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THOMAS, DEREK 05/21/1988 08/02/2009 02:02:11
DPD/INSPECTION CERTIFICATE/EXPIRED BOND $452.00
DPD/INSPECTION CERTIFICATE/EXPIRED MORE THAN 60 DAYS BOND $452.00
RIOJAS, SEBASTIAN 10/24/1988 08/02/2009 02:01:54
ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION BOND $500.00
CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE BY MINOR BOND $500.00
GLENN, JIMMY 04/24/1968 08/02/2009 01:26:31
ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION BOND $500.00
GONZALEZ, PEDRO 12/04/1989 08/02/2009 01:15:15
DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED To Be Determined
NO DRIVER'S LICENSE BOND $300.00
DIAZ, DESIREE 11/08/1989 08/01/2009 20:29:15
DPD WARRANT/ SPEEDING BOND $452.00
DPD WARRANT/ SPEEDING FINE $193.00
HAMMONS, RICHARD 12/01/1982 08/01/2009 19:51:35
FAIL TO IDENTIFY FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE BOND
DCSO WARRANT / THEFT PROP >$20.00 < $ 500.00
$1500.00
BUMGARNER, ZAKARY 09/17/1987 08/01/2009 15:57:45
DPD/EXPIRED INSPECTION BOND $452.00
DPD/EXPIRED REGISTRATION BOND $419.00
MASON, SHANNON 01/01/1990 08/01/2009 15:26:19
THEFT >=$50<$500 BOND
FARRIS, NATALIE 06/22/1990 08/01/2009 15:24:02
THEFT >=$50<$500 To Be Determined
DPD/EXPIRED REGISTRATION BOND $419.00
DPD/FAIL TO DISPLAY DRIVERS LICENSE BOND $419.00
AZIZ, KALEN 04/11/1988 08/01/2009 09:51:57
DPD/SPEEDING 42 IN 30 MPH ZONE BOND $652.00
DPD/FMFR BOND $569.00
DPD/FAIL TO DISPLAY DRIVERS LICENSE BOND $419.00
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS PD/PUBLIC INTOX-OTHER FINE $375.00
TAYLOR, KELLY 01/18/1960 08/01/2009 07:50:45
DPD/FMFR BOND $569.00
DPD/EXPIRED INSPECTION CERTIFICATE MORE THAN 60 DAYS BOND $452.00
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS PD/PUBLIC INTOX-OTHER FINE $375.00
BREWER, JOHN 02/12/1966 08/01/2009 01:23:40
DENTON PD / ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION FINE $594.00
DENTON PD / ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION FINE $594.00
DENTON PD / ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION BOND $719.00
YANK, MICHAEL 03/26/1983 07/31/2009 01:52:21
DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED BOND $2500.00
DPD/DL/NO DRIVERS LICENSE BOND $419.00
DPD/DL/RAN RED LIGHT BOND $452.00
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08/01/2009 19:51:35 | 26 yrs | County Record: http://tinyurl.com/ma38mk | FAIL TO IDENTIFY FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE
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08/01/2009 19:44:45 | 29 yrs | Bond: $1,300 | NO DRIVER'S LICENSE | FAIL TO MAINTAIN FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | OPERATE VEHICLE DISPLAYING REG FOR ANOTHER / OPERATE VEHICLE DISPLAYING REG FOR ANTOHER
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08/01/2009 15:24:02 | 19 yrs | THEFT >=$50 < $500
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08/01/2009 15:26:19 | 19 yrs | THEFT >=$50 < $500
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08/01/2009 09:51:57 | 21 yrs | Bond: $2,015 | County Record: http://tinyurl.com/kl73mc | SPEEDING 42 IN 30 MPH ZONE | FMFR | FAIL TO DISPLAY DRIVERS LICENSE | NORTH RICHLAND HILLS PD/PUBLIC INTOX-OTHER
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08/01/2009 07:50:45 | 49 yrs | Bond: $1,396 | County Record: http://tinyurl.com/nde7az | FMFR | EXPIRED INSPECTION CERTIFICATE MORE THAN 60 DAYS | NORTH RICHLAND HILLS PD/PUBLIC INTOX-OTHER
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08/01/2009 07:01:36 | 22 yrs | Bond: $198 | RAN RED LIGHT
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08/01/2009 04:31:09 | 23 yrs | LOCAL MUNICIPAL WARRANT
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08/01/2009 04:11:54 | 20 yrs | Bond: $500 | DISORDERLY CONDUCT-FIGHTING IN PUBLIC
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08/01/2009 04:00:48 | 24 yrs | Bond: $500 | ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION
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08/01/2009 03:08:37 | 40 yrs | DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
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08/01/2009 02:18:21 | 44 yrs | Bond: $500 | ALCOHOL/PUBLIC INTOXICATION

Fearing the Moonwalk Revolution: East German Stasi Spied on Michael Jackson - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

East German Stasi Spied on Michael Jackson

The East German secret police were right to be scared of rock'n'roll and all the Western decadence it implied. Concerts given by Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen in Berlin in 1988 could well have inspired a revolution. The Stasi were so concerned they spied on Jackson during his visit.

Recently deceased pop star, Michael Jackson, may have had more to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall than anyone ever knew. And so might the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and other musicians from the capitalist West.

Files kept by the former East German secret police, the Stasi, indicate that they were worried about the concert that Jackson, who died last month, gave in Berlin in June of 1988. This was just over a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall -- but the East German youth were already restive.

In a note from the Stasi, found in files revealed by German mass circulation newspaper Bild this week, the secret police were worried that the "youths will do anything they can to experience this concert, in the area around the Brandenburg Gate." And, they noted, "certain youths are planning to (use the occasion) to provoke a confrontation with police."

"They were concerned dissident youths would call for the Wall to fall," Steffen Mayer, a spokesman for the government agency that looks after the Stasi archives, told Reuters. "This was seen as a potential security threat given the amount of foreign media that would be present."

In fact, the Stasi had good reason to worry. Concerts in West Berlin like Jackson's had already been a problem the previous summer. German music promoter, Peter Schwenkow, currently head of German Entertainment AG (DEAG) a firm which now brings in acts like Coldplay and Alice Cooper, had been responsible for putting on various concerts near the Berlin Wall. This included a three day, open air concert series featuring acts like David Bowie, Genesis and the Eurythmics in the summer of 1987. Schwenkow later told Die Welt newspaper that putting on the concerts in West Berlin, right next to the Wall, had been deliberate.

Pink Floyd Turned Their Speakers Toward The East

East German youths had been informed of the gig by West German radio stations but when they tried to get near the Berlin Wall so they too could listen to the show, they were turned back by police cordons. There were scuffles and around 200 people were arrested.

When more shows -- Pink Floyd was one, Michael Jackson another -- were planned for the same spot in the summer of 1988, Schwenkow says that the East Berlin government complained to the West Berlin administration. They said that the concerts were too close to a nearby hospital and that the noise and vibration could cause the deaths of seriously ill patients there.

"But I had already sold 30,000 tickets to Pink Floyd -- the concert couldn't be cancelled," Schwenkow said. "Even though we had to make sure that we played very quietly and directed our sound toward the west, it was Pink Floyd's decision, during sound check, to turn the speakers toward the east and blast East Berlin with (Pink Floyd hit) 'The Wall.'"

Pink Floyd played on June 16 and Michael Jackson was to play a few days later on June 19. So perhaps it is hardly surprising that by May of that year, the East German secret police had opened up a file on Jackson. Notes in his file indicate he had been watched as he toured Berlin. The Stasi observed Jackson's visit to the Allied Checkpoint Charlie, an important border crossing in the middle of the city. Stasi spies noted that three cars pulled up to the checkpoint building, with "many unknown male and female people. Among the people was the USA rock singer Michael Jackson. Accompanying him at all times was a female person, about 25 years old, 165 centimeters tall, with a slim build."

A photograph from Michael Jackson's Stasi file.
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A photograph from Michael Jackson's Stasi file.

The documents also outlined how the Stasi were considering a diversionary concert in a stadium to draw rebellious music fans away from the border. There was already one diversion: Olympic ice skating champion Katarina Witt was hosting a "Rock Show" further away, in East Berlin, starring Canadian musician Bryan Adams. In Jackson's case, it was suggested that an additional alternative be organized, during which Jackson's show could be broadcast onto a cinema screen. And there would be a two minute delay, in case of "political provocation." Should Jackson's concert feature anything politically inappropriate then they would simply play a video of an earlier Jackson show.

Secret Police 'Hurled The Young People To The Ground.'

As it was, the distraction never happened. Instead, as feared, there were violent clashes between East German music fans and police, many of whom were in civilian clothes, mixing into a crowd of thousands. As eyewitness, Alan Nothnagle, a translator living in Berlin, writes on his Salon.com blog: "We noticed 'inconspicuous' men in civilian clothes, slouching on street corners in groups of three, eyeing the passers-by. The reason was no secret: somehow everyone knew that Michael Jackson was giving a concert in front of the Reichstag that evening, just a few hundred meters from where we were standing … Hundreds, soon thousands of young people congregated to hear the music. The Stasi agents also multiplied... We never heard a note of music that night, but soon voices arose in the crowd calling 'The Wall must go!' and 'Gorbachev! Gorbachev!' Now the plainclothes Stasi men came alive. They hurled the young people to the ground, shouting 'What did you say? What did you say?' and hauled them off by the collar into side streets where police vans were waiting to bundle them off to Stasi headquarters."

Television camera crews from the West German channels, ARD and ZDF, filmed the altercation and also came under attack from the secret police. The West German administration later made official complaints about the mishandling of members of the western press.

Strangely enough, exactly a month later, American singer, Bruce Springsteen played at an East Berlin velodrome, to around 160,000 East German fans, many of whom had entered the grounds without tickets. At that concert, which was organised by the Communist youth group, there was provocation aplenty. East Germans sang along to "Born in the USA and Springsteen pulled a 17 year old East German Fraulein onto the stage to dance with him. "I want to tell you I'm not here for or against any government," Springsteen called out to the crowd as he introduced his version of the Bob Dylan song, "Chimes of Freedom". "I came to play rock'n'roll for you East Berliners in the hope that one day all the barriers will be torn down." The official broadcast of the concert was censored.

Fearing the Moonwalk Revolution: East German Stasi Spied on Michael Jackson - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

August 1, 2009

Michael Jackson and Katerina Witt as Celebrity Spies?

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News this weekend from Germany reveals another aspect of Michael Jackson’s mystique. According to a report from Das Spiegel, Jackson and other western performers were spied on by East German secret police Stasi. According to the news Jackson’s 1988 concert in Berlin was cause for more than a stir from fans there, as the then communist regime was apparently dealing with an already restive East German youth movement. Files from the former East German secret police also suggest that Ice Skating double Gold Medalist Katerina Witt and other stars may have been used in “diverting” attention from Jackson’s and other concerts during this time.

Katarina hosted a concert featuring Brian Adams during this time, which actually did draw some attention away from what were feared to be “influential” performances from the west. Ironically, Katarina gave an exhibition in late 88 in the midst of her Calgary Gold Medal quest featuring none other than Michael’s song Bad. Was this performance the Stasi thumbing its nose at the west and Jackson, declaring who was really bad? The Stasi evidently put forth considerable effort to watch Michael before his concert on 19 June, 1988. The documents obtained also revealed the Stasi’s fear of unrest from young people who apparently intended to listen to the concert from over the Berlin Wall or from in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Michael’s West Berlin performances of Bad below, reveal a little of the power these celebrities exuded.

katarina spyAt the time of this “Bad espionage” crisis, the LA Times and other newspapers billed the Jackson – Witt performances as something of a match of ideals, calling Michael’s and Katerina’s relative concerts an “East-West battle of the bands”, which according to the numbers of people at each, Katarina and Brian Adams likely won, given there were nearly 3 times as many fans attending Witt’s extravaganza.

Interestingly, in the Winter Olympics of 88 East German athletes won more Gold Medals than the Americans. Talk about a war of the wills! Perhaps the CIA (if they were using stars for democracy) fought a losing battle in this “fact or fiction” cold war.

Below, Katarina’s version of “Bad” before a packed house at the 88 Calgary Olympics

In all seriousness, it is fairly evident that governments play all the cards in the deck when playing “hard ball” for power. However, though Katarina could play Mata Hari pretty well for the East, Michael never did really come off as the James Bond type for me. The real impact Michael had however, cannot be underestimated. This is just another peripheral example of the appeal and power of such personalities.

Michael in Berlin 1988

Michael in Berlin 1988

Michael Jackson and Katerina Witt as Celebrity Spies?

Ivorian villagers claim the body of Michael Jackson, their son and prince

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Des villageois ivoiriens réclament le corps de Michael Jackson, leur fils et prince Ivorian villagers claim the body of Michael Jackson, their son and prince

In 1992, Michael Jackson was crowned Amalaman Anoh, named after a former prince of the kingdom En 1992, Michael JAckson est couronné Amalaman Anoh, du nom d'un ancien prince du royaume © AFP In 1992, Michael Jackson was crowned Amalaman Anoh, named after a former prince of the kingdom © AFP


La star de la pop, décédée le 25 juin dernier, avait visité Krindjabo, village ivoirien, en 1992. The pop star, who died June 25 last, had visited Krindjabo, ivoirien village in 1992. il y avait été fait prince et avait souhaité y retrouver ses "racines africaines". there had been prince and had wanted to regain its "African roots". Le village estime qu'il devrait y être enterré, parmi les siens. The village believes that there should be buried among his own.

"Il était notre fils, nous réclamons son corps": les notables de Krindjabo, capitale du royaume du Sanwi (sud-est ivoirien), demandent que Michael Jackson soit enterré dans ce village qu'il avait visité en 1992 et où il avait été intronisé "prince". "It was our son, we call her body" means significant Krindjabo, the capital of the Kingdom of Sanwi (south-eastern Ivory Coast), requested that Michael Jackson is buried in the village he had visited in 1992 and where he was inducted "prince".

"Nous réclamons que son corps arrive pour qu'il soit enterré dignement à Krindjabo", explique Ahissan Nogbou, porte-parole du roi des Sanwi, un royaume des Akan, grand groupe ethnique qui s'étend de la Côte d'Ivoire au Togo. "We demand that his body happens to be buried with dignity Krindjabo," says Ahissan Nogbou, spokesman for the King of Sanwi, a kingdom of the Akan ethnic group which extends from the Ivory Coast in Togo .

Alors qu'aux Etats-Unis l'incertitude règne sur la destination de la dépouille de la star décédée le 25 juin à Los Angeles - l'hypothèse Krindjabo apparaissant toutefois des plus improbables - le notable ivoirien ne veut pas croire que le corps puisse être transféré ailleurs qu'au village. While in the United States there is uncertainty about the destination of the remains of the star who died June 25 in Los Angeles - the assumption Krindjabo appears most unlikely, however - in the Ivory Coast does not believe that the body can be transferred outside of the village.

"Ce serait une honte, car dans la tradition akan un prince est toujours enterré chez lui", fait-il valoir, drapé d'un pagne noir, couleur du deuil, sous le regard du roi Amon N'douffou V qui, selon la coutume, ne parle jamais en public. "It would be a shame, because in the Akan tradition is still a prince buried with him", he argues, draped in a black cloth, the color of mourning, under the gaze of King Amon N'douffou V, according to the custom, never speaks in public.

Le prince couronné The crown prince

Le 13 février 1992, le chanteur de "Thriller", en tournée sur le continent africain, était venu dans ce gros village au coeur de la forêt pour retrouver ses racines africaines. On 13 February 1992, the singer of "Thriller", on tour on the African continent, came in this big village in the heart of the forest to find his African roots.

Tano Koutoua, un planteur octogénaire, faisait partie des notables qui avaient participé à l'événement, sous l'égide du roi précédent, Amon N'Douffou IV. Koutou Tano, an octogenarian farmer, was among the notables who attended the event, under the previous king, Amon N'Douffou IV.

"Son séjour dura 30 minutes. Il avait été couronné Amalaman Anoh, du nom d'un ancien prince du royaume, sous l'arbre à palabres" qui se dresse majestueusement au milieu du village, se souvient M. Koutoua, une photo de la cérémonie à la main. "His stay lasted 30 minutes. He was crowned Amalaman Anoh, named after a former prince of the kingdom, under the palaver tree" that stands majestically in the middle of the village, remembers Mr. Koutou, a photo of the ceremony at hand.

Michael Jackson "avait expliqué à l'assistance que ses origines proviendraient de ce royaume Sanwi, avant de dire merci en langue agni (ethnie locale, ndlr)", raconte-t-il, disant pleurer "un enfant du village". Michael Jackson "was explained to the audience that its origins come from this kingdom Sanwi before to say thank you language agni (local ethnicity, ed)," he says, crying saying "a child of the village".

Collégien à l'époque, Fulbert N'Douba, 30 ans, se rappelle que la superstar avait promis "la construction d'un foyer de jeunes qui devait être une pépinière des vedettes de la chanson". College at the time, Fulbert N'Douba, 30, remembers that the superstar had promised "to build a home for young people who should be an incubator of famous singers.

Las, "le projet n'a pu être réalisé en raison de la politique destructrice des fils du terroir", se lamente Fulbert N'Douba, désignant les quatre hectares de terrain réservés, désormais envahis par les herbes. Las, "the project could not be achieved because of the destructive policy of the son of the soil," laments Fulbert N'Douba designating the four hectares of land reserved, now overgrown with weeds.

Selon lui, l'artiste avait été déçu par la suite de recevoir dans son ranch californien de Neverland, pour évoquer le projet, "une délégation de notables autre que celle qui l'avait accueillie en Côte d'Ivoire". According to him, the artist was disappointed by the result of receiving in his Neverland ranch in California to discuss the project, "a delegation of notable other than that which had greeted in Côte d'Ivoire."

Mort du "fils adoptif" Death of "adopted son"

Pour l'heure, les habitants du village ont décidé cependant de mettre en sourdine leurs querelles pour rendre un hommage princier au "roi de la pop". For now, the villagers have decided however to mute their quarrels to pay a tribute to Prince's "king of pop".

La Mutuelle des originaires du canton de Krindjabo (Amok), association des cadres de la localité, a annoncé mardi la mort du "fils adoptif" dans la rubrique nécrologique du journal pro-gouvernemental, Fraternité-Matin. La Mutuelle des originaires Township Krindjabo (Amok), an association of managers of the resort, announced Tuesday the death of "adopted son" in the obituary section of the pro-government newspaper, Fraternité Matin.

Un comité travaille sur le programme de la cérémonie, qui comprendrait une exposition de photographies et d'oeuvres discographiques dans la grande cour royale. A committee working on the program of the ceremony, which includes an exhibition of photographs and recordings in the great royal court.

L'un des temps forts devrait être une parade de sosies de Michael Jackson sur la place principale du village. A highlight will be a parade of look-alikes of Michael Jackson on the main square of the village. Et une causerie-débat sur "l'influence de l'artiste sur la musique du XXe siècle" réunira journalistes et musicologues. And a talk and discussion on the influence of the artist on the music of the twentieth century "will bring together journalists and musicologists.

Mais malgré l'hommage prévu, les villageois expriment d'une même voix un regret. But despite the planned tribute, villagers express with one voice a regret. "Michael Jackson est mort sans laisser aucun souvenir dans son village", déplore une vieille dame, Thérèse Somian Affala. "Michael Jackson has died without leaving any memory in his village," says an old lady, Teresa Somian slumped.