A Florida woman was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges Saturday for allegedly coughing in a cancer patient’s face weeks earlier. On June 23, Heather Sprague reportedly filmed an encounter with Debra Hunter, 52, inside a Pier 1 Imports in Jacksonville. Sprague reportedly spotted Hunter verbally abusing store staff over an item she wanted to return …
A California woman was arrested late last month for the murder of her newborn son, who was reportedly found dead on a creek embankment in 1988. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that Lesa Lopez, 52, identified herself as the baby’s mother and implicated herself in the unsolved slaying. Lopez, who was …
Authorities are still looking for a California woman who reportedly hasn’t been seen or heard from since embarking on a road trip in mid-June. Erika Lloyd, 37, of Walnut Creek, reportedly left on June 14. Lloyd was to take a seven-hour drive to Joshua Tree National Park, but she hasn’t contacted her family since June …
Police in Maryland are still investigating the death of a pregnant woman who was reportedly shot Friday inside her home. Howard County police said in a statement that they responded to a residence in the 6600 block of Dovecote Drive amid reports of gunfire. Officers reportedly discovered that multiple bullets had been fired into the …
A Florida man was arrested Sunday, months after he allegedly sexually abused a 4-year-old girl he was responsible for babysitting. Braxton Upshaw, 19, reportedly babysat a woman’s two children two to four times a week from August 2019 until the alleged incident, which Leon County police said occurred in October. The mother claimed Upshaw watched …
Late last month, police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, told residents to “be prepared” to relinquish your valuables to criminals as the city deals with an uptick in carjackings and robberies. According to WCCO, the Minneapolis Police Department reported a 46 percent increase in carjackings and a 36 percent jump in robberies compared to last year. Crime …
Police in Minnesota are looking for two people who allegedly attempted to rob and carjack a woman before shooting a man who intervened. The incident reportedly took place Tuesday outside a Sherwin-Williams store in Minneapolis. KMSP reports that the store’s manager, Jacob Babcock, suffered multiple injuries—a fractured shoulder blade, two broken ribs, and a collapsed …
A Maryland woman who was found last year with 27 dead dogs in her home was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison. Laura Filler, 56, was sentenced to 33 years with all but seven years suspended for 11 counts of aggravated animal cruelty. The Carroll County Times reported that Filler has remained jailed without …
On Friday, a federal appeals court in Massachusetts overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of killing three people and injuring more than 260 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. In a 224-page opinion, the three-judge panel of the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the lower court to hold …
Two inmates allegedly escaped from an Oklahoma jail Friday by creating a rope out of sheets — which they used to rappel down from a 12th-story window. According to KOKH, the Oklahoma County Detention Center said they learned at 7 a.m. that one of their inmates, Jose Hernandez, 33, was picked up by authorities. Jail …
A Florida man is facing criminal charges for allegedly fatally shooting a woman and seriously wounding her boyfriend as they filmed a rap video on Sunday. The alleged incident occurred after Jordan Silver, 20, Haley Cox, 23, and Cox’s boyfriend, Erik Bronowski, 22, gathered at rapper Giovinie Bosques’ home in Wimauma. Bosques told police that …
Two Louisiana women were arrested Wednesday after a 14-year-old boy reportedly escaped their home and sought help from a neighbor. The Shreveport Times reported that officers who responded to a welfare call on Coldwell Street Wednesday were met by a resident who claimed the boy came to her home asking for food. The resident reportedly …
