Crime

The Minnesota Star Tribune reports: Republican state Sen. Justin Eichorn resigned Thursday following his arrest earlier this week in an underage prostitution sting. Eichorn submitted his letter of resignation, effective Thursday, less than an hour before the Minnesota Senate was set to take an unprecedented vote to expel him from the chamber. Minnesota Senate Secretary Tom Bottern read Eichorn’s resignation letter …

Jackson’s NBC affiliate reports: A Jefferson County pastor and former school bus driver is being accused of sexually exploiting children. On Wednesday, Elvis Colenberg turned himself in to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department. He’s being charged with one count of exploitation of children. Investigators said Colenberg forced a 14-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl to have sex with each other …

Fort Wayne’s ABC affiliate reports: A recently retired Orland pastor has been arrested on several child molestation charges, court documents say. Rodger Strong, 69, is accused of molesting a 5-year-old girl on five different occasions between Jan. 1, 2024, and May 7, 2024, according to court records. The victim’s mother alerted police to the abuse on March 5, 2025. As …

The Minnesota Star Tribune reports: Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn allegedly arranged to meet someone he thought was a teenage girl for prostitution and instead was arrested by police in Bloomington, authorities announced Tuesday. After Eichorn’s arrest, the Senate Republican Caucus said in a statement, “We are shocked by these reports, and this alleged conduct demands an immediate resignation. Justin …

Seattle’s Fox affiliate reports: Seattle police have identified three suspects in a hate crime outside an LGBTQ+ bar in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The suspects involved are 17, 19 and 24 years old, according to police. Detectives have referred hate crime charges to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. The incident happened on Feb. 19 at a bar in the …

The Tampa Free Press reports: Christopher Hayes, a 46-year-old realtor, youth lacrosse coach, and church deacon, has been arrested following a disturbing investigation into child pornography and bestiality. The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office uncovered hundreds of explicit files linked to Hayes, including videos depicting child sexual abuse and sexual acts involving animals. The investigation began on December 12, 2024, when …

Minneapolis’s Fox affiliate reports: A Minnesota Senator from Grand Rapids was arrested, accused of soliciting a minor for prostitution. Sen. Justin Eichorn, 40, was arrested on March 17 in Bloomington. The Bloomington Police Department says they communicated with a man who thought he was talking to a 16-year-old girl. On March 17, a detective arranged to meet with him near …

New Orleans’ CBS affiliate reports: A pastor in Slidell was sentenced to two years in prison and three years of probation for taping the mouths of three students shut while serving as headmaster of a Christian school. John Raymond, formerly in charge of Lakeside Christian School in Slidell, was convicted of cruelty to juveniles after authorities said he disciplined the …

The Associated Press reports: A former pastor of a Texas megachurch is expected to turn himself into Oklahoma authorities Monday on child sexual abuse charges. Robert Preston Morris, 63, is expected to surrender to officials in Osage County, where he was charged last week with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, his attorney, Mack Martin, told …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A Frederick man punched a United Airlines gate agent at Dulles International Airport Thursday night, hospitalizing him. The shocking swing was caught on camera in a video shared with WUSA9. Christopher Stuart Crittenden, 54, from Frederick, Maryland, was arrested Thursday, and charged with assault and disorderly conduct according to Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. In the …

Fort Worth’s Fox affiliate reports: A Tarrant County jury awarded $124 million to a woman who accused her former pastor of sexual abuse. In 2017, Jose Francisco Bernal was arrested and charged with the continuous sexual abuse of two children who attended his church in Fort Worth. Bernal is the former pastor at Tabernacle of Life Pentecostal Church. One of …

Jackson’s NBC affiliate reports: Crystal Springs pastor is behind bars Thursday after he was arrested for statutory rape. Crystal Springs Police Chief Robert Thomas said Christopher Willett is facing multiple charges after the victim came to the police station with a psychologist detailing the abuse. Willett is a pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Crystal Springs. He is charged with …

Jefferson City’s KJLU reports: A former church youth ministry volunteer in Phelps County pleaded guilty in federal court to a child pornography offense. Bradley Colvin, 52, of Rolla, was arrested last March following a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigation into online child pornography. Colvin was identified as a suspect after he shared child pornography online with a person who was …

Rockford’s CBS affiliate reports: A Beloit pastor is accused of sharing child pornography, according to police. Anthony Dusso, 53, of South Beloit, faces four Class X counts of dissemination of child pornography <13 and two Class 1 counts of dissemination of child pornography <18. In December 2024, South Beloit police say they got a tip from the National Center for …

Atlanta First News reports: A youth pastor at an Alpharetta church was arrested Wednesday on several child pornography charges. Daniel Menelaou was charged with six counts of possession or control of any material depicting a minor in sexually explicit conduct. The charges stem from several sexually explicit videos involving children being shared through a messaging app, arrest warrants state. Arrest …

The Christian Post reports: Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child by a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma Wednesday stemming from allegations made by Cindy Clemishire last June that he sexually abused her over multiple years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12. …

Futurism reports: As CEO Elon Musk ravages the federal government with chainsaws and fascist salutes, the wheels are coming off for Tesla — literally. New local reporting by League City, Texas’ KPRC-TV has uncovered an unusual heist in which thieves pilfered 44 tires from 11 unsold Teslas sitting in an Amazon warehouse parking lot. The daring — and frankly kind …

The Roys Report reports: Jeffery Summers, 51, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Port Orange, was arrested on Friday evening by deputies of Port Orange Police Department, according to court records. He was charged with solicitation for sexual conduct with a child over a computer and traveling to meet a minor for sexual conduct. The arrest came as part …

The New York Post reports: A Long Island pastor is facing up to three decades in prison for possessing sexually explicit images and videos of young boys he chatted with online – a crime federal prosecutors condemned as “unspeakable.” Jose Saez, Jr., 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Central Islip Federal Court to sexual exploitation of a child for soliciting the …

ABC News reports: Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was detained on Tuesday under an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, which accused him of crimes against humanity in connection with the brutal “war on drugs” he led while in office, the Philippines Presidential Communications Office said. Members of the Philippine National Police met the former president as he arrived in Manila, …