On Wednesday, Colorado’s governor pardoned parents who claimed their 6-year-old son was a passenger on a makeshift balloon that had taken to the skies. According to Colorado Public Radio, Richard and Mayumi Heene applied for the pardon a year ago. The Heenes were among 16 people Governor Jared Polis had pardoned. More than a decade …
A Texas man who was to be honored at the White House after claiming he was shot in the back while distracting the El Paso Walmart gunman was reportedly detained by Secret Service after local authorities alleged surveillance footage contradicted his story. On Tuesday, El Paso police spokesman Seargent Enrique Carrillo said that Earnest Christopher …
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Italian police say two American teens visiting Italy were captured on CCTV security footage running away from a gruesome crime scene in Rome, Italy, that left a newlywed police officer dead. Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, and 19-year-old Finnegan Lee Elder, both of San Fransisco, were spotted fleeing the scene after 35-year old Carabinieri officer Mario …
Some children are reportedly playing a dangerous game of disappearing on purpose, which not only uses up police resources unnecessarily and scares their loved ones, but it can possibly pull police away from real emergencies. The “48 Hour Missing Challenge” encourages children to vanish for 48 hours without telling their family where they are, CBS …
California authorities are searching for a suspect who’s accused of killing a person and injuring two others during a shooting on Monday morning inside the Helen Vine Detox Center in San Rafael. The Mercury News reports the incident happened Monday morning at 301 Smith Ranch Road. Marin County Sheriff’s Office received a call at around 1:33 a.m.; …
A Texas priest who stands accused of molesting teen boys and embezzling from his own parish has gone missing, the Dallas Morning News reports. Church officials from St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Dallas believe Rev. Edumundo Paredes may have fled to his native country of the Philippines, after serving as a pastor at the parish …
A teenage girl in Indiana is accused of falsely claiming sexual assault after she alleged a boy she met for a consensual sex act had raped her. According to WTHR, 19-year-old Maggie Wallace of Pendleton reported that she had been sexually assaulted at Mounds State Park in July. Initially, Wallace told police that a man had come …
A Kansas man fatally shot by police Thursday was possibly the victim of “swatting,” a prank where someone calls emergency services about a false ongoing crime so that a large police presence goes to a particular house. The Wichita Eagle reported that an officer shot and killed Andrew Finch, 28, as he exited his home …
An Ohio woman who allegedly faked her own kidnapping is now facing prison because of the bizarre episode, the Journal-News reports. Authorities in Butler County, Ohio, received a 911 call Thursday morning from someone who reported seeing images and videos on Facebook of a woman who was tied to a pole and whose mouth was …
The mother of a 13-year-old boy who took his own life is blaming his death on a “sick joke” played by the boy’s so-called girlfriend on social media. Tysen Benz of Ann Arbor, Michigan, died on Tuesday after doctors took him off life support. He was hospitalized on March 14 after his mother, Katrina Goss discovered him …
