The former school district police chief in Uvalde, Texas, who oversaw the response to a 2022 elementary school shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children, is in custody on a child endangerment charge, the Uvalde jail said Thursday. Pete Arredondo, 52, was brought in by law enforcement officers and is accused of abandoning […]
Jun. 20—The Jasper County prosecutor’s office dismissed a 24-year-old Joplin man’s child endangerment case Thursday when an alleged victim failed to show up to testify against him. Jacob D. Womack had been scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Jasper County Circuit Court on a felony count of child endangerment and a misdemeanor count of domestic […]
May 24—Two people face child endangerment charges after a 4-year-old in their care had to be revived with CPR and Narcan. Chad Bolinger and Danielle McLaughlin of St. Joseph each were charged this week with Class A misdemeanors of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child stemming from an incident in February. Police and emergency […]
May 9—The Butte County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Bangor residents on Tuesday under suspicion of child endangerment after their child was found near an illegal marijuana cultivation, officials said. At approximately 10:51 p.m. on Monday, Butte County dispatch received a call from a woman that her child, 3, was missing from a residence located on […]
Mar. 14—A Whitefish man accused of repeatedly ramming another vehicle with his pickup truck in the parking lot of a big box retailer in Kalispell earlier this month faces a felony charge in Flathead County District Court. Johnathan Troy Howard, 49, is expected to be arraigned on one count of criminal endangerment before Judge Heidi […]
Mar. 6—BOONEVILLE — A recent Prentiss County Grand Jury handed down indictments charging five women — four mothers and a grandmother — with felony child neglect or endangerment. The Prentiss County Sheriff’s Office served the arrest warrants over a four-day period late last week. kAmy2J=2 q6E9 qF==2C5[ be[ 2?5 $J=G:2 s:2??6 %9@>2D[ e_[ 3@E9 @7 […]
Mar. 5—MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — A Rocky Comfort man waived a preliminary hearing Monday in Lawrence County Circuit Court and was ordered bound over for trial on a count of first-degree assault and five other felony charges. The charges against Aaron M. Flanary, 25, stem from a disturbance Jan. 24 at a residence in Pierce […]
Feb. 21—RED LAKE — Three people have been found guilty of felony child neglect for depriving children of food, clothing and other necessities between February 2022 and January 2023 in Red Lake Nation. According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, during that period, 55-year-old Robin John Roy, 29-year-old Nicole Robyn Roy, and […]
Feb. 21—GRAND FORKS — A Grand Forks man pleaded guilty to two felony charges and was sentenced to five years in prison, with three suspended, on Feb. 15. Phillip Joseph Murray, 34, pleaded guilty to two Class C felonies: fleeing a police officer and reckless endangerment — extreme indifference. His remaining charge, Class A misdemeanor […]
A Waterloo mother did not break any laws when she left her children at home while she was grocery shopping, the Iowa Supreme Court says. The mother, Paula Cole, had been charged with and convicted of child endangerment after she left five children, ages 5 to 12, sleeping in her apartment one day in 2021 […]
Jan. 17—GRAND FORKS — A Grand Forks man accused of fleeing police waived his Wednesday, Jan. 17, preliminary hearing and pleaded not guilty. Andrew Chase Ebertowski, 19, was arrested on Dec. 18 after allegedly fleeing a police officer who’d attempted to pull him over for a traffic violation. During the pursuit, Ebertowski failed to follow […]
Dec. 26—WILKES-BARRE — A husband and wife charged with endangering their children by residing in what was reported in a house of filth recently pleaded guilty in Luzerne County Court. Richard Kevin Rause Jr., 39, and Dana Elizabeth Ann Rause, 32, were charged by Wilkes-Barre Township police in March and February 2023, respectively, after their […]