Crime

Mother Who Allegedly Starved and Pepper-Sprayed Her YouTuber Children Dies in Hospital

Warning: This article includes descriptions of sexual and physical abuse of children. A mother who operated a popular YouTube channel that showed her seven adopted children’s shenanigans has died in a hospital about eight months after she was charged with abusing, molesting, and imprisoning her children. When Machelle Hackney and her two biological adult sons…

Crime Jennings Brown

Airbnb Bans ‘Party Houses’ After Five Die in Shooting at a California Listing

Airbnb is cracking down on “party houses” after a Halloween shooting at a California residence rented through the service left five people dead earlier this week. CEO Brian Chesky outlined how the company plans “to combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct” in a Twitter thread Saturday. First and foremost:…

Crime Alyse Stanley

Rudy Giuliani’s Crime Buddy Apparently Named His Company ‘Fraud Guarantee’ to Trick Google Search Results

Have you heard the news about Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the company Fraud Guarantee? It’s even dumber than you can imagine. Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to President Trump, is in hot water after his associates were arrested for alleged illegal campaign finance hijinks. The two men at the center of the scheme, Lev Parnas…

Crime Matt Novak

Abandoned SD Card Labeled ‘Homicide’ Provides Road Map to Real Murder

A found SD card that was labeled “Homicide at midtown Marriott” and contained videos and photos depicting a brutal killing has led to an arrest for murder. On September 30, a woman told police she found the memory card in a street in the Anchorage, Alaska, neighborhood of Fairview, reports local news outlet KTUU. The…

Crime Jennings Brown

Police Drone Finds Fugitive Living in Cave After 17 Years on the Run

Chinese police used a drone to track down a convicted human trafficker 17 years after he escaped from jail. As NBC News reported, in a statement published to WeChat on Thursday, Yongshan police said that authorities had attempted to find Song Moujiang several times over the last several years, and they obtained new tips on…

Crime Jennings Brown

Man Accused of Using Drone to Airdrop Explosives Onto Ex-Girlfriend’s Property

Prosecutors have accused an autoworker of using a drone to drop bombs on his ex-girlfriend’s home in Washington Township, Pennsylvania. Jason Muzzicato was arrested by the FBI following a search of his auto business and his home on June 7, which uncovered about 10 guns, including multiple semi-automatic pistols and AR-15 rifles and seven handmade…

Crime Jennings Brown

Teen Gamer Sentenced to 15 Months in Swatting Case That Led to Police Killing a Man

The second gamer involved in a swatting case that began with a Call of Duty bet and ended with police killing an innocent man has been sentenced. On Friday Casey Viner, 19, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his involvement the fatal incident. After his release he will be restricted from gaming for…

Crime Jennings Brown

Man Claims He Invented Bitcoin, Is Ordered to Pay Billions in Bitcoin

A man who has insisted he is the man behind the pseudonymous identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of bitcoin, has been ordered to pay half of his cryptocurrency bounty to a man believed to be his former colleague. A U.S. district court ruled on Tuesday that Australian computer engineer Craig Wright must pay the estate…

Crime Jennings Brown

A Weed Breathalyzer Company Has Raised $65 Million to Make a Narc’s Best Friend

Now that weed is being decriminalized across the country, a startup is trying to make it easier for cops and bosses to figure out who’s actually high. Hound Labs announced on Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in Series D financing for the company, which is developing THC breathalyzer technology aimed at helping law…

Crime Jennings Brown

FBI Finds Bucket of Heads, Cooler of Penises, Sewn ‘Frankenstein’ Corpse at Body Donation Center

In 2013, federal authorities began investigating shady “body brokers,” businesses that sell donated bodies for research purposes, such as Arizona’s for-profit Biological Resource Center. That company was shuttered following an FBI raid in 2014, but eyewitness details are being made public for the first time—and they’re almost too grisly to believe. In a sworn statement,…

Crime Hudson Hongo

Want to Do Crimes? Upgrade to 5G, Apparently

Europe’s police agency is worried that the 5G will interfere with law enforcement’s ability to track people. Catherine De Bolle, head of Europol is asking European Union leaders to allow their agency to be more engaged in policy conversations involving the adoption of 5G technology, Reuters reports. Police agencies in Europe, and the U.S., are…

Crime Jennings Brown

Founder of Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Ordered to Pay $14 Million to Target of Racist ‘Troll Storm’

Tanya Gersh has faced anti-Semitic harassment since late 2016—calls, tweets, emails, and texts demeaning her and saying she was going to die—upending the once-peaceful life she had in a quaint Montana town. The barrage began soon after Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin shared Gersh’s contact information on his neo-Nazi website and told his followers to…

Crime Jennings Brown

Researchers ‘Lost’ 17,000 Wallets in Hundreds of Cities to See What People Would Actually Return

Plenty of people around the world, it turns out, are willing to return a stranger’s lost wallet—especially if it’s filled with cash, according to a counterintuitive study. The study, published in the journal Science on Thursday, was a meticulous social experiment that took three years and over half a million dollars to complete. A group…

Crime Ed Cara

Snapchat Gender Swap Used to Catch Cop Who Was Allegedly Looking to Hook Up With Underage Girl

A 20-year-old college student used the Snapchat gender-swap filter to catfish a cop on Tinder, in a creative act of vigilante justice. NBC Bay Area reported on Tuesday that the student told police that he set out to find potential pedophiles after his friend told him she was sexually assaulted during her childhood. Ethan (last…

Crime Jennings Brown

YouTuber Sentenced to Prison For Giving Homeless Man Toothpaste-Filled Oreos

YouTube contains hundreds of videos of the toothpaste-filled-Oreo prank. A cursory search will turn up many of these videos showing children tricking their family into eating a fluoride-filled faux treat. But in January 2017, a teenage, Barcelona-based YouTuber published a video showing a particularly cruel spin on this common prank. In the video, Kanghua Ren,…

Crime Jennings Brown

Beware the One-Ring Robocall Scam

It happened to me last night—five calls, all from West Africa, only one ring each. The Federal Communications Commission issued a warning about this type of scam call on Friday. According to the alert, if you are called several times in a row, with only one ring each call—then whoever is behind the calls is…

Crime Jennings Brown

One of the Largest Dark Net Markets ‘of All Time’ Falls to Police

Police from around the world shut down the biggest active black market on the dark web this month, according to announcements from law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands released on Friday. Wall Street Market, as the black market site was known, was the target of a 1.5-year-long multinational investigation. Three…

Crime Patrick Howell O'Neill

It’s a Good Week for Animals Doing Crimes

Animals are just like us—deep down, they all want to do crimes and fight against structural oppression. And this week a lot of animals seem to be acting on their darkest impulses. While everything may not be working out for the animals, they are certainly accomplishing the crimes. We’re not sure why so many animals…

Crime Jennings Brown

Science Professor Reportedly Admits to Making MDMA With His Students Because What the Hell

A pharmaceutical science professor in Japan allegedly taught his students how to make the illegal drug MDMA, and claimed it was important for their education. Japan Times reports that on Tuesday, Tatsunori Iwamura, a professor at Matsuyama University in Shikoku, was referred to prosecutors for his unusual curriculum. He reportedly admitted he instructed his students…

Crime Jennings Brown

Student Fried $58,000-Worth of College Computers Using ‘USB Killer’ Device

A 27-year-old former college student pleaded guilty on Tuesday to sticking a “USB killer” device into 66 computers at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. On February 14, Vishwanath Akuthota went on a technological rampage, destroying 59 Windows computers and seven Apple computers, and several digital podiums and monitors—all of which had…

Crime Jennings Brown

Mother Who Allegedly Starved and Pepper-Sprayed Her YouTuber Children Dies in Hospital

Airbnb Bans ‘Party Houses’ After Five Die in Shooting at a California Listing

Rudy Giuliani’s Crime Buddy Apparently Named His Company ‘Fraud Guarantee’ to Trick Google Search Results

Abandoned SD Card Labeled ‘Homicide’ Provides Road Map to Real Murder

Police Drone Finds Fugitive Living in Cave After 17 Years on the Run

Man Accused of Using Drone to Airdrop Explosives Onto Ex-Girlfriend’s Property

Teen Gamer Sentenced to 15 Months in Swatting Case That Led to Police Killing a Man

Man Claims He Invented Bitcoin, Is Ordered to Pay Billions in Bitcoin

A Weed Breathalyzer Company Has Raised $65 Million to Make a Narc’s Best Friend

FBI Finds Bucket of Heads, Cooler of Penises, Sewn ‘Frankenstein’ Corpse at Body Donation Center

Want to Do Crimes? Upgrade to 5G, Apparently

Founder of Neo-Nazi Site Daily Stormer Ordered to Pay $14 Million to Target of Racist ‘Troll Storm’

Researchers ‘Lost’ 17,000 Wallets in Hundreds of Cities to See What People Would Actually Return

Snapchat Gender Swap Used to Catch Cop Who Was Allegedly Looking to Hook Up With Underage Girl

YouTuber Sentenced to Prison For Giving Homeless Man Toothpaste-Filled Oreos

Beware the One-Ring Robocall Scam

One of the Largest Dark Net Markets ‘of All Time’ Falls to Police

It’s a Good Week for Animals Doing Crimes

Science Professor Reportedly Admits to Making MDMA With His Students Because What the Hell

Student Fried $58,000-Worth of College Computers Using ‘USB Killer’ Device

This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

Artemis 2 Day 2: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in the UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

Let us help find what you are looking for...