At least one dead and several injured after a private jet crashed into another upon arrival in Arizona
The arriving plane is owned by Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, according to a representative for the singer. Neil was not onboard, the representative, Worrick Robinson, said in a statement to CNN.
One person died in the crash and three were hurt, according to city spokesperson Kelli Kuester. Officials earlier said four were hurt. The three who were injured were taken to hospitals, Kuester said.
Responders are still working to remove the body of the deceased victim, Scottsdale Fire Department Capt. David Folio said. Police have not released names of those onboard.
Two pilots and two passengers were on board Neil's plane, according to Robinson.
The Learjet 35A aircraft was arriving from Austin, Texas, when it veered off the runway and crashed into a parked Gulfstream G200 jet, Kuester said at a Monday news conference.
'It appears that the left main gear failed upon landing resulting in the accident,' she said.
The National Transportation Safety Board is at the scene and leading the investigation into the incident, according to Kuester. In response to a CNN inquiry, the NTSB said only that it is investigating.
The crash follows several aviation disasters in recent weeks, including a fatal midair collision near Washington, DC, that killed all 67 people onboard both aircraft and the crash of a medevac jet in Philadelphia that killed seven.
The FAA has paused flights into the airport, the agency said.
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CNN
5 hours ago
- CNN
Brutal punishments are being meted out to Russian soldiers no longer willing to fight for Putin
Russian soldiers call the practice a sacrifice to Baba Yaga, a fearsome witch from Slavic folklore who feasts on her victims. A Russian serviceman is seen on video being tied up to a tree and abandoned to his fate – possibly death – at the hands of one of Ukraine's large attack drones. Why this is happening is clear from a radio intercept about a similar incident, shared with CNN, in which a Russian commander can clearly be heard ordering a subordinate be tied up in this way as punishment for desertion. The instruction is given twice: 'Hide him somewhere (while the fighting is ongoing) then take him out and tie him to a tree … in the next half hour.' A Ukrainian drone battalion commander, says he has observed it happen twice and heard it happening on radio intercepts many more times. 'Any large Ukrainian drone they call Baba Yaga. It spreads terrible panic in these damaged people. For them, it's some kind of scary myth that flies in and kills everyone,' the commander, who goes by the callsign Munin, told CNN. The practice is one of a sickening array of battlefield mistreatments recorded on video either by Ukrainian surveillance drones or Russian servicemen and then circulated on social media. As Moscow's forces make slow but seemingly inexorable progress inside Ukraine, the videos paint a grim picture of the realities of life inside Putin's army – a service which tens of thousands of Russian men are estimated to have fled since the start of the full-scale invasion in early 2022. In the video, apparently filmed last winter, the man is shown in close-up, tied to a tree. The man says he is from Kamensk-Uralsky, a city in Russia's center, on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. He explains that he fled his post after being spooked by a Ukrainian drone flying overhead. A fellow soldier who caught up with him then made him an offer, he says. 'Let me make you '300' so you'll be withdrawn,' the soldier had said, using a term signifying a wounded fighter in the Russian army. Then came the quid pro quo. 'You shoot me, and I will shoot you.' The man tells the camera he refused but says the other soldier shot him anyway, rendering him an easy capture by men from his unit. With a thick cable now tethering him to the tree, he looks nervously to the skies as a voice behind the camera tells him there is a drone on the way. '(If the drone) comes here, she's going to drop everything on you,' the voice taunts. At this point, the clip ends, the soldier's fate unclear. In common with many armies, Russia does not talk publicly about desertion in the ranks. But social media channels – usually Telegram – provide a glimpse into the deep anxieties and desperation felt by many soldiers and their families and give a sense of why some Russian servicemen chose to quit. 'Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,' begins one video posted to Telegram by a man identified as Yuri Duryagin, in what amounts to a personal appeal to Russia's President Putin for help. Duryagin says he was fighting in Ukraine's Donetsk region, where poor equipment and a lack of ammunition meant only 32 men from his company survived one particular assault. Typically, a company might have up to 150 personnel. He tells Putin he has received less than a fifth of his salary but adds his superiors tell him he would be wasting his time complaining. When deaths occurred on the battlefield, they were often covered up to avoid paying compensation to families of the bereaved. 'I personally saw comrades die before my eyes. They were killed. Parents tried to find out information about their relatives and loved ones, but they were told that the person was missing,' he says. Perhaps most damning of all, he appears to accuse one commander of shooting those who refuse to take part, saying he 'put people up against the wall because they simply refused to go up against a machine gun.' 'Violence is what is keeping the Russian army going and what is glueing it together,' said Grigory Sverdlin, founder of Get Lost, an organization helping Russian men to desert, or to avoid conscription in the first place. He spoke to CNN from Barcelona, Spain, where the organization is now based. Get Lost has helped 1,700 people to desert since it was launched six months into the full-scale invasion, Sverdlin claims. The total number of desertions from the Russian army is hard to determine but he estimates it to be in the tens of thousands. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US-based analysis group, cites what it says is leaked data from Russia's Defense Ministry that suggests it could be as high as 50,000. Many desert before they are deployed, complaining of poor training lasting just one to three weeks, Sverdlin said, while those who quit during deployment often describe a culture marked by nihilism. 'Their lives are not worth anything to their commanders. For Russian officers, losing a tank, losing a vehicle, is much worse than losing, say, 10 or 20 people,' Sverdlin said. 'We often hear from our clients that officers tell them they will all be dead in a week. The officer will get another unit, so it's not a problem for them.' For Russian soldiers convicted of desertion, the sentence can be up to 15 years in prison. But the videos circulated on social media indicate ad hoc punishments are also widely carried out on the ground, with the same aim of deterring others from running away. In one, a man behind a camera approaches a large metal storage tank with a ladder on the side. 'Time to feed the animals! The ones who tried to f**k off! Let's find out what they are doing,' the man's voice says, sliding open the container lid to reveal three men stripped to their underwear hunkered down inside. 'You hungry?' the voice taunts. 'Do you want a cookie?' One of the men nods and a biscuit is crumbled into his outspread hands, which he quickly eats. Another video shows a man cowering on the ground as he is kicked repeatedly in the face. He has an orange belt tied to one of his ankles. The other end is attached to a jeep, which drives off at speed, circling a field, dragging the man bouncing behind it in a punishment known colloquially as 'the carousel.' And in another, a man is tied to a tree with a rusty bucket over his head. After the bucket is removed, he is kicked repeatedly in the face before apparently being urinated on. CNN reached out to Russia's Ministry of Defense for comment on the punishment of deserters shown in the videos but did not receive a reply. Estimates by Western governments and academic institutions put the number of Russians killed or wounded since February 2022 at about one million. NATO's secretary general said recently that 100,000 Russian soldiers had died in 2025 alone. Ukraine has its own problems with morale and desertion but one sentiment is likely far less prevalent among its ranks: lack of belief in the cause. Sverdlin said this is what he hears voiced most often from the Russian soldiers he helps to desert. 'Some of them just tell us 'I don't want to die here,' but I would say the most common words are 'it's not my war, it's not our war … I don't understand what the hell we are doing here.''
NBC News
6 hours ago
- NBC News
Venezuelans describe being beaten, sexually assaulted and told to 'commit suicide' during El Salvador detention
Three Venezuelan men told NBC News they experienced physical and psychological torture, including one man's allegation that he was sexually assaulted, after the Trump administration sent them to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The men were held for four months in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a Salvadoran megaprison known for its harsh conditions and reported abuse. The allegations included beatings that left bruises and cuts, psychological abuse and the denial of necessities such as food or bathroom access. The Trump administration sent about 250 Venezuelan men to CECOT in March and has accused them of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Many of the men and some of their families and attorneys have denied the claim. The men were released and flown to Venezuela on July 18 as part of a prisoner swap with the United States. Andry Hernandez Romero, a 32-year-old gay asylum-seeker from Venezuela, told NBC News that one day during his imprisonment he was taken to solitary confinement, where prison staff 'made me kneel, perform oral sex on one person, while the others groped me and touched my private parts' and 'stroked me with their batons.' He said he could not identify the guards because their faces were covered and the room did not have a lightbulb, with only a small amount of light coming in through a hole in the ceiling. Hernandez said the incident left him devastated. 'I didn't want to eat. I didn't want to do absolutely anything,' Hernandez said. 'The only thing I did was stay laying down, look at the toilet, remember my family, asking myself a million questions.' Another detainee who spoke to NBC News, Jerce Reyes, said Hernandez told him after they were released that he was sexually abused by CECOT staff. Hernandez also said on Venezuelan state media that he was sexually abused while in CECOT. 'He told us that when we arrived in Venezuela, that he suffered abuse at the hands of guards there in El Salvador,' said Reyes, referring to Hernandez's account of sexual abuse. Hernandez said he was unaware of any formal system at CECOT through which he could report the alleged abuse and that if detainees tried to complain to superiors at the prison, they would often be subjected to beatings by guards. The Salvadoran government did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Hernandez's sexual assault allegations and claims from other Venezuelan men that they were physically and psychologically abused in the prison. The government has previously said it observes safety and order standards, and the director of CECOT told CNN that 'the whole operation is based on strict respect for human rights.' In a statement, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security referred NBC News to the Salvadoran government for comment because the Venezuelan men were 'not U.S. citizens or under U.S. jurisdiction.' When asked whether the U.S. government would continue to send people to CECOT, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, 'whether it is CECOT, Alligator Alcatraz, Guantanamo Bay or another detention facility, these dangerous criminals will not be allowed to terrorize U.S. citizens.' The statement said that President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem 'are using every tool available to get criminal illegal aliens off our streets and out of our country. Our message is clear: Criminals are not welcome in the United States.' 'You will not be leaving here' Hernandez and others said they were repeatedly beaten by prison officials. 'Our daily bread there as Venezuelans were beatings, threats. For whatever circumstance,' Hernandez said. 'If you answer an official, they hit you. ... If you talk, they hit you.' 'Every time they went to hit a large group outside, they would put us in the required position so we couldn't see. And to hear the moans, to hear how they were hitting the people was also very heavy.' Another detainee, Andry Blanco Bonilla, 40, said he and the other Venezuelans faced verbal, psychological and physical abuse from the day they entered CECOT. 'There were so many moments of anguish and terror,' he said in Spanish. 'I feared for my life.' Blanco Bonilla said that when they first arrived at CECOT, the men were shackled so tightly at the ankles that walking 'would give us cuts and bruises.' He said the guards denied them food and access to bathrooms or showers as punishment. Blanco Bonilla, who had gone to the U.S. to seek asylum, said he would never forget the words of a prison official who told the detainees, 'Welcome to CECOT. Welcome to hell.' 'You will not be leaving here. Your days are over,' the official said, according to Blanco Bonilla. The detainees would suffer beatings as the guards saw fit, he said. 'They tried to avoid hitting our faces. They kicked us in the back or ribs,' he said. 'When they made us get on our knees, they would step on our toes with their boots. They hit us with batons, they hit us on the head.' After a beating, Blanco Bonilla said he would be brought by guards to a prison doctor, who would say to him, 'You hit yourself. How did you hit yourself?' When he tried to tell the doctor that he was beaten by prison staff, a guard would hit him with a baton in the back, Blanco Bonilla said. The doctor would then ask him again, 'How did you hit yourself?' 'I realized that if I didn't tell them what they wanted, they would keep hitting me,' he said, adding that the doctor would then make a false report about the incident. 'We are only migrants' Reyes, 36, said one of hardest moments for him was when a prison official 'encouraged us to commit suicide' and told him 'this is how your whole nightmare ends.' 'I did think about committing suicide at some point. But I thought about my two daughters, I thought about my family,' he said about his two children, ages 3 and 6. Reyes said there were days when 'we woke up and all said to ourselves, 'We aren't getting out of here.'' He said he witnessed and experienced physical aggression from CECOT guards. Reyes said he was thankful that he and other men were able to share copies of the Bible inside and motivate each other. The detainees who spoke to NBC News said they had no contact with the outside world or access to U.S. officials during the four months they were held in CECOT. Reyes did recall seeing Noem walk by when she toured CECOT in March, shortly after he and the others were sent there. She went past several cells that Salvadoran officials assured her held hardened criminals and gang members. Reyes says he wasn't told Noem was coming but remembers that day as the only day the detainees had gotten something cold to drink. He said he and others pressed their faces to the bars and saw her. 'We began screaming, 'Freedom, freedom, freedom. We are not criminals. We are only migrants,'' Reyes said. The men were sent to CECOT after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March, declaring the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua an invading force. Immigration officials have since used that act to deport hundreds of people without immigration hearings, alleging that they were gang members. The men who spoke to NBC News, as well as the families of former detainees and their attorneys, have strongly denied any ties to gangs and said they were unfairly targeted because of tattoos that may be popular in Venezuela and are unrelated to Tren de Aragua. They have also said some migrants were denied due process and a chance to defend themselves from the accusations against them. Experts have said tattoos are not closely connected with affiliation to Tren de Aragua. An official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement previously said the administration did not solely rely on tattoos to identify the men sent to CECOT as gang members. A New York Times investigation, which relied on interviews with prosecutors and law enforcement officials as well as court documents and media reports in multiple countries, found that most of the men sent to CECOT did not have criminal records in the United States or in the region. It found at least 32 of the more than 200 men faced serious criminal accusations or convictions in the United States or abroad. Very few of them appeared to have any documented evidence connecting them to Tren de Aragua. The men said their strong faith in God, love for their families and a belief that one day they would get justice helped them keep going during their most desperate moments. 'Reuniting again with my parents and children was a moment of such happiness,' Blanco Bonilla said. While the men resume life back in Venezuela, the question of whether they would ever return to the U.S. remains. During a status hearing Thursday tied to the government's use of the Alien Enemies Act, the Department of Justice said it would bring any of the men back for immigration or habeas proceedings if a 'lawful order' were issued. 'Venezuela has made assurances they'll allow us to do that,' DOJ attorney Tiberius Davis told the court. Now that they are back home with their families, the men have said they are demanding justice from Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. On Thursday, former detainee Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel filed a complaint, reviewed by NBC News, against the Department of Homeland Security under the Federal Tort Claims Act, claiming he was removed from the United States unlawfully and without due process. The complaint was filed on behalf Rengel by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Democracy Defenders Fund, which describes itself as a nonpartisan group that defends democratic institutions and opposes autocrats. LULAC told NBC News that it also planned to file a lawsuit and expected more lawsuits to come after that. Rengel alleged that he suffered physical, verbal and psychological abuse in CECOT and that the U.S. government could have and should have secured his release, according to the complaint. The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the complaint. 'We were mistreated, our rights were violated, crimes against humanity were committed,' Blanco Bonilla said. Hernandez said he and others are still working through the psychological effects of their time in CECOT. 'All 252 [of the men] are doing poorly, mentally.' 'Even though we are free, even though we are now with our families, happy and content,' he said, 'there is still a big mental block, a block that particularly I have not been able to find a way to deal with.' But despite their ongoing struggles, Hernandez said the shared experience has created a lasting sense of community among the men. 'We entered [CECOT] as 252 strangers, 252 Venezuelans, but 252 brothers came out,' Hernandez said. 'We all supported each other; we were all there in the constant fight.'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
GOP Sen. Refuses to Admit Bush, Not Obama, Was President During Epstein's Plea Deal
Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to blame former President Barack Obama for Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 plea deal, despite Obama not being president at the time. Mullin made the comments while being interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. First, Tapper and Mullin debated over whether the attorney general has the ability to release documents related to the Epstein investigation, with Mullin insisting that only judges have the ability to make that information public and Tapper arguing that there is additional information that Attorney General Pam Bondi could — and has promised to — release, yet she has not done so. Then Mullin made a bizarre claim that Epstein struck a deal in Florida in 2009, under President Obama. But that is factually incorrect, as Tapper pointed out. 'Remember there was a plea deal that was struck in 2009, way before I was in office, way before Trump was even considering it to be in office, way before Pam Bondi was office, way before Kash Patel was director,' Mullin said. '2009, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein, and that sweetheart has not been exposed.' 'No, that's not right,' Tapper said. 'It's not? Well, when was the case heard?' Mullin asked. 'It was 2008… The U.S. attorney at the time was a guy named Alex Acosta,' Tapper said. 'He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become President Trump's secretary of labor. It all took place in 2008.' 'Who was in office at the time?' Mullin asked. '2008, George W. Bush,' Tapper said, reciting a well-known fact. But Mullin continued to insist on incorrect information. 'No, 2009 is when the case came out, and it was — and Obama was in office at the time,' Mullin said. 'It's not true. It's not true,' Tapper said. Mullin doubled down later in the interview. 'I will go back to what you're saying about it wasn't true,' Mullin said. 'The case was sealed in 2009. That's absolutely true. It was heard in 2008. It was sealed in 2009.' Tapper is correct, and Mullin is wrong. An executive summary report of the Epstein case by the Justice Department states that in the summer of 2008, then-U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta negotiated a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein in which the billionaire pleaded guilty to state charges in Florida for soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. Because of the deal, instead of serving a possible life sentence, he was sentenced to 18 months in a work-release program followed by 12 months of house arrest. Epstein was then allowed to leave the minimum-security facility for 12 hours a day to work at a foundation he had incorporated. Epstein was released after serving less than 13 months. He was also mandated to register as a sex offender and make payments to his victims. According to the Justice Department, Epstein began serving his sentence in Oct. 2008, and a judge unsealed the non-prosecution agreement in Sept. 2009. A lead prosecutor in the investigation, Marie Villafana, said in 2020 that Epstein's sweetheart deal was an 'injustice.' 'That injustice, I believe, was the result of deep, implicit institutional biases that prevented me and the FBI agents who worked diligently on this case from holding Mr. Epstein accountable for his crimes,' Villafana said. More from Rolling Stone Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One Supreme Court Lets Trump Enact His Authoritarian Agenda on Its 'Shadow Docket' Trump's Senior Moments Are Getting Worse Best of Rolling Stone The Useful Idiots New Guide to the Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence
