Former Arkansas Teacher Gets 13 Years for Taking High School Student Across State Lines for Sex
Child sex crimes
Heather Hare had already been sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting two students.
Court
May 18, 2024
Detroit Man Found Guilty in Murder of 17-Year-Old Cousin Zion Foster
A jury deliberated for less than hour on Thursday before finding a Detroit man guilty of the murder of his 17-year-old cousin, who he admitted throwing in a dumpster after her death in 2022. Jaylin Brazier, 24, was found guilty of second degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of Zion Foster, WDIV …
Murder
May 18, 2024
19-Year-Old Man Charged With Murder of 16-Year-Old High School Student
New York police have arrested a 19-year-old man in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy last week and say they are still looking for a second suspect. Henry Thomas was arrested on Friday and has been charged with murder in the death of Makhi Brown, WABC reported. Brown has breaking up an argument between …
Homicide
May 18, 2024
Deputies Investigate Murders of 2 Adults, 1 Child in Rural South Carolina
Two adults and a child were found dead in Walterboro, South Carolina in “the early morning hours of Saturday.” “At this time we can confirm this incident is being treated as a triple homicide,” the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office said. “It has been determined that this was a targeted act and is a very active investigation,” …
Celebrity
May 18, 2024
DA Can’t Prosecute ‘Diddy’ for Assault in Video Because of Statute of Limitations
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office responded to a graphic video showing rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, clad only in a towel, chase down his then girlfriend in 2016 and savagely beat her in a hotel hallway, saying it cannot file charges because the statute of limitations for assault has passed. In California, the statute …
Court
May 17, 2024
Prosecutors Move to Dismiss Murder Charge Against High School Principal Charged in Wife’s Murder
Arkansas prosecutors have moved to dismiss murder charges against a former high school principal they had charged with killing his wife. The decision came just weeks after Rocky Dodson’s attorney filed a motion challenging the warrants issued in the case as having no probable cause, arguing that prosecutors had just assumed Dodson caused a “blunt …
Murder
May 17, 2024
UPS Driver Shot Dead in His Truck By Coworker
A UPS driver was found shot to death in his truck Thursday afternoon, and a co-worker with the delivery company has been charged with killing him. Irvine, California, police were called to the scene by multiple reports of shots fired at about 3 p.m., KCAL reported. Officers found Expedito Cuesta De Leon, 50, slumped over …
Murder
May 17, 2024
SC Woman Shot Dead as She Arrives at Work; Suspect Caught Hours Later in Georgia
A man suspected of gunning down a South Carolina woman as she arrived at her job Friday morning was arrested hours later in Georgia. The Anderson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Katy Brooke Jones, 36, an employee at NRTC Automation in Piedmont, South Carolina. Investigators say Jones arrived at work and Derek Snyder, …
Celebrity
May 17, 2024
No. 1 Golfer Scottie Scheffler Arrested Outside Kentucky PGA Tournament
In what Scheffler called a “big misunderstanding,” the golfer dragged a police officer, who was directing traffic after a fatal accident, several yards.
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 …
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 …