Correction appended A Florida man was arrested on Friday for allegedly deflating a bounce house during a 1-year-old girl’s birthday party. Charles Wotruba, 70, of Port St.Lucie, is charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct following the May 21 incident, according to TCPalm. As Crime Online previously reported, surveillance cameras captured a man entering the backyard, deflating the …
A woman was taped hurling a barrage of racist insults at a family and cashier in a New Brunswick, New Jersey, Sears. Simoni Lovano, 27, told NJ.com that he recorded the woman making disparaging remarks to a Latino family and Indian cashier. Lovano claimed that the unidentified woman was upset because the line was long and …
A Los Angeles County police department might need some stress relief of its own after initially posting, then retracting, a report that cocaine was found in a vending machine children’s toy. The Bell Gardens Police Department issued a press release Tuesday stating that a mother and young son purchased a small putty toy, similar to …
Prominent Atlanta lawyer Tex McIver, accused in the shooting death of his wife, is allegedly using the jail telephone to influence witnesses in the murder case against him. McIver, 74, also called a judge’s wife hoping she would help him get out on bond, according to the Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor. McIver admits he pulled …
A mom and her two young children feel lucky to be alive after a bobcat trapped them in the Washington Township, New Jersey, home on Wednesday. NJ.com reports that authorities responded to a call from a frantic mother inside a home off of East Mill Road at a little before 6 p.m. According to Sgt. Robert …
Prosecutors have accused Bill Cosby of “victim shaming” at his sexual assault trial after his lawyers tried to introduce his alleged victim’s sexual history into evidence. According to TMZ, Cosby’s lawyers wanted the jury to hear arguments that Andrea Constand “deceived” the comedian by keeping her purported interest in women from him. The judge reportedly …
A Lee County, Florida, woman almost died after her boyfriend became enraged over their unborn baby’s chosen name. NBC 2 reports that Raul Lopez, 18, and his girlfriend got into a verbal argument at a Walmart in Fort Myers on Wednesday afternoon. Apparently, Lopez became upset after his girlfriend, whose name is unknown at this …
A Hamptons architect to the stars and registered sex offender was arrested again on child pornography charges after his probation officer found sexually explicit composite photos of little girls at the suspect’s Hamptons home. According to the New York Post, Jay Lockett Sears is a prominent architect who has designed homes for celebrities like Susan …
Two Detroit doctors and one of the doctor’s wives carried out as many as a 100 genital mutilation procedures over a 12-year period, a federal prosecutor has alleged. According to the Detroit Free Press, prosecutors have identified eight people who fell victim to Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 44, Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, 53, and his wife, Farida Attar, 50. …
A Pennsylvania man who was “gifted” a half-dozen underage girls to be his “sister wives” could spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of sexual assault in a Pennsylvania trial this week. Kaplan, 52, began sexually abusing the children when they were as young as 8, according to prosecutors. He …
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHAEL R. SISAK NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial have heard excerpts from the comedian’s lurid, decade-old deposition, but explosive sections about him obtaining quaaludes and giving them to women before sex are yet to come. Prosecutors on Friday are expected to continue focusing on Cosby’s …
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. A 2-year-old girl has died of what appears to be an aggressive infection from a tick bite. The family of Kenley Ratliff is awaiting autopsy results, which will determine whether the Indianapolis, Indiana, child succumbed to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is often caused by tick bites. According to the Mayo Clinic, Rocky …
