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She walked up to someone else’s traffic stop… and walked herself into an arrest. Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office bodycam: deputies pull over a silver sedan over a plate mismatch. A woman inserts herself, claims she’s the driver’s wife (she’s not), gives a fake name, then fights when they try to detain her, while claiming she’s pregnant (which she’s not). In the back seat she thrashes, passes out, gets checked by EMS, then starts again, and slips her cuffs, which is when she begins tearing the car up. Active warrants: Cherokee, Fulton, and Gwinnett. You don’t have to be the one they stopped to end up in the back seat.

A Philadelphia fifth-grade teacher is accused of murdering her 10-year-old foster daughter. Prosecutors say Carprice Williams, 36, reported Malayshia Alford missing on Oct. 26. The girl's body was found Nov. 4 in the trunk of a car in Lindenwold, New Jersey. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide by blunt force trauma. District Attorney Larry Krasner called it a brutal murder. Police say surveillance from early Oct. 26 shows the child's body being removed from the West Philadelphia foster home. Williams was charged Nov. 5 with murder, endangering the welfare of a child, abuse of a corpse, and related counts. A judge ordered her held without bail. Williams taught fifth grade at Lewis C. Cassidy Academics Plus School. Neighbors say she was at school events during the search, including a classroom pizza party, while Malayshia was already dead. Court records reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer say state officials recommended years earlier that Williams never again be a foster parent after a 4-year-old in her care nearly died. An indicated abuse finding was later expunged after she appealed. City child-welfare contractors still placed Malayshia in that home. How does a teacher with a prior near-fatality foster case get another child?

Reelected Tuesday. Arrested Wednesday. Missouri Democratic state Rep. Anthony Ealy Jr. is sitting in the Cole County Jail after police say he threatened to kill someone just hours after winning another term. Jefferson City police say officers responded around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday to the 600 block of East Capitol Avenue after reports of a man yelling threats outside a business. Court documents say a family was there making arrangements for a deceased relative. Prosecutors allege Ealy lunged toward a victim, claimed he had a gun, and repeatedly said, "I'm gonna kill you. Call the police, I'm gonna kill you." The 32-year-old Grandview Democrat had just taken 68 percent of the vote in House District 36 the day before. He is charged with fourth-degree assault and disturbing the peace and is being held without bond. House Democratic leadership says it pulled Ealy off every committee in the spring so he could deal with personal issues, and that those assignments will not be restored.

A Mexican federal judge is in custody after U.S. prosecutors say he took a $2 million bribe to free the No. 2 man in a former Olympic snowboarder's cocaine empire. Luis Benítez Alcántara, 49, a district judge in Mexico City, was arrested Sunday in Colombia. The Justice Department announced the case Thursday. Prosecutors allege Benítez accepted about $2 million in exchange for granting bond and ordering the release of Andrew Clark, second-in-command to Ryan Wedding. Wedding is a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who the FBI once listed among its Ten Most Wanted. He is accused of leading a violent transnational cocaine trafficking organization. According to the indictment, Clark moved roughly $2.75 million through intermediaries from November 2024 through February 2025. On Feb. 24, 2025, the same day Benítez allegedly received the full $2 million, he granted Clark bond and ordered him released. Clark was re-arrested days later and brought to the United States. Wedding was captured in Mexico in January 2026 and is in U.S. custody facing drug trafficking, murder, and attempted murder charges. Benítez faces nine counts of accessory after the fact. The U.S. is seeking his extradition from Colombia.

A former judge is accused of opening fire on trick-or-treaters on Halloween night. Police in Duncan, Oklahoma say 73-year-old Jerry Herberger, a former Stephens County judge, fired a gun in the direction of families walking his street around 8 p.m. on October 31. When officers arrived, police say he pointed a firearm at one of them before finally surrendering. A mother who was there with her kids says he yelled at them to get away from his house, warned he had a gun, then fired. She says he was drunk and that his unsteady aim is the only reason the shot missed their group. He was booked on attempted murder, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and possession of a firearm while intoxicated. Miraculously, no one was hurt. "He was on the other side of that bench. He was hard on those people. Well, now it's time for somebody to be hard on him," the mother said.

Indicted in October. Elected in November. Lisa Lucas-Burke just won back her seat on the Portsmouth, Virginia City Council while facing five federal counts tied to an alleged marijuana racketeering enterprise. Her mother is Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas, one of the most powerful Democrats in the state. Federal prosecutors say the senator led the operation out of the family's Portsmouth cannabis shop and used her political power to shield it from scrutiny. Lucas-Burke is accused of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, honest services fraud conspiracy and maintaining a drug-involved premises. The former two-term vice mayor will be sworn in while her federal case moves forward.

He ran for sheriff on fixing the county jail. On Election Day, he ended up inside it. Florence, Alabama police say Curtis Brian Webber, 58, a write-in candidate for Lauderdale County sheriff, was arrested Tuesday at a Jack's restaurant on three counts of harassing communications. Police say he repeatedly called a local medical facility, at times more than 80 times in 90 minutes, threatening employees and tying up lines needed for real calls for help. His wife says he was only trying to file a malpractice complaint and the hospital kept hanging up on him.

Her own mugshot is what cracked the case. Police say Za'cariah Anglin, 21, of Pompano Beach, Florida, was arrested Oct. 3 outside a Deerfield Beach Target. She is accused, with two other women, of rolling two carts of merchandise past the registers. She bonded out. Two days later, a Lauderhill detective searching unsolved violent cases recognized that fresh booking photo. Investigators say she is the woman who dragged another woman out of a Toyota Corolla by her hair on Oct. 2 and punched her repeatedly. Both women had reportedly dated the same man. She was arrested again Oct. 13 and is held without bond on burglary with battery and grand theft charges.

Democrats just retook both chambers of Congress. The first messages from the incoming power brokers: “LAWYER UP” from Rep. Robert Garcia and “Subpoenas” from Sen. Ron Wyden. Not a word about gas, groceries, rent, or anything else they spent months campaigning on. The priority is investigations into Trump world. This is all they care about.

Kissimmee’s Democrat mayor Jackie Espinosa was arrested on October 21 on grand theft and organized scheme to defraud charges after $50,000 in COVID relief grants went to three businesses owned or controlled by her and her family. She helped create the city’s Business Boost 2.0 program using federal ARPA funds, then she and relatives applied the same day applications opened. The money was deposited in November 2025. After the city attorney warned her it created a prohibited conflict of interest and told her to return it, she refused and said she would fight any complaint. The grants went to a dance studio, a diner, and a real estate company. She pleaded not guilty.

Oklahoma man tied his ankle monitor to three smiley-face balloons and tried to float it away while deputies were on the way to serve felony warrants. William Jared Garcia, 32, took off on foot when Tulsa County deputies arrived Oct. 26, jumping fences and running through yards. They caught him in a backyard. The balloons never left the ground. He was held on the warrants plus an obstruction charge.

Joey Ledbetter was found passed out behind the wheel of his car. When officers made contact, he decided running was the best option, but he didn't get very far. Hall County, Georgia.

Hall County, Georgia: On June 6, 2026, officers with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a subject, Joey Ledbetter, being passed out behind the wheel of his car, which was running and in the turning lane for a community blood center. Once an officer arrived, Ledbetter was in the driver’s seat and slouched over, obviously passed out. The officer knocked on the window, waking Ledbetter up, and instructed him to put the car in park. Instead of doing as the officer requested, Ledbetter fled, leading officers on a brief chase. During the chase, Ledbetter struck an officer’s car, sideswiped a civilian vehicle and eventually wrecked out when he crashed into multiple other vehicles within an intersection. Ledbetter was clearly out of it, asking officers why they were chasing him. Ledbetter complained of head and neck pain and transported to the hospital. Georgia State Patrol worked the accident and assisted. Ledbetter was charged with felony fleeing, reckless driving, aggravated assault on law enforcement, obstruction, driving with a suspended license, DUI drugs, and traffic offenses. Ledbetter later plead guilty and was sentenced to 8 years to serve with probation to follow. Ledbetter has an extensive criminal history.

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Derrick Justin Mayweather, 35, was stopped by Lawrenceville officers in Georgia on February 9 for active felony probation violation warrants. When the lights came on, he decided running was the better option and took off on foot before ducking into a vacant home. Officers brought in K-9 Maxh to track him. Mayweather slammed the front door of the vacant home on the dog. Maxh got a bite in. Once the officers pulled the K-9 back, Mayweather immediately switched gears and started telling the officers he loved them. Nothing says “I made a series of poor decisions” quite like professing love right after the dog gets called off. He was booked on aggravated harming of a public safety animal, willful obstruction of law enforcement officers, multiple felony probation violations, possession of methamphetamine, possession and use of drug related objects, and sexual battery.