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Ex-Prosecutor Spared Jail Time for Trading Lesser Sentences for Sex

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Ex-District Attorney William Higgins admitted he’d taken sex in exchange for better sentences

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania — A former top prosecutor was spared any time in jail after he pleaded guilty to forcing female drug defendants to give him sexual favors in return for lesser sentences.

William Higgins, Jr., 43, had served as district attorney in the Pennsylvania town of Bedford for 14 years. He was charged earlier this year with with protecting female drug defendants and revealing the identities of confidential informants to them in exchange for sex.

He was disbarred last month.

Instead of serving any time behind bars, Higgins was sentenced to $9,700 in fines, eight years of probation, 1,125 hours of community service and 120 days of house arrest.

“We’re extremely pleased with the results of the sentencing hearing,” his attorney, Steven Passarello, told the Altoona Mirror. “We believe the sentence was fair, and we believed it balanced the sentencing factors appropriately.”

State attorney general Josh Shapiro said now, “Higgins will never again be able to use the tools of a prosecutor’s office to commit these crimes.”

Bedford resident Robert Lewis, whose daughter died of a drug overdose, said he was appalled at the decision because Higgins had allowed pushers to remain on the streets.

“Your everyday citizen is not going to get that kind of consideration,” Lewis said. “Who else is going to get that kind of favoritism? Nobody. Nobody.”

In court, Higgins argued that he had made poor choices during a time when he was abusing alcohol and hand mended his ways.

“I’m deeply sorry,” he told the court room. “I’ve accepted full responsibility for my actions.”

 

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Indiana Cannibal Deemed Fit to Stand Trial in Gruesome Slaying, Eating of Ex

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Cannibal killer Joseph Oberhansley has been not mentally fit for trial since 2014

JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana —  A bloodthirsty cannibal who allegedly raped and killed his ex-girlfriend and then ate her remains, has been deemed mentally fit to stand trial.

Joseph Oberhansley has been in an Indiana state mental hospital since he was arrested in 2014 for the grisly slaying of his ex, Tammy Jo Blanton. Last week, a state psychiatrist testified that Oberhansley was ready to go to trial.

The evaluation can still be challenged by Oberhansley’s attorneys, which would trigger a judicial hearing to determine his competency.

“This matter has been going on for four years now, and it’s high time that the victim’s family saw justice done,” Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Jeremy Mull told the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Oberhansley was last deemed incompetent by a judge to stand trial in October 2017.

Oberhansley, who has a previous conviction for manslaughter in Utah, was arrested in 2014 after police came to Blanton’s house looking for her because she hadn’t shown up for work and found him in her home. When the located her bloody body under a tarpaulin, investigators later determined parts of her heart, lung and brain were missing.

Oberhansley later admitted having eaten the missing organs, both cooked and raw.

Through various interrogations, Oberhansley has given rambling and sometimes incoherent responses. At a competency hearing last week, Oberhansley said he wanted to fire his lawyers because they were trying to control his thoughts.

 

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Florida Middle School Teacher Bought Students Sex Toys to Use in X-Rated Videos

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Teacher Alex Hull gave his students illegal instruction

TAMPA, Florida — A middle school algebra teacher has been arrested for allegedly giving two of his students sex toys and asking them to film themselves using them, police said.

Alex J. Hull, 31, who taught eighth grade at the Benito Middle School in Tampa, also allegedly had the two students perform oral sex on him, cops said. One of the victims was Hull’s student and the other was a pupil he had met in the hallway.

Hull allegedly carried on with the illicit trysts at the school from November 2017 until May 2018.

Investigators say the relationships began after Hull showed the students obscene pictures of himself.  After gauging their reactions, Hull allegedly bought them each sex toys to use while they record themselves, according to WFTS-TV.

Police began a probe after one of the victim’s parents reported the alleged misconduct.

Hull faces multiple charges including sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation and showing obscene materials to a minor. He remains in jail on $325,000 bond.

 

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Teen Psycho Tears Out Relative’s Eyes, Teeth in Disturbing Attack

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Police thought the elderly victim wouldn’t pull through without his eyes

ROCHESTER, Minnesota — A deranged teenager flew into a fit of rage, tearing an elderly relative’s eyes out before knocking out many of his teeth, police said.

Police arrived at the man’s home after receiving reports from neighbors of loud fighting coming from inside the apartment.

Once inside, they found 18-year-old Mahad Aziz on top of a 74-year-old man who had been beaten to a bloody pulp and whose eyes were missing. He also had lost many of his teeth, the Rochester Post Bulletin reported.

According to cops, Aziz was combative and non-verbal and fought with officers trying to handcuff him. Police said at first they believed the victim had suffered life-threatening injuries and was rushed to the famed Mayo Clinic, but he managed to pull through and was able to give cops a basic statement

Investigators say they do not believe Aziz used a weapon in the assault, but tore the relative’s eyes out with his own hands. The eyes were not recovered.

Aziz was initially booked on felony first-degree assault charges, but prosecutors later signalled they may not charge him by seeking to have him committed to a mental hospital.

“It was pretty clear that based on the nature of the assault and based on information from family members and our own officers’ observations that there was a significant mental health aspect,” prosecutor Geoff Hjerleid said.

Police said they had had no prior contact with Aziz.

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Fugitive Child Rapists Caught After Nearly 20 Years on the Run

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Fugitive couple Victoria Michelle Cravitz (l) and Leon Henry Shaw had been on the run since 1999

PORTLAND, Oregon — A fugitive couple wanted in Oregon on numerous child rape charges who had been on the run for nearly 20 years were found in Mississippi after the man died and his common-law wife tried to arrange his funeral, officials said.

Authorities finally zeroed in on the couple after the woman gave an undertaker a known alias used by Leon Henry Shaw, and realized he was on the FBI’s most wanted list.

Federal agents then swooped in and arrested Victoria Michelle Cravitz, the Associated Press reported. She had been living under the name of Jennifer Larsen.

The arrest brings to an end a chilling tale that dates back to 1999 when people who said they had earlier been abused by Shaw and Cravitz as children, went to authorities and said they were worried that three other children still living with the couple would also be molested.

Investigators determined the abuse had gone on for at least a decade.

Shaw and Cravitz were charged with multiple counts of rape and sodomy for forcing two children under the age of 10 to have sex with each other, prosecutors said. One of the children was also raped by an adult, they said.

During the  investigation, prosecutors say another woman came forward to say she had been kidnapped by the couple at a young age and had given birth to a child with Shaw. The young woman later escaped but her son remained in the house, prosecutors said.

The FBI had searched for years for the fugitives, but there were few leads and no  breakthroughs, until now.

“They had been on the run for a long time. They always lived in rural areas,” Klamath County District Attorney Eve Costello said. “They didn’t have a lot of contact with people and they moved constantly.”

The couple apparently had been living south of Greenville, Mississippi, for about 15 years before Shaw, now 72, developed a serious infection and Cravitz took him to a Mississippi hospital, where he died of natural causes.

Cravitz used an alias while making his funeral arrangements, which triggered an FBI flag when the undertaker tried to prepare a death certificate.

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Middle School Teacher Dubbed ‘Kim Kardashian’ Busted for Student Sex

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Teacher Shannon Moser is charged with having sexual contact with two students

WEST FARGO, North Dakota — A former middle school teacher who encouraged her students to call her Kim Kardashian, has been charged with trading sexually explicit photos with two pupils and having sex with one.

Shannon Moser, 37, had been a teacher at Liberty Middle School in West Fargo from fall 2016 until June of this year.

Police received an anonymous tip in June that Moser was having sex with a male student in a park and giving him cigarettes, the Duluth News Tribune reported. They also received tips that she was shared nude Snapchat photos with a 16-year-old student.

When cops interviewed one of the victims denied having had inappropriate relationship with Koser, but his friends said he had publicly bragged about the relation afterwards. When confronted, the boy admitted to the explicit photo exchange.

On July 11, Moser agreed to speak with investigators after officers picked her up from her home.

According to cops,, early on in the interview, Moser was reluctant to answer any questions, and kept asking what would happen to her husband and four children, saying it will ruin their lives.

She denied the student’s allegations, but said “we always preach, ‘tell the truth,’ and I have not been,” according to the report.

Moser eventually asked to speak to an attorney, but police seized her cellphone during the interview and later found URLs for porn sites that included younger boys engaging in sex with older women.

She has been charged with two counts of using a minor in a sexual performance and one count of sexual assault.

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Teen Stabs Grandmother as She Sleeps, Steals $23 From Her Purse

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Brandon Foster is in deep trouble for stabbing his grandmother

ALBION, New York — What part about “love your grandmother,” didn’t he get?

An upstate New York teen has been charged with breaking into his grandmother’s house, stabbing and choking her, before stealing money from her purse.

Seventeen-year-old Brandon Foster’s attack on his grandmother, Rachael Spearance, early Sunday, triggered a massive manhunt that ended hours later when cops found the teen cowering in some bushes behind a Burger King.

Cops say that Foster forced his way into his grandmother’s house by climbing on a chair and forcing the window open. Once inside, he allegedly made his way to granny’s bedroom and attacked her with a knife as she slept.

Spearance began fighting back, so Foster placed her in a choke hold, cops said, according to the Batavia Daily News. But she managed to fight her way free and, despite bleeding profusely, drove to a local hospital.

The teen then stole $23 from her purse and fled the house, cops said.

Spearance  was taken by Mercy Flight to Erie County Medical Center and remains in serious but stable condition.

After searching for several hours, police dogs were able to track Foster, cornering him some bushed behind Burger King. He then surrendered peacefully.

Foster is charged with first-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, first-degree burglary, criminal obstruction of breathing and petit larceny. He has been held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

 

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Urine Trouble: Woman Jailed for Failing Drug Test With Someone Else’s Pee

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Kiana Wallace asked the wrong person for their urine sample for a drug test

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — If you are going to fail a drug test, better to do it with your own piss.

A red-faced Ohio woman admitted in court that she used someone else’s pee for a drug test, but then shockingly tested positive for drugs.

“Let me get this straight,” Belmont County Common Pleas Court Judge Frank Fregiato said, according to WTOV-TV. “To avoid the positive test with your own urine, you used someone else’s urine which turned out to be positive also. That’s bizarre.”

Fregiato accused Kiana Wallace of making a mockery of the court and its drug and alcohol testing system. He then threw the book at Wallace, sentencing her to 1 1/2 years in prison.

Wallace was sentenced to six months in jail last January 2017 for drug possession.

 

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Japan Doomsday Cult Leader Executed for Subway Nerve Gas Attack

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Cult leader Shoko Asahara said his group had been preparing for a apocalyptic war with the Japanese government

TOKYO — The leader of a Japanese doomsday cult and six of his top disciples have been put to death for a spate of killings including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people and sickened thousands.

Shoko Asahara, leader of the murderous Aum Shinrikyo cult, was the first to be hanged, followed by the other six, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.  Asahara was 63 years old.

In all, 12 of Asahara’s followers had been sentenced to death for crimes that killed 27 people.

The most shocking attack came in 1995, when Asahara’s followers punctured plastic bags to release deadly sarin gas into packed train car. In all, 13 people were killed and 6,000 sickened.

Founded in 1984, the cult became popular among young people, including some graduates of top universities, who became Asahara’s top lieutenants.

The group amassed a large arsenal of chemical, biological ahead of what they believed would be an apocalyptic showdown with the government.

At its peak, the cult claimed 10,000 members in Japan and 30,000 in Russia. It has since disbanded, though nearly 2,000 followers have migrated over to three splinter groups, whihc are closely monitored by authorities.

Authorities said they are taking precautionary measures in case of any retaliation by his followers.

 

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Three Busted in Chilling Kidnapping of Hollywood Actress and Boyfriend

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Actress Daisy McCrackin and her boyfriend were kidnapped and the man beaten until she paid a ransom for his release

LOS ANGELES — Three people have been arrested in the terrifying kidnapping and beating of a Hollywood actress and her boyfriend, authorities said.

Prosecutors say the three suspects went to the South Los Angeles home of actress Daisy McCrackin in May, pistol-whipped her boyfriend, Joseph Capone, put black bags over their heads and forced them out of the house.

Keith Andre Stewart, Johntae Jones and Amber Neal then drove the victims to Jones’ home in Compton, where they stripped Capone naked and held him without food in a bathtub for the next 30 hours, prosecutors said.

Meanwhile, Jones and Neal allegedly drove McCrackin in her 2011 red Lexus, to several banks, demanding she withdraw $10,000 to secure Capone’s release. They then forced McCracking to write a $10,000 check to Neal, who deposited in her account.

The following day, the suspects drove McCrackin back to her home where she managed to escape their clutched and call police.

All three were eventually located and arrested. A video showing Neal’s arrest, in which numerous cops surrounded her with guns drawn, went viral and sparked some public outcry because she was unarmed.

The Los Angeles Police Department later put out a statement about the video, reading: “We are aware this video has raised concerns from the community. Although we are limited in what info we can release, we can confirm this individual was arrested on a felony kidnapping warrant & taken into custody without a use-of-force. She is being held on 1 million dollars bail.”

The three suspects were charged with 17 felony counts, including kidnapping, assault with a firearm, grand theft, mayhem, conspiracy and possession for sale of a controlled substance, methamphetamine.

Stewart and Jones face a maximum possible sentence of life in state prison without the possibility of parole if convicted as charged. Neal faces up to life in prison.

Bail for Jones and Neal was set at $1 million, and Stewart’s bail was $2.08 million.

McCrackin’s film credits include roles in “Halloween: Resurrection,” and “3000 Miles to Graceland.”

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