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It’s been almost a month since two people were abducted from their California home, and one of them was burned, doused with bleach and had his penis partially severed. Investigators are still looking for clues.
An unidentified 29-year-old man and 53-year-old woman were kidnapped from separate rooms in their Southern California home on Oct. 1, tied up and driven to the Mojave Desert where they were left to die, according to the Los Angeles Times. Kyle Shirakawa Handley, 33, was arrested in connection to the crime on Oct. 6, but two remaining suspects are at large.
The motive? Unclear. Perhaps medical marijuana or money. Handley has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated mayhem, felony torture, felony burglary and two felony counts of kidnapping for ransom. Cutting it off? A pretty stiff punishment for not giving up some weed and cash.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/kyle-handley-arrested-severed-penis-kidnapping_n_2012212.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News
A NewYork teenager has been charged with assault following an unusual attack involving homemade pepper spray.
‘The “Pepper Spray Princess,” as dubbed by the NYPD, allegedly fired her homemade concoction at the bus stop last week. Police said 16-year-old Princess Hall threw a spray bottle with pepper spray in it at a female classmate’s eyes.
According to the police report, Hall said, “I mixed it up at home. I put in jalapeno peppers and some other peppers in water. I wore gloves so I wouldn’t get it on my hands. I took it and threw it in her face.”
Cold-hearted indeed. At least she used protection on herself…
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/12/nypd-teen-attacks-another-teen-with-homemade-jalapeno-pepper-spray/
This was no ordinary peeved waiter. Last week, an employee at a Chicago Chuck E. Cheese stands accused of allegedly stabbing a difficult diner’s companion with a box cutter.
The Sept. 30 incident at the Southwest Side restaurant arcade reportedly began with a confrontation over a salad plate. According to CBS, police said 19-year-old employee Shardonnae Pruitt took a 40-year-old man’s plate away, and he responded by throwing his utensils on the floor and insisting on seeing a manager to make a formal complaint.
After her manager left, Pruitt allegedly threatened the offended diner and stabbed the 25-year-old woman with him, according to the Chicago Tribune. The woman was taken to a hospital and released.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/shardonnae-pruitt-chuck-e-cheese-stabbing_n_1954501.html?utm_hp_ref=chicago
Weird things happen in Orlando. This male (he’s NOT a man, a man wouldn’t do this) was arrested on allegations of beating his live-in girlfriend with her own dog. Michael Wayne Jones, 42, was arrested Thursday on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, criminal mischief and animal cruelty.
Jones and his girl got into a fight. Things escalated, then he allegedly grabbed her dog and started swinging the animal in the air. Jones then beat his girlfriend with the dog.
Police said Jones also started choking his girlfriend before fleeing on a bike while carrying the dog. He was later located and arrested.
Nobody was seriously injured, dog or girlfriend. Jones earned a stay in the Seminole County Jail.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Police-Man-used-dog-to-beat-girlfriend/-/1637132/16643580/-/12tibgn/-/index.html
Drugs can make people do bad things. Like getting your EYEBALL tattooed black. Covering half of your face with skulls and skeletons. And rimming your lips with skeletal teeth and an eyeball in the middle of your forehead. People often make poor judgments while high, like shooting at an officer of the law investigating a stolen car.
Jason Barnum, 37, was arraigned on one count of attempted murder in the first degree and two counts of assault in the third degree in Anchorage, Alaska. His bail was set at $500,000 cash.
At the arraignment Friday afternoon Barnum appeared fidgety, swaying from side to side, at times hitting his face on the microphone. When asked basic information from the judge like if his name was spelled correctly, Barnum replied “sure” and “sounds good.”
Police don’t know why Barnum shot at officers. In charging documents, Barnum admitted to being a heroin addict. Lt. Anthony Henry said that based on his behavior, they have reason to suspect he was high during the shooting.
This individual does not appear to have a happy bone in his body. Or even outside of his body, for that matter.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/suspect-anchorage-police-shooting-charged-attempted-murder?page=0,0
What’s creepier, clowns or carnies? What about creepy carnies accused of sexual assault in the the fun house?
A carnival worker is being held on $200,000 bond by the Cook County Sheriff’s Department and is accused of the sexual assault of a 3-year-old child in a fun house at last weekend’s Schaumburg Septemberfest, police said Friday.
Adam J. Moyers of Franklin Park was arrested Thursday night and charged with two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault, class X felonies, law enforcement officials said.
According to police officials, on Sept. 2, the child and an older sibling entered the fun house. The older sibling went down a slide but the younger child was scared to follow. The older sibling notified their father who attempted to enter the fun house to help his younger child.
Moyers, who worked with the Fantasy Amusement Company in Arlington Heights for the last two years and was monitoring the fun house, stopped the father from entering, police said. He also had all other patrons remain outside as he entered the fun house to tend to the child, according to authorities.
Based on an “extensive investigation” authorities said that Moyers committed the act while alone in the fun house with the child, according to police.
The next day the child told the parents of inappropriate physical contact with Moyers. The parents reported the incident to the Schaumburg Police Department and an investigation was initiated. Moyers was arrested Thursday night and identified by the family, authorities said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/schaumburg/chi-carnival-worker-accused-of-sexual-assault-in-fun-house-20120907,0,5900881.story
Can the severely mentally ill be considered “jerks”? Oh yeah, definitely. SOMEONE here is a jerk for letting this happen.
A Thai mother has been accused of killing, cooking and eating her sons because she thought they were pigs, the Bangkok Post reports. Hallucinations may have played a role in the tragic crime.
Police received a complaint last week that the woman allegedly “butchered” her two sons, ages 1 and 5, and proceeded to cook and eat them. According to the Bangkok Post, law enforcement officials allegedly found the woman asleep with several body parts strewn around her. Later, they reportedly learned she had been treated for mental illness since 2007.
A previous report from the Bangkok Post said that the woman stopped taking her medicine one or two months ago. A hospital report said the woman suffered from hallucinations and thought someone was coming to hurt her. She is now in a mental institution for treatment and is mentally unfit to stand trial for the murder of her children.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/thai-mother-kills-cooks-eats-sons_n_1818204.html?ir=World
A Chicago man pretended to work at a North Side street festival Saturday so he could stuff hundreds of dollars in admission donations into his pocket, authorities said.
Christopher Urban, 39, was arrested and charged with theft about 5 p.m. Saturday at the Northside Summerfest on Lincoln Avenue at Irving Park Road in the North Center neighborhood, police said.
How did he do it? By posing as an employee of the event company running the fest. Urban offered to relieve workers for a break, then was caught removing money from the donation box. About $658 worth of donations.
He tried to walk off with the cash, but a security guard, an off duty police officer, nabbed him before he could get away.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-authorities-man-posing-as-worker-accused-of-stealing-fest-donations-20120819,0,1130378.story
Convicted mentally ill felons are sleeping among our beloved grandparents in Illinois nursing homes. They are also doing more than sleep. For example, a frail man blind in one eye was slashed in the throat by a gang member, police say. About a year earlier, the same assailant allegedly had stabbed him in the face with an ice pick.
More than any other state, Illinois relies heavily on nursing homes to house mentally ill patients, including those who have committed crimes. But a Tribune investigation found that government, law enforcement and the industry have failed to adequately manage the resulting influx of younger residents who shuttle into nursing facilities from jail cells, shelters and psychiatric wards.
Mentally ill patients now constitute more than 15 percent of the state’s total nursing home population of 92,225, government records show, and the number of residents convicted of serious felonies has increased to 3,000. Among them are 82 convicted murderers, 179 sex offenders and 185 armed robbers.
The state’s background checks on new residents are riddled with errors and omissions that understate their criminal records, the Tribune found, and homes with the most felons are among those with the lowest nursing staff levels.
But even Illinois’ largest nursing home owners’ association, the Health Care Council of Illinois, told the Tribune it was concerned about the practice of mingling mentally ill criminals with traditional, geriatric residents. The council advocates creating separate, specialized facilities that would provide mental health treatment to high-risk patients with felony convictions. State public health officials also said they would support a separate licensing and regulatory process for nursing facilities that serve psychiatric patients.
So who is the “responsible” jerk here? It must be “them”.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-nursinghome1-ledeallsep29,0,357882.story
Eva Cameron knows people don’t understand. But the Algonquin mother of three says she could no longer cope with her 19-year-old daughter’s disabilities, escalating behavioral problems or medical bills.
So after a conflict with a social worker, Cameron packed her eldest into her car last month and drove to rural Caryville, Tenn. There, she watched as her daughter entered the Big Orange Bar to use the restroom. And then Cameron turned around and drove home, saying, “I handed the wheel to Jesus.”
As Tennessee officials investigate possible criminal charges against Cameron, she said she doesn’t want to bring her daughter back to Illinois. She doesn’t believe the state will provide adequate medical services or housing for the young woman, who functions at the intellectual level of a 3-year-old, Cameron said.
The daughter “is safe and being cared for,” said Melissa Marshall, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. “We are gathering the necessary information to put in a request for a crisis placement.”
Tennessee officials at first said they would not charge Cameron because her daughter is legally an adult. But authorities reversed course within days of learning the circumstances of the case, which began June 28 when the 19-year-old with a limited vocabulary was discovered without ID or money.
Because the young woman couldn’t say who she was, authorities released a photo seeking the public’s help in identifying her. A Chicago-area woman recognized the photo, providing the tip that led police to Cameron. The mom returned to Tennessee on July 10 and signed a statement saying that she didn’t want to bring her daughter back to Illinois.
Cameron had met with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which provided supportive services to this family, trying to help the mother understand the proper way to provide guardianship to a disabled individual.
Cameron, apparently unhappy with the social worker’s advice, said she recalled that a member of her church suggested that Tennessee offers better services to people with disabilities. She said she planned to take her daughter to a church in that state but didn’t make it to her final destination.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/algonquin/ct-met-tennessee-abandoned-daughter-20120723,0,6533718.story
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