Jurors rejected Cash’s testimony that the woman seen fleeing from him on the motel video was a prostitute who had just stolen money from him. Instead they believed the 43-year-old female victim’s emotional testimony that Cash laughed and sang to music on the radio after executing 32-year-old Edgar Rosas-Gutierrez and that she feared for her own life during the two-and-a-half-hour ordeal.
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Cash testified he had never carjacked the couple. He said the woman in the motel video was a prostitute he had procured through a friend he had run into at Jalapeno Joe’s that night. He said the friend left the woman and the black Buick at the motel and left in another car with some men. Furber argued that Cash needed to get out of town because he was wanted for murdering a man during a dispute at a car wash two weeks earlier. He said the couple was Cash’s ticket out of town.
… Michael A. Stalter, 35, of Florence Tollgate Place, was charged May 20 with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, loitering in a drug zone, and possession of CDS in a motor vehicle. Police said they saw him conduct a drug transaction after an undercover investigation, and they stopped him at 10:15 p.m. on Delaware Avenue. He was released on his own recognizance.
Felicita M. Hernandez, 34, of Route 130 was charged May 20 with prostitution, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said they took her into custody at 4:33 p.m. the Nirdip Motel on Route 130 where they conducted an undercover operation. Police said she also had crack cocaine and related paraphernalia. She was sent to Burlington County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail.
Philadelphia Strip Clubs: Thursday Morning Cupcheck – A Guide to Chicago Sports History
May 27, 2010
Tired of all this Dallas Stars talk that’s been dominating the airwaves? Here’s a welcome change of pace.
Good morning, hockey fans! Here’s hoping you bet the farm on Jaroslav Halak’s 0-9 record when facing 25 or fewer shots this postseason, and became rich beyond any easily-impressed GM’s wildest dreams. Last week we took science and reason and twisted them to our own nefarious purposes to prove Only-God-Knows-What; this week, I was planning on taking a break from the media circus surrounding the Dallas Stars and getting in a little R&R at my favorite rural Illinois strip club,
Phat Cows, but recent events in el mundo de hockey stayed my course. Of course, I’m talking about the historic Stanley Cup Finals matchup between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Philadelphia Flyers, two teams whose last Stanley Cup victories can be measured in geologic terms.
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Lou Ford (Affleck) is a deputy sheriff in the type of Texan town where “you’re either a man or a gentleman and God help you if you ain’t”. Ford is ordered to evict town prostitute Joyce (Alba), but when he arrives at her secluded home he’s bowled over by her beauty. However, an argument ensues where Ford whips her with his belt and, this is where Winterbottom’s film gets uneasy, Joyce likes it; the incident ignites a long-dormant memory and psychopathic instincts in Ford. They become lovers and decide to rip off Joyce’s trick Elmer Conway (Jay R. Ferguson), the son of the wealthy Chester (Ned Beaty) and old school friend of Ford’s, with whom he holds a grudge. On the night of the double-cross, Ford, now a sociopath, pummels Joyce to death, shoots Elmer and arranges the scene so it looks like the two had a lover’s tiff that took a tragic turn. However, Chester isn’t having it, and neither is local union boss Joe Rothman (Koteas) and DA Hendricks (Simon Baker).
Greg Cote of the Miami Herald, under the headline “NFL Goes insane With Super Bowl in New Jersey,’’ grumbled “The League should be arrested for prostitution because, in effect, the NFL has broken its own rules on mild-climate cities to reward the Jets and Giants for building a $1.6 billion stadium.’’
Houston was rewarded with a Super Bowl for building a new stadium. Rules about mild-climate cities? Detroit has had two Super Bowls; Minnesota, the frozen north had one. Those games were indoors, but for that first time in Detroit, XVI, the winning 49ers had to stomp through snowdrifts just to get to the Pontiac Silverdome.
The owners, who voted for New York, merely were supporting the free-spending decision of their pals in charge of the Giants and Jets to erect a new facility.
That’s not prostitution. That’s billion-dollar back-scratching.
Philadelphia Adult Entertainment: Giants/Jets Survive Tense Vote To Land Super Bowl XLVIII In ‘14
May 27, 2010
SEEKING SHELTER FROM THIS STORM: In Miami, Greg Cote writes under the header, “NFL Goes Insane With Super Bowl In New Jersey.” Cote: “The league should be arrested for prostitution, because, in effect, the NFL has broken its own rules on mild-climate Super Bowls to reward the Jets and Giants for building a $1.6 billion stadium.” He adds, ”You’re going to play a Super Bowl in the bitter cold with a probability of snow by choice!? … Why play the biggest of all games in fair weather? Makes too much sense” (MIAMI HERALD, 5/26). SPORTINGNEWS.com’s Mike Florio wrote there is a “fine line between being edgy and going loco,” and yesterday’s decision “makes us wonder whether plenty of people have lost their marbles.” The Super Bowl is the “single greatest day on the American sports calendar,” and it “needs to be protected from circumstances that can make the experience something other than super” (SPORTINGNEWS.com, 5/25). In Austin, Cedric Golden writes the “most important game in professional sports …
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May 20 materialized former New York City Ballet star Jacques D’Amboise’s latest forway into lands most people shun: the inner-city ghettoes–Trenton, NJ, my birthplace, in this instance.
Into those places permeated by low incomes, unemployment, drug addiction, drug sellers, prostitution, hopelessness, he brings music, dance, fifteen minutes of fame for each child, and hope.
That is my impression, anyway. And that seemed to have been the reality each other time I attended these events.
Public schools were bereft of the culture we had enjoyed: music and art in addition to the usual humanities and sciences. The tanking economy, which always afflicts the poor first, had cut off these windows into creativity and joy.
How they deserved this “day in the sun.”
I know that the African American culture is rife with lively music–Sunday church services rock with joy and an enviable depth of faith. So the children I saw on the stage in years past were not quite the strangers to the marvelous escape into rhythm and artforms I supposed.
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Accused murderer-rapist Omar Sharif Cash took the witness stand in his own defense yesterday and said the terrified woman seen fleeing from him on a motel surveillance video was a prostitute who had just stolen his money.
The 28-year-old Philadelphia man, who faces the death penalty if convicted, is charged with carjacking a couple outside a Philadelphia nightclub in May 2008, executing the man in Bensalem and raping the woman repeatedly before she escaped from a Route 1 motel in Lawrence Township, N.J.
Yesterday, as a hushed courtroom watched him take the stand, Cash explained why he was driving the dead man’s car, why he was caught in a motel video with the dead man’s girlfriend and why he was eventually arrested in New York City.
Cash insisted the woman was a prostitute procured for him by a friend he ran into outside Jalapeno Joe’s nightclub the night 32-year-old Edgar Rosas-Gutierrez and his girlfriend were allegedly abducted from that bar.
If oil companies stopped buying oil from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, we would lose about 24 percent of our oil imports. The price of gas would rise and people most likely would be discouraged from driving. The oil companies could invest the money they would have forked over to rich serfs in clean-energy projects and have a head start at dominating a new market. This would satisfy both free-market Republicans and “gas-tax” proposing Democrats. Unite both parties for economic growth and environmental progress? Sounds like a deal to me.
Offshore drilling has a grim and dark fate. It has already taken an unfathomable toll on the Gulf and Southeastern coastlines, and the same agency that is supposed to be the oil rig “watchdog” is also the oil industry pimp that grants environmental waivers. I’d be a lunatic if I suggested we change the system overnight. But what I do suggest is that we halt offshore drilling and start our shift away from oil dependence. We need to tell politicians of both parties to start being leaders.
Cash, 28, was wanted for a murder in Philadelphia when he allegedly killed Edgar Rosas-Gutierrez and kidnapped and raped his finacee in May 2008.
The suspect is accused of jumping Gutierrez and his intended from Brazil as they sat in a car kissing outside Jalapeno Joe’s nightclub in Philadelphia at 3 a.m., on May 11, Mother’s Day.
Cash allegedly killed Gutierrez with a bullet to the head soon after in Bensalem on a Street Road exit ramp.
He then allegedly took the woman, a 43-year-old mother of four and grandmother of five, to the Comfort Inn in Lawrence Township, N.J., where she was raped a third time before escaping.
As a surprise witness, Cash took the stand on Wednesday to say his sex with the woman was consensual, after he paid a pimp $100 and spent $75 on cab ride from Philly to the Trenton suburb.