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An Iranian supertanker hauling
$130 million worth of light crude
oil that the United States suspects
is tied to an organization on which
it has placed sanctions lifted its
anchor and begun moving away
from Gibraltar on Sunday.
The trail left by GPS data on
Marinetraffic.com showed the
Adrian Darya 1 underway shortly
before midnight southeast toward
the Atlantic.
The vessel had been detained for
a month in the British territory for
allegedly attempting to breach Eu-
ropean Union sanctions on Syria.
Gibraltar authorities rejected an
11th-hour attempt by the United
States to reseize the oil tanker
Sunday, arguing that EU regula-
tions are less strict than US sanc-
tions on Iran.
US officials had argued that
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps are the ship’s true
owners. The group is considered a
terror organization by the US but
not by the EU, Britain or Gibraltar.
Iran’s ambassador to Britain,
Hamid Baeidinejad, had earlier an-
nounced on Twitter that the ship
was expected to leave Sunday.
Shortly after the tanker’s deten-
tion in early July near Gibraltar, Iran
seized the British oil tanker Stena
Impero, which remains held by the
Islamic country. Analysts say the
Iranian ship’s release could mean
that the Stena Impero goes free.
The ship was detained while
sailing under a Panamanian flag
with the name Grace 1. As of Sun-
day, it had been renamed the
Adrian Darya 1 and had hoisted an
Iranian flag. AP‘Terror’
tanker
released
A woman’s body was found in-
side a Buffalo apartment follow-
ing a police standoff with a man
also charged in another death, of-
ficials said Sunday.
Charles Jones eventually surren-
dered Friday to police who had re-
sponded to reports of a man barri-
caded in a Jefferson Avenue apart-
ment, WKBW-TV reports.
Police then discovered the body
of a woman, whose identity was
not released by officials.
An autopsy revealed she died
from wounds caused by a sharp
object.
Jones, 24, was later charged with
murder in the July 18 stabbing of
his ex-girlfriend, Jacquette Lee, 25,
in her apartment. APBody is found
after standoff
La.’s Katrina-tainted gov, Blanco, dies at 76
Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen
Babineaux Blanco, who became
the state’s first female elected
governor only to see her political
career derailed by the devastation
of Hurricane Katrina, died Sun-
day. She was 76.
After struggling for years with
cancer, Blanco died in hospice
care in Lafayette.“Our hearts are broken, but we
are joyful in knowing that she is
rejoicing in her heavenly reunion
with Christ,” Blanco’s family said
in a statement released by Gov.
John Bel Edwards’ office.
Blanco had a rare eye cancer
that she battled successfully in- But it later returned and
spread to her liver.
The Democrat, who served in
state government for more than
two decades, announced in De-
cember 2017 that she was being
treated for the incurable mela-
noma. She described being in a
“fight for my own life.”
Blanco held Louisiana’s top
elected job from 2004 to 2008.
The devastating August 2005hurricane killed more than 1,
people in Louisiana, displaced
hundreds of thousands and inun-
dated 80 percent of New Orleans.
Blanco shouldered much of the
blame after images of thousands
stranded on rooftops and over-
passes were broadcast to the
world, and the government was
slow to respond. APPaul MartinkaBy REBECCA ROSENBERGA teenage poster boy for
bail reform who has
racked up more than 15 ar-
rests insists he’s no hard-
ened criminal — and
blames police for his
lengthy rap sheet, claim-
ing they won’t stop target-
ing him.
Pedro Hernandez, 19,
spent more than a year on
Rikers Island after refus-
ing to take a no-jail plea
deal for a 2015 Bronx
shooting, insisting on his
innocence.
The Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights Foundation
bailed him out in 2017 and
turned him into a cause
célèbre for justice-reform
crusaders. The charges
were eventually dropped.
But Hernandez, who is
suing police and the city
for false arrest in the 2015
case, keeps landing back
in cuffs.
“They’re highly target-
ing me,” Hernandez in-
sisted to The Post. “I prob-
ably spit on the floor here
and there, but I don’t think
it’s major.’’Hernandez spoke while
wearing a Gucci watch,
black T-shirt and sweat-
pants — and sporting a
scar over his left eyebrow
from an April fight for
which he was arrested on
first-degree robbery and
assault raps.
That case, too, was dis-
missed.
Hernandez has yet to be
brought to trial for any of
his alleged crimes, which
started with petty inci-
dents in the months lead-
ing up to the 2015 shooting
and went on to include ev-
erything from robbery to a
street slashing.
In some cases, the
charges were dropped. In
others, there were deals in
which he did not have to
admit any guilt.
Hernandez currently
still has two open cases
against him, both in The
Bronx.
He was busted on a reck-
less-driving rap on June 8
after allegedly blowing
through several stop signs
while fleeing cops. And on
Dec. 12, 2018, he was nabbed
for allegedly driving with-out a license — an
arrest that pre-
vented him from
attending an RFK
foundation gala
where he was sup-
posed to meet former Presi-
dent Barack Obama.
Hernandez said the al-
leged cop harassment may
force him to flee The
Bronx, where his family
lives.
“I’m going to be forced
to move to get [the police]
to leave me alone,” he said.
“For some reason, every
precinct knows me.”
He suspects that embat-
tled NYPD Detective Da-
vid Terrell, whom his law-
suit targets along with the
city, might be behind the
campaign, but Hernandez
isn’t sure. Terrell was
cleared in January of mul-
tiple other police-miscon-
duct lawsuits.
Terrell’s civil lawyer,
Eric Sanders, told The
Post, “The police aren’t
harassing [Hernandez] —
the problem is, he doesn’t
want to take responsibility
for his actions.”
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