Tag: NORTH CAROLINA
Army vet tied service dog to tree, shot it 5 times at close range
An Army veteran was thrown behind bars Tuesday for allegedly tying her PTSD therapy dog to a tree and shooting him five times at close range — killing the poor pup for no apparent reason while a soldier filmed it.
Marinna Rollins, 23, was arrested by police in Fayetteville, N.C. and charged with animal cruelty and conspiracy after footage of the deranged incident reportedly surfaced on Facebook.
Court documents obtained by the Fayetteville Observer describe how she teamed up with her boyfriend, Jarren Heng, 25, for the seemingly random killing earlier this month.
The couple allegedly led the white-and-gray pit bull to a wooded area before tying him to a tree and taking his life. The canine — dubbed Camboui, but referred to as “Cam” or “Cammy” — was ultimately shot five times with a rifle as Rollins and Heng, who is still enlisted and stationed at Fort Bragg, took turns filming him.
“Let me hit him once,” Heng can be heard saying in the video.
Throughout the disturbing clip, he and Rollins both laugh and joke about the dog’s brutal death before they eventually dump him in a shallow grave.
“That’s his nerves going,” Rollins says, as Camboui’s body begins to convulse.
She and Heng can also be seen drinking alcohol in several pictures that they took before allegedly killing him.
“It’s been real Cammy,” Rollins says while burying him. “I love you, you’re my puppy, you’re a good puppy. But…”
It’s unclear if the pair had been putting Cambouiout of its misery or whether he was suffering from sort of illness at the time of his death — which took place on either April 16 or 17, according to WTVD.
Camboui was reportedly given to Rollins as an emotional support dog after she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues.
In April, the Army vet began writing posts on Facebook in the apparent attempt to find the dog a new home.
According to the Observer, she wrote on April 17 that Camboui would be heading to his new owner soon.
“Sad he has to go, but he will be much happier where he is heading off to,” Rollins reportedly said.
“He’s going to have such a great new life,” Heng replied, adding a smiley face emoji to his post.
A Facebook page, titled “Justice For Cam,” has posted the graphic footage of Camboui being killed, in the attempt to bring more attention to the incident.
“A lot of people are getting upset that this video is posted here,” the moderator wrote Monday.
“You do not have to click play and watch it but let me clarify something. Marinna Rollins is trying to claim that the dog was sick and suffering and that she did this out of Mercy. The video has been shared, to prove otherwise, because we don’t want her to get off easy for the crime she committed. This was clearly not mercy.”
An investigation by Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and Cumberland County Animal Control ultimately found that Rollins and Heng had both broken the law when they took Cam’s life. It not only turned up the video, but also several text messages of theirs in which they allegedly discussed the shooting.
“As graphic as the videos are, they tell Camboui’s story, that he was unable to do,” the moderators of the “Justice For Cam” page said. “Many people thought he was going to a new home, and family. These videos prove otherwise, that he was brought out to a wooded area, shot multiple times, and then beaten and dragged to a shallow grave. Like a piece of trash, not a well taken care of ESA. His body is still out there, somewhere in those NC woods.”
Rollins’ bail was initially set at $10,000 Tuesday, while Heng’s was set at $5,000 after his arrest on Monday night. But they were both raised to $25,000 following requests from prosecutors.
“They can be heard on the tape laughing and giggling as the dog was being killed,” Cumberland County District Attorney Clark Reaves said Tuesday night during the couple’s first court appearance.
“It was a therapy dog.”
Rollins and Heng have each been charged with animal cruelty and conspiracy. It’s unclear when their next court date is.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/04/26/army-vet-tied-service-dog-to-tree-shot-it-5-times-at-close-range-cops/
North Carolina Teen Accused of Decapitating Mom, Walked Out with Head
As two young children cried in the background, an unemotional North Carolina teen calmly admitted to a 911 operator that he stabbed his mother to death “because I felt like it,” television station WNCN in Raleigh reported Thursday.
“You felt like it, OK. Who did you kill?” the dispatcher asked 18-year-old Oliver Mauricio Funes-Machado
“My mom,” the caller said.
“What was she doing? Did she make you mad? Or what happened?” the operator asked.
“Yes, she made me mad,” Funes-Machado responded. He proceeded to tell the clearly horrified operator he stabbed 35-year-old Yesenia Funes-Machado “like 8 times.”
“Oh mercy. OK,” the dispatcher replied.
When the 911 operator asked him where the knife was, the teen responded, “It’s in her mouth.”
Two young children, ages 2 and 4, were also home at the time, but the teen told the operator he wasn’t going to hurt them. They could be heard crying as the teen spoke to the dispatcher, according to WNCN.
For 16 minutes, the dispatcher managed to keep the teen on the phone, questioning him about the brutal killing, which took place Monday.
As he talked with the teen, first responders rushed to the Franklin County home.
When deputies arrived, they said Funes-Machado walked out of the home with a knife in one hand and his mother’s severed head in the other.
Inside the home, deputies discovered “a decapitated body on the floor between the kitchen and the living room and two small children inside,” according to an affidavit obtained by WNCN.
The teen was taken into custody without incident.
Funes-Machado has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held in prison, awaiting a probable cause hearing next Tuesday.
A family friend told WNCN that the young man’s mother had him committed to a mental health facility earlier this week, and that he had been released just a week before the horrific killing.
In addition to the murder charge, federal authorities said that the teen, originally from Honduras, was wanted by ICE for living in the U.S. illegally, WNCN reported.
http://ktla.com/2017/03/10/teen-who-allegedly-decapitated-mother-was-unemotional-in-911-call/
North Carolina Mother Charged After Toddler Tests Positive for Cocaine
A North Carolina mother has been charged after her 2-year-old daughter tested positive for cocaine, according to the Burlington Times-News.
Tammara Gail Overman, 32, of Burlington, faces a charge of felony intentional child abuse causing serious physical injury after being arrested Wednesday
The toddler was also suffering from a severe, untreated rash on her groin, according to the paper.
The arrest comes after a monthlong investigation by the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities have not said how the child consumed the drug.
Overman was jailed in Alamance County under a $25,000 bond and had a court date on Thursday.
Two other suspects who shared the same house were charged with misdemeanor child neglect in connection to the investigation, the paper reported.
via: http://ktla.com/2017/01/27/north-carolina-mother-charged-after-toddler-tests-positive-for-cocaine/