This isn't actually a new thing, albeit still a disturbing one. I believe it's called wifi sensing and think it can be done with most existing wireless hardware in use.
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This isn't actually a new thing, albeit still a disturbing one. I believe it's called wifi sensing and think it can be done with most existing wireless hardware in use.
A Florida man and woman are behind bars over their roles in an ax-wielding ambush at an apartment complex earlier this week, according to Sunshine State law enforcement.
Nicholas Lavallee, 20, and Anne Aksell, 29, stand accused of one count each of robbery with a firearm, grand theft of a motor vehicle, battery in the first degree, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, Orange County court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
The underlying incident occurred on Monday at an apartment complex on Emily Loop in Orlando, according to arrest affidavits.
The defendants allegedly worked with at least two other men to rob and beat the victim – who ultimately escaped to a nearby apartment complex amid the harrowing attack when he came across a woman walking her dog who called 911, according to the charging documents.
The victim told deputies he began following Aksell on Instagram roughly a year ago and finally began messaging her sometime in the past two weeks, the affidavit says. The direct messages stopped, on the victim's end at least, when a man "started messaging him through her account, identifying himself as her boyfriend and telling him to stay away." Then, the boyfriend – identified as Lavallee – began messaging the victim through his own account and the two men "came to an understanding" about the messages, the affidavit says.
Nicholas Lavallee, 20, and Anne Aksell, 29, stand accused of one count each of robbery with a firearm, grand theft of a motor vehicle, battery in the first degree, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, Orange County court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
The underlying incident occurred on Monday at an apartment complex on Emily Loop in Orlando, according to arrest affidavits.
The defendants allegedly worked with at least two other men to rob and beat the victim – who ultimately escaped to a nearby apartment complex amid the harrowing attack when he came across a woman walking her dog who called 911, according to the charging documents.
The victim told deputies he began following Aksell on Instagram roughly a year ago and finally began messaging her sometime in the past two weeks, the affidavit says. The direct messages stopped, on the victim's end at least, when a man "started messaging him through her account, identifying himself as her boyfriend and telling him to stay away." Then, the boyfriend – identified as Lavallee – began messaging the victim through his own account and the two men "came to an understanding" about the messages, the affidavit says.
But the messages did not stop.
On Dec. 29, someone using Aksell's account allegedly "messaged the victim stating she had broken up with her boyfriend and invited him to her apartment," according to the charging documents.
The victim then drove over to the address provided around 11:30 p.m., authorities say, planning to meet up with Aksell.
"He stated she came down the stairs of the building dressed in lingerie," the charging documents read. "He followed her up the stairs and as they were about to get to the third floor, he heard a voice telling him not to move and holding out a gun. [The victim] looked up and saw a white male, who he recognized."
The man he recognized was Lavallee, the sheriff's office said.
The charging documents recount what allegedly happened next:
The victim ran back down the stairs but there were two males, a white male and a black male, waiting for him at the bottom. One was holding an axe and the other was holding a knife. The victim recalled the boyfriend yelling out for "Eli" to stop him and that the white male suspect reacted to that. He stated someone grabbed him and put him in a chokehold as the other suspects began to hit him. He stated someone went into his pockets and took his iPhone 16, wallet, and keys. [The victim] remembered hearing "Fawn" in the background, calling him a "b—". The victim was eventually able to get free and started running, yelling for help.
But help did not come, not yet anyway.
"He stated the two male suspects who were waiting for him chased him," the affidavit goes on. "The victim slowed down and realized the two slowed down also. So, the victim stopped and asked them what they were going to do. The suspect holding the axe hit him in the head with the blunt end and the victim fell onto the ground. He stated he thought he was going to die so [he] started running again."
After that, the victim scaled a fence to find the aforementioned woman, her dog, and, ultimately, safety, the sheriff's office said.
"The suspects took his wallet, cell phone, and keys to the Jeep he drove there in," the affidavit continues. "The victim sustained a stab wound to his upper right back and a contusion to the back of his head."
Investigators then obtained surveillance footage from the apartment complex leasing office that aligned with the victim's version of events, authorities said. That footage contradicted a narrative provided by Aksell in which she claimed Lavallee wanted to beat the victim up for "grabbing on her."
"When I pointed out that her timeline did not make sense, she finally admitted she and Nicholas invited him over with the intention of beating him up," a deputy wrote in the charging documents.
Authorities also say they recovered the lingerie seen in the footage from a closet in Lavallee's apartment unit – which is located at the same address where the victim was enticed to meet Aksell.
Later, Lavallee admitted he was upset because he believed the victim "was making fun of him and disrespecting his wife," the sheriff's office said. The man allegedly went on to say "this p— him off and he wanted to blow off some steam and teach this guy a lesson."
The man also said he recruited "two guys he knew from the neighborhood, whom he identified only as 'Eli' and 'J3'…to come as backup in case he lost the fight," according to the charging documents.
"Nicholas was adamant it was his plan to fight the victim only and it was his idea and not Anne's," the affidavit goes on. "Anne stated she was a decoy in this incident. She stated it was Nicholas who wanted to fight the victim. He was upset and wanted to blow off some steam."
The charging documents for each defendant are substantially similar. In various sections of the affidavits, the terms "boyfriend," "husband," and "wife" are used to describe their relationship.
Aksell and Lavallee are being detained in the Orange County Jail without bond. They are slated to appear in court on Jan. 5.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...p&cvid=6959abf244774715873dbcb796ef588f&ei=18
Four people died in an Arizona helicopter crash Friday after the aircraft appeared to strike a more than half-mile “recreational slackline” strung across a mountain rage, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office said that around 11 a.m. it received reports of a helicopter that crashed in the mountains near Telegraph Canyon, south of the town of Superior.
Four family members were killed in the crash, including the 59-year-old pilot, a 22-year-old woman and two 21-year-old women, the sheriff’s office said.
“Preliminary evidence indicates a recreational slackline more than one kilometer long had been strung across the mountain range,” the sheriff’s office said in an update Friday afternoon.
“An eyewitness who called 911 reported seeing the helicopter strike a portion of the line before falling to the bottom of the canyon,” the office said.
Recreational slacklining can refer to balancing atop or doing tricks on a narrow webbing that is strung between two points, such as trees, according to the International Slackline Association.
The sheriff’s office did not provide additional information in its post about the purpose of the line and it was not immediately clear whether it had been set up with authorization.
The helicopter had taken off from Pegasus Airpark in Queen Creek, around 30 miles west of Superior, the sheriff’s office said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the helicopter was an MD 369FF. The National Transportation Safety Board said it will investigate the crash.
Superior is a town of around 2,400 located in a mountainous area a little more than 55 miles east of Phoenix.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles...pxXzaPUMQ9fkt7r3tqLM2Qm7Rm4XCd5YgOmvtCY9dkIc9
"...The International Slackline Association (ISA) said the highline had aviation markers attached to it and that the FAA had been informed with a NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) having been issued before the collision barring pilots from flying nearby..."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...icopter-crashes-remote-Arizona-mountains.html
Incredibly unfortunate accident, huge loss for the family. Hopefully this tragic accident will drive some desperately needed updates to the antiquated NOTAMs system.
Which is why one shouldn't use more resolution than is really needed. Most of my pix are shot at 5-8 MP as they're only shown on the computer and are downsized from there for web stuff.
RIP brother
Can't count the number of shows I attended, what an amazing dude, and band, and story.
Can't count the number of shows I attended, what an amazing dude, and band, and story.
This breaks my heart. Mickey Hart is still with us and I’ll make it my job to see him somewhere someday soon.
A Brazilian au pair testified that her employer planned a double murder using a man he lured from a BDSM website as a patsy to avoid a divorce, prosecutors alleged at the first day of his trial Tuesday.
Brendan Banfield, 40, is accused of killing his wife, Christine Banfield, and a stranger named Joseph Ryan, whom he allegedly planned to frame for his wife's murder. Fairfax County prosecutors have used the Banfields' Brazilian au pair as a key witness in the case against him.
Juliana Peres Magalhaes, 25, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter for her role in the double murder plot and agreed to testify against Brendan Banfield, with whom she was having an affair while working as the couple's au pair.
Peres Magalhaes took the witness stand Tuesday to testify against Banfield, saying he confided in her as early as October 2022 that he wanted to "get rid of" his wife and that divorce wasn't an option. He was worried about money and custody of the couple's daughter, who was 4 years old at the time of her mother's death.
Prosecutors allege that Banfield created a profile on FetLife.com, a BDSM and kink community site, to connect with Ryan. Posing as his wife, in February 2023 Banfield allegedly invited Ryan to come to their home for a fake rape scenario involving chains and a knife.
Brendan Banfield used his wife's laptop to create the account, according to Peres Magalhaes' testimony. Christine Banfield, an ICU nurse, would throw her backpack containing her laptop by the door, which was how they were able to access her computer, Peres Magalhaes told the court.
"He always made sure for us to make sure to log in on the account when she was home, so it would have, you know, throughout the investigation it'll be ... very clear that, like, whenever she was using the profile, she was home," Peres Magalhaes said.
The account was made in January 2023, after, Peres Magalhaes said, she and Brendan Banfield made at least two visits to a shooting range.
Ryan was instructed not to stop "even if she was calling for help," lead prosecutor Jenna Sands said in her opening statement Tuesday.
According to the prosecution's case, Brendan Banfield left their home for a short time and instructed Peres Magalhaes to wait to signal when Ryan arrived.
He disabled the lock and confirmed Ryan's arrival while his wife was still sleeping, Sands said, then planned to arrive back while Ryan was in the bedroom with his wife.
"Brendan enters the bedroom, first shooting Joe in the head, picks up the knife that Joe had brought and stabs Christine repeatedly in the neck," Sands said. "He directs Juliana to shoot Joe a second time with her gun, this time the bullet enters Joe's chest with Christine dead or dying."
Peres Magalhaes was arrested eight months after calling 911 to report the incident, with prosecutors initially charging her with second-degree murder.
Brendan Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the death of his wife and Ryan, and faces additional charges of child abuse and felony child cruelty. He faces life in prison if convicted on the murder charges.
John Carroll, Brendan Banfield's defense attorney, has contested the government's assertion that his client posed as his wife on the BDSM website. He told the court in his opening statement that he would present digital forensics that would show Christine Banfield directly engaged with Ryan on the site.
The defense's account of the day is significantly different from the government’s case. Carroll accused the prosecution of using Peres Magalhaes' vulnerable position of being an immigrant away from her family to have her testify against his client.
"You'll hear there were at least four or five times during that year leading up to Brendan Banfield being charged, where they came to her, they went through her attorney, and they offered that deal that she now stands to have taken," Carroll said.
Carroll also referenced a disagreement among investigators on the theory that Brendan Banfield acted as a "catfish," a term for using someone else's identity online to lure someone into a relationship. He accused the police department of reassigning members of the case who disagreed with the theory.
Brendan Miller, a former digital forensic examiner with the Fairfax County Police Department, said last year that he concluded, after analysis of Christine Banfield's devices, that she communicated with Ryan directly. He was transferred out of the digital forensics unit but a former Fairfax County commander testified the reassignment was not punitive.
The "lies" from Peres Magalhaes are the center of the narrative offered by the prosecution, Carroll said Tuesday.
"I understand the situation that she's in, and I understand the fact that she's away from home, and she's young, and she depended on people," Caroll said. "And she's also depending on the Commonwealth, and they've put her in this situation, and she's accepted it gladly."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...void-divorce-affair-au-pair-prosec-rcna253830
KennethS
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Time to buy a rope so you could climb down instead of jumping.
Definitely need a rope. What do you do when you jump into a 10' deep drift? I'd be afraid of dying like somebody in an avalanche.
Holy shit.
Grok said they're real and not AI. I'm not sure.
Grok said they're real and not AI. I'm not sure.
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