A recent widower was found dead in North Carolina this week, and a woman has been charged with concealing his death and spending his money after he died. The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office said they are awaiting a medical examiner’s ruling on cause and manner of the death of Bobby Barnes, 60, WITN reported. Barnes …
A Florida firefighter was arrested this week and charged with sexuallly battering a teen girl in a Brevard County park. Pedro Antuna, 26, was taken into custody on Sunday, WKMG reported. His victim was 16 or 17. According to a probable cause affidavit, the incident took place at Nicol Park in Cocoa, but the document …
A movie production crew found the body of a woman shot multiple times at a transit bus stop near an interestate overpass in northwest Atlanta early Thursday morning. Atlanta police said their officers were flagged down just before 5:30 a.m. at the intersection of Collier Drive NW and Harwell Road NW for the unresponsive woman. …
A man in Arizona has been arrested after investigators found that he faked his death to avoid registering as a sex offender. Benjamin Hollins, 50, had adopted an assumed name in Mesa when investigators found him living with a family — with young children — who had no idea he’d been convicted of sex offenses …
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An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend’s 4-month-old son after the infant died Wednesday from injures suffered on April 25. Jacquon Ledarrion Stewart was initially charged with aggravated child abuse, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said, but the charges were upgraded to murder after the baby’s death, according to WBRC. …
An associate of Sean “Diddy” Combs who was arrested on drug possession charges in Florida has accepted a plea deal to avoid jail. On March 25, Brendan Paul, 25, was arrested at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport for carrying cocaine and marijuana-laced candy. Paul was later charged with cocaine possession and had a controlled substance charge …
Florida investigators identified the man operating a yacht that struck and killed a 15-year-old Saturday as Carlos “Bill” Alonso, 78. Still, his attorney said it’s not clear he was the one who hit the girl in Biscayne Bay. As CrimeOnline previously reported, attorney Lauren Field Krasnoff told reporters on Wednesday that Ella Adler’s death was …
Tennessee police have arrested a suspect after a missing man’s body was reportedly discovered in a buried freezer on Wednesday. Edward Elliott, 64, was reported missing on March 31, but investigators believe Joey Guinn, 46, killed him sometime in February and moved his body. Guinn told Elizabethton and Carter County police that he last spoke …
Karen Read reportedly appeared upset Wednesday during the murder trial of her Boston police officer boyfriend, rolling her eyes after jurors heard an emotional witness testimony. Read, 44, attended day 12 of the trial in Dedham Superior Court in Massachusetts. She faces second-degree murder charges for allegedly reversing her car into her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, …
A Louisiana couple was arrested in connection with last month’s attack that left the woman’s teen daughter with life-threatening injuries. Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Timothy Soignet said the 15-year-old girl was found gravely injured in a vehicle that was driving recklessly and crashed on an I-10 East service road in Baytown, Texas. Police who responded to …
Oklahoma authorities have arrested a man for gunning down his parents and sister last week. Jacob Mayhugh, 22, has been booked into the Grady County jail on three counts of first degree murder, the Oklahoman reported. Investigators had been searching for Mayhugh since May 11, when they found James and Patty Mayhugh, 55 and 54, …
