A 21-year-old woman in Texas has been arrested after she allegedly tried to sell her newborn baby boy to the “highest bidder” on Facebook, seeking a minimum of $150 up front before she even went into labor. Juniper Bryson was taken into custody last week and charged with one count of felony sale or purchase of a child, records reviewed by Law&Crime state. According to a probable cause affidavit, the Houston Police Department on Sept. 23, 2024, received a report alleging that Bryson was attempting to sell her unborn child on the social media platform. The previous day, she had...
‘Country looking’ stepdad who killed man after he threatened to release nude photos of stepdaughter sentenced to decades in prison
A Texas judge sent a man to prison for 40 years for murdering another man who allegedly threatened to release naked pictures of his stepdaughter. Court records show a jury on Friday convicted 42-year-old Jessie Clifford Brown on a murder charge in the 2015 death of John Allen Franco, 24, in Liberty City, which is about 120 miles east of Dallas. The Gregg County Sheriff’s Office said its deputies responded around 10 p.m. May 20, 2015, to a car crash in the area of Old Highway 135 and Small Wood Road. But when deputies responded, they found the man they...
Thomas and Gorsuch signal willingness to rethink SCOTUS rulings about executing low-IQ inmates
Over the objection of Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a brief, unsigned order Monday that put on hold the execution of an intellectually disabled Alabama man convicted of murder. Joseph Clifton Smith is on death row for the 1997 murder of Durk Van Dam. According to evidence in the case, Smith fatally beat the man with a hammer and saw in order to steal his boots, some tools and $140. In 2002, several years after Smith’s conviction, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the case of Atkins v. Virginia that executing an intellectually disabled person...
NBC gives Donald Trump ‘Equal Time’ on NASCAR broadcast after complaints about Kamala Harris’ appearance on SNL
After a Federal Communications Commission commissioner accused NBC of violating the agency’s “Equal Time” rule for allowing Kamala Harris to appear on Saturday Night Live, the network gave Donald Trump about 120 seconds worth of free airtime following a NASCAR race and NFL game. Trump appeared in two 60-second videos after the race and following NBC’s Sunday Night Football. He also posted the ad to his account on X, formerly Twitter. “We’re two days away from the most important election in the history of our country,” Trump said. “We’ve gotta save our country, and it needs saving, it’s in very...
Hit-and-run driver killed man in parking lot, washed car ‘just feet’ from dying victim before fleeing: Police
A 21-year-old man in Utah is accused of fatally striking a 63-year-old man with his vehicle in the parking lot of car wash, then cleaning his car “just feet from the victim” before fleeing the scene. Christian Palma Hernandez was taken into custody last week and charged with one count each of hit and run and leaving the scene of an accident, driving without a license, and failure to maintain a safe and proper lookout in the death of Stirling Kelso, authorities announced. According to a news release from the Ogden Police Department, officers at about 5:11 p.m. on Wednesday,...
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‘Killer clown’ murderer who delivered flowers and balloons to husband’s then-wife before shooting her in face gets released from prison
A woman in Florida who dressed up as a clown and murdered the wife of her current husband — while she and him were unmarried and allegedly having an affair — was released from prison over the weekend after copping a plea deal last year. Sheila Keen-Warren, 61, is officially free after spending seven years behind bars following her arrest in 2017 for the decades-old killing in Palm Beach County, according to Florida Department of Corrections officials. Records viewed by Law&Crime show that she began serving a 12-year sentence on May 16, 2023, for the fatal shooting of 40-year-old Marlene...
‘Reset to a newborn’: Mom’s fiance ‘bear hugged’ her infant son to get him to stop crying, police say
A 10-month-old Missouri boy continues to recover from critical head and body trauma allegedly suffered at the hands of his mother’s fiance. A child publicly identified only as “Baby Waylon” was released from the hospital some six weeks after cops say the suspect, 28-year-old Jordan L. Boggess, dropped the boy while tossing him in the air and “bear hugged” him until he stopped crying. Waylon has suffered lifelong injuries, his father told Springfield NBC affiliate KYTV, and he has to re-learn how to lift up his head and sit up. “He has basically been reset to a newborn,” Tyler Burbridge said....
‘Very silly’: Lawyer who sat in on Trump’s infamous call to ‘find’ 11,780 votes in Georgia files lawsuit to block ‘illegal’ early ballot collection in state
Federal and state Republican lawmakers in Georgia filed a federal lawsuit claiming that several Democratic-leaning counties in the Peach State illegally kept election offices open over the weekend to allow citizens to hand-deliver their mail-in absentee ballots. The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the state Republican Party are being represented in the matter by attorney Alex B. Kaufman, who previously sat in on then-President Donald Trump’s now infamous 2021 call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during which Trump implored Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes to help him win the state from Joe Biden. Kaufman later said that he...
Lawsuit challenges Louisiana’s unprecedented law classifying abortion drugs as controlled substances
A group of Louisiana health care providers and reproductive rights advocates are challenging the state’s unprecedented action of classifying abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol to the state’s list of controlled substances. Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed Louisiana Act 246 into law in May — a choice which effectuated the most extreme legal action yet taken on the drugs. Under the law, the two medications, which have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for more than two decades, are now classified as Schedule IV drugs. The classification puts mifepristone and misoprostol on part with certain painkillers...
Child’s father broke into home then shot the mother and grandmother: Prosecutors
After breaking into the residence, the father of an 8-year-old boy shot the mother and maternal grandmother while the child was at home, according to prosecutors in Burlington County, New Jersey. Law enforcement soon arrested Pennsylvania man Junior Edwards, 37, and charged him with crimes including murder for allegedly killing Catherine Nunez, 33, and her mother, Marisol Nunez, 54. Willingboro Township cops began their investigation just after 4 a.m. on Wednesday when called to the first block of Harrington Circle in Willingboro Township, New Jersey, regarding a burglary in progress, prosecutors said in their press statement. They entered the home...