Crime

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Yolivel Lopez was so angry with her cheating husband, Nefer Netan, that she allegedly poured a pot of boiling hot water over his genitals while he was sleeping, according to El Meridiano. SEE ALSO: Cop Killer Chris Dorner’s Gruesome Death Pics For Sale Earlier in the day, the Columbian woman reportedly received a call from her husband’s […]

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Carlos Jerome Simpson, 23, was charged with felony murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend Shikhira Dunson, 20, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Simpson and Dunson have a 10-month-old child together. “Last night, I was bathing my kids and my son came in and said they were arguing,” said Lawana Simpson, sister of the accused. […]

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Carron Washington, 20, the Florida father arrested Sunday for giving his infant daughter bleach to help alleviate her congestion, said in a press conference that he would never hurt his daughter and giving her bleach was “dumb,” reports Gainsville.com. “It’s probably the dumbest decision I’ve made in my life,” Washington said to reporters. According to […]

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Ten metro Atlanta police officers have been charged with taking bribes from drug dealers in exchange for protecting them while they flooded the streets of Atlanta with cocaine, reports CBS.com. Law enforcement officers arrested in the wide-spread corruption scheme:  Atlanta Police Department Officer Kelvin Allen, 42, of Atlanta; DeKalb County Police Department Officers Dennis Duren, […]

Joe Rickey Hundley was arrested and charged with simple assault when he allegedly demanded that another passenger quiet her 19-month-old crying baby stating, “shut that n*gger baby up.” The man then reportedly followed up the shout with an open-handed slap across the child’s face, The Smoking Gun reports. The incident occurred on Feb. 8 aboard […]

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 Today in Chicago, Illinois, President Barack Obama will travel to Hyde Park Academy to discuss proposals unveiled in his State of the Union address (SOTU) on Tuesday evening.  During perhaps the most moving part of his remarks, the President highlighted the tragic death of young Hadiya Pendleton who was gunned down by a stray bullet […]

A mĂ©nage a trois went from pleasure to pain when Ashley Hunter (pictured left), 33, reportedly stabbed Orlando DeWitt (pictured bottom), 37, during a tryst. The stabbing allegedly occurred when DeWitt reportedly refused to switch positions during the sexual romp, reports International Business Times. SEE ALSO: Chris Dorner Updates: LAPD Says Body Not Positively Identified [LIVE VIDEO] Hunter […]

Rapper and reality show star Jim Jones (pictured) was arrested Wednesday in front of his Fair Lawn, N.J., home after he allegedly “got out of line” with an officer who had responded to a traffic-related complaint, reports Patch News. The star of VH1’s hit reality spinoff, “Chrissy & Mr. Jones,” which co-stars his better half, […]

In one of the largest cases of animal cruelty, Loney L. Garrett (pictured) was arrested on Monday and charged with the ill treatment of animals, after Berkeley County, S.C., deputies discovered the remains of more than 200 dogs in his backyard, 45 of which were barely alive, reports ABC News 4. SEE ALSO: Black History: Blacks And Cops […]

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UPDATE 4:03 p.m. EST Sixty-one-year-old Richard Heltebrake (pictured below) says that Chris Dorner carjacked his car by gunpoint near the Boy Scouts camp, where he works, according to CBS Los Angeles. “Christopher Dorner jumped out in front of my truck. He apparently had crashed whatever vehicle he was driving, and he stopped me at gunpoint, […]

Jason Jerome Hambrick (pictured) was sentenced to 220 years for sexually molesting a 3-year-old girl back who was left in his care in 2011, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. SEE ALSO: Rwandans Protest Genocide Verdict The incident occurred back in July 2011, when the little girl was left in Hambrick’s care for one month. Police investigators discovered […]

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Chris Dorner, an ex-LAPD cop who is charged in the murder of a Riverside officer and suspected of killing an Irvine couple, was caught on video shopping at a sporting goods store in southern California two days before the murders took place, TMZ reports. RELATED: LAPD Says Dorner’s Lying But Reopen Case That Lead To […]