A Utah woman was charged this week with falsely reporting a school shooting to divert officers on the verge of arresting her friends. Court records show that dispatchers got a call on May 24 that someone was heading to Lehi High School with an AK-47 “to do some damage,” KSL reported. “This resulted in an …
A Virginia man has been arrested and charged with several counts related to his alleged plot to abduct and rape a teenage babysitter. Court documents say Richard Shusko was found with a backpack containing a loaded firearm, handcuffs, shackles, a Taser, a shock collar, and hood when he was arrested at a Virginia Beach park …
California police have arrested the mother and daughter co-owners of a home-based daycare where two toddlers drowned in a pool earlier this month. Nina Fathizadeh, 31, and her mother Shahin Gheblehshenas, 64, surrendered to San Jose Police on Friday, KGO reported. They have been charged with felony child endangerment and are scheduled for arraignment on …
Former NFL player Sergio Brown was taken into custody this week in Mexico on a fugitive warrant for the murder of his mother last month, and the ex-safety battled with Mexican officers on board a plane bringing him back to the United States to face the charges. A passenger shot the video as the Aeromexico …
Arizona police are looking for a 32-year-old woman who disappeared after starting a cross-country trip from California to Connecticut. Chelsea Grimm was last seen on September 28 in Williams, about 35 miles west of Flagstaff, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said. On October 5, hunters found her abandoned vehicle on a forest service road northeast …
The judge and attorneys involved in Chad Daybell’s upcoming murder trial have set a November 29 date for a hearing on whether to allow cameras in the courtroom for the proceedings. Seventh District Judge Steven Boyce previously barred cameras for the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, Daybell’s wife who was charged and convicted on the …
A parent, apparently angry at his son’s playing time, shot the boy’s youth football coach in the back four times at a practice this week in St. Louis. The gunman, Daryl Clemmons, turned himself in on Wednesday, the day after the shooting, and has been charged with first degree assault and armed criminal action, the …
A Colorado jury on Thursday reached a split verdict in the trial of two Aurora police officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain during a 2019 arrest. The jury convicted Randy Roedema of criminally negligent homicide, after rejecting a more serious charge of reckless manslaughter, and third-degree assault, KUSA reported. The jury found Jason …
A Pennsylvania woman charged with hanging her two children in the basement of her Berks County home four years ago may be preparing to enter a plea in her case. Prosecutors intended to seek the death penalty for Lisa Snyder, as CrimeOnline previously reported, and her defense attorneys had filed paperwork saying they intended to …
A 9-year-old Detroit boy shot his 4-year-old brother Thursday with an older brother’s loaded, unsecured handgun. Detroit police said the 9-year-old took the gun from his 17-year-old brother’s room to play with, WJBK reported, and shot the younger boy in the cheek. The bullet then struck his shoulder. The 9-year-old told police that his older …
Iowa’s state Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction of Christhian Bahena Rivera, convicted in 2021 of the 2018 killing of jogger Mollie Tibbets. Rivera appealed his conviction, claiming that some statements he made to police were made before he was read his Miranda rights, KCRG reported. But the appeals court disagreed, noting that Rivera …
A blogger has been charged with witness intimidation in the case of a Massachusetts woman accused of hitting her police officer boyfriend with her vehicle and leaving him for dead in a snow bank last year. Aiden Kearney, who frequently wears “Free Karen Read” shirts and claims there’s an official coverup in the death of …
