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3 wives of polygamous sect leader kidnapped younger wives in state custody, charges say
Samuel Bateman is the chief of a small polygamous group close to the Arizona-Utah border. Three girls are accused of kidnapping eight women by serving to them escape from baby welfare officers. The ladies and women are thought of to be Bateman’s wives. (Coconino County Sheriff’s Workplace through Related Press)
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Three girls face federal costs accusing them of kidnapping eight women by serving to them escape the custody of kid welfare officers in Arizona. The ladies and women are thought of to be wives of a polygamous sect chief.
9 women had been faraway from their house in September after state and federal costs had been filed in opposition to Samuel Bateman, a spiritual chief of a small group of Fundamentalist LDS Church members.
Bateman was charged in Arizona with three counts of kid abuse, a second-degree felony, and later indicted by a federal grand jury with destruction of information in an official continuing, tampering with an official continuing and destruction of information in a federal investigation.
Eight of these women had been present in Spokane, Washington, with members of the spiritual group on Thursday, based on a legal grievance filed in opposition to the three girls.
The Brief Creek FLDS group, situated within the border cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado Metropolis, Arizona, was led by Warren Jeffs, who’s now serving a life jail sentence for sexually assaulting underage women that he thought of to be his wives.
Charging paperwork say Bateman, 46, is a “self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church” inside the Brief Creek group with over 50 followers and over 20 wives “largely beneath the age of 15.”
Naomi Bistline, Donnae Barlow and Moretta Rose Johnson are accused of interfering with a case and unlawfully abducting eight women and taking them out of the custody of the Arizona Division of Baby Security. They’re every charged with obstruction of justice and kidnapping.
Allegations in opposition to Bateman
The paperwork filed in Arizona’s federal court docket allege that Bateman and others in the neighborhood engaged in illicit sexual conduct with minors between Might 2020 and November 2021 in Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Nebraska.
Presently, no sexual abuse costs have been filed in opposition to Bateman, however the costs present that the investigation is ongoing.
Bateman was arrested in Arizona on Aug. 28 for baby endangerment after he was pulled over by police who say he was towing a field trailer with at the very least three minor women inside.
In telephone calls from jail that day, Bateman instructed a person and his wives to delete his Sign account, then after he was launched from custody on Sept. 1 he requested about resetting his cellphone that had been taken as proof, based on charging paperwork.
Bateman was arrested once more on Sept. 13 on federal costs of tampering with a continuing. The subsequent day, the 9 minor women had been interviewed and positioned in group properties.
None of those women disclosed sexual abuse throughout interviews. One admitted she was partially nude at what the legal grievance referred to as a intercourse orgy. A number of women, nevertheless, referenced sleeping with Bateman and touching and kissing him in journals seized with search warrants, the fees state.
Among the women refused to take part in interviews and the grievance says investigators imagine older women had been encouraging youthful women to not discuss, which led investigators to separate the women into group properties with solely their siblings.
The ladies’s alleged involvement
Eight of the 9 women ran away from the group properties on Nov. 27. Investigators say it appeared the women had been utilizing a gaggle chat with a few of the grownup wives to rearrange the journey.
The FBI was in a position to get hold of an emergency disclosure request to Airbnb to supply addresses for bookings with bank cards beneath the title of a person within the spiritual group or his enterprise. Airbnb supplied a Mesa tackle for the morning of Nov. 29, an tackle later that day in Utah, and an tackle in Spokane which was reserved between Nov. 29 and Dec. 2.
Spokane sheriff’s deputies went to knock on the door of the Airbnb tackle. Nobody answered, however charging paperwork say deputies later noticed a car pushed by Johnson leaving the home. Police say all eight lacking women had been discovered within the car.
Recorded video calls present Bateman speaking with Bistline and Barlow on Nov. 28 about choosing up the women, based on the grievance.
“He tells the women how a lot he wants them, and the way it places strain on him when they’re scattered and that he wants everybody to be collectively,” the grievance stated.
Charging paperwork stated Bateman is at present in federal custody in Florence, Arizona. He was allowed to be launched on bail from his state costs on Oct. 7.
A trial in his federal case is scheduled for Jan. 10.
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Madonna's Brother Christopher Ciccone Dead at 63
10:13 AM PT — According to Christopher‘s obituary … he died peacefully surrounded by his husband, Ray, and loved ones. The obit notes Christopher’s loving spouse was faithfully by his side during the final stages of cancer that would ultimately end his life.
Another death in Madonna‘s family … and this time it’s her younger brother, Christopher Ciccone.
Madonna’s brother died Friday in Michigan due to cancer … his rep tells TMZ.
It’s the second death in as many weeks for Madonna’s family … just last month, her stepmother Joan Ciccone died after a battle with what was described as a very aggressive cancer.
Christopher and Madonna were tied at the hip when her career was just getting started, and he famously served as one of her backup dancers.
He later graduated to being the show designer and backstage dresser for Madonna … and he was the art director for Madge’s “Blonde Ambition” world tour.
Christopher was also Madonna’s tour director for “The Girlie Show” … and he directed music videos for Tony Bennett and Dolly Parton.
Madonna and Christopher, who also enjoyed a career as an interior designer, had a public beef back in 2008, when he ripped her in his biography, “Life With My Sister Madonna,” which became a New York Times best seller.
The two eventually made up and in 2012 released his own footwear line.
Christopher was 63.
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Why bananas may become one of the first casualties of the dockworkers strike
If you enjoy sliced bananas with your cereal or drinking a banana smoothie, you might want to savor it while you can. Fresh bananas could be one of the first casualties of the dockworkers’ strike.
The strike, now in its third day, has halted traffic at ports along the east coast and the gulf coast which handle an estimated three-quarters of all banana imports.
That includes the port of Wilmington, Del., which is the number one gateway for bananas coming into the U.S.
Ships from Dole and Chiquita — two of the world’s biggest banana producers — ferry more than 1.5 million tons of bananas to Wilmington every year from Central and South America.
Many of those bananas are then trucked to M. Levin & Co. in Philadelphia — which has been trading bananas in the region for four generations.
“The bananas are on the water for about seven days,” says Tracie Levin, who helps to oversee daily operations at the firm. “They come through the ports here. We pick them up. We ripen them in the ripening rooms for a few days, and then they go out to their stores and that’s how they get to consumers in the area.”
That normally smooth and largely invisible process is one of many that have been interrupted by the dockworkers’ strike, which has halted shipments of everything from auto parts to wine.
Levin is hoping for a quick resolution.
“We want a fair deal for everyone, from the ports to the workers,” she says. “Our country relies very heavily on our ports so this is definitely going to have a ripple-down effect if it doesn’t come to an end soon.”
In the banana business for over a century
Of all the goods now treading water in shipping containers, few are more sensitive to the passage of time than fresh fruit. Auto parts and wine generally don’t spoil if they’re stuck in transit for a little while. But for bananas, the clock is ticking.
“These bananas do have a shelf life, even when they’re sitting in the refrigerated containers,” Levin says. “If they sit too long they will dry out. They will not ripen properly. It’s really important that they get unloaded before they end up sitting out there too long and just become trash.”
It’s something Levin knows very well, since her family has been in the banana business for over a century.
“My great-grandfather in 1906 started ripening bananas on Dock Street in Philadelphia in the cellar,” she says.
In those early days, bananas arrived by the boatload still attached to giant stalks. Today the fruit comes in cardboard boxes, stacked in refrigerated shipping containers. Levin’s company handles about 35,000 of those 40-pound cartons every week, supplying big box stores and corner retailers as far west as Chicago.
People may soon go bananas
Levin’s company stockpiled extra truckloads of green bananas before the strike, and they do have some ability to slow the ripening process — but only for so long.
The wholesaler has enough fruit on hand to last a week or so, but after that, look out.
“Our banana supply will be dwindling if the ships aren’t getting the fruit off,” Levin says. “The consumer may see a banana shortage at their local grocery stores very soon.”
For now, grocery shoppers might want to pick up a few extra bananas, just in case. But of course, those won’t stay fresh long either.
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