Crime
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Cindra Ladd (pictured), a philanthropist, former entertainment executive and wife of Oscar-winning Hollywood producer Alan Ladd, Jr. is the latest alleged Bill Cosby accuser who claims the legendary comedian drugged and raped her when she was just 21-years-old, she penned in an op-ed for the Huffington Post. Ladd was living in New York City and working for a well-known […]
Disturbed Home Depot employee Calvin Esdaile Jr. (pictured above) fatally shot his supervisor before turning the gun on himself Sunday afternoon, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: S.C. Man Used Taxi As Getaway After Alleged Bank Robbery The incident happened at the chain’s W.23rd Street location, in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Esdaile allegdly approached Moctar […]
Georgia’s South Cobb High School basketball coach, Melonie Martin (pictured) was arrested and charged with simple battery and terroristic threats for allegedly biting and threatening the life of a fellow coach, according to WSB-TV. SEE ALSO: S.C. Man Used Taxi As Getaway After Alleged Bank Robbery Martin and fellow coach Tyrone Harris were reportedly at […]
Officials arrested a Brooklyn teenager for creating emojis showing a gun to a police officer’s head, DNAinfo reports. SEE ALSO: Willow Smith At Center Of Seemingly Topless Instagram Officers cuffed Osiris Aristy (pictured) last Sunday in his Bushwick apartment for using the symbols in a way causing “New York City police to fear for their safety,” per a […]
International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight champ Jermain Taylor (pictured) was arrested after he turned himself in on Wednesday at a Little Rock, Arkansas detention facility. The fighter is reportedly facing a slew of charges—two counts of battery, three counts of aggravated assault, one count of possession of substance, and third-degree endangering a minor. Taylor reportedly pointed a gun […]
On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by 3 men on Oklahoma’s death row. They don’t want to die by the same lethal injection method that resulted in the botched execution of Clayton Lockett last April. A new drug combination, including the sedative midazolam, failed to take effect on Lockett, leading to […]
Darrell Lee Daniels, a Columbia, S.C., man (pictured) just received a gold star in the annals of bad criminal decisions, after calling a taxi to escape an alleged bank robbery, according to WLTX 19 television. RELATED: Man Cited For DWE: Driving While Eating [VIDEO] Police say a 37-year-old man walked in to a busy downtown […]
Michelle Obama invited Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Phil Tingirdes (pictured left) and his wife, Sgt. Emada Tingirides (pictured right), to watch the president’s 2015 State of the Union address on Tuesday to help promote racial healing between law enforcement and the Black community, the Los Angeles Times reports. SEE ALSO: Former Mayor Of D.C. […]
After a grand jury decided not to indict former Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson in the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, many hoped that at least civil rights charges might be filed by the Department of Justice. Wednesday afternoon the New York Times reported that won’t happen either: The Justice Department has begun work on […]
A judge has dropped all murder charges against Michael Johnson (pictured) in Phylicia Barnes’ case, the Baltimore Sun reports. RELATED: Arrest Made In Phylicia Barnes’ Murder Judge John Addison Howard acquitted Johnson of second-degree murder charges Tuesday, noting that prosecutors produced insufficient evidence against him. The decision comes a month after Howard declared a mistrial in […]
An unidentified Black woman who had just moved in to her new Maryland suburban home in an exclusive area, was awakened Monday morning to find the words, “N-word, Go Home” spray painted in red on her garage doors, according to WTOP. SEE ALSO: Chicago Cop Shot 28 Times By White Officers Freed From Prison The town […]
The parents of Kendrick Johnson (pictured), a south Georgia teenager found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at school, have filed a $100 million lawsuit against elected officials and law enforcement officials, alleging that a local FBI agent encouraged his sons—who were schoolmates of the victim—to “violently assault” the teen, CBS News reports. RELATED: Kendrick […]