An ex-NFL player allegedly vandalized his own restaurant to make it look like a hate crime and burglary so he could collect insurance money, CNN reports. Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Edawn Louis Coughman with insurance fraud, false report of a crime and concealing a license plate. The 31-year-old former tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers …
An Athens, Alabama, city councilman and his wife were seriously injured Friday when they were apparently struck by their son in a vehicle, the News Courier reported. Frank Travis, a councilman since 2016, and his wife Sharon were transported to a hospital in Huntsville, where they were placed in intensive care. WAFF-TV said the Travises …
A Memphis man was charged Saturday in the deaths of his 4-month-old son and the baby’s mother, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal reported. Heather Cook, 32, and her son Bentley were found by crews responding to a fire at the residence Friday morning, WREG said. The two were stabbed multiple times. Enoch Zarceno, 25, has been charged …
An ex-sheriff’s deputy pleaded not guilty in Louisiana this week to forcing a woman to perform oral sex on her one-year-old son in exchange for not arresting her, the Advocate reported. Shaderick Jones, 42, has been charged with first-degree rape, possession of child porn and malfeasance in office for the June 6 incident, which he …
Sixteen people – 12 jurors and four alternates – are set to hear the case of Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man in his own apartment. Jury selection finished Friday night at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, and State District Judge Tammy Kemp telephoned those …
A tip moved investigators miles away this week from where Andrea Knabel was last seen, but the month-long search has yet to turn up any sign of the 37-year-old Louisville, Kentucky, mom, WDRB reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Knabel disappeared in the early morning hours of August 13 in the Audubon Park area of Louisville. …
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The remains of over 2,000 unborn babies were found inside the Illinois home of an abortion doctor who recently passed away, Will County authorities said. Family members of Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer, 75, who passed away on September 3, found the remains while going through his belongings at his residence in Will County, around 45 …
A Bronx woman arrested after police found a man being held captive in the basement of her bodega says she had nothing to do with the kidnapping, the New York Daily News reports. On Tuesday, drug suspects being chased by police ran into Deli N’ Grocery With A Difference. The officers in pursuit reportedly asked …
A 19-year-old man turned himself in Wednesday night after two months on the lam, accused of using Snapchat to lure underage girls to his home and raping them. Dominic Yocco, of Florrisant, Missouri, was charged in July with four counts of first-degree rape, two counts of second-degree rape and one count of statutory rape, the …
A New York man appeared in court on Thursday, months after he allegedly strangled his neighbor’s pit bull during an altercation which also involved his dog. Toquoc Huynh is facing misdemeanor animal cruelty charges in connection with the July 14 death of a blue-nosed pit bull named Rex in Hauppauge. Police alleged that Huynh choked …
An Alabama grand jury indicted reality star June “Mama June” Shannon and her boyfriend Eugene “Geno” Doak on felony drug charges on Friday, TMZ reported. Shannon and Doak were initially arrested at a gas station in Macon County on March 13, when they were found in possession of crack cocaine and a crack pipe, according …
