Phoenix, AZ--Daniel Gray is what you might call a real Marijuana Aficionado .  Between 2003 and the present he’s been arrested and convicted four times for felony marijuana related charges.  He took a bigger fall more recently when he went down for Aggravated DUI in 2010 and served time at the Arizona State Prison. Along the way Gray garnered several misdemeanor convictions for Driving While License Suspended, Reckless Driving and False Reporting. After his release from prison in 2012 Gray hooked up with  Rebecca Hillary and made a baby three months ago who was named Jamison Gray .   Police say that yesterday apparently Daniel Gray used Hillary’s 2003 Oldsmobile to take a ride with the infant over to BT Sports Pub  on North Scottsdale Road in order to smoke some weed with a new employee.   It was a typically hot summer day and the baby was left in his car seat for over an hour with no air conditioning while dad sat on the ca...

California Film Permit Czar Los Angeles, CA —The great film director Werner Herzog advises young filmmakers to forge film permits!  The permits require hefty fees, expensive liability and workman’s comp insurance that aspiring filmmakers simply cannot afford.   The result is lost art and missed opportunities as government tyranny once again raises its ugly head.  The minimum permit fee weighs in at $1,000.00 and when you add in additional requirements making films in Southern California is extraordinarily difficult for all but well-financed studios.  Of course the studios are smart enough to film anywhere far away from the L.A. Film Permit Nazis .  Film permits are required even if you’re shooting inside your own home!  The cops will be sent out to shut down no budget productions and to cite these dangerous criminals.   This is just another sad example of government excess.  I think every filmmaker understands that if ...

Los Angeles, CA —In addition to the felons and mental patients we know about there are some 11,000,000 people that are forbidden to possess guns in America.  Illegal aliens are currently in the class of prohibited possessors.  Most of them are from Mexico or Central America.   Things being the way they are we cannot determine these alien's criminal histories in their home nations.  Try getting criminal and mental health records from any of our Southern neighboring nations.  Background checks in that regard simply cannot be accomplished.   If our government grants Green Card status or citizenship to the illegal aliens they will automatically be able to purchase, possess and carry firearms.   We will have no way of knowing if they have criminal records for wife beating, robbery, rape burglary, drug trafficking in their own countries.  How about the dangerous mentally ill among them?  It only makes sense that once criminals are dis...

Los Angeles, CA -- Al Jazeera America has set up shop on our Cable TV programing.  They threw some serious money around to land some very respected TV journalists for their news offering.  Many people are fearful that Al Jazeera America will be slinging propaganda and disinformation to their viewers.  TV news is a powerful tool that brainwashes human minds rather well. Need I remind anyone that NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN have been Barack Obama’s personal public relations team?  They never dare ask Obama tough questions and they always speak so glowingly of his Leftist agenda.  They hardly bothered to notice that Obama’s criminal machine unlawfully wiretapped them.  I have long suspected that Obama’s spying apparatus has gathered lots of embarrassing material on top journalists and their families and totally owns most of them today.  Al Jazeera America is the new kid in town.  I suspect that they want to gain an audience and ma...

Los Angeles, CA —For those that don’t know this I am a member of SAG-AFTRA .   That’s the union that represents actors and other talent for motion pictures, broadcast and web related entertainment.   My union has worked to fight extortion when it involves sex in order to work but they’ve failed miserably to prevent actors from being forced to pay cash.   Young actors are usually broke and desperate as they try and compete for various roles. Only a small percentage of actors have agents and those without agents have to get roles before agents will notice them.   In order to get seen and considered actors must audition with casting directors for he less important parts.  If you don’t get the small parts you can never compete for the larger roles. The problem is the casting directors have set up a criminal enterprise and gotten away with it.  Actors are met with solicitations the moment they enter casting offices for acting c...

Chicago, IL —Once upon a time the local cops were there for you and your family.  If you heard something go bump in the night they came and you were glad to see them.  Those days are over.  You need learn how to lock your doors and to use self-help.  The politicians have changed our cop’s jobs and duties and not for the better.  Today a visit with the police is nothing more than about government by extortion.  Sometimes it is as bad is it can get. Today we have photo traffic enforcement cameras designed strictly to generate revenue.  The ultimate collection agency is always the local cops that arrest you and tow your vehicles.  Of course the cops are always armed and ready for combat.  This is not about traffic safety but local government funding all the crap we don’t want or need.  The happy contractors involved always fund those expensive political campaigns.  An insult to injury on the government traffic extortion ...

Carol Stream, IL —In the Western suburb of The Windy City stands a business called Eagle Grips .  I have had a personal association with this firm since it began in 1971.  Back then I was a young cop just out of the Army.  I always liked guns so when I could get off on weekends I’d hit local gun shows.  Back then there were fewer gun bans and the gun shows were larger however the selection of available guns and accessories were limited by today’s standards.   Aftermarket gun grips were the made by a few companies and the pickings were slim.  That changed for me when I saw a Sikh Indian man at a table exhibiting grips at the then popular Waukegan Gun Show . At the time gun grip materials were usually either made from walnut wood or rubber.  The choices were limited.  There are problems with rubber grabbing your clothes and printing out through your clothing with telltale signs that you’re packing heat.   Walnut wood is to...

New York, NY —This is all about balancing freedom and liberty with the needs of public safety and using propaganda to frighten Americans.  Today millions of Americans really believe that the rights to keep and carry firearms and to be free from unreasonable searches will kill us all.  Let me challenge anyone to show us where, Congress or the President has the power to exchange our freedoms within the Bill of Rights for public safety.    Every despot,  fascist and  despotic ruler that ever existed promised the population safety through freedom restrictions.  Those that advocate trading hard won freedoms for the illusion of safety are woefully ignorant of history.  Our prisons are a perfect example that demonstrates that the trade does not work.  Prisoners have zero freedom and are constantly searched and observed yet inmates have drugs, weapons and routinely beat, rape and murder each other. If taking freedom in prison does no...

To my visitors:   From time to time I get requests to post the writings of others.  Unfortunately some of these people are really promoting their personal businesses rather than providing information suitable for Crime, Guns and Videotape .  I want more news in Crimefile News but I can’t be everywhere to do it myself. This is where some of my skilled visitors come in. I want your stories.  They must be up to journalistic standards.  I don’t want rewrites of published news stories.  They should contain video or at least pictures taken by the contributors. That means getting interviews of your newsmakers, vetting the information properly and avoiding libel.  Diligent use of public records is a must.  There are few limits on subject matter if the material is compelling and interesting.  Submitting stories about government policies, crimes, courts, corruption or your latest gun are acceptable.  Perhaps the actions a local he...

Washington, DC —I have access to intelligence material that’s been passed around to local and state cops as part of the recent terrorism warnings.  Frankly it’s all baloney designed to scare the public into thinking Barack Obama's suspension of our privacy, liberty and freedom is somehow necessary. They have cited several prison breaks have occurred over the last five months in the Middle East and Indonesia.   A few of the 1,500 prisoners that escaped are supposed big boys in the terrorism business.  That’s really, business as usual since none of them ever did anything on our soil. It is now the Muslim Holy month o f Ramadan .   Ramadan began on July 9 and ends on August 8, 2013.  Islamic extremist groups have allegedly have “chatted” their desire to conduct attacks during the last days of Ramadan.  They make that same chatter each and every year at this time.  There is absolutely nothing different except the shril...