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A former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted U.S. Capitol rioters got better bail than some of the accused in the January 6 case after he allegedly stabbed a driver in a fit of road rage on Tuesday. Meanwhile, former assistant U.S. attorney Patrick Scruggs—who prosecuted some of those accused of storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021—has been charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault and armed burglary. Scruggs, who spent 10 years with the U.S. Attorney's Office, posted $65,000 bail the same day he was arrested in Tampa, Florida. Scruggs was released from the Pinellas County Jail on Tuesday...

NAPLES - A southwest Florida man is accused of attacking a nurse and stripping off his clothes before flooding a hospital's emergency rooms. Louis Sepesi, 53, became agitated while in a waiting room at the North Collier Hospital in Naples, Florida, on Saturday, according to the Collier County Sheriff's Office. He barged into the emergency room, pushed a patient and then pushed a nurse in the head. After the hospital staff got him into a room in an effort to keep him from disturbing other patients, he took off his clothes and pulled a high-pressure water pipe from the wall,...

A man in South Florida was arrested after he was accused of attacking a woman who did not provide him with a crack pipe. The man, who is identified to be Roberto Hercules, was arrested in Hialeah on Friday and is now facing three felony charges. According to a report by Local10, the accused man was ‘completely naked’ wearing only a cowboy hat when he attacked the woman at Northwest 72th Street and South River Drive in Medley. The Miami-Dade police reportedly claimed that the victim was riding her bicycle in the area when she came across Hercules. He asked...

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – An Orlando man fleeing Winter Garden police struck an officer with a car and bit another on the leg Tuesday evening after causing thousands of dollars in property damage at a convenience store, arrest affidavits show. Employees of the Mobil gas station at 12961 W. Colonial Drive asked authorities to trespass Malik Smith, 27, from the property after he jumped on the counter of 592 Smoke Shop, which is located in the store, where he destroyed display cases and pulled a light fixture out of the ceiling, an affidavit describes. Winter Garden police responded to the...

A Lyft driver is accused of hitting a woman with her car after the customer refused to give her a 5-star rating, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Lyft driver accused of hitting woman with car Deputies: Passenger wouldn't give driver a 5-star rating Ileanexie Hernandez charged with aggravated battery Just before midnight Wednesday, deputies responded to the 3700 block of South Rio Grande Avenue, an arrest affidavit says. The woman told deputies she and her daughter called a Lyft to take them to 7-Eleven on 39th Street and Orange Blossom Trail. The woman told deputies that the driver,...

A white Chicago officer was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in the 2014 shooting of a black teenager that was captured on shocking dashcam video that showed him crumpling to the ground in a hail of 16 bullets as he walked away from police. The video, some of the most graphic police footage to emerge in years, stoked outrage nationwide and put the nation’s third-largest city at the center of the debate about police misconduct and use of force. The shooting also led to a federal inquiry and calls to reform the Chicago Police Department. Jason Van Dyke, 40, was...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore will miss the rest of the season with a fractured neck after a hit by Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi, prompting a police investigation. Moore also sustained a concussion and deep facial cuts, the Avalanche said Tuesday. He will remain hospitalized in Vancouver indefinitely, Colorado trainer Pat Karns said. Bertuzzi has been suspended indefinitely pending a hearing at the NHL office in Toronto on Wednesday. Moore was slugged in the side of the head by Bertuzzi late in Monday night's game, a 9-2 Colorado victory. Bertuzzi struck him from behind and...

A man charged with attempted robbery went berserk in a Cook County court Monday, punching his lawyer and fighting with a bailiff and a prosecutor before the judge leaped over the bench and helped sheriff's deputies to subdue the man. Assistant Public Defender Richard Kruss, 37, was in serious condition at Mount Sinai Hospital Monday night with what some observers said may be a skull fracture. After defendant George Bonney punched him in the face, Kruss fell to the ground and reportedly began having seizures. A female sheriff's deputy was also sent to the hospital with a broken finger, said...