‘I Don’t Want to Go to Jail, Mommy’: 8-Year-Old Found Steering Car for Drunken Mom, Police Say
A mother faces multiple charges after she allowed her young son to steer the car while driving down a Milwaukee freeway Thursday, authorities said.
Carrie Bernard, 37, faces one count of second-degree recklessly endangering safety and one count of DUI with a minor child in the vehicle. She also faces a third charge for allegedly violating the terms of her interlock ignition device agreement.
According to a criminal complaint, around 2:30 p.m. a deputy observed a vehicle “having difficulty negotiating the curve on the ramp” to the freeway at Fond du Lac Avenue at 107th Street.
The deputy noted the vehicle was making “jerky motions” and at one point, it drove up onto the grass on the side of the ramp, before entering the freeway. Once on the freeway, the complaint says the vehicle “could not keep its lane of travel,” and the deputy, once alongside the vehicle, noticed a small child sitting on Carrie Bernard’s lap in the driver’s seat.
The complaint states “the child had both of his hands on the steering wheel, manipulating the vehicle.”
The officer pulled the car over, and, during the traffic stop, the 8-year-old child was seen jumping to the passenger seat, and putting his seat belt on, according to the complaint.
When told why she was pulled over, prosecutors say Bernard replied: “I don’t know what you’re talking about. No one was operating this vehicle except me.”
The 8-year-old child, sitting in front of a pit bull that was also in the passenger seat “began to cry,” and said, “I don’t want to go to jail, mommy.”
The complaint says Bernard then turned to her son and said: “You’re not going to jail. Just remember her face. She’s the one that did this to us,” referencing the deputy.
Prosecutors say Bernard’s speech was slurred, she moved lethargically and had pinpoint pupils. She allegedly told investigators: “I took my meds this morning, so?” When asked what type of medications she took, the complaint says Bernard replied, “I don’t think that’s important.” When she was asked to step out of the vehicle, prosecutors say Bernard refused — rolling up her window and locking the doors.
When additional squad cars arrived on scene, prosecutors say Bernard eventually exited her vehicle after a deputy threatened to break the window and forcibly remove her. Police arrested Bernard after she failed a field sobriety test and took a sample of her blood at the Milwaukee County Jail.
The complaint notes that Bernard was convicted of DUI in January and July of 2014. Her license was revoked at the time of the alleged incident on May 4th, according to DOT records.
Woman Shares Details of L.A. Assault During Date With Man She Met on Instagram
A Los Angeles-area woman who was assaulted during a date with a man she met on Instagram last summer has shared her terrifying tale, hoping it will be a lesson to others.
India Ali, 32, says she met James Baker, 27, through social media and eventually felt comfortable enough to set up a date with him last July.
“He didn’t really look like a creep from his pictures. He looked like he had it going on,” Ali said.
The two decided to go out for a night on the town. Baker posted several videos on Instagram of the two out drinking at a restaurant and enjoying themselves.
Ali said she doesn’t remember leaving the restaurant with Baker or their ride back to the area around Los Angeles International Airport, but Baker posted videos of those events as well.
The two ended up in Baker’s hotel room at the Westin hotel near LAX. When Ali woke up the next morning, something was wrong.
“It was horrible. I woke up. I lifted my head up. I was lying in a puddle of throw up. So I look around and I see blood everywhere and my clothes everywhere,” Ali said.
Ali then saw her reflection in a mirror and could see how badly she had been beaten.
“Oh my God. I can’t believe that happened. What if they come back and kill me?” Ali thought.
She realized her cellphone and car keys were gone, so she used the hotel phone to call 911. A recording of the call provided to KTLA included the following interaction:
911 operator: “So they just beat you up?”
Ali: “There’s blood all over the room.”
911 operator: “Where are you hurt, ma’am?”
Ali: “I’m hurt in my face.”
Ali was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where doctors determined she had suffered significant head injuries.
“She had been punched in the head so badly that it had caused a swelling in the brain. The brain, when it expands, has nowhere to go so it forces down – and that’s what triggers the vomit action. It pressures the fourth vertebrae,” Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney David Berger said.
Police used the Find My iPhone app to look for Ali’s cellphone. Investigators located the phone — and Baker — a few miles away, in the victim’s car at the Courtyard Los Angeles LAX in El Segundo. He was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Pacific Division on July 21, inmate records show.
Surveillance video from the Westin showed Baker leaving the hotel in Ali’s car at about 2 a.m.
Investigators later found Baker had prior out-of-state convictions and was on bail for allegedly using fake credit cards, Berger said.
At the Airport Courthouse on April 14, Baker was found guilty of felony assault, auto theft and use of forged credit cards. He is being held at the downtown L.A. Men’s Central Jail, with a sentencing hearing scheduled for June 5.
Ali, meanwhile, is hoping her story will remind others to be cautious about who they meet online.
“I wouldn’t want anybody to go and meet up with anybody that they don’t know. Please don’t ever do that,” Ali said. “You have to value your life.”
Cops save 11-year-old girl who overdosed on heroin
A Pennsylvania girl was revived with the antidote Narcan after she overdosed on heroin in her home last week, police said.
A family member found the unresponsive girl, who was not identified, in her room in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh just before 6 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Post-Gazette. Several stamp bags of heroin were reportedly found nearby.
The family member performed CPR on the 11-year-old until paramedics arrived. The paramedics administered Narcan, which blocks the effects of opioids, on the girl and revived her.
She was rushed to the hospital and was said to be in critical condition on Thursday.
Investigators later found the heroin in the room, with at least one of the stamp bags open. The girl’s sister told the Post-Gazette her family didn’t know the 11-year-old was using heroin or where she even got the drug.
The girl was a sixth grade student at South Hills Middle School, according to the newspaper.
Overdose deaths have been rising in Allegheny County within the last eight years. In 2016, there were 613 reported overdose deaths in the county, nearly double the amount from the year before, according to OverdoseFreePA.org.
Naloxone has been widely used as an emergency treatment during drug overdoses. The FDA-approved medication helps restore breathing in patients within 2 to 8 minutes.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/08/cops-save-11-year-old-girl-who-overdosed-on-heroin/
Teen arrested for recording girl hanging herself from tree
A Utah teen was arrested Saturday in connection to the death of a 16-year-old girl found hanging from a tree.
Tyerell Joe Przybycien, 18, was charged with murder after confessing to investigators that he helped the girl kill herself and recorded the incident, the Desert News reported.
He told officers he was “suicidal and wanted to watch the victim die to see if it was something he could go through with himself,” according to an affidavit.
On Saturday morning, the 16-year-old girl was found hanging in Maple Lake, Utah, with a receipt for rope purchased by Pryzbycien nearby.
Authorities also recovered a cellphone and handwritten note identifying the girl at the scene. The note also said “if there were any questions to watch the video” on the phone.
Officers said they charged the phone and watched the video, which showed the girl’s final moments.
“You can clearly see the victim with a noose around her neck while standing on a rock” according to an affidavit. “Przybycien is heard asking the juvenile to say something.”
In the video, the teen girl inhales a large dose of industrial strength air duster, which was later discovered at the scene.
“Przybycien then continues to film this incident on camera for approximately 10 to 11 minutes,” the report said. “Przybycien never offers assistance at anytime, and can be heard asking her to move or say something.”
Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said that the 18-year-old was not captured on video trying to dissuade the girl from taking her life.
“Don’t know if he encouraged her as much as he did not actively discourage her. They talked about it,” Cannon told the Desert News. “He knew what she intended to do. They went together as he purchased the items she intended to use. And he played an active role in her death.”
Przybycien reportedly returned to the scene while officers were still investigating and confessed to his involvement.
He was taken into custody at Utah County Jail, where is being held on $20,000 bail.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/08/teen-arrested-for-recording-girl-hanging-herself-from-tree/
Woman reportedly told shopper in Va. store: ‘I wish they didn’t let you in the country’
WASHINGTON (WJLA) – A woman appears to tell a fellow shopper, “I wish they didn’t let you in the country,” in a video that is being shared online across multiple platforms.
According to the social media accounts of comedian Jeremy McLellan, his female friend, who he says is Muslim, was in a Trader Joe’s in Reston, Virginia on Saturday. In a Facebook post, McLellan says his friend let the woman cut in line ahead of her.
McLellan says the woman then asked his friend why she was not wearing something similar. McLellan then says the woman started talking about female genital mutilation.
McLellan said in his post that his friend wishes to remain anonymous at this time.
In the video, McLellan’s friend says she should not have let the woman in front of her.
“I wish they didn’t let you in the country,” the woman then says.
McLellan’s friend then says that she was born in the United States.
“Oh, you were?” the woman responds.
“Obama’s not in office anymore,” the woman says after a brief pause. “You don’t have a Muslim in there anymore.”
McLellan’s friend then says she wished Obama were still president.
“He’s gone. He’s gone,” the woman continued. “He may be in jail, too, in the future.”
McLellan’s friend can then be heard saying the woman looked “a little crazy” and suggested the woman might need to get some help.
The woman told McLellan’s friend that she was fine.
“No, you’re not,” McLellan’s friend says. “Because you don’t just strike up a conversation with people in line talking about stuff like that if you’re normal.”
The woman says that she is normal, then later asks, “What set you off? Obama?”
McLellan says he wants the video to spread.
Yashar Ali, a writer for New York Magazine and The Daily Beast also shared the video on his Twitter page.
Authorities have not released a statement on the incident at this time. ABC7 News reached out to a Trader Joe’s in Reston but the manager there said he could not confirm that it was the same store in the video.
Parents caught in disturbing tug-of-war fight with baby
Two feuding parents were caught playing tug-of-war with their baby — and the pair are now behind bars after the shocking footage spread online.
Cops collared Britnie Hass and Elias Holt after the pair were caught tussling over their 11-month-old son in the parking lot of a Utah motel last week, a local Fox affiliate reports.
The cellphone video shows the baby boy hanging loosely on Hass’s side as she fights off Holt outside a La Quinta in Orem, and the tot is then tossed around as a third family member tries to intervene.
“When I was saying to him, ‘Let me take the baby inside’, that’s when she grabs the baby out of his arms so violently,” Melina Ylinen, the third woman and Holt’s aunt, told Fox 13.
“The baby was really low on her hip, and he was bowing backwards, and I was afraid his back was going to snap.”
“She has the baby in one arm and she starts punching my nephew, and at the point the baby is falling out of her arms. She has him in a headlock and his head is the only thing keeping him from falling on the ground.”
Hass also turned on Yllinen as she tried to rescue the baby.
“I was hit seven or eight times and she tried to get her fingers in my eye sockets to pull my eyes out,” she told ABC4 Utah.
Police eventually arrived and took the family to a relative’s house. They later arrested Hass for child abuse, and Holt over a previous warrant.
They say the footage will help them make their case.
“We are going to use the video as evidence in our case as to why we filed the appropriate charges,” Orem Police Lt. Craig Martinez told ABC4.
Cops say the baby wasn’t injured in the fight, and is now staying with another family member.
‘I didn’t even get my food yet’: Melee erupts at Denny’s
A video of a knock-down, drag-out brawl at a Denny’s in Albany has gone viral — racking up more than 2.5 million views on Facebook after it was posted online by a popular comedian known as “Nick Nack Pattiwhack.”
“What is you doing, baby?! I didn’t even get my food yet, baby!” the Louisiana native can be heard saying, as plates and punches fly in all directions.
“We live, baby! Yea!” he adds.
Authorities confirmed Sunday that the fight took place early Saturday at around 4:20 a.m. at the Denny’s off of Wolf Road in Colonie, according to the Albany Times Union.
No arrests were made and no one was ticketed, cops said.
The melee was caught on tape by Nick Joseph, aka “Nick Nack Pattiwhack,” who was at the restaurant with his famous side-kick, Dan Rue.
The jokesters, both from Baton Rouge, are known for their crazy antics and online videos — which include joking around in celebrities houses and public places. They’ve coined a slew of catchphrases, such as “We live, baby!” and “That’s the one, Danielson!”
Pattiwhack uses several of them in the fight video, which starts out with the pair inside Denny’s as tension begins to escalate between two groups of people.
For some unknown reason, punches are eventually thrown — with plates breaking and silverware flying everywhere — while Pattiwhack performs his shtick and watches the drama unfold.
“Oh, baby! They live, baby!” he says, unfazed by the battle going down inside the Denny’s.
“What is you doing, baby?! Oh no, baby!”
At one point, Pattiwhack musters up the courage to go over to where a trio of girls are fighting and grabs his drink off the table next to them. The move has garnered him some hate on social media, with many condemning him for not jumping in to stop the violence.
“I can’t believe u didn’t save some one,” wrote one Facebook user. “Smh peter Pipe a f–k u!!! That ain’t cool.”
Another added, “Real talk…This wasnt cool or funny at all. I like you two guys, yall make me laugh but this is sad seeing grown folks especially black women acting like hoodlums and you promoting it.”
In response to the comments, Pattiwhack wrote: “My job as a crime stopped us to record and gather faces .. that way I don’t get touched and they don’t get touched by me.”
Police said they wouldn’t be releasing a report on the incident due to the personal information regarding those who were mentioned. Denny’s would not comment on what happened, either.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/07/i-didnt-even-get-my-food-yet-melee-erupts-at-dennys/
San Diego Police Shoot, Kill 15-Year-Old Who Pointed BB Gun at Officer
Police fatally shot a 15-year-old boy after he pointed a BB gun at them in the parking lot of a San Diego high school, authorities said The Incident started when a 911 call came in early Saturday, asking officers to check on the welfare of an unarmed boy standing in front of Torrey Pines High School.
While the caller did not provide a name, preliminary information later determined the boy made the call and was referring to himself, San Diego olice said in a statement.
When two officers arrived at the scene, they saw the teen.
“As the officers got out of their patrol cars to contact the male, the male pulled a handgun that was concealed in his waistband and pointed it at one of the officers,” police said.
“Both officers drew their weapons while repeatedly giving the male commands to drop his handgun. The subject refused to comply. Fearing for their safety, both officers fired their weapons.”
The boy was struck several times and officers performed first aid and summoned paramedics, but he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Investigators found out after the shooting that he was carrying a semiautomatic BB air pistol, police said.
‘A difficult time’
Both officers were wearing body cameras but it’s unclear whether the footage would be released, CNN affiliate KGTV reported.
The teen was only identified as a Torrey Pines High School student who lives near the school. Authorities declined to release his name because of his age.
“Our hearts go out to the student, his family, and his friends,” Eric Dill, superintendent of the San Dieguito Union High School District, said in a message to students. “This is a difficult time for the family and we need to let them mourn.”
San Diego Police said the two officers involved are a 28-year veteran and a four-year veteran of the department.
Parents Heartbroken by Video of Illinois Bus Aide Slapping 6-Year-Old Daughter
A video showing a bus aide slapping a 6-year-old girl with autism has left an Illinois mother and father heartbroken.
In the surveillance-camera footage, the unidentified aide strikes the little girl twice as she screams while riding to school in New Lenox, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Nicholas Rushing said his daughter, Kaylee, is nonverbal. Rushing said he found out about the incident because the superintendent of the local school district contacted him and asked him to review the footage.
The video “broke my heart,” he said.
The footage showed the woman had been touching Kaylee throughout the bus ride, denying her personal space, Rushing said.
Kaylee spat on the woman, who reacted by slapping her in the face, he said.
“She is an awesome kid and she is super sweet and for this to happen as a dad it almost feels like I failed her … I don’t think I have ever been more mad in my life,” he said.
While Kaylee did not suffer any physical injuries, the incident has affected how she responds to strangers, Rushing said.
“It kind of changed her personality on things,” he said. “She doesn’t want anything to do with people she doesn’t know.”
Rushing said the bus aide had only been with the bus company for two weeks and did not appear to have been trained to follow protocols around Kaylee.
Investigation underway
New Lenox police are reviewing the entire video as part of the investigation, Rushing said.
“I’m worried as a dad it may not be the first time this happened,” he said. “My main goal is to make sure this never happens to any other people.”
Rushing said staff members notified the school district superintendent about the incident.
The school district told CNN affiliate WLS that the aide involved was not a district employee, and worked for the bus contractor, Lincoln-Way Special Education District.
The bus operator’s executive director, Sarah Rexroad, said an investigation is underway.
“I cannot provide a specific comment at this time. There is an ongoing investigation regarding an incident that allegedly occurred on a school bus. Student safety is a number one priority for the cooperative,” she said.
No charges have been filed, the affiliate reported.
Ohio Teacher Fired After Dragging Student Down Hallway
An Ohio teacher was fired this week after she was photographed dragging a young student by the arm down a school hallway.
The teacher, who worked with children at a Youngstown school in the Mahoning County Head Start program, was employed by Alta Care Group, a non-profit company that services the early education program.
“I want to make sure it is clear that the individual who was terminated does not reflect the values of the dedicated and skilled professionals at Alta Head Start,” Alta’s CEO Joe Shorokey said Wednesday in a statement.
“These fine teachers and aides should not be unfairly portrayed as anything less because of the person who was terminated. ”
‘We took action immediately’
Neither the student nor the teacher have been identified. Shorokey was unable to comment on the student’s age, but confirmed the student was in the Head Start program. Government-funded Head Start provides education to students between the ages of 3 and 5.
“We took this matter very seriously,” Shorokey said Thursday. “We took action immediately. We apologized to the parents, as well as to the community.”
Alta provides services in eight classrooms across the district, according to Youngstown City Schools spokeswoman Denise Dick. Each of those classrooms is also staffed by a Youngstown teacher and a district educational aide, she said.
The picture of the incident was taken by a Youngstown City Schools teacher working in an administrative capacity, said Dick. The spokeswoman said the incident had been reported to Mahoning County Children’s Services by the Youngstown school district.
via: http://ktla.com/2017/05/04/ohio-teacher-fired-after-dragging-student-down-hallway/