Crime

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Crime

Detective Ondre Johnson, a 17-year veteran with the New York Police Department, has been suspended without pay after a kidnapping victim was found bound and gagged in his Queens, New York garage, reports NBCNews.com. RELATED: Police Officer: ‘Black People Could Care Less About Me, Until They Need Me’ Johnson is being questioned about the crime by internal […]

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Shellie Zimmerman, wife of admitted killer George Zimmerman, 28, has entered a plea of not guilty to perjury charges, reports the HuffingtonPost.com. RELATED: George Zimmerman’s Wife Charged With Perjury, Released on $1,000 Bond She will be arraigned Tuesday on the charge after Judge Ken Lester said she lied under oath about how much money had been collected […]

Rodney Dwayne Valentine, (pictured) who had been incarcerated since May 22 for damage to personal property, was released last Saturday from Rockingham County Jail in North Carolina at 8 a.m. SEE ALSO: ‘Dark Knight’ Shooter Claims Amnesia But, instead of heading home, he wound up right back in a jail cell because he reportedly refused to […]

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Margaret Nunn (pictured), a patient registration representative at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, was arrested for allegedly stealing and using a dead patient’s credit card, ABC News reports. MUST READ: Up Close And Personal With ‘Love & Hip Hop Star Emily B: ‘People Love To Watch A Train Wreck’ [EXCLUSIVE] Want to Keep Up With […]

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Rondell Pinkerton, 17, has been charged in the murder of 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan, who was shot in the head while playing in a Bronx park, reports the Huffington Post. After telling police that he was one of several men involved in the shoot-out during a basketball tournament that killed the child, Pinkerton, who goes by […]

Hassan Malik, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Betty Williams, 28, whom he killed, stuffed into a suitcase, then placed among a pile of sidewalk trash on a New York City street three days before Christmas in 2010, reports the Daily Mail. SEE ALSO: Syrian Rebels Push For War As the 57-year-old man heard his 20-year prison […]

Venisha Brown (pictured), the daughter of legendary soul singer James Brown, was arrested after she allegedly stole her boss’s SUV and injured her outside of a North Augusta, Ga., bank, the Augusta Chronicle reports. SEE ALSO: Jackson Family Implodes Brown reportedly stole the SUV on Sunday, and her boss, Hope Campbell, 46, told cops that […]

The former doctor of 14-year-old Makayla Norman (pictured), a southwest Ohio child with cerebral palsy who weighed a mere 28 pounds at the time of her death, has been charged with failing to report child abuse or neglect in connection to her death, Fox News reports. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On […]

On Wednesday, Judge Kenneth Lester ordered prosecutors involved in the George Zimmerman case to release the names of the six witnesses who spoke with the media, according to the Orlando Sentinel. RELATED: Zimmerman’s YouTube Message: ‘Come To My Website For The Facts’ Of the names released, Brandy Green, Trayvon Martin’s father’s girlfriend, was among the names. […]

As part of our police brutality series, NewsOne delves behind the Blue Line to speak with Officer Nicalle Edwards, a police officer with the DCHD Police Department in Dallas, Texas, to examine the intricacies of  the law enforcement and Black civilian relationship. Here, her honest answers prove that Blue often trumps Black and that distrust […]

William Balfour (pictured), who was convicted for brutally murdering three of Jennifer Hudson‘s family members, has been sentenced to three consecutive natural life sentences, plus 120 years in prison, reports the Chicago Tribune. RELATED: Balfour Guilty Of Murder In Jennifer Hudson Slayings Balfour, who was the ex-husband of Hudson’s sister Jennifer, was convicted of the first-degree murder deaths […]

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How horny can you get? Well, allegedly, 21-year-old Antone Forrest Deedward Owens (pictured) of Eugene, Oregon was so eager to rub one out that he broke into several of his neighbors’ homes and surfed the web for porn over an eight-month period, KVAL-TV reports. SEE ALSO: 6 Facts About James Holmes Between Sept. 20 and […]