Former Colorado deputy, arrested in Mexico, sentenced to 10 years for possession of child sexual abuse videos

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A former sheriff’s deputy from southwest Colorado, who was on the run for months before being arrested in Mexico, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple charges related to possession of child sexual exploitation videos. Jesus Damian Nieblas was a deputy at the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office until he resigned in June 2025. The following month, investigators from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant on his home in Norwood and said they found 27 child sexual abuse videos. Nieblas, now 29, was nowhere to be found, and a warrant for his arrest was issued. At the time, police believed he fled San Miguel County and a manhunt was launched.

Source: Former Colorado deputy, arrested in Mexico, sentenced to 10 years for possession of child sexual abuse videos – CBS Colorado

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
James 3:17

North Texas woman arrested in widening prostitution, racketeering investigation, authorities say

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A North Texas woman accused of taking part in a years‑long prostitution scheme and an effort to gather intelligence on local public officials has been arrested, authorities said. Ashley Ketcherside, 41, of Godley, was taken into custody Tuesday and charged with racketeering. No bond has been set. The District Attorney’s Office for Johnson & Somervell Counties said the investigation centers on ongoing criminal activity involving Ashley Ketcherside, her husband, Michael, 52, and former members of the Godley Police Department. Michael Ketcherside had previously been arrested on charges of continuous promotion and solicitation of prostitution. Ashley Ketcherside, 41   Johnson County Jail Alleged decade‑long operation According to authorities, the couple allegedly ran a prostitution and racketeering operation that investigators describe as a pattern spanning nearly 10 years. The activity allegedly included promoting and facilitating prostitution.

Source: North Texas woman arrested in widening prostitution, racketeering investigation, authorities say – CBS Texas

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Acts 1:8

Former Lanier Christian Academy coach charged in surreptitious recording case

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Criminal investigators with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office have charged Joel Ernest Lulinski, 52, of Cleveland, with multiple felony counts after he allegedly used his cell phone to record underneath the clothing of minors at Lanier Christian Academy. Lulinski, a former physical education teacher and football coach at the Flowery Branch private school, faces 27 counts of the felony crime of using or installing a device to record underneath or through an individual’s clothing under certain circumstances. 

According to authorities, all of the victims are female students at the academy and were under the age of 16 at the time of the incidents. The investigation began on April 2, 2026, when one of the victims reported her suspicions to school officials. The officials immediately contacted a Hall County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was working extra duty at the school.  The report was quickly passed on to the agency’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, which launched a probe into Lulinski’s activities. Over the following 12 days, investigators determined that Lulinski had used his cell phone on multiple occasions to take inappropriate and surreptitious photos or videos of minors during normal school activities.

Source: Former Lanier Christian Academy coach charged in surreptitious recording case – CBS Atlanta

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
Philippians 4:8

Minneapolis man dies days after being assaulted by his neighbor, police say

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A man in his 70s died days after his neighbor assaulted him inside a Minneapolis apartment building last week, according to police. Officers were called to the apartment building at 314 Hennepin Avenue around 6 p.m. on April 5. Responders arrived to find the victim, a 71-year-old man, unresponsive near the elevators on the 15th floor. Charges say the victim was not breathing, did not have a pulse, had blood coming from both ears and had lost control of his bodily functions, all of which are “evidence consistent with significant head trauma.” Emergency medical services performed life-saving measures and the victim regained a pulse before he was transported to Hennepin Healthcare.

Survelliance footage allegedly shows the victim holding a laundry basket while arguing with the suspect, a 61-year-old man who alos resided in the building. The other man attempted to walk around the victim to get in the elevator when the victim nudged him with his laundry basket. Charges say that’s when the suspect punched the victim on the left side of his face with a closed fist. The victim immediately dropped his laundry basket and fell to the ground before the suspect rode the elevator down to the first-floor lobby, according to the complaint. A security guard at the apartment told police that the two men had an “ongoing feud,” charges say. The guard says they were at the lobby desk when the suspect came out of the elevator and said he “knocked that motherf***** out.” Police arrested the suspect, who told investigators he punched the victim after he would not let him into the elevator, charges say, adding that the two used to be friends but “their relationship soured.” The Minneapolis Police Department says it was notified on Tuesday that the victim had died at the hospital.

Source: Minneapolis man dies days after being assaulted by his neighbor, police say – CBS Minnesota

Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the LORD God of hosts will be with you, As you have spoken.
Amos 5:14

Illegal Alien Charged With Assaulting Federal Officer

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An illegal alien from El Salvador has been charged with assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon in California. The complaint unsealed this week charged Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, 36, a national of El Salvador residing in Stanislaus County, with assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon. Advertisement Court documents say that on April 7, 2026, at approximately 6:50 a.m., four federal law enforcement officers conducted an operation in the city of Patterson, California, to locate and arrest Mendoza Hernandez because he is illegally present in the United States. 

Officers stopped Mendoza Hernandez near an onramp to Interstate 5 by activating their emergency lights. Mendoza Hernandez pulled over on the right shoulder. During the stop, Mendoza Hernandez identified himself, and an agent informed him that he was being detained and instructed him to step out of the vehicle. Despite repeated requests, Mendoza Hernandez kept his car running and did not comply with agent’s requests.  Mendoza Hernandez eventually drove forward and hit an agent with his vehicle. Mendoza Hernandez then quickly shifted the vehicle in reverse and abruptly accelerated in a rapid backward motion. While in reverse, Mendoza Hernandez collided with the front of a law enforcement vehicle parked behind Mendoza Hernandez. After striking the front of the agents’ vehicle, Mendoza Hernandez’s vehicle then directly faced two of the agents assisting in the stop. After a brief pause, Mendoza Hernandez accelerated forward toward the agents. One of the agents was in the direct path of Mendoza Hernandez’s vehicle and jumped out of the way to avoid being hit. 

Source: Illegal Alien Charged With Assaulting Federal Officer

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands.
Psalm 90:17

Jury convicts man of first-degree murder for killing ex-girlfriend minutes after she posted about him online, HCAO says

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A jury convicted David Wright, 51, of first-degree murder on Wednesday for killing his ex-girlfriend Mariah Samuels in Minneapolis minutes after she wrote on Facebook that he threatened her family and damaged her car, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said. Wright was charged with first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree murder, second-degree murder and illegal possession of a firearm. The first-degree premeditated murder conviction means Wright will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the attorney’s office said.

He will be sentenced on Friday at 10 a.m. “We are happy with the results that justice was served today. While it will not bring back my sister, we will always honor her and keep her spirit alive,” said Salina Owens, Samuels’ sister. He had dated 34-year-old Samuels for a few months before she broke up with him, Samuels’ family said. She had a restraining order against him and had also posted a video online that she said showed him hitting her several times.  She was shot just feet from her front door on North 14th and Russell avenues in the Willard-Hay neighborhood, according to the criminal complaint.

Source: Jury convicts man of first-degree murder for killing ex-girlfriend minutes after she posted about him online, HCAO says – CBS Minnesota

Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.
Psalm 38:9

Alaska man, 77, Agrees to plead guilty to felony charge of threatening six Supreme Court justices

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A 77-year-old Alaska man has agreed to plead guilty to sending over 500 threatening messages to six U.S. Supreme Court justices and unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, according to court filings. Panos Anastasiou faces a felony charge for making threats against the justices from 2023 to 2024, a filing submitted April 10 in U.S. District Court in Alaska shows. He will also plead guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm stemming from a 1991 conviction.

Under the plea agreement, federal prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of probation and home confinement, citing Anastasiou’s advanced age, dementia, and a history of throat cancer. The case comes amid a broader surge in threats against federal judges. It follows the sentencing, just months ago, of a would-be assassin who was arrested with weapons near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home with weapons and received roughly eight years in prison. U.S. District Judge Aaron Christian Peterson is scheduled to hold a plea hearing for Anastasiou on Thursday.

According to a 2024 indictment, Anastasiou in the hundreds of message targeted two of the justices’ family members. The communications included violent, racist and homophobic rhetoric, along with explicit threats of assassination, torture and hanging, as well as references to firearm use. A draft of the plea agreement filed with the court quotes a July 2024 email in which Anastasiou allegedly called for the assassinations of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, and then-President Donald Trump. “Their assassination is ESSENTIAL for the country and democracy,” the message reportedly stated. “We should make the 6 corrupt [expletives] to be AFRAID very AFRAID to leave their home and fear for their lives everyday.”

Source: Alaska man, 77, Agrees to plead guilty to felony charge of threatening six Supreme Court justices | Just The News

And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Luke 6:33

Pembroke Pines woman arrested in theft of SNAP benefits from around 200 people, BSO says

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A Pembroke Pines woman has been arrested after she was accused in the theft of SNAP benefits from around 200 people, authorities said. Tamica Brown, 43, was arrested on April 7 on charges of criminal use of personal identification information involving over 30 victims and trafficking in counterfeit credit cards involving 50 or more cards, Broward jail records showed. Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said an investigation began in July of 2025 when deputies responded to the Walmart at 4700 S. Flamingo Road for a report of a fraudulent use of an EBT card.

Investigators found Brown was operating an organized fraud scheme where she unlawfully obtained EBT card numbers belonging to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP recipients, along with the associated PINs and account balances. The card numbers were stolen by unknown means and transmitted to Brown electronically through phones, and after she received the info she conducted unauthorized transactions, authorities said. The purchases included high-demand items like energy drinks and sports drinks, which Brown then resold to corner stores and convenience stores, officials said. Investigators identified about 200 victims who’d suffered a combined loss of over $120,000, but have been able to track down more than 30 victims so far, officials said.

Source: Pembroke Pines woman arrested in theft of SNAP benefits from around 200 people, BSO says – NBC 6 South Florida

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.
Hebrews 3:4

Woman arrested after video shows her dumping kittens at Wilton Manors park, cops say

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A woman was arrested Thursday after police say she was caught on camera dumping five kittens at a park in Wilton Manors. The suspect, Katherine Luciano, was arrested after the footage recorded on April 5 sparked community outrage. In the video, a woman can be seen “grabbing a taped box” from a red Kia and carrying it into Donn Eisele Park as another person stands and watches from the vehicle’s passenger side, police said.

She then opens the box and tosses out the cats. Both people then left the area, police said. NBC6 spoke to Peter Carey, who said he was walking his dog when he saw the woman dump the kittens. “I didn’t really know what I was watching,” he said. When he realized what had happened, the pair was gone. “I couldn’t go through the rest of my day just even thinking that I just saw what I saw and not do anything about it. So I tied my dog up and went to see in the bushes, and sure enough, I counted them. There was five of them, and they were super scared,” Carey said.

Source: Woman arrested after video shows her dumping kittens at Wilton Manors park, cops say – NBC 6 South Florida

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
Mark 8:36