Pa. mom charged in homicide of boy, 2; allegedly put Vicodin in sippy cup
A mother has been charged with criminal homicide in the alleged poisoning death of a 2-year-old boy in Tullytown, Bucks County.
Jennifer Clarey has been charged with one count of criminal homicide in connection to the death of Mazikeen Curtis.
Mazikeen’s body was found inside his home in the 500 block of Lovett Avenue just after 10:30 p.m. on August 25.
According to court documents, Clarey allegedly drugged her son, putting the active ingredient in Vicodin inside the boy’s sippy cup, causing him to overdose.
Mazikeen’s sippy cup was sent to a lab where tests revealed the presence of Vicodin on the sippy cup and in the contents of the sippy cup.
Authorities say an empty Vicodin prescription bottle was later found inside a closed lock box in the home.
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub says research was done into Mazikeen’s medical history, and he was never prescribed Vicodin.
“We did some exhaustive research into Mazikeen’s health history. He was not prescribed Vicodin. In fact, it’s incredibly rare – if ever – that Vicodin, as we know is an opioid pain killer, would ever be prescribed for a two-year-old,” Weintraub said. “Plain and simple, this was a murder, and the weapon was the pills that came from this bottle.”
Authorities said the little boy’s body was discovered after police responded to a welfare check.
Their neighbor, Dawn Dunlap, said she and her neighbors were the ones who called for the check.
“Me and my other neighbor, we discussed it and said, ‘you know what, this is something we have to do,'” Dunlap said.
She said just hours before the boy was found dead his mother, Jennifer Clarey, was acting extremely out of character.
“It wasn’t something that I had ever seen before so for me to hear and see what I was seeing was just not her,” Dunlap said.
Authorities say Jennifer Clarey was found inside the home with self-inflicted wounds to her wrists.
Clarey was being held Tuesday without bail in Bucks County Prison.
Duo busted after allegedly selling weed treats at church — including cereal, brownies and puddings
For the love of pot!
Two women were busted Friday on drug charges after one allegedly sold weed edibles at a church in Savannah, Georgia, according to the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team.
Ebony Cooper, 28, was reportedly openly hawking various treats — including cereal, brownies and puddings — that contained marijuana at a church event for entrepreneurs, authorities said.
Officials said she advertised the illegal baked goods on social media prior to the event.
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Undercover agents bought several items from Cooper then followed her to 26-year-old Leah Pressley’s car, which they searched, according to officials.
The search allegedly turned up a large number of pot edibles, more than $1,000 in cash and a loaded gun.
Both Cooper and Pressley were arrested and booked at Chatham County Detention Center on felony drug charges, authorities said.
Bert And Ernie Are A Gay Couple Says Former ‘Sesame Street’ Writer
Bert and Ernie are who YOU imagene them to be. I always thought Bert and Ernie were just good friends who just hung out. And who just happened to be roommates. I do love the fact that this former writer of Sasame Street from 1985-1988 could see himself and his partner in these two beloved Sesame Street characters . Now im more inclined to believe Frank Oz one of the original creators. But it seems SOME of the people of LGBTQ community want to believe other wise. As long as you (former writer for Sesame Street could see himself and his partner) can see yourself in Bert and Ernie then it’s alright with me!
A former “Sesame Street” writer says there’s some truth to the long-standing rumors that two of the show’s most beloved characters, Bert and Ernie, are gay.
Emmy winner Mark Saltzman, who is credited with having worked on 31 episodes of “Sesame Street” that aired from 1985 through 1998, told LGBTQ news outlet Queerty he always saw Bert and Ernie as a same-sex couple.
“I remember one time that a column from The San Francisco Chronicle, a preschooler in the city turned to mom and asked, ‘Are Bert and Ernie lovers?’ And that, coming from a preschooler was fun,” Saltzman said in an interview published Sept. 16. “And that got passed around, and everyone had their chuckle and went back to it. And I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were. I didn’t have any other way to contextualize them.”
The writer, whose other credits include “The Jim Henson Hour” and the TV movie musical, “Mrs. Santa Claus,” went on to suggest that the Bert and Ernie’s storylines were inspired by his real-life relationship.
“The other thing was, more than one person referred to Arnie & I as ‘Bert & Ernie,’” Saltzman said, referring to his partner, Arnold Glassman, a filmmaker and film editor who died in 2003.
“I was already with Arnie when I came to ‘Sesame Street.’ So I don’t think I’d know how else to write them, but as a loving couple,” he said. “I wrote sketches … Arnie’s OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that’s the Bert and Ernie dynamic.”
Actor, director and puppeteer Frank Oz, who performed regularly as Bert from 1969 through 2001, also offered his take.
It seems Mr. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay. It's fine that he feels they are. They're not, of course. But why that question? Does it really matter? Why the need to define people as only gay? There's much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness.
— Frank Oz (@TheFrankOzJam) September 18, 2018
Bert and Ernie have, of course, endured speculation over their sexuality numerous times since they were created by Jim Henson for the pilot episode of “Sesame Street,” which aired in 1969.
In the 2001 book Hollywood Urban Legends, author Richard Roeper traced the rumors back to Spy magazine founder Kurt Anderson, noting that Bert and Ernie “conduct themselves in the same loving, discreet way that millions of gay men, women and hand puppets do” and “live a splendidly settled life together in an impeccably decorated cabinet.”
In 1994, the Rev. Joseph Chambers, a Pentecostal minister from North Carolina, even attempted to get the characters banned under the state’s sodomy laws, according to The Advocate. “Bert and Ernie are two grown men sharing a house and a bedroom,” Chambers said at the time. “They share clothes, eat and cook together and have blatantly effeminate characteristics.”
And while “Sesame Street” has repeatedly denied the claims, Bert and Ernie have been depicted as a same-sex couple in popular culture numerous times.
The July 8, 2013, issue of the New Yorker, for instance, showed the characters cuddling together on a sofa to celebrate the Supreme Court declaring the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, unconstitutional that June. Still, given the years of speculation, it’s unlikely we’ve heard the last of the Bert and Ernie scrutiny just yet.
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Dad arrested for driving teen couple to park to ‘do their thang’
A Florida man faces charges after he allegedly drove his 15-year-old son to a park with his teen girlfriend so they could have sex — or, in the dad’s words, “do their thang,” according to police.
Laurence Mitchell, 53, was arrested earlier this month after an officer spotted him after-hours in his car at McChesney Park in Port St. Lucie, according to The Smoking Gun.
The dad reportedly told the officer that his son requested he take him and his girlfriend to the local park “so they can do what kids do.”
“Well, they aren’t out there stealing, they are just having sex,” Mitchell allegedly said to the cop, adding that “they could be out there doing worse.”
Mitchell, however, allegedly admitted that he didn’t know if the girl’s parents consented to her being out.
The police officer then interviewed the teen couple after they returned from the soccer field, the TCPalm reported.
Mitchell’s son reportedly told the officer that he and his girlfriend were “just smokin’ and f–kin’.”
Police arrested the dad and booked him at St. Lucie County Jail on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was released on $750 bond and scheduled to appear Sept. 25 in court.
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Man huffs spray paint, then beats mother with spatula
ST. ALBANS, West Virginia — A West Virginia man was arrested after being accused of huffing paint and then beating his mother.
Glenn Allen Casdorph, 30, faces charges of malicious wounding in the incident, WCHS reports
Police say they responded to reports of domestic violence and found Casdorph, a known huffer, sitting on a bench in the front yard. He had a large amount of silver spray paint on his face and hands. He also was holding a large steel bar.
Police say his mother was inside the home, and her head was wrapped with gauze. She was also covered in blood. Police said the weapon used in the attack was actually a spatula.
Casdorph is in jail on $10,000 bond.
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Man threatens to shoot 11-year-old who beat him at video game ‘Fortnite’
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. — A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threatening to shoot an 11-year-old child, possibly at his school, after the boy beat him at the video game “Fortnite.”
Michael Aliperti, 45, of Huntington, was arrested around 1:40 a.m. and faces charges of second-degree aggravated harassment and acting in a manner to injure a child, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
The arrest was the result of Aliperti threatening to shoot a child after losing to the boy during the game “Fornite,” police said.
The 11-year-old reported the threats, which were made through text messages and online voice messages left using an Xbox gaming system, police said.
Aliperti said he planned to shoot the child, possibly at his school, according to police.
The alleged threats were made Monday night.
Virginia Man Accused Of Rubbing Produce On Buttocks And Putting It Back On Shelves
Get this dude a REAL woman!
It really puts the “gross” in grocery.
A Virginia man is facing charges after he allegedly grabbed produce at a Manassas store, pulled down his pants and rubbed the food items on his bare buttocks.
The suspect then allegedly put the tainted produce back on the shelves, according to The Associated Press.
Michael Dwayne Johnson, 27, was arrested Saturday afternoon at the Giant Food Store after an employee called 911 about destruction of property.
The employee told officers Johnson was allegedly seen “picking up produce, pulling down his pants, rubbing the produce on his buttocks, and replacing the produce back on the shelf,” according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.
Johnson was arrested inside the supermarket and charged with two misdemeanors: indecent exposure and destruction of property.
According to the police report, store employees had to destroy several pallets of produce presumedly tainted by Johnson’s bare heinie.
Authorities say they haven’t determined a possible motive.
Although a police spokesperson told NBC Washington she did not know what type of produce Johnson allegedly defiled, a police report mentioned it was fruit.
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Creepy character from Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ was at the Emmys
Teddy Perkins appeared Monday night at the Microsoft Theater in the same attire as worn on the comedy-drama on the show, sporting a red velvet dinner jacket, heavy white makeup, prosthetics and a bob cut wig. The character was played by the show’s star, Donald Glover, but it’s unclear whether the actor-singer dressed up as Perkins, who became a main attraction in the crowd and social media taking selfies during commercial breaks.
Perkins congratulated Bill Hader, who won an Emmy for best actor in a television comedy over Glover — last year’s winner.
Even Hader had no idea who was dressed up as Perkins.
“I don’t know who it was, but I know it was that guy from ‘Atlanta,'” Hader said backstage.
When Glover was shown in the crowd, Perkins was not around.
Perkins became one of the most intriguing figures during “Atlanta’s” second season because of his eerie appearance. The character tricked Darius, played by LaKeith Stanfield, into visiting his home.
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