Keyword: domesticbattery
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A boy is back home and on the mend after his father kidnapped him in May and set a car on fire with the child still inside. Bennett Dornellas, 3, suffered third-degree burns on 90 percent of his body, but was still pictured smiling in the days before his release Monday. His father, 32-year-old Joshua Bennett Dornellas, was arrested after leading deputies on a chase that began in South Caroline and ended in Georgia with the car engulfed in flames. It began with the violent assault of Bennett and his mother at the family's home in Anderson County, cops said...
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Domestic violence victims face risk of being attacked again following Cook County reforms, a Tribune investigation found. (Full). ... Cook County judges have sharply lowered bonds for people accused of violent domestic attacks and prosecutors are dropping more of these cases, placing victims at risk as potentially dangerous suspects are released from custody. ... Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle implemented the new measures with the support of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx ... Reform is being pursued at the expense of the victims. They have been left out of the conversation,” said Amanda Pyron, executive director of the Chicago Metropolitan...
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Naya Rivera was arrested in West Virginia on Saturday and charged with domestic battery after she allegedly got into an altercation with her husband Ryan Dorsey, reports said. The 30-year-old actress was arrested around 9:30 p.m. Saturday and arraigned just after midnight on a domestic battery charge, WSAZ reported. Authorities were called to the couple’s home in Kanawha County after Rivera allegedly struck Dorsey in the head and bottom lip while they were taking their 2-year-old son Josey on a walk, according to the criminal complaint.
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There’s something soothing about buying a gun. Driving to Maxon Shooter’s Supplies in Des Plaines on Wednesday to purchase my first assault rifle, I admit, I was nervous. I’d never owned a gun before. And with the horror of Sunday’s Orlando massacre still echoing, even the pleasant summer day — the lush green trees, fluffy white clouds, blue sky — took on a grim aspect, the sweetness of fragile life flashing by as I headed into the Valley of Death.
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The Metropolitan Police officer who was arrested Monday on domestic battery charges was arrested four years before on similar charges, but that case was dismissed, the Clark County district attorney's office confirmed Wednesday. James Burt, 41, was taken into custody Monday on suspicion of domestic battery by strangulation and kidnapping involving his girlfriend, an arrest report shows. In 2011, he was arrested on two counts of domestic battery, coercion with force and kidnapping involving his then-wife. They divorced about a year later. That first case was dismissed less than six weeks after he was arrested. "What it looks like on...
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SAFETY HARBOR -- A Safety Harbor woman was arrested for hitting her husband because he wouldn’t take down the Confederate flag, according to deputies. Deputies say Margaret “Peggy” Rae Carpenter and her husband, Larry, were arguing over the Confederate flag Larry had put up Saturday afternoon.
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Singer-actress Pia Zadora has been arrested on suspicion of domestic battery and coercion after a disturbance at her Las Vegas home. ... Police declined to release the name of the victim and other details, saying further information would be released Monday.
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REXBURG - What began as a complaint of domestic battery turned into an all-nighter for the Rexburg Police Department, with some of West First North being closed off Friday night and early Saturday morning. According to police, the department was alerted by a 21-year-old woman, who said her husband, Kristopher Corey Butcher, 25, had become upset when their 3-month-old baby began crying. "When she went into the baby's room the husband secured the door so she could not leave the room with the baby. (The) victim escaped by climbing out the window and entered back through another bedroom window in...
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MARCH 16--A Florida man wearing an "I ♥ My Marriage" t-shirt was arrested last night for allegedly choking his wife during an argument in their Tampa-area home.
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LAS VEGAS -- A man whose domestic troubles gained notoriety when his then-wife cut off his penis in an argument 12 years ago has been arrested and charged with battery on his current wife. John Wayne Bobbitt, 38, filed for divorce Monday following his arrest last weekend on a domestic battery charge involving Joanna Ferrell, Bobbitt's lawyer said Wednesday. It was at least the third arrest for Bobbitt in Las Vegas involving Ferrell. He posted $10,132 bond and was freed Tuesday from jail, police said. Bobbitt was arrested Saturday morning after he was accused of chasing Ferrell, 40, and pushing...
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