Crime

Via NYPost:

A musclebound fitness model who came to New York to make cash dancing at a gay strip club landed in cuffs after he tried to kill his roommate who he claims hit on him, authorities said Wednesday.

Geoffrey Tracy, 25, of Gilroy, Calif., allegedly stabbed 50-year-old Gregory Kanczes 16 times after the older man tried to grab his privates, according to police and a source close to the case.

A French tourist was bludgeoned to death in southern India and his body chopped into pieces, police said Monday (Aug 13), with a male student confessing to the grisly crime.

The 68-year-old's body was found packed into three sandbags in Tamil Nadu state's Thanjavur district on Sunday.

A 29-year-old student, who has been arrested, confessed to killing the Frenchman in an altercation after the pair had sex, senior police officer Senthil Kumar told AFP.

"The student got frustrated and hit him on the head with a wooden stick and he (the tourist) collapsed," he said.

The long-awaited state grand jury report into sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses, including Pittsburgh and Greensburg, has finally been released.

The 884-page document, two years in the making, shines a light into the dark corners of these dioceses going back seven decades, exposing the predators and the efforts of their bishops to protect them.

Nicki Minaj and her ex-boyfriend, the rapper and Love & Hip-Hop star Safaree Samuels, engaged in a vicious Twitter battle today, with each making claims about events that took place during their relationship. (Nicki and Safaree dated for 12 years, and broke up in 2014.)

Among the many accusations, Safaree claimed that at one point, he needed to be hospitalized after Nicki “cut” him and he “almost died.” “I had to lie and tell them I was trying to kill myself so they wouldn’t take you to jail,” he wrote. “When things like that start happening more than once it's time to dip.”

Youngstown State University student Albert Maruna was caught red-handed and arrested this week after he allegedly attempted to have sex with a 15-year-old boy, who turned out to be an undercover officer.

Maruna IV, 22, is charged with attempted unlawful sexual contact with a minor, disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, possessing criminal tools, and importuning. 

Austintown police say Maruna started chatting through an online dating app with an undercover officer. 

LONDON (AP) — A British fashion model has been convicted of murdering a more successful rival after a social media-fueled dispute.

A jury found George Koh guilty on Monday of stabbing Harry Uzoka through the heart outside Uzoka's London home.

The 25-year-old victim was signed to London's Premier Model Management agency and had modeled for GQ and Zara.

Prosecutors say Uzoka accused Koh of trying to copy him, and the two men feuded after Koh claimed to have slept with Uzoka's girlfriend.

A fried chicken shop in New York is being sued by a group of transgender people who were refused service in the restaurant.

Five transgender and gender non-conforming women attempted to order food at Texas Chicken and Burgers in Harlem in May, but were told what they wanted was unavailable by an employee.

After the group stepped aside, the same staff member immediately served a white cis-gendered male the same order.

One member of the group captured video footage of the incident on their mobile phone.

A homophobe was ‘shocked’ after their dead brother’s partner decided to sue his family.

But what did the homophobe do? Oh, just steal the $850,000 left to the dead man’s boyfriend in his will.

And this guy thinks ‘he’s’ the victim.

Writing, he said his 34-year-old brother died of cancer nine months ago in Massachusetts. His brother dated his partner for eight years.

‘Our family is religious and yes we may not have approved the relationship we still loved our brother,’ he said.

Police arrested a naked man Sunday after a woman reported he was masturbating on a sidewalk in the neighborhood.

The man who's name was not yet released was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor indecent exposure and a misdemeanor probation violation, according to a police news release.

The female pedestrian called police about 4:29 p.m. and reported that the man was on a public sidewalk and street as she passed by.

When officers arrived they found the man naked and on the side walk and he appeared to be intoxicated, according to police.

A pastor convicted in 2000 for possessing child pornography has been arrested for trying to meet who he thought was a 14-year-old boy for sex.

Timothy Lee Reddin, 67, was arrested Thursday (Aug. 3) in connection with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, according to a complaint unsealed Monday (Aug. 6) in federal court.

Reddin, who served as a part-time pastor at Turner Street Baptist Church in Springdale, messaged an undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent in July about meeting to have sex.