11-year-old among 4 arrested for attempted robbery in Wentzville, MO
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (KMOV.com) — An 11-year-old was one of four people arrested for an attempted robbery early Saturday morning in Wentzville.
Officials with the Wentzville Police Department said a woman was inside her car in the parking lot of Wentzville Commons around 7:30 a.m. when she noticed four teenagers looking at her. She told police she was approached by a 15-year-old who asked for directions and then demanded her car at gunpoint.
The woman then pulled out her own gun and refused to get out of the car. The teen then went back to his group and they all ran away from the area. This is in the 1900 block of Wentzville Parkway off of Interstate 70.
The woman called police and all four were eventually arrested without incident. Police said all of them were young: two were 15, an 11-year-old and a 17-year-old.
Officers recovered one gun. The 15-year-olds and the 11-year-old were taken to the Juvenile Justice Center and the 17-year-old was taken to the Wentzville Police Department.
The teen who approached the woman was charged with first-degree attempted robbery and armed criminal action. The three others were charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.
No other information was released.
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Cops removed bullets from teen ‘by hand’ after shooting him
Cops in California shot a teenager twice in the back — then removed the bullets “by hand” before paramedics arrived, a federal lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit filed this week claims that officers in the Bay Area city of Hayward wrongfully shot the 17-year-old in the back in June, then took out the bullets themselves and dropped the teen off at a juvenile facility, the Mercury News reported.
“It’s barbaric, the way in which they tried to minimize the harm they caused this young man,” Adante Pointer, the lawyer for the teen’s family, told the newspaper.
“It’s completely inappropriate and fortunately it didn’t cause more severe damage to him,” the attorney added.
Pointer also posted photos of the unnamed teen’s wounds on Twitter.
“The cops did this to a kid when the eyes of the world were looking!” he wrote in another post. “Imagine what happens when NO ONE is looking!”
The lawsuit, filed Monday, claims the teenager fell asleep in his cousin’s car near the scene of looting in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests in the city.
Police said cops were dispatched to a CVS pharmacy in the area on reports of looting.
The teenager, however, claims he woke up around 4 a.m. on June 1, frightened and confused, and drove past the cops — who opened fire and struck him in the back.
Hayward Police Officer Samuel Tomlinson said he believed the vehicle was going to hit him so he opened fire, the Mercury News said.
The second cop, Police Officer Stephen Akacsos, also fired, believing “his partner had either been shot or struck by the vehicle,” Hayward police said in a statement after the shooting, the outlet said.
The teen crashed the car and fled, and hid in bushes, where he was found by police and arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
The charge was later dropped, the newspaper said.
“I feel like all they saw was a black face and just believed he did (a crime),” said the teen’s mother, Jael Barnes. “Not only does he now have these physical wounds, he has these mental wounds as well, which will never go away.”
Hayward police referred questions to the city attorneys office, the outlet said.
City Attorney Michael Lawson declined to comment comment because the city had not yet been served with the lawsuit.
It is unclear what happened to the bullets allegedly removed by the cops.
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Doctor reportedly has severe allergic reaction to Moderna COVID vaccine
A Boston doctor suffered a serious allergic reaction to Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, the first of its kind documented, a report said Friday.
Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric oncologist at Boston Medical Center, became dizzy and felt his heart racing minutes after receiving the vaccine on Thursday, he told The New York Times.
“It was the same anaphylactic reaction that I experience with shellfish,” Dr. Sadrzadeh told the paper, noting that his tongue became numb, his blood pressure plummeted and he broke into a cold sweat.
“I don’t want anybody to go through that.”
Sadrzadeh self-administered an EpiPen he brought in the event of such a reaction, and was discharged following a brief emergency room examination, the report said.
Though a handful of recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have reported allergic reactions to that inoculation — including a New York City health care worker — Sadrzadeh’s symptoms mark the first known reaction of its severity to the Moderna shot.
The vaccines, which have similar ingredients, both require two shots administered a few weeks apart.
Neither Moderna nor the federal Food and Drug Administration, which approved the vaccines, commented on the Times’ report.
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Girl, 13, charged in Jersey City murder of 35-year-old man
A 13-year-old girl was charged Friday with the fatal shooting of a man nearly three times her age in Jersey City, NJ.
The teen, whose name was not released, allegedly gunned down Niles Holmes, 35, near Martin Luther King Drive and Wilkinson Avenue around 4:15 p.m. Dec. 10, the office of Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Friday.
Cops found a second, surviving victim of the shooting, identified by prosecutors only as a 24-year-old man.
The teen, who was picked up by cops on Christmas Eve, is being prosecuted as a juvenile and faces charges including murder and aggravated assault.
Officials did not disclose a motive in the slaying.
A law-enforcement source told NBC New York that the murder stemmed from a dispute between multiple groups, but was not gang-related, without elaborating further.
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Dr. Susan Moore, who claims she was mistreated, dies from COVID-19 at Indiana hospital
A black doctor who claimed she was mistreated because of her race while suffering from COVID-19 at an Indiana hospital has died, according to her family.
Dr. Susan Moore died Sunday, her cousin announced on Twitter.
Moore was diagnosed with the virus on Nov. 29 and was hospitalized. But she went viral on social media with videos claiming she had to beg for a CT scan and remdesivir, an antiviral drug that can speed up recovery from the virus.
In a Dec. 4 video posted on Facebook, Moore claimed doctors at Indiana University Health hospital even tried to send her home.
“This is how black people get killed, when you send them home and they don’t know how to fight for themselves,” she said on the video. “I had to talk to somebody, maybe the media, somebody, to let people know how I’m being treated up in this place.”
Moore said she had to plead with a white doctor at the hospital for treatment, but was told she would likely be sent home.
“I was in so much pain from my neck, my neck hurt so bad,” she said on the video. “I was crushed. He made me feel like a drug addict and he knows I’m a physician.”
Moore said she spoke to a patient advocate “who left me wanting,” and asked to be moved to another hospital.
When the doctors finally did the scan, they found new damage to her lungs — but kept her waiting for hours for painkillers, she charged.
“And that nurse was telling me, ‘Oh, I was marching in Black Lives Matter,’” Moore said. “I told her, ‘No, I don’t believe none of that. Not one bit. Not one iota. You wouldn’t even know how to march. Probably can’t even spell it.’”
“I put forth and I maintain if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that,” she said. “And that man never came back and apologized.”
In a statement Wednesday, the hospital said it does not comment on specific patients or their medical histories.
But, the statement said, “as an organization committed to equity and reducing racial disparities in healthcare, we take accusations of discrimination very seriously and investigate every allegation.”
“Treatment options are often agreed upon and reviewed by medical experts from a variety of specialties, and we stand by the commitment and expertise of our caregivers and the quality of care delivered to our patients every day.”
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Bodybuilder may spend holidays alone after sex-doll wife is ‘broken’ and being repaired in another city
With the sound of wedding bells still fresh in his mind, all Yuri Tolochko wanted for Christmas was some romance amid jingle bells with his sex-doll bride.
But, alas, dear Margo has apparently broken down — possibly spoiling the couple’s yuletide plans, according to the Daily Star.
The kooky bodybuilder from Kazakhstan, who tied the knot with the rubber doll after an eight-month courtship, now has to wait to see if her broken bits can be fixed on time.
“She is broken — now she is being repaired. She’s in another city,” he said. “When she recovers, it will be a gift for both of us.”
Tolochko is holding out hope that she can return by Christmas Day — Jan. 7 in his country.
The enamored muscleman was recently seen on Instagram planting a gentle kiss on Margo, who appeared a bit stiff in her revealing white gown as she clutched a bouquet of flowers and stared into the distance at their wedding.
The unconventional couple got engaged in December 2019, when the bald, blue-eyed hunk — who described himself as a “sexy maniac” — popped the question.
Tolochko said he met Margo at a nightclub, where he rescued her from some unwanted attention, adding that they had planned to take the plunge in March before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
He told the Daily Star that the wedding was delayed again after he was attacked during a transgender rally in the Kazakh city of Almaty on Oct. 31, when he suffered a concussion and a broken nose after dressing as a woman for the event.
Describing their relationship, Tolochko told the Daily Star: “In general, I began to be jealous of Margo.
“Many men would like to imagine the same. After the wedding, I decided to show her less to people, I forbade her from Instagram (I did this a long time ago). Maybe I’m being too selfish.
“But that’s the beauty of Margo, that I can do this to her and she won’t mind,” he added.
If his beloved gets back on time, he said, he might stay home with her and order “steaks and sushi” — or “have some fun with friends.”
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Why Christmas is nothing but a nutcracker for men seeking sex
For those hoping to have their … erm, halls decked and trimmings hung for the holidays, don’t count on it until the clock strikes 2021, according to a nutcracking new study on female sexual behavior.
It may come as no surprise to some, but the survey of more than 500,000 women has confirmed that the stress of Christmas — on the wallet and the waistline — may leave your mate saying “mistle-NO!” in the bedroom.
Their findings, based on self-reported data via international women’s health app Clue, settles long-held theories around seasonal spikes and slumps in sexy times, showing that while most holidays result in more erotic activity among women, there is a steep dirty-deed dropoff in the three days leading up to December 25.
Alas, the one gift you’re unlikely to find under the Christmas tree: good sex.
The stress-inducing lack of leisure time — between holiday shopping, cooking and stuffing faces — would explain the stymie in the sheets, according to Dr. Kate Boyer, professor of human geography at Cardiff University.
“Christmas carries a lot of work, and expectations, with it: from organizing and wrapping presents, to making the home look different and special, to preparing special foods and perhaps doing Christmas cards,” she told the Guardian.
Boyer, who was not involved in the study, put the new report in perspective: “In most families there isn’t someone at home who can make this ‘holiday work’ their priority, so it ends up getting squeezed in around jobs and child care. It just isn’t a recipe for feeling sexy.”
For single, child-free women, study authors suggest that simply distance or a demanding family can easily put a damper on intimacy.
“There was also a very strong difference between weekend and weekdays — people have more sex on weekends,” said Columbia University’s Micaela Martinez, who took part in the research currently available to read on medRxiv, prior to peer review. “It suggests that having leisure time with your intimate partner facilitates sex.”
The 2020 bad news barrage continues: Christmas falls on a Friday this year.
However, by Saturday the 26th, temporarily frigid folks will likely be getting it on like their own sexually healthy selves again, as the survey found the highest reported day for carnal activity drops with a ball — after midnight on New Year’s Eve/Day.
The study’s authors went on to suggest their data may help inform the phenomenon of birth seasonality.
“We think these two things [fertility and seasonal sexual trends] are acting together to shape the birth seasonality that is experienced in the real world,” said Martinez.
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Italian man allegedly slashed his children’s throats during Christmas visit
A self-proclaimed Italian expert in holistic health attacked his two children while they were visiting him for Christmas — slashing their throats as they tried to flee before taking his own life, according to a report.
The shocking murders took place at the home of Alessandro Pontin, 49, in the town of Trebaseleghe, in the province of Padua, where Francesca, 15, and Pietro, 13, were staying for the holiday, the Sun reported.
The former carpenter was separated from the kids’ mother and it was his turn to care for them amid arguments with her about child support payments, according to the outlet.
Francesca and Pietro were apparently asleep when their father attacked them. They tried to escape from the madman but he caught up to them and slit their throats.
Trails of blood at the home were trampled on several times by Pontin and his kids, suggesting they realized what was happening before they were slaughtered.
Pontin then killed himself, leaving a suicide note in which he did not mention the children, whose uncle, Claudio Calzarotto, said the parents had been “constantly arguing” about the child support payments.
“My sister received 100 euros a month for the two children … She had asked for something more, but just this week everything was archived and she was very angry,” he said, according to the Sun.
The mother, Roberta Calzarotto, 47, had found it tough to raise the children on a single salary as a hospital nurse and asked their father to increase payments.
After being informed of their deaths, she collapsed and was hospitalized for shock.
Pontin’s brother, who discovered the bodies, revealed that his sibling had found it difficult to find work as a carpenter, so he tried to reinvent himself as a foot masseuse and then a holistic and Zen motivational expert.
He created a site called “The reflected world of Alessandro Pontin.”
“Through a conscious touch, you will release the discomfort, you will understand the cause and you will find harmony,” he wrote in one post.
“Life is yourself, if life is difficult to bear it is because it is very difficult to bear yourself,” the future killer wrote on his Facebook profile.
The children’s distraught grandfather Aldo Cazzarotto said: “Not even a beast kills its own children like that. But what man was this?
“I used to pick them up from school every day because my daughter works. They used to eat with me and my wife. How can we live without them?” he added.
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Florida couple allegedly used COVID-19 loan on mansion with British pub
A Florida couple allegedly tapped the federal coronavirus relief loans, meant to help keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic, to splurge on flashy cars and a multimillion-dollar mansion — housing a British-style pub and a movie theater, a report says.
Don Cisternino and his romantic partner Lori Quasky allegedly used the New York-based company MagnifiCo — listed as a multi-service marketing and consulting firm on LinkedIn with Cisternino as its founder — to apply for a $7.2 million loan through the Paycheck Protection Program created under the CARES Act, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Instead of paying his payroll, Cisternino went on a spending spree with the newfound funds, a civil court filing alleges.
The federal lawsuit claims Cisternino bought a Lincoln Navigator for $89,000, paid $251,000 for a Mercedes-Benz and paid off the nearly $50,000 left on his Maserati loan.
The businessman also allegedly bought a $3.5 million estate in cash, the report says.
The house is a sprawling 12,579-square-foot, seven-bedroom house near Disney World with a British-style pub, a movie theater and four car garage that sits on 12-acres, according to the report.
Cisternino did not return messages for comment with the Sentinel, according to the report.
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9-year-old boy home for Christmas after life-saving organ transplant
Sitting in his hospital room, surrounded by beeping machines with tubes coming out of his body, little Kaysen Hyman wondered if he’d ever be a “normal child” again.
The 9-year-old Brooklyn boy was awaiting a life-saving multi-organ transplant, after having already spent nearly a year in and out of medical facilities — and desperately wanted to be home for Christmas.
“I told him once you get your transplant you’re going to go home… you’re going to be a normal boy, go to school, play basketball,” his mom, Phylicia Hyman, told The Post.
It wasn’t that easy. But after grueling surgery and months of hard work on the part of little Kaysen and his crew of caregivers, the brave boy finally got his wish granted and will spend the holiday in his apartment.
“I’m super excited!,” Kaysen told The Post. “I wanted to be home for Christmas… 100 percent.”
His mom said that “he’s been through a whole lot.”
“It’s amazing how far he’s come in such a short time. It’s remarkable.”
Due to lifelong medical issues, Kaysen had to get a new stomach, pancreas, liver and small and large intestine during a single transplant surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian in October.
When he got to St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Queens for rehabilitation, he needed a wheelchair and couldn’t stand for more than one minute at a time.
He spent the next two months there learning how to walk again and do basic activities, like brushing his teeth and getting dressed on his own.
“He used to always say, ‘Why can’t I be a normal child?,” his mom recalled.
Her son was born eight weeks early with Necrotizing enterocolitis, a devastating disease that affects mostly the intestine of premature infants.
Following a surgery at two days old, Kaysen was fine for the next eight years, until, last October, when he began throwing up “green, yellowish stuff,” his mom said.
He was rushed to the emergency room with an obstruction in his intestine.
Two surgeries and many months later, the boy couldn’t eat on his own, requiring a catheter and IV for nutrition.
“He kept asking ‘Am I going to die?,’” his mom recalled. “He would break down. He kept saying he doesn’t want to die.”
“I was very nervous and just kept praying, hoping for the best.”
When he got to NewYork-Presbyterian’s Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in February, he was a “desperate case,” said Dr. Mercedes Martinez, the medical director of the intestinal transplant program there.
“By the time he came to us he had been through so much,” and had a badly-damaged liver, stomach and had lost nearly all of his intestine, Martinez said.
Doctors believed the only way Kaysen could survive was with a multivisceral transplant, which includes removing the damaged organs and simultaneously replacing them with new ones, including the liver, small intestine, pancreas, stomach, and large intestine from a donor.
“Without this surgery, he could have died,” Martinez said.
Kaysen was sent home in March to wait for a donor — but his condition kept getting worse and he returned to the ER nearly every two weeks with fevers and issues with his catheter, his mom and doctors said.
Finally, on Oct. 12, the family got a call. A donor had been found.
But even after the surgery, there was still a lot more Kaysen had to work through to make it home.
He spent the next two months at St. Mary’s in Bayside re-learning to do everything little boys his age can do, during therapy sessions to improve his strength, balance and endurance.
“He just really pushed through. Even when it was super hard and even when he didn’t want to do therapy, he got out of bed and did it anyway,” said Amber Carmiencke, the boy’s occupational therapist.
“In all aspects of his life he’s shown tremendous gains,” she said. “He really did all the work to get… here he really found that motivation within himself.”
Through it all, Kaysen talked about missing family and his home and “how he really wanted to be able to have a normal Christmas,” Carmiencke said.
Even Martinez, the NewYork-Presbyterian doctor, said she had “really wanted to get him home for Christmas.”
On Wednesday, Kaysen strolled through St. Mary’s doors on his own, ecstatic, and surrounded by his mom and caregivers.
“Its so amazing to know he’s going to be able to be with his family for Christmas and have a normal life,” Carmiencke said.
“He worked so hard he deserves to be able to spend this special day with his family.”
Though he still needs a feeding tube, Kaysen can eat some solid foods, like his favorite, chicken soup, which his mom plans to make him for the holiday meal.
On Thursday, Kaysen had an appointment at home with a nurse at home, but also got to do one of his favorite holiday activities, decorating the tree.
His favorite part of Christmas is “I get to spend time with my family,” he said, adding: “And the gifts.”
Phylicia said it’s amazing to have her son home — and thanked the team of healthcare workers who were able to get him there, calling them “a Godsend.”
“Last year, he spent Christmas in the hospital…,” Phylicia said. “It’s amazing to have him home.”
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