Crime

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Bradford Baumet (pictured) walked in to a Casselberry, Fla., hair salon on Thursday and shot four women, including one who was pregnant. Baumet then escaped to a friend’s home, turned the gun on himself, and took his own life, reports the Huffington Post. SEE ALSO:  Why Every Black And Latino In N.Y.C. Should Relocate ASAP Baumet reportedly entered […]

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Billie Jolene Warburton, 3o, was found  passed out in the parking lot of the Mills E. Godwin, Jr. Courts Building in Virginia behind the wheel of her car with her 23 month old son crying in the backseat, reports the Huffington Post. Even more disturbing, if that’s possible, the Virginia woman had fresh injection marks […]

A Las Vegas police report reveals that Flavor Flav–real name William Drayton, Jr.,–reportedly flung his fiancée Liz Trujillo to the floor, ripped out her earrings, then chased Trujillo’s teenage son around the house with two knives in his hands, TMZ reports. SEE ALSO: Wyclef’s Half-Naked Photo Fail: Where Were His Boys? [Opinion] The alleged attack […]

Brooklyn teacher Marlon Scanterbury (pictured) was fined by the city’s Conflict of Interest Board for peddling his homemade soaps to students in exchange for a free pass on homework, reports the New York Post. SEE ALSO: Nurses: Lenox Hill Newborns Receive Shoddy Care Due To ‘Beyonce’ Rooms Scanterbury, a 6th grade science teacher at P.S. 66, began his […]

Rapper-turned-actor-turned-reality-star-turned-chicken-restaurateur Flavor Flav (pictured) was arrested Wednesday morning in Las Vegas, after allegedly battling someone in his home, according to TMZ. SEE ALSO: Katt Williams Arrested On Possible Gun Violation Reportedly, Flav, whose actual name is William Drayton Jr., got in to a verbal argument with an unidentified teen and his fiancée Liz Trujillo in his […]

Controversial funnyman Katt Williams (pictured) was cuffed by the LAPD early Wednesday morning at a Hollywood club hot spot for suspicion of a gun violation, reports TMZ. SEE ALSO: The Origins Of ‘Ratchet’ Reportedly, police were summoned when someone at the Supper Club called in a complaint about a patron brandishing a gun. When police […]

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Newly appointed Judge Debra Nelson has set the date for George Zimmerman‘s second-degree murder trial, according to USA Today. RELATED: Trayvon’s DNA NOT On Gun Zimmerman Used To Kill Teen: Forensics Test On Wednesday, Judge Nelson decided with defense attorney Mark O’Mara and pressed prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda that June 10th would be the […]

Lamonica Anganette Hill (pictured) told fire investigators the reason she set her apartment on fire while her heavily medicated son slept in another room was because while she was sleepwalking, she was dreaming about grilling. But officials aren’t buying her story. Police officers placed Hill under arrest and charged her with first-degree arson and attempted murder on Monday, but […]

Gregory Bernard Lacy (pictured left) and wife LaQuron McLean Lacy (pictured) were arrested on suspicion of child abuse when Riverside County, Calif., police, who were investigating a separate murder incident, were led to the couple’s home where they stumbled upon an unauthorized strip club and accusations of child abuse by their seven adopted children, according the New […]

Volunteer security guard Zlamy Trapper, 24, regrets calling the police about a drunk man who was sleeping in a lounge at Jewish youth center Aliya Institute in Brooklyn. Why? Because Ehad Halevi ended up being beaten and manhandled by at least four officers with another 7 officers showing up at the scene of the crime, […]

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A 24-year-old Central New York man suspected of  breaking into his father’s home and fatally stabbing him last August has confessed to the murder. Herman Tolbert Jr. (pictured) pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in a Town of Clay Court Thursday, in a deal that will put him behind bars for 15-20 years. On August 4, 2011, […]

Arteisha Betts (pictured left) and Travis Ammonette (pictured) are suing a pair of obstetricians for allegedly decapitating their baby boy during his March 22, 2011, delivery then trying to hide the fatal error by shoving the child’s body and severed head back in to the Mom’s birth canal, reports the New York Daily News. SEE ALSO: […]