Articles Tagged with purchase

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A registered sex offender on probation for previously trying to purchase a child has been arrested for allegedly attempting to buy another youngster. 

85-year-old Hellmuth Kolb lives northeast of Orlando in Port Orange, Florida. In 2018, he was convicted for offering to buy a child for $200,000. He is still on probation, and he is required to register as a sex offender as well as stay away from children. 

On August 16, Kolb reportedly went into a local Winn-Dixie grocery store. 

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An Iowa woman is facing several charges after she allegedly sold prescription drugs to an underage person in Illinois. 

30-year-old Kathy Chanton-Khemphomma is from Davenport, Iowa, which is approximately 50 miles from Kewanee, Illinois. 

On March 22, Chanton-Khemphomma was reportedly interacting with a teenager from Kewanee. 

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A man was arrested when the authorities learned he was allegedly using a stolen ID to try to buy an $84,000 truck at a local dealership. 

25-year-old Javan Davenport resides in Columbus, Georgia. 

It was reported that on December 2, Davenport was approximately 280 miles from his listed home address, and he was visiting a car dealership. 

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After a Maine grocery store was notified about the purchase of pizza dough that reportedly contained razor blades, the man accused of the tampering was taken into custody.

At the beginning of October at the Saco location of the Hannaford Supermarket, an employee of the company received a report alleging that a customer bought Portland Pie brand pizza dough and found razor blades shoved inside the product after taking it home for use.

The authorities were notified about the consumer’s allegations.

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A man was apprehended for accusations that he placed over 1,100 telephone calls to 911, and asking an officer if he would like to buy egg rolls.

In a period spanning from the middle of July through September 2, 911 Emergency reportedly received a massive amount of calls that were asserted to have come from a single caller in Memphis.

It was reported that over 200 calls had been picked up on September 1, and more than 30 the following day, bringing the total to 1,171 in two-and-a-half months.

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Three people from North Carolina are facing criminal charges after a mom allegedly gave her baby to a couple last year in exchange for a 1992 Plymouth.

In July 2019, a 2-year-old child was brought to the hospital by 47-year-old Tina Chavis, and the youngster reportedly had bruises on her body. The hospital staff reported the marks on the girl to the police, in addition to child protective services, and an investigation was opened.

When the authorities talked to Chavis, she at first allegedly said she was the girl’s mother and afterward explained that she and her husband, 53-year-old Vicenio Mendoza Romero, had adopted the child.

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When the authorities believed that they spotted a man in the act of trying to steal gasoline they detained the suspect and he is being charged for the accusation.

On Wednesday, an agent with the Brevard County Sherriff’s Office’s Economic Crimes Unit was at a gas station when he saw a man that he felt was spending an unusually long amount of time while using a gas pump. The agent additionally posited that the man was intentionally trying to stay out of sight, and thought that he might have a large tank to store the gasoline he was pumping.

The driver, identified as Esmerido Osori, left the filling station and he was pulled over for an alleged traffic violation.

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A Florida man contacted the local Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday to request their assistance when he became concerned that he had allegedly attempted to purchase methamphetamine but suspected that he may have received the wrong substance.

Northern Florida resident 49-year-old Douglas Peter Kelly reportedly bought what he believed was methamphetamine from a drug dealer.

After allegedly using the substance Kelly suffered from a bad reaction which caused him to wonder if the drug he purchased really was methamphetamine, or possibly had been cut with another substance.

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On Saturday night a teenager reported to authorities that he was robbed at gunpoint when an interested purchaser showed up at his home to pick up and pay for a purse he had listed for sale through an online application.

The 16-year-old boy created a listing on a third party online sales application known as “Let Go” in an attempt to find a buyer for a Louis Vuitton designer purse. He priced the bag at $300, though its actual worth was approximately $20 as it was an imitation of the original.

Soon after posting it the teen was contacted by a man interested in the handbag. After haggling on the asking price the prospective buyer and the boy agreed on $250 and the two made arrangements to carry out the transaction. They decided that the man would come to the boy’s home to pay for and pick up the purse.

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