South Miami police are looking for a 3-year-old girl believed taken by her mother. Shea Eminhizer is described as 3 feet tall, 40 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The department said the little girl may be with Christine Betancourt, 41, who is described as 5 …
Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan” reality show is using artwork by convicted scam artist Anna Sorokin to sell high end properties and draw viewers. The show follows Ryan Serhant and his luxury property agents as they convince wealthy clients to buy their properties, according to The Decider. In a recent episode, agent Jade Shenker takes a potential …
A Texas teen pleaded guilty to killing his mother in 2022 and was sentenced this week to 40 years in prison. Tyler Roenz, now 19, also pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and was sentenced to 20 years, to run concurrently with the murder sentence, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said. Two other felonies …
The Arizona father convicted last month of starving his 6-year-old son to death was sentenced on Friday to life in prison. Anthony Martinez, 28, was found guilty of first degree murder in Deshaun Martinez’s death and two counts each of child abuse and kidnapping against the boy and his 7-year-old sibling, along with two more …
A 30-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with punching a 21-month-old boy in the abdomen so hard that he killed the toddler. Chester County District Attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe said the Enrique Lopez Gomez “brutally injured a toddler under his care, failed to get the child medical care, and caused his death.” “It’s difficult to …
Authorities in Kansas have issued an endangered persons advisory for a 23-year-old mother and her two young children who “may have been coerced to travel to Mexico to a religious rehabilitation facility.” Martha Unger and her daughters, 2-year-old Madilynn Grace Unger and 1-year-old Haylie Faith Unger, were reported missing from their rural Haskell County hom …
A 83-year-old Colorado man was convicted this week of killing and dismembering his wife and adult daughter because he’d lost his job and didn’t want them to be homeless. A jury in Arapahoe County found Reginald L. Maclaren guilty of two counts of murder, two counts of tampering with a body, and false reporting, according …
A North Carolina woman has been arrested and charged with killing two of her adopted children who haven’t been seen for years. Fayetteville Police Chief Kemberle Braden said that Avantae Deven faces multiple charges relating to the disappearance and death of Blake and London Deven, WTVD reported. “Our evidence shows that both Blake and London …
A Michigan sheriff’s deputy is dead after he was shot in a fight with a passenger during a traffic stop in Jefferson Township on Thursday. Deputy William Henry Butler, Jr., 51, was a father of 5, a retired veteran, and had served with the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office for 12 years, WTVG reported. Michigan State …
A 9-year-old Virginia girl was wounded Friday when her older brother left “one of his loaded firearms unsecured on the bed” and another minor “hit the trigger … causing it to discharge.” Deputies arrived on scene and found the girl with a gunshot wound to the leg just above the ankle, the Henry County Sheriff’s …
A 64-year-old California woman has been jailed after she allegedly beat and stabbed her 90-year-old father to death. Visalia police found Don Weerasinghe unconscious and bleeding from the head when they arrived at the home. He was taken to Kawweah Health Medical Center in critical condition but later died. Victoria Roberts was arrested at the …
The suspect in the shooting death of a Texas JROTC instructor on Friday was captured 900 miles away in Georgia. Fort Worth Police said Gene Bass, 54, was shot and killed outside his home in south Forth Worth Friday afternoon, KDFW reported. The suspect, who has not been named, was arrested by Lowndes County deputies …
