Catholic school music director sought sex with undercover cop posing as teen
A Catholic school teacher was busted after he sought sex with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, saying he wanted to get intimate with her on a “desk in his classroom,” court documents reveal.
Lazaro Benito Rocha — the 26-year-old director of music at St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Catholic Church in Corpus Christi, Texas — was arrested Thursday on suspicion of online solicitation of a minor and display of harmful material to a minor, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
Rocha replied on May 6 to an online ad posted by an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old and knew potential consequences he faced, writing that “anyone 18 and older can get in trouble if they were to be found with someone your age,” according to the document.
The undercover cop stopped replying at that point, but Rocha contacted the officer the following day.
“I’m not complaining,” Rocha replied, according to the affidavit. “Are you?”
After asking for the teen’s cellphone number, Rocha then sent a photo of his genitals and asked the person he thought was an underage girl if she had lost her virginity before suggesting possible sex acts they could perform, the document states.
“During the messages, Rocha stated he was 26 years of age and a teacher,” the affidavit states. “Rocha stated he wanted to have sex with the 14-year-old on the desk in his classroom.”
A spokeswoman for the Diocese of Corpus Christi told the newspaper that Rocha, who worked part-time at the St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Church, is no longer working for the diocese.
Rocha also will not return to Incarnate Word Academy in Corpus Christi, where he worked part-time as an elementary music teacher. He passed a required background check and drug testing prior to his employment, according to a statement by the school’s president.
Rocha, who posted bail Sunday, was at the school while he sent the sexually explicit messages and his vehicle did not leave the building during that time, according to the affidavit.
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Woman sentenced for posing as sheriff’s deputy to free boyfriend from jail
An Arkansas woman who posed as a California sheriff’s deputy to break her boyfriend out of jail has been sentenced.
Maxine Feldstein, 30, pleaded guilty on Monday to several charges, including criminal impersonation, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but half her sentence was suspended by the judge, KFSM-TV reported.
In July, Feldstein posed as deputy “L. Kershaw,” with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, at the Washington County Jail, and presented forged documents to fool those at the jail into freeing her boyfriend.
Boyfriend Nicholas Lowe reportedly told Feinstein to pose as a deputy from the sheriff’s office, the station reported, citing court documents. Lowe told his girlfriend she should tell the jail staff that the sheriff’s office was “having issues with overcrowding and all low-priority extraditions have been suspended.”
Two days later, a real Ventura County sheriff’s deputy called the jail to let them know he was on his way to pick up Lowe, which is when jail officials realized what happened.
The couple was arrested in Fayetteville about a month after the incident.
In court earlier this week, Feldstein also pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal impersonation, forgery and third-degree escape. In February, Lowe pleaded guilty to third-degree escape and was given a year in prison, with credit for time served, and will be suspended for five years once he’s released.
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Oklahoma woman accused of stabbing her 11-year-old daughter 50 to 70 times, hitting her in the head with an ax and then setting their home on fire has been sentenced to life in prison.
A Tulsa County Judge handed the sentence Thursday to 40-year-old Taheerah Ahmad, who pleaded guilty last month to two counts of child neglect and one count each of first-degree arson and assault and battery. Her daughter survived and authorities say she has recovered from her injuries.
Ahmad was arrested last May after authorities said she attacked the girl and bound and gagged two younger daughters, who escaped and were found unharmed.
An arrest report said Ahmad told investigators she was upset with her children “because of the way they were reading and looking at her.”
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Three charged after pregnant woman strangled, baby cut from her womb
CHICAGO — Three people have been charged after a missing pregnant woman was found dead on Chicago’s Southwest Side, according to police.
Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and police officials announced the charges Thursday afternoon while updating the investigation into the death of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui, whose mutilated body was found just after midnight Tuesday in a trash bin behind a home on the 4100 block of West 77th Place.
Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her daughter, Desiree Figueroa, 24, were charged with first-degree murder and felony aggravated battery to a child less than 13 years old causing permanent disability.
Figueroa’s boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, 40, was charged with concealing a homicide.
Police said Figueroa’s daughter confessed to helping her mother strangle the 19-year-old, who was nine months pregnant when she went missing. Police said a cable was used to strangle the teen.
On Wednesday, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the body found at the home on West 77th Place as that of the missing teen. The medical examiner, which identified her as Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, ruled her death a homicide.
Police said Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and that her baby boy was cut from her womb after the murder. Sources said the home had a hidden room in the basement.
Fire officials confirm responding to the home on West 77th Place on April 23, the day Ochoa-Lopez went missing. She went missing less than two weeks before her due date. The 19-year-old was likely dead when an emergency call was made by someone in the home.
Police said that on May 7 one of Ochoa-Lopez’s friends told detectives that she was on a “chat site” on Facebook. The teen’s family said it was a Facebook group called “Help a Sister Out.”
Ochoa-Lopez’s family said she went to the home on West 77th Place to swap items arranged through the group. The group has since been archived.
A 46-year-old woman, now identified as Figueroa, claimed to have a stroller and other baby items.
“She was giving clothes away, supposedly under the pretenses that her daughters had been given clothes and they had all these extra boy clothes. That’s the false pretenses that we believe led her to that house,” Cecelia Garcia, a spokeswoman for Ochoa-Uriostegui’s family, said.
Hours later that same day, neighbors said the 46-year-old woman came running out of the home claiming that she had just given birth to a baby boy and that he wasn’t breathing.
The baby was transported to Christ Hospital, Chicago fire officials confirmed. He remains hospitalized in intensive care.
Ochoa-Lopez’s family named the baby boy Yovani Yadiel Lopez. Police confirmed that DNA testing proved Yadiel belongs to Ochoa-Lopez, but they don’t expect him to survive.
Just before 11 a.m. Thursday, the 19-year-old’s family was spotted by WGN cameras, visibly emotional, entering the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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Mom caught on video in classroom threatening students she says bullied her daughter
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. – A mother is seen in a shocking video inside a California classroom threatening middle school students she accused of bullying her daughter on social media.
The entire situation is now under investigation.
“Don’t post nothing about her. None of that,” the mom is heard saying in the video. “Y’all think y’all bullies? I’m a big bully, ok?”
The video was taken inside an eighth grade classroom at Niguel Hills Middle School in Laguna Niguel on Tuesday. A mother who believed her daughter was being bullied barged into a second period class, and confronted students.
“She’s a girl. Y’all are boys, ok? If y’all bully my daughter, if you look at her the wrong way, if you breathe the wrong way, send your mom to me. Sisters, aunts, anybody over 18, I’ll f–k them all up. Do you understand me?” the mother is heard saying in the video.
“Leave my daughter alone and I’m not gonna say it again.”
While there, she also handed out “Free A– Kicking” tickets.
“A– whoopings. A– whoopings. For free. For free!” she says in the video.
“It was actually kind of scary, but then she was like, all talk. So I thought it was like kind of funny towards the end, but at first it was scary because some random person comes in the class, and starts yelling, like I don’t know what your initial thought would be,” one student said.
The incident remains under investigation.
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Cafeteria worker says she was fired for letting student who couldn’t afford lunch take food
WEST CANAAN, N.H. – When a student at a New Hampshire high school put items on his tray that he didn’t have the money for, lunchroom employee Bonnie Kimball didn’t think it was a big deal.
She told the student to make sure to pay the next day. She wasn’t worried as she had known the boy’s parents since they were children, and had no doubt that the $8 lunch tab would soon be taken care of. And the next morning, she told CNN, that’s exactly what happened.
About a week later though, she was fired by the district manager of Café Services, the food services company that employed her.
“‘Do you understand what you did was wrong? That was theft,’” Kimball says she was told.
A photo of her termination letter provided to CNN shows that the company accused her of violating its procedures as well as federal and school policies. The letter was dated April 9 and said Kimball was fired on April 4.
“On March 28, a District Manager was on-site and witnessed a student coming through the line with multiple food items that you did not charge him for. This in strict violation of our Cash Handling Procedures, the Schools Charge Policy and Federal Regulation governing free meals,” the letter reads. “Your final has been processed and disbursed to you.”
Jaime Matheson, human resources director for Café Services, said in a statement that the student wouldn’t have gone without a meal.
“The student in question did receive a lunch. Students who come up to the lunch line without money receive a lunch of an entrée or sandwich plus side dishes or fresh fruit and milk. An employee of the company would not be let go because they provide this lunch to a student,” Matheson said.
“We can’t get into specifics because personnel decisions are confidential to honor privacy, however employees receive and sign their acknowledgment to company policies. When these aren’t followed, corrective action is put in place, up to and including termination. We’re all proud of our ability to provide meals to those in need,” the statement continued.
Kimball had worked at Mascoma Valley Regional High School for 4½ years, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader. She also said that two other employees in the lunchroom quit in protest of her firing.
“We miss them very much and wish we could still feed them every day,” she said.
CNN has reached out to the school but it has not yet returned a request for comment.
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Mother runs inside burning home to rescue her children; all 3 die
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida woman ran back into her burning apartment after realizing her two children hadn’t made it out. All three died in the fire.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said during a Wednesday morning news conference that the woman and another adult living in the apartment made it safely outside when she noticed the children, ages 5 and 10, didn’t make it out.
The sheriff said running back to save the children was a great “action of love” displayed by the mother.
When firefighters arrived, flames were already penetrating the roof, which later collapsed.
The names of the victims weren’t immediately released.
Officials say at least 12 residents were displaced by the fire, which damaged eight apartments.
An investigation continues.
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Woman tried to snatch 4-year-old boy from McDonald’s, police said the same woman may have tried to snatch another 4-year-old boy in the same area
(Meredith) – Police have arrested a woman who tried to kidnap a 4-year-old boy from a McDonald’s in Los Angeles.
Maralyn Ramos was arrested and booked for PC-Kidnapping. Her bail is set at $100,000.
She entered the fast-food restaurant at about 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Moments later, she picked up a little boy and carried him outside, police said.
Surveillance video showed the woman holding the child in her arms before leaving the establishment.
A young girl who witnessed the attempted kidnapping alerted adults, KABC-TV reported. They stopped the woman in the parking lot and rescued the child, but the woman ran away from the area.
The arrest came after police solicited the community’s help in identifying the suspect in the footage. Ramos was arrested on Thursday.
Police said the same woman may have tried to snatch another 4-year-old boy in the same area on Wednesday. The child was walking with a family member when a woman came up, pulled his hand and tried to walk away with him.
Someone stopped the woman and she ran away.
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Florida Woman Allegedly Threw Coconut at Man Filming Her Outside Strip Club
A Florida woman was arrested Saturday after allegedly hurling a coconut at a man who was recording her outside a Key West strip club, arrest records show.
Shonta Latasha Bolds, age 36, was left facing a single felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill after the incident. The altercation took place at about 2 a.m on May 11 outside the VIP Gentlemen’s Club, an adult establishment on Duval Street.
Arrest records posted this week by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office listed the suspect’s occupation as a dancer and her home address as being in North Miami Beach. Bolds was held without bond and has since been released. Arraignment is currently set for May 23.
The suspect reportedly admitted to deputies from the Key West Police Department that she had thrown the coconut but denied it collided with the man, who had been filming her as she sat on the porch. The man was named as George Exposito by the Miami Herald newspaper.
“I will be honest with you. I threw it, but it did not hit him,” Bolds said, according to a police report detailing the incident. Exposito had allegedly uttered the word “ladies” as he walked past the club, sparking several angry comments from the suspect, the Miami Herald reported.
Exposito’s footage did not contain evidence of the attack but did show the improvised weapon “as if it had just been thrown,” police noted. According to the Florida newspaper, police officers did not respond when Exposito asked them if he deserved to have the coconut thrown at him.
Local reporting suggests it was not the first violent outburst at the Duval Street business.
Last September, a 26-year-old dancer identified as Ashley Barrett allegedly threatened two of her co-workers by swinging an electric hair-straightener close to their faces.
“I’m going to get you when you least expect it,” she reportedly told one of the targets. Barrett was later arrested on two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.
It was the second time in 24 hours that she had been arrested. Police said the woman was taken into custody earlier the same day after waving a knife at co-workers while intoxicated.
According to Hussein & Webber, a Florida law firm, aggravated assault is a third-degree felony that has penalties of up to five years in prison or five years probation and a $5,000 fine.
“A person found guilty of aggravated assault in Florida may be required to pay restitution to a victim for any expenses resulting from the crime, such as the cost of medical treatment or counseling,” West Palm Beach legal firm Dimond Kaplan & Rothstein explained online.
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Florida Man Arrested After Allegedly Stealing Truck Full of Coffins
Highway patrol arrested a man who was suspected of stealing a box truck full of caskets in Jacksonville, Florida on Monday.
Having been alerted to be on the lookout for a Ryder truck by Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, which had been reported stolen from a Jacksonville casket company, Florida Highway Patrol located the vehicle shortly before noon on Monday. However, once a trooper ran tags on the truck, the driver failed to pull over and pressed ahead instead.
A 25-mile chase on Interstate 295 ensued, with police chasing the truck and eventually managing to halt it after it came off the interstate and stopped at a red light at the intersection between Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Moncrief Road.
Once they stopped the truck, troopers found out it was carrying a rather unusual load, which included three caskets.
“At first I was shocked to see the caskets because obviously when you think caskets, you think of someone’s loved one,” Sergeant Dylan Bryan with the Florida Highway Patrol told Fox News.
Once the truck was stopped, Florida Highway Patrol arrested the driver, who was later identified as David Ayers.
Despite being chased for over 20 miles, the 39-year-old never drove above the speed limit.
“He was not driving in an erratic manner,” Bryan added, explaining Ayers had been driving at around 55-60 miles per hour throughout.
Officers subsequently managed to unlock the caskets after using a tool they borrowed from a funeral home located a few blocks away from where the truck was stopped.
“Where the scene was, was actually two blocks from a funeral home so I walked down to the funeral home to obtain a funeral key, a tool to unlock and open funeral caskets,” Bryan continued.
He added that his colleagues “didn’t know what to expect” when they opened the caskets and “wanted to be respectful with those items” as they were unsure whether the caskets contained bodies.
However, the caskets were empty. They were not the only unusual item officers found in the truck, which was also carrying a payment collection machine belonging to a car wash.
“There could be anywhere from 20 bucks to several hundred bucks in quarters in those machines, depending on how often the owner will empty out those coins,” Bryan explained.
Florida Highway Patrol added Ayers probably “ripped out car wash vacuum machines out of the car wash to get the money out.”
Following the arrest, the suspect, who had two outstanding warrants, was charged with auto theft, fleeing and eluding an officer, and driving while license suspended or revoked
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