In the news
Joe Sedinger, sheriff in Autauga County, Ala., said deputies responding to an anonymous call of possible child abuse found a 13-yearold boy naked with chains padlocked around his ankles, resulting in the arrest of his mother, stepfather and grandmother.
Dana Thomas Byrd, 30, was arrested by Florida police after fatally striking Dhimitri Andoni, 22, with his pickup while Andoni was helping a motorist on an interstate highway and then stealing Andoni’s car, according to authorities.
Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor, Maine, and a state-licensed medical marijuana caregiver, is facing an investigation by state health inspectors after she said she started offering meat from lobsters that had been sedated with marijuana.
Jeannette Jives-Nealy of Tennessee was sentenced to 24 years in prison on theft and money laundering charges for stealing $162,000 from a government program that provides funding for summer meals for poor children, using the money instead to travel and buy retail items.
Thu Hong Nguyen, 46, who was convicted in 2013 of burning down her nail salon, was sentenced to 74 years in prison on second-degree murder, arson and assault charges after setting fire to a second nail salon, which resulted in the deaths of two Kansas City, Mo., firefighters.
Edis Leonel Alas, 37, a man from El Salvador who was in the U.S. illegally, was sentenced to four life prison terms after snatching a 6-year-old Texas girl from her home and sexually assaulting her.
Greg Phares, criminal deputy in Louisiana, said Lonnie Payne, who was serving 12 years for a burglary when he got past two prison security gates and escaped 15 years ago, was found and arrested in Mexico and is being held in Conroe, Texas.
Robert Moni, 54, was charged with making a false report of a bomb, arson or weapons of mass destruction after, authorities in Florida said, he told a television station and sheriff’s deputies that he was going to shoot down the sheriff’s helicopter if it didn’t stop flying over his house.
Stephen Young, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office in Limestone County, Ala., said a 15-year-old girl is accused of fatally stabbing her mother, Rosa Aminta Maldonado, 44, and sister, Rosa Lee Maldonado, 19, and was charged with two counts of capital murder.