One of six people charged last year with repeatedly abusing a 3-year-old boy pleaded guilty this week to pouring boiling water on the child, causing second-degree burns, NJ.com reported, citing the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Patricia Buchan, 29, admitted that on December 4, 2018, she had the boy, who was not her child, remove his …
A Florida man was arrested this week and charged with manslaughter for the beating death of a peeping tom he caught outside his girlfriend’s bedroom window, where he and the woman were having sex, The Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. Victor Vickery was naked and barefoot with blood on his hands and a swollen foot when police …
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced on Friday that it had charged two men with poaching thousands of Florida turtles and selling them, with their final destination to be largely international markets. Michael Boesenberg, 39, and Michael Clemons, 23, have each been charged with multiple counts related to the enterprise, the FWC …
A gunman firing into a Philadelphia home killed a 2-year-old girl and wounded her mother and a man Sunday afternoon, 6 ABC reported. The little girl was shot in the back of the head and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. The 24-year-old mother was hit on the side of the head and in …
A Philadelphia man has been charged in the shooting deaths of two other men during a camping trip in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the Morning Call reported. Miles Jones, 40, has been charged with two counts of homicide, one count of possession of an instrument of crime, and 13 counts of recklessly endangering another person — …
Comic Bob Zmuda, a longtime collaborator of Andy Kaufman, was arrested early Wednesday morning on a misdemeanor DUI charge, the El Dorado County, California, Sheriff’s Department said. Zmuda, 69, was released on a $5,000 bond. Police did not release any further details. How do you protect your children from predators? Join Nancy Grace and a …
A former pro football player was arrested Wednesday after shooting a woman at a company he co-founded, later telling police the shooting “was an accident” and the Russian Mafia was after him. The Denver Channel reported that Justin Bannan, 40, was found outside Black Lab Sports in Boulder, Colorado, shortly after the shooting and taken …
Philadelphia police are looking for an “armed and dangerous” man they say threatened his former employer and police officers, NBC 10 reports. Michael John Altomari, 31, had an argument with his girlfriend in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood and then left after loading up several firearms in a duffel bag, police said. The girlfriend said Altomari …
Former college football player and current Portland, Oregon, high school coach Keanon Lowe bravely disarmed a shotgun-wielding student in a classroom full of students and then calmly hugged the boy and talked with him until police arrived, and the school’s video cameras caught most of the scene. Angel Granados-Diaz, dressed in a long trench coat …
A Dallas probate judge signed a temporary restraining order on Friday against Atatiana Jefferson’s family, stopping her funeral and burial and giving full authority for the services to her father, Marquis Jefferson, WFAA reported. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her nephew in her home on October 5 when she was shot and …
A 15-year-old girl is in jail in Rhode Island, charged with killing a 68-year-old grandmother whose family was reportedly trying to adopt her, the Providence Journal reports. Heavenly Arroyo, originally of Rochester, New York, was arrested on October 6 and charged with stabbing Ana Vazquez as many as 20 times in her Fall River home, …
A Los Angeles jury on Friday recommended the death sentence for Michael Gargiulo, who was convicted in August in the deaths of two women and the brutal stabbing of a third, who survived, KNX1070 reported. Prosecutors called Gargiulo, 43, the “Hollywood Ripper” for the Los Angeles-area killings of Ashley Ellerin, 22, on February 22, 2001, …
