Michael Dietz was not shy about his alleged actions when Ohio cops asked him about the vandalism at the home of a woman with whom he was involved in a car crash over a year ago.

“I f—ing spray painted a—hole on her house,” Dietz told Westlake cops, according to body camera video viewed by Law&Crime.

“Why?” asked the cop.

“Because she’s an a—hole,” he retorted.

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While in the patrol car on the way to jail, Dietz went further.

“That b— is lucky I didn’t go over with a .357 and start shooting the place up,” he proclaimed.

Now Dietz, 64, is facing charges of vandalism and aggravated menacing.

Officers in Westlake, a suburb of Cleveland, responded to the victim’s home on Thursday morning after she saw the damage to her home and vehicle. Ring camera footage showed a man arrive shortly before 5 a.m. and try to pour sugar down a SUV parked in her driveway, a criminal complaint said. He proceed to spray paint the word “a—hole” several times, though it was misspelled, police said.

While tagging the home, Dietz apparently saw the camera and spray painted over it, a video showed. Not even the University of Alabama flag in the front yard was spared.

When asked who may want to vandalize the property, the woman and her husband suggested Dietz. She and the suspect had been involved in a car accident in August 2023.

A former funeral home owner in Mississippi has been accused of using a storage unit to illegally store bodies — even going so far as to describe it as his “casket warehouse” on TikTok — after he lost his business license, cops say.

“The discovery of human remains in a storage unit in our city is deeply disturbing and raises serious concerns that demand a thorough investigation,” Greenville Mayor Errick D. Simmons said in a statement last week after the arrest of Albert “Al” Creath, 31, was announced by the Washington County Sheriff’s Department.

Armed with a large kitchen knife with a pink handle, 22-year-old Wisconsin resident Kailee Brantner allegedly attacked her boyfriend last week — plunging the blade into his neck and slicing him open on his arms and chest — during a disagreement over using their house as their future wedding venue, cops say.

“The defendant attacked him without warning,” Brantner’s criminal complaint alleges, according to local Fox affiliate WITI. “(Brantner) had woken up to text messages and screenshots between the defendant and his mother, and this caused an argument.”

Brantner, a mom from Waukesha County, was charged Friday with a count of first-degree recklessly endangering safety using a dangerous weapon in a domestic abuse situation for the Jan. 29 incident, according to online court records. She posted bond and is now required to stay at least 1 mile away from her boyfriend.

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Federal judge dropped from now-sealed suit over alleged underage drinking at his home

By Debra Cassens Weiss

January 6, 2025, 9:31 am CST

A federal judge has been dropped from a December lawsuit alleging that “significant underage drinking” happened during a 2023 party at his home, leading to a fight that significantly injured a partygoer.

Plaintiff Alex Wilson sought to drop as defendants U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi of the Central District of California and his wife in a Dec. 30 request filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Law360 reports. The request was granted the same day.

Wilson had alleged that he was injured during the fight outside the judge’s home when he was struck from behind, and he hit his head and body on the curb. The alleged assailant, who was a minor at the time, remains a defendant in the suit, along with his parents, according to Law360.

Wilson’s lawyer sought to drop Scarsi and his wife from the suit without prejudice, meaning that they could be added as defendants in the future. They were accused of negligence and premises liability.

The Scarsis were dismissed from the suit after they said the complaint had included personal identifying information that put them at risk. The suit has since been sealed, according to Law360.

Judge John J. Kralik of Burbank, California, was assigned to preside in the case in December, according to the court docket.

Scarsi is an appointee of President-elect Donald Trump during his first term in office. Scarsi oversaw a criminal tax case against Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, before the elder Biden issued a pardon to his son.

A Florida man is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death with a kitchen knife while the victim’s daughter was home and on the phone with 911.

Makinson Devalcin, 45, faces charges in the death of Enese Pierre, court documents said.

She was killed on Sunday. An affidavit outlines the allegations.

The body of a man who disappeared from a Colorado sober living home last month — with cops finding large amounts of blood strewn throughout the residence, sparking a search for him and another man who lived there — was found in a “wooded area” on Friday, prompting cops to charge the housemate with murder after he was caught on the run with a woman in Mississippi.

Johnny Rankin Morris, 46, has not only been charged with Stephen Walker’s murder in El Paso County but also a killing in Park County as well, according to local police officials. He was caught by cops in Pearl River County, Mississippi, on Dec. 30 for an unrelated crime and is now awaiting extradition on charges of first-degree murder, tampering with a deceased human body and tampering with physical evidence following the discovery of Walker’s remains.

A Florida man and woman were arrested after cops allegedly found their five children alone in a home without food, electricity or a working toilet.

Sanel Canovic, 40, and Azra Nikocevic, 33, are each facing five counts of child neglect without bodily harm, court records show. Miami Beach Police Department spokesman Christopher Bess told Law&Crime the investigation began Tuesday afternoon when a passerby in the 700 block of 15th Street — a high-traffic area — saw a 6-year-old boy crossing the street by himself. The passerby called 911, and cops found the little boy, who took them to his nearby apartment.

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What cops found was appalling — and landed the parents behind bars. Inside were four other children, all under 12, Bess said. There was no electricity, working toilet or food, according to Bess. The kids said they hadn’t eaten in over 12 hours and were hungry. Officers took the kids to the police station and fed them as they tried to track down the parents.

“They were nowhere to be found,” Bess said.

Miami NBC affiliate WTVJ obtained an arrest affidavit that further detailed the kids’ predicament. Officers noted that the toilet in the home was filled with feces. The kids allegedly told them that their parents had them take showers after using the bathroom since there was no toilet paper in the apartment. Cops recovered soiled rags in the bathroom. The kids wore soiled clothing and smelled of urine, per the affidavit.

They also said they were without electricity for about two months, the affidavit reportedly said. The oldest daughter explained how they usually ate breakfast and lunch at school, but since they were on Christmas break, they often had nothing to eat. Their mother reportedly left them $20 for food at McDonald’s before she went to work on Tuesday.

A West Virginia father and convicted murderer is accused of fatally stabbing his fiancee and her mother in his home, then burning the property and taking his 15-month-old daughter to a friend’s house before he went on the run, prompting an Amber Alert that led to his arrest and the baby being found unharmed.

Joshua Russell Morrow, 42, faces murder charges in the deaths of his girlfriend, Britney Brown, 34, and her mother, Irma Brown, 57. He also faces a charge of first-degree arson, according to West Virginia State Police.

A man from New Mexico who admitted to smoking meth and marijuana before he crashed through a home, killing a grandfather sitting in a recliner watching TV, will spend 10 years in prison.

Mark Castello, 63, learned his fate on Wednesday in the death of Brian Peterson, 74. Castello pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle.

A Texas woman was recently arrested after she intentionally left her 16-month-old child alone to travel out-of-town to visit a man she met on a dating app, Lone Star State law enforcement say.

Reese Louise Myers, 25, stands accused of one count of abandoning or endangering a child, according to the Killeen Police Department.

The incident in question dates back to the middle of this past summer; the defendant was finally arrested near the small city of Barstow in the Inland Empire region of Southern California on a fugitive warrant earlier this month. She just made her way back to Texas this week.