Missouri man says grandmother’s ashes dumped out by officer during arrest
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) – A metro man is searching for a way to move forward after he says Kansas City police officers dumped out all he had left of his grandmother.
“You should’ve asked before you did what you did,” Deonta Words said.
Words is asking questions after he said a KCPD officer poured his grandmother’s ashes in the dirt during an arrest.
“I’m trying to figure out why was it dumped on the ground and scooped backup,” Words said.
Her ashes were kept close to his heart – in a necklace he wears every day. Words says what’s left of his grandmother is now mixed with grass and dirt.
“He never asked me what was in it, or what was it. He just went ahead and dumped it on the ground. If you thought it was some type of drug or anything you should’ve put it on a drug testing thing,” Words said. “You didn’t do that. You just dumped it out on the ground next to my money.”
Words said he was walking to a friend’s near 39th and Topping when police took him into custody on a warrant. Words said he understands the arrest, but he can’t wrap his head around a police officer dumping his grandmother’s remains on the ground.
“I don’t got nothing to say to them, at all. Nothing at all,” Words said. “They didn’t apologize about it and I ain’t got nothing to say.”
He said it brings back the pain he felt about a year ago when she passed away.
“That was the last of what I had of her,” Words said. “This is my grandmother she raised me all my life.”
He says she was like a mother.
“I miss her. I think about her every day,” Words said. “That’s my heart, that’s my baby. I’m her baby.”
Words said it seemed like police didn’t know what was in his necklace, but wishes the officer would have asked because now he’s left with nothing.
“I can’t get her back. I can’t get her ashes back. I’m going to forever think about this.”
FOX4 reached out to KCPD. They said they’d get back to us about this case specifically.
Detectives did say over the last decade, they’ve seen an increase in people wearing jewelry that conceals illegal items.
Words said he was wanted for resisting arrest.
By REGAN PORTER
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Florida man claimed cocaine on his nose ‘was not his,’
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man tried to avoid arrest by telling deputies that the cocaine allegedly found on his nose “was not his,” according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
During a recent traffic stop, deputies noticed that the passenger, 20-year-old Fabricio Tueros Jimenez, had white powder around his nostrils, according to a news release. A field test came back positive for cocaine.
Jimenez had a small bag of powder cocaine “concealed on him,” deputies said, and a search of the car turned up a backpack containing 250 grams of marijuana and 13 Xanax pills.
Jimenez was arrested without incident, the sheriff’s office said. It’s not clear who the driver of the car was.
Deputies arrested Jimenez on unspecified drug charges.
via: https://fox2now.com/2019/06/10/florida-man-claimed-cocaine-on-his-nose-was-not-his-deputies-say/
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Three-year-old dies after shots fired into group standing on St. Louis sidewalk
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Two young children were shot in south St. Louis Sunday night. Police say that the shooting happened in the 4600 block of Michigan. The six, and three-year-old victims were taken to the hospital. The three-year-old later died from the injuries.
The deceased child has been identified by police as Kenndei Powell. The six-year-old was grazed by a bullet and is in critical condition at the hospital.
A police report says that seven adults and children were standing next to a vehicle occupied by a 28-year-old woman Sunday at around 8:30pm. A white four-door vehicle drove by and fired shots at the group, injuring some of the youngest members. Two six-year-olds, a four-year-old, an eight-year-old, and two other 28-year-olds were not hit by the bullets coming from the vehicle.
Homicide investigators are working on this case. They have not released any information about possible suspects in this shooting. Anyone with information is urged to call CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (8477).
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Boy killed in drive-by shooting possibly meant for former tenants
An 11-year-old who was sleeping at his new home in Texas was killed in a drive-by shooting — and cops are probing whether tenants who just moved out were the intended target, according to reports.
Kamren Cassius Jones was fast asleep in a room with several other children when he was struck by one of numerous bullets sprayed into the house in suburban Houston early Sunday.
His family had only moved into the house a few months ago and authorities are looking into whether the previous renters were the actual targets, cops told ABC13.
“There was a lot of activity, and possible criminal activity, going on prior to that,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told the station.
Gonzalez said it appeared an assault rifle had been used.
The youngster was pronounced dead at the scene. None of the other children in the room were injured.
“This is a tragic, a senseless, a sad situation,” Gonzalez said in a video tweeted out by the sheriff’s department Sunday morning. “This is a child. And these are cowards that shoot into a home. They could have killed and injured a lot more people — there were several other children sleeping in that same room. We’re going to do all we can to bring justice to this 11-year-old that lost his life this morning so tragically.”
Neighbor Donna Patterson recalled waking to the sound of nearly two dozen shots.
“There were 22 shots in perfect timing. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, 22 loud. I just thought, ‘oh my gosh, are they coming through the house?’” Patterson told KPRC.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/06/10/boy-killed-in-drive-by-shooting-possibly-meant-for-former-tenants/
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Brooklyn Street Where Notorious B.I.G Grew up Is Renamed for the Late Rapper
Just weeks after what would have been his 47th birthday, a street in Brooklyn, New York, was renamed on Monday for the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G.
The Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation previously announced that the stretch of St. James Place between Gates Avenue and Fulton Street will be renamed Christopher Wallace Way, according to KTLA sister station WPIX in New York City.
A large crowd gathered in the rain to witness the ceremony, video from the scene showed.
The block is where the rapper grew up and the initiative to change the name was approved by the Brooklyn Community Board 2 back in November.
“Honoring Biggie symbolizes more than just one man,” LeRoy McCarthy, who spearheaded the initiative, told Rolling Stone at the time. “It symbolizes a culture. It symbolizes a borough. It symbolizes a people, and hip-hop is worldwide.”
The Notorious B.I.G. — also known as Biggie Smalls and born Christopher Wallace — was 24 years old when he was gunned down in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997.
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Napa Boy, 9, Pays Off Lunch Debts for Entire 3rd Grade Class With His Allowance
A 9-year-old Napa boy used his allowance to pay off his fellow classmates’ outstanding lunch debts.
According to San Francisco television station KGO, cooking and mealtime are important to Ryan Kirkpatrick’s family. After a discussion with his mother about some students being unable to afford school lunches, Ryan decided he wanted to help.
He asked his mother, Kylie Kirkpatrick, to find out how much money his fellow third-graders at Napa’s Park Elementary School owed in lunch debt.
She in turn emailed the school to inquire.
“It was I think $74.50,” Kylie told KGO. “So I took that email and came to Ryan and said, ‘What do you want to do?’ and he said, ‘I guess I can pay for it.’ I said, ‘Are you sure?’ And he said, ‘Yes.'”
Ryan then used his allowance money — which normally would’ve been used on sports gear — to pay off all his classmates’ outstanding debts anonymously.
Depending on income levels, meals at Ryan’s school range in price from 30 cents to $3.25 each. District policy requires students to receive a meal even if they have a “negative lunch account,” KGO reported.
Ryan said he just wants his classmates to know they are cared about and hopes knowing that will make them feel happy.
via: https://ktla.com/2019/06/10/9-year-old-boy-pays-off-lunch-debts-for-entire-3rd-grade-class/
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Video Shows Florida Burger King Employee Using Mop to Clean Tables
An employee was caught on camera cleaning tables with a mop at a Burger King in St. Johns County, Florida, Jacksonville television station WJXT reported.
A customer recorded the video Thursday of an employee using the mop to clean tables in the kids’ area.
The customer said just minutes prior, she saw the same employee mopping the floors.
“I was just disgusted, honestly,” customer Katie Duran told WJXT. “I had just eaten on that table. Did you do that yesterday? Do you do this every night? Did you do this, this morning?”
The restaurant’s inspection reports with the state show eight violations, including vents in the kitchen containing mold and the interior of the freezer soiled with food residue.
The company called the worker’s actions “unacceptable” and said the owner of the Burger King will be re-training the restaurant staff.
via: https://ktla.com/2019/06/10/burger-king-employee-caught-on-camera-mopping-tables/
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Teen Hospitalized After Being Sexually Assaulted While Walking Home From School in Santa Ana
A 17-year-old girl was hospitalized after being physically and sexually assaulted while walking home from school in Santa Ana on Monday morning, and police are searching for two men in connection with the brutal attack.
Paramedics responded to the 1300 block of East McFadden Avenue after the victim called to report the assault, which took place around 11:15 a.m., according to Santa Ana Police Department Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.
The teen was transported to a local hospital where she was being treated for “significant” injuries, including head and sexual assault trauma, Bertagna said. She’s in stable condition.
The victim was headed home from Century High School when she was attacked, according to investigators.
She was walking along Edinger Avenue near the railroad tracks when she was physically and sexually assaulted by two men, Bertagna said. The men are both described as being in their late 20s to early 30s, possibly transients.
It was not immediately clear if the attack happened on the train tracks.
Police are also looking into whether the assault is related to an incident that took place overnight in the 1000 block of North Lincoln Street.
“In that case, a suspect described as a male Hispanic in his 30s, possibly homeless, entered the residence – I’m not sure through what means – goes into the 15-year-old daughter’s bedroom, crawls into bed with her and begins fondling her,” Bertagna told KTLA.
The girl woke up and then screamed, prompting her mother to come to her aid. The man, meanwhile, fled the home, which is also near the train tracks.
The two incidents took place about 25 miles apart.
Detectives were interviewing the first victim when they heard about the second sexual assault, according to Bertagna.
He noted that it is also possible the two cases are unrelated.
No additional information was immediately released about either case.
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Two women hospitalized for trying to end period with vacuum cleaner – an old technique called menstrual extraction
Two women were hospitalized after using a vacuum to make their menstrual periods end sooner, according to new reports.
A Seattle nurse claimed the desperate women, ages 19 and 23, went into shock this week after attempting a dangerous, decades-old technique known as a menstrual extraction, the Mirror reported.
“Ladies… Please stop using your vacuum hose to end your period early,” the nurse tweeted, before switching her account to private. “You’re gonna wind up sucking out a lot more than blood! There were 2 cases of this so far this week and both women had to be admitted. Just… STOP!”
“I don’t know if it was Eureka, Dyson, Hoover or some Walmart brand, but yes an actual vacuum cleaner,” she added.
She followed up with a tweet about the dangers of using a vacuum to suck out blood, according to the Mirror.
“Your period has a steady flow of its own that for all intents and purposes your body can tolerate,” she wrote. “A vacuum increases the flow over 1,000 times which your body can’t tolerate, therefore sending you into shock.”
Menstrual extractions, which involve the use of a syringe, cannula and tubing, were common before abortion became legal with Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/06/07/two-women-hospitalized-for-trying-to-end-period-with-vacuum/
Mother jailed in death of baby she drunkenly fell asleep on
A woman in Wales has been arrested and jailed in the 2017 death of her four-week-old baby, who she’d accidentally fallen asleep on after a night of drinking.
“It is a mother’s responsibility, a mother’s duty, and her natural instinct to put the care and safety of her four-week old child above all else,” Judge Paul Thomas told the mother, Marina Tilby, 26, the Mirror reported.
“You completely ignored that duty so you could get extremely drunk on a night-out.”
Tilby had taken baby Darian out for a night of drinking with her sister, the report said.
Authorities said she had been seen repeatedly throwing the baby into the air and catching him during the night out. She, the baby, and her sister then spent the night at the trailer park home of two men they’d met while drinking.
The baby was later found unresponsive in the bed.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/06/09/mother-jailed-in-death-of-baby-she-drunkenly-fell-asleep-on/
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