Crime

Police in a Massachusetts city have arrested a “serial pooper” who allegedly did the deed eight or more times in the same parking lot, WYCN-LD reports. Police initially thought it might have been the work of an animal, until they noticed toilet paper. Henry Kanner, the owner of Natick Outdoor Store, said he first began […]

A teenager from Ontario, Canada called the police to complain that a fake ID they ordered never came, CTV News reports. Canadian police are using this incident as a teachable moment to underscore the dangers of not only trying to acquire fake IDs, but also of sending personal information to strangers over the internet. The […]

Michelle Carter, a Massachusetts woman who, as a teen, convinced her friend to commit suicide and was later sent to prison for it, has been released, NBC News reports. She was scheduled to serve a few more months but released early for good behavior. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Carter has been behind bars […]

A Pennsylvania man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly choked and punched his girlfriend when she told him she wanted to watch something else on TV. According to USA Today, the man — identified as Lonnie D.Clark — was watching the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump when his girlfriend expressed her interest in changing […]

A Cleveland police officer who urinated on a 12-year-old girl after she refused his offer of a ride has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Solomon Nhiwatiwa had had a checkered career both in and out of the Cleveland Police Department even before the August 16, […]

A North Carolina pizza delivery driver wasn’t about to let four youths rob him, instead using his own weapon to shoot three of them, Charlotte’s WSOC-TV reports. The unidentified driver had been sent to a Charlotte, North Carolina apartment complex just before midnight Monday night. There, he was set-upon by four youths who aimed what […]

Seth Lookhart is a 34-year-old dentist from Anchorage, Alaska who is now in major legal trouble after he filmed himself extracting a patient’s tooth while he rode a hoverboard. He then distributed the video through text messages to at least eight other people outside of his dental practice. He has now been found guilty of […]

Guy Thompson, the former mayor of a Northwest Florida town, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for embezzling over half a million dollars from the United Way, Mobile’s WKRG-TV reports. He spent the money on a condo and a BMW, among other luxury purchases, prosecutors say. For decades, Thompson was a beloved and […]

A North Dakota woman has been charged with leaving six children home alone with a dead body, Bismarck’s KXMB-TV reports. The incident took place in November 2019, but it took prosecutors several months to put together criminal charges. Authorities say that, on November 16, 2019, 32-year-old Amber Barrett met a man named Faruq Shahid at […]

Celebration, Florida, is a community originally developed by Walt Disney located near Disney World in Osceola County. On Wednesday, it was reported that a man named Anthony Todt allegedly confessed to murdering his wife, children, and the family dog, according to NBC News. “Anthony Todt, 44, has been arrested on multiple counts of homicide and […]

Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman who, as a teenager, sent text messages to her friend encouraging him to commit suicide, will be released from prison next week, The Boston Globe reports. Just last week, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear her case, though the court’s decision and Carter’s release appear to be unrelated. […]

A Florida woman has been arrested after allegedly making a bomb out of a mason jar at Walmart, Tampa’s WFLA-TV reports. Police were called to a Walmart in Tampa on Monday after a security guard took notice of a woman acting “suspiciously.” The guard says that he noticed the woman wandering “aimlessly” around the store […]

Apple has declined Attorney General William Barr’s request to unlock the iPhone belonging to Pensacola Naval Base shooting suspect Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, CNBC reports. The company says it has provided “gigabytes of information” to the feds regarding what they know about the suspect, but they refuse to give investigators access to his phone. As previously […]

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear the case of Michelle Carter, a Massachusetts woman who, as a teenager, encouraged her friend to commit suicide, NBC News reports. The announcement means that her sentence of 15 months in prison will stand. Carter is behind bars, serving her sentence after having […]

A man who robbed a Philadelphia pharmacy reportedly gave the cashier a note apologizing for robbing them and justifying the theft by saying that he has a sick child, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Authorities say that a man walked into a Rite Aid store on Friday and approached the counter, pretending to make a purchase. […]

Authorities in Pennsylvania are trying to figure out who released, or attempted to release, an unknown number of bedbugs inside of an Edinboro Walmart, The Associated Press reports. Key details of this crime remain in dispute, however. Police were called to the Northwestern Pennsylvania Walmart location on Saturday after a manager reported that on the […]

Police in Maryland are looking for an individual who they say put out food in order to “bait” seagulls, and then allegedly ran over the flock with their vehicle, killing at least 10 birds and injuring at least one other, if not more. As Time reports, police in Laurel, a suburban community about halfway between […]

A Massachusetts woman is suing her former psychic after giving the medium over $70,000, reports AP News. Tracy Milanovich, who ran Tracy’s Psychic Palm Reader, told the woman that her daughter was possessed by demonic spirits and charged the hefty fee for exorcising services. According to NBC Boston, Milanovich frightened the victim by telling her […]

Jennifer Dulos, a 51-year-old Connecticut woman, has been missing since May of 2019. Now, her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, wants to have their not-yet-settled divorce dismissed. On December 26, Dulos’ lawyer, Richard Rochlin, officially filed a motion requesting that Dulos and Jennifer’s divorce be dismissed, according to Fox 61 News. It was Jennifer who originally […]

A New York City police officer who allegedly went on a racist tirade against an African American family in Tennessee, and was sentenced to serve time behind bars for it, has resigned from his job, CBS News reports. Michael Reynolds, 26, was on vacation in Nashville in July 2018, and staying at an AirBnB. At […]

Las Vegas police were able to locate a woman whose kidnapping and assault were captured on a doorbell camera, thanks in part to the fact that the woman yelled her alleged assailant’s name during the kidnapping, CNN reports. With the help of the public, and records from other incidents involving the victim and the assailant […]

Las Vegas police rescued the victim and arrested a suspect following an alleged kidnapping that was captured on a doorbell camera. As The Daily Beast reports, Sin City police at first had no idea who the victim or alleged assailant were in terrifying footage caught on a homeowner’s doorbell camera. The concerned homeowner released the […]

The Chinese scientist who broached moral and ethical codes by creating genetically edited babies has been sentenced to three years in prison. The Chinese courts declared that He Jiankui was guilty of “illegal medical practices” in their decision, per The New York Times. Though the trial was closed to the public, the court made sure […]

Employees at a McDonald’s location in the Central California city of Lodi are being praised for coming to the aid of a woman who mouthed the words “Help me” while placing her order at the drive-thru window, CNN reports. The woman had been traveling with a man who allegedly had a history of abusing her, […]

Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat who allegedly killed a British motorcyclist then fled to the U.S. and claimed diplomatic immunity, will be formally charged with a crime in relation to the incident, BBC News reported. Authorities have already begun the extradition process to bring her from the U.S. to the U.K. The […]

A Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy is accused of robbing mourners’ homes while they were attending the funerals of their loved ones, NBC News reports. Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy Janelle Gericke would allegedly scour the obituaries looking for the names of the recently-deceased and when their funerals were, so she would know which homes to rob and […]

A Canadian private investigator is waging a one-man war against Indian call center scammers, and he’s winning. To date, he’s saved his fellow Canadians millions of dollars they would have otherwise been swindled out of. As Toronto’s CFTR-AM reported, “Devan” (whose name has been changed to protect his identity), knows how Indian call center scams […]

A Florida woman says her teenage son was beaten up on the school bus for wearing a ‘Trump 2020’ hat, but school officials say that wasn’t the cause. As Yahoo News reports, the mom posted about the incident last week on social media, and the incident purportedly happened weeks ago. Twitter user @AmericanDiaries claimed in […]

A Minnesota woman is feeling a mix of both confusion and outrage after a porch pirate stole her package and then left a polite thank-you note for giving him or her the opportunity to commit the crime, CNN reports. ‘Tis the season for porch piracy — that is, when thieves have easy pickings thanks to […]

A Colorado woman is getting revenge on so-called “porch pirates” — that is, thieves who make off with packages left on porches by delivery people — by stuffing bait boxes with garbage, Colorado Springs’ KKTV reports. It may not do much to deter porch piracy overall, but Christine Hyatt says that she’ll take whatever small […]

A North Carolina man is accused of stealing $88,000 from the vault at the bank where he had worked. Police began to suspect Arlando Henderson of the crime after he allegedly posted pictures of himself on social media holding stacks of the stolen loot and showing off the luxurious lifestyle he was living thanks to […]

A Tennessee cop has been indicted on 44 criminal charges related to his work and treatment of suspects, including allegations of rape and that he performed a “forced baptism” on one woman. Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Daniel Wilkey was indicted this week in incidents that the office said were “pertaining to incidents he was […]

A five-year-old boy carried an 18-month-old toddler a half a mile in sub-zero temperatures through the Alaskan wilderness after being abandoned in a remote cottage, The Anchorage Daily News reports. The temperature outside was 31 degrees below zero. This week, Alaska state troopers received a call from a concerned neighbor, asking authorities to do a […]

Jennifer Dulos, a Connecticut mother-of-five, has been missing since May 24. Earlier this week, her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, sent her a message publicly. While standing outside the courthouse in Hartford, Connecticut, he wished her and his children a happy holidays, according to CBS News. His message is bizarre for several reasons. First of all, […]

A Saudi national has been identified as the suspected gunman in a shooting at a military installation in Pensacola, Florida, CNN reports. At least four people, including the suspected shooter, are dead and at least eight have been injured in the Friday morning shooting. Early Friday morning, for the second time in three days, a […]

A museum heist in Germany has resulted in nearly one billion dollars’ worth of ancient Saxon jewels being stolen, NBC News reports. Unfortunately for the thieves, so well-known are the jewels that they’re all but certain to be unable to sell them on the open market. At about 5:00 a.m. local time on Monday (11:00 […]

One in three American shoppers will have at least one package pilfered by porch pirates per year, C+R Research reports. With the Christmas shopping season getting up and running, it’s prime time for opportunistic thieves to take advantage of valuable gifts just sitting out in the open, waiting to be stolen. The consumer advocacy magazine […]

Jennifer Dulos, the missing Connecticut mother-of-five, disappeared on May 24. Ever since then, her family has fought desperately for answers. Jennifer’s mother, Gloria Farber, has been particularly vocal in the media. Most recently, Farber and her lawyers have been pushing for the family nanny that cared for Jennifer’s children to be questioned, according to The […]

A sheriff in Alabama was reportedly shot and killed Saturday night when he approached a pickup truck about loud music, according to a Sunday report from The Montgomery Advertiser. Lowndes County, Alabama Sheriff John Williams was shot and killed Saturday night, Derrick Cunningham, a Sheriff in neighboring Montgomery County, confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser. Williams […]

In Florida, two vegan parents are facing charges of manslaughter after their allegedly-malnourished toddler died, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The child was allegedly only allowed to eat a handful of fruits and vegetables. Sheila and Ryan O’Leary allegedly admitted to investigators that their family only eats certain raw fruits and vegetables, including mangoes, rambutans, […]

The family of the boy thrown from a third-floor balcony at Minnesota‘s Mall of America in an unprovoked attack last August is walking and attending school, CNN reports. The boy’s mother says that he is tired of her asking if he’s better. In April, when the boy, identified as Landen Hoffman, was four, he and […]

A Maryland bank teller is accused of going to an elderly customer’s home and robbing him after the customer made a large withdrawal on Monday, Richmond’s WWBT-TV reports. The local sheriff is likening the crime to a “reverse bank robbery.” Authorities say that 19-year-old Nathan Newell was working as a teller at Freedom Federal Credit […]

A Washington high school teacher has been arrested after being overheard allegedly threatening to shoot students, Seattle’s KOMO-TV reports. Julie Hillend-Jones had, until this week, been a teacher at Puyallup‘s Emerald Ridge High School, where she was an admired educator with no criminal record. Unfortunately, her career is likely over, and she may be facing […]

A homeless man allegedly poured a bucket of diarrhea on a woman’s head in a seemingly random and unprovoked attack in L.A., Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV reports. The attack happened months ago, but the victim is sharing her story with the media because the man is once again back on the streets, and the victim believes […]

A Pennsylvania woman is accused of taking photos of dead patients and sharing them with her boyfriend who “liked that sort of thing,” NBC News reports. Stephanie Thomas, 28, had, until recently, been employed at the Berks Heim Home in Reading, Pa., where she’d worked as a nursing assistant. However, she was suspended from her […]

A Louisiana man, keen to avoid getting a Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) charge, allegedly stole a Walmart motorized shopping cart to drive himself from bar to bar, NBC News reports. Brice Kendall Williams, 32, now faces felony charges related to pilfering the cart instead of the much less serious DWI charge. The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s […]

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says that Donald Trump bears at least some of the blame for an acid attack on a Peruvian immigrant last weekend, HuffPost reports. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, last Friday night, Mahud Villalaz, 42, was attacked in what Barrett calls an “obvious hate crime.” Villalaz, who is a U.S. citizen […]

A Milwaukee man who immigrated to the U.S. from Peru had acid thrown on his face by a man who accused him of invading the country, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “This is, sadly and tragically, a textbook case of hate,” said a community Latino-rights advocate of this crime. Mahud Villalaz, 42, immigrated to the […]

Children trick-or-treating in a Cincinnati, Ohio neighborhood brought home candy that had razor blades and other metal objects inserted into it, Dayton’s The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. No children are believed to have been injured. Colerain Township police say they received two reports of razor blades hidden in candy from parents who visited the same neighborhood. […]

Jason Racz, a Connecticut resident, has been accused of putting razor blades in bags of children’s Halloween candy, Providence, Rhode Island’s WJAR-TV reports. No children were injured. On Halloween night, after the kids in Waterbury had finished trick-or-treating, at least two parents called the police to say that they had found razor blades in their […]