Armed, masked crooks trying to steal car encounter gun-toting homeowner, cops say — and the homeowner isn't playing around



Police said a Pennsylvania homeowner shot at a pair of would-be car thieves early Tuesday morning, wounding one of them, WPVI-TV reported.

The incident in the 200 block of 2nd Street in Catasauqua took place at 1 a.m., the station said. Catasauqua is a borough in Lehigh County that's about 15 minutes north of Allentown and just under an hour and a half north of Philadelphia.

'Good old-fashioned FAFO.'

Investigators told WPVI the homeowner fired the shots at the two males as they were trying to steal a vehicle. The males reportedly were wearing black masks, the station said, adding that police said one suspect had a knife, and the other was carrying a bar.

Both suspects — including the wounded male — ran away, the station said.

Police are searching local hospitals for patients with gunshot wounds, WPVI said.

The homeowner was not injured, the station said.

No charges have been filed, WPVI reported, adding that the incident remains under investigation.

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Commenters under WPVI's Facebook post about the incident gave shoutouts to the homeowner who pulled the trigger:

  • "Hey, maybe the thieves will change their minds before they attempt to steal again!??" one commenter observed. "Kudos to the homeowner!!"
  • "Good job homeowner, do not charge this man for protecting his property," another user insisted.
  • "I love a story with a happy ending," another commenter quipped.
  • "Good," another user wrote before adding "get a cap in both their asses."
  • "Not everyone is an easy target, are they[?]" another commenter stated. "Good old-fashioned FAFO."

Others encouraged the homeowner to get more time at the gun range:

  • "Learn from it and just go to the range a few times," one user suggested. "Practice, practice, practice."
  • "Sounds like the homeowner needs more target practice," another commenter wrote. "The perp won’t have a chance to repeat the stupidity."
  • "A shame he only wounded one," another user said. "A couple of head shots would [have] been better."
  • "Excellent!" another commenter exclaimed. "Now, get to the range to make sure next time it's not just a wound."

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'You don't want this smoke': Philly DA and sheriff threaten ICE officers — DHS just laughs



Larry Krasner, the Philadelphia district attorney who was impeached in 2022 for "dereliction of duty and refusal to enforce the law upon assuming office," was among the leftists who condemned the fatal Jan. 7 shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Macklin Good.

Multiple videos of the incident, including cellphone footage from the agent's perspective, show the 37-year-old Colorado native drive into a federal law enforcement officer after disobeying repeated orders to exit her vehicle. As Good accelerated into the ICE agent — who had been dragged hundreds of yards by a fleeing suspect during a previous ICE operation — the agent opened fire in self-defense.

During a press conference on Jan. 8, where officials held a moment of silence for Good, then engaged in a cultish chant of her name, Krasner claimed the ICE agent's actions were not only "unlawful" but amounted to a "criminal homicide" executed by a member of an agency that has supposedly taken a "Nazified approach to mass deportation."

'Do you hear me, ICE agents? Do you hear me, National Guard?'

Krasner — flanked by fellow anti-ICE radicals Aniqa Raihan of the group No ICE Philly and Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal, the latter of whom claimed that ICE was "fake" law enforcement — not only complained about the ICE officer's decision to fire multiple shots but his location at the time of the vehicular attack.

According to Krasner, who referred to the incident in passing as a "murder," the officer's positioning in front of Good's speeding SUV was a "violation of police directives in almost every jurisdiction."

"Self-defense? So that is one layer of criminality," said Krasner.

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After characterizing the agent's act of self-defense as a crime, Krasner — who has spent years championing dangerous criminals — stated, "If any law enforcement agent, any ICE agent, is going to come to Philly to commit crimes, then you can get the eff out of here because if you do that here, I will charge you with those crimes. You will be arrested. You will stand trial. You will be convicted, whether it's in state or federal court."

"Donald Trump cannot pardon you for a state court conviction," continued Krasner. "Do you hear me, ICE agents? Do you hear me, National Guard? Do you hear me, military?"

Sheriff Bilal attempted to outdo Krasner's expression of contempt for federal law enforcement officers, stating, "If any [ICE agents] want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide, nobody will whisk you off."

"You don't want this smoke, 'cause we will bring it to you," threatened the sheriff whose crime-ridden city had 826 shootings in 2025.

Over the weekend, Krasner posted a picture of himself on social media with the acronym "FAFO," which stands for "f**k around, find out." The post was captioned, "To ICE and the National Guard: If you commit crimes in Philadelphia, we will charge you and hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law."

The post was quickly ratioed on X.

"Unlike criminals in Philadelphia who get their charges dropped by the DA," replied the National Police Association.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, noted, "The fullest extent of the state law would be nothing since they're Federal officials. Don't lose your bar license dude."

The Department of Homeland Security responded with multiple dismissive posts, noting, "Oh no! Anyway."

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Leftist radicals doxx ICE agents with ‘WANTED’ flyers in Pennsylvania



A Pennsylvania resident returned from grocery shopping to discover a “WANTED” flyer affixed to the resident's vehicle.

The flyer, provided to Blaze News, features photographs of four Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and reads, “WANTED: ICE AGENTS TERRORIZING WORKING PEOPLE.”

'ICE is focusing on the worst first through targeted enforcement. However, it is also a crime to live in this country illegally.'

It urged State College residents to share information about the federal officials, directing them to send details to a Proton Mail email address “if you see these ICE agents or have information about them.”

The flyer claimed that federal immigration officials “kidnapped 24 immigrant workers in State College [on] August 19.”

“THEY ARE ENEMIES OF WORKING PEOPLE AND ARE NOT WELCOME ANYWHERE IN OUR COMMUNITY,” it read. “SHARE WIDELY TO DEFEND IMMIGRANT WORKERS! DRIVE ICE OUT OF CENTRE COUNTY!”

It was unclear who created the flyer.

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The flyer’s mention of the August arrests appeared to refer to Enforcement and Removal Operations' “targeted enforcement operation in Bellefonte,” according to a press release from ICE.

The agency noted that a suspected MS-13 gang member was among the 24 arrested as well as another individual with several criminal convictions, including for assault. Another seven individuals had final orders of removal, the agency reported.

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“ICE is focusing on the worst first through targeted enforcement. However, it is also a crime to live in this country illegally,” ERO Philadelphia Field Office Director Brian McShane stated about the arrests. “Knowing this, ICE has been empowered to vigorously search out, arrest, and remove anyone violating federal immigration law.”

During a press conference following news of the arrests, several immigrant rights groups claimed that many of those arrested were traveling to work at a construction site when they were detained.

The DHS did not respond to requests for comment.

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'I am a conspiracy theorist': JD Vance slams explosive Vanity Fair profile claiming Trump-world infighting



Vice President JD Vance silenced the mainstream media for supposedly exaggerating the infighting within President Donald Trump's administration.

A new Vanity Fair article published Tuesday portrayed Trump's White House as chaotic and tense based on several interviews with chief of staff Susie Wiles, who has since called out the "disingenuously framed hit piece." In the piece, Wiles appears to be criticizing several members of Trump's Cabinet, even calling Vance a "conspiracy theorist."

'A conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it.'

"Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story," Wiles said in a post on X. "I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team."

Vance echoed Wiles' claims that the piece omitted key context — and even embraced the label "conspiracy theorist."

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"Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true," Vance said during a speech on affordability in Pennsylvania Tuesday.

Vance also clarified that Wiles' comments were likely made in a lighthearted manner, like many other interactions they've shared. Even still, Vance embraced the accusation and pointed to several political moments in recent years that were branded as conspiracy theories before later being accepted as reality.

"By the way, Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time," Vance said. "For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask 3-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic, that we should actually let them develop some language skills. I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job. And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents."

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"At least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it."

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