Crime & Courts

Day care workers charged for encouraging children to fight

It is being reported on September 1, 2015 that two workers of a child care center in N.J. encouraged the children to fight each other in a ‘fight club.’  The youngsters were between the ages of 4 and 6.  The caretakers also video recorded the fights and uploaded them to social media.

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Crime & Courts, Murder

Murder charges against Irish nanny, Aisling Brady McCarthy, dropped

It is being reported on August 31, 2015 that the murder charges against Irish nanny, Aisling Brady McCarthy,36, have been dropped by the prosecutor.  The reversal came about because the medical examiner changed the cause of death of the 1-year-old infant from homicide by “blunt force trauma to the head” to “undetermined.”

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Crime & Courts, Human trafficking

CA Man charged with human trafficking, transporting missing girls to NJ prostitution ring

Bogart Velasco
Bogart Velasco, 53. (Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office)

August 28, 2015- Two missing girls from California, aged 13 and 15, were brought to New Jersey to work as prostitutes by 53-year-old Bogart Velasco of Fresno, CA.  Velasco was part of a larger human trafficking organization in the area.

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Crime & Courts

Delaware teen charged with impersonating a police officer

Edward Steele Jr., 17.
Edward Steele Jr., 17. Delaware State Police

It is being reported on August 29, 2015 that a 17-year-old named Edward Steele Jr., was taken into custody for impersonating a police officer while attempting to pull over a 24-year-old female driver on Bayside Drive.

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Crime & Courts

Sketch released by Penn. police for man wanted for aggravated robbery, sexual assault

Suspect in robbery.

It is being reported on August 28, 2015 that the Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit have released the above sketch of a man who robbed and raped a group of people last Sunday.

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Crime & Courts, Cybercrime

Officials from Sweden and Ecuador will meet Monday to discuss Julian Assange rape charges

Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño met with Julian Assange in London.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño met with Julian Assange in London. Attribution: Xavier Granja Cedeño/Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores

It is being reported on August 28, 2015 that officials from Sweden and Ecuador will meet this Monday to discuss the rape charges against Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.   Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012 in an effort to avoid extradition.

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Crime & Courts

$20k reward for ‘obsessed’ young man believed to have stolen woman’s corpse

Julie Mott – Facebook

It is being reported on August 27, 2015 that police in San Antonio, Texas believe an “obsessed” young man kidnapped a 25-year-old woman’s body from a funeral home shortly before it was to be cremated.

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Crime & Courts, Murder, Murder of Reeva Steenkamp

Oscar Pistorius parole hearing on Sept 18

It is being reported on August 27, 2015 that the South African parole board which decides when Oscar Pistorius can be released, will meet to decide on September 18, 2015.

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Crime & Courts

VA Man gets 2 years for making fake IDs for illegal immigrants

August 26, 2015 –  A man in Virginia, Ho-Man Lee, 43, plead guilty to “conspiring to unlawfully produce identification documents . . .He was a broker for Young-Kyu Park, 59 . . who led a cross-country criminal enterprise, authorities said.”

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