Prince Andrew claims he’s been TRYING TO HELP in Epstein probe but US authorities ‘WANT PUBLICITY’ instead of evidence

Lawyer’s for Britain’s Prince Andrew are claiming that he has tried to assist US authorities in their probe into the late Jeffrey Epstein, but that they rejected his multiple offers of assistance and opted for “publicity” instead.

US prosecutors said in January that the Duke of York had offered “zero cooperation” with their investigation into Epstein – but it turns out Andrew has been trying to help all along, if his lawyers are to be believed.

In a statement on Monday, the British royal’s legal team said that he had offered himself as a witness to the US Department of Justice “on at least three occasions” this year.

They also accused the DOJ of “breaching their own confidentiality rules” by publicly claiming that the duke had been uncooperative. This is a sign that they are “perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.”

Statements and press briefings from US authorities have given the world “an entirely misleading account” of the situation, they claimed.

The furious response from Andrew’s team comes amid reports that he has been summoned by the DOJ via a Mutual Legal Assistance request (MLA) filed by the UK Home Office to answer questions about his relationship with the pedophile Epstein, who ended his own life in prison last year while awaiting trial.

If the request is approved, Andrew could be forced to provide testimony under oath to a UK court. If he refuses, he could end up being summoned to answer investigators’ questions in person in the US.

Despite his supposed enthusiasm to help, Andrew’s lawyers said the MLA request was “disappointing” since he is “not a target” of the investigation and has offered his assistance as a witness.

https://www.rt.com/uk/491223-prince-andrew-epstein-investigation/

Central Bankers Gone Wild: It's a New Era at the Fed

Ryan McMaken: We’re in a very odd situation right now in terms of evaluating the state of the economy. We can see that there is rising unemployment, and there is likely to be a wave of missed mortgage and rent payments. Is this all just due to the government-mandated “shutdowns” or are there deeper economic issues here?

Robert P. Murphy: In economics there are no controlled experiments, so partisans on a policy dispute can both continue to claim that the evidence is on their side. That’s why Keynesians and Austrians still disagree about the “lessons” of the 1930s, or whether the Obama stimulus package created or destroyed jobs.

During the present economic crisis, I am firmly in the camp that it was not due merely to the coronavirus or even to the (counterproductive) coercive lockdowns that various governments instituted, ostensibly as a public health response. I agree with Jeff Deist, who argued back in April that “The supposed greatest economy in US history actually was a walking sick man, made comfortable with painkillers, and looking far better than he felt—yet ultimately fragile and infirm. The coronavirus pandemic simply exposed the underlying sickness of the US economy. If anything, the crash was overdue.”

What evidence can we marshal to support such a perspective? Well, I have been far from flawless in my economic prognostications, but back in October 2007 I did write an article for Mises.org, worrying that the US could be in store for the worst recession in twenty-five years—this was almost a full year before the actual crash in the fall of 2008. And in that article I wasn’t throwing darts at a GDP chart; instead I used Austrian business cycle theory to gauge the extent of Fed distortions in the financial system.

Now, if I then made a good prediction in real time based on Austrian theory and Greenspan’s artificially low interest rates, that gives me confidence that the Fed’s post-2008 rounds of QE (quantitative easing) and seven full years of virtually zero percent interest rates quite clearly drove the booming stock market under Obama, yet set us up for a much bigger crash.

Even non-Austrians had enough information to know to worry. Back in September of 2019, I explained how the inverted yield curve signaled an impending recession for the summer of 2020—i.e., right now.

https://mises.org/wire/central-bankers-gone-wild-its-new-era-fed

More Twitter Tricks: Twitter Search for “Racist” Shows President Donald Trump as Top Search Item

Twitter is up to its old tricks again.

The social media giant started placing President Trump on top of its list of racists in its search results.

Several users reported this new stunt by Twitter.

FOX News reported:

Twitter’s search algorithm produces President Donald Trump’s page as a top result for “racist” or “racism.”

The result was noted by several twitter users and reported by Cnet, which had several reporters verify that it was not a joke but indeed an authentic result on Twitter. Fox News checked and noted Trump’s Twitter account is listed as the top result under the “people” tab.

Even when the search is conducted in incognito mode or while not signed into a Twitter account, Trump is still the top result.

Last week Twitter censored President Trump’s tweet warning he may send in the National Guard to Minneapolis.

Twitter escalated its feud with President Trump early Friday, censoring a tweet on the Minneapolis riots in which Trump warned he would send national guard troops to save the city from its incompetent radical Mayor Jacob Frey if the President had to. Frey has allowed his city to be looted and set aflame by protesters angry about the death in police custody Monday of George Floyd.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/twitter-tricks-twitter-search-racist-shows-president-donald-trump-top-search-item/

New Zealand prime minister declares: Coronavirus 'eliminated,' time to reopen everything

Now can they save their economy?

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday that her country has "eliminated" coronavirus transmissions.

Back in March, Middle-earth implemented one of the most draconian pandemic lockdowns on the planet. Most of the nation's businesses were forced to close and all but so-called "essential workers" were required to stay home for nearly seven weeks. The government closed its borders to nearly all foreign travel.

In late April, the government said it had defeated the virus and would begin reopening.

On May 27, CBS News reported that the country had discharged its last coronavirus hospital patient.

Less than two weeks later (and after a total of 1,154 reported cases and 22 deaths), Ardern declared that her nation hasn't reported a single new case in more than two weeks, the New York Post said.

Ardern told reporters that Monday marked a "milestone" in the country's battle against the epidemic.

"We are confident we have eliminated transmission of the virus in New Zealand for now," she said, the Post reported, "but elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort."

The government has announced that all events — public and private — as well as retail outlets, hospitality businesses, and public transportation will be back to normal — all without social distancing requirements.

Though the Ardern government has been praised for its leadership and the prime minister's poll numbers have shot up, the Post said, the Kiwis still face a major task: reviving an economy that is expected to sink into a recession.

Ardern did note that the government would continue border controls and require everyone entering New Zealand to be tested for the virus.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-zealand-coronavirus-eliminated-reopen-everything

MUST SEE! Media Is HIDING This: Look at Mass Destruction in Chicago, NYC, Minneapolis and St. Louis After Just One Week of Leftist “Peaceful Protest”

The mainstream media is not just biases, it is not just lying to the American public. The mainstream media is the ENEMY of the American people.

Last week was a historic wake up call for the United States.

The Democrat party took their anger out on American public.

The left rioted, looted, shot and killed, burned and destroyed.

The mainstream media DID NOT show you the aftermath of the leftist rage.

They hid this from the American people.

Here is a MUST SEE video from Chicago, New York City, St. Louis and Minneapolis of the aftermath of last week’s violence and destruction.

Via Andrew Marcus

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/must-see-media-hiding-look-mass-destruction-chicago-nyc-minneapolis-st-louis-just-one-week-leftist-peaceful-protest-shocking-video/

Belgium: BLM ‘protesters’ riot and loot stores in Brussels

Video footage showing masked Black Lives Matter ‘protesters’ attacking police and looting stores has surfaced and is circulating on social media.

As many as 10,000 demonstrators gathered in at the Place Poelaert in central Brussels on Sunday to protest against what they perceive – rightly or wrongly – to be police brutality and racism against non-Europeans.

The demonstration, organized by the Belgian Network for Black Lives Matter (BNFBL), is the second of its kind to take place in Belgium over the last week. Last Tuesday, Voice of Europe reported that the same group organized an illegal demonstration in Ghent in defiance of social distancing measures designed to stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

After about 4:30 pm, the largely peaceful protests gave way to rioting and looting, which resulted in more than 150 arrests, De Telegraaf reports. As can be seen in the video clips, some ‘activists’ hurled bottles, stones, and other projectiles at police while others smashed windows and looted high-end stores in the Louise area of the city.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/belgium-blm-protesters-riot-and-loot-stores-in-brussels-video/

Lindsey Graham Says He’s Been Denied Access To FBI Employees Who Interviewed Key Dossier Source

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he has been denied access to interview an FBI agent and an FBI analyst who met with a key source for the Steele dossier who disavowed the salacious document.

Graham has sought interviews with the FBI case agent and supervisory intelligence analyst to discuss their interview in January 2017 with the primary source for Christopher Steele, the former British spy who investigated the Trump campaign for Democrats.

Steele’s source disputed many of the allegations attributed to him in the dossier, which the FBI used to obtain surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The FBI and Justice Department failed to disclose those red flags in applications to federal judges for authority to surveil Page.

“I made a request to interview the case agent and the intel analyst…and they’re denying me the ability to do that,” Graham said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“I’m going to keep working the system,” Graham said.

Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not say whether the FBI or the Justice Department have blocked his request to interview the FBI employees.

Graham is considering a subpoena for 53 current and former government officials as part of a sweeping review of the investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to the Russian government.

Graham has said he wants to get to the bottom of how information from the source was handled at the FBI and Justice Department.

“The question is, did the case agent and intel agent refuse to tell the system about exculpatory information? Does the fault lie with two or three people, or was it a system out of control?” Graham said on Fox News.

“Here’s what I think. Every time there was a stop sign for Carter Page or Flynn, the system moved forward because the people at the top did not want to stop.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/07/lindsey-graham-fbi-dossier-source/

Farage: ‘Black Lives Matter Is a Dangerous, Marxist Organisation Hell-Bent on Anarchy’n

Nigel Farage has condemned Black Lives Matter in the United Kingdom as a “dangerous, Marxist organisation” backed by the likes of George Soros and “Hell-bent” on overturning society.

The Brexit Party leader said he was “utterly appalled” by the violence across the United Kingdom over the weekend.

“[T]he tearing down of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol… for the second day in a row, Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square being defaced… a mob around the statue screaming ‘Churchill was a racist’; we saw another assault on the Cenotaph, this time with some yob climbing up there and trying to set fire with a cigarette lighter to the Union Flag — these were just some of the highlights from what happened in the United Kingdom,” he observed in the message posted to his YouTube channel.

The veteran campaigner poured scorn on the BBC for portraying the Black Lives Matter as “so peaceful and so wonderful” after multiple “violent and ugly” protests, with “over 50 Metropolitan Police officers” injured — “some of them seriously”.

“And yet, my argument here isn’t against equality of opportunity,” he explained.

“It’s not to say there aren’t still things in society that aren’t perfectly fair — but it is to say this, and to say it very, very clearly: this Black Lives Matter movement is a dangerous, Marxist organisation, hell-bent on anarchy, and we need to wake up, get some facts into our heads, and understand what it is we’re fighting.”

Farage stressed that that “main agenda” of the movement “is the defunding of the police force — that’s right, they want to effectively close down the established police force in the United States of America, and that’s what the key activists in this country want to do as well.”

“They’re aiming at a radical redistribution of wealth, they’re hinting at assets being taken from private companies and put into the hands of workers — I mean, look, this is a little bit like the 1917 Lenin manifesto which saw the communist revolution in Russia,” he said.

“That’s the kind of thing that we’re dealing with here, and it’s very heavily funded — they’re not short of money; they’ve got some big backers, Soros, others… who want to fundamentally overturn the norms of society as we see them today,” he alleged.

“It’s not about equality of opportunity, it’s about an organisation that is Hell-bent on changing society and is prepared to use violence and anarchy to do so,” he insisted — before condemning Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s near-silence throughout the crisis, and the state’s “policy of appeasement” in general.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/08/farage-black-lives-matter-dangerous-marxist-organisation/

Germany: Police use water cannons to disperse BLM protesters

German police on Saturday dispersed protesters in Hamburg after approximately 4,000 people violated social distancing measures and showed up at the Black Lives Matter protest outside of the US embassy.

Citing violations of social distancing measures which ban large gatherings to limit the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, police declared the demonstration an illegal assembly. When hundreds of hooded and aggressive protesters refused to follow the orders, police took action and deployed water cannons and pepper spray to disperse the unruly crowd. One officer was reportedly injured during the protest.

Video footage of police using the water cannon has circulated on social media.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/germany-police-use-water-cannons-to-disperse-blm-protesters-video/

Netanyahu vows all settlements will be annexed July 1, but other lands may wait

Meeting with West Bank mayors who have refrained from trashing Trump plan, PM also quoted saying that the territory conditionally offered to Palestinians doesn’t constitute a state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told settler leaders on Sunday that he still intends to annex all West Bank settlements on the July 1 date that is the earliest allowed by his coalition deals, but he acknowledged that annexing other lands allocated to Israel under the Trump peace plan will likely take more time, several participants in the meeting told The Times of Israel.

The remarks reaffirmed Netanyahu’s self-declared July 1 target date for extending Israeli sovereignty to all West Bank settlements but also appeared to mark the first time he has admitted to long-reported delays by the joint US-Israeli team tasked with mapping out the further territories to be annexed, mainly in the Jordan Valley.

Netanyahu’s comments would mean the government would initially annex about three percent of West Bank territory, covering the 132 settlements, home to some 450,000 Israelis. The remainder of the roughly 30% that the Trump deal grants to Israel — most of which is in the Jordan Valley — would be annexed at a later period, when the joint US-Israeli mapping committee finishes determining the exact territorial divisions beyond the pre-1967 Green Line.

The Times of Israel was told last week it was “highly unlikely” that the US would approve an Israeli move to unilaterally annex parts of the West Bank by the July 1 date envisioned by Netanyahu.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-vows-all-settlements-will-be-annexed-july-1-but-other-lands-may-wait/

FBI and RCMP Retirees Discuss How US Congress Blocks Money Laundering Investigations

https://youtu.be/djZ8J5U6tKE

FBI launches open attack on 'foreign' alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy

Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European writers critical of US foreign policy. The bureau’s justification for the removal was dubious, and it sets a troubling precedent for other critical outlets.

By Gareth Porter

The FBI has publicly justified its suppression of dissenting online views about US foreign policy if a media outlet can be somehow linked to one of its adversaries. The Bureau’s justification followed a series of instances in which Silicon Valley social media platforms banned accounts following consultations with the FBI.

In a particularly notable case in 2018, the FBI encouraged Facebook, Instagram and Google to remove or restrict ads on the American Herald Tribune (AHT), an online journal that published critical opinion articles on US policy toward Iran and the Middle East. The bureau has never offered a clear rationale, however, despite its private discussions with Facebook on the ban.

The FBI’s first step toward intervening against dissenting views on social media took place in October 2017 with the creation of a Foreign Influence Task Force (FTIF) in the bureau’s Counterintelligence Division. Next, the FBI defined any effort by states designated by the Department of Defense as major adversaries (Russia, China, Iran and North Korea) to influence American public opinion as a threat to US national security.

In February 2020, the FBI defined that threat in much more specific terms and implied that it would act against any online media outlet that was found to fall within its ambit. At a conference on election security on February 24, David K. Porter, who identified himself as Assistant Section Chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force, defined what the FBI described as “malign foreign influence activity” as “actions by a foreign power to influence U.S. policy, distort political sentiment and public discourse.”

Porter described “information confrontation” as a force “designed to undermine public confidence in the credibility of free and independent news media.” Those who practice this dark craft, he said, seek to “push consumers to alternative news sources,” where “it’s much easier to introduce false narratives” and thus “sow doubt and confusion about the true narratives by exploiting the media landscape to introduce conflicting story lines.”

“Information confrontation”, however, is simply the literal Russian translation of the term “information warfare.” Its use by the FTIF appears to be aimed merely at justifying an FBI role in seeking to suppress what it calls “alternative news sources” under any set of circumstances it can justify.

While expressing his intention to target alternative media, Porter simultaneously denied that the FBI was concerned about censoring media. The FITF, he said “doesn’t go around chasing content. We don’t focus on what the actors say.” Instead, he insisted that “attribution is key,” suggesting that the FTIF was only interested in finding hidden foreign government actors at work.

Thus the question of “attribution” has become the FBI’s key lever for censoring alternative media that publishes critical content on U.S. foreign policy, or which attacks mainstream and corporate media narratives. If an outlet can be somehow linked to a foreign adversary, removing it from online platforms is fair game for the feds.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/05/the-fbi-launches-open-attack-on-foreign-alternative-media-outlets-challenging-u-s-foreign-policy/

Naval Academy alumni board member resigns in shame after accidentally live streaming on Facebook during racist rant to his wife about Black Lives Matter

A couple in Florida have been caught on camera using the N-word and other racial slurs in reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Scott Bethmann, 63, and his wife, Nancy, were heard discussing news of companies that have denounced systematic racism following protests sparked by the killing of black man George Floyd.

Mr. Bethmann was a Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees member but resigned on Saturday after he accidentally started streaming the 33-minute conversation on Facebook Live which was initially viewed by hundreds then quickly went viral.

'I've got the emails about how we're supporting and we need to fix this problem, fk you,' he said in the video from Friday. 'So all the white people have to say something nice to the black bh that works in the office. But the black bh don't get fired. It's bullst. Management's going to fire the white people.'

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Naval Academy alumni board member resigns in shame after accidentally live streaming on Facebook during racist rant to his wife about Black Lives Matter

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A couple in Florida have been caught on camera using the N-word and other racial slurs in reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Scott Bethmann, 63, and his wife, Nancy, were heard discussing news of companies that have denounced systematic racism following protests sparked by the killing of black man George Floyd.

Mr. Bethmann was a Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees member but resigned on Saturday after he accidentally started streaming the 33-minute conversation on Facebook Live which was initially viewed by hundreds then quickly went viral.

'I've got the emails about how we're supporting and we need to fix this problem, fk you,' he said in the video from Friday. 'So all the white people have to say something nice to the black bh that works in the office. But the black bh don't get fired. It's bullst. Management's going to fire the white people.'

Scott Bethmann, 63, and his wife, Nancy, were heard discussing news coverage of companies that have denounced systematic racism following protests sparked by the killing of black man George Floyd

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Scott Bethmann, 63, and his wife, Nancy, were heard discussing news coverage of companies that have denounced systematic racism following protests sparked by the killing of black man George Floyd

Bethmann continued: 'The white motherf***er can't say anything. That's the point we're making here, Nancy.'

Nancy is heard ranting: 'They're gonna get the blacks and the f***ing Asians from China who love to steal all of our intellectual property.'

Scott asks her at one point: 'Are you against the n****rs?'

Much of the clip features a black screen or shots of the couple's couch after Bethmann accidentally aired his opinion, particularly in response to an initiative taken by Citi Bank.

He only realized that followers could hear what was intended to be a private conversation after he started receiving comments on the social media platform.

'What are they talking about?' Mr. Bethmann can be heard saying, before seemingly realizing his mistake, and reacting: 'Oops.'

It's unclear what the comments stated.

The video was quickly cut off, removed from the website and Mr. Bethmann has now deleted his profile.

However some viewers screen recorded the racist rant and shared it to the Atlantic Beach Facebook group as well as other virtual communities that have repeatedly removed threads about the video.

Social media users discussed whether the couple's opinion may have affected recruitment in the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/06/naval-academy-alumni-board-member.html

CEOs Bank Big Bonuses As Oil Companies Go Bankrupt

When public oil and gas companies are doing relatively well, many are happy to adopt a pay-for-performance model to reward CEOs and executives. However, the tables are quickly turned when things go to the dogs. When these companies go bankrupt, the misery is shared by employees who lose their jobs; retirees see their benefits and pensions go up in smoke, while shareholders and bondholders get wiped out. In sharp contrast, it’s very common for blue-chip executives who have run their companies to the ground to receive multi-million dollar golden sendoffs. Indeed, top executives of oil and gas companies going through Chapter 11 frequently receive very fat payouts in the form of cash bonuses, stock grants, and other benefits that often exceed payments during the good times.

It’s not any different this time around.

At a time when hundreds of thousands of employees in the U.S. shale industry have lost their jobs, Bloomberg has reported that some 35 executives at Whiting Petroleum Inc.(NYSE:WLL), Chesapeake Energy Corp.(NYSE:CHK) and Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.(OTCMKTS: DOFSQ) are set to receive nearly $50 million after their companies declared bankruptcy or are on the verge of doing so.

Rewarding Failure

It’s the manner in which these head honchos continue to award themselves fat bonuses despite federal legislation to crack down on the practice that really grates.

The board at Whiting, an oil and gas producer that filed for Chapter 11 in April, approved a $6.4M bonus for CEO Brad Holly just days before the company went under, exceeding his previous annual compensation package by nearly a million dollars.

In May, California Resources Corp. (NYSE:CRC) warned investors about “…a substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern…” but still went ahead and guaranteed company executives their 2020 bonuses.

So, what’s the justification for this egregious, bizarre, and perverse practice?

According to Kelly Mitchell, an analyst at corporate watchdog group Documented, companies do it so as to incentivize these executives to stick around because they understand the company better and, ostensibly, have better odds of pulling them through. Never mind the fact that their decisions are very often to blame for the company’s sad situation in the first place. They also do it in a bid to cut costs and maximize value for creditors using tools such as tax credits or untapped resources.

No Accountability

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/ceos-bank-big-bonuses-as-oil-companies-go-bankrupt/

Three Rioters Arrested For Allegedly Tracking Cops to Their Homes And Firebombing Their Cars

Three rioters were arrested last week in Gwinnett County, Georgia for allegedly following police to their homes and firebombing their police cars with Molotov cocktails.

The media is remarkable referring to the alleged assailants as "protesters."

From WSBTV, "3 protesters tracked officers to their homes, threw Molotov cocktails at police cars, authorities say":

Three protesters are in jail Thursday after being arrested for trying to set police cars on fire with Molotov cocktails.

They were denied bond in court Friday.

Police say the vandals tracked those officers down at their homes and tried to torch their cars. Both fires were put out quickly, leaving minor damage to the vehicles.

Ebuka Chike-Morah, 21, Alvin Joseph, 21, and Lakaila Mack, 20, all face multiple charges.

[…] Channel 2 Action News coincidentally spoke to one of the suspects during a protest in Gwinnett County last weekend.

"I'm just trying to get the message across," Chike-Morah said during the protest outside Sugarloaf Mills Mall. "We're going to continue walking until we don't feel like walking no more."

Tons of police have also been targeted during the past two weeks.

Officer Shay Mikalonis, 29, was shot in the back of the head by 20-year-old Edgar Samaniego during a riot in Las Vegas last week.

Multiple other cops were shot and rammed with SUVs by rioters over the past week.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61525

Air Force Sergeant Arrested as FBI Looks for Link Between 2 Ambush Killings of Officers

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The FBI and local investigators are trying to determine a possible link between the ambush-style killing of a Northern California sheriff's deputy Saturday night and that of a federal officer who was fatally shot outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland more than a week ago.

The FBI office in San Francisco confirmed Sunday its investigators were working with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department to determine a possible motive and links to other crimes committed in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the attack that killed a Federal Protective Service officer and critically wounded another officer on May 29. Both involved shooters in a van.

An active-duty U.S. Air Force sergeant has been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting Santa Cruz Sheriff's Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, and wounding two other officers Saturday.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said Gutzwiller was a beloved 14-year veteran of the force.

“There’s a hole in all of our hearts now." he said at a vigil Sunday that drew more than a thousand mourners.

On Saturday, deputies responded to a 911 call around 1:30 p.m. about a suspicious van in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area near Santa Cruz. The caller said there were guns and bomb-making devices inside, Hart said.

When deputies arrived, the van pulled away and the deputies followed. The van went down a driveway at a home, and the deputies were ambushed by gunfire and explosives after getting out of their vehicle.

Gutzwiller was wounded and later died at a hospital. Another deputy was wounded by gunfire or shrapnel and struck by a vehicle as the suspect fled. A third officer from the California Highway Patrol was shot in his hand, Hart said.

The suspect, 32-year-old Steven Carrillo, attempted a carjacking and was shot during his arrest, Hart said. He was being treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The injured deputy was listed in stable condition on Sunday.

Carrillo will be charged with first-degree murder, Hart said.

Carrillo had arrived at Travis Air Force Base, 50 miles (81 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, in June 2018 and was a member of the 60th Security Forces Squadron, a base spokesman said.

Carrillo’s wife, Monika Leigh Scott Carrillo, who was also in the Air Force, was found dead in an off-base hotel in May 2018 while she was stationed in South Carolina. She was 30. Her death was investigated by the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, in coordination with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and ruled a suicide, according to the Air Force.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/08/air-force-sergeant-arrested-fbi-looks-link-between-2-ambush-killings-of-officers.html