Category: Crime

GALLATIN, Tenn., March 13 (UPI) — A Tennessee jury watched a video Wednesday of a young woman telling a police officer how she killed her newborn twins. Lindsey Lowe described giving birth

UPPER DARBY, Pa., March 13 (UPI) — A Philadelphia-area woman has been charged with offenses including assault for allegedly strong-arming her 12-year-old daughter into a fight with another girl. Michele Davenport, 45,

HERKIMER, N.Y., March 13 (UPI) — Police in upstate New York said they were in a standoff Wednesday with a suspect in at least four deaths in shootings at a barber shop

GRASS VALLEY, Calif., March 13 (UPI) — A California man was arrested on poisoning and domestic violence charges for allegedly putting Visine in his girlfriend’s drink, officials said. Shayne Carpenter, 27, was

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 13 (UPI) — An expert witness testified that shoddy work by investigators in Florida left an innocent, mentally challenged teenager in prison for more than 25 years. Melvin

TAMPA, Fla., March 12 (UPI) — A Florida lawyer who allegedly told a 911 dispatcher he found his wife having sex with a younger man has been charged with the man’s killing.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 11 (UPI) — Seven people, including one juvenile, were injured in two shootings in Kansas City, Mo., prompting calls for a solution to violence in the city. Both

NEWARK, N.J. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) urgently needs the public’s help to locate a suspected child predator. HSI special agents are attempting to locate Fredy

WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) — Drive-by shootings by men in two cars on a Washington street corner Monday left 11 people wounded, District of Columbia police said. Officers said the shooters opened

SEATTLE, March 11 (UPI) — A high school softball coach resigned from his job with Seattle Public Schools after being accused of using his team of girls to find him dates, officials

Washington – The U.S. Marshals Service is selling 351 lots of jewelry, including that of convicted former comptroller of Dixon, Ill., Rita Crundwell, and other fine jewelry, watches, gold bullion and coins

NEW YORK, March 11 (UPI) — A federal jury in New York Monday ended a third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the so-called Cannibal Cop case. New York cable

BALTIMORE, March 11 (UPI) — A Baltimore man accused of killing three children by slashing their throats was in court Monday for the start of his third trial in the case. Policarpio

NEW YORK, March 11 (UPI) — A federal judge in New York City Monday rejected a lawyer’s request for a Jew-free jury to decide the fate of his client, an accused terrorist.

CHICAGO, March 12 (UPI) — A father and his infant daughter were shot Monday afternoon while he was changing her diaper in a minivan parked on Chicago’s South Side, police said. The

MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier today in federal court, a 52-year-old Coon Rapids man was charged with allegedly stealing prosthetics and related supplies from the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview and selling them online. Peter Stasica

ALAMEDA, Texas, March 11 (UPI) — Police in Texas said they pulled over an ice cream truck with expired registration and discovered suspected marijuana. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said deputies

NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla., March 10 (UPI) — Former tennis star Jennifer Capriati was investigated for stalking after she allegedly punched her ex-boyfriend at a Florida health club, police said. Investigators in

CHICAGO, March 8 (UPI) — Police in Chicago said Friday they were searching for a scrap yard owner after eight school buses were stolen and chopped into scrap overnight. Police arrested three

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (UPI) — A cyclist who fatally struck a pedestrian in San Francisco will stand trial on felony vehicular manslaughter charges, a judge has ruled. Superior Court Judge Andrew

LOS ANGELES, March 8 (UPI) — Rick Springfield was arrested in Los Angeles Friday on a bench warrant for missing a court date related to his 2011 drunken driving case, police said.

WHITEFISH, Mont., March 8 (UPI) — The host of the Sportsman Channel’s “A Rifleman’s Journal” was fatally shot in Montana by the estranged husband of a woman he was visiting, police said

THUNDER BAY, Ontario, March 7 (UPI) — A Canadian border agent was fired for allegedly socializing with “organized crime figures” and failing to properly search people tagged for extra screening. The Thunder

MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier today in federal court, a 29-year-old registered sex offender from Woodland Township in central Minnesota was sentenced for possession of child pornography. United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced

NEW YORK, March 7 (UPI) — A federal court jury in New York began deliberation Thursday after hearing closing arguments in the trial of accused “cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle. Valle, a former

CENTENNIAL, Colo., March 7 (UPI) — Colorado’s laws on the insanity defense are constitutional, prosecutors said in response to lawyers for accused theater-shooter James Holmes. In court papers filed Wednesday, prosecutors said

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla., March 6 (UPI) — Authorities in Florida said a spring break partier is accused of purposefully urinating in a deputy’s patrol car and on the deputy’s lunch. The

TORONTO, March 6 (UPI) — A Toronto high school coach has been charged with driving 90 mph while transporting 12 members of his basketball team to a Windsor tournament, police said. Paul

MOSCOW, March 6 (UPI) — Two Russian men charged with murder Wednesday said they carved a swastika into their victim’s forehead to make it appear skinheads had committed the crime. Investigators said

BURLINGTON, Vt., March 5 (UPI) — A federal judge in Vermont Monday sentenced a pastor to prison for helping kidnap a girl to keep her away from her mother’s former same-sex partner.

DAVENPORT, IA—On March 1, 2013, Arnordo Corderrel Turner, age 25, from Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 57 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to

OBERLIN, Ohio, March 4 (UPI) — Ohio’s Oberlin College cancelled classes Monday after the latest in a string of vandalism and hate-related incidents on campus in the last month, it said. Early

MIAMI, March 4 (UPI) — A federal jury in Florida Monday convicted a Pakistani-born imam of conspiring to fund terrorists in his native country. Hafiz Kahn, 77, was secretly recorded by an

LAWRENCE, Mass., March 4 (UPI) — Police in Massachusetts said a tracking dog managed to locate a stolen gun buried in a snow bank and accidentally fired off a round. The Essex

CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 4 (UPI) — Residents of a Charlotte, N.C., neighborhood said someone placed several decapitated roosters on headstones at a cemetery, possibly part of a ritual. The rooster bodies appeared

TAMPA, Fla., March 4 (UPI) — Casey Anthony appeared in public, for the first time in more than two years, at her Tampa, Fla., bankruptcy hearing Monday. She waded through a mob

LONGMONT, Colo., March 3 (UPI) — A Colorado man was stun-gunned and then arrested for allegedly charging at Boulder County sheriff’s deputies with a broom, officials said. John Sena, 56, was stun-gunned

NEW YORK, March 3 (UPI) — A New York City man was arrested and charged with faking being kidnapped to avoid telling his girlfriend why he was gone for two weeks. Rahmell

ZACATECAS, Mexico, March 2 (UPI) — The body of a 13-year-old admitted hitman was found with those of five other young people along a highway in northern Mexico, police said. Investigators said

NEW YORK, March 2 (UPI) — A New York man charged with killing his mother and cutting up her corpse photographed himself holding her head, police say. A police source told the