Founded in 2008, ABSOLUTE ZERO UNITES is a blog covering corrupt politicians and vigilantes who abuse sex offense registries to commit crimes (murder, assault, harassment, vandalism). This is a journalism blog; all articles posted in this blog is covered by Fair Use under 17 USC 107. All opinions are my own, and all persons featured here are (IMHO, of course) criminals and assorted losers.
In order: David Joseph Zimmerman, Kasey Lane O'Donnell and Syrus Deville Durant
Arrest your local vigilante scumbags, especially the grinning piece of trash on the left with the punchable face. I'd like to see Washington state make examples out of these lowlifes.
Shasta DA condemns local vigilante actions following arrests
by Maxwell Tedford, KRCR StaffFri, October 4th 2024 at 4:43 PM
REDDING, Calif. — The Shasta County District Attorney's Office filed charges against members of a local vigilante group after their arrests following a "To Catch a Predator"-style operation.
Three members of the vigilante group calling itself Redding Dads Against Predators (DAP) have been arrested because of what they allegedly did during one of their catches of alleged pedophiles.
The group formed in August as essentially a local grassroots version of 'To Catch a Predator'. Their escalating tactics have caught the eyes of many online, and thousands of followers. However, now police say it has led to both their arrests along with the arrest of the alleged predator they were trying to catch.
The DAP members arrested were David Joseph Zimmerman, Kasey Lane O'Donnell and Syrus Deville Durant. All three are facing multiple charges, including felony assault, false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit a crime, battery and vandalism.
The Shasta County District Attorney's Office issued a statement regarding the vigilante group, announcing that charges have been filed against three of its members; condemning their actions:
"The Shasta County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against three members of a local Dads Against Predators (DAP) group, Kasey O’Donnell, Syrus Durant and David Zimmerman. The charges filed include conspiracy, false imprisonment by violence, battery, and vandalism.
These charges stem from an incident where three members of a local DAP group met with a person at Caldwell Park after O’Donnell communicated with the person. The person the three defendants met with is a person who has a mental disability. The defendants chose to prevent the person from leaving the location by taking his bicycle, yelling at him, damaging his bike, and physically assaulting him, resulting in him going to the hospital.
Vigilante justice has no place in our community. The actions taken by this particular DAP group to find “predators” is being done in a way which violates investigative techniques used by trained law enforcement and trained civilians to properly investigate and preserve evidence for successful prosecution. The actions of this particular DAP group are allowing individuals who they believe have a sexual interest in minors, to get away with an actual slap on the face rather than being prosecuted. The humiliation tactics used by this particular DAP group will not serve as a long-term deterrent, and it interferes with the proper investigation and successful prosecution of potential offenders.
DO NOT take action into your own hands. The District Attorney’s Office asks that the community provide tips and leads on potential crimes, including all information the community may have regarding child physical and sexual abuse or human trafficking, to Law Enforcement." ...
The police report states in the following days DAP members claimed *** was the aggressor. However, a video police say they obtained from O'Donnell's phone showed that *** tried to leave the scene multiple times, and not make a violent move until he was pushed and hit repeatedly by the DAP team. The video goes on to show that as *** began to fight back he was tackled from the back and hit in the head repeatedly with punches and kicks. Going on for several minutes until nearby security guards broke up the altercation.
This is Riley Carter who was elected to the Aberdeen City Council Ward 5 Position 9. I just cannot bring myself to feel sorry for Riley Carter. In addition to posting himself wearing a red Trump-style hate with the slogan "Make (P-word) Afraid Again," Riley Carter harassed and disparaged homeless persons on a regular basis, including referring to them as "tweakers" and the "walking dead."
But it gets crazier. Carter was trying to start an onlibe vigilante group he called, "Harbor Watchdogs LLC" and had even posted a GoFundMe to raise money for it. (No donations were made to the GoFundMe effort.)
On a related note, this clown bought the hat from one of a number of convicted criminals who spend an awful lot of time embellishing their prison lives on social media. This online seller glorifies biker gangs online and has been accused of lying about his time in prison. This online seller is apparently is upset about Riley's arrest while wearing a hat from his store (confirmed by seeing his online store logo on the hat), presumably because we all know that those who scream loudest about this issue tend to have something to hide.
After being charged with child rape, Aberdeen City Council member resigns
Riley Carter resigned on Friday, Aug. 2, just a few days after his arrest.
Author: Kipp Robertson
Published: 4:08 PM PDT August 6, 2024
ABERDEEN, Wash. — The Aberdeen City Council member charged with child rape resigned from jail, City Manager Ruth Clemens confirmed to KING 5.
Riley Carter signed a letter of resignation on Friday, Aug. 2, just a few days after his arrest. Detectives previously said Carter confessed to detectives, admitting he sexually assaulted a child known to him over the past two years.
Carter was arrested the night of Tuesday, July 30. According to documents filed in court Wednesday, July 31, Carter told detectives he needed help and expressed remorse toward his victim. Detectives said the victim is a child under the age of 12.
Grays Harbor Judge Vini Samuel ordered Carter held on $100,000 bail after charging Carter with one count of rape of a child.
Voters elected Carter to the Aberdeen City Council in December of 2023.
A Florida mom claimed her neighbors were pedophiles and tried to have them killed, authorities say. Deputies were ambushed, instead
Aug. 7, 2024, 1:10 AM UTC
By Tim Stelloh
A Florida mother whose family is accused of ambushing law enforcement officers, killing one and injuring two, had sought to lure neighbors who she believed were pedophiles into a fatal trap at her home but was interrupted by authorities, law enforcement officials said Monday.
A search of the family’s home in Eustis, northwest of Orlando, revealed more than 20 high-caliber rifles, shotguns and pistols that had been staged around the living room, Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell said at a news conference.
Authorities also found a stockpile of ammunition, body armor, gas masks, ready-to-eat meals, ghillie (camouflage) suits, anti-government propaganda and media promoting conspiracy theories, Grinnell said.
"This was nothing short of an ambush. The evidence will show that," Bill Gladson, state attorney for Florida's Fifth Judicial Circuit, told reporters.
Julie Sulpizio, 48, was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and other crimes, court records show. She is being held without bail.
Because of the nature of the alleged crime, the case must go before a grand jury within 21 days, Gladson said. Sulpizio's arraignment is scheduled for Sept. 3.
The public defender assigned to represent Sulpizio could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
Her husband, Michael Sulpizio, was found dead in the family’s home Friday after, Grinnell said, he fatally shot Lake County Master Deputy Bradley Link, 28, and critically injured a second officer, Deputy First Class Stefano Gargano.
A third officer, Master Deputy Sheriff Harold Howell, was also wounded.
Michael Sulpizio and the couple’s two adult daughters were all found dead on the family’s couch, Grinnell said. The body camera on Link, the fatally injured deputy, who was inside the family’s home when he was shot multiple times, appeared to have captured the Sulpizios taking their own lives, Grinnell added.
The sheriff's office first responded to the scene at 7:45 p.m. Friday, when authorities were told that a woman — later identified as Julie Sulpizio — was assaulting her neighbors, whom she accused of "being sinners," and saying, 'I know what you did,'" Grinnell said.
After an officer arrived, Julie Sulpizio identified herself as "Helen under God's will" and said her neighbors were involved in pedophilia, Grinnell said. One of the neighbors told the officer that Julie Sulpizio had tried to get them to walk to her house, Grinnell said, but that they didn't trust her.
In a later interview with investigators, Sulpizio said she was trying to lure them to her home so her husband could kill them, Grinnell said.
"She was not successful because of our deputies," he said.
A detective investigating the case said at the news conference that investigators found bumper stickers, fliers and handouts promoting anti-government propaganda and conspiracy theories at the home. The detective did not say whether the material is linked to the incident.
In her interview with investigators, the detective said, Sulpizio said that she could “visualize souls” and that it was her job to bring her husband “dark souls.”
After Sulpizio was handcuffed, Grinnell said, deputies tried to conduct a welfare check at her family's nearby home. Officers found two dead dogs in the front yard and a window screen that had been kicked out, he said.
Inside, they saw three people running and believed a burglary or a home invasion may have been in progress, he said.
After roughly an hour, Grinnell said, the deputies announced themselves and failed to reach anyone side. They entered the home through a laundry room, Grinnell said, and Link's body camera captured a man who appeared to be wearing body armor positioned with a rifle on a couch.
The gunman, believed to be Michael Sulpizio, fired several rounds, striking Link in the back, Grinnell said. Howell was hit in the wrist, Grinnell said, and he and other deputies retreated.
When officers tried to negotiate with the Sulpizios for the release of Link's body, Grinnell said, a woman in the home was captured on the deputy's body camera racking her gun and yelling, "My king will kill all of you."
Around 9:30 p.m., a tactical unit entered through the laundry room and was met with a volley of gunfire, Grinnell said. Deputy First Class Stefano Gargano, who had a ballistics shield, was struck with multiple high-caliber rounds through a wall, incapacitating him, Grinnell said.
As other deputies tried to remove him, they were being "actively engaged by suspects," Grinnell added, calling the officers "heroes."
At 11:02 p.m., Grinnell said, two gunshots were heard in quick succession. A third one was heard moments later.
Inside, authorities found the bodies of Michael Sulpizio and the two daughters, Savannah Sulpizio, 23, and Cheyenne Sulpizio, 22, Grinnell said.
Gargano is stable and Howell is expected to make a full recovery. Link was airlifted to a hospital and pronounced dead, Grinnell said.
The sheriff’s office said Link had worked for the department since 2019 and "quickly became part of our family and faithfully served our citizens with courage and zeal."
The latest attempt to exploit vulnerable people. I should clarify why these entrapment operations are bad. Many people caught in these operations are approached by these folks on legitimate adult dating sites. Most often, they claim to be over age 18. They often form online relationships with their victims, then perform a bait-and-switch by then claiming they're really under age 18 later on, most often just as the victim has already made arrangements to meet. In some cases, the bait-and-switch did not even occur on time. The victim is then harassed, assaulted, and/or extorted. Many of these entrapment busts are posted online. Few, if any, of the vigilante-run operations lead to arrests. Some vigilantes have even been arrested, and rightfully so.
Scottsdale police warning of dangerous teen trend, luring child p***ators
By Sarah Robinson
Published: Aug. 2, 2024 at 8:02 PM CDT
A new social media trend is causing concern among Valley police officers.
In the past few weeks, there have been multiple cases of teens attempting to lure potential child predators and then posting their encounters online.
The trend is reminiscent of a 2000s TV show, To Catch a P***ator.
But police say these operations should only ever be done by trained professionals, not teen vigilantes.
Scottsdale police officers want parents to talk to their kids about this social media trend and help stop it.
Experts say luring a potential child predator is extremely dangerous and can turn violent in an instant.
Scottsdale Police Sgt. Allison Sempsis says it can also end in charges against the teens.
“No. 1, someone can get seriously hurt, even killed in these types of situations,” Sempsis said. “Please do not do this. Stop if you’re doing it. And check and see if your children are doing it.”
She says many things can go wrong in these encounters, and the teens involved could get into trouble.
“We don’t want anyone to get arrested if they were to do something like criminal damage or assault, where there is not probable cause to arrest the actual alleged child predator but to arrest the people luring this person in,” Sempsis said.
Sempsis says there have been two cases in Scottsdale in the past few weeks.
“As the alleged suspect pulled into the parking lot he saw that he was surrounded by cars full of teenagers,” Sempsis said. “Once he backed out, one of the teenagers threw a rock through his back window, breaking it and then he took off.”
In a second case, after teens confronted a would-be predator in person, they demanded money or said they would report him to the police.
“That is extortion and it is a felony offense in Arizona,” said Russ Richelsoph, a criminal defense attorney.
Even if teens did successfully expose a would-be predator, Richelsoph says attorneys would have a tough time prosecuting that person.
“When police conduct these sting operations, they have to be very careful to not engage in something called entrapment. Entrapment is a situation where the police plant an idea into the mind of an otherwise innocent person and kind of convince them to commit the crime,” Richelsoph said.
Both cases in Scottsdale are under investigation; so far, no arrests have been made.
Still, Sgt. Sempsis says it’s a good idea to explain to your teen why this social media trend is a bad idea.
This rogue police department set people up using a private vigilante group and sent people to facilities where they intended for those they entrapped to be assaulted, possibly murdered. These MAGAts should be rounded up and hauled off to prison themselves.
Heading this clown show is Shawn Taylor, aka the "Conspiracy Cop", who apparently has been bouncing around from jon to job.
'Disturbing' recordings from inside child-predator sting shows police, MAGA operatives ignoring laws
Recordings show police discussing luring predator suspect to a jurisdiction where he may not leave the jail alive
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — What happens when you give people with bizarre conspiracy theories a gun and a badge?
Secret recordings from inside the troubled Millersville Police Department provide a sobering answer to that question.
Those recordings — obtained from what was supposed to be a sting operation to nab sexual predators who prey on innocent children — show that, in their zeal to make some big cases, Millersville's conspiracy-minded cops may have crossed the line of what's legal.
That sting was run back in May by Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor and a colorful cast of characters he assembled for the operation.
Among the revelations, the recordings show:
Taylor did not involve other law enforcement agencies with more experience in such operations because of his unfounded conspiracy theories that prominent state officials are involved in child sex trafficking.
Members of a private group posed online as minors — despite Millersville police being told by prosecutors that the sting would be legal only if sworn law enforcement officers were the ones doing the work.
Shawn Taylor told one operative that investigators would be using "pre-signed search warrants," which would likely be illegal, according to experts.
Police arrested one suspect then, when he refused to talk to investigators, they turned him over to the private group for questioning.
A Millersville detective boasted that the suspect was being taken to a jail where it was likely that he might not come out alive.
"This is the most disturbing video that I've ever been asked to comment on since I've been asked to do the legal analyst job here at the station," said Nick Leonardo, a veteran Nashville lawyer who worked with NewsChannel 5 for some 15 years.
Millersville police did not respond to NewsChannel 5's request for comment.
As NewsChannel 5 Investigates first revealed, Shawn Taylor has voiced support for all sorts of bizarre conspiracy theories, many of them involving child sex trafficking and some of the country's most powerful political figures.
Taylor even believes the discredited QAnon "Pizzagate" hoax that falsely claimed Democrats kept child sex slaves locked up in the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor.
He imagines that Millersville, a community of about 6,000 people just north of Nashville, is at the center of Tennessee's drug and human trafficking operations.
The recordings show that, in a phone call in the run-up to the Millersville sting, Taylor once again revealed his conspiracy-fueled paranoia, insisting that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and other state law enforcement agencies are involved in the sex trafficking.
"So be real careful, especially when it comes to our state agencies," Taylor cautioned. "So we've just got to be real careful with them because we have people what we've already identified that are involved in the money laundering side."
"It's unhinged. It is very, very, very dangerous."
In fact, a team photo for Operation Clean Sweep, as Taylor dubbed it, consisted of just five police officers from Millersville — none with actual experience running child sex stings.
Two of the men were introduced to the group as "prayer warriors," who are part of a group that believes the battle against human trafficking is a battle against "demons."
The woman in the middle was a three-time Republican candidate for Congress from North Carolina, who faced accusations of domestic violence and child abuse that she denied.
There were also two MAGA podcasters and former Navy SEAL Craig "Sawman" Sawyer.
Back in 2018, Sawyer took a Tucson TV crew to a camp that he suggested might have been used for child sex trafficking.
In fact, police said it was just a camp used by homeless families.
These days, on far-right podcasts, Sawyer raises money for his own Arizona-based nonprofit called Veterans for Child Rescue, but there's no evidence that his group has ever rescued any actual children.
On one recent podcast, Sawyer claimed, without evidence, that he knew of a location "near Nashville, Tennessee that they are flying the children into."
Even more bizarrely, the secret recordings reveal Sawyer talking about his hopes for continuing to work with Shawn Taylor.
"And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that's taken over Nashville," Sawyer said.
Nick Leonardo's reaction?
"Just when you thought it couldn't get any more shocking, you keep listening and it just gets worse as it goes."
For example, in one recording, Shawn Taylor talks about being prepared for the operation with "pre-signed search warrants."
"We're going to have search warrants that are already — they'll have to meet certain perimeters for us to execute the search warrant — but they are going to be pre-signed search warrants," Taylor told a member of Sawyer's team.
There's just one major problem.
"A search warrant cannot be pre-signed," Leonardo said. "You have to see what's going on, and you have to put that into a warrant, and you have to swear to that individually in front of a judge — and that becomes the probable cause."
NewsChannel 5 asked, "Is a pre-signed search warrant going to stand up in court?"
"A pre-signed search warrant would be a criminal offense in and of itself," Leonardo answered.
A source with longtime experience running child predator schemes confirmed that "pre-signed search warrants" would not be legal.
In the recordings, a member of Sawyer's team reveals a deal with Shawn Taylor where Millersville PD would seize data from any suspects and share that data with Sawyer's group — people who are not law enforcement officers.
"They are going to dump their phones, and they've agreed to give us their contact lists off their phones — so all of this data" would be shared with the group, said Forrest Sealey, executive director of Veterans for Child Rescue.
Again, Leonardo was shocked by what he heard.
"There's no reason whatsoever that any kind of evidence — electronic data seized from any kind of device pursuant to a valid search warrant — should ever be in the hands of a private individual. That potentially would lend itself to a criminal charge."
"So that could be a crime, as well?"
"Potentially, it could be a crime."
And the video shows it was members of Craig Sawyer's team actually doing the chatting, posing online as a 12-year-old girl.
But that's not how Shawn Taylor was told that it had to be done to make it legal.
"So we just talked to our DA," Taylor said in a telephone call before the operation. "And, so, with the Tennessee state law, it said that the officer has to do the actual typing, that with our law it says it has to be a law enforcement officer posing as a minor."
Leonardo agreed.
"Clearly it needs to be a POST-certified sworn law enforcement officer on the other side of that computer tapping those keys."
But video from inside the operation shows that not only were members of Sawyer's team doing the typing, they were also concerned about there not being video of them doing it.
"They needed videos of them, law enforcement chatting," one of the so-called "chatters" told a videographer.
"I'm not getting your faces," the man replied.
"Yeah. I just... I'm cool with it," she responded, "but they wanted to show law enforcement — not us — touching the phones."
NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Leonardo, "And the fact that they end up with people who are not law enforcement officers tapping the keys, those cases are in trouble?"
"Those cases are in serious, serious trouble," he agreed.
The recordings also show the plan was to try to lure the predators to a Shell station in Robertson County because the officers felt the prosecutor in this district would be more likely to work with them on their cases.
Millersville detective Mike Candler referred to fellow detective Todd Dorris as "Mater," a character from the animated "Cars" film series.
"Mater there is best friends with the district attorney in Robertson County," Candler said. "They went to high school together. So he said, 'Well, let's put this here so I can talk to him.' And we lock everything in. So he won't stand for nothing, and they all hate pedophiles."
And when they did get one suspect who had bicycled up Interstate 65 from Nashville thinking he was going to have sex with a 12-year-old girl, Millersville police took the man into custody.
"They said he was peddling like a son of a bitch," Candler recounted to the chatters.
Then, according to the recordings, the suspect was brought to a Millersville fire hall.
He didn't want to talk to the police, so they turned him over to Craig Sawyer's film crew.
"I just walked out, and y'all's little camera crew went in and starting asking questions — and he just gave everything up," Candler said.
One of the chatters sounded perplexed.
"The camera crew went in?"
"Yeah."
"Is that...?"
Candler quickly answered, "It's fine. We didn't prompt them, we didn't prompt them to ask any questions. We didn't have them do anything. It was unsolicited, and he just started what we call spontaneous utterance — just laying it out there."
Leonardo had a different opinion.
"Hands-down, the confession is not coming in for a host of different reasons because you have a private third party doing the interrogation and sitting here and filming it. That's not coming into evidence. It's just not."
NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked, "So again this guy could walk, probably would walk?"
"Yeah, he certainly would walk, certainly would walk based on the facts that we are going over here," Leonardo said. "I don't see how this prosecution could stick."
Still, the suspect was booked into Robertson County Jail — which, the detective grimly hinted, could be his last stop.
"Honestly, I wouldn't doubt he gets, comes up missing in the jail," Candler said.
"Yeah, I agree. I would like that," one of the chatters answered.
The detective continued, "That's a Robertson County thing. Robertson, Maury, Hickman, Monroe and Giles — you're not coming out of the jail."
Leonardo was stunned.
"What does that mean? What does he know that the rest of us do not?"
We noted, "Essentially, it sounds like he is saying we are taking him to a jurisdiction where we don't think he'll come out alive."
"Well, yeah, that could be the inference that's drawn," Leonardo said.
"That's very scary, and I think that's cause for an investigation by the TBI to determine what was meant by that."
The NewsChannel 5 legal analyst said he believes Millersville PD is now a rogue agency where conspiracy theorists have decided the laws don't apply to themselves.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Leonardo, "From what you've heard in these recordings, is this a police department that's out of control?"
"It sounds to me like it's a police department that never had control," he answered.
"This is jeopardizing the safety of the citizens of Millersville and something needs to be done."
Craig Sawyer has gone on InfoWars and other far-right podcasts attacking NewsChannel 5 for our investigation of Taylor and referring to this reporter as a "pedophile protector."
He has claimed this predator sting generated enough evidence to charge another 70 people, although there's no way to tell if that's true.
Robertson County prosecutors have not returned NewsChannel 5's phone calls.
In cases where the suspects did not travel to meet the 12-year-old girl, one potential obstacle could be, according to the recordings, the "chatter house" was located in Sumner County — which is an entirely different judicial district.
It's not clear whether prosecutors there would take up any potential cases.
The link to the deleted VoidSec page -- https://www.facebook.com/p/VoidSec-Official-100084959813994/
I wish I could say that I could take credit for this, but I rarely use Facebook. These days, the OnceFallen.com FB account is mostly only monitored to block potential trolls. Still, seeing the central hub of the small troll group that has harassed Registered Persons online has been shut down.
It seems that the trolls are having either an internal conflict, or they just "FAFO'ed" with someone willing to take the fight back to them. But somebody allegedly outed the primary troll of VoidSec. I have not independently confirmed these claims, but at the least, I like seeing VoidSuck get a taste of their own medicine. The claims of him being connected to me or NARSOL is BS. But if the rest is true, I wouldn't be shocked. Those who bark the loudest have the most to hide.
The parody page -- https://www.facebook.com/people/Voidsec-official/61561408745558/
