HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- The father of a 12-year-old girl arrested for an attempted armed robbery says his daughter was trying to get money to make house payments.
The father told Local 4 he and his wife are going through a terrible divorce.
He said his wife informed him of the arrest and he went crazy. But the father told Local 4 the girl had a motivation to commit a robbery.
"Her mother told her that I was taking away the house that they live in, which is absolutely false and she was trying to get money to pay for the house is what I heard. It's terrible," the father said.
oh how i would have loved to be the arresting officer! nasty bitches.
HAMLET, N.C. (WGHP)—
Three people have been charged with attacking and robbing a 75-year-old widow as she was visiting her husband's grave.
Hamlet Police Chief John Haywood said 18-year-old Breonna Williams was arrested Monday and charged with armed robbery and breaking or entering a motor vehicle in the February attack at Mary Love Cemetery in Hamlet.
Haywood said the teen shoved Dorothy Craven to the ground on top of her husband's grave, held a gun to her head and cursed at her while two others broke into Craven's car and took her purse and other belongings. The victim suffered minor injuries.
Police earlier had arrested 23-year-old Antwan West and a 16-year-old male.
The three suspects are from Hamlet and are awaiting an April 28 hearing. It wasn't clear if they have attorneys.
i can't believe he did this in the courthouse, in chambers! we'll be reading about her murder later on.
Plantation, Florida (CNN) -- Being attacked in the courthouse was the last thing Catherine Scott-Gonzalez expected when she showed up for the final hearing in her divorce case.
"I just can't believe that it happened -- there are just no words for it," Scott-Gonzalez said Tuesday, as she continued to recover from a broken nose and a fractured jaw after being beaten by her estranged husband in a judge's chambers.
"The incident was disturbing and shocking," Broward County Circuit Court Judge Ronald Rothschild recalled Tuesday, adding, "In addition to the violence, the fact is that it happened in a court proceeding."
The proceeding that took place Friday in Judge Rothschild's chambers was the last hearing in the divorce of Scott-Gonzalez and her husband of about five years, Paul Gonzalez.
Thirty-five minutes into the hearing, when the issue of child support was brought up Gonzalez -- acting as his own attorney -- decided to leave the room, according to Michael Dunleavy, the attorney for Scott-Gonzalez. The couple, both former Marines, are the parents of two young children.
"He goes, 'I'm not going to pay child support,' and Judge Rothschild says, 'You know all parents have to pay child support, we all have to support our children,' and he (Gonzalez) stalked out of the room," said Dunleavy.
"He went calmly," remembered Judge Rothschild, "not happily, but calmly walked out of chambers, took one step out of the door, then in a blink of an eye -- I mean literally one step -- he came back in."
Upon returning, Gonzalez suddenly started punching his estranged wife, according to those in the chambers.
"It was from behind, I was blindsided, I was knocked out after the first punch," said Scott-Gonzalez.
A bailiff was not in the room at the time. The judge said if he had had any indication that Gonzalez was violent, he would have had security in his chambers. Scott-Gonzalez said in the past, she had twice sought restraining orders against her estranged husband but both attempts had been denied.
MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- A 15-year-old boy was killed after being lured to a home Sunday night, and six people were arrested for their involvement in his death, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said Seath Tyler Jackson of Belleview was lured to a home, located on S.E. 53rd Avenue in Summerfield, and killed. Deputies said they arrested six people on Tuesday, ranging in ages from 15 to 37 for their involvement in Jackson’s death.
WFTV spoke with Jackson's closest friends on Wednesday. They said he spent Sunday at their house and his ex-girlfriend, 15-year-old Amber Wright, texted him non-stop, telling him she wanted to get back together. Detectives said the texts were part of a plan to lure Jackson to the home.
Once inside the home, Jackson was hit in the head with some kind of wooden object and was shot multiple times, according to detectives. When Jackson made an attempt to leave the house, he was tackled, held and shot again, deputies said.
According to a sheriff's office report, Jackson's body was placed in a bathtub and his knee caps were broken. His body was hog tied and then placed into a sleeping bag and then burned in a fire pit, according to deputies. Jackson's remains were shoveled into several 5-gallon paint containers and thrown into a dumpster, detectives said.
On Monday, Jackson’s parents reported him missing and thought that he may have run away, according to deputies. One of the suspects came forward to detectives after he told his mother that he had witnessed Jackson's murder.
Deputies arrested Wright, Charlie Kay Ely, 18, Michael S. Bargo, 18, Justin Soto, 20, and Kyle Hooper, 16, and charged them with first-degree murder. James Haven, 37, was also arrested and charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.
A 26-year-old Salem man was ordered held without bail today on charges including attempted murder after he allegedly stuffed a baby wipe into his 7-week-old son's mouth and dropped him to the ground Tuesday night.
Dario Finkel was arraigned but entered no plea in Salem District Court. He did not oppose a restraining order filed by his wife, Jennifer Finkel, 23, that bars him from having any contact with her and their son for one year.
Dario Finkel went into a rage sometime between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. when his son began to cry, Essex Assistant District Attorney Michelle DeCourcey told Judge Michael Lauranzano during the arraignment.
In an effort to stop the infant from crying, Dario Finkel shouted at him to "shut up," and shoved a baby wipe into his mouth, DeCourcey said.
Fearing the wipe would suffocate the baby, Jennifer Finkel removed it and cooked dinner for her husband to calm him down, DeCourcey said.
A few minutes after Dario Finkel finished eating, his son began crying again, making the father "very upset," according to a police report filed in court.
Finkel walked to the couch where the baby lay, held the child in front of him, and dropped him about three feet to the floor, the police report said.
When Jennifer Finkel picked their son up and placed him back on the couch, Dario Finkel picked him up and threw the baby at her from about four feet away, the report said.
She caught the baby.
During the confrontation at an apartment building on Loring Avenue, Finkel also allegedly slapped his wife.
After her husband went to sleep, Jennifer Finkel took her son and left and called police from a neighbor’s apartment.
Responding EMS officials noted a small bruise on the infant's stomach, and his upper lip appeared swollen and bruised, the police report said.
Dario Finkel was arrested in the couple’s apartment for one count of attempted murder, two counts of reckless endangerment of a child, one count of assault and battery with injury on a child under 14, and one count of domestic assault and battery.
Finkel's next scheduled court appearance is an April 27 dangerousness hearing.
Sometimes I go back and forth about whether or not some of these "sickos" are resonsible for their actions. I just think that no one in their right mind could commit such horrible crimes(especially those against children). It seems as though they must be suffering from some sort of mental illness. Whether it be mania with psychotic features or schizophrenia. In those instances the person is not in touch with reality and I believe should not be held accountable. There are, of course, people that commit these horrid crimes that are deemed by a psychiatrist to be of sound mind. I just don't get it. I need to review the mind of a sociopath. Close your eyes and try to imagine yourself stabbing or killing a baby or anyone for that matter. I can't do it. I stop short and cannot "play the tape all the way through". It is too disturbing to me. And I don't believe all that BS about "I was abused when I was a kid" or "my mom didn't love me" blah blah blah. I really am perplexed as to how these sick fuckers get to the point where they have no conscience or remorse.
:O
ALA.com
MOBILE, Alabama -- A judge denied bail today for a Prichard man accused of gouging out his uncle’s eyeballs with a spoon.
Timayo Knight, 31, appeared briefly before District Judge Michael McMaken, who refused to set a bail.
Knight, who is being held in Mobile County Metro Jail, is charged with first-degree assault.
Prichard police were called to the 300 block of Bronner Street on Monday evening and found 79-year-old Bonnie Pogue bleeding from his face. Investigators later found Pogue’s eyeballs in a trashcan and a bloody spoon on a kitchen counter, according to police, and Knight was still inside the house.
Prichard police Chief Jimmie Gardner said he couldn’t discuss any details about a possible motive while the investigation continues. He said he plans to release more information later.
Meanwhile, Pogue was still in serious condition at Mobile Infirmary Medical Center, he said.
KSTP.com has uncovered new details about the man who police say committed a sex act on a school bus last month. According to the Department Corrections, 53-year-old Michael Friedrichs is a convicted level 3 sex offender.
Police say Friedrichs posed as a student, boarding an occupied school bus and committing a sex act on March 17th in Minneapolis. After a month long investigation, officers arrested Friedrichs Wednesday.
According to police, Friedrichs hid his face with a hooded sweatshirt and carried a backpack when he boarded a school bus heading to Seward Montessori School. Investigators say he slashed several seats with a sharp object and performed a sex act while up to nine students were onboard.
The school bus driver told police he thought the suspect was a student until Friedrichs exited the bus more than a mile later.
Friedrichs was charged Thursday with fifth degree criminal sexual conduct. He is currently in custody at Hennepin County Jail.
Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police say an Alum Creek man high on bath salts killed his neighbor's pygmy goat and that neighbors found him in his bedroom, dressed in a bra and panties, next to the dead animal, said Lt. Bryan Stover of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.
Mark Thompson, 19, of Greenview Road, is charged with animal cruelty after police got a call from a woman who said he stole her goat at about 3:15 a.m. Monday, Stover said.
Lisa Powers said she bought the goat on Friday as a gift to her 4-year-old grandson. They named the male goat Bailey after a female character on the Disney Channel television show "The Suite Life on Deck."
"The baby just loved him," she said.
Powers' nephew, Joshua Pollis, got a call from a neighbor early Monday morning, she said.
"They told him that my goat was wandering around in Mark's house and he'd better come and get it," she said. "They called my nephew because he'd been there before."
Pollis and two women walked into Thompson's house looking for the goat, according to the criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.
The three entered the house and made their way to Thompson's bedroom door when Thompson spoke to them, Powers said.
"He told them, 'Don't come in, I'm naked,'" Powers said. "But they opened the door and he was standing there with his pants down. He had on women's clothing and the goat was dead and there was blood everywhere. It was just a scene."
Thompson ran out the front door when Pollis asked him about the dead goat in his room, according to the complaint.
Police got a search warrant for the house, and searched the woods for Thompson. They found him several hours later.
Thompson allegedly told police he was on bath salts for about three days.
When police entered the house they found fresh blood near the front door of the bedroom and in Thompson's bedroom to the right of the front door. Inside the bedroom police found the small gray and white goat wearing a pink collar lying dead on the floor, blood coming from its neck, according to the complaint. There was a pornographic magazine photo laying a few feet from the goat, the complaint states.
That sonofabitch! Look at him. No wonder he can't get a piece of ass.
How do you let yourself get to the point where you'd decide to have sex with a goat? I'd always kind of 'laugh off' the West Virginia/sheep jokes, but obviously there's some validity there.
Wrong on so many levels...What's up with bath salts?? I don't get that but I'm thinking any self-respecting goat fucker would at least be a huffer. I'm thinking that huffing would be better for his complexion too. You can hide a lot behind a layer of silver spray paint!
I'm even guessing the guys in prison might keep their distance from this one...but you never know, there might be a goat sympathizer in the crowd!