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Daily Mail
an hour ago
- General
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Jade got into a blazing row with a mystery woman over a parking spot. Now it's going to WRECK his life
A petty dispute over a parking spot in a suburban marina became a viral TikTok sensation - but has now escalated with the man at its centre being thrown in jail. Daily Mail Australia can now unmask the Queensland cop and his girlfriend after her minor parking dispute with another driver led to his arrest and a raid on his home. New Zealand-born Jade Fisher, 37, had a brief argument with the mystery young woman in Brisbane's Redland Bay Marina car park on May 8. He claimed she ordered him to 'get out of my way, my boyfriend is a police officer' and then allegedly warned he would be arrested after he swore at her. Within half an hour, Fisher was surrounded by four officers and arrested, which he caught on camera in a TikTok clip which has been more than one million times. He then went on a mission - via TikTok and Facebook - to identify the woman, and establish if her boyfriend was among those four officers when he was arrested. But that quest has now triggered further police action - and he has been charged with stalking the pair. The couple were named in court documents served on Fisher after he was arrested again last Sunday night at his home on Russell Island, south-east of Brisbane. Four more police officers came to Fisher's address with arrest warrants, before he was held overnight in police custody at the Cleveland watchhouse. Fisher said police tried to oppose his release from the watchhouse on bail on the grounds he was 'a danger' to them because they also live on the island. The woman with whom Fisher had the original marina car park encounter is Camille Dessilas, 26. She is the girlfriend of Constable Trei Watkins, who was one of the officers present when Fisher was arrested and features in the original TikTok video posted. Con Watkins is himself a TikTok poster boy for Queensland Police Service and features in videos promoting the force to potential young recruits. In Fisher's first TikTok video, the married father-of-one claimed he had been waiting 'for some time' for a parking spot when Ms Dessilas pulled up in her vehicle. He said she had her indicator blinking to take the spot and told him to get out of the way and that her boyfriend was a police officer. When he told her to 'f*** off', he says Ms Dessilas told him he would be arrested for his response. Fisher then took a ferry to Russell Island, where he lives, and was arrested at the ferry wharf. In Fisher's first, seven minute video he films his arrest at the wharf. After being surrounded by the four police officers, Fisher could be heard continually asking, 'Which one of you is the boyfriend?' Con Watkins, who was one of the four officers in the clip, did not respond to the question. It is not suggested that Con Watkins has acted in any way improperly. The arresting officer, Senior Constable Tosh Cooper told Fisher he was under arrest and wrote out an infringement notice for an alleged offence of 'threatening language in a public place'. Fisher explained he swore at the woman in the marina car park because he himself had felt threatened by her comment that 'my boyfriend is a police officer'. In the TikTok video, Sen Con Cooper said: 'She said you said "f*** you" and you flipped her off,' to which Fisher replied, 'No, I said f*** off, I didn't say f*** you.' Cooper asked Fisher, 'How would you feel if someone said to you 'f*** you, f*** off", flipped you off and called you a c***?' Fisher continued to ask which of the policemen surrounding him 'is the boyfriend' and begged the officers to take him into custody so he could go to court to find out. Since the first video, Fisher has posted subsequent videos with footage of Queensland Central Investigation Bureau officers coming to his Russell Island house. In his second Tik Tok video, dubbed 'Part Two' by Fisher, he revealed that on Mother's Day weekend police came around at night time to his home with a search warrant. They seized electronic devices including his iPhone and charged him with 'misuse of a carriage service' for posting the first video on Tik Tok. In a third Tik Tok video recorded at his front gate with Fisher's child and his partner, police from the Cleveland CIB arrive at his home to serve the search warrant over 'complaints about posts made on Facebook' about his encounter with Russell Island police. Fisher could be heard telling the police repeatedly that he wanted his lawyer to advise him. Then on Sunday night, a few hours after Fisher posted images and video on TikTok of Ms Dessilas that he had taken after their car park encounter, police returned to his house. The CIB charged him 'unlawful stalking, intimidation harassing or abuse' of both Con Watkins and his partner Ms Dessilas, one count of obstruct police officer and one of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence. These charges relate to Fisher's posting on TikTok and Facebook requesting help to identify her and her police officer partner. Video posted on TikTok by Fisher shows four police officers with torches walking up his front steps and then banging on his front door, yelling, 'Police. Come to the door'. He is now due in Cleveland Local Court on June 10 to defend the matters. Fisher has launched a GoFundMe appeal to raise $3500 for legal fees. Fisher says in the online fundraiser that he is asking for support as 'I navigate a distressing legal situation that has shaken my faith in the justice system'. He says that after his car park encounter 'I was met by four officers at the Russell Island ferry terminal with an infringement already written, without being asked for my side of the story. 'Since then, the situation has escalated. I've received a formal charge, been threatened with obstruction, and faced further legal pressure referencing to my social media activity, raising concerns about intimidation and privacy. 'I've tried to handle this quietly and respectfully, but the legal costs to defend myself properly and hold the responsible parties accountable are beyond what I can manage alone. 'Any support — financial or simply sharing my story — means the world to me right now. I'm not just doing this for myself, but for anyone who has ever felt powerless against authority misused.' Fisher said he plans to fight the charges, as well as 'protect my rights and set the record straight'. Among the thousands of comments on the videos, some people posted that they believed the way Fisher's matter has been handled is a police 'abuse of power'. Tik Tok commenters have posted alongside the video, with one saying, 'All from a parking spot!!!' and another, 'This is crazy'. Other commenters called the response 'overkill', and said the matter would be the alleged female victim's word against Fisher's. Daily Mail Australia asked Queensland Police to confirm that 'confirm Con Watkins was present and on duty during the arrest of Fisher for an alleged crime against Con Watkins' own girlfriend'. QPS media responded: 'On May 8, a 37-year-old Russell Island man was issued an infringement notice for public nuisance. 'Another officer was also on-duty and present, however was not involved in the interaction between the issuing officer and the 37-year-old man and has remained independent of any ongoing investigations.' In one of his promotional police TikTok videos, Con Watkins said he joined the police because 'I always wanted to help people'. He added: 'I wanted to be out in the community assisting people that were in need and people call the police when they're in vital need of help.' The conditions of Jade Fisher's bail include not approaching Trei Watkins or Camille Dessilas and 'to not use social networking sites on the internet including TikTok and Facebook'.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Feds arrest 36 Chinese, Taiwanese citizens in SoCal underground nightclub raid
Federal agents raided a nightclub early Friday and arrested 36 Chinese and Taiwanese citizens suspected of being in the country illegally, authorities said. Los Angeles Homeland Security officers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and members of the El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force made the arrests during "an enforcement operation in an underground nightclub" according to a statement shared on X. A video shared by HSI Los Angeles shows an officer donning a vest in a parking lot before sunrise, before cutting to a daylight scene of a group of people huddled on the sidewalk outside a building, some with their heads bowed. Officers are shown handcuffing the individuals and loading them into white vans. It is not clear where the underground nightclub is located. Further details on the investigation were not immediately available. The role of the El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force in the raid was also unclear. The group is a multi-agency initiative of federal and state investigators focused on financial crimes in Southern California. Members include HSI Los Angeles, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and the California Department of Justice. On Wednesday, an investigation involving the task force led to the arrest of 14 individuals — including San Fernando Valley and Glendale residents — who were accused of being part of a transnational criminal network that fraudulently obtained more than $25 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Read more: Arrests at Pomona Home Depot spark fear about labor crackdown amid L.A. fire recovery Friday's immigration enforcement action comes as ICE works to comply with President Trump's orders to ramp up the pace of arrests and deportations across the nation. On Thursday, the agency announced that it achieved its highest number of arrests in history this week. On Monday, HSI Los Angeles arrested 12 Mexican citizens on suspicion of being unlawfully present in the U.S. after they traveled in a small boat from Mexico to Long Beach. In April, an estimated two dozen day laborers were detained in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection action outside of a Home Depot in Pomona. Earlier in the year, CBP agents conducted a three-day raid in rural parts of Kern County targeting day laborers and Latino farmworkers. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Two arrested after pursuit of suspected stolen Jeep ends in Hawthorne
LOS ANGELES - Two people were taken into custody after a brief pursuit in Los Angeles. In South LA, police began pursuing a black Jeep that was believed to be stolen. SkyFOX was over the chase as the suspect drove through parts of Inglewood and Hawthorne. They were seen recklessly driving on the wrong side of the road, narrowly dodging traffic. The pursuit came to an end when the driver stopped the vehicle in the area of Fonthill and Rosecrans avenues in the Moneta Gardens area of Hawthorne. A female driver and male passenger exited the car and were taken into custody without incident. The Source Information for this story came from SkyFOX.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Temple credits new crime fighting tool in arrest of suspect wanted in several states
The Brief An arrest has been made in a multi-state investigation, as a 20-year-old man, wanted for several burglaries is caught. The arrest is thanks to new license plate reading technology and is proof the technology is going to be a game-changer in fighting crime. NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Temple University's security team is crediting a new crime-fighting tool with leading to an arrest of a suspect wanted in several states. How it works A small solar panel sits above a camera tethered to a pole at Temple University. It's one of nearly 1,500 security cameras eyeing the North Philly campus. Temple said these cameras, part of the Flock Safety system, have a long reach. Jennifer Griffin is the Temple University Chief of Police. She said, "If you flag a vehicle registration in the system, when it hits on the camera, the system sends multiple alerts to investigators, police dispatch and other people." Timeline Temple reports that's how its officers were able to collar 20-year-old Jahid Robinson on campus back in December. New Castle County, Delaware police had linked Robinson, of Delaware County, Pa., to a series of burglaries - where residents were home - in the Greenville section of Wilmington. Master Corporal Richard Chambers is with the New Castle County Police Department. He said, "He was going into people's occupied homes. He was going into houses taking property and car keys, going into driveways, ransacking cars, taking property." Wanted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, New Castle police entered his plate into the Flock system and received a hit on a vehicle near the 1000 block of Diamond Street on campus. Temple police were alerted, and Robinson was arrested. Big picture view Temple called reporters to campus Friday to trumpet the arrest and highlight the success of this computer-powered security system whose cameras FOX 29 spotted in several locations. On hand, U.S. Representative Brendon Boyle is credited with winning Justice Department funding for Flock. Boyle said, "To come full circle and be here today to see the fruits of that labor actually lead to an arrest is incredibly exciting."
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Glendale police arrest man they believe stabbed and killed woman in April
A man has been arrested in connection to the stabbing death of Judy Lopez in Glendale in late April. Glendale police announced the arrest of 27-year-old James Marshaun Christopher Weekly on Friday. Court paperwork shows Weekly is facing a charge of second-degree murder. Glendale police were originally called to the area near 83rd Avenue and Cardinals Way on the night of April 28 after they received numerous reports of a woman who had been stabbed.
