A social worker in suburban New York was severely injured last month after she was savagely beaten while on a home visit in Peeksill. A criminal complaint against Haseem Jenkins, 31, says that he punched and kicked caseworker Maria Coto, 56, when she mistakenly knocked on his door on May 14, the Peekskill Herald reported. …
After a reported assault at Mashpee High School in Massachusetts, a 15-year-old teen was found safe earlier this week after vanishing Sunday. “I’m happy to announce our missing juvenile has been located safely in the town of Barnstable,” Mashpee Police Chief Scott W. Carline said in a video statement. Aliyah Konton, who had recently enrolled …
Two Kansas women were arrested on Wednesday for last month’s acid attack that left a woman with severe burns to her face. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Passion Turner, 17, was hospitalized for second-degree burns following the May 28 attack that unfolded in front of a friend’s home in Wichita. Ye’Kira Hollins and Tayronnia West, both …
An Arizona mother has been arrested for the vicious pummeling of a school bus driver earlier this month before her boyfriend grabbed her and pulled her away. Hermenegilda Marquez, 27, is charged with aggravated assault on a school employee, KSAZ reported. Court documents say the 64-year-old bus driver was a substitute who did not normally …
A 28-year-old woman was arrested for a pair of apparently random stabbings in downtown Philadelphia on Saturday. Takeira Hester has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and other offenses, WTXF reported. Police say she is also wanted in New York City for an aggravated assault just days earlier. The first attack took place at …
A Colorado school bus aide was arrested and fired from her job after video showed her repeatedly hitting a nonverbal boy who was strapped into a harness on the bus. Kiarra Jones, who worked for Littleton Public Schools, was arrested on April 4 and has already bonded out of jail, KUSA reported. In the graphic …
A 73-year-old Florida man was arrested this week after he allegedly screamed at a 5th grader riding his bike on the sidewalk and pointed a hunting knife at the boy’s chest. Richard Schafer was also legally carrying a gun but did not use it to threaten the child. The boy threw his hands up and …
According to newly filed court documents, a 3-year-old child struggled to survive and attempted to flee a California church where her mother, uncle, and grandfather conducted an exorcism to banish a “demon.” A 50-page memorandum filed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney on April 3 shed light on what happened before, during, and after …
A Florida man has been arrested for kidnapping and torturing a woman while holding her captive for months. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Walter Medina, 48, met the woman in January while she was panhandling in Tampa and gave her food and drugs, then eventually began hitting her with a wooden baseball bat and …
A Texas man is accused of stabbing a woman in the neck and then trying to kidnap her to Mexico, where she believed he would kill her, KBTX-TV reports. Around 11 a.m. Friday, police in College Station got a call from a father in the Dallas-Fort Worth region who said he had received disturbing text …
A Pennsylvania man was jailed Monday after he jumped over a post office counter and pummeled a postal employee unconscious because his package had not been delivered. Susquehanna Regional Police officers were called to the Marietta Post Office just before 1 p.m. for a postal worker lying behind the counter bleeding, WHP reported. They found …
