WOW this is really crazy a 13 year old kid took over his fathers drug ring and killed his 16 year old brother to take control!!


BARNSTABLE Like most boys, 13-year-old Mykel Mendes looked up to his big brother, Jordan. The two rode bikes together, did yard work together and hung out together. But when it came to the family business a major drug ring Mykel did not want to share, police say.

Mykel, a seventh grader, is now accused of masterminding the slaying of his 16-year-old half-brother so he could take over the drug operation one police say they inherited from their father, who is in prison for running one of the biggest cocaine rings on Cape Cod.

Jordan was found shot, stabbed 27 times and dumped into a pit, where his body was torched. Another 13-year-old friend and a 20-year-old cousin also are charged with murder.

The killing has shaken the normal quiet of winter on Cape Cod, the summer tourist destination known for its beautiful beaches, salt water taffy and famous residents. Jordan Mendes lived just a few miles from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.

"It's very disturbing," said Debra Dagwan, a Hyannis resident and member of the local school board. "It indicates what drugs can do to people, whether they are involved with drugs or selling them. It's a dangerous life, no matter how you look at it."

Mykel's lawyer, John Cunha, dismissed claims by authorities that Mykel planned his brother's death to take over his drug business.

"He loved his brother," Cunha said. "He's not the 13-year-old Al Capone."

The boys' father, Manuel Mendes, 33, ran a drug ring that brought large quantities of cocaine to the Cape from New York and Boston. Jordan was 8 and Mykel just 5 when he was arrested and sent to prison to serve eight to 10 years. Two years later, in 2002, authorities caught him running the drug business from behind bars. That time, he was sentenced to 35 years on federal drug trafficking charges.

Authorities say Jordan took over where his father left off, selling OxyContin and cocaine. District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said Jordan was a "significant drug dealer."

Mykel, according to authorities, was jealous of the money Jordan was making and wanted to take over.

Over two days in December, police say Mykel, his 20-year-old cousin, Robert Vacher, and 13-year-old Kevin Ribeiro stole $10,000 in cash from Jordan, killed him, poured gasoline on his body and set him on fire.

The three walked into a car dealership, pulled the $10,000 out of their pockets and bought a used silver BMW, O'Keefe said.

Lawyers for all three youths deny they took part in the slaying.

"To actually kill somebody to obtain money to buy a used car, which they have no license for and won't be able to get a license for almost four years that's not the way 13-year-olds think," said William Gens, Ribeiro's lawyer.

Mykel, who has a different mother, did not grow up in the same house as Jordan. But after Mykel moved to the Cape with his mother, the boys became inseparable, according to family members and friends.

"Jordan was very close to Mykel. He took care of him, looked out for him. He loved him," said Jordan's mother, Paula Carberry.

Barnstable police Det. Lt. Sean Balcom remembers Jordan showing a tough exterior when a dozen police officers stormed his grandmother's house to arrest his father in 2000.

"I can remember him staring down some of the SWAT team members, saying we'd better not mess up his room," Balcom said. "He was standing right up to us."

After his father was sent to prison, Jordan named after basketball star Michael Jordan became "the little man in the house," Carberry said.

Two years later, his father's brother, Danuel Mendes also an alleged drug dealer was killed. Carberry said losing his father and uncle was tough on Jordan.

"He was hurt," she said. "I think he would get angry because there wasn't anything he could do."

Carberry denies Jordan was involved in drugs and says he had recently begun to turn his life around after some minor scrapes with the law, including arrests for marijuana possession and trespassing. His mother said his grades in school had recently improved and he had talked with an ex-girlfriend about moving to Florida after finishing high school to open a clothing store.

When Jordan did not come home from school Dec. 15, Carberry and other family members went out to look for him. The next day, they found his body still burning in an 8-by-10-foot pit in woods less than a mile from Carberry's home.

Ribeiro's chilling account of the slaying is outlined in a one-page police report.

As Jordan walked down the basement stairs of Mykel's house, Vacher shot him, then stabbed him repeatedly in the neck, Ribeiro told police.

Ribeiro said he and Vacher then rolled Mendes' body in a rug and took it to the pit. The next day, he said, they brought a container of gasoline and set Mendes' body on fire, according to the police report.

The two boys are now in the custody of the state Department of Youth Services. Because of their age, they cannot be tried as adults for murder. If convicted, the teens would remain in state custody until they reach 18. Vacher was being held without bail on charges of robbery and first-degree murder.

Carberry said she always thought Mykel was jealous of Jordan, but cannot understand how he could do what he is accused of doing.

"What ever happened to my brother's keeper?" she said.

"You were supposed to be my brother's keeper, and he was yours.

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Two individuals who had a great 2008 NFL season. Jay and BC.
This is the official introduction of Art McGregor to the pages of Busted Coverage. Were huge fans of Arts style, drinking prowess and stories of struggling with the women.
In his first attempt at entertaining BC readers hell intertwine women, gambling and the Super Bowl. Its going to serve as our close to the 2008 NFL season. Art pretty much sums it all up right here.

ll be back tomorrow morning for a few quick weekend stories before heading off on two days of boozing and football.

Grew up in northeast Ohio. “Grew up” is kind of a misnomer because I live like I’m 19 at the ripe age of 30.
Youngstown, Ohio. Ninety-some sunny days a year. The armpit of the United States. Have to deal with the ugliness that is Cleveland girls. Those all rock the tits compared to my luck in sports.
Pretty much convinced that God hates me. Have the worst fortune of any sports fan in the United States during the past 25 years. I live make that “make meager wages and live paycheck-to-paycheck” and die with the Cleveland Browns, Cavaliers and Indians and also the Ohio State Buckeyes football and men’s basketball teams. I root against the women. Those teams are 1-6 in championship games/series in the past 25 years.
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(Drafted from www.denverpost.com on 27-Jan-2009 by Suzanne S. Brown)
Green beauty today means much more than whipping up a fresh avocado mask in your kitchen.
From shampoo to cosmetics, toothpaste to body lotion, products are increasingly available that focus more on plant-based ingredients than harsh chemicals or materials considered dangerous in skin care, such as talc and lead.
Close to 30 percent of all beauty products launched in the U.S. last year were labeled organic, ethical or natural, up from 23 percent in 2007, according to Mintel Beauty Innovations, which tracks sales of beauty and personal-care products.
Green beauty is not a trend, its a lifestyle, says Rona Berg, editor of Organic Beauty, a new bimonthly magazine. She says green beauty is a $7 billion industry, and growing.
s a lot going on to support what were doing. People are more interested than ever in the environment and the economy, Berg says. re buying less but reading labels more. We want to look good, but also want to streamline our beauty regimens and do it in a way thats healthy.
Consumers also are supporting companies that produce cosmetics in environmentally friendly ways, such as Avedas wind power efforts in Minnesota; and those that donate to such groups as 1% for the Planet, an organization of businesses committed to environmental causes.
Organic Beauty is geared to women ages 25-65, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, said Berg, a former beauty editor of the New York Times magazine and author of two beauty books. Beauty can be an intimidating subject to begin with, so what were trying to do is help readers incorporate aspects of green beauty into their lives to the extent that theyre comfortable.
Going green with a beauty routine is neither as difficult or expensive as some women might think, she said.
I would never say to toss everything and start over. The idea is to prioritize, and maybe start with something like a moisturizer that is going to sit on your face all day, Berg said.
Look for products that dont contain parabens, which have been linked to allergies, organ-system toxicity and irritations of the eyes and skin.
Other things to look at are ingredients you might be inhaling, such as talc. It can stick in your lungs, Berg says.
The idea with all these products is to stop, think about it, educate yourself and prioritize, she said.
Some women are also revisiting the late 1960s by making their own beauty products.
re in a very crafty moment, but not everyone will be mashing avocados and whipping up bath salts and face masks. There are very stylish and effective natural products out there, and it doesnt have to be expensive.
She recommends looking for things that do multiple jobs. It might be an eyeshadow, highlighter and lip gloss all in one package, or an oil that can be used on hair, nails and body.
Economics also comes into play when considering that some natural products are concentrated. With sulfate-free shampoo, a smaller amount is needed per use than with mass-market cleansers, Berg says.
And consumers dont need to worry that green products will spoil more readily, Berg says. Advances in green chemistry are growing by leaps and bounds. The products are gentler and cleaner, but still do the job.
Consumers are also finding a wider array of green beauty tools, such as the EcoTools line of brushes made with synthetic bristles, bamboo handles and recycled aluminum cases. The line also includes such products as cotton cleansing sponges infused with soybean oil, bamboo powder puffs and reusable pouches used as packaging, all at such mass retailers as Walgreens and sell for $10 or less.
Speaking of packaging, all the cardboard and excess plastic that goes into wrapping some luxury skin-care items is raising the environmental hackles of industry experts like Allure magazines Linda Wells. She devoted a recent editors letter to the topic.
While testing hundreds of products for the beauty publications Best of Beauty issue, she accumulated mountains of trash and told readers, The packaging of expensive beauty products has gotten out of control. Some cosmetics companies seem to believe that all these layers relate a sense of luxury, that they make the product look precious . . . but that idea is passe.
Wells said she recycled the materials, but still was uneasy. There are a lot of brands out there that have come up with great design solutions, Wells said in a follow-up phone call.
She would like to see more companies follow the example of Malin+ Goetz and Kiehls and put all the information customers need right on the bottle, which can be recycled when empty.
As for the growth of green products, Wells is more circumspect. Allure had a category in its Best of issue, but the editor doesnt see the trend taking over the industry. I think women are looking for it, yes. But the key thing is, does (the product) perform as well as its synthetic counterpart? People might be willing to give up a little performance, for example, in shampoo, where lather isnt crucial to cleaning. But I dont think the majority of women are ready to give up the efficacy of anti-aging ingredients if the organic or natural ingredients dont produce the same results.
For the same reason, Dr. Andrew Weil says he hasnt insisted his line of plant- and herb-based skin care products for Origins be organic.

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Proposition 83, did not define a park or how to measure the 2,000 feet about four-tenths of a mile. Parole agents use GPS devices for the measurement.

Limited assist

Now, in the face of a worsening state budget crisis, the department plans to sharply scale back the housing payments, returning to a practice of giving limited, short-term assistance, said Scott Kernan, undersecretary for adult operations in the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

"I think it's reasonable we provide that housing on a temporary basis, but we're not going to pay for housing indefinitely," Kernan said. "Those that have been on housing subsidy for a couple of years at $500 a week, we need to ween them off of that. I'm not saying we're going to put them homeless. But if you continue to pay for housing, the offender has no incentive to go out and find other housing."

Kernan acknowledged that the number of homeless sex offenders will likely grow even faster as the state pulls back. Since Jessica's Law passed in November 2006, the number of paroled sex offenders who register as "transient" has surged, from 88 to 1,257 as of Dec. 28. A report last month by the California Sex Offender Management Board, which includes state and local law enforcement, prosecutors and treatment experts, cited research linking homelessness and a higher risk of sexual re-offending. The announcement last week that the state has strapped GPS anklets on all 6,622 parolee sex offenders statewide makes the cutback more sensible, Kernan said.

"It's good public safety to make sure we know where those offenders are," he said. "At the time we started a lot of this housing, we didn't have all the sex offenders strapped."

Rising costs

Critics note that GPS only tracks where a sex offender goes usually after the fact, because most parolee sex offenders are on "passive" GPS not what they do there. Parole authorities paid to house sex offenders before Jessica's Law, but the cost has since risen sharply, despite repeated claims by corrections officials that "We are not in the housing business." In mid-2006, the department spent less than $200,000 a month on sex offender housing. By last summer it reached $1.7 million a month.

One result: Growing pockets of paroled sex offenders across the state.

And parole offices vary widely in their spending. A Stockton office spent the most overall, paying $112,600 in October alone to house 133 sex offenders.

Kernan said the state has shied from paying rents that might be cheaper but would place sex offenders in neighborhoods where residents may balk.

Loans rarely repaid

The spending contradicts a state policy directive last year that said the bank drafts are "not intended to be a long-term resolution to the parolee's financial problems," and "shall not exceed 60 days" except in limited cases. Under the policy, the money is a loan that parolees must repay. But that seldom happens, according to the state data.

"When I first got out, they were having me pay it. When I found out only a few of us were paying it, I didn't see that was fair, so I stopped paying," said, , 47, a parolee sex offender who has received free rent for more than two years at a Budget Inn in Santa Fe Springs in Los Angeles County.

"They put it down like it's a loan, but I don't know where they get that."

Under Jessica's Law, anyone required to register as a sex offender must heed the 2,000-foot restriction for life. Federal and state courts have ruled that it cannot be enforced retroactively, and a state appeals court recently ruled that it affects only those who committed a sex crime after the law passed. But the state Supreme Court has yet to weigh in. In the meantime, the state insists it also applies to all registered sex offenders who return to prison for whatever reason.

More than 90 percent of the parolees who fall under the 2,000-foot rule committed their sex crimes before the law passed, officials estimate.

Heeding the lower court rulings "would slow things down," Neely said. "Parole has had a complete disaster trying to place these people in appropriate housing situations."

Shift in responsibility

But the author of Jessica's Law, which passed with 70 percent of the vote, said he favored "shifting the responsibility" for parolee housing back to the offender.

"One of my concerns has always been that sometimes Corrections follows the easiest path, and sometimes the easiest path is, we'll write the check out and find the easiest place," said Sen. George Runner, R-Antelope Valley. "That being said, I think, quite frankly, the people of California are prepared to pay for some of this. I think they set a priority when they said we don't want these individuals living next to schools or parks."
- Yep, the tax payers wanted the laws, so let them pay for it!

Several experts say there is little evidence of a link between where a convicted sex offender lives and the likelihood he will reoffend.

Runner said he recognizes problems with Jessica's Law and hopes the Legislature will fix them. Last year he wrote a bill to narrow the definition of a park and measure the 2,000 feet by travel distance, not GPS. But it also would have directed local agencies to track sex offenders by GPS once off parole, with no money to pay for it. The bill failed.

The state board this year is expected to recommend legislative changes to Prop. 83, which would require a two-thirds vote. The state Supreme Court is also expected to rule on a challenge by four parolees who committed sex crimes before it passed.

Board vice chairman Tom Tobin, a psychiatrist who works with sex offenders, applauded corrections officials for attempting to keep paroled sex offenders under a roof.

"I think the department was trying to do its best for community safety, claiming all the while that we are not really in the housing business," Tobin said. "They didn't want to sign on the dotted line and say,'We take responsibility for where these guys live.' I think they were kind of caught between doing that and saying, 'Oh well, so they don't have any place to live.

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A warrant has been filed in Indiana for the arrest of Michael Schrenker, president of Heritage Wealth Management. On Sunday night, Schrenker was flying his plane when he made a mayday call to air traffic controllers, claiming his windshield was smashed and that he was bleeding. When military planes tried to intercept, they found the door open and the cockpit unattended. Authorities believe he leaped out of the plane in Alabama, leaving it to coast on autopilot for 200 miles before it ran out of fuel, and crashed in a Florida bayou.
Schrenker suffered a divorce, a court-imposed fine of $553,000, an arrest for financial fraud charges, and an investigation of his companies over potential embezzlement the week before his A man using his ID was found Sunday and taken to a hotel by police in Childersburg, Alabama, but by the time they learned of the crash investigation, he had paid for the room in cash and escaped into the nearby woods. Police then discovered Schrenker had left a motorcycle and several saddlebags in a storage unit seven miles out of town days earlier. When they arrived, the motorcycle was gone and his clothes were found in a trash bin. Schrenker 2, cops 0!
Or is it? Schrenkers neighbor claims to have received an e-mail from the fugitive Monday, inspired by inaccuracies in the media coverage. Hypoxia [a lack of oxygen, presumbly caused by the busted screen] can cause people to make terrible decisions and I simply put on my parachute and survival gear and bailed out. The message also claimed, by the time you get this, Ill be gone which the neighbor took as a suicide note. But then, he didnt know about the secret storage space in Alabama.
If the economy doesnt change soonand Schrenker isnt caughtexpect death faking to be the hottest trend among the financial elite in 2009.

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