Los Angeles police have arrested a biology teacher and accused her of having sex with a 16-year-old student, Los Angeles Times has reported. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) spokesman Tony Im announced Sunday that Aimee Palmitessa, 45, a teacher at the prestigious Brentwood School, was arrested Friday and charged with statutory rape. In a recent newsletter, …
Illinois police have arrested a business executive and his ex-escort girlfriend and accused them of running up $5.8 million on a company credit card to fund their lavish lifestyle, as reported by CBS Chicago. The Chicago Tribune has reported that Scott Kennedy, 43, and Crystal Lundberg, 31, were indicted on six counts of wire fraud on …
Scott Peterson, the former Modesto resident currently on death row for killing his wife and unborn son in 2002, thinks that his death sentence is “cruel and unusual” and that a juror tainted the jury’s ultimate decision to convict him. He filed a claim to the state of California in 2015, but the state fought …
A California court has sent a woman to prison who admitted to being drunk when she struck and killed a toddler. She was sentenced to 6 years behind bars, according to Daily Breeze. A Los Angeles County judge handed down the sentence immediately after Donna Marie Higgins, 72, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. On September …
A California man is facing criminal charges after authorities arrested him for reportedly tying his toddler son to up a tree at a homeless camping site. CBS Sacramento reports that Jeffery Wilson, 27, was arrested on July 27 after authorities received a call about a camping site along Highway 20 in Willits. According to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, …
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California police have discovered 35 dogs living in substandard conditions in the home of a man they arrested for bank robbery, as reported by The Press-Enterprise. Investigators tied Robert Bustamante Flores, 72, to a June 20 bank robbery in Corona after linking his vehicle to one seen during the criminal incident, according to KABC. Flores is …
A San Jose, California, man who killed 21 cats and sexually abused one of their carcasses was sentenced to 16 years in jail on Friday. Prosecutors claimed that Robert Roy Farmer, 26, lured, tortured, and killed the cats over a two-month period in Fall 2015. Last year, the 26-year-old pleaded guilty to 21 counts of animal …
A mother sustained extensive head injuries after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in South Los Angeles. Family members told KCBS that Ingrid Argueta, 34, was out celebrating her birthday at 10:45 pm Friday when she was hit. Surveillance cameras filmed the woman walking outside of a crosswalk on 79th Street when a vehicle traveling northbound on Denker Avenue mowed her …
A California man who was on his way to court to face charges for car theft, was pulled over on Tuesday while reportedly driving a different stolen vehicle. Inside Edition reports that Timothy Lane, 52, of Dinuba, was spotted close to Selma, at around 7 a.m. on Tuesday, driving a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that matched …
California police said that for over a day, a suspect who reportedly killed his wife rode around with her stuffed inside the trunk of his SUV. Los Angeles Times reports that Jose Anthony Rodriguez, 37, of Reno, Nevada, allegedly broke the kneecaps of a woman identified as his children’s mother (her name has not yet …
The Fresno Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a man that allegedly escaped from police custody after being arrested for murder, according to YourCentralValley. Police arrested Ibn Lugman Haqq, 21, Friday evening for the murder of Delon Agee, 41, as reported by YourCentralValley. It has been noted that Agee was shot multiple times at a Fresno, California, …
