A suspect facing drug charges tried to evade police by jumping into the ocean, unaware that a shark was swimming nearby. WECT reports that Zachary Kingsbury, 20, was driving in Surf City, North Carolina, on Wednesday when police pulled him over. The officers saw what they suspected to be illegal contraband and asked Kingsbury to step …
Police are looking for the person who dropped a newborn baby off in a gym bag in front of a Chamblee, Georgia, medical center on early Thursday morning. FOX reports that a member of the custodial staff at the Family Medical Clinic on Buford Highway found the baby after the little boy had been inside …
A 10-year-old New York girl was allegedly beaten and tortured at the hands of her mother and three other adults in what one police official called the worst case of child abuse in recent memory. Authorities in Oswego County, New York, have arrested four people in connection with the abuse. Police became aware of the …
A 20-year-old New Jersey man allegedly beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter to death because she wouldn’t eat dinner, NJ.com reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Najuquan Ross with murder in connection with the July death of the girl, Natalise “Kayla” Gunter. The girl’s mother, Lucy Gunter, told investigators that she had returned from work when she …
An Oregon appeals court ordered Wednesday that a couple’s loud dogs must undergo “debarking,” a controversial medical procedure that entails cutting a canine’s vocal cords, according to The Washington Post. The Oregonian reports that Debra and Dale Krein sued neighbors Karen Szewc and John Updegraff in 2012 after being fed up with the noises made by their many Tibetan …
A Hobart, Indiana, man with a lengthy history of sexually abusing animals has reportedly asked a federal court for chemical castration as a condition of his release, according to the Chicago Tribune. The unorthodox request came from Michael Bessigano, 46, who has been jailed since January for consciously receiving “obscene matters from an interactive computer service.” …
A young man in Houston died tragically after he was electrocuted on his way to feed his sister’s cat. KRPC reports that Andrew Pasek, 25, died of electrocution Tuesday while walking in floodwater in the Houston community of Bear Creek Village. Pasek was reportedly walking to his sister’s house, along with his friend Sean, to …
Prosecutors in Colorado charge a married couple with first-degree murder, stemming from the February death of their 6-week-old baby boy, according to NBC’s 9News. Authorities arrested John Ostrander, 21, and his wife, Donica Mirabal, 21, of Colorado Springs, following a six-month investigation into the death of their infant son, Zayden. In February, the coupled called 911 …
“I don’t know what was in his heart, but I know what came out of his mouth,” said the department chief
The young women, who fled the scene, allegedly posed as police officers in order to access the woman’s home
A Massachusetts man who kidnapped a seven-year-old girl from a cookout at her grandparents’ home and threw her from a bridge into a lake has been charged with attempted murder. NBC News reports that Joshua Hubert, 35, is behind held on $1 million bail on an attempted murder charge. When he was arrested earlier this …
Surveillance cameras caught the chilling moments a robber attacked a teen during a violent home invasion. KNBC reports that the terrifying ordeal occurred in Riverside, California, at around 2 p.m. Sunday. The 17-year-old’s sister, only identified as “Nicole,” claimed the man pushed the girl inside the home and held a machete to her face. Nicole told the …
