A man jumped from his 16th-floor luxury apartment in New York City late Friday in the midst of growing fears about the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Post reports. The 64-year-old man, whose identity has not been released publicly, lived in the Tribeca Park apartments in Manhattan. He landed in the courtyard. Authorities pronounced the man dead …
A North Carolina man was arrested after he did a Facebook Live video touching various items in a local Walmart while telling viewers he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Justin Rhodes, 31, was charged on Friday with felony perpetrating a hoax in a public building and disorderly conduct. Albermarle police …
Police in Purcellville, Pennsylvania, investigated social media posts showing teens reportedly coughing on produce in a grocery store. They weren’t, but officers warned parents to keep a close eye on kids out of school with more time on their hands.
A Utah mom has been charged with domestic violence and child abuse after she lost it over “her children’s school circumstances in regards to the coronavirus,” according to the Deseret News. Jessica Cambray, 36, was arrested early Wednesday morning at her home in Provo, where she lives with her common law husband and three sons, …
A woman was arrested this week for violating a coronavirus quarantine while she was swimming in a hotel pool, the New York Post reports. The incident – at Paradise Park Hotel in Tenerife, Spain – was captured on video by other hotel guests, who did not feel any sympathy for the swimming scofflaw. A woman off-screen can be …
Louisiana sheriff’s deputies aren’t standing for disinformation about the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, especially when that information is about them. The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office said it had arrested a man on Friday and charged him with terrorism for making a false social media post: “SHARE SHARE SHARE ! ! ! …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace takes on the coronavirus and those who would take advantage of it to scam the unsuspecting in the latest episode of Crime Stories on Fox Nation. “Online scams, jacking up the prices of Purell to $48 a bottle, people losing money, Jim Bakker, the televangelist on TV, offering a cure for coronavirus …
A recently fired employee of a company that sponsored a conference that is a major source of coronavirus spread is accused of hiding her illness after she flew from the U.S. to China, allegedly knowing that she had been exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19. MSN.com reports that Jie Li of Belmont, Massachusetts, who …
A 35-year-old man suspected of having contracted coronavirus jumped to his death from his hospital room. According to India Today, the unidentified patient had been admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi on Wednesday evening. The man had recently traveled from Sydney, Australia, where he had been living for a year, but it is unclear …
Rikers Island houses 7,000 inmates, and a union leader says that population has not been given proper protective measures
A married man in the UK has contracted coronavirus after he traveled to Italy with his mistress — and lied to his wife about where he was going. According to The Sun, the unidentified man in his 30s developed symptoms of COVID-19 after returning from a trip to Italy with his mistress. The man reportedly …
A network of clinics in Brooklyn has seen 100 patients test positive for the coronavirus in recent days, and the number could go up, as results are pending for several hundred tests. A staff member who answered the phone at an Asisa Urgent Care location in Brooklyn confirmed to CrimeOnline that roughly 100 patients who …
