Philly Home Had Hundreds of Dead Animals
Investigators say some kind of religious ritual may be behind the discovery of the remains of 400 to 500 dead animals at a Philadelphia house. Officer George Bengal, director of law enforcement at the Pennsylvania SPCA, says investigators spent hours combing through the home in the city’s Feltonville neighborhood Wednesday. He says the animals were [...]
Man Pleads Guilty to 1982 Murder
A Vermont man has admitted to killing an 18-year-old girl in 1982 in a plea deal with prosecutors. Forty-seven-year-old Theodore Caron of Barre was arrested in February in the strangulation death of Pamela Brown. A DNA sampled linked Caron to the slaying. Caron initially pleaded innocent to first-degree murder. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to [...]
Slain Casino Official Planned to Quit
The wife of the California casino official killed by an ex-employee says her husband was about to leave his job because he didn’t like being ordered to fire people. Raymundo Casillas Jr. was the head of the Barona Gaming Commission in San Diego County. He was killed Tuesday when Donnell Roberts went to his office [...]
Massachusetts Fire Deaths Ruled Homicides
The deaths of two men in one of a string of fires last weekend have been ruled homicides by the Massachusetts Medical Examiner’s office. Dr. Andrew Sexton on Wednesday “presumptively” identified the victims in the Sunday fire in Northampton, Mass., as 81-year-old Paul Yeskie Sr. and his son, 39-year-old Paul Yeskie Jr. Family members had [...]
Bait Farmer Sentenced in Illegal Importation Case
A Wisconsin bait farming business that pleaded guilty to illegally importing fish has been sentenced to probation. Gollon Bait & Fish Farm was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation, fined $6,000 and ordered to pay the cost of additional monitoring of the health of bait fish by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb. The business pleaded [...]
Man Arrested, Used 911 Call to Get Ride to a Bar
Authorities say a Florida man who called 911 claiming he’d been beaten and shot at was hoping the tale would get him a ride to a bar. Instead, 37-year-old Gregory J. Oras is facing charges of misusing the 911 system and battery of a law enforcement officer. An arrest report says Oras called 911 three [...]
Retired Army Officer Sentenced for Contract Scam
A retired U.S. Army major must serve 57 months in prison for accepting $245,000 in bribes from companies in exchange for awarding military supply contracts in Kuwait. Judge Clay D. Land of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia also ordered Christopher H. Murray, 42, to pay $245,000 in restitution to the [...]
Pastor Contacted Police After Taking In Runaway Convert
A Florida pastor who took in an Ohio runaway after she converted from Islam to Christianity says he was never told he was breaking the law. Pastor Blake Lorenz says in an affidavit filed in Ohio juvenile court that he contacted authorities about 17-year-old Rifqa Bary at least four times. He says police didn’t pick [...]
Gunman, One Other Dead at Casino Office
Authorities say Donnell Roberts, former investigator for the Indian tribal casino’s gaming commission, shot and killed a man in the office before fatally turning the gun on himself Tuesday. “Our worst fears were confirmed,” San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore told reporters outside the convention center of the Barona Resort and Casino. “It appears to [...]
Task Force to Probe Mass. Fires
A task force of state, regional and federal officials is investigating a string of suspicious weekend fires in Massachusetts, including one in which two people died. At least nine fires were reported early Sunday in houses and cars within a half-mile radius in the college town of Northampton, Mass. Authorities say they suspect arson. Officials [...]