Bastrop Pastor arrested for animal cruelty following cat's death

A Bastrop family is devastated after finding out their cat “Moody” died after suffering serious injuries.

The family received a phone call from a local veterinarian who told them about the cat’s injuries, which were consistent with it being thrown of a bridge.

55 year old Rick Bartlett was arrested on Friday in connection to the cat’s death, and faces animal cruelty charges. Bartlett is reportedly a Pastor of Bastrop Christian Church.

Veterinarians told Moody’s owner, Eddy Bell, that his cat was found on the river walk in Bastrop near the Loop 150 bridge.

“The vet explained he was in shock, open mouth breathing and determined he had a ruptured lung,” Bell explained.

The Bell family says Moody was an indoor cat but did go spend time outside.
Late last week they let him out and he never came back.

According to the family, individuals at the animal control shelter told them Bartlett sometimes brings in stray cats.

 “The animal control officers told us that he traps feral cats that get in his garden. Moody was not a feral cat, we had for eleven years and was a member of or family,” said Bell.

 The Bell’s say Bartlett took Moody to police, who said they would return him to his owners. Bartlett allegedly volunteered to do it himself, but the cat never made it home.

“The bottom line this man was the last one to have our cat, and then he was found dying under a bridge. We all want answers and want him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” said Bell.

According to Bastrop County Jail records, Bartlett was taken into custody Friday by the Bastrop Police Department. He was later released the same day on $5,000 bond.

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Topless Woman Stops Traffic, Slaps Bystander In Monongahela, Pa.

A nearly naked Donora woman parading through downtown Monongahela caused traffic to come to a standstill Monday.

Monongahela police Chief Brian Tempest said officers were called to the 400 block of West Main Street, near McDonald's, at 3:18 p.m. after motorists saw the woman wearing only her underpants.

Tempest said she was walking "dead center" in the middle of the busy downtown street, causing both lanes in the 400 and 500 blocks of West Main Street to come to a halt.

Motorists told police the woman, whose name was not released, parked her car along the street and was topless when she got out of the car.

She eventually took off her pants and threw her shoes at a passing car, Tempest said.

At one point, the woman allegedly struck a female at the Bee's Nest Cafe in the 200 block of Main Street.
When police arrived, the topless woman allegedly resisted arrest and became belligerent with the city officer and a state trooper, Tempest said.

She was eventually handcuffed and transported by ambulance to Monongahela Valley Hospital in Carroll Township.

Tempest said the officers were met at the hospital by mental health personnel.

The chief said he wasn't releasing the woman's name Tuesday because she was being evaluated.

"Right now, we want to see that she is taken care of first. Charges could be filed in the future," Tempest said.
Tempest said news of the bizarre incident spread quickly, as motorists began snapping photos of the woman with their cell phones.

By Tuesday morning, the photos had gone viral on the Internet.

"I was in South Park taking a (training) class when my phone starting ringing," Tempest said. "In today's age, everyone has a cell phone with a camera."

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US axe murder suspect ate victim's brain, police say

BRIDGEPORT -- The day before police said Tyree Lincoln Smith hacked to death a homeless man in an East Side apartment and then cannibalized the body, he told his cousin he had a "lust for blood."

"He said he had gotten a rare steak at a restaurant in Florida and when he had tasted the blood it had given him a sexual sensation," recalled Nicole Rabb, who helped police get a confession from Smith to the crime.
Police said Smith killed 43-year-old Angel "Tun Tun" Gonzalez with an ax on Dec. 15.

On Tuesday night the 35-year-old Smith, who grew up in Ansonia, was arrested at a friend's home in Lynn Haven, Fla., and charged with murder in Gonzalez's death. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bond pending extradition to Connecticut.

Rabb, who grew up with Smith, has been acknowledged by police as their main witness against her cousin.

In an interview with the Connecticut Post, she lamented that she didn't act immediately to stop her cousin hours before the death of Gonzalez after he told her he was going to kill someone. But she explained at the time she didn't think what he was threatening was anything but crazy rantings she was used to hearing from him.

"Who the hell would think you could be related to someone like this," she said. "I mean, I've heard of Hannibal Lecter, but I never thought I could have someone in my family who would actually eat someone."

Rabb said she blames police for not acting faster after she said family members informed them Smith had confessed to killing someone in the Brooks Street apartment. "Police told his (Smith's) mother they just couldn't go into the Brooks Street apartment building to look for a body," she related.

Police didn't immediately return calls for comment on Rabb's assertions.

Gonzalez's body was found Friday in a vacant third-floor apartment on Brooks Street. Police said he was found lying across a mattress fully clothed with severe facial and head injuries.

An autopsy determined Gonzalez died from blunt head trauma.

After graduating from Ansonia High School, where he played football, in the early 1990s, Smith moved to California, where he got into modeling, Rabb said. She said his photograph was featured on several billboard advertisements. Prior to that, she said her cousin had been treated for psychiatric problems.

"He said he was hearing voices," Rabb said. "One time, the voices told him to get out of bed in the middle of a snowstorm and walk barefoot across town. He spent several months in a hospital."

While other family members kept their distance from Smith, Rabb said she remained close. "We had grown up like brother and sister," she said.

On Dec. 15, Rabb said Smith showed up at her Seaview Avenue apartment, carrying a large book bag and appearing out of sorts. She said he was drinking from a bottle of sake and showed her a small ax that he pulled out of the bag.

"He was talking about a book he was writing that was all about murder and rape and about Greek gods," she continued. She said she became concerned when Smith began talking about needing blood and being on a mission to get blood. She said he told her he was going to Beardsley Park and later intended to camp out on the porch of their old home on Brooks Street, where Gonzalez's body was later found.

But later that night Smith was back, banging on her apartment door complaining that he had blood all over him. She said she refused to let him in and he eventually went away.

He returned the next evening. Rabb said this time she let him, in only to see that Smith had blood all over his jeans. There was also blood on the small ax he was carrying.

She said he took a bath in her apartment and then stuffed his bloody clothing into a plastic bag. Then, sitting down at the dinner table with Rabb and her two young sons, she said he announced, "I got my blood."

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Teen Calls Cops When She Hears Mom Having Sex

JANUARY 23--A Florida teenager who called 911 last week asked police to place her in a Christian children’s shelter because she “heard her mother having sex.”

Responding to a domestic disturbance call Thursday around 4 AM, a cop questioned the mother and daughter at their Panama City residence, according to a police report. The duo had been involved in a “verbal altercation,” a cop noted.
The girl, 15, told an officer that she wanted to go to a local shelter “because she heard her mother having sex” and “felt disrespected” by her 35-year-old parent’s actions. The teen acknowledged that “there was no form of abuse or neglect in the house.”

The mother explained to police that she had invited her boyfriend over and “sometime during the visit, her daughter heard them having sex and became upset.” The woman added that “their bedrooms are next to each other and she didn’t intend to wake her daughter up.”

After speaking with a representative from the shelter, the teen decided that she did not want to leave her home because “it was almost time for school.”

The Panama City Police Department cop reported leaving a domestic rights brochure at the residence.

 

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Psychic Peaches Scammed Florida Woman Out Of $136,000

Priti Mahalanobis, a college-educated mother of two who ran a business, was having a rough time.

Her father's company was in trouble. Her brother's marriage was failing. She wasn't feeling well.

Distraught, she went to the Meditation and Healing Center in Windermere after receiving a coupon book in the mail that included an ad for a $20 psychic reading, she said.

The woman, Peaches Stevens, also known as Mrs. Starr, told her there was a curse on her family that could be removed with Stevens' help, court documents show.

Mahalanobis was to perform rituals, bring Stevens thousands of dollars, open credit-card accounts and keep them secret from her husband and hand over $65,000 worth of jewelry to be pawned, Mahalanobis said.

Seven months later, Mahalanobis was out $135,899 in cash, jewelry and gift cards, prosecutors said. By that time, she realized she had been duped and hired a private investigator to pursue the case.

"Nobody goes to someone to be conned, to be victimized," Mahalanobis said. "Unfortunately, I put my trust in the wrong person."

On Jan. 11, Stevens, 29, was arrested on felony charges of obtaining property by fraud. Stevens, who lives in Winter Garden and was released from the Orange County Jail on $22,000 bail, Tuesday night said she could not comment on the advice of her attorney.

The private investigator, Bob Nygaard of South Florida, credits an interview Mahalanobis granted to CNN's Anderson Cooper last fall with pressuring the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office to prosecute the case.

Mahalanobis, who lives in the Dr. Phillips neighborhood and lost her Quiznos sub shop in Avalon Park as a result of her financial woes, admits feeling foolish about what happened. But she decided to go public to try to help others.

"I learned a lot," said Mahalanobis, who is working part-time in a school cafeteria and slowly paying off her debt. "Not to let fear or guilt control you or your actions. Also, listen to your gut, your instinct, that little voice in the back of your head. Because your mind can fool you."

Mahalanobis alleges that Stevens, whose office is steps from the Windermere Police Department, gave her several ways to purge her family's bad luck. They included:

•Putting 11 $100 bills and 11 relatives' names on a piece of paper in an envelope under her mattress and a grapefruit under bed while she slept. This purportedly was because money is the root of all evil, and the evil afflicting her family would be attracted to the money, Mahalanobis said.

•Buying seven tabernacles at a cost of $19,000 each to "vanquish the negativity, curses and evil spirits that plagued her family," a charging report states.

•Keeping her efforts to purge the spirits secret or the evil would take over permanently and nothing could then stop it.

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Police: Willowbrook man called 911, asked to fight a cop

A 38-year-old Willowbrook man accused of calling 911 and asking to fight a police officer faces felony battery and resisting arrest charges, police said on Monday.

Police said John R. Pacella, of the 200 block of Stanhope Drive, was arrested after a 911 call from a man who “wanted to see an officer because he wanted to fight with them” about 4 a.m. on Jan. 19, police said.

When officers arrived at Pacella’s home, he shoved the officers, according to a police report.

Pacella was booked into DuPage County Jail, where he remains on $100,000 bail, according to jail records.  He is charged with aggravated battery, resisting a police officer, and battery with intent to provoke or insult – all felonies – records indicate.

Willowbrook police say they have had prior contact with Pacella, who is registered sex offender.

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Bonnie And Clyde Guns Sell For $210K At Auction

A Thompson submachine gun and a shotgun left behind when Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow fled Joplin in a shootout with the law in 1933 brought $210,000 at auction Saturday.

The .45-caliber Tommy gun fetched $130,000. The 12-gauge 1897 model Winchester shotgun brought $80,000.

Both were purchased by an online bidder who lives on the East Coast. Mayo Auction, of Kansas City, was not given permission to release the name of the buyer.

Approximately 150 people turned out Saturday morning to watch the guns sell in about 10 to 15 minutes of bidding. There were five active bidders. The guns were among 120 that were sold Saturday.

“There was definitely an energy in the room the closer we got to selling the Tommy gun,’’ said Robert Mayo, owner of the auction house, in a telephone interview Saturday.

“As we were ramping up, people were getting excited,” he said. “There was a sense of being a witness to history.’’

The auction established a value for the guns.

Said Mayo: “This is their value today. They have never been sold before. It will be more fun 70 to 80 years from now. What will they be worth then?’’

The guns were auctioned by the Lairmore family of Springfield. Mayo said the family was happy with the price and that both guns went to the same buyer.

The weapons are believed to be among those seized after a raid April 13, 1933, at the outlaws’ apartment hideout near 34th Street and Oak Ridge Drive in Joplin.

Five lawmen in two cars, armed only with handguns, descended on the apartment, and a bloody gunfight ensued. Two of the lawmen — Newton County Constable John Wesley Harryman and Joplin police Detective Harry McGinnis — were killed. Clyde Barrow, Buck Barrow and fellow gang member W.D. “Deacon” Jones were injured.

After the raid, police confiscated guns, a camera and personal items from the apartment, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The film in the camera, which was developed by The Joplin Globe at the time, was of special interest. The images on the film, which include some with the guns, were the first to identify the outlaws. Historians say the publication of those images in newspapers across the country spelled the beginning of the end for the duo.

Until recently, the guns were displayed in the Springfield Police Museum. They have been in the possession of the Lairmore family since the Great Depression.

A police officer at the time of the raid in Joplin gave the weapons to Mark Lairmore, who was a Tulsa, Okla., police detective at the time.

Said Mayo:“This was by far the most exciting auction we have ever conducted. To see something with this kind of history. There was so much excitement.’’

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