Crime

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Crime

Never let your grandmother drink and drive would be a good piece of advice to give a designated driver…if he’s not 10-years-old. Police officers in Kenner, Louisiana pulled over a vehicle traveling recklessly down I-10 westbound, only to discover that a 10-year-old boy was behind the wheel, along with his grandmother Brenda Byrd, 54 (left), […]

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A Minneapolis Father reportedly walked in on his 17-year-old daughter having sex with her 41-year-old high school hall monitor, Tajreed Rich (pictured). Police arrested Rich and charged him with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, according to the Daily Mail. Both the underage girl and her father have not been identified. SEE ALSO: Teen Allegedly Murders Ex-Girlfriend Because She […]

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Eighteen-year-old Al-Muqqadin Means (pictured below ) allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend, Aquilla Flood (pictured), to death because she refused his prom invite, according to the NJ Star Ledger. SEE ALSO: Will Smith’s ‘After Earth’ Is No. 1 Overseas After Means’ sister reportedly warned Flood of his violent tendencies, the pair reportedly broke up in February. Means allegedly […]

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Rodger William Kelly, 50 (pictured above), stands accused of rape after inserting his penis into his unconscious 29-year-old neighbor on May 19 to “save her life,” reports The Salt Lake Tribune. “He said he did place it inside of her to try and get her temperature up,” court documents said. The woman was lying unconscious […]

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Eleven-year-old Tayloni Mazyck (pictured), the Brooklyn girl paralyzed by a stray bullet to the neck on May 31st, is confident she will walk again, according to the Daily News. RELATED: Tayloni Mazyck: 11-Year-Old New York Girl Paralyzed After Being Shot By Stray Bullet “She’s talking and alert and recognizes every family member. She’s saying she […]

UPDATED 6/13/13, 9:33 a.m.: Surveillance video has just been released of 2 Chainz (pictured) being robbed, and if the video is any indication, the rapper makes a mad dash from the robbery. Watch it here: Gangsta rapper 2 Chainz (pictured) was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight on Sunday afternoon in the San Francisco Market area, […]

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Davieanna Marlena Blake, 21, who, according to various sources, is the daughter of legendary West Coast Hip-Hop MC, DJ Quik, real name David Marvin Blake, has been charged with 1st-degree murder in the beating death of her 2-year-old son, reports KPHO.com. Blake and her boyfriend, Darnell Moses Alvarez, 24, who were arrested by Phoenix police, […]

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Carlton Bryan, 21, (pictured above left) who stands accused of hiring a hit-man to kill his pregnant girlfriend, Shamari Jenkins, 20, has been charged  with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, carrying a pistol without a permit and second-degree making a false statement, reports CTNow.com. Jenkins, who was four months pregnant, was riding in the car […]

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A teacher from the Grand Rapids Public School System in Michigan turned herself in to police Thursday night after being accused of having sex with her students, WZZM 13 reports. SEE ALSO: 33-Year-Old Deadbeat Dad On Why He Had 22 Kids: ‘I Was Young And Ambitious’ Jamila Love Williams, 35, was booked at the The […]

Five years ago, Brian James Moudry (pictured), a self-avowed White supremacist, burned down a Black family’s Chicago home. Now the man who lived only five houses away from the home of his victims has reportedly been sentenced to a maximum of 10 years behind bars for his crime, reports The Inquistr. SEE ALSO: 911 Operator’s Racist Facebook […]

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A 34-year-old Texas man was arrested after police claim he shoplifted items at a department store and shouted that he had HIV and threatened to bit store securit , KTRE-TV 9 reports. SEE ALSO: IRS Tea Party Investigation Is Good For Our Society Christopher Lee Carr, of Lufkin, allegedly entered a Sears department store Tuesday […]

Melissa Lawrence (pictured center) has been charged with two counts of felony assault, after she was reportedly caught on video assaulting an ABC6 Providence, Rhode Island, news crew when they attempted to interview her about her teen daughter’s alleged shooter turning himself in to police, reports ABC6. SEE ALSO: HS Student Graduates After Being Shot In The […]