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Woman accused of fatally shooting sleeping boyfriend, cutting up body with a machete
A Texas woman fatally shot and then dismembered her boyfriend with a machete before leaving his remains in dumpsters of her apartment complex, court documents allege.
Cierra Alexis Sutton has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Steven Coleman, who was last seen on the evening of Aug. 16 in Baytown.
According to investigators, Sutton admitted to others that she had shot Coleman in the head as he slept after an argument. Because his body was too heavy for her to carry, Sutton allegedly hacked it into smaller pieces with a machete and then disposed of the smaller pieces in various local dumpsters.
On Sunday, Coleman’s close friend Dominique Clark spoke to Eyewitness News about Sutton’s arrest.
“Devil. That’s the mind of a bad spirit,” Clark said. “That’s not a normal mind. That’s not a mind of God. That’s not one of God’s children.”
On Aug. 22, a male torso was found in a Chambers County landfill that receives trash from dumpsters throughout Baytown and Pasadena. While the torso has yet to be definitively identified as Coleman’s, investigators say some key physical characteristics do match.
Before the torso was found, Clark said Sutton stayed with Coleman’s family as they looked for their missing loved one.
“She played the role of an innocent person,” Clark said. “She played the role of an innocent person, and she played it to the fullest.”
Coleman’s credit cards were used at a Harris County Walmart after he went missing, according to investigators, and the woman caught on surveillance camera buying duct tape and a mattress pad with Coleman’s card closely matched Sutton’s description.
Witnesses reported seeing Sutton and other men moving furniture out of Coleman’s apartment on Aug. 20; by the time investigators searched the apartment on Aug. 24, most of the furniture had been removed from the unit, but crime scene investigators did find blood in several rooms, including the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. Investigators said they also found blood in Sutton’s Jeep.
In an interview with detectives, one of Coleman’s friends told detectives that Coleman “told her on numerous occasions if he was ever to go missing, she needed to make sure police looked into [Sutton] as the cause,” according to court documents.
Investigators say they had attempted to interview Sutton about Coleman’s disappearance, but she failed to show up for interviews. A third party tipped authorities off after Sutton allegedly spoke openly about the crime to others.
As Coleman’s family and friends wait for justice, they can’t help but think back on the man they lost.
“He was an original,” Clark said. “He was a unique guy. One of those you walk in the room and you can’t help but notice.”
Now he’s hoping the person who took his friend away will spend years behind bars.
“I thank God every day for even giving me the opportunity to experience a person like that,” Clark said. “I will never meet a person like that ever again.”
According to Baytown police, Sutton was taken into custody on Thursday in Louisiana.
via: http://abc7ny.com/woman-allegedly-shoots-boyfriend-cuts-up-body/2427137/
Wife arrested for punching husband after he interrupted her ‘pleasuring herself’
A Florida woman punched her husband in the face after he burst into her bedroom while she was pleasuring herself — because he thought he heard her having sex with another man, police said.
Flavia Higgs, a 42-year-old licensed private investigator, was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge after the wild ordeal in the bedroom of their Port St. Lucie home on Sept. 7, according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.
Higgs’ 43-year-old husband, Garrett — who had been living in a separate bedroom from his estranged wife for more than a year — told a responding officer that he returned home and heard “moaning from the house” before walking toward the room and knocking on the door.
“He banged and she would not answer the door,” according to the police report. “He said he thought there was another man in his house and he used a screwdriver to open the door.”
Once he barged in, his humiliated wife tried to stop her husband and “physically escort him out” of the room as he tried to push past her and pushed her arm against a wall. She then struck Higgs in the face, the report states.
“He wasn’t sure if it was open or closed handed,” according to the report. “When this happened they both started screaming and yelling and she called 911.”
Flavia Higgs later confirmed to the officer that she had been “pleasuring herself” inside the room when her estranged husband came home. She was arrested since she was the first person to “initiate physical contact,” according to the responding officer.
No injuries were reported. Flavia Higgs, who is listed on a state website as a licensed private investigator, was booked into St. Lucie County Jail and was later released, according to jail records.
Biracial 8-year-old boy nearly hanged by teens, family says
Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said.
The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in Claremont, the boy’s grandmother, Lorrie Slattery, told the Valley News. He has since been released and has returned to school in Claremont.
Slattery said the children were in a backyard when some of the teens got on the table and grabbed a rope that held a tire swing. It’s not clear how the rope got around her grandson’s neck, but Slattery said the teens pushed him off the table. No adults are believed to have witnessed the incident.
An expert on abuse who spoke to the boy at the hospital said he swung from his neck three times before being able to remove the rope, Slattery said. None of the teens came to his aid, she said.
“One boy said … ‘Let’s do this,’ and then pushed him off the picnic table and hung him,” Slattery said.
Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase told the newspaper his department is investigating an Aug. 28 incident involving several juveniles. He declined to provide details and refused to confirm the case involved the 8-year-old boy.
Chase did not respond Monday to calls and emails from The Associated Press.
via: http://abc7chicago.com/biracial-boy-8-nearly-hanged-by-teens-family-says/2408200/
Serial killer with shipping container dungeon: My victims had it coming
The South Carolina serial killer who kidnapped a woman and kept her chained inside a shipping container, has spoken publicly for the first time since his November arrest — and his words are almost as brutal as his crimes.
In a chilling letter mailed to The Post last week, Todd Kohlhepp claimed the seven people he murdered were “criminals” and that he was merely trying to “save” the 30-year-old woman he had viciously imprisoned after killing her boyfriend.
“No one wants to really look at who they were, families, connections,” the 46-year-old killer wrote of his victims.
The cold-blooded murderer shot and killed seven people over the span of 13 years, burying three of the bodies across his 95-acre spread in rural northwestern South Carolina.
Kohlhepp, who’s serving seven consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to the killings, went on to accuse the woman he kept in a metal cargo container for two months, Kala Brown, of being “as big a criminal as I am.”
She “wasn’t raped,” he claimed in his barbaric, victim-blaming diatribe, written neatly in script on two double-side looseleaf pages.
“All of my victims were criminals,” he declared.
In his only hint of remorse, he then wrote, “Not that it makes it right, I was wrong to do what I did.”
He provided no further details, and authorities dismissed his accusations.
Kohlhepp is an “attention seeker” who “needs to stay in prison and be forgotten,” said Murray Glenn, a spokesman for the Spartanburg County prosecutor.
Brown’s rep said she was not yet ready to discuss her ordeal or comment on Kohlhepp’s missive from prison.
The killer was captured after a terrorized Brown, 30, was rescued by police on Nov. 3, 2016. They had used her cell phone records to trace her steps to Kohlhepp’s home.
She was found chained by the neck inside a dark-green 30-foot-long container tucked among rows of trees far back on Kohlhepp’s property, where she said she was raped “twice a day, every day.”
Kohlhepp “let me know that if I tried to run, he’d kill me. If I tried to hurt him, he’d kill me. If I fought back, he would kill me,” she told Dr.Phil.
Brown and her boyfriend, Charlie Carver, 32, went missing in August 2016.
They had gone to Kohlhepp’s property to help him with yardwork. They had previously worked several jobs for Kohlhepp over a three-month period, Brown said, and nothing ever set off warning bells.
But when Kohlhepp went inside a shed to retrieve gardening tools, he came out with a weapon and shot Carver “three times in the chest [and] wrapped him in a blue tarp,” Brown told investigators.
The murderer, who once worked as a real estate agent, bizarrely claimed in his letter to The Post that he was trying to save Brown.
“She was in [the] shipping container because I didn’t want to hurt her, refused to turn her over to someone else who would and was buying time while I figured out a way to resolve this non-violently,” he wrote.
Again, he provided no further details or evidence.
After Spartanburg, S.C., officers freed Brown, she helped lead them to Carver’s body and indicated there were others.
Kohlhepp eventually confessed to Carver’s murder and six others — four employees of the Superbike Motorsports shop in Chesnee, S.C., in 2003 because they wouldn’t allow him to return a motorcycle; and Meagan Leigh McCraw Coxie, 25, and her boyfriend Johnny Joe Coxie, 29, who had been missing since December 2015 when Kohlhepp also recruited them to do “yard work.”
In his letter, Kohlhepp accused the bike shop of being a “chop shop” with “$80,000 cash sitting in [a] safe.” He made no mention of the Coxies.
The killer had previously served 14 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old girl in 1986.
In a psych evaluation that same year, court psychiatrist Dr. Roger Martig said Kohlhepp had an “above average” IQ of 118, but described him as “extremely self-centered” as well as “touchy and defensive.”
The exam concluded he was not psychotic, but was “distrustful of others and generally unconcerned or lacks understanding as to how his behavior affects others.”
Pregnant woman forced to deliver baby after being set on fire by boyfriend
A Maryland woman who was seven months pregnant was forced to deliver her baby after she was set on fire by her boyfriend, according to reports.
Andrea Grinage, 31, was critically burned Friday when she was doused with gasoline on Friday in the bathtub of her apartment in Capitol Heights, outside Washington, Fox 5 DC reported. She was taken to the hospital where she delivered a baby girl. Both were in critical condition.
Despite suffering burns over a large part of her body, Grinage told police what happened and who was responsible. She also warned her mother that the boyfriend was on his way to her apartment to harm her, the station reported. He was arrested before he got there.
“She was very brave,” Prince George’s County police spokesperson Jennifer Donelan said, according to the station. “We want her family to know how brave she was, suffering as badly as she was, critically burned, worried about her unborn child, dealing with those injuries and was able to share that information with us so that we could get moving with our investigation and locate this person.”
Police haven’t identified the boyfriend.
Grinage was still on fire as she banged on neighbor’s doors, according to the station.
Neighbors told WRC-TV they heard Grinage and her boyfriend arguing Thursday night.
Grinage’s father told the station the baby was born seven weeks premature and was doing okay.
“She’s hanging in there,” Arthur Grinage said. “She’s doing fine. She’s beautiful.”
Sex Offender Impersonates Officer To Rape Woman
You would think some sex offenders would try their best to stay out of trouble but I guess that’s wishful thinking.
A sex offender is now back in custody after he impersonated an officer to kidnap and rape a woman in Mississippi. Louis Winston Scott, 44, was arrested Monday afternoon after two incidents where he tried to used red and blue flashing lights to pull over women.
The first incident happened early Saturday morning. The victim said she noticed a black car behind her with flashing red and blue police lights so she pulled over. The suspect pulled his vehicle up next to the woman’s and yelled at her before driving off.
Less than an hour later a similar situation took place with another woman. She noticed the same black car and pulled over. The suspect made her get out the car at knifepoint and made her get in his car. He then took her to a remote area where he sexually assaulted her then took her back to her car.
The suspect was captured Monday in the woods behind his home. He was charged with one count of rape and kidnapping and attempted kidnapping. Scott could also face charges for impersonating a police officer.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/sex-offender-impersonated-officer-kidnap-rape-woman-article-1.3452257
Sicko wanted for hurling semen at women in supermarkets
Police are searching for a creep accused of hurling semen on women in Portland supermarkets.
The man allegedly follows female customers around grocery stores, throws semen on them and then walks away, according to news station KIRO.
One victim said that he threw bodily fluid at her twice — once in the store and another time in the parking lot.
“It’s creepy. I think you’re in disbelief,” the victim, who didn’t want to be identified, told news station KGW-TV. “Is this really happening? It’s disgusting, who would do this? And then it goes through your mind, was he watching me this whole time?”
Detectives said there could be more victims in Oregon unaware that he attacked. Authorities in Beavertown and Milwaukie are also investigating similar incidents.
Police said that the suspect is a Hispanic male in his 20s to 40s, and are asking for the public’s help identifying him. A surveillance image of the suspect has been released from an incident on April 5.
Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to contact Portland Detective Chris Traynor at 503-823-0889.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/05/23/sicko-wanted-for-hurling-semen-at-women-in-supermarkets/
Police arrest man who allegedly traveled to Utah to teach 13-year-old girl how to have sex
ST. GEORGE, Utah — Police arrested a man earlier this week after he allegedly arranged to teach a teenage girl how to have sex, but it turns out the “mother” he was communicating with was really an undercover investigator.
St. George News reports 34-year-old Jeremy David Demoss Fisher of California was arrested Tuesday and booked into jail on charges of conspiracy to commit rape of a child, felony enticing, soliciting, and seducing and luring a minor by Internet or text message.
Fisher began communicating with agents on May 9 as the agents carried out an undercover sting to catch suspected sexual predators. He began communicating with someone he thought was the mother of a 13-year-old girl.
“Fisher was told during the chats that the woman he was talking to had a 13-year-old daughter and wanted her to be taught how to have sex by a gentleman,” the arresting officer wrote in a sworn statement, according to St. George News. “When asked if he was into Family Taboo, Fisher responded ‘Yes! Love it. Watch mom daughter and son porn, or brother sister, anything that keeps it in the family.”
The man allegedly sent several pictures of himself, including photos of his genitals, while traveling to St. George for the meeting. When he arrived at the location agreed upon, he was arrested by police and booked into jail.
Butcher accused in noose incident blames fired employee
A famed West Village butcher accused of handing a noose to a black delivery man claims he didn’t make the racist gesture — and now blames a fired employee.
Joe Ottomanelli, of Ottomanelli & Sons Meat Market on Bleecker Street, sent the longtime employee packing this week, his lawyer, Ron Kuby, told the Post Tuesday.
“Joe Ottomanelli on Monday terminated the employee who had given a makeshift noose to a delivery person,” Kuby said. “Ottomanelli stores have zero tolerance for racism. It’s unfortunate that this ugly and stupid act occurred.”
The incident occurred April 4 at the market on Bleeker Street, where Victor Sheppard had been making deliveries for months.
Sheppard, 36, insisted that the 60-year-old white butcher handed him the noose, fashioned out of yellow rope.
“Here’s your present,” Sheppard said the business owner told him. “You can use it when you’re stressed and need to end it all.”
During a prior delivery, Ottomanelli allegedly cracked to Sheppard, “If this was years ago, you’d be on the back of the bus.”
Sheppard reported the incident to the local police precinct, and the NYPD’s hate crimes task force initiated an investigation.
Meanwhile, Sheppard shared his feelings about the exchange at the National Action Network’s Harlem headquarters Saturday.
“Yeah, other co-workers were there. They just laughed along with it. It’s a laughing situation over there,” Sheppard said. “They just laughed at me,…after they gave me the noose they was just laughing at me and I felt threatened.”
But Kuby said “the problem has been rectified” now that the employee has been fired.
Kuby wouldn’t share the name of the employee. Nor could he say with certainty who made the “joke” about the noose.
“My investigation has not gotten to the point of determining every word that everybody spoke,” he said. “The point is the guy got fired.”
The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is still investigating, a police source said.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/butcher-accused-in-noose-incident-blames-fired-employee/
Teacher smoked weed, drank with student to set mood before sex
A tatted-up teacher in Florida slept with one of her students nearly a half-dozen times — boozing up and smoking pot with him to set the mood, cops said.
Valerie Michelle Valvo, 34, was arrested Wednesday in Hernando County and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after she admitted to having sex with the 17-year-old inside her home, according to police.
The Central High School art teacher confessed to doing the deed at least five times, authorities said.
Both she and the teen, who was not identified, claimed that the romps were consensual.
The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office told WFLA they began investigating Valvo after receiving a tip about a high school teacher sleeping with a male student.
When deputies interviewed the boy, he admitted to having sex with her at her home in Spring Hill on at least three occasions, WFLA reports.
Valvo later agreed to talk to police — saying they actually had intercourse at least five or six times.
“He’s not old enough to consent to a relationship like that,” said Denise Moloney, of the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
Both Valvo and the teen confessed to smoking marijuana together and drinking alcohol while inside her home, cops said.
According to a spokesperson for the local school system, the art teacher has been employed for the past three years. She has since been suspended — with pay — pending the outcome of the investigation.
Valvo’s mugshot, which was posted to Facebook by police, shows her sporting a colorful chest tattoo, as well as some ink on her left arm.
“The sad part is that this Woman [sic] is well liked by many students,” wrote one user.
“I have to wonder what goes through the mind of an individual like this,” another said. “There have been so many cases such as this all over the country. Each time the teacher is caught and loses their job, their family, their dignity, and their freedom. Why does each one that comes after the countless before them makes them think they will end up any different?”
Valvo is one of several educators to be busted in the past few months for sleeping with their students.
Most recently, a high school teacher was caught engaging in “sexual contact” with a 17-year-old male student in Texas. Her mugshot wound up going viral after she chose to smile from ear-to-ear for the photo.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/03/23/teacher-smoked-weed-drank-with-student-to-set-mood-before-sex-cops/