A captain with the Pasadena Fire Department has been charged with nine counts of committing lewd acts with a minor under age 14. Prosecutors allege he sexually abused three victims over a period spanning more than two decades. Christopher James Ramstead, 47, of Thousand Oaks was arrested Wednesday and, if convicted, faces up to 135 years to life in state prison, according to the L.A. County district attorney's office. He pleaded not guilty Monday and was ordered held without bail.
In the days and weeks before his death, members of the MSP training academy committed a series of "wanton and reckless acts" in connection with various defensive tactics and physical confrontation training exercises, Meier said. This conduct included both "affirmative acts by academy staff" and the failure to take other actions that they had a legal duty to perform. This conduct resulted in Delgado-Garcia suffering concussion-like symptoms on Sept. 11, 2024, from "unauthorized, unapproved, and unsupervised boxing-related sparring exercises," Meier said.
Atlanta Falcons rookie James Pearce Jr. allegedly crashed his vehicle into one being driven by WNBA player Rickea Jackson multiple times and struck a police officer with the vehicle while evading arrest, according to the criminal complaint obtained by ESPN from the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office. Pearce was arrested Saturday in Florida on five felony charges, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated stalking and aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer.
A 12-year-old boy who died while in the care of two Ontario women was wrongly and excessively prescribed medications by several doctors who didn't assess him in person, according to a lawsuit filed by his biological family. His younger brother experienced the same overprescribing while living with Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney in Burlington, the statement of claim alleges. The doctors clearly breached their professional duties, it says.
The former rear commodore of the Ballena Bay Yacht Club is facing criminal charges for allegedly using false information to acquire a $224,276.43 federal grant and then spending a significant amount on himself, court records show. Nicholas Stellato, 53, is facing charges of grand theft, making a false statement on a financial form and money laundering, according to court records.
He was not injured in the Jan. 19 incident, when San Leandro police say an officer fired at him during a foot chase after watching him turn toward the officer with the rifle in hand near the railroad tracks on the 800 block of Davis Street. No one was struck by the gunfire and Patterson continued to run before being arrested near a business on the 1600 block of Alvarado Street.
In what was once an establishment reverberating the motto "peace, love, and burritos," chaos erupted when Grullon entered the restaurant near Flatbush Avenue and St. Mark's Place at around 3:30 p.m., as captured by the eatery's surveillance video and obtained by CBS News New York. Witnesses described her using racial slurs and then turning violent, striking the older diner with the bottle, which resulted in a head injury requiring staples.
A criminal complaint filed Monday alleges that Junwei Guo flew the drone over Levi's Stadium on Nov. 9, 2025, when the San Francisco 49ers played the Los Angeles Rams. The temporary flight restriction, or TFR, bars all aircraft, including drones, from operating within a three-mile nautical radius of any stadium with a seating capacity of 30,000 or more people during, among other events, regular or post-season NFL games.
On Wednesday (28 January), almost a year after the march took place, prosecutors confirmed they planned to pursue criminal charges against the Hungarian capital's mayor. A spokesperson accused Karácsony of having "organised and led a public gathering despite the police ban", adding in a statement reported by The Guardian that they planned to impose fines on the defendant "without a trial". Responding to the accusations, Karácsony said on social media that he had "gone from being a proud suspect to a proud defendant".
'I was in a hospital. My heart's only beating like 25 percent, but as long as I stay focused and stay on the right path, everything will be all right.' It's a more optimist outlook than he gave in a recent IG Live, when he said doctors gave him months left to live. 'I thought... I could handle all the alcohol, I could handle all the Adderall, I could handle all the drugs, but I couldn't,' he said.
A man was charged with four felonies for allegedly smashing the windshields of four different vehicles with bricks and rocks, court records show. The 44-year-old Pleasanton man was charged with four counts of vandalism in connection with the Jan. 14 incident. Police say they received reports of a man throwing bricks at cars around 4:40 p.m. that day, on the 1800 block of Santa Rita Road.
Investigators believe Montgomery beat his daughter to death "on or about December 7, 2019? in the city of Manchester. Officials have not revealed whether a body has been discovered.
Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Rasheed Walker was arrested Friday morning at La Guardia Airport in New York after he tried to check in a bag that contained a firearm. Walker, 25, was taken into custody and charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm, according to the New York Post. He appeared in Queens County Criminal Court on the gun charge and was released later Friday.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield's attorneys told a court Friday he should be released while he awaits the outcome of child sex abuse charges against him because an independent investigation undermined the state's allegations, the parents of his accusers have a history of fraud and dishonesty, and he passed a polygraph test. Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after he turned himself in to face charges stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in New Mexico.
Prominent Australian author Craig Silvey has been charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material. Silvey, 43, had a search warrant issued at his Fremantle home on Monday, 12 January, where detectives allegedly found him actively engaging with other child exploitation offenders online. He was immediately arrested, and his electronic devices were seized. He appeared before the Fremantle magistrates court on Tuesday, 13 January, charged with distribution of child exploitation material.
Police in Milford posted a video of a pickup truck doing doughnuts in a snowy parking lot, with the vehicle eventually crashing into an adjacent fence. They say the driver - a 20-year-old who lives in town - is now facing charges: negligent operation of a motor vehicle, wanton destruction of property, and leaving the scene of property damage. Police said Parks Department reported the damage to the bike path fence at Fino Field last Friday morning.
"These cases are not a result of one single failure, one missed opportunity," attorney Laura Mangini told Boston.com, "but instead really demonstrate a chilling pattern and culture that enabled the abuser, Robert Gayle, and where the safety of children was minimized."
A mother has been charged after a baby was allegedly abandoned at a Toronto church last month. Police say officers were called to the Yonge Street and Broadway Avenue area around 10:40 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21. A person who answered the phone at St. Monica's Catholic Church said the baby was found there but referred further questions to police.
Joseph C. Norton, vice chair of the Framingham Planning Board, was arrested on Dec. 18 in a coordinated online operation between State and Framingham investigators, according to a Boston Globe report. On Dec. 19, he pleaded not guilty to charges of enticing a child under 16, paying for sex with a child under 18, and attempting to commit a crime, according to the report. He was released on $2,000 cash bail and is due back in court for a Jan. 30 hearing.
An 84-year-old man has been charged with 47 historic child sexual offences. The alleged offences took place between the late 1960s and 2010 in locations including London, Kent, Portugal, Turkey and Hungary, according to the Metropolitan Police. They relate to nine separate men, who were aged between eight and 14 at the time.
They were given immunity to point the finger at me so they wouldn't get in trouble. That's what this is. I'm not saying I'm not at all to blame whatsoever. It was my alcohol that they got drunk off of. It was my home that they were at. I've never said that I was not aware of any alcohol. I've never stated that. I did become aware of it. I feel responsible.
A South Bay school district agreed to pay $5.75 million to settle claims that a teacher impregnated a 15-year-old student at Leigh High School during a long-running illegal sexual relationship, and then forced her to have an abortion. The Campbell Union High School District's payout comes nearly two years after the allegations surfaced against Shawn Thomas, a physical education and social science teacher who also worked as a football and track coach at Los Gatos High School.
Philip Young, 49, formerly from Swindon but now living in Enfield in north London, has been charged with 56 sexual offences. They include multiple counts of rape, administering a substance to overpower his victim to allow sexual activity, voyeurism, possession of indecent images of children and possession of extreme images. The alleged victim, Young's now ex-wife, Joanne Young, 48, has waived her right to anonymity.
The bus driver, a Wilmington man, is being summonsed to Woburn District Court, and police are seeking two charges against him: assault and battery and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. "The defendant is not being identified at this time since he faces a criminal summons instead of arrest," the department explained in a release. "He will be identified at a later time if a criminal arraignment is scheduled." Back on Monday, Dec. 8, police were notified of "potentially inappropriate social media activity" by the driver and began investigating.
