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CT Man Pleads Guilty In Years-Long Child Sex Abuse, Trafficking Case: State
A Connecticut man has admitted to sexually abusing a child and later forcing her to perform sexual acts with another man, prosecutors said.
Steven Lemieux, 45, of Vernon, pleaded guilty Friday, Aug. 14, to first-degree sexual assault, conspiracy to commit first-degree sexual assault, and trafficking in persons, the state Division of Criminal Justice announced Monday. A judge is set to sentence him on October 23.
Vernon police found that the abuse began in 2012, when the victim was 7 years old. Lemieux and a co-defendant repeatedly assaulted the child while she slept, investigators sai…
International Manhunt Ends With BF Captured After GF Found Slashed, Hidden In Closet: DA
An international manhunt for a man accused of slashing his girlfriend’s throat, hiding her body in a closet, and fleeing the country ended with his capture in Honduras, prosecutors announced on Monday, Aug. 17.
Darwin David Espinal-Del Cid, 27, of Telford, Pennsylvania, was taken into custody by Honduran agents with the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation during an operation coordinated with the FBI early Monday in Pespire, Honduras, according to Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan.
Espinal-Del Cid is accused of killing his girlfriend, 23-year-old Maria Bernarda Popol Garcia, as…
New Texts Emerge In Mystery Death Of Designer Aboard Investor’s Hamptons Boat: Report
A Long Island designer found dead on a boat last year complained of being “harassed” by her company’s only investor days before her body was found on his boat, according to a new report.
Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, 33, had even blocked Christopher Durnan, 61, for months to ignore his calls and texts, the New York Post reported Saturday, Aug. 15.
But Nolan-O’Slatarra’s business partner, Dylan Grace, convinced her to unblock Durnan because he was now on the receiving end of Durnan’s communication, according to the Post. Durnan was concerned about fraud by the operators, according to texts obtain…
Penn State Frat Brothers Ran NY Cocaine Ring: PA AG
More than a dozen people, most of whom were Penn State students at the time, and the father of one are accused in a years-long cocaine trafficking operation tied to two fraternity houses, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced on Monday, Aug. 17.
Fourteen people were charged following a statewide investigating grand jury probe dubbed "Operation Drugs Unlimited," which uncovered kilos of cocaine allegedly transported from Philadelphia and New York to State College in 2023 and 2024, Sunday said.
Agostino Abbatiello, of Westbury, New York, and Thomas Robinson, of Pittsburgh, were …
Farmington Mourns Beloved 11-Year-Old Remembered For Love, Humor, Faith
Sickle cell disease tested 11-year-old Mason Holmes throughout his young life, but it never dimmed the love he gave others. He was always smiling, dreaming big, and reminding his family, “I love you, because you never know.”
“You never know” became painfully real on Saturday, Aug. 8, when the Farmington boy entered a hospital for a common procedure, but things didn't go as planned.
“He walked into the hospital smiling,” Ebony Skyers, a close family friend, said. “ He was going to have a procedure that would allow him to play like other kids, allow him to return to just being a kid. Bu…
Ex-Cambridge Professor Found Dead Amid Plagiarism Scandal: Reports
Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor embroiled in a plagiarism scandal, has been found dead at his home in London, England, according to multiple published reports. He was 41 years old.
Arday's death came one week after he resigned from the University of Cambridge, where he became the youngest Black professor when he was hired as a sociology professor in 2023.
Police were called to a report of an unresponsive man inside a London property on Friday, Aug. 14, NBC News reports, citing London's Metropolitan Police. The man, whom NBC identified as Arday, was pronounced dead at the scene. Hi…
