One Texas law enforcement officer was killed and three others were wounded Thursday in what became an hours-long standoff with a barricaded suspect in Levelland, about 30 miles west of Lubbock, authorities said.
The suspect, identified as Omar Soto-Chavira, 22, was eventually taken into custody late Thursday night and was to be hospitalized for unspecified injuries, according to KCBD-TV in Lubbock.
PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh mother and a man are facing charges after doctors found cocaine in the system of a 6-week-old baby.
Lindsey Satterfield, 38, took her baby to a doctor’s appointment because he kept vomiting. The doctor determined he was a pound underweight from his last appointment.
Police searched the home of Satterfield and Matthew Bell, 43, along Woodbourne Avenue in Brookline.
Inside the home, police found loose pills, stamp bags of heroin, syringes, used crack pipes and scales, according to court documents.
During an interview with police, Bell said that while he and Satterfield used crack cocaine last week, the baby was sitting in his baby swing in the living room.
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He said both he and Satterfield touched the baby after touching the crack cocaine and the crack pipe, according to the criminal complaint.
Bell further said he assumed that is how the baby tested positive for cocaine. Both Satterfield and Bell were taken to the Allegheny County Jail. Both are facing several charges, including endangering the welfare of children and aggravated assault.
The baby was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent tests to determine the cause. It was during a regular urinalysis that cocaine was discovered in his system. The baby was admitted to the hospital.
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A Cambria County man is in custody after allegedly pulling a gun on a Patton Borough police officer, Tuesday, July 13.
Austin Yanella, 24, of Hastings was pulled over on Magee Avenue after making a left turn through a red light. After being pulled over, Yanella exited the vehicle and refused to get back in even though he was ordered to do so. Yanella then began yelling and walking away from the scene until the officer pulled out a taser and pointed it at him, according to the criminal complaint.
Then, Yanella pointed a .22 caliber handgun at the officer. The officer fired the taser which dropped Yanella to the ground, according to the criminal complaint.
Yanella was arrested and placed into Cambria County prison on felony count charges of aggravated assault, possession of a prohibited firearm and firearms not be carried without a license. And, misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and recklessly endangering another person.
It’s embarrassing. We never think it could happen to us. But the truth is, it does happen and has been happening a lot more frequently lately. They are scam calls and they bilk thousands and thousands of hard-earned dollars from people.
An uptick in scam calls in the area, has prompted Latrobe police to issue a warning to residents to never provide their personal information over the phone under any circumstances.
Laura Barney, 32, charged with endangering the welfare of children and other offenses
Investigators said a caseworker from Allegheny County Children Youth and Families called them about children left home alone and, upon responding to the home on Marlow Street, the CYF worker said she saw four of the five children known that live in the house.
As the investigation continued, the CYF worker asked about the fifth child, a 12-year-old boy, and, according to the criminal complaint, was told he was in the basement.
A police officer checked the basement, finding conditions that were “objectively deplorable,” according to the criminal complaint, including puddles, basement rooms smelling of filth and gnats.
The 12-year-old boy was not found.
Police said the CYF caseworker made contact with Barney a short time later and, upon telling her that CYF would take steps including taking custody of the children, Barney allegedly stated, “Do what you gotta do” and allegedly threatened to cut the caseworker when she arrived at the home.
Upon her arrival, Barney was taken into custody.
Police said Barney said she had gone to a nail salon and claimed the 12-year-old was supposed to be watching the other children.
Almost the entire Munn family — the father, the mother and three of their children — are accused of illegally breaching the Capitol through a broken window.
Among the more than 500 people arrested so far in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, there have been several married couples and any number of parent-and-children teams. There have even been sets of siblings charged.
On Tuesday, however, in what seemed to be the first move of its kind, the Justice Department unsealed a complaint against almost the entire Munn family of Texas, accusing the father, the mother and three of their children of illegally breaching the Capitol through a broken window.
The ransomware hacker gang REvil’s websites are offline, about a week and a half after the group’s cyberattack on IT software vendor Kaseya allowed the criminals to breach hundreds of companies around the world.
In addition to REvil’s websites, “all of their infrastructure” used to control their hacking operations is also dark, said Allan Liska, an intelligence analyst who tracks ransomware for the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
REvil’s public spokesperson, who goes by the pseudonym “Unknown,” “hasn’t been active on message boards since last Thursday,” Liska said.
A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges related to a string of armed robberies that police and the FBI said he carried out with three accomplices across the city and the eastern suburbs in 2018 and 2019.
True Kinnon, 22, pleaded to conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery and brandishing a gun during a violent crime.
Kinnon admitted that he and his cohorts committed seven armed robberies in Allegheny County from November 2018 through February 2019. The group hit convenience stores in Pittsburgh, Penn Hills, Turtle Creek, Oakmont and Monroeville. During some of the heists, Kinnon and the others brandished guns, including an assault-style rifle and a revolver, and threatened employees and customers with the weapons while stealing money and property.
Kinnon and the others were all indicted federally under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits robbery or extortion affecting interstate commerce.
Prosecutors said Kinnon and Jaron Davis, of Penn Hills, robbed a customer at the Home Goods store on Mall Boulevard in Monroeville while attempting to rob the store on Dec. 17, 2018. The next day, Kinnon and Davis robbed a CoGo’s on East Carson Street. On Jan. 30, 2019, Kinnon robbed a CoGo’s on Brownsville Road, prosecutors said, along with Rudolph McBride, of Penn Hills, and Wayne Edwards, of Monroeville.
PENN HILLS, Pa. — Neighbors in Penn Hills are on edge after a series of thefts from vehicles recently.
One recent incident occurred Friday morning on Cedarwood Drive, while other incidents also occurred on Pecan Drive.
Residents provided video which shows two men rummaging around inside parked vehicles.
“The one thing I would say to the two young men, and they look awfully young in the video, is that this should not be where your story begins. Please turn it around. Make last night the last night you so something like that. Because this shouldn’t be your story,” neighbor Mary Smider said.
A Johnstown man was sentenced Thursday in Cambria County court for running a check-cashing scheme from a Richland Township hotel room in June 2020.
Raheem Akeem Brantley, 35, of the 600 block of Iolite Avenue, was sentenced to 14 to 48 months in prison by Judge Tamara R. Bernstein on forgery charges.
He had pleaded guilty in May.
Bernstein ordered a drug and alcohol assessment on Brantley and noted that, after looking at his past, she would like to help address his drug issues to see if that would help keep him out of the correctional system.
When police arrested Brantley in 2020 on a warrant from Allegheny County while he was staying at Holiday Inn Express on Scalp Avenue, they discovered an open shoe box containing numerous printed checks in various names, fictitious driver’s licenses, a computer and a printer, along with seven grams of heroin.
At the time, Police also seized 41 printed checks with various names and gift cards and found a rubber stamp with the name Active Movement LLC and blank checks in a Mercedes sedan in the parking lot.
The name Active Movement LLC was stamped on two checks used at Walmart in Town Centre Drive. The first check was declined. The second check was approved for $717.27 and was later determined to be a forgery, police said at the time.
Brantley was also ordered to pay $3,464.52 in restitution and court costs.
The Dyersburg Police Department stated that three officers were conducting a traffic stop when they heard gunshots coming from a nearby area, prompting them to investigate immediately.
“The gunfire was close with officers hearing tree limbs breaking from the rounds being fired in the wooded lot between the officers and Ewell Street,” the department said in a statement.
The officers spoke with witnesses who also heard the shots, with the investigation leading them to the home of 25-year-old Jeffrey Atwell.
Atwell told police the gunshots were actually fireworks. But during the questioning, the officers were able to identify 24-year-old convicted felon Marcus Akins in the home, who is wanted by police for failing to appear in court. They then located an AK-47.
Authorities in Southern California have seized more than 16 tons of marijuana worth an estimated $1.19 billion, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials said Wednesday. The 10-day sting is the largest eradication of illegal marijuana cultivations in the history of the department.
The operation, which began on June 8, resulted in 22 felony arrests, 109 misdemeanor arrests, and 19 arrests from water theft enforcement teams, officials said. More than 200 locations were served with search warrants. Nearly 375,000 marijuana plants and 33,480 pounds of harvested marijuana were seized, along with 65 vehicles, 180 animals and $28,000.
Authorities arrested a suspect Thursday evening in the July 3 triple homicide at the Pinetree Country Club in Georgia, in which golf pro Gene Siller was killed.
Two Chicago police officers were shot and wounded early Monday while trying to break up a crowd following Fourth of July gatherings, authorities said.
The shooting about 1:45 a.m. on the city’s West Side happened less than an hour after a drive-by shooting in Washington Park on the city’s South Side left two people dead and four others wounded.
An affiliate of the notorious REvil gang, best known for extorting $11 million from the meat-processor JBS after a Memorial Day attack, infected thousands of victims in at least 17 countries on Friday, largely through firms that remotely manage IT infrastructure for multiple customers, cybersecurity researchers said.
REvil was demanding ransoms of up to $5 million, the researchers said. But late Sunday it offered in a posting on its dark web site a universal decryptor software key that would unscramble all affected machines in exchange for $70 million in cryptocurrency.
Earlier, the FBI said in a statement that while it was investigating the attack its scale “may make it so that we are unable to respond to each victim individually.” Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger later issued a statement saying President Joe Biden had “directed the full resources of the government to investigate this incident” and urged all who believed they were compromised to alert the FBI.
Mr. Biden suggested Saturday the U.S. would respond if it was determined that the Kremlin is at all involved. Less than a month ago, he pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop giving safe haven to REvil and other ransomware gangs whose unrelenting extortionary attacks the U.S. deems a national security threat.
On Monday, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked if Russia was aware of the attack or had looked into it. He said no, but suggested it could be discussed by the U.S. and Russia in consultations on cybersecurity issues for which no timeline has been specified.
PITTSBURGH — A man was taken into custody after a SWAT incident which started Sunday, according to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, after he allegedly broke out windows and threw items into the street.
It happened just before 10:45 p.m. on Middle Street in the Central North Side neighborhood.
Officers tried unsuccessfully to make contact with the man, who appeared to barricade himself on the third floor.
SWAT was called and eventually went into the home and took the man into custody.
Three men including pro golfer Gene Siller were killed by an assailant who drove through a Georgia country club and started shooting Saturday afternoon, CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL-TV reports. The suspect was still on the loose early Monday and should be considered armed and dangerous, authorities said.
Cobb County Police said they found the body of Director of Golf Eugene Siller on the green of the 10th hole of the Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw. He had a gunshot wound to the head.
When first responders got there, they found the man with multiple gunshot wounds. Allegheny County Police homicide detectives have initiated an investigation.
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as 53-year-old Darnell Trowell.
There’s been no word on suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to call 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
Three civilians reportedly suffered serious injuries when a Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad truck exploded during the detonation of 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks.
Scottdale police are looking for the people accused of vandalizing not one but two parks in town over the weekend. The police chief said his department only became aware of it because a council member saw a resident’s Facebook post and reported it to his department.
Two people were taken to the hospital and a driver ran off following a two-vehicle crash in Pittsburgh.
The crash happened around 2 a.m. Monday near the intersection of Bennett Street and North Braddock Avenue, right on the line of Pittsburgh’s Homewood North and Homewood South neighborhoods.
Pittsburgh Public Safety said police, paramedics and firefighters arrived on scene to find a woman outside of an SUV and another woman still inside the vehicle.
Both were taken to the hospital
The driver of the second vehicle involved in the crash ran from the scene.
“We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a conversation with New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman over Zoom. “Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much, but I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn’t drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.”
Ocasio-Cortez argued earlier in June that authorities should stop building prisons and instead focus on underlying public health issues, adding it is “not acceptable” to use jails as “garbage bins.”
“If we want to reduce violent crime, if we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “The answer is to make sure that we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care and overall health care, employment, etc. It’s to support communities, not throw them away.”
Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have called on Congress to earmark $400,000 toward a program called “Stand Up To Violence,” which seeks to address gun violence through counseling and community outreach.
CHICAGO — Two mass shootings within two hours of each other left at least 17 injured, two fatally, police said.
A shooting in the city’s Chicago Lawn neighborhood Sunday night left 11 people injured, with one of the victims dying from their injuries, according to police.
Police said the victims were all gathered outside in the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue at approximately 10:53 p.m. when three unknown men emerged from an alley and fired shots into the crowd.
The perpetrators are not in custody with the shooting under investigation.
A 35-year-old man was struck in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
A 57-year-old woman was struck in the shoulder and transported to Stroger Hospital in good condition
A 23-year-old woman was struck in the hip and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition.
A 27-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound and his condition is unknown at Mount Sinai Hospital.
A 38-year-old woman was struck in the arm and leg and taken to University of Chicago Hospital in fair condition.
A 21-year-old woman sustained a graze wound to the head and self-transported to Holy Cross Hospital in fair condition.
A 42-year-old man was struck in the leg and self-transported to Holy Cross Hospital in fair condition.
A 29-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the leg and self-transported to Holy Cross Hospital in serious condition.
A 21-year-old man was struck in the leg and taken to Christ Hospital in fair condition.
A 34-year-old man was struck several times in the torso and leg and taken to Christ Hospital in serious condition.
A woman of an unknown age was struck in the chest and was pronounced dead at University of Chicago Hospital.
In another shooting just two hours earlier, six people were shot in the South Shore neighborhood. Police said around 8:45 p.m., five men and one woman were standing outside in the 2000 block of E. 71st Street when a black SUV drove by and someone inside opened fire.
A bizarre shooting incident in a suburb outside of Boston has left three people dead, including a suspect, after a stolen delivery truck plowed into the side of a house in Winthrop and its driver allegedly hopped out and gunned down two people before being fatally shot by police, authorities said.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin received a 270-month prison sentence Friday for second-degree unintentional murder in the death of George Floyd last spring.
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Minnesota District Court Judge Peter Cahill said a 22-page sentencing memorandum would explain his reasoning on the sentence in greater detail.
“Most of it’s going to be in writing, 22-page memorandum – to emphasize the fact that determining the appropriate sentence in any case and in this case is a legal analysis,” he said. “It’s applying the rule of law to the facts of an individual and specific case. As opposed to trying to be profound here on the record, I prefer you read the legal analysis.”
He added that the sentence was not motivated by “public opinion,” “emotion or sympathy” and granted Chauvin credit for 199 days in time already served.
“I want to acknowledge the deep and tremendous pain that all the families are feeling, especially the Floyd family,” Cahill said. “You have our sympathies, and I acknowledge and hear the pain that you are feeling. I acknowledge the pain not only of those in this courtroom, but the Floyd family outside this courtroom and other members of the community.”
