Florida mom upset over rezoning threatens to shoot up elementary school
A Florida woman irked by her local school district rezoning was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up the elementary school her children were being moved to, according to a report.
Miranda Perez, 28, is accused of making the threatening remarks aimed at Barton Elementary School in Lake Worth Beach, Fl., during a Facebook video chat with a friend about 8 a.m. Sunday, according to WPTV.
“I’m thinking of doing a school shooting at Barton,” Perez wrote on a Facebook message after the video chat, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Her comments were reported to the authorities, though it’s unclear who reported her.
Perez confessed to sending the messages when interviewed by detectives, but she insisted they were empty threats, according to the report.
During the original video chat, Perez also bizarrely said she planned to send a Facebook friend request to Zachary Cruz “because she likes ‘violent things,” according to the arrest report.
Zachary Cruz is the brother of 20-year-old Nikolas Cruz — the confessed mass murderer who in 2018 slaughtered 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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‘Beauty bandit’ allegedly steals wigs designed for cancer patients
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The search is on to find a woman who allegedly stole wigs designed for cancer patients from a family-owned business in northern Colorado.
“This is our most popular wig. It looks really natural. The coloring is fantastic,” Marcia Lilly told KDVR.
Marcia and Brandon Lilly own The Life of the Party. It’s a costume store in Fort Collins that the family says is home to the largest selections of wigs in northern Colorado.
The Lillys take pride in their store. They’ve appointed their 10-month-old son, Fen, as store manager. But on July 9th around 1 p.m., they say a customer ripped them off.
“She seemed very nice. She was asking about our kid. She was asking about the store,” Marcia Lilly said.
The woman in the store surveillance video is wearing a pink T-shirt. Marcia Lilly said she spent nearly an hour in the store and bought a pair of tights, then asked to use the bathroom. Lilly said the woman was waiting for the right opportunity.
“You could very distinctly see her in the camera look and see that I was on the phone and then make the decision to go,” Marcia Lilly said.
The suspect reportedly took two wigs out of the packaging and shoved them in her purse.
The wigs are not just a monetary loss for the business; several are also a loss for people in need.
“One of the companies we carry, they donate. For every wig they sell or we sell, they will donate a wig for free to a cancer patient. It’s not just taking from us. It’s taking from people in need who couldn’t maybe afford a wig otherwise,” Marcia Lilly said.
“I was instantly angered and kind of offended by it,” said Brandon Lilly, co-owner of The Life of the Party. “It felt so personal. For somebody to come in and spend that much time and get to know Marcia, talk with my son and see that this is a family-owned business.”
The owners are hoping someone in the community will recognize the “beauty bandit” and help get her off the streets.
“Another local business here re-shared our post and they’re like keep an eye out, but be aware, she’s probably wearing a wig,” Brandon Lilly said.
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People laughed at boy dying of drug OD instead of trying to help him
A 14-year-old Canadian boy died from a drug overdose as people stood by and laughed, posting video on social media rather than trying to help, according to his devastated family.
Carson Crimeni’s family were horrified when they saw videos online of the youngster ODing on narcotics in a skate park in Langley Township, British Columbia, Wednesday with others laughing at his distress.
One photo shows a young man laughing, with a caption that reads, “Carson almost died LOL,” his grandfather told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
The teen was still breathing — but alone — when his grandfather, Darrel Crimeni, found him collapsed in dirt at the park. Nobody appears to have called emergency services and the boy was only found because his family searched after he failed to come home or answer the phone. Paramedics attempted CPR but he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
“They left him to die,” Crimeni told the CBC.
Canadian police are now seeking witnesses who saw the teen in his final hours.
The teen’s father, Aron Crimeni, said his son struggled to make friends and hung out instead with a crowd who were older than him.
“He thought these people were his friends,” he said. “He trusted them.”
The dad said he had lost his “best friend.”
“We did everything together,” he told CBC. “I don’t even have anyone else to hang out with. He’s the only person I hang out with.”
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Ex-school nurse admits to having sex with student, offering him $2K in hush money
A former elementary school nurse in Missouri admitted to having sex with an underage student multiple times — and offering him $2,000 in hush money, according to a report.
Tina Maria Sumner pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of statutory rape and one count of victim tampering in a plea deal that will send her into a 120-day in-custody sex offender assessment program, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The 47-year-old nurse resigned from Fox Elementary School in Arnold following her 2017 arrest.
A judge will eventually decide whether Sumner — who was named as the top school nurse by the Jefferson County Association of School Nurses in 2005 — will be kept in custody for a seven-year prison term or be released. She will also serve a five-year probation term for pleading guilty to victim tampering in the case, the newspaper reports.
The teen told authorities in August 2017 that he had sex with Sumner at her home in Jefferson County, at his home in Arnold and at a Fox School District building on eight occasions since 2015, court records show.
Sumner refused to talk to investigators upon her arrest and she was released without being charged. But the teen’s mother contacted a detective in Arnold three months later to report that Sumner had sent her son a $2,000 check to pay off a loan on his car if he agreed to stop cooperating in the case.
The teen’s mother later gave a copy of the check to investigators and cellphone records showed that Sumner and the boy spoke by cellphone in late 2017, court documents show.
Sumner worked for the Fox C-6 School District from 1999 through 2017. She resigned from her role at Fox Elementary School at the end of the year, the Jefferson County Leader reports. She earned $44,604 in salary that year, the Post-Dispatch reported.
She had faced up to 17 years in prison, if convicted at trial.
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Father purposely dropped ‘difficult’ infant son on head, killing him, wife still supports him
A Minnesota father intentionally dropped his 5-month-old son on his head for “being difficult” as he tried to get him to fall asleep, prosecutors said.
Matthew Hoisser, 35, of Woodbury, was charged with second-degree murder on Friday in the death of his infant son, Gus, who died five days after the incident on April 24, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.
Hoisser told police his son was “crying and fussy and was being difficult” before he dropped the boy head-first on the floor, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the newspaper.
The following morning, the boy was “noticeably whining and whimpering” while refusing to drink a bottle. His mother then dropped the infant off at the home of a babysitter, who later found him unresponsive after being put down for a nap.
The boy, whose skull was fractured in the fall, was rushed to a hospital in St. Paul and later died at a hospital in Minneapolis. His cause of death was blunt force trauma, the newspaper reports.
The boy’s head injury was so debilitating that it would have left him blind, deaf and unable to move, according to the criminal complaint.
A medical examiner also found evidence of a second head injury that the boy suffered a week or two earlier, according to the complaint.
The baby boy, Gus Christian Hoisser, died on April 30, according to his obituary, which described him as a “source of joy” for his parents and all who knew him.
“He loved riding on his daddy’s shoulder and hearing his mommy sing, especially Rainbow Connection, and will always remain their precious Snuggamonkey,” his obituary read.
Hoisser, who told a judge he has worked at a beer distributor for the past six years, made his initial court appearance on Friday. A judge set his bail at $350,000 and ordered him to stay away from his wife, Nicole, who is 10 weeks pregnant, the Pioneer Press reported.
But Hoisser’s attorney insisted that the no-contact order be reviewed during a hearing set for Monday afternoon.
“I don’t think it’s necessary,” attorney John Leunig said. “His wife is totally supportive of him.”
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2 Teens Accused of Stealing AR-15 From School Resource Officer’s Safe in Tennessee
News outlets report two former students are accused of breaking into their Tennessee high school and stealing an assault weapon and bulletproof vests from the resource officer’s gun safe.
Clay and Macon County authorities say Lee Clark and Adam Cisneros were spotted on video inside Red Boiling Springs School last week. Deputies say the items were found buried behind Clark’s home.
WTVF reports Macon schools director Tony Boles says a sheriff’s department policy allows officers to bring personal guns to campus along with their service weapons.
Groups advocating against gun violence are questioning how the kids got into the safe.
Beth Joslin Roth of the Safe Tennessee Project said she also wonders why an officer would have an AR-15 at school, given how imprecisely they are designed to fire.
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Minnesota Man Gets 3 Years in Prison After Throwing Meth-Fueled ‘Death Party’ for His Wife
A Minnesota man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he said he threw a “death party” for his wife and gave her methamphetamine that killed her.
Fifty-nine-year-old Duane Johnson of Searles was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in June to criminal neglect. Sixty-nine-year-old Debra Johnson was found dead in their home in January after her husband removed her from a nursing home.
The Mankato Free Press reports Judge Robert Docherty approved the sentence that was proposed in the plea deal. Johnson was given credit for 201 days already served in jail.
Johnson maintained that his wife wanted to die. An autopsy showed she died of methamphetamine toxicity.
A third-degree murder charge was dismissed as part of the plea deal.
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‘We got high, girl!’ Wrong-number text busted by police officer
WINFIELD, Mo. — Someone sent a text message to the wrong number, and the exchange – posted by the Winfield, Missouri Police department – is going viral.
The initial message said, “Hey, would you like to go to the game tonight it won’t you free hot dog & soda.”
“I would love to go to the game tonight! Sadly I think you have the wrong number,” a person wrote in the reply.
The person who sent the initial message insisted that they knew each other writing, “We got high together girl! Get dressed & I will pick you up in the truck remember.”
That’s when the person receiving the message revealed that he is a police officer. He simply sent a selfie with his badge with a message saying, “Pretty sure we didn’t get high together.”
Fans are loving the exchange posted to the Winfield Police Department’s Facebook page. The department posted the texts with the caption, “We were invited to go to a baseball game tonight!!!! Unfortunately, we don’t think they are gonna come pick us up.”
Police did ask for a response from the texter. They report that “We asked if she still wanted to pick us up and she didn’t respond.”
One fan asked wrote, “I want to marry this officer.”
The Winfield Police Department responded, “Sorry, he’s engaged.”
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A man’s false teeth got stuck in his throat during a surgery. It was eight days before anyone noticed.
A 72-year-old’s false teeth got stuck in his throat during surgery and weren’t discovered for eight days, doctors have said.
The man was having surgery to remove a harmless lump in his abdominal wall, but the operating team neglected to take out his dentures before the operation.
He returned to the hospital six days later complaining of blood in his mouth and difficulties breathing and swallowing, which had prevented him from eating solid food.
Ultimately, more surgery was needed to resolve the problem, which was revealed in a case report published by the British Medical Journal on Monday. Lead author Harriet Cunniffe, from James Paget Hospital in eastern England, is calling for surgeons to ensure dentures are removed from patients before an operation.
During the patient’s first return to the emergency room, doctors were unable to diagnose the problem and the unnamed man was sent home with a prescription for mouthwash, antibiotics and steroids.
But he returned two days later with worsening symptoms and was admitted to the hospital with suspected aspiration pneumonia — a severe chest infection.
Eventually a diagnostic procedure identified a semicircular object lying across his vocal cords, which had caused internal blistering and swelling.
The man, who said he had lost his dentures during his initial visit to hospital, was subsequently rushed into surgery to remove the false teeth. He remained in the hospital for another six days.
He returned suffering complications on multiple occasions over the following month, before eventually healing.
The authors of the study wrote: “There are no set national guidelines on how dentures should be managed during anaesthesia, but it is known that leaving dentures in during bag-mask ventilation allows for a better seal during induction (when the anaesthetic is being infused), and therefore many hospitals allow dentures to be removed immediately before intubation (when a tube is inserted into the airway to assist breathing).”
“In addition to reminding us of the risks of leaving dentures in during induction of anaesthesia when the Swiss cheese model of errors aligns, this case also highlights a number of important learning points,” they added.
“The first is to always listen to your patient. It has long been known that one gets the majority of the information needed to form a diagnosis based on the patients’ history.”
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Man charged with Facebook threat to Puerto Rican festival
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A 53-year-old Connecticut man faces a breach of peace charge after police say he posted a threatening comment on Facebook in advance of New Haven’s Puerto Rican festival.
Jeffrey Hanson, of Orange, is scheduled to appear in Superior Court on Monday.
The threat was made Wednesday in response to a television station’s Facebook post about the festival. The comment, made under the screen name “Jake Wilson,” said the festival was an example of why “we need 30 round magazines.”
The event was held without incident Saturday on the New Haven green, just after Hanson’s arrest was announced.
The FBI says it is continuing to investigate the incident and more charges are possible.
A call seeking comment from Hanson Monday morning went unanswered and later rang to a fax machine.
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