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Jussie Smollett’s attorney Nenye Uche delivered opening remarks Monday as his client’s trial on felony disorderly conduct charges began earlier today. “Jussie Smollett is a real victim,” Uche said, per AP News, arguing that Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo, the brothers who allegedly attacked the Empire actor didn’t like him, and the $3,500 check they received from Smollett was […]
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives with the Special Victims Unit served a search warrant at Marilyn Manson’s home in West Hollywood on Monday morning, TMZ reports. The search took place over the sexual abuse allegations that have been made against the singer. Manson, real name Brian Warner, was not home when the location was served with the search warrant. […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized some peculiar cargo a month ago, finding almost 4,000 bongs that had been flown into the Washington Dulles International Airport. The drug paraphernalia was brought in from China and reached the states on Oct. 2. Despite marijuana being legal in several states, a release from CBP noted that “the glass bongs […]
Just a few days after it was announced that Brian Laundrie died by suicide, the family’s lawyer has revealed that knowledge of a missing gun from the Laundrie family home was kept from the law enforcement. CNN reports Steve Bertolino, a lawyer for the family, told reporters Friday that Laundrie’s parents surrendered their guns to law enforcement on […]
A Tennessee man was arrested following an incident last week where he threatened Little Caesars workers with an AK-47 because he felt like they made him wait too long for his pizza, The Charlotte Observer reports. Charles Douglas Doty Jr., 63, became angry when an employee informed him that his pepperoni pizza would take 10 minutes […]
One of the three men involved in the 2018 robbery of Safaree Samuels has been found guilty of first-degree robbery and is facing up to 50 years in prison when he is sentenced on Jan. 28. According to NJ.com, Tacuma Ashman was one of the suspects involved in robbing Safaree, scanning the entertainer’s social media page in order to discover […]
The four Black men who were wrongfully charged with raping a 17-year-old white girl in 1949 have been exonerated in the state of Florida 72 years later. The group has been dubbed the “Groveland Four.” According to CNN, Circuit Court Judge Heidi Davis in Lake County, Florida, posthumously dismissed the indictments of Ernest Thomas and Samuel Shepherd […]
A missing 5-year-old, whose remains were discovered in the woods of Massachusetts, died of homicide caused by neglect, malnourishment, fentanyl poisoning and violence revealed by facial and scalp injuries, according to an autopsy report, NBC News reports. Elijah Lewis, the New Hampshire boy whose 35-year-old mother Danielle Denise Dauphinais allegedly told a friend she wanted him […]
Police last week seized roughly 500,000 pounds of marijuana during a single drug bust in southern Oregon’s Jackson County, CNN reports. The Oregon State Police Southwest Region (OSP) Drug Enforcement Section team announced in a news release Saturday that a search warrant at five industrial-sized warehouses in White City, OR turned up 250 tons of illegal marijuana with an estimated […]
An “accidental discharge” of a firearm in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Saturday prompted widespread panic as travelers feared an active shooter situation. Airport officials confirmed on Twitter Saturday afternoon that there was not an active shooter, despite first-hand accounts on social media that travelers were evacuating parts of the airport. “There was an accidental discharge […]
