A North Carolina man wanted for the alleged rape of a 5-year-old he was babysitting was captured Wednesday in West Virginia, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office said. Police had been looking for Michael Brandon Bryan, 37, since Monday. “A sigh of relief,” said Sheriff Chip Hughes. “We got this chump.” How do you protect your …
PricewaterhouseCoopers tapped Arlington, Texas, artists Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton to create a portrait of Botham Jean, who had worked at the company in Dallas since his internship there in 2015, after Jean’s death at the hands of then-police officer Amber Guyger. The portrait was unveiled Tuesday night, just hours after a jury found Guyger …
A US District Court judge in New York nixed R. Kelly’s motion for bond and home detention on Wednesday, ordering the R&B singer to stay in jail and appear in court on May 18 to answer charges of sex abuse, CBS New York reported. Kelly is currently in jail in Illinois, where he faces trial …
Two teenaged boys arrested last month in a fatal assault on a 13-year-old classmate have now been charged with voluntary manslaughter, the Press-Enterprise reported on Wednesday, quoting the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. The boys, both 13, had initially been charged with assault in the September 16 attack at Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, …
An Arizona man has been charged with killing his 6-year-old son while trying to exorcise a demon from the boy, KOLD reported. The incident took place at a home on the Pascua Yaqui reservation southwest of Tucson. Pablo Martinez, 31, reportedly told investigators he saw something evil in the child while giving him a bath …
Florida police are looking for a woman who pepper sprayed Walmart employees and threatened them with a knife when she was caught allegedly shoplifting on Sunday, ABC Action News reported. Lake Wales police said that Doranda Jo Ussery shopped at the store for two hours before heading to the self-checkout, where a store loss prevention …
Mississippi police charged 34-year-old Cari Cullum of Hamilton with attempted murder on Friday, a week after she backed her vehicle into a lake while she and one of her three children were inside, the Clarion-Ledger reported. According to WTVA, the incident happened in the evening on September 21 when officials were alerted that a man …
A Florida man allegedly shot and killed his wife of 33 years Saturday night, a week after he bought her a new Mercedes SUV and a day after he posted on Facebook accusations that she was cheating on him. Eddie Harris then turned his gun on himself and is in a Miami trauma center for …
A 72-year-old Dallas man has been charged with murder for shooting a burglar and going back to bed for two hours before calling 911, the Dallas Morning News reports. James Michael Meyer’s wife called an attorney before her husband called police, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said. Meyer told police he heard a noise outside at …
A 3-year-old girl drowned and another is in critical condition at a Tampa hospital after a pool party went awry, WTSP reported. Ten children were being supervised by three adults at the Saturday afternoon party, ABC Action News reported. The two 3-year-olds, who could not swim, were wearing flotation devices in the pool but took …
Detectives are looking for a suspect who tied a transgender woman to the back of a minivan on Friday and dragged her down the street, according to WJXT News4Jax.. The Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s Office said the incident was captured on video from the Real Time Crime Center but was too graphic to share publicly. “We …
A high school career coach has been charged with one count of video voyeurism after detectives investigating a complaint against him found several “up-skirt” videos of unsuspecting women on his phone, ClickOrlando reports. Police in Apopka, Florida — northwest of Orlando — were called to Sheeler Charter High School late Thursday when a parent accused …
