Three teenagers were shot at and hunted down like dogs early Saturday morning after mistakenly knocking on the door of a New Jersey State Trooper in Sparta.
The teens reportedly had left a high-school graduation party and were attempting to meet a friend at his home on West Mountain Road.
Instead, they erroneously went to the home next door, and after repeatedly ringing the doorbell and loudly knocking, the unidentified trooper came to the door and yelled at them before they ran away.
The three got into a vehicle and the officer fired three gun shots as they attempted to flee, disabling the car about a half a mile away where two of them – John Baker-Marasco and Jesse Farcorn – were apprehended and taken to the Netcong Trooper Barracks for questioning and processing.
The third, Matthew Mayer, fled on foot, witness say.
Sparta Police and the New Jersey State Police were quickly dispatched and a manhunt ensued involving a helicopter equipped with a spot-light, canine units, foot patrols, and vehicles – which scoured the scene, questioned homeowners and searched private property.
Mayer was eventually found and arrested.
It is not clear what the teens were charged with and involved police agencies have said they cannot comment on the possible charges since the attorney general's office is conducting the investigation.
The Press Office of the attorney general's office has not yet responded to requests for comment made by local news outlets.
The startling story precludes the reality that police envision themselves as a protected class in society – to shoot first and ask questions later – even when off-duty.
The reaction has troubled local residents who were awoke to a martial law type abuse of private property rights in the wee hours of the morning during the search.
One homeowner complained that their home and property was searched and another said the police officers came to their home and questioned them about Mayer – but it is not clear how many total homes were combed through during the "investigation."
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico dispatcher has resigned after telling a panicked 911 caller who was trying to save the life of a shooting victim to "deal with it yourself."
Matthew Sanchez was reassigned after officials became aware of the call, fire officials said on Monday. But a statement Tuesday evening from the office of Albuquerque's chief administrative officer said that Sanchez has resigned from the fire department.
The call was made after Jaydon Chavez-Silver, 17, was shot in June as he watched other teens play cards at a friend's house in Albuquerque. He later died. Police have not named a suspect and have made no arrests.
In the recording obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, the panicked caller snaps at the dispatcher for repeatedly asking whether Chavez-Silver is breathing.
During the call, the female says, "I am keeping him alive!"
Sanchez asks, "Is he not breathing?"
The caller responds, "Barely!"
She is then heard frantically encouraging Chavez-Silver to keep breathing.
"One more breath! One more breath!" she is heard telling the teen. "There you go Jaydon. One more breath! There you go Jaydon. Good job! Just stay with me, OK? OK?"
The dispatcher then asks again, "Is he breathing?"
The female responded, "He is barely breathing, how many times do I have to (expletive) tell you?"
"OK, you know what ma'am? You can deal with it yourself. I am not going to deal with this, OK?" the dispatcher says.
It seemed from the tape that Sanchez hung up on the caller in mid-sentence.
"No, my friend is dying .," she said as the call ended.
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This story has been corrected to say a dispatcher, not a firefighter, took the 911 call, and that the dispatcher told the caller to "deal with it yourself," not "herself."
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Nevzat Aydin founded Turkey's biggest online food delivery firm 15 years ago.
This is what profit sharing should look like.
The CEO and co-founder of Turkish food delivery company Yemeksepeti has paid out $27 million to 114 employees after selling the firm for $589 million.
Nevzat Aydin said his employees deserved to benefit from the company's sale to Germany's Delivery Hero.
"Yemeksepeti's success story did not happen overnight and many people participated in this journey with their hard work and talent," he told CNNMoney.
The startup was launched 15 years ago by Aydin and three colleagues. It now has 370 employees, delivering over three million meals every month.
The bonuses are worth $237,000 on average. They were paid from the proceeds of the sale of the company.
How much each employee received was based on their performance, how long they had worked for the firm, and their "future potential in the company," Aydin said. Only employees who had been with the company for two years were eligib le.
Aydin's employees are paid between $1,000 and $2,000 a month. That means the average payout is worth roughly 150 times their monthly wage, and tops the average Wall Street bonus for 2014 by $65,000.
Nedim Nahmias is one of the employees who received a bonus. He started as a call center operator 10 years ago, before working his way up to become chief operating officer.
He knew his boss had plans for the payout, but had no idea of the amount.
"The conversation became very emotional for both of us," he said. "This bonus package is life changing to many of us."
Nahmias, who got engaged recently, would not say how much he was paid. "Let's just say the money I received will cover many potential expenses of a soon to be married couple," he said.
Yemeksepeti is one of the most successful tech brands in Turkey. It also operates in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Jordan.
Delivery Hero said the bonus plan had been decided before the acquisition, but said it approved of the idea.
"The success of companies like Delivery Hero and Yemeksepeti is based on amazing company cultures where tremendous people always walk the extra mile," spokesman Bodo von Braunmuehl said.
"We have in the past, and will in the future, continue to also share some of the success with those," he said.
Aydin, who first revealed the bonus in an interview with Turkish newspaper Hurriet, has been promoted as part of the takeover. He remains CEO of Yemeksepeti, but will also join the executive board of Delivery Hero.
He remains convinced his team should benefit from any future successes of the firm.
"I believe in team work and I believe success is much more enjoyable and glorious when shared with the rest of the team," he said.
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Heroin. It's a drug with an addiction so powerful that one Youngstown woman begged a Judge to send her to jail just so she could get clean.
"There's no help out there anymore. There's a three-month waiting list for any rehab around here because of the heroin epidemic. It was faster to go to jail."
Determined to get her life back, as well as her three-year-old son, 25-year-old Kayla Dempsey made a desperate and somewhat unusual decision. The admitted heroin addict pleaded guilty to possession of a drug instrument and requested that Youngstown Judge Elizabeth Kobly throw her in jail for 30 days so she could get clean.
"There's people somewhere, there has to be people somewhere that are willing to help. Judge Kobly is not known for her kindness. I was not expecting her to agree to 30 days, and when she did I felt so blessed. And I knew right then and there somebody cares," Dempsey said.
The Austintown woman says she first became addicted at 18, and was able to clean herself up for 5 years. But it's when she was prescribed pain killers and ran out that the need for heroin surfaced.
"You don't feel anything. You don't feel no physical pain, you don't feel no emotional pain. Nothing but a super euphoric just happy feeling," Dempsey said.
Dempsey says she's watched friends die waiting for detox beds to open, and knew this time for her this could be a matter of life or death.
"Jail's maybe not the best place to detox but it was my fastest option. With the Warren and Trumbull County scare and all the bad drugs going around, I didn't want to risk it no more," Dempsey said.
Now, the Austintown woman says even though she's behind bars she's finally feeling clean and hopeful. But she realizes her biggest challenge lies ahead.
Dempsey says, "It's not going to be the time in here that makes the difference. It's going to be what I do when I get out."
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If you're topless in any part of British Columbia and a police officer tells you to put a shirt on, you don't have to obey.
That's the message a Kelowna woman wants to deliver to anyone who doesn't realize being topless in B.C. is legal.
Susan Rowbottom says she was at a local beach last week, sunbathing without a top on, when an RCMP officer approached her and told her to cover up. Rowbottom said she did as she was told at the time, though she was fairly certain it was legal for both men and women to be bare-chested in public.
After confirming with city staff and the local RCMP detachment, Rowbottom said her understanding of the law was correct.
"Hopefully this comes to the RCMP's attention that they can't enforce laws that don't exist," she told CBC's Radio West.
In 1996, the Ontario Court of Appeal granted women in that province the right to bare their breasts in public after overturning the earlier conviction of Gwen Jacobs. Jacobs was initially found guilty of committing an indecent act, but the appeal court later ruled that "there was nothing degrading or dehumanizing" about her decision to take off her shirt in public.
In 2000, the B.C. Supreme Court also stood behind the right of women to bare their breasts. Linda Meyer had been charged with violating a clothing bylaw after showing up topless at a city-run pool, but the judge in the case wrote that there was no evidence to support "the view that the parks could not operate in orderly fashion if a female were to bare her breasts in a circumstance that did not offend criminal laws of nudity."
Kelowna RCMP Cpl. Joe Duncan says arrests for public nudity are rare, and usually only happen if someone is "doing something sexual," or if a convicted sex offender is naked near children or a school.
'Our society is changing'
Still, Duncan says that if a topless person is asked to put a shirt on because children or families nearby feel uncomfortable, he expects them to comply.
Rowbottom says there were no children around when she was at the beach last week, and no one had complained. However, if there had been a family feeling uneasy and wanting her to cover up, she would have done so out of respect.
Still, Rowbottom wants to normalize the baring of breasts in public.
"I think if men can be topless, women should be able to be topless," she said. "Our society is changing and evolving and I'd like to move forward with that."
Rowbottom's interview comes as three Kitchener, Ont., sisters are in the news for the same reason. Tameera, Nadia and Alysha Mohamed are planning to file a formal complaint after they say they were stopped by a police officer for cycling topless.
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A Minnesota dentist who caused an international uproar when he reportedly paid $55,000 to kill Cecil, an iconic lion in Zimbabwe, issued a statement late Tuesday saying he regretted the animal's death, but thought he was acting legally.
Walter Palmer, who was included in a 2009 New York Times feature on big game hunting, said that he had "hired several professional guides, and they secured all proper permits. To my knowledge, everything about this trip was legal and properly handled."
Palmer, who lives in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie and practices in nearby Bloomington, went on to say that he "had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt. I relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt." He added that he had not been contacted by authorities in Zimbabwe or the U.S.
"I deeply regret that my pursuit of an activity I love and practice responsibly and legally resulted in the taking of this lion," he said.
Palmer's identity was first reported by Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which cited two sources and viewed a copy of the dentist's hunting permit. His identity was later confirmed by the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, the Safari Operators Association of Zimbabwe and police.
The 13-year-old lion, beloved by many who came to explore the park, was allegedly shot by Palmer with a bow and arrow. Palmer is thought to have lured Cecil about a mile out of the park on the night of July 1, and the injured lion was discovered roughly 40 hours later by Palmer's hunting team, who had Cecil shot and killed. Cecil was ultimately beheaded and skinned. The hunters also removed his collar, which is against the park's rules.
Theo Bronkhorst, a professional hunter with Bushman Safaris, reported his "mistake" to the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority the next day. Bronkhurst and the landowner, whose property borders the park, are under arrest and will appear in court August 6.
"Both the professional hunter and the land owner had no permit or quota to justify the offtake of the lion and therefore are liable for the illegal hunt," Zimbabwe National Parks said in a statement.
Bronkhorst was apparently unaware of the lion's global fame.
"It was a magnificent, mature lion," he told the Telegraph. "We did not know it was well-known lion. I had a license for my client to shoot a lion with a bow and arrow in the area where it was shot."
Cecil's death has outraged conservationists in the U.S. as well. In a statement late Tuesday, Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., called for an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to see whether any U.S. laws were violated.
According to U.S. court records, Palmer pleaded guilty in 2008 to making false statements to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about a black bear he fatally shot in western Wisconsin. Palmer had a permit to hunt but shot the animal outside the authorized zone in 2006, then tried to pass it off as being killed elsewhere, according to court documents. He was given one year of probation and fined nearly $3,000.
Doug Kelley, a former federal prosecutor and Palmer's attorney in the bear case, was unavailable for comment Tuesday, according to his assistant.
Palmer has several hunts on record with the Pope and Young Club, where archers register big game taken in North America for posterity, said Glenn Hisey, the club's director of records. Hisey said he didn't have immediate access to records showing the types and number of animals killed by Palmer, but he noted that club records involve legal hunts "taken under our rules of fair chase."
Although African game wouldn't be eligible, Hisey said he alerted the group's board that Palmer's ethics were being called into question. He said Palmer's domestic records could be jeopardized if he's found to have done something illegal abroad.
A Facebook page for Palmer's Minnesota dental practice was taken offline Tuesday after users flooded it with comments condemning Palmer's involvement in the hunt. Hundreds of similar comments inundated a page for his dental practice on the review platform Yelp, which prior to Tuesday had only three comments.
Some people left stuffed animals at the door to his shuttered office Tuesday in a sign of protest.
Palmer is properly licensed and able to practice in the state, according to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry. Board records show that Palmer was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint settled in 2006, with Palmer admitting no wrongdoing and agreeing to pay a former receptionist more than $127,000.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A police cordon was put in place from the shops to the Marsh House Avenue junction following reports that a woman had been raped at around 2am.
It was later altered to cordon off the alleyway entrance next to the shops, with two police officers guarding the cordoned off area.
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