DoorDash delivery driver accused of sending disturbing texts to teenage boy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) – A Sacramento County mother has a warning for parents after a DoorDash delivery driver sent disturbing messages to her teenage son.
“I was terrified. I know that I’m not there at the moment. I can’t go out and handle this guy myself, so my son is in real danger,” said the mother, who asked KTXL to protect her identity.
Her teenage son ordered Wendy’s off of DoorDash Sunday evening when he was home alone.
After dropping off the food, the driver kept messaging him, first asking the teenager if he lived alone.
“And so he’s screenshotting (the messages) as he’s getting them and sending them to me, and I’m eating my words. I’m like, oh my God, there’s no way. This has got to be a joke,” the mother told KTXL.
The driver went on to ask the boy to come with him on his deliveries before offering to take him to a hotel.
“When he came out with the ‘let me take you to a hotel,’ I lost it,” the boy’s mother said. “Why do you need my son, a minor, at a hotel for 40 minutes? I can’t even think about what his intentions were.”
The mother had her friend pick up her son and the driver was waiting outside. That’s when they called the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.
But since no crime was committed, deputies said there was not much they could do.
DoorDash said it has taken action, saying:
We take the safety of our community extremely seriously and do not tolerate any form of inappropriate behavior. We have since taken action, including permanently deactivating the Dasher from our platform for failing to follow our code of conduct, and we are working with the customer to rectify the situation.
DoorDash is for people 18 and older, so the company also canceled the teenager’s account.
The mother said she just worries the driver may sign up for another delivery service.
“I would not be surprised if he’s already done this before,” she said. “Really grateful that my son knew better.”
She said she was also trying to get the driver’s name so she can file a restraining order but DoorDash would not release it without a criminal investigation and, again, police said no crime was committed.
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Bus driver accused of drinking beer while driving students to school
A school bus driver in Illinois has been arrested after, police say, she was caught on video drinking beer while picking up elementary school students.
Michelle Passley, 44, was arrested and charged with two Class A Misdemeanor counts of Endangering the Life/Health of a child, according to a release from the Aurora Police Department.
Earlier this month, Passley “purchased beer at a convenience store and drank it while picking up students during a morning bus route in Aurora,” according to the release.
The store clerk notified East Aurora School District 131 officials after selling two cans of beer to a woman and then watched her get onto a school bus and drive away, according to the release.
Aurora police later reviewed the convenience store and bus surveillance video and watched the driver purchase the beer, return to the bus and place a beer can into a brown paper bag and drink from it while driving numerous elementary school children on the bus, the release said.
In total, 32 children were observed on the bus while Passley drank two cans of beer, police said in the release.
After officials at Passley’s employer, First Student bus company reviewed the video, they contacted Aurora police and fired Passley, police said. First Student did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
In a statement to the Chicago Tribune, bus company officials said it has zero tolerance for employees whose actions put others at risk, and that “Behavior such as this is completely unacceptable and at odds with what we stand for as a company.”
Passley was arrested Monday evening and released on a $100 bond. She is due back in court in Aurora on December 27.
The Aurora Police Department has also contacted the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office to review Passley’s commercial driver’s license.
CNN has not been able to confirm if Passley has attorney representation.
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Dylan Twitty fatally shot by pal who dumped body near bus stop, children getting off bus discovered the body
A South Carolina fifth-grader was accidentally shot by a 10-year-old pal, who then dumped his friend’s body near a school bus stop, authorities said.
Children getting off a bus found the victim’s body.
The victim, Dylan Twitty, a pupil at Erwin Elementary School, was playing at a young male friend’s home in Coastal Way when the 9mm pistol mistakenly discharged, news station WBTV reported Monday.
The boys were home alone when the friend took out the weapon kept hidden under a mattress by another household member, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.
“The boys were playing in the living room of the home, and the pistol discharged one time while the child who lived in the home was handling it,” authorities said. “The victim was struck and was immediately incapacitated.”
Deputies said the friend then carried Dylan out of the house and left his body on the ground.
Dylan was brought to the Medical University of South Carolina-Lancaster Medical Center, where he died, WBTV reported.
The friend’s parent, whose name wasn’t released, was charged with unlawful neglect of a child in connection with the Nov. 15 incident, authorities said.
Local Sheriff Barry Faile said authorities are working to determine whether Dylan’s friend will face charges in the case.
“This was a heartbreaking and tragic loss for the family of this 10-year-old victim, and everybody who knows about this case including all the officers who have and continue to work on it have been affected by what happened,” Faile said in a statement. “Although we are confident in the basic facts of this incident, this is an ongoing investigation.”
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Arizona man jailed for stealing another man’s burrito
An Arizona man is stuck behind bars on felony robbery charges — for stealing another man’s burrito, according to court documents.
Timothy Bell, 29, allegedly threatened someone in the street in Phoenix and took “a burrito, of a value less than $1,000,” according to the charging documents obtained by KPHO.
Bell, who was listed as homeless, took the burrito “by force” while making “threatening statements,” the Maricopa County documents say.
He was busted red-handed with the “wrapper from burrito he stole” when cops stopped him after his alleged victim followed him, the documents on his Nov. 16 arrest say.
Bell was fingerprinted and booked into Maricopa County jail without bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned next Friday, records show.
Bell’s rap sheet includes two separate state prison terms and convictions for weapons possession, disorderly conduct, trespassing, and narcotics possession, according to The Smoking Gun.
He is currently on probation in connection with a 2015 conviction for misconduct involving weapons, a felony for which he served nearly three years in custody, the website said.
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Hunter Biden suspected of smoking crack in DC strip club’s VIP room
Hunter Biden was suspected of smoking crack inside a strip club where he dropped “thousands of dollars” during multiple visits — at the same time he held a seat on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural-gas company, The Post has learned.
The incident, which took place at Archibald’s Gentlemen’s Club in Washington, DC, late last year, represents the most recent alleged drug use by Biden, 49, who has acknowledged six stints in rehab for alcoholism and addiction that included a crack binge in 2016.
Workers at Archibald’s, located about three blocks north of the White House, said Biden was a regular there, with two bartenders and a security worker all instantly recognizing his photo and one worker identifying him by name.
Security worker Ranko Petrovic said Biden — the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic front-runner to challenge President Trump next year — would routinely hole up in a VIP room and drink during his visits.
Although Petrovic said the club “had no issue with him,” former Archibald’s managing partner James Ritter said one occasion in late 2018 was marred by a “suspicion of drug use.”
“There was a smell of burning Styrofoam in the VIP room. We told him nothing illegal can go on here,” Ritter said.
“We didn’t see anything illegal. After he was spoken to, the smell stopped.”
“VIP employees suspected it was crack,” he added.
Hunter spent “thousands and thousands of dollars in the Archibald’s VIP rooms,” and paid his bills with “credit cards that didn’t have his name on it.”
The club generally required customers to use credit cards that matched official IDs, but “Hunter was a bit of an exception,” Ritter said.
“Whenever he was in town he came in for two days in a row, disappeared and come back a month later,” Ritter said.
Archibald’s current owner, Dan Harris, didn’t return an email seeking comment.
At the time of the incident, Hunter was a board member of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma, which reportedly paid him as much as $50,000 a month.
That job lies at the heart of the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump, with Democrats alleging that the president withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine in a bid to force an investigation into corruption allegations against Hunter and his dad.
Trump has denied any quid pro quo.
Hunter joined the Burisma board in April 2014 but declined the company’s offer to serve another term in May due to the controversy surrounding his membership, according to a July 1 profile by the New Yorker.
In an interview with ABC News last month, Hunter denied a suggestion that he wasn’t qualified because he “didn’t have any extensive knowledge about natural gas or Ukraine.”
“No, but I think I had as much knowledge as anybody else who was on the board — if not more,” he said.
Hunter — who’s currently embroiled in a paternity scandal with an Arkansas woman, Lunden Alexis Roberts — also conceded that being the son of the then-vice president “of course” played a role in his selection.
Hunter has never detailed the extent of the work he did for Burisma, although the New Yorker report said he attended board meetings and energy forums in Europe “once or twice a year.”
The magazine’s 11,000-word-plus profile was based on a series of warts-and-all interviews in which Hunter detailed a fall 2016 drug binge in Los Angeles, where he repeatedly bought crack at a homeless encampment while going without sleep for several days.
On Oct. 28, 2016, he checked into rehab at the Grace Grove Lifestyle Center in Sedona, Ariz., but left after only a week and headed to the nearby Mii Amo resort spa.
Hunter was joined there by former sister-in-law Hallie Biden — widow of his older brother, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in May 2015 — and they launched an affair that lasted about a year, according to the New Yorker.
Hunter — whose first wife, Kathleen, obtained a divorce from amid his relationship with Hallie — re-married in May following a whirlwind, six-day romance with Melissa Cohen, 33.
In his ABC interview last month, Hunter said he’d “done estimable things and things I regret,” but was now in “probably the best place I’ve ever been in my life.”
His personal lawyer and spokesman, George Mesires, didn’t return requests for comment.
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She called 911 before being killed. The operator hung up when she couldn’t respond
A chilling 911 call may have captured Lina Bolanos’ last moments, who was killed alongside her fiancé in their Boston penthouse.
“That was Lina’s voice,” Amanda Gibbs, Bolanos’ godmother, confirmed on the witness stand Monday after listening to the 911 call, CNN affiliate WBZ reported.
But in the call, Bolanos’ voice came out muffled. And when she was unable to respond to repeated questions, the operator said she was “releasing the call” and hung up, CNN affiliate WCVB reported.
Jurors heard that phone call on the third day of testimony in the double murder trial for the man suspected of killing the couple. Bolanos, 38, and Richard Field, 49, who were both well-known anesthesiologists, were stabbed to death in May 2017.
Prosecutors say the couple was killed by Bampumim Teixeira, who briefly worked as a concierge at the building where the couple lived. Because of his time there, Teixeira was familiar with the building’s layout, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said in a news release in 2017.
Teixeira has pleaded not guilty.
“(Field was found) dead in a pool of his own blood. His hands bound behind his back with handcuffs,” Assistant District Attorney John Pappas said in trial last week, according to WCVB. “Lina Bolanos was also in a pool of her blood after having been stabbed repeatedly in the neck.”
“No credible evidence will tell you that Bampumim Teixeira broke into the home of Lina Bolanos and Richard Field and murdered them,” defense attorney Steven Sack said in the trial last week. “And that’s because he didn’t.”
‘You guys are going to die’
On May 5, a person wearing gloves, a bright yellow shirt, a hooded jacket and carrying a backpack sneaked into the building’s garage before the couple returned home, according to the news release from the district attorney’s office.
Later that evening, Matthias Heidenreich — a friend of the two doctors — received a series of texts from Field that a gunman was in their apartment and to call 911, according to his testimony last week. He testified he responded but got no answer.
Authorities were first contacted around 8:30 p.m. by the concierge, who had been alerted by a concerned friend following a text from Field, the release said.
Upon responding to the grisly scene, Boston police officer Scott MacIsaac testified Monday he shot Teixeira as he entered the couple’s apartment after he saw a silhouette seemingly holding a firearm, WCVB reported.
When Texeira was taken into custody in the hallway, he told police there were dead bodies in the penthouse, Boston police detective Sean Wallace testified.
“Then he said, ‘you guys are going to die.’ Then he said, ‘they killed my wife.’ Then he mentioned something and I heard the word ‘sniper,”’ the detective said in court.
“He was smiling up at me,” Wallace testified.
Outside the apartment, police found a backpack with a replica firearm and jewelry, the release said. A carving knife and a bright yellow shirt were also found nearby, the release said.
Testimony will resume Tuesday, when the jurors will visit the doctors’ penthouse, WBZ reported.
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Kidney transplant went to wrong patient with the same name
CAMDEN, N.J. — A New Jersey hospital says a kidney meant for one patient was mistakenly transplanted into another patient with the same name who was farther down the priority list.
Virtua Health says the Nov. 18 operation on a 51-year-old at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital was successful, but officials then discovered that the patient was transplanted out of priority order because “unusually, the individual who should have received the organ has the same name and is of similar age.”
Virtua Health says the error was reported to state health officials and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and the patient who should have received the kidney also underwent a successful transplant on Nov. 24. Officials call the mistake “unprecedented” and say steps have been taken to prevent a recurrence.
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Man sexually assaulted, killed college student after she ignored his catcalls
CHICAGO — A man charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation death of a 19-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago student has been ordered held without bail during a hearing in which prosecutors told the judge that he had confessed to the attack.
Donald Thurman is also charged with criminal sexual assault in the fatal attack of Ruth George, whose body was found last weekend in her family’s vehicle that was parked in a garage on the school’s campus.
Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said during Tuesday’s hearing that Thurman was angry that George was ignoring his catcalls and that he followed her into the garage, where he sexually assaulted and killed her.
The 26-year-old Thurman was on parole at the time of the attack after serving two years of a six-year prison sentence for armed robbery.
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Man bludgeoned fiancé to death in jealous rage after she wanted to leave him because of his cross-dressing habits
A man who bludgeoned his fiancee to death with a metal bar after she wanted to leave him because of his cross-dressing has been jailed for 17 years.
Roderick Deakin-White, 38, carried out the “horrendous and savage” attack on Amy Parsons, 35, while she was showering in the flat they shared in Whitechapel, east London.
She was left naked and bleeding to death after suffering “horrific injuries” to her head, face and brain during the attack on April 25, a court heard.
Deakin-White was found guilty of her murder by a jury on Tuesday November 19.
Sentencing Deakin-White on Tuesday at Snaresbrook Crown Court, judge John Lafferty said Ms Parsons was killed in a “most horrendous, savage and brutal way”.
Judge Lafferty told Deakin-White: “Your view was that if you can’t have her, no-one can have her, and you killed her.
“There is no sentence I can pass upon you today that will bring back Miss Parsons – a young, successful, vivacious and kind-hearted young woman, whose life was brutally taken by you.”
Deakin-White, who wore a suit in the dock, stared forward as his sentence was read out before being led away by guards.
During his trial, the court heard how personal assistant Ms Parsons had become increasingly unhappy with her relationship, particularly due to Deakin-White’s cross-dressing habits.
Prosecutor Gareth Patterson QC said at a previous hearing: “She was unhappy about this and this was something he had often wanted to do when they were intimate.”
He told jurors Deakin-White became angry and jealous after Ms Parsons began a relationship with a colleague a few weeks before the killing.
The prosecutor said Deakin-White launched the attack after she told him she was leaving him.
“Unwilling to accept that she was going to leave him, he used a metal bar to hit her repeatedly around the head while she was showering in the Docklands flat which they shared,” Mr Patterson said.
Deakin-White fled the flat before confessing to a friend, who persuaded him to hand himself in.
In interviews with police, Deakin-White admitted attacking her with a metal bar but denied murder, claiming it was an “accident”.
At his sentencing, Ms Parsons’ sister, Eve, spoke of her family’s grief in a victim impact statement read out in court.
She described Ms Parsons as the “bright light” of the family and a “beautiful person”.
“Nothing could have prepared me to deal with this loss,” she said. “All of our family are as heartbroken as it is possible to be.”
Richard Carey-Hughes, mitigating, said Deakin-White had expressed remorse in the police station when he was recorded talking to himself saying: “I feel like the nastiest person in the world. She would have been in so much pain.”
Judge Lafferty sentenced Deakin-White to a minimum of 17 years in prison, reduced by 210 days which he has already served in custody.
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Police officer arrested for sexual assault of a child, paid her $25
Waco (KXXV) — A man was arrested in November for sexual assault of child.
According to the arrest affidavit, the mother of the victim called police to her apartment on Nov.12. She said she saw Darrell Sanders come out of the apartment and her 15-year-old daughter was inside.
She said she walked inside the bathroom and found wet spots on the bed and $25 on the counter. The mother asked her daughter if she had sex with Sanders, and she said yes.
She also said this was the second time she had sex with Sanders. This first time he gave her $90.
Sanders admitted to having sex with the 15-year-old twice.
Sanders is a police officer for the Veteran’s Affairs Hospital. He was being held on $250,000.
He has bonded out of jail the same day he was arrested.
In a statement, The Central Texas Veterans Health Care System called the allegations “abhorrent,” and said Sanders has been stripped of his badge.
These allegations are abhorrent, and the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System is taking the appropriate steps to hold this individual accountable.
In the meantime, this individual has been stripped of his badge and is not performing law enforcement duties or interacting with patients.
VA has made clear that it will hold employees accountable when they fail to live up to the high standards Veterans and taxpayers expect, and that’s exactly what we’re doing in this case.
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