A new tip in the case of an 18-year-old college student who has been missing for a month led police to search a pond about 40 miles away from the coastal Virginia town of Norfolk, where she was last seen.
Anjelica “AJ” Hadsell was last seen on March 2, according to the Norfolk Police Department. On Friday, authorities searched a pond in Carrsville, Virginia after receiving a tip, according to ABC affiliate WVEC-TV.
via Virginia Police Search Pond After Tip in Teen Disappearance Case – ABC News.
A Texas mom got so tanked that she climbed into a trash bin with her 7-year-old daughter — and left the little girl to spend the night in the recepticle, authorities say.
Alicia Carroll, 28, was charged with child abandonment, and locked up in the Dallas County Jail with bail set at $25,000, after police untangled the unfathomable chain of events.
It began last weekend when Carroll took her daughter to a Dallas spa, but employees saw that the mother was carrying an open a bottle of liquor and asked her to leave, the Dallas Morning News reported.
The following morning, the girl was found safe in the Dumpster, Dallas police Maj. Rob Sherwin told the newspaper.
via Day care worker leaves daughter in Dumpster overnight: cops – NY Daily News.
An accused New York City gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for a slew of violent crimes, including three murders, after being convicted in a trial in which prosecutors used his graphic rap lyrics against him.
Ronald “Ra Diggs” Herron, 33, was sentenced to 12 terms of life in prison plus 105 years by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, New York.
The sentencing came after a jury in June 2014 found Herron guilty of all 23 charges against him, from racketeering to drug trafficking to gang-related killings between 2001 and 2009.
via NYC gang member gets 12 life sentences after his rap lyrics are used as evidence against him.
A Wisconsin mother was sending messages on her cell phone minutes before a horrific crash killed her daughter and two nieces, authorities said.
Kari Milberg’s phone records show she was carrying on a Facebook chat while driving the little girls and her young son home from a playdate at an indoor playground in December 2013, the Minneapolis Tribune reported, citing court records.
Pierce County prosecutors have now levied three felony counts of driving-related homicide charges against the 34-year-old mother in the tragic crash.
Milberg had lost control of her SUV, spinning into the path of an oncoming box truck.
via Wisconsin mom’s Facebook chat preceded deadly crash: charges – NY Daily News.
Turkish news agencies say that members of a banned leftist group have taken a chief prosecutor hostage in his office inside a court house in Istanbul.
Private Dogan news agency says some shots were fired inside.
State-run Anadolu Agency and state television, TRT, identified the prosecutor as Mehmet Selim Kiraz. He is the prosecutor investigating the death of a teenager who was hit by a police gas canister fired during nationwide anti-government protests in 2013.
via Reports: Banned group takes prosecutor hostage in Turkey.
A suspicious letter sent to the White House that may contain cyanide has been linked to a Chicago-area homeless man, law enforcement sources said.
Testing on the letter is ongoing to determine what, if any, danger it may have posed.
The letter was received Monday at the White House Mail Screening Center, and after initial biological testing came up negative, subsequent chemical testing came up with the positive for cyanide.
via Homeless Man Linked to Suspicious Letter in Cyanide Probe – ABC News.
A Colorado woman appeared in court on Thursday accused of cutting a fetus out of another woman’s womb after luring her with a Craigslist ad, then taking it to a hospital and claiming to have had a miscarriage.
A judge ordered Dynel Catrece Lane, 34, held on a $2 million bond at Boulder County Jail, where she was booked on charges of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and reckless child abuse resulting in death.
Police responded to a 911 emergency call from the victim on Wednesday at a home in Longmont, 30 miles north of Denver, where they found the woman crying for help after being beaten and stabbed in the torso.
She told them she was pregnant and that an attacker had “removed” her baby. She said she had gone to the house after seeing a Craigslist ad for baby clothes.
via Nurse who cut fetus from mom-to-be after Craigslist meet held for murder – Metro.
A defense lawyer says Robert Durst, a wealthy heir to a New York real estate fortune, has been arrested in New Orleans on a murder warrant from Los Angeles.
Durst is the subject of a six-part HBO series detailing his life of wealth and privilege as well as suspected links to the deaths of his wife in New York and a friend in Los Angeles.
Defense lawyer Chip Lewis says Durst was arrested at J.W. Marriott hotel in New Orleans at 3 p.m. Saturday by the FBI on a warrant for the murder of Susan Berman.
via NY property heir arrested in New Orleans on LAPD warrant – Yahoo News.
Two police officers were shot here early Thursday morning as gunfire rang out in front of the police station, throwing into panic what had been a spirited — and at times tense — but largely peaceful night of protests.
Demonstrators and police officers alike hit the ground when the gunshots echoed through the crisp air. Many people ran for cover. The police, clad in riot gear, dragged their wounded fellow officers to safety. Others crouched behind cars and walls, drawing their handguns or rifles as they rapidly swiveled their heads every which way to survey their surroundings.
One officer, from the St. Louis County Police Department, was shot in the shoulder, and the other, from the suburban Webster Groves department, was shot in the face. Both were in serious condition, but their injuries were not life threatening, said Sgt. Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the St. Louis County police.
via 2 Officers Are Shot Amid Protests Outside Ferguson Police Station – NYTimes.com.
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