An Ohio couple was arrested this week for allegedly torturing a 7-year-old girl over a period of seven months last year, including padlocking the little girl into a dog cage, Cleveland.com reports. A grand jury in Canton indicted Derek Mayle, 30, and Lillian Cottrell, 29, Monday on charges of endangering children. Court records say the …
Chicago police released images on Wednesday showing five suspects believed involved in a deadly shooting at South Side pancake house on Sunday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Devon Welsh, 31, was shot dead while having brunch with his girlfriend and 3-week-old baby when five people opened fire inside a large tent at Lumes Pancake House …
A California caregiver has been charged with elder abuse after a hidden camera captured her hitting a 91-year-old confined to a medical bed dozens of times over a four-day period. Rima Abikaram, 50, was hired by the victim’s family in 2015 to be one of two people giving the elderly woman, identified only as Jane …
A 21-year-old Illinois man was charged Wednesday with the stabbing deaths of his grandparents in suburban Chicago earlier this week, the Chicago Tribune reports. Romel D. Tyson was found sitting in a chair in a bedroom in his grandparents’ Markham home on Monday after police entered for a wellness check on Gabriel Tyson Sr., 66, …
A Florida couple has been arrested after a 39-year-old woman told police they held her captive for 48 hours while she was “punched, cut, burned, drugged and repeatedly sexually battered,” according to the Levy County Sheriff’s Office. Alexis Crawford, 20, and Christian White, 30, have been charged with false imprisonment, sexual battery, and aggravated battery. …
A 12-year-old Minnesota girl is in critical condition on Wednesday after she and her 29-year-old sister were shot by a neighbor who told police he “hated all children” and had “probably” killed his wife. The incident took place late Sunday night in Bloomington, KARE 11 reported. Police responded to a report of shots fired and …
The couple thought the family, with a young child, was stealing gasoline.
A Chicago man allegedly shot a longtime friend during an argument then later returned to the scene in the far South Side, yelling “Are you dead yet?” as he kicked and punched the man who lay dying on the ground. Judge John Lyke commented on the “utter cruelty” of the act as he ordered Terrence …
Police say the man who died was targeted in the shooting at Lumes Pancake House in Morgan Park.
A Tohono O’odham Nation police officer was killed Thursday when a man who told investigators he was “high on meth” stole his patrol vehicle and ran him over. Officer Bryan Brown, a 19-year veteran of the force, was responding to a call about an “armed and erratic” driver at the Desert Diamond Casino in Why, …
A 1-year-old Georgia boy is back in his mother’s arms after he was kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday and driven across the metropolitan Atlanta area before Georgia state troopers stopped the vehicle. The boy, Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera, was disguised as a baby girl but unharmed and reunited with his mother, Leslie Bamaca, at the Chamblee …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace spoke with Fox & Friends Weekend about recent law enforcement operations aimed at locating missing and endangered children in several states, including Georgia, Ohio, and New Jersey. “I hope you’re sitting down,” she said, “because just last year 420,000 plus children went missing. Here’s the problem: Many of them are described as runaways, [but] the …
