Humble Lion ambush Barbican 4-0 in midweek eyesore

In an affair lacking trademark football grace and style, Humble Lion roared to a 4-0 thrashing of downtrodden Barbican in their Red Stripe Premier League game at Barbican field yesterday.

Jermaine Fletcher led the midweek stroll with a well-taken brace in the fifth and 23rd minutes, while Sean Coleman (17th) and Devon Hodges (33rd) completed the first-half blitz that kept the home team entombed at the bottom of the 12-team league with 15 points.

Humble Lion, out of Clarendon, gained three vital points that should give them a whiff of oxygen as they surged to 22, but will remain in the bottom half of the standing irrespective of results elsewhere.

The Donovan Duckie-coached Humble Lion entered the contest in a precarious ninth position, but yesterday’s goal spree would have certainly boosted morale, even though it may not have ensured a well-needed shot up the ladder.

In yesterday’s hard-to-digest contest where both outfits failed miserably to excite, Humble Lion were more predatory than they were artistic. And Barbican, the league rookie, were easy prey.

A comedy of defensive errors was their undoing, but a hungry Humble Lion were not complaining and licked their fingers at the prospect of what was turning out to be an easy meal.

With little resistance — especially in the first 45 minutes — Fletcher, Coleman, Hodges and Ricardo Cousins effortlessly penetrated the Barbican backline and could have sunk their teeth deeper into their paralysed opponents.

But Barbican, down four goals and in what appeared to be a spot of hopelessness, sprung back to life in the final 30 minutes or so of the contest with enterprising attacking play from Akeem Brown and Lennox Russell, but their new lease on life was a deed too little, too late.

Teams: Barbican FC — Nicholas Campbell, Mario McDonald (Keno Simpson 59th), Ramone McGregor, Akino Bailey, Shawn Lawes, Shavon Charlton, Dadrian Dixon (Jermaine Parris 36th), Nicholas Smith, Lennox Russell, Akeem Brown (Dean Phillips 80th), Andrew Christie

Subs not used: Ashek Taylor, Okive Blake, Shennar Parkinson, Kemar Thomas

Booked: Lawes (36th), Charlton (79th)

Humble Lion — Damion Crooks, Ajuran Brown, Ricardo Campbell, Jermaine Christian, Sean Coleman (Denzil Watson 53rd), Hugh Howell, Fabian Pascoe, Ricardo Cousins (Omar Walters 80th), Dwayne Campbell, Jermaine Fletcher (Narado Brown 68th), Devon Hodges

Subs not used: Garth Heron, Roberto Fletcher, Odane Brown, Shavon Campbell.

Booked: None

Referee: Danean Parchment

Assistant Referees: Princess Brown, Nicholas Anderson

Fourth Official: Leon Brown

Match Commissary: Margaret Sutherland

– Sean Williams

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Humble Lion ambush Barbican 4-0 in midweek eyesore

Boys" Club ambush Tomorrow"s People

BY PAUL A REID Observer writer

Saturday, December 20, 2014    

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Montego Bay Boys’ Club snapped their two-game losing skid after ambushing Tomorrow’s People 2-0 to hand them their first loss in their Jamaica Football Federation Charley’s JB Rum Western Confederation Super League rescheduled game at the UDC Field on Thursday.

After failing to score and conceding three goals in their first two games, Boys’ Club shocked Tomorrow’s People, who were seeking to retake the points lead over Savannah SC.

Village United also scored their first win of the campaign, beating Violet Kickers 1-0 at Elleston Wakeland Centre in Falmouth, also on Thursday.

Savannah SC are the leaders with nine points from three straight wins, followed by Tomorrow’s People on seven points from four games, with Sandals White House, Granville FC and Wadadah FC all on six points, and Village United on five points.

On Thursday Obrien Adams in the 33rd minute and substitute Najiv Isaacs with a cheeky back heel in the 66th minute gave the Boys’ Club fans a lot to cheer for as they crawled off the bottom of the table for the first time this season.

In Falmouth, Village United remained unbeaten with a win and two draws as they edged the promoted St James club with Karlton Drakes getting his second goal in as many games, scoring in the 31st minute.

On Tuesday, Savannah SC continued their dominance of the league with a 4-0 blanking of Holland United at Frome Sports Grounds with Michael Kerr scoring a double, and Ron Daley and Leaton Galloway both scoring their second goals of the season.

Also on Tuesday, Salt Marsh United got their first win at this level after beating Jericho Rangers 1-0 in a battle of promoted teams at Watson Taylor Park, while Sandals White House beat Beaches Negril 2-1.

Granville FC bounced back from their loss to Sandals the previous week to edge Wadadah FC 1-0 in their rain-affected game played at

the Granville Community Centre on Wednesday.

A penalty kick from Andrew Allen in the 61st minute made the difference between the two St James rivals.

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WEATHERMAN AMBUSH Police seek gunman after TV meteorologist shot

Patrick Crawford, a meteorologist, managed to flag down a construction worker, who called for help. (KCEN-TV)

Authorities were searching for a gunman after a TV meteorologist was shot multiple times during an altercation Wednesday in a Central Texas TV station’s parking lot.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says the shooting occurred around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday outside KCEN-TV’s rural studio on Interstate 35 near Bruceville-Eddy, 75 miles north of Austin.

The station website reports the suspect exchanged words with the victim, on-air meteorologist Patrick Crawford, before pulling out a handgun and shooting several times. Crawford backed his car away from the shooter and drove up to a highway construction crew that called 911. Jim Hice, the station’s news director, says Crawford was wounded in the shoulder and the abdomen.

The shooter fled the scene and police have not yet determined a possible motive.

WacoTrib.com reported that Crawford was stable and resting after undergoing surgery. 

Trooper D.L. Wilson said law enforcement was constructing a forensic map of the scene and said it was still not clear if Crawford knew the suspect.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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WEATHERMAN AMBUSH Police seek gunman after TV meteorologist shot

FUGITIVE ON THE MOVE? Ambush suspect spotted outside of search zone

This photo by the Pennsylvania State Police shows Eric Matthew Frein, 31, of Canadensis, Penn. (AP/PennDOT via Pennsylvania State Police/File)

The search for a Pennsylvania state trooper’s accused killer took on new urgency Saturday after a woman told police she spotted the man in a wooded area with his face caked in mud and carrying a rifle.

State police said the new sighting appears to be highly credible because it took place near the Pocono Mountain East High School where survivalist Eric Frein attended classes.  The woman told authorities she saw Frein dressed all in black a little after 9 p.m. Friday and that the distance between them was only 15 or 20 feet.

“We’re still searching,” Lt. Col. George Bivens said during a briefing Saturday afternoon updating the media on the search, which is now entering its sixth week.

Hundreds of state police have been searching a heavily wooded area near the home of Frein’s parents in Canadensis in the state’s rural northeast. Based on the sighting, Bivens said it appears Frein has moved about six miles south. He said the search area was being expanded to include Paradise and Pocono townships, lehighvalleylive.com reports.

State police said Frein is the gunman who ambushed two state police troopers at a state police barracks in Pike County late at night on Sept. 12. The attack killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson and badly wounded Trooper Alex Douglass.

Douglass left the hospital Thursday. “He’s in good spirits and doing well,” Bivens said.

Bivens said state police are testing blood found at two homes for a link to Frein.

Frein is a self-described survivalist. During the manhunt state police recovered documents which show Frein has held a grudge against law enforcement and government for a long period of time.

“We’re not going to rest,” Gov. Tom Corbett said at the news briefing, according to lehighvalleylive.com. “Nobody’s going to stop until we find this individual and he’s apprehended.”’

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FUGITIVE ON THE MOVE? Ambush suspect spotted outside of search zone

Pennsylvania ambush suspect researched manhunts, police say

This undated PennDOT identification photo shows Eric Matthew Frein, 31, of Canadensis, Pa. (AP/PennDOT via Pennsylvania State Police)

Police say the hard drive of a computer used by the suspect in the deadly ambush of Pennsylvania state police troopers provides evidence he has been planning an attack for years and preparing to avoid arrest.

State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said a police inspection of the hard drive shows Eric Frein did Internet research on how to avoid police manhunts and on law enforcement technology and survival skills.

Bivens said Frein might now be treating the dragnet in northeastern Pennsylvania as “a game — a war game, if you will.”

Authorities believe they have Frein contained within a 5-square-mile perimeter around his parents’ home in Canadensis. They provided new details Friday, two weeks after a gunman opened fire at the state police barracks in Blooming Grove, killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson and injuring a second trooper who remains hospitalized.

Frein has managed to elude hundreds of law enforcement officials looking for him in the thick woods around his parents’ home in Canadensis, taking advantage of the difficult terrain to keep them at bay. He is believed to be armed with at least one high-powered rifle.

“I suspect he wants to have a fight with the state police, but I think that involves hiding and running since that seems to be the way he operates,” Bivens said. “I expect that he’ll be hiding and try to take a shot from some distance from a place of concealment, as he has done in the past.”

Underscoring the danger they face as they pursue him, Bivens said Frein had experimented with explosives, citing materials that police found and interviews with people who knew him. Trackers are proceeding through the thick woods as though they are booby-trapped, he said. Police think Frein might have a radio.

A police dog picked up Frein’s scent several days ago and flushed him from his hiding place. But the distance was too great, and Frein was able to get away, the dense canopy providing cover from a police helicopter overhead, Bivens said Friday.

As the search for the gunman neared its third week, Bivens said he remains confident police will catch their man — “at some point.”

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Colombian soldiers killed in ambush

24 August 2013 Last updated at 22:12 ET The government’s negotiating team is due to resume talks with the Farc on Monday At least 13 Colombian soldiers have been killed in an ambush by Farc left-wing rebels in the east of the country, the army says.

Last month, 15 soldiers were killed by the rebel group in the same region.

Even though Farc rebels and the government are holding peace talks in Cuba, both sides are continuing to target each other militarily.

On Friday the Farc announced a “pause” in the talks and the government later withdrew its team of negotiators.

However, the talks are expected to resume soon.

Saturday’s attack occurred in the eastern province of Arauca.

A statement by the Colombian army command said: “After a terrorist action by the Farc, two non-commissioned officers and 11 soldiers were killed and another one injured.”

As news of the attack became public, the government’s chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, said President Juan Manuel Santos had instructed his team to return to the negotiating table.

The Farc announced a “pause” in order to study a proposal that any peace deal must be put to a referendum.

The talks began last November, and the Farc’s move was the first time either side had broken off negotiations other than for planned recesses.

The latest round was focusing on the eventual participation of the rebels in Colombian politics.

So far, the two sides have reached agreement on land reform, the first of six points on their agenda.

A recent study by Colombia’s National Centre for Historical Memory suggested 220,000 people have died as a result of the five decades of conflict.

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Mexico navy admiral killed in ambush

29 July 2013 Last updated at 18:46 ET The car the vice admiral was travelling in was riddled with bullet holes Gunmen have killed one of Mexico’s highest ranking navy officials in the western state of Michoacan, where the military is trying to regain control of areas dominated by warring drug gangs.

The authorities have now detained three alleged members of the Knights Templar gang in connection with the killing.

Vice Admiral Carlos Miguel Salazar was ambushed on an unpaved road.

His car had been diverted from the main road by protesters believed to have been hired by the gunmen.

The attack, which happened near the town of Churintzio, comes days after two police officers were killed in another ambush.

“We will work with all speed to arrest and bring to justice everyone responsible for his death of Vice Adm Carlos Miguel Salazar,” President Enrique Pena Nieto said.

Deadly diversion

Adm Salazar was travelling on a motorway connecting Michoacan’s capital, Morelia, with the state of Jalisco, where he was serving as commander of a naval base in Puerto Vallarta.

Continue reading the main story First emerged in 2011 as an off-shoot of La Familia Michoacana drug cartelTakes its name from a Christian military order from the Middle Ages Claims to protect Michoacan residents from kidnappings, extortion and robberies committed by rival gangsMembers say they abide by a code of honour which includes not drinking or taking drugs and not abusing family membersOften uses pseudo-religious language to justify acts of violenceControls much of the methamphetamine and marijuana trade in western MexicoCartel members have been accused of murders, kidnappings and extortionOperates mainly in western Michoacan stateAt war with Zetas cartel and Jalisco Nueva Generacion drugs gangThe navy said Adm Salazar’s driver was forced to take the rural road when he found the road blocked by a group of men apparently protesting.

Gunmen then opened fire on the car, killing the admiral and his bodyguard. The admiral’s wife and his driver were injured.

The Mexican navy has landed a number of well-publicised successes against Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, including the arrest two weeks ago of leader of the Zetas drug cartel, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales.

There has been a recent spike in violence in Michoacan, with drug cartels fighting the security forces and each other.

On Tuesday, two federal police officers and twenty gunmen were killed when armed groups carried out a series of six co-ordinated ambushes on the security forces.

Police said they suspected a cartel calling itself the Knights Templar, which controls parts of Michoacan state, was behind the attacks.

In May, Mr Pena Nieto sent a general to Michoacan to take over police and military operations in the hope of quelling the violence.

Seventy-thousand people are estimated to have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2007.

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