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Arkansas mayor who was praised as youngest black mayor accused of inappropriate Snapchat messages with 14-year-old boy
The mayor of an Arkansas town who was praised as the youngest black mayor in history has been accused of paying off a 14-year-old boy to keep quiet about inappropriate Snapchat messages.
Earle Mayor Jaylen Smith, 21, is being investigated by the Arkansas State Police after receiving a tip from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
‘The mayor did pay my son $500 to not tell me, but he ended up telling me anyway.’
A woman told WREG-TV that the mayor had met her son in 2024 at Earle High School, where her son attended. The mayor gave her son clothes and money, according to the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, and then made sexual advances via Snapchat messages.
She provided correspondence from a person she said was the mayor, but WREG said it was not able to independently verify that the account belonged to the mayor.
She said that she told her son to tell the man to stop contacting him but that he persisted. She alleges that the man then paid him money to keep it quiet.
“The mayor did pay my son $500 to not tell me, but he ended up telling me anyway,” she said.
Smith denied the claims vehemently in a statement Friday.
“I want to speak directly and clearly to the people of Earle: the accusations being reported are false. I am innocent. Truth matters, and in time, the truth will stand on its own,” reads the statement in part.
“While I would like to directly and unequivocally address the allegations against me, I have been advised to reserve any substantive statements regarding the allegations until a later date,” he added.
WREG reported that the superintendent of Earle Schools expressed concern in Nov. 2024 over the mayor visiting the campus. The district’s attorney sent a letter asking the mayor to ask permission prior to visits and to express the purpose of those visits.
Smith had been elected in 2022 just months after graduating from high school when he was 18 years old. He is not currently facing charges.
Earle is a town of about 1,700 residents located 30 minutes west of Memphis.
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Somali refugee quits Maine city council hours into term amid gun charge and residency scandal — but blames exit on racism
A Somali refugee who was sworn in as a Maine city council member earlier this week announced his resignation less than 72 hours later amid pending gun-theft charges and other troubling allegations.
Iman Osman, 36, won the city council election in November to represent Lewiston City Council’s Ward 5. Osman previously held a position on the Lewiston School Committee after the mayor nominated him to fill a vacancy.
‘The level of attacks, the vitriol, the racism, and the threats have gotten to the point where he felt like it was in the best interest of his family, his community, and the city to step aside.’
The Lewiston City Council swore in Osman on Monday. However, on the same day, council members voted to initiate an investigation into him.
Authorities charged Osman with crimes related to gun theft in early December after he was accused of obtaining stolen firearms belonging to two separate estates. He has denied all criminal charges and pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, the Maine Wire reported.
Osman’s position on the city council came under further scrutiny when he was accused of falsely listing a condemned building owned by his brother as his residence. There has been speculation that Osman listed the bogus address to secure his previous position on the Lewiston School Committee and his seat on the Lewiston City Council. Critics have raised concerns that Osman does not live in the ward he was elected to represent, which would make him ineligible to serve.
Amid the ongoing controversy and the council’s plan to investigate his residency, Osman submitted his resignation letter to the mayor and city council president on Thursday morning.
“This decision has not come lightly; it stems from my unwavering commitment to the very community I have dedicated my entire life to serving,” Osman wrote in his resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Maine Wire.
“Last year, I ran for City Council because I believed we needed a new voice in city government,” he continued. “Despite racist opposition, I defeated an incumbent to become the first Black man ever elected to the Lewiston City Council. In my time in public office, I have faced vicious personal attacks that not only target me but also seek to silence the marginalized voices I have always sought to uplift.”
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Image source: Lewiston City Council YouTube screenshot
Osman’s resignation letter did not address any of the allegations against him.
“He was absolutely confident that he would have prevailed in the residency investigation introduced by the city council on Monday,” Kiernan Majerus-Collins, Osman’s attorney, told WMTW. “But the level of attacks, the vitriol, the racism, and the threats have gotten to the point where he felt like it was in the best interest of his family, his community, and the city to step aside.”
“The fact that the Trump administration is targeting Somali and Somali-Americans across the country absolutely played a role in ginning up the kind of hatred and threats of violence that ultimately forced him to conclude that he could no longer serve in public office at this time,” he added.
Council President David Chittim. Image source: Lewiston City Council YouTube screenshot
Steve Robinson, the editor in chief of the Maine Wire, addressed city council members during the public comments section of Thursday’s meeting. He alleged that the Wire reporter, Jon Fetherston, had received threats and experienced intimidation due to his coverage of city council matters. Fetherston has been attending city council meetings and reporting on the claims against Osman.
“Earlier today, [Fetherston] had vehicles driving around threatening him, intimidating him, making gun hand gestures at him. So I would just like to know what is the city council going to do about issues like that, where someone who is conducting routine, basic journalism is facing threats of intimidation and gun violence,” Robinson stated.
Fetherson previously told Blaze News that it is “obvious” that Osman is lying about his residency.
“On the very first night of him being sworn in as a city councilor, Mr. Osman took the oath of office and swore to defend the Constitution, yet he then voted on the matter of whether the council should investigate his own residency instead of recusing himself, casting a ‘no’ vote,” Fetherston told Blaze News. “In my almost 40 years of elected office and/or reporting, I have never seen a bigger blow to democracy and disrespect of the election process than what has occurred with Iman Osman and how ‘leadership’ in Lewiston has handled this situation.”
When reached for comment, City Council President and Ward 6 Councilor David Chittim told Blaze News that members unanimously voted on Thursday to discontinue the investigation into Osman’s residency.
“His resignation effectively removed him from the council’s purview,” Chittim explained, adding that per the Lewiston City Charter, the city council is required to fill the vacancy by appointment.
When asked about the alleged harassment against a Maine Wire reporter, Chittim replied, “Last night the council heard allegations that a reporter for the Maine Wire has been harassed. I do not know how or whether the council will respond to these allegations.”
The city’s communications director and the mayor did not respond to a request for comment.
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Radical teen who plotted to kill Trump and lived with corpses of slain parents pleads guilty
After a Wisconsin teen failed to turn up to school for two weeks early last year, officers from the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department were asked to conduct a welfare check on his family home. When they arrived at the residence on Feb. 28, 2025, officers made a horrific discovery.
The teen, 18-year-old Nikita Casap, brutally murdered his mother, Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, Donald Mayer, on Feb. 11, stuffed their bodies under blankets, and proceeded to live with their rotting corpses for weeks before fleeing the state.
Casap’s parricide was evidently a means to an even darker end: financing an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.
‘As to why, specifically Trump, I think it’s obvious.’
Casap, whose family was visited by the FBI in November 2023 regarding unspecified internet IP activity, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, each of which carry a mandatory life sentence.
When asked by Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Ralph Ramirez whether he understood the implications of his guilty plea and whether he had in fact murdered his mother and stepfather, Casap said, “Yes, Your Honor,” the New York Post reported.
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In exchange for Casap’s guilty plea, prosecutors dropped various other charges against the murderer, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft of property over $10,000.
Hours after the bodies of Casap’s victims were discovered on Feb. 28, police in WaKeeney, Kansas, captured the teen, who had fled in his stepfather’s SUV.
Officers found Mayer’s .357 magnum revolver and multiple boxes of .357 magnum and .38 special ammunition in the car along with the victims’ phones and wallets, jewelry, various electronic devices, and a large amount of American and European currency.
According to a federal search warrant, investigators found evidence indicating Casap was a nihilistic violent extremist — someone engaged “in criminal conduct within the United States and abroad, in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability.”
In a March 10 interview with WSCO, one of Casap’s classmates recalled that the killer told him that he had been in contact with a Russian via Telegram and was planning to assassinate Trump.
FBI agents found messages from Casap to a Telegram user with the handle “Angel of Death” discussing how to convert a drone into a long-range attack drone capable of avoiding detection and dropping an explosive, a Molotov cocktail, or poison. He also discussed how long he would have to hide before relocating to Ukraine.
Investigators also found a three-page document entitled “Accelerate the Collapse” in which Casap discussed murdering Trump in order to trigger a political revolution and America’s collapse to “save the white race” from “Jewish controlled” politicians.
“As to why, specifically Trump, I think it’s obvious,” Casap wrote. “By getting rid of the president and perhaps the vice president, that is guaranteed to bring in some chaos. And not only that, but it will further bring into the public the idea that assassinations and accelerating the collapse are possible things to do.”
The FBI apparently also found textual conversations indicating Casap was supportive of the teachings of the Order of the Nine Angles, a satanic pedophile cult known for anti-Semitism, hatred for Christianity, identitarianism, and admiration for Adolf Hitler and other loathsome historic figures.
Waukesha County District Attorney Lesli Boese reportedly told reporters that she will implore the judge to deny Casap any chance at parole, noting that the killer is “a danger to the community.”
Casap is scheduled to be sentenced on March 5.
Federal charges have not yet been filed; however, an FBI affidavit notes that there is cause to believe Casap committed numerous federal crimes, including conspiracy to assassinate the president and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction utilizing interstate or foreign commerce.
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