First slice 8/8/12: Another member of 30 Deep heads to prison
Plus dogs as weapons
1. Javorris Redding, a member of the all-but-dismantled Southwest Atlanta-based gang 30 Deep, was sentenced to 25 years in prison this week for criminal street gang activity, armed robbery (three counts), and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
District Attorney Paul Howard's office writes:
On April 14, 2011, Defendant Redding and an unidentified co-conspirator robbed three victims at gunpoint at the Motel 6 located off of Old National Parkway in College Park. Authorities believe the victims were set up by two females with whom they were partying earlier in the evening. Redding and his co-conspirator forced their way into the Motel room, held the victims at gunpoint, pistol whipped one of them and then took their personal belongings, including one of the victims 2010 Camaro.
Javorris Redding's brother George "Keon" Redding, considered the gang's leader by authorities, is serving two life sentences for his participation in a 2007 crime spree that left two people dead. His cousin Jonathan Redding is in prison for murdering John Henderson, bartender at the Standard in Grant Park, in 2009.
2. The DA's office also announced that a local man accused of murdering his girlfriend's pomeranian, then using the dog's little dead body to beat the woman is expected to plead guilty in court tomorrow ...
The incident happened on May 19, 2012 at the victim’s Roswell Road Apartment complex in Sandy Springs. The victim was allegedly kicked and beaten by Tadeo during an escalating argument between the two. The woman’s pet dog was also kicked and stomped after rushing to its owner’s defense. The pet was later taken outside where it was killed. Its body was then allegedly used in further attacks against its owner.
3. Joan Rivers is a tiny, surgically enhanced badass.
4. DeKalb County Police Officers — who are occasionally accused of things like kicking pregnant women in their stomachs, hitting and killing pedestrians, and obstructing investigations of fellow officers, will now be subject to a new, ramped-up internal affairs unit.
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