it amazes me how often this happens! is there ANYTHING in walmart worth going down for grand larceny and losing your child?? they use the kids to help steal & conceal.
and i know it happens a lot because i spent well over a year U/C busting shoplifters at walmart. the first thing i did after arrest was call child protective services.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A man and woman are charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police said the two shoplifted at a Walmart store then left their 9-month-old child in a shopping cart.
According to an arrest citation, Amy Kapetanious and Daniel Shelton were observed by a loss prevention employee concealing merchandise in a diaper bag and purse and also around their 9-month-old infant.
It happened around 6 p.m. Monday at a Walmart store on Diann Marie Road, in east Louisville.
When the loss prevention employee approached Kapetanious, she and Shelton left the store without paying for items worth about $1,300, according to the citation.
The citation states Kapetanious and Shelton left the 9-month-old baby abandoned when they fled on foot. Kapetanious attempted to change clothes and returned to retrieve the baby, according to the citation.
The pair was caught about 400 yards from the store.
Kapetanious is also charged with theft by unlawful taking and giving officers false information.
Shelton is also charged with fleeing and evading police, resisting arrest and theft by unlawful taking.
Child Protection Services was notified of the incident.
(CNN) -- A 25-year-old woman from Seattle, Washington, has become the fifth person to die from burns suffered when her fiance's uncle invited them to his house in Puerto Rico and allegedly set them afire.
According to a website set up by friends of the couple, Kate Donahue, 25, died Thursday at Jackson Memorial Burn Center at the University of Miami, in Florida, where she and her fiance had been flown for treatment. Her fiance, Jesus Sanchez, died earlier in the week.
Donahue worked at Group Health in Seattle; Sanchez was an engineer at Boeing.
"They are very much in love," Donahue's mother, Michelle, told reporters when they were first hospitalized. "Their last words before they were intubated were for each other. She loves him, he loves her and the last six months have been the happiest time of her life and the most important thing is love."
The couple had traveled to Puerto Rico so that Sanchez could introduce Donahue to his relatives.
"I got a text from her on New Year's Eve telling me 'Happy New Year' and what a wonderful time she was having," Patrice Moore told a reporter about her niece, Donahue. "And that was the last thing I heard from her."
The next day, Donahue and Sanchez were among 13 dinner guests at the house that Justino Sanchez Diaz shared with his parents and sister in the town of Florida, in north-central Puerto Rico, police said.
But the 45-year-old unemployed furniture mover had prepared for the party by soaking the walls of his house with kerosene and placing kerosene containers in each corner of the dining room, according to Sgt. Frank Perez of the Arecibo Region Police Department's homicide unit.
At about 4:30 p.m, the suspect set fire to the room and the people in it, Perez said. "There was no opportunity for anybody."
Nearly all of those who died suffered burns over 80 percent of their bodies, he said.
Though the suspect had no police record, relatives told police they had long had problems with him, Perez said. He said Sanchez Diaz had burned down a henhouse in the backyard of his brother's home five years ago.
"Many times the family hides their own problems," he said.
The suspect's mother, 83, died, he said. Also dead were his 17-year-old niece, who "died quickly" with burns over 90 percent of her body. Another relative, age 32, was fatally burned, Perez said.
The suspect's father suffered a heart attack the day after the attack. Upon his recovery, he was told that his wife had died, Perez said.
Three other relatives were being treated for burns at the Medical Center of Puerto Rico in San Juan, according to Perez.
Meanwhile, the suspect -- who suffered slight burns that required no treatment -- is being held in lieu of $1.5 million bond in a psychiatric correctional center, Perez said. His next court hearing is scheduled for Jan. 14.
The 54-year-old driver - who was three times over the drink drive limit - claimed his goat had been 'lonely' and he'd been to a friend's farm in Kretzyn, Poland, to meet a female goat.
'They had had a few vodkas to break the ice and then some more to celebrate and by the the time he left with his now not so lonely goat he was very drunk,' said one officer.
'He was very sorry but he was a danger to other drivers. He's lost his licence and he may well go to prison for a while,' he added.
FORT LUPTON, Colo. -- A Front Range mother is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in the death of her 13-month-old son last September.
According to KMGH-TV, Shannon Johnson, 34, admitted to police she was on Facebook playing Cafe World, checking on a friend's status and sharing videos in the living room, while her son was in the bathtub, according to an arrest affidavit obtained Thursday.
Johnson told police her son was playing in the bathtub for about 10 minutes and she checked on him once. Johnson said that about three more minutes went by and she didn't hear her son playing, so she went to check on the baby and saw him sideways with his face in the water, according to the arrest affidavit.
Johnson told police she grabbed the boy out of the water and she heard some gurgling.
An ambulance took the boy to a nearby fire station where he was airlifted to Children's Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m.
When the detective asked Johnson why she would leave a 13-month-old in the bathtub alone, Johnson said he really wanted to be left alone and he was a very independent baby, according to the arrest affidavit. In the affidavit, Johnson also said she didn't want her son to be known as a "mamma's boy." AT 13 MONTHS YOU IDIOT BITCH??
She told detectives that she knew what it was like to be told no and she didn't want her baby to be told no.
Johnson told police she gave the baby a bath everyday, sometimes twice a day. She said on the day the baby died, the water level may have been a little higher than usual.
Johnson told police her son had a seizure at his grandmother's house a month earlier. She was given anti-seizure medicine to give the boy if he was having a seizure. Johnson said doctors did not diagnose what caused the seizure and there were no other seizures.
The investigation into the boy's death was delayed while investigators waited for the final autopsy report. That report came back Jan. 3. It said the baby died of anoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest and drowning, according to the arrest affidavit.
A plucky 84-year-old drove an intruder out of her home in the middle of the night by repeatedly hitting him with her father's walking stick, a court heard.
Frail Doris Thiele refused to be intimidated when she caught serial burglar Leon Ingram, 34, searching the house she shares with her daughter Helen.
Furious at seeing their Hampshire home invaded, the two women grabbed burly Ingram in a head lock to stop him getting away.
Doris then grabbed her late father's walking stick, which was hanging over the banister, and struck Ingram several times as he wrestled with her daughter.
The brave widow, who is just 5ft 3in tall, said she decided against smashing him over the head with a vase in case she accidentally killed him.
Ingram, who is a towering 6ft 3in, struggled to break free during the tussle that began in an upstairs room and ended in their conservatory.
In the end, he was so desperate to escape the two women he head-butted his way through a glass door, cutting his head in the process.
Police arrived minutes later and followed the trail of blood to a nearby flat, where Ingram was arrested.
Mrs Thiele and her daughter, 59, were presented with police bravery awards for tackling the intruder and ending a 'one-man crimewave'.
Ingram, from New Milton, Hants, admitted burglary when he appeared at Southampton Crown Court.
The heroin user, who had 32 previous convictions, was jailed for three years by Recorder Adam Feest, who took four other burglaries and four shoplifting offenSes into consideration.
Describing Ingram's tussle with Mrs Thiele and her daughter, he said: 'You threw your weight around with complete disregard for their safety.'
Speaking after the case, 84-year-old Doris described how she woke up at 3am and realized one of the upstairs lights was on at their home in New Milton.
She got up to investigate and discovered Ingram searching the spare bedroom.
'I decided to stand my ground but screamed when he came towards me,' she said. My daughter rushed out of her room and put her arm around his neck, trapping him in a head lock.
She added: 'He kept shouting "wrong house - let me go" but I grabbed my father's walking stick and kept hitting him around the head, neck and shoulders.
'My daughter clung on like grim death and I gave him a good bruising.He was 6ft 3in and muscular, my daughter is 5ft 6in and I'm only 5ft 3in but the two of us had more strength than he or we could have imagined.
'It should send a message to other would-be burglars that pensioners are not a soft touch. If someone comes onto your property you should be able to fight them off in any way you want.
Doris added, 'At one point, I picked up a slipper to hit him with but remember muttering: 'That's no bloody good!' 'It was then I spotted the walking stick and knew that would do the trick.'
Doris worked for the Australian Air Force in London at the end of the Second World War and later became a civil servant.
She was widowed when her daughter was only five years old and worked long hours to keep a roof over their heads.
She said: 'I didn't work hard all my life to give our stuff away to a drug addict who fancied rummaging through my cupboards. He was disrespectful and insulting.'
In court David Reid, defending, said Ingram 'felt terrible' about scaring Mrs Thiele and had sent her a letter of apology.
He added: 'In interview he admitted the other offenSes to wipe the slate clean.
'He has done his best to help recover items he has stolen, including taking police to pawnbrokers.'
Mrs Thiele and her daughter have been presented with police bravery awards.
Mrs Thiele said: 'The award was a complete shock. We only acted on the spur of the moment and didn't think we were heroes.'
wouldn't you just love 10 minutes alone with this lowlife?
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The bruises and swelling on 79-year-old Kathleen Jones' face are evidence of the ordeal she went through in her own home.
Jones said a robber walked into her home and brutally attacked her in the middle of the day.
"He punched me in the face three times," she said.
Jones said she was out doing yard work when she noticed the man, later identified by police as 26-year-old Kenneth Sumpter, walking around the neighborhood.
Several hours later, Jones said, she was on her computer in her home when the man walked in through her back door and started punching her in the face.
"(He) dragged me into the hallway and taped me up," Jones said. "I asked him what he wanted, and he said, 'I want to use the phone.' I shouted, 'No, get out of my house.'
a very fucked up guy.
frankly, the entire lot is fucked up. it's a sad tale.
Boston Herald
The older brother of Olympic figure skating sweetheart Nancy Kerrigan will stand trial for killing their father during a domestic dustup last year over harassing phone calls and text messages made to a cousin’s wife, a judge has ruled.
Middlesex Superior Court Judge John T. Lu has thrown out Mark Kerrigan’s petition that the manslaughter charge he faces be dismissed for lack of evidence. Lu concluded in a 16-page decision that “Mr. Kerrigan’s conduct was both intentional and highly likely to cause substantial harm.”
Mark Kerrigan, 46, is free on bail and living in Stoneham with Brenda Kerrigan, his legally blind, widowed mother who witnessed the fatal fracas over control of a telephone. His trial is scheduled to begin April 29.
Daniel Kerrigan, 70, who suffered from heart disease, died one year ago yesterday as his allegedly drunken son throttled him in their kitchen, according to authorities. A state medical examiner ruled Daniel Kerrigan had a fracture to his larynx, but died of a heart attack that the coroner said was triggered by the brawl.
According to Lu’s memorandum, on the night before his father died, Jan. 23, 2010, Mark Kerrigan made 21 calls to his cousin’s wife in the span of little more than an hour after he and the woman spent the day horseback riding, and she called the cops on him after he later tried to stop her from leaving the Kerrigan home, according to court documents. By 3 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2010, Lu said the woman had 56 text messages and seven voicemails from Mark Kerrigan on her cell phone.
would you believe "nancy kerrigan the rock opera"?
Seventeen years ago this month, Stoneham ice princess Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee by a gang of thugs connected to her Olympic rival, Tonya Harding. So why, why, why not make the sordid skating saga a rock opera???
“Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera” by Arlington scribe Elizabeth Searle is coming to the Oberon Theatre in Harvard Square on Feb. 1 and 2, but don’t expect to see the 1994 Olympic silver medalist in the audience.
Kerrigan, whose family was rocked by tragedy a year ago when her father died, allegedly after a violent struggle with her brother, has no desire to revisit anymore painful portions of her past.
I REALLY REALLY WANT TO SEE THE POLICE REPORT!
btw she is a habitual lush, often walking out on restaurants.
The woman accused of attacking a Gurnee police officer with a sex toy said she was acting in self-defense.
Carolee Bildsten, 57, was arrested in November after police said she raised a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device” over her head and went at the officer.
“I got a little bit afraid,” she said during an interview Tuesday. “I got scared. And the only thing in my sock drawer besides my socks and my cash was a dildo.”
The officer was not injured, said Gurnee Police Cmdr. Jay Patrick.
And that’s because he wasn’t attacked, Bildsten contends.
Bildsten said she was lonely and hungry on Nov. 9, the day she went to Joe’s Crab Shack on Route 132. She ordered a glass of wine, and dinner. And then another glass of wine.
At the end of the meal, Bildsten said she reached into her pocket to grab her credit card – she’d walked to Joe’s and “wanted to travel light” without a purse – only to find it wasn’t there.
“I sheepishly told the bartender that I didn’t have any money with me but that I lived nearby, so I was going to run home and get money,” she said.
Bildsten went outside and waited for a taxi, but when the taxi didn’t show, she decided to walk, she said, despite having a broken foot at the time.
She got to about Great America, tripped over something, and fell down – which is where a police report indicated the officer involved in the incident found Bildsten lying in the grass.
“Partly, I was intoxicated, so that had something to do with it,” she said. “But I also had a broken foot, so I wasn’t walking real well.”
The officer told her to pay her Crab Shack bill or risk arrest, at which point he was “kind enough to take me home,” Bildsten said.
Once in the apartment on David Court, Bildsten went to her bedroom to get cash out of a sock drawer, she said.
“I’m counting my cash to make sure I take out enough, and the officer walks into my bedroom and startles me,” Bildsten said, adding that she had recently read an article about a Gurnee police officer who was convicted of sexual assault, which made her nervous.
“I don’t know, it was just this male police officer and me in the apartment, and he startled me,” she said.
Bildsten said she never attacked the officer with the sex toy. She just “instinctively raised it up in a defensive move.”
The officer walked over to her, grabbed her arm, and the toy fell to the ground. The officer then arrested Bildsten.
Bildsten said she intends to plead not guilty at a court hearing sheduled for Thursday at the Lake County courthouse in Waukegan.
“I did not assault him. I’m not guilty of that,” she said. “I simply was defending myself.”
Patrick said he couldn’t comment on the case, which is pending in court.
An avid golfer and fan of thoroughbred horseracing, Bildsten holds a degree from the University of Wisconsin. She spent much of her career as a dietician, then opened an ice cream shop near Lake Forest. She’s currently unemployed, and lives with her dog (and her dildo), a German shorthair pointer.
Bildsten is also an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous, she said.
“I’m working on improving my life to avoid any further police encounters,” she said.
Because she didn’t intend to dine-and-ditch at Joe’s Crab Shack, Bildsten said she sent a money order the next day to cover her bill. She said it was the first time she’d eaten at the restaurant in years, and a report that she had recently run out on a bill there was incorrect.
Report: Arizona Fugitive Planned Suicide by Bear
Thursday, 27 Jan 2011
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison says his plan was to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him.
Tracy Province told a sheriff's detective about his plan after he was captured in August and returned to Arizona.
According to a Mohave County sheriff's report, Province planned to shoot a gram of heroin and become bear food. He says he didn't follow through because of divine intervention and because Yellowstone was too cold.
Province told authorities he then tried to hitchhike to Indiana to see his family. He was captured Aug. 9 in Wyoming, 10 days after he and two others escaped from a minimum-security prison near Kingman, Ariz.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 22-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to shaking her baby to death for crying while she was playing a game on Facebook was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday afternoon.
Alexandra Tobias received the maximum penalty on the second-degree murder charge.
Tobias was arrested after her 3-month-old son, Dylan Lee Edmondson, died one year ago. Prosecutors said Tobias admitted to becoming angry because the baby would not stop crying while she was playing Farmville on Facebook.
"I am trying to say this is not a plea about pity. I'm asking for mercy," Tobias told the judge before he sentenced her. "I realize I do deserve consequences, but the death of my son is a life sentence in itself. So could you please consider that I am still young and I have ambitions, potential, hopes and dreams."
The judge was stern toward Tobias, telling her a mother is supposed to protect a baby, yet she ended up killing her baby.
The baby's father and other family members were in court for the sentencing. The child's grandfather addressed the judge.
"This unspeakable act has robbed our family of his first words, his first steps, his first base hit, his first sweetheart and a lifetime of memories that would only be cherished by all of us," he said.
(02-02-2011, 12:48 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: another baby dies for facebook. (see post #46)
Tobias was arrested after her 3-month-old son, Dylan Lee Edmondson, died one year ago. Prosecutors said Tobias admitted to becoming angry because the baby would not stop crying while she was playing Farmville on Facebook.
"I am trying to say this is not a plea about pity. I'm asking for mercy," Tobias told the judge before he sentenced her. "I realize I do deserve consequences, but the death of my son is a life sentence in itself. So could you please consider that I am still young and I have ambitions, potential, hopes and dreams."
And I hope you realize your ambitions, potential, hopes and dreams while performing labor on the prison farm and behind bars . . . bitch!
Don't cry . . . one of the dykes might get pissed.
You know what happens when crying makes people angry.
DENVER -- She might be considered a walking threat to public safety.
Prosecutors have filed charges against a 45-year-old Denver woman accused of selling sex while knowing she has AIDS.
Frances Woodke is charged with two misdemeanors, prostitution and solicitation for prostitution, and a felony count of prostitution with knowledge of AIDS.
According to the Denver District Attorney’s Office, Woodke, who has known for years that she is infected with HIV, was soliciting prostitution on Jan. 26 in the 1400 block of North Elizabeth Street.
Denver Police arrested Woodke after she offered to have intercourse with an undercover officer for $23. The DA's office says it's possible she prostituted herself before she got caught last week
Woodke has pleaded guilty twice before to attempted prostitution with knowledge of AIDS - spending time in prison for the charges in 2000 and again in 2008, according to the DA's office.
After punching a loss prevention officer at the Meijer store in Rochester Hills, a woman suspected of stealing a shopping cart full of electronic equipment was Tasered by an Oakland County Sheriff’s deputy.
The suspect, described as a white, 30-year-old from Pontiac who is about 5-foot-2 and 400 pounds :O was lodged at the Oakland County Jail pending charges for retail fraud and assault.
A Hamilton woman who alleges she was "flashed" by a driver offering her a ride and cigarettes gave an unflattering account of the man's anatomy, describing it as a small "bubble".
The 22-year-old woman, whose identity is suppressed, yesterday told the High Court in Hamilton she was walking into Hamilton's central city in July, 2009, when she was approached by a van driven by Jason Jones.
The woman said Jones asked her four or five times to get into his van before exposing himself.
Jones, 38, and his partner Maureen Samantha Iti, 33, are on trial jointly charged with raping three young women in Hamilton.
Jones is also charged with doing an indecent act in public.
The complainant told jurors she quickly turned away after Jones exposed himself but recalled seeing a 2cm "bubble" in his hand. "I looked away but it wasn't much of a penis."
She said Jones was friendly and "matey-matey" but also appeared manipulative.
The Crown alleges that between July 2009 and January last year Jones and Iti drove around Hamilton's central city in the early hours looking for lone women to sexually violate.
Also giving evidence yesterday was a 19-year-old Hamilton woman who alleged Jones and Iti offered her a ride in their van as she walked to Firecats strip club on a Saturday night in December 2009.
She said they drove her to a secluded spot by the river and gave her wine and a cannabis "joint" to smoke.
The woman, whose identity is suppressed, alleged Jones and Iti began kissing her neck while in the van, before Jones removed her pants and raped her. She said she "elbowed him in the ribs" and pushed Jones off before hurriedly getting out of the van, leaving her shoes and cellphone behind.
After eventually walking back to her friend's Hillcrest property early the next morning, she was confronted by two friends who heard her crying.
On being told what happened, her 19-year-old female friend wrote down the woman's account even though, she said, the woman had been reluctant to go into detail about the night.
"She was scared and didn't want to look at us or anything ... she just didn't seem herself," the friend told jurors.
i can't wait until they nail this arrogant bastard. when his trial gets started i'll post a thread and follow it.
(CNN) -- Drew Peterson's lawyers go to court on Wednesday for a hearing that could have a profound effect on the murder case against him.
At issue: whether the jury can consider statements two of his wives made about him to others. One of them, his ex, is dead and the other is missing and presumed dead.
Peterson, a former police sergeant from Bolingbrook, Illinois, is accused of killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004 and remains under investigation in the October 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.
Prosecutors are asking the appeals court for Illinois' 3rd Judicial District to review a lower court's ruling last summer limiting the hearsay evidence the jury can hear at Peterson's trial. Peterson has been in custody at the Will County Jail since May 2009, when he was charged with the murder of Savio, who was found dead in her bathtub five years earlier.
Since Savio is dead and Stacy Peterson is missing, the defense argues that using their statements to family and friends violates Peterson's Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him.
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and I gave him a good bruising.He was 6ft 3in and muscular, my daughter is 5ft 6in and I'm only 5ft 3in but the two of us had more strength than he or we could have imagined.
The DA's office says it's possible she prostituted herself before she got caught last week
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