Investigators identified the couple who died in Wednesday’s crash at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing as Kurt P. Villani and Monica Villani. The Villanis were from Grand Island, and both were 53, Niagara Falls Police said. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Villanis vehicle, traveling at a high rate of speed, hit a curb and went …
A Texas mother was sentenced to probation this week, after dressing up as her daughter and recording herself at an El Paso middle school in 2021. According to the El Paso Times, Casey Garcia was sentenced to six months of probation, a $700 probated fine, and 100 hours of community service for criminal trespassing, an …
A convicted felon has been charged with illegally possessing the gun a toddler used to kill himself last month. The US Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Mark Totten, said that Avis Coward pulled into a gas station in Lansing on October 24 and went inside, leaving the 2-year-old child and his mother in …
South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole more than a decade after he gunned down his girlfriend through a locked bathroom door. Pistorius, 37, was denied bond in March by a judge who said he had not served the minimum sentence, as CrimeOnline reported. In 2014, Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide and …
A New Jersey elementary school teacher who vanished in June shortly after a restraining order against her husband was lifted has been found dead in Roxbury. Lara Emanuele, 46, was last seen June 7, and her vehicle was located the following day in the parking lot of a Roxbury Holiday Inn Express, about five miles …
A Texas man was arrested after he allegedly punched his pregnant girlfriend in the face, multiple times, because she communicated with her ex-husband about their divorce and children. Police records say Christopher Treyvon Smith, 30, went to his girlfriend’s house to discuss the message, telling the 20-year-old she should not have contacted her ex-husband, WOAI …
Stuart Seldowitz — who served under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama — was captured on video harassing the halal vendor on multiple occasions, calling him a terrorist and threatening to have his parents arrested by Egyptian intelligence agents.
Investigators say the gunman who wounded four people at an Ohio Walmart before killing himself earlier this week was at least “partially inspired by racially motivated violent extremist ideology.” The FBI’s Cincinnati field office and the Beavercreek Police Department made the announcement in a joint statement issued on Wednesday. Investigators said they had uncovered journal …
A woman has accused New York Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when he worked as a police captain with the New York Police Department. The woman also worked for the city at the time, WABC reports, although it’s not clear in what capacity. Adams was named in a summons filed late …
Stephen Smith, the openly gay South Carolina teenager whose 2015 death got renewed attention following the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh by their husband and father, died from a single blow to the head and died on the road where he was found. Smith’s mother, Sandy Smith, has been fighting the battle over her …
A second person has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting over a property dispute in rural Colorado. Hanme Clark, 45, was arrested in New Mexico and charged with the shooting deaths of Rob Geers, 63, his wife Beth Wade Geers, 73, and James Daulton, 58, and the wounding of Daulton’s wife, Patty Daulton, …
Oregon police are searching for a 19-year-old man in connection with a deadly shooting Monday night in Riddle. Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene just after 11:30 p.m. and found Devonte Lovell Clark, 20, dead at the scene and a second man, Killian Mavity, 29, with a gunshot wound to the arm. He …
