Jan. 13—The owner of one of New Mexico’s largest private security firms is in jail after allegedly pointing a gun at an Uber driver on Friday and enlisting the help of his daughter and business partner to hide the weapon from police. Aaron Jones, 58, the president and CEO of International Protective Service and a […]
A 21-year-old has been charged with murder after Florida authorities said he shot his teenage girlfriend and hid from law enforcement for weeks. Sofia Lugo, 17, was found shot to death at her boyfriend’s family home in Ocala shortly before 1 a.m. on Dec. 10, according to a news release from the Marion County Sheriff’s […]
A Broward moving company showed up in Gainesville with a Miami woman’s possessions hours late, charged her $3,000 over the agreed-upon cost, then held her furniture and clothes hostage when she refused to pay. That’s in Miami-Dade County Court Judge Michael Barket’s summary judgment for Nicolette Gonzalez against Thompson Nation Holdings (TNH), also known as […]
Security officers at New York’s LaGuardia Airport found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby nappy, the Transportation Security Administration said. Officers pulled the otherwise clean nappy from a passenger’s carry-on bag after it triggered an alarm in an X-ray machine at an airport security checkpoint, the TSA said. According to the agency, the passenger […]
A case that stunned Connecticut more than five years ago returned to a Hartford courtroom this week as defense attorneys argued whether investigators had a legal right to enter the home of UConn medical professor Pierluigi Bigazzi and his wife Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, who is charged with his death. Kosuda-Bigazzi is charged with killing her elderly […]
From Popular Mechanics At the Cyclocross World Championships earlier this month, Belgian cyclist Femke Van den Driessche had her bike confiscated by the UCI-the governing body of pro cycling-and a motor was found hidden in the seat tube of the frame. Believe it or not, hidden motors, or “mechanical doping,” has been on the UCI’s […]
California regulators are alleging a San Francisco robotaxi service owned by General Motors covered up the severity of an accident involving one of its driverless cars, raising the specter they may add a fine to the recent suspension of its California license. The potential penalty facing GM’s Cruise service could be around $1.5m, based on […]