A woman who was found dead at a home in Teesside has been named as 25-year-old Toni Butler.
Cleveland Police have charged a 28-year-old woman, who is due to appear before Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Monday, with murder.
Paramedics were called to a property close to the centre of Thornaby around 12.40am on Thursday.
A spokesperson for Cleveland Police said: ‘Police can now confirm the identity of Toni Butler, 25, who sadly died following an alleged incident on Vulcan Way in Thornaby on Thurs 10th June.
‘Our thoughts are with Toni’s family & friends at this difficult time & they are receiving support from specially trained officers.’
People have taken to social media to pay tribute to the 25-year-old, with one saying: ‘Heartbreaking such a beautiful girl thoughts are with her family RIP.’
Another wrote: ‘R.I.P. Toni you will be sorely missed, I love you and there’ll never be another one like you mate that’s for sure.’
Cleveland Police said a 15-year-old girl and a 28-year-old woman were arrested in connection with the incident. The 28-year-old has been charged.
A spokesman for the force said: ‘Police were called by ambulance colleagues to an address in Thornaby at 12.41am on Thursday to a report of a woman who was sadly deceased.
‘Two females have been arrested in connection with the incident, a 28-year-old woman and a 15-year-old. They are both in custody.’
Pictures on Thursday showed investigations surrounding a house at the end of a residential road.
A police cordon ran down a small alleyway behind a house where washing is hung in the garden. An upside down chair, pizza box, table and rubbish can be seen outside the property.
Four Texas inmates used a Shawshank Redemption-inspired escape route to outsmart federal prison guards while crime rates continue to rise in New York City, prompting the mayor to enlist federal agents. It’s been another busy week on the crime beat – here’s everything you need to know.
The video – filmed by someone standing outside on London’s Knightsbridge Street – begins with 12 guards bundling the group of women out of the store and onto the street outside, and one of the women is seen kicking one of the guards. As both groups become more violent, one of the women asks the bystanders to ‘record it’, which produced footage showing a woman spitting on a guard.
A spokesperson for Harrods said: ‘Harrods security was called following complaints of a group behaving aggressively within the store. … When security attempted to remove the individuals, they resisted with force and reacted with extremely aggressive behavior, which included spitting at a security officer.’ One of the women was reportedly later arrested and detained at the scene.
‘LET’S NOT SHOOT THESE KIDS, MAN’: Two foster children in Florida were dubbed ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ by the Volusia County Sheriff after breaking into a house, arming themselves with an AK-47, rifle, and pistol, and then repeatedly shooting at sheriff’s deputies as officers attempted to persuade the children to surrender. Authorities said 12-year-old Travis O’Brien and 14-year-old Nicole Jackson (pictured) carried out the attack after running away from the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home. They were reported missing about two hours before the shootout began.
After a 30-minute standoff, in which the children fired multiple rounds at deputies four times, police shot the girl in the chest and arm after she approached officers while wielding an AK-47. The boy then immediately surrendered. Jackson was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening injuries but is now in stable condition after undergoing surgery. She and Travis (pictured) are now facing felony charges of attempted first-degree murder of law enforcement officers and armed burglary. No officers were injured in the shootout.
After the shooting, we learned that Jackson started a short-lived YouTube channel in April last year, roughly 12 months after she said she went into care. In one of the videos, she shared: ‘When I was a little child I was really, really destructive. I’d punch my walls.’ While Jackson continues recovering at a hospital, O’Brien recently appeared in juvenile court for the first time and remained silent throughout.
50 CENT ROBBED OF $3 MILLION: Three men have been charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief in connection to a burglary that occurred at one of 50 Cent’s places of business in January 2021. After a five-month investigation, Cliffside Park PD recovered the stolen vehicle connected to the case and used surveillance footage to track down the alleged perpetrators.
According to TMZ’s law enforcement sources in Bergen County, New Jersey, suspects (pictured) Matthew Gale, 40, Richard Murphy and Travis Villalobos, both 31, were alleged to have made off with ‘$3 million in cash and jewelry’ from an unlocked safe on the property, as well as a vehicle. According to 50 Cent’s lawyer: ‘The entire matter was caught on surveillance cameras’ and the stolen cash and high ticket jewelry items are expected to be recovered.
STRAIGHT OUT OF SHAWSHANK: Four inmates at a federal prison housing 1,917 male inmates in Texas used dummies to outsmart their guards and skip out for the night, and at least two were in a mission to bring back some form of contraband. Security at a complex in the city of Beaumont was lax enough that guards didn’t notice the prisoners were gone for more than 12 hours, despite three overnight inmate counts, according to a memo published Friday by the US Department of Justice Inspector General.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office is the internal watchdog for the federal agency, which is responsible for about 153,000 federal inmates spread across 122 prisons throughout the country. Horowitz’s memo was addressed to Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal (pictured) and stated that the office uncovered a wide range of security failures at the Bureau of Prison’s prison camps and satellite campuses, from leaving doors unlocked or using locks that were susceptible to tampering, to having limited fencing or not enough video surveillance.
Such facilities typically house inmates deemed low-risk, such as those convicted of minor drug crimes or white-collar offenses. They have have ‘dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing,’ according to the report. The inmates managed to escape by having others pose as them to make it look like they were in their cells. In a move straight out of the 1994 film Shawshank Redemption, some even used dummies to make their beds look occupied.
‘MY WAY’ OR THE HIGHWAY: In the UK, Dr Elizabeth Hall, 74, (pictured) was hauled before a court charged with harassment after a bitter dispute stretching back decades with her neighbor turned ugly. Dr Hall claims the row first broke out when Mrs Penny began belting out the 1968 Frank Sinatra hit My Way from her home in Birmingham, England, in 1996. Since then the pair have been at loggerheads with accusations flying both ways.
Hall is accused of bombarding former hotel owner Mrs Penny with 52 emails in just a six-week period, which led her to take anti-depressants. Hall recently appeared at Birmingham Crown Court for sentencing after she previously pleaded guilty to harassment and breaching a restraining order. Representing herself, Hall, who entered court in a wheelchair, told the ten-minute hearing she didn’t have enough money to afford a lawyer and would rather go to prison. The judge ended up adjourning the case for a month while the prosecution determines if there has been any further trouble since last May.
‘TOTAL CHAOS’ IN NYC: Washington Square Park was once again left in disarray Monday morning following a raucous weekend and clashes with police and revelers out late to protest the park’s new 10 pm curfew. On Saturday night, police in riot gear faced off against protestors, chasing them out of the park and arresting at least 26 who will most likely be charged with disorderly conduct. Eight cops were reportedly injured in the scuffles. Crowds gathered on Sunday for a long night of partying in protest of the previous evening’s events. No police were present Sunday.
The park has long been a place where people congregate – musicians and picnickers during the day, and students and people wanting to hang out with their friends at night. There is also now a large homeless encampment in one corner. The park usually closes at midnight, but this weekend and last a new 10pm closing time began, in a bid to stem complaints about anti-social behavior at the site. The NYPD and the parks department say the earlier curfew will be in place indefinitely, citing five incidents that involved people blocking a roadway while FDNY and EMS teams responded to a fire, people jumping on cars, and objects thrown at police.
Many New Yorkers will likely support the Washington Square Park crackdown: There is rising concern that the city is sliding back to the crime-ridden ‘bad old days’ of the 1970s and 1980s. Figures from the NYPD’s COMPStat website show serious crime increased by 23.4% in May, compared to the same month last year. Robberies rocketed to 1,082 over the 28 days to May 30, up from just 726 for the same period in 2020. Felony assaults also soared over by 22.6 per cent the same period, from 1,443 in May 2020, to 1,769 in May 2021.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday that he was enlisting the help of federal ATF agents to tackle the city’s crime problem, which he blames on 1,000 cops getting sick from COVID and 46 dying, although 1,800 officers were also pushed out of the force after budget cuts. Cops say the spike in crime is down to de Blasio disbanding the anti-crime unit – which had around 600 officers in it.
As part of de Blasio’s plan, ATF agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will become embedded in the NYPD to take firearms off the streets of NYC, and to stop them from making it into to the city in the first place. He announced the first in the nation ‘partnership’ at a press conference on Tuesday, but didn’t address widespread claims he is at least partially to blame for the drastic jump in crime in the first place.
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Upstairs windows at the back of the house are open and brown paper covers the downstairs back window.