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A man in Southeastern Florida is facing charges after allegedly approaching police officers with a flamethrower and trying to hide in his residence to avoid arrest.

On the evening of October 14, a Port St. Lucie neighborhood experienced an unusual disturbance. A loud bang was heard, followed by a plume of black smoke pouring out of the yard at one of the residents’ homes.

The authorities were notified, and officers from the Port St. Lucie Police Department headed to the address to see what was going on. When they got there they reportedly heard a man yelling from the yard. When the 39-year-old saw the officers, he began to walk over to where they were standing in the street. According to reports, the man was carrying a flamethrower, and the police believed he intentionally pointed it at one of the officers at the scene. They drew their guns and told him to put them down, but the man did not stop walking in their direction until one of the officers was able to snatch the device out of his hands. He reportedly turned around and ran inside the house.

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A Florida man who has prior felony convictions was reportedly holding a sex toy and wearing a dress when he allegedly tried to break into a woman’s home in St. Petersburg.

Just after 1:00 AM on December 15, a 69-year-old woman was at her home on the Gulf Coast when someone approached the door on the side of the house. The surveillance camera was turned on, and it reportedly recorded an individual wearing a dress with what appeared to be an erect penis in their hand. According to the police report, the alleged intruder went to the front of the residence and attempted to “open the front door by pulling down on the door handle.” He also allegedly grinded against the door and then departed from the property.

Four days later, someone believed to be the same person went into the woman’s yard, and before the police arrived, they ran off.

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An 18-year-old Florida woman was arrested for domestic violence after allegedly physically assaulting her 65-year-old boyfriend causing him to bleed from his injuries. 

Just after 10:00 p.m. on April 9, a woman, 18, and her 65-year-old boyfriend of four months were together at their shared residence in Clearwater. 

According to reports, something caused the woman to physically attack her beau. She allegedly punched him in the body and head, in addition to throwing him on the ground in the front yard. 

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A Pennsylvania man who got his car stuck in the yard of a local residence allegedly stole items from a video store and had marijuana in his vehicle.

On January 25, someone reportedly stole merchandise from the Excitement Video and Toys store in Camp Hill. The arrest report reflects that the thief appeared to enter by using bolt cutters to get in through the back door. 

At approximately 8:30 AM, the authorities learned that a man got his vehicle stuck in someone’s yard.  

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A woman who worked as a jailer in a county jail in Iowa has been accused of having sexual relations with one of the inmates at the facility for several months. 

27-year-old Kayla Mae Bergom is from Belle Plain. Bergom was employed as a corrections officer at the Tama County Jail in Toledo, Iowa, for three years. 

In September 2020, Bergom allegedly got intimately close with a 29-year-old inmate at the jail. The name of the other party has not been released at this time. 

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A man and his girlfriend have been accused of regularly locking a boy in a shed for extended periods without necessities and proper facilities. 

44-year-old Harry Richard Shoemaker, and his girlfriend, Jennifer Ann Hines, 36, reside in Arcadia. Shoemaker has a 14-year-old autistic son. 

The teen’s grandmother recently became concerned about the way he was being cared for, and she placed a call to DCF (Department of Children and Families) to see if they could check on her grandson. 

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A man from Newington is facing charges after he was allegedly caught rubbing his privates against trees in the backyard of a private residence.

36-year-old John Edward Fignar was reportedly wandering around outside in a residential neighborhood while partially clothed around 3:00 pm on November 12.

When a resident noticed someone in their yard, they were reportedly greeted by the sight of Fignar treating their trees in an allegedly disturbing manner.

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On Christmas day, a high school soccer coach was placed under arrest for suspicion of human trafficking two teenage girls when he was found in the company of the young women after one of them called the authorities for help.

At nearly 3am on Monday, 911 received a call from a 17-year-old girl who reported that she was hiding from a man in a nearby vehicle who was waiting for her. She claimed that the man, identified as 34-year-old Elan Seagraves, had sexually assaulted her and forced her into prostitution.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department dispatched deputies to the scene where they located the girl in the yard, and they found Seagraves parked in a car nearby. They discovered a second teenage girl, also 17, sitting in the vehicle with Seagraves. Authorities posit they are both victims of human trafficking.

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