A former employee of the Yale University School of Medicine this week pleaded guilty to fraud and tax offenses related to the theft of $40 million in electronics from the school. Jamie Petrone, most recently director of finance and administration for the Department of Emergency Medicine, bought millions of dollars of purchases from the university’s …
Canadian police have now arrested five people for a widespread scam that targets senior citizens by demanding large sums of money to release their grandchildren from police custody. In the most recent arrest, a 78-year-old woman was contacted by a man pretending to be her grandson, according to Toronto police. The fake grandson said he’d …
Long Island investigators have solved a 42-year-old murder case, a 20-year-old secretary who was on her way home from her job in New York City when she was raped and strangled, her body left near the Bay Shore train station. DNA identified Herbert Rice as the likely suspect in the death of Eve Wilkowitz on …
An Atlanta Public Schools (APS) police officer shot a parent Wednesday afternoon during an altercation at Booker T. Washington High School. Officials said a group of students were involved in a fight “during dismissal at Washington High School,” according to WAGA. According to WXIA, the fight started with two students and escalated. A parent of …
An 20-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son last September. Earlier this month, the Oklahoma County Medical Examiner’s Officer ruled that Zailen Howell died from abusive blunt force trauma to his head that caused a fatal brain bleed. The ruling prompted the arrest of Michael Brown, …
A Tennessee mother and her friend were charged with criminal negligent homicide after the mother’s 3-year-old son found an AR-15 pistol and shot himself to death. According to an arrest affidavit, Tinesha Jackson, 24, left her two sons — 3-year-old Bryson and his 4-year-old brother — in the care of their uncle on Sunday while …
A Texas sheriff’s office has taken a man into custody for allegedly sexually assaulting a child after targeting the child’s mother via a dating app. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said that their investigation revealed Epifanio Adolfo Jimenez, 42, used the alias “Harley” on his dating app profile. Investigators are seeking “anyone who may have …
Six people in Texas have been arrested and charged with kidnapping a woman they met online and torturing her for a week while they held her against her will. Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse said that the victim had been “severely tortured.” According to the arrest affidavit, the woman told investigators that her captors forced …
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Two men were arrested and two more hailed as heroes after they jumped in to stop a robbery outside their New York pizzeria. Louie Suljovic, 38, and his father, 68-year old Cazim Suljovic were hospitalized after the Saturday night incident. A cousin told the New York Post that the elder Suljovic, stabbed nine times, was …
Two women in New Mexico have been jailed after they allegedly tried to hijack a vehicle and then fired at deputies who tried to pull them over, prompting a shelter-in place order for three schools and area residents. Lizeth Iguado, 33, and Felicia Gonzales, 38, have been charged with armed robbery, attempt to commit a …
A California man was convicted last week of orchestrating the 2018 murder of his wife’s podiatrist. Thomas Shock, 67, was shot to death in his home in August 2018. By his body, investigators found a single page from a California Medical Board document discussing a patient identified by the initials B.L., believed to be Bonnie …
