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Thursday 20 July 2017
At least 15 arrested in MS-13 gang killings in New York

By FRANK ELTMAN in a Long Island park and pened in the past week, school students. Sini spoke the Suffolk County police
Associated Press the killing of a suspected though Sini noted his de- to reporters after federal sweep are among those
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — gang rival inside a deli, po- partment has been waging authorities announced a named in the indictment on
At least 15 members of the lice said Wednesday. Six of an aggressive campaign superseding indictment murder and other charges
MS-13 street gang have those charged are juve- against the gang following charging a wide-ranging stemming from the killings in
been arrested on murder niles who participated in the deaths of 11 people in series of crimes including April. A fourth gang mem-
and other charges follow- the deadly acts, said Tim- the Brentwood and Central murder, assault, weapons ber named in the indict-
ing a spate of bloodshed othy Sini, Suffolk County’s Islip communities since last and drug charges. Three ment in the park murders
that included the mas- police commissioner. The September. Some of those suspected MS-13 gang isn’t in custody, according
sacre of four young men majority of the arrests hap- killed have included high members rounded up in to court documents.q

Minneapolis police officer has yet to talk to investigators

Wednesday about wheth- daria Arradondo said that
er proper police proce- an internal use-of-force
dures were followed. investigation has been
According to the state Bu- opened, which is stan-
reau of Criminal Apprehen- dard any time an officer
sion, Noor’s partner, Officer discharges a weapon. The
Matthew Harrity, told in- police chief has asked that
vestigators he was driving the review be expedited,
in the alley with all of the but much of the informa-
vehicle’s lights off when tion needed is in the hands
he was startled by a loud of state investigators.
noise, which authorities did Police did not respond
not describe. Harrity said to questions Wednesday
Damond appeared at the about the internal inves-
driver’s side window “im- tigation. Noor’s attorney,
mediately afterward” and Thomas Plunkett, did not re-
Noor fired, striking her in spond to interview requests
the abdomen. She died at from The Associated Press.
the scene. Television sta- When it comes to talking
tion KSTP, citing a source to authorities, defense at-
it did not name, said the torneys and legal experts
two officers thought they said police officers have
Assistant Police Chief Medaria Arradondo and Mayor Betsy Hodges address the latest develop- were being targeted for an the same Fifth Amendment
ments in the death of Justine Damond, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minn. Damond, of ambush when they heard right against self-incrimina-
Australia, was shot and killed on Saturday, July 15 by a Minneapolis police officer after she called a pounding noise on the tion as everyone else.
911 to report what she believed to be a possible assault. driver’s side. Noor had his “Any lawyer that would
(Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP) gun on his lap, the station recommend to him that

STEVE KARNOWSKI his attorney has given no Saturday when he fired a reported. The Minnesota he should give a state-
Associated Press indication he ever will. shot from the passenger Bureau of Criminal Appre- ment to the BCA should be
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four Some legal experts say the seat of a squad car, past hension did not confirm disbarred,” said Joe Fried-
days after a Minneapolis move is wise and well with- his partner in the driver’s the KSTP report. Harrity’s berg, a Minneapolis de-
police officer fatally shot in the officer’s rights. But seat and killed Justine Da- attorney, Fred Bruno, told fense attorney who’s not
a woman who had called without Officer Mohamed mond, 40, who was stand- the Star Tribune it was “cer- involved in the case. “No-
911 to report a possible Noor’s version of events, ing outside the vehicle. tainly reasonable” for the body should ever speak
rape, the officer has yet to there’s virtually no expla- Details that have emerged officers to fear a possible to law enforcement when
talk with investigators, and nation for what happened raised new questions ambush. they’re the subject of a
Assistant Police Chief Me- criminal investigation.”q

Parents who ‘gifted’ daughter to man get prison sentence

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE “The idea, again, that an Authorities said the couple Jurors convicted Kaplan their husband, and their
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — individual in any commu- “gifted” their oldest girl to on all 17 counts of rape of mother previously said that
A Pennsylvania judge on nity would hand off their Lee Donald Kaplan, 52, be- a child, statutory sexual as- she knew about the sexual
Wednesday sentenced children into the bed of an- cause he helped them out sault and other offenses relationships but believed
a married couple to up other person is just incom- of financial trouble when last month, “it could be a good thing.”
to seven years in prison prehensible,” they broke with their Amish a year after a neighbor’s During Wednesday’s hear-
each for giving their oldest Finley said, adding that he faith. Kaplan fathered two tip prompted authorities to ings, one of the Stoltzfus girls
daughter to a cult-like fig- would have given them children with the girl, the search Kaplan’s Feasterville read a statement asking
ure who sexually assaulted longer prison sentences if first when she was 14. home. the judge to show lenience
the girl and her five sisters. legally allowable. She is now in her late teens. Prosecutors said Kaplan in the sentencings of her
Bucks County Judge Jeffrey Daniel Stoltzfus, 44, who “I regret having to put my brainwashed the family, parents, saying the family is
L. Finley said the actions of pleaded no contest, was children through what they casting himself as a proph- suffering “needless” misery.
Daniel and Savilla Stoltzfus sentenced to 3½ to seven have been through this et, and created a world in Finley acknowledged the
were unimaginable as he years. Savilla Stoltzfus, 43, past year and wish to re- which “child rape was the pain that he said would
sentenced them following who pleaded guilty, was connect with my children,” norm.” come with sending the par-
their convictions on child sentenced to three to sev- Daniel Stoltzfus told the Several girls testified that ents to prison but said their
endangerment charges. en years. judge. they considered him to be crimes were inexcusable.q