September 23, 2015

Bill Donohue comments on President Obama\’s welcome to Pope Francis at the White House: 

As he welcomed Pope Francis to the White House this morning, President Barack Obama spoke eloquently about the Catholic Church\’s contributions to America and the world. He praised Pope Francis\’ \”profound moral example\” and leadership on issues ranging from world peace, to justice for the poor and marginalized, to \”our obligation to protect our planet.\” He cited the pope\’s message about mercy, and thanked him for the \”great gift of hope.\”

GLOUCESTER MASSACHUSETTS--The Gloucester, Massachusetts, police chief is gaining national and international attention for a common-sense program he started, which deals with opioid addiction.

If addicts want to kick drugs and have nowhere to turn, they can come the Gloucester PD, where they’ll get help finding treatment rather than being arrested, released, and then arrested and released some more.

Campanello’s innovative program (see the July issue of APB for the full story) is not the kind of thing a lot of bosses would try, and there’s been some pushback.

As many Americans are beginning to understand the role the pharmaceutical industry plays in increasing rates of drug addiction in the U.S., some people are asking that these multi-national companies be held accountable for flooding the market with dangerous and wildly addictive drugs like oxycontin.

Campanello recently asked his Facebook friends to email the drug companies with a simple question—a classic grass-roots approach to civic responsibility.

Campanello said citizens should \”just politely ask them what they are doing to address the opioid epidemic… and if they realize that the latest data shows almost 80 percent of addicted persons start with a legally prescribed drug that they make.\”

Needless to say, Big Pharma didn’t wait long to send out the attack dogs—or attorneys, as they’re sometimes called.

\”The police have a lot of nerve trying to target private citizens to do things the police should do,\” said attorney Harvey Silverglate, based in Cambridge.

\”It’s actually worse than just being in bad taste.\”

CONTINUE via apbweb.com

Deputy Sheriff

Bill Myers

Okaloosa County Sheriff\’s Office, Florida

End of Watch: Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Deputy Sheriff Bill Myers was shot and killed while serving a domestic violence injunction at a local attorney\’s office on Plew Avenue, in Shalimar, at approximately 8:20 am.

BY GUS OSTRUM | Gloucester Catholic HS 

Bishop Dennis Sullivan stands with new Gloucester Catholic High School teachers Dan Satterfield and Jennifer Cush from the Alliance for Catholic Education at St. Joseph’s University, and Megan Heeder from the University of Notre Dame Echo program.

As it opened its doors for the new school year, Gloucester Catholic High School welcomed three new faculty members from Catholic universities with open arms.

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See photo galley The Big Snow Storm 

by Matt Rooney

You likely recall how Save Jersey readers were ecstatic when Governor Christie pardoned Shaneen Allen back in April.

And with good reason. This hard-working, down-to-earth mother of two – Niaire, age 11, and Sincere, age 4 – was minding her own business, pushing through an early morning New Jersey drive to Atlantic City back in October 2013 with Sincere’s father, Desmond Boyd, when she was stopped in Hamilton Township after allegedly making an unsafe lane change. They were heading down on a rare day off from work to decorate a hotel room for the girl’s upcoming seashore birthday party.

Around 5’2\” and maybe 120 pounds soaking wet, she dutifully informed the police officer that she had a gun in the car; this Philadelphia resident never contemplated that her Pennsylvania concealed carry permit, obtained to protect her family from the realities of a troubled neighborhood, wouldn’t do her any good on this side of the Delaware River. This is still America, right?  What happened next could’ve fooled the causal observer. Shaneen, who’s only 28-years-old and accustomed to working multiple jobs to support her family, was subsequently arrested, detained for forty-eight hours, and subjected to a two year-long ordeal that was complicated by the Atlantic County’s Prosecutor’s nearly-contemporaneous decision to let NFL domestic violence perpetrator Ray Rice into the pretrial intervention program (PTI), a one year class which will allow Rice to avoid jail time and have all charges dismissed, but NOT Shaneen. At one point, a bogus fugitive warrant issued for her arrest, executed by officers as she drove out of the parking lot of a bar where she had applied for job.

 

 

continue to read via savejersey.com

 

Fatima Aviles (DOB 11/20/87), of Philadelphia, convicted of burglary and theft of more than $35,000 in cell phones from two Verizon stores in Glassboro and Washington Township NJ in July and August 2013, was sentenced today (9/18) to three years on New Jersey state prison.

Aviles’ lawyer argued for a probation sentence and Aviles pleaded tearfully for leniency, saying jail \”would not be fair. I have my whole life ahead of me\” including marriage plans, she said.

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USCCB LIVE MEDIA COVERAGE

 

Saturday, September 26 (New York City, Philadelphia)

• 8:40 a.m. Departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport
• 9:30 a.m. Arrival at Atlantic Aviation, Philadelphia
• 10:30 a.m. Mass at Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia
• 4:45 p.m. Visit to Independence Mall
• 7:30 p.m. Visit to the Festival of Families Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Sunday, September 27 (Philadelphia)

TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that the former chief of the Seaville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company was sentenced today to five years in state prison for receiving payments of approximately $46,000 that were based on fraudulent invoices and receipts he submitted for reimbursement to the fire company and Upper Township Fire Commissioners. 

 

press release

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today announced the arrest of two Pennsylvania men on unrelated charges as part of an ongoing effort to target the online distribution of child pornography.

Since the beginning of this year, agents with the Attorney General’s Child Predator Section have arrested more than 120 suspected child predators.

The latest arrests occurred over the past week following separate investigations in Fayette and Lehigh counties. The defendants are:

• Matthew Robert Sible, (left) 29, 13 Christy Lane, Fairchance, Fayette County. 
• Andrew Scott Wilcox Jr., (right)29, 614 South Bergan St., Bethlehem, Lehigh County. 

Sible charges