[FoxNews] Alligator taken to Dallas Zoo with help from US Fish and Wildlife Service
A multi-agency operation in Dallas resulted in the arrest of eight alleged gang members in possession of guns, drugs, money and a reptilian accomplice.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) led the investigation resulting in the execution of "Operation Blue Laces" in South Dallas on Monday.
Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad Meacham said the operation resulted in the arrest of eight members of the 42 Oakland Crips street gang.
During the operation, agents reportedly seized 14 firearms, over a kilogram of methamphetamine pills, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, alprazolam, marijuana, hash and over $47,000 in cash. Investigators also seized six vehicles, multiple pieces of Crips-themed jewelry and a caiman alligator.
Suppose a cylindrical gator.
It ain't quite the perfect predator,
But stick to dry ground
Should you see one around,
And be glad you're not near the Equator.
Still can't bite for shit but they rolls like crazy.
[ShabelleMedia] In a collaborative mission involving the Somali National Army and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), a strategic airstrike operation was successfully executed in the vicinity of Ceel Baraf, situated in the Middle Shabelle region of Hirshabelle State.
Preliminary evaluations of the operation reveal significant outcomes, including the destruction of several vehicles transporting Al-Shabaab militants and the seizure of explosives intended for future attacks.
Importantly, there have been no reported civilian casualties associated with this operation.
[Breitbart] Mexican drug cartels are reportedly in fear and going into hiding as Mexican law enforcement officials have ramped up arrests and drug busts in response to the Trump administration threatening to hit the country with tariffs.
Several cartel members told the New York Times they had either “gone into hiding” or were in the process of “trying to figure out how to protect” their families “in case the American military” launched strikes in Mexico.
One “high-ranking member” in the Sinaloa Cartel told the outlet that “you can’t be calm” or sleep “because you don’t know when they’ll catch you,” and other cartel members explained that they were faced with “selling off property and firing unessential personnel.”
The New York Times reported that in response to President Donald Trump threatening to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada until the mass inflows of illegal aliens and fentanyl across the borders into the United States were stopped, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sent her government “on the offensive” and has “dispatched 10,00 national guard troops to the border”:
President Trump began floating the possibility of tariffs soon after his election in November, and soon after taking office announced 25 percent levies on Mexican goods if the country didn’t act on border security and drug trafficking. The president gave Mexico a month to deliver results, threatening to enact the tariffs on March 4 if he wasn’t satisfied.
Facing economic chaos, the Mexican government went on the offensive. President Claudia Sheinbaum dispatched 10,000 national guard troops to the border and hundreds more soldiers to Sinaloa state, a major hub of fentanyl trafficking where a cartel war has caused turmoil for months.
Breitbart News’s John Carney reported in November 2024 that Trump had threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on all goods coming into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada until they reigned in the illegal aliens and drugs such as fentanyl flowing across the border.
The Mexican Attorney General’s Office recently confirmed that 29 criminals, including as “a top drug boss behind the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena,” who were wanted by the Department of Justice, would be extradited to the U.S.
“Trump established a deadline, and we are seeing the results of everything we could have seen in years being done in a month,” Jaime López, a security analyst in Mexico City told the outlet. “The government is sending a message that when it really wants to, it can exert that kind of pressure.”
In a recent post on Truth Social, Trump stated that “drugs are still pouring” into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico, adding that “until it stops, or is seriously limited, the proposed TARIFFS scheduled to go into effected on MARCH FOURTH will, indeed, go into effect, as scheduled.”
While the threat of tariffs from Trump was credited as being behind the increase in the crackdown on drug cartels in Mexico, the outlet reported that Sheinbaum “had showed her willingness to take on the cartels” after taking office in October 2024.
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Yeah. Otherwise, it seems...odd. If they can do this when it's a good idea, then it would seem they could always have done it if they'd gotten the right phone call from the president.
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[KavkazUzel] The court has arrested in absentia three residents of Stavropol, whom investigators believe are involved with the Islamic State* militants in Syria.
The Neftekumsk District Court has arrested in absentia three residents of Stavropol who, according to the investigation, went to Syria to help militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization, which is banned in Russia, Kommersant reports today.
All three women are residents of the Neftekumsk municipal district, they are charged under Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of a terrorist organization). According to the investigation, they flew from Russia to Turkey and Egypt at different times to cross the border of Syria and join the militants of a terrorist organization, according to a publication on the court's website.
Two of the three women arrived in the Syrian city of Raqqa and took part in the activities of the terrorist organization there, providing medical assistance to wounded militants. They also sewed clothes and bought food and essential goods for the militants, investigators believe.
The third woman, according to investigators, conducted talks promoting the Islamic State* and also taught Arabic to the wives and children of militants “to support the activities of the terrorist organization.”
"All three women are hiding from preliminary investigation bodies outside the territory of the Russian Federation, and therefore have been placed on the international wanted list," the court's press service reported.
The court arrested each of the accused in absentia for two months; the term of their arrest will be counted from the moment they cross the Russian border in the event of extradition or from the moment they are detained on Russian territory, the publication notes.
Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for 10 to 20 years of imprisonment.
[TheBlaze] The socialist managers invited the refugees as a sign of support and solidarity in January.
The socialist managers of a theater in Gay Paree, La Belle France, are being forced to abandon it after welcoming in refugees who have refused to leave and are allegedly committing acts of violence involving sex and drugs.
The managers of the historic Gaîté Lyrique theater said that the crisis had grown to such levels that they would have to shut down and stop sending "support providers" to the theater over "untenable promiscuity."
The occupation grew from 200 to over 400 people, while there were only four toilets and no showers.
The theater made headlines when managers invited the refugees in to a free conference entitled "Reinventing the Reception of Refugees in La Belle France" at the theater, but when the conference ended, the refugees decided to stay at the theater. The problem was exacerbated by homeless people who also were inhabiting the 19th-century building.
Management said in January that the building was not "designed or equipped for accommodation on such a scale" but that they would "maintain its activity to allow the venue to remain open to its various audiences." Performances were canceled, and the building was closed to the public while services were continued for the migrants colonists.
A La Belle France 24 report said that the unsanitary conditions were worsening as the occupation grew from 200 to over 400 people, while there were only four toilets and no showers.
On Thursday a statement from management said they were pulling out.
"Without intervention by the authorities by Friday, the Gaîté Lyrique company and its teams will be forced to leave the building," the statement read, according to the Daily Mail.
The migrants colonists have claimed to be unaccompanied minors, but some have accused authorities of racism when the authorities tried to verify their ages.
The management said the "increasingly severe and frequent violence" was leaving them no choice but to pull out their staff for their own safety.
"La Gaîté Lyrique and its entire staff will be willing and able to resume management, upkeep, and operation of the building as soon as the competent authorities provide shelter to the occupants and meet the security, safety, and hygiene conditions required for employees and residents to return," they added.
Protests have erupted outside the theater in support of the refugees.
The socialist-left city council of Gay Paree, which owns the building, says it is unable to find accommodation for the migrants colonists and called for the French government to come to its aid.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says a drone strike targeted a number of suspects who were operating near troops in the northern Gaza Strip and planting an explosive device nearby.
“The IDF will continue to act to eliminate any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF forces,” the military says.
Earlier today, Palestinian media reported several dead and injured in an Israeli drone strike in the Beit Hanoun area.
Israeli forces are still deployed to a buffer zone along the Gaza border amid the ceasefire, and the IDF has repeatedly warned Palestinians against approaching the area.
[GEO.TV] The ministry of health in Hamas-run Gaza said four people were killed and six others wounded in Israeli attacks Sunday after the first phase of a fragile truce in the territory drew to a close.
"Since this morning, four dead and six wounded" have been brought to "hospitals in the Gaza Strip following Israeli attacks in various parts of the territory", the ministry said in a statement.
[IsraelTimes] A Beersheba resident accused of transferring information about Israel’s nuclear program to Iranian agents is indicted by the Southern District Attorney’s office.
Police and Shin Bet agents conducted a months-long investigation into the suspect, Doron Bokovza, who allegedly initiated contact with Iranian agents and offered to sell them information.
The suspect feigned having access to Israel’s nuclear research center in the Negev, but in fact provided his handlers with public information about the facility, the agencies say in a joint statement.
The problem with involving amateurs is that they don’t know what they’re doing… or that they do too well. On the other hand, what we do here involves public information as well, though none of us would ever spy for the enemy.
Police add that Bokovza carried out several tasks for the agents including “photographing facilities and transferring information.”
Bokovza was indicted in the Beersheba District Court on charges of contacting a foreign agent and passing information to the enemy.
Southern Israel’s Dimona nuclear research facility, officially called the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, is the home of Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons program, according to foreign reports.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Still continuing this story from yesterday, I guess.
Clashes erupt in Syria's Damascus countryside, between security forces and armed groups, leaving one dead and several injured. Tensions remain high following the abduction of a security officer. #Syria#Damascus#Securityhttps://t.co/hfXRN8BrPW
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 1, 2025
A #Druze leader says recent clashes in Jaramana, south of #Syria's capital #Damascus, were not with the General Security forces but rather erupted due to a personal dispute. https://t.co/XIz09i8pcK
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 2, 2025
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
