Year: 2024

Murder for hire
May 17, 2024

Sisters Charged in Murder for Hire Plot Against Middle Sister’s Son-in-Law

Three Alabama sisters were arrested last week in a murder-for hire plot to kill the husband of one of their daughters. Mitzy Gaye Smith, 54, Judy Owen, 61, and Sandra Grimes, 57, face federal charges in the plot, which saw them hiring a convicted felon to kill Grimes’ son-in-law, who she accused of abusing her …

Death investigation
May 17, 2024

NC Woman Charged With Concealing Widower’s Death, Spending His Money After He Died

A recent widower was found dead in North Carolina this week, and a woman has been charged with concealing his death and spending his money after he died. The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office said they are awaiting a medical examiner’s ruling on cause and manner of the death of Bobby Barnes, 60, WITN reported. Barnes …

Hate Crimes
May 17, 2024

New York Man Attacks Orthodox Jewish Children on Street

New York police are searching for a man who hopped off his bicycle in Williamsburg Sunday night to attack two young Hasidic boys playing on the sidewalk. Police said the man told the boys, 11 and 13, to get off the sidewalk and then assaulted two of them while other boys scattered away from him, …

Child sex crimes
May 16, 2024

Florida Firefighter Arrested for Sexually Battery of Teen Girl in County Park Restroom

A Florida firefighter was arrested this week and charged with sexuallly battering a teen girl in a Brevard County park. Pedro Antuna, 26, was taken into custody on Sunday, WKMG reported. His victim was 16 or 17. According to a probable cause affidavit, the incident took place at Nicol Park in Cocoa, but the document …

Murder
May 16, 2024

Movie Crew Finds Woman Shot to Death at Atlanta Bus Stop

A movie production crew found the body of a woman shot multiple times at a transit bus stop near an interestate overpass in northwest Atlanta early Thursday morning. Atlanta police said their officers were flagged down just before 5:30 a.m. at the intersection of Collier Drive NW and Harwell Road NW for the unresponsive woman. …

Sex Offender Registry
May 16, 2024

Arizona Sex Offender Fakes His Own Death to Avoid Registering

A man in Arizona has been arrested after investigators found that he faked his death to avoid registering as a sex offender. Benjamin Hollins, 50, had adopted an assumed name in Mesa when investigators found him living with a family — with young children — who had no idea he’d been convicted of sex offenses …

Murder
May 16, 2024

Alabama Man Charged With Murder of Girlfriend’s 4-Month-Old Son

An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend’s 4-month-old son after the infant died Wednesday from injures suffered on April 25. Jacquon Ledarrion Stewart was initially charged with aggravated child abuse, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said, but the charges were upgraded to murder after the baby’s death, according to WBRC. …

Celebrity
May 16, 2024

Diddy’s Alleged Drug Mule Accepts Plea Deal to Avoid Jail

An associate of Sean “Diddy” Combs who was arrested on drug possession charges in Florida has accepted a plea deal to avoid jail. On March 25, Brendan Paul, 25, was arrested at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport for carrying cocaine and marijuana-laced candy. Paul was later charged with cocaine possession and had a controlled substance charge …

boating death
May 16, 2024

‘I think he did know’: Maritime Expert Weighs in, Teen Ballerina Ella Mowed Down, Mystery Boat Just Discovered

Florida investigators identified the man operating a yacht that struck and killed a 15-year-old Saturday as  Carlos “Bill” Alonso, 78. Still, his attorney said it’s not clear he was the one who hit the girl in Biscayne Bay. As CrimeOnline previously reported, attorney Lauren Field Krasnoff told reporters on Wednesday that Ella Adler’s death was …