Several hundred people defied California’s ban on “non-essential” gatherings of any size Friday night, partying the night away at an east Bakersfield apartment complex — until gunshots rang out. “Unfortunately it came to a bad end,” Kern County Sheriff’s Lt. Cesa Ollague said, the Associated Press reported. No one was killed, but six people were …
Search warrants indicate a southwestern Virginia woman whose body was found dumped in a wooded area of industrial southeastern Roanoke likely died from a “crime of passion,” WSET reported this week. Police found a woman dead early on March 27, and the death was initially investigated as “suspicious,” WSLS said. But three days later, when …
A New York father died from coronavirus on this twin daughters’ birthday after he had been turned away by doctors multiple times, CBS 46 reports. Rolando “Sonny” Aravena, 44, died last week in the upstate New York town of Windsor, where he lived with his wife, Melody, and their five children. As a Verizon field technician, …
Unusual text messages sent to family and friends of a missing Florida woman came from her own phone, police have concluded. That’s one of several new details in a Palm Beach Post report about the case of 51-year-old Gretchen Anthony, whose husband, 43-year-old David Anthony, is accused of kidnapping and murdering her. Gretchen Anthony was …
Police in Lompoc, California, are looking for two young boys they say have been taken by their father, who is “hiding them from custodial mother.” Ajay Bratcher, 3, is about 3 feet tall and 35 pounds, with blond hair and brown eyes. His brother Casey is 2 feet 6 inches tall, 28 pounds, with red …
Florida deputies are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in Spring Hill after they were alerted to a home on fire with a man and two children dead inside, the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office reported. The sheriff’s office identified the dead man as Derick Albert Vasquez, 43, but said only that the children were a girl and …
On Thursday, a West Virginia judge denied bail for a woman who’s accused of killing her grandson last month. According to West Virginia News, Harrison Assistant Prosecutor Gina Snuffer said Keaton Boggs, 5, had injuries in various stages of healing when he was driven to the hospital. Among his injuries was a one-and-a-half-inch laceration on …
More than a dozen pizzerias in New Jersey have been hit by a scammer who places large orders of pizza for law enforcement or hospitals dealing with the coronavirus pandemic but never pays or even shows up to pick up the order, MyCentralJersey reported. South Brunswick police believe Sudeep Khetani, 34 — who once lived …
A US Border Patrol agent in Arizona has been charged with sexually abusing several children over a period of years after a lengthy investigation that ended with him barricading himself inside a church and holding police at bay for four hours. Dana Thornhill, 49, was arrested shortly before 8 p.m. on Thursday, AZCentral reported, when …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace has questions about the daughter of a popular Wisconsin doctor and her husband who were found dead — shot in the head — in a ditch in a University of Wisconsin botanical garden late last month. Khari Sanford and Ali’jah Larrue, both 18, have been arrested and charged murders of Dr. Beth …
A man in New York City allegedly gunned down his ex-lover’s boyfriend after encountering the pair on the street, the New York Post reports. Around 7:45 p.m. Friday, Police say a 23-year-old man and his girlfriend were outside of a building in East Harlem when they ran into the woman’s previous boyfriend. Emergency crews arrived to find the …
A Georgia teen is accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl in cold blood so he could be part of the MS-13 gang, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution repots. Brayan Segura, an El Salvador native, admitted to police that he stabbed the victim multiple times on Wednesday and then left her in a creek. An unknown individual reportedly …
