An Idaho man was arrested this week on five counts of raping teenage girls between 2007 and 2014 in several locations, including his home and an RV camper. In addition to the five counts of rape, Trenton Jared Powell, 41, has also been charged with two counts of lewd conduct with a minor. He was …
A California grandfather has been arrested after a 20-month-old girl was found dead in his Modesto apartment while he was being treated for an unknown ailment at a Bakersfield medical facility 200 miles away. Bryan Hicks, 42, was the little girl’s guardian, Modesto police said. According to police, officers went to Hicks’s apartment Tuesday morning …
A 25-year-old Texas woman was arrested this week after a federal agent on unrelated surveillance duty saw her dangling a toddler over the edge of a third floor balcony while scolding the child, KSAT reports. Desirae Marie Korus has been charged with endangering a child with risk of bodily injury, according to Bexar County jail …
Father charged with child endangerment as investigation continues. He told police he believed the 2-year-old boy hit his head while jumping on the bed.
Jason Michael Walker has been charged with shooting to death the Wideman family in Turner County, Georgia, then setting their home ablaze.
A Pennsylvania mother has been charged after an infant she was caring for ingested heroin while the caregiver was sleeping. Sara Tate, 32, has been charged with aggravated assault, child endangerment, tampering with evidence, and drug possession, TribLive reported. The baby, a 9-month-old girl who has not been named, was admitted to the the intensive …
A 26-year-old Arkansas woman has been arrested after she allegedly smashed a glass door and a window at a Hot Springs church, while nude. Treasure Camille Ducote Meylian was taken into custody Friday morning, charged with commercial burglary, Arkansas Online reported. A probable cause affidavit says that the incident took place on November 18 at …
A North Carolina man wielded a machete against a Macclesfield couple Friday morning, but his efforts were the embodiment of bringing a knife to a gunfight: After the husband broke away, the wife shot at the assailant, sending him scurrying back to his car. Carlos Antonio Washington, 36, of Tarboro was caught by deputies responding …
A 75-year-old North Carolina man has been charged with sexually assaulting children as far back as 1975, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Fredrick Hammontree was initially arrested last December in Morehead City for sexual battery, prompting a woman to come forward and say that Hammontree, a member of her family, had sexually abused …
A 5-year-old boy is dead after his mother’s boyfriend forced him out of the car in the rain Sunday night and he was hit by another car, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports, Bryan Starr, 35, told police that Austin Birdseye became “unruly” as they traveled along busy Alabama Highway 165 near Fort Mitchell, so he pulled …
A Chicago man has been charged with first degree murder after he allegedly stabbed stabbed the boyfriend of a Thanksgiving party host nine times, killing him. James Dixon, 29, reportedly had consumed numerous alcoholic drinks during the party and got into a heated argument with Vincell Jackson, 52, at the end of the party early …
Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has again been been blocked from parole, with California Governor Gavin Newsom saying in his decision that “evidence shows that she currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Van Houten is serving a life sentence for her part in the …
