Crime
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New York City ‘Subway Snatcher’ Says He Was Trying to Save Woman, Seeking Boxing Match With People Who Beat Him Up
Who was it who once said that social media will be the death of society? The New York City man who was caught on camera literally picking up a sleeping woman on a subway and carrying her off is now chasing fame on the ’Gram. And he’s trying to promote a boxing match with the…
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Some Good News: Chicago's Crime Rate Down for 3rd Consecutive Year
Just in time to bring in a little New Year cheer, the Chicago Police Department announced that the murder rate in the city declined 13 percent in 2019 from the prior year. Interim Police Superintendent Charlie Beck announced Wednesday that the number of murders decreased from 567 in 2018 to 492 in 2019, giving the…
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NYPD Detain, Release 14-Year-Old Boy in Connection with Fatal Stabbing of 18-Year-Old Barnard Student
On Thursday, New York City Police detained a 14-year-old they suspect took part in the murder of 18-year-old Barnard College student Tessa Majors, who was stabbed to death in a Harlem park earlier this month. The teenage boy, whose photos were circulated by the NYPD earlier in the week, was released after being questioned, but…
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Troubled R&B Crooner Chico DeBarge Arrested for Meth Possession
Chico DeBarge is in trouble with the law again: The DeBarge family’s younger famous brother has been arrested for drug possession. According to TMZ, the No Guarantee singer/songwriter was arrested in Burbank, Calif. in a Walmart parking lot after cops saw him trying to unlock an SUV. Officers reportedly approached and searched the 53-year-old Detroit…
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Heartbreak: Body of 3-Year-Old Kamille ‘Cupcake’ McKinney Found in Alabama Dumpster; 2 People Charged
Investigators searching for Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney—the 3-year-old abducted from a birthday party more than a week ago—found her body in a dumpster Tuesday night, and authorities are charging two people earlier identified as “persons of interest” with murder, Birmingham, Ala., police said. “Tonight our entire city is mourning,” Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said, the Tuscaloosa…
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Elder Fight Club: Staffers at Assisted-Living Facility Are Accused of Pitting Dementia Patients Against One Another
Three women who worked at a North Carolina eldercare facility have been arrested on charges they baited elderly dementia patients into fighting one another. Marilyn Latish McKey, 32, Tonacia Yvonne Tyson, 20, and Taneshia Deshawn Jordan, 26, were arrested earlier this month on charges of assault on an individual with a disability, according to the…
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Cuba Gooding Jr. Hit With New Charge as His NYC Trial on Groping Charges Was Set to Open
On what was to have been the first day of Cuba Gooding Jr.’s trial on charges he groped a woman’s breast without consent, prosecutors had the proceedings delayed after announcing Thursday that the actor has been indicted on a second charge. According to the New York Times, prosecutors did not provide details on the second…
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Samuel Little Is the Most Prolific Serial Killer in U.S. History. Most of His Victims Were Black Women
His name is not as well known as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, or John Wayne Gacy, though the scale of his crimes far eclipses theirs: confessing to 93 murders over 35 years. On Sunday, the FBI reported on months of investigatory work, declaring 79-year-old Samuel Little the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Fifty…
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Florida Judge Sentences 21-Year-Old to 10 Days in Jail for Missing Jury Duty
Talk about getting an “n-word wake up call”—to quote legendary comic Paul Mooney. A young black man, who said he overslept and missed jury duty, got the book thrown at him. Whether or not we are now considering missing jury duty a crime, a judge in Florida says it is—and it’s punishable by law. 21-year-old…
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Joshua Brown, a Key Witness in Amber Guyger’s Murder Trial, Killed Outside Apartment
A message has clearly been sent. Joshua Brown, a key witness who testified for the prosecution on Tuesday in the trial of killer cop Amber Guyger, was fatally shot outside of his apartment building in Dallas on Friday night. The neighbor of Botham Jean, who was murdered by Guyger, Brown’s body was found on the…