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  • FBI Tip Helps Prevent Indiana Teen Girl’s Valentine’s Day Mass Shooting Plan At Mooresville High School

    FBI Tip Helps Prevent Indiana Teen Girl’s Valentine’s Day Mass Shooting Plan At Mooresville High School

    Indiana police report that they prevented a mass shooting that an 18-year-old girl was allegedly planning for her high school on Valentine’s Day, per the NY Post. Trinity Shockley was taken into custody this week just days after authorities discovered her plot to attack Mooresville High School, located southwest of Indianapolis. 

    The FBI provided a tip on Tuesday evening regarding the potential attack, prompting Mooresville police to search Shockley’s home and arrest her. She is currently being held without bail and faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder, making threats of terrorism, and conspiracy to commit intimidation, as reported by Fox 59. 

    If the plan had succeeded, it would have coincided with the seventh anniversary of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which resulted in the deaths of 17 people in 2018. Shockley had previously been the focus of a community fundraiser in Mooresville after being struck by a drunk driver while on her way to school in 2022.

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  • Parolee With 20 Prior Arrests Apprehended For Attempted Rape Of Woman In NYC Building While Impersonating ICE Agent

    Parolee With 20 Prior Arrests Apprehended For Attempted Rape Of Woman In NYC Building While Impersonating ICE Agent

    A parolee with almost twenty prior arrests was apprehended Thursday for allegedly attempting to rape and rob a woman in Downtown Brooklyn while impersonating an ICE agent, according to law enforcement and sources cited by the NY Post. 

    Leon Howell, 43, reportedly snatched the iPhone of a 51-year-old woman. The violent incident occurred on Tuesday in the basement of a building located at the intersection of Montague and Henry Streets. The police were able to locate him using the victim’s Find My iPhone app, as noted by the sources.

    Around 10:50 a.m., the woman was waiting for a taxi in the lobby of a building at Montague and Henry Streets. Howell allegedly approached her claiming to be an immigration officer, according to authorities. He then forced her into an elevator and took her down to the basement, police sources reported.

    He reportedly struck her in the face, causing her to fall to the ground. Howell then allegedly removed her pants and underwear until she begged him to stop. The brutal assailant proceeded to take her necklace, cell phone, and purse before fleeing down Montague Street towards Henry Street, according to police. The victim was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of her injuries and is said to be in stable condition. 

    Investigators suspect that the woman may have been targeted due to her ethnicity or race, sources added. Howell was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, third-degree burglary, and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, police said. With a criminal history that includes 20 previous arrests, Howell was recently paroled just last month after serving time for the 2017 strangulation of a stranger in Brooklyn, sources revealed.

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  • Long Island Corrections Officer Steals $110K In Payments Intended For Wife’s Back Surgery, DA Says

    Long Island Corrections Officer Steals $110K In Payments Intended For Wife’s Back Surgery, DA Says

    Authorities report that a corrections officer from Long Island embezzled $110,096 in insurance checks meant for his estranged wife’s back surgery, per the NY Post. 

    Christopher Kowalewski, 49, of Merrick,  allegedly took 11 reimbursement checks from her New York State Empire Plan. It reportedly ranged in amounts from $92,488 to $147, for her March 2022 procedure. Kowalewski allegedly used the money for personal expenses, according to Nassau District Attorney Anne Donnelly. 

    Kowalewski is said to have cashed two of the checks and deposited the other nine into a joint bank account he held with an unnamed individual. The accused’s plan initially succeeded because he was the policyholder for his wife’s medical account, allowing the out-of-network checks to be issued in his name. United Healthcare, which manages the Empire Plan, distributed the funds from December 2021 to December 2023.

    “Public servants are entrusted with doing the right thing, and when they take advantage of the system for personal gain, it hurts everyone,”

    Donnelly said in her statement. On Monday, the defendant was charged with second-degree grand larceny and could face a maximum of 15 years in prison.

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  • Teacher Sexually Assaulted Special Needs Student and Told Him To Bring A Gun To School To Shoot Colleague

    Teacher Sexually Assaulted Special Needs Student and Told Him To Bring A Gun To School To Shoot Colleague

    A former paraprofessional from Colorado is now incarcerated after confessing to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student, according to PEOPLE. In November, Imagine Kay Ewer, 28, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a special education student. She received a four-year prison sentence. 

    She was responsible for the care of this student at Brady Exploration School in Lakewood, as stated by the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office. As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Ewer admitted to charges of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor in the first degree, both of which are felonies. Following her four-year sentence, she will also be subjected to probation under the Sex Offender Intensive Supervision program for a period of ten years to life.

    At the sentencing on Friday, January 31, the mother of the victim addressed to the court, stating,

    “The defendant preyed on my son, leading him to believe she genuinely cared for him, all while exploiting him for money and manipulating him into thinking he was ‘the one,’”

    according to the statement. In court, Special Victims Prosecutor Brynn Chase stated that Ewer introduced the victim to fentanyl, as mentioned in the statement. Ewer even told the victim

    “to bring [a] gun to school and shoot another faculty member in the leg,”

    Police launched an investigation to which they  found

    “evidence of frequent sexual encounters, constant digital communication, inclusive of repeated derogatory remarks directed at the victim, and the introduction of drugs, alcohol, and weapons,”

    it said. Ewer was employed by Jefferson County Public Schools from 2015 until 2023. She was arrested in January 2024. She is  charged with sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust; sexual exploitation of a child; unlawful electronic sexual communication; and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, online court records show.

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  • California Teen Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison For Making Hundreds Of ‘Swatting’ Calls

    California Teen Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison For Making Hundreds Of ‘Swatting’ Calls

    A California teenager was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for his role in numerous swatting calls, per Huff Post.

    Alan W. Filion, 18, was found guilty of making 375 swatting calls. Filion targeted a mosque in Florida, among other places and individuals, as stated by federal prosecutors. 

    He pleaded guilty in November to four counts of making interstate threats to harm others. Swatting involves making a false emergency call to provoke a significant police response at a specific location as a

    “prank.”

    The U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that Filion made threatening calls from August 2022 to January 2024. 

    These calls included claims of having planted bombs at various locations and threats to detonate them or carry out mass shootings, prosecutors stated. His targets included religious institutions, high schools, colleges and universities, government officials, and individuals across the country. At the time he made most of these calls, Filion was just 16 years old.

    As part of a plea deal, he acknowledged making a threatening call in October 2022 to a public high school in Washington state. He had threatened a mass shooting and claimed to have planted bombs across the campus. He also pleaded guilty to a call made in May 2023 to a historically black college and university in Florida.

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  • Elder Woman Runs Over Tourist’s Head With Her Truck While She Was Sunbathing On Florida Beach

    Elder Woman Runs Over Tourist’s Head With Her Truck While She Was Sunbathing On Florida Beach

    Authorities are investigating an incident in Florida where an 84-year-old woman

    “ran over”

    a beachgoer’s head with her truck, as reported by PEOPLE. 

    A press release from the Volusia Sheriff’s Office stated that a 71-year-old woman from New York was sunbathing in a beach chair near her vehicle close to the Silver Beach Avenue beach ramp. This occurred just before 3 p.m. local time on Wednesday, February 5, during her visit to Daytona Beach with her husband.

    While the tourist was seated in her chair, the elderly driver from DeLeon Springs backed her Chevrolet Colorado out of the parking space. She made

    “an immediate right turn toward the beach exit, did not see the woman in her chair, and struck her with the truck’s right rear tire, which then ran over her head,”

    the Sheriff’s Office said.

    The 71-year-old woman’s husband contacted 911, as revealed by audio from the emergency call obtained by NBC affiliate WESH 2. “Hurry up! She ran over her head!” the woman’s husband can be heard saying.

    “You alright?”

    he asks his wife, who replies:

    “No.”

    The victim was taken to the nearby Halifax Health Medical Center with non-life-threatening head injuries and is in stable condition.

    “The driver… remained on scene and cooperated fully with the investigation. She said she was not aware she struck anyone until she was chased down by a witness,”

    deputies said.

    “There were no signs of impairment.”

    The city of Daytona Beach states that

    “beach driving”

    is permitted on Silver Beach, making it one of the few beaches in the U.S. where visitors can drive right onto the sand.

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  • Mother Tells Son To Shoot Her Boyfriend Following Argument, Police Say

    Mother Tells Son To Shoot Her Boyfriend Following Argument, Police Say

    A mother and her son were taken into custody this week after Memphis Police reported that she instructed him to shoot her boyfriend, as stated in WREG articles. On February 5 at 6:55 a.m., officers arrived at the scene of an aggravated assault in the 1000 block of Rosewood Ave.

    Upon arrival, officers spoke with a man who claimed that following a verbal dispute with his partner, Denise Woody, she reportedly shouted to her son, Prentis Lee, to

    “shoot”

    him. The victim stated that Lee then approached his vehicle with a black handgun, allegedly saying,

    “You got my momma f—– up. I will shoot you in your face.”

    Lee then reportedly fired a shot at the victim, hitting him in his lower right forearm as he tried to shield his face. The victim drove away to escape while Lee allegedly fired several additional shots, breaking the windows of the victim’s 2014 Dodge Ram 1500.

    The victim identified Prentis Lee in a six-person photo lineup as the individual who allegedly shot him. He was also presented with a single photo and positively identified Denise Woody as the person who supposedly ordered Lee to shoot him. Lee and Woody have been charged with attempted second-degree murder. Woody is currently being held on a $50,000 bond, while information regarding Lee’s bond is not available at this time.

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  • Minnesota Man Wins Complimentary Norwegian Cruise Vacation, Then Contracts Flu Onboard and Receives $47K Medical Bill

    Minnesota Man Wins Complimentary Norwegian Cruise Vacation, Then Contracts Flu Onboard and Receives $47K Medical Bill

    A Minnesota man won a free weeklong cruise to the Caribbean for himself and his girlfriend. Unfortunately, he fell ill with the flu on board and was hit with a $47,000 medical bill.

    Mike Cameron and his girlfriend, Tamra Masterman, won a complimentary Norwegian cruise from the Grand Casino Hinckley. The cruise departed from Miami on January 5, he shared with The Post. However, what began as a dream vacation quickly turned sour when Cameron contracted the flu.

    The sick passenger sought care at the medical center on the Norwegian Encore ship and recovered after three days. As the couple’s Caribbean tour wrapped up, Cameron was stunned to discover he was responsible for the $47,000 medical bill. This unexpected charge came as a shock since crew members had reassured him not to worry while he was receiving treatment.

    “I was just flabbergasted by the whole thing,”

    he told Fox 9 News. 

    “One lady in the medical ward that said that he had the traveler’s insurance and that meant $20,000 of coverage,”

    he recalled. The cruise line maxed out two of Cameron’s credit cards, leaving him with an outstanding balance of $21,000. The couple had obtained travel insurance from the cruise line that covers up to $20,000 in expenses, and they also have health insurance. 

    However, Cameron finds himself in a limbo, with both parties insisting that the other is liable for the bill, he told Fox 9.

    “The traveler’s insurance doesn’t want to pay it until we run it by our health insurance. The health insurance doesn’t want to pay it because it’s abroad,”

    he explained.  After his experience, Cameron has one important piece of advice for travelers.

    “We want people to be aware, if you go on a cruise make sure you got good traveler’s insurance,”

    he cautioned.

    “Once you are out on international waters, it’s a whole different story.”

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  • Mother Arrested For Allegedly Faking Daughter’s Abduction and Taking ‘Missing’ Child To Alley To Be Found

    Mother Arrested For Allegedly Faking Daughter’s Abduction and Taking ‘Missing’ Child To Alley To Be Found

    A

    “frantic”

    mother residing in Illinois contacted 911 to report that her car had been stolen with her 4-year-old daughter inside, per Law & Crime. Princess Ilunga, 37, reportedly made the emergency call around 6 a.m. on January 26. Authorities issued an Amber Alert for the missing child, prompting a desperate 9-hour search. 

    However, it was later revealed that the girl had been at home the whole time. Ilunga is now facing charges for filing a false report to police. According to police in Rock Island, the woman told a 911 operator that she had left her car running in front of her house. She said she left her daughter in the back seat, and when she returned, the vehicle was gone.

    Authorities responded quickly and found the car, unoccupied, just a few blocks away about 15 minutes later. The Rock Island Police Department promptly shared the girl’s photo in a post that garnered over 40,000 shares. Illinois State Police issued a statewide Amber Alert. They located the girl in an alley close to her home shortly before 3 p.m. on the day she was reported missing.

    Authorities Determined The Child Was Never Missing

    Following an investigation, authorities determined that the girl was never missing and was present in the home when the police initially questioned the family, body camera footage revealed. He noted that Ilunga claimed the girl was another daughter and instructed her other children to refer to her by her Swahili name. According to the police chief, Ilunga pointed at the girl, saying she

    “looks just like her sister.”

    According to McCloud, after a police detective stationed outside the home returned to the station, Ilunga allegedly took her daughter to the nearby alley. She was later

    “found”

    by two women. Ilunga’s was arrested on January 30  in Johnson County, Wisconsin, located about 200 miles from Rock Island, outside of Milwaukee. Ilunga was taken into custody and is now awaiting extradition back to Illinois.

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  • Mother Accused Of Fatally Beating Son With Extension Cord, Boy Suffered 1,172 Injuries, Medical Examiner’s Revealed

    Mother Accused Of Fatally Beating Son With Extension Cord, Boy Suffered 1,172 Injuries, Medical Examiner’s Revealed

    A Seattle mother is accused of murdering her teenage son, after beating him to death with an extension cord, per PEOPLE. Authorities claim that Denaya Young struck her son because she thought he had not finished his chores, according to reports from KIRO, King 5, and the Seattle Times, referencing a police affidavit.

    Reports indicate that the medical examiner found the 14-year-old boy had sustained 1,172 injuries from the beating before he died on January 30. The medical examiner suggests that the cause of death was Sudden Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS). SIRS occurs when the body sends excessive blood to various injuries, overwhelming the heart, as noted in the reports.

    According to KIRO and the Times, referencing the affidavit, Young reportedly told police that she

    “lost count”

    of the number of times she struck her son. During the alleged deadly assault, authorities state that the teen’s three siblings were present in the home, as reported by KIRO. Young faces charges of second-degree murder related to her son’s death.

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