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Los Angeles police arrived at a building after a tenant complained of a gasoline smell. When they entered the offending apartment, they found its occupant climbing out a window and scuttling down a fire escape in a fashion they would later liken to fictional superspy Jason Bourne. The contents of the trashed apartment were a shock. Its resident, 3. 4- year- old Brian Alexik, had drugs, forged passports, ammunition, an AK- 4. Photos found there depicted Alexik with different looks and hairstyles, as if attempting disguise. Most concerning of all was that the apartment had a direct view of the US Federal Reserve Building, leading investigators to wonder if he’d chosen the spot for that specific reason. Alexik was apprehended six weeks later at his girlfriend’s Los Angeles apartment.

He represented himself in court and successfully arranged a plea deal, avoiding any punishment. Escaping Prison In Drag. Most illegal drugs are rather cheaply produced. Cocaine is no exception. Purchased near its sources in South America, it is relatively inexpensive.

The cost comes from the risk involved in transporting the substance over borders. Those willing to assume that risk can become millionaires—or spend the rest of their lives in prison. In December 1. 97. Dwight Worker decided to smuggle cocaine from Peru into the United States. He had an ingenious plan—he would stuff the drugs inside a huge cast that covered his entire left arm and part of his body. However, police busted him in the airport in Mexico City, sending him to el Palacio Negro de Lecumberri (“The Black Palace of Lecumberri”), a notoriously dangerous and overcrowded prison. Over the next two years, he was beaten and stabbed and spent 4.

But he also met Barbara White, who came to Lecumberri to visit another prisoner. The two fell in love and hatched a plot to get him out. White smuggled in what amounted to a transvestite starter kit, and Worker dressed up as a woman.

Armed with fake documents, he walked out of Lecumberri in the guise of a visitor. He reported being a bit unsteady on his high heels, but he managed to fool his captors. As in many other countries, escaping from prison is not illegal in Mexico, provided no one is hurt and no property is damaged, a policy called ley de fuga (“law of flight”). However, the flip side of this rule is that guards are allowed to shoot fleeing inmates if they are caught.

Dwight was in good company. The only other man that had ever escaped from Lecumberri was Mexican general Pancho Villa. Worker later penned a memoir of his story titled Escape, and National Geographic’s Locked Up Abroad covered the amazing story. James Earl Ray. James Earl Ray shouldn’t have been able to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1. 96. 8. He should have been behind bars at the Missouri State Penitentiary. By his early twenties, James had become a career criminal with a string of armed robberies and burglaries to his name.

In the late 1. 95. Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for mail fraud. In 1. 95. 9, he robbed a Kroger grocery store in St. Louis, Missouri, netting the princely sum of $1. During the trial, he tried unsuccessfully to escape the St.

Louis courthouse. He was convicted and sentenced to 2. Apparently, prison life didn’t suit Ray, because he attempted escape twice more, in 1. On April 2. 3, 1.

Taking advantage of his position working in the prison bakery, he had some fellow inmates pack him in one of the boxes that was used for shipping bread. The box was picked up by a delivery truck, and Ray rode off to freedom. His story of escapes doesn’t end there. After being sentenced to 9. King, James Earl Ray was sent to Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee, an institution that (at the time) boasted that no man had ever escaped. On June 1. 0, 1. 97.

Then Ray and six other men escaped over the fence on a homemade ladder. This time, his freedom didn’t last long. He was found just over two days later, less than 8 kilometers (5 mi) from the prison and hiding in a pile of leaves. This was James Earl Ray’s last escape attempt. He died of hepatitis C in 1.

Saved By Gospelhttps: //www. Bh. LYdugkx. UStories of children kidnapped by strangers rarely have happy endings. Outsmarted and overpowered, the children are often heinously victimized. On March 3. 1, 2. Willie Myrick was playing in the front yard of his home in Atlanta, Georgia when he saw some money lying on the ground. Watch The Monster Club Online The Monster Club Full Movie Online. When he walked over to pick it up, a man abducted him and threw him into a car. The kidnapper, whom Willie had never seen before, urged him to be quiet.

Instead, the boy sang the gospel song “Every Praise” by Hezekiah Walker for nearly three hours as the kidnapper drove through the city. Just what the man had in mind for Willie will thankfully remain unknown, as the singing infuriated him into a cursing fit. He threw Willie out of his car, warning him to tell no one what had happened. Willie’s story gets even better. Upon learning of the incident, Hezekiah Walker flew down from New York to meet the boy, sharing a tearful embrace and leading Willie and the entire congregation of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in a rendition of “Every Praise.” Walker later said, “I really believe that God spoke through me to save that young man’s life.” 6. The Airstan Incident.

Afghanistan has been wracked by war for nearly 4. After the USSR withdrew in 1. Islamic fundamentalist group we have come to know as the Taliban, who began seizing land. On August 3, 1. 99. Russian aircraft loaded with supplies for President Burhanuddin Rabbani was intercepted by Taliban fighter jets and forced to land at Kandahar International Airport. The Airstan Ilyushin II- 7. TD plane carried seven Russian nationals, who were promptly captured.

The Taliban offered the Russian government a prisoner trade, but the Russians claimed they had no Afghans in custody. American Senator Harry Brown tried to intercede, getting the Taliban to agree to one concession—that while they were in Afghanistan, the crewmembers would be able to keep taking care of their plane. The Russians, held hostage for just over a year, were allowed to work on the Ilyushin under the supervision of Taliban soldiers. The standard guard was six men, but on August 1.

The Russians made their move, attacking the remaining guards and firing up the plane. The Taliban tried to block the runway with a fire engine, but the plane took off, quickly escaping controlled airspace and making its way to the United Arab Emirates.

The incident was later dramatized in the 2. Kandahar. 5. A Tank Through The Berlin Wall. It is impossible to say exactly how many attempts were made to cross the Berlin Wall. There were many ingenious gambles, such as tunneling beneath it and even building a hot air balloon. Unfortunately, trying to scale the wall was an offense that could get you shot on sight. Well over 1. 00 people died trying. In April 1. 96. 3, East German soldier Wolfgang Engels decided the best route into West Germany was to go not over the Berlin Wall but through it.

Engels stole an armored personnel carrier (APC) and rammed the wall. He failed to smash it down, so he jumped out of the APC and tried to climb the wall. The East Germans opened fire on him, shooting him twice while he was tangled in barbed wire.

Unlike many such stories, Wolfgang’s has a happy ending. West Germans were able to pull him to safety, and he later recovered from his wounds. Alexander Pearce, Cannibal. Detractors of the penal system often point out that shoving prisoners together often makes nearly innocent people into hardened criminals. This likely happened in the case of Alexander Pearce. Born in Ireland in 1.