A Manhattan judge on Thursday released 16 inmates, including a career criminal who stalked his girlfriend and stabbed her to death at a cellphone repair shop, over fears they could contract the novel coronavirus sweeping the country. The New York Post reported that prosecutors objected to releasing Pedro Vinent-Barcia, 63, who was jailed for the …
A Clinch County, Georgia, man has been jailed on charges of making terroristic threats, but the March 20 arrest wasn’t his first last week. Reinaldo Pineda, 69, was arrested on March 17 and charged with bestiality after a surveillance video showed him having sex with a chicken, the Clinch County News reported. Clinch County Sheriff’s …
A Georgia teen has been arrested and charged in the death of a newborn girl found in a cooler at the side of the road early last year. Investigators used DNA to track down Caroline Riley Propes, 19, and charge her with second degree murder, Troup County Sheriff James Woodruff said. Witnesses told investigators the …
A doctor at UConn Health in Farmington, Connecticut, was arrested Thursday and charged with breach of peace after he allegedly intentionally coughed on and hugged nurses at an outpatient surgical clinic, the Hartford Courant reported. Cory Edgar, 48, is an orthopedic team physician at the university and an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the …
A 4-year-old Alabama girl who disappeared Wednesday afternoon while walking her dog has been found, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. While the sheriff’s office didn’t say where or how she was found, a photo published on the website of WTVM shows the little red-haired girl smiling in the arms of a rescuer with …
A 24-year-old mother has been charged with attempted murder and felony child abuse after she allegedly put her newborn baby boy into a plastic bag and buried him beneath some leaves near her home, WBTV reported. Union County, North Carolina, deputies believe Casey Marie Thomas gave birth on Wednesday and then abandoned the little boy. …
The man who broke into civil rights icon Rosa Parks’s Detroit home and robbed her has been arrested for an almost identical crime in Grand Rapids, MLive reported. Joseph Nathaniel Skipper, 54, hit the then-82-year-old Parks in the face before fleeing with $53 in 1994. A year later, he was sentenced to eight to 15 …
The daughter of an influential Memphis family was found dead in her historic Arkansas home late Wednesday morning, apparently slain by the man who murdered her mother and cousin nearby in 1996, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. Martha McKay had been the sole owner of Snowden House, originally built by her grandfather in 1919 on …
Metro Nashville police took a phone call from Zohal Sakwall on January 31, and the story she told them was shocking. Sakwall, 40, told officers that she had put a plastic bag over her infant daughter’s head and suffocated her because of “the disruption to her life caused by having the child,” police said. Even …
The Arizona Court of Appeals has upheld the guilty verdict and sentencing of convicted killer Jodi Arias, rejecting her attorneys’ contention that prosecutorial misconduct and the media circus surrounding the court proceedings deprived her of a fair trial, ABC 15 reported. The three-judge panel did, however, refer prosecutor Juan Martinez’s behavior during the trial to …
An assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, and other personnel at the hospital are blaming a shortage of basic supplies at the hospital for his death. Kious Kelly, 48, was admitted to his own hospital on March 17, the New York Post reported, …
Alaska State Troopers have arrested an 18-year-old man and charged him with kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old girl last week in a tiny fishing village on the Kanektok River in western Alaska. Ida “Girlie” Aguchak was reported missing on late Monday afternoon, March 16, and her body was found two hours later at the Quinhagak …
