Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An NFL first-round draft pick was the victim of a $240,000 heist after someone pranked him into thinking he was speaking to a banker.Minnesota Vikings linebacker Dallas Turner received a call from someone impersonating himself to be a banker at JPMorgan Chase on Feb. 19, which led to the eventual bank heist.The caller “claimed someone was attempting to impersonate [Turner] at a Chase Bank branch in Arizona and presented two copies of ID to execute a wire transfer,” according to the Minnesota Star Tribune, citing an affidavit. Turner was then told by…

NEED TO KNOW A Connecticut jury has acquitted a 20-year-old man on murder and manslaughter charges in connection with the death of a 17-year-old high school athleteRaul Valle was 16 at the time of the May 2022 stabbing which claimed the life of 17-year-old James “Jimmy” McGrathValle was also found not guilty of lesser assault charges related to three other teenagers who were injured in the stabbing A Connecticut jury has acquitted a man who was accused of killing a high school athlete during a fight at a house party. On Wednesday, July 9, Raul Valle, now 20, was found…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One year after Corey Comperatore was killed at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, his widow is demanding accountability from the Secret Service.”We were all sitting ducks that day. Our blood is all over their hands. I am angry. I lost the love of my life. They screwed up,” Helen Comperatore told Fox News.The Secret Service has admitted to multiple failures after 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks climbed onto a rooftop and fired off eight rounds. Those shots killed Comperatore and wounded three others, including then-former President Donald Trump.”Why Butler? Why was that…

NEED TO KNOW Former NCT band member, Moon Taeil, 31, was sentenced at Seoul Central District Court on Thursday, July 10, to three and a half years in prisonThe sentencing comes one month after he pleaded guilty to charges of special quasi-rape, a charge in which two or more people engage in sexual acts with someone in a state of unconsciousnessAccording to an indictment, he and two others met with a Chinese tourist at a bar in Seoul and sexually assaulted her after she was taken to one of the men’s homes South Korean singer and former NCT band member,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The manhunt for the father accused of murdering his three young daughters has hit another dead end after a possible Fourth of July sighting fizzled out in a popular Idaho state park.Authorities are still looking for 33-year-old Travis Decker, a former member of the U.S. military and wilderness survivalist wanted for allegedly killing his three daughters – Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5 – before vanishing into the Washington wilderness. Last weekend, a tipster called in a potential sighting of Decker in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest in what was believed to be…

NEED TO KNOW Officials have ended the search for Travis Decker in an Idaho forest after finding the lookalike hiker who had been reported to authorities by a family on Saturday, July 5The man resembling Decker, who is accused of killing his three young daughters over a month ago, was seen in the Bear Creek area of the Sawtooth National Forest“Investigators interviewed the cooperative man and confirmed he was hiking in the Bear Creek area this past weekend,” U.S. Marshals Service Supervisory Deputy Michael Leigh said in a release, confirming it was a case of mistaken identity, per the Associated…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge ruled that a 76-year-old former Chicago alderman accused of bribery and lying to the FBI is unfit for trial, saying it would have an “adverse effect” on her health. Carrie Austin was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2021 “for allegedly conspiring to receive home improvements from construction contractors seeking city assistance for a development project” in her Far South Side ward, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said at the time. Austin, who spent nearly 30 years on the Chicago City Council before resigning…

NEED TO KNOW Nicholas Ricciardi was arrested by the West Hartford Police Department on July 1 after being accused of inappropriately tickling a student at a private Jewish day schoolThe teacher, 47, had been placed on leave by the school in December, and was previously arrested by the WHPD in January and June for similar allegations involving studentsIn April, officers from the Windsor Police Department also arrested Ricciardi after similar allegations were made by a former student from a school where he previously taught A former teacher at a private school in Connecticut was arrested for the fourth time after…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Several members of a violent migrant gang accused of “unleashing terror” to maintain control of a notorious crime strip represented by progressive Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Grace Meng have been taken down by police in a major bust.Eight members of the ruthless 18th Street transnational gang are accused of carrying out several brutal beatings and stabbings to maintain their dominance of the Roosevelt Avenue commercial corridor in Queens. They also distributed fake passports and counterfeit currency, dealt drugs and trafficked firearms while extorting businesses for rent payments, prosecutors said.Seven of the…

NEED TO KNOW Roy Barclay, 56, was found guilty of murdering Anita Rose, in a random attack in South YorkshireBarclay evaded capture by changing his appearance and living in a makeshift camp Police eventually found him with Rose’s belongings, linking him to the crime through DNA evidence and CCTV footage A 56-year-old man in England was found guilty of murder after he attacked a dog walker in what police say was a random act of violence.  On July 24, 2024, Roy Barclay attacked Anita Rose in South Yorkshire while she was walking her dog Bruce, viciously kicking and stamping on…