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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Center City woman was arrested after allegedly refusing to move out of the path of a delivery robot. The confrontation was captured on video and has since drawn online attention. Philadelphia police said officers responded to the 1200 block of Filbert Street after witnesses reported a disturbance involving Carolyn Marvin and an Uber delivery robot near Reading Terminal Market. According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot's path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move. She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Marvin tells Action News she was protesting the use of delivery robots...

The OpenAI engineer who was fired after being charged this week with bugging a conference room at the AI giant was nabbed by the FBI only three days before his one-way flight to Saudi Arabia was set to take off, according to court papers. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35 year-old Saudi national, said he helped advise Saudi Arabia government agencies on technology and gushed in a recent podcast interview about meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, then the deputy crown prince, during the prince’s 2016 visit to Silicon Valley. Alfozan said he had been looking for guidance on whether to return...

A Wisconsin congressional candidate has been arrested on hate crime charges after he went on a vulgar caught-on-camera rant against an Israeli dad with his young son in the car — after he was triggered by an anti-Hamas bumper sticker. Matthew Arndt, 54, allegedly cut off the 41-year-old father on a road in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon Thursday morning, flipping him the bird and cursing at him before pulling into a gas station, where the dad followed him and began filming the explosive encounter. “Do you want to tell me something?” the father asked. “Yeah, you’re a f------ piece...

A group of masked Massachusetts teenagers stormed a McDonald’s restaurant and attacked an employee who was behind the counter during the chaotic invasion caught on camera. Four teens were arrested for their roles in the violent takeover in Lynn — about 10 miles outside Boston — on Sept. 18 after a local football game let out, WHDH reported. Distressing cellphone footage recorded from inside the McDonald’s shows the massive group descending into the fast-food joint before two of the teens are seen viciously attacking one of the workers. #BREAKING: A Group of VIOLENT TEENS STORM a McDonald's in Lynn MA...

An illegal immigrant rideshare driver accused of sexually assaulting a teenage female passenger in Maryland has a history of sex abuse in New York, federal authorities said. Abdoulaye Dia, of Lanham, Maryland, was charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police officers were called to a hospital where an underage teen girl reported a rape. She told police she was raped by an Empower rideshare driver. Dia, a citizen of Guinea, took her to a parking lot in Silver Spring, where the alleged assault occurred....

He spent a month dodging police, only to stroll into a Panda Express where two of the cops looking for him were sitting down to dinner. The unbelievable encounter unfolded around 8:30 p.m. July 17 in Monrovia, California, when two officers taking a meal break spotted the man, who was wanted for a probation violation. One officer was still working on a bowl of beef and broccoli when the suspect walked into the San Gabriel Valley restaurant. The dinner break was over in a hurry. Bodycam footage shows the officers springing from their table and moving toward the man near...

A California man was busted Tuesday after cops allegedly found a guillotine in the back of his pickup truck near the US Capitol and the Supreme Court Building. Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, of Julian, California, had driven all the way from the Golden State to Washington, DC, before US Capitol Police spotted his pickup illegally parked along the 100 block of East Capitol Street shortly after 3 p.m. Then officers spotted the shocking cargo. A guillotine was sitting in the truck bed, according to USCP. Officers seized the device and arrested Le on a charge of carrying a dangerous weapon. He...

Federal immigration officers arrested more than 1,200 illegal immigrants in the Atlanta, Georgia area, including 720 who DHS said had been convicted of or charged with crimes. Speaking on “Fox & Friends,” Marcos Charles, executive associate director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, said the sweep took violent criminals — including sex offenders and child abusers — off the streets. “We arrested over 1,200 aliens, illegal aliens, out in the Atlanta, Georgia area. More than half of those people had criminal histories,” Charles said. “We’re talking about sex crimes, assault and battery, some with DUI convictions, domestic violence. These individuals...

A fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters List was returned to Florida to face federal charges for her alleged role in a $32 million federal COVID-19 relief fund fraud. Elaine Escoe, 41, was charged by indictment in 2025 with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, as well as multiple substantive counts of wire fraud and money laundering. Escoe had been on the run since May 2025 and was captured in Jamaica while living under the fake identity of “Harley Newman.” After being charged, she failed to appear in court and fled. On June 4, the FBI announced...

Mon Jul 20, 2026 - 12:56 pm EDT OMAHA, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — A Nebraska man was arrested for threatening to commit a mass shooting at a Catholic school with the specific intention of killing nuns and the children of Nebraska’s devout Catholic Governor Jim Pillen. Ean Halstead, 32, was taken into custody after a standoff with law enforcement on Friday. Halstead reportedly has a history of violent threats and was previously convicted of threatening an “ex-boyfriend” and setting his bedroom on fire, according to local news outlet KFOR. On June 26, Halstead posted a message on the Facebook page for...

Sausalito’s new city manager was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of felony burglary after Marin County sheriff’s deputies responding to a noise complaint found her aboard a yacht that authorities say belonged to someone else. Elaine Forbes told deputies she was having “a bad morning” and insisted they leave what she claimed was her boat, the Marin Independent Journal reported. Forbes, 53, was taken into custody less than three weeks after starting as Sausalito’s top administrative official. The arrest came two days after the Sausalito City Council placed her on administrative leave following a closed-session meeting. Deputies responded to the...

An employee at a Colorado Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center allegedly shot a female protester Thursday night while trying to get to work. Brandon Booth, 42, an employee of the GEO Group, which operates the Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado, was waiting in his car on a nearby street with other workers as a demonstration blocked their access to the facility, according to police. Two female protesters reportedly instigated a verbal confrontation and took pictures of the detention center employees’ cars before walking away. Booth then allegedly fired a single shot towards the direction of the two...

Several Democrats have either been arrested, detained or charged under the Trump administration due to the White House’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin has condemned their treatment, arguing lawmakers are being assaulted without reason. “Elected officials are being arrested for doing their jobs,” Martin wrote in a Wednesday statement on social platform X. “Once again, the Trump administration is silencing people who disagree with them in broad daylight.” Here are Democrats who have been recently apprehended by law enforcement: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Sen. Alex Padilla Rep. LaMonica McIver Judge Hannah Dugan Newark Mayor...

Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold was arrested and booked on four counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery on Wednesday, and is now facing up to life in prison if convicted. Arnold, 23, turned himself in to authorities on a warrant at the Orient Road jail in Tampa, Fla., the Detroit Free Press reported. He remained in custody as of 10:46 p.m. In a statement released through Arnold’s representative, Arnold “categorically denies any involvement in the matters underlying the allegations made against him and maintains his innocence.” The Lions released a statement that said they are aware of the...

Federal immigration agents have nabbed more than 10,000 migrant gangbangers since the start of President Trump’s second term, the US Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. The milestone, reached just a year and a half after Trump launched his sweeping mass deportations agenda, includes arrests tied to murder, assault with a deadly weapon, drug trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, robbery and extortion, according to DHS. “Many of these gang members were released into our country by Joe Biden,” said DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin. “These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized innocent Americans for sport.” “Thanks to the Secure America Act, ICE...

Multiple Knicks fans were arrested Wednesday night while celebrating their hometown team’s thrilling NBA Finals Game 1 victory at Madison Square Garden’s first outdoor watch party permitted by the city in weeks. The celebratory sea of Knicks fanatics packed the streets surrounding the Garden, where they cheered the team’s 105-95 win against the San Antonio Spurs as hundreds of cops looked on — and a waving Mayor Zohran Mamdani was driven by in a black SUV, according to social media clips. The outdoor event had been scrapped for weeks after the city pulled permits over concerns of unruly fan antics....

Families hoping to make memories on a cruise were unknowingly surrounded by alleged child predators working aboard the ships, according to law enforcement officials. U.S. Customs and Border Protection boarded five cruise ships, including a Disney cruise docked in San Diego, between April 23 and 25 as part of ongoing Child Sexual Exploitation Material enforcement operations, a CBP spokesperson told The California Post. “After boarding the vessels and interviewing 26 suspected crew members from the Philippines, one suspected crew member from Portugal, and one from Indonesia, officers confirmed all subjects were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or...

John Andrew Spillman, 33, is a Uniformed Division officer with the federal agency, and had just provided security to President Donald Trump at the weekend PGA tour at Trump’s golf course in Doral, Florida. He was arrested shortly after midnight Monday for allegedly masturbating naked on the sixth floor of the DoubleTree hotel near Miami International Airport. “Police allegedly caught him literally with his pants down in the act, according to the arresting affidavit,” reported Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics, as deputies with the Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Officer responded.

Golf superstar Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover car crash in Jupiter Island, Florida, on Friday, authorities said.

Car crash-prone Tiger Woods reportedly rolled his luxury SUV on Friday in yet another Florida roadway washout for the golf great. Woods’ condition after the Jupiter Island rollover crash wasn’t immediately clear, but a witness told TMZ that the golfer appeared to be fine. Photos from the two-vehicle crash shared by local outlet WPTV showed a Range Rover on its side along Beach Road. The fender fracas comes days after Woods, 50, made his golf return at the TGL Finals.