A 29-year-old Florida man was arrested Friday night for using a fake Snapchat profile to lure a 13-year-old girl for sex, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. Joaquin Mendez has been charged with lewd or lascivious battery of a victim under 16. The 13-year-old’s mother called police Friday afternoon after finding “concerning text messages” on …
Police in Riverside, California, arrested a 31-year-old man suspected of raping a 12-year-old boy in a restroom at a public park Friday night. Both Ryan Funk and the boy were reported to be homeless, according to KTLA. The boy lived with his mother and a sibling in a car parked nearby. He had gone to …
A 22-year-old college student left his Alabama State University dorm room in downtown Montgomery late Tuesday night to get money from an ATM, but his friends say he never returned, and now police and his family are searching for him. Adam “Belle” Dowdell is a second year student, last seen wearing a white shirt, checkerboard …
Two men argued inside a mall just outside South Bend Saturday afternoon, and one pulled out a gun and shot the other. Police are still looking for the suspect; a social media post claiming to be the shooter was false.
The Arkansas state medical examiner’s office found that 25-year-old Sydney Sutherland, the Jackson County nurse whose body was found two days after she didn’t return from an afternoon jog, died from multiple blunt force injuries, KATV reports. Quake Lewellyn, 28, faces charges of kidnapping, rape, and capital murder in Sutherland’s disappearance and death. Sutherland was …
One of two Wisconsin girls convicted of nearly stabbing a classmate to death to appease the fictional horror character “Slender Man” in 2014 asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to toss out her conviction in adult court, the Associated Press reported. Morgan Geyser, now 18, pleaded guilty to attempted first degree homicide in 2017 …
A 17-year-old Indiana girl was charged this week with murder for the shooting deaths of Domino’s employee Joshua Ungersma and her boyfriend, Alberto Vanmeter, who was shot and killed by Ungersma when he tried to rob the pizza man. Eyewitness Patrick Gibson said he went outside when he heard gunshots at about 11:15 p.m. on …
An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his 2-month-old son in July after an autopsy revealed the boy died from blunt force trauma to the head, WIAT reports. Jefferson County deputies responded to a call about an unresponsive child on July 29 and found Amari Ruffin not breathing. The boy was taken …
“Operation Home Alone 2” nabbed five men on charges related to child sexual exploitation in Arizona — including a former detective who was out on bond after he was arrested on the same charges in February, Homeland Security Investigations reports. The week-long action was the culmination of a months-long action in Pinal County, similar to …
Authorities have identified the 23-year-old California man they believe made a 3,400-mile round trip over 72 hours last month to kill another man he met via an online game, the Flower Mound, Texas, Police Department announced Friday. Flower Mound police found Matthew Thane, 18, dead from a gunshot wound outside his home early on August …
A federal magistrate last week recommended that federal criminal charges be dropped against three men indicted in the 2018 sinking of a duck boat in Branson, Missouri, that killed 17 people, KCUR reports. Curtis Lanham, general manager of Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles Baltzell, the manager on duty the day of the accident, were …
It’s been two months since mom of two Natalie Jones vanished on her way home to Georgia from a Fourth of July party in Alabama, and her worried mother says she’s “running on faith.” “Not knowing — this is killing me,” Elaine Gordan told the Newnan Times Herald. “I just want to come up on …
