A 63-year-old Michigan babysitter is accused of sexually abusing children in her care, police say. Gaila Bennett of Midland, about 120 miles northwest of Detroit, was arraigned Monday on 47 counts of criminal sexual misconduct after a family alleged their children were abused while in her care between 2013 and …
Read More »Families outraged after high school student in violent sex assault cases avoids prison as youthful offender
Parents and community members in Payne County, Oklahoma, are expressing outrage after a student accused of multiple violent sexual assaults was reclassified in court from being tried as an adult to a “youthful offender.” Now 18, Jesse Butler recently entered a no contest plea to 11 felony charges, including attempted …
Read More »Virginia Giuffre’s memoir reveals how Epstein, Maxwell ‘broke down’ girls step by step in psychological war
When Virginia Roberts Giuffre first stepped into Jeffrey Epstein’s pastel-pink Palm Beach mansion at 16, she believed she was getting a chance to train as a massage therapist. What followed, she writes in “Nobody’s Girl,” was not a fairy-tale education but an education in psychological manipulation and “a school where …
Read More »Security at California Coast Guard base opens fire on U-Haul truck posing 'direct threat'
U.S. Coast Guard personnel opened fire Thursday night on a U-Haul truck after its driver ignored commands to stop at the entrance of a California base, the agency said. Dramatic video shows the box truck with its headlights on reversing toward security personnel stationed around a vehicle outside Coast Guard …
Read More »Family matriarch dies day after rescue from remote island that saw family swim ashore to escape boat fire
A woman has died a day after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued her and two family members stranded on a remote Massachusetts island that they swam to when their boat went up in flames while anchored in a cove overnight Monday. Cynthia Sullivan, 73, died Thursday, according to a Facebook …
Read More »Florida Uber Eats driver noticed autistic son missing from car, continues delivery: police
A Florida Uber Eats driver is facing child neglect charges after his young, nonverbal son with autism was found wandering naked on a busy interstate entrance ramp. Jeremy Rouse, 35, allegedly admitted to police that he realized his son was no longer in the car with him, but he continued …
Read More »Homeowner arrested after armed clash with teen prankster: report
A Florida man’s response to a neighborhood game of ding-dong ditch has reportedly landed him behind bars after police say he pointed a gun at a teenage prankster. The incident occurred at around 8 p.m. on Oct. 16, when homeowner Santiago Cairo, 40, noticed a group of people at the …
Read More »Illegal immigrants arrested after woman found shot to death in Texas woods: police
Three illegal immigrants from Mexico were recently arrested in connection to the murder of a 43-year-old woman in Texas. Enrique Gomez-Urbina, 21, of Mexico, was arrested by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and is charged with first-degree murder, according to the Austin Police Department. He has an immigration detainer …
Read More »Coast Guard nabs 50 tons of cocaine bound for posh coastal enclaves as cartel ops ‘rival Amazon’: expert
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced the successful interdiction of 100,000 pounds of cocaine throughOperation Pacific Viper, a months-long international effort targeting transnational criminal organizations operating in the Eastern Pacific. The operation is a surge in Coast Guard forces to the Eastern Pacific aimed at stopping cartels and transnational criminal …
Read More »Pakistani national sentenced to long prison term for smuggling Iranian weapons to Houthis
A Pakistani national was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for his part in running a smuggling ring that funneled Iranian-made advanced arms to the Houthis, a deadly mission that led to the deaths of two U.S. Navy SEALs in the Arabian Sea. A federal jury convicted Muhammad Pahlawan …
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