Tales from the Dumpster

Thirty-seven-year-old Annette Marie Hodgson, who is the little boy's aunt and babysitter, and 22-year-old Samantha Laniz, who is his sister and owner of the dog, both pleaded not guilty.

According to the charges, they endangered the little boy's life by not controlling the boxer, named Tyson. He bit the nine-month-old, causing serious injuries to the face and neck.

The charges claim that the women knew the dog was dangerous because it had attacked before. The District Attorney said that they had downplayed that first attack so they could get their dog back.

Documents said that Erdman put the 1 and 3 year old in the tub and then drove to a Circle K store, bought a 22-ounce can of beer and then drove home.

29-year-old Aundria Jones has been charged with two counts of Reckless Homicide in the New Year's Day deaths of her two young boys.

7-year-old Christian Griffen and 4-year-old Romello Winters suffered smoke inhalation in an early morning apartment fire at the Alden's Gate Condominiums in Hickory Hill. The boys were pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital.

Their mother told police she left the boys home alone while she went out for New Year's Eve.

Vernon police said a cable TV repairman alerted officers of two children living in a home filled with weapons and filth.

The man told police that the children were living in a High Street apartment that was full of garbage, rotten food and pet feces.

Police said guns were also found out in the open. A 5-year-old child and an infant were found living in the home, according to police.

"The male was sleeping with a loaded handgun on his bed," said Officer James Grady of the Vernon Police Department. "Obviously a 5-year-old wants to go visit Daddy and Daddy is sleeping with a gun he had access to. There was a bayonet with a knife at the end of it in an area where the kids could play."

Police said the drugs were discovered when the mother ran back to the day care and told employees she'd forgotten something.

"Everybody's talking about it in the school," said student Baquisha May. "They took all the other babies out of the day care and her baby was still in there."

GLENDALE, Wis. -- A Glendale couple said they couldn't afford a baby sitter, so they strapped their 14-month-old son in his stroller at home while the couple went out, police alleged.

Rachel Anderson and her live-in boyfriend, Mitch Laputka, were ordered to stand trial Thursday on charges they neglected baby Gabriel so badly that his body was covered with diaper rash, his body temperature was 12 degrees below normal and he stopped breathing, requiring 21 minutes of CPR to revive him. Police said the couple admitted to leaving the boy home alone because they wanted to party.

The couple recently got jobs at Pizza Hut, police said Anderson told them, and the couple used the money for drinking parties. Police said Anderson told them that she often left Gabriel strapped in his stroller when the couple went out or to work, and that she changed Gabriel's diaper once per day. Police said Laputka told them that he didn't do diapers, that was Anderson's job.

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A former stepdad with a long rap sheet is accused of abducting a 5-year-old girl and bartering her freedom in exchange for methamphetamine, then money and finally a reunion with her mom.

Her former stepfather, Virgil Kosmicki, 45, was arrested on drug charges and could face kidnapping charges, Phoenix FBI spokeswoman Deborah McCarley said.

Kosmicki, who has a string of Arizona arrests for drug offenses, aggravated assault and weapons violations, is being held without bail in the Arapahoe County jail pending extradition to Arizona.

Jade's ordeal began Sept. 6 when Jennifer Dunn called the Mohave County, Ariz., sheriff to report her daughter missing.

Jade had been picked up at school by a once-trusted woman acquaintance on a contact list of people to whom the child could be released. But the woman was not authorized or expected to take Jade that day, the FBI said.

On Sept. 16, Jade's grandmother alerted sheriff's investigators that the woman acquaintance had called to say Jade had been spirited out of Arizona.

The acquaintance began relaying messages to the grandmother from Kosmicki, including the ex-stepfather's reported demand for 2 ounces of methamphetamine in exchange for the girl, McCarley said.

Then Kosmicki allegedly wanted money.

MOSCOW, Idaho — A 22-year-old carnival worker blames two friends having sexual intercourse in the back seat of his car for an accident in which his Chevrolet S-10 Blazer struck a telephone pole.

Joshua D. Frank, who is living in a trailer parked on the Latah County Fairgrounds, pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of failing to notify a police officer of a traffic accident. That's after he left the vehicle at the site of the mishap. He was fined $188.

Frank told Moscow Police Department officers that he was driving the vehicle near downtown early Saturday while a man and woman were having sex in the rear of the vehicle.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Frank told authorities that the actions of the pair in the back caused the Blazer, which "was top heavy anyway," to become "tippy" and lose control.

Frank left the accident scene with a minor head wound and returned to his trailer.

The woman told her boyfriend her keys were missing, at which time he pointed to a set of keys hanging from her pants pocket and "she began to cry," Riley said.

The Red Forman Dumbass Award!!!


Red's foot is the key to your ass.

West Palm Beach -- Police arrested a 41-year-old woman on a domestic aggravated battery charge Friday for pouring boiling water on her boyfriend while he slept.

Billie Reynolds (No relation) admitted to the crime, police said. On Monday she allegedly poured the boiling water on Gregory Laughlin, no age given, while he slept in Reynolds' trailer.

MUSKEGO, Wis. -- A senior at Muskego High School burned his girlfriend with a cigarette, choked her until she vomited and threatened to cut her into pieces, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

John Orlando, 17, is being held in the Waukesha County Jail on a $1 million bail, and news of his arrest is raising eyebrows all over Muskego.

Prosecutors said Orlando's girlfriend rode her bike to Orlando's home last Friday.

There, he bit her and drew sexually explicit drawings on her stomach. They engaged in some consensual sexual activity,

after which she told police Orlando kicked her, burned her with a cigarette, repeatedly choked her till she vomited, then set her hair on fire.

Orlando weighs 300 pounds, the girlfriend weighs 100. She told police Orlando spoke to her in the third person, saying "We are going to kill you," and said she wondered if he was hearing voices. She said he held a butcher knife to her throat, threatened to cut her into pieces, and burn her so no one would find her. He let her go when her mom arrived to pick her up, she said.