Teen caught shoplifting 30 minutes after walking out of jail for shoplifting
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. – A 19-year-old repeat shoplifting suspect has police shaking their heads. FOX 2 reported on his arrest two days ago, after a police chase and crash. Now he’s been arrested again, less than a mile from the police department, about 30 minutes after getting out of jail.
Police responded to a shoplifting call at the Macy’s at Chesterfield Mall. When officers arrived saw who the suspect was, they couldn’t believe it. It was Christopher Carter, 19, of St. Louis. He was still banged up from allegedly crashing in a stolen pickup a day earlier.
Carter was a passenger in the truck when it crashed through a fence and into a boat and camper at a storage business in the Chesterfield Valley, Monday afternoon, police said. He and three others were allegedly trying to get away after shoplifting from an outlet mall. The pickup had been stolen from Clayton earlier that morning.
“We got a call for stealing from the polo store at the Taubman Outlets,” said Sgt. Keith Rider of the Chesterfield Police Department. “When our officers approached the vehicle the suspects were in, the vehicle took off at a high rate of speed onto the levee trail. They ended up crashing. The subjects got out of the vehicle and ran.”
Carter was charged with municipal counts of stealing, resisting arrest, and marijuana possession, spent the night in jail, and was released around 1:15 pm the next afternoon, police said.
The shoplifting call at the mall came about a half-hour later; less than a mile from the police department; an estimated 27-minute walk. As far as police know, no one was there to pick up Carter when he got out of jail. They believe he walked there.
You’d think Carter would be the last person would find when responding to the shoplifting call.
“I would think so but you can’t make this stuff up,” Sgt. Rider said. “When our officers arrived they realized it was the same subject we just released just a little more than 30 minutes before.”
Carter now faces another count of misdemeanor stealing. He’s in the St. Louis county jail with a $500 bond pending an appearance in Chesterfield Municipal Court.
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Texas man showed friend his wife’s body in freezer before killing himself
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP /KMOV) — Investigators believe a 66-year-old Dallas-area man killed his estranged 24-year-old wife and stored her body in a freezer before taking his own life.
Arlington police on Monday located the bodies of Edward Rogers Jr. and Alyssa Marie Mejia Rogers in the house they once shared. An affidavit says a friend told police that Rogers on Sunday showed him the body in the freezer where he still lived.
The friend told police the retired machinist had confided in him about killing his wife, even grabbing the remains, smirking, and remarking that they were cold.
Police are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide. A medical examiner determined Rogers shot himself. Cause of the death was pending for the wife as police try to determine when she died.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports the couple met online — she was from the Philippines — and they married two years ago.
The couple was going through a divorce, according to a friend who told police he had seen a body, in the freezer at the house.
The discovery of the deaths did not surprise some people who knew 66-year-old Edward Rogers, who had a long history of violence, according to CBS11.
Roger’s latest marriage to 24-year-old Alyssa Marie Mejia Rogers was volatile and often violent, according to estranged family members.
Court records show Alyssa Rogers had a protective order against her husband. He was scheduled to be sentenced in August for assaulting her.
Estranged family said he had threatened to kill his young son and ex-mother in law.
And in 2006, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, for the death of a man where he was charged, with murder.
Police believe a baby the couple had together is with family overseas.
Arlington Police had been to the home several times, including a call for injury to a child.
Roger’s ex-wife and mother-in-law said he had another young son, who left the home last year, after repeated violent incidents.
Police had responded to disturbance calls at the home.
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Newborn baby abandoned on doorstep in sweltering heat
(Meredith/KYW/CNN) – Police are investigating someone abandoned an hours-old newborn on a porch in Pennsylvania in sweltering heat.
Terrell Phillips told CBS Philly he found the baby girl wrapped in a blanket Tuesday afternoon outside his neighbor’s home in Upper Darby — a Philadelphia suburb. Temperatures were in the mid-90s when he discovered the infant and subsequently called police.
“Once I came out and saw the white towel. I didn’t pay it no mind. But once I saw a little arm, I thought it was an animal or something like that,” said Phillips.
The baby girl is now resting at a hospital as police try to locate her parents, who could face criminal charges, according to CBS Philly.
Under Pennsylvania law, a child may be left in the care of a hospital or police officer without criminal liability, as long as the child is no older than 28 days and is unharmed.
Since rescuing the baby, the Ubber Darby Police Department has received numerous calls from people asking how to adopt the infant.
“I just want the best for that little girl, that’s all,” said Phillips.
Anyone with information can contact the police department at 610-734-7693.
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2 mothers working to stop gun violence shot, killed in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — Two women who worked with a group called Mothers Against Senseless Killings to try to stop gun violence in their South Side Chicago neighborhood were killed by bullets that police don’t believe were intended for them on the same corner where they would often hand out food and bring children to play.
The gunfire on Friday night was instead meant for a man who is affiliated with a Chicago street gang and recently got out of prison, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The 58-year-old man, who was struck in the arm in the shooting and whose name hasn’t been released, is not cooperating with police, Guglielmi said.
“We have no information to suggest they were the intended targets,” he said Tuesday, adding that police are still seeking leads in the case. No arrests have been made.
The deaths of 26-year-old Chantell Grant and 35-year-old Andrea Stoudemire in the Englewood neighborhood served as a grim reminder of the kind of violence that led them to join Mothers Against Senseless Killings. The anti-violence group launched five years ago following the shooting death of another young mother at the same corner.
“That’s why we’re out here seven days a week … trying to create a safe place where people can learn to be neighbors and not kill each other,” said the group’s founder, Tamar Manasseh.
She said she’s not willing to accept the notion that Grant, a mother of four, and Stoudemire, who had three children, were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“They killed mothers on a corner where mothers sit every day,” Manasseh said. “You don’t have mothers killed in a place that is sacred to mothers and not take that as a message.”
The drive-by shooting followed what has become a familiar pattern in Chicago, where more people are fatally shot than in any other city in the U.S. Though homicides have decreased in recent years and are on a pace to drop again this year, police statistics show there have been 281 in 2019 as of July 28. And during the weekend in which the two women died, 48 people were shot in the city, eight of them fatally.
A 23-year-old woman was shot in the leg, back and face on June 25 by someone in a black vehicle in the same block where Grant and Stoudemire were gunned down, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The woman survived, and police said there is no indication that shooting was connected to the one that killed the two mothers.
Grant and Stoudemire were found lying on the sidewalk after a spray of bullets came from inside a blue SUV, police said.
Manasseh said the women had been on the corner for hours Friday handing out food to other mothers and keeping watch over a vacant lot the group has turned into a play area for neighborhood children. She said Grant and Stoudemire had finished up for the day and had begun walking to a store to get food for themselves and their children when they were shot.
“They can’t even walk to the store without getting killed,” said Manasseh, her voice rising. “They were killed for parenting.”
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Mother accused of hitting 3 kids with hammer
ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) – A 28-year-old woman is accused hitting her three children with a hammer.
azmin Curry is charged with three counts of child abuse or neglect.
Police said she hit her three children, ages 8, 6 and 5 with a hammer. All three had bruises, scratches and redness. The 8-year-old suffered bruising on the eye, police said
The 8-year-old told officers that her mother grabbed and struck her arm. Police say the child suffered a broken arm.
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Little Caesars employee slapped over allegedly incorrect pizza toppings
This guy apparently really wanted Parmesan cheese on his pizza.
Security camera footage shows a customer at a Little Caesars in Michigan slapping an employee of the restaurant after he received a pizza that wasn’t made correctly.
The Livonia Police Department posted footage of the assault to Facebook. According to the post, the incident occurred on July 9th. The suspect is shown dropping a pizza box onto the counter, before getting into an animated argument with an employee.
He then slaps the woman before leaving the store.
According to the police, another employee followed the man outside and photographed his license plate number. They then notified the authorities, who were able to use the information to track down the suspect.
Joseph Thorpe was arrested on misdemeanor assault and battery charges.
Thorpe was angry because his pizza had been made with Italian seasoning instead of parmesan cheese, Detroit Free Press reports. The woman working at the register reportedly attempted to refund his money and offered him a new pizza.
Apparently that wasn’t enough to calm down Thorpe.
The Livonia Police Department stated on its Facebook page that the man was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery. He reportedly pled guilty on July 26 and was sentenced to 20 days in jail. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $750.
via: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/little-caesars-employee-slapped-toppings
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Mississippi man David Logan beaten by cops during traffic stop
An African American man was beaten to a bloody pulp by white Mississippi law enforcement officers during a traffic stop this month, the man’s attorney has claimed.
But a sheriff defended the officers, saying that 28-year-old David Logan resisted arrest and that his account of what unfolded is “not even close to what happened.”
Logan’s attorney, Carlos Moore, shared a disturbing photo of Logan on Monday that showed his shirtless client with his hands behind his back, a swollen left eye and blood streaming down his face onto his chest.
Moore claimed that during the July 18 incident in northern Mississippi’s Yalobusha County, officers tased an unarmed Logan and beat him.
“They roughed him up to the extent that he was out of his clothes,” said Moore, who added that Logan had to be treated at two hospitals for a broken bone near one eye and was left with double vision and sleeping problems from the incident.
Moore told the Oxford Eagle that the officers “attacked [Logan], threw him on concrete pavement, tased him, roughed him up real bad.”
The attorney also alleged to the news outlet that even after Logan was placed in handcuffs, his client was punched in the face and hit over the eye with a flashlight several times.
Moore claimed that during the incident, Logan walked away from officers at a police roadblock and did not run.
In an interview Monday with the Associated Press, Yalobusha County Sheriff Lance Humphreys confirmed the officers involved were white but denied Moore’s claims.
According to Humphreys, officers from the sheriff’s department, the Water Valley Police Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics were checking driver’s licenses at a roadblock when they pulled Logan over.
Humphreys said officers reported that when Logan got out of the vehicle, he ran toward them twice.
“He lowered his shoulder and tried to go through them,” Humphreys said.
The sheriff said the officers used a stun gun on Logan and arrested him but did not beat him.
According to the AP, one officer involved injured his knee during the incident and will have to have surgery, while another suffered injuries to leg ligaments.
Logan ultimately was charged with possession of ecstasy, two counts of assault on an officer, one count of resisting arrest and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Since Logan was hospitalized, he did not have to post bond.
None of the officers involved in the incident have been placed on leave and a grand jury will consider whether to indict Logan, Humphreys said.
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‘Death-obsessed’ frat bro pushed five people to kill themselves
A death-obsessed Missouri frat-bro gave five of his peers “advice on how to commit suicide” — and manipulated them into killing themselves, claims a new lawsuit filed by parents of two of the students.
Brandon Grossheim, a member of Truman State University’s Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity, considered himself a “superhero” named “Peacemaker” and allegedly gave other students detailed instructions on how to “deal with their depression” and “do their own free will,” according to the wrongful death suit filed Wednesday.
All five of the students, who died during the 2016-17 school year, were friends with Grossman, says the suit, filed in Circuit Court of Adair County, Missouri, and reported by The Kansas City Star.
The suit names two of the alleged victims, both who died by hanging, Alexander David Mullins, who was found in his room at the frat house and Joshua Michael Thomas, who was found in a storage closet.
Grossheim was also linked to the suicides of three others, John Doe 1, another frat member, John Doe 2, who socialized with the others but was not a student at Truman State and a woman referred to as Jane Doe, whose death is still under investigation.
No charges have been filed in any of the deaths.
Attorney Nicole Gorovsky told the paper that Grossheim’s “psychological manipulation” contributed to the suicides.
A Kirksville Police investigation into the unusual spate of suicides — the town has 17,000 residents and the university just 7,000 students — found that Grossheim had access to all five students, including keys to their rooms or apartments, Gorovsky said.
He was the last person to talk to each of them before their deaths.
Frat brothers told police Grossheim “had a known fascination with death, wore the clothing of one of the suicide victims after his death” and “began dating Doe 1’s girlfriend shortly after his death, according to the lawsuit.
The suit, which also names Truman State University and the fraternity, says the school knew Mullins and Thomas struggled with depression and “were vulnerable” but still allowed “a suspicious fraternity brother to be alone and have unfettered access” to them.
“This tragedy was preventable,” Gorovsky said. “This situation had been swept under the rug.”
Grossheim now lives in Alton, Illinois and didn’t graduate from the university though “he was not kicked out,” Gorovsky said.
The parents, Melissa Bottorff-Arey and Suzanne and Michael Thomas, are seeking monetary compensation to be determined by a jury.
The claims detailed in the lawsuit are reminiscent of the high-profile suicide-by-text case of Michelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter last year for pressuring her boyfriend Conrad Roy II,18, to kill himself via texts in 2014.
Carter, 22, is currently serving a 15-month prison sentence.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/08/01/death-obsessed-frat-bro-pushed-five-people-to-kill-themselves-lawsuit/
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10-year-old girl crashes mom’s SUV while driving herself to McDonald’s
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police say a 10-year-old girl went to the hospital Wednesday morning after she crashed her mom’s SUV into a minivan and electrical box while trying to go to McDonald’s.
Officers were called to 12th and Olive around 7:45 a.m. to the two-vehicle wreck and were surprised to learn that one of the drivers was the 10-year-old girl, WDAF reports.
KCPD learned that when the girl woke up Wednesday morning, she wanted to get McDonald’s to eat. Her mother was still sleeping, so the girl took the family’s Chevy Tahoe herself. She drove a couple of miles before getting lost.
She attempted to turn at 12th and Olive, but since she was an unlicensed 10-year-old, she failed to yield to the driver of a Honda coming in the opposite direction.
Police said both vehicles sustained heavy damage. The girl was taken to the hospital with minor injuries before reaching the restaurant, police say.
The other driver was not injured.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/07/31/10-year-old-girl-crashes-moms-suv-while-driving-herself-to-mcdonalds/
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Nail salon employee accused of molesting 5-year-old boy as his mom got a manicure
Mesa, AZ (KNXV ) — An employee at a nail salon in Mesa is accused of molesting a 5-year-old boy Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened around 2 p.m. at Premier Nails & Spa near Ellsworth and Baseline roads.
According to police records, the boy’s mother had just finished getting her nails done when her son went to use the restroom.
As the boy was leaving the restroom, the suspect, 57-year-old Minh Hoa Truong, reached out and grabbed the boy and pulled him close to his body.
According to the report, the boy’s mother told police she thought Truong was being playful until she saw him putting his hand down the boy’s shorts. The boy’s mother went and immediately pulled her son away and called police.
When officers arrived on scene, they reviewed security camera footage which corroborated the woman’s story. The video shows Truong trying to pull the boy’s shorts down and then putting his hands inside. Video shows the boy squirming and then dropping to the floor to get away. When the boy’s mom approaches, Truong is seen removing his hand from inside the boy’s clothes.
During an interview with police, the boy told officers he tried to get away from Truong, but he grabbed his arm, stuck his hand inside his shorts, touched his genitals and “was moving it.”
Truong told police he worked at the shop and the “girl” came up to him and said “hi” and that’s when he pulled “her” and played with “her.” He then told police he wanted an attorney.
Troung is facing multiple charges including molestation of a child.
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