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On Friday, a jury found Alexis Avila, 19, of Hobbs guilty of abuse of a child relating in great bodily harm and attempted murder in the first degree. In January of 2022, Avila was caught on camera throwing her newborn, dubbed Baby Saul, in a dumpster outside the Rig Outfitters and Home Store in Hobbs. He was wrapped in a trash bag. Fortunately, three people dug through the dumpster to find him, and he was rushed to the hospital in Lubbock, Texas. Baby Saul is “happy and healthy today living with family,” according to reports. “Officers with the Hobbs Police...

With everyone distracted by China, skyrocketing crime and inflation, a nonexistent Southern border, and rapidly increasing authoritarianism in Washington, the Islamic State (ISIS) has taken the opportunity to strike again in North America. ... An attack on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C. over the weekend is being treated as terrorism after RCMP national security police took over the investigation.” It seems that the perpetrator, a manifestation of Canada’s deep commitment to diversity and multiculturalism named Abdul Aziz Kawam, was “initially charged with attempted murder for allegedly slashing a bus passenger’s throat on Saturday morning, but prosecutors added four counts...

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...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida man has been charged after a night of drinking with his buddy took a turn. According to the Pinellas Park Police Department, officers responded to a disturbance in the 10300 block of Oakhaven Drive around 7:46 p.m. on Wednesday. When police arrived on the scene, they determined that Van Vui Duong, 56, of Pinellas Park had invited his friend over to his place for some drinks. Authorities stated that while Duong and his friend were drinking alcoholic beverages, a verbal argument broke out that resulted in Duong stabbing his friend with a knife...

The motive was the value of the French bulldogs, a breed that can run into the thousands of dollars, and detectives do not believe the thieves knew the dogs belonged to the musician. Jackson and others drove around Hollywood, the city of West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley on Feb. 24, 2021 “looking for French bulldogs,” prosecutors said previously. They found Lady Gaga’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer, with the pop star’s three pets. Jackson also admitted the allegation of inflicting great bodily injury and to a prior strike, the DA’s office said Monday. He was sentenced to 21 years...

Payton Gendron pleaded guilty Monday to state charges stemming from the May shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo. Gendron pleaded guilty to 15 charges in all, including domestic terrorism motivated by hate, murder and attempted murder. He still faces more than two dozen federal charges, some of which carry the possibility of the death penalty. His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 15, 2023. Domestic terrorism motivated by hate carries a mandatory life sentence. He was charged with carrying out a "domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate" along with 10 counts of murder in the first degree, 10 counts...

Three teenagers were arrested after they sped off from a Buffalo Wild Wings with a staff member clinging onto the hood of their car in an attempt to stop them from dining-and-dashing. Kayla Sherman was working at the Willoughby BWW in Ohio on November 20 when the teenagers, one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds, ordered takeout and then ran before paying their $115 bill. Sherman saw her co-worker run after the teens and followed shortly behind. She went in front of the teen's car while her co-worker attempted to grab the license plate number. Suddenly, the 17-year-old put the car in...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man is accused of trying to kill a man after their “mutual slap box fight” got out of control over the weekend, NBC Miami reports. Pembroke Pines police said the men were “slap fighting””—where two people take turns slapping each other to see who falls down first—in the parking lot outside Rickey’s Sports Bar and Grill around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday. When the slapping became more violent, one man, identified as Eric Rodriguez, knocked the other to the ground, and started punching and kicking him until he was unconscious. Police said the victim was hospitalized...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A central Florida man took out his anger over nearby construction work by shooting into a vehicle over the weekend, earning him two attempted murder charges, according to authorities in Polk County. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, 75-year-old Richard Vitiritti shot into the occupied vehicle Saturday night in the Lake Hatchineha area, near Haines City. No one was hurt. In addition to two counts of attempted murder, Vitiritti also faces charges of shooting into an occupied vehicle and tampering with evidence.

A 43-year-old man accused of attacking Representative Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) with a sharp object at a campaign stop in upstate New York on Thursday evening was charged with a felony and released from custody just hours after his arrest, police said. Zeldin, who is New York’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, was giving a speech on bail reform at a stop on his “Unite to Fire Hochul” bus tour in Perinton when David G. Jakubonis allegedly charged at him and pulled out a sharp object.

PORTLAND, Ore. - An Indiana man who met with Governor Eric Holcomb about police reform is facing the most serious charges yet related to last summer’s violent protests in Portland. Malik Muhammad, 24, is charged with two counts of attempted aggravated murder and other crimes, according to court records. Records indicate Muhammad was booked into the Marion County Jail in Indianapolis on Friday, KGW reported. He is awaiting extradition to Oregon, where he will face felony charges. Several agencies, including the Portland Police Bureau, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police and the FBI were involved in the months-long investigation. According to a law...

Authorities in Massachusetts are investigating an incident where a car crashed through the front of a store selling pro-Trump merchandise, injuring one person. The Easton Police Department said Thursday the driver of a 2015 Volkswagen Jetta suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he drove into the New England for Trump store on Washington Street. A camera inside the store recorded the crash and police later uploaded the video to social media. The incident took place at approximately 5:10 p.m. An employee standing at the front door is just feet away from the area of the impact as the car smashes through the...

Police are investigating after a car with a bumper sticker critical of former President Donald Trump crashed through the front glass of a pro-Trump store, located in a prominent location beside Route 138. A video posted by the Easton Police Department on Facebook shows the black Volkswagen Jetta slamming through the glass and plowing through several racks of clothing inside the New England for Trump store. Police said they were dispatched to the incident at approximately 5:10 p.m.

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- The Escambia County Circle K where a clerk was set on fire by a woman on March 30 remains temporarily closed. The clerk, identified by family as Joie Hellmich, suffered severe life-threatening burns after being doused with gasoline and lit on fire. Betty McFadden, 30, was charged with attempted murder. Hellmich's friend Jodie Jones told Channel 3 on Wednesday that Hellmich is currently in critical but stable condition. She’ll likely have more surgeries in the future and will have a long road to recovery," Jones told Channel 3 in a statement. " She continues to fight...

Wantez Tulloss, 31, has been arrested 11 times going back to 2006 and was wanted by police in Washington for third degree theft. In 2020 mugshot - where he was arrested for domestic assault - Tulloss has a Gucci print tattooed on his face and neck, and a Louis Vuitton logo on his cheek. On Monday January 31, he was filmed taking a swing at Emma Shengnan Wang, who was named by prosecutors in court documents. He knocked Wang to the ground, hitting her on her skull and back, then fled, taking his bags with him. She lay helpless on...

HOBBS, N.M. - A newborn baby left in a bag in a southern New Mexico dumpster over the weekend was found alive. The teenage mother reportedly confessed. The baby is alive and stable Sunday night in a Lubbock Hospital. The 18-year-old mother, Alexis Avila of Hobbs, has been charged with attempted murder and felony child abuse. But who knows what would have happened to her - or the baby - if it weren't for three random people and a well-placed surveillance camera. "Something wasn't right, I saw the officers' faces, and they did not look right. They really didn't,” said...

The family of Ma'Khia Bryant, whom police fatally shot while responding to a 911 call, remembered the teen as a "beautiful" and "sweet" girl and questioned why a Columbus, Ohio, officer shot her.Don Bryant, a cousin of Ma'Khia's mother, said he was tuned into the Derek Chauvin trial when he learned that Ma'Khia, who was 16, had been killed. He immediately called her mother, Paula Bryant."It was chaotic. Nobody deserves that," he said Wednesday. "Who could expect something like this to happen in their family?"Paula Bryant said: "Ma'Khia was a sweet little girl. She didn't deserve what happened to her."

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A woman has been arrested after Daytona Beach police say she tried running over a group of people but instead hit a child. Terasha Frost, 21, was arrested this week. According to an arrest affidavit, Frost got into a fight after she and another woman were confronted by a group of people. Police say after the fight, Frost got in her car and attempted to run over the group she had been fighting with. That's when the child was struck, police said. Frost was arrested and charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly...

A Wisconsin man previously accused of firing a shot into the air moments before then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly gunned down three protesters in Kenosha, killing two of them over the summer, was slapped with a new felony arson charge Tuesday after prosecutors say he also lit a dumpster on fire during violent demonstrations earlier that night. Joshua Ziminski, 35, of Racine, was charged Tuesday with one count of arson, a felony, as well as two misdemeanor offenses of disorderly conduct with a dangerous weapon and obstructing an officer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Prosecutors charged a 36-year-old man Wednesday with a brazen ambush of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies earlier this month, an apparently unprovoked shooting as they sat in a squad car outside a rail station.