Amazon driver busted after stealing dog from family’s yard
An Amazon delivery driver stole a family’s dog in Texas and then tried to sell the pooch online for as little as $70, authorities said.
Mycah Keyona Wade, 22, of Crowley, surrendered to deputies in Parker County on July 16 after Amanda and Anthony Phillips reported that their 2-year-old dachshund named RJ was stolen from their front yard in Brock over the July Fourth holiday weekend, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
Wade and her boyfriend were dropping off packages for the internet giant on July 5 when they spotted the pup. Wade hopped out of a van and grabbed the dog, Parker County Deputy Danie Huffman told the newspaper.
A landscaper working nearby pointed to the couple’s home when Wade asked who owned the dog, but she and her boyfriend left with the family pet instead of leaving him there, Hoffman said.
Wade and her boyfriend, who was not charged in the incident, allegedly were caught taking the dog on a neighbor’s doorbell security camera after RJ earlier had escaped from the couple’s home and run away.
Wade was working as a contract driver for Amazon at the time and has confessed to the theft. Both she and her boyfriend have since been fired, the Cleburne Times-Review reports.
“This does not reflect the high standards we have for delivery service partners,” Amazon told the newspaper in a statement. “We’re glad the customer has been reunited with their pet, and we have been in touch with them to make it right.”
Investigators said they found a Craigslist ad featuring the dog after the heartless theft.
“There was no contact information, but we’re pretty sure it was RJ that was for sale on Craigslist for $100,” Parker County sheriff’s property crimes investigator Ethan Stark told the Weatherford Democrat. “The ad immediately changed once I contacted the suspect.”
Stark declined to discuss the case when reached Monday, referring additional questions to Sheriff Larry Fowler, who did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
But Anthony Phillips told The Post that the asking price for RJ dropped to as little as $70 as Wade desperately tried to find a buyer.
“Within a couple hours of the ad going up, the price dropped to $70,” Phillips said Monday. “And then they took the post down.”
Phillips then got in touch with deputies who coordinated with Amazon, which helped them identify Wade and her boyfriend. RJ was reunited with the couple and the family’s other dachshund, Shorty, four days later on July 9.
The dog, meanwhile, has been doing well, feasting on a “big basket” of dog treats and rawhide bones sent by Amazon, Phillips said.
“I just hope they’ll learn from it and take a closer look at who they have delivering their packages and representing their company,” Phillips told The Post. “We’re now looking into getting a security system and I’m definitely going to get a fence around my property, as well as getting my dogs chipped.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/29/amazon-driver-busted-after-stealing-dog-from-familys-yard/
Photo Credit: Parker County Sheriff’s Office
Man tried to replace broken tail light with red sports drink
Police in Colorado said a man tried to replace his truck’s broken tail light with a red sports drink.
The Longmont Police Department posted a photo of the tail light to Facebook, acknowledging the man’s “ingenuity” while reminding everyone to avoid quick fixes like this one.
“Working tail lights prevent accidents,” the department wrote. “If your tail lights are broken, please get them repaired.”
An officer pulled over the unidentified man earlier this month. The driver avoided a traffic ticket after telling police he would get the light fixed. Sure enough, the officer saw the man at the repair shop later that day, according to the department’s Facebook post.
Colorado state law says vehicles must be equipped with rear stop lamps that are red or amber and are visible from at least 100 feet away in normal sunlight.
One Facebook user asked the department whether the red sports drink actually worked as a tail light.
The department responded: “It did not work like you would think it would. The color looked to be OK. The bigger question would be could you see it from 100 feet in normal sunlight? The guess is it wouldn’t be seen from 100’ due to the way the light would pass through the liquid.”
Still, several people applauded the man’s creative idea, while some sarcastically gave him an “A for imagination.”
“Thought it was ingenious,” one person wrote. “At least this person was trying!!! Thank you officers for all you do to keep us safe!!!”
Photo Credit: Longmont Police Department
Driver follows Google’s advice, slides off road – down the mountain
Denver, CO (KMGH ) — When mudslides closed I-70 on Friday near Glenwood Springs, drivers had a choice — they could wait for the highway to reopen or they could use their Google Maps app to find a detour.
Loni Nelsen opted for Google but had no clue what was in store.
“Google pulled up a route and said it was clear and feasible to get through,” he said.
So Nelsen proceeded down Four Mile Road from Glenwood to Sunlight Mountain Resort and continued on County Road 117 and turned onto Forest Road 800. He said three miles in, his SUV slid off the road.
“My truck was sitting about like this,” he said, holding his hand at a tilt. “Every time I tried to get back up on the road, my truck slid further down the mountain.”
Nelsen said that’s when he started to worry that another car might slide off and hit his.
“I was scared that it was going to roll down the mountain and I was going to get crumpled in it and trapped,” he explained. “I was nowhere near cell phone service.”
He said all he could think about was getting home to his wife and kids.
Nelsen told Denver7 there was a vehicle that pulled up behind him.
“The guy was like, ‘there is no way we’re going to get you out. If you’d like, I’m going to Silt. You can hitch a ride with me.’ So, I grabbed my keys and some water, and I jumped in his truck,” Nelson said.
He said they used four-wheel drive the rest of the way.
“At one point, we drove through two rivers,” he said. “One stream was gushing. It was maybe 15 to 20 feet wide, and water was running down there very rapidly. We had to drive through it to get down the mountain.”
When Nelsen went back to retrieve his Chevy Tahoe the following day, he noticed that several other cars had slid farther downhill than his.
He sent a picture of one of those cars.
“That vehicle missed the switchbacks completely,” he said. “You could see it. I didn’t get a picture of the trail, but you could see the trail where they just blazed straight down the mountain.”
“I really hope and pray that everybody made it out safely and that nobody wandered deeper in there, or is lost or stuck or starving,” he added.
The 28-year-old Rifle resident is not too happy with Google right now.
“After going down that road, Google’s full of it,” he said. “That (road) is… for people who have jacked-up Jeeps with 30-inch tires for mud bogging and off-roading.”
Denver7 reached out to Google to ask about Nelsen’s claims.
We received an email asking if the person flagged the issue using the “send feedback button” on Google Maps.
Google asked for a screenshot of the detour and said they would look into it.
Nelsen said he tried to provide feedback, but “the only thing on Google Maps to report is an unnamed road or a missing road that is not on their computer or website.”
He said, in his opinion, the app should inform users that the road is not meant for little four-door cars, it is intended for off-road vehicles with four-wheel drive.
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6-year-old boy shot and killed at California festival was a ‘happy kid’
(CNN) — The shooting death of 6-year-old Stephen Romero at a popular festival in Northern California stunned his family and neighbors.
Stephen’s father, Alberto Romero, told CNN affiliate the San Jose Mercury News newspaper that he was at home when his wife called to say she, her mother and their son had been shot at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival.
“I couldn’t believe what was happening, that what she was saying was a lie, maybe I was dreaming,” he said.
The dad went to a hospital to see his son.
“They told me he was in critical condition and that they were working on him,” he said. “Five minutes later they told me he was dead.”
When paternal grandmother Maribel Romero found out the boy had been shot, she went from hospital to hospital looking for him. Stephen was a happy kid, she said.
“This is really hard, there’s no words to describe (it),” she told CNN affiliate KRON of her grandson’s death. “I don’t think this is fair.”
Stephen was among the three people killed Sunday evening when a gunman sneaked into the festival and began firing. Twelve others were injured at what was supposed to be a family-friendly event. About 100,000 people attend the decades-old festival each year, previous records show.
And collectively, the event has helped raise “millions of dollars for local schools, charities and nonprofit organizations,” the festival’s website says.
Officers engaged the suspect within one minute, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said, and the suspect was shot and killed.
‘We need to know … there’s justice’
The boy’s mother was shot in the hand and in the stomach and is expected to survive, KRON reported.
“I just wish that they get the people who did it,” Maribel Romero said. “We need to know that they got this person and that there’s justice.”
Gilroy City Council member Fred M. Tovar told CNN early Monday he was saddened by the news of the child’s death.
“I pray that God will grant his family strength. My most sincere condolences. I will keep your family close in my thoughts and prayers in the coming weeks as you are going through the process of grieving,” he said in a statement.
Written by: By Christina Maxouris, CNN
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Romero family via CNN
Baby found dead in St. Louis home may have been in freezer for 2 decades
ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) – An infant was found dead in a freezer in South St. Louis Saturday.
Police said they were called to the home in the 6000 block of Magnolia just before 1 a.m. Sunday for a “suspicious death.”
While police have not released any further information, a St. Louis man told News 4 he was cleaning out the freezer at his mother’s home after she recently died.
The man tells News 4 he opened a box that had been in the freezer for as long as he could remember, at least 20 years, and found the baby wrapped in a pink blanket. He then called police.
An autopsy is being conducted to determine a cause of death.
Anyone with information is being urged to call the Homicide Division at 314-444-5371 or CrimeStoppers at 866-371-8477.
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Female captain ‘twerked’ to get razor from masturbating inmate
A female Rikers jail captain once suggestively twerked for a male prisoner as part of a creepy deal to get him to cough up a contraband razor, says a lawsuit charging a culture of cover-ups at the infamous lockup.
Former guard Manuel Carvalho Calvelos claims in his Manhattan federal lawsuit filed this month that he was fired for blowing the whistle on such seamy behavior — as well as rampant corruption.
“Manuel had a legal obligation to report the illegal activities and corruption he witnessed within the Department of Correction, and he took that duty seriously,” his lawyer, Phillips Hines, told The Post.
“Unfortunately, those at DOC that decided to terminate him do not.”
The plaintiff’s supervisors were intent on improving the embattled jail’s statistics, including involving assaults, as they silenced him, Calvelos’ suit says.
In the twerking incident in May 2017, a DOC captain danced for a masturbating inmate to get a razor in the prisoner’s possession, the suit alleges.
When Calvelos reported the incident to three supervisors, “The captains … smiled and dismissed Plaintiff without taking further action,” according to the suit.
The former corrections officer later reported three other guards for smuggling in contraband and planting it on inmates after assaults on employees — but the same trio of supervisors didn’t follow up on the allegations, according to the suit.
Days after reporting the illegal activity, Calvelos said he was written up for violating the uniform policy but that it was only in retaliation.
The suit also claims that when he was punched in the face by an inmate, nearly breaking his nose, in March 2017, Warden Clement Glenn and one of the three supervisors told him to “hold it down” and report it only as a use of force, not an assault.
Such allegations echo a city Department of Investigation report from April that found there was no way to track assaults on staff at the jail.
Calvelos worked at the Department of Corrections for nearly two years before being let go Jan. 5, 2018 — eight days before his position would be permanent — with the agency citing two use of force incidents.
He and his lawyer say his firing was in retaliation for his whistle-blowing.
A DOC spokesman told The Post that Calvelos’ “allegations do not in any way represent the hardworking New York City correction officers who come to work every day as part of a law-enforcement community dedicated to helping keep New Yorkers safe.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/28/female-captain-twerked-to-get-razor-from-masturbating-inmate-lawsuit/
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5-year-old credited with saving 13 from Chicago house fire
CHICAGO (AP) — A 5-year-old boy is being credited with saving 13 people from a Chicago house fire.
Residents say Jayden Espinosa awoke to smoke and flames just before 4 a.m. Saturday and alerted others to the danger.
Seven adults and six children who lived in the 2 1/2-story brick home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood were left homeless. No injuries were reported.
Nicole Peeples says that without the boy’s warning, “I don’t think we would have survived.”
Peeples says she smelled no smoke and “the fire alarms never went off. I’m so glad he was there.”
Fire officials are investigating the cause of the fire. Residents say the home was destroyed.
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Man Selling Bottled Water without License Placed in Chokehold by policed: “I Can’t Breathe”
Las Vegas police arrested a man for selling bottled water without a license as witnesses recorded.
A man selling cold bottled water to thirsty tourists on a triple-digit summer day in Las Vegas was placed in a chokehold by Las Vegas police who apparently were cracking down on unlicensed street vendors.
“I can’t breathe” the man wheezes as one cop tightens the chokehold around his neck. But the cop only tells him to “quit resisting.”
“Saying he is resisting won’t make him be resisting,” says a witness as the cops continues repeating the mindless phrase.
“We’re watching you.”
The man does not resist throughout the video but the cops continue to tell him not to resist.
“You’re the only one that committed a crime,” another witness tells the cops.
The video was posted to Facebook Friday with the following description:
This video is someone I know. Jimmy Williams was exercising his right to support himself and/or his family. He was selling water in Las Vegas on a hot day. Do you still think you are free? Do you still think Police are your friends? This is what promoters, water sellers, smut peddlers etc go through everyday on the Las Vegas Strip trying to make a living and trying to put smiles on peoples faces. You have the right to pursue happiness. Whatever that is do it as long as ye harm no one. The police are nothing but a domestic terrorist organization. More people need to wake up. Its not easy. Waking up is hard to do especially when you have been indoctrinated. Rebirth is relearning what you have been taught. Life is not butterflies and crayons. Its not going to be pretty. Its going to a long lonely road but I for one would rather die standing up than to comply. Tis better to burn out than it is to fade cause rust never sleeps.
“They need to train these guys,” one woman exclaims but the video shows they are doing exactly as they are trained. From the chokehold to the knee on the back, they are only trained in how to control people whether they need to be controlled or not.
The video ends with the handcuffed man laying face down in a puddle of water from his own cooler yelling out his phone number to notify his friends or family that he has been arrested.
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Tamar Braxton Defends BF David Adefeso’s Honor After Video Of The Couple At Nigerian Wedding Goes Viral
Tamar Braxton and her boyfriend, David Adefeso, are having the time of their lives while in Nigeria.
Via social media, Tamar shared a video where she looked stunning as she danced with David at a wedding.
Tamar penned this caption: “And y’all was all paranoid & had me looking for a wife and kids and shit????? ??♀️ just kidding my @david.adefeso is a dream come true and coming home was the BEST thing I’ve done in a long time I’m so honored to be apart of this spectacular family ???”
One person had this sweet comment: “He loved you through your pain. And it takes a real man to do this. Did you go get married lady?? ???? good to see you look so happy!”
Fans stepped out in force to defend David. One of them replied: “You said they allow their side chicks meet their parents! Lies!!! What’s the meaning of a side chick? A married man can never bring his side chicks home. Nigeria is a conservative country, and marriage to us is respected and honored. As a married woman, this I can tell you! We honor and respect marriages. Side chicks are hidden and not open. Girl!!!!! They kill me with that one!!!! You look like LOVE Tamar! Happy for you.
Another commenter stated: “Where did you read this? In your mind? And why would David marry before and take Tamar again? He is Harvard educated, richer than Tamar and a citizen of the United States. What would he want from Tamar if not love? Do you think you are watching 90 days fiancé? He is from a very wealthy home and a prince! Stop this nonsense. Simply beautiful!!!! So happy for You and David!!!! You both Deserve it!!!! ENJOY.”
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Dead Newborn Found in Bathroom of Applebee’s in Suburban Dallas
Police in suburban Dallas are investigating the death of a newborn, who investigators say was left in a trash can after being born inside a restaurant’s bathroom.
Irving police say the infant was found Friday afternoon inside the bathroom of an Applebee’s restaurant.
Investigators believe the baby was born in the bathroom and was then put in a trash can. Authorities haven’t said whether or not the baby could have been stillborn.
Police say the baby’s mother then left the restaurant and that they’re still looking for her.
The newborn’s body was found about 30 minutes after the mother left by restaurant employees who were cleaning the bathroom.
via: https://ktla.com/2019/07/27/dead-newborn-found-in-bathroom-of-applebees-in-suburban-dallas/
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