A drug store manager in Illinois is under fire this week for allegations that he called police on a customer because he did not recognize the coupon she had attempted to redeem. According to a now-deleted social media post from Camilla Hudson, the black woman had attempted to use the coupon on Friday night at …
One of the waitresses working at a Tennessee Waffle House in April when a gunman opened fire and left four people dead has received a touching gift of gratitude from a woman whose life she indirectly — but immeasurably — touched that fateful day. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 29-year-old Travis Reinking, who had exhibited a …
A Florida lawman is accused of instructing officers under his command to arrest local African-Americans for crimes they did not commit in an attempt to artificially improve the city’s crime statistics. According to New York magazine, former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano allegedly told officers to falsify records showing burglaries and other crimes had …
An Ohio man is in jail awaiting a hearing next week related to charges that he fatally beat his fiancee’s infant child just days before the two wed last year. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force officers arrested 21-year-old Justin T. Layne on Thursday in connection with felony warrants …
Authorities in Georgia are looking for a group of women they say robbed and violently attacked an Applebee’s waitress following the victim’s shift earlier this week. According to the New York Post, the unidentified employee had exited the restaurant, located in the 800 block of Industrial Road in McDonough, Tuesday evening before encountering the suspects. …
A Texas mother is facing decades behind bars for attempting to sell her toddler into prostitution. As Fox News reported, 25-year-old Sarah Marie Peters pleaded guilty to three felony counts in connection with a child exploitation investigation conducted by Montgomery County authorities. According to KTRK, the county’s Precinct 1 Constable’s Office launched the probe in …
A man who was still in his teens when he and his 41-year-old girlfriend brutally tortured three children will serve two life sentences for the 2015 crime that left two young victims dead. According to Fox News, 20-year-old Gonzalo Curiel, of Salinas, California, moved in with Joy Huntsman and three children under the age of …
An article billed as disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s first interview since last year’s serious claims of sexual abuse has been retracted by its author after the producer’s attorney got involved. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Taki Theodoracopulos of The Spectator has walked back the quotes attributed to Weinstein in a piece published on Friday. …
A Texas murder-for-hire case added another suspect recently more than a month after 19-year-old Nicolas Shaughnessy and his wife Jaclyn Edison were arrested on suspicion of solicitation to commit capital murder. According to People, Johnny Roman Leon III was arrested in Austin this week on suspicion of one count of soliciting to commit capital murder. …
Another suspect has been arrested in connection with the violent rape and murder of a teen boy last month. According to People, the 20-year-old girlfriend of one of the two brothers already in custody surrendered to authorities this week on an arrest warrant. Lewis County, Washington, Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer said Emma L. Brown is expected …
Authorities in Florida say a homeless man missing both of his arms stabbed a tourist walking early Tuesday morning in the Miami Beach area. According to Fox News, 46-year-old Jonathan Crenshaw was arrested after he allegedly used his feet to grip a knife and stab 22-year-old Cesar Coronado in the arm. The incident took place …
Authorities in Florida say a kidnapping suspect was taken into custody after the alleged victim made a daring move that was caught on a veterinary clinic’s surveillance camera. According to the U.K. Independent, the unidentified woman passed a message to staff at the DeLand clinic informing them of her situation. “Call the cops,” she wrote. …
