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  • What kind of a guy hits a pedestrian and keeps driving--even after the victim crashes through the windshield and lands, dead, in the front passenger seat?

    Meet James John Onak.

    The Houston man, 49, was charged in connection with a collision early this morning that resulted in the death of a 32-year-old man who had exited his Ford Explorer after it broke down on a freeway. The victim was struck by Onak’s Mazda around 12:30 AM as he sought to cross the roadway.

    Onak, police reported, did not stop driving, despite the fact that the victim “went through the front windshield and came to a rest in the front passenger seat of the Mazda.” Onak, pictured in the above mug shot, was later stopped by a cop who noticed that the vehicle “had extensive front-end damage.” And that there was a dead guy riding shotgun.

    “The driver advised the deputy that he had hit something on the freeway but was not aware the victim was lying in the passenger seat,” according to a Houston Police Department press release. “Onak was believed to be under the influence and a mandatory blood draw was taken.”

    Onak was charged with felony accident involving injury, though the investigation is continuing and additional charges could be forthcoming.

  • Meet Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al-Murisi.

    The Yemeni immigrant, 26, was arrested last month for allegedly trying to force open the locked cockpit door of an American Airlines Boeing 737 as it neared San Francisco International Airport. Witnesses reported that Al-Murisi repeatedly yelled "Allahu Akbar," or “God is great” in Arabic,” as he moved toward the front of the aircraft.

    Al-Murisi, previously unseen, is pictured here in a United States Marshals Service photo provided in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

    Flying from Chicago, Al-Murisi--who was traveling without any luggage--tried to ram his way into the cockpit “right before a critical part of the flight," said prosecutor Elise Becker, who described the defendant as “a significant threat.”

    Charged with interfering with a flight crew, a felony, Al-Murisi is being held without bail.

  • While nobody wants their grandma to undergo a Depend check at the hands of Transportation Security Administration screeners, the use of adult diapers to smuggle contraband on airplanes in not an uncommon occurrence.

    Last month, for example, a woman arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York was subjected to a “partial strip search” after a pat-down search “revealed a hard object in the defendant’s groin area.”

    That secondary search revealed that the traveler was wearing a diaper covered by black spandex. The diaper, according to Homeland Security agents, contained 71 heroin pellets, while 33 more pellets were found in the woman’s groin area. The suspect had also ingested 16 other heroin pellets, which she later passed.

    The recent search of a 95-year-old woman at a Florida airport came after TSA screeners felt something hard on her leg and could not determine what it was, according to the woman’s daughter, who added that agents told her the diaper was "wet and it was firm, and they couldn't check it thoroughly.”

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  • With New York’s State Senate poised this evening to pass same-sex marriage legislation, a Fox-5 reporter was dispatched to capture the scene on Christopher Street, which was packed with Gay Pride weekend revelers.

    Sadly, as seen above, the WNYW journalist was not greeted warmly outside The Stonewall Inn, where onlookers screamed and flashed negative reviews of the Rupert Murdoch news organization.

  • The man arrested for hiding in a toilet tank at a Colorado yoga festival is a New Age transient who aspires to operate a “spiritual porn site” and describes himself as a “worshipper” of women.  

    Luke Chrisco, 30, was arrested yesterday and charged with hiding inside a toilet tank at the Hanuman Yoga Festival in Boulder. A woman about to use the toilet, cops reported, noticed “movement in the tank” and alerted a man who spotted the feces-covered suspect “hiding inside the tank.”

    Pictured at right, Chrisco appears to travel from festival to festival, according to his Facebook and YouTube pages. He is a world traveler who offers massages to festival attendees.

    On several blogs and web sites he has registered, Chrisco--who uses the handle “Skye Oryan”--has written about his desire to “create some adult entertainment” and “share divine pleasure and make a ton of money and fun.” His web sites include maxextrememodels.com, skyeoryan.com, and holysexteam.blogspot.com (where his occupation is listed as “Pornstar”).

    Another Chrisco site, holysexgirls.com, declares that, “Girls Bodies are as the holy temple of the conciousnes adoration of infinity and the only refuge from the infinite desert of the sands of time and desolution.” The site is headlined “Spirit Porn” and includes the slogan “No Guilt. No Fear. Only God.”

    One Chrisco page advertises his services as a male escort. Using the handle “BunnyMan,” he offers female clients “pricing plans” that are “quick and easy.” The page, which appears to have been created several years ago, notes that an initial hour costs $40, with a two-hour minimum on all “dates.” For $620, a woman could get “Seven Days of Sin” with "BunnyMan," who, for some reason, included a scan of his passport on the site. In a YouTube video posted late last year, Chrisco, traveling in Serbia, talks about “getting business cards for the escort agency.”

    Chrisco also recently has been contemplating a “tantric website,” and last month placed an online classified ad seeking models and business partners. Chrisco noted that he and a partner were “worshippers of women and just want to show them as the amazing dynamic and even creations of infinite light that they are.” He added, “Women are the greatest animal in the animal kingdom! Meow! Roar!”

    In a June 3 classified ad, Chrisco offered the escort services of himself and his 19-year-old girlfriend. Along with offering “Special Pricing for using us as a couple,” the ad states that, “We can even do tantric or healing type work. There is also an option of making a video.”

    In an April video posted to his Facebook page, Chrisco--who introduced himself as “Skye Oryan, the biggest jackass on earth”--said that he was en route to North Carolina and spent the night sleeping in a cardboard box inside a dumpster at a construction site. He did not want to stay at the Greyhound station because it “smelled weird.”

  • UPDATE: The toilet tank arrestee is a wannabe New Age pornographer.

    Colorado police have arrested the man who last week allegedly hid inside the tank of a portable toilet at a yoga festival in Boulder.

    Luke Chrisco, 30, was nabbed yesterday and charged with unlawful sexual contact and criminal invasion of privacy.

    According to cops, a woman attending the Hanuman Yoga Festival entered the portable toilet last Friday and “noticed movement in the tank when she lifted the lid.” After exiting the toilet, she sought help from a man who subsequently entered the toilet and “saw the suspect hiding inside the tank.”

    The man then left and the suspect locked himself inside before fleeing 10 minutes later. Police described the toilet tank interloper, who was covered in feces, as a tall white male (between 6’ 4” and 6’ 8”) with a thin build. He also reportedly used the nickname “Sky.”

    The 6’ 4”, 160-pound Chrisco (who has been known to use the handle “Skye Oryan”) was collared yesterday by Vail police following a traffic stop. An alert cop realized Chrisco matched the description of the Boulder toilet suspect. Chrisco is pictured above in a mug shot taken after a December 2008 arrest for panhandling and resisting police.

    In a press release, Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner thanked the public for providing valuable tips to detectives. “We are grateful to the public for helping us resolve this disgusting case in an expeditious manner,” Beckner said.

  • A man prosecutors describe as a key witness against alleged cocaine kingpin/rap music manager James Rosemond is close to striking a plea deal--once he can locate $100,000 in cash that he apparently swiped from his felonious compatriots and has agreed to forfeit to Uncle Sam.

    During an appearance today in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, prosecutor Todd Kaminsky and a lawyer for Khalil Abdullah reported that while a plea deal is in the works, the imprisoned defendant has yet to put his hands on money that he entrusted to an associate before his late-April bust. The forfeiture of those six figures would be a component of Abdullah’s plea agreement, Kaminsky told Judge John Gleeson.

    The identity of the person to whom Abdullah, 37, gave the money was not revealed, nor did the lawyers detail the difficulties encountered in obtaining the stash, which Kaminsky said Abdullah’s coconspirators likely would believe “he is not entitled to.” As previously reported by TSG, Drug Enforcement Administration agents believe that Abdullah helped himself to some of the proceeds from cocaine trafficking by the so-called Rosemond Organization.

    Abdullah began cooperating with federal investigators soon after his arrest. In a criminal complaint filed against Rosemond, Abdullah--who is referred to only as a confidential witness (specifically “CW-1”)--is said to have “confessed to participating in the Rosemond Organization’s narcotics-trafficking conspiracy” and agreed to roll on his friend “in the hope of receiving a reduced sentence.”

    The lawyer for Abdullah--who Kaminsky said is being held “in a secure jail facility”--asked Gleeson to seal the transcript from today’s court hearing over safety concerns if other inmates learned that he had access to $100,000. While Gleeson agreed to the sealing request, a TSG reporter was present in the courtroom for the hearing.

  • A California man today pleaded guilty to federal charges for participating in a “brute force” hack on AT&T that yielded the personal data of 120,000 iPad owners.

    During an appearance in U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, Daniel Spitler, 26, copped to identity theft and conspiracy charges. Each felony count carries a maximum prison term of five years and a $250,000 fine.

    According to prosecutors, Spitler, pictured in the adjacent mug shot, helped write the computer code that allowed him and fellow members of the “Goatse Security” hacking collective to gain unauthorized access to AT&T computer servers holding details on iPad purchasers like Diane Sawyer, Rahm Emanuel, and Michael Bloomberg.

    In a press release today, a Department of Justice spokesperson noted that a list of stolen e-mail addresses was provided to the blog Gawker, “which published the stolen information in redacted form, along with an article concerning the breach.”

    The criminal case against Spitler’s codefendant, Andrew Auernheimer, is pending, though a May 31 court filing indicates that the 25-year-old’s lawyer is in the midst of  negotiations to “finalize a plea agreement.”

    According to a June 2010 criminal complaint, immediately after the AT&T hack Spitler “was afflicted by ‘post-troll paranoia’” and sought advice from fellow hackers about his legal exposure. The complaint also quotes him telling Auernheimer, “I hit fucking oil” when he breached AT&T’s servers.

    Later, when Auernheimer told of his plans to publicize the hack, Spitler eschewed involvement in the forthcoming media campaign. “I’d like my anonaminity,” he wrote in an online chat session. “sry dunno how legal this is or if they could sue for damages.”

    Spitler is scheduled to be sentenced on September 28.

  • The 4chan user who admitted downloading illicit images of children from the notorious web site has been sentenced to three years in prison on a federal child pornography conviction, court documents show.

    Collin Campbell, a Navy Machinist’s Mate, was arrested in February after a folder containing “between 10-20 images of child pornography” was discovered on his iPhone by a fellow seaman aboard the USS Boxer in San Diego. During the ensuing Naval Criminal Investigative Service probe, Campbell admitted that he had downloaded child porn “from the website www.4chan.org.”

    Campbell was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns, who also ordered him to serve 10 years of probation upon his release from prison. Campbell, pictured in the above mug shot, faced a maximum of 20 years in custody.

  • After a few weeks on the lam, rap music manager James Rosemond was arrested today by federal agents on narcotics trafficking, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice charges.

    Rosemond, 46, was apprehended by federal investigators after a foot chase in Manhattan. He was spotted at the W Hotel near Union Square and took off running north, eventually getting tackled by agents several blocks away on East 21st Street.

    Rosemond, pictured at right in a mug shot from an earlier collar, is expected to be arraigned later today at U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.

  • What kind of a guy actually places an ad on Craigslist seeking to purchase marijuana?

    Meet Michael Krebs.

    The Connecticut man, 31, allegedly sought to use the online classifieds site in his weed hunt. Which, of course, is illegal.

    Krebs’s ad was answered by members of the East Central Narcotics Task Force, who set up a meeting last Thursday at a McDonald’s in Glastonbury. When Krebs showed up, he was collared on a misdemeanor pot rap.

    Krebs, pictured in the above mug shot, was released on $2500 bond shortly after his arrest.

  • A notorious pickup artist featured in the best seller “The Game” today pleaded guilty to a felony weapons charge, but dodged a more serious attempted murder count due to concerns about the credibility of a female victim who was shot in the face during a New Year’s Eve party.

    Allen Reyes, 32, copped to unlawful use of a weapon during a Circuit Court hearing in Klamath County, Oregon. Reyes, who has been in custody since his January 1 arrest, was sentenced by Judge Dan Bunch to time served and was released today from the county jail.

    Reyes, known as “Gunwitch,” shot Amber Tripp, 21, in the face during an alcohol-fueled party at a Klamath Falls apartment. Pictured above, Reyes was charged with attempted murder, felony assault, and unlawful use of a weapon, and jailed in lieu of $750,000.

    A probable cause affidavit filed by the Klamath Falls Police Department reported that Reyes, “admitted to shooting Amber Tripp with a .357 revolver.” Tripp, who suffered a single gunshot wound to the face, was treated at an area hospital and later released.

    But faced with contradictory accounts of what transpired between Reyes and Tripp, prosecutors opted to allow Reyes to plead to a single felony count. Witnesses told investigators that Reyes shot Tripp after she threatened him with a knife. While Tripp denied wielding a knife, prosecutors were concerned that her criminal history, among other factors, made her a compromised witness.

    In “The Game,” author Neil Strauss’s 2005 examination of pickup artists and their various techniques, students of the “Gunwitch Method” are taught to “project animalistic sexuality and escalate physical contact until the woman stops them.” Gunwitch’s motto, Strauss noted, is “Make the ho say no.”

    Until his arrest, Reyes operated a web site, wayofgun.com, offering for sale audio tutorials on how to seduce women. He also appeared--apparently intoxicated--in a YouTube video showing off his guns and bragging about his pistolero skills.