Police in Los Angeles seized more than 2,800 boxes of stolen LEGO sets from a 71-year-old man's home Wednesday, authorities said.

Officers arrested 71-year-old Richard Siegel and his alleged accomplice, 39-year-old Blanca Gudino, after raiding the elderly man's Long Beach home, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The individual boxes have a retail value ranging from $20 to well over $1,000, police said.

Detectives started investigating the case after a retailer in San Pedro identified Gudino as the suspect who had allegedly robbed them several times last December.

Very sad story.

Here is the video of the shooting via Twitter. Yes, it is kind of disturbing - not gore, but disturbing.

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WJW) – A woman suspected of stabbing and killing a 3-year-old boy outside a local grocery store is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.

The child and his mother were attacked and stabbed outside a Giant Eagle in North Olmsted, Ohio.

Officials say around 3 p.m. Monday, June 3, a mother and her son had just finished grocery shopping and appeared to be headed back to their vehicle when a woman wearing all black charged at them with a kitchen knife, stabbing both of them.

Multiple shoppers called 911. Responding officers came to give first aid and quickly arrested Bionca Ellis, 32, of Cleveland, who was found walking toward Dover Center Road, reportedly still holding the weapon.

Ellis was scheduled to be arraigned via video from jail Tuesday afternoon. She has been charged with aggravated murder, according to police.

The victims were rushed to St. John Medical Center in Westlake.

Tuesday morning the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner confirmed that 3-year-old Julian Wood of North Olmsted died at the hospital. The child’s 38-year-old mother, Margot Wood, “was treated for non-life threatening injuries and is expected to make a full recovery,” police said.

The cleric had brainwashed the victim’s brother into believing that she was possessed by evil spirits and that she needed to be dealt with sexually. He also got him to sexually assault the victim in the name of curing her.

Chitradurga (Karnataka): Karnataka Police arrested a cleric in Chitradurga on Monday, on charges of repeatedly raping a minor girl on the pretext of getting her rid of being possessed by evil spirits. The priest also got the victim's brother to sexually assault her as a cure.

#Statement Of The Police Regarding The Incident

The incident is reported from Chitradurga Women’s Police Station limits and the police have slapped a POCSO case against the accused. According to police, the minor victim went to a masjid to read the Quran for three years. The accused had informed her parents that she was possessed by evil spirits and that a special ritual needed to be conducted at her house.

He visited the house of the girl for six to seven months once a week. Every time he visited, he took the victim and her brother into a room and asked the parents to stay out of the room.

The cleric had brainwashed the victim’s brother into believing that she was possessed by evil spirits and that she needed to be dealt with sexually. He also got him to sexually assault the victim in the name of curing her. The accused even recorded the act and he too raped her. As per the police, this went on for six months.

The French authorities have been accused of a cover up by the brother of a British tourist who was brutally shot dead in the Alps alongside his wife and mother-in-law in 2012, in a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

Saad al-Hilli was gunned down alongside his wife, Iqbal Al-Hilli, 47, and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74 in September 2012.

The al-Hilli's two daughters - seven and four - miraculously survived.

A cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, 45, was also killed in the massacre in the isolated layby close to Lake Annecy, in eastern France.

Now, Mr al-Hilli's brother Zaid al-Hilli has slammed the French investigation and claimed they went 'the wrong way' in their search for the killer, pointing fingers at him instead of local suspects.

He called the original investigation a 'deception - an attempt to deceive us'.

The three fatal casualties were brutally shot three times each with at least one shot to the head and the case has remained a mystery for 12 years.

During the bloodbath, the al-Hilli's seven-year-old daughter, Zainab Al-Hilli, was left for dead after being shot in the shoulder and beaten around the head.

Her sister, Zeena Al-Halli, four, escaped by hiding underneath her mother's legs and remaining motionless for eight hours in the back of the family's BMW.

Police found her alive.

Now Mr al-Hilli has called for investigators to search for more local suspects after he was wrongly arrested in 2013 in a bid to finally close the case which has puzzled police for more than a decade - while accusing French officials of a cover up.

'The original investigation was a deception, to attempt to deceive us,' he said, according to The Times. 'It was a local crime and has been covered up.

'They made allegations against me without any evidence. There was no attempt to look at a local motive right from the start.'

And progress could now be made after French police revealed earlier this week that DNA testing might be able to solve the baffling cold case.

Investigators from France's elite cold case unit in the Paris suburb of Nanterre have ordered the 'unsealing of the fragments'.

The clothes Sylvian Mollier and Zainab Al-Hilli were wearing on the fateful day are also going to be reexamined, along with some 10 cigarette butts found around the area.

More than two dozen spent bullet casings were found near their British-registered BMW estate car.

'It is hoped that new examinations will uncover DNA traces,' said an investigating source. 'If yes, then they will be sent for comparison with a national genetic fingerprint file which lists more than four million fingerprints, to see if there is a match.'

One guy appears to be very seriously hurt because, after the dust has settled and he is laying on the ground, he gets a wind up soccer kick to the head (viewable at a few different points in the videoi - around like 1:15 and 1:40, for starters).

I think... it has to be understood that maybe some guys deserve to get smacked about a bit but... any moment you wind up and soccer kick a downed opponent in the head, you need to be in a jail cell for crying out loud.

One of the men charged following a fatal shooting at Mall of America in late 2022 will spend multiple decades in prison.

Thursday morning, Hennepin County Judge Paul Scoggin sentenced 19-year-old TaeShawn Adams-Wright to more than 30 years (367 months) in prison for his role in the killing of 19-year-old Johntae Raymon Hudson on Dec. 23, 2022.

Police say it all started as a fight at Nordstrom before escalating to gunshots. Court documents note that surveillance video showed Adams-Wright and Lavon Semaj Longstreet brandishing handguns before Hudson was chased and shot 11 times. The video then showed the two standing over Hudson at different points, with the video capturing muzzle flashes.

In addition to Hudson, a woman at the store was also grazed by a bullet but survived.

A Texas educator landed in hot water after she was accused of filming pornographic videos on campus.

According to FOX 26, the alleged material was shot at Adriane Mathews Gray Elementary School in Richmond, Texas, a small city located about 45 minutes south of Houston. Officials with the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District said they learned about the matter after receiving two videos that showed a former teacher performing sexually explicit acts on school property. One of the clips was shot inside a classroom and the other in a school restroom.

“It was horrible. It was unbelievable,” community activist Quanell X said about the incident.** “When I saw the first video, I was shocked and appalled and just horrified. And you look at the video, she pulls down her top, picks out these big, big, huge breasts — crazy as hell — shakes them, and then she turns around and pulls down her pants and then pulls her panties down, spreads her cheeks and cellulite and pubic hair was everywhere. This is sickening. This is going on at a school now.”**

A man stabbed his pregnant girlfriend 37 times after she discovered his affair with a British woman before stuffing her body in his car and going for lunch with his mum, a court heard.

Barman Alessandro Impagnetiello, 31, admitted to brutally killing his seven-month pregnant girlfriend Giulia Tramontano after she met his British lover. But after brutally killing her, Impagnetiello calmly watched a football match on his phone and then went for a meal with his mum.

He told the Court of Milan, in northern Italy, on May 27: "I was having lunch at my mother's with the body in the car." Later, local media reported he attempted to burn and hide her body before taking her passport, bag and cash to make it look like she left him.

The court heard that Impagnetiello broke down during police questioning and led officers to where he had hidden Giulia's body. Police said he doused Giulia with rat poison for months in order to bring about a miscarriage after he learned she was pregnant.

Police said they found online searches for "ammonia foetus," "rat poison" and "how much rat poison is needed to kill a person" on the cheat's phone and other devices.

He had also bought chloroform under a fake name, and Giulia complained of feeling 'drugged' to friends and family, the court heard. Prosecutors told how Impagnetiello had hacked Giulia to death with a knife while she was taking a bath.

A Brit dad allegedly killed a Russian paedophile with a single punch after saying he wanted to have sex with his underage daughter.

The 34-year-old Brit dad is alleged to have fatally hit the Russian tourist, 36, after he made sexual advances towards his 15-year-old daughter at a pool party in Pattaya, Thailand, on May 27. The Russian reportedly told the girl he wanted to have sex with her, which led the Brit dad to punch him in the face.

In the scuffle, the Russian landed headfirst on the ground and he was rushed to a hospital in the city. He later died from his injuries.

Police in Pattaya launched a manhunt shortly afterward and collected video footage and witness statements in a bid to track the Brit down. Pattaya officers said they had identified the alleged attacker as a British national and issued an arrest warrant on the charges of "causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death."

Chen Jiong, Li Jia Wen, Li Tian Wen and Huang Zhong were busted by Lai Chau police on Wednesday instructing a group of men and women, including teenagers, to perform sexual acts and livestream them on the Chinese application QQLive at the hotel.

Six others were also arrested to be investigated for distributing pornographic material, including Vietnamese Nguyen Huu Van and Le Hoai Bao Chung.

In the room at the time, there were four girls present, aged 14-17. The police also seized several mobile phones, tools for livestreaming, masks and condoms at the scene, among other paraphernalia.

Van said that earlier this month, he invited a man named Do Xuan Phuong, along with Chung, to make money via pornographic livestreaming on QQLive.

Van persuaded a 19-year-old girl to make porn for VND200,000 ($7.85) an hour. As she was pregnant, Van tasked her with providing makeup, supporting the livestream and cleaning up the room.

Van then found a couple who were willing to make porn for VND25 million a month. Another couple also joined in for VND200,000 an hour.

Chung was tasked with instructing the couples on how to perform sexual acts for livestreaming. From May 24 to May 26, Van and Chung were transferred over VND1.3 million by the application’s manager.

On May 27, Chung and Van invited four Chinese people to organize the livestreaming, with the session’s profit being split among them.

The Chinese men then brought equipment and instructed the couples on how to perform certain sex acts.

At 8 p.m., while they were in the middle of a session, they were busted by the police.

Police in the northern Thai Binh Province are looking for those responsible for the death of a five-year-old boy who was left for 11 hours in a school bus in 35-degree heat.

They have filed charges of involuntary manslaughter and will determine who were culpable in the tragic incident.

According to the police, at around 6:20 a.m. on Wednesday the boy, Gia Huy, was taken from his home to the bus by a teacher responsible for transporting student to the Hong Nhung 2 Kindergarten in Phu Xuan Commune.

The charter bus had nine other students and was driven by a 58-year-old man.

On reaching the school, the driver opened the door to let the teacher and students out, closed the door, parked the bus at the school gate, and left.

The teacher responsible for the class took attendance photos to send to the school's software and noticed Huy was missing, but failed to inform his family.

At around 5 p.m. that day Huy's uncle came to pick him up, but the teacher informed him that the boy had not attended school that day.

The uncle ran to the bus parked at the school gate, broke the door with help of some locals, and found the boy still inside, a parent at the school said.

Huy was rushed to the Thai Binh Province General Hospital for emergency treatment but was unfortunately declared dead on arrival.

The Pacific stretched along the coastal 101 in brilliant blue, the bright May sky beginning to soften toward sunset. Chin Rodger felt a lift of optimism as she exited the freeway and arrived at a sushi restaurant tucked away in the tony town of Montecito, where she greeted her 22-year-old son, Elliot. He looked well. He wore a designer shirt and Armani sunglasses, his dark hair styled, a smile on his boyish face. He was happy to see her and his younger sister, Georgia, a high school senior who often joined their mom for the drive up from Los Angeles.

This was a favorite dinner spot for their monthly get-together since Elliot began attending Santa Barbara City College more than two years earlier. They ordered their usual plates to share and chatted about nothing in particular. Seated across from Chin, Elliot began glancing over her shoulder.

“Look at that couple,” he said, eyeing a young man and woman at another table. He muttered that the guy looked unworthy of his attractive blonde date. Chin was used to his awkward social insecurity, part of his longtime emotional struggles, and she steered him back to positive conversation. She was pleased when the always skinny Elliot ordered an additional roll and began polishing it off.

“Wow, you’re eating a lot,” Georgia said.

He shrugged. “So what?”

Elliot liked this place because it felt far removed from where he lived in nearby Isla Vista, a small bluff-top town hugging University of California, Santa Barbara, whose party scene once attracted Elliot but had become alienating for him. Chin watched him enjoying the meal. It had been about three weeks since he had dropped out of communication for a few days and she found a video he’d posted online about his frustrations over girls. Worried, she’d called a social worker Elliot met with when visiting home, who said they should dial a crisis hotline in Santa Barbara. When police went to Elliot’s apartment for a welfare check, they concluded that all seemed fine with him, and his texts and calls with Chin since then had been encouraging. He’d told her his spring classes were finishing well and talked of promptly paying off a parking ticket, which struck her as part of his emerging self-improvement.

Chin cut the visit a little short because Georgia had plans with friends later that night. Their usual stroll for coffee and dessert would have to wait for next time. They hugged Elliot goodbye in the mild evening air, then got on the road back to LA.

Chin left heartened by her son’s relaxed demeanor and newfound appetite. It would be years before she would begin to learn what those really were: the last in an accumulating trail of warning signs.

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Three black men have filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that the carrier briefly removed them from a flight after a complaint about body odour.

The men, who were not seated together and did not know each other, say that every black man was removed from the 5 January flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to New York.

"American Airlines singled us out for being Black, embarrassed us, and humiliated us," the men said in a joint statement on Wednesday. The Texas-based airline said it was investigating the matter as the allegations did not align with its values.

According to a federal lawsuit filed by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, the men had already taken their seats and were preparing to depart Phoenix when a flight attendant approached each of them and asked them to exit the plane.

Alvin Jackson, Emmanuel Jean Joseph, and Xavier Veal allege that, as they were leaving, they realised that "every Black man on the flight was being removed".

Each of the men had flown from Los Angeles earlier that day, with no issue.

At the flight gate, the three men, along with five others, were told by an airline agent that they had been "removed because a white male flight attendant had complained about an unidentified passenger's body odour".

"There is no explanation other than the color of our skin," the men said in a statement on Wednesday, adding: "Clearly this was racial discrimination."

American Airlines employees tried to re-book the men on other flights, but there were no other services to New York that night. The group was at that point allowed to re-take their seats on their original flight.

American Airlines said in a statement: "We take all claims of discrimination very seriously and want our customers to have a positive experience when they choose to fly with us.

"Our teams are currently investigating the matter, as the claims do not reflect our core values or our purpose of caring for people." The lawsuit adds that while the men waited outside the plane, the pilot made an announcement telling passengers that there was a delay due to an issue with "body odour". The plaintiffs say the claim about odour was false.

MONTHS AFTER an 18-year-old Dalit youth was allegedly beaten to death by upper caste men in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district for protesting against his sister’s sexual harassment, the woman died on Sunday after reportedly falling from an ambulance carrying her uncle’s body. Her death triggered protests by the Opposition Congress, which called the BJP government in the state “anti-Dalit” and demanded the removal of the Collector and Superintendent of Police of Sagar district.

In August last year, the woman’s brother was killed and portions of her house damaged allegedly by upper caste men. According to the police, the accused were mounting pressure on the brother to convince the woman to withdraw the molestation case filed against them in 2019.

On Saturday, the woman’s uncle was beaten to death by some persons over an old enmity, the police said.

“He (uncle) died of injuries sustained in a clash between two groups under Khurai police station limits,” Additional Superintendent of Police Lokesh Sinha said.

When asked if the uncle was killed due to pressure for compromise in the old case, Sinha said, “all facts would come out during the investigation”.

However, the family members of the deceased alleged that the accused had been mounting pressure on the woman’s uncle to withdraw the case. “There was constant pressure on us, but we did not withdraw the case. Our brother was killed and we could not let that go… Then they killed our uncle on Saturday. My sister and the uncle’s parents had left from Sagar with the body in an ambulance, when she fell from the van,” another brother of the deceased woman told The Indian Express.

The family members of the Woman have alleged that she died as the door of the ambulance was left open.

According to official figures from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), the number of fatalities a year per million from gun violence is more than double the European average.

In 2017, there were 281 shootings in Sweden and by 2022 that number had grown to 391, 62 of which were fatal. According to the Office for National Statistics, in the UK there were 28 people killed by shooting in the year ending March 2022.

That means the Swedish rate of death by shooting was more than twice that of the UK, despite Sweden having a population less than a sixth the size.

HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A 54-year-old Minnesota man was convicted Thursday in the slaying of a high school student and stabbing of four other people who were tubing on a western Wisconsin river.

A Wisconsin circuit court jury found Nicolae Miu guilty of first-degree reckless homicide, four counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety and one count of battery, Minnesota Public Radio reported. No sentencing date has been set.

Isaac Schuman, 17, of Stillwater, Minnesota, was stabbed to death in late July 2022 while he and the other victims were tubing along the Apple River in St. Croix County, which sits along Wisconsin’s state line with Minnesota.

Two men from Luck, Wisconsin, a woman from Burnsville, Minnesota, and a man from Elk River, Minnesota, were wounded.

Miu, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, attacked the group after people accused him of approaching children in the water, investigators said in court documents. Miu told investigators that he acted in self-defense.

A shocking detail has emerged from the scene of a horror crash that killed a pedestrian taking a late-night stroll in Sydney’s south.

A 38-year-old man died at the scene after a blue Ford Falcon allegedly crashed into him near the intersection of Preddy’s Rd and John Street in Bexley about 10.30pm on Tuesday.

A photo obtained by 2GB of the wreckage revealed a bumper sticker plastered to the back that read “I drive like a c**t”.

A passer-by attempted to revive the 38-year-old man before paramedics arrived, but the man died at the scene.

He is yet to be formally identified.

The Ford driver and sole occupant – a 17-year-old boy – sustained minor injuries.