Crime
Two Bit ‘Parks and Recreation’ Actor Arrested For Allegedly Defacing George Floyd Statue
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BRYAN R. SMITH / Getty The New York Police Department have caught the person who was spotted allegedly vandalizing a statue of the late George Floyd in Union Square Park in New York City. Through their Twitter account, the NYPD Hate Crimes department announced the arrest of actor Micah Beals on Monday (October 25th), charging him with second-degree criminal mischief. This was a follow-up to their initial tweet, which showed Beals captured on camera on October 3rd at 10:15 A.M. dressed in a green jacket and black shorts riding a skateboard around the statue, which is part of a public art installation entitled #SeeInjustice by Chris Carnabuci that includes statues of the late Representative John Lewis and Breonna Taylor. The footage then shows the culprit t...
Dog the Bounty Hunter Halts Search for Brian Laundrie After Injuring Ankle
Dog the Bounty Hunter has halted his search for Brian Laundrie after injuring his ankle. TMZ reports that Dog injured his ankle in rough terrain while searching for Laundrie, and is now returning to Colorado for treatment. Laundrie is a person of interest in the murder of his fiancée, Gabby Petito, a #VanLife influencer who was reported missing on September 11th and whose body was subsequently discovered on September 19th. Dog, a former bail bondsman turned reality TV bounty hunter, joined the search for Laundrie on September 23rd, and has spent the last two-plus weeks rummaging through Florida camp grounds looking for potential clues. One of his earliest leads, a crushed can of Monster Energy, was quickly determined to be nothing more than trash. Advertisement Related Video Speaking to TM...
Basketball Court To Federal Court: 18 Ex-NBA Players Indicted In $4 Million Health Insurance Fraud Scam
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty More than a dozen former NBA players—a dozen and a half to be exact—are no longer on the basketball court but will be appearing in a criminal court of law after being indicted Thursday (Oct. 7) on federal charges related to a multi-million-dollar health insurance fraud scheme allegedly spearheaded by none other than former New Jersey Nets and Houston Rockets player Terrence Williams. According to NBC New York, from at least 2017 up to some time last year, Williams orchestrated a scheme to defraud the NBA Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan by submitting fake invoices for reimbursement for medical treatment he and other participants never received. For example, one infraction described in the indictment is a $19,0...
Dog the Bounty Hunter Finds Brian Laundrie Clue and/or Trash
Dog the Bounty Hunter is out to clean up the streets. As part of his quest to find potential murderer Brian Laundrie, the reality TV star and former bondsman is now holding up random trash to the Fox News cameras, because hey, you never know, it might be a clue. The latest breaking news involves a partially crushed can of Monster Energy. Never mind that Laundrie was reportedly a health nut and environmentalist, and therefore unlikely to consume energy drinks or toss them aside — the infamous bottle-blonde mullet is on the case, either literally on Laundrie’s trail or merely picking up litter. Either way, Fox News will be there. Laundrie is a person of interest in the murder of Gabby Petito, a #VanLife influencer who was reported missing on September 11th and whose body was subsequentl...
Dog the Bounty Hunter Promises to “Find” Brian Laundrie
Reality TV star Duane Chapman, a.k.a. Dog the Bounty Hunter, has joined the search for Brian Laundrie, the man who police identify as a person of interest in the murder of Gabby Petito. Chapman knocked on the door of the Laundrie family’s home on Saturday, but no one answered. In an interview with The Daily Mail, the former bail bondsman promised he would “find” Laundrie, and added that he is “chasing several leads… We’ve got a lot of leads. I can’t tell you more but we are getting leads every 10 minutes.” A representative for Chapman told The Daily Mail that he is”volunteering” his services and will cooperate with law enforcement. He has also set up a dedicated phone line — 833-TELL-DOG — for any tips about Laundrie’s whereabouts. Advertisement Related Video After her parents reported her...
Brother POLIGHT Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Teen Girl In Miami
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Noel Vasquez / Getty For someone who calls himself Brother POLIGHT, this alleged behavior wasn’t so polite. NBC Miami reported that 37-year-old Michael Noak Jr., also known as “Brother POLIGHT,” surrendered to police on Monday (Aug.16) for alleged sexual battery of a 14-year-old girl back in February. According to the report, the alleged victim is the daughter of a woman Noak was romantically involved with. Noak’s attorney David Tarras states his client is innocent, boldly stating “Once the evidence is produced, he is going to be exonerated. So yeah, not guilty. Nothing else.” We shall see. According to the report, the alleged victim is making some very damning claims against Noak. It claims that the motivational speaker and author who hails from Los Ange...
Atlanta Rapper Germ Says He Saw Girlfriend Abducted Before Her Murder
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @germ / Instagram An Atlanta-based rapper is dealing with the tragedy of his girlfriend being murdered last week. And worst of all—he claims he saw her being kidnapped before she was murdered hours later. [embedded content] The authorities have publicly released the 911 call made by local artist Germ, who called them after claiming to witness the abduction of his girlfriend, Mariam Abdulrab. She had called Germ, whose real name is Jerry Antoine, only minutes before she arrived at his home in Southeast Atlanta last Friday (August 13). Germ made the call to a 911 operator after witnessing a man in a security shirt force Abdulrab into an SUV at gunpoint. She was found hours later outside an abandoned house by someone, who told the operator “she does not appe...
Singer of Punk Band Bayside Helps Detectives Nab Florida Man Accused of Sexual Battery
Bayside singer Anthony Raneri aided authorities in apprehending a Florida man accused of sexual battery. Detectives arrest the suspect after a three-month investigation, which began after an Instagram post by Raneri in April. In the post, the punk-rock frontman explained that a Jacksonville tattoo artist named James Ranieri was apparently posing as his cousin to gain favor with women. “It has come to my attention that a tattooer named from Solid State Tattoo in Jacksonville, FL is telling women on social media that he is my cousin,” wrote Anthony Raneri. “This isn’t true, and I don’t know this person.” Advertisement Related Video After making the post, Raneri was flooded with messages by women who claimed they had been assaulted or contacted by James Ranieri. Taking matters into his own ha...
Haiti asks US, UN to send troops after president’s assassination
Haiti has asked Washington and the UN for troops to secure its ports, airport and other strategic sites after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise opened a power vacuum in the crisis-hit Caribbean nation, an official said Friday. The United States has already said it will send FBI and other agents to Port-au-Prince, two days after Moise was shot dead in his home. In the wake of the slaying “we thought that mercenaries could destroy some infrastructure to create chaos … During a conversation with the US secretary of state and the UN we made this request,” elections minister Mathias Pierre told AFP. The US State Department and Pentagon both confirmed receiving a request for “security and investigative assistance” and said officials remain in contact with Port-au-Prince, but did not s...
Cross River: Igbo leaders to partner with police on community policing
President of Igbo Congress Cross River chapter, Prince Raymond Atulomah, has stated that Ndi Igbo would partner with police command in the area of community policing. Speaking during a courtesy call on the Cross River Commissioner for Police, Mr Sikiru Akande, in his office in Calabar on Friday, Atulomah said Igbo leaders crave for a crime-free society and therefore would contribute to ensuring that the police Command succeed in the area of crime fighting. He said Igbo are committed to promoting a peaceful co-existence between them and host communities especially in local security. He said: “We are here to pay solidarity visit to the Commissioner and congratulate him on his appointment. We pledge to collaborate with your office in the area of community policing. We promise to be law abidin...
Haiti police say they have president’s suspected killers, still hunting masterminds
Haiti’s police has killed or apprehended the suspected killers of President Jovenel Moise, officials said on Thursday, and are hunting for the masterminds behind the assassination that stunned the impoverished Caribbean nation. Moise, 53, was shot dead early on Wednesday at his home by what officials said was a commando of apparently foreign, trained killers, pitching the poorest country in the Americas deeper into turmoil amidst political divisions, hunger, and widespread gang violence. Police Chief Leon Charles said in a televised briefing on Thursday that authorities had tracked down the suspected assassins to a house near the scene of the crime in Petionville, a northern suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince. A fierce firefight lasted late into the night and six suspects were taken in c...
Kaduna court remands 75-year-old man over ‘sexual assault’ on minor
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, ordered that a 75-year-old man, Umar Isah, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old boy. The police charged Isah who resides in Kingshasha Road, Ungwan Rimi, Kaduna with unnatural offence. The Magistrate, Hajara Dauda, who did not take the plea of Isah, held that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit. Dauda directed the police to forward the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice. She adjourned the case until July 13, for further mention. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Sunday Baba, told the court that Isah committed the offence on July 4 at 1p.m., at his residence. Baba said the defendant, lured the boy into his room and had carnal knowledge of him. Th...
