Ricardo Ubinas, a police lieutenant in Tampa, Fla., said a driver “despondent over a recent breakup” intentionally veered his car into a concrete median and caused five other vehicles to crash, leaving two people injured and killing a 2-monthold puppy.
Eric Hall, 40, was arrested after, authorities said, he walked up to an unmarked K-9-equipped car in Berkeley County, S.C., while holding baggies of meth, opened the door and, realizing that police were in the vehicle, uttered an expletive, adding, “What’s up, guys?”
Filmon Tekle, 34, a tax preparer from St. Louis, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for facilitating the filing of false tax returns, also charging significant fees and paying other tax preparers kickbacks for their work in a scheme that cost the federal government $167,500.
Johnny Mack Rogers, 29, faces an animal-cruelty charge after a Tennessee shelter received a mortally injured 6-week-old kitten that witnesses said had been buried alive by Rogers after having been stepped on by a woman at Rogers’ home.
Melissa Thomas of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., said her son Casson, 8, screamed the whole way to the hospital as his ankle swelled to the size of a softball and oozed blood from a snakebite, adding that after receiving 18 doses of anti-venom, the boy has been playing as if the bite never happened.
Alberto Carmenatty, 29, pleaded innocent to assault and other charges after, police said, he fought four people in a Massachusetts park, including his girlfriend and her two daughters, one of whom is pregnant, as his dog, which was also pregnant, died in the back seat of a hot car.
Regina Duckett, a police captain in Montgomery, Ala., said two men’s argument over beer turned violent, leading to the arrest of Lamar Flynn, 50, after the other man suffered cuts on the head and left hand from a machete attack.
Stephanie Shae Thomas, 34, said she didn’t remember driving to the Alabama Walmart where she left her dog in her car for several hours while she shopped, resulting in the dog’s death, adding that she has bipolar disorder and ran out of her medication.
John Westmoreland, 46, of Harmontown, Miss., faces six counts of touching a child for lustful purposes after being accused of molesting girls between the ages of 10 and 12 in a home day care run by his wife.