A retired professional football player is accused of targeting women over the age of 50 for sexual crimes. According to Fox News, 34-year-old Kellen Winslow Jr. is facing multiple criminal counts including rape and kidnapping following a crime spree police say began earlier this year. Prosecutors in the case say that a series of sexually …
A California woman is behind bars after police say she killed her 4-year-old stepson then claimed it was accidental. On Thursday she pleaded not guilty to the charges against her. Daily Press reports that officers with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department arrested 24-year-old Rose Marie Schmittle and charged her with murder and “assault on a child …
An ex-choirmaster accused of violating a teen boy with a foreign object recently lost a bid to remain in the U.K. and avoid extradition to the U.S. Britain-based Roger Giese, 42, reportedly fled California before his 2007 trial for 19 counts of committing lewd acts on a 13-year-old boy. The alleged incidents occurred between 1998 and …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Vince Vaughn was arrested Sunday on suspicion of drunken driving after being stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in a Southern California beach town, police said. Vaughn, 48, was busted early in the morning in Manhattan Beach after failing a field sobriety test that was captured with officers’ body cameras, Sgt. …
A San Francisco woman looked composed and lucid as she made her first court appearance on Friday on a murder charge accusing her of killing and dismembering her roommate, whose body parts prosecutors say were discovered in plastic bags at their home. Lisa Gonzales, 47, was in an orange jail suit with her hands cuffed …
A California couple who relentlessly abused and murdered the woman’s 8-year-old son learned their fate in Los Angeles court on Thursday. Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli sentenced Palmdale mother Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, 34, to life without the possibility of parole and put boyfriend Isauro Aguirre, 37, on death row for the May 2013 killing of Gabriel …
DNA from a tissue left in a trash can led authorities to arrest a former California police officer suspected of being the Golden State Killer, according to warrants released Friday. The documents detail the case pieced together by Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators to arrest 72-year-old Joseph DeAngelo. He is suspected of committing at least a …
Authorities in California have released additional details about the suspected shooter responsible for multiple injuries and her own death last month at YouTube’s corporate headquarters. According to a recent update released by the San Bruno Police Department, Nasim Aghdam was at the scene of her bloody shooting spree just one day prior. She allegedly arrived …
A California woman with dementia was reportedly found dead in the power plant stairwell at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital 11 days after checking herself out of a care facility located on the same campus. KNTV reported that the body of Ruby Andersen, 75, was found on the hospital’s campus Monday at 1 p.m. The …
A former child psychologist who admitted to having more than 600 videos and pictures depicting child pornography was sentenced Friday to 6-and-a-half years behind bars in a California court. According to the Berkley Patch, prosecutors said Contra Costa child psychologist Kenneth Allen Breslin, 69, was in possession of illicit images that depicted “prepubescent children being subjected to …
Federal charges against a California man have been dropped weeks after his ex-girlfriend was killed and three others injured by an improvised explosive device. According to KABC, 59-year-old Stephen Beal was initially arrested on May 16 in the wake of an explosion that occurred the previous day. Ildiko Krajnyak, 48, reportedly died when she opened …
Two suspects are in custody following an alleged plot to kidnap a student and take him against his will to his native China. According to CBS News, Tianshu Shi was a flight school student in Redding, California, when police say an instructor and his assistant attempted to kidnap him from his home. The pilot, identified …
