Missouri Officer Faces Child Sex Charges
A Boy Scout leader who is also the top police officer in the Missouri town of Fredericktown is facing statutory sodomy charges for allegedly having sex with children. The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested 42-year-old Kenneth Tomlinson II on Tuesday. Details about the victims weren’t immediately available. Tomlinson is jailed on $100,000 cash-only bond in [...]
Woman Charged with Drowning Grandson
A 71-year-old German woman has been charged with drowning her 5-year-old grandson in a bathtub while vacationing in the Florida Panhandle. Marianne Bordt of Nufringen, Germany, was being held Tuesday at the Franklin County Jail in Eastpoint. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death Monday of Camden Hiers of Roswell, Ga., on St. [...]
Two Teens Charged in Ohio Slaying
Two Missouri teens have been charged in the death of an Ohio man whose body was found in the refrigerated compartment of a tractor-trailer. Six other people also have been charged in the death of 20-year-old James William Boyd McNeely, including the trucker in whose rig the body was found. Missouri officials wouldn’t say whether [...]
Dad, Daughter Charged for Kidnapping Prank
A Louisiana father and his 12-year-old daughter were arrested for an alleged practical joke that startled motorists on an interstate highway. The father allegedly drove his pickup truck with the girl sitting in the passenger seat – bound and gagged with duct tape. Authorities booked 45-year-old Tim Williams of Lacombe with criminal mischief and contributing [...]
Two Men Charged After Three Found Dead in Kentucky
Kentucky police say that two arrests have been made after the discovery of three corpses in the countryside. Authorities say the bodies of three Hispanic men were discovered by hunters on Sunday afternoon in a copse of pine trees north of Louisville. The bodies have not been identified. Twenty-year-old Miguel A. Velasquez of Cave City [...]
Woman Grateful for India Attack Charges
A woman whose daughter and husband were killed in Mumbai terrorist attacks says she is grateful for charges against a Chicago man. Forty-eight-year-old David Coleman Headley is accused of conducting extensive surveillance on potential terrorist attack targets, the eventual bombings of which left 166 people dead. Among the victims were Kai Scherr’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Naomi, [...]
Sports Reporter Facing More Prostitution Charges
A sports reporter accused of running a prostitution ring is now facing an additional seven charges, including a count of witness intimidation. Massachusetts prosecutors filed documents on Thursday that said Kevin Provencher told two women who he allegedly employed as prostitutes that his lawyer would “tear them apart” in the media if they spoke to [...]
Suspect Admits Taking NC Girl
A search warrant says that the man who has been charged with kidnapping a five-year-old girl from North Carolina told police he took the girl to the hotel where she was last seen alive. Shaniya Davis was later found dead along a rural road outside of Sanford. Antoinette, the girl’s mother, is currently charged with [...]
Colorado Parents of Balloon Boy to Plead Guilty
The attorney for the parents of a Colorado boy who reported that he had floated away in a balloon says that his clients plan to plead guilty. David Lane said Thursday that Mayumi Heene will be pleading guilty to false reporting to authorities, which is a misdemeanor. Richard Heene, her husband, is pleading guilty to [...]
Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Charged
The Army psychiatrist suspected in a shooting rampage at Ford Hood, Texas has been charged with thirteen counts of premeditated murder. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged in military court, and more charges may be coming, a U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command spokesperson said Thursday. Hasan is suspected of killing twelve soldiers and one civilian [...]