2 teens urinated on someone and used racial slurs at a football game in New Jersey
LAWRENCE, N.J. — Two New Jersey teenagers face multiple charges after someone was urinated on and racial slurs were used at a high school football game, police said.
The incident occurred Friday night at the Lawrence High School football game, Lawrence Township Police said in a news release.
The teenagers, who live in Lawrence Township, are 17-year-old boys and face several counts of harassment, bias intimidation and lewdness in connection with the incident, police said.
Police did not give the race of the victim, and did not respond to requests Sunday asking for additional information. The two statements police issued Saturday did not say what racial slurs were allegedly used. Neither did the post on the department’s Twitter page.
The incident is still being investigated, police said.
In statements, the township’s mayor and school district said bias incidents don’t belong in their community.
“As I have said publicly before, hate has no home in Lawrence Township. As someone that has felt its sting, I know that bigotry exists and sadly will continue to exist but that doesn’t mean that I give up. Instead I look to find allies that will help me fight the cancer of bigotry,” Mayor Christopher Bobbitt said in a Facebook post.
A Facebook post from Lawrence Township Public Schools said: “We take these incidents seriously and we will continue to investigate until all of the facts are uncovered.”
“To echo Mayor Bobbitt, ‘hate has no home in Lawrence Township,’” the statement said.
Lawrence Township is northeast of Trenton, the state’s capital.
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Mother finds unknown woman in home about to bathe her 2-year-old
An Ohio woman faces a felony trespassing charge after she broke into a woman’s home and was about to bathe the woman’s child, police say.
Elizabeth Hixon, 22, was arrested last week after police say she entered the home of Areica Hill, 31, in Columbus through an unlocked door.
Hill told WCMH-TV she was horrified when she woke up Wednesday morning to find the woman in her home, about to give a bath to her 2-year-old son.
“I’ve never heard of anything like this,” Hill told the TV station.
According to a police report, Hill and her boyfriend heard a dog walking around with a chain leash dragging on the floor of their apartment. The couple then found a black and white dog and the woman in their home.
“I get up and I walk to my door, and the way my house is set up, I can look down the hall,” Hill told the TV station. “I see a white female lady, bent over the tub, with my 2-year-old in the tub.”
Hixon is scheduled to appear in court again Friday. A call to an attorney who represented her in another case was not immediately returned.
Hixon’s mother told WCMH-TV that her daughter did not have ill intentions.
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A man named Tupac Shakur was arrested in Tennessee for meth possession, other charges
Police in Tennessee arrested a man named Tupac A. Shakur, 40, after they say he pulled a knife on them and was found with meth.
Officers with the Johnson City Police Department, about 25 minutes from Bristol, received calls Friday about Shakur who had active warrants for his arrest from another department, according to a news release from Johnson police.
When officers arrived at the scene, they saw a car with Shakur inside. Officers attempted to arrest Shakur, but he pulled away and reached for his waistband, the release said.
Shakur then turned toward officers with a knife before officers took him down. Officers found a syringe and baggies of methamphetamine on Shakur, the release said.
Shakur was charged with aggravated assault, simple meth possession and having unlawful drug paraphernalia. He is being held at the Washington County Detention Center on a $18,000 bond. He is set to be arraigned Monday, the release said.
It was not clear Sunday whether Shakur has legal representation.
Shakur shares the same name, even the same middle initial, as the late rapper Tupac Shakur who was killed in September 1996 at age 25.
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Woman pleads guilty to killing another woman in ‘botched butt injection procedure
A woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide after performing a cosmetic surgery that killed a 34-year-old Maryland woman, attorneys say.
Donna Francis, who is not a licensed nurse or physician, was performing a buttocks enhancement procedure on the woman in May 2015, when the victim went into cardiac arrest, a statement from John M. Ryan, acting district attorney for Queens County in New York, said.
Francis, 39, operated from the basement of a Queens home, used a massage table as an exam table and bought silicone gel from eBay, the district attorney’s statement says.
The victim had traveled to New York with her mother and paid $1,600 for the injections. But as Francis pumped the fluid into her body, the victim went into cardiac arrest, the statement says.
“The medical examiner determined the woman’s cause of death was systemic silicone (embolism),” prosecutors said. “Silicone, when injected into a human body, must be encapsulated to avoid free silicone from entering the bloodstream and causing an embolism.”
Embolisms can often be complications of silicone injections not performed properly.
The district attorney’s office said the victim’s mother called 911 after her daughter began showing “signs of distress” as Francis injected the second dose of a clear fluid.
“Emergency responders arrived at the scene and found the victim lying face up at the bottom of the stairs,” the statement says. “She was transported to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.”
She fled to London
Francis fled to London the next day, the district attorney’s office said. She remained there while she unsuccessfully fought extradition and was eventually brought back to the US in August.
When officers searched a second address she used, they found “syringes, a jug filled with a clear liquid consistent with silicone and an invoice with the defendant’s name on it for jugs of dimethicone (a silicone-based product) from eBay.”
She will be sentenced on November 14. She could face up to a year in jail, prosecutors said.
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Missing model found sealed in concrete after being ‘injected with pool cleaner’
A body found dumped in the Las Vegas desert has been identified as a 24-year-old woman who had been missing for almost five months.
Extensive measures were taken to hide the body, with AP reporting the corpse was discovered in a “homemade concrete and wooden structure” near the Nevada California border on October 8.
The Clark County District Attorney’s office later identified the woman as Esmeralda Gonzalez, a model and Las Vegas local who was last seen on CCTV on May 31.
Esmeralda’s brother, Juan Gonzalez, described his sister as “vulnerable” and had mental health issues.
“She is diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder,” Mr Gonzalez, told local news station ABC13 after she went missing.
“My family and I are worried sick.”
The outlet also reports that court documents show police received an anonymous tip on July 18 that Ms Gonzalez’s neighbour, Christopher Prestipino, 45, was involved in her disappearance.
The Las Vegas Sun reported that neighbours found Ms Gonzalez trying to open the door on the night she vanished, when they told her she was at the wrong house, she could be seen on home security cameras heading toward toward Mr Prestipino’s home.
During the investigation police uncovered that Ms Gonzalez had been at Mr Prestipino’s residence where they allege she was held against her will, strangled and injected with pool cleaner before her body was dumped the desert.
KNTV reported that CCTV footage also showed Mr Prestipino at a hardware store allegedly buying several bags of concrete.
On October 11 police met Mr Prestipino returning from a flight from Belize and placed him under arrest for suspicion of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder.
Lisa Mort, 31, was also taken into custody as police believe she had knowledge of what had occurred and assisted Mr Prestipino.
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Woman attempts to give 2-year-old a bath in bizarre break-in
COLUMBUS (WCMH) — A Columbus mother says she was horrified when she woke up and found another woman inside her home, getting ready to give her 2-year-old son a bath.
“I’ve never heard of anything like this,” Areica Hill said.
Hill told WCMH that she awoke Wednesday morning to the sound of a dog barking in her home.
“I get up and I walk to my door and the way my house is set up, I can look down the hall,” Hill explained. “I see a white female lady, bent over the tub, with my 2-year-old in the tub.”
Hill said she fought the woman off, and her boyfriend held the woman in place until the police arrived.
Elizabeth Hixon, 22, was arrested and charged with burglary.
An affidavit in the case, filed in Franklin County Municipal Court, said: “Ms. Hixon stated that she entered the residence, to provide care to a juvenile, which was outside the residence.”
On the phone, Hixon’s mother told WCMH that her daughter had good intentions and that her heart was in the right place.
Hill said she had never met Hixon.
She plans to follow this case, as it moves forward.
“I would like to see other charges filed against her,” Hill stated.
Prosecutors have yet to receive the police investigation. Once they do, they will determine what charges are appropriate, according to Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien’s office.
Hixon has posted bond.
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Officials split building in two to solve property dispute
RUGGLES TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) – An Ohio man says local officials cut a building in half to end a property dispute with him.
It happened in Ruggles Township following a complaint by Brett Galloway, who contends township officials constructed a building that was partly on his property.
“It is pretty much the most ridiculous thing ever,” Galloway told WJW.
He said he has tried negotiating with township leaders since January, but last week, when they didn’t reach an agreement, officials put up a fence and cut down part of the building.
About a third of the building still remains on Galloway’s property. Officials plan to tear down their portion.
The building was used to store equipment.
Galloway said he has another unrelated property issue with the township that is already in court, and he had hoped to get this matter resolved.
WJW reached out to township officials to discuss the matter, but an employee referred the reporter to their legal counsel, the Ashland County prosecutor’s office.
The county prosecutor said trustees tried to reach an agreement with Galloway, but when they couldn’t, they decided to tear down the building. He said they couldn’t knock down the portion on Galloway’s property because he wouldn’t let them on his land.
So for now, the building remains sliced in two with part of it separated by a fence and a no trespassing sign.
Those living near the area said it seems like a waste of taxpayers dollars and “silly.”
“I don’t know who would think this is a good idea,” Galloway said. “I can’t use my property and they lost a building.”
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A burglar hid in a Costco for hours then stole $13K in jewelry after store closed
A burglar in the Atlanta area gave new meaning to the phrase “patience is a virtue” — but not in a good way.
Authorities in Coweta County, Georgia, say a man cased a Costco and hid in the store for hours before stealing $13,000 worth of jewelry.
“I’ve never heard of something like this,” Jae Robertson with the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office told CNN affiliate WSB-TV. “This is the first case I’ve ever had like this.”
The burglary took place on October 10 after the man went to Costco and walked around before leaving, the affiliate reported. He returned hours later and the store’s surveillance video showed the scheme unfold.
“The suspect or offender walks around and eventually hides behind a display at the front wall of the business,” Robertson said.
Deputies say the man hid behind the display sign for nearly five hours, waiting for the store to clear out and close up, the affiliate reported. Employees said they had no idea the man stayed in the store after it closed.
He first entered the store, waited and left before walking back in at 9:45 p.m. and reemerging after midnight wearing a black ski mask and gloves, authorities said. Video shows the man smashing a glass display and grabbing handfuls of jewelry.
Video from a nearby theater shows the man running out of the store and returning to a truck, authorities said.
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Queens teen suing Lyft after recording video of driver masturbating
The brave Queens teen who recorded a video of her Lyft driver masturbating is suing the ride-share company — claiming the company failed to properly vet its drivers.
The 14-year-old girl — who says driver Narinderjit Singh ogled her in the rear-view mirror as he touched himself — claims the firm failed to conduct proper background checks on its workers, according to the suit filed this week in Queens Supreme Court.
Lyft was “negligent in its hiring process” and disregarded customers’ safety in a way that goes “beyond all possible bounds of decency,” the lawsuit claims.
The hack allegedly pulled the move during a 13-minute ride from Bayside to Flushing last October.
But the quick-thinking teen used her cellphone to catch him in the act — recording a three-second video, which she later handed over to police.
Singh was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and harassment two weeks later, and later pleaded guilty to a violation, according to the Queens District Attorney.
Ultimately, both the driver and the firm “engaged in extreme or outrageous conduct” that caused the teen “severe emotional distress and bodily harm,” says the lawsuit, which was filed with help the teen’s guardian.
Lyft has since banned the driver, who is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Singh could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
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‘Swing Set Susan’ harasses Hispanic teens at park
A white woman dubbed “Swing Set Susan” claimed to be a cop and harassed a group of Hispanic teens in a profanity-laced tirade in Texas — telling them that they were too old to be at an all-ages park, new video shows.
Video posted to Twitter by one of the teens shows the group playing on an orange swing set at Fort Worth’s Dream Park around 3:40 p.m. Wednesday when the blond woman, wearing a blue and white shirt, a pair of athletic shorts and sneakers, confronted them.
“Stop! Stop!” the woman snaps as the group falls silent. “It’s a children’s park, stop. Stop now.”
Then she puts her hand on the still-moving swing in an effort to stop it — but it’s unclear if one of the teens was still swinging at the time, as a portion of it was cut out of the frame.
“We are children?” one of the confused teens can be heard saying.
“No, you’re not,” the woman barked. “And if you think you’re a f–ing child, are you over the age [allowed here]?”
The teens tried to tell the stranger that they were not — but to no avail as “Susan” continued lecturing them.
“OK, well,” the woman says while waving her hands, “I’m a f—ing PD, so get the f–k out of here now if you’re not here to play as a child. Read the f—ing sign.”
In a Thursday tweet, Fort Worth police confirmed the woman was not employed with their department, but instead was “a possible local resident.”
“We are actively investigating this incident for several potential criminal charges including Impersonating a Public Servant and Disorderly Conduct,” the department wrote.
In a statement, Fort Worth’s Parks and Recreation Department said the city’s parks and playgrounds “are open to all ages,” though some playground equipment is recommended for either ages 2-5 for preschool children or 5-12 for school-age children.
The woman’s name was not immediately released, and it was not clear Friday morning if she had been identified by authorities.
“We were just trying to play,” the teen tweeted, along with the video. “I guess we’re adults.”
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