Articles Tagged with criminal-defense

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When a man brought his broken laptop to Best Buy for service last August, the technicians working with the files on the machine believed he was storing pictures depicting sexual content containing very young children and reported him to the authorities.

Des Moines resident Robert Leo Watson found that his laptop was no longer functioning after he had a mishap and spilled gravy on the keyboard of the electronic device.

On August 11, 2018, Watson reportedly went to the local Best Buy and bought a new computer to replace the one he had rendered defective. While he was there 54-year-old Watson reportedly decided he would pay the Geek Squad a fee to have the information stored on the old machine moved to the new one.

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A man who was the alleged victim of domestic violence accused his girlfriend of attacking him with the gusto and style of professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin.

On August 17, the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Office sent deputies to a home with a reported domestic disturbance taking place. When they arrived, deputies found 23-year-old Chastity Bodnar and her 26-year-old boyfriend Coty Lee Havens inside the dwelling.

While collecting a statement from Havens about what had taken place, the man said he and his girlfriend had gotten into an argument when he offered her unsolicited advice by telling her that she consumes alcohol in excess.

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A Sumpter County woman accused of driving under the influence of alcohol allegedly tried to get an officer to place a 25-cent bet on the elevated the level her breathalyzer test would display after she blew into the machine.

On August 19, 62-year-old Mary Westerlund was reportedly sitting in her vehicle near her residence in The Villages retirement community in central Florida.

A passerby spotted the woman in her Acura and they thought she appeared to be intoxicated. The Sumpter County police were notified to report the incident.

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A Sebring, Florida, man allegedly attempted to perform a medical castration upon a male that he met on the internet, and the unsuccessful surgical procedure reportedly yielded near-fatal results.

Just before midnight on August 18, 911 answered a call, but before the operator was able to collect information the line was disconnected by the caller.

The Highlands County Sheriff’s Office used the address associated with the call placed to emergency services, and deputies went to the residence to find out if someone was in need of assistance.

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A man from Willard, North Carolina, is suspected of abducting a woman and her 8-month-old child and keeping them captive for over a month while allegedly forcing the woman to perform sexual acts.

The Pender County 911 emergency services received a call on the morning of August 9 from the alleged victim of a kidnapping. The woman on the line reported that she and her baby had been taken by a man on Independence Day, and he had been keeping them captive since then.

The caller also said that her alleged kidnapper used a taser on her before sexually assaulting her. The woman reported that the alleged non-consensual acts took place on more than one occasion and that the man would sometimes point a gun at her while demanding sex.

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When a store employee tried to approach a woman they believed was stealing food from the market she allegedly attempted to run the man down with her vehicle.

On August 14, one of the clerks employed by Martin’s Food store in Eldersburg, Maryland, thought he recognized a woman who was thought to have stolen from the establishment on a previous occasion.

The employee trailed her around the grocery store until he watched the woman allegedly make her exit without paying for the items she had collected while shopping.

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When a man invited a woman to his home for sex and failed to answer the door when she arrived, the woman allegedly set fire to his house in retaliation for her reported humiliation.

In the middle of the night on August 4, a Woodbury, NJ, man gave a call to a woman with whom he shares occasional sexual relations. He asked the woman, 29-year-old Taija Russell if she would like to come to his home for a tryst.

Russell accepted the proposal and headed to her lover’s residence at approximately 4:00 am.

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After a woman reported that her debit card had been stolen from her purse the authorities arrested a suspect who was reportedly set up by the actual alleged perpetrator of the theft.

On August 5, Joei Thompson was hanging out at the Chestnut St. Inn in Butler, PA.

When Thompson decided to call it a night around 1:00 am, she reportedly offered a man who was visiting the same establishment a ride home as she left the bar.

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When a man and his girlfriend met up to talk on August 15, the interaction allegedly displeased her boyfriend who reportedly used heavy machinery to dump a load of dirt on her car.

20-year-old Hunter Mills requested that his girlfriend meet with him for a chat around 2:00 pm on Thursday near an Okaloosa excavation company that specializes in landscaping needs and offers topsoil for purchase.

The woman drove to the agreed-upon destination in a borrowed Cadillac, and Mills, operating a front-end loader with a full bucket of dirt, reportedly navigated the piece of equipment so that it was near the automobile his girlfriend was using.

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When a married couple from Bradenton was in the middle of a heated argument the husband was allegedly injured after his wife reportedly struck him in the head with an Alexa device.

There was reportedly discontent on Sunday in the Florida home of 34-year-old Matthew Mullineaux and his wife, 24-year-old Ashley Mullineaux.

Matthew wanted his wife to accompany him to the church service he was going to attend, and when Ashley decided she was not going with him it allegedly sparked a fight leading the two to exchange harsh words.

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