Two people were arrested last month after a toddler pointed a semi-automatic handgun at detectives during a drug investigation, New Haven police said Saturday. Joshua Talton and Wanesha Dawson have been charged with criminal possession of a firearm, risk of injury to a minor, criminal negligent storage of a firearm, and first-degree reckless endangerment, the …
Authorities said Saturday they have now arrested five suspects in the death of a Georgia mother of two and Lyft driver earlier this year — and three more suspect remain at large. Venezuelan-born Rossana Delgado, 37, disappeared in mid-April in DeKalb County, near Atlanta. Four days after she was reported missing, deputies found her body …
Pop star Britney Spears called 911 the night before her dramatic testimony last month in her ongoing court battle over the restrictive conservatorship she’s lived under for 13 years. Ventura County, California, authorities sealed the records of the call, but a person close to Spears said that she called to report herself as a victim …
Georgia police have released a sketch of a toddler whose body was found Thursday in the Chattahoochee River. Earlier Friday, Cobb County police arrested Breyanla Cooper and charged her with concealing the death of another, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Investigators have not said how Cooper is connected with the child, but Cobb County Police Sgt …
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney says that since Bill Cosby has been set free, his client should be too. David Oscar Markus wrote in a New York Daily News op-ed that Maxwell, awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, should be covered under the non-prosecution deal convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein secured with federal prosecutors in 2007: He agreed …
Gerry Vallow had a hard time accepting his brother’s death. Charles Vallow, married to but separated from “cult mom” Lori Vallow, was shot and killed in July 2019 by his wife’s brother, who claimed self-defense and died himself, of natural causes, five months later. Gerry heard the news during a conference call with his sister, …
A 5-year-old Michigan boy was killed Tuesday night while riding his bike when he was struck by a man trying to beat a traffic light to get to work. Preston Singleton was with his aunt, cousin, and sister at about 9:45 when Maurice Sumler, 22, sped through the intersection and hit the boy, Fox 2 …
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday ordered the release of one of two women convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case when both were 12-years-old. Then-sixth graders Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser stabbed classmate Payton Leutner 19 times in May 2014 in an attempt to curry favor with the fictional horror character, who, they said, they …
A four-day long sting operation netted 21 arrests last week, 10 charged with felonies related to contacting minors to arrange sex. Another 11 people were charged with misdemeanors during Operation Stolen Hearts, according to KMPH, mostly on charges such as loitering for prostitution. The Department of Homeland Security assisted with the operation. Fresno police said …
A 10-year-old Texas girl with a gunshot wound to her arm clutched her baby brother close and played dead after a gunman killed three members of her family in Houston overnight, then she FaceTimed her grandmother to get help. Family members rushed to the apartment and found 35-year-old Gregory Carhee, 29-year-old Donyavia Lagway, and their …
A Las Vegas woman has been charged with murder in the death of a 5-year-old police believe died from the effects of being left in a hot house with no air conditioning. Kemaya Taylor, 23, was also charged with two counts of child abuse or neglect, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Police were called to …
Virginia parents have been arrested after Chesterfield police found their son’s body inside a chest freezer in their home. Kassceen Weaver, 49, and Dina D. Weaver, 48, have been charged with conspiracy to conceal a body and failing to render aide to a child, WTVR reported. Police said Eliel Adon Weaver was under five years …
