crime
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Papa Don’t Snitch: Parents of Alleged Serial Killer Arrested for Not Cooperating With Prosecutors
The recent case of an alleged serial killer in Tampa, Fla., raises an interesting question—namely, should parents be forced to participate in the conviction of their child if it could quite literally mean the death of their offspring? Would your mother do it? Could you snitch out your own child? More important, in this specific…
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Family, Police Desperately Search for CDC Employee Who Vanished Without a Trace
Atlanta police are searching for a doctor working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who disappeared last week without a trace. Timothy Cunningham, a 35-year-old alumnus of Morehouse and Harvard, was recently promoted to commander under the U.S. Health Service Corps at the CDC, people close to him told Fox 5 Atlanta. Cunningham…
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Color Me Surprised: Someone Was Actually Arrested During That Philly Super Bowl Celebration
Don’t look now, but it looks like raucous, white sports fans just trying to have a good time by destroying property actually can get arrested. WPVI-TV Philadelphia reports that police have arrested a 20-year-old man on charges he damaged a Nissan Rogue SUV that was flipped over during the over-the-top and destructive celebrations in the…
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NYPD’s Janitor Charged With Robbing Bank by Claiming She Had a Bomb Gets Busted Again
The New York City Police Department may very well get the award for employing the world’s messiest janitor. A custodial assistant has been arrested for the third time in less than a year—a record that includes a previous charge of bank robbery. Calista Alston was busted Monday in the city’s Staten Island borough for drug…
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Former Ferguson, Mo., City Spokesman Found With Meth: Report
Police charged a former city spokesman with possession of methamphetamine on Tuesday after a traffic stop. Jeff Small, also a former on-air reporter in St. Louis, began working for the city in 2014 following the death of Michael Brown, KPLR-TV reports. On Jan. 6, Small was pulled over by cops for a broken headlight, according…
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Get ’Em Bodied: FBI Investigates Colorado Funeral Home That Sells Human Body Parts
Let me pose a hypothetical scenario: You’re burying your loved one—a process that’s known to be stressful and overwhelming—and you find out that, on the very same premises, the owners are cashing in on human body parts. WWYD? The FBI is investigating a funeral home in Montrose, Colo., that’s doing exactly that, according to Reuters.…
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Teenager Fights Robber Trying to Steal Coat at Gunpoint
The New York City Police Department is searching for a man who attempted to rob a teenager of his coat at gunpoint but failed when the teenager fought back. According to the New York City Alerts Twitter account, the incident took place on Wednesday in the Mapleton neighborhood of the city’s Brooklyn borough and was…
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Utah Teen Accused of Killing 19-Year-Old Who Reportedly Sold Him Cooking Spices Instead of Weed
A Utah judge decided that a 17-year-old would be moved into the adult jail population and held without bail after he was accused of killing another teenager who apparently sold him cooking spices instead of marijuana. According to the Salt Lake Tribune a defense attorney representing Seth Carreras did not voice any opposition to the…
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I Wanted to Do a Good Deed. I Talked Myself Out of It Because I Thought of All the Ways It Might Get Me Killed
Last night, while heading to drop my daughter off at her mother’s house after her martial arts class, I noticed that the lights on a car in her mother’s neighborhood were blinking on and off. It was fairly windy, so maybe a gust had set off the car alarm, though no sound was coming from…
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Houston Man Charged With Murder After ‘Nearly’ Decapitating Woman With Samurai Sword
Little is known about a 45-year-old Houston man who, according to authorities, killed his girlfriend Wednesday with a samurai sword. As the Houston Chronicle reports, officials say that Kenneth Wayne Lockings Jr. “nearly” decapitated Aracely Jernigan, who was found dead on Lockings’ living room floor. According to the Chronicle, Houston police responded to a call…