[Breitbart] A Venezuelan migrant and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member has been arrested and charged with the brutal, execution-style murder of a popular migrant who ran an unlicensed barber shop in the neighborhood.
Jose Coronado-Meza, 25, was arrested and charged with the shooting death of 31-year-old Gregori Arias in the city’s South Shore neighborhood, which occurred on June 22, CWBChicago reported.
After Coronado-Meza’s appearance in court, Judge Shauna Boliker ordered him to be held in jail pending trial due to the “brazen and cold-blooded” nature of the act.
Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Pekara said in court that a police investigation alleges Coronado-Meza and two accomplices walked up to the victim and three of his friends at an apartment complex on that fatal June evening.
Coronado-Meza and his crew reportedly tried to drag Arias out of the apartment, but he resisted and demanded to be left alone. Police say that one of Coronado-Meza’s crew then shot Arias in the stomach. And as the victim was lying on the floor pleading for them to call an ambulance, Coronado-Meza allegedly placed his gun to Arias’s head and executed him.
After everyone left the apartment, Arias’s body disappeared.
Police say that Coronado-Meza or members of his group tried to clean up the apartment, but police used forensic tools to find the victim’s blood on the room’s floor tiles and matched the DNA to some of Arias’s belongings.
Police also say that witnesses told them that Coronado-Meza had bragged about killing Arias, purportedly in retaliation for something the victim allegedly did to his buddies, and tasked a friend that works construction with submerging his body in concrete at a thus-far unidentified a construction site.
Police served a warrant on Coronado-Meza and reported finding an illegal firearm with a drum magazine in his possession. Witnesses placed him at the scene of the murder, and Coronado-Meza also reportedly confessed that he “finished off” Arias with a shot to the head.
Coronado-Meza has been charged with first-degree murder, concealing a homicidal death, two counts of aggravated unlawful restraint, and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon. His background includes retail theft arrests, a pending misdemeanor cannabis case, and the pending gun charge.
The victim is the same man who was the subject of a story about the marvelous effect his open-air barber shop had on the migrant community. The story from 2023 by Block Club Chicago, lauded Arias for helping form a “community” for migrants using his barber skills as a central draw.
Unlike Americans who wish to open a business in Chicago and who suffer under groaning taxes, many regulatory and licensing hurdles, and expensive floor space rental fees, Arias did not get a barbering license or a business license for his “pop-up barber shop,” and was operating his little business illegally.
That’s a major blow to Mali’s logistics and security. Attacks like this show the persistent threat from insurgents and the difficulty of securing vital supply routes. Do you think regional forces can effectively protect convoys, or is international support still essential?
[MSN] At least 84 people have been killed in a devastating bandit attack on Mafa community in Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State.
The Yobe State Government on Wednesday conducted a mass burial for the victims in Babangida, the local government headquarters.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, Dungus Abdulkarim, said about 150 suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters stormed the village on over 50 cycle of violences, wielding rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
''The attack led to widespread destruction, with shops and houses set ablaze, forcing nearly all villagers to flee to Babangida,'' Abdulkarim said.
He, however, noted that residents had since returned to Mafa and that no further incidents had been reported.
The assault, which left scores dead and property destroyed, is one of the deadliest in Yobe in recent times.
The state government's swift response with a mass burial highlights both the scale of the tragedy and the urgency of reinforcing security measures across vulnerable rural communities.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters are reportedly in disarray following sustained Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by the Nigerian military on their hideouts in Borno State.
According to a report on Sunday by security analyst, Zagazola Makama via his X handle, the air raids targeted bully boy camps in Gobara and Balangaje, near Sambisa Forest in Gwoza Local Government Area, destroying several structures.
At least three senior commanders, identified as Mustafa, Ba Bunu, and Awana Kura, were said to have been killed in the operation.
The development has heightened anxiety among fighters, women, and children in the affected enclaves. A senior commander, Modu Kunduli, was reported to have informed another top leader, Bakura (alias Weeze), that the group's ranks were unsettled by the bombardments.
Bakura, who operates around Kwajaffa—Ngabur village in Hawul LGA, was also quoted as expressing concern after sighting Nigerian Air Force jets over Garkida and Gombi areas.
Intelligence reports further indicate that the hard boyz are considering retreating to their hideouts in Ngulde, Askira/Uba Local Government Area, pending further directives from their leaders.
Security sources said troops have been placed on alert to monitor possible movement of fighters as they attempt to evade additional air raids.
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If you watch tv news, you'd pronly never know zbout the ongoing religious-based wars in Africa.
Major conflicts in Europe, South Asia, East Asia, West Africa , Central Africa, East Affica --> most americans think it has no effect on them, that they do not need to even know the slightest bit about these things lol lolol
That’s a serious escalation in the DR Congo. Deploying thousands of fighters toward the capital signals a potential large-scale conflict. Do you think the government forces can hold Kinshasa, or is this likely to trigger a broader crisis?
Tren del Llano (Train of the Plain) is one of the first large criminal gangs (est. 2008), known locally as “megabandas,” to emerge in Venezuela. Gang founder José Antonio Tovar Colina, alias “El Picure” was killed by government authorities in 2016. The gang set itself in opposition to President Maduro, who set the army to hunt them down in 2021. They’re still at it…
This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area.
These narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal… pic.twitter.com/DPrPEaabOy
…were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics to the U.S. The Strike killed 3 male terrorists; no U.S. Forces were harmed.
BE WARNED — IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU!
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"The US announced that it will broaden its anti-narcotics strikes to land and named Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela as countries with drug production inputs, facilities, or key transit channels. Monroe Doctrine, anyone?"
[NAHARNET] The owner of the ship Rhosus that delivered the ammonium nitrate that went kaboom! at Beirut's port, Igor Grechushkin, has been arrested in Bulgaria based on a red Interpol notice issued by the Lebanese judiciary in 2020, al-Jadeed TV reported on Monday.
Grechushkin is a citizen of both Russia and Cyprus.
According to al-Jadeed, the Lebanese judiciary, through the Public Prosecution Office, was informed of the arrest and is preparing an extradition file, given the lack of a prisoner exchange agreement between Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... and Bulgaria.
The extradition file will also include legal information confirming to Bulgarian authorities ''the importance of handing over the ship's owner and the need for cooperation in questioning him as part of the port investigations.''
''This will enable the discovery of basic and important facts about the cargo, its owner, and its destination. The information indicates that the extradition request will proceed through legal frameworks, from the Public Prosecution Office via the Ministry of Justice to the Bulgarian authorities, who will decide whether to extradite the detainee to Lebanon, leave him in Bulgaria, or return him to his home country, Russia,'' the TV network said.
"If Bulgaria refuses to cooperate with Lebanon, there is no legal obstacle that prevents the judicial investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar, from traveling to Bulgaria or Russia to conduct interrogation after coordination with the judicial authorities there, despite the current legal obstacles (in Lebanon) that include a (Lebanese) travel ban on Bitar," al-Jadeed added.
[GEO.TV] The military's media wing said late Monday that five soldiers, including a captain, were martyred in an improvised bomb (IED) attack in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Kech district, and that security forces later neutralised the same number of holy warriors in a clearance operation.
A statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated that the IED struck the troops on September 15 during an intelligence-based sanitisation operation in Sher Bandi, Kech.
''As a result, five brave sons of the soil embraced martyrdom, including a captain,'' the statement said.
In a follow-up action, security forces killed five holy warriors linked to the Indian proxy group Fitna al Hindustan. Sanitisation operations in the surrounding area were continuing to clear any remaining holy warriors.
Those martyred included Captain Waqar Ahmed, 25, from Loralai; Naik Asmat Ullah, 35, from Dera Ghazi Khan; Lance Naik Junaid Ahmed, 29, from Sukkur; Lance Naik Khan Muhammad, 29, from Mardan; and Sepoy Muhammad Zahoor, 28, from Swabi.
''The martyrdom of our brave officers and soldiers further strengthens our resolve,'' the ISPR said, adding that Pakistain's security forces, in step with the nation, remain steadfast to eradicate terrorism from the country.''
[NYPOST] Israel announced early Tuesday that it had launched an ''intense'' ground operation in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City — striking with ''an iron fist'' to destroy Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... and force the terrorist group to free its remaining hostages.
''Gaza is burning,'' Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said after confirming troops had gone in.
''The IDF strikes with an iron fist at the terrorist infrastructure, and IDF soldiers are fighting bravely to create the conditions for the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.
''We will not relent and we will not go back — until the completion of the mission.''
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also confirmed the military had launched an '' intense operation,'' with a spokesperson saying Israel ''is at a critical stage in this struggle and there are consequences.''
Two IDF divisions consisting of thousands of troops began the expanded ground operation in the embattled city overnight as the army began a ''new stage'' against Hamas, the military said, according to The Times of Israel.
A third division is expected to join in the coming days as part of Operation Gideon's Chariots, which began with intensified Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the area weeks ago.
Ground troops plan to push deeper into the city and encircle it to eliminate Hamas forces there.
Airstrikes battered parts of Gaza City overnight as troops began advancing into areas previously outside of Israeli control, the military said.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the head of the IDF's Arab media division, said on X that the army had started ''destroying Hamas's infrastructure in Gaza City.''
''Gaza City is considered a dangerous combat zone, and staying in the area puts you at risk,'' Adraee wrote. He urged Paleostinians to join ''the more than 40% of the city's residents'' who have already evacuated.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... told news hounds that Israelis "have begun to take operations" in Gaza City as he departed Israel for Doha on Tuesday morning — and emphasized the window was closing for a peace deal to be reached.
"We don’t have months anymore, and we probably have days and maybe a few weeks to go," Rubio said.
An Israeli army flare drifts over buildings destroyed during the Israeli ground and air operations in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.
"Our preference, our number one choice, is that this ends through a negotiated settlement," he continued. "At some point, this has to end. At some point, Hamas has to be defanged, and we hope it can happen through a negotiation. But I think time, unfortunately, is running out."
Some 600,000 people remain in the decimated city, which was once home to more than 2 million, according to the Times of Israel.
The military estimates that thousands of Hamas operatives are hiding out there.
In just the past week, the Israeli Air Force struck over 850 targets and hundreds of operatives in Gaza City, the IDF said.
The IDF said Monday night it eliminated 21 senior weapons experts and field operatives from the Iranian-backed Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror organization, which participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
The IDF also eliminated five operatives with specialized knowledge of arms production, officials said.
Israeli officials believe as many as 20 living hostages are still being held by Hamas as well as the remains of 28 others some 711 days since the war began.
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Gaza is burning? Oh, dear! So what's for breakfast?
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
[GEO.TV] An Israeli attack targeted a car near the entrance of the village of Yater in southern Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... earlier today, Al Jazeera reported, citing a report from Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.
Israel has continuously bombed Lebanon despite a nearly year-old ceasefire between it and Hezbollah.
Footage circulating on social media, which has been verified by Al Jazeera's fact-checking unit, shows the aftermath of the strike on Yater, including the flaming wreckage of the car. Perhaps it was an EV?
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#Iran 🇮🇷: "Ansar Al-Furqan" released videos of the militants who recently killed by Iranian Forces in #Sistan and #Balochistan.
Some of the militants appear to be armed with several notable #USA-made 🇺🇸 M16A4 assault rifles and M4A1 carbines with ATPIAL. pic.twitter.com/HZRrMywmNL
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.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
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...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
