Teacher smoked weed, drank with student to set mood before sex
A tatted-up teacher in Florida slept with one of her students nearly a half-dozen times — boozing up and smoking pot with him to set the mood, cops said.
Valerie Michelle Valvo, 34, was arrested Wednesday in Hernando County and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after she admitted to having sex with the 17-year-old inside her home, according to police.
The Central High School art teacher confessed to doing the deed at least five times, authorities said.
Both she and the teen, who was not identified, claimed that the romps were consensual.
The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office told WFLA they began investigating Valvo after receiving a tip about a high school teacher sleeping with a male student.
When deputies interviewed the boy, he admitted to having sex with her at her home in Spring Hill on at least three occasions, WFLA reports.
Valvo later agreed to talk to police — saying they actually had intercourse at least five or six times.
“He’s not old enough to consent to a relationship like that,” said Denise Moloney, of the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
Both Valvo and the teen confessed to smoking marijuana together and drinking alcohol while inside her home, cops said.
According to a spokesperson for the local school system, the art teacher has been employed for the past three years. She has since been suspended — with pay — pending the outcome of the investigation.
Valvo’s mugshot, which was posted to Facebook by police, shows her sporting a colorful chest tattoo, as well as some ink on her left arm.
“The sad part is that this Woman [sic] is well liked by many students,” wrote one user.
“I have to wonder what goes through the mind of an individual like this,” another said. “There have been so many cases such as this all over the country. Each time the teacher is caught and loses their job, their family, their dignity, and their freedom. Why does each one that comes after the countless before them makes them think they will end up any different?”
Valvo is one of several educators to be busted in the past few months for sleeping with their students.
Most recently, a high school teacher was caught engaging in “sexual contact” with a 17-year-old male student in Texas. Her mugshot wound up going viral after she chose to smile from ear-to-ear for the photo.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/03/23/teacher-smoked-weed-drank-with-student-to-set-mood-before-sex-cops/
Texas Teen Arrested After Confessing to Lying About Being Kidnapped, Raped by 3 Black Men
An 18-year-old woman in Texas who claimed she was kidnapped and raped by three black man has been arrested after she confessed to lying about the incident, police said Wednesday.
Breana Harmon Talbott ignited a sense of fear and outrage in the community of Denison, a small city about 70 miles north of Dallas, after she said three black men in ski masks were responsible for kidnapping her, taking her into the woods, and raping her, KTLA sister station KDAF in Dallas reported.
But police say her story did not add up and quickly unraveled.
The incident began about 5:30 p.m. March 8, when a man describing himself as Talbott’s fiance told police she was missing. He gave a location where her vehicle had been found, according to a statement on the Denison Police Department’s Facebook page.
Investigators began searching for the woman.
Later that evening, clad in only a shirt, bra and underwear, Talbott walked into a church where she told witnesses that she had been kidnapped and then sexually assaulted in the nearby woods, the statement said.
Police responded and Talbott told them she had been kidnapped near her vehicle by “three black males” who were wearing ski masks. She claimed that they drove her to the woods, where two of the men raped her while the third held her down, according to the statement.
As the case began attracting regional news attention, however, “Talbott’s story and allegations began to unravel. Within only a day or two, detectives had doubts as to most of Talbott’s allegations,” the statement read.
She later confessed that she staged the entire incident, according to police. Talbott also admitted the injuries found on her body were self-inflicted.
“According to Talbott’s confession, we believe the crime scene – from the initial ‘kidnapping’ scene at the apartment complex to the point of Talbott’s condition when she walked into the church – were staged,” police said.
Additionally, medical personnel who had examined Talbott found no evidence that she was sexually assaulted, authorities said.
“The Denison Police Department has determined that the alleged abduction and sexual assault case reported on March 8, 2017 was a hoax,” Police Chief Jay Burch said in the statement.
Talbott was arrested and faces a misdemeanor charge of making a false report to a peace officer. Denison police will also seek financial restitution for costs of the investigation.
“Breana Harmon Talbott’s hoax was also insulting to our community and especially offensive to the African-American community due to her description of the so-called suspects in her hoax. The anger and hurts caused from such a hoax are difficult and all so unnecessary,” Burch said.
He also apologized to those whose investigations in the department were “delayed” so personnel could focus on Talbott’s case.
Pregnant woman killed in SWAT raid; man used her as a human shield, police say
The family of 21-year-old Alteria Woods, an innocent woman who was shot and killed during a S.W.A.T. Team raid in Gifford, Florida, Sunday morning, said they are getting few answers from police.
Woods’ aunt, Arlene Cooper, said it is hard coming to grips with her niece’s death. “I’ve never heard of this before. We don’t know what to do, no closure,” Cooper said.
Woods was caught in the crossfire of the shootout. She was killed by Indian River County Sheriff’s deputies during the raid at the home, along 45th Street and 35th Avenue in Gifford.
“I was in shock,” said Cooper. “Four months pregnant.”
Cooper said the father of her niece’s baby was 23-year-old Andrew Coffee IV.
He and his father, Andrew Coffee III, were the targets of the raid.
Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar said the youngest Coffee used his girlfriend as a shield.
“Andrew Coffee IV cowardly was using her as protection,” Loar said.
But the sheriff also expressed remorse, calling Woods an innocent person, caught in the crossfire, as his deputies fired back the at Coffee IV who was shooting at deputies from a bedroom window.
“Today, we mourn the loss of Alteria Woods. My thoughts and prayers go to her family,” Loar continued.
The raid was ordered in response to the recent shootings that included the death of Deputy Garry Chambliss.
Sunday, dozens of demonstrators turned out along the scene on 45th Street and 35th Avenue calling for justice and peace between the black community and law enforcement.
“I feel justice haven’t been done in this community, and something needs to be done,” said Cooper.
Police shoot, kill man on Facebook Live, family responds. “He Was Asking For Help”
Rodney Hess, 36, went live on Facebook twice Thursday. The first stream is of him mostly quietly driving his white SUV for several minutes. He is unintelligible at some points talking to himself, and he periodically stops the car on a two-lane highway in Crockett County, blocking traffic before he finally parks his car perpendicular to traffic in the middle of an exit ramp. That video stops shortly after police arrive and park near Hess’ vehicle.
The situation turns deadly in the second broadcast, which only lasts for about a minute, as police approach Hess’ vehicle. He twice asks for “higher commands to come out.” The situation escalates quickly as Hess’ vehicle, still perpendicular to the road, is put into reverse and then drives forward off the road. A gunshot is heard and Hess screams in pain. The car continues rolling until it crashes, and Hess’ phone falls to the floor of the car where broken shards of window glass lay scattered. On Thursday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) released a statement, confirming Hess was shot by at least one Crockett County deputy, who “fired his service weapon through the front windshield of the vehicle driven by Hess, striking him.”
The report states that Hess was airlifted to a hospital in Memphis, where he was later pronounced dead. No law enforcement officers were harmed during the incident.
In a press conference, Josh DeVine, Public Information Officer for TBI, said the deputy who responded to the scene requested backup when “drivers were obviously not able to get where they wanted to go.”
The statement from the TBI also says that Hess was “refusing officer commands and making erratic statements,” and the situation escalated after Hess “attempted to use his vehicle to strike the officers at least twice.”
TBI has not released the name of the deputy who shot Hess. Mark Donahoe, the deputy’s attorney, told WBBJ, “The video that I have seen, the part that I have seen appears consistent with all of the statements that I have taken in the case so far.”
“I’m confident at this point that there wasn’t anything done that was not following proper procedure,” he said.
A man who identified himself as Hess’ grandfather said that he was “praying that justice will be served.”
“If there’s anything that’s covered up, that it be brought to light. That it wouldn’t be just another black man shot by police officers,” Lee said. “All we are asking for is justice.”
Hess’ fiancee, Johnisha Provost, told WWL that he suffered from bipolar disorder and “couldn’t get his mind together.”
“He was not on a suicide mission,” Johnisha Provost said Friday from her Texas home, where she lived with Hess. “He was not trying to harm anybody. He was asking them for help and they shot him down.”
“That’s why he asked for a higher command,” she said. “I always told him, ‘Babe, if you are ever in a situation where you need help, ask the person in charge for the higher command to help you,’ and that’s what he kept saying.”
The Crockett County Sheriff’s Department released their own statement, asking for prayers for “the family of the deceased as well as all officers/dispatchers/first responders/EMS involved in the shooting today.”
“As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for all involved,” the statement said.
via: https://www.rt.com/usa/381208-hess-facebook-live-killed/
Apartment Manager Indicted For Stealing Rent Payments From Tenants
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – An area property manager was charged for allegedly stealing rent money from hundreds of tenants, keeping it for herself, and then sending those tenants eviction notices for not paying up.
A federal grand jury has indicted 32-year-old Jasmine Outlaw for fraud.
She’s the former assistant property manager at Lucas Hunt Village Apartments in north St. Louis.
Federal court documents show she started her scheme in 2014. Outlaw “requested tenants of Lucas Hunt to submit all rent payments to her and to make all money orders payable to her.” She’d then deposit the money orders into her personal bank and use the money for her own personal benefit “and proceed to evict tenants from Lucas Hunt while knowing she had actually stolen these tenants rent payments and that these tenants had indeed paid their rent in full and in a timely manner.”
At the schemes peak in 2016, the apartments filed 355 cases against tenants for not paying rent. That’s compared to 89 cases in 2013, the year before the scheme began.
Outlaw has not been yet been arraigned.
Fox 2 News discovered Outlaw was sued in the City of St. Louis last year for not paying her own rent. Rent-A-Center also sued her in 2015 for not paying for her leased furniture.
via: http://fox2now.com/2017/03/17/apartment-manager-indicted-for-stealing-rent-payments-from-tenants/
Blac Chyna ‘in it for the long haul’ with Rob Kardashian
According to Blac Chyna, her and Rob Kardashian are just going through a rough patch.
“I feel like every person who’s in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs,” she told Cosmopolitan South Africa. “Everything isn’t always going to be peaches and cream.”
Chyna, the cover star of the magazine’s April issue, says the two are “fighting for each other – even though they’re living apart.
“I’m in it for the long haul,” the 28-year-old insisted. “I feel like everything isn’t going to be perfect, but I know we love each other, and the people we surround ourselves with are rooting for us.”
And despite the pair’s on and off again status, their daughter Dream remains a priority.
The sole son of the Kardashian family – who turned 30 on Friday – is “a wonderful dad.”
“I think it’s because he had such a great father,” Chyna said.
St. Louis boy, 12, shot to death while playing with gun; parents charged with involuntary manslaughter
ST. LOUIS • The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was shot to death while home alone with his younger brother were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter.
Damian Holmes, 12, and his brother, 9, were left home alone Tuesday night in the 3300 block of Michigan Avenue when they found a gun and started playing with it, police said.
A round struck Damian in the head about 10:35 p.m; police are not saying who fired the shot.
The boys’ father came home and took the 12-year-old to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Donnie L. Holmes, 41, was charged with second-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and four counts of marijuana possession.
The probable cause statement said Holmes and his wife, Yolanda Jackson, had left the boys home alone. A handgun and shotgun both were in the house, along with ammunition for both. The handgun was not secured, and the boys got to it.
Lab tests of substances that officers found in the house showed the presence of drugs, including amphetamine, cocaine and marijuana.
Donnie Holmes has previous convictions for drug possession in 1993, drug dealing in 1996 and failure to pay child support in 2009.
Jackson, 40, was charged with second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child endangerment.
A neighbor, Brenda Harger, 62, said the boys were often left alone.
“Most of the time they are there by themselves,” she said. “The mother would leave for work, and the dad would leave after she left.”
Damian was a sixth-grade student at Monroe Elementary School in St. Louis. A spokesperson for the district said a crisis response team was at the school Wednesday for students and staff.
“A couple of weeks ago they helped me clean up the alley,” Harger said of the boys. “I gave them a pack of cookies. They were sweet little boys.”
This is the second fatal shooting of a child who was playing with a gun in just more than a month in St. Louis.
On Feb. 13, Mi’Kenzie Bostic, 6, was shot and killed by one of her three siblings in their apartment in Walnut Park West while her parents slept in the next room. Mi’Kenzie’s parents were later charged with involuntary manslaughter.
4-Month-Old Baby Stabbed In Chest by Mother With Scissors at South L.A. Home
A 4-month-old baby was stabbed with a pair of scissors by her mother at a home in South Los Angeles on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department reported.
Officers were called to a home in the 2100 block of Park Grove Avenue around 3:30 p.m. where they found the baby suffering from one stab wound to the chest. LAPD Sgt. Eduardo Mercado told KTLA the baby’s father was at the home at the time of the stabbing and called police.
He was not injured, Mercado said.
The baby was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, according to Mercado.
The mother was taken into custody at the home and was being interviewed by detectives.
The motive for the stabbing was not immediately released.
Custodian accused of unlawful videotaping at Crest Hill school
A school custodian at Chaney Monge School in southwest suburban Crest Hill is charged with unlawful videotaping and being held on $25,000 bond, police said Tuesday.
Some parents expressed shock and anger after learning of the arrest from school administrators, who called parents and posted a message on the school’s website.
Ryan Thompson, 27, has been charged with one count of unauthorized videotaping, which is a felony.
Chaney-Monge is a combined elementary and middle school. In court, prosecutors said Thompson used his phone to videotape eight grade girls in a locker room from under the door of a supply closet. Police said they have discovered video of only one incident but they are investigating Thompson’s other electronic devices.
“It’s currently under investigation. We’re going to keep looking and searching electronic media to find any more images, if there is any more images, or any further criminal activity,” said Interim Chief Ed Clark, Crest Hill Police Department.
Investigators have declined to say in detail what the images show and how the images came to light. But they say they were taken between February 1 and March 11.
“We’ve been in contact with the administration from Chaney Monge, and they’re working hand and hand with families to make sure that the children are still safe. We’ll continue to work with them. This case will continue to be under investigation. There is a lot of work to be done,” Clark said.
“The school district has to do a better job in sifting through who should be working at the public schools with these kids,” said parent Erick Rice.
The district superintendent in a statement said: “…we are cooperating with the police in every way possible. Please be assured that the safety and security of our students is and always has been our top priority.”
School officials say Thompson has been removed from the district.
via: http://abc7chicago.com/news/custodian-accused-of-unlawful-videotaping-at-crest-hill-school/1800691/
Kordell Stewart Wins Millions In Lawsuit Over Gay Relationship Lie
Kordell Stewart ain’t about the Down Low and a judge agrees! Last year a popular YouTube celebrity named Andrew Caldwell claimed he and the former Real Housewives Of Atlanta househusband had a secret gay relationship, Kordell denied the allegations, sued for slander, and has won millions in damages.
Andrew was unable to prove any such relationship with Kordell, but his allegations gained traction because Kordell has been shadowed by gay rumors since his days in the NFL. The matter wasn’t helped when his ex-wife Porsha Williams echoed such insinuations. However, we know how Porsha likes to flub the truth about what happens in people’s bedrooms – including her own. Anyway!
Andrew Caldwell, who made the accusations through his social media channels and the media, recanted his story once Kordell took his claim to the courts demanding proof. Then Caldwell admitted to lying for attention and publicly apologized. He attempted to have the suit dismissed, then claimed he would fight it, but apparently not – he failed to show up in court and the judge issued a default judgement to Kordell.
According to RollingOut, Mr. Caldwell now owes Kordell $4.5 million in punitive damages, plus an additional $2 million for emotionally distress and professional harm generated by the untrue statements. Gee – think of all the nightclubs and bars he could invest in with Peter Thomas!
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like Kordell will see the full chunk of change. Sources reveal the judge agreed to alter the amount so Caldwell is only expected to pay $3 million total – $1.5M for emotional and professional damages, and an additional $1.5M for punitive damages.
Errrr… why do I have a feeling the viral video star is never going to turn over that money? However, hopefully this will be a lesson to Kordell’s stanky-mouthed ex-wife that what you say can cost you! Especially when you say it on camera…
Read more at http://www.realitytea.com/2017/03/13/kordell-stewart-wins-millions-lawsuit-gay-relationship-lie/#4Govj6kxlMyBXW4b.99