The University of Rochester Department of Public Safer has arrested four university students for their involvement in posting hundreds of “Wanted” posters around the campus last week targeting Jewish faculty and staff. DPS Chief Quchee Collins said a fifth person is under investigation. The four students have been charged with felony criminal mischief. The posters …
The University of Rochester in New York is investigating after hundreds of “wanted” posters targeting Jewish faculty and staff were posted on campus over the weekend. University President Sarah Mangelsdorf said the posters were “disturbing, divisive and intimidating” and that they run “counter to our values as a university,” NBC News reported. The university’s public …
A federal grand jury last week indicted two Nevada men for damaging ancient rock formations at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in April. Accoring to the indictment, Wyatt Clifford Fain, 37, and Payden David Guy Cosper, 31, pushed large chunks off rock formations millions of years old off the edge of a cliff on …
A Georgia man is facing charges after he was allegedly caught on camera attacking a pregnant woman at a popular Atlanta pizzeria last Saturday. According to Atlanta News First, police were alerted to Fellini’s Pizza at 909 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE, after the restaurant’s manager called 911 last Friday. Willie Grace, 52, was subsequently …
A Florida man is facing criminal charges after allegedly stealing an American flag and vandalizing a disabled veterans office this week, WFTV-TV reports. On Tuesday evening, 42-year-old Jonathan Wayne Smyth was recorded by security cameras at a Disabled American Veterans (DAV) chapter in Titusville, Florida. The footage shows him cutting the strings of a flag pole …
Police in Massachusetts are investigating after someone broke into a storage room at a Longmeadow park and poured muriatic acid — a harsh chemical used for cleaning or maintaining a pool’s pH balance — onto three of the park’s slides. Police and firefighters were called to Bliss Park Sunday morning when visitors reported a suspicious …
Three Florida 14-year-old are facing felonies after they allegedly ransacked a closed middle school campus in Palatka, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said that the Palatka Fire Department got the first call at Jenkins Middle School at about 4 p.m. on Sunday, a report of smoke in the area …
When the lights were still on past the usual time at a Louisiana Catholic church in September 2020, an onlooker peered in and made a surprising discovery. As CrimeOnline previously reported, inside the church and on the altar at the Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River, a priest, half-naked, was allegedly having …
A Manhattan subway train veered off the rails Sunday after striking debris thrown onto the tracks by an as yet unnamed suspect, the New York Post reported. MTA customers reportedly grabbed the suspect, apparently known to police for criminal activity around the city’s subway, after the train derailed and held him until police arrived. The …
A Ronald McDonald House in Illinois was placed on lockdown early Monday as looters vandalized the building, according to reports. Thirty families, including sick children, were reportedly sleeping at the Chicago facility — located near Lurie Children’s Hospital — when windows and a front door were smashed and vandalized. WBBM reported that residents were placed …
A Jesus Christ statue was beheaded in south Florida this week, and the incident is being investigated by local and federal authorities, the Miami Herald reports. Authorities believe the statue was damaged between Tuesday evening and Wednesday inside the courtyard of Good Shepherd Catholic Church in West Kendall in Miami-Dade County. The head of the statue was …
