explosive. However, as journalists found out, it is not the first criminal experience for Levents.

In particular, in 2012 he became defendant in the case over organization of criminal group. However, as the website of the radical organization of the Ukrainian nationalists Right Sector (the extremist group forbidden in the territory of the Russian Federation) reports, some Ukrainian human rights activists rose in Yaroslav Levents's defense, as the result of what he was recognized as the political prisoner. Then Levenets organized school of training in a fighting hopak in native Dnipropetrovsk and taught generally youth.

In 2014 Levenets got to commander of the Donbass battalion Semyon Semyonchenko as a part of which he participated in the military conflict in Donbass where he probably got acquainted with future murderer of Voronenkov - Pavel Parshov.

Looks like he was a wushu performer. I'd take the title 'world kung fu champion' with a big grain of salt. Anyway, methinks his 'kung fu' days are over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IizEZhKU0nM&sns=em Good find, Jimbo. Thanks!

GeneChing

04-25-2017, 08:38 AM

...time to split this into an indie thread (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70245-The-Saga-of-Kung-Fu-Judge-John-Phillips). It was slightly OT in Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists) anyway.

Queens lawyer sentenced for stealing from estate of late Judge John 'Kung Fu' Phillips (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lawyer-sentenced-stealing-judge-john-kung-fu-phillips-article-1.3080355)

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Frank Racano appears in Brooklyn Supreme Court for his sentencing on Thursday, April 20, 2017. He pleaded guilty earlier this month to stealing over $500,000 from the estate of the late Judge John Phillips after the sale of the Slave Theatre in Bedford-Stuyvesant. (Byron Smith for New York Daily News) (BYRON SMITH FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
BY CHRISTINA CARREGA NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 1:19 PM

A Queens lawyer who admitted to stealing over $500,000 from the estate of the late Judge John Phillips was sentenced Thursday to up to three years in prison.

Frank Racano pleaded guilty earlier this month for dipping into Phillips’ escrow account after the historic Slave Theatre and an adjacent lot in Bedford-Stuyvesant sold for $2.28 million in 2012.

The Slave Theatre was demolished earlier this year.

“For over several years, Racano took out thousands and paid off his mother’s condo until the account depleted to nothing,” said Assistant District Attorney Frank Dudis at Racano’s sentencing in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

In May 2016, after Racano admitted in civil court to writing over 300 checks from the account and was thrown into jail for 30 days, he was indicted for the brazen grand larceny.

Prosecutors recommended Racano go to prison for up to four years, but Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun decided three was appropriate.

“Grand larceny in the second-degree does not always require jail time ... I felt given the amount stolen and the abuse of his position as an attorney did not warrant no jail time,” Chun said.

Racano was also ordered to pay back $587,161 to the estate of Phillips, who was known as “the Kung Fu Judge” because of his martial arts proficiency.

His attorney, Samuel Karliner, said he has paid some of it back already.

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Judge John L. Phillips in front of his Slave Theatre at 1215 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. (HE, GARY)

“It doesn't surprise me. When attorneys embezzle a clients money, its never an isolated incident. They know what they are doing, they just decided to throw in the towel," said John O'Hara, an attorney for Phillips.

The disgraced lawyer was also pleaded guilty in Queens for stealing over $50,000 from Tina Rashkover and Lisandra Vasquez, according to court documents. He's expected to be sentenced for that case on April 24.

“This is hopefully the last straw to destroy the legacy of a beloved judge here in Brooklyn,” said Dudis.

This was not the first time an attorney had raided Phillips’ estate.

In 2008, Phillips' former guardian, Emani Taylor, was ordered to repay $403,000 to his estate.

In 2006, Maria Leyna Albertina pleaded guilty for stealing the deeds of several homes in Brooklyn, including one that belonged to Phillips.

Phillips, who was a civil court judge for 17 years and known for his martial arts skills, suffered from Alzheimer’s and died in 2008 at the age of 83.

GeneChing

04-25-2017, 08:56 AM

Clearfield police arrest martial arts instructor for sexual assault of one of his students (http://kutv.com/news/local/gallery/clearfield-police-arrest-martial-arts-instructor-for-sexual-assault-of-a-child#photo-3)
by Larry D. CurtisThursday, April 20th 2017

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Clearfield police arrest martial arts instructor for sexual assault of one of his students. (Photo: Davis County Jail)

(KUTV) Police have arrested a 20-year-old martial arts instructor for sexual assault and forcible sodomy of a child.
Clearfield police booked Damian Fullmer into the Davis County Jail on a total of eight counts for his alleged assaults on a juvenile girl who was his student at Evolutionary Martial Arts in Syracuse, Utah. Police say the girl met Fullmer more than a year ago through his position as her instructor.
He faces six counts of aggravated sexual assault and two counts of forcible sodomy of a child, according to police.
Roy police contacted Clearfield police with information about a possible sex offense that occurred in Clearfield. After investigating, Clearfield police arrested Fullmer.
Police said there is no evidence indicating that there are additional victims, but requested anyone with information related to the case or suspects that others have been a victim of Fullmer to contact Clearfield police at 801.525.2806.

Forcible sodomy of a child just makes me sick.

GeneChing

04-27-2017, 09:00 AM

£20,000 = $25772.00 Get your martial arts dummies here (http://www.martialartsmart.com/20-53.html) (pot not included :D).

Cannabis found inside martial arts training dummy in £20k seizure at Derry house, court hears
By Alan Erwin
April 27 2017

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Court heard a bag full of drugs was found after police removed part of the dummy.

Police found herbal cannabis hidden inside a martial arts training dummy as part of a £20,000 seizure at a house in Derry, the High Court heard on Friday.

Officers also recovered gold rings, receipts for more jewellery and £1,280 in cash during searches at the home George Campbell shares with his parents.

Details emerged as the 27-year-old was refused bail amid claims he is involved in drug dealing.

Campbell, of Glendale Road in the city, faces charges of possessing cannabis with intent to supply, having criminal property, and simple possession of cocaine.

Police discovered small quantities of the drugs in his bedroom during a raid carried out on April 13, the court heard.

Prosecution counsel Natalie Pinkerton said a further search of the attic uncovered nine nine bags of herbal cannabis in the attic.

She told the court officers then became aware of a strong smell of outside the house.

"They located a training dummy used for martial arts and boxing," the barrister added.

A bag full of drugs was found after police removed part of the dummy.

"The combined weight of the herbal cannabis in the attic and outside was 1kg, with an estimated value of £20,000," Ms Pinkerton said.

During interviews Campbell said the drugs inside the house were for his personal use, but claimed the rest was being kept for an unnamed man to be collected later.

Mark Reel, defending, described his client as a drug user who was paid in cannabis for holding supplies for another person.

Campbell insists his fingerprints or DNA will not be found on any of the bags outside the house.

Denying bail, however, Mr Justice Burgess ruled there were no conditions to guard against the risk of re-offending.

He added: "These offences seem to have been happening at his parent's home, and they don't appear to have much control over what was happening.

"Even the smell of cannabis outside the house - I will put down to the parents not knowing what the smell of cannabis was."

Online Editors

GeneChing

05-30-2017, 09:25 AM

Doesn't sound like this perp was even a martial artist at all. Hope he gets what's coming to him in the joint. :mad:

Man convicted of luring children with martial arts lesson then sexually abusing them (http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/05/20/man-convicted-luring-children-martial-arts-lesson-then-sexually-abusing-them/334042001/)
Cameron Knight , cknight@enquirer.com Published 8:50 p.m. ET May 19, 2017 | Updated 3:36 p.m. ET May 22, 2017

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An Elsmere man was found guilty this week of luring children to his home with the promise of martial arts lessons then sexually abuse them, according to the Kenton County Prosecutor's Office.

Robbie Whaley, 45, was convicted on sodomy and sexual abuse charges by a Kenton County jury after seven hours of deliberation.

Whaley could spend the rest of his life in prison.

The investigation began in January 2015 after a report of child sexual assault at Whaley's residence on Garvey Avenue, prosecutors said.

A second juvenile victim came forward after the initial investigation was launched, police said. Both victim told police they went to Whaley's home for martial arts lessons.

Whaley was indicted in October 2015 and released on bond while awaiting trial.

After his release, prosecutors said two more juvenile victims came forward with new allegations of sexual assault against Whaley bringing the total number of victims to four. At least one of the victim was under the age of 12.

After hearing testimony about his criminal history, prosecutors said the jury recommended a life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years, however, Whaley won't be formally sentenced until July 11.

GeneChing

06-20-2017, 09:38 AM

Regardless of the situation, it surely doesn't help that the boss goes by 'Master Wan' :rolleyes:

Kung fu kicks: Chinese company says victim injured self (http://punchng.com/kung-fu-kicks-chinese-company-says-victim-injured-self/)
Published June 20, 2017

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Ekanem

…police investigate bribery claim
Samson Folarin

Bedmate Furniture Company has faulted the allegations of a worker with the firm, William Ekanem, that his immediate boss, Master Wan, crippled him with kung fu kicks.

The company said Ekanem, who allegedly had a history of stealing property of the company, was blackmailing the firm.

Bedmate explained that he was caught a few weeks to the incident with some celotapes, a claim that Ekanem denied.

It added that a medical report from Beachland Specialist Hospital, Arepo, indicated that the 27-year-old only had pains in some parts of his body after falling during a scuffle with Master Wan, who wanted to search him.

PUNCH Metro had reported that Ekanem had bought some foodstuffs on the premises of the company when he was confronted by his Chinese boss, Master Wan, who asked to see the content of the bag.

After forcefully checking the bag, the victim was allegedly given a kick in the back by the Chinese, who also stamped his foot on his chest.

Ekanem was taken to Beachland Specialist Hospital, Arepo, before he was admitted to Divine Touch Hospital, Ibafo, where he was treated for two weeks.

Our correspondent reported that the Ibafo Divisional Crime Officer allegedly collected N50,000 bribe and another envelope from the company to deny the victim justice.

The case was then transferred to the Area Command, Sagamu, from where it was transferred to the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro also reported that some Nigerians berated the Ibafo DCO for allegedly collecting bribe, calling for the arrest of Master Wan.

On Monday, the Managing Director of Bedmate Furniture Company, David Pan; and the company’s lawyer, Ayo Durojaye, during a visit to PUNCH Place, Magboro, said Ekanem was painting the company in bad light in order to extort money from it.

Durojaiye noted that Ekanem had a history of stealing, which made Master Wan suspicious of him on the day of the incident.

He said, “Ekanem is a foreman with Bedmate Furniture. Three or four weeks to the incident, he had a case of stealing. He stole some big celotapes. He was caught at the gate by the security men and was reported to the factory manager.

“It was Master Wan who begged for him to be pardoned. The celotapes were collected from him.

“It was after this incident that he was seen with a bag in the factory. Master Wan asked him what was in the bag. He refused to open the bag. The man struggled with him, but he refused to open the bag till the end of work that day.

“He went to keep the bag in his drawer and locked it. While they were dragging the bag, he fell and he continued with his work that day.”

Durojaiye explained that the victim, who showed up in the office the following day, suddenly disappeared on the third day, claiming that he was ill due to the fall.

The lawyer said the company’s Nigerian manager, Lekan, advised him to go to the company’s hospital, Beachland Specialist Hospital, for treatment.

“He went there and was treated. He didn’t show up in the office again. The next thing the company saw was that he had gone to the Ibafo Police Station to report the case. The police investigated his claim and discovered that he was not saying the truth.

“I went to the station with Master Wan. The DCO of Ibafo station called him and asked what he wanted. He said he wanted the company to pay him off. We agreed with him, but some human rights people said they wanted settlement and they would want their lawyer to be involved.

“Later, the lawyer requested N50m compensation and threatened to take further action,” he added.

He said the case was transferred to the Area Command, where Ekanem was asked to go for a test at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, but refused and went to the General Hospital, Owode.

He added that the deputy to the Area Commander read the test result, which also showed that the victim was in good condition.

“One Moses later called and said they would collect N15m.

“He is a casual worker. Nobody forced him to take the job. Many people are queuing up at the gate. He collects a minimum of N34,000 per month and there are times that the money could be as high as N60,000 if he meets his target.

“I took N134,000 to him because the company gave him N100,000 for feeding and N34,000 as his salary,” he said.

When our correspondent asked about the N10,000 deducted from the victim’s salary as part of expenses for his feeding and treatment, Durojaiye said Ekanem requested that the money be deducted from his salary at the end of the month.

“This is a clear case of extortion. There is a co-worker that saw this boy at Ibafo walking normally. Ekanem told the worker that he needed the money and that he was merely pretending,” he added.

The company’s MD, Pan, said Master Wan was a worker of the company, adding that the firm was considering suing Ekanem for blackmail.

He explained that the company had been in Nigeria for the past 15 years without any blemish, saying if Ekanem had a genuine case, the firm would have settled him.

He said, “The truth is the case is two guys fighting. We have been here for 15 years. If we were this bad, would we have stayed this long?”

However, a worker with the company, told PUNCH Metro that the Chinese man kicked the victim.

The worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Master Wan and Ekanem were friends, but fell out after a minor disagreement.

He said, “He actually struggled with Master Wan and the Chinese man got injured in the chest. Ekanem was leaving when the man gave him the kick in the back. He fell and started crying; he could not stand up again.”

When our correspondent contacted Ekanem, he denied the company’s allegations.

He said, “I didn’t steal any celotape. Master Wan gave me the celotapes. They accused me of stealing them and I called Master Wan, who told them that he gave me the two celotapes and I was released.

“On the day he beat me up, it was workers at the company that saved me. He kicked me and I fell.

“I went to the hospital that day around 1pm. A worker in the factory, Tonton, held me by the hand and took me in a vehicle to the hospital.

“The second day, I could not stand and my wife called the firm that I was bedridden and they said I should be taken back to the hospital and that was how I returned to Beachland hospital.

“Four of my colleagues came to tell me that the Chinese company paid them to video me in the house and see how I was doing.

“I can’t still sleep at night and I can’t afford my medical bills. I am in pain and I hope it is not when I die that they will know that I am telling the truth.”

The victim told our correspondent that two policemen from the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Abeokuta, visited and interviewed him about the bribery allegation against the Ibafo DCO.

He explained that after taking his statements, the policemen also took his photographs.

A source within the Ogun State Government said the state Ministry of Women Affairs would soon visit the victim, adding that the government would intervene if mediation failed.

Shaolin Dude

07-21-2017, 11:25 AM

When I was training in Yao Li's school, he revealed to us that he was a convicted burglar and has spent some time at Boston's old Charles Street Jail.

GeneChing

08-11-2017, 09:14 AM

$60 million but only 4 years.

Sexual-abuse victims get $60-million judgment against former taekwondo instructor (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-taekwondo-instructor-judgement-20170803-story.html)
Leila Miller

Three women who sued their former taekwondo instructor for sexually abusing them while they were minors each have been awarded $20 million in damages by a California court.

The $60-million default judgment against Marc Scott Gitelman was awarded last week by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge after Gitelman failed to respond to an amended complaint stemming from a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by the plaintiffs.

The lawsuit alleged that Gitelman molested the women from 2007 until his arrest on sexual assault charges in August 2014. According to the lawsuit, on multiple occasions Gitelman invited the young athletes to his hotel room to watch videos of their previous taekwondo matches before he sexually abused them.

Gitelman was sentenced in October 2015 to more than four years in state prison after a Pomona jury convicted him of multiple felony counts, including oral copulation of a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse and lewd acts upon a child.

He was also ordered to register as a lifetime sex offender, according to the sentence handed down by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bruce Marrs. Gitelman is appealing the conviction.

“The numbers are in line with what the values of these cases are,” said Stephen Estey, an attorney for one of the plaintiffs, referring to the damage award. “The judge in this case recognized the long-term consequences of being sexually abused as a child.”

South El Monte teacher arrested on suspicion of molesting students
The civil suit also named several athletic organizations involved in the girls’ competitions for failing to protect them. The Olympic-caliber athletes competed in tournaments associated with the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Taekwondo. The women have appealed a Superior Court decision to dismiss claims against the USOC and USA Taekwondo, according to Estey.

“They should have had policies and procedures in place to prevent this from happening,” said Estey. The attorney said his client stayed on the same floor as her coach at a training facility’s dorms. “They did not have any chaperone policies in place and Gitelman would take these girls to these tournaments.… It was a free for all.”

An attorney representing the USOC declined to comment.

Gitelman instructed students at community centers in the Las Vegas area as well as at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and traveled to various locales across California and Nevada for taekwondo tournaments, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Doris Leroy, an attorney representing Gitelman in the criminal lawsuit, said there were evidentiary errors in the criminal trial but declined to comment further.

The 2015 lawsuit alleges that Gitelman forced one of the athletes to perform oral sex while driving her to a competition at the International Taekwondo Festival in California in May 2008. When they arrived at their hotel, Gitelman invited the athlete to his room to watch videos of her previous taekwondo fights. He then gave her alcohol and molested her, the lawsuit alleges.

In 2009, that athlete was molested again at the Olympic Training Center dorms in Colorado Springs, Colo., the lawsuit states.

It also describes an event in March 2010 sponsored by the Olympic Committee, among other organizations, when Gitelman invited two of the plaintiffs to his hotel room where they played a drinking game. While one of the plaintiffs laid on his bed intoxicated, the other plaintiff saw him inappropriately touch her.

After helping the intoxicated athlete find her way back to her hotel room, the other plaintiff returned to Gitelman’s room where he served her more alcohol. The lawsuit alleges that he then forced her to lie on his bed, where he sexually abused her.

Two of the girls lodged a formal complaint in early 2014 with USA Taekwondo, the governing body overseeing the sport in the U.S. Shortly after, those girls and a third victim came forward and informed police of the abuse.

Kendra Gatt, 23, one of the plaintiffs, said the judgment marks a step forward for her.

“I feel like I lost my time and energy, and my mental health was directed in a different way throughout the years at the trial, criminal [case] and moving into civil,” Gatt said in an interview.

She began taekwondo at age 11 and aspired to try out for the Olympic team. She didn’t tell her parents about being abused for two years and did so only after seeing a Facebook post from another plaintiff who described being in an “odd predicament” with her taekwondo coach.

“When I discovered that I wasn’t the only one that it happened to I put some pieces together and realized I wasn’t going to be the last either,” she said. “I decided to voice what happened to me because I never wanted it to happen to any other girl or athlete in general.”

The lawsuit said that Gitelman “did not attempt to hide his relationships with the various plaintiffs” and the defendants “were aware that female taekwondo athletes, and Olympic level athletes in general were frequently victims of sexual molestation by their coaches yet did nothing to protect these athletes from such abuse.”

Although one of the plaintiffs operates a taekwondo studio in Las Vegas, two of them, Estey said, no longer practice taekwondo.

Gatt is currently a biology student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She said that after she stopped training with Gitelman at age 16, she didn’t want to continue practicing martial arts.

“I couldn’t as a 16-year-old come to terms with my feeling of what was happening,” she said. “I tried again with a different instructor months later and I just didn’t feel the same. I kind of lost a little passion in it.”

hskwarrior

08-11-2017, 07:37 PM

10370

A local karate instructor has been arrested by the Griffin Police Department and charged with child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

According to Griffin Police Department Chief Mike Yates, Daniel George has been arrested and charged in connection to a complaint filed by a parent.

Filed by former GPD Officer Matthew Boynton, the report states that the sex abuse allegation was submitted directly to the Police Department.

The report states that during a conversation that same date about the importance of honesty, a seven-year-old girl told her mother “that she guessed it was okay to tell (mother) that Mr. Dan (her karate instructor) had touched her private area.”

The report states the mother asked her daughter how she was touched and the child said, “Mr. Dan put his hand on her stomach and then went inside her pants.”

The mother reported her daughter attended summer camp at Championship Martial Arts, and described Daniel George as the lead instructor.

The mother alleged her daughter said she “was told by Mr. Dan that she was not allowed to tell her mom or anything about him touching her and he made her promise. (The girl) also said that when Mr. Dan asked her to promise that she had her fingers crossed behind her back, so she felt it was okay to tell her mom what she said.”

The mother also alleged her daughter reported that while other children were eating a snack at the karate studio, George would take her in the girls’ locker room where he “tries to fix her pants because they are too tight,” and that she has a “secret room in the studio where she goes and plays on a computer that only she has access to with Mr. Dan’s permission.”

The GRIP contacted the owner of Championship Martial Arts, who said he is cooperating fully with the investigation, and confirmed that Daniel George is no longer an employee of the karate studio.

Yates said the investigation is ongoing, but was unable to confirm if any other suspected victims have been identified........................

GeneChing

11-21-2017, 04:19 PM

I'm trying not to smirk at the 'karaoke-machine remote control' part.

Sumo champion Harumafuji to be referred to prosecutors for alleged assault in drunken brawl (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/21/national/crime-legal/sumo-champion-harumafuji-referred-prosecutors-alleged-assault-drunken-brawl/)
KYODO
NOV 21, 2017

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TOTTORI – Police are set to refer sumo grand champion Harumafuji to prosecutors by the end of the year on suspicion of assaulting lower-ranked wrestler Takanoiwa in a drunken brawl, investigative sources said Tuesday.

Under questioning late last week, the 33-year-old Mongolian yokozuna admitted to striking 27-year-old Takanoiwa with his palms, his fists and a karaoke-machine remote control, according to the sources.

Takanoiwa is believed to have suffered head injuries after being struck with an object, but Harumafuji has denied allegations that he hit the fellow Mongolian with a beer bottle in the late-October incident at a restaurant-bar in the city of Tottori, the sources said.

The police have determined that they can continue the investigation without arresting Harumafuji as he isn’t considered a flight risk or thought likely to destroy evidence, the sources said.

The police are carefully looking into how Harumafuji injured Takanoiwa but it remains unclear how accurately Takanoiwa can recall the incident, as the No. 8 ranked maegashira told police he kept his eyes closed as he was being hit.

According to other sources, Harumafuji became angry as Takanoiwa was using his smartphone while being scolded for his behavior by yokozuna Hakuho at the restaurant-bar.

Yokozuna Kakuryu and sekiwake Terunofuji — both from Mongolia — and some Japanese wrestlers were also present during the incident, the sources said.

The police are soon expected to question others in attendance including Kakuryu and Hakuho. Hakuho has said that Harumafuji did not strike Takanoiwa with a beer bottle.

The controversy has deepened as conflicting accounts of the alleged attack emerged — including the possibility that a liquor bottle, not a beer bottle, was used in the attack, according to investigative sources.

Further complicating the situation is Takanoiwa’s stablemaster Takanohana, whose actions leading up to the investigation have drawn criticism. Takanohana filed a police report about the incident late last month but only informed the Japan Sumo Association much later.

Yasuko Ikenobo, chairwoman of the JSA executive council and former vice education minister, took a swipe at Takanohana’s failure to immediately report the incident to the board of directors. Ikenobo, whose council convened a meeting on Monday, told reporters that many attendees were disappointed that the scandal broke during the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament. Takanohana had an “obligation to report” the incident to the JSA, according to Ikenobo.

Takanohana has remained mum about the incident, scarcely responding to the reporters following his every move.

Meanwhile, news that Harumafuji was expected to be referred to prosecutors for the assault charge has disappointed sumo fans.

“Sumo was finally regaining popularity, so it’s sad that it has been taken up by the media almost daily in such a way,” said Miyu Suzuki, 26, who attended the ongoing Kyushu tournament from Osaka.

Takanoiwa missed the tournament after being diagnosed with head injuries including a suspected skull fracture and a cerebrospinal fluid leak. Harumafuji withdrew from the tournament on the third day after the media reported the scandal.

The JSA said its crisis management panel will investigate the case and hand down a judgment or punishment sometime after the tournament ends on Sunday.

Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists) & Sumo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?56343-Sumo)

GeneChing

11-28-2017, 05:22 PM

Disgraced Judo Olympian Resurfaces At Jiu-Jitsu Tournament (https://www.flograppling.com/articles/6050828-disgraced-judo-olympian-resurfaces-at-jiu-jitsu-tournament)
Nov 28, 2017
FloGrappling Staff

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An Olympic gold medalist jailed for rape and ostracized by the judo community was seen competing in a jiu-jitsu tournament this past weekend.

Masato Uchishiba, 39, was sentenced to five years in prison for the rape of a college student in 2011.

A two-time Olympic champion, Uchishiba won gold for Japan in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 in the 66kg division.

On Sunday, Uchishiba won double gold (middleweight and openweight) in the masters blue belt divisions of the ASJJF Dumau Japan Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship 2017 in Samukawa, a town about 30 minutes south of Yokohama. His participation in the tournament was first reported by Global Training Report.

Uchishiba had five matches, of which he won all via submission (four armbars and a choke from mount).

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Masato Uchishiba in first place on the podium. Photo: Global Training Report

Arrested in 2011, Uchishiba was working as a coach for a women’s judo team at the Kyushu University of Nursing and Social Welfare when he assaulted his victim. On February 1, 2013, he was sentenced to five years in prison after unsuccessfully appealing the verdict.

Uchishiba was handed a ban from competing in judo tournaments by the All Japan Judo Federation.

Watch two of Uchishiba's matches below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=62uHkks8WBo

I'm only posting one of the matches. :mad:

GeneChing

12-13-2017, 09:17 AM

Harvey Weinstein’s Hong Kong associate Bey Logan accused of sexual misconduct (http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2124161/harvey-weinsteins-hong-kong-associate-bey-logan-accused)
British-born martial arts enthusiast insists he never forced himself on women, and has expressed regret for any action that may have hurt others

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 13 December, 2017, 6:05pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 13 December, 2017, 11:25pm
Niall Fraser
niall.fraser@scmp.com
http://twitter.com/meoldchina64

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Hong Kong has become embroiled in the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal after multiple women alleged they were victims of sexual misconduct by an associate and former top executive of the Hollywood mogul’s operation in the city.

British-born martial arts enthusiast Bey Logan, a former Asia vice-president of The Weinstein Company, has been accused of “inappropriate behaviour” by seven women, including Indonesian-Chinese former actress Sable Yu, who starred in the unfinished Logan-helmed film Snowblade.

The Post understands that Weinstein himself – who visited Hong Kong regularly for business over a number of years – has so far not been the subject of any direct accusations of sexual misconduct by women in the city or the wider Asian film industry.

Among the allegations are claims that Logan touched Yu’s breast in front of a whole film crew and that the executive – who worked for The Weinstein Company from 2005 to 2009 – “habitually threatened” her with legal action when she tried to quit the film due to psychological pressure.

Responding to reports published on Wednesday in the Hollywood Reporter and a local Hong Kong news website, Logan, who had earlier issued a statement expressing regret for his actions, told the Post: “At the time I was confronted with the accusations, I was shocked and uttered responses off the record which came across as defiant and defensive. I apologise for the same.

“I have given my written statement and take this opportunity to express my regret for the hurt and embarrassment caused to my family and friends.”

None of the allegations made so far have been reported to the police or any other law enforcement agency.

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Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been embroiled in multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Photo: Reuters

Logan, who considers Weinstein a “friend and mentor”, is also understood to have communicated with the producer in recent days regarding the accusations he now faces.

The former executive is also believed to have spoken to Weinstein when allegations of sexual misconduct first emerged against the movie mogul. The scandal later sparked a full-blown international movement by men and women claiming to be victims of sexual misconduct by film stars, producers and studio executives, under the “Me Too” social media campaign.

The extent of Weinstein’s links to Hong Kong and Asia were illustrated earlier this year when a eulogy he wrote following the death of prominent entrepreneur and socialite David Tang was published in the Financial Times.

In the opening lines of that piece Weinstein, referring to Logan by name, wrote: “When I first went to Hong Kong 25 years ago, I came as a lover of Hong Kong cinema, especially martial arts movies. I met my friend and colleague, Bey Logan, who is a walking encyclopaedia of that genre.

“I also met many other incredible people like Jackie Chan, John Woo, and the great producer Peter Lam. It was just an extraordinary group, but of all these people, no one stood out more than Sir David Tang (who wasn’t a ‘Sir’ at the time).”

Since 2009, Logan has worked sporadically with Weinstein, co-producing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny in 2016. He often accompanied the producer on his visits to Hong Kong, Beijing and other Asian cities.

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Sable Yu told the news website HK01 that when she was the lead actress in Snowblade, a film involving “martial arts, violence, and nudity,” Logan made her strip to her underwear on a daily basis so that he could inspect her body “for whether she had gained weight”.

On another occasion, Yu claims Logan tweaked her nipple in front of the whole crew, an act that made her “livid”. “This is very degrading to a woman,” Yu said. “I felt that somebody literally threw s**t in my face.”

Yu also alleged that Logan, whose wife is a lawyer, habitually threatened her with legal action when she tried to quit the film due to the psychological pressure.

Logan is also accused of “exposing himself” and Yu said she was traumatised by the Snowblade experience and was still seeking psychological help.

Allegations of sexual misconduct were made by six other women cited by the website, including an anonymous Australian-Chinese actress based in Beijing, who said she worked as Logan’s interpreter on the set of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Drago n: Sword of Destiny in the Chinese capital in 2015, and was the subject of explicit advances by him in a hotel room.

Another woman, also unidentified, was said to have experienced an “unpleasant” meeting with Harvey Weinstein, and claimed that Logan had “forcibly kissed her and pinned her down on the bed” in her hotel room. She eventually escaped by answering a phone call.

A separate allegation involved casting sessions in which women were required to be either half-naked or fully nude.

Addressing the reports, Logan told the website: “I definitely never forced myself on anybody, never had to force myself on anybody”, adding: “The complaints that you have … [are] the things that I tried to do, rather than anything that actually happened.”

In a later written statement Logan gave to the Post, he said: “Over the years of my adult life, I have made advances to women.

“Sometimes they were rebuffed and sometimes they were reciprocated. I have had a too-carefree attitude towards physical encounters with women. I have made inappropriate comments lightheartedly or after a few drinks.

I have had a too-carefree attitude towards physical encounters with women ... I have made mistakes for which I can’t forgive myself BEY LOGAN
“I now see I was wrong and I have made mistakes for which I can’t forgive myself, and must live with them. I regret that any action I might have taken could have caused distress to anyone.

“I was insensitive because my position and the industry’s culture had allowed me to consider my behaviour then acceptable.”

On Weinstein himself, Logan said: “Like everyone else who worked at or with The Weinstein Company, I have been shocked at the alleged behaviour of Harvey Weinstein towards women. “Throughout the years I have known Harvey, I have not witnessed, nor did anyone describe to me any details of, alleged sexual assaults.

“Looking back, I should have been more vigilant and could have done more to protect the women who were placed in a vulnerable situation.”

Logan added that he wanted to “take this opportunity to express my regret for the hurt and embarrassment caused to my family and friends”.

This is just to include this on the Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists) thread but I'll be monitor it on the Open Secret: Hollywood (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70520-An-Open-Secret-Hollywood-Please-Watch) thread.

GeneChing

12-20-2017, 11:23 AM

December 20, 2017 8:18 pm JST
Sumo: JSA begins disciplinary measures over Harumafuji scandal (https://asia.nikkei.com/Japan-Update/Sumo-JSA-begins-disciplinary-measures-over-Harumafuji-scandal)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Sumo Association on Wednesday began doling out disciplinary measures in the wake of yokozuna Harumafuji's retirement following his assaulut on another wrestler.

Following meetings of a JSA advisory body, the Yokozuna Deliberation Council, and the association's board of directors, JSA Chairman Hakkaku announced that two yokozuna would be punished for failing to act when Harumafuji injured lower-ranked wrestler Takanoiwa.

Hakuho, who has won more grand sumo tournaments than any wrestler in history, will not receive his salary for January, and will have his pay cut in half in February. Fellow yokozuna Kakuryu will not be paid in January.

The council, which said Harumafuji's acts would have merited his being asked to retire, also recommended Hakuho and Kakuryu be reprimanded for failing to prevent trouble at the incident that occured during a regional tour.

A report on the investigation by the association's crisis management panel that probed the case was filed before the meeting.

Masato Kitamura, chairman of the advisory council, said after the meeting there is a need to lay out clear standards for similar cases that may occur in the future.

"Hakuho and Kakuryu were not able to stop the incident from happening and being taken too far. Their responsibility should not be taken lightly. They should be given a strong warning," Kitamura said.

"Harumafuji, a yokozuna who should be a role model to all wrestlers, showed abusive behavior that led to injury. A yokozuna must bear this heavy responsibility," he said.

A decision on punishment for Takanoiwa's stablemaster Takanohana, who failed to fulfill his required reporting duties as the regional tour director, was delayed by the JSA directors.

According to investigative sources, Harumafuji allegedly beat Takanoiwa with his palms and a karaoke machine remote control when Mongolian wrestlers gathered for a drinking session that lasted from the night of Oct. 25 into the early hours of Oct. 26 at a bar in Tottori, western Japan.

Takanoiwa suffered head wounds that required about 10 days to heal and filed a police report on Oct. 29. He was diagnosed at a hospital in Fukuoka with a suspected fracture at the base of his skull, among other injuries.

The investigative sources said Harumafuji is believed to have been angered by Takanoiwa's inattention while Hakuho was giving him advice.

Hakkaku volunteered to work the final three months of his term as chairman without pay in order to accept responsibility for the scandal, while Harumafuji's stablemaster Isegahama will step down from the JSA's board of directors.

The chairman agreed with the advisory board's statement that Harumafuji should have been asked to retire, but said that since he had left voluntarily, no further punishment would be meted out.

Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists) & Sumo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?56343-Sumo)

GeneChing

12-27-2017, 02:53 PM

74? Mahjong? Talk about old skool.

Gongfu trainer jailed, fined for using martial arts gym as gaming house (http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/gongfu-trainer-jailed-fined-for-using-martial-arts-gym-as-gaming-house)

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Tan Soh Tin, 74, admitted to allowing the public to access the premises to play mahjong on Feb 14, 2017. PHOTO: ST GRAPHICS

PUBLISHED AUG 23, 2017, 1:57 PM SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

SINGAPORE - A gongfu trainer who used a Chinese martial arts gym as a common gaming house was jailed for 10 days and fined $10,000 on Tuesday (Aug 22).

Tan Soh Tin, 74, admitted to allowing the public to access the Geylang Lorong 15 premises to play mahjong on Feb 14, 2017.

Prosecution officer Kelvin Lee Ming Woei said that acting on information received, police raided the premises and arrested Tan, two co-accused and four others that day.

Investigations showed that Tan had rented the premises for $2,000 a month as a Chinese martial arts gym known as Master Tan’s Gym.

Tan also set up two mahjong tables there to allow any member of the public to have access and have a game of mahjong. Tan would then receive some revenue from the mahjong sessions conducted to cover part of his rental cost.

Assistant Superintendent Lee said that to manage the sessions, Tan enlisted the help of the two co-accused, who would collect $3 from each mahjong player for each round of game played. In one round, a total of $12 would be collected from all the players.

The two co-accused, Chua Thian Lye, 66, and Sim Kim Huat, 65, will be dealt with next Wednesday (Aug 30).

They admitted that they were playing a game of mahjong and said that they were introduced by word of mouth to the mahjong sessions.

The stakes involved were about $100 to $200 per game.

The other four players were fined between $1,000 and $2,000 each for gaming.

Tan could have been fined up to $50,000 and jailed for up to three years for the offence.

GeneChing

01-05-2018, 09:40 AM

More here (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1306124#post1306124) and here (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists&p=1306510#post1306510).

$4400 USD may seem paltry, but he lost face, and sumo is a game of honor. At least, it's supposed to be so.

Japan sumo champion Harumafuji fined over assault (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42561794)
4 January 2018

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Harumafuji has said his life will be "sharply different" now

Former sumo grand champion Harumafuji has been fined 500,000 yen (£3,280; $4,400) in Japan after being found guilty of assault.

The 33-year-old wrestler from Mongolia admitted hitting a junior wrestler over the head with a karaoke machine remote control during a night out in Tottori in October.

He has already apologised and stepped down over the incident.

The case rocked the world of sumo, a hugely popular ceremonial sport.

The assault on fellow Mongolian Takanoiwa happened while they were out drinking with other wrestlers in a bar in the western city.

The grand champion is reported to have been angered that his countryman was checking his phone while being given advice, seeing it as showing a lack of respect.

The latter was admitted to hospital with concussion and a fractured skull.

Two others involved in the incident have faced disciplinary action and Takanoiwa's stablemaster - as coaches are known - has been demoted for allegedly delaying reporting the incident.

Harumafuji started his career in Japan at the age of 16 and was promoted to grand champion or yokozuna - sumo's highest rank - in 2012.

He released a statement in late December, Reuters news agency reports, saying his life "is now set to be sharply different from what I thought it would be".

"I have a feeling of chagrin, to be honest. But the responsibility is all mine."

What is sumo?

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Japan's much-loved traditional sport dates back hundreds of years

Two wrestlers face off in an elevated circular ring and try to push each other to the ground or out of the ring

There are six tournaments each year in which each wrestler fights 15 bouts

Wrestlers, who traditionally go by one fighting name, are ranked and the ultimate goal is to become a yokozuna (grand champion)

What other scandals clouded the sport recently?

Last year, a wrestler and his coach had to pay nearly $300,000 to a fellow fighter whom they had allegedly abused so badly he lost sight in one eye, according to reports

Several wrestlers have been implicated in match-fixing scandals and links between sumo and the mafia-like yakuza crime syndicates

Another Mongolian grand champion retired from the sport in 2010 after reports of his involvement in a drunken brawl

In 2007 a sumo stablemaster received six years in prison after a novice was beaten to death by older wrestlers

Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists) & Sumo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?56343-Sumo)

Jimbo

01-05-2018, 07:37 PM

$4400 USD may seem paltry, but he lost face, and sumo is a game of honor. At least, it's supposed to be so.

The training for Sumo in Japan has always been pretty abusive. Not necessarily fractured skull-abusive, but abusive, nonetheless.

GeneChing

01-08-2018, 12:25 PM

We don't always cover boxing (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?54079-Boxing) in our Busted Martial Artists thread (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists), but he is an olympic gold medalist.

SEX CRIMES 3 days ago

Olympic gold medalist arrested for alleged lewd acts with a minor (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/05/olympic-gold-medalist-arrested-for-alleged-lewd-acts-with-minor.html)
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Former Olympic gold medalist Paul Gonzales is accused of sexually assaulting minors. (Los Angeles Sheriff's Office)

A former Olympic boxing gold medalist has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor, Los Angeles law enforcement said.

Paul Gonzales, 53, was arrested Friday and was charged with eight felonies including four counts of lewd acts upon a child, sheriff’s officials said in a news release.

Additional details about the allegations were not immediately provided; however Special Victims Bureau detectives were looking for any additional victims who may not yet have come forward with complaints. It's unclear if the charges involved one or more children.

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“Based on the allegations in this case, and the fact suspect Gonzales has trained and mentored kids at the boxing gym for the past ten years, detectives believe there may have been other children in the past that were sexually assaulted by suspect Gonzales,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, according to FOX11.

Gonzales represented the United States at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, taking home the light flyweight gold medal in boxing.

Paul Gonzales Jr of the United States stands above silver medallist Salvatore Todisco of Italy on the podium and celebrates winning the Men's Light-Flyweight Boxing final on 11th August 1984 during the XXIII Olympic Summer Games at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California , United States. (Photo by Getty Images)
Paul Gonzales represented the U.S. at the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles, taking home the gold medal. (Getty Images)

Most recently, he served as the head coach at the Eddie Heredia Boxing Club where he worked for 10 years as an employee for the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department, authorities said.

The Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department did not immedately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

"This is shocking. It’s surprising," instructor Adrian Villanueva told reporters. "He’s a good coach. He’s always here for the kids and, you know, anyone who needs advice."

Gonzales is currently held at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles on $575,000 bail.

Oso

01-12-2018, 06:16 AM

https://www.local10.com/news/crime/dynamic-family-martial-arts-owner-accused-of-repeatedly-throwing-boy-on-floor-

GeneChing

01-18-2018, 10:30 AM

Affidavit: Owner of martial arts school acknowledged inappropriate behavior (http://www.live5news.com/story/37287325/owner-of-lowcountry-martial-arts-school-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-students)
Wednesday, January 17th 2018, 12:23 pm PST
Wednesday, January 17th 2018, 5:27 pm PST
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Affidavit: Owner of martial arts school acknowledged inappropriate behavior

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Buchen. (Source: CCDC)

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The owner and chief instructor of a Lowcountry martial arts school accused of sexually assaulting two of his students acknowledged that it was inappropriate for him to massage one of the victims, according to newly released court documents.

James Michael Buchen of Mount Pleasant was given a $300,000 bond on charges of second-degree sexual conduct with a minor and third-degree sexual conduct with a minor.

During Buchen's bond hearing on Wednesday, the victims spoke out saying Buchen was once like a father figure until he took advantage of them.

The girls said they are speaking out because they don't want anyone else to go through what they have.

Multiple other girls on the martial arts team were present with their families during the hearing.

Buchen is not allowed to have contact with children without an adult present and he cannot have contact with the victims.

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Judge says James Michael Buchen is to have no contact with minors without adult supervision, passport access revoked. Bond set at $300,000.

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An affidavit released on Wednesday states that during a phone call on Tuesday between one of the victims and Buchen, Buchen acknowledged massaging the victim during camp and knew it was inappropriate.

"He also acknowledged she was young at the time of the incident," court records states.

According to authorities, the victim said she was intimidated by Buchen and afraid to tell anyone what happened to her.

Investigators say between June 24, 2013 and July 5, 2013, the two victims, identified as two 15-year-old's, attended martial arts camp through Buchen Martial Arts on Leinbach Drive.

According to a police report, after lunch, participants typically watched movies and rested.

"One afternoon one of the victims was resting in the back half of the room when Buchen approached her and put her head in his lap," CPD officials said."He began to massage her shoulders and then put his hands down her shirt and beneath her sports bra."

Police say the second 15 year-old victim told police that one afternoon during camp the suspect sat next to her, put his hands down her pants and then her underwear and touched her inappropriately.

"Both victims began taking karate lessons from the suspect when they were about 10-years-old," police said.

The investigation is ongoing.

Buchen was locked up at the Al Cannon Detention Center.

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https://www.local10.com/news/crime/dynamic-family-martial-arts-owner-accused-of-repeatedly-throwing-boy-on-floor- That's a different one, Oso. Good find. Curious to watch how this one plays out.

Oso

01-18-2018, 11:58 AM

That's a different one, Oso. Good find. Curious to watch how this one plays out.

Yea. I think I've spoken somewhere on the forums about the issue (as I see it) of MA schools operating as day care centers w/o having to go through the same licensing as a day care center needs to have.

GeneChing

01-19-2018, 10:17 AM

He Was Trying Out Kung Fu Moves, Accidentally Set 40 Bikes On Fire (https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/chinese-boy-burns-down-40-bikes-while-practicing-kung-fu-moves-1802255)
The boy's parents may now have to shell out $15,000 to compensate for the damage, the police said.
Offbeat | NDTV Offbeat Desk | Updated: January 19, 2018 17:40 IST

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He Was Trying Out Kung Fu Moves, Accidentally Set 40 Bikes On Fire

The boy left the complex without putting out a burning candle which caused the fire

Officials in China have discovered the source of a mysterious fire last week that destroyed 40 electronic bikes.

It was a young boy "obsessed" with martial arts, CGTN reported.

Surveillance footage has revealed that the fire was a result of negligence by a boy who was trying out Kung Fu moves inside what appeared to be a parking complex. CCTV video shows the boy, unsupervised by an adult, lighting up a candle kept on an e-bike. Trying to recreate Kung Fu moves seen on screen, he thrusts his hands towards the candle, presumably to put it out with his palms.

After a few attempts, the Kung Fu enthusiast loses interest and leaves the area without putting out the burning candle.

The bike catches fire and the flames quickly grow bigger, soon spreading across the entire complex.

The mishap occurred on the night of January 1 in northwest China's Hanyin county. Video also shows firemen tackling the huge blaze. The following day, only the charred remains of the bikes were found.

The boy's parents may now have to shell out $15,000 to compensate for the damage done, the police said. No person was reported injured in the incident.

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TplyAjDdXs

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Thread: Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists)
Thread: Candle training? (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?52532-Candle-training)

Yea. I think I've spoken somewhere on the forums about the issue (as I see it) of MA schools operating as day care centers w/o having to go through the same licensing as a day care center needs to have. Yes, indeed, we've discussed that idea here before. I agree that regulation of some sort should be enforced, even though it would wreck our economy for a while because it would force so many schools to close or charge more to cover legal registration fees and such.

GeneChing

01-22-2018, 08:53 AM

There's a vid...he's a bit tweaky. Might be high. :rolleyes:

WATCH: Man tries to rob store with hilarious kung fu skills (https://www.centraltelegraph.com.au/news/watch-man-tries-rob-store-hilarious-kung-fu-skills/3315988/)
22nd Jan 2018 8:26 AM
by NZ Herald

A MAN showing off his kung-fu moves and boxing poses has been caught on camera trying to rob a Hunting and Fishing store in Westgate, Auckland.

CCTV footage posted on January 19 shows the man entering the store and looking through numerous items before launching into a barrage of punches in thin air.
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The man, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts, is then seen crouching down behind a rack of store items before allegedly stuffing his pants and T-shirt with goods and swiftly leaving the store.

Hunting and Fishing Westgate posted the footage on Facebook, warning locals and shoppers to be "aware of this master criminal working in the Westgate area".

"We recommend you do not approach this individual as he is clearly a kung fu master and should be considered extremely dangerous," the store said with more than a hint of sarcasm.

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The store, which posted the video to Facebook, has dubbed over the CCTV video with footage and music from Rocky Balboa and the Pink Panther.

The store said that police had intercepted the man as he tried to flee the store. However police told the Herald last night they did not have a record of the incident.
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GeneChing

01-22-2018, 08:59 AM

This only popped because of 'martial arts grand master Taejoon Lee'

Action Against Actress/‘Heiress’ Not a SLAPP—Court of Appeal (http://www.metnews.com/articles/2018/zettagraff011618.htm)

Panel Says Her Allegations That a Non-Public Figure Is a ‘*****’ and’ Dope-Dealer’ Does Not Give Rise to a Special Motion to Strike; Involves No ‘Public Issue'
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Actress Zeta Graff, who married into the family that owns the London-based firm of Graff Diamonds, holds up a display of precious stones. In her British divorce action against François Graff in 2003, she was awarded what was described at the time as “at least” £10 million (British pounds sterling), the equivalent then of about $13.5 million. While she fared well in the British court, Zeta Graff failed to convince the Los Angeles Superior Court or, on Thursday, the Court of Appeal for this district, that an action against her for libel and other torts should be spiked pursuant to her anti-SLAPP motion.

An actress and so-called “diamond heiress” who publicly accused another woman of being a “low class *****” and a drug dealer has failed to persuade the Court of Appeal for this district that a libel/slander action against her should be dismissed as a SLAPP.

Defendant Zeta Graff argued unsuccessfully that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Holly E. Kendig erred in rejecting her special motion to strike on the ground that one of the requisites under Code of Civil Procedure §425.16—that the action be based on protected speech “in connection with a public issue”—was absent.

Div. Five of the appeals court affirmed on Thursday in an opinion that was not certified for publication. The case will return to the trial court where plaintiff Olivia Vaatete, a bridal consultant and designer, will have the task of proving her causes of action for defamation, as well as false light and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Internet Postings

The case centers on postings by Graff, some vulgar, on Yelp!, Facebook, Twitter and other websites concerning Vaatete.

Vaatete admittedly had an affair with martial arts grand master Taejoon Lee after breaking up with her husband in 1999; the liaison, according to Vaatete and Lee, ended in December 2011; the following year, Graff began dating Lee; despite her suspicions that Lee was maintaining a relationship with Vaatete, she became engaged to marry him in February 2014; she broke it off after becoming convinced that he was cheating on her.

Among her posted allegations against Vaatete are that she “sleeps with other women’s men behind their back and calls herself their ‘concubine’ i.e. their sex *****,” is a “drug dealer and [has] been cheating on her husband...since 1999,” and is a “call girl.”

Graff highlights Vaatete’s affair with Lee, terming her his “drug dealer” and asserting she was “bringing the drugs” to his martial arts school “while visiting ‘to service’ ” him “early mornings.”

Public’s Asserted Interest

The defendant insisted that she dealt with topics in connection with which the public does have an interest.

In her opinion affirming Kendig’s denial of the anti-SLAPP motion, Acting Justice Kim Dunning, an Orange Superior Court judge sitting on assignment, wrote:

“Although infidelity and adultery may be considered matters of public concern, nothing in Graff’s motion suggests that private conduct by Vaatete and Lee similarly captures the public’s interest. Nor does Vaatete’s ownership of a business open to the public, for that reason alone, place her in the public eye where her conduct directly affects individuals other than Graff or Lee.”

Dunning went on to say:

“Graff’s alleged statements were not made in the context of a public interest issue. They were personal attacks on Vaatete, impugning her character and accusing her of criminal behavior. As the trial court aptly observed, ‘the laws of defamation...would be undermined if accusations of cheating were always protected speech simply because the public might have a broader interest in the issue of cheating and adultery.’ ”

Second Prong

Kendig found that “even if the statements were a matter of public concern,” satisfying the first prong of the anti-SLAPP statute, “Plaintiff has adequately shown a probability of prevailing on the claims,” the second prong.

She rejected Graff’s representation that the bulk of the allegations were true and had been admitted. Graff asserted:

“Plaintiff admitted to a multi-year sexual relationship with Lee where she would visit him in his room at the school for sexual liaisons, that the two were not married to each other but instead were married to others, that she fit the traditional definition of ‘concubine,’ and received free marital arts lessons for herself and her children from…Lee” and that she “provided him with drugs on several occasions,” delivering it to him “at the school.”

Kendig pointed to declarations by Graff and Lee. Graff swore that “my romantic relationship with my ex-husband had ended before I began a romantic relationship with Mr. Lee, I never cheated on my husband”; Lee insisted that “I began a romantic relationship with Zeta Graff after I ended my romantic relationship with Ms. Vaatete” and that “I had no relationship or communication with Ms. Vaatete during the time of my romantic relationship with Ms. Graff and that I was faithful to Ms. Graff.”

Other ‘Facts’ Disputed

The judge said it was not clear that Vaatete knew that Lee was still married to a woman in Korea, if he was.

Kendig continued:

“While Defendant asserts that Plaintiff admitted that she was a ‘concubine’ as that term was defined at her deposition…, Defendant’s definition does not encompass cheating on a spouse. Rather, the definition offered was: ‘A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.’

“Additionally, there is no basis to conclude that by admitting that she was a ‘concubine’ that Plaintiff also admitted the other terms leveled against her, including ‘hooker’ and ‘call girl.’ For that reason, it cannot be said that the veracity of all the terms used against her were admitted by Plaintiff.”

Vaatete acknowledged that at times, she picked up marijuana for Lee. Kendig commented:

“Because drug dealing is often associated with selling drugs for money, and opposed to picking up marijuana for a boyfriend, it cannot be said that Plaintiff admitted to being a drug dealer.”

She went on to say:

“[B]ecause the accusations of Plaintiff being a prostitute and a hooker are based on arguably false facts, Defendant cannot assert, at this juncture, that her statements are mere opinion.”

No Ambiguity

Among other rejected contentions was that no liability could attach to the allegation that Vaatete would go to the martial arts school “to service” Lee because it was ambiguous. She declared that “an average person reading the statement…would clearly understand it to mean that she provides sex to him.”

On appeal, the finding that the first prong of the statute was not met being determinative, Dunning said that “we do not reach the second.”

The case is Vaatete v. Graff, B276836.

Tamar G. Arminak represented Graff and Scott Dinsmore and Brett A. Stroud of Dinsmore and Sandelmann acted for Vaatete.

Connection to Diamonds

Graff, who was born in Greece, has acquired the description in the press as a “diamond heiress” though the term “heiress” connotes acquisition of assets as the result of a death. Her former husband, François Graff, whom she divorced in Great Britain in 2003 on the ground of infidelity, is still alive.

Son of the founder of Graff Diamonds, an international firm, he has been chief executive officer of the company since July 2004 and its director since 2012.

The High Court of England and Wales awarded Zeta Graff an amount which her solicitor described as being in excess of £10 million which, at that time, would have been about $13.5 million in American dollars.

Sues Paris Hilton

Graff was herself the plaintiff in a Los Angeles Superior Court defamation action in 2005. She sought $10 million from hotel heiress Paris Hilton for allegedly spreading “vicious lies” about her to the New York Post.

Hilton’s fiancé at the time, Paris Latsis, was another heir to a fortune, that one relating to a Greek shipping line. Graff had formerly dated him.

The newspaper reported that Graff, encountering Hilton and her fiancé dancing at a nightclub, went “berserk,” attempting to strangle her and rip a $4 million diamond necklace off her neck.

The defamation action was settled out of court.

Oso

01-22-2018, 09:42 AM

one of those **** 3 min Wayfair ads is in front of the vid...who got dat kinda time? lol

GeneChing

01-24-2018, 10:07 AM

Martial arts teacher took drugs and sex toys to meet ‘child’ he met on Grindr (http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/24/martial-arts-teacher-took-drugs-sex-toys-meet-child-met-grindr-7256915/)
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Wednesday 24 Jan 2018 1:37 pm

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Aaron St Omer denies a child sex offence and three counts of possessing drugs with intent to supply A martial arts teacher took crystal meth and sex toys to a pub where he thought he would be meeting a child he spoke to online, a court heard.

The ‘child’ was actually an undercover police officer who says Aaron St Omer was carrying a bag containing *****s and three different drugs when he arrived at the pub.

The 32-year-old, a martial arts teacher from Woodford Green, east London, was first alerted to police after allegedly sending a string of sickening messages to a man on dating app Grindr.

In one, Omer allegedly said he wanted to ‘rape kids’.

Under the username NoLimitRentMe, he told the Grindr user, who is a witness in the case: ‘I want master, sadistic, sick, extreme ****ed up enough to watch some torture, capable of making me rape family, kidnapped friends or kids.’

The witness told the court he was ‘horrified’ and decided to try and discover Omer’s identify to forward him to the police.

When he asked Omer if he ‘brings his fantasies to reality’, the defendant allegedly replied ‘yes’.

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St Omer believed he was meeting a man ‘who had a child that could be abused’ the court heard (Picture: Central News)

‘You raped kids?’ the witness asked.

Omer is said to have replied: ‘Everything including the victim are provided.

‘They spray liquid latex in me all over and told what to do.

If it is permanently damaged then they would help obliterate the body if it let go too soon.

‘I injected it, chemmed it up, was made to inject my blood into it.’

The witness told the court he was disturbed by Omer using the word ‘it’ to describe a child.

After the witness passed the messages to police, then gave them access to his Grindr account.

An officer known as ‘Kev’ used it to arrange a meeting with Omer, using encrypted messaging service Wicker.

Omer believed Kev had a child.

When he turned up at the pub, he was arrested with three different drugs, some potentially lethal.

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St Omer was alerted to police by a user on dating app Grindr (Picture: Getty)

The drugs included two grams of crystal meth, GBL, which is used as a recreational intoxicant with effects similar to alcohol, and chloroethylcathinone, a stimulant designer drug.

Christopher Hewertson, prosecuting, said some of the drugs were potentially lethal.

Teenager told teacher she'd 'see her on the news' as an Isis nurse He told the court: ‘The defendant is very keen to have a meeting with Kev because he established that Kev has a child who can be abused.

‘There are no real children involved thankfully in this case. It’s a deliberate sting.

‘They were drugs to be supplied to the child he thought he was going to meet.’

Aaron St Omer, of Montalt Road, Woodford, ran a security company Jiko-Bouei Defence and Security and describes himself as a Karate consultant on his Facebook page.

He denies one count of facilitating a child sex offence and three counts of possessing drugs with intent to supply.

These just get darker and darker. :mad:

GeneChing

01-31-2018, 10:40 AM

Some teachers just plain forget that they are teaching kids. Having taught kids myself, I can understand the frustration, but it's YOUR CHOICE to teach kids, so that's no justification for such extreme reactions. :mad:

Martial arts teacher 'opened fire on children with automatic BB gun for not doing exercise properly' (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/martial-arts-teacher-opened-fire-11939007)
Peter Sheridan allegedly sprayed the children, aged 10 to 12, with pellets as they dived behind a curtain to avoid them
By Nick Irving
19:33, 30 JAN 2018

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Martial arts enthusiast Peter Sheridan allegedly opened fire on his class at the Quayside Leisure Centre in Kingsbridge, Devon (stock photo) (Image: Google)

A kickboxing teacher opened fire on children with an automatic BB gun during a lesson, a court heard.

Martial arts enthusiast Peter Sheridan sprayed the 10- to 12-year-olds with 70 pellets as they dived behind a curtain to avoid them, a jury was told.

He allegedly ordered the boys and girls to run faster as he fired at them - hitting three of them and leaving them with small marks on their bodies.

The shootings happened at the end of a class at the Quayside Leisure Centre in Kingsbridge, south Devon, Exeter Crown Court was told.

The jury have been shown the realistic looking rifle and magazine, which were seized from Sheridan's home after some of the parents complained.

International kickboxer Sheridan, of Kingsbridge, south Devon, denies possession of an imitation firearm and three counts of assault by battery.

He denies firing at the six children in his class at the time or hitting them and told the police the gun was a toy.

The 46-year-old claimed he dropped a box of pellets which were later found by staff.

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Martial arts enthusiast Peter Sheridan sprayed the 10- to 12-year-olds with 70 pellets, Exeter Crown Court heard (Image: PA)

Kelly Scrivener, prosecuting, said the six children went to the class in December 2016.

Sheridan then allegedly became frustrated at a child who was not following instructions.

She said he sent his 18-year-old son Connaire to his car to fetch the gun and then opened fire.

Miss Scrivener said: "He said words to the effect 'if you don't do the exercise properly I will shoot you'.

"He then discharged the gun, firing ball bearings around the sports hall towards the children.

"Not surprisingly the children cowered behind a curtain and he started hitting the curtain with white plastic 6mm pellets. They were very small and fired in automatic or semi automatic mode."

Staff later recovered 70 pellets from the hall and one of the children took one home with her. The gun was seized along with a magazine with 60 pellets left in it.

Miss Scrivener said Sheridan had no reasonable excuse and should have realised that firing it at the children risked causing them injury.

The parent of one child told the jury he watched as children ran around the hall trying to avoid the pellets.

“They were in shock, they were in pain because he was shooting a BB gun several times,” he said.

He said Sheridan ‘didn’t seem to care’

The children ended the lesson by bowing to Sheridan and the police were called after the children got home, the court heard.

The trial continues.

Oso

01-31-2018, 04:15 PM

oh, technically an 'Air Soft' weapon. Still no excuse for the behavior but I had to click to see if he really had an automatic 'BB' gun which would be a whole different thing.

GeneChing

01-31-2018, 04:52 PM

Karate Instructor Gets 200 Years in Prison for Abusing Children in S. California (https://www.theepochtimes.com/karate-instructor-gets-200-years-in-prison-for-abusing-children-in-s-california_2427483.html)
By Epoch Newsroom
January 29, 2018 5:35 pm Last Updated: January 29, 2018 5:42 pm

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Albert George Williams. (Lake Elsinore Police Department)

A California martial arts instructor was sentenced to 200 years to life in prison after he was convicted of nine counts of lewd and lascivious acts on children and other sexual abuse charges, ABC7 reported.

Albert George Williams, 68, was convicted Jan. 19 of the charges, which includes one count of witness intimidation, according to the Jan. 28, ABC affiliate report.

It was reported that a 10-year-old girl told her parents that she was abused by Williams, who was her neighbor and a karate instructor at the time—operating a karate studio from his garage. The incident happened in 2012.

Detectives were then led to other victims of Williams.

In July 2014, he was convicted of the crimes and was sentenced to 150 years to life in prison. He filed an appealed and was granted a retrial, leading to a later sentence of 200 years.

Deputy District Attorney Julie Baldwin said that Williams intimidated victims from talking to their parents, saying they would be beaten up by gang members or worse, Patch.com reported in 2014.

One girl told authorities that “she was fearful of [the] defendant because he would tell her and the other children stories about getting the letter ‘S’ carved into their faces for snitching,” the report said.

Williams also apparently tried to frighten the father of a child, saying that his son was a gang member who had been released from prison and killed several people.

Williams “said that if anyone ever hurt him or any of his family members, his son would have his back,” according to officials in a brief.

Court documents said that the abuse took place between 2011 and 2012.

Hold the phone. This guy gets 200 years and Larry Nassar gets 175? :mad:

Oso

01-31-2018, 06:05 PM

well, if the rumors are true they will both get what's coming to them in an 'eye for an eye' type of way. I know you were being sarcastic, but neither of them will last as long as their sentences and the first 90 days for both will be a living hell for them.

reminds me of a song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J_qadIwM60

GeneChing

02-01-2018, 09:45 AM

Martial arts teacher busted for not registering as sex offender 15 years ago (https://wtop.com/howard-county/2018/01/martial-arts-teacher-busted-for-not-registering-as-sex-offender-15-years-ago/)
By Megan Cloherty | @ClohertyWTOP
January 26, 2018 3:20 pm

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Scott Naugle, of Laurel, moved to Maryland 15 years ago but never registered as a sex offender. He’s been running a martial arts studio during that time and working with a children, a violation of his sentence. (Courtesy Howard County Police)

WASHINGTON — Fifteen years after a Tennessee man moved to Maryland and opened a martial arts studio, he was charged for failing to register as a sex offender and for having contact with kids.

Howard County police received a tip that the owner of Leverage Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Fulton, Maryland, was an unregistered sex offender, said Sherry Llewellyn with the police department.

Scott Naugle, 44, Laurel, is now facing two counts related to his failure to register when he moved to Maryland. He was convicted of sexual battery of a child in 2003 in Tennessee in the early days of the digital sex offender registry. It’s unlikely someone could skirt the National Sex Offender Registry today, Llewellyn said.

“These sex offenders are required to re-register. Some of them every three months. The moment that one of them does not check in and appropriately register, a warrant is issued for their arrest,” she said of the way the system works now.

And as the owner of the martial arts studio, investigators said he had access to minors, whom he is restricted from interacting with.

Naugle was ordered to register as a sex offender for life as part of his sentence, according to Howard County police.

“To date, police have not received any allegations of sexual misconduct involving Naugle in Howard County,” police said.

however police ask that anyone who may have been a victim of Naugle or has knowledge that anyone fell victim to him is asked to contact police at 410-313-STOP or send an email to HCPDcrimetips@howardcountymd.gov.

This situation could be prevented if anyone listened to our suggestions here, Oso. :(

Yea. I think I've spoken somewhere on the forums about the issue (as I see it) of MA schools operating as day care centers w/o having to go through the same licensing as a day care center needs to have. Yes, indeed, we've discussed that idea here before. I agree that regulation of some sort should be enforced, even though it would wreck our economy for a while because it would force so many schools to close or charge more to cover legal registration fees and such.

Oso

02-01-2018, 03:58 PM

yea, or maybe parents should potentially get a background check on whomever they leave their kid with.

i think the whole 'after school pickup' thing is probably cheaper than a real day care or legit after school program and is therefore very attractive to parents who assume that a krotty master is honorable...and i'm gonna stop before i digress lol.

GeneChing

03-02-2018, 09:11 AM

Kung fu teacher slit friend’s throat with meat cleaver and smashed cannabis bong over his head (https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/kung-fu-teacher-slit-friends-14360545)
Former drug dealer Christopher Gunning later described himself as “the calmest guy in the world”
By Neil Docking Crown Court Reporter
14:08, 2 MAR 2018 UPDATED 15:08, 2 MAR 2018

A martial arts instructor who slit his housemate’s throat with a meat cleaver described himself as “the calmest guy in the world”.

Former drug dealer and recovering addict Christopher Gunning volunteered teaching youngsters kung fu at China Spirit in Wirral.

But he ambushed Christopher Heywood after arguing with his friend of 15 years at their shared home in Hothfield Road, Wallasey.

After slashing him nine times, he smashed a glass cannabis bong over his head and the victim ran into the street covered in blood.

High Court judge Mr Justice Robin Spencer today jailed Gunning for 12 years, after he was found guilty of attempted murder.

He said: “He was begging you to stop. He said ‘you’re going to kill me’. You replied ‘kill you? I’ll f***ing kill you.

“You lifted his head up by the hair with your left hand and with your right hand, drew the cleaver across his exposed throat.

“Mercifully the pressure you used was not sufficient to cut through the delicate and vital strictures of the neck, but you very easily could have killed him.”

Liverpool Crown Court heard the pair had a spare bedroom, which Mr Heywood’s two-year-old daughter used when she stayed over.

Gunning also had friends and family use the room and they had a “heated argument” over it at around 12.50pm on September 21 last year.

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Christopher Gunning, 38, of Hothfield Road, Wallasey, was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for 12 years

They pushed and shoved each other and 38-year-old Gunning told roofer Mr Heywood to leave, but he refused and went to his room.

The court heard Gunning was battered by armed men in 2004 when dealing cannabis and as a result kept the cleaver under his bed.

Graham Pickavance, prosecuting, said he grabbed the weapon, entered his friend’s room and first struck him to the back of the head.

He thought he had been hit with a baseball bat and ended up on his hands and knees begging for mercy until the attack finally ended.

The victim later fled outside screaming for help, while Gunning followed him, shouting “come back and I’ll kill you”.

Mr Heywood sought refuge at the Co-Operative Funeral Home in Liscard Road, where staff gave him first aid and called an ambulance.

He was taken to hospital and treated for a gaping wound to his left forearm, plus cuts to his throat, forehead, head, right thigh and back.

The “traumatised” dad, who still suffers from pain and anxiety, felt unable to return to work, moved home and is awaiting counselling.

Mr Pickavance said police went to the house at around 1.10pm and found “a trail of blood leading upstairs to the first bedroom”.

Gunning arrived and said he was handing himself in, before officers recovered the bloodstained meat cleaver in the back garden.

He told police: “I’ve hurt my housemate quite viciously haven’t I? I don’t have much of an excuse.”

Gunning said they had “history” and during an argument he hit his pal with the meat cleaver, but it wasn’t “intentionally”.

He claimed he just wanted to “scare him out of the house” and described himself as “the calmest guy in the world”.

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The meat cleaver Christopher Gunning, 38, of Hothfield Road, Wallasey, used to try to kill his housemate Christopher Heywood

When told his victim’s throat had been slashed, Gunning replied: “Oh Jesus Christ I can’t confirm or deny anything, it’s like it’s not me, it’s not reality.”

He admitted wounding with intent, but burst into tears when he was found guilty of attempted murder after a four-day trial.

Lauren Soertsz, defending, said it was a “spontaneous” attack by her client, who felt he had been “pushed and pushed” by his friend.

She said Gunning had received counselling in prison as days before the incident, a friend committed suicide, leaving him feeling “fragile”.

Ms Soertsz said because of his martial arts he “knows discipline” and said he “ordinarily is a perfectly law-abiding individual”.

Justice Spencer accepted it was “out of character” and that Gunning lost his temper and his intent to kill was “fleeting”.

However, he said he couldn’t accept there was any significant degree of provocation and the violence he used was of “a completely different level”.

So much for calm. Still waters run deep. :(

GeneChing

03-07-2018, 04:40 PM

Sumo wrestles with its image amid string of scandals (https://www.thestar.com/sports/2018/03/06/sumo-wrestles-with-its-image-amid-string-of-scandals.html)
An alcohol-fuelled restaurant brawl that left a wrestler with a fractured skull, and a sexual assault situation involving the sport’s highest-ranked referee, have rocked the sport.

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Former grand champion Harumafuji of Mongoliaretired after fracturing the skull of countrymanTakanoiwa in an altercation at a restaurant in October 2017. (KOJI SASAHARA / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO)

By JIM ARMSTRONGThe Associated Press
Tues., March 6, 2018
TOKYO—The most damage inflicted in sumo in recent times has been to the image of Japan’s tradition-steeped national sport.

Two scandals — an alcohol-fuelled restaurant brawl that left a Mongolian wrestler with a fractured skull, and a sexual assault situation involving the sport’s highest-ranked referee — have rocked the sport in recent months. Those episodes followed a match-fixing investigation in 2011 and the death of a teenage wrestler in training in 2007 that have tainted sumo over the past decade.

Organizers are hoping to restore its battered reputation when the Spring Grand Sumo tournament starts on the weekend.

Takanoiwa, who fractured his skull in an altercation with former Grand Champion Harumafuji in a restaurant last October, is hoping to make a comeback at the Osaka event.

“I’m just focusing on doing my best,” the 28-year-old Takanoiwa told reporters last week during a training session for the tournament. “It will take a bit more time to be ready.”

A healthy Takanoiwa wouldn’t solve all sumo’s problems, but would be a big step in the road to recovery.

He was hurt after a group of Mongolian wrestlers had assembled at a restaurant during a regional tour.

Harumafuji was reported to have become aggravated when Takanoiwa repeatedly checked his mobile phone while the two were conversing.

In addition to Harumafuji, who was forced to retire last November in the wake of the incident, grand champion Hakuho also was present and had to defend his inability to intervene before the situation got out of control.

The altercation dominated news programs and headlines for weeks. Adding to the bad publicity, the sport’s top-ranked referee was forced to resign earlier this year over a sexual harassment scandal.

Shikimori Inosuke apologized to the Japan Sumo Association for allegedly kissing a teenage referee and touching him on the chest while intoxicated, during a regional tour of Okinawa in December.

Inosuke said he had no recollection of the incident, and the junior referee declined to file charges.

In the wake of the scandal, though, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko didn’t attend January’s New Year tournament for the first time in four years.

Weeks after that, Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi was caught driving without a license after a vehicle collision and was ordered to pay a $4,700 (U.S.) fine.

The recent incidents are just the latest scandals to rock the sumo world.

In 2011, the JSA decided to cancel the spring tournament after revelations that 14 wrestlers were involved with match-fixing.

In 2010, grand champion Asashoryu, also of Mongolia, announced his retirement following reports that he injured a man while intoxicated.

In the most troubling case in 2007, the 17-year-old wrestler Takashi Saito died when he was beaten over the head with a beer bottle at the direction of his trainer.

Saito’s stable master, Junichi Yamamoto, and three wrestlers subsequently were arrested and charged with manslaughter. In May 2009, Yamamoto was sentenced to six years in prison.

The incident brought substantial political pressure to the governance of the sport in Japan.

In response to the latest scandals this year, the Japan Sumo Association announced that a third-party committee has been convened and will question every member of the JSA. About 900 people, including active wrestlers and elders, will be included in the inquiry.

“Our goal is the preservation of sumo,” said committee chairman Keiichi Tadaki, a former prosecutor general.

Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists) & Sumo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?56343-Sumo)

GeneChing

03-15-2018, 11:14 AM

Halifax taekwondo grandmaster suspended over caning (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-taekwondo-grand-master-suspended-alleged-caning-1.4573113)
Neither the student nor the student's parents complained about the incident
By Anjuli Patil, CBC News Posted: Mar 12, 2018 7:08 PM AT Last Updated: Mar 13, 2018 4:59 PM AT

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Woo Yong Jung is head instructor and owner of Woo Yong's Taekwondo Academy. (CBC)

Anjuli Patil
Reporter
Anjuli Patil is a reporter and occasional video journalist with CBC Nova Scotia's digital team.

A Halifax taekwondo grandmaster has had his coaching credentials at local and national taekwondo events suspended after he struck a 17-year-old student with a bamboo cane in early January.

Woo Yong Jung, head instructor and owner of Woo Yong's Taekwondo Academy on Kempt Road, caned the student in front of numerous members of the club, but neither the student nor the student's parents complained. The Maritime Taekwondo Union (MTU) issued Jung's suspension.

"Master Jung has done a tremendous amount to advance the study of taekwondo in Canada. He is the only grandmaster in Atlantic Canada and has been teaching for 30 years. This isolated incident is, unfortunately, being blown way out of proportion," Jung's lawyer, Jason Gavras, told CBC News in an email.

2 investigations

The union said in a news release issued Monday the caning incident, as well as a second alleged incident are being investigated.

The initial incident was reported Jan. 15. The second incident is in relation to Jung's subsequent behaviour at the National Taekwondo Championships held in Ottawa the weekend of Feb. 15-18.

"It is not part of what taekwondo has as part of its principles, its tenets," said union president Douglas Large. "We do not, as masters and instructors, use corporal punishment."

The results of the investigations will be handed over to an independent discipline panel for review and possible additional sanctions, the union said in a news release. Sanctions range from dismissal of the complaint to permanent expulsion from the union.

No police charges

Gavras said Jung, the student who was disciplined and his family are "quite surprised that this matter has become a story."

"They consider it largely a non-event and closed long ago," Gavras said. "This entire matter is the result of a very botched process conducted by a small, informal group of people within the MTU and one anonymous complainant."

Halifax Regional Police investigated the incident, but did not lay any charges.

"The youth did not require any medical attention and did not suffer physical injuries," Const. Carol McIsaac told CBC News in an email.

Gavras said Jung believes this is a case of his competitors trying to damage his reputation because of his success in producing champions. Jung himself won a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Parental support for Jung

When Large was asked by CBC News if he was impartial in this incident, he said he's not involved in the investigation or any of the procedures and processes underway.

Meanwhile, the chairperson of the Woo Yong Parents Association said he supports Jung.

"We're rather surprised and rather bewildered by the whole situation," said chairperson Byron Kendall. "There was a decision that was made by a family, a decision on discipline and how to discipline a young man to try to correct some difficult behaviour and that decision involved Master Jung."

Kendal said he has "absolutely no concern" about the safety and security of his six- and nine-year-old children when they're in the care of Jung.

Large said he's been practising taekwondo for nearly 20 years and this is the first time he's heard of caning in the sport.

"It's not what I teach in my practice, it's not what anyone that I know outside of this incident would ever do," said Large.

Gavras said Jung's discipline was "entirely in keeping with his cultural tradition and training and the student, having studied in Korea, was fully aware of this and doesn't see it as a problem."

Back when I taught kids, I had a few parents pull me aside and tell me it was okay if I needed to beat their kids for discipline. I never did. Beat your own dang kids. That wasn't what you hired me for.

Thread: Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists)
Thread: Tae Kwon Do (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?42906-Tae-Kwon-Do)

wolfen

03-15-2018, 12:28 PM

Back when I taught kids, I had a few parents pull me aside and tell me it was okay if I needed to beat their kids for discipline. I never did. Beat your own dang kids. That wasn't what you hired me for.

Thread: Busted Martial Artists (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?48947-Busted-Martial-Artists)
Thread: Tae Kwon Do (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?42906-Tae-Kwon-Do)

There are no details about the "caning", it could have been anything. Sounds like just being whacked with a Shinai which is SOP in many parts of Asia.
In fact since there are apparently no victims, some nasty people may be taking advantage of current SJW progressive leftist politics or political correctness to smear a personal enemy.

"It is not part of what taekwondo has as part of its principles, its tenets," said union president Douglas Large. "We do not, as masters and instructors, use corporal punishment."

I rather doubt that statement to be true in Korea, certainly not taekwondo in North Korea lol.

Gavras said Jung believes this is a case of his competitors trying to damage his reputation because of his success in producing champions. Jung himself won a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
Yeah.

Gavras said Jung's discipline was "entirely in keeping with his cultural tradition and training and the student, having studied in Korea, was fully aware of this and doesn't see it as a problem."
Yeah.

No proof of wrong-doing, no charges, no victims, just suspended by people probably intimidated by SJWs.

Smeared not Busted

rett2

03-15-2018, 12:44 PM

Neither the student nor the student's parents complained about the incident

Over-reaction. This would be a non-story if not for some overzealous, helicopter parenting by proxy.

GeneChing

04-05-2018, 09:10 AM

Olympic taekwondo coach Jean Lopez banned for sexual misconduct with a minor (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2018/04/04/olympic-taekwondo-coach-jean-lopez-banned-sexual-misconduct-minor/485501002/)
Nancy Armour and Rachel Axon, USA TODAY Published 11:56 a.m. ET April 4, 2018 | Updated 9:04 p.m. ET April 4, 2018

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Jean Lopez is the coach for his brother, Steven Lopez, who is taekwondo’s biggest star and the most decorated athlete in that sport. USA TODAY Sports
(Photo: Eileen Blass, USA TODAY Sports)

Jean Lopez, the older brother and longtime coach of two-time Olympic taekwondo champion Steven Lopez, has been declared permanently ineligible after the U.S. Center for SafeSport found him guilty of sexual misconduct and sexual misconduct involving a minor.

The decision reached Tuesday brings resolution to an investigation that began with USA Taekwondo three years ago and was turned over to SafeSport when it opened in March 2017. Three women who spoke with USA TODAY Sports have described sexual misconduct by Jean Lopez dating back to 1997, and one of those women filed a complaint with USA Taekwondo in 2006.

“This matter concerns a decades long pattern of sexual misconduct by an older athlete/coach abusing his power to groom, manipulate and, ultimately, sexually abuse younger female athletes,” SafeSport said in its decision obtained by USA TODAY Sports.

“Given the number of incidents reported over a span of several years and by multiple reporting parties, most of whom have no reasonable motive to fabricate an allegation – much less multiple, distinct incidents – of misconduct, the totality of the circumstances clearly shows a recurrent pattern of behavior on the part of Jean."

More: Lopez brothers, Olympic taekwondo royalty, hit with sex abuse allegations

More: USA Taekwondo athlete allowed in Rio Olympics training gym after ban for sexual misconduct

SafeSport published Lopez’s name in its database Wednesday morning, noting the decision is subject to appeal and not yet final.

Jean Lopez could not be reached for comment Wednesday. George Weissfisch, who served as Lopez’s advisor through the process, did not respond to an email from USA TODAY Sports.

USA TODAY Sports reported the allegations against Jean Lopez in June, as well as separate allegations of sexual misconduct against Steven Lopez. In an interview with USA TODAY Sports last spring, Steven Lopez denied the allegations.

Steven Lopez is taekwondo’s biggest star and the most decorated athlete in that sport. He is a five-time Olympian with gold medals in 2000 and 2004 and a bronze in 2008, as well as five world titles.

USA Taekwondo turned over its investigation of Steven Lopez to SafeSport last year, and the status of his case is unclear. Mandy Meloon, who accused the two-time Olympic champion of rape and physical abuse, said SafeSport investigator Kathleen Smith told her last month that SafeSport was still trying to arrange an interview with him.

But Wednesday night, Steven Lopez's name was added to the SafeSport database of disciplinary records as having been placed under an "interim measure-restriction" for sexual misconduct. The decision date is listed as June 19, 2017, and SafeSport describes this category as someone whose eligibility "has been restricted pending final resolution of the matter."

It's not clear what the restriction is referring to; Lopez participated in last year's world championships, which began June 24, as well as this year's U.S. Open and national team trials.

Lopez, 39, qualified for his 24th national team at trials in February, and he told the Houston Chronicle that he intends to keep competing through the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. He did not immediately return a phone call from USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday night seeking comment.

Steven Lopez has been coached throughout his career by Jean, who also coached siblings Mark and Diana Lopez to medals in Beijing in 2008. Jean Lopez, 44, coached the U.S. team in four Olympics.

USA TODAY Sports reported in June that Jean and Steven Lopez were allowed to participate in the 2016 Rio Olympics even though both had been accused of sexual assault and USA Taekwondo had been investigating them for more than a year. USA Taekwondo never held hearings that would have brought a resolution to the cases, but the attorney who conducted the investigation was concerned enough that he alerted the FBI.

“I am relieved and excited that he will no longer be able to coach young athletes or manipulate girls in these kinds of settings,” said Heidi Gilbert, who accused Jean Lopez of sexually assaulting her in 2003 while they were at a tournament in Germany. “I am highly disappointed in the process. It seems like they handled the situation different for the Lopezes vs. other coaches.

“It just took way too long,” she added. “But I am relieved. And very excited that no girl is ever going to have to deal with him again.”

USA Taekwondo had no immediate response, citing its policy of not commenting on active cases. Jean Lopez has until Tuesday to contest the decision through an arbitrator. He has denied all of the allegations, both in interviews with SafeSport and last spring with USA TODAY Sports.

“I’ve never been inappropriate with anyone,” Jean Lopez told USA TODAY Sports.

The decision makes Lopez permanently ineligible for membership to USA Taekwondo, which would prohibit Jean Lopez from coaching Steven or any other athlete on the U.S. team.

Last month, USA Taekwondo announced a collaboration to share information on misconduct issues involving members with Amateur Athletic Union.

Lopez has spoken at seminars or worked at camps in other countries, including Argentina and Chile. SafeSport’s decision would not bar him from coaching in other countries. That would require a ban by World Taekwondo, and its rules require national federations to report misconduct complaints.

“The reach of it’s always going to be limited,” said Jon Little, an attorney who sued USA Taekwondo on several occasions and who now represents five women who said they were sexually assaulted by the Lopez brothers.

“He’s always going to be able to go to Argentina or do something. …They can’t totally stop him from coaching.”

Jean Lopez has been coaching at a gym in Las Vegas, which touts his Olympic credentials.

On its website, Legacy Taekwondo says it is the “only taekwondo training center in Las Vegas who can boast instructors that have won and coached Olympic, World and National gold medalist on behalf of the United States of America.”

The SafeSport decision comes more than a decade after Meloon first told USA Taekwondo in 2006 that Jean Lopez had sexually assaulted her at a tournament in 1997. She was 16 at the time.

While USA Taekwondo dismissed her claim at the time, SafeSport’s investigation found it to have merit.

“It’s not only myself personally, everything in the news, the #metoo,” Meloon said. “It wasn’t the right time. It was just so accepted. It was just the way things were, and now it’s just different.”

SafeSport’s investigation also found Jean Lopez had assaulted Gilbert and a third woman, with whom he had also engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with her starting when she was 17.

“This is probably one of the worst SafeSport cases I’ve ever seen,” Little said.

“Literally it went on for two decades. I guess if you’re asking me is there a difference between now and then, the answer is barely. I’m encouraged that the USOC took action against such a prominent person. However, look what it took. It took multiple newspaper stories over multiple years. It took multiple proceedings at the USOC and in other venues. It took police reports to various agencies. It took a lot for a long time for this to end. And the bottom line is that nothing should take this long.”

The Olympic movement is under heavy criticism for its handling of sexual abuse cases following revelations that longtime USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar abused hundreds of women, including Olympic champions Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Jordyn Wieber and Gabby Douglas. USA Taekwondo, USA Swimming, US Speedskating and USA Judo also have been criticized for how they’ve handled high-profile or wide-spread allegations of abuse.

In January, the bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, USA Taekwondo, USA Swimming and Michigan State to provide information on how they have handled complaints. It has since expanded its inquiry to include all national governing bodies and is awaiting responses.

The USOC has long maintained it does not have the authority or resources to investigate abuse complaints. Instead, it created the U.S. Center for SafeSport, which is charged with adjudicating all sexual abuse complaints in the Olympic movement.

When SafeSport opened in March 2017, national governing bodies were told to turn over any pending sexual abuse cases. The complaints against Jean Lopez and his brother were given to the center immediately.

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