A New York city police officer has died after contracting the novel coronarvirus, which has infected more than 500 members of the NYPD. The New York Post reports that the 48-year-old detective worked in the 32nd precinct in Harlem. He reportedly died on Saturday morning at North Central Bronx Hospital. The detective’s identity has not …
A New Jersey man allegedly shot and killed his wife using bullets specially designed to inflict greater damage, the Star-Ledger reports. On Thursday, police arrested 74-year-old Alexander Jacobs in connection with the shooting death of his wife, Lilia Jacobs. According to the report, a woman had called police shortly after 2 p.m. that day reporting a dispute between …
A Manhattan judge on Thursday released 16 inmates, including a career criminal who stalked his girlfriend and stabbed her to death at a cellphone repair shop, over fears they could contract the novel coronavirus sweeping the country. The New York Post reported that prosecutors objected to releasing Pedro Vinent-Barcia, 63, who was jailed for the …
A Clinch County, Georgia, man has been jailed on charges of making terroristic threats, but the March 20 arrest wasn’t his first last week. Reinaldo Pineda, 69, was arrested on March 17 and charged with bestiality after a surveillance video showed him having sex with a chicken, the Clinch County News reported. Clinch County Sheriff’s …
A Georgia teen has been arrested and charged in the death of a newborn girl found in a cooler at the side of the road early last year. Investigators used DNA to track down Caroline Riley Propes, 19, and charge her with second degree murder, Troup County Sheriff James Woodruff said. Witnesses told investigators the …
A doctor at UConn Health in Farmington, Connecticut, was arrested Thursday and charged with breach of peace after he allegedly intentionally coughed on and hugged nurses at an outpatient surgical clinic, the Hartford Courant reported. Cory Edgar, 48, is an orthopedic team physician at the university and an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the …
Emerging reports suggest that hate crimes and acts of racism against Asian Americans are on the rise in light of the coronavirus pandemic. A spokesperson revealed to ABC News that since Stop AAPI Hate was launched on March 18, they’ve received at least 650 direct reports of discrimination or racism against primarily Asian Americans. The …
‘The Friday before he died, he was healthy. By Wednesday, he was dead.’
A 4-year-old Alabama girl who disappeared Wednesday afternoon while walking her dog has been found, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. While the sheriff’s office didn’t say where or how she was found, a photo published on the website of WTVM shows the little red-haired girl smiling in the arms of a rescuer with …
Authorities in Arizona are suspicious of Lori Vallow’s involvement in the death of her former husband Charles Vallow, according to a leaked email obtained by Fox 10 Phoenix. The news station reportedly received the email from an undisclosed source, showing the a detective in Chandler, Arizona, said that police were expected to indict Vallow in …
An Amazon delivery person in California apparently spit on a package he delivered to a home in Los Angeles. The incident happened Thursday evening, according to TMZ, at a home in Los Angeles’ Hancock neighborhood. After putting a package on the front porch of the home, the unknown man is caught spitting in his hand …
A Maryland man was charged with the murder of his wife, who was reported missing earlier this week. WJZ reported that on Friday, Thomas Lehan, 37, told investigators that his missing wife, Kathleen Lehan, 24, was located in a creek in a wooded area. Kathleen Lehan was reportedly last seen Sunday afternoon in the Middletown …
