Tag: Crime

Students File Lawsuit After Catholic Teacher Is Charged With Making Child Porn Using Yearbook Images

Students and parents from a Kentucky Catholic school have filed a lawsuit after federal agents arrested a teacher on child pornography charges. A federal grand jury indicted Jordan A. Fautz, 39, on charges including distribution of child pornography, distribution of obscene visual representation of child sexual abuse, and possession of child pornography last month, according to […]

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Trump The ‘Billionaire’ Can’t Afford To Pay Bond For $464M Civil Fraud Judgment, His Lawyers Say

NewsOne Featured Video New York Attorney General Letitia James sits in the courtroom for the civil trial of former President Donald Trump at New York State Supreme Court on October 18, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Pool / Getty Donald Trump, who wants everybody to believe that he is a billionaire, cannot afford […]

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Stakeknife: the killer who spied for Britain

Freddie Scappaticci was the feared leader of the Provisional IRA’s “Nutting Squad”, the Internal Security Unit tasked with identifying informers – and with abducting, torturing and executing them as traitors to the Republican cause. It’s thought that Scappaticci’s unit carried out around 30 such murders in the 1980s, 18 with his personal involvement, said Rory […]

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Utah Boy, 9, Allegedly Shoots Dad in Head, Attacks His Face With Tomahawk in ‘Gruesome, Violent’ Killing: Cops

A 9-year-old boy in Utah is suspected of killing his father in a “gruesome, violent” manner, according to police. The Tooele Police Department is still investigating the incident in which a man was shot in the head and then repeatedly struck with a hatchet, KUTV reports. Newly unsealed warrants initially obtained and viewed by KUTV reportedly […]

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Mom of Missing Wisconsin Toddler Elijah Vue Faces Trial for Neglect as Desperate Search Goes On for 3-Year-Old

The mother of missing Wisconsin toddler Elijah Vue, and her boyfriend, made brief court appearances Thursday as police and concerned neighbors continued their desperate search for the 3-year-old boy. Elijah Vue has been missing since Feb. 20. Deeply disturbing details have been released by authorities about the little boy’s life in the weeks before he […]

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Michigan shooter’s dad guilty of manslaughter

What happened A jury in Oakland County, Michigan, late Thursday found James Crumbley, 47, guilty of involuntary manslaughter for failing to prevent his teenage son from killing four fellow students at Oxford High School in 2021. His wife, Jennifer Crumbley, was found guilty on identical charges in February. Who said what “James Crumbley is not […]

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Where Georgia RICO Case Against Trump Stands After Judge Tossed 6 Counts

NewsOne Featured Video In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, former U.S. President Donald Trump poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: Handout / Getty A Fulton County judge has tossed out six of the 41 state charges against Donald […]

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Teacher Charged With Raping Boy, 12, Appears Pregnant in Court After Alleging in Call That He is Baby’s Father

A Tennessee school teacher is facing a lengthy list of charges after allegedly raping a 12-year-old student. A grand jury returned a 23-count indictment against Alissa McCommon last week following a seven-month investigation that allegedly identified 21 potential victims, according to the Covington Police Department (CPD). The charges relate to allegations stemming from five of […]

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Is animal cruelty getting worse?

There is a shocking trend of children filming and sharing footage of killing and torturing animals, a new report has revealed. A number of young people are sharing videos and photos via WhatsApp groups of themselves targeting animals with ball bearings fired from a hand-held catapult, causing devastating injuries. Some footage also shows them then […]

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Pop Smoke’s Accused Killer Finally Has Murder Trial Date Set Over 4 Years After Deadly Home Invasion

NewsOne Featured Video Rapper Pop Smoke performs onstage during day 2 of the Rolling Loud Festival at Banc of California Stadium on December 15, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. | Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty It’s been more than four years since up-and-coming rap star Pop Smoke was murdered during a home robbery in the […]

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Widow Was Targeted in Mortgage Scam, Then Killed in Murder-for-Hire Plot When She Didn’t Die Soon Enough: Cops

In the breathtaking bluffs of Montecito in Southern California, 96-year-old widow Violet Alberts owned a multi-million-dollar home where neighbors included Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and Ariana Grande. After two years of investigation, the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office has now detailed an allegedly elaborate scheme that they say began with a mortgage scam […]

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Kentucky Pediatrician Tried to Put ‘Death Spell’ on Ex, Allegedly Asked Employee to Find Hitman, Says Lawyer

A Kentucky pediatrician accused of hiring a hitman to murder her ex-husband contacted spiritualists to inquire about death spells, according to her attorney. Dr. Stephanie Russell, 53, is facing a federal charge of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire after she allegedly offered to pay a hitman $7,000 if he killed her ex-husband, Ricky […]

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Sen. Katie Britt Busted Lying About Human Trafficking Victim During GOP’s SOTU Rebuttal

NewsOne Featured Video Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) listens during a news conference on border security at the U.S. Capitol Building on September 27, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Last week, we reported on Alabama Sen. Katie Britt and her rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address. Actually, […]

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Why are kidnappings in Nigeria on the rise again?

Searches are under way in several Nigerian states following the abduction of hundreds of schoolchildren and displaced people in recent weeks.  At least 400 people were taken from a displaced persons’ camp by suspected Boko Haram fighters on 3 March, Amnesty International reported. Days later, armed “bandits” on motorbikes arrived at a primary school in […]

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Video Shows Alabama Cop Delay Arresting White Driver Who ‘Ran Over’ Black Woman In Alleged Hit-And-Run

NewsOne Featured Video Steven Fuller. | Source: Chilton County Sheriff’s Office A Black woman was intentionally struck by a white driver in Alabama who fled a hit-and-run scene before returning later only for the police to delay his arrest on Thursday, according to the victim’s sister who documented the scene in graphic video footage posted […]

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