Violent rapist in Maryland allegedly murders 'devoted' parole officer



A man who spent decades in prison for a violent rape has now been accused of murdering the Maryland parole officer assigned to keep an eye on him following his release.

In October 1996, Emanuel Edward Sewell broke into a home in Montgomery County, Maryland, where a man was in bed sleeping. Sewell bound the man's arms and legs and then viciously raped him at knifepoint. Sewell was eventually convicted of several charges related to sexual assault and burglary and sentenced to 40 years behind bars.

He was curled up in the fetal position and wrapped in plastic after sustaining a brutal physical assault, reports indicate.

Sewell ultimately served 24 years of that 40-year sentence. In 2021, he was paroled after claiming that his drug addiction had affected his brain and partially led him to commit the horrific crime.

After his release, Sewell was paired with parole and probation agent Davis Martinez with the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Sewell also secured residence at an apartment in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

On May 31, Martinez drove over to the apartment to ensure that Sewell lived there. Several hours later, Martinez's colleagues contacted police after he never returned.

Just before 6 p.m. that day, officers arrived at Sewell's apartment. Inside, they found Martinez's dead body stuffed underneath a bed. He was curled up in the fetal position and wrapped in plastic after sustaining a brutal physical assault, reports indicate.

Investigators also found a bloody towel near the front door and Martinez's cellphone in a dumpster outside. His car was likewise still parked nearby.

Though officers were able to collect Martinez's body and other pieces of evidence from Sewell's apartment, the suspect was nowhere to be found. A neighbor claimed Sewell, now 54, had received a visitor around 9 a.m. and emerged from his apartment around 2 p.m. to deposit bags of clothes in the dumpster. She then saw Sewell drive away.

The following day, Sewell was arrested 400 miles away in West Virginia and initially charged with second-degree murder. That charge was later upgraded to first-degree murder. On Monday, a judge ordered him held without bond. Sewell is scheduled to appear in court again on July 5.

'This was a violent attack on the agent who was doing the residence check.'

Martinez first joined the MDPS in August 2018 and is believed to be the only parole officer to be killed in the line of duty in the state's history. He was just 33 years old at the time of his death.

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His friends and coworkers are devastated by his loss and created a short video in his honor. In the video, agent Shanel Grey claimed she couldn't settle on just "one word only to describe" Martinez — but she did try, characterizing him as "kind, respectful, courteous, devoted to his job, an extremely diligent team player, funny, [and] shy."

Senior agent Wynitta Sanyeneh-Kesler called Martinez a "beautiful soul" and insisted he was "the glue" at the agency and for his family. "There's nothing he wouldn't do for any one of us," she added through tears.

Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy argues that more must be done to protect parole and probation agents. "This was a violent attack on the agent who was doing [a] residence check," he claimed.

"If they’re going out there doing work for us, we as a community have to work comprehensively to make sure that we see that they’re safe when they’re doing their job."

The agency has since suspended all in-home parole and probation visits. Democrat Gov. Wes Moore ordered state flags to be lowered to half-mast on June 1 in Martinez's honor.

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Denver cops frustrated by low funding, job restrictions should consider moving to Wyoming, sheriff says



A Wyoming sheriff is looking to poach competent and committed law enforcement officials from departments in Denver and other Colorado cities beleaguered by low funding and severe restrictions on proper police procedures.

Last month, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, a Democrat, announced that the budget for the Denver Police Department would be cut by more than $8 million to fund resources for the thousands of illegal aliens who have recently been bused into the city, as Blaze News previously reported.

"We actually hired some law enforcement officers from the Denver area, and in talking to them, and on our contact sheets ... we learned that a lot of the officers are frustrated there because they feel like the ability to do their job is restricted."

Colorado lawmakers have likewise taken steps to hamper police officers from doing their duties. In the wake of the BLM riots in 2020, lawmakers removed cops' qualified-immunity protections. Then earlier this month, they barred police from pulling vehicles over for minor traffic violations, claiming that such traffic stops do little to lower crime rates overall, the Daily Mail reported.

With morale in some Colorado police departments low, Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak decided to seize the opportunity to invite frustrated Colorado cops to take a second look at Wyoming. Kozak coughed up $2,500 for a 30-day billboard that features a picture of several smiling deputies and a message that reads: "Work in Wyoming, where breaking the law is still illegal & cops are funded!"

The billboard is located just a few miles from the DPD police administration building.

"We actually hired some law enforcement officers from the Denver area, and in talking to them, and on our contact sheets ... we learned that a lot of the officers are frustrated there because they feel like the ability to do their job is restricted," Kozak said. "So, we're really focusing on that aspect of it to recruit people."

Kozak, who became sheriff in 2023, claimed that he has spent roughly $40,000 on recruitment advertising in the last fiscal year. He sees that investment as a drop in the bucket compared to the $1.3 million he has spent in overtime because of staffing shortages.

"[$40,000 is] less than half of what the salary is for one employee," he said.

"We’ve got to get aggressive on our recruiting efforts to save money and hire people, and eliminate that overtime budget."

Thus far, his attempts to lure officers from other states, especially Colorado, appear to be working. In 2023, the Laramie County Sheriff's Office hired 72 new recruits, many of them from Colorado, Kozak said.

Kozak's chief deputy, Aaron Veldheer, once worked for a Colorado department that he loved, but he moved to Wyoming because the Colorado state government was so unfriendly to law enforcement in general. "The [Colorado] General Assembly makes it so the cops are the bad guys," Veldheer said.

Denver Chief of Police Ron Thomas countered that top-ranking DPD officers make considerably more than top-ranking LCSO deputies. And Mayor Johnston's office has previously claimed that the DPD budget cuts will not affect cops' interactions with the public, just in-house expenditures, like "new furniture."

"To say that Denver is 'defunding the police' is a willful mischaracterization of the budget reductions, which actually just delays the purchase of new furniture and shifts the funding source for one cadet class," a previous statement from the mayor's office said. "In fact, Mayor Johnston has invested millions to add 167 new police recruits to our force in 2024, and will continue to invest in public safety to ensure every Denverite is safe in their city."

Still, Kozak is confident that Wyoming has much more to offer to officers who love what they do: "We do enforce the rules and the law, and I want people to know [that] about Wyoming."

"That’s our culture here."

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Want to know the REAL insurrection in New Mexico? Well, here it is



The governor of New Mexico isn’t winning the hearts of conservatives any time soon. Instead, she’s committing what Stu Burguiere believes to be the “real insurrection.”

On Friday, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a “public health emergency order” that suspends the right to bear arms in Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo County.

The order applies to concealed or open carry of firearms on public property and lasts 30 days but can be renewed. Police officers and security guards are the only exceptions.

“You might say, ‘Wait, wait, that’s absolutely unconstitutional.’ And you’d be right,” Stu comments.

The governor cited an increase in violent crimes as her reasoning but did not acknowledge that violent crimes does not mean gun crimes.

“So, if a lot of people are being stabbed, we’re not going to ban knives, we’re going to ban guns in that community,” Stu says.

It perhaps could not be more obvious that what the governor is doing is completely unconstitutional.

“The Second Amendment is an affirmative right,” Stu says. “It says what the government cannot do to squash that affirmative right. You have a right to own a firearm and defend yourself. You have a right to do that in this country. This has been litigated for hundreds of years. She 100% knows she’s doing something unconstitutional.”

When asked during a press conference if what she was doing wasn’t clearly unconstitutional, Grisham attempted to rationalize her decision.

“With one exception, and that is if there’s an emergency, and I’ve declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time. I can invoke additional powers. No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute,” Grisham said.

Stu doesn’t believe her for a second.

“Now to be clear, she doesn’t believe anything she just said,” he says.

“She knows this is gonna get shot down in the courts. She knows this is a BS argument, but she’s trying to make it anyway.”

Stu believes that like other liberals, she’s simply “trying to manipulate public health initiatives to justify their unconstitutional actions.”


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Democratic candidate voted to release inmate who murdered man with garden shears and then ordered a hit on his accomplice



Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman is once again in the news for his role as the chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. In 2019, Fetterman and the rest of the board unanimously voted to free a man convicted of murdering someone and then ordering a hit on his accomplice.

Back in 1976, Charles "Zeke" Goldblum was convicted of the first-degree murder of George Wilhelm. Goldblum and his accomplice, Clarence Miller, lured Wilhelm into a Pittsburgh parking garage, where Goldblum stabbed Wilhelm with the shears 26 times.

According to court documents, Wilhelm learned that Goldblum and Miller had conspired to burn down a restaurant owned by Goldblum so that they could collect the insurance money on it. Wilhelm then demanded payment to keep quiet about the insurance fraud scheme, which motivated the murder.

While out on bond awaiting trial, Goldblum then tried to hire an undercover cop to kill Miller, who was widely expected to testify against Goldblum. Though Goldblum has long maintained that Miller was the actual assailant in the Wilhelm stabbing and that he merely witnessed it, Goldblum did admit that he "put a hit out on Miller."

Goldblum and Miller were both convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

In the decades since his conviction, Goldblum had appealed for clemency seven times, and was summarily rejected. However, despite the wishes of the Wilhelm family, the Board of Pardons reversed course and voted in 2019 to release him.

"We thought [Goldblum's life sentence] would be just that—a life sentence without the possibility of parole," said Sandra Horton, Wilhelm's niece, "and that he would be made to accept his role in George’s brutal death.

Horton specifically blamed Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D) and Fetterman for the systemic changes which now permit the release of violent offenders like Goldblum.

"It’s Wolf and Fetterman," she said. "That’s how we got here. … The eighth time’s the charm."

Unlike the Wilhelm family, Fetterman celebrated Goldblum's release. According to Newsmax, Fetterman stated that he was "happy" that Goldblum would be returned to his family. Fetterman also insisted that Goldblum was "not a threat to public safety."

"John is proud of his work on the Board of Pardons giving second chances to non-violent offenders and the wrongfully convicted," said Fetterman spokesman Joe Calvello.

"Goldblum was wrongfully convicted and that is why John, along with every other member of the Board of Pardons, voted to recommend clemency," Calvello continued. "The judge and prosecutor that presided over his trial also came to this conclusion and advocated for his release."

Calvello is correct. The judge and prosecutor in the case have since reconsidered the role that Goldblum played in the Wilhelm murder. They now believe that Miller actually killed Wilhelm and that Goldblum had been the accomplice. However, they have not given definitive reasons for their change of heart, and a federal appeals court stated in 2007 that the evidence presented at the original trial established "Goldblum's guilt."

Fetterman's Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, has accused Fetterman of taking a "soft-on-crime" approach that endangers public safety. Fetterman currently holds a slight edge in the polls, according to RealClearPolitics.

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