Florida man stopped by TSA when he attempted to board flight with military grenade launcher
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Florida man’s plans to bring a military rocket-propelled grenade launcher back home were shot down after security screeners at a Pennsylvania airport spotted the non-functioning weapon in his checked bag.
The Transportation and Security Administration says the unassembled parts of the launcher and a replica grenade were found on Monday when an alarm went off as the bag passed through security equipment at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, about 60 miles (96 kilometers ) north of Philadelphia.
The man, from St. Augustine, was stopped by police and told officials he thought he could bring the non-functioning launcher onboard in a checked bag.
The items were confiscated and he was able to catch his flight to Orlando.
TSA says no realistic or replica weapons of a military nature are allowed onto airplanes
Missouri man admits to sex with 13 year old girl transported by his grandma, mom
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced for sex crimes involving a 13-year-old Alabama girl who was brought to Missouri by the man’s mother and grandmother.
Twenty-two-year-old Michael James Collins was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison without parole.
Investigators say Collins met the girl on a dating website in July 2017. At the time, Collins he was a registered sex offender on probation for a previous conviction for sexual misconduct involving a child.
He admitted in November that he paid his grandmother $400 to bring the girl from Alabama to Missouri. His mother was with his grandmother when they picked up the girl.
Collins says he had sex with the girl in a van while the women were taking him to and from work and the Community Supervision Center in Fulton
Son, 19, says he shot parents because they were sending him ‘telepathic messages
Edmond, OK (KOCO ) — An affidavit released Tuesday reveals more details in an investigation into the deaths of an Edmond couple, who were reportedly shot and killed by their 19-year-old son.
According to the police, officers responded just before 3 a.m. Monday to a report of shots fired inside a home near Covell Road and Bryant Avenue. Police said a 17-year-old boy called officers to report that his brother, later identified as 19-year-old Michael Elijah Walker, had shot their parents.
Officers arrived and found the couple, 50-year-old Michael Logan Walker and 44-year-old Rachael May Walker, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
Police spoke with the 17-year-old boy, who said he woke up to the sound of gunfire and saw his mother in the hallway, yelling at him to call 911. He said he called 911 and saw his brother walking down the hallway holding a gun. The boy said his brother often carries the gun around the house with him because “he is paranoid,” according to the affidavit.
The boy said Michael Elijah Walker told him that he shot their parents because, “they were sending him messages telepathically and they were Satan worshipers,” according to the affidavit. Michael Elijah Walker reportedly then told the boy that he would bury the bodies.
During an interview with police, Michael Elijah Walker said he had gotten into an argument with his parents after he, “asked them a question about Satanism.”
Michael Elijah Walker said the argument took place in his bedroom, and his gun was sitting in the open on his bed next to him. He told police that his father “tackled” him on the bed, so he grabbed his gun and shot his father, according to the affidavit. He also told police that after shooting his mother, he walked back to his bedroom and reloaded his pistol before returning to shoot her again, because he believed she was still alive, the affidavit stated.
Michael Elijah Walker told police that neither of his parents harmed him at all. He is being held on two counts of first-degree murder.
Edmond police confirmed with KOCO 5 that they are actively investigating the suspect’s medical history.
Mom slashes teenage girl in face after girl tased her daughter in front of Harlem school
EAST HARLEM, Manhattan — A mom slashed a teenage girl in the face outside an East Harlem public school on Tuesday afternoon as retaliation after the teen Tased the woman’s daughter, police said.
The 49-year-old mom was in front of the E. 120th Street school with her 13-year-old daughter around 2:30 p.m. when the assault happened, an NYPD spokesman said.
There was an altercation between the teens and then the 14-year-old girl pulled out an electronic device and used it on the younger teen, police said. The 13-year-old girl’s mom pulled out a razor and slashed the teen who’d attacked her daughter in the face.
The mom fled from the scene, but was later brought back to the school and arrested. She was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
The 14-year-old girl – who suffered what police described as a minor laceration – was also arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon and assault.
The student is in stable condition, a Department of Education spokeswoman said.
“NYPD and EMS immediately responded to this incident, which occurred outside of the building after dismissal,” she said. “We will work closely with the NYPD as they conduct a thorough investigation, and provide additional safety and counseling support to the school.”
White women called cops on man ‘gardening while black
A Michigan man claims three white women falsely accused him of various crimes for months to keep him away from a public park, in what he says is a case of “gardening while black.”
Marc Peeples, 33, says in a lawsuit filed last week that the trio repeatedly made bogus calls to the Detroit Police Department about him, throughout 2017 and early 2018, over a community garden he built in a park, the Detroit Metro Times reported.
The women — Deborah Nash, Martha Callahan and Callahan’s granddaughter Jennifer Morris — tried to get him “incarcerated or seriously injured by law enforcement,” because they wanted control of Hunt Park, according to the suit filed in Wayne County Third Circuit Court in Michigan.
They told cops that Peeples had stolen from homes near the park, threatened to burn down their homes across from the park and said he would kill them, according to the lawsuit.
Their claims resulted in him being charged with three counts of stalking but the case was dismissed.
Peeples and his attorney, Robert Burton-Harris, describe what happened as a case of “gardening while black,” according to NBC News.
In one incident, Nash called the cops to claim Peeples had a gun. When six officers arrived at the park, they found him raking leaves.
In another incident, Peeples was teaching a group of schoolchildren about gardening when Callahan allegedly called 911 and said he couldn’t be around kids because he was a convicted pedophile. He was arrested but never charged.
“I was arrested in front of children, and even after I was arrested my name was still being slandered, people were still saying things about me that wasn’t true,” Peeples said.
“I wanted to hold people accountable. I was locked up, I had to face trial, and I had to put my life back together.”
He is seeking $300,000 in damages.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/white-women-called-cops-on-man-gardening-while-black-suit/
Teen thought it would be ‘funny’ to spike stepfather’s drinks with cow tranquilizers
A Wisconsin teenager reportedly admitted putting cow tranquilizers in his stepfather’s energy drinks because he thought it would be funny.
Tyler Rabenhorst-Malone, 17, was charged with placing foreign objects in edibles and second-degree recklessly endangering safety, KTRK-TV reported, citing court documents.
The Town of Lima teen admitted to the crime because he thought it would be funny but told authorities he never meant to harm his stepfather in any way, according to the station.
His stepfather first went to the hospital in January 2018 with a droopy face and slurred speech among other symptoms, officials said.
The man told doctors he believed the symptoms came from drinking energy drinks, stress and lack of sleeping, the station reported.
When the same thing happened again, the man reportedly started to keep an eye on what he was drinking. The teen’s mother also told officials a box of oxytocin mixed with rompun — an ingredient used in veterinary medicine for sedation — vanished from their barn in April 2018, KTRK-TV reported, citing a court complaint.
The stepfather started to suspect his stepson was up to something and then found used syringes he believed Rabenhorst-Malone was using to put the sedative in his drink, according to the complaint.
Officials said liquid recovered from the man’s drinks tested positive for Xylazine — a drug used for tranquilizing large cattle, according to the New York Daily News. The syringes also reportedly tested positive for the same drug.
The teen is due in court March 18.
Man pleads guilty to killing wife, taking kids to dump her body
A Texas man pleaded guilty to killing his wife and then taking his kids on a road trip to dump her body, according to reports.
Jonathan Allee, 31, agreed to a plea deal Tuesday in Harris County Criminal Courthouse that would require he serve 35 years in prison for the 2016 murder, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Prosecutors allege the defendant beat and strangled his wife, 28-year-old Elizabeth Ferrell, before tossing her body in a waterway west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Her body was discovered with blunt force trauma to the head on April 23, 2016.
The prosecution team pointed to how Allee allegedly changed his story. He initially told investigators he saw his wife four days before her body was found, but then claimed he’d last seen her on April 21, 2016.
The couple’s 5-year-old daughter told police Allee took her and her baby sister on a road trip. Allee allegedly stopped the car at a point during the trip and got something from the trunk, according to the Houston Chronicle.
“God only knows how this will impact [their daughter] in the future when she figures out why he stopped on that bridge,” Ferrell’s cousin, Daphne Hesse, told the newspaper.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-wife-taking-kids-to-dump-her-body/
Photo Credit: Jonathan Allee and Elizabeth Ferrell Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office
Tamron Hall ‘Thrilled’ About Pregnancy at 48: ‘She Thought This Wasn’t in the Cards
Tamron Hall’s dream has finally come true — and the mom-to-be couldn’t be more excited.
After the former Today host surprised her social media followers by revealing she is 32 weeks pregnant on Monday, a source tells PEOPLE that Hall has been waiting for this moment for years.
“Tamron is absolutely thrilled. This is a long-held dream for her, and to be honest, for a very long time she thought this wasn’t in the cards for her,” the source says of Hall’s pregnancy news.
“This journey has been a long one, and there were a ton of ups and downs and she’s just so happy to finally be in a place to be able to share this news. This is truly the happiest time of her life.”
Hall, 48, first announced she and her husband, music executive Steven Greener, are expecting their first child together by sharing a video of herself dancing to “Baby Shark” and holding a related book in front of her belly.
She then took the book away and showed off her bump, singing and dancing along to the popular kids’ tune before telling the camera, “Surprise! Can you believe it? I’m about to be a mommy shark really soon!”
Hall followed up her big reveal by posting several photos on Instagram, sharing sweet moments between her and Greener as well as her alone posing to show off her baby belly.
“I’ve wanted to share this news for many months and now finally my doctor has said I am in a safe place, at 32 weeks, to share my joy with y’all. So, it’s clear a daytime talk show isn’t the only thing I’ve been trying to produce!” joked Hall, who wore a one-shoulder white gown for the first snapshot.
“There have been many tears, but today I embrace the smiles,” she continued. “My husband Steven and I are beyond excited! We’re in constant prayer, so if you pray, add us to your list; if you meditate, send calmness our way; and if you believe in luck, we’ll happily take that too.”
The mom-to-be had previously been open about her desires to start a family, sharing in a blog for Today that she wished she had “started the process” of having a child in her 20s.
“The question is, are you more of an adult, more of a woman, if you have a child? I believe, as a person who wants a child someday, I am no less able to want the best for children and the best for this world,” Hall wrote in a subsequent blog.
