Woman Upset She Received Ketchup Instead of Jelly Pulls Gun on McDonald’s Workers in Memphis
Authorities in Tennessee say an irate woman pointed a gun at fast food workers because they gave her ketchup instead of jelly.
Asia Vester, 20, was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a weapon, news outlets are reporting.
According to a Memphis police affidavit, Vester was in the drive-thru line of a McDonald’s last week when she received her food and realized her request for jelly was either forgotten or unheeded. She instead received ketchup.
Words were exchanged with several employees. Vester was accused of pulling out a gun and pointing it at employees, the affidavit says.
Surveillance video led police to Vester.
Since Vester is under 21, it is illegal for her to possess a weapon. Vester is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. It’s unclear whether she has an attorney to speak for her.
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Police Seek Bay Area Mom Who Allegedly Hit Barber With Car During Argument About Son’s Haircut
Officials on Thursday were searching for a Bay Area woman accused of striking a barber with her vehicle during a confrontation about her son’s haircut.
The incident began when Ruby Delgadillo, 28, became involved in a dispute with the 63-year-old male victim at Delta Barber Shop in Antioch around 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Antioch Police Department said.
The pair argued over the haircut the barber gave to Delgadillo’s son, according to witnesses and the victim, police said. The situation escalated when the mother allegedly entered her Toyota Prius and intentionally hit the barber, pushing him through the glass storefront.
“She literally tried to kill me,” the victim, Brian Martin, told KTLA sister station KRON in San Francisco. “I saw the look on her face as she hit the accelerator … one hand on the wheel and the other flipping me off.”
Delgadillo then drove away with her son, according to authorities.
Martin, an Antioch resident who’s been a barber for some 30 years, was left with a leg broken in two places, he told KRON. He said he’d had Delgadillo as a customer before and she’d been “very pleasant” in past.
In this instance, the conflict “just escalated and escalated,” Martin said. “I couldn’t calm her down.”
Investigators later identified the perpetrator as Delgadillo, a resident of Brentwood in the East Bay. She was driving a blue 2006 Toyota Prius with the California license plate 8LHB387.
Anyone with information can call police at 925-778-2441
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Florida Family Fights Back Against Porch Pirates With Dirty Diaper-Filled Packages
A family in Tampa, Florida, is teaching porch pirates a lesson they probably didn’t expect to get by leaving packages filled with dirty diapers outside their home.
It all started when the Saleep family say they noticed packages missing, including food and one of the baby’s gifts, Tampa Bay television station WFTS reported Wednesday.
“I wanted them to get a taste of their own medicine,” Sharly Saleep told the station.
So, the family took matters into their own hands.
First, they installed a surveillance camera to see if the packages were actually delivered.
“It was really disgusting, but I figured, you know, if they take it they deserve it,” said Jacky Saleep.
Then, they put out a decoy package to see if porch pirates were at work. But what they say they put inside the decoy package, probably wasn’t anything a package thief might expect to find — dirty diapers from Nora, their 9-month-old baby.
“It was kind of like a team effort, like he sealed it up, made it look less suspicious, made it look like something you’d want to take, and she provided the diapers,” said Jacky Saleep.
She said they filled the package with three-day-old dirty diapers and in about two hours, they believe someone took it. They found surveillance video showing someone run up to the front door, and quickly run away.
The family filed a report with Tampa police.
“Whoever these porch pirates were, they fell for it,” said Tampa Police Department Officer Sarah Michelson.
While the holiday season is typically expected to see an increase in package thefts, Michelson said they’re down across Tampa this year.
There were 25 package thefts in November 2018 compared to 10 in November 2019, according to police.
“Residents are a lot more aware of what’s going on, our officers are definitely out there and visible,” Michelson said.
The Saleeps told the station they’re more aware, too. Out of safety concerns, they’ve installed additional surveillance cameras.
But in a twist of events, they said they later discovered their original missing packages were delivered to the wrong address.
They plan to tell Nora about this when she’s older.
“Just tell her it’s not right to take other people’s things and just be careful, because it might not be what you’re expecting when you open it up,” said Jacky Saleep.
They may not be done teaching this lesson just yet, though.
“We’re gonna have an upgrade, like cat litter now,” Sharly Saleep said.
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Texas father dies in ‘freak accident’ while hanging up Christmas lights
TEXAS — A Texas father died after falling from a rooftop while stringing Christmas lights.
Felipe Gallegos, 39, operated a window cleaning business with his wife, Alisha Flick. During the holidays, he hangs Christmas lights for his clients, which is what he was doing on Saturday when he fell, according to CNN affiliate KTVT .
Flick told KTVT that her husband had years of experience and called the fall a “freak accident.” She didn’t see what happened when he fell. She heard a loud noise and, when she went outside, found him lying on the concrete.
Gallegos was rushed into emergency surgery, but he died from head trauma.
A friend of the family set up a GoFundMe page for the family , as Gallegos was the main provider for Alisha and their teenage son. The goal was set for $20,000 but in just a few days the page has raised more than $50,000 for the family.
On average, there are 200 decorating-related injuries each day during the holiday season, according to data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission . Most incidents are falls, the CPSC states.
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Police Officer Under Investigation After Footage Said to Show Him Groping Dead Woman
A Los Angeles police officer has been placed under investigation, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
Body camera footage was said to show him groping a deceased woman’s breasts, according to a person familiar with the case.
The unidentified male officer was not working while the case was under investigation, Josh Rubenstein, the department spokesman, said.
The officer had been assigned to the Central Division and was responding to an overdose call, he said. Rubenstein declined to provide specific information about the incident, including when it occurred, because it is part of a personnel investigation.
Supervisors throughout the jurisdiction conduct random reviews of video on a monthly basis, Rubenstein said.
All uniformed officers assigned to patrol the Los Angeles area have cameras, he said, and roughly 7,000 cameras are issued.
“If this allegation is true, then the behavior exhibited by this officer is not only wrong, but extremely disturbing, and does not align with the values we, as police officers, hold dear and these values include respect and reverence for the deceased,” the board of directors for the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the police officers’ union, said in a statement on Wednesday. “This behavior has no place in law enforcement.”
Police departments around the country have increasingly used body cameras after several high-profile shootings. In 2015, about 95% of large police departments started using body cameras or said they would use them in the future, a national survey said.
A 2017 study of more than 2,000 Washington, D.C. officers conducted over 18 months showed officers with body cameras used force and prompted civilian complaints at nearly the same rate as officers without the equipment.
A Baltimore police officer was suspended and charges against a man were dropped after a body-camera recording appeared to show an officer planting a bag of drugs at the scene of an arrest in January 2017. In that case, the camera retained recordings beginning 30 seconds before it was activated.
In November 2018, The New York Times published body-camera recordings of an arrest in Staten Island that raised questions regarding police behavior. In this case, lawyers for the defendant claimed the footage contained possible proof that an officer planted a marijuana cigarette. The officer and the Police Department denied any wrongdoing.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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3 dead, including gunman, in Pearl Harbor shooting
The shooter was an active-duty sailor who opened fire on three civilian employees before he fatally shot himself.
Australian Woman Who Lied on Her Resume to Land $185,000-a-Year-Job Is Sentenced to Prison
A woman who lied on her resume and faked “glowing” references to land a high-paying job with an Australian regional government has been sentenced to at least a year in prison.
Veronica Hilda Theriault, 46, was convicted Tuesday of deception, dishonesty, and abuse of public office, relating to her 2017 application for the chief information officer role, which came with an annual salary of 270,000 Australian dollars (US$185,000).
Theriault worked in the position with South Australia’s Department of the Premier and Cabinet for over a month and earned about 33,000 Australian dollars ($22,500) before being fired.
She pleaded guilty to all charges and received a 25-month sentence with a non-parole period of a year.
The court heard that she submitted a fraudulent resume to the department with false information relating to her education and prior employment. After she was granted an interview, she also posed as a previous employer during a reference check, in which she “gave glowing feedback” about her own performance.
Tall tales
But the lies didn’t end there. In earlier submissions, the court heard that Theriault used a photo of supermodel Kate Upton as her LinkedIn profile photo, according to CNN affiliate 7 News.
And after starting the position in August, she was found to have hired her brother, despite him lacking the qualifications to perform the role.
Her case became suspicious to the department after her mental health deteriorated shortly after she started working in the position.
In his sentencing remarks, Judge Michael Boylan said he had taken Theriault’s mental health into account, but he added that the charges were “serious” and there was an element of planning in her deceitful conduct.
“You fraudulently obtained employment for which you were paid a large salary and in the course of which you may have had access to sensitive material,” he said.
Theriault’s defense counsel previously told the court that she was “deeply ashamed and embarrassed” by the revelation, and her crimes involved a “unique set of circumstances that were unlikely to be repeated,” according to 7 News.
The court was also told she had previously used resumes with false information to obtain employment at two companies in 2012 and 2014.
CNN has reached out to the Department of Premier and Cabinet for comment.
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Dog starts house fire by switching on microwave
ESSEX COUNTY, England — Every now and again incredible stories emerge of heroic dogs saving their owners from house fires.
This isn’t one of those stories.
A husky has become the unlikely cause of a house fire after turning on a microwave with food inside it, according to fire services in England.
The fire began on Monday afternoon at a home in Stanford-Le-Hope, around 25 miles east of London, when a dog inadvertently switched on the kitchen appliance, which had a packet of bread rolls inside, according to Essex County Fire and Rescue Service .
The owner, who was out of the property at the time, saw smoke coming from the kitchen through a camera feed on his mobile phone, the fire service said in a statement.
Geoff Wheal, watch manager at Corringham Fire Station, warned that the “very strange incident” could have been “more serious.”
He said that he and his colleagues arrived to find the kitchen full of smoke.
Wheal warned against storing food in the microwave when the machine is not in use.
“Our advice is to always keep your microwave clean and free of clutter or food and any packaging,” he said. “Animals or children can turn them on more easily than you might think, so please don’t run the risk.”
The dog was not hurt in the incident, the statement said.
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2 teens, their mom’s boyfriend dead in apparent murder-suicide after argument over smoking
Police say two teenager siblings and their mother’s boyfriend are dead in what appears to be a murder-suicide that started with an argument over smoking in a Connecticut home.
Officers responded to the Watertown home at about 10 p.m. Tuesday after a woman called 911 to report the shooting.
Police say 16-year-old Sterling Jette and 15-year-old Della Jette were taken to Waterbury Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Police also found 42-year-old Paul Ferguson dead at the scene of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The mother was not injured.
Police say the girl was upset over Ferguson smoking in the house.
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Man drove stolen SUV to bail out brother — who was busted for stealing an SUV
This crime runs in the family.
A Kansas man was busted for driving a stolen Chevy SUV to a local jail to bail out his brother — who was being held for driving a stolen Chevy SUV, according to authorities.
The sibling already in the pokey, Eric Dean McCracken, 36, had been arrested in Topeka early Friday for allegedly driving a stolen 2007 Trailblazer with a suspended license, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
A few hours later, his younger brother, Keith Ray McCracken, 32, was also arrested after a short chase with cops tracking the GPS of a stolen 2015 Silverado, the department said.
“It is believed that the younger McCracken was en route to the Jackson County Jail to post bail on his older brother in a stolen vehicle,” Sheriff Tim Morse said in the release.
Keith’s arrest led to a family reunion — with both brothers ending up in Jackson County Jail awaiting bond, the release said.
Eric McCracken was booked for driving with a suspended license and possession of stolen property. His brother was held for fleeing and eluding a law-enforcement officer, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license and possession of stolen property, the statement said.
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