The Department of Justice on Thursday unveiled narco-terrorism charges against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior government officials, alleging they participated in the country’s illegal drug trafficking system and collaborated with a leftist Colombian guerrilla group to export cocaine to the United States. The president, along with five other Venezuelan officials, were all slapped with narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and weapons charges by the Southern District […]
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A month after her 17th birthday, Paige Johnson needed to let off some steam. The Kentucky teenager’s life had changed drastically over the last two years: She’d dropped out of Simon Kenton High School to care for her baby, Makenzie, and was still adjusting to life as a mother. And so, she accepted an offer to hang out with friends one Wednesday night in September 2010. […]
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the coronavirus while in prison for rape and sexual assault, a local newspaper reported. Weinstein, 68, is now in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility in western New York, state prison officials told CNHI newspapers on Sunday. He was sentenced earlier this month to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haleyi […]
In Kenton County, a mid-sized Kentucky jurisdiction just across the river from Cincinnati, fears of the novel coronavirus have shown signs of paralyzing law enforcement. “Normally have anywhere from six to 20 felony arrests a day,” Rob Sanders, the top prosecutor in the county, told The Daily Beast on Friday. “Yesterday we had two: one for a warrant that was issued months ago and another for […]
As the number of coronavirus cases continues to soar across the United States, state officials are racing to curtail the pandemic by taking extraordinary measures—including forcing millions of Americans to remain in their homes in the name of social distancing. Over the last week, restaurants, bars, and schools across the United States were shuttered, but several states have ordered lockdowns for their residents—similar to those in […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a state-wide “stay at home” executive order for all residents on Thursday, the strictest measure yet to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus in the nation’s largest city. “This is not life as usual,” he said. “Remain indoors, go outside for solitary exercise. Don’t go to a house with multiple people. Don’t go to your daughter’s house. That is […]
For 35 years, the family of Tonya Ethridge McKinley anxiously waited for authorities to track down the man who murdered the gregarious 23-year-old, dumping her body on the side of a Florida highway. On Wednesday evening, that day finally arrived with the arrest of Daniel Leonard Wells, 57, who was tied to the young woman’s 1985 slaying thanks to DNA recovered from the butt of his […]
Linda Fairstein, the prosecutor of the now-exonerated Central Park Five, sued Netflix and the director of the series When They See Us on Wednesday, claiming the show contained defamatory scenes that portrayed her as a “racist, unethical villain.” Fairstein, a 72-year-old former New York prosecutor, alleged in the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida that the four-part series about […]
After four years and “hundreds of hours” spent searching for missing 9-year-old Diana Alvarez, Florida authorities announced this week that they have found the little girl’s remains—and her accused killer may now face the death penalty. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office told The Daily Beast a team of surveyors working in a wooded area in Osceola County found Alvarez’s body on Thursday, about 140 miles from […]
A North Carolina man killed six of his family members over the weekend before turning the gun on himself, authorities said Monday. The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office said Larry Don Ray, 66, fatally shot six relatives at multiple homes on the same property Sunday afternoon in Moncure. The six family members who died have been identified as Jeanie Ray, 67; Helen Mason, 93; Ellis Mansfield, 73; […]
Moments after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic, he violated one major rule his public health officials have advised against—by shaking several people’s hands. Trump, who spent the weekend with at least one person who has since tested positive for the novel coronavirus, also manhandled the microphone as he explained the need to declare a national emergency to allow […]
Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was allegedly involved in a suspected crystal meth overdose incident at a Miami Beach hotel room early Friday morning, according to a police report obtained by several local news outlets. Two officers responded to reports of cardiac distress Friday morning at the Mondrian South Beach hotel, where they found a man being treated for a possible overdose. Gillum was also […]
A Massachusetts professor accused of raping a female student he met on a “sugar daddy” website in October is now facing additional charges after two new women came forward with similar allegations—including one student who said he tried to make her his “personal prostitute,” according to authorities and court documents. Nicholas Pirelli, a 36-year-old temporary communications professor at Bridgewater State University, was charged Tuesday with trafficking […]
The two women whom Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sexually assaulting made emotional statements at his sentencing Wednesday, urging a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to give the disgraced movie mogul the maximum sentence. “He violated my trust, my body, and my basic right to reject my sexual advances. When he attacked me that evening, it scarred me emotionally and physically. It diminished my confidence and faith […]
Two years after dozens of women bravely stepped forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, the disgraced movie mogul has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. Weinstein, 67, was convicted last month of sexually assaulting former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haleyi and raping former actress Jessica Mann. The Oscar-winner, however, was cleared of two counts of predatory sexual […]
The trainer of Maximum Security, one of the fastest racehorses in the world, is among more than two dozen individuals charged in a “widespread corrupt scheme” to dope horses and cheat the $100 billion global industry, prosecutors said on Monday. Jason Servis and 26 other trainers, veterinarians, and drug distributors were charged in four indictments unsealed Monday in New York. They are accused of several crimes, […]
A Massachusetts professor has been put on leave after allegedly raping a female student he met on a “sugar daddy” website inside his office in October, authorities said this week. Nicholas Pirelli, a 36-year-old communications professor at Bridgewater State University, was charged Wednesday with rape and indecent assault and battery in connection with the alleged assault on Oct. 20, 2019, campus police told The Daily Beast. […]
Days before Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing for the rape and sexual assault of two women, Manhattan prosecutors urged a judge to give the disgraced producer a substantial amount of time behind bars so he can reflect on the lives he’s destroyed over the last four decades. “Starting in the 1970s, he has trapped women into his exclusive control and assaulted or attempted to assault them,” Assistant District […]
Lori Vallow, the doomsday-obsessed mother of two missing children, won a preliminary legal battle on Friday after a judge lowered her bail during her first court appearance in Idaho. Vallow, 46, faces several charges, including desertion and nonsupport of children, in relation to her missing children—17-year-old Tylee Ryan Vallow and 7-year-old Joshua “J.J.” Vallow—who have not been seen since September, according to a criminal complaint filed […]
A NASA employee was charged Wednesday with murdering his neighbor, a Maryland National Guardsman, with whom he’d fought for years over loud music, dog poop, and guests, according to police and family members. Michael Hetle, 52, faces several charges, including second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, in the slaying of his 24-year-old neighbor Javon Prather, Fairfax County police […]
An Arizona couple has been charged with murder and child abuse after admitting to keeping their 6-year-old son and his brother inside a closet for a month as punishment for “stealing food,” authorities said. Anthony Jose Archibeque-Martinez, 23, and Elizabeth Archibeque-Martinez, 26, have been charged with first-degree felony homicide and two counts each of child abuse after authorities found the 6-year-old dead in their home Monday, […]
Two New Jersey teenagers have been charged after a failed attempt at the viral “skull breaker” challenge resulted in the hospitalization of a seventh-grader with a serious head injury and seizure, prosecutors and family members said. The two students, who have not been identified because of their age, were both charged with third-degree aggravated assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child after the January […]
In the end, Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial can be boiled down to the numbers. Six women testified over four weeks in front of about 70 reporters and 30 public citizens. The now-disgraced movie mogul ate at least two fistfuls of candy in court each day. The jury, comprised of seven men and five women, took five days to deliberate on a verdict, sending 12 notes to […]
Authorities on Thursday identified the gunman and his five victims in the Wednesday shooting at Molson Coors’ headquarters in Milwaukee, with the city’s police chief calling it an “unspeakable tragedy.” Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales identified the shooter as Antony Ferrill, a 51-year-old electrician for the brewing company, but gave no details on his possible motive. “Right now there’s an investigation going on. I think it’s […]