A 68-year-old Missouri man flew to California, rented a car, and drove around the winding roads of Santa Clara County, tossing flaming pieces of paper into the dust dry brush in the hills between Ed Levin Park and Calaveras Reservoir last weekend, starting at least 13 wildfires, police said, announcing his arrest. The East Bay …
A Delta baggage handler was arrested Thursday and charged with stealing $300,000 from a cash shipment being sent from JFK airport in New York to Miami, ABC7 reported. Quincy Thorpe, 40, was arrested at home in Brooklyn after calling out sick from work for two days. He appeared in federal court later in the day …
A grocery store deli worker in Oregon has been arrested and charged with lacing bean dip with methamphetamine, which at least two of her co-workers ate. One was subsequently hospitalized, OregonLive reported. Cassandra Medina-Hernandez, 38, was arrested on Wednesday and has been charged with unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, recklessly endangering another person and causing another …
A cold case investigator in Louisiana’s Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office picked up a 25-year-old case and found a DNA match for a newborn found dead in a car wash trash drum in 1994. Sonia Charles, 50, was arrested Wednesday and charged with first degree murder. Officials say she left Baby Jane Doe in a trash …
A 13-year-old California boy has died, a week after he was assaulted by two other boys, and the attack — caught on video — raised outrage in the community, KTLA reported. The video shows the teenager, identified as Diego by family and school officials, talking with another boy, who suddenly punches him in the face. …
The man who jumped in front of a New York subway train with his 5-year-old daughter in his arms told his wife on the phone “with god, with god, with god, here comes the train” just before his fatal leap, the New York Post reported. The daughter, Ferni, survived Fernando Balbuena’s jump in front of …
Two off-duty police officers were involved in a bizarre incident Sunday in San Marino, California, that left one of them with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident began when a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy spotted a blue Subaru he felt was driving erratically, the Los Angeles Times reported, quoting the San Marino Police. Unaware …
A Maryland man wore see-through shorts to a Pennsylvania gas station, against his family’s advice, and asked a mother of two if they were appropriate. She said no, and he’s now been arrested. Manheim Township Police responded to a Sheetz location on August 7 and interviewed a woman who told them a man, later identified …
The school resource officer who arrested two 6-year-old school children last week without clearing the arrest with his supervisor has been fired, News 6 in Orlando reported. Additionally, Orange and Osceola County State Attorney Aramis Ayala said at a Monday press conference that neither child would be prosecuted. “I refuse to knowingly play any role …
A 30-year-old fifth grade teacher has resigned and faces charges of sexual assault against two 11-year-old students, according to the Billings Gazette. Brent David Skelton resigned from his post at Orchard Elementary School on Thursday shortly before he was arrested. Billings, Montana, School District 2 Superintendent Greg Upham said he learned about the allegations against …
A baby’s cry alerted a woman taking out her trash to an abandoned newborn Saturday morning at an apartment complex in Arlington, Texas, WFAA reported. The sobbing baby boy was in a container next to the dumpster at Monterra Pointe Apartments, the station said. The woman called 911 and responders had to administer CPR before …
An off-duty police officer shot and wounded himself Sunday morning during what police called a road rage incident in San Marino, California, KTLA reported. Few details were available from the incident, described by San Marino Police Sgt. Rob Cervantes in a written statement as a “traffic dispute.” According to Cervantes, the driver or a dark …
