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An 88-year-old woman was killed in a suspected alligator attack at a gated community near Hilton Head
The body of an 88-year-old woman was found Monday near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, after what authorities described as a suspected alligator attack.
The woman, a resident of Sun City Hilton Head, appears to have been gardening before she wound up in a pond at the gated community for adults 55 and older, Beaufort County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Maj. Angela Viens said in an interview.
The woman couldn't immediately be identified. It wasn't clear how she ended up in the roughly 300-square-yard pond, Viens said.
Viens arrived at the scene a half-hour just before noon after someone dialed 911 and reported that a person was in the water with an alligator, she said.
said she saw the animal, which she described as a large alligator, near the edge of the pond with the woman's body.
"The alligator was basically holding her hostage, I guess — I don't know what the appropriate term would be," she told reporters at the scene. "It was guarding her and did not want people close by."The woman's body was recovered at 1 p.m., Viens said. Authorities from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, which led the response to the incident, captured the alligator around 4 p.m., she said.
It wasn't clear what happened to the animal. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The last time someone was attacked by an alligator at Sun City, where more than 16,000 residents live and which describes itself as the largest "active adult community located in the heart of the South Carolina low country," was 2019, NBC affiliate WSAV reported.
Deborah Cook, who survived the attack, told the station that she had been walking her dog when the animal lunged at her leg and bit her hand, which she believed she'd lost.
"I was so angry — I didn't want to die like that," she told the station."I just started punching him in his eyes. I thought, 'I’m going to punish you.' Miraculously he turned around and left.”
A person who answered the phone at Sun City on Monday declined to comment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/an-88-year-old-woman-was-killed-in-a-suspected-alligator-attack-at-a-gated-community-near-hilton-head/ar-AA10HKSk
PHOTOS:Mysterious 'big cat' reportedly spotted in Manistee County
'It didn’t even occur to me what I photographed — I thought it was someone’s dog'
COPEMISH — A Traverse City resident is sharing photos of what he said was a big cat prowling in northern Manistee County this weekend.
Dakota Stebbins was volunteering for the Drew Kostic Memorial 5K Tough Run on Saturday when he said he spotted the black feline.
The annual run takes place at Twisted Trails Off Road Park in Copemish. Stebbins, having recently taken up wildlife photography as a hobby, said he volunteered to photograph the event.
Braving early morning rains, Stebbins said he was setting up his camera when something black moved into his field of vision roughly 50 yards away.
“Shortly after maybe 10 minutes of getting ready, I was looking at my ISO setting — which in layman's terms dictates sensitivity to light,” Stebbins said. “As I am setting this up, I notice a long black animal strolling into my frame."
Instinctively, Stebbins said he snapped five photos to test the camera’s calibrations.
“It didn’t even occur to me what I photographed — I thought it was someone’s dog,” Stebbins said. “… It was almost 30 seconds before it registered to me that it was a big cat, and then I looked over at the lady to my right and she was hunched over slightly trying to observe the same thing.”
Before the cat slinked away into cover, Stebbins said the woman “looked nervous to me and walked back a few steps.”
“I immediately called out to the lady, ‘Did you see that too?’ (and) she replied ‘Oh yeah, it was huge!’”
Stebbins says he was “shaking” after seeing what had turned up in the photos.
>no pictures shown in article
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PHOTOS-Mysterious-big-cat-spotted-in-Manistee-17375053.php
Longtime Trump Organization CFO expected to plead guilty to tax charges, say sourcesA hearing in the case is nowscheduled for Thursday.The Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, is expected to plead guilty to tax charges as soon as this week, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Weisselberg, 75, is currently scheduled to go on trial in the fall, but a hearing in the case is now scheduled for this Thursday, in what could be a sign that he could change his plea then.
An attorney for Weisselberg declined to comment when contacted by ABC News.
Weisselberg, along with former President Donald Trump's namesake family real estate firm, was charged last year with tax fraud after they were accused of compensating employees "off the books" in order to pay less in taxes.
According to the charging documents, Weisselberg avoided taxes on more than $1.7 million over the past 15 years, resulting from the payment of his rent on an apartment in a Trump-owned building and related expenses that prosecutors said included cars and private school tuition for his grandchildren.
The Trump Organization is proceeding to trial, the sources said, with the case currently scheduled to begin toward the end of October.
News of the development was first reported by The New York Times.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/longtime-trump-organization-cfo-expected-plead-guilty-tax/story?id=88416077
Kek, well done
>gators gonna gator
Found second part interesting about punching the gator, anon thinks someone else may be joining the black eye club, or it was a threat.
Reflection or black eye?
Clicked that shit, kekked out loud. ty anon
Trump’s passports returned after Mar-a-Lago search, DOJ official saysPassports belonging to Donald Trump have been returned to the former president after last week's FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home, a Justice Department official told NBC News on Monday.
The FBI acknowledged it had had the passports the same day Trump said on his social media platform that FBI agents who conducted the search on Aug. 8 took them.
In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said agents "stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else." He did not provide further details or specify whether the travel documents were personal or government passports. (Presidents receive diplomatic passports when they take office.)
A Justice Department official said Trump's passports have been returned.
A representative for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A property receipt from the FBI search of Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Florida, showed that federal investigators recovered a trove of top secret and other heavily classified documents but did not mention any passports.
In court documents made public with the property receipt, investigators said they were searching for evidence of crimes that included withholding “any government and/or Presidential Records” from Trump’s time in office.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-e2-80-99s-passports-returned-after-mar-a-lago-search-doj-official-says/ar-AA10Hx7T
>property receipt from the FBIsearch of Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Florida, showed that federal investigators recovered a trove of top secret and other heavily classified documents butdid not mention any passports.
Is anon to understand that they failed to document exactly what they took?
“THE SKY IS FALLING AT 4AM”
A large metal object fell from the sky near the Maine State Capitol, narrowly missing a person walking outsideA Maine Capitol Police employee was spared Monday when a large metal object apparently from an aircraft crashed to the ground outside the building, narrowly missing him, officials said.
"The 6-7 pound sleeve like object landed at a high velocity approximately 6-8 feet from Capitol Police Screener Craig Donahue who was walking outside the entrance," the state's public safety department said in a news release.
Two other people were in the area and saw the object fall around 12:30 p.m. near the capitol building in Augusta
Capitol Police notified the Augusta State Airport and the Federal Aviation Administration, according to the release.
The FAA has launched an investigation while attempting to locate the source of the part which is likely from a large airliner on an international route," the news release said.
The FAA issued awareness notifications to flights that were over the area at the time of the incident, officials said in the news release.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/us/maine-large-metal-object-falls-near-capitol/index.html
You got me thinking anon, is it Trump playing the Trump card or is it the left playing the trump card and the house of cards falls? Things to ponder. The house of cards falling is still a good image.
Sometimes 'intrusions' have a way of safeguarding people & evidence.
Sometimes 'intrusions' are a necessary event in order to safeguard CHAIN OF CUSTODY [post OIG WB status + doc handover protocols].
Active criminal investigations of this magnitude must be handled w/ extreme care.
The moment your name went 'live' there was no other choice.
Keep the faith, Patriot.
You are never alone.
Q
How do you protect a valuable witness (whistleblower)?
How do you protect the CHAIN OF CUSTODY of evidence?
Name IDEN Public FBI 'intrusion' > Lawsuit > Response to Lawsuit > Public Reveal (otherwise sealed?)
Moves & Countermoves.