Glendale police received a call at about 3:30 p.m. about a suspicious man allegedly trying to sniff people inside a grocery store. Around the same time, officers received a similar report of the same thing occurring at a local Marshalls.
According to reports, police reviewed surveillance footage from both businesses and identified the same man as the suspect. Officers later located him nearby and arrested him on suspicion of violating his parole.
A Florida woman is accused of attacking a teenager inside a Target store after allegedly becoming enraged because he was Jewish.
According to a criminal complaint, the incident happened in the store’s Starbucks seating area. The police said the 43-year-old woman was sitting at a table when the teen arrived and sat on the other side of the seating area.
The woman allegedly got up and began yelling before approaching the teen and reportedly hitting him twice with her cellphone. According to police, the teen was struck once on the left side of his head and once on his shoulder.
A New Mexico father is accused of leaving his 20-month-old twin sons locked inside a hot vehicle for more than two hours while he went dancing at a nightclub.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Albuquerque police responded to the Dirty Bourbon Dance Hall & Saloon shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Saturday after a security guard found two young children alone in the back seat of a vehicle.
The children were sweating, and security guards broke the driver’s side window before officers arrived to get them out of the vehicle.
A West Virginia woman reportedly told police that a coworker pulled a handgun from his car during their lunch break and pressed it against her leg.
The woman and the suspect worked together at a Walmart in Fayetteville. According to the criminal complaint, they were sitting in his car on August 23 when he began talking about problems with his girlfriend. The woman said he told her that he wanted to take his own life before pulling out a handgun and asking if she had ever had a gun pointed at her.
Police said the man removed the magazine from the firearm before pressing it against the woman’s leg. The woman did not report the alleged incidents to police until several days later.
The boy’s mother reportedly had asked the 32-year-old man to pick him up from school and allegedly already told him she would not be home. Police said he left the child outside the apartment complex without checking whether anyone was inside.
The child left the complex and walked to a nearby Family Dollar. He began approaching people for help and asked someone to call the police. It was reported that a witness returned the boy to the apartment. After discovering the home was empty, the witness stayed with him, fed him, and cared for him while contacting authorities.
A dispute over a parking space ended with a 71-year-old man on the floor of an Elk Grove convenience store after an Amazon delivery driver allegedly punched him.
On March 30, the alleged victim stopped at a gas station and convenience store. He had gone inside to use the bathroom and get a drink when the Amazon driver allegedly confronted him over the parking spot he chose and said he intended to park there himself.
The argument continued inside the store after the alleged victim walked away from the initial confrontation. Video from the store’s surveillance camera reportedly showed the driver standing close to him and threatening to beat him.
A former Pennsylvania school board member is accused of using more than $50,000 from her former employer to pay for personal expenses, including vacations, clothing and a Bar Mitzvah.
The 41-year-old Bala Cynwyd woman turned herself in to Lower Merion police Monday after detectives investigated her alleged use of company funds.
The authorities became involved in June after employees at the law firm marketing agency SMB reported concerns following an internal review of the company’s finances. Investigators examined the financial records and spoke with employees about spending, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
A 21-year-old Indiana mother is facing a felony neglect charge after investigators said her 4-year-old daughter was left without adequate supervision while staying with her at a hotel.
The investigation reportedly led to allegations unrelated to what initially brought police to the location, as authorities said they had reason to believe that the mother was soliciting customers for sex work from the room and allowing multiple people inside while her daughter was there. Investigators said they could not determine who was watching the child during those encounters.
According to reports, the police also found evidence of drug activity. They reported that a search of the mother’s cellphone showed that she used the internet to look up methamphetamine and ecstasy. Investigators later said the mother attempted to avoid a drug test by submitting water instead of urine. She allegedly admitted she substituted the sample because she had been smoking marijuana.
A Springfield man is facing burglary and drug charges after police say he kicked down an apartment door, threw furniture around, and confronted a resident inside.
The incident happened Saturday, August 22, after the resident reported that the man was threatening to assault him and his son, according to a police probable cause statement.
The resident told officers he had been awakened by loud banging and found the man kicking down the front door. The man allegedly entered the apartment, threw furniture around, and threw a vacuum at the resident.
A Florida man was accused of refusing to let a passenger out of his truck before leading police on a chase that reached 100 mph and ended when the vehicle crashed into a ditch.
The passenger reportedly begged the 38-year-old man to stop and let her out, but he allegedly refused. According to a probable cause affidavit, he told her, “I got this,” before continuing to drive.
The truck eventually became too damaged to make a turn and crashed into a ditch, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The driver allegedly ran from the wreck and hid in nearby grass before troopers found and arrested him.
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