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Famous Dex’s court hearing on Thursday didn’t go as planned, resulting in the rapper being arrested. According to TMZ, Dex was in court to plead not guilty to 19 charges—including domestic violence and gun possession—stemming from an incident that took place in March. Yet during the hearing, it was revealed that Dex violated a protective order that was put in […]
An Iowa man who got into a fight over wearing his face mask has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The altercation took place at the Vision 4 Less eyewear store in Des Moines back in November 2020. While shopping around, 42-year-old Shane Michael was asked by a customer in the store to pull his […]
Members of a Louisiana hip-hop group have been charged in connection to the death of a rival rapper. According to CBS affiliate 4WWL, Tauj Chardez Taplin and Quardavion Tyvon White were arrested Thursday following a high-speed chase that began in South Texas and ended in Southwest Louisiana. The Chambers County Sheriff’s office said the pursuit began after authorities had stopped a vehicle believed to […]
An Allentown, Pennsylvania woman has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot after allegedly trying to have her husband killed on a payment plan. WFMZ reports Allentown police charged Claudia Carrion, 44, with a single count of criminal solicitation to commit homicide after she allegedly tried to hire an undercover detective to murder her husband. Investigators conducted […]
Two Florida cousins have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder related to the shooting of a 17-year-old in a Polk County park earlier this week. Fox 13 reports deputies have identified the 16-year-old suspects as Jevon Berrien Jr. and Margus Johnson, of Bartow, Florida. According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, the deadly shooting occurred when the […]
A Wisconsin woman has been arrested after she allegedly set her sleeping husband on fire because she suspected him of poisoning her chicken wings. CBS News reports Tuhonsty Marie Smith, 29, is facing charges of arson of building mayhem, domestic abuse, and first degree recklessly endangering safety after lighting her husband’s head on fire earlier this month at […]
The only Indian Olympian to win two individual gold medals, Sushil Kumar has been jailed in connection to the death of junior national wrestling champion Sagar Dhankhar. According to official reports, on May 4, a brawl of around 20 people erupted at Delhi’s Chhatrasal wrestling academy, with Kumar supposedly being a key figure in the conflict. […]
An 80-year-old woman, Shameema Begum, died on Sunday, two weeks after an ex-security guard allegedly posed as a doctor and performed surgery on her at a hospital in Pakistan, The Guardian reports. Police say that Muhammad Waheed Butt attempted to treat Begum’s back wound at Lahore’s Mayo hospital. “We can’t keep up with what every doctor […]
Two lead attorneys who have been working with R. Kelly have requested to withdraw from the embattled singer’s upcoming federal sex trafficking case in Brooklyn just two months before it’s set to start, WLS-TV reports. Attorneys Steven Greenberg and Michael Leonard filed documents to withdraw, which have yet to be approved, on Monday. “Our reasons for withdrawal are significant […]
A Texas woman was arrested Thursday after she shot a nail salon owner because she was “unhappy with the price of the services,” NBC News reports the Harris County Sheriff’s Office as saying. On May 29, Joana Vera, 21, and her 20-year-old sister Quetzali got a manicure and pedicure at Katy Nails in Houston. As her sister continued to argue, […]
