A twisted TikTok prank, in which a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old from Texas followed elementary school students home from school and asked if they “wanted to be kidnapped,” has landed the two teens behind bars on charges of making terroristic threats, police say.

Kaine Villareal and Lane Burch, both of Kyle, were caught Wednesday following a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old as they walked home from Negley Elementary School that afternoon at around 3:20 p.m., according to the Kyle Police Department.

The pair approached the two kids and asked if they “wanted to be kidnapped” as part of a “prank” for social media, according to police.

A Florida man and woman are behind bars after they allegedly attacked a man who wanted to have sex while tied up on the beach.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, a “frantic” man flagged down a Volusia County Sheriff’s deputy around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of Ocean Shore Boulevard in Ormond by the Sea. He was bleeding heavily throughout his body. The man told a deputy he had been jumped by a man and woman on the beach.

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He said he and a woman, later identified as 18-year-old Alana Cagle, agreed to come to the beach where she would tie him up and then have sex, the affidavit said. Cagle picked him up at his home and they drove to Bicentennial Park where they parked the car and walked to the beach, he stated. When they got to the beach he started to feel “odd vibes” from Cagle because she was sitting about 5 feet away from him. Nonetheless, she took out a yellow rope that she brought with her and began to tie him up.

It was at this point that the victim saw another man approaching them, the affidavit said. He tried to untie himself but Cagle jumped on top of his legs. He was able to fight her off and began to run away. But the other man, later identified as 24-year-old Wayne Streeter, tracked him down and tackled him. Streeter allegedly began choking him while Cagle punched him in the face. Per deputies, Cagle then pulled out a hatchet and began hitting him with it all over his body.

In a case with several layers of alleged deception, Tennessee authorities say a man called 911 claiming to be a hiker who fell off a cliff while running from a bear. But Monroe County investigators said that while they did find a dead body, this was not the real caller.

The caller was actually Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45, they said. He is now wanted for first-degree murder out of Monroe County.

The suspect, who is known for allegedly using various aliases, also has a criminal history. He was sentenced in 2012 to 20 years in prison after being charged with holding a man at gunpoint, trying to hit him with a baseball bat, and attempting to bury him alive, according to AL.com. In that case, he used the alias Joshua Jones at one point.

Now he’s on the lam, authorities say.

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Authorities say that on Oct. 18, at approximately 11:34 a.m., Monroe County’s E-911 got a call transferred from their Polk County counterparts regarding a “distressed hiker” who claimed to be a man by the name of Brandon Andrade.

“He advised the dispatcher that he had fallen off a cliff while running from a bear,” they wrote. “The distressed caller claimed that he was injured and partially in the water.”

The call pinged in the area of Charles Hall Bridge on the Cherahola Skyway in Tellico Plains. First responders showed up, searched the area, and indeed found a dead man with the identification of Brandon Kristopher Andrade on his body.

But when law enforcement dug deeper, they learned he was not Andrade, and that in fact the ID had been stolen and used multiple times elsewhere.

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Utah Supreme Court rules for adult adoptee who wanted to unseal records for medical and genetic information

By Debra Cassens Weiss

February 28, 2024, 8:42 am CST

A district court misinterpreted the law when it ruled that an adult adoptee can’t obtain her 1978 adoption records to provide her doctors with information about health predispositions, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled.

At issue is whether adoptee Marianne Tyson had shown “good cause” to obtain the records as required by Utah law, which seals adoption records for 100 years.

A district court had ruled that Tyson didn’t satisfy the “good cause” standard because the health and genetic information that she sought was not related to a specific medical condition.

The district court reasoned that giving Tyson access to the records would undermine the law’s privacy protections for birth parents.

The Utah Supreme Court ruled that the district court erred by trying “to breathe a more specific meaning into the phrase ‘good cause.’ Although it is understandable that the court would want more guidance than the statute provides, it interpreted the statute in a fashion that rewrote the law.”

“Stated differently,” the Utah Supreme Court said in its Feb. 22 decision, “if the legislature had wanted to impose a requirement that a petitioner point to something more than wanting to know her medical history, it could have put that in the statute. It did not, and it was error for the court to do so.”

The district court had determined that Tyson’s reasons for obtaining the records did not outweigh her birth mother’s interest in privacy.

“But instead of balancing both interests” as required by a Utah procedural rule, the district court “focused solely on the birth mother’s privacy interests,” the Utah Supreme Court said.

The state supreme court said it was returning the case to the trial court to conduct a balancing “that gives weight to both the birth mother’s privacy interests and Tyson’s reasons for wanting to see her adoption records.”

Law.com covered the case, In re M.A.

A now-former Louisiana high school teacher carried on an improper relationship with a student for a year and a half, authorities say.

Tatum Hatch, 32, stands accused of one count of computer-initiated solicitation of a minor, according to Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office jail records reviewed by Law&Crime.

The woman allegedly wanted to be the “first” person the child had sex with — at one point fretting the boy would have sex with someone else, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.