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Hawaii Five-0 Review: When Elephants and Killer Robots Attack +  April 16, 2016  Hawaii Five-O  No Comments
Hawaii Five-0
Elephants, and NFL players, and robots, oh my! There was no shortage of wacky storylines in this week’s Hawaii Five-0. The team deal with so many oddball situations this week it’s hard to tell if they an elite task force or apart of a circus round-up.

The team is called to a base for a secret defense contractor. After having the team sign confidentiality agreements, the director of the facility informs the team that an $80 million defense suit was stolen. The team furiously works to track down the suit since it is basically a fully functioning version of what Iron Man wears. They strike out with past and present employees, as well as rival investors since the Department of Justice already had wire taps on all of those.

The man wearing the supersuit takes something valuable from evidence lockup. After a thorough inventory Five-0 realizes the man took a gun which links a slippery, major criminal named Waiola to a murder. Without the gun there is no case. Steve and Danny break Waiola’s lawyer, who informs them that the monetary exchange for her client’s gun goes down in an hour. The culprit turns out to be a disgruntled former employee of the defense contractor, who was fired for trying to sell the suit’s schematics to the highest bidder. For such a high profile case, the resolution was pretty quick.

During the case Jerry’s gorgeous little sister Isobel arrives in town for a visit. Jerry thinks that his little sister is just in town on vacation from UCLA Law. *Eric finds out that it was actually Isobel who lost track of a circus elephant which nearly flattened NFL players Michael and Martellus Bennett, who made a quick cameo as themselves this week. Isobel has been working with an activist group for captive wild animals in her spare time. Years ago when Tyke the elephant escaped the circus in Honolulu and HPD had no choice put to shoot the elephant, it made a lasting impression on Isobel (on a sidenote, Hawaii Five-0 used actual footage from the attack during the episode). Even though she shouldn’t be asking, Isobel begs her brother to get the elephant she recaptured to safety. *So Jerry enlists Kamekona, Max, and Eric’s help to get Maisie the elephant to a sanctuary in Thailand. Jerry’s great at solving mysteries and conspiracies, but he’s not exactly subtle. Steve is aware of everything that Jerry and Isobel were up to, but he decides to let it go.

Lest Five-0’s greatest villain be forgotten, Kono finally learns that Gabriel went to visit Adam in prison three months ago. Now that Gabriel is basically on a killing spree to rid the island of all the gang leaders, he needs a second-in-command to help him run what he believes will be his new empire. Adam tells Kono he refused Gabriel’s offer, but given that Adam is still breathing, Kono isn’t so sure she believes her husband.


*No Elephants were used (Digitally placed into scenes and images taken from old situations of when Elephants escaped) or NFL Players were injured in the making of this episode.

Heard of Elephants
Katherine Phelps converses with Victoria Haslam about her role in Heard of Elephants.
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Sending the Signatures to Ringling Bros. Directly
First, I would like to thank you all -- all 155,000+ of you. WOW!! The power of the Internet, right?! I am so humbled by your support, comments, shares, and determination to get a victory and send these ellies to a new home.

I have been blocked by Nicole Feld, the Executive of Ringling Bros. However, that shouldn't stop us. Feld Entertainment has been through many ups and downs with animal rights activists, and we are not a small group :) In the next day or two, I will be printing our signatures and mailing them to the Feld Entertainment headquarters. With over 150,000 signatures, this will bring our petition literally to their front door.

I also invite you to begin writing your own letters to send to Feld Entertainment. You can use the letter attached to this petition as a sample or create your own. Please refrain from using any curse words or negative and threatening language. Our passion is what drives us forward, not anger.

The address to their headquarters is: 2001 US Highway 301, Palmetto, FL 34221. This Saturday, April 23rd, I am going to the Delaware Natural History Museum to see a screening of "Warlords of Ivory," which is a documentary on the illegal poaching of wild elephants. The Delaware U.S. Senator, Christopher Coons will be there, offering an after-movie speech on the importance of wildlife conservation. It is my hope that I will be able to share our petition with him and get some insight on how we can further propel our fight against animal performance and abuse.

Our work is not done, but I feel our victory every time I check this petition and read your beautiful comments. Thank you, all! Know that we are doing immaculate work, and I couldn't have done this without your support. Let's get these animals out of Ringling Bros.' hands....

Petitioning Feld Entertainment Nicole Feld: Give your Elephants Real Freedom
A year ago, Kenneth Feld, CEO of Ringling Bros., made a monumental decision to retire its 13 performing Asian elephants. The news was fantastic, not just for the elephants, but for the many animal rights activists who had been fighting for these beautiful creatures’ freedom for so long.

But the excitement died down once we learned the details of their “liberation”: the 13 Asian elephants will not be retired to a sanctuary, which strives to replicate their natural habitat in every way. Instead, they will live out the rest of their days in the Ringling Bros.’ very own Center for Elephant Conservation, a flat and nearly treeless 200-acre ranch, where they will have more room to roam, yes, but they will also still be prodded with bullhooks, shackled and kept indoors on bare concrete floors at night. In short, they will be far from free.

Please join me in calling on Ringling Bros. CEO Kenneth Feld to retire its 13 remaining elephants to a real sanctuary, so they can experience life in their natural habitat.

Ringling Bros. will also continue to breed the elephants. Why? Because Feld wants to “someday show tourists the grandeur of the Asian elephant,” in some as-yet-to-be-determined venue. For this reason, females will be kept on an endless cycle of pregnancy and birth. He has also invested in medical research using the elephants’ blood, and is dedicated to keeping them on hand for that reason. This is not freedom, and it is not humane.

Ringling’s Center for Elephant Conservation is a step up from circus performing, certainly, but Feld still has a long way to go to show these majestic creatures the respect they’ve earned from their decades of service (some of them have performed for Ringling for nearly a half century).

Help me get these humble creatures the freedom they deserve. Your voice matters because they do. Let’s stand up for what’s right and demand that CEO Kenneth Feld retire these elephants to a true sanctuary.


Thank you for sending a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget about the proposed U.S. ivory ban.
Banning ivory sales in the U.S. has been a tough battle so far, but we're glad to have advocates like you working with us. Together we can help curb the demand for ivory and give elephants a fighting chance for survival.
We need the Office of Management and Budget to move quickly to finalize this rule, and what could convince them better than an outpouring of support from elephant lovers like you and your friends?!
Want to reach out to friends that aren't on Facebook? You can copy and paste the email below instead.
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Hi,
Did you know that on average 96 elephants are killed every day in Africa? Right now, there's a poaching crisis unlike anything we've seen in decades. Across the globe, the demand for ivory – both legal and illegal – is driving Africa's forest elephants to extinction.
This has to stop. And you and I can help. I just sent a letter urging the White House Office of Management and Budget to quickly finalize a ban on selling ivory products in the U.S. Will you join me?


It's important to send your letter TODAY. If this proposed rule doesn't get finalized soon, all of our progress could be lost. The clock is ticking for elephants!
Burma (Myanmar) don't slaughter the elephants who worked in the timber industry! Take care of them in sanctuaries with enough medical supplies
Burma (Myanmar) don't slaughter the elephants who worked in the timber industry! Take care of them in sanctuaries with enough medical supplies

BY: Rita Claessens Elephant Freedom Fighters

TARGET: President Thein Sein, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (Myanmar),Environmental Conservation Department

8,635 of the 10,000 Goal

Some 5,000 elephants are used in Burma's timber industry. When logging stops, they'll either be left to fend for themselves in the wild or else slaughtered for their hides and tusks
Last year, in the land that is now officially known as Myanmar, total timber exports surpassed 1.24 million cubic tons and generated more than $1 billion in revenue, of which teak alone earned $359 million. From Tuesday, however, the new quasi-democratic government is banning the export of round logs and slashing its total logging quotas. The plan is to stimulate a domestic milling and carpentry industry and protect already plundered forest, which plummeted from 58% of total land in 1990 to 47% in 2010, according to government figures.

But while applauded in many environmental quarters, this move will likely spell disaster for the more than 5,000 elephants and their oosi, or handlers, who rely on this trade.
Currently, 2,851 of these working animals belong to the state-run Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE), while around 2,700 belong to private firms involved in logging, says Tin Win Maw, who founded Green Valley Elephant Camp in Shan State for retired timber elephants.

After some 25 years backbreaking toil, “some have health problems — cardiac problems or eye problems — and we decide they are not suitable to work any longer,” she tells TIME. The government has camps for retired elephants, but “they don’t have enough resources” and need to “give more supplementary treatments” for elephants that fall ill.

In the wake of the April 1 logging ban, and with nowhere else to go, many timber elephants may be released into the wild, but “because of deforestation there are not enough habitats for them,” the campaigner adds. Competition for land and food will likely bring them into conflict with humans;
If not set free, elephants risk being slaughtered for their precious ivory or hides. Many could also be smuggled across the border to Thailand and put to work in the tourism industry, where animal abuse is rife. Still others could used in Burma’s illegal timber trade, which in fact accounts for the great majority of the business. Click to help!

DEMAND THAT CNN STOP SHOWING PEOPLE RIDING ELEPHANTS/ELEPHANTS DOING TRICKS IN TRAVEL ADS
'We urgently request that you take down the video clips of people riding on elephants in your CNNGo TV advertisement as well as the elephant kicking a ball in the Thailand advertisement. You are a great news channel with a good reputation of caring for not just people but the environment and nature too, and stand up against cruelty. Most people do not realize the unspeakable cruelty and abuse baby elephants have to go through after they have been stolen from their mothers at a very young age, to get to the point of being ridden and doing tricks. The fact that you show it in your advertisements endorses this cruelty, make people think it is ok and perpetuates the situation.

This petition will be delivered to: CNN Advertizing


Please help to establish peace between humans with elephants.
Please help to establish peace between humans with elephants.

BY: Animal Rescue Team - UNC

TARGET: To All

1,522 of the 2,000 Goal

Overview Petition
Elephants don't have foods to eat from the deforestation around the world. So, They are coming to villages from forests to find the foods with hungry & angry. Then humans & elephants are fighting like a war.

Animal Rescue Team in Sri Lanka, join with villagers, are supplying banana & fruits to elephants to eat & establish the friendship with elephants.  Additionally we are educating the villagers to stop deforestation, plant more fruit trees in forests & supply more fruits to elephants to establish the friendship with elephants.We donated 10 million activated fruit seeds to Wildlife Department of Sri Lanka to reforestation & we helped to Wildlife department to reforestation of fruit trees in a lot of forests. We are getting very good response from a lot of areas from this programme.

But we are having limited funds. So, we are inviting to all to join to help to expand this peace programme between humans with elephants. Thanking you, GOD BLESS YOU. Animal Rescue Team- Universal Naturaliustic Centre. Email - unc34@yahoo.com - Click here to help!


Dozens of heavily-armed hunters rode into a national park in Cameroon, butchered over 600 majestic elephants, then hacked off their faces for their tusks. Poachers have annihilated half of central Africa’s last elephants. And no one's been able to stop them.
Until now!

Brave investigators have gone undercover in poaching rings in eight African countries, and already 1,200 traffickers have been jailed!

It’s awe-inspiring stuff, and it’s won awards, but many funders are wary of going head-to-head with organised crime. We may be the best community to scale this extraordinary operation, fast.

Four elephants are killed an hour -- it’s a race against time before we lose these gentle giants forever. But if we each give now, this team can expand to more countries, lock up more kingpins and complicit officials, and we can campaign to rescue these beautiful creatures from industrial-scale slaughter.


This carnage is happening across the continent. Paid-for-hire poachers track elephants, leopards, apes, and all kinds of endangered creatures, then bigwigs bring in helicopters and heavy weapons to hunt them down and butcher them for their skins and tusks. This is a 19 billion dollar business run by international mafias, and they’re getting away with it by bribing everyone in sight.

But now the courageous Eco-Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement (EAGLE) network is taking them on at each step of the criminal chain -- infiltrating the gangs undercover, working with police to supervise arrests, and making sure the bosses are jailed.

Their unprecedented success has won them acclaim from Interpol, WWF and the Duke of Edinburgh, but so far these heroes work on a tiny budget, powered primarily by a deep love for these animals. If we all donate a small amount, here’s what we could do:


  • Help train and sustain dozens of undercover investigators to infiltrate the most wanted networks in more countries and get their chiefs behind bars;
  • Support investigations of complicit officials and politicians who enable the bloody trade;
  • Run massive campaigns around arrests and court appearances to change the culture of impunity; and
  • Investigate and expose companies and governments profiting from selling ivory and other wildlife products.
Few of us would be prepared to put our lives on the line to save our fellow species from human ruthlessness and immeasurable greed. Now, we can support these wildlife warriors who are doing just that. Let’s put the power of our community behind them -- click to donate now:
https://twitterstorms.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/elephants/

One Elephant dies every 15 minutes. If this continues elephants could be extinct in 10 years. We cannot afford to let this happen. Elephant babies are snatched away from their families by countries like China and the United States to be placed into zoos, circuses, and to be used as props in weddings and for human entertainment. This is modern day slavery and must be stopped. Members of our own government are lobbying to loosen restrictions on ivory, which will enable poachers, even though we know illegal ivory funds terrorists and makes us all unsafe. Please join S.H.A.M.E. United and Breeze Azrael in Mini Tweet Storm for Mali, Nosey, Kavaan and other elephant related causes!! We must speak out for these gentle, intelligent, social animals before it's to late. 

This event also hosted by Breeze Azrael.
FOR NOSEY, MALI, KAVAAN & ALL ELEPHANTS WHO ARE SUFFERING AROUND THE WORLD!
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Apr 16 - Apr 30
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Breaking News!  Rhea has been loaded onto our elephant ambulance, and is on her way to be reunited with her "sisters" Mia and Sita at our rescue center!
 Her decades in the circus are officially behind her, thanks to all of you who have loved and supported her from afar. Never again will she be beaten. Never again will she suffer from hunger or thirst. Never again will her injuries go untreated. Never again will she be without the loving companionship of other elephants.
Before loading her onto the ambulance, our rescue team removed her chains, gave her a cooling bath, and filled her tummy with coconuts, watermelons, and bananas (her favorite!). 

Now she has a long journey ahead of her, but we hope she can already sense that her life has changed, and that she is with people who will always treat her with love and kindness.

Best of all? Her sisters, Mia and Sita, are waiting for her at our rescue center. We truly can't wait to see their beautiful reunion.
They say elephants never forget. But we've seen first hand how they can move on from painful pasts, and embrace futures filled with love and freedom. 


We'll be posting updates from the trip on our Facebook page all weekend long, so be sure to follow us there for all the latest news. 

According to Wildlife SOS, Rhea has experienced untold cruelty and abuse in her life. They believe she was likely poached as a calf and beaten to make her submissive to her keepers.
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Amidst the daily horrors this elephant likely had to endure, she has the support of two other elephants, Mia and Sita. When Wildlife SOS learned about these three, they started paperwork to release them all, however, securing Rhea’s freedom was delayed in the process.
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Without Mia and Sita, Rhea was left to languish alone for months. But now, Wildlife SOS has won her release and this sweet elephant is on her way to a new life, spent in the company of her best friends!
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Life in the circus has left Rhea with a number of ailments, such as arthritis and cracked toenails. These conditions are very common amongst captive elephants who are forced to stand on hard surfaces, getting little movement or exercise. Wildlife SOS rescuers report that she walks with a limp, but once she receives proper treatment at their Elephant Conservation and Care Centre, Mathura, they will know more. She might have a long road to full recovery, but with the help of the sanctuary staff and her loving besties, we’re sure it will be an enjoyable one! To learn more about Wildlife SOS and the amazing work they do, click here. All image source: Wildlife SOS

Thank you for caring, and for making Rhea's reunion with Mia and Sita possible. 

May 2 - The extended Reporting Date for Judicial Committee Approval

Apr 15, 2016 — Thank you for an overwhelming support of the campaign. We initially started with a target of 100 signatures and have reached 130k in 6 weeks. I would like to provide an update that the Judicial Committee (Senator William Brownsberger and Representative John Fernandes) will review the Bills S.440 and H.1275, so that it could be presented in the Senate.
The states of New York, New Jersey and California have already banned the sale of Ivory and Rhino Horn based products. Our Bills are based on similar structures and these states have shown that a Ban on the sale is easily possible. I urge you to share the petition with your families, friends so that we can reach a goal for 200k before May 2. Thank you!

Enact Legislation Outlawing Ivory and Rhino Horn Trade in Massachusetts

In 2014, President Barack Obama gave hope to the last remaining wild African elephants by issuing an executive order banning ivory in the U.S. Sadly, two years later, the U.S. is still the second largest market for the illegal ivory trade, behind China. This is largely true because the order fails to close several in-state sale loopholes. My state of Massachusetts plays a role in this market -- Boston has been ranked 4th in the U.S. for sales of ivory advertised on Craigslist. We must stop this.

It is up to states to close the loopholes in Obama’s order, and New Jersey, New York and California have done just that by passing laws banning the sale of ivory within their borders. There is currently a bill sitting in the House Judiciary Committee that would do the same in Massachusetts.

Please join me in urging the Massachusetts state legislature to pass Bills S.440 and H.1275 banning the import, in-state, and internet sale and distribution of ivory and rhino horns.

On average, 96 elephants are killed for their tusks every day, and 1,200 rhinoceroses are killed annually. They are killed using AK47s, poisoned watermelons, cyanide dumped in watering holes, and poisoned darts that lead to weeks of extreme suffering before they die. Their tusks or horns are often hacked off while the animal is still alive. At this rate, these keystone species could be extinct within 20 years.

Poaching is also a national security issue, as extremist groups and terrorist organizations are often involved in wildlife trafficking, using it to finance their military operations. Wildlife trafficking is among the top 5 criminal markets worldwide alongside narcotics, weapons, human trafficking, and counterfeiting.

Action is needed before May 2nd, 2016, when the Judiciary Committee gives its recommendation on the Bill.

Let's urge our lawmakers to partner with the world in saving elephants and rhinos. Sign my petition asking them to pass these bills banning the ivory trade within Massachusetts borders. Photo Credit : Brent Stirton

This petition will be delivered to:
State Senator William Brownsberger, State Representative John Fernandes, State Senator Jason Lewis, State Representative Lori Ehrlich

Every day, 96 elephants are killed for their ivory – a rate that makes extinction a very real threat.

Thanks to the hard work of wildlife advocates like you, the U.S. is taking steps to curb the demand by banning the sale of ivory.

This U.S. ban will save elephants' lives, but unless the federal government approves it quickly the proposal could be easily abandoned by the next president! Will you help make sure elephants get this crucial protection before it's too late?

Send a letter urging the White House Office of Management and Budget to quickly push through the U.S. ivory ban.

You may think that ivory is already illegal to buy and sell, but that's not completely true. Currently, the only thing preventing illegal ivory from flooding the U.S. market as it has in years past is a temporary order from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Unless the Obama Administration completes a final rule to permanently close these terrible loopholes, poachers and traffickers will continue slaughtering elephants to near extinction to sell their blood ivory in the United States.

The proposed rule banning the sale of ivory is currently with the Office of Management and Budget. But if they don't act soon, all of our progress to date could be lost. That means it will be up to the new administration to finalize the U.S. ban next year, if they even move it at all.

Elephants don't have that kind of time.

It only takes a minute to make a difference. Tell the White House Office of Management and Budget to finalize the U.S. ivory ban as soon as possible to help save elephants.

The clock is ticking for elephants. I just hope we can do our part in time.


Get African Elephants Classified as Endangered Species

In Defense of Animals
African elephants are currently listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, but the US Fish and Wildlife Service is considering uplisting them to "endangered," which would help to dramatically increase their protection. The issue is open for public comments until May 16th to help determine if the change in status is appropriate and justifiable. It is up to us to speak out now for the elephants!

Endangered species status would help protect African elephants by largely prohibiting trophy hunting imports, as well as domestic and international trade and trafficking of elephant parts, including ivory. The US Fish and Wildlife Service first listed African elephants as "threatened" in 1978. Since that time there has been a nearly 60% decline in elephant populations, due to habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, trophy hunting, and poaching for the ivory trade. African elephants are dying faster than they are being born. The problem, and the solution, is in human hands. Click here to read more and take action.

Stop Elephant Poaching in Conservation Area.


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Target: Werner Myburgh, CEO of the Peace Parks Foundation
Goal: Stop elephant poaching in Africa’s Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.
Elephants are being wiped out at a shocking rate by poachers in a conservation area that has been known as an elephant haven until now. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in southwestern Zambia was thought to be one of the last territories where African elephants still lived in abundance. However, recent findings from the Great Elephant Census have exposed it as the location of “the worst poaching of any major savanna elephant population” with an estimated 95 percent drop in elephant numbers according to National Geographic.
The conservation area is popular for poachers because it is largely isolated from human activity, with tourism and research discouraged in order to preserve the habitat. As a result, it is easy for poachers to operate without discovery as the area is mostly unmonitored. Kavang-Zambezi’s location is also ideal because the region overlaps Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe, meaning that poachers can easily escape law enforcement by crossing international borders.
Elephants in the area are threatened not only by poachers but by habitat loss as well. Illegal logging is a problem throughout Africa, and the clear-cutting of teak forests is occurring at an alarming scale in the park. As a result, many of the area’s elephants have migrated to different territories, causing their numbers to further decrease.
Clearly, a greater conservation effort is needed in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area to save what remains of its elephant population. Sign the petition below to demand that the area is closely monitored for poachers and that better law enforcement is enacted to protect the African elephant from dying out.
Dear Mr. Myburgh,
Elephants are being killed off by poachers at an alarming rate in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. According to recent findings from the Great Elephant Census, this conservation area that has been known as an elephant haven is now the location of “the worst poaching of any major savanna elephant population,” and something needs to be done to end this devastating threat to the region’s elephants.
The conservation area is a popular location for poachers because of its convenient location in a region overlapping Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe, making it easy to evade law enforcement by crossing international borders. It is also an area that is largely isolated from human activity, so poaching operations can easily go unmonitored.
Illegal logging has also been occurring in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, and this habitat loss has had a negative impact on the area’s elephant population as well. The combination of habitat loss and poaching will quickly wipe out the elephants that remain if conservation efforts are not increased. I am urging you to encourage stricter law enforcement in the conservation area. Please take action to protect the declining population of elephants and ensure that the region is closely monitored for poachers and other illegal activity.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo credit: Richard Towell

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Organised crime sets sights on wildlife (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26153516

African Conservation Group With Unusual Mission: Enforcement (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/science/african-conservation-group-with-unusual-mission-enforcement.html

Elephant population halved in Cameroon killing spree (IFAW)
http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/news/elephant-population-halved-cameroon-killing-spree-graphic-images

African elephants could be extinct 'within a decade' (Telegraph)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/articles/African-elephants-could-be-extinct-within-a-decade/

Senegal seizes illegal elephant hair jewellery (Reuters)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-senegal-elephants-idUKKBN0OR29920150611

Wildlife chief arrested as net closes on traffickers selling chimpanzees to Far East (The Express)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/602475/Wildlife-trafficker-selling-chimpanzees-arrested