A Long Island village code enforcement officer was arrested Wednesday after investigators determined that he illegally pulled a woman over and conducted field sobriety tests before telling her he would drive her home instead of arresting her. Patchogue code enforcement officers aren’t allowed to conduct traffic stops or DWI tests, but William Dymond nevertheless handcuffed …
Mother and daughter curio shop owners were arrested this month for allegedly selling human remains on Facebook Marketplace. The Orange City Police Department said it had been investigating Kymberlee Schopper, 52, and Ashley Lelesi, 32, and their business, Wicked Wonderland, since receiving a tip in December 2023. A charging affidavit said that the tip indicated …
A Kentucky couple has been charged with sex crimes against a victim under the age of 12 and ordered held on $75,000 bonds. Kevin John Taylor, 43, and Michelle Taylor, 38, were arrested on Tuesday by the Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office, and a grand jury indictment followed the next day, WAVE reported. Arrest warrants reveal …
A Michigan mother and her former boyfriend have been charged with first degree murder in the death of her 3-year-old son more than seven years ago. Amanda Maison, 33, and Maurice Houle, 28, were denied bond at their arraignment on Monday. Houle was also charged with three counts of resisting and obstructing a police officer …
An Iowa police lieutenant has been arrested for stalking a woman and has been placed on unpaid leave while the incident is investigated. According to the criminal complaint, Justin Keller, 42, contacted the woman repeated and frequently drove by her house, KCCI reported. The complaint said that he let himself into the woman’s house on …
Police in upstate New York are looking for a 28-year-old man accused of stabbing a woman Sunday afternoon and then fleeing, prompting a shelter in place order overnight. Jacob Sawyer is still at large, but the shelter in place orde was lifted Monday morning, but several businesses and school in the area were closed Monday …
A Pennsylvania judge on Monday denied bond for the man accused of breaking into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion early Sunday morning and setting fire to it while the governor, his family, and multiple guests were sleeping. The fire caused millions of dollars in damage to the home, which was built in 1968 and did not …
Authorities in Colorado have arrested a 68-year-old airline pilot after an online child predator operation that started last month. The Aurora Police Department did not name the airline that employs Ralph Edward Bledsoe, an American citizen who lives in the town of Florissant, about 70 miles from Aurora, where he was arrested on April 8. …
The parents of a 4-year-old boy who shot himself with a loaded, unsecured handgun he found in their Alabama home have been arrested on charges related to the shooting and also to multiple snakes and a crocodile found in the home. Blount County deputies were called to the hospital last Friday for the boy, who …
A Texas couple has pleaded guilty two years after police say they bound and gagged the woman’s then-5- and 9-year-old children and forceably tattooed them. According to an arrest affidavit, the children’s biological father saw the tattoos and reported them to Child Protective Services, after which Megan and Gunnar Farr, scraped the children’s skin raw …
A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy was arrested Thursday on a warrant from Texas charging him online solicitation of a minor. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said it fired David Q. Williams, 34, after his arrest, which stemmed from an incident om 2020 with a girl under the age of 16, but also noted that “a person …
An Illinois man was arrested late Wednesday night and charged with aggravated assault on a police office and resisting arrest after he allegedly charged at an office with a ukelele. A criminal complaint accused Ledreck K. Kekona, 41, of “wielding a ukulele, as it was held in a raised and cocked position, holding it by …
