They were scared to guard me, and I took advantage of that,” Edwards said. Towns had only 11 points on 3-for-11 shooting and fouled out midway through the fourth quarter, but his sidekicks were more than up to the challenge. Reggie Jackson (17 points) and Norman Powell (16 points) did their part in stretches, but the Clippers failed to create enough separation when the Timberwolves were sputtering through most of the first half. 8 seed against either New Orleans or San Antonio. Paul George finished with 34 points after shooting 2 for 10 in the first half for the Clippers, who have a second chance to make the playoffs with a home game on Friday for the No. “We’ve got a lot of pieces that complement each other.” “Just utilizing what we have," Russell said. 7 seed in the Western Conference and a first-round matchup with Memphis. “That’s why you have a team, because a lot of other people step up.”Įdwards scored 30 points with five 3-pointers and Russell had 29 points and six assists to send the Wolves to the No. “The game had to go in a different direction,” coach Chris Finch said. The Minnesota Timberwolves proved they belong in the playoffs, and that rare air for this franchise is just where they're headed.Įdwards and Russell combined for 59 points to help the Timberwolves overcome a rough night for Karl-Anthony Towns and beat the Los Angeles Clippers 109-104 in a play-in game on Tuesday night. Patrick Beverley supplied the intensity in an emotional triumph over his former team. I need someone.MINNEAPOLIS - Anthony Edwards and D'Angelo Russell came through with a steady stream of clutch makes. The video ends with her note: “I have nobody. She said she tried to kill herself twice, including once by drinking bleach, and constantly cut herself. It escalated into a physical attack in which she said she was beaten and left in a ditch until her father found her. But she said an encounter with another girl’s boyfriend started the bullying again, this time worse. Todd wrote that she eventually changed schools and things were better for a while. “My boobs were his profile picture,” she wrote. She said the man created a Facebook page with a list of her friends and school. She noted she was plunged into anxiety, major depression, drugs and alcohol.
She said she was later alerted by police that he had followed through with the threat. Todd said he knew her address, her school, her friends and her family. Todd’s notes said the man ordered her to “put on a show for me,” or he would send around the webcam pictures. Todd has reportedly been identified as one of his victims. He appeared before a court in Amsterdam on Wednesday to face charges of harassment and extortion. “He’s exercising his right to remain silent.” The man from Oisterwijk, a Dutch town near Tilburg, remains in police custody. and Norwegian authorities are also involved in the case. “Lots of references to IP addresses and such.” Dutch prosecutors said they were co-operating with other national authorities, including the British. “Prosecutors seem to think they have a big fish here, but if I see the evidence, it’s not much,” he said. Lawyer Van Dijk said he doesn’t believe prosecutors have sufficient evidence to convict his client, and said that even if there is evidence of unlawful activity on his computer, it may have been hacked. must first go through his Dutch legal process before he can be extradited to face separate charges in Canada. National prosecution spokesman Paul van der Zande said Aydin C. Article content THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. is also thought to have blackmailed adult men in a somewhat similar way, by convincing them that he was an underage boy, convincing them to perform sexual acts on camera, and then threatening to turn the images over to the police. “He is suspected of subsequently pressurizing them to participate in making new material.” They noted Aydin C.
“The suspicions against the man are that he approached underage girls via the Internet and then seduced them into performing sexual acts in front of a webcam,” prosecutors said in a statement. Prosecutors first publicized his case after a preliminary hearing Wednesday at which his detention was extended for three months. He lived alone, and has no wife or children. Aydin C., who has dual Dutch and Turkish nationality, has been in detention since he was arrested in January in a vacation house the town of Oisterwijk. Lawyer Christian van Dijk earlier confirmed to The Associated Press that one of the charges against his client involved a 15-year-old girl from British Columbia. Article contentĭutch prosecutors said they filed indecent assault and child pornography charges against the man.
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