Mom brought her dead 5-year-old daughter to the ER and lied about a car crash
A Louisiana mother brought her dead daughter to a local emergency room and lied about a car accident, police say.
Jasmine Anderson, 24, of Alexandria, was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder in the death of Audrey Chelette, 5, the Alexandria Police Department said.
Early in the afternoon of July 17, Anderson brought the girl to a hospital, where doctors called police.
Anderson said she and her daughter had been in a crash that injured the child’s neck, a police report states.
Police said they found nothing to back up the story and the injury didn’t seem likely caused by a crash.
On Tuesday, detectives obtained a warrant to arrest Anderson and found her in Bunkie, about a 40-minute drive from her home in Alexandria.
Anderson is being held at Rapides Parish Detention Center on $500,000 bond.
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Woman charged with murder after premature twins, born with several drugs in systems, die
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman is facing multiple charges – including murder – in the deaths of her premature newborn twins, both of whom were born with multiple drugs in their systems.
According to WTVC, 29-year-old Tiffany Marie Roberts had gone in for check-ups prior to the twins’ birth and, on three different occasions, tested positive for cocaine, oxycodone, Roxicodone, methamphetamine and benzodiazepine usage while pregnant.
Sunday, the day of the babies’ births, Roberts reportedly admitted to taking ecstasy and immediately felt short of breath, prompting her to go to the hospital.
She gave birth to the twins who died at a children’s hospital two days later, nine hours apart.
Police were called to investigate and learned both infants tested positive for “several narcotics,” including cocaine, at the time of their birth.
Roberts was arrested and charged with viable fetus as victim, aggravated child abuse or neglect and first-degree murder.
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Plane passenger throws laptop at boyfriend for ‘looking at other women’
A crazed airplane passenger threw a laptop at her boyfriend’s head on a packed jet — enraged at him looking at other women.
A viral video watched more than 4 million times by Tuesday caught the expletive-filled fight between the couple as other American Airlines passengers pulled awkward faces trying to avoid the craziness.
“You want to try to f—ing look at other women, n—er? Nah, f–k you!” the unidentified woman screamed as their plane sat at the gate at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon.
“I wear the f—ing nuts, n—er,” she told her partner in the seat next to her, warning, “Watch ’til we f—ing get home.”
Even an air stewardess telling her to stop screaming because children were on the flight fails to stop her wild rant, with the woman replying, “Yeah, I know, I f—ing consoled the f—ing child.”
Telling her she was “out of control,” her partner — whom she calls “Memo” — finally has enough, accusing her of “assaulting” him as he gets up to leave the grounded plane, which only enrages the woman more.
“Oh, I’m assaulting you? F–k you!” she screams, hitting him as he gets out of his seat.
She then flings her laptop straight at him as he moves away down the aisle, hitting him once more as other passengers scream and gasp.
After running back to get a purse, she is warned by a male flight attendant that “you’re going to get charged with assault.”
“Fine, whatever,” she replies nonchalantly.
A rep for American confirmed the “dispute” on the flight from Miami to LA, saying, “Law enforcement was requested, and both passengers were removed from the aircraft.”
A rep for the Miami-Dade Police Department did not have a record of any arrests.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/23/plane-passenger-throws-laptop-at-boyfriend-for-looking-at-other-women/
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Woman wearing cat shirt arrested for trying to poison neighbor’s dog
She’s more of a cat person.
A Colorado woman wearing a cat-themed t-shirt was arrested for trying to poison her neighbor’s dog, according to reports.
Margaret Werker, 73, was convicted of felony animal cruelty earlier this month for throwing a poisonous substance over her neighbor’s fence and at his dog, Wrigley, according to The Gazette.
The act itself, which happened in April, was caught by her neighbor’s surveillance camera.
The neighbor alerted police and Werker was arrested in May, the report said.
It was later determined by investigators that the substance Werker threw was likely ground chicken dipped in antifreeze, according to police records obtained by 11 News.
The dog did not consume any of the chicken.
Werker pleaded guilty on July 9 and received a deferred sentence. She was ordered to pay a $250 fine to the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region.
In Werker’s booking photo, she wore a black t-shirt with a black and white cat in the center.
Authorities believe Werker may have been annoyed over Wrigley’s barking.
“There were some concerns with some complaints about a barking dog in that area,” HSPPR Assistant Director told the station.
“We weren’t really ever able to pinpoint down who it was coming from. But, we believe that’s where it stemmed from, a barking issue.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/22/woman-wearing-cat-shirt-arrested-for-trying-to-poison-neighbors-dog/
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Snow globes filled with $1M worth of meth found in Australia
Australian border security agents seized a $1 million shipment of liquid methamphetamine hidden inside 15 snow globes, the Australian Border Force said in a statement Tuesday.
The meth globes held picturesque winter scenes and more than 7 liters of the dangerous drug.
The sinister souvenirs were spotted by agents in Sydney after the package arrived from Canada.
Border agents suspected something was amiss with the shipment and subjected the liquid inside — which was of a dark amber hue — to a drug test that returned a positive result for methamphetamine.
The officers in Sydney said they had only recently invested in the technology used in the discovery.
“Our officers continue to prove, time and time again, that criminals who attempt to hide these substances in new and imaginative ways are wasting their time,” ABF regional commander Danielle Yannopoulos said.
“It doesn’t matter how clever you think your concealment is — we can find it,” she said.
There have been no arrests announced.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/07/23/snow-globes-filled-with-1m-worth-of-meth-found-in-australia/
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Coachella Valley Woman Arrested in Connection With Video Showing Children Smoking Weed
A Riverside County woman is in custody after allegedly being caught on video giving marijuana to young children, investigators said Monday.
Detectives began investigating 36-year-old Elaina Kabler of Desert Hot Springs after several people reported July 10 that disturbing video of the crime was circulating on social media, Desert Hot Springs police said in a news release.
Video obtained by KESQ in Palm Springs shows a child holding a pipe and holding a flame to it. What appears to be pot can be seen in the smoking device’s bowl.
“I have been through CPS (child protective services) 14 times,” a woman can be heard saying as what appears to be another child holds the pipe.
KESQ identifies Kabler as the children’s mother, and police told the station the children involved are about 12 and 6 years old.
Authorities served a search warrant in 66600 block of Third Street and took Kabler into custody last Wednesday, July 17.
She was arrested on suspicion of three counts of supplying marijuana to a child under 12 and three counts of child endangerment, official said.
Police Kabler’s bail is set at $50,000.
The suspect is scheduled to appear in court July 30, inmate records show.
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3 million people may lose food stamps with new Trump administration rule
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed tightening automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program, a change that could affect about 3.1 million people.
The Agriculture Department said the rule would close “a loophole” that enables people receiving only minimal benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to be eligible automatically for food stamps.
“For too long, this loophole has been used to effectively bypass important eligibility guidelines. Too often, states have misused this flexibility without restraint,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in a statement.
Under current law, states may confer eligibility for food stamps, officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, if they meet income and other requirements for TANF. USDA says 43 states have expanded that to include households that the agency says “barely participate” in TANF.
USDA said this has resulted in people receiving food stamps who don’t need it and wouldn’t qualify under regular program rules. It estimates that in 2020, 3.1 million food stamp recipients, or 8% of the total could be affected.
Under the proposal, to qualify for automatic eligibility, people would have to get at least $50 a month in benefits from TANF for a minimum of six months.
Perdue said the change is necessary for “preventing abuse of a critical safety net system.”
The rule is open for public comment for 60 days.
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Man racks up $25K in debt on mother-in-law’s credit cards, assumed she would ‘die soon’
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A Fayetteville man reportedly racked up more than $25,000 in debt after stealing his elderly mother-in-law’s credit cards.
Randy Phipps, 56, was arrested Monday and charged with elder abuse.
When confronted about the issue by the woman’s son, Phipps said he “assumed (she) would die soon and ran her cards up knowing he would not be responsible for the payments once she passed away,” according to an arrest report.
Phipps’ 86-year-old mother-in-law, who filed the report with Fayetteville police, said she had given her daughter financial power over her – but not access to her credit cards – according to the report.
She said the agreement was to have her daughter and Phipps pay her expenses with a bank card, but nothing else. Police describe the woman as being in poor health and being in and out of the hospital over the last six years.
The financial discrepancies came to light last year when she turned over financial power of attorney to her son. He found several checks made out to cash and a large amount of money missing from his mother’s credit card accounts.
Phipps was asked to pay back the money from the cards, which stood at $25,050 — not including interest on the cards — as of July.
Phipps was being held Tuesday at the Washington County Detention Center on a $1,500 bond.
He’s due in court August 23.
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Embattled Elementary School Principal Says She’s Being Fired Because She’s White, Sues To Get Reinstated – “reverse discrimination”
A former public elementary school principal in Michigan is suing her former school district after she says she was ousted for being white. The woman had been a principal at the school for five years.
Shannon Blick, 39, was placed on leave by Ann Arbor Public Schools in April. Her lawyers say she had a spotless record, and that she was pushed out to make room for a black assistant principal.
The district allegedly forced Blick out by first installing Taneia Giles as assistant principal and then pressuring Blick to leave her post so that Giles could take over her role, the lawsuit says.
The school district has said that it has not formally received a copy of Blick’s complaint and that it “does not comment on pending litigation or personnel matters,” according to the Detroit Free Press.
But when Blick was asked to be placed on administrative leave May 1, rumors of a far different nature were swirling around the school district. The district was investigating claims that a custodian at Lawton Elementary School, where Blick was principal at the time, had stolen $25,000 from the district through over-billing.
According to the Ann Arbor News, a local police lieutenant has confirmed that: “At this time, [Ann Arbor Police] do not have a report on file referencing over-billing at Lawton.”
Parents had initially been left in the dark as to why Blick was placed on leave when the sudden change was first announced. It wasn’t until Blick’s lawsuit that the district’s justification became public knowledge.
But according to Blick’s lawyers, that’s just a cover-up for what they see as “reverse discrimination” against Caucasian and non-minority staff members in the district.
“White people have rights,” William Tishkoff, Blick’s lawyer, told the Detroit Free Press. “So yeah, this is a reverse (discrimination) case. Right now, it’s very timely in terms of what’s happening in our country.”
Blick’s lawyers insist that this follows a pattern of discrimination that white administrators face within Ann Arbor Public Schools.
The lawsuit states that Blick’s treatment is consistent with long-running behavior by the district’s officers and its board of education, which has a “notoriety for inhibiting and stepping on the civil rights of Caucasian and non-minority administrators when African American and minority administrators covet Caucasian and non-minority administrators’ legitimately earned and obtained positions, seniority, pay, jobs or duties.”
The lawsuit, filed against the Ann Arbor Public School District, its board, Superintendent Jeanice Swift and other administrators, is seeking $5 million in damages and that Blick is reinstated in her role as principal of Lawton Elementary.
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North Carolina Reaches Settlement In Long Battle Over Bathrooms And Gender Identity
A federal judge in North Carolina has approved a consent decree that enshrines the right of transgender individuals to use bathrooms that match their gender identities in North Carolina public buildings.
The agreement was reached between senior state officials and the plaintiffs, led by a transgender man named Joaquin Carcaño. The judge said the parties agree that nothing in a controversial state law “can be construed by the Executive Branch Defendants to prevent transgender people from lawfully using public facilities in accordance with their gender identity.”
“After so many years of managing the anxiety of HB 2 and fighting so hard, I am relieved that we finally have a court order to protect transgender people from being punished under these laws,” said Carcaño.
The settlement also states that any outstanding legal claims against the state officials by the plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, are now dismissed.
“We are thrilled to obtain some clarity and relief for transgender North Carolinians who have been suffering under HB 2 and HB 142 for years. While this part of the court fight may be ending, so much urgent work remains as long as people who are LGBTQ are denied basic protections from violence and discrimination simply because of who they are,” said Irena Como, acting legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina.
Lawmakers passed the original “bathroom bill,” HB 2, in 2016 under Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. It required that public agencies clearly indicate that multiple occupancy restrooms, showers and changing areas in their buildings must be used according to the sex listed on a person’s birth certificate.
The bill drew intense backlash. That included pullouts from major businesses that, according to an estimate from The Associated Press, could have cost the state some $3.76 billion over the course of 12 years.
In 2017, the newly elected Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper repealed major portions of it with a new bill, HB 142.
However, as NPR has reported, the updated law remained controversial with rights advocates because it left state legislators in charge of policy on public restrooms. And like the preceding bill, it also blocked “local jurisdictions from passing anti-discrimination measures protecting LGBT people — but only until 2020, instead of indefinitely.”
Carcaño, the case’s lead plaintiff, said it “remains devastating” that local jurisdictions can’t implement such measures yet. “The fight for full justice will continue.”
The North Carolina General Assembly, which passed these bills, opposed the consent decree, according to a court filing. Cooper and several other senior state officials were in favor of the settlement, while the University of North Carolina and its president didn’t take a position.