Won't you be my neighbor?

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Oh! Thanks to Kamalla and our courts, you already are.

Nantucket: ICE Arrests Illegal Aliens Charged With Multiple Child Sex Crimes

Elmer Sola

Authorities announced the charges against Elmer Sola, 49, of El Salvador:

Elmer Sola, 49, of El Salvador, was arrested Sept. 10 in Nantucket by ERO Boston officers. Authorities say Sola was in the country illegally and is charged with 11 counts of sex crimes against a child.

Sola was arraigned in Nantucket Superior Court on Aug. 14 on three counts of aggravated rape of a child and eight counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, according to the ERO Boston office.

“Elmer Sola illegally entered the United States and then made his way to our Nantucket community before allegedly committing some horrific and despicable crimes against a child,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons. “ERO Boston officers will not tolerate such a threat to the children of our New England neighborhoods. We will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing heinous noncitizen offenders.”

Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo

Then there’s Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, 26, of El Salvador.

The Nantucket Police Department arrested and charged Aldana=Arevalo “with assault and battery on a child under 14 (two counts) and one charge of aggravated rape of a child with a 10-year age difference” this summer.

Guess what. Despite the heinous charges and his immigration status (illegal alien), he was released three days after he went into custody on $20,000 bail.

Gean Do Amaral Belafronte

In 2021, Nantucket Police arrested and charged Gean Do Amaral Belafronte, 31, of Brazil, with indecent assault & battery on a person 14 years or older:

The incident took place on April 13, 2021, and an arraignment for Belafronte was originally scheduled for June 9, 2021 after he was arrested. But Belafronte, a 31 year old Brazilian noncitizen, never appeared for the session and a warrant was issued for his arrest by former Nantucket District Court Judge Thomas S. Barrett.

According to ICE, Belafronte lawfully entered the United States on Oct 8, 2018 but after violating the terms of his lawful admission in the aftermath of this sexual assault, voluntarily departed the United States on April 18, 2021 – five days after it allegedly took place.

Belafronte reentered the U.S. at some point without detection.

Police found him in March when they picked him up “via an arrest warrant” on March 12. A court arraigned him on the charge from three years ago, but released him “on $500 cash bail or a $5,000 surety bond.”

I dunno, it strikes me that shoplifting on Greenwich Avenue must be a fairly low- success game when you look like a denizen of the South Bronx (UPDATED)

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I mean, I understand the Willie Sutton factor, but still ...

Over the years that Greenwich Free Press has dutifully published Police Report press releases on the latest bust for shop lifting, “return” and credit card fraud, I’ve noticed that, almost without exception, the perps have, ah … “exotic” names suggestive of a non-WASP ethnicity. I’m not suggesting that only our darker-hued citizens engage in this sort of behavior — far from it — but the fact that they’re the ones getting caught makes me wonder whether it’s because they’re being discriminated against, or is it because they stand out from the usual Greenwich Avenue shopper, thereby attracting the attention of shopkeepers and security guards.

If I were determined on a life of crime, I think I’d choose a forum where it would be easier to blend in and thus escape detection, yet the Avenue continues to draw petty thieves like wasps to dead fish. Why?

Just one of the imponderables of life.

Here’s a recent example of what I’m talking about:

“On Sept 25 Greenwich Police arrested three people from New York following an incident related to alleged return fraud at a retail store on Greenwich  Ave.

Plainclothes officers conducted in person surveillance and observed behavior consistent with return fraud. On scene investigation revealed that the suspects conspired to return several items to the store that had been stolen. The items totaled a financial loss of over $1800.

All three were detained and arrested.

Miss Tanisha bynoe on an earlier occasion

Woman pleads guilty to passing counterfeit bills in Wetzel County

Tanisha Bynoe, 36, Brooklyn, NY was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Larceny 4, Larceny 4, and Criminal Impersonation. She  was able to post the required 7% minimum of her $50,000 bond and was released. She was assigned a date in Stamford Superior Court on Oct 9, 2024.

Trumane A Gibbs, 31 of Brooklyn was charged with Larceny 4 and Conspiracy to Commit Larceny 4. His bond was set at $50,000, which he was unable to post. He shares the date in court on Oct 9, 2024.

Ajla Kazaferovic, 26, of Utica, NY was also arrested. She was charged with Larceny 4, Conspiracy to Commit Larceny 4 and Criminal Impersonation. Her bond was set at $100,000, which she was unable to post. She was not released from custody.

“Police said Ms Kazaferovic was found to have an active extraditable arrest warrant from New York.”

UPDATE: From the comments section, this:

According to Greenwich CAPP [Community and Police Project — I looked it up — Ed] presentations, approximately $50-$100K in merchandise is stolen in the Greenwich business district daily....and not including what the hedge funds steal in the second floor suites. Police say they are overrun by Asian, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European gang members and are very well organized. I didn't believe it either until I witnessed someone walking out of Saks with a +$50K handbag without paying. With all the jewelers, high end retailers, and banks on the Avenue....those figures are entirely possible on average.

Fortunately, the Border Czar and her Democrat bosses are ensuring that that won't happen here

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Continental Gaslighting: EU Releases Alarming Report - Europe Is Too 'White' and 'European’, titled, “Welcome to Barbieland”

The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has published a report warning of the danger that “whiteness” and “Europeanness” pose to the European Union.

Titled Welcome to Barbieland: European sentiment in the year of wars and elections, the September 25 report discussed how many people have become “visibly disillusioned with the European project” in a way that has surprised those supportive of the bloc.

Rather than citing economic or energy issues faced by the EU, the report blamed, among other things, how “white” the MEPs elected by EU citizens are following the 2024 European Parliament elections in June.

The health of democracy inside the EU is being undermined by several blind spots of European political leaders, comprising the EU’s “whiteness”, a subdued European sentiment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and evidence that Europe’s youth show signs of being unconvinced by the bloc today, according to a report published Wednesday by the European Council of Foreign relations.

...In a section headed “Beyond ‘western’ Europe”, the report’s authors note that CEE populists seized on the 2015 refugee crisis to argue that their countries were not inferior to the West, a feeling they had laboured under since accession, but were in fact superior “because they had not lost their cultural identities to multiculturalism”, while the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia proved they were right all along about Vladimir Putin.

“[N]ot only might many people and governments in Central and Eastern Europe feel vindicated, but they may now also claim the right to moral leadership in the EU,” the report says.

The danger from this, the report posits, is that CEE citizens are in danger of drifting even further towards “an ‘ethnic’ understanding of Europeanness”.

As evidence, the report cites the fact only CEE governments have expressed opposition to implementing obligatory relocations that form part of the EU’s new migration pact, while Czechs, Slovenians and Bulgarians are among the EU societies most likely to nominate immigration as one of the top two most important issues facing the EU.

Justice Department Thugs

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"The 57-year-old previously served as New York’s director of the Office of Homeland Security, ran the FBI’s National Threat Assessment Center and the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force."

Mayor Adams may or may not be guilty of corruption, but Merrick Garland and his Black Shirt enforcers treatment of a completely uninvolved individual, formerly one of their own, just to throw a scare into Adams, shows that the FBI remains the same tool of the State as it has been during its entire existence; the only difference is that it’s gotten worse with each passing year, and Garland has accelerated the process.

Feds’ raid of interim NYPD commissioner for ‘old documents’ just days after he took job suggests ‘it’s open season on Adams”

A raid on the home of the Big Apple’s interim police commissioner has raised eyebrows – coming just days after he took the job and as investigations swirl around Adams administration officials, The Post has learned.

Interim commissioner Thomas Donlon said in a Saturday night statement that federal authorities had taken from him “materials that came into my possession 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department” — one week after his predecessor stepped down over a seemingly unrelated raid.

Sources told The Post that agents had been searching for classified documents Donlon may have brought home during his years with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security — but that explanation has left a lot of law enforcement officers scratching their heads.

“The same federal agencies that ‘recommended’ Donlon to Adams also executed the warrant — less than a week after Donlon’s appointment — to search his house for 20-year-old documents,” one source said, adding that Southern District of New York head Damian Williams actually backed Mayor Eric Adams’ commish choice before he announced it.

“I can hear the agents laughing while they’re torturing the mayor,” the source continued. “It’s open season on Adams at the SDNY and FBI.”

The same source said Donlon “clearly pissed off the wrong people at the FBI,” which led the investigators to throw “another grenade in Adams’ lap and pull the [pin].”

“Donlon was collateral damage,” the source said.

Adams tapped Donlon, an NYPD outsider, to take over as the city’s interim commissioner on Sept. 12 — the same day former commissioner Edward Caban abruptly resigned because of a federal investigation that has focused on him, his brother and several other close allies and top lieutenants of the embattled mayor.

The Bee or Not the Bee?

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unprecedented adjective

  1. ​that has never happened, been done or been known before

Parady or real: two choices:

This one, posted yesterday?

HOLMES BEACH, FL — Climate experts noted today that hurricane Helene, which is currently forming in hurricane alley during the peak of hurricane season, is undeniable proof of climate change.

"This situation is completely unprecedented," said global warming expert and local dog groomer Rodney Carlson. "I've never seen a hurricane of this magnitude forming in hurricane alley during the hurricane season, and my records go back over 75 days! Clearly, this can only be explained by global warming."

Local resident Sarah Smith said she was also completely shocked by the coming storm. "I was just going to Hurricane Hank's to pick up some of their hurricane meatloaf for dinner, when all of a sudden the town hurricane alarms started going off," Smith noted. "You hear about these things happening in other places, but you never expect them to happen in your town."

"I guess this is the price we pay for destroying the planet with our dangerous CO2 emissions," Smith continued. "Still, I never thought I'd live to see the day that a hurricane hit Florida. Gee, I hope this won't affect this weekend's Miami Hurricanes game!"

At publishing time, climate experts warned that climate change was also expected to cause freezing weather and heavy snow in the Canadian Rockies this winter, followed by high temperatures across Texas next July.

Or this one?

Wake Forest and the National Endowment for the Humanities join together to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre, because that is who they are, that is what they do

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David Bernstein: It’s not surprising at this point that some moral imbeciles at a prominent university would invite a supporter of Palestinian terrorists to speak on the anniversary of the October 7 atrocities. It’s not even surprising that it would happen at a relatively conservative campus like Wake Forest. It is surprising, and outrageous, that the event would be sponsored by several academic departments, giving the event an official university imprimatur. Academic departments are agents of the university administration, and Wake needs to put a stop to this. Note the university’s name on the bottom of the flyer, suggesting official endorsement. And what is the National Endowment for the Humanities doing providing funding for this?

And speaking of affordable housing ....

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Well, perhaps we no longer are. Either way, 25 Lockwood Avenue, Old Greenwich, has hit the market tagged at $5.495 million. The owners bought it new in 2019 for $4.150.

Dutch refugee and Listing Agent Daphne Lamsvelt-Pol, having quickly adapted to her new country’s literary habits, has been careful to remove all bookshelves from the premises, as well as any evidence that a book was ever brought across the threshold; smart girl, that Daphne.

polo field, old greenwich version

Palmer Hill contract

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334 Palmer Hill Road, a 1900 structure with, if desired, an accessory apartment (per zoning, owner must live in one of the two units) has a contract 13 days after opening at $1.095 million. Checking the MLS record, the ground floor unit was rented for $1.995 back in 2019, and the rent has probably increased since. Whether that income will be enough to save this property from a developer is questionable, but from an “affordable” housing perspective, I hope it is.

No, of course I didn't watch the

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There’s a nice round-up of reactions on Twitchy.

If you missed the interview, congratulations. However, if you want to see the kinds of gems that Harris served up, it immediately becomes clear why her campaign won't let her sit down with anybody who will press her on the issues: 

There’s more on Free Beacon.

Kamala Harris sat down last night for her first solo network interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle. She "recited familiar talking points and dished out indecipherable word salads," the Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles writes. It was "her second interview this month with a media figure who openly supports her campaign."

If you missed it, we've got the highlights here—and some of the best quotes below: 

  • "Well, if you are hardworking, if you have, uh, the dreams and the ambitions and the aspirations of what I believe you do, um, you're in my plan."

  • "One must be serious, and have a plan, and a real plan that's not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally." 

  • "Some of the work is gonna be through what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars, and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in [a] holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing."

  • "I did fries."

Harris had her pick of sympathetic interviewers in the mainstream media, but even by that standard, Ruhle had managed to distinguish herself, Stiles and Thaleigha Rampersad report. 

"Earlier this month, at the MSNBC Live Democracy 2024 gathering in Brooklyn, Ruhle praised the Biden-Harris administration for saving the economy and scolded Americans for failing to appreciate those efforts. 'It has been a great recovery,' she said. 'The problem is when you're at ShopRite buying London Broil and it's $15, you don't think, 'It would be $22 if I was in Portugal.'

"Ruhle scolded the media as well for their unfair coverage of the vice president's policy agenda. '[Harris's] plan is more pro-business, is more centrist than President Biden's, but what's truly twisted is that people aren't taking the time to see that,' she told MSNBC nepo baby Luke Russert. 'And when people say, "Oh, she's super-progressive," what they're really saying is "She's a black woman."' Days earlier, Ruhle went on MSNBC to praise Harris's qualifications, as well as her 'optimism and light' and 'vision for the country,' compared with Trump's 'darkness and fear.'"