(Natural News) More bad news has come out of communist China as a factory worker making sanitary face masks for people in other countries to protect against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was recently caught intentionally contaminating them while laughing about it on camera. Footage of the disturbing incident that’s quickly going viral depicts the Chinese man wearing a face mask of his own while rubbing his […]
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A QAnon conspiracy theorist, fascinated with the crackpot legal theories of the anti-government “sovereign citizen” movement, allegedly kidnapped her two daughters last week. It is just the latest example of the growing and increasingly dangerous overlap between right-wing conspiracy theories and real-life violent crime. QAnon believers have been charged in the past with two murders, a terrorist incident near the Hoover Dam, and an incidence of […]
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tapped crypto to conceal transactions related to illicit drug-running, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in an indictment Thursday. The sweeping charges against Maduro and 14 other Venezuelan officials are primarily targeted at stopping an alleged multibillion-dollar cocaine trafficking ring the DOJ claimed wreaked havoc on American communities for over 20 years. It allegedly involved drug runners, Colombian revolutionaries and narco-terrorism. Venezuela’s […]
Cryptocurrency accepted by the alleged ringleader of a Telegram chat group in exchange for abusive sexual material may never be retrieved. Cho Ju-bin, 25, is said to have charged users anywhere between 200,000 to 1.5 million Korean won (around $160 to $1,200) to access images and videos of women, many younger than 16, who were forced to perform sex acts on themselves. An investigation from CoinDesk […]
Is one of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged accomplices suing his estate for damages? Earlier this month, Epstein’s accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell filed a lawsuit against his $600-million estate, saying she was receiving death threats and that the financier promised to always provide her with monetary support. Now a mystery woman who spent time in Epstein’s orbit is also pursuing a case against the estate, saying her reputation […]
Law&Crime, Mediaite’s sister network, has secured a major cable carriage deal with Verizon’s Fios and Cincinnati Bell, expanding the network to millions of households. The network went live on Cincinnati Bell, which is on Channel 676, Wednesday, while the launch on Verizon will be in the next couple of weeks. The Hollywood Reporter scooped Wednesday that Law & Crime, founded by Mediaite’s Dan Abrams, “secured its […]
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. […]
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 […]
On Friday night, Trevor Noah broadcast the third episode of The Daily Show—now known as The Daily Social Distancing Show—under self-quarantine from his living room couch. “It’s now Day 8 of being locked in the house, aka ‘social distancing,’” offered Noah. “On today’s episode, we’re gonna catch up on the latest news.” One of the biggest stories of alleged corruption that’s emerged during the novel coronavirus […]
An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday in connection to the murder of Britney Ujlakey, a 16-year-old girl in rural Nevada who vanished after getting a ride from the suspect, who was one of her friends from the rodeo. Bryce Dickey, of Spring Creek, was cuffed on one count of open murder. He was scheduled to appear before a judge on Friday afternoon. The Elko County Sheriff’s […]
Few high-profile industries have been beset by as many stunning tragedies as professional wrestling, and in its first season, VICE’s Dark Side of the Ring explored a collection of squared-circle horror stories that illustrated how a wild environment of substance abuse, rampant egos, incessant travel and outsized personas and lifestyles often led to catastrophe. It was a docuseries of superheroic characters and destructive impulses, and in […]
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 […]
The virus crisis in America is leading towards the unraveling of the social fabric. A string of robberies has been reported across the East Coast with suspects wearing medical masks. The Hill reports that the robberies appear unrelated, but as we’ve noted before, organized crime gangs could be on the prowl. Medical masks are perfect covers to shield one’s identity. That’s what happened late last month when two men robbed a bank […]
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 […]
Britney Ujlaky picked flowers for friends if they’d had a bad day. She loved listening to any music she could dance to, and dreamed of becoming a makeup artist. In her rural Nevada community, the 16-year-old volunteered at the 2U Ranch, riding and grooming horses, and helping with cattle drives. “She had the personality you can’t really forget—she was so goofy and fun,” said one close […]
Cops in Philadelphia have stopped making arrests for an array of crimes – including drugs, theft and sex work – adopting a catch-and-release policy for the span of the Covid-19 crisis, in what some saw as a step toward anarchy. The city’s (perhaps aptly named) Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw ordered the dramatic policy change on Tuesday, detailed in a memo leaked to local media outlets. Starting […]
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 […]
The COVID-19 Coronavirus is new, but the law books of the federal government and of all fifty states have for decades contained sections on quarantine and isolation. The new virus may prove to be an interesting test of these laws, some of which have not been updated in 80 years or more, a Law&Crime analysis shows. Our review has examined the statutes of most of the […]
The documentary Finding Yingying follows the harrowing journey of an ordinary Chinese family who dared to do what many ordinary families do: take on a significant financial burden to give their child a chance at a better future. The Zhang family were supportive when their ambitious yet gregarious daughter, Yingying Zhang, decided to pursue a PhD in ecology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Still, […]
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; […]
Working at internet giant Baidu provided too much temptation for one employee, who got in legal hot water for harnessing the firm’s massive trove of servers to mine cryptocurrency. According to a report from China-focused news site Abacus on Monday, An Bang – a senior engineer working on Baidu’s popular search engine – downloaded monero mining scripts onto around 200 Baidu servers between April and June […]
A woman from New York State committed various financial frauds in order to fund terrorist organisation ISIS, according the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ). Zoobia Shahnaz has now been sentenced to 13 years in prison by Judge Joanna Seybert at the District Court in Islip, Long Island, for providing material support worth over $150,000 to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to travel to join ISIS, […]
Promising with its title the three things true-crime junkies most crave, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is perhaps the wildest series to ever premiere on Netflix—a statement that will only sound hyperbolic to those who haven’t yet checked out Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin’s seven-part tale of feral animal insanity, and the murder-for-hire plot it eventually begat. Blessed with a cornucopia of jaw-dropping characters, details […]
Several Utah police departments have pleaded with criminals to stop their “nefarious” behavior in light of increasing amounts of coronavirus cases in the US. Is this all one big joke? It’s difficult to tell how seriously the US government is taking the coronavirus when politicians are urging people to quarantine themselves indoors, but state officials are using the virus as a punchline. The Salt Lake City […]