At Least 5 People, Including 3 Infants, Stabbed at Overnight Day Care Center
(NEW YORK) — Police in New York say at least five people, including three infants, were stabbed at an overnight day care center in Queens.
NBC New York reports that authorities say the stabbings happened just before 4 a.m. Friday. One of the infants, a girl, is in serious condition, but none of the injuries is considered life-threatening.
A sixth person was found in the basement of the day care center in the Flushing neighborhood. Police say she had slashed her left wrist and is in custody at a hospital.
Police say a man who was injured was stabbed in the leg and is the father of a child who was at the day care center. It isn’t clear whether his child was among those stabbed. Another adult who was hurt is a woman who works at the center.
A motive for the stabbings hasn’t been determined.
Someone called police on an African-American politician while she campaigned in her district
Sheila Stubbs says she’s knocked on thousands of doors in Madison, Wisconsin, in her 12 years as a county supervisor and has never had a problem in the community.
But last month, someone called the police while she was campaigning for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly — because they thought she was a drug dealer.
Stubbs is the only African-American on the 37-member Dane County Board of Supervisors. What happened to her is just the latest in a string of highly publicized incidents in the US in which police were called on black people for innocuous activities such as napping, barbecuing or meeting over coffee.
The incident happened August 7, although Stubbs is just talking about it publicily now. It occurred when she was visiting voters in a predominately white neighborhood on the west side of the city. She was wearing a name tag, carrying campaign literature with her picture on it and had a “walk list” with the names and addresses of potential supporters.
Her mother was following behind in their car, along with Stubbs’ 8-year-old daughter.
“I had knocked at approximately six doors and some of the future constituents were home, and those that were home, I talked to for about 10 minutes … because they were excited that I stopped by,” she said.
Then the police showed up
Stubbs had been on the street for about 20 minutes and was talking to a resident when a police officer arrived.
“I happened to look over and I see this police officer had pulled up behind my car,” Stubbs said.
She ended her conversation and excused herself, so she could see what was going on. Stubbs introduced herself to the officer, who told her police had gotten a call from someone who thought Stubbs was a drug dealer.
“And I’m like, ‘a drug dealer! Are you serious, they think I’m a drug dealer? No!” she said.
Stubbs says she showed the officer her name tag and campaign fliers, but she didn’t seem satisfied until Stubbs showed her the walk list with the addresses of the houses she had visited.
“When I showed it to her. She was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m really sorry. I’m really sorry this happened to you,’” Stubbs said.
A Madison Police spokesman said the department has a good relationship with Stubbs and referred CNN to the police report of the incident, which aligns with Stubbs’ account.
The report says the officer got a complaint about a suspicious vehicle in front of a “drug house” in the neighborhood.
It says that once she found out what was happening, the officer thanked Stubbs’ mother “and apologized for having had to interrupt her evening because of this call to service.”
Stubbs says several people came to check on her during the encounter, including one who asked for a campaign yard sign when she found out what a neighbor had done.
The officer encouraged her to keep campaigning, but Stubbs just wanted to leave.
“It was just the humiliation. I felt so degraded, but I had to keep a certain persona,” she said. “And I just wanted to go.”
Lingering concerns
Stubbs says she has concerns about how the officer initially treated her and her mother.
“It took the both of us persuading her before she realized it,” she said. “I felt like I had to give my bio to persuade her who I really was.”
Stubbs says she plans to meet with the Madison police chief about the episode.
“I was angry and outraged and embarrassed that it happened to me — in Madison, Wisconsin, it happened to me? And my daughter had to see me go through this,” she said.
She took a day off from campaigning to work through her feelings and comfort her daughter, who didn’t understand why the officer didn’t believe them.
Stubbs said she told her daughter that incidents like this are why she was running.
“I’m going to make it better for you, so you don’t go through what momma goes through — it has to get better for you,” she said. “She held me and she gave me a good hug, I gave her a good hug, and she said, ‘I love you mommy’ and ‘Thank you so much mommy.’”
Stubbs ended up winning the hotly contested Democratic primary with almost 50 percent of the vote in the four-way race.
She does not have a Republican opponent in the November election, so she’s poised to be the first African American to represent her district in the state legislature when she takes office in January.
Brooklyn high school teacher arrested for allegedly producing child pornography
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn high school teacher was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of making child pornography and using Facebook to lure his alleged victims, authorities said.
Jonathan Deutsch, a teacher at Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, faces five counts of sexual exploitation of child, according to the United States Attorney Eastern District of New York. If convicted, he faces a minimum of 15 years in prison.
Starting in January of 2017, the 34-year-old suspect allegedly contacted hundreds of Facebook users who appeared to be minors. He had sexual conversations with at least 45 of them, officials said.
The victims, none of whom were Deutsch’s students, range in age from 10 to 16 years old, officials said.
He often instructed the children and teens to send him videos and photos of them performing sexually explicit acts, authorities said. He allegedly sent minors sexual photos that he told the victims were of himself.
Deutsch teaches English at Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, according to the high school’s website. After his arrest, Deutsch’s page on the school’s website was deleted.
PIX11 News has reached out to the city’s Department of Education for comment.
400-Lb Man Not Guilty After Boy Asphyxiates Under Him
Donald Martin Jr. pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in April in connection with the death of his 11-year-old grandson. On Monday, a judge ruled the Mount Orab, Ohio, man was innocent.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Martin in June withdrew his guilty plea, and Brown County Judge Scott Gusweiler found the case didn’t meet the state’s definition of recklessness, which requires a disregard for the risks and consequences of one’s actions.
In pinning Dylan Martin-Davis between his body and the arm of a couch to calm the boy down on Nov. 17, 2017, Gusweiler wrote that he found no proof the 58-year-old was aware the position could cause death; WLWT describes the position as Dylan being put over the arm of the couch, with Martin then on top of him.
Dylan, who Fox8 reports weighed 90 pounds, died of asphyxiation. The child’s father disagrees with the ruling, telling the Enquirer, “How do you kill a child and walk free? How can you pin a child down—my understanding is for five to 10 minutes—and not know what you’re doing?”
School superintendent on Texans star: ‘You can’t count on a black QB’
A school superintendent in Texas said he thought he was sending a private message when he wrote a public Facebook post blasting Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, stating, “you can’t count on a black quarterback.”
Lynn Redden, superintendent of the Onalaska Independent School District, made the comment in reference to the final play of the Texans’ 20-17 loss on Sunday to the Tennessee Titans during which Watson held onto the ball before completing a pass to receiver DeAndre Hopkins as time expired, leaving no time to try a last-second, game-tying field goal.
“That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I’ve seen in the NFL,” Redden wrote on a Facebook post promoting a Houston Chronicle story about the game. “When you need precision decision making you can’t count on a black quarterback.”
But Redden didn’t realize that the post was public. He later deleted his comment and told the Chronicle he wishes he never shared that sentiment.
“I totally regret it,” Redden told the newspaper.
Redden, who oversees 1,130 students and 175 staffers as the district’s superintendent, did not immediately return a message seeking comment from The Post early Tuesday. He had not faced any discipline in connection with the remark as of Monday afternoon but told the Chronicle he understands how people may consider it to be racist.
Redden said he was referring to the statistical success of black quarterbacks in the NFL.
“Over the history of the NFL, they have had limited success,” he told the newspaper.
Doug Williams in 1988 became the league’s first black quarterback to lead his team to a championship, taking the Washington Redskins over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII. Williams, who started the season as a backup, was named the game’s MVP after completing 18-of-29 passes for 340 yards and four touchdowns.
More recently, in 2014, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson became the second black quarterback to win it all, beating the Denver Broncos 43-8 in his second season as a pro.
The eagle-eyed reader who caught Redden’s comment, meanwhile, said he hopes there are repercussions to follow.
“It’s important to make sure horrible words are met with consequences, especially for those in powerful positions with influence,” reader Matt Erickson told the newspaper.
Watson, for his part, said the Titans simply countered with “good coverage” during the game’s waning seconds, according to ESPN.
Asked if he should’ve thrown the ball away earlier, he said: “Of course.
“But while you’re playing … you can sit back and sit in your seats and say that I needed to throw the ball away,” Watson said. “But we tried to take a shot and we didn’t have any timeouts and they guarded the sideline very well. So my instincts took over and tried to get the ball and time ran out.”
Coach Bill O’Brien instead took most of the blame.
“We’re just trying to get it into field goal range and just trying to — we’ve got to do a better job of coaching that play up,” O’Brien told reporters.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/18/school-superintendent-on-texans-star-you-cant-count-on-a-black-qb/
Pa. mom charged in homicide of boy, 2; allegedly put Vicodin in sippy cup
A mother has been charged with criminal homicide in the alleged poisoning death of a 2-year-old boy in Tullytown, Bucks County.
Jennifer Clarey has been charged with one count of criminal homicide in connection to the death of Mazikeen Curtis.
Mazikeen’s body was found inside his home in the 500 block of Lovett Avenue just after 10:30 p.m. on August 25.
According to court documents, Clarey allegedly drugged her son, putting the active ingredient in Vicodin inside the boy’s sippy cup, causing him to overdose.
Mazikeen’s sippy cup was sent to a lab where tests revealed the presence of Vicodin on the sippy cup and in the contents of the sippy cup.
Authorities say an empty Vicodin prescription bottle was later found inside a closed lock box in the home.
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub says research was done into Mazikeen’s medical history, and he was never prescribed Vicodin.
“We did some exhaustive research into Mazikeen’s health history. He was not prescribed Vicodin. In fact, it’s incredibly rare – if ever – that Vicodin, as we know is an opioid pain killer, would ever be prescribed for a two-year-old,” Weintraub said. “Plain and simple, this was a murder, and the weapon was the pills that came from this bottle.”
Authorities said the little boy’s body was discovered after police responded to a welfare check.
Their neighbor, Dawn Dunlap, said she and her neighbors were the ones who called for the check.
“Me and my other neighbor, we discussed it and said, ‘you know what, this is something we have to do,'” Dunlap said.
She said just hours before the boy was found dead his mother, Jennifer Clarey, was acting extremely out of character.
“It wasn’t something that I had ever seen before so for me to hear and see what I was seeing was just not her,” Dunlap said.
Authorities say Jennifer Clarey was found inside the home with self-inflicted wounds to her wrists.
Clarey was being held Tuesday without bail in Bucks County Prison.
Duo busted after allegedly selling weed treats at church — including cereal, brownies and puddings
For the love of pot!
Two women were busted Friday on drug charges after one allegedly sold weed edibles at a church in Savannah, Georgia, according to the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team.
Ebony Cooper, 28, was reportedly openly hawking various treats — including cereal, brownies and puddings — that contained marijuana at a church event for entrepreneurs, authorities said.
Officials said she advertised the illegal baked goods on social media prior to the event.
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Undercover agents bought several items from Cooper then followed her to 26-year-old Leah Pressley’s car, which they searched, according to officials.
The search allegedly turned up a large number of pot edibles, more than $1,000 in cash and a loaded gun.
Both Cooper and Pressley were arrested and booked at Chatham County Detention Center on felony drug charges, authorities said.
Dad arrested for driving teen couple to park to ‘do their thang’
A Florida man faces charges after he allegedly drove his 15-year-old son to a park with his teen girlfriend so they could have sex — or, in the dad’s words, “do their thang,” according to police.
Laurence Mitchell, 53, was arrested earlier this month after an officer spotted him after-hours in his car at McChesney Park in Port St. Lucie, according to The Smoking Gun.
The dad reportedly told the officer that his son requested he take him and his girlfriend to the local park “so they can do what kids do.”
“Well, they aren’t out there stealing, they are just having sex,” Mitchell allegedly said to the cop, adding that “they could be out there doing worse.”
Mitchell, however, allegedly admitted that he didn’t know if the girl’s parents consented to her being out.
The police officer then interviewed the teen couple after they returned from the soccer field, the TCPalm reported.
Mitchell’s son reportedly told the officer that he and his girlfriend were “just smokin’ and f–kin’.”
Police arrested the dad and booked him at St. Lucie County Jail on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was released on $750 bond and scheduled to appear Sept. 25 in court.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/18/dad-arrested-for-driving-teen-couple-to-park-to-do-their-thang-cops/
Man huffs spray paint, then beats mother with spatula
ST. ALBANS, West Virginia — A West Virginia man was arrested after being accused of huffing paint and then beating his mother.
Glenn Allen Casdorph, 30, faces charges of malicious wounding in the incident, WCHS reports
Police say they responded to reports of domestic violence and found Casdorph, a known huffer, sitting on a bench in the front yard. He had a large amount of silver spray paint on his face and hands. He also was holding a large steel bar.
Police say his mother was inside the home, and her head was wrapped with gauze. She was also covered in blood. Police said the weapon used in the attack was actually a spatula.
Casdorph is in jail on $10,000 bond.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/09/18/man-huffs-spray-paint-then-beats-mother-with-spatula-police-say/
Man threatens to shoot 11-year-old who beat him at video game ‘Fortnite’
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. — A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threatening to shoot an 11-year-old child, possibly at his school, after the boy beat him at the video game “Fortnite.”
Michael Aliperti, 45, of Huntington, was arrested around 1:40 a.m. and faces charges of second-degree aggravated harassment and acting in a manner to injure a child, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
The arrest was the result of Aliperti threatening to shoot a child after losing to the boy during the game “Fornite,” police said.
The 11-year-old reported the threats, which were made through text messages and online voice messages left using an Xbox gaming system, police said.
Aliperti said he planned to shoot the child, possibly at his school, according to police.
The alleged threats were made Monday night.