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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.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/08/31/couple-built-drive-thru-window-into-mobile-home-to-sell-drugs-cops/
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/
Cop fired for allegedly filming office sex with police body camera
A former Arizona cop was fired earlier this year for allegedly using a department body camera to film himself having sex and storing pornography on an office computer, the Arizona Republic reported, citing court records.
Officer Anthony Doran became the subject of an administrative probe by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office in March, the report said. The contents of that investigation became public this month after a Superior, Arizona, resident filed a civil complaint alleging that Doran had been among several officers who beat and falsely arrested him during a 2016 search of his home.
According to the report, Doran had stored a video on a flash drive of him having sex with a woman in his office. The report said the woman was not a police employee.
The flash drive was discovered by an office secretary connected to Doran’s computer, which allegedly contained a folder titled “fun times.” A deputy subsequently discovered 36 gigabytes worth of photos on the folder, including pornography and a naked girl around the age of 5, the report said.
Doran told the Republic that he had stored both the video and the pornography on a flash drive that “had nothing to do with work,” and denied being on duty when he filmed himself. Doran said the naked girl was his daughter and was not photographed in a sexual manner, the paper said. Superior’s town manager fired Doran following the investigation.
Superior is a small mining town, with a population of about 3,000, located about 65 miles east of Phoenix. The civil complaint that was filed this month accused Superior of hiring officers with checkered histories in order to cut costs, naming Doran among several officers who allegedly beat and falsely arrested a resident on trumped-up charges.
“The town hires substandard officers with extensive misconduct records to save money,” the complaint alleged. “Once the town hires these substandard, ‘second-chance’ officers, it fails to appropriately train/retrain them.”
According to the Arizona Republic, most of Superior’s nine police officers were at one point fired or disciplined by other police departments. Doran was previously terminated in 2013 from the Pima County Sheriff’s Office for sexual misconduct, records showed.
Superior Mayor Mila Besich-Lira said the town is pursuing reforms “so we don’t continue this poor behavior.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/08/15/cop-fired-for-allegedly-filming-office-sex-with-police-body-camera/
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‘I’m a white, clean girl’: DUI suspect is the picture of entitlement
A boozed-up South Carolina woman pulled over for blowing past a stop sign at 60 mph told cops she shouldn’t be arrested because she’s a “very clean, thoroughbred, white girl,” according to a police report.
But Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw’s lecture didn’t convince officers from the Bluffton Police Department — who arrested her on charges of speeding, disregarding a stop sign, simple possession of marijuana, driving under the influence and possession of drug paraphernalia, a police spokesman confirmed to The Post.
After getting pulled over at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday near Bluffton and May River roads, where she was spotted speeding through a four-way stop sign, Cutshaw told cops she had had just two glasses of wine, according to the police report obtained by the Island Packet.
“I mean I was celebrating my birthday,” Cutshaw, who turns 33 on Thursday, told the cops when they asked her how big the glasses were for her alleged two drinks, according to the report.
But she didn’t stop there. Cutshaw gave the officers a litany of other reasons why she deserved to be let off the hook: She maintained perfect grades during all of her school years, was a cheerleader and a member of a sorority. Her partner is also a cop, Cutshaw said.
“I’m a white, clean girl,” Cutshaw said, according to the report.
When the officers asked what exactly that meant, she replied, “You’re a cop, you should know what that means.”
The police report indicated how surprised the officers were by the comments.
“Making statements such as these as a means to justify not being arrested are unusual in my experience as a law enforcement officer and I believe further demonstrate the suspect’s level of intoxication,” according to the report.
The officer also noted that Cutshaw, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.18, failed sobriety tests and had bloodshot eyes. She was also slurring her words, according to the report.
Cutshaw was later booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center. She was no longer in custody as of Tuesday, according to online jail records. Attempts to reach her were unsuccessful.
Family forced autistic relative to eat her mom’s ashes
A family in Louisiana held an autistic relative captive for nearly 11 months in a backyard cage and subjected her to shocking abuse, including forcing her to eat her mother’s cremated remains mixed with milk, federal authorities allege.
Department of Justice officials announced Thursday that a federal grand jury in New Orleans returned a six-count human trafficking and hate crime indictment in connection with the vile and twisted abuse sustained by the 22-year-old woman — identified only as D.P. — in Amite.
Details of the depraved allegations were outlined in an indictment obtained by the Times-Picayune, including accusations that the five family members shot the woman with a BB gun and covered her “from head to toe” in feces and urine.
Federal prosecutors also allege the woman’s relatives forced her to eat her mother’s ashes from a cereal bowl after mixing them with milk and to take meth and prescription painkillers under the threat of being reported to police if she stopped obeying the family’s orders to work at the home without getting paid.
The abuse, according to the indictment, began in August 2015, one day after the victim’s brother died, and continued through June 2016. The family members charged in connection with the allegations were identified as Raylaine Knope, 42; Terry Knope II, 45; Jody Lambert, 23; Taylor Knope, 20; and 21-year-old Bridget Lambert, who was charged separately for allegedly taking part in the forced-labor conspiracy.
It’s unclear how the victim is related to the suspects, who moved from a home in Kentwood they shared with the woman’s late mother to a mobile home in Amite in August 2015, according to the Times-Picayune.
Federal prosecutors also allege the family took extreme measures to make sure the woman didn’t try to escape, including regular death threats and holding her captive in a cage with no electricity or running water. They also forced her to make sexual advances to several men as part of a sex trafficking scheme, according to the indictment.
During one alleged incident, prosecutors said Terry Knope and Jody Lambert dumped a bucket of human waste onto the woman, leaving her entire body covered. She then began screaming as Jody Lambert laughed, according to the indictment.
The woman’s relatives were arrested in June 2016 after police received calls about a caged woman in the area, the Times-Picayune reports.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/07/27/family-forced-autistic-relative-to-eat-her-moms-ashes-feds/
Dad Of Brother And Sister Parkland Survivors Fatally Shot In Robbery
A Florida family has been devastated again by gun violence. The father of two sibling survivors of the Parkland school attack was fatally shot during a robbery at his Fort Lauderdale convenience store.
On surveillance footage, a gunman is seen taking money from the cash register on Tuesday at Aunt Mollie’s Food Store, owned by Ayub Ali, 61. Ali can be seen holding his hands in the air. The thief walked out, then returned to the store and shot Ali, Broward County sheriff’s officials said in a statement.
It wasn’t clear why the gunman returned. Ali was declared dead a short time later at a nearby hospital.
The sheriff’s office released the surveillance video on Thursday as it sought help in identifying and locating the shooter. A friend eventually persuaded suspect Tyrone Fields Jr., 19, to turn himself in on Friday, officials said.
Ali was buried the same day. Fields is being held without bail.
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Ali moved to Florida from Bangladesh in the 1990s. He encouraged his daughter to travel to Washington for the “March for Our Lives” rally organized by young people in the wake of the Parkland attack to advocate for stricter gun control laws, Elama Ali told CNN.
“When I was in Washington… he watched it on TV,” she said.
Of her father’s death, she said, “We’re trying to be strong, but it’s overwhelming.”
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Man tried to kill wife with ant poison
A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged after police say he tried to kill his wife with ant poison.
Authorities said Eugene Richard Pittman, 52, of Hope Mills, N.C., has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
According to the arrest warrant, Eugene’s wife noticed a funny taste in her meal. The woman said she woke up later to find that her hands and mouth were duct taped, and Eugene was holding her nose shut.
She said Eugene told her she had two choices: that she could leave or she could die.
Police said Pittman willfully “attempted to murder his wife by poisoning her food with Terro ant poison.”
via: http://abc7chicago.com/man-tried-to-kill-wife-with-ant-poison-police-say/3776226/
‘You Took My Life, So I’m Taking Yours.’ Woman, 92, Allegedly Kills Son Who Tried to Put Her in Assisted Living
Anna Mae Blessing shot and killed son
A 92-year-old Arizona woman allegedly shot and killed her 72-year-old son after he tried to put her in assisted living, police said.Officers arrived at Anna Mae Blessing’s home in Fountain Hills, Arizona on Monday and found her son, Thomas Blessing, dead on the floor of the master bedroom with a gunshot wound to the neck and jaw, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Police said they found Blessing sitting on a recliner in her bedroom and arrested her when she muttered to police, “You took my life, so I’m taking yours.”
Blessing told police she killed her son because was wanted to take her to an assisted living facility.
Blessing entered the master bedroom and began arguing with her son and his 57-year-old girlfriend and told them that she was tired of the way she was being treated when she shot her son. She then attempted to shoot her son’s girlfriend but the younger woman was able to wrestle the gun away from Blessing and threw it in the corner, police said.
Blessing then pulled a second gun from her robe and pointed it at the girlfriend but she was able to wrestle it away, as well.
Blessing told police she purchased the handguns in the 1970’s and that she came to live with her son and his girlfriend four months ago. She told police she had been up for the last three to four nights thinking about her son telling her he was going to place her in an assisted living facility.
After shooting her son, Blessing said checked his pulse to confirm he was dead, according to police. She said that when she returned to her room she wanted to kill herself but did not have a gun because her son’s girlfriend wrestled them away.
She was taken into custody and when police asked her what should be done with her, she told officers that she should be “put to sleep”
“It is always concerning when domestic issues escalate to violence or tragic outcomes,” Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone said in a statement. “They are often isolated and neither predictable nor preventable.”
Blessing is facing one count each of first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-took-life-apos-m-144742288.html
Wife says she sliced off cheating husband’s penis, then threw it out the window
A jealous wife has been arrested after allegedly hacking off her husband’s penis Tuesday with a 12-inch-long carving knife.
Karuna Sanusan, 24, carried out the bloody attack on 40-year-old Siripan after discovering he was having an affair, she told police.
She said she then hurled his severed manhood out the bedroom window, leaving Siripan writhing and screaming in agony in a pool of his own blood.
Neighbors heard his howls of pain and called the police, who arrived at the couple’s home in Sriracha, near Bangkok, Thailand, at 6:20 a.m.
Officers recovered his penis and put it in a cooler for surgeons to try to reattach — but medics said that would not be possible.
Siripan was rushed to the nearby Samitivej Sriracha Hospital while Karuna was arrested and held in custody.
She was pictured by reporters sitting calmly as she was interviewed by police.
She told officers she had recently discovered her husband had been seeing different women and hatched the revenge plot to cut off his penis.
She said: “Me and my husband work together selling organic vegetables at a stall. Before this happened I became suspicious he was having an affair.”
“I always saw him flirting with a lot of girls and I had an idea of what he was doing.”
“Then I found out that he was secretly going with other women. This made me very angry.”
“I was full of anger and couldn’t relax. I was so angry inside.”
She also told cops that she planned the butchery.
She added: “I aroused him in the morning while he was absent-minded, then used the knife to cut off his penis. I threw it out of the window.”
Police Col. Somkid Boonlert, deputy head of Sriracha Police Station, said officers had received an emergency call about a man’s penis being cut off with a knife.
Boonlert said: “Police arrived along with rescue staff and found the man severely injured. From the initial investigation it was discovered that the husband and wife had a career together selling vegetables. She had an idea that he was seeing other women and she took revenge.”
“The man had lost a lot of blood. He is now under close medical supervision. He will never be able to use his penis in the same way again.”
“Doctors said the cells in the penis are dead as it had been out of his body for too long. He will be disabled for the rest of his life.”
“Police officers have detained Miss Karuna for legal action and she is being prevented from seeing her husband.”
Teacher accused of sex assault, trying to hypnotize girls
HUMMELSTOWN, Pa. — A third-grade teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a Pennsylvania elementary school and police say he tried to hypnotize others and make them vow to obey him.
James Mentzer, of Hummelstown, was charged Thursday with institutional sexual assault, indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor and five counts of corruption of minors. Police began investigating him in February, and Mentzer was put on leave from East Hanover Elementary School.
Police say Mentzer requested each girl — ranging in age from 8 to 11 — come to his classroom to record videos for an alleged project.
Police say Mentzer videotaped them reading and attempted to hypnotize them.
One victim told police he made her repeat the phrase “I will obey you, Master” as he swung a necklace in front of her eyes.
No attorney information is available in online court documents.