Tag: Crime and Incidents

7 Bodies Found During Search for Missing Oklahoma Teens

A woman said Tuesday that her daughter and three grandchildren were among the seven people found dead at a rural Oklahoma property during a search for two missing teens and a convicted sex offender. Janette Mayo, 59, of Westville, Oklahoma, said the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office notified her late Monday that the other four victims…


LIVE 10:41 AM ET: Garland, FBI Announce on Fentanyl, Opiod Operation

Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 2 to announce the results of the largest international law enforcement operation targeting fentanyl and opioid traffickers on the Darknet. DEA Deputy Administrator Louis J. Milione, IRS-CI Chief Jim Lee, Chief Postal Inspector Gary R….


Garland, FBI Announce on Fentanyl, Opiod Operation

Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 2 to announce the results of the largest international law enforcement operation targeting fentanyl and opioid traffickers on the Darknet. DEA Deputy Administrator Louis J. Milione, IRS-CI Chief Jim Lee, Chief Postal Inspector Gary R….


Garland, FBI Announce on Fentanyl, Opioid Operation

Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 2 to announce the results of the largest international law enforcement operation targeting fentanyl and opioid traffickers on the Darknet. DEA Deputy Administrator Louis J. Milione, IRS-CI Chief Jim Lee, Chief Postal Inspector Gary R….


Florida Man Guilty in 2017 Serial Killings of 4 People

A Florida man pleaded guilty Monday to randomly shooting four people in a 2017 killing rampage. Howell Donaldson III entered the guilty pleas to four counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without parole, according to court records. The surprise plea deal means that Donaldson will avoid the death penalty,…


Operator in Limo Crash That Killed 20 Goes on Trial in NY

SCHOHARIE, N.Y.—Nearly five years after a stretch limousine packed with birthday revelers careened down a hill and off a road in rural upstate New York, killing 20 people, the operator of the company that rented out the vehicle is going on trial. Nauman Hussain, who ran Prestige Limousine, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and…


9 Injured by Gunfire at South Carolina Party Now Recovering

COLUMBIA, S.C.—Masked gunmen fired without warning into a crowd at a late night teen party at a South Carolina park over the weekend, wounding nine people, a sheriff said. All nine hit by gunfire are expected to live, as well as a woman who was injured when she was run over by a fleeing car…


NYPD Officer Dies 33 Years After He Was Shot in a Robbery

NEW YORK—A New York City police officer who spent more than three decades in a vegetative state after being shot in the head during a botched robbery has died, officials said. Detective Troy Patterson, who was off duty when he was shot on Jan. 16, 1990, died Saturday, Detectives Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo said…


Bride Dies at Beach When Speeding DUI Driver Slams Golf Cart

FOLLY BEACH, S.C.—A bride leaving her wedding reception was killed when a woman driving under the influence and well over twice the speed limit slammed into the back of a golf cart on a South Carolina beach road, authorities said. Data retrieved from Jamie Lee Komoroski’s rental car indicated she was driving 65 mph (105…


Ex-Massachusetts Deputy Chief Indicted on Child Rape Charge

A former Massachusetts deputy police chief is being charged with the rape of a child that occurred when he was a school resource officer nearly 20 years ago, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office announced Monday. Former Hopkinton Deputy Chief of Police, John “Jay” Porter, 54, has been indicted by a grand jury on three…