Federal Charges
CWB has been covering the CTA attack extensively:
And like the Iryna Zarutska stabbing, the feds grabbed this one:
After being arrested by Chicago police officers in the Loop on Tuesday morning, the man accused of setting a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train this week spontaneously yelled “Burn b****!” and “Burn alive b****!” according to a newly filed federal criminal complaint.
Lawrence Reed, a 50-year-old man on pretrial release for allegedly knocking a psychiatric ward social worker unconscious in August, is federally charged with a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system.
Federal charges should mean Federal penalties....which include the Death Penalty.
CWB also names the judges who have been lax in keeping this psycho away from the public:
- Reed ultimately pleaded guilty to arson and received two years of “mental health probation” from Judge Arthur Hill. Despite being arrested three times on misdemeanor charges, including twice for battery, while on probation, the court deemed his probation performance “satisfactory” after prosecutors dropped all of those charges.
On August 19, Reed allegedly knocked a social worker unconscious while he was being treated at MacNeal Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Berwyn, according to court records.
[...] Despite the allegations, Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez rejected the detention request and ordered Reed released on electronic monitoring rather than being put in jail. While the court clerk’s notes describe the monitoring as “24/7,” a document signed by Molina-Gonzalez shows she authorized him to leave home from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays. The order also barred him from the psychiatric hospital “unless it is a medical emergency.”On September 12, court records show Judge Ralph Meczyk modified Reed’s electronic monitoring order to allow him out of his home during some daytime hours on Tuesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
Hats off to CWB for being the first (and maybe only) news outlet to start naming names in an effort to hold judges accountable for endangering the public. If the judges start getting voted out, maybe the politicians will wake up and stop catering to criminals?
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
95 Comments:
Just vote democrat for more....
I remember Art Hill as an ASA in the late 80's and early 90's. He thought there should be only 2 punishments. Severing a hand and death. Looks like that has changed since he became a judge
Media will explain this away as another example of our "current mental health crisis" and move on. The white girl stabbed on the UIC Halsted platform by the knife wielding shithead has already been forgotten and we've long moved on from the Loop sucker punch shithead. Let's get back to talking about ICE.
It would be unfortunate if this pillar of the community was late for his next birthday.
But, but, one of the negligent judges has an inspirational quotation for Hispanic Heritage Month!
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"As an attorney who was in court nearly every day of my career, I never once had the opportunity to step up before a Latina judge. Now, I am proud to say that so many other Latinas are becoming judges and am excited about a judiciary that actually represents all of he community."
JUDGE TERESA MOLINA-GONZALEZ CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY
Unreal……. A real life horror, all occurring in public, out in the open and in day light.
Could be Obama’s son. Let him go, he didn’t mean it.
Excellent reporting by CWB and commentary by SCC. If the suspect wasn't charged federally he would be back in the revolving door system of Crook County justice. He would be put in a mental health facility for a short period of time, declared fit to be back in society and the cycle would returned. Hopefully in the federal system he will never be released.
The Democrat uni party here is to blame from the mayor, governor, state legislature, county commissioner, and the judges. Also the major news outlets who whitewash the stories for these politicians and rarely question them.
They are driving the city into the ground with failures of everything they touch and then have the audacity to increase the property taxes.
Voting judges out.....
Ha...Soon THEY....will pass a law preventing that because of....racism.
I never vote judges out ! I need them to continue catering to the criminal element. My OT checks are on average $2300 a month lol. Just like they love crime I love the money that comes with it. And it’s been this way for several years now. U just have to learn to play the system. Defund the racist police !!! lol 💵💵💵 yes I say keep it up !
Old school Policeman says...
In the days of old a judge would be known for giving a speech at sentencing and the amount needed in a envelope from a friend......
Not by getting street creed letting punks back on the street.
As you have mentioned before…I vote NO to ALL judge retention!!!
Good on CWB! I wonder how many times the "powers that be" have attempted to bribe them to not follow a story and they resisted? I'll have to throw a few bones their way! Great reporting! Wish we had more real reporting in this city!
Garbage ass dude along with the judges
the minute the pos county / state can be held liable for lawsuits the fat-ass un-safety act will be over
Soft Democrat Machine Judges make hardened criminals unafraid to continue violence.
CWB is a blessing. I give them money every year. Doing the work paid reporters won't.
This jagoff had over 70 arrests. He’s a convicted felon multiple times and he’s out on this bull shit,” pre trial release” for Aggravated Battery. These progressives love to keep normal people on their toes by releasing EXTREMELY VIOLENT OFFENDERS. If fatso Pritzker runs for any other office this should be one of the debating points. This is so sad that it not only occurred, but because it was avoidable.
Ralph Meczyk is a convicted federal felon and ambulance chaser who received a pardon for tax evasion from guess who! The only thing that will fix Chicago and Cook County is another great flood.
And the scum times has all ICE updates 🤪🤪completely twisted stories to suit the liberal agenda only.
How many people actually buy this paper?
Thank you CWB for reporting what is important to normal people
I live in a red state now. One of the things I constantly urge our politicians to do is crank up the pace of our executions. If we execute them, democrats can’t free them one day.
This victim of a horrendous violent crime is just another anonymous sacrifice to the altar of social justice. The far-left apologists and main-stream media will continue to say: "This can happen in any big city...and crime is worse in red states". Not the sort of thing you want to talk about when you're trying to bring tourists downtown for the Christmas festivities so this young woman's story will get buried.
And the voters in cook county will continue to elect the same scumbag judges and 100% democrats. The voters will continue to cry about crime and taxes but come Election Day the sheep will vote democrat. They will 100% reelect Pritzker.
The CWB article on this activist judge is already blowing up on X and Fox News. The comment sections are filled with people calling CWB “misinformation” and “proven racists”. The crime apologists are hoping this story goes away before the downtown Christmas lights come on. This story and the attempted coverup are disturbing even for blue-city standards.
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The usual suspect
I watched the press conference yesterday with US Attorney and the ATF director. The disgust with cook county judges was oozing out of them but they have to be careful what they say not to prejudice a jury etc. I would be curious if the States attorney initiated the conversation withe US Attorney to take the case due to no trust in the judges of cook county. If that happened kudos to Burke Oneill
You people still think you can vote your way out of this?
Great job Feds.
She’s not that smart
He started voting Democrat and dressing as a lady.
I think the Sun-Times/WBEZ are "proven racists." CWB calls it right down the middle. And I'm a Dem!
My Chicago Democrat!voting family has never once mentioned any problems with Johnson, Pritzger, or lax judges. Just Trump. I assumed that he was the problem. Is this assumption wrong?
Not a big fan of Trump, but he'll keep this in the news so local pols, local media and the criminal-industrial complex (ACLU, Innocence Project, Northwestern "Justice" Center etc.) can't sweep it under the rug.
He has since retired
It is also much more expensive to keep death row inmates and elder inmates.
They won't charge him with a capital crime, but hate crime + arson + injury is going to be decades, hopefully. But he is already pretending to be crazy, so rest assured - the next Democrat will do a compassionate thing and move him to a low/no security mental facility. I would not be surprised if he walks out of there before the end of this decade.
Dude needs to be given break # 72 so he can turn his life around.
Why would a judge allow a man out of jail after committing a felony offense who has 71 prior arrests and thirteen convictions. Fatso Pigster who signed the Safe-T-Act into law which allows animals like this out of jail with no cash bail is over at the Vatican hanging out with the Pope while this woman is laying in a hospital bed fighting for her life.
If you can sue a cop. Why can't we sue attorneys and judges in Illinois
This County needs a well financed coordinated campaign to track the performance of judges and make that information available to the public, most of whom have no information and do not care. One of the best things would be to put TV cameras in the local courts and broadcast the hearings on a public channel. People would be shocked at the antics of these judges and the lawyers .
It would be interesting to know if the social worker was white showing a pattern of behavior? If the roles in this case were reversed we would be news coverage exceeding that of Saint George of Fentanyl!
Absolutely correct
How was he on home confinement when he’s address was not a residence ?
I miss Judge Victoria Stewart from Branch 38. A no nonsense judge who ran her courtroom with authority. If you didn’t follow her instructions she would inform the defendant to bring his/her toothbrush to the next court appearance because she had no problem issuing bench warrants right on the spot. I can actually hear her voice….”Mr. Sheriff…..”.
Thank you Feds!
Would you prefer seiche or tsunami?
27,600 not bad
Correct. It’s called DEI hiring
It happens in these big cities because asshole progressives have made it possible.
Has ANY judge not been retained in C
The victim is white. Where is the outrage? Where are the protests at the judges courts? The news is trying so hard to keep the victim's race out it. I wonder why...
No cash bail for this offender
And even if there was mainstream reports that claimed “there was an argument ,”. It keeps bringing repeated days later when there was no argument. He just walked behind her, grabbed her and poured gas. If she was fighting - it was to get away. It was an argument. It’s also sad from what I saw that at least 1 man stood by and did nothing.
That’s great until one of your family members or yourself is a victim bc of these judges. I’m sure that OT money will be well spent. Jackass
The judges are the real monsters.
Make sure too, no police. Just send a "social worker." Good luck! With Republicans nowhere, you have the Dems vs the Dem/Socialist. There are cities seemingly beyond hope: Chicago is/seems to be one of them. Politicians/Media...... just sad!
Of course the judges are never held accountable.
Remember, Biden said the democrats have a vast vote fraud apparatus.
I don’t think the state is as blue as it appears.
We can’t vote our way out, elections are rigged by dems, gerrymandered districts, fraudulent mail in ballots, illegals voting, court systems corrupted with $or@ss installed demonrats. Only alternative is load up Gitmo and start the military tribunals.
JUDGE TERESA MOLINA-GONZALEZ CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY is a douchenozzle!
Your the only one so far who mentioned Pritzker ! THE SAFE-T-ACT. Hello....... Beuller?...............
Sounds like you’re the only one.
Ralph Meczyk was convicted in Greylord. He was received a full and unconditional pardon from Bill https://leyhane.blogspot.com/2023/12/former-greylord-defendant-will-become.html
Funny fat boy pigster is not in front of the camera condemning the failure of the SAFE-T act to protect women from the criminals that the SAFE-T act seeks to keep out of jail. Will anyone from the fake news have the guts to call out pigster on the failures of the SAFE-T act?
Chicagoans are assholes. Keep them out of normal states.
great work by the cpd n detectives
conehead barack n michael obama will not call it out all racist haters
kash pitel great work
Johnson now claims fire attack was due to federal funds being reduced? Homelessness is the problem and not the facts he was a habitual criminal!
Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday sought to head off concerns about public transit safety in the wake of a man accused of lighting a woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line.
Asked at an unrelated West Side news conference whether the alleged attacker should have been out on the street, Johnson did not say directly but maintained the act of violence was not “some sort of trend.”
“The level of accountability that has to happen in this moment, I trust that the federal level will do its part,” Johnson said, before stressing, “All I can say is that as awful and as horrific as this tragedy is, this is an isolated incident. As we continue to invest more in our public transportation system, we want people to feel safe as they ride.”
f-ckyou conehead if a white person did to a person of color you would had been all over this blamoing trump maga n slavery
Some things are not rocket science.
Kill the killers before they kill again.
Somebody should ask the judges about that. Not that the local media would bother.
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CPD Detectives do great work all the time and no, I’m not a Detective but certainly appreciate those guys
What more do you want from a President??? Obama?? Potato head?? Giggles?? None of them combined could solve any problems. They made more problems. Their invention of Obamacare?? They were told the costs would eventually become unbearable. They set a sunset clause as of December 31st 2025. How's that working?? Don't forget the computer program that was given by Moochelle to a favorite at a cost of $650M and didn't work. $650M to Solyndra and it folded weeks later. How about cash for clunkers??? How about millions for buying electric cars with a $5800 tax deduction??? People bought golf carts all at the cost to the taxpayer.
Potatohead threw money (2 trillion dollars) away in the final weeks of his reign and put us in further debt. Weakened our defense, not to mention the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle? I could go on forever. You, sir or madam are in the right state as a Democrat. Please do not move to a "red state or city" and bring your politics with. Stay there and accept the results of a 100 years of Democrat control. You have a future with the numbskulls running your party, city and state.
You can't link to your internal file system.
Great work Area Three Detectives doing all the work and wrapping it up in a nice bow for the Feds, as usual.
Affordable Care Act (ha) was never designed to work, just implemented to fail and push everyone into government healthcare. Can’t see what is in it until we vote for it, right Nancy? They stole the Minnesota senate race for Al Franken to get Obamacare passed. Cash for clunkers was a plan to purposely destroy older internal combustion powered vehicles to depress the used car market and force people into EV’s. Democrats and RINO’s are in collusion to bring the US down to the level of the other shithole countries so we fit into the new world order, one world government.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste” those words from our very own tiny dancer.
Absolutely. Liquidate these savages swiftly.
Well, it’s been long understood that the only thing the feds are good for is their charging and sentencing. So as long as they stay out of the investigation process and hand out sentences 10 times longer than the State, they can have the podium time.
Judges who let violent felons off easy deserve prison time. Fed up Luigi's taking matters in their own hands is the next option.
If the State would prosecute, I'm sure the feds would have no problem letting somebody else handle the prosecution. but we all know that crook county won't prosecute shit and this moron would be back out on the street in record time so thank goodness the feds are willing to take it on...
He prob supplied the lighter. CTA is a hell hole shit hole cage match. I tell people to avoid the trains unless they are carrying a gun knife or have fighting skills
Hey, jerkass, clone Paul Kersey, at least a 1,000 units, then, release the Kersey!!
The dinosaur rinos and rimjob-rahms have imported the populations which cannot be controlled.
These third worlders are not softened by modern civilization's abundancies.
Tempered by third world scarcities, their only rule of law is don't get caught.
And their golden rule is do it to others before others do it to you.
Our native feral ghetto peewee punks are feeble fakers if they try that peewee mobbing on even a few of these third worlders, and said ghetto rats would be screaming for someone, anyone, to call 911!!!!!
Well, in this case he knocked out the social worker and the judge let him out to burn a girl alive.
You want innocent people hurt so you can make OT? Karma is real. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and I hope it is your mom, baby mama, sister or even your kid that becomes a victim of crime and cant recover from it. FU. There’s no way in hell you have a normal family life. Maybe baby mama #1 or baby mama#2.
We need to leave the boundaries of crook county and let it collapse on its own. We shouldnt be wasting our tax money here.
CPS? Cant use the schools.
The L? Cant ride the trains. Chicago Public Libraries: homeless junkies.
Pools? Forget it.
Parks? Homeless junkies. Millenium Park? Teen take overs, gunshots, fights.
Loop? Teen take overs, gunshots, mentals.
Gold Coast? Michigan Avenue? Gone.
Are we forgetting the woman who was punched by the teens and miscarried? The stewardess hit in the back of the head on Michigan Avenue? The thousands car jacked at gun point?
Businesses getting broken into.
We’re all frogs in hot water. Divest and move.
This is a city-wide civil war at this point.
She was.
yea,,,, but the dem appointed judges always get thousands of yes votes from the cemeteries
I want someone on our side to take these types of guys , get em a new suit and a hair cut and ….
Put him on a bus to someplace we don’t like such as…
New Haven CT - home of Yale University that gave us the likes/dislikes of
3 generations of #*($&@ Bushes (Prescott, George Bush Sr, George Dumb As* Jr), Mittens Romney, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore.
I hear New Haven CT is mostly a walking dead type slum - these types will fit in.
Or…
Castro open up his prisons and insane asylums and dumped his worst criminals and psychos on us during the late 1970s in the Mariel Boat Lift. This amongst other things like the Iranian hostage crisis sunk the presidency of Demorat Jimmy Carter. …
What kind of proud, self respecting country has a national President, leader named “Jimmy”?
S. A. R. C. A. S. M & J O. C. U. L. A. R. I. T. Y
I'm not invited to my democratic in-law's for Thanksgiving, because I support Pres. Trump's policies on crime and immigration.
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