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Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who was on the FBI’s top fugitives list, has been arrested, AP sources say. Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, landed on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list for allegedly ordering dozens of murders across the globe, including in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The 44-year-old is accused of running a drug trafficking operation, and officials say he orchestrated several killings to further the drug crimes. Authorities had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction. The arrest is expected…
A Florida charter boat captain was arrested this week after selling $10,000 worth of cocaine to undercover cops who were carrying out a drug sting, authorities said. Bradford Todd Picariello, 65, of Marathon, was arrested Monday after reportedly selling drugs found at sea, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook. Authorities seized 23 kilograms of cocaine, $8,000 in cash and a 38-foot vessel during the covert operation. Picariello was arrested after detectives purchased a kilogram of cocaine from him for $10,000 in cash. He was charged with trafficking cocaine, selling cocaine and possessing cocaine, the sheriff’s office said. open…
A Florida woman has been accused of drugging men at bars to later rob them so many times that a detective remembered her, according to a report. Sarah Tavano, 39, faces 10 criminal charges across four cases in Miami-Dade County, police wrote in an arrest report this week, according to Local 10 News. Tavano, who is originally from Massachusetts, gained the trust of the men “under the pretense of consensual activity,” while living in St. Augustine, about 320 miles north of Miami. She was arrested Sunday at Sugar, a rooftop bar in downtown Miami. At the time of her arrest,…
Six families have sued TikTok after their children died while allegedly attempting a viral choking challenge on the social media platform. The case centers on a Delaware family and five others from the United Kingdom, all of whom were late teenagers aged 11 to 17. Their families have claimed they took part in a trend called the “Blackout Challenge.” According to the six families, the “Blackout Challenge” encourages users to choke themselves until they pass out. Delaware resident Michelle Ortiz says that her son, Jaedon Bovell, was one of the teenagers killed while attempting the challenge. Her son died in…
Prosecutors have rested in the trial of a former Uvalde school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack. After over a week of grueling testimony, the prosecution called a state investigator as their final witness in the case against Adrian Gonzales, who has pleaded not guilty to 29 counts child abandonment or endangerment. He faces up to two years in prison if convicted. It’s unclear if Gonzales will take the stand in his own defense before the case goes to the jury. His…
Once fixtures of New York’s ultra-luxury real estate scene, the Alexander brothers built careers selling some of the most expensive homes in the country – and cultivating a jet-set lifestyle to match. But now Tal Alexander, 38, his brothers, Oren Alexander and Alon Alexander, who are 38-year-old twins, will face a jury in a Manhattan federal courtroom on charges that prosecutors say expose a far darker reality – a years-long sex trafficking conspiracy involving dozens of women, luxury travel, drugs, and violence. Prosecutors say the brothers typically met their victims on dating apps, through social events, at bars and nightclubs,…
A Wyoming mother is facing murder charges after allegedly shooting her 11-month-old son in the face because she did not want to lose custody. The killing of Basil Emeric Daly marked a tragic end to a dispute between his parents that began when he was born. Mom Madeline Daly, 35, shared custody with Basil’s father, Jake Stoner of Kilgore, Nebraska; in an interview with Cowboy State Daily, Stoner said he’d had a rocky relationship with the mother of his child, and was forced to take her to court when she resisted his attempts to visit with his son. Stoner last…
Four men have been arrested in connection with a killing at a California pizza joint more than 20 years ago, police announced. Ryan Cunningham, 22, was killed on March 20, 2004, while sitting on the patio of La Bella’s Pizza Garden in Chula Vista, California, when he was attacked by a group of men who beat him with a variety of weapons, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. One of the suspects stabbed Cunningham before the men fled the scene in a pair of vehicles. Cunningham was taken to a hospital but died from his injuries, NBC…
An Indiana judge and his wife were shot at their home on Sunday, just weeks after the jurist announced his plans to retire. Authorities raced to Judge Steven Meyer and his wife, Kimberly’s, address in Lafayette, not far from Purdue University’s campus, at 2.17 pm on Sunday after reports of a shooting on the block came in. Meyer is a well-known judge in the area who rose to prominence for presiding over several of the state’s most controversial cases, including a dispute between Ukrainian adoptee Natalia Grace Barnett and her American family. The highly publicized court battle saw Grace Barnett’s…
One Friday night in Southern California in April 2001, 32-year-old Suzanne Sites-Fenton took a break from her retail job, walked out into the parking lot, and vanished. Detectives would later find her body shot dead in a “desolate” patch of the Mojave Desert, but failed to trace her killer. Now, following a cold case investigation, authorities say they have finally identified the culprit. Raymond Silva Gonzalez, 51, from Hesperia in the High Desert northeast of Los Angeles, was arrested last Thursday and charged with murder, according to the San Bernadino Sheriff’s Department. He is currently being held without bail and…