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ONGOING CRIME BREAKING NEWS!
Starting on January 31ST, 2025, this thread is about CRIME NEWS as it breaks!
Which doesn’t surprise me at all. Criminals seem to know where to get firearms and ammo!
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4-year-old boy found dead in Atlanta; mother’s friend arrested
A woman was arrested Tuesday in east Georgia after Atlanta police found a 4-year-old boy dead while conducting a wellness check at a southwest Atlanta residence, officials said.
Jasmaine Smoak, 32, was taken into custody by the Wilkes County Sheriff’s Office after Atlanta police used license plate reader technology to track her to Washington, about 110 miles east of Atlanta and roughly 50 miles northwest of Augusta.
She faces charges of second-degree cruelty to children and concealing the death of another, according to Atlanta police.
Child found dead at Atlanta home after wellness check, police say
A woman has been arrested after a child was found dead Monday evening as police conducted a wellness check at a southwest Atlanta residence, officials said.www.ajc.com
Family says brother of 4-year-old found dead in Atlanta home also seriously injured
Colby Walker, 4, was found dead Monday evening after Atlanta firefighters forced their way into a home on Cardinal Drive SW during a welfare check.
Kierra Barnes, who said she's the boys' cousin, told 11Alive on Tuesday that Colby's brother, Caydan, 5, also suffered serious injuries that the family believes were caused by abuse involving the same woman. Smoak is not the children's mother. Barnes said Smoak was watching the boys while their mother was in jail.
Child found dead at Atlanta home after wellness check, police say
A woman has been arrested after a child was found dead Monday evening as police conducted a wellness check at a southwest Atlanta residence, officials said.
Suspect charged after child found dead in SW Atlanta
A woman, Jasmaine Smoak, was arrested in Wilkes County on murder charges after police found a dead child in a southwest Atlanta townhouse during a welfare check.www.fox5atlanta.com
Boy, 4, found dead in Atlanta suffered injuries, past abuse,
Two women face murder charges in the boy’s death. Warrants for one suspect state the child had been abused ‘for a long period of time’ before he was found dead under a pile of clothes.Jasmaine Smoak, who court records said was caring for multiple children, is one of two women facing charges of murder, according to authorities. Smoak, 32, is not related to the boy but is a friend of his mother.A second suspect, Jasmine Jenkins, was “a party to the crime,” officials said, and was arrested Thursday, three days after officials discovered the boy during a wellness check. In warrants, officials identified Jenkins as Smoak’s friend and stated the two women left several children at a southwest Atlanta residence “to go out” Sunday evening.
The following night, in response to a 911 call from one of Smoak’s relatives, police forced entry into the home and discovered the deceased child, identified as Cobee Cooks, according to warrants and the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. Authorities said his body was found under clothes inside a closet in the primary bedroom of the Cardinal Drive home.
The boy had various injuries, including a laceration to the top of his head, a deformity to his arm, a lacerated spleen and liver, and contusions to his diaphragm and kidney, according to Smoak’s arrest warrants obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Police wrote Cobee also had “numerous healed injuries located during autopsy.”
Jenkins is accused of “knowing, participating in, and/or observing” the beating that led to Cobee’s death, according to her warrants.
“Detectives have received text message screenshots showing that the abuse was ongoing for a long period of time.” Authorities have not said who they believe was responsible for the past abuse or how long it had gone on.
The child’s body temperature was also consistent with him having been dead for 12 to 24 hours by the time medical examiners met with detectives at the Atlanta home, Smoak’s warrants said. Before officers even arrived at the scene, authorities said Smoak fled with other children, ranging in age from 10 to 3.
During her Tuesday arrest in Wilkes County, Atlanta police said those children were recovered and at least one of them “sustained visible injuries.”That child, a 5-year-old boy, was taken to a hospital, and had bruising to his face, a laceration above his eye and was malnourished, Smoak’s warrants said. Doctors determined his injuries were from abuse, the documents stated.
The warrants do not explain why Smoak was caring for Cobee or for how long, but neighbors told police she was the only adult caring for the children during the two months she lived at the Atlanta home.
Both Jenkins and Smoak were located and arrested at the same address in Wilkes County, about 110 miles east of Atlanta and roughly 50 miles northwest of Augusta, according to Wilkes Sheriff Darrell Powers. Atlanta police said the home belonged to a relative of Jenkins.
Smoak was arrested the day after Cobee’s body was found. She was initially charged with concealing the death of another and second-degree cruelty to children, and Atlanta police later said she faced additional charges of murder, aggravated assault and first-degree cruelty to children.
Jenkins is facing charges of murder and first-degree cruelty to children, according to Atlanta police.
Smoak and Jenkins were both booked into the Fulton jail Thursday.
An attorney could not be located for either woman.
A spokesperson with the Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Family and Children Services declined to answer questions about if the agency has conducted any previous investigations connected to the child. The medical examiner’s office initially provided an incorrect spelling of Cobee Cooks’ name.
Warrants detail injuries, abuse of 4-year-old found dead in Atlanta
Two women are charged with murder after a 4-year-old boy’s body was found under a pile of clothes at an Atlanta home, arrest warrants say.
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Listed as one of his injures as a deformity of the arm. In not sure if it want to know what that actually means.Boy, 4, found dead in Atlanta suffered injuries, past abuse,
Two women face murder charges in the boy’s death. Warrants for one suspect state the child had been abused ‘for a long period of time’ before he was found dead under a pile of clothes.Jasmaine Smoak, who court records said was caring for multiple children, is one of two women facing charges of murder, according to authorities. Smoak, 32, is not related to the boy but is a friend of his mother.
A second suspect, Jasmine Jenkins, was “a party to the crime,” officials said, and was arrested Thursday, three days after officials discovered the boy during a wellness check. In warrants, officials identified Jenkins as Smoak’s friend and stated the two women left several children at a southwest Atlanta residence “to go out” Sunday evening.
The following night, in response to a 911 call from one of Smoak’s relatives, police forced entry into the home and discovered the deceased child, identified as Cobee Cooks, according to warrants and the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. Authorities said his body was found under clothes inside a closet in the primary bedroom of the Cardinal Drive home.
The boy had various injuries, including a laceration to the top of his head, a deformity to his arm, a lacerated spleen and liver, and contusions to his diaphragm and kidney, according to Smoak’s arrest warrants obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Police wrote Cobee also had “numerous healed injuries located during autopsy.”
Jenkins is accused of “knowing, participating in, and/or observing” the beating that led to Cobee’s death, according to her warrants.
“Detectives have received text message screenshots showing that the abuse was ongoing for a long period of time.” Authorities have not said who they believe was responsible for the past abuse or how long it had gone on.
The child’s body temperature was also consistent with him having been dead for 12 to 24 hours by the time medical examiners met with detectives at the Atlanta home, Smoak’s warrants said. Before officers even arrived at the scene, authorities said Smoak fled with other children, ranging in age from 10 to 3.
During her Tuesday arrest in Wilkes County, Atlanta police said those children were recovered and at least one of them “sustained visible injuries.”That child, a 5-year-old boy, was taken to a hospital, and had bruising to his face, a laceration above his eye and was malnourished, Smoak’s warrants said. Doctors determined his injuries were from abuse, the documents stated.
The warrants do not explain why Smoak was caring for Cobee or for how long, but neighbors told police she was the only adult caring for the children during the two months she lived at the Atlanta home.
Both Jenkins and Smoak were located and arrested at the same address in Wilkes County, about 110 miles east of Atlanta and roughly 50 miles northwest of Augusta, according to Wilkes Sheriff Darrell Powers. Atlanta police said the home belonged to a relative of Jenkins.
Smoak was arrested the day after Cobee’s body was found. She was initially charged with concealing the death of another and second-degree cruelty to children, and Atlanta police later said she faced additional charges of murder, aggravated assault and first-degree cruelty to children.
Jenkins is facing charges of murder and first-degree cruelty to children, according to Atlanta police.
Smoak and Jenkins were both booked into the Fulton jail Thursday.
An attorney could not be located for either woman.
A spokesperson with the Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Family and Children Services declined to answer questions about if the agency has conducted any previous investigations connected to the child. The medical examiner’s office initially provided an incorrect spelling of Cobee Cooks’ name.
Warrants detail injuries, abuse of 4-year-old found dead in Atlanta
Two women are charged with murder after a 4-year-old boy’s body was found under a pile of clothes at an Atlanta home, arrest warrants say.
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My guess is his arm was broken and nobody took him to the emergency room, and the bones "healed" in a deformed way.
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Marjorie Knoller was again denied parole in February 2026:
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Knoller again denied parole in dog-maul death
A state parole panel on Thursday denied parole for Marjorie Knoller, who was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2001 dog-mauling of lesbian Diane Whipple in the hallway of the Pacific Heights apartment where she lived with her partner Sharon Smith.
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Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years, 6 months in prison for rape and sexual assault
Disgraced British television personality and Hollywood actor Russell Brand has been sentenced to prison for raping a woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three others.
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Baby rescued after buried alive in crate for 24 hours in South Carolina woods, father arrested
South Carolina deputies on Tuesday rescued an 11-month-old baby who had been buried alive in a small crate near the home of his grandfather, according to the Lexington County Sheriff's Department.Charges are pending against the boy's father, Michael Corner, the sheriff's department said.
Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon that the baby was found "buried alive, clinging to life, crying — the most joyful sound you ever heard."
Deputies had posted to social media early Tuesday that they were searching for a missing baby near Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina.
They said the baby was in the care of Corner's mother, who then left the baby with Corner on Monday afternoon. Corner took the baby with him. He was found and arrested on suspicion of burglary on Monday night, but the baby was not with him at that time.
On Tuesday, nearly 100 local, state and federal public safety officers and firefighters conducted a search for the baby. A search party looking in the area around Corner's father's house found a site with freshly disturbed dirt about 50 feet into the woods. As searchers started digging, they heard the baby crying.
They found the baby in what Koon described as a dog crate that was wrapped in a towel. Koon said the crate had been buried so the top of it was about foot underground and that the towel had created an air pocket that allowed the child to survive for what authorities estimated was about 24 hours.
The baby was taken to a hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, Koon said.
Koon did not specify a motive for why the baby was put in a crate and buried, but he said there had been domestic violence "situations" between Corner and the baby's mother that had resulted in charges.
"Hopefully at 11 months old, he will not remember much of this as he grows older," Koon said.