Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Mother arrested after bodies of two children are found inside freezer

Michelle Blair

A 35-year-old Detroit mother, has been arrested after the frozen bodies of a boy and girl were found in a deep freezer in the family's home, Daily Mail reports.
The police say that court officers found the children's bodies while carrying out an eviction order at the 3-bedroom home in the apartment complex just east of downtown.

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Man confesses to shooting his 18-year-old son during an argument over orange juice

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A man has been charged with attempted manslaughter after he confessed to shooting his 18-year-old son during an argument over orange juice.
The suspect, 58-year-old Eldridge Dukes, and his son were rowing on Sunday morning about the lack of juice, said police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Mother spent 22 years on death row for son's murder... she didn't do it

Christopher was shot three times in the back of the head

A mother who spent 22 years on death row for the murder of her four-year-old son has been cleared by a judge.
Debra Jean Milke was convicted in 1990 over Christopher’s death, but prosecutors failed to disclose a detective’s history of misconduct.
She hugged her supporters and sobbed as she exited the courtroom in Phoenix.

Friday, 27 February 2015

79-year-old grandma allegedly shoots nephew over $20

Grandmother Allegedly Shot Nephew Over $20

Ira Peterson, 79, of Alabama (United States) allegedly shot her nephew after she thought he stole $20 from her purse. The pair live together, so Peterson instinctively blamed her nephew for the missing money once she realized it was gone. 

Saturday, 25 October 2014

Woman Caught Sneaking Into America In Suitcase

Woman Caught Sneaking Into America In Suitcase

Early this year, a Thai woman Pornkamol Mongkolsermsak made headlines when she was caught by Customs and Border Protection officers inside a suitcase in a foiled smuggling attempt at the U.S.-Mexico border.

New York records first case of Ebola

Another case of Ebola Virus Disease has been diagnosed in the US, the first in its largest city; New York. Dr Craig Spencer, a doctor who worked in Guinea, West Africa with Ebola patients has tested positive to the virus, he's now been placed in an isolation unit. 

The 33 year-old doctor was taken to Bellevue Hospital six days after returning from Guinea. 3 people, including his fiancée who had close contact with him are being quarantined for observation. His apartment has been sealed off and will later be decontaminated.

Friday, 17 October 2014

Fresh Fear As Arik Air Passenger Dies In His Seat After Vomiting Profusely

Fresh Fear As Arik Air Passenger Dies In His Seat After Vomiting Profusely

There was serious Ebola scare among passengers when a  63-year-old United States citizen flying from Lagos died of a heart attack about an hour before the Arik Air plane landed at Kennedy Airport on Thursday, October 17, 2014.Daily Mail reports said the man boarded the JFK-bound flight filled with about 145 passengers on board on the night of Wednesday, October 16, 2014, but died before arriving New York.

Friday, 3 October 2014

100 People In Texas Believed To Have Had Contact With Ebola Patient


Four members of 42-year-old Thomas Eric Duncan’s family have been legally ordered to stay home in Dallas, Texas as a precaution even though they are not showing symptoms.

Up to 100 people in Texas are believed to have had contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan. 


Wednesday, 1 October 2014

U.S. Records First Case Of Ebola

The CDC just confirmed the first case of Ebola in the United States, according to Reuters. The patient was placed in "strict isolation" at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas earlier today.

A patient in a Dallas hospital has been confirmed to have the Ebola virus, News 8 has learned.

Monday, 15 September 2014

Black actress arrested kissing white husband after police think she’s a prostitute

Black actress arrested for kissing white husband (police think she's a prostitute)

African-American actress Daniele Watts has spoken about being handcuffed and held in the back of a police car after officers thought she was a prostitute.
Her crime? Seen kissing her husband, Brian James Lucas… in PUBLIC!
According to accounts on Facebook by Watts and Lucas, two police officers from Studio City Police Department in Los Angeles approached them and asked Watts for ID.

Woman, 26, arrested for 'raping man while he was sleeping'

Woman, 26, arrested for 'raping man while he was sleeping'

A woman has allegedly raped a man while he was sleeping.
Chantae Gilman, 26, from Seattle, was accused of climbing on top of the unidentified 31-year-old male after entering his home uninvited on June 17th.
The alleged victim reportedly woke up at 2am to discover Gilman, who is 5’7” and 17 stone, having sex with him with his hands ‘pinned down over his head’.

Thursday, 11 September 2014

Nigerian man arrested for abducting & R*aping a woman in the US


29, Samuel Okorie based in Brookline, Massachusetts, is accused of grabbing a woman at a public place & sexually assaulting her.

According to police report:
Early Sunday morning, police came to the house (after the cut), in Brookline and arrested Samuel Okorie. He was booked on charges including rape, kidnapping  and robbery.

Video: Contractors Live Reaction To Shooting Of Michael Brown

Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Death Row inmate freed after 30 years thanks to new DNA evidence


One of death-row's longest serving inmates has been freed after 30 years in prison, thanks to new DNA evidence proving he did not commit the rape and murder he was jailed for.
Henry McCollum and his half-brother Leon Brown were just teenagers when they were convicted of the 1983 rape and killing of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie is North Carolina.
Mr McCollum is the US state's longest serving death-row prisoner, while Mr Brown's sentence was reduced to life in prison for rape after a second trial.

Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Los Angeles Police Department 'Regret' Arrest Of Black Film Producer


The Los Angeles Police Department has apologised for the mistaken arrest of a black film producer who it said looked like a bank robber.
Harvard graduate Charles Belk was detained on Friday as he left a restaurant to top up a parking meter before a pre-Emmy television awards party.

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

NYC Strippers Arrested For Drugging Men And Stealing Credit Cards

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A team of strippers drugged wealthy men and took them to strip clubs where they ran up huge charges on their credit cards, federal investigators said.

The four dancers, identified as alleged ringleader Samantha Barbash, Roselyn Keo, Karina Pascucci and Marsi Rosen, were arrested on Monday and Tuesday, prosecutors said.

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Video: Gamer robbed at gunpoint on webcam stream

Gamer robbed at gunpoint on webcam stream

A webcam captured the terrifying moment a well-known US gamer was robbed in her own home by armed invaders who knocked down her front door.
The robbery was inadvertently live-streamed to other gamers around the world who alerted police in Tempe, Arizona, to the crime taking place.

Stevie J Arrested For Owning $1 Million In Unpaid Child Support

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Via TMZ reports:

“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star Stevie J just learned a hard lesson about being a baby daddy … you rack up a million-dollar child support debt and you go directly to jail.

Monday, 9 June 2014

Woman Arrested For Threatening To Kill White People On Plane

Lashonda Williams
Lashonda Williams, of Houston (United States), was sent back to Nashville along with the whole United Airlines Flight 4205 Sunday, when she uttered six words that you absolutely should never say when someone on an airplane asks you to turn off your cell phone.

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

US crackdown on Nigeria’s ‘Yahoo boys’

File Photo: Yahoo boys arrested in Ibadan
The United States has dealt a major crackdown on Nigeria’s Yahoo gang, with arrests of 16 people in several US cities, Canada and South Africa.
Most of the people arrested were Nigerians.
The suspects were arrested on charges that they took part in a fraud that used stolen information to get money and goods and then ship them to South Africa and Nigeria, according to documents unsealed in federal court in Gulfport, Mississippi Tuesday.