Category: Crime

HIGHLAND BEACH, Fla., May 20 (UPI) — Police in Florida said they arrested a man twice within a 12-hour period, once for driving his car naked and a second time for allegedly

BRADENTON, Fla., May 19 (UPI) — Police in Bradenton, Fla., said they arrested a 19-year-old high school girl for allegedly biting her boyfriend’s penis when he refused to have sex with her.

MIAMI, May 19 (UPI) — The Miami Police Department said is ending its long-running relationship with the A&E cable channel true-crime series “The First 48.” Police Chief Manuel Orosa said the city’s

LYON, France, May 19 (UPI) — A man in France allegedly killed his two children on the first weekend he had custody of them after splitting with his ex-wife, an official said.

DENVER, May 19 (UPI) — Police said they responded to a Denver Starbucks after an altercation between an employee and customers who changed their son’s diaper at their table. Alex Burgos said

FRESNO, Calif., May 19 (UPI) — Police said they listened to two California men plan and carry out a car burglary when one of the men accidentally dialed 911 on his cellphone.

NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) — New York police said they were looking for an unidentified gunman who shot and killed a teenage girl Saturday as she boarded a city bus in

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., May 19 (UPI) — A Hempstead, N.Y., police officer shot and killed a 21-year-old Hofstra University student while aiming for the man holding her hostage, officials said. Dalton Smith, 30,

LAS VEGAS, May 19 (UPI) — Three people were killed and four others were critically injured Sunday in a collision involving an apparent wrong-way driver in Las Vegas, police said. The Nevada

MAYS LANDING, N.J., May 18 (UPI) — A New Jersey woman was charged with murder Friday after police found her husband’s body in a closet six years after he supposedly ran off

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 18 (UPI) — A study funded by the alarm industry of 422 U.S. burglars in prison say most are deterred by properties having security alarms, the researchers say. Joseph

COLVILLE, Wash., May 18 (UPI) — A 10-year-old in Colville, Wash., was sentenced to three years in a juvenile detention facility for conspiring to kill a school classmate, court records show. Judge

DALLAS, May 16 (UPI) — A Texas man drowned his two young sons because he didn’t want them to grow up abandoned and neglected as he did, his attorney says. Defense attorney

MIAMI, May 16 (UPI) — A former Miami elementary school teacher has been found guilty of possessing child pornography. He now faces up to 40 years in prison. A Miami-Dade jury on

WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) — Mentally ill prison and jail inmates reported higher rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization, a U.S. Justice Department study released Thursday said. Gays and lesbian inmates also reported

DUNCANSVILLE, Pa., May 16 (UPI) — A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced to at least 60 days in prison for using scarves to hogtie her 5-year-old grandson, officials said. Evelyn Cecelia Himes, 49,

PHOENIX, May 16 (UPI) — Former baseball player and broadcaster Mark Grace said his stay at the Tent City jail complex in Phoenix has been a life-changing experience. Speaking Wednesday at a

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 16 (UPI) — An Oklahoma Chili’s said a waitress was fired for a Facebook photo of police dining at the eatery with a caption saying they “better hope I’m

From the Waterloo Police Department – On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at approximately 1:06 AM, Waterloo Police were dispatched to E.4th Street and Sycamore Street on report of a man with a

BOISE, Idaho, May 16 (UPI) — Federal agents in Boise, Idaho, Thursday arrested Uzbekistan national Fazliddin Kurbanov as part of a federal terrorism investigation, authorities said. Kurbanov, 30, who was in the

CLARK, N.J., May 16 (UPI) — Internet sensation “Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker” was arrested in Philadelphia Thursday and charged with killing a Clark, N.J., man, police said. Kai, whose real name

WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) — The Justice Department’s inspector general said the U.S. Marshals Service lost two known or suspected terrorists who participated in a federal witness program. A summary of an

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash., May 17 (UPI) — A military judge in Washington state Thursday sentenced Army Sgt. John Russell to life with no parole for killing four soldiers and a naval

DARTMOUTH, Nova Scotia, May 16 (UPI) — A lawyer for a man accused of chaining a teenage boy inside his Nova Scotia home says his client plans to plead guilty to some

EL PASO, Texas — Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are seeking more victims of a local man who ran a false document scheme that

LOS ANGELES, May 15 (UPI) — Seven suspected gang members have been arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly participating in six drug-related killings since 2007, police said Wednesday. The suspects, from the

FERNLEY, Nev., May 15 (UPI) — Prosecutors said Wednesday they will seek open murder charges against a suspect in the slaying of five people Monday in and around Fernley, Nev. Prosecutors said

ORLANDO, Fla., May 15 (UPI) — Authorities in Florida said a man on his honeymoon was one of 92 people arrested during a four-day undercover prostitution sting. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, May 15 (UPI) — Texas executed Jeffrey Demond Williams Wednesday evening for the 1999 shooting death of Houston police officer Tony Blando. Williams, 37, was executed at the state prison

IRVING, Texas, May 15 (UPI) — A Dallas area high school student is accused of holding a classmate for three days and allowing men to have sex with her, a police spokesman

ORLANDO, Fla., May 14 (UPI) — Casey Anthony’s lawyers said comments made by the judge who presided over her homicide trial hurt her chances to have a fair defamation trial in Orlando,

ENGLEWOOD, N.J., May 14 (UPI) — Two residents of a New Jersey senior citizen housing facility are accused of running drugs and prostitutes from their apartments. James Parham, 75, and his neighbor,

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., May 14 (UPI) — A Miami Beach man was arrested after he chained his son to a pole outside their home, police said. Adolfo Guzman, 49, allegedly admitted he

CHICAGO, May 14 (UPI) — A former cable TV repairman in Chicago convicted of raping and strangling a young woman faces a life sentence and trial for a second killing. A jury

PHILADELPHIA, May 14 (UPI) — A jury in Philadelphia found notorious drug lord Kaboni Savage and his sister guilty of a 2004 firebombing that killed six, including four children. Savage, who is

CAMDEN, N.J., May 14 (UPI) — A man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography with cameras installed in his Budd Lake, N.J., home, court documents said. Ronald

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C., May 14 (UPI) — Police in North Carolina said they arrested a woman whose alleged Bible-thumping left a woman with bruises and abrasions. The arrest report said Evelyn Mills

TULLAHOMA, Tenn., May 14 (UPI) — A Tullahoma, Tenn., man was arrested after he shot his 13-month-old child while taking apart a handgun in his apartment, police said. Kevin Sayre, 26, was

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa., May 14 (UPI) — An inmate, appealing his death sentence, punched his lawyer at the end of a hearing in Blair County, Pa., Court, police said. Andre Stanton, 50, in