Police ask FL man to stop calling 911 about stolen weed
DADE CITY, F.L. — A Florida man repeatedly called 911 to report that his roommate had stolen his marijuana, according to police.
A deputy for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office posted a Twitter response to the man’s calls Saturday night: Stop calling.
Deputy Neal Zalva says in the Twitter video that he called the man back to tell him to quit contacting the sheriff’s office about his stolen marijuana. Zalva recorded the video as part of the agency’s #TweetAlong program, which allows viewers to get a behind-the-scenes look at the police work by the deputies.
Recreational marijuana use remains illegal in Florida.
A sheriff’s office spokesman says no charges were filed against the caller.
Sheriff’s office communications director Kevin Doll said Tuesday they just wanted the man to stop calling about the stolen weed.
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Man suspected of killing girlfriend, infant daughter told authorities God told him to kill
ABILENE, Texas — A man who told authorities that God told him to kill his girlfriend from Wisconsin and their infant daughter has been arrested in West Texas on two counts of capital murder.
Cody Edmund Dixon, 33, is accused in the slayings of 9-month-old Aria Ellen Dixon and 22-year-old Alia Rae Hutchison. A rancher found their bodies dumped outside his property near Baird, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) west of Dallas, early Saturday evening, said Rick Jowers, the Callahan County chief sheriff’s deputy.
Investigators believe the bodies had been there about an hour.
Police spotted Dixon’s vehicle in Baird, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the ranch. He leaped out of the vehicle and tried to run but a Baird officer shot him with a stun gun and a citizen tackled him, Jowers said.
Dixon, of nearby Abilene, told the arresting officers that someone who wanted to kill him was chasing him and that God had told him to kill Hutchison and the child, Jowers said.
Investigators believe the couple was on their way back to Wisconsin when Dixon attacked Hutchison and their daughter, Jowers aid. The deputy declined to say specifically whether Dixon may have used a weapon in the homicides but said investigators did recover a knife.
Hutchison graduated in 2015 from Waupun High School in Wisconsin, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. Her friend, Sadie Wilson-Ziegler, said in a Facebook exchange with The Associated Press on Monday that she worked with Hutchison at Richelieu Foods, a food processing company in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, several years ago. She said Hutchison moved from Wisconsin to Texas to be with Dixon. She believes the couple had been together for three or four years.
“She was a really sweet girl,” Wilson-Ziegler said. “She was so excited to have a baby with him. She loved being a mom. That poor girl … she deserved so much better.”
Dixon is also charged with assault of a peace officer and attempted escape. He was wanted separately on drug-related warrants from McCulloch and Callahan counties, and is being held on a $1.8 million bond, the Abilene Reporter-News reported.
Jowers said Dixon was appointed an attorney Monday but that he didn’t know the lawyer’s name.
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Neighbors aid woman living in car with 300 pet rats
SAN DIEGO, CA (KGTV) — North County residents have banded together to help a woman who was living in her van with hundreds of pet rats and nowhere to turn.
Locals were first alerted to the woman’s situation outside a Del Mar convenience store, where she works. Carla was recently living in her van with two pet rats after becoming homeless, neighbor Kimberly Jackson told 10News reporter Rachel Bianco.
The two rats had babies and the situation grew out of hand. The rodents eventually totaled more than 300. The animals chewed through the wiring of the van, rendering it inoperable.
“Everywhere, there was not one place in the van where they had not gotten into, the wiring, the engine, they came and went from the engine area,” San Diego Humane Society officer Danee Cook said. “She was extremely helpful during the entire process as well. She did love her pets, she just let it get out of hand and she became overwhelmed.”
Video of the rats scurrying across the van’s dashboard surfaced on NextDoor, catching the attention of neighbors like Jackson.
“She said, “are you here to ridicule me, like everybody else,” Jackson told 10News. “I saw what was going on in there, and said, ‘how can we help you?’ There were like 300 rats in that van.”
That’s when Jackson and other neighbors stepped in, helping Carla tow her van from the parking lot. The San Diego Humane Society then removed the rats, which are healthy and now up for adoption.
The acts of kindness have gone even further to help Carla.
Neighbors set up a GoFundMe account that has raised nearly $5,000 for Carla. Another neighbor donated a car. They’re also helping connect her to homelessness resources and housing.
“She’s just a gentle, gentle person, nobody knew she was homeless,” Jackson said. “She’s contributing to society and she fell on hard times. Everybody can use a little help now and then.”
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Girl critically injured after burning herself in Brooklyn school bathroom
BEDFORD-SUYVESANT, Brooklyn — A girl was critically injured at her Brooklyn school on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
Emergency medical services rushed to Uncommon Schools Excellence Girls Charter School Elementary Academy around 2:30 p.m. after the 9-year-old girl burned herself, an FDNY spokesperson said.
The girl was inside a bathroom in the school when she was hurt, an NYPD official said. She was conscious and alert when she was taken to a local hospital.
It’s not yet clear how the girl was burned.
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Wisconsin boy says man strapped him to chair in basement
SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) — An 8-year-old boy told authorities that a man who lives with him and his mother strapped him to a chair in the basement of their northeastern Wisconsin home, but that he escaped and sought help from strangers.
The boy told police he finally escaped on Saturday, Oct. 5, when he “could no longer take” the noise from mice in the basement vent and the pee he was sitting on because he wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom, according to the criminal complaint filed against 36-year-old Nathan Pogrant Monday. The boy sought help from strangers on a highway, according to authorities.
WLUK-TV reports he faces charges including false imprisonment and child abuse. The boy’s relationship to Pogrant is unclear. They live in Eland, Wisconsin.
Pogrant is held on $25,000 cash bond. No attorney is listed.
The boy managed to get out of a hooded jacket he was tied in, he told police, and untied a cord used to restrain him to a chair. It was modified with wooden and metal bars and straps, according to detectives.
The boy’s mother hasn’t been charged. She said she gave her son two peanut and butter jelly sandwiches, removed the locks on his legs the Friday before he escaped and told him “to go when it was safe.” She told police she was afraid Pogrant might hurt her.
The boy told investigators he put on snow pants, a coat and large shoes that didn’t fit him when he left the house early Saturday. One of the detectives observed the boy “was rather skinny and his rib bones could be seen.”
The boy told police that he urinated on himself after Pogrant left him tied to the chair for at least two nights and a day. He says Pogrant threatened to break his fingers if he took food.
The criminal complaint alleges the boy had been put in restraints in the basement since early September. The boy’s mother told police Pogrant threw the chair away a couple of days after the child escaped.
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She Saved a School From Her Armed Son, but Now She Faces Charges
An Indiana woman who called the police in December and told them that her 14-year-old son had threatened to shoot up his former school will face criminal charges if prosecutors have their way.
Prosecutors in Wayne County filed an affidavit Friday recommending six felony charges against the woman, Mary York, 43, in the episode, which ended when her son killed himself at David W. Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond, Indiana.
The police did not release the boy’s name because of his age.
Prosecutors said in the affidavit that York prematurely removed her son from a mental health facility; took him off prescription medication because he had said it made him feel weird; and failed to tell the police when he fired a handgun inside their home in October 2018, according to The Richmond Palladium-Item.
On Dec. 13, York called the police around 8:15 a.m. and told the dispatcher that her son had taken her boyfriend hostage at gunpoint and was threatening to shoot up Dennis Intermediate School, according to the police. The school serves grades 5 through 8.
York’s son was no longer a student at the school, but he had been bullied there in the past, she told the Indianapolis station WISH-TV in April.
When the boy arrived at the school, he was armed with a rifle, a pistol, ammunition, two bottles filled with gasoline, rags for Molotov cocktails and a handwritten plan of action, Capt. David Bursten, an officer with the Indiana State Police, said at a news conference in April.
Police officers were at the school when the boy entered the building by shooting a glass door, Bursten said.
The boy shot at officers from a stairwell inside the school while Nichole Vandervort, the school’s principal, monitored the situation through video security footage. Vandervort provided updates to police officers of the boy’s movements, Bursten said.
The boy fired his rifle six times at the officers and used the seventh and last round to take his own life. The boy had no other injuries, Bursten said.
The captain said there would have been more lives lost that morning if York hadn’t made the “gut-wrenching decision” to call law enforcement.
York told the Indianapolis station WXIN on Monday that she did not see any warning signs and she couldn’t believe that her son would do something like this.
“I tried everything I could to stop him,” she said.
The recommended charges against York are one count of dangerous control of a child for his possession of a firearm and five counts of neglecting a dependent, which are all felonies. She also faces one misdemeanor count of criminal recklessness, according to prosecutors.
York did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. It is unclear whether she has a lawyer.
York told WISH-TV in April that the guns belonged to her then-boyfriend and were locked away in the house. She said her son was depressed and anxious because he was bullied at Dennis Intermediate School.
He had been admitted to a mental health facility several months before the shooting, but the facility said “nothing was wrong” when it released him to her, she added.
“They’re blaming me and my son, but they need to be blaming the school system and this medical facility that let me take him out,” York said.
Medical records indicate that the boy said he heard voices that commanded him to kill students who bullied him, but there were no documented incidents of the boy being bullied in school records outlined in the affidavit, The Richmond Palladium-Item reported.
After investigating the incident, Bursten said there was no reason to believe the boy was targeting a specific person, and the police found that bullying was not relevant to the investigation. The boy intended to “cause maximum damage and harm,” he added.
David Snow, the mayor of Richmond, said at the April news conference that the community should keep talking about mental health, encouraging those with mental illness to seek help.
“It is so important as a community that we remove the stigma of mental health,” he said, “and to make mental health resources both available and affordable.”
York described her son as a really caring boy who liked go-karts and swimming.
“I can’t ever see him again now,” York told WISH-TV. “I just feel like everything was not done right. I feel like there’s so many people that failed him.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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Panera employee fired after revealing cheesy secret
A Panera Bread employee spilled the chain’s not-so-secret trade secret about its signature mac and cheese on TikTok. But the viral fame might’ve cost her the job.
In a quick clip filmed from behind the counter, TikTok user @briannaraelenee dips a frozen pack of Panera’s white cheddar mac & cheese into hot water, pulls it out and empties the steaming bag into a bowl before she serves it.
It’s not exactly a surprising reveal–how else would the chain make its creamy, dreamy mac-and-cheese that always tastes the same across more than 2,100 locations?
The clip earned nearly 950,000 likes on the app. But in another video, the user tearfully shared that she’d been fired from her job.
CNN reached out to a Twitter account linked to the TikTok user and is waiting to hear back.
A Panera spokesperson told CNN the company doesn’t comment on personnel matters but assured that the meals are shipped frozen so they can leave out certain preservatives that don’t meet the company’s clean standards.
“Mac and cheese is made off-site with our proprietary recipe developed by our chefs and using our sourced ingredients that meet our standards for our clean menu offerings,” the spokesperson said.
The item is prepared daily as it’s ordered, the spokesperson said. It’s available on grocery store shelves, too, for diners to devour at home, though that version doesn’t come frozen
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94-year-old Florida man charged with premeditated murder after shooting, killing wife because she had dementia
VENICE, Fla. – A 94-year-old man is charged with first-degree premeditated murder after shooting and killing his wife because she’d had dementia, according to the Venice Police Department.
Wayne Juhlin shot and killed his 80-year-old wife in their home on Aston Gardens Dr. Monday night, according to police.
Juhlin told police that “he intended on turning the gun on himself and taking his own life after killing his wife, but the gun malfunctioned.”
After the gun prevented him from carrying out his suicide, Juhlin eventually called 911 to reported that his wife was dead.
Juhlin was arrested and charged with first-degree premeditated murder. He is currently at the Sarasota County Jail.
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‘I like killing people’: Suspected ‘spree killer’ arrested in Florida
WINTER PARK, Fla. – A man suspected of slashing three people to death — two in Florida and one in Tennessee — was arrested in Winter Park, Florida, after barricading himself in a house for six hours, shooting at sheriff’s deputies and fighting a K-9 officer that found him hiding under a pool table, authorities said Tuesday.
The standoff and arrest Monday capped a multi-state manhunt for Stanley “Woo Woo” Mossburg, 35, who boasted that he’d killed more people, Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference.
Judd said he based that partly on comments Mossburg allegedly made to the housemate of the man and woman slain in Winter Park.
“Suspect Mossburg told our live victim, ‘I want to be a serial killer. I like killing people,'” Judd said. “Mossburg said the two victims in Winter Haven were number seven and eight, but his goal was to kill 11.”
Judd said investigators don’t have any evidence to support Mossburg’s claims. Only three deaths are linked to Mossburg, but investigators are intensely questioning him. Nobody has offered a motive for the violence.
“Stanley, without a doubt, is a spree killer,” Judd said. “We hope and pray there are no other victims; that he’s just bragging. We know that he killed three over two states and certainly he has the proclivity to kill others.”
Sheriff delivers a timeline
Mossburg is from Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he is well known to authorities, Judd said. He has more than 30 nonviolent, low- level charges in his background, a sheriff’s office news release said.
Authorities across the South started looking for him after a killing in Greeneville, Tennessee, about 70 miles from Knoxville.
Christopher Scott Short’s body was found October 2 outside Celebrity Coin Laundry, according to a news release from the Greeneville police department posted on Facebook. Mossburg was identified as the suspect and charged with murder, robbery and kidnapping.
The news release didn’t provide details about how Short died. Judd said he was slashed.
Mossburg stole Short’s truck and drove to Spartanburg, where his sister bought him a bus ticket to Orlando, Judd said. Short’s truck was found at a scrapyard in Spartanburg and Mossburg apparently stole another truck in Seffner, Florida, Judd said.
On October 11, Polk County authorities received information that Mossburg was pawning items in the area and started looking for him, Judd said. On Sunday, October 13, home security video captured Mossburg ringing a doorbell at a Winter Haven home on 16th Street, but the homeowner ordered him off the property, Judd said.
The manhunt for Mossburg intensified about 6 p.m. Monday.
That’s when a man called 911 to report someone had killed his two housemates and held him captive for about 14 hours inside the home the three shared, the news release said. The home was next to the house where Mossburg rang the doorbell.
‘He slashed and murdered both of these victims’
The caller said he came home from work around 10:30 p.m. Sunday to find Mossburg had killed his male housemate, leaving his body in the master bedroom, and tied his female housemate to a chair, but had not killed her yet, Judd said. Mossburg tied up the man, Judd said, and during the night killed the female housemate, Judd said.
“He slashed and murdered both of these victims,” Judd said.
Mossburg untied the third housemate because he’d cooperated, Judd said. Between noon and 1 p.m. Monday, Mossburg left the house in the female victim’s SUV, saying he’d return to “deal with the bodies,” and warned the man not to call police, Judd said.
At 6 p.m. the man ran to a neighbor’s and called 911, Judd said. Police warned residents to stay inside and beware an armed and dangerous suspect.
Police searching the neighborhood found the still-warm SUV nearby around 9 p.m. Shots were fired at officers from a house, SWAT teams arrived and a standoff of more than six hours began.
“From approximately 10:30 p.m. on Monday until 5:10 a.m. on Tuesday, the SWAT team members summoned Mossburg via a PA system, and inserted chemical agent into the house in an effort to get him to surrender,” the news release said.
“Not only did he refuse to surrender, he continued to shoot at the deputies. At 5:10 a.m., the SWAT mobile armored vehicle made entry into the garage, and deputies located Mossburg hiding under a pool table. A (Polk County Sheriff’s Office) K-9 apprehended Mossburg as he continued to refuse to surrender and fought with the dog.”
Deputies went inside the house and took Mossburg into custody. He was taken to the hospital to be treated for dog bites and booked into the Polk County Jail, the news release said. No deputies were reported being injured. The names of the Winter Haven victims have not been released.
The suspect’s first appearance in court is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday
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Fan-Made Trailer Imagines Aunt Viv’s Return To Bel-Air In ‘Auntie’
It took how many years for dark skin Aunt Viv to return to the big screen? How ever long, she made her way back.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has been the center of various fan-made movie plots with its most recent one gaining the attention of its star Will Smith. Now, another visionary is taking a chance at promoting a new take that centers on the original Aunt Vivian Banks.
According to Shadow And Act, the trailer is shot from the inspiration of Jordan Peele’s Us and Get Out, placing Aunt Viv as the central character who returns to Bel-Air, Los Angeles after a stint at a mental facility. Created by Bobby Huntley, Auntie takes a look at the aforementioned character’s life after their role has been recast.
“Our goal isn’t to pit the two real-life actresses against each,” Huntley said. “They both did an amazing job bringing that character to life in their own unique way. We love every actor and actress affiliated with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It’s just human nature to contrast and compare.
“For people to still debate over 25 years later is really a testament to their talents and longevity. We are just simply asking the question, ‘What If?'” Originally played by Janet Hubert, her role was later filled by Daphne Reid.
Upon Aunt Viv’s return home, she realizes her family has no idea who she is “and every evidence of her existence has been erased. She must find out who was behind the hostile takeover before it is too late to reclaim her family and her home,” the plot outlines.
Other storylines that are featured include Claire Kyle from My Wife and Kids, and Family Matters‘ Judy and Harriet Winslow.
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