A Florida woman was jailed Friday after a passerby filmed her kicking and choking a dog and posted the video to Facebook. Tarpon Springs police said Michelle Sieber, 26, has been charged with one count of felony animal cruelty. The dog in the video and a second dog are now in the custody of animal …
A man was robbed twice in a Bronx subway station early Saturday morning, ultimately losing $1,000, three credit cards, his phone, headphones, and MetroCard, the New York Daily News reported. The victim, 25, was confronted by a man and a woman with a knife when he entered the E. 149th Street station at about 2:15 …
A South Carolina sheriff’s deputy was fired last week over a surveillance video showed five officers subduing a suspect and punching him while he was on the ground, WSPA reported. James Pregel was fired for “conduct unbecoming” related to the August 1 incident captured by cameras at Simuns Tire and Brake in Greenville. Nick Simmons, …
Pittsburgh police recommended assault charges against the owners and an employee of a northside Exxon gas station after a video of a “particularly disturbing” fight went viral, police said. The confrontation began when two women reported to the station personnel that a gas pump had malfunctioned, spilling gas. The customers demanded a refund, but the …
A California appeals court on Friday backed former Gov Jerry Brown’s decision to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, according to an AP report in the Sacramento Bee. Van Houten, 70, is serving a life sentence for her role in the stabbing deaths of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, …
Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies arrested a former employee at an assisted living facility on Friday, saying he ingested an unregulated drug called kratom and fell asleep while a disabled man in the backseat of the company minivan died in the heat. Russell had taken John LaPointe, 35, to a doctor’s appointment on May 9 from …
Las Vegas police arrested adult film star Cheryl Marie Murphy, known as Bridget the Midget in her movies, this week for stabbing her boyfriend during a violent argument. Law enforcement told TMZ that a neighbor reported screaming and breaking glass from a home in southwest Las Vegas. Officers found that Murphy, also known as Bridget …
A southern Indiana woman and her now ex-boyfriend have been arrested and charged with “heinous, despicable, disgusting” acts of child abuse, Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin told WLKY on Friday. Matthew Mosier, 37, and Hannah Graves, 28, were arrested Thursday after an investigation that began in August when the Indiana Department of Child Services got …
A judge who told the mother of a sexual assault victim to “keep your mouth shut, sit down” during a hearing earlier this summer recused himself from the trial on Friday, citing the mother’s stated concerns that she feared he could not conduct the trial fairly, NJ.com reported. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Joseph Rea was …
Surveillance video captured a wild shootout in Chester, Pennsylvania, Friday morning, as two men fired at one another while recklessly circling a mini-van parked on a city street blocks from two schools, CBS Philly reported. In the video released by Chester Police, children on their way to school duck for cover behind other vehicles as …
A south Florida couple was arrested late Wednesday, charged with trying to sell counterfeit watches, purses, shoes, and handbags — valued at $2.4 million, had the cache been authentic, the Palm Beach Post reported. Steven Price, 32, and Deva Overman, 37, were booked into the Palm Beach County jail after Price offered to sell a …
Police in rural North Carolina arrested Timothy Wade Parnell, 58, on Thursday, charging him with the murder of a woman found dead in her yard more than a week ago, CBS 17 reported. An off-duty sheriff’s deputy discovered Anne Kirkpatrick’s body in front of her house on September 8, according to WRAL. Kirkpatrick, 46, had …
