‘Target Teresa’ caught on video harassing black customers
A white Target customer was caught on camera harassing a group of black shoppers in Tennessee, telling them they “don’t belong here” and accusing them of inappropriately talking about sex in public.
“You were talking about sex in public. Are you having sex in public because that’s what you screamed out loud,” the woman — quickly nicknamed “Target Teresa” and “Target Tammy” online — says in since-deleted footage posted to Facebook on Friday.
The women whom “Target Teresa” is accosting try to explain that they were just talking about jazz legend Eartha Kitt’s character in the 1992 comedy “Boomerang” and even turn around to try to disengage.
But the NASA sweatshirt-wearing accuser isn’t having it.
“I didn’t realize talking about sex in public was normal. I know you’re trained on lying. You’re perfect for the court system because you’re all trained liars,” she says.
During the approximately four minutes of the altercation caught on tape, “Target Teresa” also calls the women “abusive.”
One of the women in the group, who didn’t want to be identified, told Yahoo Lifestyle she was “confused” by the whole incident.
“My cousin and I were visiting my best friend from out of state and we stopped by Target to buy a phone charger,” she said. “I told my friend to try on a hat that looked like something Eartha Kitt’s character would wear in the film and she said no because her character had sex with a younger man.”
Then “Target Teresa” popped her head over the accessories display.
“She told us, ‘You shouldn’t be talking about sex,’” the woman told the outlet. “We were confused — then, she came around the corner with her shopping cart and started ranting, ‘You don’t belong here’ and calling our conversation inappropriate.”
Man arrested for hammering ice pick-like tool through housemate’s genitals
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah – Police say a Utah man held his housemate at gunpoint, bound him to a chair and then told him he could choose between death in the desert or having a nail hammered through his genitals.
Jason Dee Maughn, 45, had a warrant out for his arrest since early September. According to charging documents, the assault occurred on August 30 in Salt Lake County when Maughn got into a fight that night with a man who was living in the home with him.
During the argument, Maughn allegedly held a shotgun to the other man’s head and made him sit in a chair before handcuffing him to the arm rests.
Maughn then told the victim he could, “either be taken to the desert to be killed or Maughn could drive a nail into [victim’s] penis,” the document states.
Maughn allegedly told the other man he would shoot him if he tried to fight back.
The victim chose the latter of the two options, and Maughn used a rusty hammer to drive a tool resembling an ice pick through the victim’s penis and into a board, according to the document.
Maughn then released the man, who sought medical attention the next morning.
Court records show Maughn was booked at the Salt Lake County Jail on Sunday and faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated sex assault, mayhem and aggravated assault.
He is being held on a $250,000 bond.
High school football players suspended for running naked with Oreos wedged in buttocks
BYRON, Ill. – Administrators at an Illinois high school suspended ten football players for stripping naked and running across the field with Oreo cookies between their buttocks last month, according to The Rockford Register Star,
Dubbed the “Oreo run,” the streaking incident was voluntary and not related to hazing, according to Byron High School officials, who reportedly interviewed almost 30 players and all of the coaches.
According to a letter to parents obtained by the paper, the incident happened on Oct. 26th but school officials did not learn about it until Nov. 8th. Parents were called the next day.
It’s unclear if the students were suspended from class.
“The report was promptly relayed to me and I immediately directed that an investigation take place,” said volunteer assistant Sean Considine. “(They) interviewed all nine football coaches. They also interviewed nearly 30 members of the varsity football team, many in the presence of one or more parent. They also accessed and examined footage from various security cameras at or near the stadium.”
The three games that the players missed included the Class 3A state championship game in which Byron lost 24-20. That was the team’s only loss of the season.
Man accused of drugging, raping girlfriend as she slept
WAUKESHA, Wis. – A 20-year-old man walked into a Wisconsin police department and confessed to drugging and raping his girlfriend, according to prosecutors.
Edgardo Nieves faces four felony charges including false imprisonment, administering a dangerous or stupefying drug and two counts of second degree sexual assault of an intoxicated victim.
Nieves appeared in court Monday and a judge set a cash bond of $75,000. A preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 10. He was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim.
According to a criminal complaint, Nieves told police sex with his girlfriend at her Waukesha apartment was consensual at first. During an interview with investigators, his girlfriend said he “loved to watch her sleep” and later confided that he “had a fetish about having sexual intercourse with an unconscious or dead person.”
Nieves said the alleged encounters started earlier this year when he had sex with his girlfriend while she slept. When she didn’t wake up during the incident, Nieves told investigators he “wanted this to continue,” according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said he admitted he bought drugs “that would knock her out” and added it to her “food or in her drink” on at least 10 occasions. His girlfriend said she suspected the drugging after waking up in pain and with burn marks, from what he told her were cigarettes.
She once attempted to escape through an apartment balcony, but Nieves said he didn’t let that happen, according to police.
Nieves’ family issued this statement to WITI:
“The man being charged is not the warm, kind-hearted young man that we have known his entire life. Our child was introduced to heroin and a sadistic sexual lifestyle by the ‘victim’ (who has a storied history with the correctional system, having previously been convicted of and serving time for multiple felonies). He is saying things that are so completely out of character and, frankly, beyond his level of comprehension that we strongly believe he has been coerced and manipulated by the alleged ‘victim’ to admit to crimes he did not actually commit.
We have confidence that the truth will be revealed and our child’s innocence proven. We encourage all parents and caretakers to be realistic about the dangers and availability of drugs and to be keenly aware of the people with whom their children associate. Insist upon meeting them, get to know them and communicate ceaselessly and honestly with your children.
We pray that this doesn’t happen to anyone else and pray that the manipulative grip the ‘victim’ has over our child is loosened so he may speak freely and honestly and avoid serving time for crimes he did not commit.
-The family of Edgardo Nieves, Jr.”
via: https://pix11.com/2018/12/03/man-accused-of-drugging-raping-girlfriend-as-she-slept/
Tiffany Trump Is Reportedly Dating Michael Boulos, A Millionaire From Nigeria
Tiffany Trump has been privately dating Michael Boulos, the son of a multi-billion dollar family in Nigeria, Page Six reports. A source close to Tiffany tells the outlet that she and Boulos spent Thanksgiving together earlier this month and that he met most of her family.
Tiffany and Boulos are assumed to have started dating over the summer when they met while on vacation in Mykonos. Boulos grew up in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria-a country which Tiffany’s father President Trump once referred to as a “shithole country.” Back in January of this year, a source who works within the White House reported to CNN that President Trump had denounced immigrants by asking aides,”Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?”
“Tiffany is happy she has so far been able to keep things with Michael under the radar,” explains Page Six’s source. “But she introduced him to her family at Thanksgiving, and he comes across as a very intelligent young man from a great family. There was no mention of the president’s unfortunate comment about African nations.”
President Trump later denied using the word “shithole” to describe Nigeria as a country, but did admit that he had used “tough” language when referring to the country behind closed doors. While hosting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Washington, D.C. in April, Business Insider quotes Trump as referring to “some countries that are in very bad shape.”
Good Samaritan Fatally Stabbed After Stopping To Give Woman Money
A Baltimore woman was fatally stabbed Saturday after she rolled down her car window to give money to a seemingly struggling young mother, according to police.
Jacquelyn Smith, 52, was in the front passenger seat of a car with her family when they stopped to help the woman, the Baltimore Police Department told HuffPost.
Believed to be in her 20s, the woman was reportedly holding a cardboard sign stating “Please Help me feed my Baby” while cradling either a baby or an object that had been wrapped to look like one, according to the police statement.
After handing the woman money, a black male reportedly approached the vehicle to thank the family, the statement said.
It is alleged he then “reached in to grab the female victim’s wallet when a struggle ensued.”
“The male suspect then produced a knife and stabbed the victim in the torso before fleeing the area on foot with the female suspect who was holding the sign,” the police statement said.
Doctors were unable to save Smith, who succumbed to her injuries.
Homicide detectives are currently working to identify both the male and female suspects.
via: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/baltimore-baby-stabbed-fatal-car_us_5c047719e4b0a173c0243b80
‘Psychic’ busted for allegedly scamming woman out of $12K
She should’ve seen it coming.
A Westchester County “psychic” has just been busted for the third time in fewer than two years — this time for allegedly bilking a woman out of her life savings by convincing the client she’d been cursed in a past life as a mute Egyptian healer.
Accused serial Scarsdale scamster Janet Lee, 44, was arrested Tuesday in Bedford and charged with third-degree grand larceny for allegedly ripping off a 64-year-old local resident for more than $12,000, according to court documents.
The woman had sought out Lee’s services in June after growing “despondent” that she’d never achieved her dream of a career in writing or filmmaking, according to a statement provided to The Post by Bob Nygaard, a private investigator she recruited to help bring the psychic to justice. Nygaard said the statement also was submitted to authorities.
The woman said Lee told her there had been “a dark force” plaguing her since her days as an Egyptian miracle worker on a mountain thousands of years ago — and the bad vibes had been placed on her by a rapist she refused to heal.
She said she ended up giving Lee her sole retirement fund, an IRA worth more than $11,000, and quit her job to help “cleanse’’ herself.
She said she handed over the cash outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, where she says the psychic claimed to have an “office.”
“Janet told me to go into the church, to walk down the left side of the church, to kneel and pray before the shroud of Christ and to leave all the darkness behind,” the woman said through Nygaard. Lee allegedly told her she would put the cash in a lock box at the cathedral for safekeeping until the cleansing work was done.
A few days layer, the woman said she did a Web search on Lee — and discovered she was a convicted felon who’d been sued in Connecticut for an alleged scam that closely mirrored her own experience.
“My world came crashing down, having come to the realization I had been conned,” said the woman.
Lee was first busted in Manhattan in June 2017 on identity-theft and forgery raps for posing as another woman to rent a luxury Soho pad apartment. She later pleaded guilty in exchange for three years’ probation.
She was arrested again this past June and hit with grand-larceny and scheme-to-defraud charges for an allegedly fortune-telling scam in the Westchester town of Mount Pleasant. She pleaded not guilty.
She was also sued in Stamford, Conn., last year by a Greenwich woman named Sheila McKiver, who said Lee conned her out of $32,900 by telling her she’d found a “terrible darkness” around her during a Tarot-card
reading in 2015.
Earlier this month, a judge found in favor of McKiver and ordered Lee to pay her $30,000, court records show.
Nygaard says he has been trying to get authorities to arrest Lee for years. The Westchester DA declined to comment. Lee couldn’t be reached for comment.
Additional reporting by Ruth Brown
via: https://nypost.com/2018/11/30/psychic-busted-for-allegedly-scamming-woman-out-of-12k/
Houston mom accused of decapitating 5-year-old son, stuffing body in trash
HOUSTON — A mother was taken into custody after she allegedly drowned and decapitated her 5-year-old son before stuffing his body in a trash can in their Houston home.
Lihui Liu, 43, was arrested Friday and faces charges of capital murder, police said.
Houston police responded to initial reports of a stabbing at the home at about 7 p.m. Friday. Authorities arrived to find the boy already dead, said police.
The boy’s father told police he came home, and Liu told him she had sent the boy away. When his father started looking for the boy, Liu allegedly admitted the child was in the trash can, the Houston Chronicle reported.
The boy’s father discovered the child’s body in a trash can in their garage, the Houston Chronicle reported. His severed head was also in the trash.
Police recovered a bloody knife in the bathroom, with the bathtub splattered in blood, the publication reported.
Liu allegedly admitted to drowning her son and was later arrested.
The couple also has a 13-year-old daughter, according to police. It was not immediately made available if she was home at the time of the incident.
Liu is expected back in court on Monday.
North Carolina Man Shoots Son on Thanksgiving After Fight Over Kneeling NFL Players
Police in North Carolina say a man shot and wounded his son on Thanksgiving after a heated fight about NFL athletes kneeling during the national anthem.
Cary police say 21-year-old Esteban Marley Valencia and his brother argued during dinner about the athletes’ protest of racial injustice.
News outlets report 51-year-old Jorge Luis Valencia-Lamadrid told officers Valencia then physically attacked his other son so he retrieved a shotgun.
Valencia-Lamadrid said Valencia started throwing furniture and hit him in the face with a water bottle. He said he had been holding the gun by its pistol grip and squeezed the trigger.
Valencia was shot in the hand and leg. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Valencia-Lamadrid was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. It’s unclear if he has a lawyer.
Woman Accused of Beating, Choking Santa Ana McDonald’s Manager Over Missing Ketchup Is Arrested
A woman who was wanted for beating and choking a Santa Ana McDonald’s manager in a caught-on-video dispute over ketchup last month has been arrested, police officials announced Wednesday.
Mayra Berenice Gallo, 24, allegedly became enraged when she discovered there was not enough ketchup in the order when the incident occurred on Oct. 27.
After ordering in the drive-thru of the McDonald’s restaurant in the 1500 block of North Bristol Street, she went into the restaurant through the employee entrance and asked for more ketchup.
The manager told her she couldn’t be in the building and Gallo allegedly “became combative” and started pushing, punching and choking the employee, police said.
Another employee tried to intervene and called other workers to help, the video showed.
A man who was believed to be with Gallo is credited with stopping the attack when he pulled the woman off the manager. The two then left the restaurant.
Police said in a news release Wednesday that they received numerous tips from the public on the woman seen in the video, which led them to Gallo. She was arrested Tuesday on a $15,000 warrant at her home in Santa Ana.
She was booked on suspicion of assault.
Police provided no new information on the man who was believed to be with Gallo during the incident.