A former Arizona state lawmaker was sentenced to a year in prison on Friday after being found guilty in February of sexual misconduct with a minor, according to reports. KTVK in Phoenix reported that Otoniel “Tony” Navarrete was sentenced by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to one year in prison and 10 years of supervised release for his crime. …
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Former Titans scout accused of killing pregnant girlfriend released from jail on $2.5M bond
The former Tennessee Titans scout accused of poisoning his pregnant girlfriend to death bonded out of jail on Friday morning, WZTV first reported. The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to WZTV that Blaise Taylor, 27, had his bond set at $2,500,000 earlier this month following his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Jade Benning and her unborn child. U.S. …
Read More »California crime reform gets 'unheard of' support from DAs, small businesses, progressive mayors
A measure to reform California’s crime referendum that downgrades penalties for petty theft and drug possession will be on the ballot in November after garnering an “unheard of” number of signatures. The 2014 law in question, Proposition 47, reclassified several felonies, including retail and property theft, as misdemeanors. Under Prop 47, petty theft of goods valued under $950 is classifiedas …
Read More »New York man allegedly placed hidden cameras in public park restroom; captured explicit images of children
A New York man secretly recorded hundreds of women and girls in a public restroom at a local park where he worked, federal prosecutors allege. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, said that 54-year-old John Towers planted hidden cameras in the ladies’ room of a public park in Putnam County, New York — authorities declined to share …
Read More »'Vampire facials' at unlicensed spa likely resulted in HIV infections: CDC
Three women likely contracted HIV after receiving so-called “vampire facials” at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The shocking findings would make them the first known cases of the virus being transmitted during a non-sterile cosmetic injection procedure, the CDC says. A “vampire facial,” according …
Read More »Climate activist who defaced National Gallery of Art exhibit sentenced
A climate activist who smeared paint on a case surrounding 19th-century French artist Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art was sentenced Friday. Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, got 60 days of prison time out of a possible maximum sentence of five years for defacing the exhibit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office …
Read More »Texas mom who fatally shot teenager breaking in through daughter’s window won’t be charged
A Texas mom who fatally shot a 14-year-old boy who was breaking into her 8-year-old daughter’s window last December found out this week she won’t be charged. “I feel great that they were able to see it through my eyes,”Aleah Wallace told FOX 4. She said she had worried her case would be “drug out, or I would be away …
Read More »Americans arrested in Turks and Caicos face 12 years in prison over 'innocent mistake': 'Never dawned on us'
Multiple Americans are facing minimum 12-year prison sentences for unknowingly having ammunition or bullets in their luggage while traveling home from Turks and Caicos. Ryan Watson, a father of two from Oklahoma, and Tyler Wenrich, a father of a 1-year-old toddler from Virginia, were both arrested and detained this month after Turks and Caicos airport security found bullets in their …
Read More »More than 50-year-old New York City cold case victim identified after DNA matched with 9/11 victim
Patricia Kathleen McGlone went more than 20 years without a name and for more than 50 years she was missing after being murdered and left inside a building on 46th Street in Manhattan, the NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital. She was known after her remains were found in 2003 as the “Midtown Jane Doe.” “When knocking through a concrete …
Read More »Chris Hansen recounts 'merchants of death' at migrant fentanyl hotspot outside Nancy Pelosi Federal Building
Chris Hansen, former host of “To Catch a Predator,” investigated a fentanyl fencing operation outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco and spoke to Fox News about the crisis that previously led the feds to recommend government employees work from home. Hansen, now host of “Takedown” on TruBlu, followed a retired undercover detective named Elmore who told him …
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