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Coronavirus
Juveniles
March 29, 2020
BREAKING: Toddler and 8-year-old child found dead of apparent double homicide; MANHUNT underway for two suspects
Two children were found dead in West Virginia on Saturday in what police believe is a double homicide, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports. The children’s bodies were discovered Saturday afternoon in the Greenville area, about 100 miles southeast of Charleston. Identities of the victims – a toddler and another child around 8 years old – …
Coronavirus
March 29, 2020
‘Criminals will stop at nothing to make a profit’: Soaring demand for medical masks prompts warning about counterfeits made in sweatshops
Seeking to profit from the global coronavirus pandemic, counterfeiters across the globe are producing phony medical masks that authorities warn are unsafe, the Independent reports. “Criminals will stop at nothing to make a profit,” Jürgen Stock, secretary-general of Interpol, told the newspaper. “The illicit trade in such counterfeit medical items during a public health crisis shows their total …
Missing
March 28, 2020
‘I was brave’: See video of 4-year-old Alabama girl talking about being lost in the woods for 2 days
A 4-year-old Alabama girl who disappeared on Wednesday while walking with her dog asked her mother to record a video as she told some of the story of her 48 hours lost in the woods before rescuers found her. Evelyn “Vadie” Sides is still hospitalized, Amanda Sides wrote in the Facebook post that included the …
Heroes
March 28, 2020
SEE IT: 16-year-old wrestling champ HERO stops kidnapping and assault, pins perp until cops arrive
A 22-year-old man tried to make off with a woman’s three children on Wednesday at a bus stop in Doña Ana, New Mexico, but the attempted kidnapping was foiled by a 16-year-old high school wrestling champion who pinned the man down inside a gas station and held him there until police arrived. Canaan Bower, who …
Murder
March 28, 2020
Florida man stabs, bludgeons girlfriend and her new boyfriend when he gets out of jail and finds them together
A Florida man “lost it” and killed his girlfriend and her new lover when he found them having sex after he bonded out of jail, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. Kenyatta Bellamy, 50, had been in the Osceola County jail for a year for failing to appear in court on a DUI manslaughter charge. …
Cold Cases
March 28, 2020
‘Best friend’ nabbed for killing 17-year-old girl 18 years ago: Cops
Detectives from Fort Wayne, Indiana, traveled to Wisconsin this week to arrest a 33-year-old woman in the stabbing death of her best friend nearly 18 years ago, WANE reported. Holly Boisvert, 33, waits in a Fond Du Lac jail for extradition back to Indiana, where she’ll face charges in the death of Stacy Degrandchamp, who …
Coronavirus
March 28, 2020
Pregnant teacher says officials kept school open despite positive COVID-19 cases
A pregnant New York City schoolteacher who was hospitalized for coronavirus alleges officials failed to heed warnings about an infection ripping through her school, the New York Post reports. “I had a lab report and a letter from my doctor. It still wasn’t good enough,” Raquel Iacurto told the Post. Iacurto, 32, says she asked authorities to close …
Coronavirus
March 28, 2020
BREAKING: NYPD detective in his 40s dies of coronavirus
A New York city police officer has died after contracting the novel coronarvirus, which has infected more than 500 members of the NYPD. The New York Post reports that the 48-year-old detective worked in the 32nd precinct in Harlem. He reportedly died on Saturday morning at North Central Bronx Hospital. The detective’s identity has not …
March 28, 2020
‘I know I killed my wife,’ says husband accused of using ultra-violent enhanced bullets to murder spouse
A New Jersey man allegedly shot and killed his wife using bullets specially designed to inflict greater damage, the Star-Ledger reports. On Thursday, police arrested 74-year-old Alexander Jacobs in connection with the shooting death of his wife, Lilia Jacobs. According to the report, a woman had called police shortly after 2 p.m. that day reporting a dispute between …
Coronavirus
March 27, 2020
Jail inmate charged in brutal stabbing death of his girlfriend released over fears of coronavirus infection
A Manhattan judge on Thursday released 16 inmates, including a career criminal who stalked his girlfriend and stabbed her to death at a cellphone repair shop, over fears they could contract the novel coronavirus sweeping the country. The New York Post reported that prosecutors objected to releasing Pedro Vinent-Barcia, 63, who was jailed for the …
Weird Crime
March 27, 2020
Georgia man sexually assaults a chicken, makes terroristic threats
A Clinch County, Georgia, man has been jailed on charges of making terroristic threats, but the March 20 arrest wasn’t his first last week. Reinaldo Pineda, 69, was arrested on March 17 and charged with bestiality after a surveillance video showed him having sex with a chicken, the Clinch County News reported. Clinch County Sheriff’s …