Two San Francisco County jails were locked down over the weekend because of increasing assaults of deputies and other staff by inmates at the facilities, officials said. Since late March, seven jail staffers have been injured in altercations with the incarcerated people they were hired to oversee, said Tara Moriarty, a spokesperson for the San […]
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Plano, DART police seek information about hammer-wielding man wanted in assaults
The Plano and DART police departments are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating a man responsible for multiple assaults. At around 7 p.m. Tuesday, a victim was attacked by a man in the 600 block of Coit Road. During the incident, the suspect used a hammer to hit the victim several times, […]
Russia is losing close to 1,000 soldiers in Ukraine every day, but it won’t stop relying on mass assaults to brute-force frontline advances: UK intelligence
Russia’s daily losses on the Ukrainian battlefield have been ticking upwards since 2022: UK intel “Each year has seen a rise in the daily average loss rate,” the UK’s defense ministry said. Russia’s reliance on attritional warfare could come at the expense of its economy and labor market. Losing nearly a thousand soldiers a day […]
Yonkers man arrested for alleged assaults on children at park in Yorktown
A 19-year-old Yonkers man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly attacked children at Downing Park in Yorktown Heights. Yorktown police said it received reports of a male physically attacking children at the park Wednesday morning around 10:10 a.m. Police said the suspect approached two children at the playground and grabbed one child’s hood and pulled, […]
Raleigh police chargd two men with separate sexual assaults dating back to 1998
Raleigh police took two men into custody this week in cold-case sexual assaults dating back more than 25 years ago. Tracy Lamont Thompson, 51, was charged Wednesday with reported rapes, a kidnapping and assaults in 1998, 2007 and 2009, the Raleigh Police Department said. Lontren Lawrence Walker, 49, was charged Friday with a reported sexual […]
Accused thief assaults 3 Walmart workers, then gets hit by a car, Oklahoma cops say
An accused thief was hit by a car after he assaulted several Walmart employees, according to Oklahoma police. The man loaded a shopping cart with $1,000 in merchandise at a Walmart store in Tulsa and made a break for the exit, the Tulsa Police Department said in a March 12 news release. He made it […]
Passenger sexually assaults woman, assaults crew members on Delta flight, feds say
A 32-year-old man recently pleaded guilty in connection with a 2023 incident onboard a Montana-bound flight, federal officials said. Hunter Andrew Dietrich was on a Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Bozeman when he “disobeyed repeated instructions from the flight crew to behave himself,” according to a March 11 news release […]
School admin sexually assaults and drugs woman, rapes her daughter, OK officials say
A former assistant principal was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting his sister-in-law and raping her daughter, Oklahoma officials said. Robert Brian Davis was convicted of rape by instrumentation and sexual battery by an Oklahoma jury March 8, over four years after he was charged, according to court records. The sister-in-law told police Davis […]
Russian troops use Chinese-made golf carts for assaults – video
Russian forces have used Chinese-made Desertcross golf carts to storm Ukrainian positions on the Lyman front. Source: the 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Quote: “The other day, the 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade repelled a large-scale Russian attack on the Lyman front, which consisted of three waves. The Russians used tanks, […]
Former NBA player, actor gets 90 years to life in California State Prison for violent sexual assaults
A former NBA player and actor was sentenced to 90 years to life in prison on Friday for a series of violent sexual assaults, some of which occurred in Los Angeles County, authorities said. According to a release from the Los Angeles Police Department, their investigation into Rashid Byrd began in 2019 after a victim […]
Morenci man convicted of sexual assaults on 5-year-old daughter in 1997
ADRIAN — A Morenci man could spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting his daughter multiple times when she was 5 years old. The assaults took place in 1997 at their home outside Morenci, according to testimony this week in Lenawee County Circuit Court. Gary Edward Shumate, […]
Cop sexually assaults handcuffed man, lawsuit says. He’s accused of abusing 19 others
A Missouri man says he was sexually assaulted by a police officer while he was handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed this month. Former officer Marcellis Blackwell is accused of sexually assaulting at least 20 men between November 2022 and June 2023, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Missouri. […]