McKinsey &amp; Company is under federal criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for their alleged past work advising some of the largest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/opioid-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opioid manufacturers</a> on how to maximize sales.
The Wall Street Journal broke the story Wednesday evening on the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mckinsey-faces-criminal-probe-over-opioid-related-consulting-a3f816d4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> in which prosecutors are also seeking to determine if the company or its employees obstructed justice throughout the course of the multi-year investigation.
Investigators are specifically looking at consulting advice the firm gave to Purdue, Endo International, and Mallinckrodt that government and private plaintiffs have alleged exacerbated the opioid addiction epidemic, the report said. The three companies have filed for bankruptcy in response to lawsuits alleging they marketed the drug in a deceptive way that caused addiction.
The investigation is being run through two U.S. attorney’s offices, the Western District of Virginia and the District of Massachusetts, the report said. A federal grand jury has been impaneled in Virginia.
The company has already paid approximately $1 billion in settlements with all 50 U.S. states, five U.S. territories, Washington, D.C., Native American tribes, public school districts, insurance companies and municipal governments, the report said. They have never admitted any wrongdoing.
McKinsey consultants allegedly told Purdue that it could &#8220;turbocharge&#8221; its sales of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin by making more sales calls to healthcare providers that it knew wrote significantly larger volumes of prescriptions of the drug and spend less time speaking with providers who seldom prescribed it.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/business/mckinsey-criminal-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that senior McKinsey consultants were growing nervous in 2018 that they would be liable for their work helping opioid manufacturers boost their sales.
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The report said that during the summer of 2018, Martin Elling, a leader in the firm’s pharmaceutical practice, allegedly emailed senior McKinsey partner Arnab Ghatak and asked whether they should destroy documents and records related to their opioid work.
&#8220;Thanks for the heads up,&#8221; Ghatak responded. &#8220;Will do.&#8221;
The Times said both men were fired after the newspaper reported on the existence of the emails in 2020.

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The man prosecuting Richard Allen for the murders of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana, back in 2017 is now investigating a former police chief who investigated alternate suspects for the crime.
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland filed a motion on Tuesday indicating he believes that former Rushville Police Chief Todd Click’s personnel files will present credibility questions and discredit his theory of the murders of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German, the Journal &amp; Courier <a href="https://www.jconline.com/story/news/crime/2024/04/23/delphi-prosecutor-targets-ex-rushville-chief-todd-glick-investigation-odinist-richard-allen/73424767007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Click’s investigation forms the basis of Allen’s defense, pointing to alternate suspects the defense team believes actually committed the crime.
McLeland is looking to obtain Click’s employee records, implying they will show Click has a history of credibility issues. His motion includes a subpoena for Rushville’s current police chief to hand over the records, but so far, Special Judge Fran Gull has not signed the subpoena.
Click’s investigation focused on three individuals who may have been involved in the teens’ murders, including one man who allegedly told his sister that he was at the crime scene and described details not released to the public.
Click’s investigation was summarized in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorneys-for-delphi-murder-suspect-claim-young-teens-were-killed-by-white-nationalist-pagan-group-in-ritual-sacrifice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">136-page memorandum</a> filed by Allen’s attorneys in September, which argues the three men were Odinists, a pagan Norse religion taken over by white nationalists.
While such a claim sounds outrageous, Click was so concerned about the information used to arrest Allen that he obtained an attorney to help him draft a letter to McLeland. This letter was only shared with defense attorneys after it became clear they would most likely talk to Click – more than four months after the letter was sent to the prosecutor.
In addition to not turning over the letter, law enforcement also allegedly withheld an 85-page compilation of reports from Click and the other officers who investigated the white supremacist angle and several videotaped statements that all supported Allen’s innocence.
Through Click’s investigation, names of alternate suspects were given to Delphi law enforcement no later than February 2018, the attorneys wrote in September.
The defense attorneys pointed to members of the cult as alleged suspects, whom The Daily Wire will not be naming since they have not been charged with any crimes. One of these named individuals’ social media posts contained images that mimicked the runes found at the crime scene, even though such images have never been released to the public, according to the defense. The individual allegedly also posted numerous “easter eggs” on social media that pointed to his involvement in the crime, including a recreation of the crime scene involving two women posing as dead with sticks over their bodies, just like the actual crime scene. This same individual also seemingly taunted police on social media, the defense claims.
One further tie to the victims is that this man’s son was allegedly “dating” the young victim, Abby.
Police cleared this individual as a suspect within 30 days of the murders, even with this evidence, the defense argues.
This individual’s ex-wife also allegedly told police that he and another man in the Odinists had a falling out in February 2017 after conducting a ritual in the woods, near a river. The main alternate suspect lived very near to where the girls’ bodies were found, according to the defense’s filing. This ex-wife also allegedly told police that her ex-husband and “his people” killed the girls because one of their mothers was “mixing” with people who weren’t of the same race.
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This individual was also tied to others who allegedly confessed to the crime. One of these individuals allegedly told his sister that he was involved in the crime and included details of the crime scene that were never released to the public. According to the court documents, this man was also questioned but denied involvement. According to a state trooper who dropped him off at his home, this individual allegedly returned to the trooper’s vehicle and asked if he would still be in trouble if his spit was found on one of the victims, saying he could explain it away. This individual also told another one of his sisters that he spit on one of the victims, according to the defense.
This individual and a fourth man provided shaky alibis to police for their whereabouts at the time of the murder, with contradictory stories, Allen’s defense attorneys contend.

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Delphi Prosecutor Now Investigating Former Police Chief Who Investigated Alternate Suspects In Murder Of Teen Girls

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The ex-Washington police officer who went on the lam Monday after allegedly killing his ex-wife and teenage girlfriend has shot himself while fleeing from law enforcement.
Elias Huizar, 40, was discovered near Eugene, Oregon, after the Oregon State Patrol located his vehicle driving southbound on I-5, the West Richland Police Department <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747956870783789&amp;set=a.213965484182933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Facebook. Police pursued the vehicle, and Huizar got into a minor crash, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elias-huizar-manhunt-two-women-dead-child-abduction-washington-state-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Huizar and police exchanged gunfire before he was able to drive away again, with no one hurt. Huizar then crashed into another vehicle several miles away and was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Oregon State Police Cpt. Kyle Kennedy announced Tuesday night, according to CBS.
After allegedly killing his ex-wife and teenage girlfriend, Huizar abducted his 1-year-old son, Roman, who was taken into custody by state troopers and is reportedly safe.
The murders and abduction occurred on the day that Huizar was due in court to face allegations that he raped a 16-year-old girl, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/armed-ex-cop-accused-of-killing-his-ex-wife-girlfriend-is-on-the-run-after-being-due-in-court-for-rape/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Huizar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-cop-on-the-run-after-allegedly-killing-ex-wife-girlfriend-and-abducting-son-on-day-he-faced-child-rape-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly</a> shot his ex-wife Amber Rodriquez at the William Wiley Elementary School, where she is listed as a paraeducator, on Monday afternoon. Last Friday, Rodriguez filed documents for a change in custody for the two sons she shares with Huizar, who are 5 and 9 years old, the Herald reported. It is unclear where those kids are at this time. The couple divorced in 2020.
The school went into lockdown. A resident who lives near the school told the Herald that he heard everything from his backyard, including 4-5 gunshots.
“I thought it was someone hitting something with a hammer. It didn’t sound like a gun. Then a woman came flying out here before the cops even got here and started screaming that someone was shot…” the resident told the outlet.
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The shooting occurred as school was being let out and students were getting onto buses or picked up by their parents. The Herald reported that parents abandoned their cars in the parking lot to flee as police officers began searching for Huizar.
Hours after the shooting, police searched Huizar’s home and found the body of another person, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747439727502170&amp;set=a.213965484182933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the West Richland Police Department. While the police declined to identify the second victim except to say they were an associate of Huizar, the Amber Alert released by police suggests that the second victim is Huizar’s teenage girlfriend.
Huizar was also being investigated for allegedly raping a teenage friend of his girlfriend. Police were also investigating the legality of his relationship with his girlfriend. The age of consent in Washington is 16, and Huizar’s girlfriend is alleged to have been 16.
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Ex-Cop Suspected Of Killing Ex-Wife, Girlfriend, And Abducting Son Shoots Himself After Police Chase

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A man in France was arrested this week for allegedly kidnapping and raping a Jewish French woman to &#8220;avenge Palestine,&#8221; according to local media.
The man, who has not yet been identified, was arrested on Tuesday. It&#8217;s not clear when the alleged crimes happened but the two reportedly met last year on an online dating app.
The French publication Le Parisien said that police arrested the 32-year-old suspect on charges of religiously-motivated death threats and use of narcotics, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798362">according</a> to The Jerusalem Post.
Reports said that prosecutors believe that a kidnapping charge is likely forthcoming and that they are still investigating the rape allegations.
The suspect allegedly texted the woman&#8217;s mother: &#8220;Good luck, you will never find your daughter again, you will never see her again, I will prostitute your daughter.&#8221;
He allegedly said in a text message that he wanted to &#8220;avenge Palestine,&#8221; Le Parisien reported.
Police used forensic investigators to geolocate the approximate location of the woman&#8217;s phone and then used more advanced techniques to find the exact location.
The suspect reportedly acknowledged the death threats but claimed that they were just &#8220;provocations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/gennevilliers-un-homme-arrete-apres-avoir-ete-soupconne-de-sequestrer-une-jeune-femme_AN-202404230754.html">according</a> to French outlet BFMTV. He was released from jail with his trial set to start in several weeks. He was barred from having further contact with the woman, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13344381/jewish-woman-kidnapped-raped-france-avenge-palestine.html">reported</a>.
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France has seen an explosion in anti-Semitism in the months following Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack against Israel. It has the largest Islamic population in Europe, many of whom are migrants.
In November, a Jewish woman was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-woman-stabbed-at-her-home-in-france-swastika-painted-on-her-door">rushed</a> to the hospital in the French city of Lyon after a man came to her home, stabbed her, and painted a swastika on her door.
In December, several Muslims were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-suspected-islamic-terrorists-arrested-in-france-after-planning-attack-on-christmas-market-report">arrested</a> in Meurthe-et-Moselle for allegedly planning terrorist attacks on a Christmas market.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dirty-jew-jewish-man-beaten-in-anti-semitic-attack-outside-paris-synagogue">‘Dirty Jew’: Jewish Man Beaten In ‘Anti-Semitic Attack’ Outside Paris Synagogue</a>

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Man Allegedly Kidnapped, Raped, Threatened To Kill Jewish Woman To ‘Avenge Palestine’: Reports

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota</a> Democratic state senator was arrested on Monday over an alleged burglary potentially compromising Democrat control of the state Senate. 
Police <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/22/minnesota-senator-burglary-arrest-nicole-mitchell/73419507007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 49-year-old Sen. Nicole Mitchell on burglary charges after they were called to a home after a report of “active burglary,” according to the Detroit Lakes Police Department. Police arrested Mitchell at the home in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, at around 4:45 a.m. and she was later charged with first-degree burglary. 
Mitchell, first elected to office in 2022, was held in Becker County Jail after the arrest. The Democrat was released on her own recognizance on Tuesday after a court appearance before District Judge Gretchen Thilmony, <a href="https://www.dl-online.com/news/local/minnesota-state-sen-nicole-mitchell-makes-first-appearance-on-burglary-charge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Detroit Lakes Tribune. 
The home Mitchell was arrested in belongs to her stepmother, who now has a restraining order against her. 
The criminal complaint against Mitchell alleges that she was wearing all black and hiding in the basement of her stepmother&#8217;s home when police officers arrested her. &#8220;I was just trying to get a couple of my dad&#8217;s things because you wouldn&#8217;t talk to me anymore,&#8221; Mitchell said to her stepmother, according to the complaint, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-state-senator-nicole-mitchell-charges-burglary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
The items she is accused of attempting to nab include pictures, a flannel shirt, and some ashes. &#8220;Clearly I&#8217;m not good at this,&#8221; Mitchell told police, according to the complaint. &#8220;I know I did something bad.&#8221;
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Democrats in Minnesota have just a one seat majority in the state Senate. A spokesman for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Senate caucus told CBS it was &#8220;aware of the situation&#8221; involving Mitchell. 
Responding to news of the arrest, Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy said that the allegations against Mitchell were “upsetting.”
“The behavior alleged is far outside the character she has established in the Senate and in her distinguished career in the military,” she said. &#8220;We believe in due process, and Senator Mitchell has the right to a full defense of her case in court.”
Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson called on Mitchell to resign. “The public expects Legislators to meet a high standard of conduct,” he said. “As information comes out, we expect the consequences to meet the actions, both in the court of law, and in her role at the legislature.”

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The city of Nashville, Tennessee, was ordered to turn over documents to a judge about the police’s investigation into the March 2023 shooting at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-covenant-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian school</a> by a transgender-identifying shooter, according to court filings obtained by The Daily Wire.
The order is part of the ongoing battle over what writings will be released from the woman who murdered six people, including three children, at the Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, 2023. A coalition of groups, including the National Police Association, sued last year after the Metro Nashville Police Department refused to release the killer’s writings and other investigative documents.
Judge I’Ashea L. Myles ordered the police department on Monday to give her a detailed explanation of what is contained in its “investigative file” into the shooting at the Covenant School and to give her documents they believe can be released despite the ongoing investigation into the shooting. Both requests are ordered to be responded to within 10 days.
In her order, the judge requested “an updated set of redacted documents, which counsel for Metro contends may be released, without compromising any active investigation.” Additionally, Myles asked for the police department to produce an affidavit estimating when it would be able to produce the redacted files upon completion of the investigation.
The police department has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-say-ongoing-investigation-prevents-release-of-covenant-shooters-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it needs to wrap up its investigation before it can release most of its documents on its investigation into the shooting.
Myles’ orders for the police department follow a two-day show-cause hearing last week over whether to release the shooter’s writings or not. Several different parties sued the city of Nashville last year to gain access to the shooter’s writings, including the Tennessee Firearms Association, The Tennessean, The Tennessee Star, Republican state legislator Todd Gardenhire, and the National Police Association.
Intervening in the case are the Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, and a group of parents who do not want the documents released. The city now maintains that it will release most of the writings once it concludes its investigation with specific redactions related to school security.
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Myles&#8217; order also told each of the parties to produce legal briefs on whether there was a copyright exemption for public documents. The shooter’s parents transferred copyright to her writings to Covenant parents, and representation for the parents has attempted to block the release of any of the shooter’s writings through copyright claims.
Some of the parents have argued that releasing the killer’s writings would allow her &#8220;to speak from the grave” and give her notoriety. On the other side, the groups have argued that the release of the writings will allow the public to understand motivations and give insight into stopping similar shootings.
Russ Nobile, a lawyer for Judicial Watch working with the Tennessee Firearms Association, argued last week that his clients wanted the documents because it was important to know what led to the shooting, especially because of the local and national implications of the case.
The parties have until April 29 to respond to how copyright claims interact with the Tennessee Public Records Act and Nashville has until May 2 to respond to Myles’ other requests.
In a different suit, a federal judge is <a href="https://tennesseestar.com/justice/fbi-delivers-covenant-killer-writings-to-federal-judge-for-in-camera-review/khousler/2024/04/22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently reviewing</a> the FBI&#8217;s documents on its investigation into the Covenant shooting after The Tennessee Star sued the agency for more details. U.S. District Court Judge Aleta A. Trauger ordered the documents be released for her review due part because of the “significant public interest&#8221; around the investigation.

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An ex-police officer in Washington is on the run after he allegedly killed his ex-wife and teenage girlfriend before abducting his 1-year-old son.
The murders and abduction occurred on the day that 40-year-old Elias Huizar was due in court to face allegations that he raped a 16-year-old girl, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/armed-ex-cop-accused-of-killing-his-ex-wife-girlfriend-is-on-the-run-after-being-due-in-court-for-rape/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. An Amber alert has been issued for Huizar’s 1-year-old son, Roman.
The alert, <a href="https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article287920010.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> by the Tri-City Herald, suggests that Huizar may be fleeing to Mexico and states that Huizar is suspected of killing his ex-wife and girlfriend.
Huizar is accused of shooting his ex-wife Amber Rodriquez at the William Wiley Elementary School, where she is listed as a paraeducator, on Monday afternoon. Last Friday, Rodriguez filed documents for a change in custody for the two sons she shares with Huizar, who are 5 and 9 years old, the Herald reported. It is unclear where those kids are at this time. The couple divorced in 2020.
The school went into lockdown. A resident who lives near the school told the Herald that he heard everything from his backyard, including 4-5 gunshots.
“I thought it was someone hitting something with a hammer. It didn’t sound like a gun. Then a woman came flying out here before the cops even got here and started screaming that someone was shot…” the resident told the outlet.
The shooting occurred as school was being let out and students were getting onto buses or picked up by their parents. The Herald reported that parents abandoned their cars in the parking lot to flee as police officers began searching for Huizar.
School was canceled for Tuesday and support and resources are being offered to anyone impacted by the tragedy.
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Hours after the shooting, police searched Huizar’s home and found the body of another person, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747439727502170&amp;set=a.213965484182933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the West Richland Police Department. While the police declined to identify the second victim except to say they were an associate of Huizar, the Amber Alert released by police suggests that the second victim is Huizar&#8217;s teenage girlfriend.
Huizar was also being investigated for allegedly raping a teenage friend of his girlfriend. Police were also investigating the legality of his relationship with his girlfriend. The age of consent in Washington is 16, and Huizar&#8217;s girlfriend is alleged to have been 16.
The WRPD said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747710864141723&amp;set=a.213965484182933">a Facebook post</a> that Huizar is likely “armed and dangerous” and suggested he is “likely to commit more crimes.” His last known vehicle was a 2009 Toyota Corolla with license plate CBZ4745.
On Tuesday, Portland police <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=747735287472614&amp;set=a.213965484182933">informed</a> the WRPD that Huizar was seen in the city driving a black sedan, but this has not been confirmed.

Ex-Cop On The Run After Allegedly Killing Ex-Wife, Girlfriend, And Abducting Son On Day He Faced Child Rape Charges

Ex-Cop On Run After Allegedly Killing Ex-Wife, Girlfriend, And Abducting Son On Day He Faced Child Rape Charges

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Country star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/morgan-wallen">Morgan Wallen</a> finally addressed being arrested for reckless endangerment after throwing a chair off the roof of a bar in downtown Nashville.
In a post on <a href="https://twitter.com/MorganWallen/status/1781473070936478003">X</a>, the 30-year-old singer talked about his latest trouble and made it clear he wasn’t “proud” of what happened outside Chiefs Bar on April 7.
“I didn’t feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks,” Wallen wrote. “I’ve touched base with Nashville law enforcement, my family, and the good people at Chief’s. I’m not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility.”
“I have the utmost respect for the officers working every day to keep us all safe,” he added. “Regarding my tour, there will be no change.”
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I didn&#8217;t feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks. I’ve touched base with Nashville law enforcement, my family, and the good people at Chief’s. I&#8217;m not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility.
— morgan wallen (@MorganWallen) <a href="https://twitter.com/MorganWallen/status/1781473070936478003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/morgan-wallen">Wallen</a> was recently charged with three counts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime">reckless endangerment</a> and disorderly conduct. He was booked at Metro Jail and later released, according to <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/country-singer-morgan-wallen-arrested-in-nashville-after-throwing-chair-from-bar-rooftop-docs/">WKRN</a>. 
Police officers were reportedly standing in front of Chiefs Bar on Broadway at around 10:53 p.m. Sunday night when the chair crashed to the ground in front of them. The officers went inside to investigate, eventually determining that Wallen had thrown the chair, the outlet noted.
Wallen’s attorney, Worrick G. Robinson, issued a statement later confirming the incident.
“At 10:53 p.m. Sunday evening, Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct,” the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/morgan-wallen-nashville-arrest-1235868536/">statement </a>at the time read. “He is cooperating fully with authorities.”
Wallen is currently on his “One Night at a Time Tour 2024,” which kicked off at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on April 4.
After the success of the tour in 2023, Wallen extended his touring schedule to include multiple U.S. stops throughout 2024. “Thank y’all for an insanely fun and fulfilling 2023 tour,” Wallen <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/country/morgan-wallen-adds-2024-stadium-tour-dates-1235420868/">said</a> in a statement last September.
“It was impossible for me to hit every stadium that I wanted to in 2023, so we’re gonna keep this tour going in 2024,” he added. “See y’all out there!”
In 2021, the country singer made headlines after he was caught on <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/02/morgan-wallen-n-word-nashville-neighbors/">video</a> using the N-word after a drunken night. The music industry immediately slammed him and said it was removing his music from numerous platforms, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/siriusxm-pandora-cmt-iheartradio-pull-morgan-wallen-music-following-n-word-video-recorded-by-neighbor?_gl=1*zjhs9y*_ga*MTU4MTc0NjgwOS4xNjU2MzQ3MjY4*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY2MzY5MDk1MC42NTIuMS4xNjYzNjkwOTY2LjQ0LjAuMA..">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
The singer apologized and said he was both “embarrassed and sorry.”
“I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back,” Wallen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-morgan-wallen-posts-apology-video-talks-sobriety-following-n-word-video-deplatforming">shared at the time.</a> “There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.”
Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kick-this-stupid-motherfer-outta-here-country-star-morgan-wallen-stops-concert-after-seeing-fight-in-crowd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Kick This Stupid Motherf***er Outta Here&#8217;: Country Star Morgan Wallen Stops Concert After Seeing Fight In Crowd</a>

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A United States Congressman from Texas warned that a violent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/venezuela" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Venezuelan</a> gang is exploiting America’s open southern border to build its presence and consolidate its power within the United States.
Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX) warned that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua will become the most powerful criminal gang in the country after years of taking advantage of America’s border crisis.
&#8220;This gang in several years is going to be the dominant transnational criminal organization throughout the United States. There&#8217;s no doubt in my mind,&#8221; Rep. Gonzales <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-state-lawmaker-sounds-alarm-bloodthirsty-venezuelan-gang-entering-us">explained</a> in an interview with Fox News. &#8220;They&#8217;re very vicious. They have no rules. They gobble up territory almost like a cancer.”
The gang, which engages in kidnapping, sex trafficking, murder, and extortion, may have counted the killer of Laken Riley among its members. Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien charged with the murder of the young nursing student in Georgia, has a number of tattoos <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-charged-with-laken-rileys-murder-is-active-gang-member-report">associated</a> with the Venezuelan gang, including a five-pointed crown on his neck.
The gang is also tied to the <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/venezuelan-gang-florida-retired-cops-killing/">strangling</a> of a retired police officer in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, as well as the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/15/us-news/migrants-busted-in-brutal-beating-of-nypd-cops-in-times-square-are-members-of-bloodthirsty-tren-de-aragua-gang-feds/">beating</a> of a New York City Police Officer.
Gonzalez explained that the only way to solve the crisis is to empower Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hunt down and deport criminal illegal immigrants. &#8220;You have to have ICE have the ability to go around and actively hunt these criminal aliens that have committed crimes, hunt them down and deport them,&#8221; Gonzales explained. &#8220;That has to happen, and when it does happen, it can&#8217;t happen in a vacuum. People have to know what&#8217;s happening. And it can&#8217;t just happen in one part of the country. It has to happen throughout the country.&#8221;
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The reported growth of Tren de Aragua within the United States comes as the country has faced an unprecedented border crisis under the Biden administration. Over <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">10 million</a> people have crossed the border since President Joe Biden took office, with an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded</a> since Biden took office in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration. There have also been over one million illegal immigrant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-one-million-illegal-migrants-encountered-at-southern-border-in-first-six-months-of-fiscal-year-2024">encounters</a> on the southern border in just the first six months of fiscal year 2024.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a>-identifying teenager who was taken into custody and charged for alleged plans to commit a mass shooting at a Maryland high school kept a &#8220;manifesto&#8221; in which she praised the Nashville mass shooter, fantasized about pedophilia, and voiced concerns about being misgendered after her crime, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Wire.
The thwarted shooter, an 18-year-old woman from Rockville who identifies as a man, was arrested on Wednesday by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), the county said in a <a href="https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=45100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>, adding that the FBI notified the MCPD about a 129-page &#8220;manifesto&#8221; in which the teenager wrote about committing a school shooting, contemplated targeting an elementary school, and more.
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/moco-docs.pdf">court documents</a> obtained by The Daily Wire show disturbing examples from the &#8220;manifesto,&#8221; which the teenager claimed was fictional, but an MCPD officer said had mirrored actual events and was &#8220;based on reality with a plan of threats of mass violence.&#8221;
&#8220;I really want to be famous. Even infamous,&#8221; she wrote on one page. A second entry confesses to pedophilic thoughts, but says she chose not to act on them — &#8220;I sometimes think I&#8217;m a pedophile. I get turned on by little kids,&#8221; she wrote. In a third, the teenager mused about potential news stories about a shooting at a Rockville school.
The court documents show that the teenager did web search on various mass shootings, including on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-police-say-ongoing-investigation-prevents-release-of-covenant-shooters-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender-identifying shooter</a> who murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville in March of 2023.
The suspect appears to have been inspired by the Covenant School mass shooting. Media calling the now-dead Nashville shooter by birth name rather than preferred name made the arrested teenager want to change her name, the Maryland teenager wrote in the manifesto.
&#8220;Makes me want to change my name legally before I commit a shooting to make sure the news doesn&#8217;t misgender me,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;He was suicidal before the shooting. Just like me. He, too, wanted to kill little kids. A rush of adrenaline fills my body. He&#8217;s so relatable.&#8221;
As a result of the investigation, the MCPD&#8217;s Community Engagement Division coordinated with Montgomery County Public Schools to increase security at schools, particularly Wootton High School, police said.
The Maryland suspect was hospitalized in December 2022 after threatening to &#8220;shoot up a school,&#8221; and has not attended school in-person since then, the charging documents say. She spent time hospitalized for homicidal and suicidal ideations, but later returned home and attended school online, the documents show.
She was hospitalized again last month after she shared her manifesto with a fellow patient at a prior hospitalization, and that friend reported it to police. Hospital staff &#8220;felt they were required by law to break confidentiality to notify law enforcement and Wootton High School. The FBI was also notified,&#8221; the documents say, adding that she &#8220;has previously disclosed to psychiatric staff during his in-patient treatment that he had thoughts of a mass attack at his elementary school and high school.&#8221;
The police affidavit refers to the suspect with male pronouns.
A Wootton High School counselor told the FBI that she worked with the suspect from October 2022 through February 2023 and that the suspect &#8220;would express violent thoughts such as shooting up the school.&#8221; The suspect suggested it could occur at graduation.
Chat logs on Instagram, which police received as a result of a search warrant, showed messages that indicated a desire by the suspect to commit a shooting or bomb a school, the affidavit also shows.
The teenager is currently being held at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit where she awaits a bond hearing, the release from police noted, adding that a news conference is being planned for Friday. The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/standards-policies">our policy</a> against printing the names or photographs of mass shooters in our reports.
Police made clear that the suspected teen is a biological female who was going by male pronouns. The legal system is treating her as an Asian female, authorities said.
Online court records showed the suspect has an attorney. The Daily Wire reached out seeking comment. A bail/bond review is scheduled for Friday and a trial is slated for June 3.

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WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of extremely heinous criminal acts committed against an animal.
A teenage foreign national in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a> pled guilty this month to what one animal rights activist said was the &#8220;worst&#8221; case of animal cruelty she had ever seen in her 35 years of working to protect animals.
Bani J. Mezquititla, 19, pled guilty in Monmouth County Superior Court to two counts of animal cruelty, including Animal Cruelty by Tormenting, Torturing, or Unnecessarily or Cruelly Abusing a Living Animal Resulting in its Death, and Animal Cruelty by Using or Causing or Procuring the Use of an Animal or Creature in Any Kind of Sexual Manner, both third-degree crimes, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told The Daily Wire that the agency is involved in &#8220;investigating the case&#8221; to determine next steps regarding potential action from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division.
The Asbury Park Press <a href="https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/04/10/bani-mezquititla-facing-prison-raping-and-killing-pet-cat/73265476007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Superior Court Judge Chad N. Cagan told Mezquititla that he faces deportation because of the criminal conviction.
Mezquititla kept his back to the courtroom gallery while admitting that he began raping his female cat from December 2022 until February 2023, the report said.
The Asbury Park Police Department launched its criminal investigation after Mezquititla&#8217;s roommate turned him in after Mezquititla showed her images of the cat being tortured and told her that he threw the cat out the window.
Mezquititla confessed to investigators that he pleasured himself in front of the cat before escalating the abuse to raping the cat with sharp objects and later raping using his genitals, according to a <a href="https://patch.com/new-jersey/asbury-park/asbury-park-man-admits-raping-torturing-killing-pet-cat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Asbury Park Patch. He also ejaculated inside the cat, the report said.
The animal was seriously injured, including &#8220;both vaginally and rectally,&#8221; from the raping, the report said.
When he was first arrested, law enforcement asked him if he had ever had sexual contact with the animal, to which he allegedly laughed and said: &#8220;No, I&#8217;m not a psycho.&#8221;
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Law enforcement said that he repeatedly tortured the animal by creating a pulley device that he used to strangle the cat.
&#8220;He restrained her during the torture by binding her paws behind her back with miniature handcuffs,&#8221; the Asbury Park Press report said. &#8220;He also cut off her tongue and part of her jaw while she was still alive and took photographs and video of some of the torture.&#8221;
The videos showed the animal desperately gasping for air, shaking, and twitching.
A prosecutor on the case said, &#8220;You can see the cat struggling for its life and in the same picture you can see him smirking.&#8221;
Janine Motta, director of the Animal Protection League of New Jersey, said that this was &#8220;the worst [case] I&#8217;ve seen.&#8221;
Mezquititla was sentenced to the maximum of five years in prison for each charge, but as part of the plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend that the sentences are served concurrently, meaning that he would only serve a maximum of five years instead of 10.
He is also permanently banned from owning any animals.

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Defense attorneys for the 29-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 say cellphone evidence places the suspect away from the area where the murders took place.
The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, plans to use cellphone tower data to show that he was out driving on the night the students were killed, but never went near their off-campus home, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/kohbergers-alibi-disputes-location-night-idaho-student-killings/story?id=109369315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;[The suspect] was out driving in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, as he often did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars. He drove throughout the area south of Pullman, Washington, west of Moscow, Idaho,&#8221; Anne Taylor, the suspect’s lead attorney, wrote in a new court filing.
To back this up, the defense plans to call an expert witness &#8220;to show that [the suspect’s] mobile device was south of Pullman, Washington and west of Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022; that [the suspect’s] mobile device did not travel east on the Moscow-Pullman Highway in the early morning hours of November 13th,&#8221; according to the court filing.
For this reason, the defense claims, the suspect’s car could not be the one seen on video surveillance driving on the Moscow-Pullman highway on the night of the murders.
The suspect has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the killings of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, in the college town of Moscow, Idaho.
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Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. Video showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.
The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. At around 5:25 a.m., this vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
Police also reviewed cell phone data to show the suspect’s phone did not ping any cellular towers near the crime scene during the relevant timeframe, but an expanded examination of cell phone data showed the phone stopped reporting data to the network at around 2:47 a.m. At that time, the white Elantra was leaving Pullman and heading toward Moscow. The phone next pinged at 4:48 a.m. in an area south of Moscow, heading back to Pullman. Cell records also showed that the suspect left his home in Pullman around 9:00 a.m. on November 13 and traveled back to Moscow.
Cell records dating back to June 2022 showed the suspect’s phone was in the crime scene area on at least 12 occasions before the murders – all but one in the late evening or early morning hours.

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