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Satanist Awaiting Murder Trial Found Dead of Apparent Suicide in North Carolina Jail

Chris Thompson

Filed to: SATANISMISM 10/28/15 9:35pm\

Pazuzu Algarad, a self-proclaimed and not-at-all-subtly-named Satanist awaiting trial on charges of killing one man and helping bury another, has died by apparent suicide in his North Carolina jail cell, reports the Associated Press.

Pazuzu Algarad, 36, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Central Prison in Raleigh before dawn, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety said in a statement. Prison officials were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead at 4:20 a.m.

The statement did not say how Algarad died. The News & Record of Greensboro reported that he had an arm wound, but did not elaborate.

Algarad was arrested last October and charged with the murder of Joshua Frederick Wetzler in 2009. After the alleged murder, Algarad and his girlfriend allegedly buried Wetzler’s body in their backyard. Algarad’s girlfriend, Amber Burch, has also reportedly been charged with the murder of Tommy Dean Welch later in 2009, and Algarad allegedly helped her bury his body, also in their backyard. This sounds like a real you-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours type of arrangement. The homicidal Satanist version, if the allegations are true.

A health inspector video from last year shows the interior of Algarad and Burch’s home covered in Satanic imagery and at least a few animal carcasses:

Video

That home has since been demolished.

Algarad’s mother reportedly warned police that her son might attempt suicide if he couldn’t perform his monthly “dark moon” animal sacrifice, apparently part of his “Sumerian” religion.

[Associated Press]

Screencap via FOX 8 News

Blog, Drug Companies, Legal News, Personal Injury

Firm that allegedly took $93M in financing to buy thousands of pelvic mesh cases leads in TV advertising, report says

John O’Brien

Oct. 27, 2015, 12:52pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Legal Newsline) – Trial lawyers will spend almost $900 million this year in broadcast advertising, a new report projects, with a firm that allegedly recently took in more than $90 million in funding to purchase lawsuits leading the way.

vagina mesh lawsuits

The report, written by University of San Francisco professor Ken Goldstein and Dhavan Shah of Sherpa Metrix, was prepared for the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform’s annual summit, held Tuesday.

Goldstein and Shah’s research showed that broadcast advertising has grown by 68 percent over the past eight years, from $531 million in 2008 to a projected $892 million in 2015.

“(L)egal advertising not only appears to be recession-proof, but also politics-proof,” the report says.

“Unlike other major sectors, such as automotive advertising, legal advertising is unaffected by the onslaught of rate-raising political ads that flood many markets in election years.”

Goldstein and Shah project that AkinMears of Houston will spend more than $25 million this year. They reached that figure by obtaining the amount the firm has already spent this year, as of Sept. 30, and prorating it to the end of the year.

A lawsuit recently filed against the firm said it obtained $93 million in financing to purchase 14,000 pelvic mesh lawsuits.

Following closely behind AkinMears in TV spending is Morgan & Morgan and the Houston firm Pulaski & Middleman.

The others in the top 10 in TV spending are Legalzoom.com; James Sokolove Law Firm; Goldwater Law Firm; Los Defensores Attorney; Avvo; Jim S. Adler; and Cellino & Barnes.

The Tampa, Fla., market has seen the most legal ads this year with more than 164,000. It is followed by Orlando, Fla.; Atlanta; Las Vegas; Milwaukee; Detroit, Louisville, Ky.; Birmingham, Ala.; Mobile, Ala.; and Houston.

The four categories seeing the most spending are prescription drugs ($57.3 million), medical devices ($45.7 million), asbestos ($45.6 million) and lawsuit funding ($39.6 million).

The report also studied trial lawyers’ efforts to promote their websites. Seventy-eight of the top 100 Google search terms were legal terms, according to WebpageFX and SemRush.

A firm that would want a higher place for its ad on the Google search “San Antonio car wreck attorney” would need to spend more money than any other legal search term, the report showed.

The ILR owns Legal Newsline.

From Legal Newsline: Reach editor John O’Brien at jobrienwv@gmail.com.

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GNC Sued for Selling Drug-Laced Supplements Seating Chair

By Hilda Schwartz

Oct 26, 2015 Seating Chair – Independent NEWS Agency – SeatingChair.com

The lawsuit, filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court, accuses GNC of violating Oregon’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act because it misrepresented products sold in Oregon as “lawful dietary supplements, when in fact these products were adulterated and unlawful”.

The dietary supplements allegedly contain the illegal ingredient picamilon and BMPEA. It alleges GNC knowingly sold products containing an amphetamine-like substance that isn’t approved for diet pills in the USA – and left it off the label. Products containing BMPEA or picamilon were produced by third parties and accounted for less than 1 percent of total sales, GNC said.

The Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to five companies in April telling them that eight of their products listed BMPEA and telling them to stop selling them. In a brief statement, GNC responded to the lawsuit, saying that the allegations are “without merit” and that they will “vigorously defend against these allegations”.

This is just the latest in a fight that has been going on for years between state and federal officials and supplements retailers like GNC.

Full Article –  http://seatingchair.com/2015/10/26/gnc-sued-for-selling-drug-laced-supplements-13459.html

Criminal

Inmate facing charges for alleged assault of Aurora theater shooter James Holmes

By Greg Botelho and Carma Hassan, CNN

Updated 11:23 AM ET, Sat October 24, 2015

(CNN)James Holmes, condemned to spend the rest of his life in a Colorado prison, was allegedly assaulted there by a fellow inmate, a state corrections spokeswoman said Saturday.

The incident occurred earlier this month at the Colorado State Penitentiary, which Holmes’ calls home given his multiple life terms for carrying out the Aurora movie theater massacre that killed 12 and wounded 70.

“It was not an attack, it was a very minor incident in passing in a hallway,” Adrienne Jacobson, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections, told CNN.

While the 27-year-old Holmes wasn’t injured, the incident was serious enough to warrant charges against the other inmate.

Jacobson told the Denver Post that inmate, 27-year-old Mark Daniels, will be charged with assault on Holmes and assault on a correctional officer.

The Colorado newspaper said that it first learned of the encounter in a letter received Friday, purportedly from Daniels, saying the incident occurred October 8. But corrections officials hadn’t seen the letter and couldn’t confirm that Daniels wrote it.

Who were the victims?

Prior to this, Daniels had been eligible for parole on February 25, 2017, according to a Department of Corrections online database. He stands 6 feet, 4 inches and weighs 195 pounds.

The Post reports that Daniels, who has gone by many aliases, is serving time on menacing, auto theft, assault and smuggling contraband into prison charges out of Jefferson and Adams counties.

Holmes, wearing a helmet, gas mask and ballistic gear, tossed tear gas into Theater 9 of the Century 16 megaplex in Aurora during the first minutes of a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in July 2012. Armed with a shotgun, a rifle and a pistol, he opened fire; he had more than 700 rounds of ammunition with him. After his gun jammed, Holmes walked out of the theater and surrendered.

Psychiatrist: Holmes thought 3-4 times a day about killing

This month’s alleged assault on him comes less than two months after he was sentenced to one life term for each of the 12 people he killed, plus 3,318 years for the attempted murders of those he wounded and for rigging his apartment with explosives. Prosecutor George Brauchler said he believed the sentence was the fourth-longest in U.S. history.

Full Article – http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/24/us/james-holmes-alleged-assault/

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Gunman shot shopper for looking at his girlfriend, charges state

By Ben Lockhart   |  Posted Oct 23rd, 2015 @ 9:25pm

WEST VALLEY CITY — A fight that led to a shooting in a West Valley City Wal-Mart parking lot started when the shooter confronted another man inside the store about looking at his girlfriend, according to charging documents.

Cole Ronald Shields, 31, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with two counts of illegal discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, one a first-degree felony and the other a second-degree felony. He was also charged with obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, and three counts of felony discharge of a firearm, a third-degree felony.

Shields, of Cottonwood Heights, allegedly confronted the man while leaving his checkout lane at the Wal-Mart, 3180 W. 5600 South, on Oct. 14 and asked him why the man was looking at his girlfriend.

“(The victim) told the defendant he wasn’t, and began walking to his car. The defendant followed (him) and continued to verbally harass him,” the charges state.

Shields then allegedly pulled out a gun and kicked the man in the leg. The man responded by punching Shields in the face and hitting him again after Shields fell to the ground, according to the charges. The man made his way toward his car again, this time walking backwards, when police say Shields opened fire, shooting at the man either five or six times and striking him once each in both feet.

“(The victim) required emergency medical treatment for his injuries and will be unable to walk for approximately six weeks,” the charges state. “(He) will require a bone graft to repair the damage to one of his feet.”

Shields admitted to opening fire in the parking lot, but claimed he did so in self-defense, according to the charging documents.

Utah court records show Shields entered a plea in abeyance to misdemeanor assault in June. He is currently in the Salt Lake County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.

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