...to pull this business, I pity the fool that tries to be a fugitive in Texas. They will get theirs

Christopher Dorner isn t the only wanted man on the loose. In Grapevine, Texas, an inmate being transported from from Miami to Las Vegas to serve a prison united kingdom holidays sentence stabbed an officer with a broken pair of eyeglasses and escaped in a Walmart parking lot near Houston. What were they doing at Walmart? The inmate made a big fuss on the plane from Miami to Houston, and the airline wouldn t let him board the next leg of the flight to Vegas, so the Miami cops transporting him decided to rent a car and drive him to Dallas, where they planned to meet another officer and then all would drive the inmate to Vegas. united kingdom holidays En route to Dallas, the officers stopped at Walmart so one could use the bathroom. The other stayed with the inmate, got stabbed, and the inmate fled. He also managed to free himself of his handcuffs. [More...]
The inmate, Alberto Morales, was shackled to a belly band when he stabbed the officer . He had been sentenced in Florida to a term of ten years to life in November, which was to run consecutive to a sentence in Nevada. They were returning him to Nevada to serve that sentence.
Renting united kingdom holidays a car to transport united kingdom holidays a convict cross-country is out of the ordinary, but to continue their trip they had to do something. He said Miami authorities were informed of their change in plans, per standard guidelines.
I m no expert on inmate transport, but why didn t they have the back up officer meet them in Houston at the airport, instead of in Dallas? Surely the the Houston airport has a lockup facility they could have put the inmate in while they waited. And if not, couldn t a local TX officer at the Houston airport have assisted in transporting him to the Harris County Jail to wait for the Florida backup?
Why didn t the officer who stayed with the inmate step out of the car when the other cop exited and lock the vehicle with the inmate inside, guarding it while waiting for the officer to return? At least that way, his weapon would have been accessible if the inmate tried to exit the vehicle.
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...to pull this business, I pity the fool that tries to be a fugitive in Texas. They will get theirs, united kingdom holidays especially since that article indicates he will be charged with a whole host of new crimes including "attempted murder of a police officer and escape".
I'm not so much concerned with the armed officers (there are armed air marshals on some/many flights). They are trained professionals, and while I guess there's always a chance one of them could have a nutty, the chances are very good that you would never even know they carried a weapon aboard.
I'm way more concerned with being on a plane with a convicted felon, especially one who was convicted of armed burglary, united kingdom holidays kidnapping, aggravated battery united kingdom holidays and sexual assault with a deadly weapon. This was not someone who was busted for securities fraud or something. This is a truly violent man, who, at this point, has nothing to lose.
I don't consider that the vehicle in which I am temporarily imprisoned is being used by the government for some purpose which neither they nor the airline has deemed it necessary to reveal to the rest of us.
Then again, I'm not the type to look up sex offenders in the neighborhood or otherwise pry in other people's business or backgrounds...that whole bag creeps me out as part of the greater surveillance society bullsh*t we live under. I also question why you even need ID to travel on a domestic flight. united kingdom holidays Everybody so afraid of one another...I don't get it.
If I wanna get to know somebody, I don't request a copy of their criminal record or look up their school records...what ever happened to extending your hand and introducing yourself and getting to know them?
Incidentally, after 9/11, I spotted some officer on the plane near the pilot's cabin with a gun. He was there ostensibly to protect us, but it made me nervous. Same with troop transport. Once I was flying to Europe and one section was filled with troops on their way to some trouble spot. That made me nervous as well. Not that they were armed... but some schlob might consider them as eligible targets and we would all be along for the ride.
Get used to it. Marshals (not just the air type) fly commercial armed as a matter of routine. If you fly much, you have probably been on such a flight. It is probably better such folk fly armed than give a TSA or baggage handler thief a chance to steal a checked gun.
Are you seriously going to take that stand in this post. Clearly these people are dangerous, and I'd rather not be in the stratosphere with someone who's looking at a long incarceration and has nothing to lose that has a proven track record of using violence.
This man was going to prison for 10 years, society united kingdom holidays doesn't want him intermingling with it for at least 10 years. Do you think this clown would not have stabbed you me or a kid had he believed it would aid in his escape ?
But that wasn't even my point, my point was we are using a method that isn't secure in that if a prisoner throws a fit, they would be stranded with a make-shift united kingdom holidays plan which is ripe for escape. Which is exactly what happened.
And for the record, when I buy a ticket, I do expect not to be in a plane with a violent felon being transported to serve a long sentence by armed officers. If that means my taxes are raised, then raise them. But not knowing, not giving me the choice as to whom is on my flight is very alarming. As this story proves, desperate men, with violent pasts, are unpredictable.
I respect that you don't mind, but we should be aware and have the right to make that decision ourselves, it should not be thrust upon us. This is not like a bus, where at any moment should anyone feel in danger or uncomfortable, they can remove themselves united kingdom holidays from the situation.
And lastly, I find it very odd for someone who believes we need the right to own the tools to defend ourselves against the unknown, that that right is absolute, who is taking a stand which does not even allow me to decide if I am to be in an enclosed space with a convicted violent felon. You want a gun to protect yourself, it is so out-of-line for me to want to know there aren't any convicted violent felons on a plane I am boarding accompanied by armed officers who may or may not have the ability to control said prisoner ?
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the states could make some kind of deal with the Feds. If a JPATS flight united kingdom holidays is going to be flying to a city (or near a city) that a state needs to transport a prisoner to, why can't they send the prisoner and his accompanying officer on the Federal flight, paying the Feds what they would have paid a commercial airline? That way, the Feds at least get some outside money for a flight united kingdom holidays they were going to make anyway.
what purpose was being served, by transporting him almost clear across the country, to a jail in nevada, when there are plenty of jails in FL he could have been placed in? what genius united kingdom holidays decided this made sense? i'm guessing the jail in nevada is a privately owned and operated one, that the state of nevada has a contract with, and had a bed that needed filling.
in Nevada for a Nevada crime and has to serve that sentence before he can serve the Florida united kingdom holidays sentence. Nevada united kingdom holidays sentenced him, it has to pay to warehouse him. It can't ask Florida to pick up the tab. All state prisons are over-crowded and have budget problems. Why would Florida pick up Nevada's tab?