Woman charged with shooting 11-year-old boy and his mother at playground
BALTIMORE (AP) — A woman is charged in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy and his mother at a Baltimore playground.
Baltimore police said in a Friday morning release that 31-year-old Nichole George has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault and handgun violations in connection with the Wednesday evening shooting.
The child suffered at least one gunshot wound, and remains in critical condition. His 34-year-old mother suffered a gunshot wound to her upper body, and is listed as stable, but her exact condition is unknown.
Police haven’t yet identified a motive in the shooting. Investigators believe the suspect approached the pair before opening fire.
The victims’ names haven’t been released. It’s unclear whether George has a lawyer.
90-year-old woman threatened to kill neighbor over leaves
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police arrested a 90-year-old Tennessee grandmother after a neighbor claimed she threatened to kill her because of leaves in her yard.
Bessie Bowen was charged with aggravated assault and violation of an order of protection.
According to police, they responded to the 2300 block of Larose Avenue in Bethel Grove early Thursday morning. That’s where they met a woman who claimed Bowen had stopped by her house, pointed a gun at her and threatened to kill her.
Police say it escalated quickly. The neighbor told officers she captured it all on camera.
The victim also told authorities she has an order of protection against Bowen following a previous assault. It was served in June 2018.
Bowen was arrested but later released on her own recognizance. She’s scheduled to appear in court Friday.
“I never knew her to do anything like that before. Kind of shocked,” said a neighbor on the block who asked us to hide his face.
He didn’t want to say too much about the situation, just that he’s known Bowen for years.
“She’s always been serious about her yard,” he said. “I never had a problem with her. I never seen or heard her do anything like that.”
Bowen’s family didn’t want to comment, and the neighbor who called police didn’t come to the door.
Neighbors seem to be aware of the problems and hope they’re resolved without anyone else going to jail.
“I hope they don’t send her to jail,” a neighbor said. “She’s an old lady. Just serious about her yard.”
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Man Murdered Wife, Then Tried To Frame 12-Year-Old Daughter By Writing Fake Confession Note
A 45 year-old man has been convicted of the 2009 murder of his estranged, wealthy wife who was found dead in the bathtub of her tony Manhattan apartment the day before she planned to cut him out of her will, multiple outlets report.
On Wednesday, a jury found Roderick Covlin guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Shele Danishefsky Covlin, 47, The New York Times reports.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 10.
Colvin, an unemployed stockbroker and backgammon pro, has maintained his innocence since his wife was found dead on New Year’s Eve in 2009.
“It is impossible to know beyond a reasonable doubt what happened to Shele Covlin, how it happened and why it happened,” Colvin’s lawyer, Robert Gottlieb said in closing arguments on Monday, the Times reports.
Lead prosecutor Matthew Bogdano said in his opening statement the motive was “pure unadulterated greed,” the Times reports.
The Covlins were in the midst of a bitter divorce and living in separate apartments across the hall from one another in the upscale Dorchester Towers on West 68th Street when she was killed, CBS News and the Associated Press report.
Danishefsky Colvin, a successful wealth manager at UBS, had filed for divorce in May 2009. She planned to cut her estranged husband out of her will but was killed just a day before she was due to meet with her lawyer.
She had originally planned to leave him $5 million, prosecutors said, CBS News reports.
“She was fearful for her life, believed Rod intended to kill her, and there was some urgency to make changes in her will,” documents filed previously in New York Surrogate’s Court state, NBC New York reports.
Danishefsky Colvin’s death was initially ruled accidental after the couple’s then 9-year-old daughter found her in a bloody bathtub with a large gash on her head, The New York Times reports.
Covlin told police he had administered CPR to his wife after calling 911.
Danishefsky Colvin’s family initially declined an autopsy for religious reasons.
But they later agreed to have her body exhumed after investigators learned that Danishefsky Colvin had filed for an order of protection against her husband earlier that year, The Journal News reports.
After the exhumation, a New York City medical examiner determined that she showed signs of strangulation and reclassified her death as a homicide.
In 2011, Danishefsky Colvin’s family filed a wrongful death suit against Covlin claiming he killed her.
In 2013, prosecutors alleged that he tried to frame his daughter, by then 12, by posing as her in a fake confession letter that said she had killed her mother, the Times reports.
Covlin was arrested on Nov. 1, 2015, and charged with two counts of second-degree murder.
His lawyer did not immediately return PEOPLE’s call for comment.
Man arrested in alleged plot to kill child he is accused of raping
CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ark. — An Arkansas man has been arrested for conspiring to kill a child he’s accused of raping in 2018, along with her grandparents and her father.
John Kelly, 49, considered sending them to Mexico and arranging that they “never return,” according to an affidavit.
“We had received some information Mr. Kelly was looking to hire someone to kill those who were involved in this and the Crawford County sheriffs started an undercover operation and today we were able to present an affidavit to the judge,” said Crawford County Sheriff Ron Brown.
The affidavit also says Kelly discussed killing all four himself.
Sheriff Brown says that the investigation lasted about five months. Kelly faces four counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
The affidavit states that Kelly gave the other person money and a motorcycle. He also promised the other person a Mustang upon completion of the job.
Kelly was previously charged with five counts of sexual assault in January 2018, but was released on June 7, 2018, on a $50,000 bond.
Kelly ran a well known photography business in Van Buren. KFSM chose not to identify the business because it is under new ownership. During the time Kelly ran the business, he contracted to take class pictures for surrounding school districts.
Formerly homeless NJ teen accepted to 17 colleges
JERSEY CITY, NJ — Homeless students have rougher times in school than many others, but one New Jersey teen whose family struggled through homelessness beat the odds.
Dylan Chidick, 17, has been accepted to 17 colleges. Chidick, who’s class president at Henry Snyder High School, was inducted into the National Honor Society when his family lived at a homeless shelter. Now he’s got his choice of schools, including Xavier University, New Jersey City University and Rowan University.
“The situation that my family has been through, I don’t want it to define me,” Chidick said.
Chidick lived in Brooklyn with his mom and younger twin brothers until a few years ago. The skyrocketing cost of living triggered an emergency move to Jersey City.
“It was because of the rent,” Chidick said. “It got too high in New York.”
His brothers both needed heart surgery. Mom Khadine Phillip lost her job.
“Everything went downhill from there,” she said.
Phillip credits non-profit Women Rising with providing a safety net for her family and for her son’s future.
“Once you have that housing stability in place, then families are able to work on their goals to improve their wellbeing,” Anne Miller-Christensen, a member of the Women Rising management team, said.
Chidick is not resting on his laurels. Now that he has his pile of acceptance letters, he’s already thinking about his next step: law school.
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DMV examiner took bribes, groped women taking road tests
A Department of Motor Vehicles examiner in Queens was charged Tuesday with demanding bribes to pass drivers taking their road tests and with groping female applicants.
Ian Alexander Cioffi, 35, of Stewart Manor, LI, was hit with a slew of felony charges, according to state Inspector General Letizia Tagliafiero and Queens DA Richard Brown.
In one incident, Cioffi was administering a road test to a woman in Astoria on March 14, 2018, when he asked if she had any money, authorities said.
When the applicant said no, he took hold of the steering wheel, pulled the car to the curb and demanded $100 for a passing grade, officials said. When she refused that demand and another one for $20, Cioffi allegedly placed his hand on her leg and up her shirt — and then told her she had passed although she hadn’t performed the required three-point turn or parallel park tests, authorities said.
Officials also allege that Cioffi flunked a woman when she refused to give him “coffee,” his euphemism for cash.
Cioffi couldn’t be reached for comment.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/dmv-examiner-took-bribes-groped-women-taking-road-tests-da/
Man busted outside Google HQ with baseball bats after his YouTube channel was shut down
A Maine man angry at Google because his YouTube channel was shut down was busted in California with baseball bats in his car while on his way to the tech giant’s headquarters, officials said.
Police arrested Kyle Long, 33, on Sunday afternoon in Mountain View, Calif., with three baseball bats in his car and his navigation set to Google’s headquarters, according to a post to the Mountain View Police Department’s Facebook page.
Iowa State Police were first alerted to Long’s bizarre behavior on Friday, when he told troopers he was on his way to the company’s flagship location in Mountain View “to meet with Google after his YouTube channel had been shut down, which he claimed was resulting in him losing money,” according to the Facebook post.
Iowa police encountered him twice that day — once during a car crash, and later when he allegedly “vandalized a restroom at a gas station store,” during which time he made the claims.
Then, on Sunday, Mountain View cops heard from Maine’s Waterville Police Department.
“They had received information that Long was not only in California, but that he had stated if his meeting with Google personnel did not go well, he was going to resort to physical violence,” the post further states.
Long was arrested shortly thereafter with the bats in his car. He was charged with making criminal threats and was being held on $25,000 bail.
NYPD cop accidentally recorded oral sex with her boss on police bodycam
The NYPD is probing claims that a Brooklyn cop performed oral sex on her boss inside a squad car while on the job — blissfully unaware that her body camera was capturing crystal-clear audio of the deed.
During a recent midnight tour in East New York’s 75th Precinct, the officer and her sergeant purportedly started getting frisky inside their car, with the female cop tucking her body camera into her vest, thinking it was turned off, police sources said.
But the camera was rolling throughout the action, capturing audio of the lusty law-officers — neither of whom was immediately identified by name — that left little to the imagination, sources said.
The female officer can even be heard gushing to her lover about the apparent sex act as they basked in the afterglow, according to sources.
The recorded rendezvous was likely uncovered by a precinct superior during a routine review of the couple’s body camera footage after their shift ended, sources told The Post.
“It’s disgusting and an embarrassment,” fumed one police source, who added that the sergeant should be demoted for fooling around with a subordinate if the erotic audio is as it seems.
“Especially since he is a supervisor and he would do that to his worker.”
It wasn’t immediately clear when or exactly where the clip was purportedly recorded, but word of its existence spread like wildfire around the East New York cop shop — and back to brass in 1 Police Plaza.
“These claims are under review,” the NYPD said in a statement, though
department insiders said that as of Wednesday afternoon neither of the
cops purportedly involved had been interviewed.
They remain on full duty.
Internal investigators have also yet to give the audio a listen, and were working Wednesday to get their hands on it to determine its authenticity, another source said.
The alleged raunchy recording comes just one week after the NYPD proudly announced that every beat cop, sergeant and lieutenant on the force — some 20,000 Finest — is now equipped with a body camera.
“Body-worn cameras enhance the safety and accountability of the dedicated men and women of the NYPD,” said Police Commissioner James O’Neill in heralding the milestone.
The department, which had been expanding body camera usage in waves since 2017, has already hit at least one other X-rated speed bump.
In December 2018, Brooklyn Detective Specialist Raymond Williams, 44, was suspended without pay for grabbing a colleague’s unattended body cam and using it to record a clip of his testicles.
Suspect kills former landlord, another woman while 6-year-old son watched
WEST NORRITON (KYW) — A woman is accused of killing her former landlord and another woman inside a West Norriton home while her 6-year-old son watched. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said during a press conference Monday that 43-year-old Naseema Sami, of Folsom, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of 78-year-old Lila Frost and 68-year-old Lorraine Gigliello.
West Norriton Township Police responded to 10 West Indian Lane Sunday night to do a wellness check on Frost. Steele said Sami and her young son were hiding under the bed when police found them.
According to Steele, Frost was Sami’s landlord 20 years ago.
Steele says Sami arrived Thursday at the residence and let herself in through an unlocked door. Sami told police Frost told her if she ever needed anything, to contact her.
When Gigliello arrived at the apartment, Sami allegedly killed her when she reached for a phone to call police.
“There were items that were in the house that were used on the victims, as well as kicking and fists,” Steele said. “These were brutal killings.”
According to Steele, Frost arrived back at the apartment during the attack and was also killed by Sami.
“A quiet community along the Schuylkill River in West Norriton Township was rocked on Sunday when the bodies of two elderly women were discovered. They were murdered by a former renter, who had lived at the property 20 years ago and had returned because the landlord, Ms. Frost, had offered to help her if she ever needed anything,” said Steele. “Naseema Sami then murdered Ms. Frost and Ms. Gigliello, who was just visiting her friend.”
Steele says the suspect’s 6-year-old son witnessed the murders and his mother trying to clean up the scene.
The young boy is staying with other family members.
Sami is being held without bail at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility.
These are the first two homicides in West Norriton since 1986.
Woman rams several people with car after Wendy’s drive-thru altercation
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio – A dispute police said started in a Wendy’s drive-thru ended with at least one teen being taken to the hospital and a mother of two being arrested on felonious assault charges.
Police said the incident happened just before midnight Sunday in a Wendy’s parking lot in Cleveland Heights.
They said Jamila Sloan was in the drive-thru lane with her two young children when a car behind her honked at her.
“The vehicle with the three females was honking their horn at Sloan,” the report said. The report further noted witnesses told police Sloan then opened her vehicle door and asked the females if they “were hungry” and then said, “I’ll shoot y’all.”
The females then exchanged words with Sloan.
According to police, security video from Wendy’s shows that once Sloan got her food, she drove up a few feet and parked her car. A few minutes later when the other car pulled out of the drive-thru, Sloan moved her vehicle up and an argument started.
A female got out of the other car, and the vehicle Sloan was driving struck her. Two others got out of the car, and Sloan’s vehicle can be seen striking those women, too.
Police said Sloan then took off.
“The victims got the license plate and officers were able to find her,” said Chief Annette Mecklenburg. The chief said one victim was taken to the hospital. All three victims are expected to be OK.
Sloan told officers the girls tried to jump her and she got scared and took off.
“It should be noted that after the initial encounter in the drive-thru lane, Sloan had the opportunity to leave the Wendy’s parking lot, but instead decided to park, facing outward toward the drive-thru lanes, as if to wait on the Saturn to leave,” the report stated.
Sloan is facing several charges including felonious assault and child endangering. She is free on bond and due back in court soon.