Tag: arrest

The mayor of Elmwood Place, Ohio, and the town’s maintenance supervisor–who are married to each other–were arrested for beating the crap out of each other following a day of drunken revelry at Pride, WLWT reports. The violent incident happened over the weekend. Court documents reveal that mayor Bill Wilson and his husband, Bill Smith, had spent the day at Pride in downtown Cincinnati. After the celebration, a dispute over who was “drunkest” and who should be driving ensued. And on...

LGBTQ fans and advocates have decried FIFA’s choice of Russia to host the World Cup this year, saying the notoriously antigay country would be unsafe for LGBTQ fans. While the sporting authority and the Russian government have tried to downplay the concerns, two fans have already been brutally attacked before the games have even started. French citizen O Davrius and his partner had traveled together to Russia to cheer on French athletes according to Metro UK, but the first match...

A man who was choked and slammed by a police officer outside a Waffle House says he was also called gay slurs by the staff. News is circulating about 22-year-old Anthony Wall. Right now, everyone’s trying to figure out if race and sexual orientation was the cause of Wall’s arrest and if it even matters at all. On May 4, Wall had arrived at a Waffle House in Warsaw, North Carolina. He had just gotten back from taking his little sister...

“Personally, I do not judge anyone," said Police Commander Parfait Nana. "However, Cameroon has laws to enforce.” Police arrested 25 men on suspicion of homosexuality Friday night in Cameroon, where same-sex activity is punishable by a fine and up to five years in prison. Seven suspects were arrested at Mistral, a gay bar in the capital city of Yaoundé—including a dancer, a waiter, and a security guard. Authorities then raided a gay movie theater in the Emombo neighborhood, picking up an...

Vincent Joseph O’Sullivan has been charged with petty theft, making criminal threats and a hate crime. A California man has been arrested after stealing rainbow flags and threatening to detonate pipe bombs at a local supermarket. Sheriffs say Vincent Joseph O’Sullivan, 55, planned to set off bombs at the Guerneville Safeway and the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office substation in order to injure deputies and members of the LGBT community. On Saturday O’Sullivan was booked on suspicion of petty theft, making criminal...

The victims reportedly met his killer via a personals ad. The alleged killer of a gay man in Spain has been arrested, 18 years after he brutally killed his victim and scrawled “Hitler was right!” in blood on the wall. In 2000, a gay Barcelona man named Vitervo met up with another man he met via a personals ad. Authorities believe the two met at Montgat train station before going out for drinks. They returned to Vitervo’s home, which he shared...

Eight victims have come forward to say they were molested as children Once again a pastor has proved that any previous talk of ‘protecting family values’ was hypocritical abusive nonsense. Pastor Matthew Dennis ‘Denny’ Patterson was an outspoken opponent against LGBTI rights in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2003, he took on a local LGBTI anti-discrimination law. He said he would ‘always oppose’ any attempt to stop progress on LGBTI rights in the state. He was arrested on multiple counts of child abuse for incidents that...

A 20-year-old man from Rochester, Minnesota is under arrest and facing charges for third-degree criminal sexual conduct, solicitation of a child through electronic communication, and possession of child pornography. Efram Ciavarelli responded to a 14-year-old on Grindr, but he told police that he thought he was over 16. Grindr’s Terms and Conditions state that all app users must be 18 years of age, but in Minnesota the age of consent is 16. According to KIMT3 News, Ciavarelli went to the home...

A man who threatened to “kill 85 faggots at a gay club” in messages sent on Grindr has been arrested. Me’Schach D. Israel-Miller, from Columbus, Ohio, reportedly sent the threatening messages on the gay dating app on March 1. The user who received the message then took screenshots and posted them on social media. The post reportedly went viral, sparking police to investigate the threats. Police officials used pictures that he had on his profile to then find his Facebook. From there, they found...

Shane Sleeper has been charged with harassment and assault for threatening bars like Sidetrack and Roscoe's. A $300,000 bail has been set for a Chicago man accused of intimidating employees of gay bars in Boystown, the city’s iconic gayborhood. Shane Sleeper, 31, reportedly made numerous threats throughout February against staff at Roscoe’s Tavern and Sidetracks, where he once made “a shooting gesture” at a manager. He has been served with four orders of protection to shield his alleged victims, according to...

A London man has gone to jail for breaking another man’s leg simply because he was gay. 29-year-old Kamil Wladyslaw Snios (seen above) was recently found guilty of slapping, beating, and kicking a 36-year-old man in Tottenham, North London. The victim, who’s chosen to remain anonymous to the press, and a friend were shopping around on July 16th when he was approached by Snios. Snios shouted at the two in Polish before he physically attacked them. Eventually, the 36-year-old man found himself...

It’s stories like these that really make me miss the cringe-worthy To Catch a Predator. Albert Maruna, a 22-year-old student at Youngstown State University in Austintown, OH was arrested last week after attempting to meet up with and engage in sexual activity with a 15-year-old boy. That 15-year-old boy turned out to be an undercover officer who was chatting with Maruna on a dating app. According to Cleveland 19, Maruna engaged in a sexual and graphic conversation with the ‘minor’, sent...

Early last month, a Californian man by the name of Keith Harris was found dead in his home. To add to the mystery, his boyfriend Othman Al-Muttalaby (who goes by porn name Ali Liam) had gone missing for days after Keith's apartment manager found his lifeless body. The police officially arrested Othman on November 7th and charged him with first-degree murder. Since that news broke out, there has been another vital update to this case. According to Str8UpGayPorn, Othman has been...

Two 16-year-olds arrested after teen in London is strangled and forced to apologize for being gay Police in London say that they have arrested two 16-year-old boys following an assault on a gay 19-year-old on a tube train on the Jubilee Line. The incident happened 21 October. The victim was wearing fancy dress and travelling with friends to an event. The altercation occurred on a westbound Jubilee Line tube train between West Ham and North Greenwich stations. The assailants boarded the train at...