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originally posted by: nikkib0421
a reply to: texasgirl
Maybe the details are getting twisted in my head. I read Poindexter found him cold and obviously dead. He called the sheriff demanding the number for a us marshal and wouldn't tell the sheriff why.
If that's all true to begin with.
originally posted by: nikkib0421
a reply to: texasgirl
Maybe the details are getting twisted in my head. I read Poindexter found him cold and obviously dead. He called the sheriff demanding the number for a us marshal and wouldn't tell the sheriff why.
If that's all true to begin with.
originally posted by: texasgirl
Here's an article with some interesting pics of the ranch:
fellowshipoftheminds.com...
There's a photo of Scalia's fire pit that was evidently used, as it contained ashes. When did he have time to use his fire pit?
Or was someone burning important documents in it?
Ex-sheriff wants life sentence reduced to 30 years
MARFA – Former Presidio County Sheriff Rick Thompson is serving a life sentence in federal prison for smuggling more than a ton of coc aine into Texas from Mexico, and now he has asked the court to reduce his sentence to 30 years.
Thompson’s fall began the same week he announced for a fifth term as sheriff when federal and state narcotics officers seized 2,400 pounds of coc aine in a horse trailer parked at the county ag barn in Marfa on December 4, 1991. Arrested at the time and charged with importation, possession, and distribution of narcotics was Robert Chambers, whose family ranched in south Presidio County and who was living in Alpine at the time.
At Chambers bond and detention hearing the following week, the DEA said a confidential informant helped smuggle the coke from near San Antonio del Bravo, a small Mexican village on the Rio Grande to the Chambers ranch. The informant was told by Chamber to then call the sheriff and say the “deal was down.”
The sheriff was taken into custody.
State District Judge Alex Gonzalez removed Thompson from office and appointed Justice of the Peace Abelardo Gonzalez (no relation) as sheriff.
Mysterious death of Pope Francis aide alarms Vatican
Pope Francis’s secretary, 34-year-old Miriam Wuolou of Eritrea, was found dead earlier this week — and the Vatican is calling foul.
Wuolou’s body was discovered in her Rome apartment by police after her brother raised concern that she wasn’t answering her phone. She was seven months pregnant and suffered from diabetes, which can prove dangerous — even fatal — during pregnancy.
The Vatican, however, has called for an investigation into the woman’s death. Police have interviewed her brother, her ex-husband and her most recent boyfriend, who is believed to be a policeman employed by the Vatican, the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reports.
Investigators will also perform a DNA test on Wuolou’s fetus to determine the paternity of the unborn child.