Crime

The Tennessee teacher who had been kidnapped while jogging early Friday morning is actually the heiress to a billion-dollar company.

Eliza Fletcher, 34, is the granddaughter to hardware magnate Joseph “Joe” Orgill III, whose wholesale family business, Orgill Inc., is described as “the world’s largest independent hardlines distributor with annual sales of $3 billion,” according to the company’s website. Fletcher’s family is now offering a $50,000 cash prize for information that leads to her rescue, according to the Daily Mail.

“We look forward to Eliza’s safe return and hope that this award will help police capture those who committed this crime,” Fletcher’s family said in a statement.

My bet: Hubby did it.

Audio from the deadly police shooting of a father and toddler in Kawartha Lakes, Ont., is casting new light on the moments before police opened fire and what they might have known heading into the encounter.

The recording of police radio chatter shows officers were told there was a child in the truck they were pursuing through the mostly rural community on Nov. 26, 2020, and that, according to one officer, the driver had put a gun to his own head.

Ontario’s police watchdog says it has charged three officers in the shooting death of a one-year-old boy.

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) had been investigating after it said Ontario Provincial Police officers shot at the boy’s father in his car in Kawartha Lakes, Ont., after he allegedly abducted his child on Nov. 26, 2020.

For the last decade, radical prosecutors and progressive politicians have been proposing and enacting illogical criminal-justice policies, often with little consideration for the real-world effects of these ideas. Enough time has passed for an evidence-based assessment of how these policies have played out in the real world.

Fifty years later, a former FBI agent looks back on the bizarre bank robbery that inspired an iconic New York film.

The memory that sticks out to Jim Murphy from the screwiest bank robbery in New York City’s history is not the slow drive down a dark road at JFK Airport, with a shotgun leveled inches from his head, or the scrum of onlookers hooting and hollering every time hostage-taker John Wojtowicz stood toe-to-toe with negotiators. It’s not the salacious details of Wojtowicz’s backstory—man robs bank to pay for his “wife’s” sex-change operation in attempt to woo him/her back—or the pop of Murphy’s revolver as he shot Sal Naturale during a struggle for control of Naturale’s shotgun. It isn’t the kiss on the cheek from the hostage he had just saved, or the night, a few years later, that he saw Lance Henriksen play a grim-faced caricature of him in Dog Day Afternoon, the Sidney Lumet film based on the 1972 robbery, while seated in a theater packed with an audibly pro–Al Pacino (playing “Sonny Wortzik,” the fictionalized version of Wojtowicz) and anti-Henriksen audience.

As the city government abandons public safety, Baltimore residents pool resources to stop package thieves.

Baltimore’s hip Federal Hill neighborhood boasts historic red-brick rowhouses, a magnificent view of the Inner Harbor, and a charming variety of independent shops and restaurants. But these things all bring crime with them. While many neighborhoods in the city—whose experiment in depolicing has sparked a resurgence of violence—have met the challenge with private security, hiring a patrol is not the only option. Federal Hill residents have instead made use of their home-security cameras.

The NYPD released horrifying video of the brutal beatdown that killed a New York City taxi driver over the weekend as they made two arrests in the senseless crime.

Fernando Mateo, a spokesperson for the New York City Federation of Taxi Drivers, told The Post early Thursday that two male suspects surrendered to the police at the 101st Precinct in Queens late on Wednesday night.

Toronto man wanted for repeatedly punching woman in random attack near TTC station

The suspect is described as being 25-30 years old, between 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-9, with a medium build.

h/t MP

It’s been three years since The Post broke the news that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

The well-connected creep’s sudden demise sparked an avalanche of conspiracy theories and many questions remain about how he died and how he got away with his crimes for so long.

The trial of Ibrahim Ali, charged in September 2018 with the July 2017 first-degree murder of Marrisa Shen, was to commence Sept. 19 in Vancouver but has been put over until Jan. 16 next year.

What is the first city that comes to mind when you think of the city with the highest murder rate? For me, it’s Chicago. The cities that frequently make the news due to high murder rates and other violent crimes usually include Chicago, New York City, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. However, a compilation of police data for the month of June from cities with populations of more than 200,000 was put together and the top 31 American cities with the highest murder rates might surprise you.