The LosAngeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after a man’s naked body was found floating inside a 55-gallon drum at Malibu Lagoon State Beach on Monday. Police identified the victim Tuesday as 32-year-old Javonnta Murphy but provided no other information about him, KTLA reported. A park maintenance worker first saw the drum Sunday night, floating …
An Oregon man has been accused of kidnapping a woman in Washington, sexually assaulting her, and keeping her in a makeshift cinder block cell in his garage until she escaped and flagged down a passing driver to call 911. The FBI tracked Negasi Zuberi to Reno, Nevada, and arrested him after a brief standoff. He …
Texas police have made an arrest in connection with the May murder of 18-year-old Lakaria Moore — two days after the man suspected of killing her shot and killed himself as police closed in on him at a Lubbock motel. Tahdeejah Washington-Harris, 29, was arrested early Wednesday and charged with hindering the apprehension or prosecution …
A two-week, nationwide anti-sex trafficking operation spearheaded by the FBI identified and located 200 victims and identified or arrested dozens of suspects. The FBI said that “Operation Cross-Country” located 59 juveniles who were victims of child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. “Sex traffickers exploit and endanger some of the most vulnerable members of our …
An Alabama man faces kidnapping and other other charges after he allegedly kidnapped his 11-monthold daughter at gunpoint and fired shots into the mother’s apartment. The charges against Joel Bennett McCandless, 27, were announced Tuesday afternoon, according to AL.com. He is charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree burglary, shooting into an occupied building, certain person prohibited …
A DC-based grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump on four counts related to the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, directly charging him with obstructing the certification of the electoral vote and three conspiracies. Trump, who is again running for president, has been ordered to appear in court on Thursday. The 45-page …
Alex Murdaugh’s personal banker was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison on Friday for his role in the convicted murderer’s multi-million fraud schemes. US District Court Judge Mark Gergel’s sentence was less than the prosecution sought, and more than the defense sought. Gergel said that witnesses on Russell Laffitte’s behalf said “a lot about …
New York Police are searching for a 27-year-old Goldman Sachs analyst who disappeared over the weekend after attending a concert at a Brooklyn venue. John Castic left The Brooklyn Mirage at about 3 a.m. after a performance by electronic music group Zeds Dead, Fox News said. Castic’s friend Sara Kosteca wrote on Facebook that she’s …
A day after her mother begged the public and the media to leave her daughter and family alone, a retired neighbor of Alicia Navarro in Montana said that the now 18-year-old “hung her head” and looked “like she was crying” when FBI agents raided the apartment where she’d been living. Navarro was 14 when she …
Asa Ellerup, the wife of accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann, returned to the couple’s Massapequa Park home this week and was stunned at the destruction left behind by the nearly two weeks investigators spent meticulously searching the residence. Ellerup, 59, filed for divorce shortly after Heuermann’s arrest for the murders of three of …
Houston police found a car believed to be involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash 14 miles from the crash scene and have detained the driver. Investigators said the crash happened just before 1 a.m. on Monday, KHOU reported. The victim was struck and carried for a distance before he was hit several more times. Houston …
