Man says woman broke in, pet his dogs, got a drink and made herself at home
NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah – A Utah man came in from a long night to find an unexpected visitor had made herself at home inside of his apartment.
“I walked straight in and she was standing right here on the counter just looking at me,” Ryan Spurlock told KSTU as he re-enacted the bizarre encounter, opening his apartment door and looking to the island in the kitchen.
“I was looking right at her and a homeless girl was just looking right at me,” he continued.
That was the first thing Spurlock saw when he got back to his North Salt Lake apartment around 4 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
“It felt like a dream, honestly. Even when I laid down, it didn’t feel real,” Spurlock said.
The woman had placed her shoes neatly by the door and made herself at home.
“She went in my fridge, she opened a drink and she drank it, she sat on my couch,” said Spurlock. “She told me she lives here, I said, ‘No you don’t, this is my place.’”
Spurlock said the woman was even wearing his new clothes, “I noticed the bag was there and she was wearing them too,” he said.
Spurlock said the situation was confusing – he wasn’t sure if the woman was homeless, if she lived in the building, if she was on drugs or who she was. He didn’t know what to do, so he offered her some food as he began to question her.
“What are you doing? Where are you from? She wouldn’t tell me her name, she started laughing and I thought she was on drugs,” he said.
After his quick interrogation, Spurlock learned the intruder didn’t come for a beer or the couch … she came for his dogs.
“She came up here for one reason and it was the two dogs, she heard them, and she wanted to come up,” Spurlock said.
The woman did not harm his dogs but came up to pet them, even claiming to Spurlock she was their owner. Then his encounter with the stranger got took another turn.
“She asked if she could stay and I told her ‘No you’ve got to leave or I’m going to call the police,’” Spurlock said, mentioning he would not call the police so long as he could check her bag to ensure she did not steal anything.
In the end, the woman agreed to leave – but not through the front door, and Spurlock doesn’t live on the first floor. He said the mystery intruder jumped off his second story balcony.
“She started limping off and then she was fine and started running,” he said. “I called the cops and chased after her on the other side of the gas station.”
Police caught up with the woman at the gas station, but according to a video Spurlock recorded on his cellphone, they couldn’t get a straight answer either.
“Sit your a– down,” the officer said as the woman, who was sitting on the curb, tried to get up while he was asking her questions.
“This isn’t a joke. Are you on any drugs right now?” the officer asked. The woman shook her head, ‘no.’
“Are you sure?” he said, and the woman nodded. “What are you doing in this complex?” the officer asked just before the video ended.
Once she was in police custody, Spurlock said the officers found his clothes and another man’s wallet in her possession.
Spurlock does not know how the woman got inside his apartment but said he learned a valuable lesson about making sure the door is locked.
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Tennessee driver accused of killing ‘randomly chosen’ pregnant mother, 2-year-old
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – A Tennessee man faces murder charges after police say he deliberately mowed down a pregnant woman and her toddler son Monday, killing both, along with the woman’s unborn child.
William David Phillips, 33, of Jefferson City, has been charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, according to the Jefferson City Police Dept.
Police say Phillips chose his victims at random, first driving into a 61-year-old man named Tillman Gunter, then slamming into 30-year-old Sierra Wilson Cahoon and her son less than a mile away, according to WBIR. Cahoon, her unborn child and her son Nolan were found dead at the scene in Jefferson City, located about 30 miles northeast of Knoxville
“I ran up here, and I just saw the guy, he was trying to get out of the car and the lady and the baby in the stroller were next to the building,” witness Bill Ray Jones told WBIR, adding that he heard Phillips yelling that the “government told him to do it.”
Jefferson City police said a preliminary investigation found that it was “an intentional act of violence toward randomly chosen pedestrians.”
According to an arrest warrant obtained by WBIR, “a voice told (Phillips) that he needed to go kill the meth addicts so he began driving very fast,” and “the voice told him that the baby stroller had meth in it so he intentionally drove into” into the mother and her child.
Police arrested Phillips after finding his vehicle lodged in an ornamental fish store.
A GoFundMe page has been created for the family of the victims.
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IL man sentenced for taking nude photos of toddler
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – A 31-year-old Edwardsville man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Wednesday on child pornography charges.
According to court documents, Tyler Seibold pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment in March 2019 for production of child pornography.
Prosecutors said a joint investigation by the FBI and Illinois State Police’s Forensic Computer Crime Unit determined a computer with an IP address assigned to Seibold had downloaded multiple images and videos of child pornography several times between November 2017 and May 2018.
In June 2018, federal agents obtained a search warrant and went to Seibold’s home. They took several cellphones, computers, and other data storage devices. Authorities discovered self-produced photos of a nude 3-year-old girl.
Investigators learned Seibold knew the child and contacted the young girl’s parents. The child told her parents that Seibold exposed himself to her as well.
Following his prison term, Seibold must serve 10 years of supervised release and undergo sex offender treatment. He won’t be allowed to own or possess any cameras or visual recording devices. Any interaction with minor females will have to be supervised.
via: https://fox2now.com/2019/06/19/edwardsville-man-sentenced-for-taking-nude-photos-of-toddler/
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Uber Eats driver caught masturbating just after delivery
An Uber Eats delivery driver was allegedly caught masturbating inside his car by the New Jersey woman to whom he’d just delivered an order, authorities said Wednesday.
Vinicius Porto, 31, had just handed off a bag of grub to a 23-year-old customer around 4:45 p.m. June 13 when the hungry client noticed the bag was unstapled, according to the Hackensack Police Department.
When the woman rushed over to Porto’s Ford Explorer to question him about the opened bag, she allegedly saw him touching himself in the front seat, cops said.
The grossed-out but quick-thinking woman whipped out her cellphone and shot an incriminating video of Porto before he sped off, police said.
Cops tracked down the Newark man and slapped him with a summons for lewdness.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/06/19/uber-eats-driver-caught-masturbating-just-after-delivery/
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ESPN is done giving airtime to LaVar Ball
It appears the LaVar Ball show is coming to an end.
At least, for ESPN, that is.
The Ball patriarch won’t receive any more air time on any ESPN platform heading forward, according to The Athletic.
When asked if Ball would be used as an on-air guest, an on-the-record source, or will have any other use, an ESPN spokesperson said, “We have no plans moving forward.”
While his sons LaMelo and LiAngelo were playing overseas, then-ESPN reporter Jeff Goodman traveled to Lithuania to cover LaVar and the family. Nevertheless, LaVar abruptly cut off Goodman after he published a story containing comments LaVar made about then-Lakers coach Luke Walton. Goodman claimed all comments were made on the record.
Recently, LaVar created an awkward moment on ESPN’s “First Take.” Co-host Molly Qerim said she was “switching gears” to shift the discussion from LaMelo to Lonzo, to which Ball responded, “You can switch gears with me any day.”
“LaVar Ball’s comment to Molly Qerim Rose was completely inappropriate and we made him aware of that,” ESPN said in a statement.
Ball’s comment followed a track record of disrespecting female hosts. In 2017, he told Kristin Leahy to “stay in your lane” during a debate on FS1.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/06/19/espn-is-done-giving-airtime-to-lavar-ball/
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5-year-old boy accidentally fatally shoots himself
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (WTMJ) — Police are investigating a 5-year-old boy’s death on Milwaukee’s north side.
Just before 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, officers were called to a home on 45th St. A family member who did not want to go on camera says the 5-year-old found a gun in the couch and accidentally shot himself.
He died before help could arrive.
Police Chaplain Malcolm Hunt says it was the boyfriend’s gun, and he had left it there.
“According to the mother, she was sleeping and all of a sudden she heard a pop. She called her son and he didn’t answer,” Hunt said. “So she got up and went into the living room and seen him laying on the couch. She turned him over there was blood. He shot himself in the head.”
An autopsy will be conducted Wednesday.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/06/18/5-year-old-boy-accidentally-fatally-shoots-himself/
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Mom of boy with autism angered by school’s ‘Most Likely to Get Lost in a Crowd’ award
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – The mother of a Massachusetts middle school student with autism is speaking out after she says her son was called “Most Likely to Get Lost in a Crowd.”
Desiree Perez told WJAR the end-of-year award – a paper certificate apparently signed by several teachers, including her son Kelvin’s – felt “very wrong.”
“I found it disrespectful because she knows more than anybody that I struggle a lot with my son,” Perez said, adding that teachers shouldn’t label any child that way “because every kid struggles in school.”
Perez said she spoke with the principal and claims he asked her to “forgive this incident” since the teachers had already left for vacation and there wasn’t much he could do.
“This is a type of bullying by the teachers,” said Perez, who told WBSM Kelvin had been bullied by students on several occasions. “Now all of a sudden my son receives this award saying he’s always lost in a crowd, and that’s not right.”
New Bedford Public Schools said in a statement that an investigation is underway.
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Man who admitted to sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl sentenced to probation
GREENE COUNTY, Miss. – A Missouri man who admitted to sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl was given a sentence Friday of five years probation, according to the Springfield News-Leader.
Joseph Meili, 22, agreed to plead guilty to third-degree molestation as part of a plea deal reached in March. If he doesn’t violate the terms of the sentence, the conviction could be taken off his record, the paper reports.
Meili met the victim through the dating app MeetMe, according to court documents obtained by the Jefferson City News Tribune.
Police say the girl used her mother’s phone to give Meili her address in July of 2017, and Meili picked her up and drove her to his apartment in Springfield.
Investigators believe deputies and firefighters were searching for the girl near her home while Meili was sexually assaulting her. Meili dropped her off at her house where she was found that night, packing a bag to leave again, according to prosecutors.
The girl eventually told investigators she had fallen asleep at his apartment and, when she woke up, she thought something sexual had been done to her. The Springfield News-Leader reports that semen was found in her underwear and she later tested positive for chlamydia.
Meili’s attorney, Scott Pierson, argued in court that his client and been “essentially catfished” and felt terrible when he learned her true age.
Greene County Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Elizabeth Fax told Huffpost she doesn’t believe it’s possible he actually thought the girl was 18, saying, “To actually see her in person … he knew and just decided to go along with it.”
via: https://pix11.com/2019/06/19/missouri-man-who-molested-11-year-old-girl-sentenced-to-probation/
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Isis King Talks ‘When They See Us,’ Becoming Marci And Trans Visibility
In the Spring of 1989, a white female jogger was savagely beaten, sexually assaulted and left for dead in New York City’s Central Park. Before she introduced herself to the world as Trisha Meili, years later, she was known publicly under the protected alias as The Central Park Jogger. Ava DuVernay’s limited mini-series When They See Us, masterfully tells the real-life story of how five teenage black and Latino boys (Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana Jr., and Yusef Salaam) were wrongfully accused and convicted of the crime. The four-part series shows how the boys, aged 14-16, were handpicked by police and held in police custody (the majority of the time without an adult family member present) for over a two day period before the boys were coerced into videotaped confessions. Those confessions led to a media frenzy, sparking panic and outrage that would label them as The Central Park Five. In the court of public opinion, they were nothing more than a gang of hoodlums and received hate mail, death threats and ads in all major city newspapers where America’s current President called for the boys to be executed. Despite conflicting “confessions” and no physical evidence or DNA linking them to the crime scene, they were found guilty and went on to spend between 5-13 years in prison.
One of those young men was Korey Wise. Wise was 16 at the time of his arrest and was sent straight to Rikers Island, the most notorious maximum security prison in the country. The others were sent to juvenile detention centers until they aged out and were transferred to adult prisons. All five would be exonerated of the charges when the real perpetrator, Metis Reyes, felt compelled enough to confess to his crime after a chance encounter with Wise, who was still incarcerated. DNA evidence linked him solely to the crime scene and after a decade’s fight, the men were awarded a $41 million settlement as restitution from the City of New York to share between them.
While many are focusing on the amazing survival of the five men and the stellar performances of the actors who portrayed them in When They See Us, another character has also garnered a great deal of attention. Marci, Korey Wise’s sister. A trans woman, Marci is verbally and emotionally abused by her and Korey’s mother. Unlike their mother, Korey adores and accepts Marci and the two share a special bond with Marci acting as a second mother and source of support to him. Her life was tragically cut short during Korey’s time in prison –causing a major emotional breakdown for him in one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the series. Model and actress, Isis King, skillfully plays the role of Marci, tugging at viewers heartstrings as she steals each scene.
As a transwoman of color, King’s ability to transform into the role of Marci was effortless since she was able to pull from the unique personal experience the two shared. When speaking with King on her preparation for the film and the significance of a Marci in Korey’s life, King explained to STYLECASTER that with the perception of trans women historically being negative, it was time to showcase the opposite.
“I am honored that Ava included Marci because she didn’t have to,” King emphasizes. “For her to include Marci in the way that she did honored not just the relationship of the siblings but also sparks a larger conversation.”
When discussing the work she did to embody the character of Marci and understanding the relationship between the siblings, King explained that while she did not get a chance to actually speak with the real Korey Wise prior to working on the series, there was an ironic connection between herself the Wise family that she discovered after the film was released on Netflix.
“Outside of the script, I didn’t know anything about Marci but ironically, recently I received a DM from Marci’s younger sister,” she explained. “Before shooting, Ava told me that there was another Wise sibling who transitioned. Niecy Nash, who played our mother–her character was pregnant at the beginning of the series. She eventually had the baby, a boy. He later transitioned. I knew both of them from my time living in New York City shelters and hanging on the Pier. I was introduced to them through the ballroom scene. I actually knew the younger sister before she transitioned and we met way back in 2007. She reminded me of who she was and thanked me for doing a good job playing her sister. It was a full-circle moment for me. I got chills when her sister wrote me that message.”
When King was finally introduced to the real Korey Wise at the series wrap party, he praised her work and expressed his excitement that she was portraying his beloved sister. King knew how important her role was, but she had no idea that the character of Marci would impact audiences around the globe. “Marci’s life was cut short and it’s a potential reality that trans women face daily,” she said with conviction. “The way that people treat others just for being who they are is horrible. Right now in Dallas, there’s a string of murders and the victims are trans women of color. I think it shows a lot about the space of the black community. Because of the stigma of being a trans woman and the thought that all are sex workers, it seems as if we are easily discarded. We are sought after for that purpose–to harm.”
To combat this time of hate and violence, King says creating a safer and more accepting environment during childhood would spark the change needed. “We need to be taught at a young age to accept everyone and not reprimand children who are different,” she articulated. “Having that freedom allows them to have a safe haven in the house that will allow them to create safer spaces externally. It will eradicate the homelessness issue my community faces. The need to resort to sex work won’t be there any longer. It’s coming from the outside world, but it starts within our own communities. Opportunities are constantly denied to trans women but black people are upset when we are profiled or judged by the color of our skin by others, yet we turn our backs on our trans family. This is why Marci being a positive influence in Korey’s life is important to show.”
Though the character of Marci is loved, the LGBTQ and trans rights activist in King says more needs to be done and on a grander scale. “I knew the basic story of the men but was shocked to find out that Trump was involved in some way,” she exclaimed. “He was causing trouble then and is still causing trouble, especially for the LGBT community. More public figures need to step up and use their voice on our behalf and not just people within the community. More white people, more cis-gendered people, more politicians –everyone needs to align themselves and rid themselves of the fear of being ostracized for speaking out. Our white trans community needs to speak out because we are in this fight together or are supposed to be.”
Being out as a trans woman for the past 11 years since making her historical debut as the first trans woman to compete on America’s Next Top Model, King says though there has been progress –there is still a long way to go.“In communities of color, transitioning isn’t necessarily a topic of discussion, nor is it widely accepted,” she explained. “If you go even deeper within our community, specifically within the church, there are so many contradictions. Infidelity is forgiven, there’s mismanagement of money. You can do anything in the black church and get away with it except transition. There’s such a stigma attached to being transgender. However, showcasing who Marci was, humanized an entire community.”
Aside from being trans, King was able to relate to Marci in many other ways. “I’m the oldest child and so was Marci,” she said. “The oldest child has it the hardest and I truly believe Marci’s goal was to make it easy for Korey. She was his voice of reason, as I am for my little brothers. Marci was that positive influence of support in the home even once Korey was away. His devastating reaction to her death proves that.”
Although Korey and Marci shared such a close bond and she was such an important fixture in his life, King notes that with such a tough task of trying to cover the details related to the case for the boys, Marci could have easily been left out. “There’s always room for improvement,” she explained. “When I was on Top Model and starting out, it was so different. It was just me and Laverne (Cox) doing this. Cyberbullying was just starting and I wasn’t even accepted by the cis-women in the ANTM house. Even after the show, I received so many nasty comments and threats. But we have come far. Media is getting a little better. I like what POSE on FX is doing by providing the platform they are for the community.”
King is making it her mission to continue to add to the advancement of the transgender community by continuing to use her voice to make raise awareness to these issues.“It’s PRIDE month so I am extremely busy teaming up with organizations,” she boasted proudly. “If you follow my social media, you know I go in about LGBT rights and injustices of all kinds. And I won’t stop. One of my last posts on Twitter read: “Who would think casting a trans woman to play a trans woman would be groundbreaking?!”
“Often times, we have been left out of the conversation, but we are slowly but surely seeing more. The role of Marci happened and it’s sparking a conversation. It would be a disservice to not continue the conversation.”
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Youtube’s AR Beauty Let’s Viewers Try On Makeup
Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them. YouTube is now kicking that experience up a notch with the introduction of a new AR feature for virtual makeup try-on right from the YouTube app. Called AR Beauty Try-On, the feature is designed to be used in a split-screen experience while YouTube viewers watch the makeup tutorial.
When available, the YouTube makeup review or tutorial video plays at the top of the screen, with a stream from your own front-facing camera below. Here, a YouTube viewer could access a palate of colors — like new lipstick shades, for example — and tap to apply them to their own face while the video plays above.
The feature is currently in the very early stages of development — alpha testing — and is being offered to YouTube creators through Google’s in-house branded content program, FameBit. Through this program, brands are connected with YouTube influencers who market their products through paid sponsorships.
YouTube says it already tested AR Beauty Try-On with several beauty brands, and found that 30% of viewers chose to activate the experience when it was available in the YouTube iOS app. While that’s not a majority by any means, those who did try the feature were fairly engaged, spending more than 80 seconds trying on the virtual lipstick shades.
M·A·C Cosmetics is the first brand to launch an AR Beauty Try-On campaign, which includes the ability for the brand to see real-time results from the try-on activity.
AR Beauty Try-On is the latest of several AR initiatives from Google, including also the recent launch of AR in Google Search and updates to its developer platform ARCore.
However, Google is not the first to offer a virtual makeup try-on experience. Beyond the fun makeup filters in various social networking apps, there are a number of AR beauty apps offering a similar experience to YouTube’s AR Beauty Try-On, including YouCam Makeup, Sephora’s Virtual Artist, Ulta’s GLAMLab and others. L’Oréal also offers Live Try-On on its website, and partnered with Facebook last year to bring virtual makeup to the site. Target’s online Beauty Studio also offers virtual makeup across a number of brands and products.
The difference with YouTube’s AR Try-On is that it’s really more about offering an AR-powered ad campaign, not just a fun consumer product or a tool for on-site e-commerce conversions.
The AR ad format launch is one of several new ad products Google announced today.
The company is also introducing a new immersive display format called Swirl for the mobile web that lets consumers view products in a 360 format. Swirl allows for rotating a product, zooming in and out, or playing an animation.
The format is only available through Display and Video 360, says Google. Brands will be able to use a new editor on Google’s 3D platform Poly to create their Swirl display ads. If they already have 3D assets, they can build a Swirl ad using the 3D/Swirl component in Google Web Designer instead.
Perfume maker Guerlain is using Swirl for ads that animate to capture consumers’ attention.
Another new format in Display & Video 360 lets brands run their YouTube live stream content in display ads, which can also be built with Google Web Designer.
The new tools will be available to brands and advertisers this summer, Google says.
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