Adios Amigo!

This angry cuss is Luis Angel Arellano arrested overnight after officers discovered he had outstanding warrants for failure to appear on charges of resisting arrest and concealed weapons.

Photo Courtesy MCSOC March 23, 2025

 As you can imagine this is not Mr. Arellano's first rodeo.

Photo Courtesy MCSOC June 6, 2022

But on his prior arrests he was given an unsecured bond which resulted in his failure to appear.

2008     SIMPLE ASSULT - DA Dismissed

2011     ASSAULT AND BATTERY - DA Dismissed

2022     CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPON - DA Dismissed

2022     RESISTING - DA Dismissed

2022     CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPON (4 Counts) - DA Dismissed

2022     ASSULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON (4 Counts) - DA Dismissed

2022     RESISING (4 Counts) - DA Dismissed

2022     COMMUNICATING THREATS (4 Counts) - DA Dismissed

CP gets it, why bother to show up since the DA will just dismiss the charges anyways.

Plus doubt the MCSO will check with ICE since that's not their job. But considering flights departing daily maybe someone should have a look? Odds are this armed violent angry cuss needs a vacation.

White Boy's View of Da Ford

I grew up in Charlotte,  and Da Ford was once home to one of my great grandfathers around 3 centuries ago. There's a park that bears his name and some tall tale about hornets that no one appreciates much any more.

Sadly rather than a "hornet's nest of rebellion" in more recent times we learned to refer to Da Ford as, well "that place", like Grier Heights, West Charlotte, Hidden Valley or Cherry you didn't go there unless you needed to. 

In high school I knew Cherry well. You see Miss Ida lived in Cherry. Her home was a nice little house well taken care of, built around 1930 and nestled among White Oak Trees. It was just around the corner from a great uncle's Myers Park home that once stood at the corner of Queens and Providence. 

The home most people knew as the Wilson-Shelton House was vacant during my childhood, but before that both Ida's parents and grandparents all worked at Uncle Thomas' home at one time or another. 

During my high school years we'd often stop by the house and "explore" or whatever. I had a key, my mother and a few others tried to save the old house. 

Ida by then worked for my mother and sometimes after a day of housekeeping, I'd end up with the task of taking Miss Ida home. 

She was a fine black woman of southern upbringing. To us kids she was housekeeper and babysitter to my younger siblings but she was more that just that she was part of our family. Sweet as honeydew melon and a joy to be around. If I close eyes I can see her smile and hear her voice "you take that young lady home right now we will never speak of this again". 

Yeah she was like that.

When she passed we all went to her funeral and we stood, us white folks in the back of the church. You could say that we were not hard to miss but folks knew who we were and why we were there, because she was everything good in the world to us.

My father in the weeks after her funeral we learned gave a check to her church in her name. Today the preschool building at the church is still wearing her name.

Funny thing about southern black funerals back in the day, when the congregation starts singing they sing and sing and keep singing until they keep singing some more and they will change hymns and keep singing in fact they sing until the spirit tells them they have sung enough. 

Before the Wilson - Shelton house was demolished I took Miss Ida there and walked the empty halls and large rooms and she cried.  Not sobbing cry, rather just tears, one and then another. I have photos I should post them but then again.

You see that house, that job was her pride, her life and  it made her proud to care for such a wonderful home, and sad that it was going away.

Years after her passing I went to see what had become of her small house, of course it too was gone.  As I drove past where the house once stood, two young black boys glared at me and one of them raised his hand as a two finger gun and pulled his imaginary trigger and recoiled his hand. 

I imagine they are both in prison or dead by now.

So now the present day.

A few weeks ago Tina Quizon posted a video of men standing around open fires along Catherine Simmons Avenue at Beatties Ford. I couldn't help but think that Charlotte has let not only those people down but all of us. 

Her post of this scene on "X" is located here.

But it made me ask, this is Charlotte North Carolina isn't it? This is not Patterson New Jersey this is not Crenshaw in LA this isn’t Washington Park in Chicago this is Charlotte’s Beatties Ford and just 3 miles from council chambers! Right?

How out of touch is Charlotte's mayor? How ignorant are Charlotte City Council members?   

Homeless Men On The Bowery, 1972

A group of homeless men stand around a fire in an oil drum on the Bowery, New York, New York, January 8, 1972. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah)

How did this happen? When did this happen? 

It wasn't always like this.

We once had a city where I felt safe taking Miss Ida home even well past dark.

Everything is a Hate Crime

Ardrey Kell in the news again and its always bad.

According to the local once a newspaper:

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is asking the FBI to investigate whether the reported March 7 assault of a 15-year-old Ardrey Kell High School student for wearing a hijab by another student in a math class was a hate crime. 

The student, who has not been named, suffered multiple broken bones in her face and jaw after her family alleges she was punched repeatedly in class and called slurs by a football player after days of what her family called anti-Muslim bullying. 

The department said it submitted the school resource officer’s incident report to the FBI for further investigation. 

When asked for a copy of that incident report on Wednesday, CMPD’s police records division said a corresponding report did not exist. On Thursday, the department acknowledged its existence in a social media post. 

The girl’s family said at a press conference Wednesday that they want the incident investigated as a hate crime, and that they are “very likely” to sue Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools over the handling of the assault. 

Jibril Hough, the spokesperson for the family, spoke at the press conference about the incident, Hough criticized the school for its handling of the situation, indicating that the school had attempted to cover up the incident. He mentioned that the school issued threatening language to the parents, advising them not to talk to the media. 

Hough condemned the school for not taking a stronger stance on racism and Islamophobia and for mishandling the situation.

Hough being escorted out of a Trump rally

The family alleged that by not calling an ambulance promptly after the assault, and instead requesting the student’s mother take her to the hospital, CMS did not handle the situation properly. 

They also alleged the district advised them not to go to the media about the assault. However, CMS Chief Operations Officer Tim Ivey said at a separate press conference on Wednesday that the district followed the proper protocols, and denied that anyone with the school district told the girl’s family not to speak to the media. “Ardrey Kell High School followed all policies and procedures as outlined in the board policy manual and student code of conduct,” Ivey said Wednesday. 

The school SRO “was present at the scene and immediately initiated the appropriate investigative processes.” Both the female student and the football player, also 15, were suspended for 10 days. 

The boy alleged the female student hit him first, and CMS referred to the incident as a “fight,” her family said.

CMS did not comment on the reason for the suspension, citing privacy laws. The girl’s family said she will not be returning to Ardrey Kell and they will appeal her suspension.

The Eyes Have It - Proof Normal Has Left Charlotte

If you're native to the Carolina's as I am you're used to an odd assortment of people and in some cases family.

My brother has a father-in law who has more money than sense but lives like a pauper amd might bathe once a month. I've got a sister in law who's a nurse she weighs about 350 and I'd not let her near me if I was dying right now

A couple of cousins who are mountain folk good people but I'd not eat anything they bring to a family reunion picnic. 

There are a couple of distant nephews that while they are not brothers they look like twins.

Aunts who prefer road kill to hunted game because you don't have to worry about the "shot".

There's a cousin Eddie and a Cramer in the family. But all things considered they look pretty normal compared to what lately shows up on the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's arrest log.

ICE - Putting The Panic Back In Hispanic

Liberals are losing their minds over Trump's "close the Border" effort.

In one month he has cut the number of crossings from thousands to just a trickle and shut down the Mexican cartels lucrative human and drug trafficking pipeline. 

Sadly there has been a little collateral damage. Businesses that rely on cheap illegal immigrant labor have been slammed hard. (Screw Them). You can drive through job sites like Pulte homes and the typical constant echos of hammers swinging in the morning air are gone.

Florida and California produce fields are void of the typical loads of migrates packed in the back of an old Ford "stake side" truck. 

In Charlotte those white vans stacked with a dozen ladders are suddenly a rare sight on 485.

The usual day labor meetup places in Monroe are suddenly void of club cab pickups and young men standing around empty parking lots in the early morning hours.

Student Protestors

If you are a student protestor attending college on a student VISA you are now more than likely an ICE target. Immigrants on work or travel VISAs who are not employed or overstayed their VISA (there are thousands) are also targeted.

Green Card Holders

Liberal's are enraged over reports of legal resident aliens are being arrested by ICE, often claiming these "Green Card" holders have "rights" and can't be deported.

No, a green card does not guarantee that you will not be deported. Green card holders can be deported if they commit certain crimes or violate the terms of their green card. 

Known Green Card holders with aggravated felony or multiple minor convictions are being prioritized for removal.

In Mecklenburg County a large percentage of arrestees on any given night have hispanic surnames. This alone is a shocking development. A decade ago you might get one or two a night. 

BUt seriously, if you were in this country as a "guest" why would you break any law?

Green Card Holders with Criminal Convictions, or those with fraudulent Green Card applications are at the top of the list.

Many applicants failed to disclose prior convictions either willfully, or based on some misguided understand that not telling the truth was acceptable.

Applicants who got their status through sham marriages or fake documents are having their cases reopened and are being deported.

Green card holders who spent years outside the U.S. without clear ties are also being flagged for abandonment and lost their status.

A sure way to get deported is to commit a crime such as theft, fraud, or assault. If you are here even lawfully and commit an aggravated felony, such as trafficking or weapons expect you will be removed immediately.

Don't Panic if you are a good person. My sister in law and my ex wife are wonderful people who just happen to have a hispanic surname.  But they are also not criminals. Looking at this weekends arrests and there are 3 dozen or more names all arrested for avoidable crimes.

Domestic violence, DWI, stolen auto, and so here is just a sample.

HERNANDEZ-MARTINEZ, OSCAR GABRIEL 
No Operators License, DWI, Felony Controlled Substance  

LOAISIGA-ESPINOZA, TEOFILO 

No Operators License 

RODRIGUEZ-TENORIO, JACKSON RAFAEL

Communicating Threats, Domestic Violence, Assault on a Female

ACEVEDO-RODRIGUEZ, RENE
DWI

GALICIA, PONCHO

Assault on a Female Domestic Violence 

LABRA, ALEXIS D

DWLR Expired Tag

If you don't want to be a target of ICE don't break the law. If you don't want to be deported don't enter the USA unlawfully. If you are here legally and don't want to be removed don't break the law. 

If you have broken the law like those above, hire a lawyer ASAP because they are coming for you. 

By the way "Naturalization" becoming a United States Citizen is the best way to be removed-proof, as U.S. citizens cannot be deported.

Liberals who want to deport Elon Musk have their minds explode when they learn Musk is a US Citizen.

The above photos are from the MCSO daily arrest list and it should be assumed all those charged are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The immigration status of those arrested is not known nor tracked by the MSCO. The inclusion of their photos makes no determination or inference as to immigration status. 

Officer-Involved Shooting in the University City Division

VIA CMPD:

Charlotte, N.C. – (Friday, March 7, 2025) – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s (CMPD) Homicide Unit is conducting an officer involved shooting investigation in the 12000 block of Headquarters Farm Road in the University City Division.

At approximately 4:30 p.m., CMPD officers were attempting to serve several warrants in the 12000 block of Headquarters Farm Road.

Officers perceived an imminent deadly threat and discharged their service weapons engaging with the subject.

Two officers were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injures. The suspect was pronounced deceased on scene.

The CMPD is the lead investigating agency in this case. The officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation per standard protocol.

As is standard procedure with any officer involved shooting, the Internal Affairs Bureau will conduct a separate but parallel investigation.

Representatives from CMPD's Operations Command, Homicide Unit, MEDIC and the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office also responded.

The investigation into this case is active and ongoing. As additional information develops it will be released by CMPD’s Public Affairs Division. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call 704-432-8477 and speak directly to a Homicide Unit detective. Detective Guillet is the lead detective assigned to this case. The public can also leave information anonymously by contacting Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600 or Charlotte Crime Stoppers. For additional information about this case, please refer to the report: 20250307-1347-00.

Photos via local news

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Hat Trick Saturday in Charlotte

Back in the day Charlotte's West Side was well known for homicides. The days of crack and heroin in CMPD's Adam Two Division have been replaced by meth and fentanyl in Freedom and Westover divisions. 

CMPD's West Side "Jump Out Boyz" have been replaced by JADE and SWITCH for a warmer more welcoming police presence in "Da Hood".

Homicides have become a city wide problem with even South Charlotte is seeing the carnage of drug related deaths and violence. 

Still Saturday night's 3 seperate homicides for a "Hat Trick" present a somber realization that CMPD, the Mecklenburg County DA and elected Judges as well as Charlotte City Leaders are failing at the first obligation of civil governance, public safety.

It is predictable that crime begets more crime and that in each of these three cases both victim and perpetrators will likely have intense criminal pasts even if the arrest records don't validate this claim.

Still there's a long held understanding that Police can't prevent homicides, and that human nature is too complicated to predict and prevent people from killing each other.

But that is within a normal society and in this segment of Charlotte's dark side is highly preventable by what is well known as "broken windows policing". 

Broken windows policing is a strategy that focuses on reducing minor crimes, which are easy to stop, to prevent major crimes. The theory is that by addressing quality of life offenses, like vandalism and graffiti, police can restore community order and reduce crime. 

(In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, antisocial behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes.)

In simple terms when there are no consequences for having expired plates or a valid driver's licenses, suddenly driving a stolen car is normal. When being a drug dealer is considered an acceptable "side gig" as much as being a doordash driver then having a stolen handgun is considerable normal and before long using that weapon to take what you want or settle an argument becomes acceptable.

Let's face it the African American Community has become a culture of violence embracing both criminality and gun play because there are no consequences for antisocial behavior.

Try as much as they like CMPD is no match for a DA and Elected Judges who are soft on crime. Add a mayor and city council that believe crime is a symptom of disadvantaged youth and systemic racism and it becomes a lost cause.

The first homicide happened around 11 a.m. on Saturday in the 6100 block of Old Mount Holly Road. When Officers first responded to a call to assist Medic they found a woman having a medical issue. When she got to the hospital, medical staff found a gunshot wound to her chest and she later died of her injuries.

About 10 hours later, around 9 p.m. on Saturday, officers responded to the 1200 block of Lucky Penny Street at the Loyalty Inn where they found someone with a gunshot wound to the head. Medic pronounced them dead at the scene.

The just before 2 a.m on Sunday March 2nd  officers responded to the 4800 block of Wilkinson Blvd about an assault with a deadly weapon after someone got into an altercation with an armed security guard. When they arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital where he died of his injuries.

Congratulations Charloot the hat trick is yours!

CMPD is also reporting a fourth separate shooting on East Woodlawn Road left one person in the hospital with life-threatening injuries on Sunday morning and another shooting that happened around 9 a.m.Sunday morning on Village Lake Drive in southeast Charlotte, which left one person with life-threatening injuries.

CP has repeatedly suggested that CMPD publicly report shootings so that the public can remain vigilant and aware of the ever increasing level of violent crime in Charlotte.