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Newsweek
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Chihuahua on Walk Has No Idea Owner Is Nearby—Then She Smells Her
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Hearts have melted as a chihuahua proved her bond with her owner by catching her scent on a busy street. Data analyst Jessica Barrera, 31, lives in Miami and is the proud owner of chihuahua Chloe, who has her own dedicated TikTok account, @chloethechi4. "I love showing Chloe to people, specifying that she's a chihuahua because they have this bad reputation, that they're mean little dogs," Barrera told Newsweek. "She is the complete opposite, a huge people person, loves being outside. She is a social butterfly!" Chihuahuas are popular as family pets thanks to their loving and loyal nature towards their owners, and their small size allowing them to be brought on errands with their owners. They may have a tendency towards barking at other people and dogs, according to a vet-reviewed report from PetMD. Barrera has had Chloe since she was a puppy, and the pair have a strong bond—as proven by a viral video posted on May 3, where Barrera tested her dog to see if she'd recognize her on a busy street, while she sat "silently" on a bench. "My boyfriend brought her down to go on a walk and meet me downstairs," she explained. "I live downtown, so there are a lot of people walking around outside my apartment building." A video captured the moment Barrera recorded Chloe on the street, and at first it appeared the dog was too caught up in the sights and scents of the busy street to notice her. But then Chloe seems to notice something: she stops dead in her tracks and begins sniffing the air. Chloe the Chihuahua sniffs the air, catching her owner's scent but not sure where she is. Chloe the Chihuahua sniffs the air, catching her owner's scent but not sure where she is. TikTok @chloethechi4 Chloe then walks right past Barrera, but stops again and looks at a person on the bench opposite her, and then stops to sniff the air again—as though she has caught her owner's scent somewhere in the air, but can't be sure where it's coming from. And then the moment: Chloe approaches Barrera on the bench, gives her another sniff for good measure, and begins jumping, twisting and wagging her tail furiously, delighted to have met her owner unexpectedly. "You can see the second she smells me," Barrera wrote on the video, which has been liked over 1 million times and viewed a whopping 5 million times. Barrera told Newsweek: "For a second, when she passed me I was sad that she didn't recognize me. But then, she stopped and began sniffing the air, I knew she had found me. "It was so impressive how she smelled me even though I've been gone all day at work. I was amazed!" The moment Chloe was able to pinpoint her owner's scent, and their sweet reunion. The moment Chloe was able to pinpoint her owner's scent, and their sweet reunion. TikTok @chloethechi4 TikTok users loved the video, one commenter pointed out "her squinting so she can smell better," and another writing: "Chihuahuas are the most loyal dogs around." "She seemed so sad when she smelled you but couldn't find you," another wrote alongside a tearful emoji, as another described it as Chloe "smelled baby just couldn't figure out exactly where you were." Barrera told Newsweek she and Chloe are "attached to the hip," and she takes her "everywhere they'll allow dogs." "She means the world to me, she's my baby, and it's always heartwarming to see others appreciate our bond." Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@ with some details about your best friend and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.
Miami Herald
28-05-2025
- Miami Herald
Amazon driver kept $45K in goods, dumped empty boxes in Kendall, Sheriff's Office says
If you were tracking your Amazon package and saw it circling a Kendall-area Lowe's parking lot before the signal dropped, it may have been traveling with a driver accused of stealing about $45,000 in Amazon goods. At 11 p.m. on May 2, Adrian Barrera, 32, an Amazon contractor, was arrested 'while illegally dumping cardboard boxes' at the Lowe's parking lot, 9191 SW 137 Ave., the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said. Detective M. Fernandez, part of the sheriff's office Illegal Dumping Unit, rolled up to the Amazon truck and found its back-bay door wide open. '[Barrera] offloaded empty cardboard boxes from a 26-foot truck and dumped them on the ground,' Fernandez said in Barrera's arrest report. 'The boxes were marked with Amazon labels and individually addressed to different customers.' Barerra told police he picked up 13 pallets of Amazon boxes on May 1, valued at approximately $45,000, from the MIA Amazon distribution center at 1900 NW 132 Place. He was to distribute the load to seven 'different Amazon locations through Miami-Dade and Monroe County,' his police report said. But instead of delivering the goods to the centers, Barrera went to the Lowe's parking lot, threw out the empty boxes and kept the merchandise, police said. Barerra said 'he was in the process of moving and needed the space in the truck for his furniture,' MDSO said. Barrera reportedly told police that he wasn't stealing 'because Amazon didn't track the inventory.' Yes, Amazon. The company that sends you 10 updates when your $5 phone charger blinks at a conveyor belt in Ohio. Zapata then searched the vehicle and found a green metal container in the front door side pocket holding a gram of crystal meth, the report said. Barrera was charged with grand theft cargo under $50K, possession of a controlled substance and violating Florida's Litter Law. Barrera was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and posted a $7,500 bond on May 7, according to the county courts database. He has pleaded not guilty, has a public defender, and will be arraigned on June 2 before Judge Tanya Brinkley.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Estacada man allegedly brought 270 pounds of meth from California to Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. () — An Estacada man was arrested on Saturday and accused of trafficking 270 pounds of meth. Anthony Berrera, 29, faces charges that include possessing methamphetamine and cocaine with the intent to distribute after allegedly bringing the drugs from Southern California into Oregon, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Roosevelt HS student dies, 2 more hurt in SR-14 crash Barrera rented a vehicle, traveled to California to pick up large quantities of drugs with the intention of selling and distributing them in Oregon, then headed back to his home state, investigators said. 'On May 24, 2025, officers located Barrera driving the rental vehicle northbound on Interstate 5 and followed him to a rest area near Roseburg, Oregon, where Barrera was arrested without incident,' the U.S. DOJ said in a press release. 'Agents executed a federal search warrant on the rental vehicle and seized 270 pounds of methamphetamine and two pounds of cocaine, which were concealed in the backseat and cargo area of the vehicle. Later the same day, investigators executed a federal search warrant on Barrera's residence where they seized two firearms hidden under the floor of a closet.' Stolen baby goats returned to Vancouver feed store Barrera appeared in a federal court in Portland on Tuesday. A U.S. Magistrate Judge ordered that he be detained pending further court proceedings. The Multnomah County Dangerous Drug Team and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are investigating the case as part of a multi-agency effort for large drug trafficking investigations in Oregon and Idaho. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Long-time SDUSD school board member launches bid for state schools head
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Richard Barrera, a long-standing member of the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education, has launched a bid to succeed Tony Thurmond as California's elected state superintendent. The role, which Thurmond will be termed out of next year, is charged with overseeing the state's K-12 public schools, shaping the conversation around education even as most policy changes are set forth by the governor and state legislature. Barrera is well-known in the SDUSD community, having served on the school board for nearly two decades. A progressive, he has a reputation of being a strong supporter for labor and has made it a point to emphasize listening to and supporting teachers. Bonta sends letter to Trump over Endangered Species Act 'I'm really very proud of the work that we've done in San Diego Unified over many years now,' Barrera said in a conversation with KUSI's Good Morning San Diego on Monday, pointing to San Diego's high rankings in the U.S. for reading and math, students' college readiness, and the district's ramped up efforts to modernize neglected facilities. 'I think we've come together as a community and created some really positive strategies that have had great outcomes for students,' he continued. 'I would like to bring that experience to local communities up and down California.' Barrera joins an already crowded field of more than a dozen candidates for the role, including former educators, and several current and former state legislators. As someone who has not worked in the classroom, Barrera is somewhat on the back foot compared to the educational bona fides and legislative stature of a number of the other candidates. However, having spent 17 years as a district-level decisionmaker, Barrera believes he would bring a new, localized perspective to the role in Sacramento. Thousands in San Diego protest cuts to federal education funds 'Most of the big decisions that affect students are made by local school boards and local districts. The work that's done in the legislature and by the governor, it's not that it's not important, but it's less important than the work that's done at the local level,' Barrera said. 'I believe I come with a lot of understanding about what local decisionmakers grapple with and what I want to do is help local decisionmakers build coalitions in their own communities in the way that we've built them in San Diego,' he continued. 'I think that's going to lead to better outcomes for kids throughout the state.' Watch Barrera's interview with KUSI on his state superintendent bid in the video player above. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Smashed windows, street abductions: ICE gets attention with Mass. arrests
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ratcheted up operations in the nearly four months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House — and Massachusetts has certainly not been left out. 'I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me," Tom Homan, the U.S. 'border czar,' promised during the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. While the Trump administration has maintained that its enforcement efforts are confined to targeting 'illegal immigrant killers, rapists and drug dealers‚' several of the arrests have been for much more minor crimes — right down to an argument over a cell phone. Public criticism has reached a fever pitch over some of these arrests, and the tactics ICE employs in undertaking them — which have included approaching a target while wearing masks, an interruption of court proceedings and smashing a car window with an ax while people were inside. Court battles following the arrests have been high stakes, as the administration has at times deported individuals before the conclusion of their guaranteed Constitutional right to due process. These are some of the most high-profile ICE arrests that have happened in Massachusetts since Inauguration Day 2025. Zeneyda Barrera, 18, originally from Nicaragua, was arrested by ICE agents on Jan. 27 after she got into an argument with her brother over a cellphone in Lynn. It was around 4:30 a.m. that Monday morning when a neighbor called the police to complain of loud noise coming from Barrera's home. Barrera, her mother and her 12-year-old brother told Lynn police that Barrera pushed her brother down while they were arguing over a phone. The 12-year-old was not injured, but Barrera was taken into custody on a misdemeanor assault and battery charge. However, before her arraignment at Lynn District Court that morning, ICE agents whisked Barrera away to a detention center in Maine. She remained there for five days until she was released from ICE custody and returned to her family in Lynn, after the Essex County District Attorney's office dropped the misdemeanor charge against her. 'If ICE's intent is to target violent offenders who put our community at risk, people like Zeneyda should not be detained,' Lynn Mayor Jared Nicholson said at the time. Rümeysa Öztürk, a 30-year-old Turkish woman enrolled in a Tufts University doctoral program, was taken from the streets of Somerville by ICE agents on March 25. Federal officials later said the arrest was linked with a pro-Palestinian op-ed she co-wrote for the Tufts University student newspaper. Öztürk had been on her way to break a Ramadan fast when she was handcuffed and driven off by six ICE agents, some of whom wore masks. Video from the scene showed Öztürk yelling as bystanders asked the agents what was happening. Öztürk was driven overnight to New Hampshire, then to Vermont, before she was ultimately brought to a detention facility in Louisiana. Öztürk was never charged with any crimes. The Department of Homeland Security said that she engaged in activities 'in support of Hamas,' a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, without providing evidence of that claim. After she spent 45 days in custody, during which she experienced long and repeated asthma attacks, a federal judge in Vermont ordered Öztürk's release from Louisiana on May 9. This followed a tumultuous legal battle between courts in Louisiana, Vermont and Massachusetts vying for control over Öztürk's detainment. When she returned to Boston, Öztürk thanked her community at a press conference in the Boston Logan Airport. 'I lost both my freedom and also my education during a crucial time for my doctoral studies,' she said during a press conference at Logan International Airport in Boston. 'But I am so grateful for all the support, kindness and care.' On March 27, Martell Lebron-Wilson had stepped outside of the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse in Boston when he was detained by ICE agents in what bystanders thought was a kidnapping. Lebron-Wilson, a 49-year-old citizen of the Dominican Republic who entered the country without authorization, was on lunch break during his trial for falsifying RMV records when agents took him swiftly into an SUV. 'Was that a kidnapping? You're not going to tell us where he's going?' a man asked the federal agents, who walked away with no answer. Lebron-Wilson's criminal defense lawyer, Murat Erkan, argued for his client's constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial before Boston Judge Mark Summerville, in a contentious hearing at Boston Municipal Court on March 31. During that hearing, Summerville found Brian Sullivan, one of the ICE agents involved in the operation, in contempt of court. He said Sullivan committed 'intentional and egregious violations of the defendant's rights' by detaining him before his criminal trial had concluded. But U.S. Attorney of Massachusetts, Leah Foley, sought to dismiss the contempt charge by the Boston judge. In April, Federal Judge William G. Young dismissed Summerville's contempt ruling against Sullivan. On April 24, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden admonished the case's dismissal and asked federal authorities to investigate what they described as ICE's violation of its own procedures. Hayden had said after the initial ruling that ICE has acted as a 'reckless' threat to public safety, and caused witnesses and victims to stop cooperating with law enforcement. Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira, a Brazilian mother of three, was arrested in one of the most public and chaotic settings to date. In a wild scene on Eureka Street in Worcester, in the middle of the day on May 8, ICE agents detained Ferreira-De Oliveira as a crowd of more than 30 people shouted at the agents and demanded to see a warrant. She was eventually taken to be held in Rhode Island. Local Worcester police arrested the woman's daughter, who is a minor, at the scene after she stood in front of the car holding a baby, then later ran after the car and kicked it. Augusta Clara Moura, another of Ferreira-De Oliveira's daughters, has spoken out about what led up to her mother's detainment. Her partner, Samarone Alves Ferreira-De Souza, had honked at a car that cut him off while he was driving to work, according to Clara Moura. The car turned out to be an undercover ICE vehicle and agents arrested him. The day after, agents came to Clara Moura's home and asked her to return Ferreira-De Souza's car and sign immigration paperwork, she said. When she left her house with her 17-year-old sister and her baby to do so, ICE stopped her car, and 'told me I was under arrest,' she said. Clara Moura called her mother to take her son and when she arrived, ICE arrested her instead, according to Clara Moura. At least three incidents where ICE smashed car windows in order to arrest people have been reported over the past four months by NBC Boston. These incidents happened in New Bedford, Chelsea and Waltham. In New Bedford, Juan Francisco Mendez was arrested on April 14 after ICE agents smashed through his car window with an ax and pulled him from the vehicle. His wife recorded the incident, and Mendez can be heard saying, 'My lawyer is on the way.' Less than a month later, on Mother's Day, ICE agents broke through the window of an SUV in Chelsea as a family left together from church. A man was ripped from the vehicle, thrown to the ground and handcuffed during the daytime arrest, as bystanders heard him ask why he was being detained, NBC reported. And the next day, ICE agents broke through a car window in Waltham to arrest two men in a downtown area of the city. The incident was recorded by a 15-year-old girl who was waiting for the school bus that Monday morning. These and other arrests have left Massachusetts communities on edge — to the point where ICE itself has begun addressing rumors about their activities. On Monday, rumors that ICE agents were 'scooping up nannies' on playgrounds in Boston circulated heavily online, just days after those same fears developed in Washington, D.C. ICE released a statement Tuesday denying the allegations. 'Any rumors that ICE officers are targeting nannies at playgrounds or parks are entirely false and absolutely ridiculous,' the statement from Acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston. Hyde said the rumors 'amount to nothing more than scare tactics and unnecessarily place the safety of our brave officers in jeopardy.' Other people originally from the state — and who are U.S. citizens — reported they've been asked to leave the country by DHS in past weeks. This includes three immigration lawyers originally from Massachusetts, who received letters on April 11 that began with the line, 'It is time for you to leave the United States.' One of the recipients — Pamela Rioles Saeed, a 28-year-old immigration lawyer in Arizona who was born in Boston and moved in 2018 — said she was 'frustrated' the government was 'so careless.' The letters only ' ... serve to instill fear and disorder for those who received it,' Saeed said at the time, and show 'either gross incompetence or willful indifference from DHS.' 'Are you threatening me?': Video displays Worcester councilor's confrontation with police Worcester releases body cam footage of woman's arrest by ICE agents Worcester to release body camera footage of police response to ICE arrest Rümeysa Öztürk chose grace over bitterness. What we can learn | John L. Micek GoFundMe raises money for family of woman detained by ICE in Worcester Read the original article on MassLive.
