A New Jersey borough town councilman has been arrested on charges of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine. Malik D. Johnston, aka Pippin J. Folk, 46, reportedly sold quantities of the drugs to an undercover police officer, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée M. Robeson said in a statement released Friday. She said …
The man accused of kidnapping and killing Memphis jogger Elia Fletcher last September appeared in court Friday to face more charges and enter a not guilty plea. Cleotha Abston-Henderson was arrested two days before Fletcher’s body was found outside an abandoned home on September 5 on charges of murder and kidnapping, as CrimeOnline previously reported. …
Memphis Police on Friday fired a sixth officer in connection with the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols earlier this month, which led to Nichols’ death three days later. Preston Hemphill was already suspended for his role in the incident, as CrimeOnline previously reported. He is the first white police officer fired for the videotaped beating. …
Police in North Carolina on Thursday arrested a man who led them on a cross-state chase driving a car belonging to a missing Florida Lyft driver. Rutherford County Sheriff Aaron Ellenburg said Matthew Scott Flores was taken into custody after a crash in Ellenboro, according to WLOS. The station said that Flores has warrants out …
A Colorado judge on Thursday set a trial timeline for Letetia Stauch, who is accused of the brutal murder of her 11-year-old stepson in 2020. Prosecutors say Gannon Stauch was stabbed, shot, and beaten inside the family’s El Paso County home, but the body was later found stuffed into a suitcase beneath a bridge in …
A video shown to jurors in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial on Wednesday shows the disgraced South Carolina legal scion wearing khaki pants and a blue, collared shirt about an hour before prosecutors say he gunned down his wife and son near the dog kennels on the family’s hunting property on June 7, 2021. That’s in …
A North Carolina man with an “extensive criminal history” was charged with murder on Thursday after investigators found a missing man’s body on his property, dismembered and encased in concrete inside a 55-gallon barrel. Jackie Lamar Bright, 42, was released from prison last May then arrested on drug charges on January 6. He was released …
A Utah man has been arrested after he reportedly confessed to raping and sodomizing a toddler in 2021. Steven Johnson, 25, has been charged with two counts of rape of a child and one count of sodomy of a child, a probable cause affidavit says, according to KSL. Investigators first looked at the case in …
Texas authorities have issued an Amber Alert for a toddler who was abducted in San Antonio Thursday morning. San Antonioa Police say 1-year-old Aviani Brown was wearing a white beanie, black jacket, gray onesie with the word “Unity,” and orange sweatpants when she was last seen. She has black hair and brown eyes and weighs …
An employee at a Chicago wellness spa was attacked and critically injured by a patron as the business was closing on Wednesday night. Chicago police said the 35-year-old woman was fighting for her life at Mount Sinai Hospital with stab wounds to the neck and wrists, WLS reported. The incident happened just after 10 p.m. …
A Pennsylvania teen who jumped into a icy pond to rescue two young children who’d fallen in was shot and killed on an Instagram livestream over the weekend. Anthony Alexander Jr was 16 last year when he heard screams coming from a pond in Collingdale Park on February 21 last year. “They really needed help. …
