WILDWOOD, Mo. - A police
officer in St. Louis County shot and killed a Wildwood woman on Thursday,
after she forced a delivery truck driver at gunpoint to transport her and then
pointed a weapon at police.
Around 1 p.m., police received several calls about a woman
pointing weapons at drivers in the St. Louis suburb.
Police said she then carjacked a DHL delivery truck, ordering
the driver to transport her to an unspecified location.
She then jumped out of the truck in a residential neighborhood.
Police arrived and ordered her to drop her weapon. An officer shot the woman
with a stun gun, but its dart did not penetrate her coat. One officer fired at
her when she raised her weapon at him, striking her several times, according
to STLtoday.com, the Web site of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Deux soeurs
de Mississauga sont reconnues coupables, devant une cour de Brampton, du
meurtre prémédité de leur mère alcoolique en 2003.
Le juge
affirme que la cause est la plus concluante qu'il ait vu en 30 ans.
Les deux
soeurs, qui avaient 15 et 16 ans au moment du meurtre, ont drogué leur mère
avec des médicaments et de l'alcool avant de la noyer dans son bain. Elles
connaîtront leur peine plus tard.
La couronne
veut le transfert des soeurs d'un tribunal pour jeunes contrevenants à une
cour pour adultes.
For the past
three years, people assumed 23-year-old Sgt. Todd Sommer died of natural
causes in February 2002.
But all that
changed two weeks ago, when Sommer's widow, 32-year-old Cynthia Sommer, was
arrested in Florida and charged with poisoning her husband with arsenic.
Jodi Sanborn
was Sommer's manager at a Subway near MCAS Miramar, where Todd and Cynthia
Sommer lived in base housing with their son and three other children from her
previous marriage.
Sanborn
remembers what Sommer did right after her husband's death.
At the time,
Cynthia Sommer had more than $23,000 in credit card debt. But within two
months of her husband's death, Sommer cashed in on a $250,000 life insurance
policy. She started collecting $1800 a month in spousal benefits and paid a La
Jolla surgeon $5400 for breast implants.
Neighbors
also reported hearing late night parties at the Sommer home.
Cynthia had
also started dating, and then moved in with another Miramar marine, Ross
Ritter.
Defense
Attorney Gretchen Von Helms was familiar with cases like this.
She briefly
represented Kristen Rossum, the San Diego woman convicted of fatally poisoning
her husband 5 years ago.
Von Helms
said Sommer's actions after her husband's death didn't help her claims of
innocence.
"She went out
and had a breast augmentation done, so she wanted bigger breasts, which isn't
really playing the part of a grieving widow," Von Helms said.
Investigators
recently tested organ tissue from Seargent Sommer's body and found 1,000 times
the normal levels of arsenic in his liver.
Cynthia
Sommer is in a Florida jail facing murder charges.
In a phone
interview, Sommers boyfriend Ross Ritter read a letter written by Cynthia
Sommer in jail.
She wrote,
"Todd and I had a very good marriage. We would have been married forever.
After he died, I wanted so much to replace that void."
A WOMAN who
claimed she was raped in Watford High Street has been fined £80 for wasting
police time.
Detectives
discovered the allegation by the 29-year-old Watford woman was false, after
going through CCTV pictures, but not before two men had been arrested and were
facing a court appearance.
The woman had
gone to police and claimed that she was raped in Watford High Street on
Thursday, December 8, at 3.10am.
The fixed
penalty notice, similar to those issued for driving offences, was given
opposed to a more serious charge of perverting the course of justice, when the
woman promptly admitted she had made the story up during questioning.
A police
spokesman said the woman's name had not been released because her details were
not in the public domain, which would be the case if the matter had gone to
court.
ZOUG - Une bande de
filles a passé à tabac une camarade à Zoug après l'avoir menacée puis forcée à
voler des vêtements dans un magasin. Les trois responsables principales sont
des adolescentes âgées de 13 à 15 ans.
La victime a été soumise à
des pressions "massives" pendant des semaines, a indiqué mardi la police
zougoise. Finalement, le 30 novembre dernier, le noyau dur de la bande a exigé
d'elle qu'elle aille voler des vêtements. L'adolescente a cédé et commis le
vol avec une camarade.
Cela n'a pas suffi à
calmer ses tortionnaires, qui ont alors tenté de la rouer de coups.
L'adolescente s'est enfuie dans un restaurant, mais les cheffes de la bande
l'ont poursuivie et traînée dehors pour la passer à tabac sous les huées d'une
quinzaine de filles. Une employée du restaurant a réussi à libérer la victime
et à alarmer la police.
Police are on
the hunt for two women they believe have made sexual advances when committing
crimes.
Investigators
have linked an attempted robbery and a car theft last Sunday in east Houston
and said they may have been involved in other local crimes.
A
surveillance video of the auto theft did not produce a clear picture of the
women's faces, so investigators are relying on public tips and other leads to
track down the women.
In an early
morning incident on the 4700 block of Allendale, one of the women pointed to
her groin area and offered herself sexually to a 55-year-old man who was
sitting in his pickup before smashing his window with a hammer and passing the
job on to a partner in crime, another woman who pointed a gun at the man and
demanded his money.
"She
approached him almost like a working girl, that was the impression he got at
first," said Sgt. Robert Ruiz of the East side divisional gang unit. There is
a possibility one or both of the women work as prostitutes, he said.
The man
managed to get away with all his possessions, but another man, robbed about 35
minutes later at a nearby convenience store on the 1900 block of Broadway, was
not so lucky.
The
29-year-old told police he chatted with two women in a beige car for five
minutes in the parking lot before going inside to buy them something to eat.
When he came
out, they were gone. And so was his van.
The man had
left the keys in the ignition, police said.
The women are
described as Hispanic and between 17 and 22 years in age and 5 feet 2 inches
and 5 feet 5 inches tall.
A 26-year-old Sheboygan woman could face almost 20 years behind
bars for allegedly stabbing her husband as he came out of the bathroom,
authorities said today.
Teresa Neumann, 26, of 1328A Union Ave., was charged today with
felony second-degree reckless injury and misdemeanor disorderly conduct for
allegedly stabbing Adam Neumann, 26, after an altercation between the two on
Monday grew from an argument to a wrestling match to a stabbing, according to
the criminal complaint.
The knife went all the way through the right forearm of Adam
Neumann, who called 911 around 4:30 p.m. Monday to report the stabbing and was
taken to Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center, according to the criminal
complaint.
The Neumanns told Sheboygan police the altercation began with
the two arguing over Adam Neumann’s smoking habit. Teresa Neumann then left
for about 20 minutes, and when she returned her husband asked her questions
“in an attempt to bug her,” the complaint said.
Teresa Neumann responded by throwing a can of WD-40 at her
husband, striking him in the ribs. When Adam Neumann left the apartment,
afraid his wife would throw other items, she followed him and raised her hand
to hit him, the complaint said.
Adam Neumann told police he put his wife in a headlock and
wrestled her to the ground, where she began to cry. Adam Neumann then returned
to the bathroom, where he told police he could hear glass breaking and
scratching on the bathroom door. When he came out of the bathroom, Teresa
Neumann stabbed him in the right forearm, leaving a 1-inch incision on the top
and bottom as she plunged the knife through his arm. According to the
complaint, Adam Neumann told his wife she had stabbed him, to which she
responded, “You deserved it.”
Teresa Neumann later admitted to police she had stabbed her
husband, the complaint said. She faces 18 years, 9 months in prison and fines
of up to $26,000 after a penalty enhancer for use of a dangerous weapon.
FREEDOM PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) _ A 62-year-old woman was charged
with second-degree murder on Monday for allegedly killing her husband in their
home a day earlier.
Sara Jane Gulbrandsen, of LaGrange, also tried to kill herself
Sunday night, police said. She was in stable condition Monday evening at St.
Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie.
Rudolph Gulbrandsen, 79, sustained blunt force trauma to the
head and was pronounced dead at the scene. An official cause of death is to be
determined by an autopsy.
It is unclear what may have led the former high school math
teacher to commit murder, police said. The couple did not have a history of
domestic violence, they said.
Police declined to comment on how Sara Jane Gulbrandsen injured
herself.
BOGGS -- A 51-year-old woman charged with shooting her husband
to death after a quarrel entered a not guilty plea yesterday at a formal
arraignment before Armstrong County President Judge Joseph A. Nickleach.
Beth Theresia Krzyzanowski, of Boggs Township, entered a not
guilty plea to a charge of criminal homicide in connection with the September
shooting death of her husband, David Joseph Krzyzanowski, 44.
Police say the shooting occurred after the couple argued about
making dinner, and Krzyzanowski has said the shooting was accidental and
occurred during a struggle for a handgun. She waited 18 hours before calling
police about the death of her husband, according to authorities.
Yesterday's hearing was a procedural hearing conducted largely
to inform a defendant of his or her rights.
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