Politicizing a disaster like superstorm Sandy borders on obscene - Deseret News

A major natural disaster on the scale of hurricane Sandy requires immediate aid from a variety of sources and captures the attention of a nation famous for its charity and compassionate giving. An important presidential election may be one week away, but politics is put aside as people rally to the cause of rescuing millions who are in need.

Well, it has been put aside by many people, not all.

We are dismayed by the few pundits and editorial writers who have tried to use the tragedy to score political points. Most prominent among these is the New York Times, whose lead editorial Tuesday said, "A big storm requires big government." The editorial went on to criticize GOP candidate Mitt Romney for supposedly wanting to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a charge his campaign has denied. It drew strange connections between Romney, budget cuts to FEMA and mistakes made in handling Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

"Many don't like the idea of free aid for poor people, or they think people should pay for their bad decisions, which this week includes living on the East Coast," the editorial said, pulling absurd statements out of thin air without a thread of substantiation or attribution.

In fact, the piece mischaraterized the role of FEMA while implying that big government's role in disaster relief should be expanded.

The truth is FEMA performs its role well precisely because it recognizes the supremacy of local and private aid providers. As Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post wrote in a blog that also politicized the hurricane, the first responders to disasters are local and state officials, who then request aid from Washington for money and supplies as needed. When a major storm is forecast, governors often request federal help in advance so FEMA can assess needs as they develop. FEMA's Katrina response was a failure of leadership, not resources, and the cuts to FEMA over the last two years have not hindered its ability to respond when local leaders have asked.

But disaster relief is most effective at its most personal level, and that ranges from local police and fire departments to neighbors who look after one another and churches and schools that provide shelters and administer food, blankets and other relief supplies. We have seen that type of disaster response often here in Utah, when floods, high winds and other problems have prompted impressive responses from churches and local governments. Armies of volunteers are mobilized at a moment's notice. People put aside their own concerns and come running. In addition, the help provided around the world by the Red Cross and Catholic Charities cannot adequately be measured in dollars.

A larger federal role would threaten to clumsily push those efforts out of the way.

Yes, federal aid is much appreciated where it can make up for local needs. Unfortunately, runaway federal spending on entitlements threatens to hamstring the nation's ability to respond to disasters as deficits grow and the ability to borrow is compromised.

There is a time and place, however, for legitimately debating the balance of private, local and federal disaster response, as well as budgetary matters. A day in which many people on the East Coast are underwater, without power and homeless is not such a time. Using hurricane Sandy for political opportunism borders on the obscene.

Storm Kills 35 People in Vietnam, Philippines and China - Bloomberg

At least 35 people were killed as tropical storm Son-Tinh swept through Vietnam and the Philippines and then moved across southern China.

Seven people were killed, four are missing and 90 injured after the typhoon hit Vietnam's northern coast Oct. 28, the National Committee for Flood and Storm Control said in a statement on its website yesterday. One person died and six are missing in southern China's Hainan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the provincial government.

About 19,361 hectares of rice and 70,932 hectares of other crops were submerged by floodwaters as yesterday morning, according to the Vietnamese statement. The storm blew off the roofs of 47,400 homes. In Hainan, 10,900 hectares of crops were damaged, 716 houses destroyed and 126,000 people were relocated from low-lying areas, Xinhua said.

Son-Tinh traversed the Philippines' three main islands before moving away from the country Oct. 26, killing 27 people, injuring 19 and leaving 9 missing, according to a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council report yesterday.

The storm, known in the Philippines as Ofel, caused landslides, flooding and damaged homes and bridges in some affected provinces, the risk agency said. More than 450 families were still in evacuation centers yesterday and some areas in at least three provinces were still flooded as of Oct. 30, according to the report.

Son-Tinh damaged 155.13 million pesos ($3.8 million) of infrastructure and farm output in the Philippines, according to the report. Direct economic losses are estimated at 990 million yuan ($159 million) in Hainan and 253 million yuan in China's Guangxi region, Xinhua said.

To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen in Hanoi at uyen1@bloomberg.net; Clarissa Batino in Manila at cbatino@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Lars Klemming at lklemming@bloomberg.net

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Storm Kills 34 in Vietnam, Philippines Before Heading to China

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Local residents make their way on a flooded street in Beihai in southwest China's Guangxi province after tropical storm Son-Tinh swept across Vietnam and the Philippines into southern China.

Local residents make their way on a flooded street in Beihai in southwest China's Guangxi province after tropical storm Son-Tinh swept across Vietnam and the Philippines into southern China. Photographer: Feng Yumin/Color China Photo/AP

Man shot dead near Weston Rd. a victim of street violence he abhorred - Toronto Star

Leonard Charles Fullerton's death is not one his friends and family could have scripted.

For most of his life he tried to help his community and to prevent young people from falling into criminal activity.

He died Tuesday, age 26, a victim of the street violence he abhorred.

Fullerton was gunned down at about 4:20 p.m. in his Mount Dennis neighbourhood near Weston Rd. and Eglinton Ave. W. It marks the 47th homicide in Toronto this year.

He leaves behind two young children, a boy, 2, and a girl, 7, along with a tight-knit family who can't comprehend who would do this to someone so well-liked in the neighbourhood.

Police said shortly before 4:20 p.m. Fullerton got into an argument with another man. Moments later, shots were fired, striking and killing Fullerton. According to police, the suspect fled in a silver four-door vehicle.

The day had begun like any other: Just after noon, Fullerton said goodbye to his parents and left the home they shared to go to a nearby gym to fit in his customary few laps in the pool.

He loved being physically fit: He was a talented dancer and basketball player who also loved the water.

But he also used his sporting talents to give back to his community. For five years up until 2010, Fullerton ran a dance troupe and basketball team for at-risk youth through a non-profit agency called the For Youth Initiative.

He was planning to take courses to become a car insurance salesman when his young life ended abruptly.

"I don't know what happened … He was very hard working and responsible, he was very supportive of his two kids. We couldn't expect better from him. He always tried. And now we're faced with a tragic loss," his father Leaford Fullerton said.

Not one to get in trouble, his family has no clue as to what might have motivated the shooting.

"He was a community worker in the area … So obviously if he's working in the community and working with at-risk youth, he's going to come into contact with people with a lot of issues," said Selwyn Pieters, a lawyer who at one time represented Fullerton when he was arrested in a major gang sweep that covered the Weston Rd. area.

Codenamed Project Corral, almost 1,000 police officers were involved in executing more than 100 search warrants that saw drugs and guns seized and more than 70 people arrested — most of them young men — for allegedly having ties to the Five Points Generals (5PG) and Falstaff Crips gangs.

Fullerton had no criminal record prior to his arrest, Pieters said.

The defence submitted a single piece of evidence they thought spoke volumes about his character: A photo that shows former Mayor David Miller flanked by Fullerton and his co-workers in their For Youth Initiative work polos. They submitted it to show that he was a positive force in the community.

"They were alleging he was a gang member," Pieters said. "I just want to say, he was never involved in any gang activities and he was never involved in any drug activities."

The criminal organization charges were later dropped.

Fullerton lived in the community for most of his life. His parents, originally from Jamaica, settled in the area 22 years ago. Devoutly religious, they instilled in him the importance of giving back to the community.

"If he was alive today he would say this is outrageous, this is crazy," said his father. "It is very crazy to think that here you are walking down the street and somebody might attack you. But it's not simply an attack, it's a murder. In broad daylight."

With files from Betsy Powell

At least 130 Burmese refugees drown in shipwreck - The Guardian

Many Rohingya Muslims have fled from their homes and tens of thousands of refugees are now in displacement camps along Burma's west coast. Link to this video

At least 130 refugees fleeing violence in western Burma have drowned after the overcrowded fishing boat they believed was carrying them to safety capsized and sank. Six survivors were rescued by local fishermen, local activists said.

The shipwreck is the single most lethal incident linked to the ongoing clashes between the Muslim Rohingya minority and local Rakhine Buddhists in Burma's Arakan state. The death toll has reached 80 in the last 11 days, according to official estimates. Thousands of homes have also been destroyed, along with places of worship.

Exact details of the wreck are unclear. But there were fears it could fuel further communal violence, which itself threatens to jeopardise the reform process in Burma. Last week UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said that "the vigilante attacks, targeted threats and extremist rhetoric must be stopped [or] … the opening up process being currently pursued by the government is likely to be jeopardised".

The crisis has also posed a major challenge to Nobel laureate and pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been criticised for failing to speak out strongly enough on the issue. Her National League for Democracy party has remained silent since releasing a brief statement on 24 October.

"[Aung San Suu Kyi] has an obligation to do something about the crisis but for some time she has been silent," said Abu Tahay, a Rohingya politician in Yangon, the country's commercial and cultural capital.

A first round of violence in June led to 75,000 people, mainly Muslims, fleeing their homes. The clashes over the last 10 days have forced nearly 30,000 more from their villages, according to the United Nations. The vast majority are Rohingya, who are not recognised as citizens of Burma and suffer widespread discrimination. Ethnic Rakhine communities have also suffered.

"I am very worried about the coming weeks. The situation is very unstable. In five minutes the violence could be everywhere," Abu Tahay said.

On Wednesday a standoff continued on Ramree Island, close to the centre of recent clashes, as security forces attempted to protect Rohingya villages from crowds of local Rakhine.

About 7,000 new refugees, including many who had been living on boats for several days, landed near the port town of Sittwe on Tuesday, NGO workers said.

Many had been forced to leave their homes in the town of Kyauk Ni Maw, where the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman, allegedly by Muslims, in May sparked the sectarian violence that engulfed much of the state the following month.

Hundreds have taken to boats or sought refuge on unpopulated coastal islands over recent days, refugee sources said.

Neighbouring Bangladesh, which already has an estimated 300,000 Rohingya refugees, has closed its border, an act which activists claim violates international law.

Rohingya campaigners on the Bangladeshi side of the border contacted by the Guardian said they had seen boats full of refugees offshore which were unable to land despite running low on water and food.

Thousands of Rohingya try to leave Burma by boat every year. Many vessels are unseaworthy and every year several sink.

Chris Lewa, an activist who tracks the ships, said that about 7,000 made the journey from Burma to Malaysia, often via Thailand, during the 2010-2011 sailing season.

"They are often loaded out to sea and, though some are in better condition than others, they are all packed," she said.

Refugees pay between $1,700 (£1,000) and $2,000 for a place but usually only put down a $400 deposit.

Experts say the crisis is rooted in ethnic and religious tensions that were suppressed during nearly 50 years of brutal military rule.

Hand grenades were thrown on Sunday night at two mosques in Karen state in the east of the country, causing no casualties, domestic media reported.

Some of those now fleeing their homes were Burmese Muslims from the officially recognised Kaman minority. "It's the first time that we've seen the Kaman targeted. That's very worrying," said Mabrur Ahmed, of Restless Beings, a UK-based human rights group.

The UN estimate there are 800,000 Rohingya in Burma. Although many have lived in the country for generations, they are considered illegal immigrants and face widespread hostility.

In June President Thein Sein suggested the best solution to the violence was that the UN resettle Burmese Rohingya outside the country.

Savile sex scandal spurs British soul searching - WMBF

By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) - Jimmy Savile was one of Britain's biggest stars - and, allegedly, one of its worst sexual predators. Now the nation is asking whether there was a link between one and the other.

Was this man at the heart of the nation's popular culture a product of the permissive 1960s and '70s, or do the conditions that allegedly let him get away with repeated child sex abuse still exist, even as awareness of the problem is more widespread?

"We're kidding ourselves if we think it is all hunky dory now, but obviously it was more lax," said Sarah Nelson, a child abuse expert at Edinburgh University. "The culture among disc jockeys at the time allowed a license you wouldn't get now."

Savile, who died a year ago at age 84, came to fame in an era of social transformation. He started out as a dance hall DJ in the early days of rock 'n' roll before breaking into television in the early '60s as host of the music program "Top of the Pops." Later he hosted "Jim'll Fix It," a TV show in which he made young viewers' wishes come true.

The rules of social and sexual behavior in Britain were changing in the '60s and '70s - and along with new freedoms came opportunities for abuse. Savile's career in the exploding world of popular entertainment gave him access to legions of star-struck young people.

"It was all opening up - the pop stars, the glamour - and he was able to take advantage of it because of course he became famous and he could introduce them to famous people, get them on 'Top of the Pops' and all that," said Max Clifford, Britain's best-known celebrity publicist.

Savile was further shielded from scrutiny by the notion that celebrities are larger-than-life figures who exist outside normal social constraints. With his brightly colored tracksuits, big cigars and aggressively jocular screen persona he appeared, to many, a harmless oddball - one in a long roster of British eccentrics.

"The public made Jimmy Savile. It loved him. It knighted him," argued writer Andrew O'Hagan in the London Review of Books.

"A whole entertainment structure was built to house him and make him feel secure. That's no one's fault: Entertainment, like literature, thrives on weirdoes, and Savile entered a culture made not only to tolerate his oddness but to find it refreshing."

Savile's celebrity became a shield. So did his charity work, which brought him into contact with young people who were vulnerable - students at a school for troubled girls, patients at a psychiatric hospital and a spinal injuries unit.

"He had a lot of power and influence, which is something you find with a lot of pedophiles who get away with it for a long time," Nelson said.

And, she added, "he was manipulative - picking victims that either would not be believed or were discredited or were physically disabled and literally could not get away from him."

Since allegations about Savile were broadcast in a TV documentary in early October, scores of women have come forward to allege that as underage girls they were abused by the late entertainer - in his Rolls-Royce, in BBC dressing rooms, in the schools and hospitals he visited. Police say they have identified 300 potential victims of Savile and associates stretching back almost half a century.

Savile's behavior had spawned whispers and speculation. One former member of the BBC's board of governors said by the late 1990s Savile was regarded as a "creepy sort of character" and barred from the broadcaster's Children in Need charity telethons. But his behavior was never formally investigated by the BBC.

Youngsters made several complaints to police over the years, none of which led to charges. The chief of London's Metropolitan Police, Bernard Hogan-Howe, has apologized, saying police failed to piece together Savile's "pattern of behavior" from the disparate complaints.

British police vow that the Savile case will be a watershed moment in combating child abuse, and child protection authorities have stressed that awareness has increased enormously in recent years.

Scandals within several large institutions - from the Roman Catholic Church to the Scouts - have led to soul-searching and stronger rules to protect children, such as criminal record checks on those who work with young people.

Social attitudes have changed, too. Some of the sexualized depictions of young people produced 30 or 40 years ago make uncomfortable viewing now - think of the child prostitutes played by the preteen Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby" and Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver."

But in popular culture, children and teenagers continue to be sexualized. Famous teens and their private lives remain tabloid fodder.

Among the British celebrities who received damages from Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid in the phone hacking scandal was singer Charlotte Church, who told a public inquiry that newspapers ran stories about her private affairs and sex life from the time she turned 16. Even earlier, one website set up a "countdown clock" to count the days and hours until she would reach the age of consent.

"That sense that we have sexualized youth is a much broader phenomenon than Jimmy Savile," said David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University. "Why are there padded bras for 13-year-olds? Why are there pressures on boys to have six packs?

"We have taken comfort in the idea that we can blame him."

Child welfare groups hope the belated revelation of Savile's crimes will be a catalyst, encouraging more victims to report their abusers. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children says the scandal has triggered a surge in reports of abuse - both from the past and from the present.

But, say some, authorities still too often fail to listen to youngsters who report abuse.

Nelson, the child abuse expert, said the danger was that the Savile case "creates a storm for a few weeks" but changes little.

"In Britain, the child protection system is very bureaucratic," she said. "It relies on children to tell - and most children don't tell. It relies on a criminal justice system that can be very aggressive to victims.

"It shouldn't take something like this to make people able to come forward to say this has happened to me, or this has happened in my family."

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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Gunmen kill 20 in Zamfara - The Guardian Nigeria

• Slay Sheriff's associate, sack police station,  schools in Borno

• Two senators under police watch

FRESH waves of violence by gunmen in Zamfara and Borno states have claimed 21 lives, a police formation and schools.

In a village in Zamfara, dozens of men armed with guns stormed Kaburu Village early on Tuesday morning, demanding money before shooting and hacking 20 people to death, local residents said.

"They were all shot to death while the village head was slaughtered with a sword," local council spokesman, Salihu Anga, told Reuters on phone.

In Borno State, gunmen shot dead Mr. Mustapha Flawama, an associate of a former governor of the state, Ali Sheriff and sacked police formations and schools.

The gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram members, set ablaze the Chibok Divisional Police Station, bible and primary schools and a mast of a Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM) firm in Chibok town at 6.35 p.m. on Tuesday.

Flawama was shot dead in Maiduguri at his Polo ward residence by gunmen at 10.16 a.m. on Wednesday.

Chibok is 130 kilometres south of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital and an epicentre of Boko Haram.

And as part of the Federal Government's effort to contain the Boko Haram insurgency, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, yesterday disclosed that some persons alleged to have links with the groups were being investigated.

He summoned top police investigators across the country to Abuja yesterday to evolve new ways of tackling insecurity in the country.

At the start of the conference of senior officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Force, Abubakar disclosed that some people who were alleged to have links with members of Boko Haram were under watch.

"We are investigating and we want those who have evidence to give us. Please, anybody who has evidence about that, we need help. You cannot take anybody to court without preponderance of evidence. All those people you are talking about, yes, they are under watch and we are investigating. So, we need assistance and that is part of what this seminar will discuss today. These investigators need evidence to be able to prosecute their cases. There is no imaginary evidence.  Things do not happen from the blues. They must be realistic and there must be preponderance of evidence for us to do that," he said.

The IGP lamented that the nation has many cases of murder that have not been resolved and expressed his determination to sharpen investigative tools of the police to be able to contain such cases.

Besides, the Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Sunday Ola Makinde, has called on the Federal Government and all relevant security agencies in the country to expose those perpetrating the acts of terror being witnessed in different parts of the country, especially in the North.

He was reacting to the bombing of St. Rita's Catholic Church at Ungwa Yero in Malali, Kaduna North Local Council, by a suicide bomber on Sunday, which left about 10 people dead and nearly 150 others injured.

In a statement made available by the church's Media and Public Relations Officer, Rev. Oladapo Daramola, the prelate said: "Until those behind these series of acts of terror are exposed, there is that possibility that these blood-thirsty people will not stop."

According to an eyewitness and resident of Chibok, the gunmen came in two unmarked Golf Volkswagen vehicles armed with petrol-bombs and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and  attacked the police station and  bible and primary schools at dusk.

He said the policemen on duty at the station were caught unawares when the gunmen started chanting "God is great! God is great," and began throwing several petrol-bombs and explosives at the police station which went up in flames.

"After torching the police station, the gunmen also ran to one of the bible schools and a primary school in the town and set them ablaze, including a telecom mast of a GSM firm in the town," said the resident in a telephone interview yesterday in Chibok.

On whether there were casualties, he said: "None of the residents and policemen was killed in the torching of the station and schools, but the policemen on duty at the station fled on sighting the gunmen with petrol-bombs and explosives at about 6.35 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday)."

Piqued by the gunmen's onslaught on residents of Chibok town, the youths quickly mobilised with bows and arrows, and chased the suspects out of the town, while the three public buildings and GSM mast were burning, as the council had no fire fighting vehicles to put off the raging fire.

Barely 16 hours after the Chibok's police station, schools and mast attacks, gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram also shot and killed Flawama.

Two gunmen, according to a resident, Ibrahim Audu, trailed Sheriff's associate in a tricycle to his residence and fired several gunshots into his head and chest before he slumped dead in the presence of his wife and children in the morning.

"This area is not safe day and night because I am shocked and frightened at the number of people being killed in their houses and

mosques here in  the Polo area. This elder was sitting in front of his house when these gunmen came on Keke Napep and shot him dead this morning (Wednesday)," said Audu, while describing the state of security in the Polo area despite the Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol of the area.

Confirming the separate incidents yesterday in Maiduguri, the Borno State police command spokesman, Gideon Jibrin, said in a telephone interview that there were attacks on one of the divisional police stations in Chibok, while a resident at his Polo area was also shot and killed by suspected gunmen on Wednesday at about 10.00 a.m.

He said no arrests had been made in the two separate attacks and assassination of an associate of the former governor of the state.

Besides, the opposition All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP) has criticised the People's Democratic Party (PDP) over its inability to curb the ceaseless murder of defenceless Nigerians across the country.

Urging the government to live up to its responsibility to protect the citizenry, the ANPP noted that it was unfortunate that the hapless citizens of the country were yet to feel the impact of the billions of naira expended to secure lives and property in the polity.

Describing the latest killings of defenceless villagers in Zamfara State and Dogon Dawa Village in Birnin Gwari Local Council of Kaduna State as instances of the killings too many, the ANPP noted that the incident was a sad statement on the value of human life in Nigeria.

In a statement issued by Emma Eneukwu, the ANPP expressed shock on the gruesome murder of about 20 villagers in Kaburu.

He noted: "It is surely very jolting to fathom the trauma that even the survivors of this heinous act went through as their night rest was abruptly interrupted by rampaging gunmen, resulting in deaths, sorrows and untold desolation. What will make the most hardened mind shudder is the reported story that the raiding criminals came into the village calling on residents of the area to remain indoors to ensure that their money and other valuables were kept within reach."

Also, the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Dipo Ayeni, has called on religious leaders and residents of the state to be vigilant.

The police boss who stated this yesterday at a stakeholders' meeting on security matters held at the Police Officers' Mess in Jos, the state capital, stressed the need for security consciousness as some churches and mosques were now complacent over their security measures. He appealed to the religious leaders to moderate their hours of worship and also provide adequate security for their members during worship hours.
The officer in charge of the Anti-Bomb Squad, Assistant Superintendent Abel Mbibi, reiterated the need for churches and mosques to comply with security measures agreed upon by the security and religious leaders while also stressing security-tips for religious, social, corporate and government establishments in the state.

14 arrested for heroin; one for selling drugs from Slidell fast food restaurant - WWL

SLIDELL, La. – Police arrested 14 people in connection with a drug dealing ring in which heroin was sold out of a fast food restaurant, according to Slidell Police.

Police launched an investigation in October after getting several tips about heroin dealing in the Slidell area, according to police spokesman Capt. Kevin Foltz.

By the end of the investigation, 14 people were nabbed for possession of heroin and other related charges, said Foltz.

James Davis, 21, of Slidell, was arrested for selling heroin at his job at a fast food restaurant, said a statement from Foltz. "It was learned that after contacting Davis, he advised the buyer to drive through the rear parking lot and he would exit the business and make the deal, essentially having his own drive thru drug dealing location.  No other employee at the restaurant was involved or had knowledge of Davis' activities."

Slidell Police are still working to determine who is main dealer and supplier of the heroin. 

Suspects arrested:

• Michelle L. Jewusiak, 33, of Slidell, (arrested 10-18-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Jeremy L. Oaks, 27, of Slidell, (arrested 10-18-12)  was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• James Davis, 21, of Slidell, (arrested 10-23-12) was arrested on three counts of Distribution of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance
• Norman G. Shephard Jr., 30, of Slidell, (10-23-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I and III controlled dangerous substance
• William E. Frazier, 30, of Slidell, (10-23-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance
• Joshua P. Loyacano, 30, of Slidell, (10-23-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Creation of a Clandestine Lab
• Devin P. Hart, 24 of Slidell, (10-23-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Deborah S. Sullivan, 39 of Pearl River, La. (10-24-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance
• Misty S. Kinler, 39, of Slidell, (10-24-12) was arrested for Possession of Marijuana, Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Rebecca L. Hingle, 24, Slidell, (10-24-12) was arrested for Possession of Marijuana, Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Resisting an Officer
• Jason M. Pearl, 27, of Slidell, (10-24-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Daniel E. Beck, 32, of Slidell, (10-24-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• Michelle A. Kane, 29, of Slidell, (10-28-12)
  was arrested for Distribution of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance
• Ashley N. Quinn, 27, of Slidell, (arrested on 10-30-12) was arrested for Possession of a schedule I controlled dangerous substance

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