Breaking Through

06/01/2025

https://www.breakingthrough.tv/post/va-sanctuary-sheriff-to-president-trump-immigration-enforcement-is-the-responsibility-of-federal-a

05/30/2025

🚨 DHS Just Called Out Augusta County for "Harboring Criminal Aliens"... And Honestly? They’re Not Wrong!

We elected a sheriff who literally protected a human trafficker.
He took calls from a convicted felon on the run.
He lied to federal agents.
He lied to a grand jury.
And he has continued to protect his close friend, as recently as 2024!

But now local leaders are “shocked” that Augusta County’s on a federal watchlist for being a sanctuary location?

Give us a break.

We dug into the real reason DHS flagged Augusta—and it’s not about politics. It’s about power, lies, and a county lawman who crossed every line.

👉 Watch the full report now: https://youtu.be/3qoKDjSfWWw
👀 When your sheriff coddles human traffickers, you might just end up on an immigration list for sanctuary jurisdictions!

DHS Calls Out Augusta County for 'Harboring Criminal Aliens'—But That’s Exactly What Its Sheriff DidWritten by: Samuel Orlando | Breaking Through NewsAugusta...

05/27/2025

🔥 HE’S FREE! Sheriff Scott Jenkins just got a FULL PARDON from President Trump—less than 24 hours before he was about to report to prison for 10 YEARS.

His “crime”? Appointing donors to honorary deputy roles—something that certainly seems worthy to look into. Our problem - a heavy dose of political targeting and a HUGE double standard that we saw play out in front of our eyes.

💥 Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith ran the same kind of program—even appointed romantic partners, faced a federal grand jury over perjury in a human trafficking case—and guess what? NO charges. He is still in office!!

Why? Sources say the Biden DOJ didn’t want the “optics” of going after a gay sheriff, when doing so would force him out of the closet.

That's a double standard, it definitely isn't justice. This was a hit job—and we called it out first.

On April 6, we published an open letter demanding action. Yesterday, President Trump signed Jenkin's pardon.

👉 Read the full story now: https://www.breakingthrough.tv/post/sheriff-jenkins-walks-free-after-trump-brands-biden-doj-radical-left-monsters

Watch our video news report on this story: https://youtu.be/ECTzaFGR8sY

Written by: Micheal PhillipsCULPEPER, VIRGINIA — In a surprise post issued this afternoon, President Donald J. Trump announced a full and unconditional pardo...

05/25/2025

🚨 BREAKING: Augusta County just got body slammed in the Virginia Court of Appeals—and YOU’RE picking up the tab. 🚨

In a ruling that reads like a legal roast, the Virginia Court of Appeals just slammed Augusta County for suing a Crimora auto shop over a few parked cars—and getting the law completely wrong.

Mark Baber has been fixing cars on East Side Highway since FDR was in office. But the County decided a few “inoperable vehicles” out back were some kind of zoning apocalypse.

So what did the County do?
➡️ Sued him.
➡️ Blocked him from defending himself in court.
➡️ Lost. Hard.

The Court of Appeals ruled the County misused the law, ignored the facts, and wrongly gagged a small business owner trying to defend decades of legal use. And here’s the kicker:

💥 WHEN THE COUNTY LOSES, YOU PAY.
💸 County lawyers? Taxpayer-funded.
💸 Zoning inspections? Taxpayer-funded.
💸 Baber’s legal fees (if awarded)? You guessed it—taxpayer-funded.

Augusta didn’t just overreach. They doubled down on dumb—and lost.

🔗 Read the full story: “The County That Cried Clunker: Augusta’s Legal Engine Stalls in Court”
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https://youtu.be/rlNdaf95cu8
Or you can check out our written article at:
https://www.breakingthrough.tv/post/the-county-that-cried-clunker-augusta-county-s-legal-engine-stalls-in-court
which includes a link to the full opinion!

Written by: Sam OrlandoCRIMORA, Va. — Augusta County just lost a legal battle that may have started over junked cars, but ended up spotlighting something far...

05/12/2025

🚨 “It’s Shamica, sh*t.” 🚨
An Augusta County deputy mocks a motorist on TikTok—while driving her patrol car and filing a tik tok video.

What viewers may not know? She’s already been convicted of reckless driving.

👉 Read the full story here:

'It’s Shamica, Sh*t’: Augusta Deputy Mocks Motorist on TikTok—Has Prior Reckless Driving ConvictionWritten by: Sam OrlandoAUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA — A viral TikTok video from Augusta County Sheriff’s Deputy Shamica Spears is drawing serious public backlash—not only for its content, but n...

04/22/2025

🚨 BREAKING: Tax Dollars, Private Property, and Cramped Quarters at Churchville Fire Station 🚨

Augusta County is spending over $140,000 a year on the Churchville Volunteer Fire Department—but the station where several county-paid firefighters live and work? It’s privately owned, outdated, and wasn’t built for 24/7 staffing.

📎 Insufficient shower facilities.
🛏️ Volunteer-era bunk rooms.
📉 No capital improvement funding.
❗ No public agreement on ownership.

Two longtime volunteers told us the building is “never meant for this many people.” And county emails show officials have known about the issue for months—with no plan in place.

So…
💬 What exactly are we doing—housing our first responders in broken buildings and calling it “good enough”?
It’s not good. And it’s certainly not enough.

➡️ READ the full investigation here: https://www.breakingthrough.tv/post/county-pays-140k-to-privately-owned-fire-station-where-staff-live-in-cramped-aging-conditions
🔁 SHARE to demand answers.

County Pays $140K+ to Privately Owned Fire Station Where Staff Live in Cramped, Aging ConditionsWritten by: Sam Orlando$140K in Public Funds, But No Upgrade PlansAUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA — Augusta County taxpayers shelled out more than $140,000 in public funds this year for the Churchville Volunte...

04/21/2025

📢 BREAKING: Woman Wanted for Nelson County Homicide

🚨 The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office has issued felony warrants for Katelynn Ann Hipes, 22, of Augusta County, in connection with the shooting death of Kevin Scott Small, 47, of Shipman, Virginia.

Hipes is charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Authorities say she is not currently in Nelson County and may be in another part of Virginia. A region-wide search is underway.

📅 The charges come just two days after Hipes was found not guilty in an assault and battery case filed by the victim. Online court records and community sources point to a prior legal history between the two.

🧾 Second-degree murder in Virginia is defined as an intentional but not premeditated killing. It carries a sentence of 5 to 40 years in prison.

⚠️ Hipes is considered armed and dangerous. If you have any information about her whereabouts, contact the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office immediately.

🔗 Full story: https://youtu.be/PdZaHGdm8gw

Written by: Sam OrlandoNELSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA — A 22-year-old woman from Augusta County, Katelynn Ann Hipes, is wanted in connection to the shooting death o...

04/19/2025

🌌 BREAKING: Have We Just Found Life Beyond Earth? 🌍🧬

For the first time in human history, scientists may have detected credible signs of alien life—not in a spaceship, not in a signal, but in the atmosphere of a mysterious world 124 light-years away.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted molecules that, on Earth, are ONLY produced by life—like marine microbes. The planet? A dark, ocean-covered world called K2-18b—a place where life could be thriving beneath thick clouds and crimson skies.

And here’s the twist: even if intelligent beings exist there, we may NEVER be able to talk to them. The distance is too vast. The silence, too deep. We might one day see alien civilizations... but never touch, speak to, or truly know them.

This story isn’t just about science. It’s about wonder. About loneliness. About what it means to find a whisper from the stars—and not know if we can ever answer it.

💫 Read the full story that blends real discovery with imagination, and ask yourself:
Are we finally hearing someone on the other end of the cosmic line?
👉 Check out our story below!

Written by: Sam OrlandoFor the first time in history, scientists say we may have detected credible evidence of life beyond Earth.In a study that could redefi...

04/10/2025

Breaking Through News Op-ed: President Donald Trump Should Pardon Culpeper Sheriff Scott Jenkins

🎥 Watch this open letter calling for a pardon—and share it before they make Jenkins a political prisoner.
📺 https://youtu.be/6SdWlSdGfnM
📰 https://tinyurl.com/mtww8ymv
📢 Call it what it is. If this can happen to a sheriff who backed Trump, it can happen to anyone who dares speak up. Fortunately, there is still time for President Trump to fix it!

https://youtu.be/6SdWlSdGfnM

An Open Letter to President TrumpWritten by: Sam Orlando, Editor, Breaking Through NewsCULPEPER, VIRGINIA — Now that you're back in the White House, Presiden...

04/10/2025

🔥 TRUMP SHERIFF FACES PRISON—WHILE A BIDEN DOJ-PROTECTED SHERIFF FACES NO CHARGES AT ALL?🔥

President Trump: Pardon Sheriff Scott Jenkins Before he is Sent to Prison From His Biden DOJ Convictions

This is what weaponized justice looks like.

Virginia’s Sheriff Scott Jenkins, a decorated lawman and proud Trump supporter, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for giving unpaid deputy roles to campaign donors after he announced a plan to deputize county residents to protect gun rights from the Biden DOJ. Not the type of corruption case typically brought against a Sheriff. No violence. Just a charge inflated by politics.

But another Virginia sheriff? He’s untouchable.

Meet Donald Smith, the Augusta County sheriff accused of:
🔹 Appointing romantic partners to the same unpaid deputy roles
🔹 Being investigated by a federal grand jury
🔹 Tied to a human trafficking case (USA v. Chujoy, WDVA)
🔹 Allegedly lying under oath to protect his partner, Felix Chujoy

Yet—no charges. No headlines. No prison.
Why? According to insiders, DOJ officials feared the optics of prosecuting and potentially outing a closeted gay sheriff.

Let that sink in:
One sheriff loses everything because he supported Trump.
Another sheriff, facing serious allegations and caught in a web of lies, is shielded from prosecution because it might look bad politically.

This isn’t equity.
This isn’t fairness.
This is a reminder of a DOJ bending justice to fit a narrative—and punishing anyone who won’t play along.

💣 President Trump, this is your fight. Sheriff Jenkins is being politically sacrificed, while the Biden DOJ protects one of their own for identity politics optics. That’s not justice. That’s corruption.

🎥 Watch this explosive open letter calling for a pardon—and share it before they make Jenkins a political prisoner.
📺 https://youtu.be/6SdWlSdGfnM
📰 https://tinyurl.com/mtww8ymv

📢 Call it what it is. If this can happen to a sheriff who backed Trump, it can happen to anyone who dares speak up. Fortunately, there is still time for President Trump to fix it!


https://youtu.be/6SdWlSdGfnM

An Open Letter to President TrumpWritten by: Sam Orlando, Editor, Breaking Through NewsCULPEPER, VIRGINIA — Now that you're back in the White House, Presiden...

04/05/2025

🐰💥 BREAKING: Augusta County Declares War on Bunnies 💥🐰

No, seriously. A 26-year-old nonprofit rabbit rescue—Bunny Lu Adoptions—has just been told to shut down by Augusta County because… they’re too businesslike. 🤯

They don’t sell rabbits.
They don’t make money.
They save lives.

But the County’s Zoning Board says that operating a bunny rescue out of a home violates commercial zoning laws. Yes, even for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that’s been helping abandoned animals for DECADES. 🐇💔

The kicker? They were charged $250 just to appeal. The appeal was denied. And now they need our help.

🎥 We covered the full ridiculous story—from the compost pile complaint to the GoFundMe and the county’s deeply serious war on rabbits.

📲 WATCH IT NOW: https://tinyurl.com/bdfcd3k2
📝 SIGN the petition: Link in story
💸 DONATE if you can: Link in story
🙌 SHARE to spread the word. Because yes—apparently Augusta County has declared war on rabbit rescues.
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AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA – At long last, Augusta County has done what no one else dared to do: Crack down on the scourge of underground bunny rescuers. And

03/24/2025

BREAKING: Astronomers just found a planet where the wind hits 20,000 MPH.

Yes, you read that right.
💨 Jet streams faster than sound
🔥 Day temps over 2,000°F
❄️ Nights cold enough to snap steel
🌪️ Cloud storms possibly made of sand and minerals

WASP-127b is like a gas giant on bath salts.
Orbiting so close to its star, it’s locked in an eternal weather apocalypse.
And somehow… we’re learning from it.

🧠 This isn’t sci-fi. It’s science.
Full story here 👉 https://tinyurl.com/2443f7hy

STAUNTON, VIRGINIA - Imagine standing on the edge of twilight, where the sun never fully sets and never truly rises. The sky burns on one horizon and fades