Jesse Barnes the Red Barn gun shop burgalar break-ins has been arrested

Jesse Barnes, 17, crawled through a ceiling during two gun shop burglaries in March.
Now, he and a 15-year-old boy detectives say helped him with the Red Barn gun shop break-ins have been arrested, according to sheriff's reports.On Tuesday, detectives arrested Faheen Nelson just hours after Barnes made a daring escape from the Manatee County Courthouse.At noon, a sheriff's detective stopped Barnes at the courthouse after being tipped off he would be there. Both Barnes and Nelson were already suspects in the March 8 and March 22 burglaries at the Red Barn gun shop, in the 5200 block of 14th Street West, according to sheriff's reports.
The detective began questioning Barnes in a jury room on the third floor of the courthouse. He eventually refused to answer questions.With Barnes' mother outside, the detective went to tell her he would be arresting her son. When he returned to the room, Barnes was nowhere to be found.
Barnes had climbed into the ceiling, found an open window and scaled down the side of the courthouse three stories, according to sheriff's spokesman Dave Bristow.
Once on the ground, Barnes took off running with several deputies and bailiffs giving chase down Manatee Avenue West into the Wares Creek neighborhood.
Barnes hid behind the Woman's Club of Bradenton building in the 1700 block of Manatee Avenue West. When a sheriff's dog found him, Barnes hit the dog over the head with a rock.
The dog bit Barnes' leg and deputies took him into custody. He was checked out at Manatee Memorial Hospital, before being taken to a juvenile detention center, Bristow said.Barnes was arrested on charges of K-9 battery and resisting arrest.
By 5 p.m., Nelson was also in custody after both he and Barnes admitted to the Red Barn burglaries, according to sheriff's reports.
According to the reports, the two teens cut a large hole in scaffolding behind the gun shop.Barnes then climbed through the ceiling of the gun shop, reports state, dropped down into the store and stole several rifles. He would then hand the weapons down to Nelson waiting outside, the sheriff's reports state.
Each teen faces charges of two counts of armed burglary, two counts of grand theft of a firearm, two counts of criminal mischief and one count of dealing in stolen property.
Red Barn owner Roger McManaman said he is relieved that arrests have been made.
"I am happy," he said. "Especially since guns are involved."

Jose Macias at the hospital after he and his friend were sprayed with bullets

Jose Macias, 17, died at the hospital after he and his friend were sprayed with bullets while walking near 13th and Ridge Avenue.More than 100 people attended a prayer vigil held for Macias and his friend on Saturday night at the site of the shooting. At the vigil, Macias' mother read a statement from the family."He will continue to live in my heart, my family's hearts. And all of those who were blessed to have known him, may Jose continue to live in your heart," Josie Garcia, Macias' mother, said.Investigators will not say if the shooting was gang-related, but relatives said if it is, they want the violence to end.
"Revenge is not ours, and revenge is not going to solve anything," Marie Hernandez, Macias' aunt, said. "We need to let the Lord take care of it, and let the police do their job."Hernandez said Macias loved football and was making strides in school.
Detectives at the KCK Police Department need the public's help to solve the case. Police are looking for a red or maroon late 90s four-door sedan in connection with the shooting. It could be a Dodge with gray primer on the driver's-side front fender.

Individuals found guilty of possessing weapons rose by 43 per cent from 2001 to 2005.

Between 1997 and 2006,m, the number of authorised firearms officers in England and Wales fell from 6,738 to 6,584, even though there have been increases in overall police numbers. Yet statistics released by the Home Office show the number of individuals found guilty of possessing weapons rose by 43 per cent from 2001 to 2005. Over the same period, the number of crimes involving firearms recorded by police rose by 11 per cent, from 10,023 in 2001 to 11,084 in 2005. The overall drop conceals far greater falls in key areas of cities with some of the country’s worst records on gun crime. On Merseyside, where Liverpool has been ravaged by violence, the number of firearms officers has fallen by 15 per cent, from 147 in 1997 to 129 in 2006. Yet the same area has recorded a 183 per cent rise in the number of persons found guilty of possessing or distributing prohibited weapons or ammunition between 1997 and 2005. And Merseyside has seen the number of crimes where firearms were used soar by 62 per cent, from 299 in 2002 to 485 in 2006. A similar picture emerges in Avon and Somerset, where the number of firearms officers has fallen by 29 per cent, from 165 in 1997 to 117 in 2006, while the firearms crimes soared by 62 per cent, from 131 in 2002 to 167. And in Northamptonshire, another gun crime ‘hotspot’, the number of firearms officers has fallen by 39 per cent, from 92 in 1997 to 56 in 2006. There is a good reason to consider the idea that the reason firearm related crimes are on the rise in those areas is directly related to the decrease in armed police. When gun control advocates preach the dogma of gun grabbers, they never seem to understand the idea of self defense. It seems that if the good guys give up their guns, the bad guys will follow suit. You can see, and hopefully learn from, Britain’s mistake in inhibiting its citizens ability to defend themselves.
I don’t have a reason to own a gun other than hunting, collecting and self-defense. There are millions like me. There is no good reason to increase the likelihood of a criminal attack and decrease my ability to defend myself at the same time. It simply doesn’t make sense.

‘Gangsta Fah Life' is behind bars

Dance hall artiste 'Movado', the self proclaimed ‘Gangsta Fah Life' is behind bars following his arrest Wednesday night on gun related charges.
The entertainer has been charged with two counts of shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm.Movado, 27, whose real name is David Brooks, was held when he showed up for questioning in connection with a shooting incident on July 27th last year on Mannings Hill Road in St. Andrew.Head of the Major Investigation Task Force Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Greene said Movado will remain in custody for at least another 24 hours.

T.I. has been under house arrest the past few months under $3 million bond.

T.I. preached at Easter services in Atlanta, now he's coming clean.
The latest rumor spreading is T.I. may plead to guilty to various gun charges today (March 27) as part of a plea agreement.
T.I. was arrested back on October 13th for allegedly trying to purchase a machine gun and two silencers from his bodyguard.
He would be indicted on charges of possessing unregistered machine guns and silencers; unlawfully possessing machine guns; and of being a convicted felon in possession of firearms.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting T.I.'s defense team and prosecutors have been in intense negotiations over a plea agreement in the past several weeks. The plea deal would have to be approved by a federal judge.
T.I. has been under house arrest the past few months under $3 million bond.

Milton Pacheco,Abraham Ojeda were charged with possession of a fully loaded machine gun

An anonymous witness to an apparent gun transaction on Chestnut Street last night led to the arrest of two suspects and the confiscation of a fully loaded machine gun.
One of the suspects was an illegal alien from Guatemala, Police Chief Anthony R. Scott said.A caller informed police of the transaction shortly after 10 p.m. and gave descriptions of the suspects and vehicles involved, Scott said.When police arrived at the scene, however, the suspects and vehicles were gone. The caller then called police a second time and gave the dispatcher the 93 Elm Street address of one of the suspects.There police found two suspects and one of the reported vehicles.
After frisking the suspects and obtaining permission from them to search the vehicle, police discovered and confiscated a Cobray M-11 9 mm machine gun with a fully loaded magazine.Also 97 rounds of Luger Winchester ammunition, 24 live rounds of Winchester 12 gauge buckshot, 4 live rounds of Remmington 12 gauge Magnum buckshot, two sections of galvanized pipe and a Kodak Fun Saver camera.
Milton Pacheco, 32, and Abraham Ojeda, 47, both of 93 Elm St., 3rd floor, were charged with possession of a large capacity weapon, possession of large capacity feeding device and possession of ammunition without an firearms identification card.
Police determined that Pacheco was not legally in the United States and informed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.Innocent pleas on the two suspects’ behalf were entered today in Holyoke District Court.Both were held in lieu of $30,000 cash bail, or $300,000 surety, and a pre-trial hearing was set for April 25, court officials said.

Hilton Adorno-Rosario,Marilyn Quinones-Burgos, Largest gun-trafficking case in decades.

Investigators predicted "Operation Tropical Firepower," as the investigation is known, will expand and link up to 800 weapons to more than a dozen suspects arrested this week and others still at large. Already, it is the region's largest gun-trafficking case in decades.
"Today's arrests of multiple firearms traffickers in Florida and Puerto Rico is the culmination of two and half years of dedication and hard work," said Virginia O'Brien, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' top agent in Tampa. "We will continue to work closely with our law-enforcement partners to prosecute anyone who provides firearms to violent criminals."
Court records describe the gun-smuggling ring in almost the same phrases used in more than a dozen previous gun-running cases involving Puerto Rico since the early 1990s. One of the most notorious cases, last year, involved Orlando International Airport workers who routinely foiled Homeland Security measures by placing guns and drugs on passenger flights to San Juan.The trade exists largely because Puerto Rico has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. On the island, for instance, gun owners must be able to account for every bullet they buy if questioned by police. At the same time, Florida laws are some of the nation's least restrictive.
Semiautomatic versions of the AK-47 assault rifle, which sell for as little as $350 in Orlando, command $2,000 on the black market in Puerto Rico, according to police and federal court records.Investigators say the black-market buyers are typically drug gangs, whose members are responsible for some of the worst violent crimes per capita in the United States. The island commonwealth is a major port of entry for cocaine and heroin shipped from Colombia to the U.S. mainland.The indictment issued in Tampa states that at least 15 suspects from Puerto Rico flew to Florida from 2004 through March 2007 to obtain state identification cards. Once they had drivers licenses, sometimes with false information, they fanned out across the state from Miami to Jacksonville to buy AK-47s, AR-15s and handguns.In the Orlando area, the gun shops they frequented included Shoot Straight in Apopka, Shoot Straight II in Casselberry, and two Orlando stores, Central Florida Firearms and Reig's Gun Shop.
Characterized by law-enforcement officers as "Smurfs" -- for displaying hardworking habits similar to those of the TV cartoon characters -- the suspects bought multiple weapons from several gun shops on a single day."They were going from gun show to gun show, federal firearm licensee to federal firearm licensee, buying whatever they can," said U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill in Tampa. "They were buying small amounts [in each deal], but at the end of the day, you have a lot of guns."O'Neill described the 15 arrested so far -- including six picked up early Tuesday in Puerto Rico and two more already held there on other charges -- as low-level players. He said investigators are building a case to determine who was behind the operation.
Florida gun stores impose no waiting period or limit on the number of assault weapons people can buy in a single day. Handgun buyers who have a state concealed weapon permit can take home a gun purchase immediately. Those without a permit must wait three days.There are no limits on private sales at gun shows.
On Aug. 18, 2005, the indictment states, Hilton Adorno-Rosario, 26, flew to Orlando on a Delta flight from San Juan. Before the day ended he bought 12 pistols from three Orlando-area shops and then left on a shopping trip through North Florida. While waiting for the Orlando pistols' three-day waiting period to expire, records show Adorno-Rosario bought 11 AK-47s in Jacksonville before heading back to Orlando.
That same summer, records show another suspect bought 27 assault rifles from Take Aim Guns in Palm Harbor. Then 21 years old, Jonathan Robles-Cruz bought as many as 10 at a time, records state."In return, the co-conspirators would receive money and illegal drugs as payment for the firearms," according to a written statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office. "The weapons of choice were AK-47 type assault rifles, semiautomatic handguns and AR-15-type firearms. Many of the firearms have been recovered from criminal investigations in Puerto Rico while other firearms were recovered in Orlando, Tampa and Winter Haven."The indictment states the suspects routinely rented apartments or rooms, including one in a Motel 8 on Americana Way in Orlando, to store, wrap and ship the weapons to Puerto Rico.
Marilyn Quinones-Burgos, one of two women arrested so far, is accused on March 6, 2007, of wrapping aluminum foil around five guns and hiding them in a cosmetic case, then taking the package to a U.S. Post Office and mailing it to ring members on the island.
Quinones-Burgos and the others arrested are being held in jails in Puerto Rico and Florida. They are charged with gun trafficking and face up to 25 years in federal prison.
Besides ATF, the U.S. Postal Service and the Puerto Rico Police Department took part in the investigation.

Anaheim police shot and killed a man

Anaheim police shot and killed a man this morning when he confronted two officers in an alleyway, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Tim Schmidt.
The shooting occurred about 9:30 a.m. as the officers were on routine patrol in the 800 block of South Citron Street. They spotted a man in a white car. The unidentified man, described only as Latino and in his mid-30s, got out of the car and the shooting occurred, Schmidt said. Both officers fired, he said.
Schmidt did not release details on what led to the shooting or the names of the officers. They will be interviewed by the Orange County district attorney's office, which investigates all officer-related shootings. Anaheim detectives are also looking for witnesses.Schmidt described the alley as "high in gang activity and graffiti.""It's obviously an area of concern for the city. The cops were where they should be," he said.The man was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he was declared dead.

Longmont man was arrested possession of a firearm while under the influence

A 19-year-old Longmont man was arrested at 1:15 a.m. March 17 on the 1400 block of Northwestern Road on suspicion of tampering, second-degree assault, possession of a firearm while under the influence and underage possession of alcohol. Officers responded to a call of someone being shot. When they arrived, the man told them that him and three friends had been drinking and someone got shot. The victim of the shooting identified the man who allegedly shot him and told officers that it was an accident. The victim explained to police that they had been drinking and were in the man's bedroom. The victim took his gun and put it on the nightstand when the man picked up the gun and cocked it, forcing it to go off and hitting the man in the leg. The man was held at the Boulder County Jail.

Derek Zepeda,Ray Daughters arrested on suspicion of being gang members in possession of a loaded firearm

Two suspected Oakley gang members were arrested after a short low-speed car chase in which the passenger threw out a loaded handgun, police said.
A Brentwood police officer attempted to stop the suspects' car at Fairview and San Jose avenues for erratic driving, around 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sgt. Mark Misquez said.
After failing to yield, the pair of suspects led officers on a brief pursuit, throwing a loaded semi-automatic Smith & Wesson handgun out the passenger side window at Fairview Avenue and Central Boulevard. The pair eventually stopped at a Brentwood Safeway store, Balfour Road and Fairview Avenue, Misquez said.
Police arrested Derek Zepeda, 18, and Ray Daughters, 19, on suspicion of being gang members in possession of a loaded firearm. Daughters, the driver, was also arrested on suspicion of evading arrest.Both men were booked into Contra Costa County jail.