How cigarette-smoking neighbour helped police find Boston bomber hiding in boat (PHOTOS)

When David Henneberry nipped outside for a cigarette, he had no idea it would lead to a bloody shootout in his back garden and the capture of the most wanted man in America.
Like thousands of other residents of Watertown, a sleepy middle-class suburb of Boston, the 66-year-old had been cooped up in his home, at 67 Franklin Street, since police imposed a curfew in the early hours of Friday.
The curfew followed a 2am gun battle just a few streets away that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, dead and his 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar on the run. A thousand police, SWAT teams, dog units and explosive experts had been going door-to-door as frightened residents were ordered to shelter inside their homes.
 

Hero: David Henneberry had no idea he would find America’s most wanted man hiding in his boat

Despite cool temperatures and intermittent rain, residents – many of whom had been locked inside their homes all day – began emerging on to the streets. Some jogged, others walked their dogs while most stood chatting to neighbours.

Mr Henneberry, whose ‘passion’ is his 24-ft white fibreglass Seahawk pleasure cruiser, strolled into his garden at 6.05pm – and immediately noticed the tarpaulin covering his prized boat had been disturbed.

Neighbour George Pizzuto said: ‘He got his ladder and put it up against the side of the boat and climbed up. He saw blood on it and what he thought was a body lying at the back. He immediately ran inside and called the police.

‘David was totally distraught and in shock. That boat’s his baby. He takes care of it like you won’t believe.’

Robert Duffy, Mr Henneberry’s stepson, added: ‘As soon as he saw the tarp on the boat he knew something wasn’t right. It was flapping in the wind and, when he got the ladder he realised one of the straps had been cut – not chafed, or unhooked but cut.’

‘He stuck his head under it and noticed a pool of blood and what he thought was a man’s leg. He saw someone crumpled up in a ball.’

Minutes later and all hell broke loose as around 300 police officers, FBI and SWAT teams descended on the quiet neighbourhood.

At 6.15pm police had cordoned off a three-block, area, erecting barricades and sending sharpshooters to ‘cover’ street corners and take positions on rooftops.  A police helicopter with heat sensors flew over the garden to verify there was a body inside the boat.

Aerial views of 67 Franklin Street, Watertown, Massachusetts. Boston bombing suspect #2 Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, led the authorities to 67 Franklin Street in Watertown, Massachusetts where he was taken into custody

 

Please: Help find 16 year old, Olufolabi Adeniji

God help us all in this country. A 16-year-old Olufolabi Adeniji (pictured above right), a pupil of American International School, Lagos, is missing. He was last seen in the early hours Tuesday April 16th on his way to school with his mother's driver. The SUV was later found abandoned at the Palms shopping Mall, Lekki with his school bag inside the vehicle.
The driver who took Olufolabi to school that morning has not been heard from since that day...and the schoolboy's abductors are yet to make contact with his family. Anyone with any useful information should please contact the nearest police station. And please watch the people you leave your children with. Kidnapping is on the rise now. God protect us all!

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Hell Survivor!

Two weeks ago, many families mourned, following the death of no fewer than 80 people, including 57 passengers of a commercial luxury bus, which collided with a fuel tanker in Ugbogui, on the Benin-Lagos expressway and burst into flames

The victims were burnt beyond recognition and were given mass burial last week. However, today the family of Kenneth Chinedu Nwaokoro, a 24-year-old final year student of Information Technology of Caritas University, Enugu, who survived the accident, is rejoicing.

This lucky young man, from Imo State, was returning to Enugu to complete his final year project, after visiting his brother in Lagos. He is currently on admission at the Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu. Narrating what happened and how he survived, Nwaokoro told Saturday Sun: “When we left the park to embark on the journey, our bus was half filled; so the driver picked passengers along the road until the bus was filled, except for the seat beside me, which I did not allow anybody to occupy.

The excuse I gave was that somebody was sitting there beside because I didn’t want disturbance and more so it was illegal for them to pick passengers along the road. The journey was smooth, so I slept off. “I was sleeping when the accident happened. It was the sound of the collision that woke me up. I woke up to see the driver struggling with the steering to manoeuvre the bus, but everywhere was already on fire immediately the bus collided with the tanker and there was commotion.”

The struggle to escape On how the passengers struggled to escape from impending death, Nwaokoro said: “People where shouting and running towards the entrance, but the door was locked. The bus was one of The Young’s new buses. There was fire everywhere and people were getting burnt. At first, I was confused, but I convinced myself that I would survive. I opened the window and jumped out.

The fire burnt my back and face. On landing, I ran straight to a local hospital close to the scene of the accident, where I had to part with N2, 000 before they gave me first aid. I then contacted my younger brother, who came and took me to Enugu.” Asked if there were other passengers who escaped through the window with him, he said: “I noticed that a guy jumped after me, but he was seriously burnt.

I couldn’t wait to check him because I was burnt too and my hands were fractured.” How he bought the bus ticket Nwaokoro revealed that his name was not on the manifest of the bus because his younger sister bought the ticket for him. According to him, the sister’s name was written on the manifest (seat 23) because when it was her turn to pay for the ticket, the official of the transport company asked for her name and quickly wrote it on the ticket before verifying if she was the one travelling.

He revealed that when the ticket officer realised the mistake, she said that since she had written the name on the ticket, there was nothing she could do. The only remedy offered was to enter Nwaokoro’s phone number against his sister’s name, while his sister’s phone number was entered as next of kin.

Sister corroborates his story The lucky passenger’s younger sister, Catherine Onyinyechi Nwaokoro, said: “I went to the bus centre with him and I bought the ticket. The cashier presumed I was the one travelling and issued the ticket in my name. When I saw the mistake, I called her attention to it and she said it was late as she could not alter the ticket. She said that since the passenger was my brother he could make use of the ticket.

That was why she wrote his phone number on the passenger’s list and my own as the next of kin.” No visit from the transport company When asked if anybody from the transport company The Young, had visited him, Nwaokoro said nobody had. His elder brother, Emmanuel Nwaokoro, told Saturday Sun that he visited the company’s branch office at Jibowu, Lagos, where his brother boarded the bus and he was referred to Maza Maza, in Lagos, where the company’s head office is located.

At the head office, the elder Nwaokoro said when he told the manager that his younger brother survived the accident, he expressed surprise, saying they did not know anybody survived. “When I told the manager about my brother’s survival, he said they didn’t know that somebody survived it. He told us to come back in a week or two weeks’ time to fill insurance form and other relevant documents for compensation.”

Source: The Sun

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STRANGE: Ground Opens Up And Swallows Three Cars - Chicago

 Some say it's a sign that we are approaching end time, other say it is just nature. But whatever it is, this is scary. How can you be driving on a plain road and suddenly your car just sink into a hole?

This was the scenario that played out in Chicago on Friday as a large sinkhole opened up in the middle of the street and swallowed three cars, while the vehicles were on motion...

A driver was rushed to the Northwestern Memorial Hospital but is said to be doing fine. The cars, however, weren’t so lucky. Two cars were inside the hole when emergency personnel arrived. A third car, which was parked, also slid into the hole in the presence of first responders.

Experts say the likely cause of the sinkhole is a water main break nearby.

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19-year-old girl arrested for having sex with 9-year-old boy (PICTURED)

A father was devastated when he learned that his teenage babysitter was having sex with his 9-year-old son.
The sexual relationship lasted for six months before the father found out. Apparently, the babysitter warned the boy not tell anyone about their “relationship,” according to reports.
Jalissa Baez, 19, was branded a “threat to the community” by the police chief, who arrested her after a six-month long investigation.
Baez, who lives in Pennsylvania, was arrested for sleeping with the 9-year-old boy, after she had been hired to babysit him. Baez had sex with the boy for a period of several months, according to police reports.
The father hired Baez to babysit his son while he was at work. Instead of caring for the him, she flirted with the child and got him to have sex with her.
Baez was booked into jail on charges of involuntary sexual intercourse with a child, indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of a minor and indecent exposure.
Her bail was set at $25,000.

Read more: Your Jewish News

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