Drunk Ohio couple arrested after allegedly attacking family and punching their 9-year-old in cruise ship cabin: cops
A drunk Ohio couple allegedly barged into a family’s cabin on a cruise after being told to quiet down and attacked them, including striking their 9-year-old, police said.
Gannon Jacox, 29, and his girlfriend Brooklyn Hicks, 28, were arrested on Saturday evening at Port Canaveral, about 40 miles from Orlando International Airport, following the dust-up on the ship, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey wrote on the department’s Facebook page.
The suspects, both from Ohio, “were apparently arguing loudly after taking advantage of some adult beverages” when one of the victims asked them to quiet down — prompting the pair to confront the victim and get in their face outside the family’s cabin door, Ivey wrote.
Gannon Jacox was arrested after allegedly entering a room and hitting three people, including a child, on a cruise ship. Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Florida (Official)/Facebook
The allegedly drunken passengers then “pushed their way into the victim’s room,” where Jacox began attacking two adult victims and their 9-year-old child, Ivey wrote.
An undercover operation targeted the California Democrat between May 2014 and May 2017 following a tip that “internships in Congressman Eric Swalwell’s offices were promised in exchange for campaign contributions,” according to a June 10, 2014, FBI memo.
“As part of the scheme to purchase internships, campaign contributions were conduited through third parties to mask the true identity of the donor and in some cases made by foreign nationals in violation of federal criminal law,” noted the memo.
FBI agents conducted interviews with Swalwell, unidentified campaign donors and others in the congressman’s orbit — but were unable to substantiate the quid pro quo allegations.
However, the investigation did uncover evidence that Fang — who also went by Christine Fang — broke the law by soliciting illegal straw donations from foreign nationals, destroyed records, made false statements, smuggled cash and acted as an unregistered foreign agent, presumably for China, according to a May 2, 2017, bureau memo.
Pressure mounts on school board member to resign over false claim coach called son racial slur
A Fresno school board member who accused a high school football coach of calling her son a racial slur is answering to increased pressure to resign after admitting the accusation was a lie.
Fresno Unified Board Trustee Keshia Thomas said on a podcast in 2022 that Bullard High School Football Coach Don Arax called her son a racial slur in 2013 — but later admitted it wasn’t true.
Family-owned store ransacked in barbaric scene during street takeover: ‘everything we’ve worked so hard for’
A family-owned business was left in shambles after a ruthless group ransacked the entire inventory as part of another lawless street takeover.
A-Z Market in Bellflower was hit around 3:30 a.m. Saturday as a street takeover unfolded nearby, with roughly 100 to 150 vehicles reportedly blocking the surrounding streets and intersection, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Several dozen people ransack the family-owned A-Z Market during a street takeover on Saturday in Bellflower. KTLA
Surveillance footage showed three unidentified suspects using power tools to break through the store’s front window and cut the lock on its security gate.
Once inside, the suspects cleared the way for 40 to 60 more people to storm the family-owned business and ransack it, according to authorities and the store owners.
The looters were inside for only about two minutes, but the damage was devastating.
Images shared by the owners show the aftermath of the raid, with the store appearing completely torn apart. Drawers had been emptied onto the floor, shelves were stripped and merchandise — including candy, food and other products — was scattered throughout the business.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department estimated the combined value of the stolen inventory and property damage at nearly $30,000.
No suspects are in custody and authorities are still searching for those responsible. KTLA
“Honestly, I just can’t get the image out of my head, 50 people in my business, ransacking the place, destroying the business, taking everything that I’ve worked so hard for, we’ve worked so hard for, me and my dad and my brother,” one of the owners told KTLA.
The family said the store already had security measures and alarms in place and had been robbed in the past, but they never expected to see their business overwhelmed by such a large group.
“I’m just so out of words that the situation actually happened. Please don’t do this to anyone else. Please don’t. Like, it really hurts us business owners. As a family business, it really hurts, ” the owner told the station.
According to the Sheriff’s Department, deputies responding to the area first encountered what appeared to be a street takeover at Bellflower Boulevard and Somerset Boulevard.
According to the Sheriff’s Department, deputies responding to the area first encountered what appeared to be a street takeover at Bellflower Boulevard and Somerset Boulevard. KTLA
A GoFundMe campaign launched by Nathan Abdullatif describes the Aug. 15 attack as a devastating blow to the family-owned store. Gofundme
When deputies reached the business, they found a damaged front-facing window and clear evidence that the store had been ransacked.
The suspects reportedly disappeared into the crowd surrounding the street takeover, making it difficult for investigators to immediately identify those responsible.
No arrests have been made in connection with the burglary.
Deputies did issue multiple citations related to the street takeover, but authorities said they were unable to establish a connection between anyone cited at the event and the looting inside A-Z Market.
The incident comes amid a string of smash-and-grab burglaries and ransackings tied to street-takeover activity across Los Angeles County in recent weeks.
Just days before the Bellflower raid, another AutoZone in South Los Angeles was burglarized following an alleged street takeover, with two people arrested in connection with the event.
The family is seeking $9,000 through the fundraiser, which had collected just over $1,000 as of Tuesday. Gofundme
The incident followed two raids at an East Los Angeles AutoZone earlier this month that resulted in at least $50,000 in stolen merchandise and three stolen cash registers.
Similar break-ins were also reported at AutoZone locations in Watts, Downey and Long Beach, prompting authorities to warn that street takeovers can quickly lead to broader criminal activity.
A GoFundMe campaign launched by Nathan Abdullatif describes the Aug. 15 attack as a devastating blow to the family-owned store.
“On the early morning of August 15, 2026, our family-owned business, A-Z Market in Bellflower, California, was devastated during a large street takeover in our community,” the fundraiser states.
“A-Z Market is more than just a store to us—it is our livelihood and a place we have worked hard to build and serve our local community,” the GoFundMe reads. “We are asking for your support to help us repair the damage, replace the stolen merchandise, and get our business back on its feet. Any donation, no matter how small, means so much to our family.”
The family is seeking $9,000 through the fundraiser, which had collected just over $1,000 as of Tuesday.
“If you are unable to donate, sharing this fundraiser would still help us tremendously,” the family wrote. “Thank you to everyone who has reached out, supported us, and stood by A-Z Market during this difficult time.”
Anyone with information about the Bellflower burglary is asked to contact Lakewood Station detectives at (562) 623-3500.
Anonymous tips can be provided through Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477).
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report this month on the Albanian corruption case entangling Jared Kushner’s resort project that was co-written by an editor at a newsroom funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a tie the paper did not disclose to readers.
The August 8 report, “The Suspected Gangster Causing Headaches for Kushner’s Albania Deal,” carried the byline of WSJ staff reporter Eliot Brown and Vladimir Karaj. The story detailed prosecutors’ allegations against Artur Shehu, a landowner who sold property to the Kushner-backed development group before Albanian authorities sought his arrest in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering case.
Karaj is an editor at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network’s (BIRN) Albania office, which runs the outlet Reporter.al. BIRN’s own donor page states that the Open Society Foundation Albania funds the network’s anti-corruption program “through investigative reporting and closer cooperation between journalists and civil society organizations.” Reporter.al is grant-funded by the same Soros foundation.
The prosecutors’ office driving the case, known as SPAK, traces directly to the same donor network. SPAK was created under Albania’s 2016 justice reform, an overhaul the U.S. backed with roughly $270 million in USAID spending routed through organizations tied to Soros over fifteen years.
Andi Dobrushi, the executive director of OSF Albania, described his foundation’s role plainly.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report this month on the Albanian corruption case entangling Jared Kushner’s resort project that was co-written by an editor at a newsroom funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a tie the paper did not disclose to readers.
The August 8 report, “The Suspected Gangster Causing Headaches for Kushner’s Albania Deal,” carried the byline of WSJ staff reporter Eliot Brown and Vladimir Karaj. The story detailed prosecutors’ allegations against Artur Shehu, a landowner who sold property to the Kushner-backed development group before Albanian authorities sought his arrest in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering case.
Karaj is an editor at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network’s (BIRN) Albania office, which runs the outlet Reporter.al. BIRN’s own donor page states that the Open Society Foundation Albania funds the network’s anti-corruption program “through investigative reporting and closer cooperation between journalists and civil society organizations.” Reporter.al is grant-funded by the same Soros foundation.
The prosecutors’ office driving the case, known as SPAK, traces directly to the same donor network. SPAK was created under Albania’s 2016 justice reform, an overhaul the U.S. backed with roughly $270 million in USAID spending routed through organizations tied to Soros over fifteen years.
Andi Dobrushi, the executive director of OSF Albania, described his foundation’s role plainly.
“OSF Albania has been the main funder of the entire reform process,” Dobrushi said.
Six Republican senators, including Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), pressed the State Department in 2017 to examine the relationship between USAID and the Soros foundations in Albania. Judicial Watch later obtained embassy records through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation showing the U.S. mission in Tirana gave the Soros organization input into its own program funding reviews.
Open Society has rejected characterizations linking its work to U.S. government money. The foundation called claims that it receives USAID funding or directs the agency’s spending “manifestly false,” saying it sets its own priorities and uses its own funds.
Kushner’s $1.4 billion Sazan Island project faces daily protests in Tirana. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who has been described as Soros-linked and calls Alex Soros his “brother in Tirana,” has vowed the development will proceed.
The Wall Street Journal did not note Karaj’s employer or its funding anywhere in the report.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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