A young Louisiana mother was arrested after she left her crying 2½-year-old child in an unattended car outside a bar so she could go drinking, according to police.
Melissa Ibarra, 23, then allegedly drove drunk with her child in the vehicle.
The Kenner resident faces a slew of charges, including operating a vehicle while intoxicated, child endangerment,… Continue
Chivalry really is dead, at least if you're 50 Cent. The rapper has weighed in on the legal troubles facing Grammy winner T.I., saying his wife should take the rap for drugs found in their car.
Cops confirmed yesterday that they seized Ecstasy when they stopped T.I. and Tameka (Tiny) Cottle's Maybach for making an illegal U-turn on Wednesday in West Hollywood.
And 50 Cent has some questionable advice for the couple - delivered via… Continue
A crocodile caused a commotion in Queens Sunday when it was cornered under a car.
Yes, a crocodile.
"Before you ask, no cops could confirm it came out of the sewer," said police spokesman James Duffy, referring to an urban legend that such reptiles live in the city's sewer system.
Duffy said it remained a mystery where the 2-foot-long baby reptile came from.
"No one's come forward and said, 'Hey, I lost a… Continue
Miami Heat star Udonis Haslem was arrested in Miami this afternoon after police found marijuana in his car.
Haslem was pulled over by Florida Highway Patrol officers for, we're told by sources, having tinted windows. We're told there were three other guys in the car with Haslem.
According to sources, officers searched the car three times for drugs -- an initial search and then a search with drug dogs yielded nothing. We're told when… Continue
Drunken drivers won't breathe as easily starting Sunday.
The second part of a tough new state law takes effect, forcing anyone with a DWI conviction to get a device installed in their car that requires them to pass a breathalyzer test to start the engine.
"This is another measure to stop an epidemic in New York State - to stop drunk driving," said state Sen. Charles Fuschillo (R-L.I.), a sponsor of the law. "It takes away judicial… Continue
Jaleel White -- the actor who played Steve Urkel on "Family Matters" -- is under investigation for allegedly battering a woman.
Sources familiar with the police report tell us ... the alleged victim claims White allegedly punched her in one of her breast implants while they were driving on Pacific Coast Highway two weeks ago, with an infant in the car. We're told, she claims when they got home White… Continue
Beyonce Knowles narrowly escaped serious injury after her car door was ripped off by a taxi as she stepped onto a busy London street. The ‘Halo’ singer opened the door of her Mercedes after deciding to pop into top store Harrods en route to a restaurant in the UK capital’s Knightsbridge area.
Shoppers looked on in horror as the taxi collided with the car’s door, ripping it off its hinges and missing Beyonce by just a matter of centimeters.… Continue
KINGSVILLE, Texas - Police say a 1-year-old girl died after being left in a hot car in southern Texas for about 45 minutes. Kingsville Police Chief Ricardo Torres says the child's mother had just returned home from picking up her children when she mistakenly left the toddler in the family car Wednesday afternoon. Kingsville is about 140 miles southeast of San Antonio.
No charges have been filed, but the case has been turned over to… Continue
The survivor of a Queens shooting that left an up-and-coming rapper dead says the slaying - which happened feet away from hip-hop star Fabolous - looked like an assassination.
The 24-year-old Queens man, who asked for his name to be withheld out of fear for his safety, said he walked out of Club Amazura with pal Greg (G-Baby) Brown while eying Fabolous' luxury van on Archer Ave. in Jamaica,… Continue
JOHANNESBURG - The World Cup opener in Soccer City received a tragic jolt early Friday morning when it was reported that one of Nelson Mandela's nine great-grandchildren, Zenani Mandela, 13, had been killed in a one-car accident on her way home from the Kickoff Celebration concert in Soweto on Thursday night.
It had been hoped that Mandela, 91, would attend the opener between South Africa and Mexico. The Nelson Mandela Foundation announced the… Continue
A car registered to Kanye West smashed into an unoccupied home in Honolulu early Saturday morning -- but Kanye was not involved.
Cops in Hawaii tell TMZ the accident happened around 4:00 AM. According to KITV in Hawaii, witnesses told police they saw three men running from the Porsche Panamera after the accident.
Police say the car was reported stolen sometime after the accident.
Is weed still illegal? I had no idea. Anyway, the dude Jaheim reportedly got arrested for having some weed is his car. Apparently, he was caught riding dirty in his car, while driving 65 in a 35. As they always do, they smelled the powerful aroma of weed coming from the car and arrested dude. They need to arrest pharmaceutical companies for selling real drugs to… Continue
MINNEOLA, Kan. - A Clark County undersheriff said he was just following his instincts when he found more than $1 million during a traffic stop.
Undersheriff Daniel Knowles stopped a vehicle last week on U.S. 54 just outside of Minneola and became suspicious of the driver.
Knowles searched the car and found a hidden compartment with the money packed inside.
He said the money smelled like marijuana. The total amount was… Continue
Usher claims he was the victim of a serious Christmastime jewel heist -- when someone jacked $1,000,000 in jewelry from the back of his car! It all went down in Atlanta on December 14th -- Usher and a friend were in an AT&T store when someone broke into his GMC Yukon and took whatever they could get.
According to the police report, Usher claims the bandit made off with all sorts of Xmas gifts and personal belongings including $50,000 in… Continue
Troubled ex-NBA star Jayson Williams will likely be charged with drunk driving after crashing his luxury SUV in Manhattan early Tuesday, police sources said.
Williams, who will soon face a retrial in the fatal shooting of his limo driver, refused to take a Breathalyzer test after his Mercedes jumped a curb and hit a tree near Stuyvesant Town at 3:15 a.m., the sources said.
Williams - a city high school hoops legend - suffered cuts to… Continue
(Philadelphia, PA- Dec. 20, 2009) Saturday, December 19th rapper Beanie Sigel was leaving a Baltimore studio and was side swiped by a tractor trailer on I-95 that fled the scene. The vehicle that Sigel was traveling in was totaled and he escaped with several injuries to his face, arms and legs.
Bruised, battered, scared but hard, Sigel declined hospital treatment and miraculously performed the next day in Norfolk, VA and is tentatively scheduled… Continue
An elderly Queens man was shot for his new flat-screen TV Friday - but the 47-inch set was too big for the robbers' getaway car.
Three bandits ambushed Bentley White, 64, in his Cambria Heights home about 8:30 a.m. and shot him in the stomach, police said.
The trigger-happy dimwits had their eye on his TV set, but apparently didn't plan ahead.
"I saw three guys fumbling with a box outside by the lamppost," said neighbor… Continue