Crime

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Brandon Glenn (pictured middle) and his mother, Bettye Adams (pictured right in braids), are being charged in a Detroit murder that took place on New Year’s Day involving victim Melina Moore (pictured left). Glenn is being accused of the murdering his wife and Adams is facing a count of aiding in a crime, according to […]

Though many credit Raymond Kelly (pictured) with bringing N.Y.C.’s murder rates to historic lows, the New York Post has compiled a brief list of five cases the former NYPD commissioner left unsolved before leaving office. SEE ALSO: Woman Crushed To Death By Boston Drawbridge     1. One of the cases features Michael Jones (pictured below), […]

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Travis Gallo, 17, was charged Friday with fatally stabbing his 20-year-old sister Teia Gallo after an argument Thursday evening in their suburban Washington Township home, and his family is devastated, reports North Jersey.com. Their father, Dr. Robert James Gallo, a well-known gynecologist in Hackensack, New Jersey, said that he had “no idea” what his children were […]

Katy, Texas resident, Conrad Barrett (pictured), was arrested and charged with a federal hate crime for allegedly assaulting an elderly black man during a “knockout game,” according to CNN. Authorities allege that on November 14 of this year, Barrett attacked the 79-year-old man because of his race. He then allegedly recorded the attack on his […]

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Five teens were arrested by Jacksonville, Florida deputies when a scuffle broke out on Christmas night involving nearly 600 patrons outside a movie cineplex. Tevyn Alonza Davis (pictured right), 19, was charged with resisting arrest and breach of the peace; Jaquade Marquis Miller (pictured center), 18, was charged with fighting and resisting arrest; and Khalil Ahmad Bradley […]

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Franklin Jackson (pictured) was charged with reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence of a crash Sunday afternoon, after he smashed his SUV into a guard rail and was reportedly too drunk to notice that his 4-year-old son had been ejected through the vehicle’s rear window. His son, Franklin Jr. (pictured), who was not […]

Seattle resident Alonza Bryant (pictured) is one lucky young lady! The teen was spared a possibly deadly fate, when the eyeglasses she was wearing deflected a bullet that struck her in the face during a drive-by shooting Saturday night, Seattle’s King 5 News reports. Bryant, who is 16-years-old, doze off with her glasses still on. According to […]

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A southwest Atlanta mom will not be having a very merry Christmas this year after thieves broke into her apartment just three days before the holiday and made away with all that they could carry, including the gifts she had scrimped and saved for to buy for her four young children, reports CBS Atlanta. Ebony Walker (pictured), a […]

Nikkita Milledge (pictured) claims to have learned about her teen son’s death, even before police officially notified her. The Indiana’s mom messenger was Facebook, according to CNN. When Milledge logged on to her home computer last Saturday afternoon, she was shocked to see the outpouring of messages about the death of her 15-year-old son, Anthoney […]

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R. Kelly may be on a comeback with his new album, “Black Panties,” but at least one journalist doesn’t want the world to forget a low point in the R&B singer’s career. Jim DeRogatis, the former Chicago Sun-Times reporter who broke the story about R.Kelly‘s alleged sexual acts with under-age girls, discussed the scandal with […]

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Jacoby Kindred, 61, pastor with Minnesota’s One Accord Ministries, is accused of raping the daughters of his son’s girlfriend beginning when they were only six- and eight- years old. Kindred allegedly told at least one victim that “the devil was inside her and he could take the demons out of her.” The victims are now 15- and […]

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Earl Dennison Woods, Jr. (pictured), who is the half-brother of Tiger Woods, was cuffed Thursday for allegedly calling in a phony bomb threat to his Phoenix, Ariz., place of employment. He is facing charges of using an electronic device to terrify, intimidate, threaten or harass others, according to the New York Daily News. The 58-year-old […]