Wife admits fatally poisoning ‘unfaithful’ hubby with eye drops
A Bible-studying South Carolina woman who once griped online that her hubby was unfaithful was charged with murder — after admitting to poisoning him with eye drops, officials said.
Lana Clayton, 52, was booked Friday after an autopsy uncovered a high amount of tetrahydrozoline in her husband’s body, officials said.
The chemical is found in over-the-counter drops, such as Visine, and reduces redness by restricting blood vessels. But when it’s swallowed, it acts as a neurotoxin and attacks the nervous system.
Lana Clayton admitted to spiking her husband’s water with eye drops over a three day span, between July 19 and 21, the York County Sherriff’s office said.
Steven Clayton, 64, was found dead July 21 in their palatial home, worth over $800,000, in Clover, South Carolina, about 30 miles southwest of Charlotte, N.C. It appeared he had fallen down the stairs.
The home was designed as a copy of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, and Steven Clayton had carefully worked to restore his property, according to The Herald of Rock Hill, S.C.
An accountant, Steven Clayton was the founder of Physical Therapy Resources, a national company with branches throughout the United States. He retired in 1995, according to his obituary in the Herald.
His funeral was held in the home’s back yard on Aug. 4, before the autopsy results revealed the cause of death, according to WSOC-TV in Charlotte.
One neighbor said she knew Lana Clayton from a neighborhood Bible Study group.
A friend told a local newspaper that Lana worked in nursing for the VA hospital in Charlotte. Police have not released a motive for the crime.
She posted a comment on what appears to be her little-used Facebook page in March 2010 that suggested her husband was unfaithful. “My husband is not a drunk he had an affair. However, he is the father of my children and my kids look at my Facebook. Soooo. I do appreciate the support though.”
She had already started legal action concerning the estate, which also included a lot next door to the home worth nearly $400,000, the Herald reported.
Neighbor Ken Sanford told the Rock Hill, S.C., Herald that “seemed like a sweet lady,” and “Steven was very proud of her accomplishments.”
“I am just stunned,” Sanford said.
Lana Clayton was also charged with unlawful malicious tampering of food. Because she is charged with murder, she will not be released on bond. It’s unclear if she has yet named a lawyer.
An Oklahoma native according to her Facebook page, she has no prior criminal record in South Carolina, the Herald reported.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/01/wife-admits-fatally-poisoning-hubby-with-eye-drops-cops/
Couple built drive-thru window into mobile home to sell drugs
A Florida couple was arrested last week after they were caught allegedly selling drugs out of a drive-thru window they constructed out of the side of their mobile home.
William Parrish Jr. and McKenzee Dobbs of Ocala, Florida, were arrested on Aug. 23 after investigators raided their mobile home following reports of four drug overdoses in the area, WFTV reported.
Ocala Police said the couple had turned a kitchen window into a drive-thru so customers would not have to constantly enter and exit their home, potentially drawing unwanted attention, WFTV reported. The house had signs directing people where to drive and indicated whether it was open or closed, police said.
“We were seeing some overdose incidents that were happening in this particular area, specifically at this particular location,” said Ocala Police Capt. Steven Cuppy. “There [were] some heroin sales that were going on there. Subsequently, through the investigation, we were able to determine that product was laced with fentanyl.”
Parrish, 32, was charged with driving under the influence, keeping a dwelling used to sell drugs, possession of drugs with intent to sell and resisting arrest without violence, according to Marion County Sheriff’s Office inmate records.
Dobbs, 20, has been charged with keeping a dwelling used to sell drugs, possession of drugs with intent to sell, possession of fentanyl and possession of fentanyl with intent to sell, court records show.
William Parrish Sr. told WFTV his son had been “trying to get himself straightened out” and maintained reports of overdoses were a “lie.”
Ocala is located inland, about 66 miles west of Daytona Beach.
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Man walks into police station, says he chopped off girlfriend’s head
A man strolled into a Tribeca police station house this week and said, “I have to make a confession” — then admitted to chopping off his girlfriend’s head four years ago, authorities said Friday.
Ricky Gonzalez, 34, told First Precinct cops Tuesday that he fatally stabbed 58-year-old Maria Quinones inside their Bushwick, Brooklyn, apartment in 2014 in a dispute over money. He said he then dismembered her body and disposed of it in the garbage, according to court documents.
Gonzalez told police he followed Quinones that day into the bathroom of the apartment they shared on Wilson Avenue near Himrod Street and plunged a large knife into her chest while standing behind her, according to the documents.
Gonzalez then dragged her body into the bathtub and grabbed a butcher knife and blade sharpener, he said.
He beheaded Quinones’ corpse, chopped off her hands and feet and cut her torso into two pieces, according to the documents.
He then stuffed her body parts into trash bags and put the sacks out on the curb to be picked up for garbage collection, authorities said.
Gonzalez and Quinones had met in a drug-treatment program, police sources said.
Quinones’ sister reported her missing in September 2014, telling police she had not seen her since March of that year.
Gonzalez, who lives in upstate Beacon, was arrested after his confession and hit with charges of murder and concealment of a corpse.
He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and ordered held without bail. His attorney did not return requests for comment.
The suspect’s grisly confession came a day before a couple was charged with beating a 25-year-old woman to death and dismembering her body in the bathtub of their apartment in the Longwood section of The Bronx.
Daquan Wheeler, 31, allegedly beat Lisa Marie Velasquez to death with a hammer Aug. 22 and ordered his girlfriend, Ciara Martinez, to help him dismember her, sources told The Post. The couple then put the body in plastic bags and scattered them in Crotona Park.
Wheeler became enraged after Velasquez called 911 out of fear he would hurt Martinez, police said.
Martinez and Wheeler were charged Thursday with murder, manslaughter, concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/08/31/man-walks-into-police-station-says-he-chopped-off-girlfriends-head/
#Love&HipHopAtlanta: Karen King’s Son “Sas” Wanted By Atlanta Police
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According to local Atlanta news, the rapper Sas who appeared on “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta” with his mother Karen King is a WANTED man right now.
Police are looking question Lyndon Akhil Smith aka Sas, because they believe he’s a witness to a murder investigation where two people killed each other in a shoot out! According to reports, the deadly shooting happened Monday night on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Officers responded to a reported shooting and found a victim who had been shot in the head in a parking lot. That man was taken to Grady Hospital, where he later died.
Soon after that, other officers investigated a crash at a nearby ramp onto I-285. The driver of the vehicle involved in the wreck had also been shot. The driver died from his injuries. Police believe both of these deaths are connected to the parking lot where the first man was found.
Right now, there is a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in the shooting.
No word yet on if Sas plans to turn himself in. Yikes. Thoughts?
Exclusive: U.S. accuses China of ‘super aggressive’ spy campaign on LinkedIn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down.
William Evanina, the U.S. counter-intelligence chief, told Reuters in an interview that intelligence and law enforcement officials have told LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft Corp., about China’s “super aggressive” efforts on the site.
He said the Chinese campaign includes contacting thousands of LinkedIn members at a time, but he declined to say how many fake accounts U.S. intelligence had discovered, how many Americans may have been contacted and how much success China has had in the recruitment drive.
German and British authorities have previously warned their citizens that Beijing is using LinkedIn to try to recruit them as spies. But this is the first time a U.S. official has publicly discussed the challenge in the United States and indicated it is a bigger problem than previously known.
Evanina said LinkedIn should look at copying the response of Twitter, Google and Facebook, which have all purged fake accounts allegedly linked to Iranian and Russian intelligence agencies.
“I recently saw that Twitter is cancelling, I don’t know, millions of fake accounts, and our request would be maybe LinkedIn could go ahead and be part of that,” said Evanina, who heads the U.S. National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center.
It is highly unusual for a senior U.S. intelligence official to single out an American-owned company by name and publicly recommend it take action. LinkedIn says it has 575 million users in more than 200 counties and territories, including more than 150 million U.S. members.
Evanina did not, however, say whether he was frustrated by LinkedIn’s response or whether he believes it has done enough.
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‘ER’ Actress Vanessa Marquez Shot and Killed by South Pasadena PD Officer
Marquez played Nurse Wendy Goldman on “ER” Marquez made headlines last year after accusing the show’s star George Clooney of having her blacklisted after she reported suffering sexual and racial harassment on the set of the NBC medical drama.
“I had no idea Vanessa was blacklisted,” Clooney said in a statement to TheWrap back in October. “I take her at her word. I was not a writer or a producer or a director on that show. I had nothing to do with casting. I was an actor and only an actor.”
Clooney, who starred as Doug Ross on the series for five seasons, denied having any influence on casting the show or on Marquez’s career. “If she was told I was involved in any decision about her career then she was lied to,” he said. “The fact that I couldn’t affect her career is only surpassed by the fact that I wouldn’t.”
Marquez played Nurse Wendy Goldman on “ER” Marquez made headlines last year after accusing the show’s star George Clooney of having her blacklisted after she reported suffering sexual and racial harassment on the set of the NBC medical drama.
“I had no idea Vanessa was blacklisted,” Clooney said in a statement to TheWrap back in October. “I take her at her word. I was not a writer or a producer or a director on that show. I had nothing to do with casting. I was an actor and only an actor.”
Clooney, who starred as Doug Ross on the series for five seasons, denied having any influence on casting the show or on Marquez’s career. “If she was told I was involved in any decision about her career then she was lied to,” he said. “The fact that I couldn’t affect her career is only surpassed by the fact that I wouldn’t.”
Marquez accused the cast and producers of “ER” of conspiring to have her blacklisted after she reported being sexually harassed and being discriminated against on the basis of race.
“B.S.” she tweeted when Clooney condemned former pal Harvey Weinstein after the movie producer was accused of sexual assault and harassment by multiple women. “Clooney helped blacklist me when I spoke up [about] harassment on ER ‘Women who don’t play the game lose career’ I did.”
Marquez, who played Nurse Wendy Goldman in 27 episodes of “ER,” accused Eriq La Salle and a camera operator of being “p— grabbers,” which she said she reported to showrunner John Wells and to the show’s production company, Warner Bros.
Marquez accused the cast and producers of “ER” of conspiring to have her blacklisted after she reported being sexually harassed and being discriminated against on the basis of race.
“B.S.” she tweeted when Clooney condemned former pal Harvey Weinstein after the movie producer was accused of sexual assault and harassment by multiple women. “Clooney helped blacklist me when I spoke up [about] harassment on ER ‘Women who don’t play the game lose career’ I did.”
Marquez, who played Nurse Wendy Goldman in 27 episodes of “ER,” accused Eriq La Salle and a camera operator of being “p— grabbers,” which she said she reported to showrunner John Wells and to the show’s production company, Warner Bros.
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Boy, 14, accidentally shoots and kills himself while on FaceTime
Union Township, OH — A 14-year-old is dead after police said his friends saw him accidentally shoot himself.
Union Township police said the incident happened around 11 a.m. Wednesday at the teen’s home in the 4200 block of Beechmont Drive.
Police said the teenager was holding a gun while on a FaceTime call with friends when the gun accidentally went off and hit the teen in the face.
The friends then called 911, and the teen was taken to a hospital.
“I hung up immediately. I was going to go check on him, but then I realized I should probably call the cops before I went to his house,” said the 911 caller.
The teen was home alone and the friend who called 911 said the shooting happened in his bedroom.
Police said it appears the teen didn’t know the gun was loaded.
“He didn’t know that there was a live round in it,” said the 911 caller.
Police have not confirmed how the teen got the gun or who it belonged to.
The teenager was a freshman at West Clermont High School, police said. It is unclear why he wasn’t at school.
The school said grief counselors will be available for students and staff.
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Mom Dies in Car Crash After Boyfriend Allegedly Cut Brake Lines to Make Crack Pipe
A Pennsylvania mom of five is dead following a car crash that police say was caused after her boyfriend cut the vehicle’s brake lines for material to make a crack pipe, PEOPLE confirms.
Tammy Fox, 38, of Scranton, died from her injuries after her black Hyundai Sonata “began to accelerate” as she approached then raced through an intersection and “violently struck a tree” on Aug. 22, according to a news release Wednesday from Pennsylvania State Police.
The resulting investigation became a criminal case after a mechanical inspection of the car revealed its brake lines had been severed, police said.
Under questioning, John William Jenkins, 39, who was identified by police as Fox’s boyfriend, “admitted that on the evening prior to the crash he cut the victim’s brake lines while at their residence in an attempt to obtain a metal pipe that could be used to smoke crack cocaine,” according to law enforcement.
Authorities arrested Jenkins on a charge of criminal homicide. He currently is being held in the Luzerne County jail, on a hold for Lackawanna County, with no bond listed, jail records confirm.
It’s unknown whether he has entered a plea, and an attorney who might speak on his behalf was not immediately identified. He is scheduled to be in court for a preliminary hearing on Sept. 7, the Lehigh Valley News reports.
According to court documents obtained by the Associated Press, Jenkins claimed to police that Fox was “driving him crazy” because she was looking for a pipe to smoke crack in.
According to the documents, Jenkins said he didn’t want to go to the store so he started “hacking away” underneath Fox’s vehicle.
“Tammy had the ability to bring light to dark times and gave selflessly to those around her,” according to a GoFundMe page titled “Justice for Tammy” seeking financial assistance for her family. “She will be greatly missed, but will be with us in spirit, joining her mother in Heaven.”
The page’s author, Elle Massetti, added: “Although a confession was made, the fight has just begun.”
Kim Kardashian “Mom-Shamed” For Putting North West In A Two Piece Swim Suit
Kim Kardashian is taking some heat over her latest family photo — and it’s all because of her daughter’s swimsuit.
Fresh off a trip to Miami, the reality star posted an Instagram photo Wednesday that shows 5-year-old North West soaking up the South Beach lifestyle on a yacht. The little girl — the eldest of Kardashian’s three children with husband Kanye West — happens to be wearing a neon-yellow bikini top in the snapshot.
The fluorescent look may be a nod to North’s influence in prompting her father to release glow-in-the-dark 350s, but some of Kardashian’s followers found the swimsuit “inappropriate” for a 5-year-old.
Mommy shamers soon flooded the KKW Beauty mogul’s comments, chiding her for putting North in a bikini.
“That swimsuit is a bit inappropriate for a little girl in my opinion!” complained one commenter.
“Why is your child showing that much skin?” read another comment. “I get that [it’s] a swimsuit but c’mon.”
“Aren’t kids that age supposed to wear one-pieces,” someone else remarked. “Just in terms of not letting your child be too grown. Like not letting them wear lipstick at that age either. It’s cute when they’re a baby but get a kid a one-piece. … It’s not Kim’s fault. She just doesn’t know.”
Some even accused Kardashian of sexualizing her child and subjecting her to online ogling by sharing the photo on social media.
“She can wear what she wants but posting this could maybe give wrong signals,” read one negative comment.
But Kardashian’s fans were quick to defend her, telling critics to stop judging her parenting. Many also said that mommy shamers were the ones sexualizing North.
“All those mom shamers always ready to attack,” a fan wrote. “Kim is with her daughter in a safe environment. I guess her kid is the only kid to ever wear a two-piece? Let the mom parent her kids and stop shaming moms.”
The criticism comes just months after Kardashian was slammed by some for letting North straighten her hair for her fifth birthday in June.
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