WSJ

Last Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam. A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included “STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!”

On Sept. 11, she suddenly left Leadville, Colo., a small town in the Rocky Mountains, for Denver, then for New York, to meet and marry a Muslim man she connected with online, her family says. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, who is 5-foot-11 and blonde, phoned her mother and stepfather in Leadville, providing them with an address in Waterford, Ireland, they say.

Now, she is in the custody of the Irish police, along with six other individuals, arrested as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to commit murder, according to officials familiar with the case. The nature of the authorities’ suspicions about Ms. Paulin-Ramirez couldn’t be determined on Friday.

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s interest in Islam “came out of left field,” said her mother, Christine Holcomb-Mott, in an interview at her home Friday, wearing a blue sweatsuit with a silver cross around her neck.

“I’m angry with her right now,” Ms. Holcomb-Mott said. “I’d like to just choke her. But I’m worried about her, too. I love my daughter.”

Nearby was a stack of photos of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, with a sparkling smile, and her son, who has brown hair and eyes. Her mother looked at the images over and over, as college basketball played on the TV.

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had been in contact by phone and email with her mother, stepfather and an aunt, her relatives said. But none of them has heard from Ms. Paulin-Ramirez in recent days, they said.

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez is the second American woman to be linked to an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed. An indictment was unsealed this week against Colleen R. LaRose, 46, a suburban Philadelphia woman who authorities said used the Web alias “JihadJane.”

Ms. LaRose was accused of plotting to kill the cartoonist and attempting to recruit jihadis via the Internet.

She was arrested in October and later charged with providing material support to terrorists.

The Justice Department kept its case under wraps until this week while investigators in the U.S. and Europe pursued their investigation against other potential suspects in the U.S. and abroad.

The main contact for Ms. LaRose is believed to be one of the men in Irish custody, an Algerian, who has a relationship with Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, according to a person close to matter.

A person close to the Irish police couldn’t confirm whether Ms. Paulin-Ramirez and the Algerian are married.

Ms. LaRose spent roughly two weeks in Ireland last fall, a person familiar with the matter said.

The Irish police are holding four men and three women, including three Algerians, a Croatian, a Palestinian, a Libyan and a U.S. national, according to a person close to the police.

They are being questioned and haven’t been charged.

A U.S. official familiar with the matter confirmed that Ms. Paulin-Ramirez is the U.S. national. The Justice Department declined to comment.

The seven people in custody, whose ages range from the mid-20s to the late 40s, can be held for seven days without charges, under Irish law. They are being held in four different police stations, Waterford, Tramore, Dungarvan and Thomastown, and are being questioned, according to the source. A spokesman for the Irish police said the arrests took place in Waterford and Cork, but he declined to provide further details.

The seven were arrested as part of an investigation into “a conspiracy to commit a serious offense (namely, conspiracy to murder an individual in another jurisdiction),” according to a police news release on Tuesday.

“We are very concerned about what she’s into, and concerned about her well-being,” said Cindy Holcomb Jones, an aunt of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, who lives in Independence, Mo.

Another of Jamie’s aunts, Sheena Holcomb McCarty, of Overland Park, Kansas, said she had been in contact with Ms. Paulin-Ramirez by email as recently as earlier this month.

“When I saw pictures of that woman [Ms. LaRose], I thought—that’s what Jamie is doing. Jamie is wearing the same outfit that woman is wearing,” Ms. Jones added.

In the months before Ms. Paulin-Ramirez left Leadville, taking her 6-year-old son but little clothing or other belongings, she began “wearing the black garb so you can only see her eyes,” her aunt said.

“We knew that she was dabbling in the Muslim religion. But for her to disappear like this was from left field—we weren’t expecting it at all,” said Ms. Jones, who until last fall would speak to her niece on the phone almost every day.

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had begun spending more time on the computer, her mother complained to the aunt. “All of a sudden, she stopped talking to me and she disappeared,” Ms. Jones said.

Relatives of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez said they’re distressed because her son was with her in Ireland. The boy’s father is Mexican and hasn’t seen the child in about 5 years, said George Mott, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s stepfather, who lives in Leadville with her mother.

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez and her new husband had recently changed the child’s name to Wahid. Mr. Mott said he believed the boy is in the care of the Irish authorities, but would like him returned to Leadville.

Born in Kansas City, Mo., and raised in nearby Blue Springs, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had relocated with her mother to Colorado.

She was working as a medical assistant at the Eagle Valley Medical Clinic in Edwards, Colo., before she left, Mr. Mott said.

Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had married several times over the years—some of her relatives estimated she was married four times.

Her aunt Ms. Jones said she had expressed an interest in Christianity, and had asked to borrow or have her grandmother’s bible.

In 2008 or 2009, Mr. Mott said, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez enrolled in an online course about Islam.

By Easter 2009, she had informed her mother that she was a Muslim. At her father’s May 2009 funeral in Kansas, her aunts had to plead with her not to cover her head and hair with a hijab.

Over the summer, her family says, she was spending increasing time on the computer and had begun to dress in the traditional garb, covering not only her hair and face but also her hands.

Her current Facebook page lists her as Jamie Paulin, with a photo in which all that is visible are her eyes peering from slits in her full-face veil.

Last year, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had told her aunt she wanted to study to become a doctor, and she signed up for nurse-practitioner courses. She took out new student loans of roughly $3,000 last fall, according to her mother and stepfather.

Her mother now believes she used that money to get to Ireland.

On Sept. 14, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s mother called Leadville police. She informed an officer that her daughter was missing and that she had switched the code on their joint bank account so that Ms. Holcomb-Mott couldn’t access it. She said her daughter had left for Denver on Friday, Sept. 11, to meet an unknown friend, was supposed to be back by Monday, but had not returned and was not answering calls or text messages.

Ms. Holcomb-Mott feared the little boy was “in training” to become a terrorist, according to Sgt. Saige Thomas of the Leadville police, who conducted the investigation.

Mr. Mott, a convert to Islam himself, says he went to Denver to find his stepdaughter but couldn’t track her down.

The police found Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s car, a 2005 Pontiac Bonneville, at the Denver International Airport in the long-term parking lot.

Mr. Mott said that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents showed up at his door and questioned him, and took his stepdaughter’s computer. She had added a keyboard with Arabic keys, he said.

“Jamie took off just like JihadJane took off on her boyfriend,” Mr. Mott said. “We have been trying since September of last year to get her back here and get that baby back here.”

A few months before she disappeared, her stepfather says he confronted her: “What are you going to do, strap a bomb on and blow up something?” he asked her. He recalled that she responded: “If necessary, yes.”

“She never liked who she was,” her mother said. “She was always looking for something.”

“I thought this was just a phase she was going through, that she was trying to find herself,” said Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s older brother, Michael Holcomb, 36, who lives in Houston. “Now I’m angry. And disappointed. She had a good job and she gave it all up. It’s beyond me.”

He said he was “actually relieved” she had been arrested because it may help them get her son back. “My only concern is getting her son back. Other than that, I don’t care what happens to her.”

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Hmm, her step-father is also a convert to Islam. I smell a rat.

CNN: The Corrie’s civil suit against Israel’s defense ministry starts in Haifa, Israel, on Wednesday.

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The terrorist supporting Corrie’s want Israel to pay for their terrorist daughter’s death. Anti-Israeli Leftist main stream media won’t tell you the truth about Rachel Corrie, but Discover the Networks will.  Read all about Rachel

Rachel Corrie burns a mock American flag in front of future terrorists, Palestinian kids

Buh Bye:Dead POS terrorist Rachel Corrie

Gabriel Aguilera

AZ Central

The 19-year-old Glendale man who drove a stolen car through the gates of Luke Air Force Base last week likely entered the base by mistake, police said Monday.

The driver, identified as Gabriel Aguilera, is being treated at a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

A security guard opened fire on the vehicle as it drove through the base, killing a 16-year-old male passenger and severely injuring Aguilera.

Aguilera has been charged with murder, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, felony flight and motor vehicle theft, said Officer Karen Gerardo, a spokeswoman for the Glendale Police Department. She said Aguilera is charged with murder because his passenger died during the course of a felony offense.

A search of court records shows Aguilera has no criminal record in Arizona, though he ran away from home several times as a minor.

Aguilera and the 16-year old passenger are believed to be connected to another stolen vehicle that Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies pulled over minutes earlier near Litchfield and Cactus roads.

Gerardo said the teenagers likely entered the military base by mistake as they fled from law enforcement. “They were probably just trying to get away,” she said.

                                                                             Elvis has left the building.

LA Times

In a dramatic escalation of the war against illegal supergraphics in Los Angeles, authorities have jailed a businessman accused of posting an eight-story movie advertisement on an office building at one of Hollywood’s busiest intersections.

Kayvan Setareh, 49, of Pacific Palisades was arrested at his home Friday night and ordered held in lieu of $1-million bail. An arrest warrant obtained by Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich accuses Setareh of three misdemeanor city code violations, two of them related to this city’s sign law, according to William Carter, Trutanich’s chief deputy.

The arrest was an unusually aggressive move by Trutanich and comes less than a week after the city attorney filed a separate lawsuit involving more than a dozen other supergraphics scattered across the city. Just days after that lawsuit was filed, workers used bolts and wire to wrap the new ad around the face of a 1928 corner office building on the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue – a major tourist destination along Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

“The days of lax and inconsistent enforcement of billboard and outdoor advertising laws in this city are over,” Trutanich said in a prepared statement.

Setareh, who is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, could not be reached for comment Saturday. A woman who answered a phone listing for Setareh declined to discuss the case but said the arrest had been “a shock to the whole family.”

City officials say that unpermitted supergraphics like the one in Hollywood pose a threat to public safety because the huge sheets of vinyl can fall onto cars and pedestrians if they are not attached properly. Still, some law enforcement observers voiced surprise at the large bail amount, saying $1 million is typically used in far more serious cases, such as homicide, rape or kidnapping.

KOMO News

Someone has a sick sense of humor and the cops want to talk to her about it.

On Tuesday February  at approximately 4:35 a.m., an unidentified female drove up to the drive-thru window at the Forza’s Coffee Shop located at 11401 Steele St. S. in Parkland, said Det. Ed Troyer with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Deparrment. 

This store is the same location where four Lakewood police officers were murdered in November.

The driver was in a dark blue or black newer crossover SUV, and was playing very loud rap music as the vehicle approached the window. 

Troyer says the woman driving the vehicle then pointed a rifle through the drive-thru window at the barista.  Then, the woman threw the rifle through the window, striking the barista in the chest.  The barista looked at the rifle and realized it was a plastic replica as the woman drove away.

The driver is described as a white female, 5’2” to 5’5” tall, 150 to 160 lbs., with blonde hair.

Heads_Up Anonymous

 Happy Joe Hyer (A fitting last name. Just sayin’ is all)

KOMO

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Olympia Mayor Pro Tem Joe Hyer has been arrested for investigation of marijuana trafficking.

Sheriff’s detectives said Hyer, 37, was arrested on Thursday following a month-long undercover investigation by the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force.

A tip from a concerned citizen prompted the investigation, during which Hyer sold marijuana to a police informant on two separate occasions, investigators said.

Hyer was booked into the Thurston County Jail under investigation of unlawful possession of a controlled substance, unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and unlawful use of a residence for drug purposes. He posted bail on Thursday night and was released.

Hyer refused to comment on the allegations.

Earlier this week, Hyer took over the position of former county treasurer Robin Hunt, who is vacating her post before the end of her four-year term. Hyer’s formal appointment as treasurer is scheduled for March 1.

Hyer, an Olympia native, was appointed to the Olympia City Council in 2004, and elected the following year. He has served as a board member, as well as the president of the Olympia Downtown Association, and is the co-owner of Alpine Experience, an outdoor equipment retailer in downtown Olympia.

He is also a graduate of Tumwater High School.

Hyer does not have a prior criminal record.

That’ll learn em’!

The fight took place Tuesday afternoon on the San Francisco-bound NL line in downtown Oakland, near the corner of Harrison and Webster streets.

By Daily Mail Reporter

Donald Trump has called for Al Gore to be stripped of the Nobel Peace prize he was awarded for campaigning on climate change.

The billionaire tycoon said record-breaking snow storms proved that the former US Vice-President was wrong on global warming, and that policies aimed at tackling carbon emissions were harming America’s economy.

His comments follow a string of high-profile attacks on climate change advocates.

Scientists have been forced to defend themselves after embarrassing admissions that some of their evidence was faulty.

Gore has become one of the world’s leading global warming activists since his documentary An Inconvenient Truth became a surprise hit in 2006. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

But Trump, who hosts the US version of The Apprentice, said the Nobel Committee should now strip him of the award following one of the worst ever winters in eastern America.

He said in a speech: ‘With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.’

He added: ‘Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn’t care less.

‘It would make us totally non-competitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America’s stupidity.’

A crowd of 500 at the businessman’s Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York, stood up and cheered the remarks, the New York Post reported.

Washington DC and surrounding areas were buried under more than two feet of snow last week in blizzards that President Barack Obama dubbed ‘Snowmageddon’.

But organisers of the Winter Olympics 3,000 miles away in Vancouver, Canada, had to ship in extra snow to ensure the games could go ahead despite unseasonably warm weather.

Many scientists have gone to great lengths to explain that the record snowfalls do not disprove man-made global warming, while some have even said climate change could have contributed to the storms.

But they face a growing movement of climate change sceptics in Britain and the US.

The scientific community has been forced onto the back foot following claims that climate data has been ‘manipulated’ to bolster the case for action on carbon emissions.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has resisted calls for his resignation after the body admitted a series of mistakes, including a false claim included in an influential report that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

The panel has been mired in controversy since the leaking of emails from the climate change unit at The University of East Anglia, which appeared to show that data used to bolster the IPCC’s claims had been manipulated.

Critics also claim the UEA’s researchers acted to stop papers they did not like from being published in journals and refused to share their data with sceptics.

This week the unit’s former head Professor Phil Jones, performed a majot u-turn and admitted there had been no ’statistically significant’ global warming in the last 15 years.

And new research cast serious doubt on temperature records from around the world which have been used as evidence for global warming.