The Navy’s new amphibious landing craft are coming off the lines

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy’s new ship-to-shore connectors are coming off the production lines, with the second being delivered last week, Naval Sea Systems Command announced Friday.

The new air-cushioned landing craft built by Textron replaces the current generation, adding payload capacity and range. The LCACs are designed to operate from the well decks of amphibious ships and the expeditionary transfer docks and expeditionary sea bases.

There are 12 of the new ship-to-shore connectors in production Textron Systems’ New Orleans shipyard.

In April, the Navy announced a $386 million contract for 15 of the next-generation LCACs.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/08/31/the-navys-new-amphibious-landing-craft-are-coming-off-the-lines/

Elon Musk Teases Batteries With 50% Higher Capacity In Only A Few Years

but plans to colonize Mars by 2050, yea okay

Ahead of Tesla’s Battery Day event on Sept. 22, CEO Elon Musk on Monday took to Twitter – as he is so fond of doing – with a hint of the future.

Responding to another tweet about the company’s rumored electric airplane, Musk said that batteries with considerably higher capacity, 400-watt hours per kilogram (wh/kg), may be only three or four years away.

https://www.ibtimes.com/elon-musk-teases-batteries-50-higher-capacity-only-few-years-3037667

Windsor police charge London man with human trafficking

A human trafficking victim is safe following a call to police near Windsor’s Jackson Park on Sunday.

At approximately 10 a.m., patrol officers with the Windsor Police Service responded to the 2500 block of Ouellette Avenue for a report of a woman believed to be a victim of human trafficking.

Through investigation, police determined a number of offences relating to human trafficking had allegedly occurred. A male suspect was then identified and arrested without incident at a local hotel, police said in a news release on Monday.

The adult female victim was transported to hospital for medical assessment and was connected with community partners to assist with her recovery.

Audley Crooks, a 37-year-old man from London, is charged with uttering threats, advertising another person’s sexual services, and two counts each of sexual assault, trafficking a person by exercising control, and material benefit resulting from human trafficking.

The matter remains under active investigation, police said.

If you are a victim, know a victim, or believe someone may be a victim of human trafficking, help is available and you are encouraged to contact police.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Windsor police at 519-255-6700 ext. 4371, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 519-258-8477 (TIPS) or online at catchcrooks.com.

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/windsor-police-charge-london-man-with-human-trafficking

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interdastingly he was arrested in 2017 for the same charge, unless that's a major coincidence

Police Arrest Human Trafficking Suspects Wanted in Brampton and Mississauga

Police say that on December 26, 2017, they responded to a reported stabbing in the area of Kennedy Road and Sandalwood Parkway in Brampton. Reportedly, a male suspect had stabbed a female.

The victim sustained minor injuries.

According to police investigation, the male who was believed to be responsible for the stabbing and another female had previously “exploited the victim in the sex trade industry.”

Investigators from the Major Drugs and Vice Bureau issued arrest warrants for 34-year-old Audley Crooks and 25-year-old Crystal Eisen on December 29, 2017.

Police say that both Crooks and Eisen were arrested on December 30, 2017.

Crooks has been charged with human trafficking, receiving material benefit resulting from human trafficking, procuring, exercising control over a prostitute, material benefit from sexual services, uttering threat to cause bodily harm, assault, assault with a weapon, and two counts of breach of recognizance.

Eisen has been charged with procuring.

Both parties were held for bail.

https://www.inbrampton.com/police-arrest-human-trafficking-suspects-wanted-in-brampton-and-mississauga

Arizona State University group fundraising for accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

A conservative group at Arizona State University is raising money to help cover the legal defense for the teen accused of the deadly shooting at protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

“Kyle Rittenhouse is not a vigilante but a citizen who attempted to help in a city in chaos,” the university’s College Republicans United (CRU) stated in defense of the 17-year-old charged with first-degree intentional homicide.

“He does not deserve to have his entire life destroyed because of the actions of violent anarchists during a lawless riot,” they insisted.

The conservative group said that all funds raised this semester will go to help cover legal costs for Rittenhouse, the accused vigilante militiaman charged with killing two and seriously injuring another last Tuesday night.

University officials told the Arizona Republic newspaper that they were meeting with CRU “to learn more about this decision.”

“While there is no policy prohibiting student groups from raising funds for a cause such as this, ASU does not endorse or support this effort,” the university stressed.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/31/arizona-university-group-fundraising-for-accused-shooter-kyle-rittenhouse/