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Over two years after R. Kelly was charged with abusing women and underage girls for almost two decades, the first phase of the R&B singer’s sex trafficking trial. With jury selection underway, TMZ reports R. Kelly’s lawyers have asked the court to throw out charges claiming he knowingly exposed two people to herpes. According to new legal documents […]
An Ohio woman has been arrested after police say she punished her dog by locking the animal in a hot car and leaving it to die. According to WJV, the Sandusky Police Department said in a report Mouheb Ashakih, 58, is being held in the Erie County Jail on a cruelty to animals charge following an alleged incident on […]
Dark Lo has been sentenced to seven and a half years behind bars. The Philadelphia rapper—legal name Charles Salley—received his sentencing on Friday, months after he pleaded guilty to one count of witness intimidation in a federal drug case. The 39-year-old artist admitted to writing a letter to Dontez “Taz” Stewart, a government informant who testified against Abdul “AR-Ab” West. […]
Apple has announced its latest plan to protect young children from sexual predators. On Thursday, the tech giant confirmed it would begin using new software that will detect and report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on U.S. iPhones. Apple will utilize a tool known as “NeuralHash,” which can help determine whether a user is trying to store known […]
Mexico filed a lawsuit against a number of U.S.-based gun manufacturers on Wednesday, accusing them of “actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels,” NBC News reports. The suit alleges that over 500,000 firearms are smuggled from the United States into Mexico every year, with more than 340,000 belonging to U.S. companies such […]
The NYPD has shared alarming surveillance footage showing a Bronx man in a wheelchair getting beaten and robbed by two assailants on the street. “Police say not only was this person not able to physically defend himself but he also has a mental disability, which [made it] difficult for detectives to even determine exactly what […]
A Maryland woman was arrested this week after officers found the remains of two young children in her car. According to the Baltimore County Government, the discovery was made during a Wednesday night traffic stop in Essex. The driver, 33-year-old Nicole Michelle Johnson, was reportedly pulled over for speeding; however, officers quickly determined the vehicle had fake West […]
A British man known to the public as the “Brighton Cat Killer,” was sentenced to 5 years in jail for stabbing 9 cats to death, but attacked a total of 16. As reported by The Independent, authorities said that Steve Bouquet, 54, stabbed about 16 cats between October 2018 and May 2019 in Brighton, killing […]
A Louisiana millionaire has copped a plea deal in a bizarre kidnapping case involving his estranged wife and two men who died during the alleged abduction. According to The Advocate, 53-year-old Lawrence Michael Handley has pleaded guilty to orchestrating the scheme in 2017, after he initiated divorce proceedings against his wife, Schanda Handley. Lawrence Michael Handley, who made his fortune […]
Two New York Police Department officers were fired this year after allegedly raping an underage girl who was enrolled in the department’s youth program. According to the New York Times, former officers Sanad Musallam and Yaser Shohatee are accused of having sexual contact with a 15-year-old girl between 2015-2016, while she was a member of the Law Enforcement Explorers program. […]
