Jetlinerimages/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A 40-year-old Delta Air Lines employee was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing over $250,000 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City.Quincy Thorpe, a baggage handler for the airline, was arrested at his home in Brooklyn and is currently in the custody of the FBI.The money was part of a cash shipment to be loaded onto a Delta flight from Kennedy Airport to Florida but was […]
Fremont Police Department(FREMONT, Calif.) -- A California police department is adding fuel to the electric car debate after one of its patrol cars, a Tesla Model S, nearly ran out of juice during a vehicle pursuit last week.It all started on a quiet Friday night in Fremont, when the city’s automated license plate reader system got a hit on a white Toyota Avalon entering the city’s limits and alerted the […]
rustythedog/iStock(FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.) -- A North Carolina detective was fired after he was accused of sending inappropriate messages to an alleged victim of sexual assault whose case he had investigated, officials said Wednesday.Paul G. Matrafailo III, 33, is accused of reaching out to the woman on Instagram in March after he worked on her case eight months before, the Fayetteville Police Department noted in his dismissal letter. Matrafailo "began a conversation […]
VallarieE/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- As the Trump administration focused on the record-setting numbers of families and children flooding the southern border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year arrested significantly fewer criminal undocumented immigrants, the agency’s interim head said Thursday. “There's going to be a double-digit drop in criminal alien arrests this year directly related to what's going on at the border and the fact that we had to put more people in […]
DaveAlan/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- An Alaska Airlines flight en route to Los Angeles International Airport from John F. Kennedy International Airport had to be diverted Thursday afternoon due to a "combative, unruly passenger," according to the carrier.In a statement, the airline said the passenger onboard Alaska Airlines Flight 411 "threatened crew members, and at one point threatened the safety of the aircraft."Some social media reports said the passenger attempted to breach […]
U.S. National Guard, FILE(FORT POLK, La.) -- One service member was killed and three others were injured during an Army helicopter accident at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Fort Polk training area in Louisiana.In a Facebook post, JRTC and Fort Polk said that emergency services immediately responded to the scene and that the accident is under investigation.A spokesperson for Fort Polk told ABC News that the helicopter was […]
Jetlinerimages/iStock(DENVER) -- When a passenger became stuck in the bathroom aboard a cross-country flight to California, the plane was forced to make an unexpected stop in Colorado so a fire crew could help disable the door.Just before 7:30 p.m. local time, the San Francisco bound United Airlines flight from Washington D.C. was diverted to Denver where fire crews came aboard and helped unstick the disabled door to free the passenger.The […]
RgStudio/iStock(LAWTON, Okla.) -- The soon-to-released psychological thriller Joker starring Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix has prompted a "credible potential mass shooting" threat on a movie theater somewhere in the United States, military officials warned in a memorandum issued this week.The alarming notice was sent out on Monday by military officials at Fort Sills Army base in Oklahoma, and was based on intelligence gathered by the FBI from the "disturbing and very […]
Shunyu Fan/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The National Transportation Safety Board is out with new safety recommendations Thursday urging certifiers to account for "real-world" chaos that can unfold on a plane in the wake of the two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes that left 346 people dead.The NTSB found that the pilots were bombarded with multiple alarms and alerts in the cockpit before the planes crashed. The blaring alarms likely caused further […]
