A 23-year-old woman was charged with child neglect without great bodily harm after her children were found in poor condition at their Crestview, Fla., home.On Jan. 5, Angelica Crites’ daughter called 9-1-1 because she and her brother could not wake their mother, according to an arrest report from the Crestview Police Department. No other adults were in the home and the girl couldn’t get into her mother’s bedroom to wake her up.An officer with the police [...]
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Fla. mom charged after kids found with rotted teeth, living in house with feces everywhere
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Texas woman shot, killed man while posing with rifle for Snapchat, police say
A Texas woman who fatally shot a man two days before Christmas was posing with a rifle for Snapchat when she accidentally pulled the trigger, according to an arrest affidavit filed on Monday.Autumn King, 20, has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of 26-year-old Eric Charles Allen, police said.According to the affidavit, King and Allen had been dating for two years before the shooting. They had a child together and lived with each other in the 12500 [...]
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'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen arrested, charged with passing bad checks
Former NBC News correspondent Chris Hansen, whose "To Catch a Predator" reports caught countless men soliciting minors for sex, was arrested this week in Connecticut for allegedly passing bad checks.The Stamford, Conn., Police Department says Hansen owes a local firm about $13,000 for promotional materials he ordered. The check Hansen initially used to pay for the mugs, T-shirts and decals reportedly bounced. When contacted by a representative from that firm, Promotional Sales Limited, [...]
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Ariz. police arrest nurse they say raped, impregnated incapacitated patient
A nurse has been arrested and charged with raping and impregnating an incapacitated patient at an Arizona nursing home.That 26-year-old patient, whose name has not been released, gave birth Dec. 29.The Phoenix Police Department identified the nurse as Nathan Sutherland, 36, according to the Arizona [...]
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Cops: Woman danced half-naked after threatening to shoot up Fla. Waffle House
Sheriff’s deputies say 38-year-old woman dropped her pants and danced half-naked in a Waffle House parking lot in Pensacola, Fla., Monday afternoon.Before doing that, the restaurant manager reported, she threatened to shoot everyone and, confronting him in the parking lot, tried to grab his genitals, according to an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit. Then she leaned forward and licked the manager on both sides of his face.A witness in the [...]
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Cops: Fla. man thought he was stealing opioids, but wound up with laxatives instead
A Florida man who thought he was stealing opioids wound up with laxatives instead, police say.Peter Hans Emery Jr., 69, was caught on surveillance video taking a handful of pills from a bottle he found inside a lockbox, according to Tampa TV station WTVT. The incident happened at a home in Pinellas Park.The label on the bottle indicated it [...]
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19-year-old caught on Snapchat setting man’s pants on fire, Texas police say
A 19-year-old Austin, Texas, woman is accused of setting an acquaintance’s pants on fire and recording it herself on Snapchat, according to court documents.Lilly Elizabeth Sanchez is charged with aggravated assault, a second-degree felony, in connection with the Jan. 2 incident, an arrest affidavit filed Wednesday said.The acquaintance told investigators that he had gotten into a minivan with other people at a friend’s house. On a trip to a gas station, he fell [...]
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R.I. strippers charged with stealing gun from Boston police officer
Two strippers are accused of stealing a handgun from a Boston police officer while he was “hanging out” with them in his room at the Pawtucket, R.I., Hampton Inn.Pawtucket police arrested Melissa Dacier, 22, of Providence, and Neish Rivera, 25, of Pawtucket, and recovered the officer’s service weapon on Saturday, hours after he’d reported it stolen.The Boston officer called police just before 3 a.m., after the two women left him alone at the hotel [...]
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Doctor: Monkey stolen from Fla. zoo in good health upon return
Doctor G opened the door to a room at the Palm Beach, Fla., Zoo animal hospital on Wednesday and welcomed in Francisco Maldonado and Steven DePetro, the two police detectives she called her heroes.Inside, sitting calmly in a large cage, was Kali, the tiny 12-year-old rare Goeldi’s monkey whose abduction Monday had drawn national attention.Sometime before midnight, West Palm Beach police walked in with Kali in a small cage; dirty and dehydrated but unharmed and apparently [...]
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Fla. cop suspended after letting arrestees smoke, make out in police cruiser
A Florida police officer has been suspended for allowing two arrestees to smoke cigarettes and make out in the back of a squad car — an incident that was captured, at least partially, on the officer's body cam, according to his superiors.The Fort Pierce Police Department says officer Doug McNeal was handed a 20-day suspension for mutliple policy violations following an internal investigation, [...]
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Prostitution survivor says it’s ‘about the exploitation,’ not about Patriots owner Kraft
Nicole Bell’s phone has been ringing off the hook since the story broke that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution at a day spa in Florida.The Worcester woman is a survivor of sex trafficking and executive director of Living in Freedom Together, a nonprofit resource [...]
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Fla. pastor sentenced to 100 years in child-sex case
Florida Circuit Judge John Kastrenakes said he was glad to hear from family and friends who know Palm Beach County pastor James Jackson as an encouraging, positive light in so many peoples’ lives. He said he was a well-thought out and articulate man, as demonstrated in court Thursday and over the course of several letters Jackson has sent to the judge since his arrest in 2016.And, Kastrenakes said, he thinks Jackson can do good and changes lives. But, he continued, it will be [...]
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Cops: Drunk man shoots friend in leg inside Ohio bowling alley
Stark County Sheriff’s deputies say a northwest Canton, Ohio, man was intoxicated in a bowling alley when he accidentally shot his friend in the leg late Friday night.The intoxicated man then threw the gun in a trash bin outside the building, Stark County Jail records show.Deputies arrested Spencer A. Norman-Webler, 23, of 1200 Broad Ave. NW, at 11:45 p.m., booking him into the jail on charges of felony evidence tampering, illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor [...]
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Texas kindergarten teacher tried to stab boyfriend after he refused sex, police say
A Texas kindergarten teacher who was charged Monday in a knife assault on her boyfriend was angry because he would not have sex with her, according to court documents.Yamile Uribe, 41, who is a teacher at Lagos Elementary School in Manor, just outside Austin, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the attempted stabbing but was no longer in the Travis County Jail on Tuesday, online jail records show.Police said they were called at 10:48 [...]
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N.C. sex trafficker gets 230 years, ordered to pay $608,000 restitution
Robin T. Applewhite of Cumberland County, N.C., was sentenced on Tuesday morning in Cumberland County Superior Court to at least 230 years behind bars, but no more than 299 years, following his conviction on Monday for coercing women into prostituting for him.He also was ordered to pay the women nearly $608,000 because he did not pay them when they were his sex workers.A jury considered charges of human trafficking, promotion of prostitution and conspiracy involving six women, [...]
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Cops: Man broke into Arizona woman's home while she slept, made tortillas
An Arizona man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly broke into a woman's apartment, cooked tortillas and then stole a can of soup on his way out, police say.Alex Herron tells Phoenix TV station KSAZ she was in her bedroom when she smelled something burning. Herron went to the kitchen to investigate and found a stranger, identified as Jerry [...]
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Police: Dad brought loaded AK-47 to Florida middle school
When Christopher Freeman’s son FaceTimed him in tears Monday afternoon from school, the 27-year-old father knew something was wrong.The boy told Freeman that a teacher at Bear Lakes Middle School in West Palm Beach, Fla., had “slammed him,” according to Freeman’s statement to Palm Beach County School District police, and while they were on the video call, Freeman saw an adult grab the boy.The phone went flying and the call ended, so Freeman hurried [...]
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WATCH: Dash cam video shows Texas deputy rescued from floodwaters
Newly released dash camera video shows the moments when a Travis County sheriff’s deputy was rescued after she drove into high water while responding to an emergency call near Austin, Texas, in December.Deputy Jami Speights was on Littig Road in eastern Travis County Dec. 27 when she suddenly entered the water. She was on her way to a report about a person needing to be rescued on Bitting School Road.The video shows how she suddenly entered the water. While she waited [...]
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Florida man tells jury he dismembered dad's body, fearing blame for death
WEST PALM BEACH — After spending the day golfing, drinking and doing drugs with his 74-year-old father, James "Jimmy" Scandirito II went outside for a smoke break on the night of March 28, 2018. His mother — a lifelong smoker — had died in the last year from lung cancer, so his dad didn’t like when he smoked inside the Boca Raton home. When he returned inside, more than an hour later, he found James "Skip" Scandirito on the floor, unconscious, covered in cocaine. [...]
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Texas priest accused of groping woman in hospice during last rites, police say
A Roman Catholic priest in Austin, Texas, has been accused of groping a woman in hospice care while he performed a last rites ceremony in October.The Rev. Gerold Langsch, 75, has been charged with assault by contact, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in a county jail and a maximum fine of $4,000.An arrest affidavit filed last week said the woman suffered from several medical conditions including diabetes, and was put into hospice care at her home because of renal [...]
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