A Florida man and woman are behind bars after they allegedly attacked a man who wanted to have sex while tied up on the beach. According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, a “frantic” man flagged down a Volusia County Sheriff’s deputy around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of Ocean Shore Boulevard in Ormond by the Sea. He was bleeding heavily throughout his body. The man told a deputy he had been jumped by a man and woman on the beach. More from Law&Crime: Corrections officer mom allegedly chucks acid at teen son, girl after argument over phone...
‘Clear and blatant’: SNL appearance by Kamala Harris violates FCC’s ‘equal time’ law, Republican commissioner says
At least one government official was unamused by Kamala Harris‘ appearance on Saturday Night Live last night. Senior Republican Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said in a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) that NBC violated the agency’s “Equal Time” rule. “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule,” Carr wrote. “The purpose of this rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster...
‘There’s just no excuse’: Nighttime hunter shot woman thinking he heard deer, deputies say
A young South Carolina man is charged with fatally shooting a woman and injuring her husband while the couple was on a nighttime walk. Kristofer Kelle McDonald, 20, allegedly thought, based on the sounds of leaves and branches, that he heard a deer, according to the arrest warrant obtained by Charleston CBS affiliate WCSC. Instead, deputies said he struck Lori Wind, 54, and her husband. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said that Wind, who they did not name, died at the scene, while her husband was taken to a hospital. More Law&Crime coverage: Hunter accidentally shot hiker, ‘Thinking...
‘He felt he had no choice’: Driver acquitted in third trial for road rage shooting in ‘minor traffic collision’
After two other sets of jurors struggled over the issue, a third panel has acquitted Trenton Thornton of murdering Patrick Edwards, 35, during a Feb. 4, 2020, road rage incident. This was his third trial after the first two ended in hung juries. “Of course he was very emotional and of course, so was his family after being put through three trials,” defense lawyer Chase Dearman said, according to Mobile, Alabama, Fox affiliate WALA. “You can only imagine the emotion it was.” Jurors in the first trial did convict him of shooting into an occupied vehicle and leaving the scene...
‘At the forefront of the mob’: Jan. 6 capitol rioter admits to using ‘Trump 2020’ and Confederate flag pole to assault cops, wrestling barricades away from police officers
A 54-year-old Indiana man pleaded guilty Friday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Troy Allen Koen entered the guilty plea to the charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a press release. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 26. Prosecutors say Koen was among the group of rioters who pushed their way past Capitol police and into the west side of the building. Koen reportedly “made his way to the front of the line” and started pulling bike racks away...
‘Chance encounter’ in wilderness led to man murdering victim with piece of wood, screw driver and an ax inside tent: Cops
Cops arrested a 41-year-old man for murdering a random victim who had invited him in his tent to have a beer out in the Montana wilderness. Daren Christopher Abbey is facing a deliberate homicide charge along with two counts of tampering with evidence in the death of 35-year-old Dustin Kjersem. According to Gallatin County Sheriff Dan Springer, Abbey confessed to detectives to murdering Kjersem who was camping Oct. 10 in the Moose Creek canyon area. Kjersem was planning to pick up his girlfriend the next day for a weekend of camping. He set up a walled tent with beds, a...
‘I can’t breathe! I have asthma!’: Jan. 6 rioter who grabbed officer’s pepper spray is going to prison
A New York man who grabbed an officer’s pepper spray canister in a tunnel at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots will spend more than a year in federal prison for the offense. Troy Weeks, 38, was sentenced to 21 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution by Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a press release. Weeks pleaded guilty to charges of civil disorder, assaulting officers, trespassing, and disorderly conduct. The defendant was on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol...
‘It makes no difference if the President acquiesced’: Republican AGs say Jack Smith’s office is unconstitutional because of his independence from Biden
In something not entirely unlike an “all hands” call to action, Republican attorneys general from 20 different states are now trying to convince a federal court of appeals that the Mar-a-Lago documents indictment against Donald Trump should remain dismissed. The 33-page amici curiae — or friends of the court — filing was submitted late Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The motion purports to represent the states of Florida, Iowa, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, And West Virginia. In yet another...
‘Unthinkable and reprehensible violence’: 11 suspected gang members charged in murders, attempted murders that left rivals and bystanders in their wake
Eleven suspected members of a Minnesota street gang have been charged in a federal racketeering case alleging murders and attempted murders in bloody gang violence that killed rivals and bystanders alike. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy indictment names leaders, organizers, and members of the Lows street gang and alleges “a pattern of unthinkable and reprehensible violence,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday when the case was unsealed. “The charges we announced today against the Lows allege a pattern of unthinkable and reprehensible violence by the Lows from 2021 into 2024,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger for the District...
‘Landmark win in the fight against dark money’: Watchdog secures FEC fine from pro-Trump advocacy group for failing to disclose donors
A pro-Donald Trump advocacy group was recently fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to disclose some of its donors. In 2021, the nonprofit government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint against Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action for allegedly keeping regulators in the dark about donor information for a series of expenditures between Aug. 20, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020. The watchdog group’s complaint alleged the conservative group, which is affiliated with Turning Point USA, was unable to provide information for some $1.4 million in pro-GOP election spending. In the end, however, FEC commissioners...