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Perry Hooper Jr., a member of the National Trump Campaign Victory Committee gives two thumbs up before the parade. Hundreds of boats loaded with supporters of President Donald Trump took part in a Trump Boat Parade on Lake Martin Saturday September 19, 2020. (Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com). Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com
A former state legislator is facing a felony sex charge.
Perry Oliver Hooper Jr., 67, is charged with first-degree sex abuse, Montgomery police Capt. Saba Coleman confirmed Tuesday.
Details of the allegations against Hooper have not been disclosed and records on the case are not yet listed in Alabama’s online court system. Coleman said the alleged incident happened about 8 p.m. Aug. 16, 2022, in the 100 block of Commerce Street.
Hooper was taken into custody Tuesday by U.S. Marshals. He was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Facility at 11:56 a.m. with bond set at $15,000.
Perry Hooper Jr. (Montgomery County Detention Facility)
Hooper Jr., a Republican, served in the Alabama House of Representatives from District 73 until 2003, and remains active in the GOP.
“The Alabama Republican Party strongly condemns all forms sexual abuse and sexual assault,” the state GOP said in a statement.
“We are committed to personal rights and public safety. We will be monitoring this situation closely it makes its way through the judicial process.”
He was the co-chair of the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign in Alabama.
He is the son of Perry Hooper Sr. who served as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1995 to 2001.
Mike Cason contributed to this report.
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While the influence of QAnon in popular culture has waned in recent years, some of its theories are still eagerly shared.
One of the unevidenced narratives that continues to surface purports that a shady network of elite operators are behind a global pedophilia ring.
The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell may have reignited this belief recently and even spurred on new claims that have appeared online since.
A tweet , posted by former skater and prominent conspiracy theorist Jamie Sale on August 20, 2022, claims that Paul Walker, Anthony Bourdain, Anne Heche, and cinemaphotographer Halyna Hutchins were all working on documentaries about human trafficking and pedophilia before they died.
Screenshots of the tweet and the composite image itself spread the claim even further, being shared across other platforms including Reddit and Telegram, as well as conspiracy theory websites .
Newsweek has reached out to Jamie Sale for comment.
This type of claim has been circulating for several years. Shortly after a well-known celebrity dies, rumors begin to appear via social media that before their death they were working to expose a secretive network, usually linked to human traffickers and/or pedophiles.
Although we don't know conclusively whether QAnon supporters were behind this most recent example, the extremist conspiracy group has long been associated with popularizing the notion that an elite clandestine group of public figures are operating a secret child abuse network.
However, much like previous instances of the same claim, there is little basis to the rumor that Anne Heche, among others, was working on child abuse documentaries before she died, nor any evidence that her and other deaths mentioned were suspicious.
Heche, the Emmy-award winning star of Volcano and Donnie Brasco, died on August 12 after a car crash seven days earlier. Her car was reported to have sped out of control and crashed into a house. A toxicology report found traces of cocaine and fentanyl in her bloodstream, according to media reports .
She was taken to hospital but remained in a coma, suffering severe anoxic brain injury on August 12, when she was declared legally dead according to California law.
Heche's cause of death has been ruled an accident by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner , as a result of inhalation of smoke and thermal injuries.
Before her death, Anne Heche had been shooting a Lifetime movie, Girl in Room 13, about a woman in search of her daughter after she becomes a victim of human trafficking. Although it was said to be "inspired" by real-life events, it is not a documentary about human trafficking or pedophilia.
Anthony Bourdain died by suicide on June 8, 2018, in France; French prosecutor Christian de Rocquigny du Fayel said there was "no reason to suspect foul play." Bourdain, a celebrated chef, writer and television personality, was in France filming the latest series of Parts Unknown.
Bourdain's former partner Asia Argento claimed to have been sexually assaulted by disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, who was said to have had a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein . But this appears to be where the tenuous link ends. Argento and Bourdain had been dating around the time of his death.
Two months after his death, the New York Times reported how Argento had been accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old actor in 2013 when she was 37. The newspaper reported that she arranged to pay the actor, Jimmy Bennet, $380,000, following the accusation.
In a statement, Argento denied the allegations , but said Bourdain "personally undertook to help Bennett economically, upon the condition that we would no longer suffer any further intrusions in our life." There is no evidence that Bourdain's death was related to these allegations of sexual assault.
The chef's name previously featured in a similar list of celebrities that died after working on a film that would "expose" child abusers among the elites. The authors of the film, The Silent Children , have denied that the actor (or other names on the list) were involved in, or ever considered for the project.
The claim about Fast and Furious star Paul Walker, too, has circulated for some time, with similarly dubious suggestions that he had been killed because he was planning to "come forward exposing the Clinton Foundations crimes against children in Haiti."
As has been said by others, the claim is completely false. The only project Walker was working on at the time of his death was "Furious 7", the seventh film in the Fast & Furious franchise. Furious 7 filmmakers, through a combination of CGI and Walker's family standing-in for reference, were able to film scenes featuring his character after his death.
Walker died from the combined effects of trauma and burns after a car crash, which according to investigators was caused by a combination of the car's speed—traveling at between 80 mph (130 km/h) and 93 mph (150 km/h) in a 45 mph (72 km/h) speed zone—and age of the tires.
Halyna Hutchins, who was fatally shot on the New Mexico set of Rust on October 21, 2021, was also not linked to any documentaries about human trafficking or pedophilia. Her agent confirmed to other fact checkers that there was no documentary in the works, while the claim itself appears to have originated from a "prank news" website.
Her IMDb page does not list any such projects either. Her only planned project, referred to as Untitled 70mm Halyna Hutchins Project, was an "ambitious immigration story" set in "Victorian Ireland," according to IndieWire.
Newsweek has contacted former representative of Anne Heche for comment.
None of the people mentioned here were working on child abuse or human trafficking documentaries before their deaths. It is a type of conspiracy theory claim often circulated by and among QAnon supporters, who believe that a shady elite network is operating a pedophile ring under the noses of the general public.
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By TERRY WALLACE and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press
This photo provided by the East Pennsboro Township Police Dept. shows Jeremy Lee Pauley. Jeremy Lee Pauley, 40, of Enola, Pennsylvania, is free on $50,000 bond after police say he tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook. A spokeswoman for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock confirmed that the remains were to be donated to UAMS's facility. (East Pennsboro Township Police Dept. via AP)
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A Pennsylvania man has been charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook .
A spokeswoman for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock confirmed that the remains had been donated to UAMS’s facility and were sent to a mortuary for cremation. UAMS spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said the remains were sent to Arkansas Central Mortuary Services in Little Rock where they were allegedly stolen by a female mortuary employee and sold, adding that there is an open federal investigation.
“We are very respectful of those who donate their bodies, and we are appalled that such a thing could happen,” Taylor said.
A representative of the mortuary hung up on a reporter who reached out for comment Thursday.
FBI Little Rock spokesman Connor Hagan said the office was aware of the Pennsylvania incident “but will not comment on ongoing investigations.” No charges had been filed as of Thursday against the Arkansas woman.
East Pennsboro Township Police in Pennsylvania announced the arrest of and charges against 40-year-old Jeremy Lee Pauley, of Enola, Pennsylvania. Pauley had been arrested on July 22 and had an initial court appearance Thursday.
Calls to an attorney representing Pauley were not returned late Thursday. Pauley was released on $50,000 bond, according to court records.
On a Facebook page under his name, Pauley has posted pictures of bags and stacks of femurs, one captioned, “Picked up more medical bones to sort through." The Facebook page he uses to market his body parts is called “The Grand Wunderkammer,” “Vendors of the odd and unusual, museum exhibits, guest lectures, live entertainment, and so much more! Strange, curious, and unique in every way possible!” It also provides a link to his website.
“I think I’ve seen it all, and then something like this comes around,” said Sean McCormack, district attorney for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where Pauley was charged. “The question we had to answer was, Is the sale of body parts or bones and remains illegal ... or legal? Some of it, to our surprise, was legal. And as the investigation went on, it became clear there was illegal activity going on as well.”
Pauley, who described himself as a collector of what he called “oddities," including human body parts, said the remains were acquired legally when first contacted by police, according to a police affidavit. Police initially found what they described as older human remains including full skeletons that they determined were legally obtained.
However, after a second tip about newer remains in Pauley's home, investigators returned to the house to find more recent purchases. Police found three five-gallon buckets containing assorted body parts — including of children — and federal and state law enforcement agents intercepted packages addressed to Pauley from the Arkansas woman that contained body parts.
Pauley told investigators that he intended to resell the body parts, according to the affidavit. Investigators allege that Pauley arranged to pay the Arkansas woman $4,000 for the body parts through Facebook Messenger.
Facebook did not respond to messages seeking comments on Pauley's pages. However, its community standards prohibit human exploitation and explicitly prohibit selling body parts through its commercial policies and advertising policies.
Associated Press writer Kantele Franko of Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
This story has been corrected to show that the remains had been transferred to a mortuary for cremation when they were allegedly taken, not that the remains were stolen on their way to the university. It has also been corrected to show the FBI spokesman is called Connor Hagan, not Conor.
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