A federal grand jury last week indicted two Nevada men for damaging ancient rock formations at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in April. Accoring to the indictment, Wyatt Clifford Fain, 37, and Payden David Guy Cosper, 31, pushed large chunks off rock formations millions of years old off the edge of a cliff on …
Police in Maine say they have arrested four juvenile — one of them 12 years old — and an adult in connection with an incident earlier this month in which a 13-year-old boy was assaulted, held prisoner in a camper, and had property stolen from him. The victim and other witnesses told the Wilton Police …
An Alabama sting operation swooped up 11 men, including an Alabama state trooper, in an operation late last week targeting men who were soliciting children for sex Ryan Christian Rhodes, 26, reportedly resisted arrest by Montgomery County deputies, Assistant Chief Deputy Wesley Richerson told WSFA. “During the arrest, I was advised by our staff that …
A body was found Monday underneath a home at a resort on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island, and investigators believe it is a Massachusetts man who disappeared from his vacation rental 10 days ago. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said it got a call at about 11:30 a.m. for “suspicious activity” and found the body …
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania say they plan to seek the death penalty for a 30-year-old doctoral student accused of killing a 6-week-old boy she was babysitting for friends — while they took the boy’s twin brother to the hospital for injuries police say the suspect caused. Nicole Elizabeth Virzi was arraigned on Friday on charges of …
Five people were killed on Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide at a home Long Island. Nassau County police have not released the names of the victims, Newsday reported, but said that a man found dead “on the front lawn did shoot and kill himself.” Records show that 95-year-old Theresa Martha DeLucia most recently lived in …
Human trafficking sting operations in Tennessee netted nine arrests this month, including a local college football coach. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said it arrested six people in Middle and West Tennessee and three more in a separate operation in East Tennessee. They also recovered nine potential victims of sex trafficking and offered them services …
A woman was arrested last week after she tried to kidnap an 8-year-old girl, telling an adult who was with the girl that she was Russian police and was taking the child. Courtney Perrone, 40, has been charged with one count of attempted kidnapping/victim under 14 years old, one count of false imprisonment by violence, …
A Minnesota man who admitted killing his ex-girlfriend just days after he was released from jail for assaulting her was sentenced Friday to nearly 24 years in prison. Matthew Brenneman, 40, was under a restraining order when he killed Danicka Bergeson, 33, and left her body in her apartment, covered in abrasions and bruising and …
A New York anesthesiologist pleaded guilty to drugging his family’s nanny while she slept and raping her. Paul Giacopelli, 60, will only spend four years in prison when he’s sentenced on November 20, thanks to a plea deal agreed to by Putnam County Judge Anthony Mole, LoHud.com reports. He will have to register as a …
A Florida man was arrested Saturday after his children called 911 and said he’d shot their mother. Jose Manuel Otero-Fontanez, 48, opened fire on police when they responded to the call in the Hanover Lakes community in St. Cloud, WESH reported. Officers sent a drone into the house, and Otero-Fontanez reported fired at the drone …
Three people — including a prominent Kentucky dentist and his son — were arrested last month in connection with the fatal stabbing of 38-year-old Amber Spradlin, found dead in the dentist’s home more than a year ago. Michael McKinney III, 24, is charged with murder and multiple counts of tampering with evidence and is being …
