Authorities are hunting an as-yet unidentified crook — described as a white male in his 50s or 60s — who carried out a series of bank robberies in Southern California while wearing a green neck warmer.
Meontay Wheeler, 23, is facing several aggravated battery charges for torturing the unidentified woman, who had previously filed a protection order against him.
Curtis Bankston and Sophia Simm-Bankston allegedly used a fake-church “basement as a personal care home for the individuals, which essentially imprisoned them against their will."
“My gun is empty,” Ellen Wink, 61, told responding Norwalk police officers after she opened fire on 54-year-old tenant Kurt Lametta on Jan. 20, according to an arrest report.
Latima Warren was reported missing just after Christmas. Her boyfriend, Rondell Watters, was arrested on Jan. 17, which is when cadaver dogs found human remains during a warranted search.
"I'm just happy to be out of this mess, which has cost me half of my life for nothing," Joyce Watkins, 74, said in a statement after a judge vacated her conviction this month.
“It’s no longer attempted murder — it’s murder — he passed away,” community activist Karlin Chan said of Yao Pan Ma, who died last month, following a suspected hate crime attack in April 2021.
