Porn website owner Michael Pratt, the mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking ring and who was placed on the FBI’s notorious “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list, pleaded guilty Thursday to multiple counts of sex trafficking. Pratt, who also co-owned GirlsDoToys, conspired with his co-defendants to use force, fraud and coercion …
Read More »Former Salvadoran army officers convicted in 1982 killing of 4 Dutch TV journalists
Three former Salvadoran military officers were convicted by a five-person jury late Tuesday for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American nation’s civil war. They received 15-year prison sentences. A jury made up of five women convicted the three men of murder in a lightning trial …
Read More »Pennsylvania man charged after 3
An eastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 3-year-old boy who authorities say shot himself with a handgun left unattended, marking the latest in a string of accidental shootings involving young children. Jose Hilario Abreu, 28, of Allentown was arraigned Friday on the …
Read More »Minnesota grocery worker impaled in the torso with a golf club, police say; man arrested
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police are investigating a stabbing that left a grocery store employee dead. Police arrived at a grocery store in Loring Park around 1 p.m. on Friday, according to a news release from the Minneapolis Police Department. The Associated Press reported that the man worked at Oak Street …
Read More »Prosecutor refiles murder case against Missouri woman in killing that inspired TV miniseries
A Missouri prosecutor has dropped and refiled the murder case against Pamela Hupp, a killing that inspired a TV miniseries. Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood charged Hupp with first-degree murder in July 2021, accusing her of killing her friend, Betsy Faria, a decade earlier. Faria’s husband, Russ, spent time …
Read More »Michigan mom sentenced to 5 years for intoxicated crash into icy pond that killed her 3 young sons
A western Michigan woman was sentenced to up to five years in prison Monday for a crash in which her three young sons drowned after her SUV plunged into an ice-covered pond, CBS affiliate WWMT reported. Leticia Gonzales had pleaded no contest in August to operating while intoxicated causing serious …
Read More »New Jersey school bus monitor charged with manslaughter after allegedly using phone as disabled girl suffocated
A New Jersey school bus monitor has been charged with manslaughter and child endangerment after authorities say she was using her cellphone and failed to notice a disabled 6-year-old being suffocated by a seat belt. Amanda Davila, 27, of New Brunswick, was charged in the death of Faja Williams, who …
Read More »Dog stabbed in Central Park had to be euthanized, police say
A dog had to be euthanized after it was stabbed during a dispute between two dog owners in New York City’s Central Park, CBS New York reported. According to police, the owner of Eli, a German Shepherd-pit bull mix, got into an argument with the owner of three unleashed dogs …
Read More »Hannah Gutierrez
Prosecutors in New Mexico alleged that “Rust” weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was likely hungover when she loaded a live bullet into the revolver that actor Alec Baldwin used when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. Prosecutors leveled the accusation Friday in response to a motion filed last …
Read More »Fugitive captured in Philadelphia week after young boys shot dead while playing with kittens in their backyard
A fugitive wanted in the fatal shooting of three people, including two children who’d been playing with kittens in the backyard of their Pennsylvania home, has been captured in Philadelphia, federal officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Marshals Service said Ivan Claudio Rosero, 27, was located at a park and taken …
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