A licensed physician in California has been charged with mail fraud for selling “COVID-19 treatment packs” he said would “100%” cure the disease caused by the novel coronavirus and give customers immunity to the virus for six weeks, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. Jennings Ryan Staley, 44, who …
A 20-year-old south Texas man has been arrested and charged with the murders of four members of a Laredo family, including a two-year-old child. Police were called to a residence in the southern part of the city at about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Laredo Police Department said. Upon arrival, officers saw “visible signs of …
A North Carolina mother of three was allegedly murdered by her husband, who is now in police custody, WRAL-TV reports. Jasmina Almendarez Zelaya, 30, was reported missing April 14 after her sister and other family members said they had not seen or heard from her in several days. Authorities have now charged Zelaya’s husband, Jose …
A man in Connecticut is accused of breaking into a shuttered restaurant and binging on thousands of dollars of food and alcohol, the Hartford Courant reports. Police earlier this week arrested 42-year-old Louis Angel Ortiz at the downtown New Haven eatery Soul De Cuba Café, which had been closed because of the coronavirus. Authorities believe Ortiz broke into …
A 3-year-old boy drowned in a manmade lake in Texas, and his mother was hospitalized in critical condition after being pulled out of the lake herself. Beaumont Police spokesperson Haley Morrow told the Beaumont Times that police were called to the scene on Wednesday afternoon, with a witness reporting what appeared to be an adult …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace takes a look at the case of Alison MacKenzie, an Arizona mother of two who vanished in January while vacationing in Belize and reportedly looking for a second property to buy there. “I’ve been studying the case very carefully,” Grace said on Fox Nation’s “Crime Stories.” “And so far, I alone — at …
A former vice president of finance at a Georgia healthcare company has been charged with sabotaging his company’s shipments of critical medical supplies needed in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic after he was fired earlier this year. Christopher Dobbins, 40, was fired from his job on March 2. According to the US Attorney’s Office …
A Texas man was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for putting his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in scalding bathwater in 2018. Robert Wayne Bunton, 28, pleaded guilty to second-degree felony aggravated assault causing bodily injury with a deadly weapon. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that authorities got involved after the boy was treated for second- …
A federal court set a temporary restraining order against a Florida church on Friday, ordering it to stop selling what is essentially the equivalent of industrial bleach as a treatment and prevention of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing and individual defendants Mark Grenon, Joseph …
The mother of a twin boy who fell from the 16th floor of a high-rise condominium tearfully told officials that he “had always wanted to fly,” according to a Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office report. The Sun-Sentinel reports that 4-year-old Jesse Delduca was with his family in their vacation home at the Quadomain Condomiumim in …
A Texas grand jury indicted a man on capital murder charges on Wednesday, months after he allegedly killed his girlfriend’s son and left his body in a car trunk. Corey Trumbull, 31, was charged with capital murder, and both he and Stormy Johnson, 37, are facing tampering with evidence charges for the death of Johnson’s …
Family and friends of Gretchen Anthony receive strange texts saying she is in quarantine after contracting coronavirus. Police are called in for a wellness check, but they find a bloody crime scene. Her husband cannot be found, but her car is located in the Jupiter Medical Center parking lot. What happened to Gretchen Anthony? Joining …
