Missouri woman reportedly drives to jail on suspended license with meth in her pants
AUDRAIN COUNTY, Mo. – #DontDoThat
That was the advice Audrain County Sheriff Matt Oller gave in a wild Facebook post detailing all the illegal things he said one woman did while bailing her boyfriend out of jail.
“I can’t make this stuff up,” the post began.
Oller said it was a normal day in the office when he noticed a woman getting arrested in the building on one of the security monitors.
The woman, Amanda Smith, reportedly drove to the jail on a revoked license.
“She drove right to our building thinking we wouldn’t notice……….. the deputy recognized her and knew she was revoked……….we noticed. Don’t do that…………,” Oller wrote.
But the day did not end with just one felony for Smith, Oller’s post continued. He said he saw Smith digging around in her bra and pants and asked the chief deputy to review the footage.
The chief deputy approached Smith and asked her for the bag of meth she had on her person in the jail, Oller said. When she looked confused, the chief deputy pointed at a wall-mounted security camera.
“She looked at the camera then cried and dug the Meth out of her pants and gave it up……….. Another FELONY…………. Don’t do that,” Oller said.
Oller said the takeaway is simple: if you want to commit a couple of felonies, don’t do so at the sheriff’s office.
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Video Shows NorCal Officer Body Slam Woman During Traffic Stop; Investigation Underway
A mother is outraged and a use of force investigation is underway after a woman being body slammed to the ground by a Rio Vista police officer was captured on cellphone and bodycam video, according to KTLA sister station KTXL in Sacramento.
It happened Sunday during a traffic stop a block away from home for a couple of siblings and a brother-in-law, who told KTXL they were returning home from a quick errand that evening.
“Went to go to the store to pick up some sour cream and some cheese for our tacos,” Monaisha Thomas said.
The family says the officer who approached their car appeared irritated from the start.
“Like he came to do something and he wanted it done, so he’s gonna get it done,” Thomas told KTXL. “I felt like he was hoping that we weren’t complying.”
Rio Vista Police Chief Dan Dailey responded with a written statement, explaining the officer told the occupants of the car that it had suspended registration and was going to be towed away.
But Mea Thomas, the car’s driver, said that’s not that case.
“I’m still trying to figure out how if I just got the car and everything was up to date and I just paid for the tags,” she said.
Police told KTXL Thomas refused to exit the car. Officers detained her two passengers, then another car pulled up the scene.
In the second car was Thomas’ mother, Deshaunna Payne, and Deshaunna’s other daughter, Cherish Thomas. They both got out and started recording cellphone video.
At the same time, detainee Tyrone Clayton Jr. was recording from the back seat of the patrol car.
Police say the two women ignored directions to remain with their car and repeatedly tried to push past the officers.
Payne tells the story differently.
“He’s aggressing her. He’s walking towards her,” she said of her daughter, Cherish. “Her hands weren’t cuffed. She didn’t have nothing in her hand. He had slapped the phone out her hand.”
The officer then slammed Cherish Thomas to the ground.
“That’s a woman,” Clayton said. “You’re double, triple her size. I mean, what was the need for the use of force?”
Cherish Thomas was at home but asleep during KTXL’s visit with the family. Relatives said she suffered some injuries from the body slam and is sore and tired.
“What doesn’t sit well with me is them saying that I tried to swing on the officer,” Payne said. “You slammed my daughter to the ground. Dirt, which is hard as concrete, on her face. He’s three times bigger than her. That was unnecessary.”
Cherish Thomas, Payne, Mea Thomas and Mychal Ivy were all arrested and later released. Cherish was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, obstructing or delaying an investigation and public intoxication. The other accusations were listed in a press release sent to KTXL by the Rio Vista Police Department.
The family has an attorney and said they are planning to fight the charges they’re facing. They also want the officer who slammed Cherish to face disciplinary action.
On Tuesday, police released eight videos from bodycam footage that show the incident unfold.
“Don’t come close to me,” an officer can be heard saying to Cherish, who walked toward him to film, before grabbing her arm and turning her around. “You need to go this way.”
He then takes her to the ground.
“Get him off my daughter! Get him off my f—ing daughter, now!” Payne yells as the other officer holds her back then grabs her arm to detain her.
An internal investigation into the officer’s use of force is being conducted.
Chief Dailey says the officer who tackled Cherish has not been placed on leave.
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Married Couple in Fontana Arrested on Suspicion of Possessing 2,000 Images of Child Pornography
A married couple in Fontana was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possessing more than 2,000 images of child pornography, authorities said.
Robert Byrom, 62, and Vicki Byrom, 61, were taken into custody after authorities received multiple tips through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Fontana Officer Daniel Romero said.
Investigators served a search warrant at the couple’s home and confiscated their electronics devices, which contained thousands of child porn images, according to police.
“Images in their possession depicted prepubescent children as well as prepubescent children in sexually sadistic situations,” a news release from police states.
The Byroms are each being held on $500,000 bail, with a bail enhancement included due to the graphic nature of the images, authorities said.
Anyone with information can contact Detective Moyer at 909-350-7168.
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Child Finds $40,000 in Meth Stuffed Inside Lego Box From South Carolina Consignment Shop
Three Georgia women bought a box of Legos while visiting a South Carolina consignment shop, only to find that the box was actually filled with about $40,000 worth of methamphetamine.
Bulloch County Sheriff’s Investigator Jim Riggs tells The Statesboro Herald that the women gifted the box to a child, who opened it and discovered the three pounds of drugs.
Deputies say the women turned the drugs over to the sheriff’s office, who called in Drug Enforcement Administration agents. Riggs says authorities determined the drugs were likely mailed to the wrong address.
He says dealers often ship drugs to empty or abandoned addresses to be picked up, but United States Postal Service often won’t leave packages at those sites. Instead, they’re often left with a neighbor or auctioned off when unclaimed.
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Newborn baby boy found atop a trash can in a Chicago alley
CHICAGO — A newborn baby boy is hospitalized in critical condition after being found atop a trash can on Chicago’s Northwest Side.
Fire Department Deputy Chief Curtis Hudson says a passer-by discovered the boy and brought the baby to a nearby fire station.
The baby was initially taken to Norwegian American Hospital. The baby’s condition was stabilized before he was transported to Lurie Children’s Hospital. A fire department spokesman says the baby was “crying and kicking.”
Chicago police say they have not determined who left the baby on top of the garbage can.
A mother in crisis who can’t care for a newborn may anonymously surrender a baby up to 30 days old at hospitals, emergency medical care facilities, police and fire stations.
The Baby Safe Haven Law was enacted in 2001.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/newborn-baby-boy-found-atop-a-trash-can-in-a-chicago-alley/
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Teen allegedly kills man wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting his sister
A teenage boy fatally attacked a man after the teen’s younger sister told her brother that she was sexually assaulted by the man on a public bus in Utah — an incident that investigators say never happened, according to reports.
Police say the 16-year-old girl told her 17-year-old brother that she was sexually assaulted aboard a Cache Valley Transit District bus around 3 p.m. April 23, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The brother immediately sprang into action and tracked down 62-year-old Michael Fife — the man his sister accused — as the man was exiting the bus in the city of Logan, according to the news outlet.
The teen then attacked Fife, who suffered head injuries and was beaten unconscious.
Fife fell to the ground and was left lying on the sidewalk as the teenage boy fled, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
Later that night, the boy’s sister reported the sexual assault to police, who discovered that surveillance footage from the bus showed that the assault never happened.
“Logan Police detectives reviewed the video footage of the alleged assault,” authorities said, according to the news outlet. “The video showed Mr. Fife walking past the girl, but no sexual assault occurred.”
Fife died from his injuries four days after the attack.
The identities of the teen brother and his sister were not released because of their ages.
The Cache County Attorney’s Office is also investigating the case.
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Florida man arrested after refusing to remove ‘I eat a–’ bumper sticker
The Florida man who gained instant internet fame for choosing jail instead of removing the “I eat a–” decal on his car said Wednesday that only “sour apples” don’t like his raunchy sticker — which he will continue to display with pride.
Dillon Shane Webb said he was fighting for his First Amendment rights Sunday afternoon in Lake City when he refused police orders to remove the sexually suggestive bumper sticker from his Chevrolet truck.
“It was the fact that I was standing up for what everybody back in the day fought for — that freedom,” Webb told The Post.
The 23-year-old insisted he doesn’t engage in the particular act purported on the decal, but said he is willing to face jail time to protect those who choose to say they do.
“I’ve got to fight for free speech,” Webb continued. “It needs to be kept alive for a reason.”
Webb said he purchased the decal with pals, who all put them on their cars. He had been driving around with it for a week before he was pulled over.
“It was part of me and my friends’ group,” Webb said. “We just point and laugh and take pictures and so does everyone else, besides a couple sour apples.”
Not among the fans was the deputy who confronted him on US Highway 90 about the signage on the brown truck’s rear window.
The officer warned the Webb the sticker violated a state obscenity law. Webb responded by claiming the content of the decal was “just words,” police said.
When asked how a mom or dad would explain the sticker to a young child, Webb reportedly replied that it would be “up to the parent.”
Webb was asked whether he would remove one letter of the sticker, but he refused, citing his First Amendment right, according to authorities.
Webb now faces charges for obscene writing on vehicles and resisting an officer without violence. He was booked at Columbia County Detention Facility and released about an hour later when his mom posted his $2,500 bond, he said.
“She supports her son like any other mother would,” Webb said.
The self-described First Amendment crusader said he plans to drive to his next court appearance May 21 with the decal intact.
“I’d be a fool not to,” Webb said.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/florida-man-jailed-for-i-eat-a-bumper-sticker-refuses-to-back-down/
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9-year-old boy charged with murdering his mom in Michigan
A 9-year-old boy is accused of fatally shooting his mother at their Michigan home on Monday, according to court documents.
The young suspect was charged with murder on Tuesday for allegedly using a rifle to kill his mom, Pauline Randol, at their Fawn River Township home, according to court records obtained by WWMT-TV.
The child is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at a state-run juvenile facility, according to St. Joseph County Sheriff Bradley Balk.
It’s unclear if the suspect was charged as an adult.
Neighbors told WWMT-TV that the boy is a second-grader at a nearby elementary school.
via: http:// https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/9-year-old-boy-charged-with-murdering-his-mom-in-michigan/
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Father accused of killing 1-month-old baby over video game
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky father is charged with murdering his 1-month-old son after he allegedly punched the boy out of frustration over a video game.
Anthony Trice, 26, who faces charges of murder and criminal abuse, appeared in court Monday.
Police say the Louisville father was home alone with his son, De’Anthony Trice, playing video games on Friday night when he became enraged after losing, according to WAVE.
Trice allegedly punched De’Anthony, then took him into the kitchen to make a bottle and dropped him. Police say Trice later noticed the boy was in distress and called 911.
“He was like, ‘Get to the hospital. The baby was throwing up milk,’” De’Anthony’s maternal grandmother, Tanjia Howlett told WLKY. “So, I told my daughter, ‘Why would he take the baby to the hospital for choking on baby milk?’”
The 1-month-old was rushed to Norton Children’s Hospital. Doctors were unable to save De’Anthony, who died Sunday night.
“I wouldn’t have ever thought this would happen to our family,” Howlett said. A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money to pay for De’Anthony’s funeral.
Trice is being held on a $1,000,000 cash bond.
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Man who used corpse to fake his own death pleads guilty
In 2011, a decomposing body was found on the side of a dirt road in Moldova; the man was carrying Igor Vorotinov’s passport and other identifying documents, and soon his ex-wife, Irina, traveled from Maple Grove, Minn., to Moldova to identify the body as that of her ex.
A funeral was held for the Minnesota man back in the US, Irina cashed in on a $2 million life insurance policy, and the following year, one of the couple’s two grown sons was visiting a family friend in Moldova when he ran into his father—very much alive, but using a fake name.
He didn’t tell authorities, but in 2013, another tipster did, and US Customs and Border Protection detained the son and his fiancee after one of their trips to Moldova. After years of investigation and searching for Vorotinov, he was arrested in Moldova last year and extradited to the US. On Friday, the 54-year-old pleaded guilty in federal court, the Washington Post reports.
Prosecutors want a 41-month prison sentence when Vorotinov is sentenced in July. Irina, 52, was sentenced to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty in 2016; authorities say she was in on the scheme all along and staged a “sham funeral,” intending to split the life insurance money with her ex. And the 29-year-old son pleaded guilty in 2015 to not reporting the scheme once he uncovered it; he was sentenced to three years of probation.
“We now know that there really was a body found in a field in Moldova. The government executed a search warrant on the urn at Lakewood Cemetery, and it really contained human remains,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents, alleging that Moldovan officials, police, morgue employees, and the medical examiner were all in on the scheme. (Irina had the body cremated in Moldova, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press reports.)
But prosecutors have not revealed how the Vorotinovs procured a dead body on which to plant Igor’s ID.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/05/07/man-who-used-corpse-to-fake-his-own-death-pleads-guilty/
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