NJ troopers arrest man and seize AK-47 during traffic stop
MERCER COUNTY, N.J. — A South Carolina man was arrested for having an AK-47 rifle and ammunition in his vehicle at a New Jersey traffic stop, state troopers said.
Police arrested 33-year-old Johnathan Lorick of Lexington, South Carolina. He was stopped on Saturday for a traffic violation going southbound on the New Jersey Turnpike in Mercer County.
Troopers discovered Lorick was under the influence and arrested him for a DWI. After further investigation, authorities found the fully loaded AK-47.
Loric was charged with unlawful possession of weapons, resisting arrest, aggravated assault, prohibited weapons and devices, obstruction, disorderly conduct and DWI.
The accused is being held in Mercer County Jail pending a bail hearing.
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Man arrested for botched castration inside his home
HIGHLANDS COUNTY, FL (WFTS) — Deputies in Highlands County have arrested a man for attempting to perform a castration inside his home.
Deputies were called to 74-year-old Gary Van Ryswyk’s home located on Orday Road in Sebring on Sunday, August 18.
When they arrived, Ryswyk told a deputy he had just performed a castration on a man and encountered major issues. Deputies found a victim on a bed, bleeding heavily, with a towel over his groin.
The victim was flown to a nearby hospital and is said to be stable.
During their investigation, deputies found two body parts in a pink container, presumed to have belonged to the victim.
Ryswyk had set up a room to look like a surgical center and had medical equipment and painkillers inside, according to a release.
A camera was also set up to record the procedure.
Van Ryswyk told deputies he had met the victim on the dark web on a site geared toward people who have a castration fetish.
In addition, Ryswyk told deputies he had tried to perform the procedure on the victim last week, but had to delay.
According to a release, Ryswyk told the victim that he had experience on animals and had even removed one of his own testicles in 2012.
He also said he had done a similar procedure on a man in a local motel a few years ago. It also did not end well, according to the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office.
Ryswyk was arrested Monday and charged with practicing medicine without a license resulting in bodily injury, a second-degree felony.
His bond was set at $250,000.
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Parents sues school officials they say used Sharpie to cover son’s new haircut
The parents of a middle school student are suing a Houston-area school district and school officials in federal court for allegedly coloring in his hair design earlier this year with a black permanent marker.
According to the lawsuit filed Sunday, officials at the Berry Miller Junior High in Pearland, Texas, claimed the design in the then-seventh grader’s haircut violated the Pearland Independent School District’s dress code policy.
The suit alleges, “They laughed as they took many minutes to color 13-year-old J.T’s scalp which took many days of scrubbing to come off.”
Lawsuit says incident came day after haircut
The lawsuit says Juelz Trice got a fade haircut April 16 and the next day when he was in the cafeteria for breakfast he was told by an assistant principal to go to the office.
The civil rights lawsuit names the then-assistant principal Tony Barcelona (since promoted to principal), discipline clerk Helen Day and teacher Jeanette Peterson as defendants as well as the school district.
CNN has reached out to the individuals named in the lawsuit and has not immediately heard back.
The boy, who is African-American, allegedly was given two options by the two administrators.
He could use a black Sharpie to color his scalp, the lawsuit says, or go to in-school suspension. Juelz didn’t want a suspension affecting his track team eligibility so he chose the permanent marker option, the lawsuit says.
The black Sharpie made the design line in Juelz’s hair more prominent, the complaint says.
Day took the marker from Juelz and began to blacken Juelz’s scalp, the court document says. Peterson — who, like the administrators, is identified in the court document as white — came into the office and was asked to use the marker on the boy’s scalp and did so, the lawsuit says.
Attorney says school district has done nothing but change policy
Randall Kallinen, attorney for the student’s parents Dante Trice and Angela Washington, said Tuesday that the school never tried to notify the family before coloring their son’s scalp.
The discipline clerk should have known better how children should be disciplined, he said.
The attorney says other than changing the dress code, the school district has done nothing to attempt to rectify the situation.
The current dress code says hair:
• Must be clean, neat and well groomed
• Distracting colors are not allowed.
• Mustaches, beards, or goatees are not allowed.
• Sideburns must be kept neatly trimmed and must not extend beyond ear level.
• Head coverings such as hats, caps, bandanas, or hair rollers are not allowed. (An exception will be made for religious headwear)
The district said when announcing changes in May that restrictions on hair styles and carvings have been removed
District says it has not seen lawsuit
Pearland ISD said it has not received formal notification of a lawsuit.
“Upon receipt, it will be reviewed by our legal counsel,” Tanya Dawson, a lawyer for the school district, said in a statement.
The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Texas, asks for compensatory and punitive damages and for the court to order that school district employees receive racial sensitivity training about certain haircuts.
Juelz began eighth grade at the school last week. Kallinen said he is dismayed Barcelona, Day and Peterson are still at the school.
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Woman breaks into bar, drinks until employees show up in the morning
It’s five o’clock somewhere.
A Kentucky woman was arrested for allegedly breaking into a closed bar and drinking there until employees showed up to open the watering hole in the morning, according to a report.
Donna Martin is accused to busting into the Slainte Public House in Georgetown, Ky., early Monday, Lex 18 reported.
Employees arriving shortly before 8 a.m. found Martin posted up at the bar, the outlet said.
The workers called police, who charged Martin with burglary and public intoxication.
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Florida man wildly swings sword at jogger in fight over trash
He’s Florida’s garbage guard.
An Oakland Park man attacked a jogger with a sword in an attempt to protect a plastic dump cart that had been thrown out in the trash, police said Monday.
The big stink started July 15 when the runner stumbled upon a pile of garbage in front of a house, and decided to grab the black heavy-duty wagon, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.
That’s when the rabble-rouser got upset — because he wanted the cart.
The two “exchanged words” but the jogger took the item anyway. When he got home, he realized the litter-lover had followed him, cops said.
Video shows the junk-diver unsheathing a sword and swinging it at the jogger.
But the runner isn’t thrown off — and ducks the blows while keeping a hold on the cart.
When he tells his attacker the fight is being filmed, the waste-watcher strides off, sword and sheath in hand.
Moments later, a woman who cops think knows the suspect, can be seen coming back and dragging the cart away, while flinging insults at the runner.
Police are asking for help finding the sword-swinger or the woman.
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Man gets life for drowning 3-year-old boy to make room in house for unborn child
An East Texas man who said he drowned the 3-year-old nephew of his girlfriend, whom he thought was pregnant, was sentenced to life in prison without parole, prosecutors said Monday.
Bobby Woods, 21, was convicted Friday of capital murder in the 2015 death of Mason Cuttler.
Investigators said Woods told police that his girlfriend Billie Jean Cuttler was pregnant and that he killed the boy because he wanted to make room in his home, which housed three families at the time.
A lawyer said Cuttler wasn’t pregnant.
Woods told police he pushed the toddler into a pond near Lufkin, 110 miles northeast of Houston, turned his back and let him drown.
His body was found Aug. 18, 2015, a day after he was reported missing. Cuttler pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in exchange for a 20-year prison sentence.
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Queens firefighter gives his baby girl a pedicure in adorable viral video
QUEENS — One of New York’s bravest has gone viral after sharing a precious moment with his baby daughter on social media.
Queens FDNY firefighter Jimmy Howell shared the adorable video on Instagram of himself giving his 9-month-old daughter Kensley a pedicure.
The doting dad called the father-daughter moment their “weekly spa talks,” in the Instagram caption, jokingly adding, “I’m charging her next week.”
“Oh man, I can tell you been crawling,” Howell says as his baby girl squeals and smiles back.
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Child with autism left alone by school bus at Bronx Public Library
THE BRONX — Surveillance video obtained by PIX11 shows an 8-year-old autistic child who is non-verbal being dropped off at the wrong bus stop and left alone for nearly an hour.
Jaiden Benjamin was dropped off on July 2, as he was on his way home from a summer program at PS 188 in the Bronx.
The bus matron who was in charge of his care just left him alone and confused at the Mosholu public library in The Bronx. There was no one at the library to pick up Jaiden.
Jaiden had been dropped off there before but since April that had not been Jaiden’s stop.
Surveillance video obtained by PIX11 shows the bus matron dropping off the child. You can see the library’s security guard try to stop her but she just leaves. Jaiden is left playing by himself in the corner of the room with no way to communicate he’s at the wrong stop.
“She went in, dropped him and left. That was it. I couldn’t believe it,” said Fatima El-Amin, Jaiden’s mom. “Anything could’ve happened to him.
“You know it takes five seconds for somebody to walk out with him. He would’ve went. He can’t talk. He can’t say ‘Hey, I’m Jaiden. Who are you?'”
Because her child is autistic and unable to communicate with strangers, Fatima has a GPS monitoring device called “AngelSense” which alerted her that Jaiden was at an unknown location and had been there for too long. She left work and arrived at the library.
“I’m thinking the bus is there. Waiting for me to come. So I get there… no bus”
In all, Jaiden was left alone in the library for nearly an hour.
“51 minutes of it I watched, 51 minutes I see my son in the library”
El-Amin confronted the bus matron who works for Pride Bus Corporation, based out of Brooklyn.
“I asked her and she said it wasn’t her fault”
The bus company, contracted by the city, said they’re investigating the matter.
Ultimately, it was the school that had placed Jaiden in the wrong bus. They told El-Amin they accidentally used an outdated document with the wrong drop off location.
“Students deserve a safe ride to and from school, and this troubling incident was immediately reported and is currently under investigation,” said the city’s Department of Education in a statement. “Drivers and attendants will complete two trial runs of their routes before the first day of school to ensure they are prepared for the school year.”
“If I didn’t have that device, I would’ve been lost,” said El-Amin. “There would’ve been no Jaiden. I would’ve sent out an Amber Alert.”
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Couple sues adoption agency claiming they weren’t told boy had sexual abuse history
Denver (KMGH) — An Indiana couple is suing a Centennial adoption agency claiming a teenage boy brought from China had an undisclosed history of sexual abuse that led to the rape of their two younger children.
The civil lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court of Colorado Tuesday against Chinese Children Adoption International (CCAI) on behalf of the couple and their two Chinese boys.
The couple are seeking compensation for damages and an injunction that requires CCAI to put in place protocols to prevent harm to families and their children, according to the lawsuit filed by attorneys from Saeed and Little LLP in Indianapolis.
The couple from Terre Haute, Indiana, began adopting Chinese children after their six children became adults, the lawsuit states, adopting a child identified as N in 2014 through Bethany Christian Services.
A year later, the couple adopted another Chinese boy, this time through CCAI. The Centennial-based agency told the couple the child was 12-years-old, when in fact, the orphan boy was at least 15 to 16 years old, the lawsuit states. The boy was identified as L in the civil lawsuit.
About a month after his adoption, the couple’s first boy began showing troubling signs, including a bloody stool, hair loss and a loss of appetite. The boy was always upset, crying and banging his head, court documents show.
In 2016, the couple adopted a third Chinese boy through CCAI, identified as J in the lawsuit. Shortly after joining the family, J would wake up screaming and crying, and N would run into his parents’ room to get in bed with them, the lawsuit states.
J would complain of pains in the buttocks, but the Indiana couple believed the pain was caused from several cigarette burns he had from being abused in a Chinese orphanage. Eventually, J developed viral warts around his anus, court records show.
The lawsuit states the couple discovered L’s alarm would go off every night at 3 a.m., when he would “rape his adoptive brothers.” The couple confronted the boy, who admitted to the rapes, the documents show.
Two months later after he arrived at his new home, L was then taken to a behavioral center in Indiana where he told his therapist he “still had strong sexual urges that he could not control and would abuse boys again if given the chance.” L was charged with two counts of sexual battery and sent to a Terre Haute, Indiana juvenile detention center, the lawsuit states.
L told his adoptive parents he had been raped and prostituted at the orphanage he was adopted from in China, according to the lawsuit, which further states that CAAI denied knowing L’s sexual history and that the Centennial-based adoption agency “was aware that Minor Child L was at least three to five years older than originally presented.”
“CCAI also knew or should have known that the orphanage Minor Child L was adopted from had a reputation for prostituting the children in its care to adults,” court documents read.
Experts from an Indiana counseling agency noted L had a long history of sexually abusing multiple children. L admitted that he was removed from foster care at the age of 5 or 6 for sexually acting out with another child and also admitted to being sexually active with children and adults while in China since the age of 11.
The child is currently under the custody of the State of Indiana, according to the lawsuit.
Further, it states the abuse of the couple’s children has taken an “extreme and financial toll on the family,” which forced the family to sell their house in Terre Haute, Indiana at a loss and move to Washington State “in order to help the children deal with the abuse they suffered.”
The lawsuit further states that because of this, the couple lost their health care business.
Both N and J were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as well as attachment disorder, the lawsuit reads, which has left both boys with feelings of rage, irritability, anxiety and sleep disturbances, according the lawsuit.
Court documents further state that CCAI failed to notify the adoptive parents that J had undergone a massive brain surgery at a Hong Kong hospital for a brain tumor that the woman was not told about.
Our partners at the Denver Post report Zhong, the adoption agency’s founder, earned a theological doctorate at the University of Denver in 1983 and formed CCAI in Denver in 1992.
CCAI has been ranked No. 1 by the China for Children’s Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA) program, the country’s highest authority for international adoption affairs, according to CCAI’s website.
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Man says bar patrons beat him after mistaking him for suspected child predator
CORONA, Calif. – Kevin Martin says he was just looking to play pool at a local bar in Norco, California, when a man mistook him for a child predator and beat him.
Martin, a 34-year-old private meteorologist from Corona, California, told CNN that the man approached him at the bar on Thursday, Aug. 15 and asked if they could speak outside. The man was visibly intoxicated, Martin said.
As the two headed outside, another man followed, took out a phone, and showed Martin a police sketch. Martin recognized the sketch. It was of a suspect from a May incident in which Corona police said a man with thick glasses, long hair, and a mustache made sexual comments to an 11-year-old girl.
“We don’t allow your kind in here,” the man said, according to Martin, once they were all outside. “I have a daughter and I would kill guys like you.”
Martin — who also has thick glasses, long hair, and a mustache — then argued with the man for 20 minutes, trying to convince him that he wasn’t the suspect, he said.
“I knew it was going to get bad,” Martin said Saturday.
Things got violent. Martin was punched and choked, tried to run away, and was beaten more, he said.
“I probably got 20 to 25 to blows back of the head. Four in the face, two in the jaw, and one in forehead,” Martin told CNN.
A group of about 15 people watched the beating, he said.
That’s when Martin pleaded: “If you keep punching me like this, you’re going to kill me.”
Two people came to his rescue before Riverside County sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene, Martin said.
Martin made a citizen’s arrest, according to a County of Riverside Sheriff’s Department Order of Arrest. He was issued a notice to appear in court on Nov. 6 to state his case.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department declined Sunday to provide CNN with details of the incident.
Martin says his followers told him about the suspect
Martin runs Southern California Weather Force, a weather alert system with more than 70,000 followers.
In May, when Corona police first alerted the public about the child annoyance suspect, 20 of Martin’s followers sent him messages saying he resembled the sketch, he said.
“They said, ‘Kevin, that looks exactly like you,'” Martin said. “I was going to brush it off, but the incident took place about a half-mile from my house.”
He called police, saying he was worried people would think he was the suspect. Two detectives came to his house and questioned him, he said.
“Our detectives interviewed him, and ruled him out as a suspect,” said Sgt. Chad Fountain, Corona police spokesman. “It’s unfortunate. We didn’t want anything to happen to Mr. Martin. We never named him as a suspect, so it’s unfortunate that this happened to him.”
The investigation is stagnant, and investigators are waiting for new information, Fountain said.
Martin did say he found it odd he was targeted almost three months later. He said he also hasn’t changed his appearance since getting a haircut in March.
“It was just me being at the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said. “I’m glad it did happen, so it doesn’t happen to anyone else.”
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