Video released this week by California‘s Department of Insurance allegedly shows a group of Los Angeles residents committing fake bear attacks on their own luxury cars — including a Rolls-Royce Ghost and Mercedes-Benz “G-Wagon” — using a bear suit and meat shredders, according to officials. “It was clearly a human in a bear suit,” the...
A 35-year-old man in Minnesota is accused of killing his girlfriend, beating and strangling her to death inside of a home where he was housesitting. Joseph James Benson was taken into custody earlier this month and charged with one count of second-degree murder in the brutal slaying of 38-year-old Samantha Koehne, who went by the...
Conner Brackin (McNairy County Sheriff’s Office). A Tennessee man returned home to the tragic sight of seven of his dogs dead, one of them only alive because he hid from the shooter — allegedly a police deputy. Conner Brackin, a 24-year-old police deputy with the McNairy County Sheriff’s Office, was arrested and charged with aggravated...
A 33-year-old California man faces life in prison after a jury convicted him of plotting to kill the parents of a 17-year-old girl he became obsessed with after meeting her in the “furry” subculture. Frank Sato Felix was found guilty of three counts each of first-degree murder and enhancements of multiple murders, the Orange County...
Authorities in Texas have indicted a woman on murder charges for allegedly gunning down a man she says tried drugging and kidnapping her earlier this year near a winery, according to police. “She’s advising that she just [shot] somebody … she’s been drugged and she’s been kidnapped as well,” a 911 operator reported being told...
A 35-year-old woman in Missouri has been arrested for allegedly giving a 14-year-old girl a lethal dose of fentanyl to help her deal with a toothache, leading to the teen girl suffering a fatal overdose. Jacquelyn R. Powers was taken into custody last week and charged with one count of first-degree endangering the welfare of...
Eric Gonzalez, who helped accused killer Daniel Penny restrain Jordan Neely on a New York City subway in 2023, testified in court on Tuesday that he lied to police about his role in the fatal incident. In May 2023, Penny, a former Marine, attempted to subdue Neely, a 30-year-old street performer who was allegedly acting...
Shaylin Elizabeth Moore (Craighead County Sheriffs Office) Shaylin Elizabeth Moore, a 22-year-old resident of Jonesboro, Arkansas, was charged with residential burglary and third-degree battery after an argument with her neighbor over outdoor Christmas decorations turned violent on Monday. The neighbor, who was unnamed in the probable cause affidavit, claimed to police that Moore entered her...
Authorities in Texas arrested three people after they allegedly forced a 6-year-old boy into a dryer at a laundromat and turned it on for a minute. It happened around 11 p.m. Monday at the Hi Tek Washateria in Houston, according to the Harris County Constable Precinct 4. When deputies arrived, the boy was not seriously...
A West Virginia judge sentenced a 30-year-old woman to three years probation after she was caught on video kicking a child. According to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime, the incident occurred between June 27, 2022, and July 1, 2022, at an apartment in Huntington. The defendant, Staci Lynn Burgy, was captured on video with...