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Police Looking for Man Who Charged $12,000 on Stolen Credit Cards
This summer, a man stole two elderly women’s wallets on two different instances in Maryland and bought almost $12,000 worth of items on their credit cards, the Washington Post reports. The man stole a 71-year-old woman’s wallet in Bethesda in July and charged a $5,000 blue Santa Cruz bicycle to one of her credit cards.…
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Man Gets 9 Years for Assaulting Gay Couple at NYC Restaurant
Bayna Lekheim El-Amin, 42, received nine years in prison for assaulting Jonathan Snipes and boyfriend Ethan York Adams at a Dallas BBQ restaurant in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, the New York Daily News reports. Apparently Snipes thought he heard El-Amin call the gay couple “f—gots,” and so he hit him with his canvas bag…
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Mother Conned Out of $10,000 by Women Pretending to Be Her Daughter and a Friend
A 61-year-old woman from the Maspeth neighborhood of New York City’s Queens borough was conned out of $10,000 by crooks who pretended to be her upset daughter and a friend in urgent need of cash, the New York Daily News reports. Two suspects called the woman, one of them pretending to cry hysterically as her…
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Family of Rikers Island Inmate Who Died From Untreated Ulcer Receives $1,500,000 Settlement
The family members of Victor Woods, 53, reached a $1.5 million settlement with New York City after Woods died from untreated, bleeding ulcers while incarcerated at Rikers Island, according to the New York Daily News. Woods’ relatives sued the city after he slowly bled to death internally on a cot at the Anna M. Kross…
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Police Identify Woman Suspected of Stealing Elderly Woman’s Purse in NYC
New York City police officers believe that Adrienne Terry, 37, grabbed 86-year-old Bernice Starnes’ purse around 9 a.m. as she was sitting in her wheelchair outside her building in the Bronx, the New York Daily News reports. Terry allegedly walked up to Starnes, grabbed her pocketbook and took off as Starnes yelled after her. “She…
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NC Police Searching for Man Who Allegedly Shot Police Officer
Officer Tim Brackeen of the Shelby, N.C., Police Department was shot early Saturday and later died Monday morning from his injuries. Police suspect that Irving Fenner Jr., 23, is the man behind the shooting, and cops are now searching for the North Carolina man, USA Today reports. “I saw this man shoot this cop and…
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Md. Woman Pleads Guilty to Killing Her 2 Youngest Children
On Monday, Zakieya Avery, 31, admitted in a Montgomery County, Md., courtroom that she killed her two youngest children during what she thought was an exorcism. She also admitted to attempting to kill her two other children, according to the Washington Post. Self-described as the “demon assassin,” Avery, along with her roommate, Monifa Sanford, 24,…
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NYC Teenager Arrested for Bringing Loaded Gun to School
On the first day of school at the Brooklyn School for Career Development in New York City, a 15-year-old boy was arrested after getting caught with a loaded gun, according to the New York Daily News. The unidentified teen was discovered with a .22-caliber pistol in his backpack around 9:45 a.m. when it set off the…
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San Francisco School Board President Wants Schools Tied to Slavery to Be Renamed
Matt Haney, president of the San Francisco School Board, wants to change the names of schools in the city named after slave owners, such as Washington and Jefferson, the Los Angeles Times reports. He said that he got the idea while listening to a sermon of the Rev. Amos Brown at San Francisco’s Third Baptist…
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Tenn. Woman Accused of Trying to Remove Body From Funeral
Cynthia Ann Frierson, 36, is being accused of trying to remove a body from a casket after walking into a funeral Monday in Columbia, Tenn., CBS News reports. Frierson is also being charged with public intoxication, unlawful drug paraphernalia, and driving on a revoked and suspended license. According to CBS, before arriving at the funeral, Frierson hit…
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