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Sisters Busted After Getting in Knife Fight in Front of Kids

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The Tate sisters were going to let a little thing like family get in the way

MADISON, Wisconsin — This is taking sibling rivalry to a whole new level.

A pair of sisters in Wisconsin were arrested after stabbing each other while engaged in “mutual combat” in front of five little kids, police said.

Madison police say the fight erupted between Abria Tate, 24, and her 23-year-old sister Alyssa Tate, “after a heated family argument regarding child care.”

When cops arrived at the home where the fight erupted they found “two uncooperative adult female sisters with stab wounds to their arms.”

Cops say there were five small children in the house at the time that witnessed the stabbing.

Alyssa was allegedly armed with a knife, a scissors and pepper spray. A man who was in the home at the time was arrested after cops found a gun in his bag. He was initially accused of instigating the fight.

Both women were treated and  released with non-life threatening injuries. They were both charged with domestic reckless endangering safety, and children’s protective services are trying to figure out what to do with the children.

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Shrink Suspended For Whipping Patients With Riding Crop, Calling them Mules

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Valerie Augustus’s riding crop method was a bit more hands on than most therapists

MEMPHIS — A sicko Tennessee shrink has been suspended for allegedly beating patients with a riding crop and calling them mules as part of her therapy sessions.

Valeria Augustus has been ordered by state authorities to close her office for two months and could lose her medical license for good following a review, officials said.

Augustus has run Christian Psychiatrist Services for 17 years, and was found to have spanked at least 10 patients with the crop. In 2015, officials say she whipped the buttocks of a patient with a history of physical abuse, and who suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts.

An investigation by state authorities also found that Augustus had “made contact with other mental health patients with a riding crop, whip or other object.” The probe also revealed that Augustus kept a riding crop and a whip “displayed in her office” and “compared her patients to mules,” according to the Nashville Tennessean.

The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners suspended Augustus’ license after determining there was “no evidence” in psychiatrist literature that using whips or riding crops is an effective part of treatment.

Her license was suspended for 60 days as the agency continues its probe. If cleared, Augustus can petition to have her license reinstated.

Augustus was also fined $10,000 – $1,000 for each patient she struck.

 

 

 

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Pennsylvania Motorist Busted For Pooping on Man in Road Rage Incident

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This driver was pooping mad!

HEIDELBERG TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — That’s one hell of a way to end a fight.

A Pennsylvania motorist has been arrested for allegedly pooping on another man during a heated road rage incident, cops say.

“The accused and the victim got into a road rage argument, leading the accused to defecate on the victim,” Pennsylvania State Police said in a press release, according to LehighValleyLive.com.

Henry George Weaver of New Tripoli, was charged with harassment for the incident which occurred Friday morning in Heidelberg Township.

Police did not give further detail on what led to the episode.

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Florida Man Snared in Theft of Animals from Local Zoo

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Sedrick Price had a thing for stolen zoo animals

GAINESVILLE, Florida — A 20-year-old Florida has been arrested after cops found seven animals that had been stolen from a nearby zoo in his home.

Sedrick Price, who lives in a Gainesville apartment complex not far from where the animals were stolen, was found with seven of the 11 animals that disappeared from the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo in late May.

“He was arrested for his involvement in the case and is charged with grand theft. Our investigation is continuing, and we are still concerned for the safety of the missing animals and we hope we are able to recover them quickly,” said Sante Fe College Police Capt. Ryan Woods.

Four animals — two gopher tortoises and two box turtles — were taken from the zoo on May 23. Seven more animals, including three more box turtles, two red foot tortoises, a skink and a squirrel monkey, were taken on May 30, school officials said.

Cops were led to Price’s home after receiving a tip that the animals might be there. Investigators were able to recover seven animals, three box turtles, two red-foot tortoises, a skink and a squirrel monkey from Price’s home.

Six of the rescued animals had been taken in the second burglary and one box turtle had been taken during the earlier theft.

Zoo officials said they remain deeply concerned about the animals that remain missing as some need medication.

Cops say more arrests are possible, and they are hopeful they can recover the remaining four animals.

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Trio Wanted After Walking Out on Giant Botox Bill at UK Plastic Surgery Clinic

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Cops are hunting for this trio of botox thieves

BEXLEY, United Kingdom — Beauty doesn’t come free.

Police in England are searching for a trio of thieves who walked out of a cosmetic surgery clinic without paying for thousands in botox and lip filler treatments.

Cops say the two women and a man walked into the Persona Cosmetic Medicine Clinic in Bexley in February and ran a bill of £2,000 ($2,650) in treatments and then ran out before paying.

The two women left behind some key evidence — in the form of before and after photos that were taken at the clinic. The photo of the man was taken elsewhere.

“Police would like to identify and speak to these three suspects,” the Bexley police said on Facebook. “The three suspects received treatments worth over £2,000 and then ran out of the premises without paying for the work.”

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Missing Fla. Woman Believed Dead, Top Suspect Had Been Missing Since 2004

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Joleen Cummings (l) has been missing since Mothers’ Day and cops believe Kimberly Kessler

FERNANDINA BEACH, Florida — The case of a missing mother of three took a sinister turn when cops announced the arrest of coworker with a dark past and stated that they don’t believe the woman who disappeared is still alive.

Joleen Cummings, 34, was last seen on May 12 leaving work at a hair salon and was reported missing two days later when she failed to pick up her three kids from her ex-husband, cops said.

Cops zeroed in on the suspect when they found Cummings vehicle outside a Home Depot and surveillance footage showed her colleague, Jennifer Sybert, getting out of the car alone, WJXT-TV reported.

Detectives went to the salon last week in the hopes of finding Sybert, but when she failed to show up for work. They eventually tracked her down, finding her living in her car with scratches on her face. She was charged with grand theft auto, while investigators made made a startling discovery.

Turns out Sybert isn’t her real name. Her actual name is Kimberly Kessler who had disappeared under “suspicious circumstances” from her hometown in Pennsylvania in 2004. She allegedly stole the identity of Jennifer Sybert from a 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl who died in a car crash in Germany.

A subsequent investigation has led cops to believed that Cummings is dead and they say Kessler is a suspect. She remains in custody.

 

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Man Busted in Underage Sex Sting Stabs Self With Wooden Sailfish

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Paul Morgan Newport used a sailfish sculpture like this one to try to slash his throat

CAPE CORAL, Florida — A sicko sex offender being arrested for the second time for attempting to lure a young boy for sex, tried to avoid another stint behind bars by stabbing himself with a wooden sailfish statue.

Cops in Florida say Paul Morgan Newport, 50, was one of 18 men snatched up last week in a sting of men who were trawling social media to solicit underage victims for sex.

The Lee County Sheriff’s office says Newport solicited an undercover agent posing as a 14-year-old boy on the hookup app Grindr and agree to meet for oral sex, WFTX-TV reported.

After detectives met him at the agreed rendezvous spot instead and Newport was taken into custody, he managed to bolt into a bedroom where he grabbed the wooden fish statue that sat on the nightstand and used it to slash his neck.

Paul Morgan Newport

Officers used a Taser to subdue him and rushed him to a hospital where he was treated for his injuries.

In 2016, Newport was nabbed in a similar sting and has been a registered sex offender ever since.

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Bad Dad Kills Daughter’s Dogs After She Failed to Do Dishes

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Jeffrey Don Edwards took his frustration out on his daughter’s two helpless dogs

HARRAH, Oklahoma — An ogre of an  Oklahoma dad has been charged with teaching his teenage daughter a particularly cruel lesson when he ruthlessly shot her two dogs after she failed to clean up the house, cops said.

Jeffrey Don Edwards, 35, allegedly “got mad” at his 17-year-old daughter for not having done the dished or straightened up the house, triggering the bloodshed.

“Her father was mad … and began throwing dishes,” an investigator with the Oklahoma County sheriff’s office reported in a court affidavit, according to the Oklahoman.

The girl then called her mother to come pick her up. When she returned the next morning, she found “blood all over the place” and her two dogs missing, cops said.

According to investigators, the girl’s uncle told her Edwards “shot her dogs to punish her.” She then found dried blood in the bed of her pickup and investigators found tire tracks that led to a wooded area near the house, where the two dogs were found shot to death.

Cops say that after the shootings, Edwards visited a nearby convenience store and told two employees there about killing the animals. One employee said Edwards told them “his house was dirty and he lost his temper then shot the dogs without remorse,” according to investigators.

Investigators recovered at least two rifles, a handgun and a huge cache of bullets on the property.

In 2011, he was sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty to firing a shotgun out the window of a pickup.

 

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Obsessed Woman Bombards Man With 65,000 Texts After One Date

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Jacqueline Ades became obsessed with the man after just one date and bombarded him with text messages

PHOENIX  — It turned out to be a date from hell.

An Arizona woman who went on one date with a man she met on an online dating site has landed behind bars after she bombarded him with 65,000 text messages professing her love while also threatening him with violence.

Jacqueline Ades, 31, is also charged with breaking into the man’s home and showing up at his office claiming to be his wife, police said.

“I felt like I met my soulmate and I thought we would just do what everybody else did and we would get married and everything would be fine,” Ades told KTVK-TV in a jailhouse interview.

But among the texts she sent the man included menacing messages like: “Don’t ever try to leave me… I’ll kill you… I don’t wanna be a murderer!,” and “Oh, what I would do w/your blood… I’d wanna bathe in it.”

She also penned anti-Semitic messages like:  “I hope you die… you rotten filthy Jew,” and “I’m like the new Hitler… man was a genius.”

Police say she also said that if the man ever left her, she would chop up his body and wear his body parts.

The victim said he received as many as 500 messages from Ades a day, but told cops  that he never responded.

He called police after she broke into his house in April, but reached out for help again in May when she continued sending him threatening messages.

Ades told cops that she loved the man but threatened him because she didn’t want him to leave her. She said she realized her statements were crazy, and investigators noted in their report that Ades appeared to be “mentally disturbed.”

 

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EX-NBA Announcer Jailed for Upskirt Videos Filmed at Memphis Church

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Rick Trotter was canned by the Grizzlies after his upskirt video arrest

MEMPHIS — An ex-NBA announcer who called games for the Memphis Grizzlies for a decade, was sentenced to 60 days behind bars for illicitly filming up women’s skirts at his church.

Rick Trotter, 41, was caught in 2016 kneeling behind behind a woman at the Memphis church where he worked and angling his church-issued cell phone to take an upskirt video, prosecutors said.

A police search of his phone and church-issued laptop revealed similar videos of four women also shot within the church. The women ranged in age from 29 to 63.

Trotter, who joined the Grizzlies announcing staff in 2006, was dumped by the team immediately after his arrest.

Church officials also cut ties with Trotter after his arrest, saying his termination was the result of “deception and moral failures of sexual nature.”

“This revelation has been deeply devastating to all of us,” the statement continued. “We, as elders, have come around his wife and children offering spiritual, emotional and financial support.”

Trotter will serve his 60-day sentence at the Shelby County Penal Farm followed by four years on probation. He also must register as a non-violent sex offender.

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