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GRISLY SERIES OF HORSE MUTILATIONS MYSTIFIES FRANCE
Richard E. “Rick” Dennis CPP Freelance Writer and Author September 11, 2020 © 2020 All Rights Reserved Fanny LATTACH and AFP bureaus in France September 8, 2020, 5:29 AM CDT https://news.yahoo.com/grisly-series-horse-mutilations-mystifies-102908638.html ANIMAL ABUSE, IS JUST NOT A U.S.A. PROBLEM Recently, the U.S.A. News agencies has been reporting on a series of horse deaths contributed to the killing of horses for the illegal sale of horse meat, as well as the killing of horses for meat consumption. However, this news article reports the mutilation of horses for an unknown reason, and in a European Country. YAHOO NEWS REPORTS Didier Fruchet, owner of a horse club with some 80 animals outside Paris, looks with concern at his stables. "It's stressful to be thinking, 'what happened tonight?' When we arrive in the morning we don't know what we are going to find." He and other horse lovers across France have good reason to be worried. Over the past weeks the country has been shocked by a succession of mutilations of over 150 horses that have seen ears sliced off, genitals cut and skin lacerated. What is motivating the perpetrators remains a mystery. Hatred of animals? Inspiration by a warped sect? A macabre challenge spreading on social media? Or might the causes sometimes be natural? Investigators have no firm leads. According to the authorities, the attacks are by multiple perpetrators whose methods vary nationwide, further complicating the picture. Fruchet is taking no chances at his stables in the town of L'Isle Adam in the Val-d'Oise department north of Paris, which is also being patrolled by gendarmes as an extra precaution. He has invested in hunting cameras with night vision that photograph moving targets. "We do not care how much it costs when it comes to keeping our horses safe," he said. The Val-d'Oise recorded its first cases on Saturday: Two mares, who did not die, were wounded, one with a cut in the vulva and the other a slash of 30 centimetres on its flank. - 'We hardly sleep' - Reports have come throughout the summer, sometimes on an almost daily basis, of new horse mutilations across France. Police at the weekend sought two suspects in the Cote-d'Or region after a stables owner reported an intrusion on his premises and said one horse had been wounded. In a sign of how urgent the issue has become, a 40-member team of gendarmes, backed up by police dogs and a helicopter, were sent to the scene but so far have not found the culprits. Police on Monday made their first arrest in the nationwide investigation, detaining a man suspected of an attack on three horses the central department of Yonne, who matched an image circulated. But he was later released without charge. Eloise Lang, a rider in Coueron in western France, is still distressed after her horse Ambitieux was attacked. "I saw that he had a dozen traces of wounds... knife wounds... He had some on his shoulders, flank, chest. He had cuts that were up to a foot long," she said. "We hardly sleep anymore, we think about it all the time," she added. - 'Take law into their hands' - Similar acts have now been recorded in 20 of France's departments. "There are about twenty cases of cut ears, but there are also other incidents including genital mutilation and lacerations with sharp objects," Colonel Hubert Percie du Sert of France's gendarmerie told AFP. He said there were "many perpetrators and methods of operation." According to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, 153 investigations have been opened nationwide into cases of violence against horses. France's national anti-sect agency La Miviludes, which is assisting the investigation, has not found evidence of a satanic rite so far, "but it is not something we are ruling out", du Sert said. Authorities are also concerned that the repeated attacks and failure of the police to find the culprits risk creating paranoia, with some even deciding to take justice into their own hands. In Quimper in the northwestern Brittany region, a mother, 52, and her daughter, 23, face a trial in January for threatening with weapons two people in a car whom they suspected of carrying out horse attacks after a licence plate circulated on the internet. "They admitted they were equipped with a machete-type knife as well as a pellet gun, and to have stopped a vehicle when they had no right to do so," the deputy prosecutor of Quimper, Emmanuel Phelippeau, told AFP. They risk up to five years in prison if convicted. "It is unacceptable that breeders, due to emotion, take the law into their own hands themselves", the prefect of the Finistere region Philippe Mahe, told reporters, insisting that the police mobilisation was "very strong." UNTIL NEXT TIME, KEEP EM BETWEEN THE BRIDLE
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YOLI’S WESTERN WEAR - DALLAS, TEXAS
CHARGED WITH MONEY LAUNDERING FOR DRUG CARTEL By Richard E. “Rick” Dennis CPP Freelance Writer and Author September 5, 2020 © 2020 All Rights Reserved FEDS SAY MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL BOSS “LA ROCA” USED DALLAS WESTERN STORE TO LAUNDER $10 MILLION DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) — The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas have confirmed that a Mexican cartel boss and nearly 30 of his co-conspirators have been charged with laundering more than $10 million. According to Erin Nealy Cox, the money came from drug proceeds and was laundered through a local western wear store. A federal grand jury charged 28 individuals connected to Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion with conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and other financial, drug, and gun crimes, including conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, conspiracy to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm. Dozens of those charged have already been arrested. “Drug cartels like CJNG wreak havoc across the globe, driving the spread of deadly drugs like meth and heroin,” said Cox. “We’re committed to tracking the money and disrupting these organizations by attacking their bottom line. By striking both the money and the drugs, we can more effectively impact the organization.” According to the 38-count indictment, Jose Valdovinos Jimenez, a boss also known as “La Roca” or “The Rock,” conspired with his co-defendants to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine and heroin across the Mexican border, distribute the drugs in the United States, launder the proceeds, and then transfer the money back to CJNG leaders. Couriers were allegedly used to smuggle the drugs across the border, recrystallization laboratories to purify them, and stash houses to store the drugs. At Mr. Jimenez’s direction, dealers were believed to have transported drug proceeds to Yoli’s Western Wear, a clothing store on Buckner Boulevard in Dallas. The 23-year-old manager of Yoli’s, Ivan Noe Valerio, and his family members allegedly then counted the money, separated it into thousands of transactions, and ultimately sent it back to the CJNG in Mexico. During the course of the investigation, agents seized some 700 kilograms of methamphetamine, 80 kilograms of heroin, and $500,000. If convicted, Jimenez and Valerio face life in federal prison. To read the entire article, Click on the following Link: https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/08/28/drug-cartel-boss-co-conspirators-dallas-western-wear-store-launder-10-million/amp/ UNTIL NEXT TIME, KEEP EM BETWEEN THE BRIDLE McCONNEL TO INTRODUCE HORSE RACING SAETY LEGISLATION IN SENATE
By Richard E. “Rick” Dennis CPP Freelance Writer and Author September 1, 2020 © September 2020 – All Rights Reserved THE MECHANICAL HORSE, A HORSE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS On August 6, 2014 I authored an article entitled: “THE MECHANICAL HORSE, A HORSE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS. The article was authored in response to the growing horse doping issues coming to light, on the Thoroughbred Race Tracks. The first paragraph of the article specifically states: “At first glance, this articles title suggests an apparatus resembling a horse traveling on rails, making a series of stops and turns and acting much like the mechanical cow we see in the training arena. However, this article is about the horse that performs, whether on the racetrack or in the performance arena, under the influence of drugs.” The article continues. “Lately a heightened awareness of horse doping has been bestowed upon us by the news media, news articles and by legislative action in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D – New Mexico is a co-sponsor of a bill addressing the horse-doping fiasco in the United States. “The chronic abuse of race horses with painkillers and other drugs is dangerous and just plain wrong,” Udall said.” The article goes on to suggest; one day the Federal Government will step-in and intercede on the horses behalf. Apparently, that day has arrived with the intended introduction of legislation by Senator Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate targeting horse abuse and horse doping in-general. To read the entire Mechanical Horse Article, click on the following link: https://allaboutcutting.net/%E2%98%9B-mechanical-horse-under-the-influence-8-6-14/ MCCONNELL ANNOUNCES HE WILL INTRODUCE HORSE RACING SAFETY LEGISLATION IN THE US SENATE In an August 31, 2020 article, by Jon Hale, Louisville Courier Journal the author outlines McConnell’s intent: “LEXINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is putting his weight behind the latest effort to introduce universal safety regulations to the horse racing industry. In a ceremony at Keeneland on Monday, the Kentucky Republican announced he will introduce the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act in the Senate. The legislation builds on Horseracing Integrity Act, which had gained majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives but failed to gain traction in the Senate. Many advocates of the Horseracing Integrity Act, including Marty Irby, the executive director of Animal Wellness Action, previously identified Churchill Downs and McConnell as the chief obstacles to the bill. The new bill is endorsed by a large segment of the horse racing industry, including Churchill Downs, which was not a supporter of the previous House bill introduced by Kentucky Republican Rep. Andy Barr and New York Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko. McConnell said he decided to bring the various segments of the industry, which had clashed over previous proposals, together after reading a Washington Post editorial calling for the end of horse racing. “We’ve seen painful tragedies on the track in recent years," McConnell said. "Doping scandals have rocked the horse racing community. These challenges pose a threat, not only to this industry but also to the 24,000 Kentuckians who work in it. “... If we wanted to preserve horse racing and its future, we needed to act. We owe it to the horses, we owe it to the jockeys, we owe it to the trainers, breeders and fans to make thoroughbred racing as fair and as safe as possible.” The bill would create the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, a private, independent, self-regulatory nonprofit organization tasked with developing and implementing both a horse racing anti-doping and medication control program and a racetrack safety program. The authority would be governed by a nine-member board of directors made up of five members independent of the industry and four members representing owners and breeders, trainers, racetracks, veterinarians, state racing commissions and jockeys. The nationwide anti-doping rules developed by the authority will be enforced by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The authority will also create an accreditation program to ensure racetracks comply with a set of training and racing safety standards, including racetrack design and maintenance; oversight of human and equine injury reporting and prevention; and procedures for undertaking investigations at racetrack and non-racetrack facilities related to safety violations. The Washington Post editorial that McConnell said spurred him to action was written in March after the arrests of 27 trainers, veterinarians and drug distributors as part of an alleged doping scandal. Those arrests followed increased scrutiny on the industry due to a rash of horse deaths in recent years. "The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act will bring 16 hands of integrity back to American horseracing by banning race-day doping," Irby said in a news release. "U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others are right to press the industry to create a uniform anti-doping standard that will protect the horses and the sport against the worst impulses of some of its actors." McConnell said he has already spoken with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., about his bill and anticipates bipartisan support for the legislation. Barr said he plans to introduce an amendment to make his bill mirror the one introduced in the Senate by McConnell. "This is not a particular bipartisan place we’re in right now in Congress, as you may have noticed," McConnell said, "but we’re hopeful a subject like this can overcome the partisanship that’s been pretty much on full display as we get closer and closer to the election." https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/2020/08/31/mcconnell-introduce-horse-racing-safety-legislation-senate/5677999002/ FEDS CHARGE HORSE RACING TRAINERS, VETERINARIANS OVER “WIDESPREAD, CORRUPT DOPING SCHEME The article Senator McConnell is referring to can be read by clicking on the following link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/09/horse-racing-doping-indictment/ Eventually, the avenue of control that’s being sought after, is long overdue. Horses don’t deserve the treatment they’ve received over the decades from unscrupulous trainers and veterinarians whose only stake in the game is making more money. Unfortunately, for the horse it’s become a disposable entity, with the majority ending up on someone’s dinner plate in Europe or Asia after they’ve been crippled by illegal drug use on the race track or in the performance horse show arena. “UNTIL NEXT TIME, KEEP EM BETWEEN THE BRIDLE” |
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