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6:54 p.m. Tuesday, September 20, 2011

David Ibata

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Prospective drug dealers, take note: When setting up a score, it’s a bad idea to bring along a couple of young children and a loaded shotgun.

 

Cobb County Sheriff's Office Shanla (or Shayla) Jamie Sutherland, 28, of Marietta was arrested on multiple charges after police said her two young children got hold of a loaded shotgun left in the backseat of a minivan as Sutherland and another woman dealt drugs from the front seat outside a Rite Aid near Austell. One of the children discharged the shotgun into the minivan's roof, police said. No one was hurt.

 

 

 

Cobb County Sheriff's Office Leah Louise Porter, 28, of Marietta was arrested and charged with reckless conduct after a 3-year-old child got hold of a loaded shotgun in the backseat of her minivan and fired it as Porter and the child's mother were conducting a drug transaction from the front seat, police said.

 

 

 

Cobb County Sheriff's Office Brandon Schott Donahue, 30, of Marietta was arrested and charged with obstruction after he allegedly refused to cooperate with Cobb County police investigating a shotgun fired by a 3-year-old in the parking lot of a Rite Aid pharmacy near Austell.

 

A drug deal going down in the parking lot of a Cobb County pharmacy earlier this month was interrupted by a terrific blast when children brought to the deal by their mother, and left in the back seat of a minivan, got hold of the firearm, police said. A 3-year-old pulled the trigger.

The discharge went into the roof of the vehicle, and no one was hurt. But a passerby heard the gunshot and called police.

An officer found two uncooperative adults and learned that a third had fled, according to a Cobb County Police Department report of the Sept. 6 incident. The three adults, all Marietta residents, were arrested.

The state Department of Family and Children Services is investigating, Channel 2 Action News reports.

Events leading up to the incident began when Shayla Sutherland, 28, loaded her two children, ages 3 and 5, into a blue Chrysler Town & Country minivan driven by Leah Porter, 28, police said.

The foursome went to the Rite Aid drug store in the 4600 block of Hicks Road near Austell. They parked outside the store and waited. Brandon Donahue, 30, drove up in a white Mercury and pulled alongside.

“Donahue, Sutherland and Porter were negotiating the sale of prescription medications when a firearm was fired,” Cobb police spokesman Officer Mike Bowman said. “It was determined inside the van was a loaded 12-gauge Mossberg. The children apparently were playing with the shotgun when the trigger was fired, discharging the shotgun.”

Sutherland jumped out of the vehicle and pulled her two children with her, police said. Porter drove off. When an officer arrived, he learned Sutherland had fled into the Rite Aid and left her two children in the back seat of Donahue’s car.

“Donahue lied repeatedly and did not cooperate with officers’ questions,” the police report said. The man was arrested and charged with obstruction.

“Sutherland was also not cooperative and lied repeatedly to officers,” police said. The woman was arrested and charged with giving a false name/date of birth and obstruction, and for using a cell phone in the illicit sale of drugs. She also was arrested under an outstanding warrant for failure to appear.

Porter was stopped a few miles away. She was arrested and charged with reckless conduct.

Sutherland, Porter and Schott have posted bond and been released from Cobb County Jail to await trial, according to the Cobb County Sheriff's inmate website. Sheriff's records spell Sutherland's first name "Shanla."

Police seized the shotgun. They found in the weapon an empty shell casing and two live shotgun slug rounds.

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Help! I’m on the IRS hit list

Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Published Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 2:00AM EDT

Last updated Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 9:35AM EDT

When my friend Brian told me the American tax police were after him, I thought he must be nuts. Brian is a worrier. He gets a little paranoid sometimes. “We haven’t filed a U.S. tax return in 20 years,” he said. “Now our accountant says we have to – or else.”

Brian and his wife are from the States. He took out Canadian citizenship years ago. They’ve lived and worked in Canada for decades. They have no U.S. income or assets. They are 100-per-cent tax compliant – in Canada.

“Forget about it,” I advised. “What could they possibly do to you?”

We’re about to find out.

I’m on the IRS hit list, too. I came here at 13, and I’ve been a citizen since 1979. I don’t have a U.S. passport or any U.S. earnings. But the IRS wants to confiscate a large chunk of my retirement savings. Many of my friends are in the same fix. They send me e-mails saying things like, “Have you filled out the FBAR [Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts] yet?” The amnesty deadline has come and gone, and we still have no idea what to do.

“It’s not the back taxes that will kill you,” Brian told me. “It’s the penalties.” It turns out the IRS can fine you for every unreported bank account, mutual fund and RRSP – at a rate of $10,000 per offence per year. It can also confiscate as much as 25 per cent of the maximum amount you’ve held in each account. This is so absurd it can’t possibly be true. But it is.

The Americans have an unusual view of citizenship. Once an American, always an American, even if you left the U.S. the day you were born. The U.S. is the only country that requires its citizens to file a tax return and report their worldwide income, no matter where they live and what other citizenship they hold. Nobody can explain why the IRS has suddenly decided to enforce this law, which is aimed at money-launderers with offshore bank accounts. I guess the Americans need the money.

Naturally, my friends and I are outraged. It’s confiscatory and extraterritorial. It’s taxation without representation. It’s also a clear violation of privacy laws. (By 2014, Canadian financial institutions will be required to disclose your name if you were born in the U.S.) So why comply? Because if you don’t, they can refuse to let you into the U.S.

You can understand why I’m curled up in the fetal position. “I’m not going to do it,” I told my husband. “You have to do it, “ he said. “If you don’t, someone will rat you out and you’ll never be able to visit your sister again.”

He had a point. So I called our accountant. “Do I have to do it?” I wailed. “I can’t advise you,” he said. He told me that I might be able to get off the hook for only a few thousand dollars. “Can they come after me for more?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “Nobody knows what they’ll do.”

One person who’s off the hook is my brother. He was 11 when we moved to Canada. At 17, he got a draft notice. So he renounced his citizenship (after a long lecture from a consular official). I suppose I could renounce, too – but they won’t let you do that until you’ve filed your back tax returns.

As many as a million U.S.-born residents of Canada are caught in this Kafkaesque nightmare. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has written an indignant letter to leading U.S. newspapers. All of us are getting wildly conflicting professional advice. At first, Brian and his wife, who are by no means wealthy, decided to come clean. But when they were told they’d be on the hook for $250,000, they changed their minds.

“Don’t write about this,” my husband warned me. “You’ll just make yourself a target.”

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Luka Lucic shows off his rare skill.

Luka Lukic, 6, is an attractive boy. (Marko Drobnjakovic/A)

But other experts remain skeptical.

"I doubt very much that someone is magnetic," said Patrick Regan, a physics professor in England. "Humans are made of the wrong material to be magnetic."

"It would be pretty unsafe to have metal objects sticking to you against the force of gravity," he said. "You couldn't switch something like that off - unless it's fake."

Luka's father, Slavisa Lukic, said doctors have told them the boys are otherwise healthy.

"Nobody can tell us why this is happening," he said.

David's mom said the magnetic attraction appears to wane when the boys sleep but switches back on when they are awake and moving around.

The family says they were alarmed at first but have gotten used to the unusual phenomenon and all the attention surrounding it.

"It was a shock at first, but now we just try to keep the knives away from them," Petrovic says.

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