A former Alabama high school teacher is behind bars for reportedly performing “sexual acts” with one her students. Al.com reports that authorities arrested Sonya Ann Wilks Bailey, 51, on Monday and charged her with second-degree sodomy, second-degree rape, and one count of a “school employee engaging in a sex act with a student.” Bailey, a former commerce …
A teacher at a private elementary school in Vallejo, California, was arrested on Friday for allegedly dealing heroin and methadone. KRON 4 reports that 36-year-old Delicia Gomez, of Napa, was arrested at her home on outstanding warrants of possession of illegal pain pills and identity theft. While searching the teacher’s Napa home, police reportedly found methadone …
A Colorado man who posted a photo of his bloody leg on Facebook, claiming he got stabbed when he was mistaken for a neo-Nazi, admitted that he lied about the entire ordeal. BuzzFeed News reports that Joshua Witt, 26, initially told authorities that a man attacked him as he got out of his car in Sheridan, Colorado, …
Police arrested a New Jersey mother after her little girl died while being left in a car alone. NJ.com reports that Deanna J. Joseph, 39, called 911 at around 9:45 p.m. on Sunday, from her home off of Timberland Road. She said she found her little girl inside a car, unresponsive. According to Salem County Prosecutor John T. …
Johnston County, North Carolina, District Attorney Susan Doyle released dashcam footage on Friday that showed an officer-involved shooting that ended with a woman dead. CBS North Carolina reports that on July 8, officers responded to an SUV that crashed off of Interstate 40 in Newton Grove. When they arrived, officers noticed a white GMC Yukon …
Authorities are testing a hunk of concrete found in a Pennsylvania home that they hope will solve the mystery of a 1989 cold case involving a woman who vanished without a trace. FOX News reports that Sunbury Police Chief Tim Miller announced that forensic experts are testing the concrete slab to determine if it holds …
A teen girl in Oklahoma is missing and authorities are asking the public to be on the lookout for her. PL8PIC reports that 17-year-old Sydney Bird disappeared on August 23. She was last seen at in Atoka, Oklahoma. She’s described as a white female with a medium build, and blonde hair and blue eyes. Authorities haven’t …
A decomposing body of a University of Southern California (UNC) student was discovered on Thursday by a school maintenance man, and authorities say the student may have been dead for up to a week. New York Post reports that detectives identified the student as Jacob Kelley, 24, a student in the master’s program of medical physiology. The …
Apparently, former health sciences teacher Tad Cummins is trying to get out jail by claiming he’s not allowed to talk privately with his lawyer. Prosecutors said that Cummins’ allegation is simply not true. Tennessean reports that Cummins, 51, and his lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Dumaka Shabazz, filed a motion last Friday that claimed they’ve been denied …
A Texas woman was sentenced to 27 years in prison after she murdered her husband in 2012, just one day shy of their 32nd wedding anniversary. Houston Chronicle reports that Sandra Melgar was sentenced in Houston on Thursday for killing her husband, 52-year-old Jaime Melgar, in what prosecutors said was a $500,000 insurance scheme. On Dec. 22, 2012, …
North Carolina police arrested a teen in connection with the early Wednesday morning death of his father and another man. FOX 8 reports that Sean Tyler Simmons, 19, is facing two first-degree murder charges. At around 1:35 a.m. on Wednesday, officers arrived at 2406 Flora Vista Circle in Greensboro, where they found two men with gunshot wounds, …
The Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office in Marietta, Georgia, confirmed today that the remains found on August 1 in the backyard of a Kennesaw home are of U.S. Army veteran, Chase Massner. The confirmation comes one day after Massner’s mother, Stephanie Cadena, expressed her frustration over the lengthy process of identifying the remains. “Words cannot …
