A U.S. Secret Service agent entrusted with protecting the nation’s leaders has been placed on administrative leave after being hit with a shocking list of felony charges. Marquez Christopher Pinder, 29, is accused of helping carry out a brutal fraternity hazing ritual that allegedly left two young men hospitalized and fighting for their lives. Pinder works in the Secret Service’s Miami field office. Authorities say he was one of three men involved in repeated beatings with canes and paddles over four nights in April. A current video report lays out what investigators say they found in the police records: Secret Service agent Marquez Pinder and two others are facing felony charges after authorities say a Kappa Alpha Psi pledge at the University of Miami nearly died during an alleged hazing incident. CNN's Randi Kaye explains what we learned from police documents. pic.twitter.com/LsSnvcGj5E — Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) July 28, 2026 The Associated Press reports that Pinder was described in an arrest warrant as the “dean of pledges” for a Miami chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi. Investigators say the alleged beatings began when the prospective members failed to answer questions about the fraternity and its history correctly. Authorities allege the abuse took place between April 1 and April 4, beginning at an apartment in Sweetwater before moving to a home in unincorporated Miami-Dade County. The three defendants were charged after a joint investigation involving local police, the sheriff’s office, and county prosecutors. According to the warrant, one victim eventually had blood seeping through his pants. Fraternity leaders allegedly ordered the victims to remove their clothes and place them in garbage bags before sending them home. The medical consequences were horrifying. One victim reportedly required skin grafts and treatment for kidney damage. Investigators said the injuries could have caused fatal renal failure without emergency care. The second victim was intubated in the hospital to prevent further physical deterioration and death, according to medical records described in the warrant. Pinder and co-defendants Jared Lamar James and Elijah Delano Dyous face charges that include attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and hazing with a deadly weapon. A separate report highlights the wider questions now facing the Secret Service: NEW in @RCPolitics: Secret Service plagued by arrests, criminal investigations Last night, I reported that Secret Service agent Marquez Pinder was arrested and charged Sunday with five felony counts in a near-fatal fraternity hazing incident that occurred this spring,… pic.twitter.com/wqvU0yvdZh — Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 27, 2026 WLRN Public Media reports that the University of Miami said Pinder has no affiliation with the school or its undergraduate Kappa Alpha Psi chapter. The fraternity’s national president also said the suspects held no official role and had no authority to conduct any membership process. The Secret Service confirmed that Pinder has worked for the agency since 2023. The agency says it is cooperating with investigators and will address any misconduct after the judicial process is completed. Pinder was released after posting a $75,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned September 24. The charges remain allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Secret Service personnel occupy positions of extraordinary trust. Allegations this violent demand a complete investigation, public accountability, and consequences wherever the evidence leads. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post BREAKING: Secret Service Agent Placed On Leave — The Allegations Are Horrifying appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump’s immigration crackdown may have just arrived at the front door of America’s biggest sanctuary city. ICE officers began enforcement actions in Queens on Monday and were expected to expand across the New York City metro area Tuesday, according to sources cited by NewsNation. But DHS is not confirming those operational details, which means the timeline, staffing, targets and expected collateral arrests remain sourced reporting rather than an official agency announcement. NewsNation aired the first report Monday: An Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation began in New York City Monday, sources told NewsNation. White House border czar Tom Homan said last week that an increased number of ICE officers will be deployed to New York City following an alleged attack on a federal building.… pic.twitter.com/LrEUtKcDVg — NewsNation (@NewsNation) July 27, 2026 NewsNation reported that the Queens actions were the opening move of an operation expected to spread into other parts of the metropolitan area Tuesday, citing multiple sources familiar with the plans. Those sources said personnel already assigned to ICE’s New York field office were taking part and that agents from outside locations had not yet been brought in. The reported targets include removable noncitizens whose ICE detainers were not honored by local jails or prisons before they were released, while collateral arrests of other removable noncitizens were also expected. A DHS spokesperson declined to confirm whether an operation had begun, citing operational security, and said ICE enforces the nation’s immigration laws in all 50 states around the clock. DHS has not stepped to a podium to announce a named sweep. It is a sourced report about agents already moving while the department keeps the details close—and the first reported targets go straight to the fight over sanctuary policies. That fight has been building for weeks. On June 8, White House border czar Tom Homan said he had reviewed an operational plan and warned that New York City would soon see more ICE agents than it had ever seen before. The next morning, Homan described the coming operation as controlled and targeted, with agents working from known identities and locations rather than simply driving around at random:   Homan said teams would know whom they were looking for and where to find them before they moved. He also tied the need for more officers to what happens when ICE cannot take custody of a removable noncitizen in the controlled setting of a jail. One agent can handle a jail transfer. Finding that same person after release can require a team entering a neighborhood, where the risks to officers, the target and the public are all higher. The official numbers show how often New York City declines to extend custody. The New York City Department of Correction recorded 595 civil immigration detainers during fiscal year 2025 and reported that nobody was held beyond the time they otherwise would have been released because of a detainer. The department reported 15 transfers to federal immigration authorities, showing that the city’s policy is restrictive but not an absolute ban on every form of cooperation. DOC says it can cooperate in a transfer without extra detention when the person has a violent or serious conviction or is identified as a possible terrorist-screening match and ICE supplies specified probable-cause documentation. ICE’s federal arrest authority still applies after release. The city’s limits force officers to find targets in the community instead of taking custody in the safer environment of a jail. New York’s courthouse protections are also narrower than a blanket citywide shield. The New York State Unified Court System says ICE cannot make a civil arrest in or on New York State courthouse property, or while someone is going to, remaining at or returning from court, unless agents have a warrant signed by a judge. That rule protects access to state courts and applies to civil arrests; it does not say that every person who leaves a local jail is beyond the reach of federal immigration enforcement everywhere else. It also does not prevent an arrest supported by the kind of judge-signed warrant identified in the policy for state court proceedings. That is the precise boundary NewsNation’s report was pointing toward when it described courthouse-related restrictions on the operation. There is one more timing point that matters. The New York State Senate record shows that a new statewide law will bar state and local agencies, correctional facilities and local governments from entering, renewing or remaining in agreements that let their personnel perform federal immigration-enforcement functions under Section 287(g). The law also reaches certain immigration-detention contracts and requires covered agencies to use applicable termination provisions. But it does not take effect until August 25, 2026, so it would be wrong to portray that statewide restriction as already governing the operation reported on July 27. Homan publicly linked his planning to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to sign the legislation, but the sources cited by NewsNation did not present it as official confirmation of the operation or its scope. This is exactly why President Trump’s enforcement agenda has put sanctuary jurisdictions under pressure. Local politicians can refuse to make the handoff easy, but they cannot repeal federal immigration law. And when a removable noncitizen walks out of local custody instead of into ICE custody, the work does not disappear. It moves from a secure jail to a city street, takes more officers and creates more chances for additional arrests when agents encounter other removable noncitizens along the way. DHS may keep the tactical details quiet. But if NewsNation’s sources are right, New York is now seeing the practical answer to years of sanctuary resistance: ICE is going out to find the people local custody would not turn over. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. 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A house fire was what drew emergency crews to a quiet street near Lake Michigan. It was not what killed the family inside. Three days after two parents and six children were found dead in their Grand Haven Township home, autopsies have revealed the devastating sequence investigators believe unfolded before the smoke was seen. Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz, 39, and all six children died from gunshot wounds. The children were between 5 and 15 years old. Authorities ruled their deaths homicides. Kristopher Karolkiewicz, 47, also died from a gunshot wound. Investigators ruled his death a suicide and identified him as the man who killed his wife and children. Then, according to the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, fires were deliberately started in multiple places throughout the house. The fire came after the murders. UPDATE: Michigan officials say Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot and killed his wife, Amanda Karolkiewicz, and their six children, ages 5 to 15, before setting multiple fires inside their Grand Haven home and killing himself. https://t.co/FWAEYkvPz2 pic.twitter.com/2JJqy9MsPp — AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) July 28, 2026 WGHN reported Monday that the completed autopsies confirmed all eight family members died from gunshot wounds. Amanda and the six children were classified as homicide victims, while Kristopher’s death was classified as a suicide. The local report said Michigan State Police arson investigators found preliminary evidence that fires had been started deliberately in several locations. Investigators believe those fires were set only after the seven victims had been killed. The sheriff’s office says no other suspects are being sought and there is no continuing threat to the public. The family’s pets also died from the fire and smoke inside the residence. But the determination answers only who and how. No motive has been released, the case remains open and investigators have not publicly connected the killings to any single event in the family’s life. Sheriff Eric DeBoer called it “an unspeakable tragedy that we may never completely understand.” That may be the most honest sentence anyone can offer right now.   The first warning came Friday morning. CBS Detroit reported that authorities received the first call shortly before 9 a.m. Friday. Someone smelled smoke along Riverside Trail, prompting deputies and Grand Haven Township firefighters to check the area. Crews searched but could not find an active house fire during that first response. It remains unclear how much time had passed since the shootings or exactly when the fires inside the home began. At approximately 11:42 a.m., more calls came in. This time, white smoke could be seen coming from the Karolkiewicz residence, and emergency crews returned to the same area. Firefighters entered while battling the flames and discovered the family inside. The mother, six children and father were all dead, transforming what began as a fire response into a major criminal investigation. The family’s dogs and at least one cat also died from the fire and smoke. The precise origin of the fire is still under investigation. What investigators say they already know is that it was not accidental and that it began after Amanda and the children had been killed. Officials have not released the children’s names. They identified the victims as four boys, ages 15, 12, 11 and 5, and two 11-year-old girls. Four were the couple’s biological children, and two had been adopted. That restraint matters. These were children, not details in a crime story. Their final moments should not erase the lives they lived before Friday. Amanda’s family described her as a devoted mother and educator who loved both her children and her students. The Associated Press reported that Amanda worked as an elementary school substitute teacher and went by Mandy. Her mother and stepfather remembered her as a devoted mother and educator who loved her family and her students. They said they treasured every moment with Mandy and the six children and asked for prayer, peace and comfort as the family grieves. Their statement kept the focus on the lives lost rather than the man who ended them. The local school district had previously praised Mandy for going beyond what was expected, especially when a student was struggling. Colleagues remembered the empathy, patience and care she brought into the classroom. Mandy’s own earlier writing centered on motherhood, faith and the joy she found in her growing family. Now the community she served is trying to carry an almost incomprehensible loss. About 200 people gathered Sunday evening at Duncan Woods for a vigil, according to WGHN’s local coverage. The gathering took place before authorities released the final autopsy findings Monday. Local students helped organize the vigil, giving classmates and neighbors a place to grieve together. Pastors, counselors, friends and relatives came to pray, remember the family and support those struggling to process the deaths. The gathering was not built around theories about a motive. It was centered on the people who were gone and on a community suddenly carrying the loss of six children and their mother. Grand Haven Area Public Schools also opened counseling to affected students and staff at two local churches. No appointment was required, allowing anyone shaken by the news to seek help and sit with others in mourning. “One minute you’re laughing at a memory or a photo you found and the next minute you just break down in tears. It’s hard.” Communities across West Michigan are still reeling after a family of eight was killed in a murder-suicide in Grand Haven Township. https://t.co/JtTopAllK4 — WOOD TV8 (@WOODTV) July 28, 2026 There will be no courtroom reckoning in this case. There may never be a motive that makes sense of it. But there can still be honesty about who the victims were. A mother remembered for kindness. Six children whose lives reached far beyond one burning house. A community refusing to let the man who killed them write the only story that remains. The investigation can establish what happened. The people who loved Amanda and the children will now do the harder work of preserving who they were. If you or someone you know is in suicidal crisis or emotional distress in the United States, call or text 988. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. 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Hey everyone, Noah here with a really fun update! A little over a month ago, I opened the Wait List for my first book, The Confessor, and promised that everyone who joined would be entered into a free raffle. Three people would each win a signed first-edition hardcover. If you missed the original announcement, you can see it here: JOIN THE WAIT LIST: My New Book Launches Soon! (From Noah) We left the Wait List open, gathered all the entries, and now the drawing is complete. So I am very excited to announce that we have our THREE winners! CONGRATULATIONS TO… Carrie A. Mary Carolyn Last names and email addresses are being withheld for privacy purposes, of course. But if one of those names is yours and you remember joining the Book 1 Wait List, go check your email! We have emailed all three winners so we can coordinate your signed book, personalization and mailing details. One winner has already found the message and replied. If you are one of the other two, please check your Inbox—and your Spam or Junk folder just in case—so we can get your book headed your way. Each signed first-edition hardcover is a $150 value, so that is $450 worth of signed books going out to three members of the WLT Report family. CONGRATS! WANT A SIGNED FIRST EDITION? Maybe your name was not drawn this time. You can still get a signed and personalized first edition of The Confessor directly from me: TAP HERE TO GET A $150 SIGNED FIRST-EDITION COPY OF THE CONFESSOR These are the same special signed first-edition hardcovers valued at $150 each. I personally sign every copy, and you can tell me who you would like it personalized to when you order. I am limiting these to only 10 signed copies per month. That limit is intentional. I want these books to remain genuinely special and exclusive instead of turning them into a mass-produced item with my signature stamped onto a page somewhere. Once the 10 copies for a month are claimed, that is it until the next month opens. If you want one for yourself—or you know someone who would love a signed thriller as a gift—you can reserve your copy at the link above. THE BOOK 2 WAIT LIST IS NOW OPEN! And now let’s do it again. TAP HERE TO JOIN THE BOOK 2 WAIT LIST FOR FREE The Wait List for Book 2 in the Logan Hollister series is officially open, and I am offering the same deal we did for Book 1. It is totally free to join. You will be alerted when Book 2 goes live, and I will randomly draw three winners from the Wait List. Each winner will receive a signed copy of Book 2. Book 2 is scheduled to officially launch on November 1, 2026, but there is no reason to wait until then to get your name on the list. There is no purchase required. Just enter for free, watch your email for the launch alert, and you will be in the drawing for one of the three signed copies. After seeing how much fun everyone had with the Book 1 raffle, I knew we had to do it again. I WAS NOT PLANNING TO START BOOK 2 THIS SOON… Here’s the funny part. I had every intention of taking a little break after finishing The Confessor. Writing and launching Book 1 was a massive sprint, and I figured I would step away, clear my head and come back to Book 2 later. Then an idea hit me—and now the first six chapters are already available to read: TAP HERE TO READ THE FIRST SIX CHAPTERS OF BOOK 2 The plot. The killer. The motive. Suddenly all the details started coming together in my head, and I got so excited that I sat down and mapped out the entire book. I told myself I would only write the first chapter. Then the first chapter came out so good that I couldn’t stop. One chapter became two. Then three. And before I knew it, I had written the first SIX chapters of Book 2! I am really excited about where this one is going, and I would love for you to see it. I can’t wait to hear what you think. And once again, congratulations to Carrie, Mary and Carolyn! Enjoy! — Noah This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post CONGRATS: We Have Our THREE Signed Book Winners! appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Donald Trump delivered a humorous and defiant speech last week during a White House Correspondents Dinner that had been rescheduled due to the assassination attempt against him at the initial event earlier this year. But it was the object of one of the president’s punchlines who apparently felt like the real victim. Trans activist Dylan Mulvaney posted a video on the matter, which was soon inundated by negative replies. As The Hill reported:  “Now, the president also brought up a video I did over three years ago, and mind you, I’ve been kind of flying under the radar, keeping up a pretty low profile, just like doing my little musicals, singing, dancing,” Mulvaney said in a video posted on Instagram. “And yet, I am still his topic of conversation all these years later,” the influencer continued. “And it seems to me that I might be like the one that got away for these men. Like, I am permanently burned into their retinas. I am microchipped into their minds.” Trump on Friday alluded to his long-standing feud with Collins and CNN during the dinner in a moment to praise Collins after she received an award for her coverage of his administration. He said she “never smiles,” a remark he has repeatedly made during his second term. “I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney,” Trump said. “Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap. That was the worst commercial ever made, by the way, for those few people who want to hear that. Most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan any time soon.”   Here’s a sampling of the reaction Mulvaney’s rant received: The dude is a walking, talking parody account. — David Carter (@MrDavidCarter) July 27, 2026 It was used in a joke, dude — Archersmom (@teachkreaders) July 27, 2026 Yes that’s all Trump talked about, Dylan Mulvaney. — Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 27, 2026     People added these details: The next day, on Sunday, July 26, the president doubled down on his attack by sharing a photoshopped image of the anchor’s face on Mulvaney’s body on Truth Social.  In the fake image, the person is holding a Bud Light beer and is seated at a table with more beers. CNN has stood behind Collins amid Trump’s attacks, calling her “an exceptional, trusted journalist” in a statement to PEOPLE after the Correspondents’ Dinner. “She reports every day from the White House and the field with real strength and tenacity and skillfully brings that reporting to the anchor chair and CNN platforms every day,” the statement read. “We stand by her to the fullest extent.” In 2025, Mulvaney spoke with PEOPLE about how she “healed” after the Bud Light scandal. “I am about a thousand times stronger than I was before that situation happened. I’m finally in a place that I have healed, and I’m in such a good mental headspace,” the Paper Doll author said at the time. Here’s a relevant clip from Trump’s speech: LMAO!! President Trump just dropped this GEM of Kaitlan Collins as Dylan Mulvaney from the woke Bud Light ad — after his HILARIOUS White House Correspondents Dinner roast Funniest president ever They can't get mad at him for comparing her to a man pretending to be a… pic.twitter.com/qLWdsiIA5q — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 26, 2026 What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post WATCH: Dylan Mulvaney Ridiculed For Social Media Response To President Trump’s Joke appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.