Year: 2019

‘These streets can’t have my daughter!’ Missing teen girl appears on sex-trafficking websites as mother pleads for help [Reports]

 Aviana Weaver
Missing

A New Jersey mother is pleading for the public’s help after discovering that her missing teen daughter has appeared on sex-trafficking websites, CBS Philly reports. “The streets can’t have my daughter!” Angelica Scarlett posted on Facebook Saturday. Scarlett’s daughter, 17-year-old Aviana Weaver, has been missing since September 12, when she was last seen in Mount …

Kaia Rolle
Juveniles
September 22, 2019

UPDATE: Officer who arrested 6-year-old little girl for battery after ‘school tantrum’ did the same thing to another child [Reports]

A Florida police officer who arrested a 6-year-old little girl is now facing an internal investigation and reportedly, this isn’t the first time he’s arrested a child without following proper protocol. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kaia, a first-grade student at the Lucious and Emma Nixon Elementary charter school in Orlando, was handcuffed and taken to …

Kaia Rolle
September 22, 2019

6-year-old girl handcuffed, arrested after tantrum prompted by medical condition: Report

Police in Florida arrested a 6-year-old girl for having a tantrum at school, an incident her outraged grandmother says was the result of a medical condition, WKMG-TV reports. On Thursday, Meralyn Kirkland got a call notifying her that a school resource officer had handcuffed and arrested her granddaughter, Kaia Rolle, at Lucious and Emma Nixon …

Juveniles
September 22, 2019

‘Tell the police’: Family of missing 5-year-old girl begs for possible kidnapping witnesses to come forward as hundreds gather for vigil

A crowd of hundreds gathered in New Jersey on Saturday evening to hold a vigil for missing 5-year-old girl Dulce Maria Alavez. According to Fox 29, several hundred concerned citizens met for the vigil at Bridgeton City Park, where Dulce was last seen late Monday afternoon. The circumstances of her disappearance are not known, although …

Charges follow viral video of fight at Pittsburgh gas station
Assault
September 21, 2019

Charges follow viral video of fight at Pittsburgh gas station

Pittsburgh police recommended assault charges against the owners and an employee of a northside Exxon gas station after a video of a “particularly disturbing” fight went viral, police said. The confrontation began when two women reported to the station personnel that a gas pump had malfunctioned, spilling gas. The customers demanded a refund, but the …

Appeals court says NO to releasing Manson follower Leslie Van Houten
Famous Murder Cases
September 21, 2019

Appeals court says NO to releasing Manson follower Leslie Van Houten

A California appeals court on Friday backed former Gov Jerry Brown’s decision to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, according to an AP report in the Sacramento Bee. Van Houten, 70, is serving a life sentence for her role in the stabbing deaths of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, …

John LaPointe
Manslaughter
September 21, 2019

Drugged caretaker sleeps while man with Down syndrome dies in hot van

Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies arrested a former employee at an assisted living facility on Friday, saying he ingested an unregulated drug called kratom and fell asleep while a disabled man in the backseat of the company minivan died in the heat. Russell had taken John LaPointe, 35, to a doctor’s appointment on May 9 from …

Celebrity Justice
September 21, 2019

Porn star Bridget the Midget arrested in Vegas for stabbing boyfriend

Las Vegas police arrested adult film star Cheryl Marie Murphy, known as Bridget the Midget in her movies, this week for stabbing her boyfriend during a violent argument. Law enforcement told TMZ that a neighbor reported screaming and breaking glass from a home in southwest Las Vegas. Officers found that Murphy, also known as Bridget …

Celebrity Justice
September 21, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein paid doctors to drug, sedate his victims; one accuser says she told doctor about abuse — and got LITHIUM instead of help: Report

Jeffery Epstein paid doctors to prescribe sedatives and anti-depressants to his victims while they were being abused, a new Miami Herald report alleges. At least two alleged victims have made the claim and are now suing over the abuse. Accuser Virginia Giuffre said Epstein’s doctors prescribed her Xanax during the three-year period she was being …

DEVELOPING: 2 officers shot, 1 fatally during car chase that ended in gunfire [Officials]
Police
September 20, 2019

DEVELOPING: 2 officers shot, 1 fatally during car chase that ended in gunfire [Officials]

A Louisiana police officer was killed and another was wounded on a highway Friday afternoon following a vehicle chase that ended in gunfire, authorities said. The incident reportedly involved two Mandeville officers who were shot on U.S. 190 and La. 22. Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker said two suspects have been taken into custody and that …