STRANGE CRIMES

ZEPHYRHILLS — An 80-year-old man is accused of slicing his neighbor with a machete after a conversation soured Sunday morning.

Alfred Houghton became enraged because his neighbor, Michael Shultz Sr., had "junk" in his yard and he worried that the neighbor's sickly trees would topple onto Houghton's fence, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. "I am going to kill you," Houghton said, according to a report. He kicked the 57-year-old Shultz in the leg, brandished a rusty machete and nicked the man twice on the wrist and elbow, the report says.

Houghton continued to make threats against his neighbor after his arrest and "even eluded to putting out a 'contract' on Michael's life," the report states.  More

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FRESNO, CA -- A California middle-school student in Armona has been charged in the stabbing of another student.

A 13-year-old girl from Armona, located in the South Valley, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

The Kings County District Attorney's Office says she also faces another charge for using a knife. Kings County Sheriff's deputies say the girl stabbed a 13-year-old boy after he stole a bag of chips from her lunch.

She claims she only meant to "poke" him and was joking around.  More

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PITTSBURGH — The father of an Armstrong County boy who was burned Wednesday night has been arrested for allegedly trying to steal from Mercy Hospital while visiting his son, police said.

Jim Skursky went to UPMC Mercy to see his son, 5, who had been burned while playing with a cigarette lighter at Skursky’s girlfriend’s house in Rayburn Township.

According to police, Skursky, who was not at the home when the accident happened, was in a family waiting room at the hospital when he broke into a metal cabinet and put several video game consoles and some controllers into a garbage bag.  More

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SALEM, Ore. – An Oregon hunter has been found not guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a Marine reservist from California he says he mistook for a bear.

The Salem jury deliberated for about two hours Friday before acquitting Eugene Collier, The Statesman Journal newspaper reported.

Collier, 68, was the last witness to take the stand. He told jurors he was shooting to kill when he fired the .270-caliber bullet that caused the death of Christopher Ochoa, 20, of French Camp, Calif., in October 2011 near Silver Falls State Park.  More

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Police have found a black Range Rover SUV in Las Vegas and identified a suspect in a shooting that sent a Maserati into a taxi that exploded, killing three people.

Police Capt. Chris Jones tells The Associated Press the vehicle was found Saturday afternoon at an apartment complex east of the Las Vegas Strip. It has been impounded as evidence.

Jones says police are looking for 26-year-old Ammar Harris in connection with the shooting early Thursday on the Strip. His arrest history in Las Vegas includes charges of kidnapping and pandering.

Maserati driver and aspiring rapper Kenny Cherry was killed by gunfire.  More

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ALBANY, Ore. – An Oregon mother and daughter who devised an elaborate scheme to scam Coca-Cola in a bottle cap promotion have been sentenced to probation and must pay back almost $50,000 to the corporation.

Carrie Jones, 55, and Sarah Jones, 31, were arrested after corporate investigators in 2011 tracked an unusually high number of winnings to a computer IP address in Albany.

During the promotion, which ran from May to August 2011, customers could text a code found underneath the cap of their Coca-Cola product to see if their code was a winner. Winners then emailed their winning code to Coca-Cola to receive a prize code, redeemable for things like concert tickets.

Prosecutor Coleen Cerda said the odds were against the city of Albany -- let alone one family -- getting so many prizes. Contest rules also specified that a person could win only twice and a household only five times during the four-month promotion.

To avoid the limit, it was alleged that the Joneses' manufactured email addresses using other people's identities. The prize codes were then grouped together and sold online on eBay.

The Joneses, the prosecutor added, never divulged where they got the winning prize codes.  More

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ROCKY MOUNT, Virginia – A Franklin County kindergarten teacher has been charged with trying to have her ex-husband killed and a school nurse is accused of helping her.

Virginia State Police arrested Angela Nolen (picture), 47, of Moneta and Cathy Warren Bennett, 37, of Rocky Mount on Wednesday.

Nolen is charged with solicit to commit murder and Bennett is charged with conspiracy. Both work at Sontag Elementary School.

Nolen is accused of paying $4,000 on Tuesday to an undercover state police agent who she believed was a hit man. She planned to pay another $4,000 after her ex-husband, 63-year-old Paul Strickler, was killed, state police Capt. George Austin told media outlets. Full Article

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LOS ANGELES – More tests are needed to determine whether the young Canadian tourist whose body was found wedged in a water tank on top of a Los Angeles hotel was killed or the victim of a bizarre accident, authorities said.

An autopsy performed Thursday didn't provide definitive answers into the case of Elisa Lam of Vancouver, British Columbia. Police have called her death suspicious.

Coroner's officials will await toxicology tests before making a final determination.

Guest complaints about low water pressure prompted a maintenance worker to make the gruesome discovery on Tuesday in a water cistern atop the Cecil Hotel.

Before she died, hotel surveillance footage showed Lam inside an elevator pushing buttons and sticking her head out the doors, looking in both directions.

Guests at the time described the water as having a terrible taste. Water tested from the hotel didn't contain any live bacteria that would cause illness. More

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Prosecutors reinstated attempted murder charges against a policeman leading the murder investigation into Olympian Oscar Pistorius, in the latest twist in a case that threatens to bring down an athlete who was once an icon in South Africa.

The announcement that detective Hilton Botha faces reinstated charges in connection with a 2011 shooting incident came a day after he testified for the prosecution in Pistorius' bail hearing, and by all accounts bungled his appearance. He acknowledged Wednesday that nothing in Pistorius' account of the fatal Valentine's Day shooting of his girlfriend contradicted what police had discovered.

The spokeswoman for the nation's prosecutors urged that Botha be removed from the Pistorius case.

Pistorius, an Olympian whose lower legs were amputated when he was less than a year old, claims he mistook girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot her in a locked bathroom in his home. More

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DARIEN, Conn. – A New York television news anchor has been accused of choking his wife at their Connecticut home and threatening her even after police arrested him.

Police say they received a call Sunday morning from WCBS-TV anchor Rob Morrison's mother-in-law about what was going on at the couple's home in Darien. They say Morrison had been belligerent toward CBS financial news anchor Ashley Morrison throughout the night and wrapped his hands around her neck.

The arresting officers say they heard him threaten to do her more harm while they were processing him. They say she didn't seek medical attention.

Rob Morrison has posted $100,000 bond and is due in court Tuesday. He faces charges including strangulation and disorderly conduct. More

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California police charged a man last week with raping a woman he met through a Christian dating site, and say he may have assaulted other women.

Officers arrested 37-year-old Sean Patrick Banks of Del Mar, Calif., on one count of burglary and two counts of sexual assault for raping the woman in her home in November, Fox5SanDiego.com reported. 

Banks allegedly used the online name “Rarity” to contact the victim on ChristianMingle.com last November. He is accused of raping her while visiting her at home.

It took police several months to find Banks because he did not reveal his real name to the woman, who is in her 20s. Police say Banks also used the names “Rylan Butterwood” and “Rylan Harbough” on the dating site, Police Lt. Matt Nicholass told Fox5SanDiego.  More

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Two men are accused of beating up a friend, robbing him at gunpoint and walking away with only a dollar found in the man's pocket.

Randy Chinonso Dike, 25, and Leonardo Taveras, 24, were arrested last Thursday for aggravated robbery after the incident on Feb. 10 at the 12700 block of Brant Rock, court records show.

A Houston man told investigators he received a call from Taveras, whom he knew by name, sight and voice, asking him to meet with him to help with his vehicle.

When he arrived, Taveras and Dike accused the man of burglarizing an apartment several months before, he told police. The man denied to investigators that he stole from Taveras' home.

Dike charged at the man and punched the man in the torso several times, court records show. Taveras then opened the trunk and took a shotgun out of his car parked at the scene and pointed it at the man, records show.  More

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Police in South Africa are reportedly investigating the discovery of a bloodied cricket bat at the home of Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius.

Local reports stated police believe he may have used the bat to attack girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp before shooting her dead on St Valentine's Day morning.

Detectives are working on two other theories concerning the bat: that it was either used to break down the door of the bathroom where she hid, or that she used it to defend herself against Mr Pistorius, South Africa's City Press reported.

One bullet cartridge was found in the champion sprinter's bedroom and police are looking at whether he "chased" his girlfriend and fired the first shot before she locked herself in the bathroom and he fired three more through the door, the paper said.

It cited three sources "close to the high-profile investigation" who said the police had a "rock solid" case against South Africa's former golden boy.  More

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CRESTVIEW - A man with "large bulges" in his clothing was arrested for shoplifting two bottles of wine from a convenience store.

According to a Crestview Police Department arrest report, the 37-year-old Crestview man entered the Pic-N-Save on James Lee Boulevard on Feb. 5 and headed for the alcohol section. As he left, a manager noticed "large bulges in his clothing" according to the report.

A review of store security video showed the man hiding two bottles of Arbor Mist wine, worth a total of $6.08, in his clothes and leaving the store.  More

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CINCINNATI, Ohio – A mother accused of helping her 15-year-old daughter beat another teenage girl at a Cincinnati high school last week is defending her actions and says that police and school officials have it all wrong.

Precious Allen, 31, told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the other teenage girl attacked her and her daughter last Thursday at Withrow High School, and that the teen was bigger and taller than both of them.

Allen, a mother of five, said she was talking to a teacher when the girl cursed at her and charged, and that she’s confident that school videos will prove her and her daughter’s innocence.

Police said that Allen burst into a classroom, held the other teen down and told her daughter to hit the girl in the face with a combination lock. The girl, who also was kicked and punched, suffered cuts and bruises, and police say that Allen’s daughter also gave a teacher a black eye.

Allen faces charges of felonious assault and trespassing. Full Article

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MILFORD Massachusetts - An alleged shoplifter was hit with a stun gun as he tried to escape from Target in Milford, according to police.

Milford Patch reports that man, identified as Michael Pete Harding, 50, of Grafton was trying to swipe a shopping cart full of items that included several cases of Red Bull, Tide detergent, and packages of Justin Bieber valentines.

Police believe he planned to resell the items.

While Harding was in the store, Target’s store security recognized him as having shoplifted from the store in the past, so they called police.

An officer was waiting for him as he tried to run out the doors.

Harding allegedly tried to punch the officer, and was hit with a stun gun in response. Full Article

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Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears in court today as he was formally charged with the murder of his model girlfriend.

The Paralympic superstar held his head in his hands as one count of murder was read out to him in Pretoria Magistrates' Court this morning.

He did not enter a plea to the charge that he killed FHM cover girl Reeva Steenkamp, 29, in the early hours of Valentine's Day, but his family and management company later said he disputed the allegation 'in the strongest terms'.

Prosecutors told the court they would argue it was pre-meditated murder, a more serious charge than murder which carries a mandatory life sentence.

Overcome with emotion, Pistorius was comforted by his father, brother and sister as gasps were heard throughout the packed courtroom.

The hearing came as a picture emerged of the weapon, believed to be a 9amm pistol, allegedly used in the killing. It was seen in a clear plastic bag being carried by a police officer.

According to media reports in South Africa this morning, security guards at the complex found Pistorius by Steenkamp's body in the bathroom after she had been shot four times through the door.  More

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Sugar Land may be one of the safest cities in America, but that doesn't mean the Texas town's police chief doesn't see his share of action.

Two teens allegedly burglarized a home that turned out to be Sugar Land Police Chief Doug Brinkley's house just days after the fair city was ranked among the country's safest.

"They just chose my house," Brinkley, 48, told The Huffington Post. "I wouldn't want to see them end in prison for the rest of their lives, but unfortunable that's where they're heading with behavior like this,"

Brinkley was a mere five blocks away when Conner Hinton, 17, and Taylor Nuttal, 17, had their unfortunate encounter with the chief's home alarm system. Authorities arrested Hinton and Nuttal, and the unlucky pair eventually confessed, Brinkley said.  More

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South African paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder and is in custody after reportedly shooting his girlfriend dead in the middle of the night after mistaking her for a burglar.

Gunfire was heard inside his Pretoria mansion at 4am this morning and it is believed his partner may have been killed after a Valentine's Day surprise went tragically wrong.

The dead woman is Reeva Steenkamp, 30, a former FHM model who had been dating the 26-year-old for two months.

She was shot in the head, the chest and the arm, police have said, and Pistorius will appear in court tomorrow after a hearing scheduled for this afternoon was cancelled.

Pretoria police spokeswoman Denise Beukes confirmed he had been charged with murder, adding they had been called to his home on several occasions since 2011 to deal with 'allegations of a domestic nature'.

Just yesterday Miss Steenkamp spoke excitedly on Twitter about her plans for Valentine's Day.

She said: 'What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited #ValentinesDay'

Replying to a follower, she later added: 'That sounds amazing! Wow that's what it's all about! It should be a day of love for everyone :) may it be blessed!'  More

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For the second time in less than a month, a West Palm Beach man has been arrested on the charge he performed illegal butt enhancements, according to authorities.

Calvin Edward Butler, also known as Tamieka Butler, was arrested Tuesday after a fourth alleged victim came forward claiming they received illegal injections into their buttocks, according to WPTV.

Jail records showed Butler was being held on $100,000 bond early Thursday on the charge of practicing without a license resulting in bodily injury. It was unknown whether he has an attorney.

Butler, 44, who lists a Pahokee address, was arrested back in January on charges of unlicensed practice of health care causing serious bodily harm after he injected silicone into at least two patients' buttocks at a motel room, according to a Palm Beach Sheriff's Office arrest report.

The first alleged victim, a woman, told detectives in December that she received injections from Butler at the El Patio Motel four times between September and October, the report said.  More

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