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Florida man's dating app match turns sour after date sets him up to be carjacked: police
A Chicago man was arrested for allegedly holding a woman he met on a dating app against her will and beating her. A Florida man got more than he bargained for after his dating app match set him up to get carjacked, police said. The Titusville Police Department said that 24-year-old Brionna Eaddy and an unidentified 35-year-old Orlando man decided to meet in-person Sept. 24 at an apartment complex after communicating over the Tagged dating app. Brionna Eaddy, 24, was booked into the Brevard County jail on an armed carjacking felony charge Saturday after a warrant was issued for her arrest. According to the affidavit, obtained by FOX 35 Orlando, the pair drove to a nearby park in the victim's 2013 Mazda CX9.
New York man jailed for eight years for strangling, beheading woman he met on dating app in Japan
An American man who murdered and beheaded a Japanese woman he met on an online dating app has been sentenced to eight years in prison, according to reports. Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, of Long Island, New York, was sentenced on Tuesday in a Japanese court after reportedly admitting to strangling Saki Kondo, 27, in February 2018 at an apartment he'd rented while sightseeing in Osaka. Bayraktar strangled the young woman and then used a saw to dismember her, and buried her body parts across different cities, the New York Post reports. Bayraktar, 27, was not indicted for murder in the case, because prosecutors could not prove that he had set out with the intention to kill Kondo. He was instead charged and found guilty of manslaughter and abandoning a body.
California Couple Arrested Using Drone To Deliver Drugs, Police Say
A California couple was arrested after using a drone to transport drugs out of their home and into the hands of nearby waiting customers, police say. Benjamin Baldassarre, 39, and Ashley Carroll, 31, of Riverside, California, were arrested on several charges including possession of controlled substances, conspiracy to commit a crime and child endangerment. Riverside police were investigating a potential drug house in the area when they witnessed a drone carrying small packages flying overhead. The drone was going back and forth from a nearby yard and then hovering over a parking lot at East Hills Church, KCBS-TV reports. The small packages were dropped down to waiting customers in the parking lot who would then drive by the couple's home and throw money into their lawn as payment.
Two Members of Missing Burundi Robotics Team Found, U.S. Police Say
Don Ingabire (L), 16 and Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, members of a teenage robotics team from the African nation of Burundi, who were reported missing after taking part in an international competition and later spotted crossing the United States border into Canada, are seen in pictures released by the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., U.S. July 20, 2017.