A New York daycare worker was arrested earlier this month for allegedly producing child porn with at least one child in his care. On May 3, police arrested Silfredo Castillo Martinez, 32, at his home daycare in the Bronx. Investigators said Martinez has been making child porn since 2011, and they identified one of the …
Bail was denied Monday for an Illinois man who last week allegedly dumped gasoline on a sleeping homeless man and lit him on fire. On Wednesday, Joseph Guardia, 27, allegedly burned Joseph Kromelis, 75, in Chicago. Surveillance footage showed Guardia silently standing over Kromelis for 16 seconds before walking to a nearby intersection, returning, pouring gas …
Illinois officials confirmed on Sunday that a body retrieved from a lake earlier this month is a grad student who vanished in late April with his girlfriend, who was also found deceased. On May 22, boaters reportedly spotted Daniel Sotelo’s body in Lake Michigan, about a mile offshore in Wilmette. The Wilmette Police Department told …
A man and his 4-month-old son were killed Sunday in a shooting in North Carolina. WSOC said that Darion McClendon, 25, and his son, Da’mari McClendon, were found dead at the scene of a shooting in Monroe. A 9-year-old and an 11-year-old were reportedly also in the home at the time of the shooting. No arrests …
Authorities in Virginia are looking for a 13-year-0ld girl who was reportedly last seen more than two weeks. According to WDBJ, Madilyn Braswell vanished from her grandmother’s home in Lynchburg on May 15. Additional details regarding her disappearance were not provided, but state police said she is a passenger in a black 2007 Dodge Ram …
Court documents filed on Thursday alleged that a bank often allowed South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to overdraw his account, sometimes in the six-figure range. FITS News reported that Palmetto State Bank apparently allowed Murdaugh to keep his accounts in the negative for the past several years. Despite this, the bank allegedly gave Murdaugh large …
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was reportedly arrested Saturday in California for drunk driving after he was involved in a car crash. According to TMZ, Paul Pelosi, 82, was involved in a two-vehicle crash in Napa which entailed a Jeep striking his Porsche. While no injuries were reported, Paul was charged with misdemeanor driving under …
Five people were killed on Thursday in a house explosion in Pennsylvania. WPVI reported that the people killed at a Pottstown home were Francine White, 67, Alana Wood, 13, Jeremiah White, 12, Nehemiah White, 10, and Tristan White, 8. Eugene White, 44, and Kristina Matuzsan, 32, are in critical condition. Officials have not disclosed how …
California authorities are not pursuing a sexual battery case against comedian Andy Dick, who was arrested earlier this month for allegedly assaulting a man at a campground. Orange County Sheriff’s Sergeant Scott Steinle told NBC that they are not moving forward in this case as the accuser stopped cooperating. Dick, 56, was arrested on May …
A Florida woman was arrested on Wednesday, days after her 7-month-old son reportedly drowned while unattended in a bathtub. On May 20, Alyssa Carolyn Jimmie, 22, allegedly left her infant and 3-year-old sons in a bathtub with running water. She claimed she felt comfortable doing so as the drain plug was missing, which she believed …
Convicted killer Patricia Krenwinkel, 74, is California’s longest-serving female inmate
A Massachusetts woman whose body was found in a recycling bin under her porch on Monday had filed a restraining order against her estranged husband weeks before her suspicious death. WFXT reported that Barbara Novaes, 61, wrote on May 6 and 7 about her husband physically harming her. Novaes filed a restraining order application on …
