Caught on camera: Deputies put mud on surveillance camera to block view
IMPERIAL, Mo. (KMOV.com) – The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department launched an internal affairs investigation after an Imperial resident filed a complaint about the actions of three deputies, which were recorded on a home security system.
Ashley Mathis first noticed something unusual Sunday night.
“I was getting ready for bed, we’d been gone all day. And I looked over at the monitor, because it sits on the desk in our bedroom and noticed that camera 1 is black,” said Mathis.
Mathis and her fiancé, Gary Schuetz, backed up the video for camera 1 and saw three deputies walked into their yard earlier in the day while the couple was gone. Then the video shows one of the deputies reaching up and putting something on the lens, blocking its view. The security camera turned out to have mud on the lens.
“I want to know what they were here for,” said Schuetz.
Mathis said the actions of the officers were suspicious and very concerning, so she filed a formal complaint with the sheriff’s department.
“Why would the Jefferson County police officers have the need to come and cover my cameras, what was their intentions?” she said.
The sheriff’s department released a statement that said, in part:
“We began an internal affairs investigation immediately because an incident like this is something we take very seriously. This is not a standard practice and it appears to be an isolated incident.”
After interviewing all three deputies, the sheriff’s department said the officers had gone to the house because they had an arrest warrant out of St. Louis County for an individual who was believed to be living in the home. No one was there at the time but sheriff’s officials say one of the deputies decided to cover the lens of the security camera, hoping the individual wouldn’t see them approach if they returned.
The officer didn’t return to the home and Mathis said they had the wrong address because she’s lived there since 2008.
“This is uncalled for,” said Schuetz.
The sheriff’s department characterized the officers’ decision to put mud on the surveillance camera as a lapse in judgment. But a spokesperson for the department said the officers would learn from the experience and that this mistake wouldn’t happen again.
Fake doctor claimed to have the cure for diabetes
A Florida man who posed as a doctor claimed he could cure diabetes through a dubious procedure transferring the patient’s own blood back into them, according to officials
Onelio Hipolit-Gonzalez, 73, was arrested Tuesday in connection to a medical scam which advertised his services on a site called “Elclassificado,” according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
Hipolit-Gonzalez posed in a white lab coat on the site and claimed he treated a range of illnesses from leukemia to multiple sclerosis, authorities said.
The Florida Department of Health alleges he never had a medical license in the state.
An undercover officer arranged an appointment last week with Hipolit-Gonzalez — who requested $160 for the visit and asked to meet at a residential home, officials said.
“Hipolit-Gonzalez checked the patient’s blood pressure and pulse and then placed a band around the patient’s head and had him hold a metal rod (both the band and the rod were connected to a machine on a table),” authorities said. “Once turned on, the machine began making beeping noises. Hipolit-Gonzalez told the patient, that the device was testing his heart, brain, intestinal system, bones, nerves, and ‘everything else.’”
When the test was complete, the so-called doctor diagnosed the patient with diabetes and osteoporosis, according to authorities.
Hipolit-Gonzalez then claimed he previously cured diabetes for another patient and could treat the undercover cop for $2,000.
Officials said he went on to explain that the treatment would include injecting the patient with “his own blood.”
The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office then intervened and brought Hipolit-Gonzalez in for questioning.
When asked about the bizarre procedure, Hipolit-Gonzalez said “he draws the patient’s blood, and then injects the same blood he just withdrew,” according to police.
“He said when the blood enters the body it ‘combats’ the blood cells and increases the immune system,” officials said.
In regards to his medical background, Hipolit-Gonzalez claimed he was a lab technician in Cuba then got a certificate in Florida for iridology, herbology and nutrition.
Charges were filed against Hipolit-Gonzalez for unlicensed practice of a health care profession and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.
Hipolit-Gonzalez is being held on $10,000 bond.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/fake-doctor-claimed-to-have-the-cure-for-diabetes-cops/
DMV stalker anonymously sent pizzas to staff for months
Truly, madly, deep-dish pizza?
Police say a stalker in Missouri tried to win over employees at the DMV office for months by having pizzas anonymously delivered to them.
Timothy Howe, 34, was more enthusiastic than most when it came to waiting at the Driver’s License and Vehicle Registration Office in Troy, according to a release Monday from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
Howe would often come up with excuses to visit, including asking for duplicate titles and other vehicle registration-related papers, authorities said.
Employees said Howe’s vehicle was spotted driving through the parking lot “at all times of the day,” the release said.
Police said Howe ordered pizzas anonymously for the entire staff until one employee asked him not to buy her pizzas anymore. He then allegedly “bought them for everyone in the office, except for her.”
In November 2018, the alleged stalker left a “large amount of cash” on the DMV countertop, saying to the staffer, “Go get yourself a manicure or pedicure,” according to deputies.
The incident was reported to the Compliance Investigation Bureau and Howe was banned from frequenting the DMV office.
“Shortly after, Howe was able to obtain one of the victim’s cell number and he sent her a Merry Christmas text and other odd text messages,” authorities said. “One victim stated Howe drove past her twice while she gassed her vehicle and [she] felt unsafe around him.”
Detectives opened an investigation into the complaints Feb. 6 and arrested Howe when he was spotted driving near the Troy office.
Stalking and harassment charges were filed against Howe. He was booked into the Lincoln County Jail on a $20,000 bond.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/dmv-stalker-anonymously-sent-pizzas-to-staff-for-months-cops/
School nurse allegedly performed oral sex on several students
A school nurse in Maryland faces charges after she allegedly admitted to performing oral sex on several students, according to officials.
Samantha Marsh, who works at Crisfield High School & Academy, was arrested Tuesday following allegations she had sexual encounters with four students in the back of her van, news station WBOC reported.
The 33-year-old nurse is accused of being sexually involved with the students off-campus between March 2018 and January 2019.
Detectives spoke to the four victims who stated Marsh picked them up from school in her van. The alleged sex acts occurred in the vehicle at various locations in Crisfield, they said.
Marsh reportedly confessed to engaging in oral sex with at least three of the students.
She was booked on multiple sex offense charges and is being held without bail at the Somerset County Detention Center.
Crisfield High School & Academy said they placed Marsh on paid administrative leave prior to her arrest, news station WBOC reported.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/school-nurse-allegedly-performed-oral-sex-on-several-students/
Mexican restaurant fires back after customer leaves racist ‘tip’
The owner of a Mexican restaurant put a customer on blast after the man left a racist note on the receipt
nstead of leaving a tip, the man who dined at Charrito’s Bar & Grill in Huntsville, Ala., on Saturday penned a lewd missive to the waitstaff, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page.
“Brown c–ts,” the diner wrote on the receipt. “Trump will f–k you all.”
The restaurant said the man’s visit was normal — barring a comment he made when asked whether he wanted to pay cash or card, according to news station WHNT. The customer allegedly said, “Do white people ever use cash?”
It wasn’t until after he left that the racist note on the receipt was brought to the restaurant’s attention.
The restaurant owner, Vanessa Martinez, took to social media to fire back at his comments.
“We would like to let everyone know that this behavior is not tolerated in our restaurant,” she wrote in a Facebook message. “Our staff and any customers in our facility require respect.”
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/mexican-restaurant-fires-back-after-customer-leaves-racist-tip/
Stockton Special Education Teacher Sentenced to Life in Prison for Incest, Sexually Abusing Children including his own children
A Stockton special education teacher has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing minors, including his own children, for nearly 20 years.
Rodney Flucas, 50, was given a life sentence Tuesday for transporting minors with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Flucas also was sentenced to 10 years for transporting his daughter across state lines to engage in incest and 20 years for attempted witness tampering, according to a news release by the U.S. attorney’s office.
Flucas abused four of his daughters, a son and two other young women, beginning when they were minors, and faced allegations that he impregnated two of his daughters and one of his daughter’s friends, court documents show. DNA tests confirmed that he is the father of 10 children born to his victims, including three children born to one of his daughters, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
The abuse began in 2000, when Flucas lived with his family in Valdosta, Ga., according to evidence presented at trial. There, he owned or rented at least four houses on the same street where his wife, ex-wife, other partners and several children lived.
He moved his family to Americus, Ga., in 2014, after the grandmother of four of Flucas’ children made allegations leading to an investigation by the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, according to the news release.
In September 2014, Flucas moved his family to Klamath Falls, Ore., where he began sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl who became friends with his daughter, according to court records. The girl moved into Flucas’ home and became pregnant, as did one of Flucas’ adult daughters for the third time.
Flucas and his family, including his daughter’s friend, then moved to Stockton in 2015, where he got a job as a teacher for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Prosecutors said he tried to hide the abuse by undermining the credibility of his victims and ordering them to lie to child protection authorities and police.
The family’s mantra was: “What happens in the family, stays in the family,” according to the news release.
The abuse was discovered in 2017, when one of Flucas’ teenage daughters drove into a lamp post in the hope that her death would lead officials to discover her father’s abuse, records show. The girl was taken to a hospital, where she told authorities about the abuse, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Before the crash, Flucas searched online for the conversion rate of the U.S. dollar to the Mexican peso as well as places to move, including China, Kenya, Ethiopia and Canada, according to evidence presented at his trial.
Prosecutors said the man told two of his victims that he would take them to a place where he believed incest was legal in order to continue the abuse, including New Jersey, Rhode Island and Switzerland.
via: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stockton-man-sentenced-incest-20190213-story.html
Veteran Faked His Death After Raping, Impregnating Teen Stepdaughter in Mississippi
Authorities are searching for a U.S. Army veteran accused of faking his death off the Alabama coast to avoid charges in Mississippi, where he is accused of raping and impregnating his 14-year-old stepdaughter.
News outlets reported this week that Orange Beach, Alabama, police found an abandoned dingy belonging to 42-year-old Jacob Blair Scott just offshore last summer. Inside it was a note with Scott’s social security number that said “I’m sorry” and a handgun tied to a rope.
Authorities searched unsuccessfully for Scott and said it was strange there wasn’t any forensic evidence of a suicide. Scott had withdrawn $45,000 from his retirement account and disappeared days before he was set to plead guilty to charges related to the attack on his now ex-stepdaughter.
DNA evidence confirmed he is the father.
Release date set for ‘Coming to America’ sequel
Get ready because Eddie Murphy is coming to America, again!
Paramount confirmed Monday that the actor will star in a sequel to “Coming to America,” set to hit theaters next year.
Craig Brewer will direct and Kenya Barris is executive producing.
Little has been revealed about the new plot. In the original, Murphy played an African prince [Akeem] who comes to Queens, New York to avoid an arranged marriage. The film also starred James Earl Jones, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley and John Amos.
According to Deadline, “Akeem learns about a long-lost son, and must return to America to meet the unlikely heir to the throne of Zamunda.”
Murphy has a lot to celebrate these days, with the recent birth of his 10th child. The 57-year-old actor and his fiancée, Paige Butcher, 39, welcomed a son named Max Charles Murphy, last year.
The as-yet untitled “Coming to America” sequel is scheduled to hit theaters on August 7, 2020.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/02/12/release-date-set-for-coming-to-america-sequel/
Four malnourished children – two locked in dog crate – found on Texas property
RHOME, Texas – Texas deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call found four malnourished children, two of whom were locked inside a dog crate, Wise County Chief Deputy Craig Johnson said Tuesday.
Deputies responded to a “shop-type” outbuilding near Rhome, which lies about 25 miles northwest of Fort Worth, after receiving a call around 7:20 a.m. reporting “some sort of physical altercation or argument,” Johnson said.
While speaking with a man at the property who had injuries to his face, deputies reported hearing the voices of children.
Investigators found four children inside the residence, “two of which were locked in a dog crate, one was laying on a blanket, one was laying on a toddler bed,” Johnson said. “All of them were filthy, covered in fecal material and appeared to be a in a state of neglect.”
The children are 1, 3, 4 and 5 years old. Johnson said the woman living at the property is the biological mother of all four; the man is the biological father of one.
The Star-Telegram identified the adults as Paige Harkins and Andrew Joseph Fabila, both 24 years old. Deputies arrested Harkins and Fabila on four counts of child endangerment each and took them to the Wise County Jail, Johnson said.
The chief deputy said deputies found a refrigerator in the makeshift residence with three straps on it, positioned so the children couldn’t access it.
Two of the children, a 5-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, were locked inside a 3-by-3 foot kennel, according to the paper.
Neighbors told KXAS they noticed the couple begin to use the building a couple of weeks earlier, but had no idea that there were children living inside. Authorities took the children to Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth to be evaluated.
“This is at the top of the list of worst cases, as far as children,” Johnson said, calling the use of the dog crate and lack of care “unacceptable.”
Prince George’s County nanny found guilty of 2016 murder of 8-month-old baby, force-feeding her
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – A Prince George’s County live-in nanny has been found guilty of murder, after she faced charges for force-feeding an 8-month-old girl, which led to her death.
The Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office said on Monday that 73-year-old Oluremi Adeleye Oyindasola had been found guilty of second degree murder, second degree child abuse and first degree child abuse resulting in death.
In October 2016, Oyindasola was a live-in nanny at the residence of Nikia Porter and Influence Salubi and cared for their three children.
Oyindasola was captured on a home nanny camera with 8-month-old Enita Salubi. The infant is seen in the video in a baby walker pulling on the nanny’s dress and patting her leg while Oyindasola was lying on the couch.
Oyindasola gets up and tries to feed the baby, but prosecutors say she is later seen removing the nipple from the bottle and pouring milk into Enita’s mouth until she is no longer conscious.
The young girl was taken to the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Sentencing for Oyindasola is set for May 3, 2019.