Crime

Jacksonville, Texas’s NBC affiliate reports: A Longview gymnastics instructor is accused of sexually assaulting a minor. 52-year-old Matthew Orban is charged with sexual assault of a minor. According to the indictment, the incident involving Orban occurred on or around March 1, 2016, when he “intentionally and knowingly caused the penetration of the sexual organ” of a child younger than 17 …

Politico reports: Federal employee unions on Monday sued to stop Elon Musk’s team from accessing a sensitive government payment system that controls the flow of trillions of dollars of payments as top Democrats stepped up their attacks on what they said was the billionaire’s “hostile takeover” of the Treasury Department. The lawsuit, which was filed days after Treasury Secretary Scott …

Jackson, Tennessee’s ABC affiliate reports: 40-year-old Ryan Kelley McElrath is charged with statutory rape by an authority figure, sexual battery by an authority figure, and aggravated statutory rape. The charges stem from a May 2024 incident that occurred at Fellowship Bible Church in Jackson. McElrath was working as a youth pastor at the church at the time. Records show that …

Charleston’s ABC affiliate reports: Police say a Huger man that harassed Hispanic men in a now viral video, has bonded out of jail. Sean Michael-Emmrich Johnson was arrested after turning himself in to the Sullivan’s Island Police Department Friday. Saturday, Johnson appeared in court virtually from the Al Cannon Detention Center. Johnson is charged with felony kidnapping, impersonating a law …

Jacksonville, Texas’s NBC affiliate reports: The Wood County Sheriff’s Office announced on Sunday that Timothy Nall has been arrested. On Friday, the sheriff’s office said Nall was wanted for sexual assault of a child. This is reportedly the sheriff’s office second warrant for Nall for a similar offense but with a different child victim. In 2023, KETK reported that Nall …

ABC News Australia reports: Elizabeth Struhs lived and died suffering a deadly disease, but ultimately it was her parents’ dangerous views that ended her life. For days, as the eight-year-old lay dying, more than a dozen adults — her mother and father among them — prayed and sang songs instead of seeking life-saving medical treatment. In January 2022, she took …

Michigan Live reports: A former youth pastor charged with more than 30 felonies for sexually abusing children will stay in jail. Washtenaw County District Court Judge J. Cedric Simpson denied Zachary Joseph Radcliff’s bond after hearing from prosecutors how the 29-year-old temporarily fled to Virginia during the ongoing investigation and repeatedly contacted a victim who came forward. This means, absent …

Law & Crime reports: A Jan. 6 rioter from Missouri who made headlines for swiping Nancy Pelosi’s name plate during the Capitol attack went from pardon to prison this week as she was sentenced Wednesday for causing a fatal crash while driving drunk on the wrong side of the highway. Emily Hernandez, 25, got hit with a 10-year sentence by …

“Welcome to the Southern District of New York, the wild west of political prosecution. President Trump was right. This process is political and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.” – Former Sen. Bob “Gold Bars” Menendez, outside the court where he had sobbed as he was …

NBC News reports: A judge sentenced an emotional former Sen. Bob Menendez Wednesday to 11 years in prison Wednesday for a years-long bribery and corruption scheme that saw him rewarded with gold bars and stacks of cash. Menendez had pleaded with U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein for mercy, twice breaking down in tears. “I have lost everything,” Menendez said, after …

Bakersfield’s CBS affiliate reports: A 41-year-old Tehachapi youth pastor was arrested Monday following an investigation that revealed an alleged sexual assault of a teen victim. On January 27, 2025, Tehachapi police arrested Adrian Daugherty, 41, following an investigation that alleges Daugherty committed lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. Daugherty is a youth pastor at the Tehachapi Church of the …

Law & Crime reports: A Jan. 6 rioter who was arrested in Canada after failing to report to prison and attempting to apply for asylum has gotten the green light to come back to the United States — with federal prosecutors quashing the arrest warrant they issued for him earlier this month and dismissing his fleeing justice charge — as …

Gothamist reports: A state trooper staged his own shooting on the Southern State Parkway in Nassau County in October — firing into his own leg, state police and local prosecutors said. When Trooper Thomas Mascia reported that he’d been shot, it set off a dayslong, multi-state manhunt for a vehicle and driver that authorities have since said he made up …

Indianapolis’s Fox affiliate reports: An Indiana man recently pardoned by President Donald Trump for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is dead after being shot by a sheriff’s deputy while allegedly resisting arrest. Matthew Huttle, 42, of Hobart was shot and killed during a traffic stop near the Jasper/Pulaski county lines on Sunday afternoon. A deputy with the Jasper …

Law & Crime reports: Thanks to President Donald Trump, a Texas man who beat police officers with a metal whip and showered them with bear spray during the Jan. 6 riot had his more than six-year prison sentence ended. But 36-year-old Andrew Taake may be headed back to jail anyway. Taake made headlines at the time of his arrest because …

The Christian News reports: A Texas megachurch pastor retired last month following an arrest for solicitation of prostitution at a massage parlor. The Rev. John F. Fiedler led the 15,000-member Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, until his retirement on Dec. 31, 2024, church records show. Police documents allege that Fielder was caught in a prostitution bust carried out …

Jacksonville’s Fox affiliate reports: The Vice Chair of the Clay Soil and Water Conservation Board, and son of Clay County School Board Member Beth Clark, was arrested Sunday, January 19th in a child sex sting operation conducted by the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office. According to the arrest report, Harrison “Ted” Clark is accused of traveling to meet a child for …

Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports: The Cleveland County District Attorney’s office has charged a former pastor who’s accused of sending an unsolicited nude photo of himself to a Kansas teenager. Court documents allege McMillan added the victim on Snapchat in 2023. The victim told police at the time McMillan would have had to use his son’s phone, her former classmate, …

ABC News reports: A Massachusetts man was found to be carrying a gun after attending a tour of the U.S. Capitol as he left the nearby Library of Congress on Tuesday, police officials told ABC News on Thursday. Authorities in Washington were alerted by police in Carlisle, Massachusetts, on Monday that a man with a gun who had expressed suicidal …

Politico reports: Trump has once again sent a disturbing message to his supporters: If you engage in political violence on my behalf, I will protect you. Tarrio, Rhodes and their associates should feel emboldened, and there is no telling what they will do with Trump now firmly behind them. You can safely expect a fair amount of recidivism among those …