The terms "Mardi Gras" (mär`dē grä) and "Mardi Gras season",in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. From the French term "Mardi Gras" (literally "Fat Tuesday"), the term has come to mean the whole period of activity related to those events, beyond just the single day, often called Mardi Gras Day or Fat Tuesday.The season can be designated by the year, as in "Mardi Gras 2008"
Other cities most famous for their Mardi Gras celebrations include Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Many other places have important Mardi Gras celebrations as well.
Top 10 Places to Celebrate Mardi Gras
* Acadiana in Washington. I rarely include DC restaurants in our discussions. But there are so few places on today's list that aren't just bars having an event in honor of Mardi Gras, I thought I would mention a restaurant that serves a serious, upscale version of New Orleans food.
* Ale Mary's in Fells Point. The menu for the week is completely Cajun, and today's blue plate special is beef Wellington with a Cajun crawfish cream sauce and crawfish empanada for $5.99. I'm speechless.
* Bayou Cafe in White Marsh. Known more for its music than its food, the new menu under a new chef still focuses on Cajun cuisine. Maybe the changes will make it more palatable to some of our commenters.
* Clarence's Taste of New Orleans in Edgewood. Ex-LIVE reviewer Karen Nitkin gave the food three stars, and the oyster po' boy sounds fabulous.
* Ethel and Ramone's in Mount Washington. This well-regarded, funky little place serves a mixture of Cajun cuisine and Maryland fare.
* Kooper's Tavern in Fells Point. The bar is featuring a Mardi Gras celebration tonight with hurricanes, fried chicken, jambalaya, gumbo, etouffée, barbecued shrimp and oysters.
* Louisiana in Fells Point. It's expensive, and it gets mixed reviews, but it's as close as Baltimore gets to French Creole cuisine in an elegant setting.
* Mother's Federal Hill Grille in Federal Hill. Half-price gumbo all day and beer specials.
* Pickles Pub downtown. Mick Kipp, owner of the Whiskey Island Pirate Shop, will be cooking crawfish and chicken and shrimp gumbo tonight from 7 p.m. till 10 p.m. It's all you can eat and drink (beer) for $25, plus a band that starts at 8 p.m.
* RA Sushi in Harbor East. To celebrate its first anniversary, RA is holding a Mardi RA party Thursday, with Cajun wings, a voodoo roll and Creole crawfish. The special drinks include a Queen of Parade and a King Cake Martini.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Jonas Brothers Fan
Here is some video of Jonas Brothers Fan.Jonas Brothers Play Game in 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
After the phenomenal success of the Jonas Brothers, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas is finally set to test if they are really THAT big of a phenomenon when their newest movie will be released on Friday entitled Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. No doubt that every Jonas Brothers fan is uncontrollably excited about this movie! Yet, if you haven't seen this Barbara Walters feature on them then you gotta click "Read More" to know what's it all about.
The Barbara Walters interview starts up with the roots how the Jonas Brothers rose to fame when Disney channel discovered them on the Internet and put them in Hanna Montana. The rest is history for the Jonas Brothers:
After the phenomenal success of the Jonas Brothers, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas is finally set to test if they are really THAT big of a phenomenon when their newest movie will be released on Friday entitled Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. No doubt that every Jonas Brothers fan is uncontrollably excited about this movie! Yet, if you haven't seen this Barbara Walters feature on them then you gotta click "Read More" to know what's it all about.
The Barbara Walters interview starts up with the roots how the Jonas Brothers rose to fame when Disney channel discovered them on the Internet and put them in Hanna Montana. The rest is history for the Jonas Brothers:
Hughes Mining Barge
The Hughes Marine Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 324 feet long, 106 feet wide, and more than 90 feet tall. The HMB-1 was originally developed as part of Project Jennifer, the top-secret effort mounted by the CIA to salvage the remains of the Soviet submarine K-129 from the ocean floor. The HMB-1 was designed to be submerged under the Glomar Explorer to conceal any salvaged remains from Soviet observers.
Anybody want some top-secret seagoing vessels? The Navy has a pair it doesn't need anymore. It has been trying to give them away since 2006, and they're headed for the scrap yard if somebody doesn't speak up soon.
After the conclusion of Project Jennifer, the HMB-1 was mothballed at the Todd Shipyard in San Francisco, California until November, 1982. At that time, the Navy towed the huge barge to a Lockheed Martin facility in Redwood City, California, where it became a floating drydock for the construction and sea trials of the Sea Shadow, an experimental stealth ship being tested by the Navy. Sea trials of the Sea Shadow continued until 1986; the existence of the Sea Shadow was made public in 1993.
One is called Sea Shadow. It's big, black and looks like a cross between a Stealth fighter and a Batmobile. It was made to escape detection on the open sea. The other is known as the Hughes (as in Howard Hughes) Mining Barge. It looks like a floating field house, with an arching roof and a door that is 76 feet wide and 72 feet high. Sea Shadow berths inside the barge, which keeps it safely hidden from spy satellites.
The barge, by the way, is the only fully submersible dry dock ever built, making it very handy — as it was 35 years ago — for trying to raise a sunken nuclear-armed Soviet submarine.
"I'm fascinated by the possibilities," Frank Lennon said one morning recently. Mr. Lennon runs — or ran — a maritime museum here in Providence. He was standing in a sleet storm on a wharf below a power plant, surveying the 297-foot muck-encrusted hulk of a Soviet submarine that he owns. His only exhibit, it was open to the public until April 2007, when a northeaster hit Providence and the sub sank.
Army and Navy divers refloated it this past summer with the aid of chains and air tanks. Mr. Lennon can't help but imagine how his sub might look alongside the two covert Cold War castoffs from the Navy. "They would be terrific for our exhibit," he said, watching the sleet come down.
But a gift ship from the Navy comes with lots of strings attached to the rigging. A naval museum, the Historic Naval Ships Association warns, is "a bloodthirsty, paperwork ridden, permit-infested, money-sucking hole..." Because the Navy won't pay for anything — neither rust scraping nor curating — to keep museums afloat, survival depends on big crowds. That's why many of the 48 ships it has given away over 60 years were vessels known for performing heroically in famous battles.
Museum entrepreneurs like Mr. Lennon who don't have much money can only fantasize about Sea Shadow and its barge. After all, a pair of mysterious vessels that performed their heroics out of the public eye can't have much claim to fame. Glen Clark, the Navy's civilian ship-disposal chief, has received just one serious call about the two vessels, and it didn't lead to a written application.
Anybody want some top-secret seagoing vessels? The Navy has a pair it doesn't need anymore. It has been trying to give them away since 2006, and they're headed for the scrap yard if somebody doesn't speak up soon.
After the conclusion of Project Jennifer, the HMB-1 was mothballed at the Todd Shipyard in San Francisco, California until November, 1982. At that time, the Navy towed the huge barge to a Lockheed Martin facility in Redwood City, California, where it became a floating drydock for the construction and sea trials of the Sea Shadow, an experimental stealth ship being tested by the Navy. Sea trials of the Sea Shadow continued until 1986; the existence of the Sea Shadow was made public in 1993.
One is called Sea Shadow. It's big, black and looks like a cross between a Stealth fighter and a Batmobile. It was made to escape detection on the open sea. The other is known as the Hughes (as in Howard Hughes) Mining Barge. It looks like a floating field house, with an arching roof and a door that is 76 feet wide and 72 feet high. Sea Shadow berths inside the barge, which keeps it safely hidden from spy satellites.
The barge, by the way, is the only fully submersible dry dock ever built, making it very handy — as it was 35 years ago — for trying to raise a sunken nuclear-armed Soviet submarine.
"I'm fascinated by the possibilities," Frank Lennon said one morning recently. Mr. Lennon runs — or ran — a maritime museum here in Providence. He was standing in a sleet storm on a wharf below a power plant, surveying the 297-foot muck-encrusted hulk of a Soviet submarine that he owns. His only exhibit, it was open to the public until April 2007, when a northeaster hit Providence and the sub sank.
Army and Navy divers refloated it this past summer with the aid of chains and air tanks. Mr. Lennon can't help but imagine how his sub might look alongside the two covert Cold War castoffs from the Navy. "They would be terrific for our exhibit," he said, watching the sleet come down.
But a gift ship from the Navy comes with lots of strings attached to the rigging. A naval museum, the Historic Naval Ships Association warns, is "a bloodthirsty, paperwork ridden, permit-infested, money-sucking hole..." Because the Navy won't pay for anything — neither rust scraping nor curating — to keep museums afloat, survival depends on big crowds. That's why many of the 48 ships it has given away over 60 years were vessels known for performing heroically in famous battles.
Museum entrepreneurs like Mr. Lennon who don't have much money can only fantasize about Sea Shadow and its barge. After all, a pair of mysterious vessels that performed their heroics out of the public eye can't have much claim to fame. Glen Clark, the Navy's civilian ship-disposal chief, has received just one serious call about the two vessels, and it didn't lead to a written application.
Orlando Sun Sentinel
Four newspaper companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since December, though their newspapers continue to operate. Here are some details:
Debt: $13 billion, most from complex buyout in which real estate mogul Sam Zell took the company private in 2007. Had $7.6 billion in assets at time of filing. Generates enough cash that it likely could have made upcoming debt payments, especially with planned sale of the Chicago Cubs, but concluded reorganization necessary for long-term sustainability.
Dailies owned: Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Sun of Baltimore, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., and Daily Press of Newport News, Va., plus Spanish-language Hoy L.A. and Hoy Chicago.
STAR TRIBUNE HOLDINGS CORP., filed Jan. 15:
Newspaper owned: Star Tribune of Minneapolis.
Debt: $661 million, largely from 2007 acquisition from McClatchy Co. by investors led by Avista Capital Partners. Had assets of $493 million as of Dec. 31. Began skipping interest payments in June to conserve cash, and filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to win concessions from unions. Newspaper has asked bankruptcy judge to cancel its contract with printers union; seeking $20 million in annual cost reductions from all unionized employees, $10 million from nonunion employees.
JOURNAL REGISTER CO., filed Saturday:
Dailies owned: New Haven (Conn.) Register, The Middletown (Conn.) Press, The Register Citizen of Torrington, Conn., Daily Local News of West Chester, Pa., Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times, The Mercury of Pottstown, Pa., The Times Herald of Norristown, Pa., The Trentonian of Trenton, N.J., The Reporter of Lansdale, Pa., The Phoenix of Phoenixville, Pa., The Oakland Press of Pontiac, Mich., The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens, Mich., The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak, Mich., Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant, Mich., The Record of Troy, N.Y., The Saratogian of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., The Oneida (N.Y.) Daily Dispatch, Daily Freeman of Kingston, N.Y., The News-Herald of Willoughby, Ohio, The Morning Journal of Lorain, Ohio.
Debt: $692 million. Had assets of $596 million as of Nov. 30. Forbearance agreement with lenders letting the company skip interest payments recently expired. Journal Register already has sold two Connecticut dailies and closed several weeklies. Prior to filing, company reached agreement with most of its lenders to cancel its stock and become a private company controlled by its lenders.
PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPERS LLC, filed Sunday:
Newspapers owned: The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News.
Debt: About $390 million, largely from 2006 purchase from McClatchy by investors led by former advertising executive Brian Tierney. Initial loan terms include requirement that newspapers earn higher profit each year, an increasingly difficult feat.
Debt: $13 billion, most from complex buyout in which real estate mogul Sam Zell took the company private in 2007. Had $7.6 billion in assets at time of filing. Generates enough cash that it likely could have made upcoming debt payments, especially with planned sale of the Chicago Cubs, but concluded reorganization necessary for long-term sustainability.
Dailies owned: Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Sun of Baltimore, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., and Daily Press of Newport News, Va., plus Spanish-language Hoy L.A. and Hoy Chicago.
STAR TRIBUNE HOLDINGS CORP., filed Jan. 15:
Newspaper owned: Star Tribune of Minneapolis.
Debt: $661 million, largely from 2007 acquisition from McClatchy Co. by investors led by Avista Capital Partners. Had assets of $493 million as of Dec. 31. Began skipping interest payments in June to conserve cash, and filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to win concessions from unions. Newspaper has asked bankruptcy judge to cancel its contract with printers union; seeking $20 million in annual cost reductions from all unionized employees, $10 million from nonunion employees.
JOURNAL REGISTER CO., filed Saturday:
Dailies owned: New Haven (Conn.) Register, The Middletown (Conn.) Press, The Register Citizen of Torrington, Conn., Daily Local News of West Chester, Pa., Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times, The Mercury of Pottstown, Pa., The Times Herald of Norristown, Pa., The Trentonian of Trenton, N.J., The Reporter of Lansdale, Pa., The Phoenix of Phoenixville, Pa., The Oakland Press of Pontiac, Mich., The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens, Mich., The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak, Mich., Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant, Mich., The Record of Troy, N.Y., The Saratogian of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., The Oneida (N.Y.) Daily Dispatch, Daily Freeman of Kingston, N.Y., The News-Herald of Willoughby, Ohio, The Morning Journal of Lorain, Ohio.
Debt: $692 million. Had assets of $596 million as of Nov. 30. Forbearance agreement with lenders letting the company skip interest payments recently expired. Journal Register already has sold two Connecticut dailies and closed several weeklies. Prior to filing, company reached agreement with most of its lenders to cancel its stock and become a private company controlled by its lenders.
PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPERS LLC, filed Sunday:
Newspapers owned: The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News.
Debt: About $390 million, largely from 2006 purchase from McClatchy by investors led by former advertising executive Brian Tierney. Initial loan terms include requirement that newspapers earn higher profit each year, an increasingly difficult feat.
Produce the Note
More than 2.3 million homeowners faced foreclosure proceedings last year and millions more are in danger of losing their homes. On Wednesday, President Obama will unveil a plan to spend at least $50 billion to help homeowners fend off foreclosure.
Consumers facing home foreclosure can use to improve their leverage against the lender. It’s called the “produce the note” strategy and amounts to the consumer demanding that the lender furnish the original paperwork — the actual promissory note — that serves as the official legal record of the loan. It is a document that contains the homeowner’s signature and proves that the lender threatening foreclosure is in fact the owner of the mortgage.
Chris Hoyer, a Tampa lawyer whose Consumer Warning Network Web site offers the free court documents Lovelace used to file her request, has played a major role in promoting the produce-the-note strategy.
The technique is proving effective because so many mortgages written during the latest housing boom were sold, resold, sliced, diced, aggregated, and securitized to the point that the original loan documents might have been lost or even destroyed. If the consumer demands the note and the lender can’t produce it, the foreclosure process could be stalled or, in some cases, stopped altogether. The Associated Press reports that a Cleveland judge threw out 14 foreclosures in 2007 because plaintiff Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. was unable to “produce the notes.”
Consumers facing home foreclosure can use to improve their leverage against the lender. It’s called the “produce the note” strategy and amounts to the consumer demanding that the lender furnish the original paperwork — the actual promissory note — that serves as the official legal record of the loan. It is a document that contains the homeowner’s signature and proves that the lender threatening foreclosure is in fact the owner of the mortgage.
Chris Hoyer, a Tampa lawyer whose Consumer Warning Network Web site offers the free court documents Lovelace used to file her request, has played a major role in promoting the produce-the-note strategy.
The technique is proving effective because so many mortgages written during the latest housing boom were sold, resold, sliced, diced, aggregated, and securitized to the point that the original loan documents might have been lost or even destroyed. If the consumer demands the note and the lender can’t produce it, the foreclosure process could be stalled or, in some cases, stopped altogether. The Associated Press reports that a Cleveland judge threw out 14 foreclosures in 2007 because plaintiff Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. was unable to “produce the notes.”
Saturday, February 21, 2009
franklin county auditor
Delaware County has a new auditor.
Former Powell City Councilman George Kaitsa, 65, easily obtained the Delaware County Republican Party’s appointment to the auditor’s office Wednesday, receiving twice the number of votes cast for the other three candidates combined.
His vote total was likely bolstered by the support of U.S. Rep Pat Tiberi (R-Genoa Township), whose personal endorsement marked the first time he has issued a recommendation for a local appointment before the central committee.
A state senator representing the northern edge of the Rend Lake Conservancy District is advancing legislation to "clean up" the district.
State Sen. John O. Jones, R-Mount Vernon, announced Wednesday his intent to push legislation that would "create a board membership that better represents all customers of the RLCD."
The legislation would disband the RLCD's seven-member board and create a nine-member board.
"As it stands we have a board that is dominated by Franklin County members," Jones said in a news release. "Jefferson County and its RLCD customers are underrepresented."
The board is currently composed, by state law, of two board members from each county in the district as well as one member from each city with at least 5,000 residents.
Kaitsa will serve out the remaining two years of the four-year term vacated by former auditor Todd Hanks, who himself was appointed to the county’s board of commissioners earlier this year.
“Thank you so very much,” Kaitsa told the committee after the vote was announced. “I’m deeply honored by this.”
Hanks said Kaitsa’s years of fiscal experience made him a worthy successor to the auditor’s office.
“You can’t ask for anything better than that,” Hanks said.
Before the vote, Kaitsa pledged to run for re-election in 2010 and to not seek any other office in the future. The auditor’s office has recently been a stepping-stone to other local and state offices. Its alumni include Hanks, former State Rep. Jon Peterson and current county prosecutor Dave Yost.
Kaitsa is the facility manager for the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission. He has government finance experience, including high-level positions in the Ohio Department of Development under former Republican Govs. George Voinovich and Bob Taft.
He was also the finance director for Franklin County from 1988 to 1991.
He is the vice-chair of the Delaware County Port Authority, and was elected to two terms on Powell City Council in 1997 and 2001. He was a member of the county GOP’s central committee from 2004-2006 and served on the Delaware County 20/20 Planning Committee.
Kaitsa said he did not know when he would take over for interim auditor Jerry Heston. He said he would meet with auditor’s office employees this morning and then head over to the county board of elections to make preparations for assuming office.
“The auditor’s office is exceptionally well-run and has a lot of lot of talented people,” he said. “I look forward to working with them.”
Kaitsa received 66 of a possible 98 votes. Lewis Center financial planner Matt Scheibeck received 16 votes, Sunbury banker Shawn Stevens received 15, and certified public accountant Karl Priedeman, of Westerville, received none.
Each candidate gave a two-minute opening statement and then had the opportunity to have two people speak on their behalf for one minute each.
Tiberi, who was in the area to help with his family take care of his newborn triplet daughters, said that he didn’t want to see the Republican Party “lose its edge” in Delaware County as it had in Washington D.C. following the November election.
Although the issue did not come up directly during the meeting, party members may have been concerned with the past financial and legal troubles of two of the candidates.
“We have to have the candidate where we don’t give the Democrats a gun with bullets in it for the next election,” Tiberi said.
As previously reported in the Gazette, Scheibeck and Stevens have both previously declared bankruptcy due to failed business investments.
Scheibeck has a 1988 DUI conviction and a 1992 misdemeanor disorderly conduct conviction.
Kaitsa, the co-chair of a Tiberi hog roast fundraiser from 2000-2005, has been an active supporter of Tiberi’s in the past.
Kaitsa also received the endorsement of county treasurer-elect and former county State Rep. Jon Peterson.
Peterson said Kaitsa was “ideally suited” for the position.
“He’s twice as qualified as either myself or (Yost) were when we received the appointment,” he joked.
Nobody spoke on behalf of the other three candidates.
Stevens said he called his speakers and told them not to come after Tiberi informed him that he would be personally attending to endorse Kaitsa.
Former Powell City Councilman George Kaitsa, 65, easily obtained the Delaware County Republican Party’s appointment to the auditor’s office Wednesday, receiving twice the number of votes cast for the other three candidates combined.
His vote total was likely bolstered by the support of U.S. Rep Pat Tiberi (R-Genoa Township), whose personal endorsement marked the first time he has issued a recommendation for a local appointment before the central committee.
A state senator representing the northern edge of the Rend Lake Conservancy District is advancing legislation to "clean up" the district.
State Sen. John O. Jones, R-Mount Vernon, announced Wednesday his intent to push legislation that would "create a board membership that better represents all customers of the RLCD."
The legislation would disband the RLCD's seven-member board and create a nine-member board.
"As it stands we have a board that is dominated by Franklin County members," Jones said in a news release. "Jefferson County and its RLCD customers are underrepresented."
The board is currently composed, by state law, of two board members from each county in the district as well as one member from each city with at least 5,000 residents.
Kaitsa will serve out the remaining two years of the four-year term vacated by former auditor Todd Hanks, who himself was appointed to the county’s board of commissioners earlier this year.
“Thank you so very much,” Kaitsa told the committee after the vote was announced. “I’m deeply honored by this.”
Hanks said Kaitsa’s years of fiscal experience made him a worthy successor to the auditor’s office.
“You can’t ask for anything better than that,” Hanks said.
Before the vote, Kaitsa pledged to run for re-election in 2010 and to not seek any other office in the future. The auditor’s office has recently been a stepping-stone to other local and state offices. Its alumni include Hanks, former State Rep. Jon Peterson and current county prosecutor Dave Yost.
Kaitsa is the facility manager for the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission. He has government finance experience, including high-level positions in the Ohio Department of Development under former Republican Govs. George Voinovich and Bob Taft.
He was also the finance director for Franklin County from 1988 to 1991.
He is the vice-chair of the Delaware County Port Authority, and was elected to two terms on Powell City Council in 1997 and 2001. He was a member of the county GOP’s central committee from 2004-2006 and served on the Delaware County 20/20 Planning Committee.
Kaitsa said he did not know when he would take over for interim auditor Jerry Heston. He said he would meet with auditor’s office employees this morning and then head over to the county board of elections to make preparations for assuming office.
“The auditor’s office is exceptionally well-run and has a lot of lot of talented people,” he said. “I look forward to working with them.”
Kaitsa received 66 of a possible 98 votes. Lewis Center financial planner Matt Scheibeck received 16 votes, Sunbury banker Shawn Stevens received 15, and certified public accountant Karl Priedeman, of Westerville, received none.
Each candidate gave a two-minute opening statement and then had the opportunity to have two people speak on their behalf for one minute each.
Tiberi, who was in the area to help with his family take care of his newborn triplet daughters, said that he didn’t want to see the Republican Party “lose its edge” in Delaware County as it had in Washington D.C. following the November election.
Although the issue did not come up directly during the meeting, party members may have been concerned with the past financial and legal troubles of two of the candidates.
“We have to have the candidate where we don’t give the Democrats a gun with bullets in it for the next election,” Tiberi said.
As previously reported in the Gazette, Scheibeck and Stevens have both previously declared bankruptcy due to failed business investments.
Scheibeck has a 1988 DUI conviction and a 1992 misdemeanor disorderly conduct conviction.
Kaitsa, the co-chair of a Tiberi hog roast fundraiser from 2000-2005, has been an active supporter of Tiberi’s in the past.
Kaitsa also received the endorsement of county treasurer-elect and former county State Rep. Jon Peterson.
Peterson said Kaitsa was “ideally suited” for the position.
“He’s twice as qualified as either myself or (Yost) were when we received the appointment,” he joked.
Nobody spoke on behalf of the other three candidates.
Stevens said he called his speakers and told them not to come after Tiberi informed him that he would be personally attending to endorse Kaitsa.
ingmar guandique
This there finally going to be an arrest in murder of Chandra Levy? Ingmar Guandique is the suspect of Chandra Levy's death in which he allegedly told his prison inmate that he killed Levy, however Guandique denies his statement to the investigator.
It’s been 8 years since Chandra Levy went missing as she disappeared on May 1, 2001 and her remains found over a year later in Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. The controversy surrounding Chandra Levy’s disappearance implicated California Democrat U.S. Representative Gary Condit as they had been having an affair. Although never named a suspect in Chandra’s disappearance or murder, the consequences of the affair lead to an abrupt exit from Congress.
Guandique is currently in prison after being convicted from his offences.
After all this time, police are now stating that they are close to an arrest in the Chandra Levy case. It is being reported that an arrest warrant will be issued for Ingmar Guandique, who is currently in prison in California.
Police are close to arresting an inmate they’ve already interviewed in the eight-year-old murder case of Chandra Levy and charging him in her disappearance, FOX News has confirmed.
Chandra_levy_suspect
Ingmar Guandique
Law enforcement officials said an arrest warrant will be issued for Ingmar Guandique, who is currently in prison in California.
Officials said Guandique will be served papers there and likely then flown to Washington, D.C., to hear the charges against him.
WRC-TV in Washington, DC is reporting that Ingmar Guandique is in jail for assaulting two women in Rock Creek Park. This is the same park where Levy’s remains were found a year after she vanished.
Guandique attacked a woman two weeks after Chandra’s disappearance in the middle of May 2001 and another in July. The women were jogging in Rock Creek Park, when he “clotheslined” them and dragged them down the hill. There was a struggle, they escaped and he ultimately was caught and pled guilty.
Guandique is now serving a 10-year sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary-Victorville in Adelanto and is eligible for parole in 2011. The FBI most likely wants to close the case before his parole date, Brad Garrett tells ABC News.
It’s been 8 years since Chandra Levy went missing as she disappeared on May 1, 2001 and her remains found over a year later in Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. The controversy surrounding Chandra Levy’s disappearance implicated California Democrat U.S. Representative Gary Condit as they had been having an affair. Although never named a suspect in Chandra’s disappearance or murder, the consequences of the affair lead to an abrupt exit from Congress.
Guandique is currently in prison after being convicted from his offences.
After all this time, police are now stating that they are close to an arrest in the Chandra Levy case. It is being reported that an arrest warrant will be issued for Ingmar Guandique, who is currently in prison in California.
Police are close to arresting an inmate they’ve already interviewed in the eight-year-old murder case of Chandra Levy and charging him in her disappearance, FOX News has confirmed.
Chandra_levy_suspect
Ingmar Guandique
Law enforcement officials said an arrest warrant will be issued for Ingmar Guandique, who is currently in prison in California.
Officials said Guandique will be served papers there and likely then flown to Washington, D.C., to hear the charges against him.
WRC-TV in Washington, DC is reporting that Ingmar Guandique is in jail for assaulting two women in Rock Creek Park. This is the same park where Levy’s remains were found a year after she vanished.
Guandique attacked a woman two weeks after Chandra’s disappearance in the middle of May 2001 and another in July. The women were jogging in Rock Creek Park, when he “clotheslined” them and dragged them down the hill. There was a struggle, they escaped and he ultimately was caught and pled guilty.
Guandique is now serving a 10-year sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary-Victorville in Adelanto and is eligible for parole in 2011. The FBI most likely wants to close the case before his parole date, Brad Garrett tells ABC News.
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