A North Carolina minister has been forced to step down from his position at his former church after news spread online that he urinated on a female passenger during a flight from Las Vegas to Detroit on October 12th. Daniel Chalmers resigned from his position at the Catch The Fire church in Raleigh, North Carolina, following the controversy.

The church’s lead pastors, Murray and Ash Smith told the newspaper that Chalmers “expressed grief and horror” about the incident, but referred to the minister’s actions as “disorderly conduct” in a later statement.

“We were saddened to hear of the news yesterday involving one of our non-pastor employees in a disorderly conduct incident earlier this month. We take these matters very seriously. This behavior is not a reflection of Catch The Fire, our leadership, and its members,” the statement read.

According to media reports, Chalmer was drunk and under the influence of Ambien during the time of the incident. He reportedly had a blood-alcohol level of .17.

The victim, Alicia Beverly, told police that she woke up on the plane around 2:45 a.m. to find a man urinating on her.

“It felt warm, like on the side of me, I felt something warm. I jump up and I seen his private area out and I screamed and that woke everybody up. By that time I actually looked at him and I see him shake himself off and I’m like this man just peed on me! I looked and there was a puddle of pee in the seats!” Beverly said.

Chalmers denied the accusation but was escorted off the plane and taken into custody once the plane landed. He was then interviewed by an FBI agent and cited or assault before he was released.

In a statement apologizing for the incident, Chalmers said:

“I want to sincerely apologize for my actions on this overnight flight. I took an Ambien for the first time to sleep well on my flight and had a terrible reaction. I am so sorry for how this affected everyone on this flight and especially one lady passenger in particular. I have reached out and apologized to her as well. I want to please ask everyone for their forgiveness in this. I never intended or wanted for this to happen,” he said.

Common side effects of Ambien include daytime sleepiness, headache, nausea, and diarrhea. Other side effects include memory problems, hallucinations, and substance abuse. More than ten million prescriptions are filled a year in the United States, making it one of the most commonly used treatments for sleeping problems. In 2017, it was the 50th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than fifteen million prescriptions.

However, the substance does have a reputation for abuse, and has been known to cause users to sleepwalk as well.

Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious $22 million Palm Beach mansion In Palm Beach, Florida, is set to be demolished, according to a developer who recently purchased the property. Florida-based property developer Todd Michael Glaser said that the existing building will be demolished to make room for a larger and more expensive building on the property. He said that the local residents of Palm Beach will be happy to see the building go.

Luxury real estate agent Mary Jane “MJ” McElwaney, of the Nicklaus Vance Realty Group in North Palm Beach, told realitor.com that there was a stigma attached to the house.

“It’ll be a betterment to the community to get rid of the house and the bad energy attached to it,” McElwaney said.

Glaser said he intends to build an Art Moderne residence which he expects to be completed in the spring of 2022. the property was initially on the market for $22 million, but Glaser did not say how much he actually paid in the final sale. He did reveal that he hopes to eventually put the new house on the market for $40 million. This price would not be unusual for the area, a home in the area that was once owned by John Lennon and Yoko Ono recently sold for $36 million, after being listed for nearly $50 million.

Glaser said that there is a high demand in this area because so much of the real estate is already spoken for, which drives up the cost of the remaining houses. Epstein’s home was likely purchased for a comparatively small rate because of the reputation of its former owner.

“There are $50 million buyers and no houses for them to buy. I’ve never seen a pent up demand like this. There is no inventory,” Glaser said.

The property sits along the Intracoastal Waterway, which is a very high demand area.

Glaser works exclusively in Palm Beach, Miami Beach, and Nantucket, so he won’t be going after any of Epstein’s other US properties. Epstein’s townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is still on the market for $88 million, according to a listing with the Modlin Group. Epstein had numerous properties all over the world that are being liquidated with his estate. Much of his estate will be going towards a victim compensation fund.

New details about Epstein’s crimes and his associates are expected to be revealed during the upcoming criminal trial against Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein and Maxwell were connected with major players on both sides of the political spectrum, including the Clintons and the Trumps, who have a lot to lose if Maxwell discusses their involvement with Epstein’s trafficking ring. With how many people that Epstein was connected to there is no telling what can be revealed in the upcoming trial.

Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. Epstein’s lawyers have disputed the ruling, and there has been significant public skepticism about the true cause of his death.

Some of President Trump’s Republican allies are not joining Trump in declaring victory, and seeking to stop vote-counting in some key regions. Several GOP leaders who have supported Trump for the past four years and publicly criticizing the Trump administration’s attempts to call an early victory.

Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell disagreed with the president, telling The Associated Press that “claiming you’ve won the election is different from finishing the counting.”

Millions of votes are still left to be counted, and many Trump allies are urging patience as the final votes are tallied, even after Trump himself is declaring victory in states like Pennsylvania where many mail-in ballots have still not been counted.

Republicans who have criticized Trump's false claims of victory and/or said count every vote:

- Mitch McConnell
- Marco Rubio
- Rob Portman
- Mike Lee
- Gov.-elect of Utah
- Chris Christie
- Rick Santorum
- AZ Gov. Ducey
- Mike Huckabee
- John Bolton https://t.co/OJcy0xpngd

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 4, 2020

former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told ABC News that there was “no basis” for claims of voter fraud made by the administration.

“There’s just no basis to make that argument tonight. There just isn’t. All these votes have to be counted that are in now. You have to let the process play itself out before you judge it to be flawed. And by prematurely doing this, if there is a flaw later, he has undercut his own credibility. So I think it’s a bad strategic decision, it’s a bad political decision, and it’s not the kind of decision you would expect someone to make tonight who holds the position he holds,” Christie said.

On Wednesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told Fox News that he would accept the results if Biden was elected.

“I am for Trump…if it ends up being Biden, all of us will accept that. We believe in the rule of law. Every vote has to be counted. We as a country accept election results. We believe in counting all the votes,” De Wine said.

“Stop. Full stop. The votes will be counted and you will either win or lose. When the results are confirmed, we must accept the outcomes with respect for our democracy,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois replied to Trump on Twitter.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who spoke at a recent Trump campaign rally, said in a tweet that “taking days to count legally cast votes is NOT fraud.”

Taking days to count legally cast votes is NOT fraud

And court challenges to votes cast after the legal voting deadline is NOT suppression

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 4, 2020

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican, called Trump’s declaration “outrageous and uncalled for and a terrible mistake.”

“Regardless of where you stand on this race and what party you are and who you voted for, most Americans really want a free and fair election process, and they want us to count the votes,” Hogan said at a Washington Post event.

Hogan voted for Ronald Reagan this year as a protest vote.

Utah’s Republican governor-elect, Spencer Cox, called the Trump campaign’s claims “garbage” and said “there is nothing nefarious about it taking a few days to count all legitimate votes.

Even some conservative news pundits have cautioned Trump supporters to not believe everything that they hear from the campaign. Conservative agitator Ben Shapiro called the move “deeply irresponsible.”

No, Trump has not already won the election, and it is deeply irresponsible for him to say he has.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 4, 2020

Former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said he was “very distressed by what I just heard the president say.”

“The idea of using the word ‘fraud’ being committed by people counting votes is wrong. They’re counting the absentee and mail-in ballots right now. And some counties have stopped counting. Why have they stopped counting? Because it’s 2:48 in the morning!” Santorum said, according to NBC News.