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Arizona Mother Charged with Child Abuse

July 30th, 2011

Sandra Rey Holguin,33, is facing child abuse charges after allegedly leaving her 2-year-old daughter in a hot car in 106 degree weather while she shopped. The Arizona mother allegedly left her toddler daughter locked in a parked car while she shopped at Kmart on Friday. Customers and employees at the store became concerned and called [...]

Mystery Inmate in U.S. was Booked as “John Doe”

July 29th, 2011

A mystery man, booked as “John Doe”, believed to be his 70s has been locked up in a Utah jail for more than three weeks and has puzzled investigators because he silently refuses to reveal his identity or provide any details about his life. The elderly looking and disheveled elderly man with blue eyes was [...]

Alonzo Mourning Left the Scene of a Crash

July 28th, 2011

Retired basketball player and Miami Heat executive Alonzo Mourning,41, was cited with a midemeanor on Monday by the Florida Highway Patrol for leaving the scene of a crash. The report said the car driven by Mourning, of Coral Gables, hit the Audi that had been driven by William Candalerio, 21, of North Miami giving Mourning’s [...]

Broward Judge Suggests a Subpoena for a Video of an Arrest on Reality TV

July 27th, 2011

Broward Judge David Haimes did not force prosecutors to turn over a copy of the television talent contract of a sheriff’s deputy arresting a criminal defendant on camera. Instead, the judge suggested that the Broward Public Defender’s Office issue a subpoena to the companies that produced the video that aired on Deputy Andrea Penoyer’s show [...]

Sex Offender Unknowingly Walks into Federal Custody

July 26th, 2011

Larry Paul Delaney,52, was wanted in Ft. Lauderdale for failing to register as a sex offender. However, when he walked into the federal courthouse on Broward Boulevard last week to file a civil action he found himself surrounded by police officers. Delaney was in the clerk’s office when the first police officer arrived to take [...]

New York Hotel Maid in Strauss-Kahn Case Goes Public

July 25th, 2011

The New York hotel maid, 32-year-old Nafissatou Diallo, who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her gave the news magazine and ABC News permission to identify her by name. This is the first time the Guinean immigrant to the United States has publicly spoken to the media since she accused Strauss-Kahn [...]

Court Won’t Stop Execution

July 25th, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused appeals to stop the execution of Texas prisoner Mark Stroman for a Dallas-area killing that was done in retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He had targeted people of Middle East descent in the weeks after 9/11, killing two and wounding a third man. That lone survivor, a [...]

Hadley Allegedly Told Friend He Would Kill Parents

July 24th, 2011

A Florida teenager who is best friends with Tyler Hadley,17, claims he didn’t believe Hadley was going to kill his parents because he had heard the threats before. He wasn’t convinced when Hadley allegedly confessed to him in gruesome detail how he had killed his parents with a hammer. None of it seemed real, the [...]

Georgia Deputy Allegedly Slain by 17-Year-Old Boy

July 23rd, 2011

Jonathan Bun, a 17 year old boy was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly shooting a Sheriff’s deputy near Atlanta. When the deputy went to pull over the suspect to serve a warrant (in an unrelated armed robbery case), the suspect allegedly shot the deputy. Thus the manhunt of at least 40 police officers went into [...]

Tyler Hadley, 17, Killed Parents, Then Partied?

July 21st, 2011

Florida teen Tyler Hadley is accused of bludgeoning his parents with a hammer, hiding their bodies, and then inviting his Facebook friends to his home for a late night party. Hadley is charged with two counts of second degree murder.Though the 17-year-old Port St. Lucie boy was originally going to be charged with first degree [...]