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Man Robbed at Sword-Point After Letting Woman In to Use the Bathroom

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The suspect whipped out the sword after being let in to use the toilet

BUFFALO, New York — Is that a sword in your hands, or are you just happy to see me?

A Buffalo man was robbed at sword-point after letting a woman into his house to use the bathroom, police said.

The man told police that he didn’t know the woman, but let her in after she knocked on his door Saturday asking to use his bathroom, the Buffalo News reported.

After doing her business, she grabbed the weapon that was laying near the door to the man’s house and threatened to hurt him if he didn’t hand over his cash.

After he handed over his wallet, the woman knocked him to the ground and ran off with his cash, cops said.

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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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3 Hurt in Sale of Dead Explosive Hobbyist’s Home After Device Goes Off

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An improvised explosive device disguised to look like a cigarette lighter ruined the sale

LEXINGTON, Kentucky — And people worry about the real estate market overheating.

Three people were injured during an open house for a home for sale in Kentucky, when a visitor unknowingly triggered an improvised explosive device.

Lexington Police say the home’s owner — who recently died — was an explosives hobbyist and left the house littered with materials used in building bombs.

The people were injured on Friday morning when a 33-year-old man inadvertently set off the explosive that had been made to look like a cigarette lighter. The man suffered serious injuries to his hand and upper body. Another man suffered a deep laceration to his leg and a woman was treated for what cops described as “concussion-like injuries.”

Two nearby homes were evacuated as investigators from the FBI, ATF and various police agencies in Kentucky combed the house.

After identifying various other explosives compounds, authorities detonated the material in a containment vessel.

Police say they do not believe the homeowner intentionally left the devices with the purpose of hurting anyone and that no charges were likely to be filed.

 

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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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Man Busted For Nude Workout at ‘Judgement Free Zone’ Gym

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Eric Stagno felt the gym shouldn’t judge him for working out in the nude

PLAISTOW, New Hampshire — A man was arrested for  brazenly working out in the nude at a Planet Fitness gym, claiming that he thought it was a “judgement free zone,” cops said.

Eric Stagno, 34, of Haverhill, New Hampshire, walked into the Planet Fitness in nearby Plaistow on Sunday, then stripped off his clothes and began walking around the room before settling on a mat to do yoga poses, police said.

“The story we got from witnesses was that the guy walked in, stripped down right there in front, left the clothes and belongings at the front desk, walked back and forth across the gym a couple of times and then settled in over at the yoga mats,” Plaistow Police Capt. Brett Morgan told the Manchester Union Leader.

Morgan said other patrons reported feeling “uncomfortable,” “disgusted,” “sick” and “unsafe.” When officers arrived, they found Stagno in a “yoga-type pose” on a mat. Morgan said.

“The only comment he made was that he thought it was a judgment-free zone, apparently referencing their slogan,” Morgan said.

Stagno was charged with indecent exposure, lewdness and disorderly conduct.

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Texas Woman With Shaved Head Busted For Sending Meth to Jailed Double Murderer

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Sara Russell’s shaved hairdo is a hairdon’t

WICHITA FALLS, Texas — A woman with a distinctive shaved hairstyle has been busted for trying to send drugs to a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in prison.

Investigators say mail room workers at the James V. Allred prison in northern Texas intercepted a letter sent by 29-year-old Sara Elizabeth Russell to Jason Burkett after spotting an unusual bulge behind a photograph inside a handmade card.

A closer inspection revealed a package containing a white powder which later tested positive for methamphetamine, KFDX-TV reported.

They also found handwritten instructions on how to disguise the meth in the card, including a note to tape the outside edges of the package shut.

Burkett admitted that he had made the card and mailed it to Russell but claimed to investigators that he did not ask her to mail him drugs.

Investigators say the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab matched fingerprints found on the package to Russell. They believe Burkett sent her the card with pre-arranged directions to place the drugs inside and return it to him.

Jason Burkett is serving life in prison for double murder

She has been charged with one count of prohibited substance in a correctional facility and was held on $10,000 bond.

Burkett is serving life sentences for the murders of two teenage boys in Conroe, Texas in 2001.  His co-defendant, Michael “Romeo” Perry was executed in 2010 for the murder of the mother of one of the boys.

 

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Serial Nude Masturbator Busted After Terrorizing Calif. Community For Year

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Joseph Ironteeth Agnelle was IDed as a serial nude masturbator

FREMONT, California — Cops finally caught up to a serial nude masturbator terrorizing a California community for more than a year as he  ran naked from an apartment building.

Fremont Police detectives say Joseph Ironteeth Agnelle, a 31-year-old homeless man, admitted to at least 25 incidents over the past year in which he would accost woman while naked and masturbate in front of them.

Cops received a flood of tips about Agnelle in recent weeks after going public with the investigation and releasing images of the naked man darting across a field sporting a distinctive tattoo on his arm of a feather dangling from a ring.

Eventually, detectives were able to identify Agnelle, who works as a car mechanic, as their suspect. They then obtained an arrest warrant for him and waited outside two homes to which he had connections.

While staking out one of the addresses in Fremont, cops spotted what they believed was Agnelle’s car, and then saw him running naked out of the building.

Agnelle then ran into some bushes and refused to come out, so police used a Taser to subdue him.

He was charged with indecent exposure, burglary and resisting arrest. He has been held on $102,000 bond. More charges are expected.

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Crazed Kansas Councilwoman Bites Cop Hard Enough to Break His Thumb

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Councilwoman Carol Fowler leads by bad example

HURON, Kansas  — This is what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum.

Police in the small Kansas town of Huron were forced to use a Taser to subdue a town councilwoman who later bit a deputy’s thumb so badly she broke it, officials said.

Cops had gone to arrest Carol Fowler last Friday on a warrant for failing to show up to court for a prior drunken disorderly bust. But instead of going quietly, Fowler kicked and scratched officers, forcing them to tase her, the Atchison Globe reported.

She was held over the weekend, and when officers tried to complete the booking process on Monday, Fowler fought with them again, biting and officer’s thumb with such force it broke.

“They had five officers in there and it was a struggle for all of them to get her to comply,” Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie told MSC News. “She was able to get a hold of one of the correction officer’s thumbs with her teeth and actually broke the bone in his thumb.”

Fowler is one of five people on the city council of Huron, a town in eastern Kansas with a population of 73 people. She was elected last November after receiving two votes, and took office in January.

She remains in jail on $25,000 bond on charges of felony battery on a law enforcement officer, misdemeanor battery on a law enforcement officer and an additional misdemeanor charge of interference with law enforcement.

 

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Serial Nude Masturbator Hassling Women in California

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Cops say this is the serial masturbator they are looking for

FREMONT, California — Cops are on the hunt for a serial nude masturbator who has been lurking around northern California.

Police first caught wind of the pervert perp on June 21, when an 18-year-old woman in Fremont reported waking up in her home with a naked man masturbating in front of her. When she screamed, he ran. After cops put out information about the incident, other women came forward.

Now cops think the first time the sicko struck was on June 15, when two Fremont women noticed someone moving around in their backyard.  A closer look revealed a naked man touching his genitals and then waving at them before he took off, cops said.

On June 27, the man allegedly struck twice. At one point, the naked man approached a couple in a parked car and tried to speak to them. When they refused to engage, the man hopped into a Cadillac SUV a sped off.

An hour later, cops say he struck again when he walked naked up to a woman walking her dog through an apartment complex. She ran away from him and the man disappeared.

That wasn’t the last of it. On July 5, a surveillance camera caught the naked man masturbating in nearby Pleasanton. That gave a cops a clear sense of what the man looked like and the details of a distinctive tattoo on his right shoulder that show a feather hanging from a ring.

 

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