Federal authorities have arrested the rabbi of a messianic synagogue in Florida, charging him with several counts related to the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. Michael Stepakoff was identified in surveillance footage inside the Capitol by a witness who’d known him for two decades, according to the complaint against him. Stepakoff …
Two teenagers have been charged as adults in the beating and stabbing death of a Detroit Uber driver last week. Prosecutors said Friday that Devin McKee, 16, and Lanyah Brady, 15, ordered an Uber ride intending to rob the driver on January 21, KOB reported. Police found Timothy Perkins, 60, in an alley that day …
A northeastern Kentucky middle school teacher was arrested earlier this month after allegedly hiring someone to kill his mother, Kentucky State Police said, according to WSAZ. Billy G. Reynolds, 41, was a bus driver for Carter County Schools and also served as a special education teacher at West Carter Middle School in Olive Hill, Superintendent …
A North Carolina man has been charged with nearly three dozen child sex crimes, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Christopher Davis, 35, has been hit with 17 counts of felony second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and 17 counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the sheriff’s office. Moore County …
A Connecticut theater has filed suit against megachurch Hillsong for more than $100,000, claiming the Australia-based church failed to pay a balance due after cancelling a contract to rent the facility for services and made matters worse by removing equipment owned by the theater and refusing to return it. Hillsong Connecticut reportedly contracted with The …
Australian-based Hillsong sacked its star pastor, Carl Lentz, in November for ‘moral failures,’ and now former staff and church members say other pastors have long used member tithes on lavish meals, designer clothes, phones, and ATVs for themselves.
A witness in Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s 2015 defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell said Jeffrey Epstein’s madam directed “a roomful of underage girls to kiss, dance, and touch one another” for her and Epstein’s viewing pleasure, a new tranche of documents released late Wednesday reveal, according to the New York Post. The witness, whose name was …
Florida police are looking for a 17-year-old girl who has been missing since January 22, WTXL reports. Tashayvia Bell was last seen in northwest Tallahassee, not far from Florida State University. She is described as 5 foot 8 inches, 275 pounds, with brown eyes and shoulder-length hair. When last seen, she was wearing a black …
A Missouri man has been charged with fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in his parents’ basement, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Police responding to a 911 call on Tuesday found Crystal McCandless, 33, with multiple stab wounds and Christopher D. Faris, 38, kneeling beside her, according to court documents. Next to Faris, they found a boxcutter …
Arrests have been made in the slaying of a Texas Uber Eats driver found dead in the breezeway of a Haltom City apartment complex on Friday, Haltom City police said. An apartment resident called police Saturday evening when he found Ryan Graham, 31, with severe trauma in front of his apartment, as CrimeOnline previously reported. …
The state-approved caretakers of a 3-year-old boy who died from “severe child abuse” last April have been arrested, CBS DFW reports. Deondrick Foley and Joseph Delancy have been charged with injury to a child by omission causing bodily injury in the death of Amari Boone, who was disconnected from life support on April 12, 2020, …
A 26-year-old Ohio man died in a fiery crash Monday afternoon after allegedly killing his father, driving off in his truck, and randomly shooting at people until police found him and began a pursuit, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office was already looking for Jordan Garrett Suydam as a suspect in the …
