Chicago police have charged a man they say fatally shot and dismembered a 68-year-old man before setting a West Side residence on fire in March. Deparris Slaughter, 32, of Munster, Indiana, was arrested Saturday by the Area 4 Homicide Investigation Support Team in the 13800 block of South Brainard Avenue in Burnham, Illinois. Slaughter faces … Read more
Two Illinois men, Xu Zilong, 50, and Wu Chenguin, 51, were taken into federal custody after Schererville police caught them siphoning waste cooking oil behind Social 219 Bar & Grill in the early hours of November 13, 2025. Police reported that an officer first noticed a white box truck near U.S. Highway 30 around 12:05 … Read more
A Lake County jury has found Dennis Jelks, 60, guilty of murdering his domestic partner, the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday. Court evidence showed Jelks engaged in repeated acts of domestic battery that escalated with a deadly weapon, ultimately causing serious injury and death. The jury returned a guilty verdict for murder with a … Read more
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested 18-year-old Cordaryl Johnson Jr. in connection with the death of 17-year-old Trevaun Johnson in October. Johnson was taken into custody on the morning of Thursday, December 4, and faces second-degree murder, armed burglary of a conveyance with assault or battery, and robbery with a firearm involving the discharge of … Read more
Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers are actively searching for a driver who struck a pedestrian on Boyette Road and fled the scene, leaving the man to die. Investigators say the incident occurred around 7 p.m. on Sunday, November 16, 2025, when a 39-year-old Wesley Chapel man was walking along the southbound edge of Boyette Road, … Read more
A Plattsburgh, New York, woman, Stacey Taylor, 42, appeared in federal court Monday, accused of running a human smuggling operation that brought migrants from India across the Canadian border into the U.S. Prosecutors say she continued her smuggling activities even after being caught with four foreign nationals during a freezing January night. Taylor faces charges … Read more
A federal judge has sentenced Paul Archer, 46, a former Maine resident now living in Florida, to two years in prison for tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud. Archer was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release. According to federal court records, Archer owed approximately $1 million in federal taxes following an IRS audit … Read more
A federal jury has convicted 45-year-old Kyle Lee Dean of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury for a violent knife attack on the L’Anse Reservation earlier this year, authorities announced. The attack occurred on January 20, 2024, when Dean went to a residence within the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community … Read more
Miami police arrested 21-year-old Jimmy Jesus Cabrera after he allegedly attacked his pregnant girlfriend during a dispute and destroyed her phone as she tried to call for help, authorities said. Officials responded early Wednesday morning to a residence in the 1200 block of West Avenue, Miami Beach, after a woman called from a neighbor’s phone … Read more
Sweetwater police arrested 24-year-old Luis Merchan-Meron at Dolphin Mall on two felony counts related to the sale of counterfeit merchandise, authorities announced Friday. Investigators reportedly seized more than 150 counterfeit items worth thousands of dollars from the back of his truck. Court documents indicate that an undercover officer observed a transaction in the mall parking … Read more