crime

Man Sentenced For Crashing Car While High and Pantsless

Lacey Donohue · 09/15/13 08:19PM

Jonathan Harty, 31, of Lake Steven, Washington was sentenced Friday to 29 months in prison after an April 20 accident that occurred while driving his two young daughters. High on meth, and driving over 100 mph down the highway, Harty eventually crashed into three cars. When officers arrived on the scene, they found Harty wearing prosthetic breasts, a woman’s shirt, and no pants. They also found a full bottle of urine and a pair of ladies panties by his feet. He reportedly told police that he was en route to The Dollar Store to buy toys for his daughters.

Hamilton Nolan · 09/13/13 03:38PM

"A police report says jail guards were surprised by the brazenness of a man accused of walking into a jail in downtown Las Vegas with an aluminum baseball bat and attacking corrections officers."

The Prosecutions From the Financial Crisis Are Just About Over

Hamilton Nolan · 09/12/13 12:17PM

Five years ago, the world economy melted down. About four and a half years ago, an outcry began in earnest for the SEC to track down and bring cases against the people and institutions responsible for the meltdown. How's that going?

Inside the Dungeon of “Fat Longpig,” the Child-Hunting Cannibal

Taylor Berman · 09/11/13 03:16PM

In May, Geoffrey Portway pleaded guilty to soliciting the kidnapping of a child and to the distribution and possession of child pornography. As part of his sentencing, federal prosecutors released photos of Portway's basement torture chamber, which the 40-year-old had planned to use to "rape, kill and eat" children he kidnapped with the help of two accomplices.

George Zimmerman Smashed Wife’s iPad Containing Video of Dispute

J.K. Trotter · 09/10/13 04:54PM

George Zimmerman doesn’t want anyone to know what happened between him, his wife and her parents during a domestic dispute on Monday. The Associated Press reports that Zimmerman tried to destroy an iPad that his wife used to record the dispute, breaking the device into several pieces. (According to the transcript of the 911 call his wife placed, he used a pocket knife.) Police are now trying to determine whether the footage can be salvaged.

J.K. Trotter · 09/10/13 02:50PM

Contributing editor Max Rivlin-Nadler reports that an Orthodox Jewish group is (illegally) sponsoring a cash raffle in Williamsburg to reward residents who voted in today’s city-wide primary. The raffle’s signage encourages entrants to re-elect Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes, who helped conceal child sex abuse within the borough’s Orthodox Jewish communities.

Drunk Driver Confesses To Killing a Man in YouTube Video

Camille Dodero · 09/06/13 11:48AM

Vincent Canzani was a 61-year-old Navy submarine veteran living in Ohio. Divorced with two daughters, he was an amateur photographer and a cigar connoisseur who'd just recently started working part-time at his favorite tobacco shop, the Tinder Box, in Columbus. Around three in the morning on Saturday, June 22, Vincent was driving down a stretch of the interstate and a truck hurtling the wrong way crashed into his Jeep. Vince was pronounced dead at the scene.