A few days ago I re-posted a piece Heavy had done about John Cramsey, The Holland Tunnel Vigilante…and now more information is coming out about this incident and Cramsey himself.
I feel it is very important that we as Patriots and Armed Citizens get the real scoop on this guy and not depend on liberal media bias, which let’s face it, does not tend to be fair to people who are “armed and dangerous” these days. We are literally getting to the point to where the media and Authorities are quick to use the word “terrorist” for anybody that is armed and poses a threat to the status quo.
Here are two articles that I think will give you a pretty fair picture of what Cramsey is all about. -SF
ALLENTOWN — Exactly four months after his daughter died of a heroin overdose, John Cramsey was reminiscing about her life with several of his friends in a group text message.
One of those friends, Lyn Baker, 55, said she left the group message around 4:30 or 5 a.m. Tuesday and went to bed, exhausted. Between the time her head hit her pillow and 7 a.m., she said, Cramsey had gotten a text message from Kim Arendt that a young girl in New York City was using heroin and needed help.
Arendt, who works with troubled youth, had counseled the young woman about two years, Baker said, and had kept in touch with her. As soon as Arendt told Cramsey about the young woman, he dropped what he was doing and headed north to rescue her.
“That’s John,” Baker, who has known Arendt for six years, said. “He’ll leave immediately, that’s just John.”
Cramsey posted on Facebook at 7:13 a.m. Tuesday, that he was outside of New York on the way to rescue the 16-year-old girl. At 7:15 a.m., Baker said a friend called her and told her to look at Cramsey’s post. By 7:37 a.m., Baker said she was on the phone with Cramsey asking him what he was doing.
Baker, who runs the Facebook group Enough is Enough with Cramsey, was usually aware of his rescues.
“He said, ‘Honey, we’re on the way to get a teenage girl. [Arendt] texted me for help. I’m taking her because she knows the girl. Don’t worry babe, I’ll text you when we get her,'” Baker recalled Cramsey saying.
The next thing she heard about Cramsey was that police had arrested him, Arendt and another friend, Dean Smith, outside of the Holland Tunnel. The three remain in prison on weapons, marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges.
While Cramsey and his friends wait in a New Jersey prison to learn their fate for allegedly transporting guns near the Holland Tunnel, their friends in the Lehigh Valley are rallying to their aid.
Baker said she’s hired a criminal defense attorney from New York City and is looking to raise the money for the trio’s bail. So far, she said, she’s raised $2,000 of the $75,000 needed.
Shortly before his arrest Tuesday, Cramsey posted on Facebook that he was on his way to rescue a girl.
“I’m currently 11 miles outside of Brooklyn New York and going to a hotel to extract a 16-year-old girl who went up there to Party with a few friends. One of those friends she went up there with will not be returning. This young lady from Wilkes Barre is scared and wants to come home. Last night she woke to find her friends body next to her in the same bed were her friend died of another heroin overdose,” he wrote.
Julie Bolcer, a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York, confirmed on Wednesday that the office was investigating the death of a young woman named Sierra Dawn Schmitt, but that the office was still looking into the cause of her death.
A law enforcement source with the New York Police Department said the young woman Cramsey was trying to rescue had notified police at around 8 p.m. Monday about the death and had said she was friends with Schmitt. NYPD officers estimate Schmitt died between 2 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. on Monday. Responding to the young woman’s call, police said they had talked with her and determined that she was safe and “not the victim of a crime,” and did not follow up with her.
It was unclear on Wednesday where the young woman was. On Tuesday, her mother, Cynthia Angeles, said she was going to drive to New York to pick her daugher up.
Allentown music reviewer Michael McKenna, Dean Smith’s best friend and business partner at Whitehall-based Nor’Easter Magazine, said he spoke to Smith and Cramsey shortly after they were arrested Tuesday.
“They were both very upbeat,” Smith said. “They are trying to stay above this and let the lawyers handle what they have to handle. They feel they were in the right.”
McKenna said friends are rallying around the trio, and there are plans in the works for fundraisers to raise bail money. A recovering addict, McKenna said that he shares Cramsey’s frustration over the heroin epidemic that’s sweeping the Lehigh Valley and believes the truth will come out that his friends are innocent.
“They were on a mission to save somebody,” he said.
He said Smith, the magazine’s editor-in-dhief, is a photojournalist who went along with Cramsey to film the girl’s rescue.
McKenna said that Smith had done a photo shoot with Cramsey the night before the Holland Tunnel incident to promote Cramsey’s gun business, and that’s why there were so many weapons in the car.
“They were props,” he said of the five pistols, loaded AR-15 rifle and loaded 12-gauge shotgun.
Baker said she knew of another “rescue” at a hotel on Airport Road when a woman had texted Cramsey asking for help. Cramsey was not heavily armed, but did have a handgun that he kept in his truck.
Cramsey found out where the woman’s room was, knocked on the door and took her to get medical help, Baker said.
“He’s not the Starsky and Hutch type breaking down doors,” Baker said. “That’s not him. He’s not bullet-proof vesting, he’s just very charismatic.”
Allentown police Capt. Daniel Wiedemann said stories about Cramsey’s extractions, some supposedly happening in Allentown, raised concerns during a command staff meeting on Wednesday.
Members of Cramsey’s anti-heroin organization Enough is Enough claimed he’s made up to a dozen successful “extractions” before Tuesday’s failed attempt near the Holland Tunnel, but Wiedemann said it was all news to the department. His name was scanned through the department’s incident-recording software and nothing came up.
“He never requested our assistance to enter any of these residences and never called for a check on the welfare,” he said. “We would never condone this behavior. We encourage all citizens to contact police if there is someone in danger.”
Weidemann said the department is unsure how much truth there is to the extraction claims, saying some may be exaggerated almost like a comic book caper. On Wednesday, some members of the group started using a Batman logo with Cramsey’s name in the middle.
Wiedemann said the department discourages anyone forming their own private organization that focuses on bounty hunting, private investigating, or performing any other duties that would be handled by police. A group like that would have to be certified by state police and not evolve through a Facebook page.
“We are the only ones who have the legal authority to enter a place,” he said. “A private citizen can’t be forcing their way into a person’s home.”
Read the Original Article at The Morning Call
John Cramsey, the owner of an Upper Milford Township gun range, was arrested Tuesday at the Holland Tunnel.
Cramsey, 50, of Zionsville, and two others face weapons and drug charges after New Jersey authorities said they found a cache of weapons, body armor, knives and a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle.
Shortly before the incident, Cramsey posted on Facebook that he was on his way to “rescue” a 16-year-old girl in New York who recently lost a friend to a heroin overdose.
Here are five things to know about the case
• The teen Cramsey was reportedly attempting to rescue had been the subject of an Amber Alert last year.
State police issued an Amber Alert for Jenea Patterson, of Wilkes Barre, in April 2015 after her boyfriend reportedly kidnapped her at gunpoint. The pair were located at a hospital in Wilkes Barre three months later.
The kidnapping charges against the boyfriend were later dropped, though he pleaded guilty to simple assault and similar charges stemming from other events the night of the alleged kidnapping.
Published reports say that after Cramsey’s arrest Tuesday, police contacted Patterson and she said she did not want to be rescued.
• Cramsey and the two others arrested with him — 53-year-old Dean Smith of Zionsville and 29-year-old Kimberly Arendt of Lehighton —remain in Hudson County Jail as of Wednesday morning, according to authorities.
• Cramsey was an outspoken advocate calling for authorities to do more to stem the tide of heroin-related deaths at several local meetings about the drug epidemic. At several of the meetings, Cramsey cried as he spoke about the “poison” that heroin dealers were peddling to addicts.
• Cramsey’s gun range, Higher Ground Tactical in Upper Milford Township, faces fines for allegedly exposing its workers to lead and noise levels well above the permissible limits, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said Wednesday authorities knew of Cramsey from a town hall meeting about heroin. He said for those trying to seek help for drug addicts, they should contact police or seek a treatment professional.
Read the Original Article at the Morning Call
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