An Amber Alert has been issued for a 15-month-old Texas boy, and police have issued a warrant for the arrest of the child’s uncle on kidnapping charges. Mateo Vazquez was last seen Saturday afternoon in northwest Harris County, KTRK reported. He is believed to be with Jason Vazquez, 25, his uncle. Another man, 21-year-old …
A Florida man was arrested on Saturday after he put an 8-month-old baby into the middle of the street and then ran over the child with his car. It’s not clear if it was intentional, but the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office charged Justin Golden, 20, with vehicular homicide and aggravated manslaughter, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s …
A Georgia couple was arrested on cruelty to children and aggravated battery charges last week, nearly a year after their doctors found 29 fractures all over their infant daughter’s body. According to WSB, the 6-week-old child’s mother, Savannah Cox, and grandmother brought the baby to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center in February 2024 with a …
A Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested last week as he was getting ready to board a cruise ship, where police say he planned to sell ecstacy he was smuggling aboard in Skittles packages. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said a confidential informant bought pills in December from Francisco Melo, 36, and learned that he was about …
An Indianapolis man was arrested on Saturday after he assaulted a 14-year-old boy solely because the kid was on his motorized bike. Jason Harrell told police he yelled at the boy “about the habitual behavior” of being a kid on a bike but denied shoving and hitting him, WXIN reported, even though the entire episode …
An Illinois man is dead after he disarmed a police officer conducting a well-being check and shot himself with the officer’s weapon. The Charleston Police Department said officers were called to the home just after 1 a.m. on Saturday to check on a 22-year-old man who had called 911 himself asking for help. “During the …
The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office announced Friday it had secured indictments against two Capitol Police officers involved in an August 2022 shooting that left a woman critically injured with a partially paralyzed face. Michael Rhinewalt, who is still a Capitol Police officer, and former officer Jeffery Walker were charged with aggravated assault in the shooting, …
A Florida lawyer was arrested last week after he smashed a dinner plate over the head of the father of two girls who cut in front of him in the prime rib line at a wedding reception. Mark Roher, 52, was charged with agravated battery with a deadly weapon in the January 18 incident at …
A 21-year-old American citizen has been arrested for the fatal shooting of a US Border Patrol Agent in Vermont this week. Teresa Youngblut, believed to be from Washington state, has been charged in federal court with using a deadly weapon while assaulting the border patrol agent and using and discharging a deadly weapon in that …
The father of a toddler struck by an oncoming car when he ran out in front of it has been arrested for retrieving a gun and shooting at driver of the vehicle. The California Highway Patrol said the driver stopped after unintentionally hitting the 2-year-old boy, who was taken to a hospital with major injuries …
A 12-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert over the weekend was found dead in an icy pond. Virginia Beach Police said Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo was in eight feet of water with ice 3 inches thick, WIFR reported. They did not say how they think the boy ended up in the …
An Ohio couple were arrested earlier this month for the death of their toddler daughter at a US Air Force base in Florida two years ago. Kodi Glenn Simon and Kateri Ann Simon, both 30, were arrested near Cleveland last week and charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 2-year-old Maeve …
