Gunmen Attack Police In Rockfort

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Gunmen Friday morning engaged the police in a heated gun battle in the east Kingston community of Rockfort. Police report that at about 6:00 am they went to a section of the volatile community and were attacked by criminals in the area. "No one was injured in the attack," said police from the East Kingston Police Division. Police say they will be maintaining a strong presence in the area.

Cops accused of leaking info on Vybz Kartel arrest

DEFENCE lawyers were scathing in their cross-examination of two senior police officers who gave evidence during the trial of Vybz Kartel and four other men in the Supreme Court in downtown, Kingston yesterday. Attorney Tom Tavares-Finson, who along with his son Christian is representing Vybz Kartel, accused the police of leaking information to the media when the police had arrested Vybz Kartel and were taking him to his three properties in St Andrew and St Catherine to search for guns and unlawful property. Vybz Kartel, Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell; Kahira Jones; André St John; and Shane Williams are being tried for the August 16, 2011 murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams During his cross-examination of head of Senior Superintendent Cornwall 'Bigga' Ford — who heads the Flying Squad — Tavares-Finson suggested that the police had intentionally informed the media of the operation in order to prejudice the case against his client. "Did you notify the press?" Tavares-Finson asked Ford. "I had no communication with the press," Ford answered. "So, I take it you were alarmed when Mr Palmer was being paraded around on TV in handcuffs?" the attorney added. "Good news travel fast. I cannot speak for what the press does," Ford replied. "Mr Ford, I am suggesting that this is part of a police conspiracy to prejudice the trial of this man Adijah Palmer," Tavares-Finson said. He also suggested that the police had concocted a theory that a burnt-out, decomposed body was found at house on Swallowfield Avenue, which was owned by Vybz Kartel. "Did you, Mr Ford, tell anybody that a decomposed body was found at Swallowfield Avenue?" he asked. "No, sir, I am not authorised to speak on behalf of the police," Ford replied. Earlier, the attorney suggested the same thing to Superintendent Winston Henderson and Detective Corporal Avrel Thomas, who also gave evidence. Both officers denied having leaked any information to the press about the police operation or a burnt-out decomposing body. Henderson also came under fire from attorney Miguel Lorne, who represents Shawn 'Storm' Campbell. Lorne asked Henderson if he had arrested Calvin Haye, who was acquitted on Wednesday, and his girlfriend, before releasing them days later and then re-arresting Haye again ten days later after naming him as a person of interest, before releasing him again. Henderson replied in the affirmative. "Mr Henderson, you don't know what you are doing? You pick up the man, release the man, pick him up back and then the man is dismissed. You are fishing," Lorne said forcefully. Henderson testified that armed with three search warrants — two for illegal possession of a firearm and one for illegal possession of property -- he led a joint police/military team to houses a Hacienda Drive in Norbrook in St Andrew, Swallowfield Avenue in Havendale, St Andrew and Independence City in Portmore, St Catherine which were owned by Vybz Kartel. He said he seized 14 cellular phones and placed them in a secure place in his office to which no other person has access. He said the phones were held at the Flying Squad headquarters at Harbour Street in downtown Kingston for two months because the police wanted to display them for people who had been robbed to identify if any of the instruments belonged to them. The phones were then handed over to the Cyber Crimes Unit, Henderson said. Thomas, who is assigned to the Major Investigation Task Force, displayed photographs that he had taken of the house at Havendale one of which showed a red coloured stain on a door jam which resembled blood. He said he swabbed the area and secured the sample before taking it to a mini laboratory at the MIT before it was handed over to the Government Forensic Laboratory for testing. Evidence was also tendered by a sister of Williams, who admitted under cross-examination that her brother had been previously charged for illegal possession of a firearm and shooting with intent. The sobbing witness also admitted, under cross-examination from Lorne, that her brother and Campbell were close friends and that he appeared in several music videos which featured Campbell's dancehall brand of music. "You know the popular term, he wanted to buss him or make him more famous?" Lorne asked. To which the witness replied, "Yes." The trial continues today.

US Man Charged With Entombing Baby In Concrete

PLEASANT HILL, Missouri (AP) — A northwest Missouri man is charged with disposing of a baby's body by placing it in a bucket that he then filled with concrete. Cass County authorities said that Matthew Scroggs of Pleasant Hill was charged Thursday with abandonment of a corpse and tampering with a vehicle. Police had received a tip about the baby before they went to Scroggs' home in November to investigate reports of drugs and a stolen car. Officers saw the bucket in the garage during a search for the drugs. A probable cause statement says Scroggs told investigators that he put the boy's body in a bucket and filled it with concrete after the child was stillborn in October of 2013. The results of an autopsy are pending.

Ban On Sale Of Malcolm X Diary Extended Indefinitely

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has extended her ban on sales of a book containing Malcolm X's diaries until a challenge can be heard next year. Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan extended an order Friday that she signed two weeks ago to block the sales. She acted after heirs of Malcolm X sued to stop a Chicago company from publishing the activist leader's diaries. Lawyers for the heirs said Third World Press in Chicago does not have the right to publish "The Diary of Malcolm X." The heirs say they plan to release the diaries in two years on the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X's 1965 assassination. A lawyer for Third World said Friday the publisher has a signed contract from one of Malcolm X's six daughters.

IT’S NOT HIS FAULT Chris Brown Mother Finally Breaks Silence

Chris Brown’s mother reportedly blames his friends for “turning him into a thug”. SMDH! The singer checked into rehab for anger management issues at the end of last month, after allegations he punched a man in the face over a disagreement about a photo. We toldya he left the facility last week, following an argument with his mother Joyce. Witnesses say he threw at rock threw his mom’s car window! This week it was ruled his behavior violated the terms of his 2009 probation for assaulting Rihanna and he was sentenced to 90 days in anger management rehab. But Joyce says none of this is Chris’ fault. “Chris Brown’s mom thinks his friends are a bunch of disrespectful scumbags who got him hooked on drugs and turned him into a thug… this according to sources close to the Brown family,” TMZ reports. Joyce is thought to be concerned about her son’s use of marijuana. The court has ordered him to submit to random drug tests while he’s being treated and it has been reported he thinks he should be allowed to use medical marijuana to combat his fiery temper. Apparently, Chris’ mother is concerned his friends have no real interest in him and just like his status and money. She also believes they introduced him to weed, which she fears he can’t do without.“We’re told the pot smoking got so bad… Chris was regularly stoned around his own mother … and she got fed up with his disrespectful behavior,” reports TMZ. Joyce’s worries are said to be one of the reasons why she got into a disagreement with her son while he was receiving care at a facility in Malibu, California. She reportedly attended a family therapy session and urged the 24-year-old star to continue treatment, which pissed him off. That’s when he damaged her car, and got kicked out of the clinic after just two weeks. What do you think…are Chris’ friends to blame or is he to blame?

Hospital Told Wrong Patients They Had HIV #Video

This is just scary! Bad lab work at a Brooklyn hospital caused numerous patients to be told they had HIV when they didn’t and that they had tested negative for hepatitis C when they really did have it, a new lawsuit charges. WTH!! Kings County Hospital Center supervisors covered for lab workers who botched HIV and hepatitis C test paperwork, longtime employee Lili Hutchison claims in the lawsuit. She is suing the East Flatbush hospital, accusing her bosses and administrators of making her work life miserable after she blew the whistle on routine and potentially deadly foul-ups in the hospital’s pathology lab. “We believe that, because Lili has spoken out about matters impacting the health and safety of the public, that she has been subjected to a steady stream of retaliation and harassment,” her lawyer, Thomas A. Ricotta, told DNAinfo New York. “We intend to pursue all of her rights and remedies to the fullest extent permissible under the law, as no hospital or health care provider should take action to punish employees who seek to protect the public. “ Hutchison, 51, who still works at the hospital as a lab associate, said the retaliation began in 2002, when she complained to the inspector general for the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation about the egregious errors. At the time, she told the inspector general’s office that the hospital hired incompetent and unqualified lab staff, leading to compromises on patient safety, the lawsuit says. Patients were given incorrect test results, she said. Her boss, pathology lab administrator Sajjad Ahmed, covered up the flubs and endangered the welfare of the patients, Hutchison said. The misdiagnoses and mix-up of samples prevented patients from receiving timely care, according to the lawsuit filed Nov. 4 in Brooklyn Civil Supreme Court. During the next three years, she continued to press the issue with the inspector general’s office and alerted the hospital’s executive director, Jean Leon, and the deputy executive director, George Proctor, to the lousy lab work, the lawsuit says. Throughout that time, her supervisors and co-workers disparaged her and one threatened her with physical assault because of the whistle-blowing, according to the lawsuit. Eventually, her supervisors transferred her to the hematology lab, where her career apparently stalled. Despite having 17 years experience and all the right certifications, in 2007 she was denied a promotion to the higher-paying title of lab technician, the lawsuit says. Her warnings also didn’t lead to changes, according to the lawsuit. In 2008, an investigator from the inspector general’s office told her he had interviewed witnesses and found her allegations to have merit, but no action was taken, the lawsuit says. However, in 2011, after Hutchison alerted the state Department of Health, an investigation substantiated her claims, according to the lawsuit. The Health Department, which oversees the state’s hospitals, slapped Kings County with violations for patient safety and quality assurance standards based on its lab’s practices, the lawsuit says. All the while, Hutchison said her direct bosses retaliated by giving her lousy evaluations and brought her up on two department charges of yelling at a colleague and disrespecting another. Hutchison said she notified the state Health Department, the College of American Pathologists and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations of more glaring mistakes, including a patient’s death due to a failure to report blood-level changes. Those complaints led to further violations against the hospital, according to the lawsuit. In retaliation, Hutchison’s bosses socked her with a third work violation and she was suspended for two days without pay, she said. She sued the hospital out of fear she would be treated even worse. “In light of the prior history surrounding Lili’s whistle-blower complaints, Lili fears she will be further harassed, disciplined or ultimately terminated [as a] result,” the lawsuit says. What do you think? : DNAINFO

Watch Porsha’s Date With Man From The Steve Harvey Show #Video

The divorce isn’t even final yet but yo girl Porsha Stewart is wasting no time finding a new man sponsor. After sitting down for an interview and matchmaking with Steve Harvey, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star went on a romantic date with a new man. SIDE NOTE…Watch crazy azz Steve Harvey tell Porsha to calm da hell down! Stewart was a guest on the “Steve Harvey Show” this week and played a dating game where three men competed for her affections. In the end a very giggly Stewart chose a man named Kinyumba Mutakabbir, an aspiring actor and life coach, for a night on the town. Porsha later posted an Instagram photo (below) of her date at Los Angeles’ Del Frisco’s Grille. “Kin is super sweet, I really like him,” said Porsha during a confessional for the “Steve Harvey Show” cameras that captured their night. “It seems really good so far, he seems really genuine,” she added. “It’s great,” said Kinyumba when asked how he was enjoying his time with Stewart. “It looks like it’s going well.” Fans of Stewart have been split over her decision to date while still legally married. Her divorce is set to be finalized in less than 30 days. Watch Porsha’s date with Kinyumba below…