Crime

Pilot Threatens To Crash Into Mississippi Walmart

CNN reports: A pilot in Tupelo, Mississippi, is threatening to intentionally crash a small plane into a Walmart, police said Saturday morning. “At this time the situation is ongoing with TPD and all Emergency Services in our area on alert,” Tupelo Police said in a news release Saturday morning. “With the mobility of an airplane of that type the danger …

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Federal Judge Rejects Bannon’s Plea For New Trial

Fox News reports: A federal judge on Friday denied a request by Steve Bannon for a new trial, more than a month after jurors convicted him of contempt of Congress after he ignored a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. Bannon argued for a new trial based on perceived flawed instructions to the jury and that he was blocked …

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VA Pastor Sentenced To 8 Years For Child Sex Abuse

The Roys Report reports: A plea agreement shows that Douglas Phillip DeAndrea, former pastor of New Ground Church in Danville, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. DeAndrea, 44, was arrested October 18, 2021, on seven felony charges of object sexual penetration and aggravated sexual battery, according to Mark Hollandsworth with the Montgomery County Jail. A grand jury indictment reveals …

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Pennsylvania Pastor Found Guilty Of Raping First Grader

The West Chester Patch reports: A former teacher at West Chester Christian School was convicted of sexually assaulting a first-grader there in 2007. Randy Lee Boston, 64, of Shickshinny, Luzerne County, was found guilty by a jury Wednesday in the Chester County Justice Center of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, indecent assault of a person under 13, corruption …

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Republican Idaho Former Rep Sentenced To 20 Years For Rape After “Baptizing My Sins In The Jordan River”

The Idaho Statesman reports: Former state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger — who was convicted of rape in April — told an Ada County courtroom Wednesday that he took a pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Israel before standing trial over two felony sexual assault charges. He said that in order to be baptized, he had to confess his sins. “I …

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Federal Prosecutors Seek To Forcibly Medicate Planned Parenthood Shooter: He Thinks Witches Are After Him

The Denver Post reports: Federal prosecutors want to forcibly medicate the man charged with carrying out a deadly mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs seven years ago in an attempt to move forward with the long-stalled criminal cases against him. Robert Dear, 64, has repeatedly admitted to killing three people and wounding nine others during a …

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Sunday School Teacher Gets 87 Years For Child Rape

Raleigh’s NBC affiliate reports: A former Sunday school teacher will spend the next 87 years of his life in prison after being convicted of abusing and sexually assaulting at least three young girls behind church walls and on church buses in Johnston County. A jury found Jonathan Young, 38, of Benson, guilty on multiple counts of rape, sexual offense and …

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Safeway Mass Shooter Named, Posted “Manifesto”

The Daily Beast reports: The man who killed two people as he “walked aisle to aisle” spraying bullets inside a Safeway supermarket in Bend, Oregon, wrote a disturbing manifesto ahead of the bloodbath, warning of his intention to commit a “national tragedy.” The shooter, who wielded an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun during his rampage, was identified by authorities on …

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“Boogaloo Boi” Gets Life In Killing Of Sheriff’s Deputy

Law & Crime reports: A former Air Force sergeant and anti-government militia member was sentenced to life in prison for the second of two murders he committed against law enforcement employees in 2020. Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded guilty in June of this year to nine counts over the incident that led to the murder of Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sgt. …

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Three Dead In Mass Shooting At Oregon Safeway

ABC News reports: At least three people are dead following a shooting inside a Safeway supermarket in Oregon on Sunday evening, police said. The incident was reported just after 7 p.m. local time at The Forum Shopping Center in Bend, a small city on the Deschutes River, some 130 miles southeast of Oregon’s capital, Salem. The suspected shooter is among …

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Youth Pastor Arrested On Multiple Child Sex Charges

Fayetteville’s ABC affiliate reports: A man was arrested on a charge of sexual indecency with a child in a case related to his time as a youth pastor at a Bentonville church, according to Nathan Smith, Benton County prosecutor. Keenan Hord was arrested Thursday night and has been booked into the Benton County Detention Center. He is facing charges that …

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CO “QAnon Mom” Found Guilty In Kidnapping Plot

The Associate Press reports: A Colorado mother accused of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care after her teen daughter said she started associating with supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory was found guilty of conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping on Friday. Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her …

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Tennessee Christian School Principal And His Secretary Charged With Having Sex In Front Of Underage Student

Nashville’s Fox affiliate reports: The principal and secretary of a small Christian school in McMinn County engaged in improper sexual activity in front of an underage teen and former student at the pastor’s home, according to 2 arrest reports from the McMinn County Sheriff’s Department. 47-year-old Jason Kennedy is principal, teacher and pastor of Liberty Christian School in Riceville. 28-year-old …

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Rioter Gets 46 Months For Beating DC Cops With Pole

NBC News reports: A “pissed off” Donald Trump fan was sentenced to 46 months in prison Friday for assaulting law enforcement officers with a Trump flag and joining a mob to use a giant Trump billboard as a battering ram when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The government said that Howard Richardson, a 72-year-old from King of …

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Convicted Rioter Loses Appeal Over FB Location Data

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the disclosure of location information provided by Facebook to the FBI about users inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 did not violate Fourth Amendment privacy rights of a defendant who live-streamed his breach of the building. Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued the ruling Wednesday …

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Political Director Of Leading Texas Anti-Abortion Group Arrested For Online Solicitation Of Sex With A Minor

Vice News reports: A man who worked as a political director for Texas Right to Life, the premier anti-abortion group in the state, has been arrested for the online solicitation of a minor. Lucas “Luke” Bowen, 33, was charged with the second-degree felony on August 3. A minor, under that statute, refers to anyone who’s younger than 17 or who …

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Florida Pair Pleads Guilty To Stealing Diary Of Biden’s Daughter And Selling It To Right Wing Project Veritas

The New York Times reports: Two Florida residents pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday to stealing a diary and other belongings of President Biden’s daughter, Ashley, and selling them to the conservative group Project Veritas in the final weeks of the 2020 election. Aimee Harris, 40, and Robert Kurlander, 58, admitted they took part in a conspiracy …

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Police: FL Pastor’s Wife Embezzled $165K From Church

Mobile’s CBS affiliate reports: The Florida Department of Law Enforcement charged a woman with grand theft after a Milton Church was defrauded out of $164,716. Lisa Michelle Hively, 55, was charged with one count of organized schemes to defraud and one count of grand theft. Hively was arrested after investigators opened up an investigation into the finances of Faith Baptist …

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Sheriff Guilty Of Threatening To Shoot Church Teens

The East Idaho News reports: Former Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault as part of a plea agreement. In exchange, the prosecution will dismiss a felony charge of aggravated battery, and a misdemeanor charge for the exhibition of a firearm. “In exchange for the plea, the parties have agreed to probation and 10 days of …

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Brothers Charged With Assaulting Cops In Capitol Riot

Chicago’s CBS affiliate reports: Two brothers from Illinois have been charged with joining the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, one of them accused of pushing a police officer, and the other accused of pinning down an officer with a metal barricade. Daniel Leyden, 55, of Chicago, is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers with a …

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