Mustang Red1A incident records are available and now public after a construction accident in March severely injured a contractor.
Google is investing over $600 million in the new data center in Red Oak to power the increasing digital demands locally.
The company said it will invest an initial $330 million in Texas this year. They expect final costs to total at least $600 million over multiple years.
The investment will result in 1200 temporary construction jobs, but only thirty full time jobs on completion.
Mustang Red1A Incident Records Public
In March, an employee was pinned between a housing deck and a mobile home trailer at the construction site.
North Texas Job Fair 2023 is happening today at the Irving Convention Center from 11:00AM to 3:00PM. Organizers expect nearly 400 hundred employers to be present.
Local Member of Congress Beth van Duyne has organized the event with a bipartisan coalition of elected officials. Van Duyne is also the former Mayor for the City of Irving.
This job fair follow several others like it, but much larger in scope and size.
Some of the companies in attendance include FC Dallas, Toyota, UPS, DFW Airport, Amazon and American Airlines.
Additionally, Bell Textron, AT&T, the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, CHRISTUS Health, Holt CAT, Bank of the West, Baylor Scott & White Health, and Marriott International will attend.
North Texas Job Fair 2023 Also Back To School Fair
In addition to job offerings, the event will feature back to school supplies while they last.
Students in Dallas are headed back to school in just one week.
An incident at Google Mustang Red1A project has employees shaken. Monday morning an employee was pinned between a housing deck and a mobile home trailer at the construction site.
A firefighter who responded to the scene said the trade worker was transported to Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
The employee is described as being critically injured. He was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit with multiple fractures and an internal arterial bleed.
It is unclear what led to the Monday tragedy, but an investigation is underway.
Google Mustang Red1A
The Mustang Red1A site just started construction in the past two months.
The site is being built by Holder Construction for Google on the Dallas/Ellis County line under extreme secrecy. The perimeter is guarded twenty-four hours a day and no one is allowed on site without approval.
Several conservative activists have noted the future buildings will house a data center used by the National Security Administration.
American unprepared for emergencies in the air per a new lawsuit alleging the airline did not have properly functioning equipment.
The lawsuit alleges American Airlines did not have a properly functioning automated defibrillator on board in 2022 when a teen died.
Kevin Greenidge was on flight AA614 on June 4, 2022 when he became unconscious and went into cardiac arrest. Crew members tried to administer a shock from the automatic external defibrillator, but its battery was not functioning per the lawsuit.
Melissa Arzu, Greenidge’s mother, says his death was a result of carelessness and gross negligence by the airline. She cited the uncharged mobile battery pack and lac of employee training in resuscitation.
Federal law requires airlines to have medical equipment such as defibrillators on board. The law also required flight crew to be trained in the use the equipment.
Arzu’s complaint states Greenidge sustained several injuries prior to his death. Had he survived, the complaint reads he would have been entitled to actual and punitive damages.
More than 350,000 people die of sudden cardiac arrest in the United States every year per the 9-11 Foundation.
Survival rates are as high as seventy percent when they are defibrillated within the first three minutes.
Multiple Reports: American Unprepared For Emergencies
American Airlines is having a challenging legal year.
An American jet hit a bus on the tarmac of Los Angeles International Airport earlier this year. Crews initially refused to speak to investigators.
Dirty Dallas is in the top third of dirty cities in the United States.
Per a new report, Dallas ranks 38th out of more than 150 dirty cities. This ranking makes it slightly more clean than Houston and San Antonio.
Six of the top fifty most dirty cities are in Texas.
Other Side Dallas loves living in the city and access to the arts, culture, and nightlife – when safe to be part of it. However, more residents usually align with more dirt. This includes pollution, rats, and trash.
Some cities are more effective than others in tackling these issues.
Lawnstarter compared over 150 of the largest cities across the United States in four categories. Those were pollution, living conditions, infrastructure, and consumer satisfaction.
Dirty Dallas
A few years ago Dallas improved its standing with rats – with fewer of them in the city per an Orkin report.
However, during COVID19, trash pileups happened and there were numerous delays in city garbage service.
These delays led some in the community to start their own “Clean the Block” initiatives to improve Dallas.
A new lawsuit says American Airlines jails wrong man and the details are shocking. Worse, another criminal is still out on the loose.
The lawsuit alleges Michael Lowe was arrested in New Mexico during a celebration with friends. Local police were called to investigate a disturbance and ended up arresting Lowe not for the party, but an outstanding warrant from Tarrant County, Texas.
“Mr. Lowe’s confusion was profound – he did not know where Tarrant County, Texas was and could not even remember the last time he was in the state,” the lawsuit, filed Monday, says. Tarrant County, located west of Dallas, includes the cities of Fort Worth and Arlington.
Lowe said he was not informed for seventeen days the nature of his arrest. He called those seventeen days and nights at the Quay County Detention Center “excruciating.” His only connection to Tarrant County was on a layover flight through Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport.
Now, Lowe is suing American Airlines, saying negligence by American and its employees leds to his improper arrest.
Dallas Fort Worth Airport Incident
In May 2020, a burglar broke into a duty-free store at Dallas Fort Worth airport. Surveillance cameras show the suspect boarding American Airlines flight 2248 (AA2248).
Lowe was on the flight, AA2248, to Reno, Nevada, but denied burglarizing the duty-free store.
Surveillance photos show a suspect wearing different clothing and a different hairstyle.
Airport police asked American Airlines for a passenger manifest for AA2248. The airline provided only one suspect: Michael Lowe.
Lowe Lawsuit
“American Airlines could have provided its entire manifest for the flight or a list of all individuals who matched a certain description (ex: all white males over eighteen and under 65). American Airlines also could have performed an adequate search to identify the correct suspect and provide his information to law enforcement. Instead, American Airlines affirmatively and wrongfully identified Mr. Lowe as the single suspect of the DFW Airport PD’s felony investigation which foreseeably led to Mr. Lowe being arrested and imprisoned for a crime he was innocent of,” the lawsuit reads in part.
Lowe’s court filing he describes the threat of violence from other incarcerated persons. His suit also allegees risk of catching COVID19. This was due to crowded cell conditions at the New Mexico detention facility.
After seventeen days, a guard told him he was being released.
“Sometime after Mr. Lowe’s release from jail, Detective Torres obtained Mr. Lowe’s mug shot from Quay County and compared it to the photos of the culprit; it was obvious that American Airlines had the wrong person,” per Lowe’s lawsuit.
The charges were dismissed, but the lawsuit describes Lowe as a “changed man.”
Scott Palmer, Lowe’s attorney, told local media he places the blame on the airline. “I blame American,” he said. “Without American doing what they did, (the detective) never would have issued a warrant. It all starts with the disclosure of his name and his name only.”
Lowe is seeking damages for the emotional distress of wrongful arrest, as well as his lost wages and income as a result of his detainment.
American Airlines Jails Wrong Man – Not Only Incident
The lawsuit comes as American Airlines is hit by American Idol start Kacey Musgraves with a complaint of appalling behavior by a male flight crew member.
American Airlines staff would not comment for Other Side Dallas.
Musgraves went on to say she witnessed “his extremely overblown, unnecessary aggression and erratic behavior.”
“He made me feel unsafe and upset to the point of crying and I witnessed another passenger he also made cry,” Musgraves wrote. “The female flight attendants on board vocalized their own disbelief, and struggles with him as well.”
Reaction Appalling American Airlines
American Airlines would not confirm to Other Side Dallas any details of the investigation into the allegations, or whether any actions had been taken against the accused employee.
Red power ranger PPP fraud has kids and parents wondering aloud what happened to the Small Business Administration program that was supposed to get businesses back on their feet during COVID19.
“What is it with you hero types?”
That is a common phrase for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, but there may be a new phrase for Jason Geiger, who goes by the stage name Austin St. John, soon.
Red Power Ranger PPP Fraud
Geiger is the North Texas man who once played the Red Power Ranger on the iconic 1990s television show.
He was among eighteen people arrested in a federal Paycheck Protection Program fraud case.
According to federal prosecutors, the McKinney actor and others from both North Texas and Florida “executed a scheme to defraud lenders and the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program” out of millions of dollars.
The list of those arrested includes fourteen North Texans:
Michael Lewayne Hill, a/k/a Tank, 47, of Mineral Wells;
Andrew Charles Moran, 43, of Lewisville;
Peter Keovongphet, a/k/a Lil’ Pete, 34, of Ft. Lauderdale, FL;
Ty Alan Burkhart, 34, of Frisco;
Jason Geiger, a/k/a Austin St. John a/k/a the Red Power Ranger, 47, of McKinney;
Eric Reed Marascio, a/k/a Phoenix Marcon, 50, of Allen;
Christopher Lee McElfresh, 43, of Frisco;
Cord Dean Newman, 44, of Homosassa, FL;
Elmer Omar Ayala, 45, of Midlothian;
Gregory Fitzgerald Hatley, Jr., 38, of Allen;
Alexander Eric Cortesano, 52, of Dallas;
Arthur Atik Pongtaratik, 33, of Carrollton;
Miles Justin Urias, 34, of Richardson;
Fabian C. Hernandez, 44, of Lake Alfred, FL;
Daniel Lee Warren, 33, address unknown;
Rajaa Bensellam, 49, of Allen;
Hadi Mohammed Taffal, 50, of Allen; and
Jonathon James Spencer, a/k/a Spence, 33, of Rowlett
Hill is alleged to have recruited people to use existing businesses or create businesses to apply for PPP funding. Morgan then helped with the paperwork and fabricated documents.
“Once in receipt of the fraudulently obtained funds, the defendants did not use the money as intended, such as to pay employee salaries, cover fixed debt or utility payments, or continue health care benefits for employees. Instead, the defendants typically paid Hill and Moran, transferred money to their personal accounts, and spent the funds on various personal purchases,” a news release states.
“There’s going to be documents that will show the bank account being open, the money coming out, the money going out. All of that will be well documented,” former federal prosecutor John Helms said.
The defendants, including Jason Geiger, aka Austin St. John, are accused of misusing at least $3.5 million from at least 16 fraudulent loans and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
PPP Fraud and Extorted Minority Applicants
In September 2021, we reported on persons extorting money from minority SBA loan applicants, but to date neither the Small Business Administration nor the US Attorney’s Office has taken any action.
Contractors and staff of SBA extorting minority applicants per phone calls and screen shots. Staff members of the Small Business Administration Region 6 have refused multiple requests for comment at the time.
In one partial screenshot, a staff member releases information to a third party “finder.” The finder then offers to broker the application with SBA for fees of ten percent to the SBA staff member and five percent to the finder.
Goree and other staff have refused multiple requests for comment as to why staff members are heard asking for kickbacks. They have also not responded to multiple requests for comment on process or how information is contained.
There has been at least one local suicide secondary to PPP fraud and SBA’s non responsive civil service staff.
Those businesses are now feeling the crunch of employees testing positive for COVID19 in a wave of Omicron variant infections which have propelled numbers past last year’s highs.
