How vigilante ‘predator catchers’ are infiating the criminal justice system
It began with a live-streamed shaming in an Olive Garden parking lot. It ended with an Indiana cop on trial for child solicitation.
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Crime Watch: Animal Cruelty
Crime Watch is culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. On September 3 at 1 pm SMPD …
Couple arrested for animal cruelty after SAPD finds roach-infested home, no food or water
A search warrant was issued to the resident’s house after San Angelo police officers responded to a three-month-old that had sustained severe head trauma, which is were SAPD found the puppy.
Brutal beatings, abuse plague state-run mental health facility, investigation reveals
As Blaine Reichard rose from a breakfast table at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in southern Illinois, a worker ordered him to pull up his sagging pants. A 24-year-old man with …
He controlled women, girls with drugs and violence. Now he’s guilty of human trafficking.
Under the threat of violence and through the use of drugs, Orlith Joseph kept multiple women and teenage girls under his control, selling them for sex in motels from West Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale …
Culture of cruelty persists despite decades of warnings at Illinois-run mental health facility
For decades, officials have urged reforms at the facility for people with mental and developmental disabilities. But it still has more allegations of abuse and neglect than any in Illinois.
2 arrested on animal cruelty charges in wake of viral Cypress Arrow videos
Two women have been arrested on animal cruelty charges after videos from a Lena training academy went viral on social media.
After weeks of abuse, a Connecticut brother hopes to bring about change in a system that failed his sibling
The younger Shehadi’s fight is not over. Whether he can help his brother finally leave the hospital he entered more than 25 years ago or not, he wants to change the system that has kept him there all …
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Animal cruelty charges filed against man accused of housing 24 dogs; he allegedly assaulted woman weeks prior
With temperatures exceeding 85 degrees Friday, a majority of the two-dozen dogs removed from the property were inside trailers covered in feces and urine.