January 1, 2025 Suspect claimed ‘he was scratching his leg’ under McDonald’s table; witness, cop, video say otherwise A man with a long criminal history is accused of doing something so inappropriate at McDonald’s that an employee shot video of him and called the cops.
December 30, 2024 Cop tried to help driver who said ‘he needs help and wanted me to kill him,’ but is now facing 2 felonies A man who could’ve been spending the holidays in a hospital, or even at home, is being held in jail without bond after run-ins with two police officers. He started with the first cop’s sympathy, despite how they met.
December 28, 2024 Woman was ‘hearing voices coming from the floorboard’ of roommate’s stolen car, trooper says You can’t return a rental car if it’s stolen. That’s what a man told a cop, and he suspected his roommate. Incredibly, the car and roommate were found before he even knew the car was gone.
December 27, 2024 Follow-up Friday: Driver who said ‘it was better for him to get in trouble rather than his mother’ sentenced twice more The driver who told police “it was better for him to get in trouble rather than his mother, who[se] license is also suspended,” has been arrested and sentenced twice more, in two counties, in less than three months.
December 25, 2024 Man traveled cross-country to quickly get arrested twice for domestic violence, 2nd time with ‘a fat lip’ Police officers showed up when paramedics requested help “with a possibly combative patient.” That patient was not the woman described as an “elderly female subject” with “dark purple bruising on her right eye.”
December 24, 2024 Suspect in crimes including carjacking and crashing pickup (twice!) spent years regaining competency A criminal suspect who had three run-ins with the law in three counties in one month is out of the psychiatric hospital and back in jail, before a judge decides whether he’ll face charges including carjacking.
December 13, 2024 Arrest #23: One-time killer’s dad ‘wished to press charges for the public’s safety’ A woman told police her son had “jumped” her husband and hit him in the face. That violence was the last straw for the couple, whose son had done much worse.
December 11, 2024 Suspect in girl’s molestation ‘doesn’t remember,’ would’ve been ‘blackout drunk’ if he did it, cops say A girl “at a friend’s house” over Thanksgiving weekend told a terrible story about what someone in her home “has been doing to her over the last year.” Now, that man is charged with two felony sex crimes.
December 10, 2024 Quite an audience gathered to watch this woman punch her boyfriend’s head, scratch his arms and chest The violence sure got people’s attention. Police got “three different anonymous phone calls” saying a woman “was actively battering” a man at a gas station.
December 9, 2024 Meth in her bra. Biting a cop. 5 lawyer requests to stop representing her. What could go wrong? The year 2024 won’t go down as Melany Gayle Peters’ best. Her three arrests took place this year and her various lawyers filed motions five times, requesting to be taken off her cases.
December 7, 2024 Man exploited elderly parents for $20,000. Late mom’s ‘sworn affidavit’ explained, detective says Some people move to Florida for family, but one is in jail for something almost unthinkable. He’s accused of using “a position of trust” to “knowingly exploit his parents,” and some of the evidence comes from his late mother.
December 6, 2024 Fight with stepfather left blood all over, bedroom destroyed, 3rd stop at hospital on his way to jail The victim in this disturbance wasn’t home when it started, but he called 911 when it “escalated into being physical” and “informed the call-taker the door was open and for responding units to make entry to assist.”
December 5, 2024 U-Haul had cops haul this guy in after his one-day truck rental turned into weeks The guy “in charge of servicing the U-Haul rental vehicles” waited more than a month before calling the police. They arrested the long overdue renter before the day was done, but they had to get him a second time.
December 1, 2024 Trafficking fentanyl charge means no bail for woman facing her 15th felony case A woman is facing her 15th felony case, at least. Her latest started while she was on probation, and the last two started during overnight traffic stops for registration issues.
November 30, 2024 Traffic stop with 3 passengers, ‘all of which I am familiar,’ cop says, leads to K9 officer and drug charges It was like a one-two punch. Ashley Lynn Finley drove through a stop sign, “pausing beyond the white stop bar,” a police officer reported, along with “a clear, unobstructed view of the front seat passenger without a seatbelt.”
November 29, 2024 Arrest warrant, bail revoked: How one arrest led to more and more jail time for this felon Talk about car trouble making someone’s legal problems so much worse! “We received several LPR (license plate reader) hits on” a certain expired tag, authorities investigating this guy’s latest arrest reported.
November 26, 2024 Man accused of lewd or lascivious molestation on boy, 6, at babysitter girlfriend’s home The babysitter’s boyfriend did it. That’s what authorities determined after a boy’s mother said he’d disclosed “when he was six years old, adult suspect Anthony Kincer ‘made him get naked and touched his penis.’”
November 25, 2024 ‘Nobody liked him, they did not want him there’: Jailhouse brawl ended with ‘bruises and lacerations,’ criminal charges A brawl behind bars ended with both inmates injured and each facing an additional criminal charge. A correctional officer “was doing paperwork when she heard commotion within her assigned cell block.”
November 23, 2024 Woman avoids a jail sentence, despite her trail of traffic tickets and arrests A woman with a rather long driving record is facing a felony after a crash with someone who’d seen her under better circumstances.
November 22, 2024 Couldn’t keep away: Woman arrested 7 times at one Walmart on a variety of charges The suspect in “a suspicious person call” wasn’t hard to find and wasn’t too hard to catch for a police officer with pepper spray. Also, it wasn’t her first arrest that required force.
November 16, 2024 Woman’s trouble with the law includes arrests, probation violations, bench warrants and repeats A lack of common courtesy at a convenience store has a repeat offender back behind bars. It’s the latest chapter in a saga that includes probation violations and bench warrants, and several cases going on at once.
November 13, 2024 Took 9 years to arrest this guy on charges of violating his ex-girlfriend’s domestic violence protection injunction A woman called 911 and said her “boyfriend was chasing her and she wrecked her vehicle into a fence.” The crash happened nearly 10 years ago and ironically, justice has been at a stand-still for most of the time since then.
November 12, 2024 She’s free after 4 plea deals, 3 dropped charges, 2 paramedic calls, 1 probation violation A woman with a history of disorderly conduct got out of jail when she pleaded no contest to charges from a disturbance at a cell phone store. She was actually on probation for arson at the time.
November 9, 2024 Woman got her latest ride to jail after ‘getting into a random stranger’s car’ at a McDonald’s drive-thru A woman with the words “VIOLENT FELONY OFFENDER” stamped on each page of her latest arrest report is behind bars for crimes at a laundromat and a fast food drive-thru.
November 8, 2024 Suspect’s responses to battery charges: Deny, deny, deny, arrest reports say A man is facing his fourth battery charge after a fight with his father and brother, even though police say he “stated no altercation happened and nobody fought tonight, despite the physical injuries seen.”
November 6, 2024 Senior woman’s troubles with the law include drug charges over the decades A woman’s drug arrests over the decades are coming to light after her latest run-in with law enforcement. She’s now a senior citizen.
October 29, 2024 Senior ‘had no idea how he got to where he was’ after DUI crash. ‘He wasn’t aware that he hit anything,’ cop said An elderly driver is back behind bars for three probation violations, not long after he caused a DUI crash. He hit another car in the parking lot of a Burger King.
October 24, 2024 Shoplifting suspect facing 2 felony drug charges had a history with her boyfriend and his mother A woman busted for allegedly stealing from Walmart is facing drug felonies for the first time, but she has a series of arrests in other situations.
October 21, 2024 She met her ex for sex but had trouble pounding the pavement with his car, cops say A repeat offender made yet another return trip to jail when her joyriding in her ex’s car came to a sudden halt.
October 14, 2024 Woman ‘stole 30 various items’ from Walmart, but the broken meth pipe was hers, deputies say A woman is facing three criminal charges after her alleged shoplifting spree at Walmart came to a sudden stop.
October 11, 2024 Latest in her years-long crime spree was battering a nurse behind bars, arrest report says A woman with a history of trouble — with 2024 a particularly bad year — is being held behind bars, which is exactly where her latest violation reportedly took place.
October 9, 2024 Repeat offender charged with 2 new felonies, then released after 2 hours in jail A career criminal was quickly released from jail on bond after his latest run-in with the law.
October 6, 2024 Woman came prepared to shoplift at Walmart, but got busted again and again in the hospital and jail A woman’s plan to shoplift from a Walmart almost went off without a hitch, but the criminal charges she’s facing have been adding up ever since.
September 24, 2024 Jail ‘refused’ to take battery suspect with dozens of priors until his latest facial injury was treated This unusual case ended with both the victim and suspect battered, and the suspect’s booking photo – showing a “laceration to his forehead” – was the latest of dozens taken by four law enforcement agencies over the decades.
September 5, 2024 Search for inmate’s missing spork after lunch led to her 6th charge of battery on officers, nurses A woman who has been in and out of jail for the past few years is in more trouble, facing an all-too-familiar charge for what she’s accused of doing in jail almost a year ago.
