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San Francisco Man Sustains Nine Stab Wounds After Confronting Man Who Catcalled Girlfriend
Date: 11/15/2014
Location: San Francisco, Calif.
Crime: N/A
Ratchet Meter: 6
Authorities say a man was reportedly stabbed multiple times for telling a man to stop harassing his girlfriend last weekend.
According to CBS San Francisco, 31-year-old Ben Schwartz was stabbed nine times in San Francisco during the morning of Nov. 15. CBS San Francisco reports that Schwartz, who suffered life-threatening injuries, confronted his assailant about catcalling his girlfriend:
An investigation indicated that the man was walking home with his girlfriend when the suspect started catcalling her, police said.
The man confronted the suspect and an argument ensued, ending with the suspect stabbing the man multiple times with a knife, according to police.
Schwartz was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, and though police are investigating the attack, an arrest has yet to be made. Jezebel notes that Schwartz is recovering following surgery.
[via CBS San Francisco and Jezebel]
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Naked Man Arrested After Crashing Through Ceiling, Attacking Man at Boston Airport
Date: 11/23/2014
Location: Boston, Mass.
Ratchet Meter: 9
Authorities in Boston arrested a naked man who attacked an elderly man after tumbling through the ceiling of bathroom at Logan International Airport yesterday.
The Associated Press reports that 26-year-old Cameron Shenk fell through the ceiling of a women's bathroom, setting off a bizarre series of events:
The bizarre behavior began shortly before noon when a woman using a restroom located before the security checkpoint in Terminal C reported that a naked man had fallen through the ceiling and landed in the stall area, state police spokesman David Procopio said. The man had apparently sneaked into the bathroom, undressed inside one of the stalls and climbed into the crawl space above the restroom before crashing through the ceiling, Procopio said.
After exiting the bathroom, Shenk, bleeding from the fall, attacked an 84-year-old man and tried to choke him with his own cane before biting his ear. He proceeded to fight with the troopers who tried to arrest him, and one trooper suffered a hand injury during the fracas.
Both Shenk and the elderly man were hospitalized, and Shenk faces charges for assault and battery on a person over 60, lewd and lascivious conduct, mayhem, malicious destruction to property, assault and battery on a police officer, and attempted murder.
[via Associated Press]
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Twins, 17, Accused of Robbing Elderly Man They Met on Sugar Daddy Website
Date: 10/21/2014
Location: New York, N.Y.
Crime: Kidnapping, larceny, and burglary
Ratchet Meter: 5
Twin sisters in New York City were charged this week for tying up and robbing an 84-year-old man they met on a dating website.
The New York Times reports that 84-year-old Paul Aronson met Shaina Foster, 17, on SeekingArrangement.com. On Oct. 1, Foster and her sister, Shalaine, joined Aronson for dinner at a Manhattan restaurant, then came back to his apartment. According to the Times, he purchased a bottle of raspberry-flavored rum and allowed the girls to play with his dog, but the situation soured quickly when the elderly man introduced sex to the conversation:
He asked to do things I wasn’t going to do, she told Detective Darryl Ng at the 17th Precinct after the girls were arrested on Oct. 21. He is ugly, old and disgusting. I tied him up. I took his money and left. He was starting to creep me out.
The girls allegedly used zip ties to bind Aronson, then stole his credit cards and $470 from his wallet which they used for an ill-advised shopping spree. Shalaine Foster claims that she only watched as her sister tied up Aronson, and both girls pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping, larceny, burglary and more yesterday.
[via New York Times]
Pennsylvania Woman Arrested for Hiring Undercover Cop She Mistook for Hit Man
Date: 11/25/2014
Location: Easton, Pa.
Ratchet Meter: 8
Police in New Jersey arrested a Pennsylvania woman this week after hiring an undercover cop she thought was a hit man.
According to Philly.com, 52-year-old Denise Marie Nagrodski of Easton, Pa. was arrested on Tuesday for hiring the undercover cop to kill her daughter's ex-boyfriend, his sister, and her boyfriend. Nagrodski reportedly sought revenge against the man for abusing her daughter:
An undercover state police detective posed as a contract killer and met with Nagrodski Nov. 21 at the Phillipsburg Mall, investigators said.
There, she allegedly outlined her plot, asking that the ex's sister and her boyfriend each be shot twice in the forehead, “one for each twin,” prosecutors said.
When Nagrodski was unable to provide the “hit man” with a gun, she agreed he would instead “bash in” the heads of those two victims and set their house on fire, according to authorities.
Prosecutors said she instructed the detective to burn her daughter's ex-boyfriend alive, and to make sure the victim knew Nagrodski was responsible for his death.
Nagrodkski had two meetings with the officer, paying him $500 each time. She was arrested by the New Jersey State Police after on Route 22 after the second meeting, and faces charges for attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempt to tamper with or fabricate physical evidence, and conspiracy to commit aggravated arson.
[via Philly.com]
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