Category: Crime and Incidents

‘Rust’ Film Set Weapons Supervisor Was Likely Hungover, Prosecutors Claim

June 16, 2023
'Rust' ShootingAlec BaldwinCrime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsNew MexicoRegional & State NewsState NewsUSUS News
0 Comment

Prosecutors say Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the weapons supervisor on the set of the film “Rust,” where a gun was discharged and killed a cinematographer, was likely hungover when she loaded a live bullet into the gun Alec Baldwin used. They accuse Gutierrez-Reed, 25, of drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana in the evenings during filming. Last month,…

Read More

Florida Man Executed for 1984 Killings of Teenage Babysitter, Mother of 2

June 16, 2023
Crime & Public SafetyCrime and Incidentsdeath penaltyDuane OewnFloridaRegional & State NewsState NewsUS
0 Comment

STARKE, Fla.—A Florida man was executed Thursday for killing a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two in separate attacks months apart in 1984 while children were sleeping in the homes he targeted. Duane Owen was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis’…

Read More

Pool Deck at Collapsed Florida Condo Building Failed to Comply With Codes, Standards, Officials Say

June 16, 2023
collapsedCondoCrime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsFloridaRegional & State NewsState NewsUSUS News
0 Comment

MIAMI—The swimming pool deck of a beachfront South Florida condominium that collapsed two years ago, killing 98 people, failed to comply with the original building codes and standards, with many areas of severe strength deficiency, federal investigators said Thursday. Investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology gave an update on the collapse of…

Read More

Pittsburgh Synagogue Attacker Found Guilty of Hate Crimes

June 16, 2023
Crime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsgenocidegunmanJewsnaziPennsylvaniaPittsburghRegional & State NewsRobert BowersState NewssynagogueUSUS News
0 Comment

A jury on Friday found Robert Bowers guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes for the killing of 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Bowers, 50, now faces the penalty phase of his trial at the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh in which the…

Read More

Heather Mack, Convicted in Bali of Killing Mom and Stuffing Body in Suitcase, Pleads Guilty in US

June 16, 2023
Asia & PacificCrime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsHeather MackIllinoisIndonesiamurderRegional & State NewsState NewssuitcaseUSUS NewsWorld
0 Comment

CHICAGO—The American woman accused of helping to kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation to Bali nine years ago changed her plea to guilty in Chicago federal court on Friday. Heather Mack, 27, was convicted in Indonesia in 2015 of being an accessory to Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s murder…

Read More

Conor McGregor Is Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Woman at an NBA Finals Game in Miami

June 16, 2023
allegationCrime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsfinalsFloridaMcGregorMiamiNBAOther USRegional & State NewsSportsSports NewsState NewsUSUS News
0 Comment

MIAMI—The NBA and the Miami Heat are investigating an allegation that former UFC champion Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman inside an arena bathroom after Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The woman’s attorney, Ariel Mitchell, said her client has provided Miami police with the clothing she was wearing that night and that a report…

Read More

Man Allegedly Kills 3 Children and Wounds Woman in Shooting at Ohio Home, Report Says

June 16, 2023
childrenCrime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsOhioRegional & State NewsshootingState NewsUSUS News
0 Comment

MONROE TOWNSHIP, Ohio—A man allegedly shot and killed three children and wounded a woman at an Ohio home Thursday afternoon, according to a news station. Police responded to the home in Monroe Township shortly before 4:30 p.m., WKRC-TV reported. Officers found three boys, ages 3, 4, and 7, outside the home with gunshot wounds and…

Read More

A Vermont Man Charged With Killing His Mother at Sea Over His Inheritance Dies Awaiting Trial

June 15, 2023
Crime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsmurderNathan CarmanNew EnglandRegional & State NewsState NewsUSUS NewsVermont
0 Comment

The Vermont man charged with killing his mother off the coast of New England in a scheme to inherit millions of dollars has died awaiting trial, federal authorities said Thursday. Nathan Carman, 29, pleaded not guilty last year to fraud and first-degree murder in the death of his mother, Linda Carman, and was scheduled to…

Read More

Vermont Man Charged With Killing His Mother at Sea Over His Inheritance Dies Awaiting Trial

June 15, 2023
Crime & Public SafetyCrime and IncidentsmurderNathan CarmanNew EnglandRegional & State NewsState NewsUSUS NewsVermont
0 Comment

The Vermont man charged with killing his mother off the coast of New England in a scheme to inherit millions of dollars has died in jail while awaiting trial, federal authorities said Thursday. Nathan Carman, 29, pleaded not guilty last year to fraud and first-degree murder in the death of his mother, Linda Carman, and…

Read More

Bankman-Fried to Get 2nd Trial on Bank Fraud, Bribery Counts

June 15, 2023
Business & MarketsCrime and IncidentscryptocurrencyFTXMarketsNew YorkRegional & State NewsSam Bankman-FriedState NewsUSUS News
0 Comment

NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a request from prosecutors to try some of their charges against Sam Bankman-Fried in a second trial next year separate from his scheduled Oct. 2 trial over the collapse of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried, 31, will be tried on March 11, 2024, on five counts, including bank…

Read More