Mom arrested after dumping daughters on sidewalk with nothing but extra diapers

“Mommy just left us on the sidewalk and drove away,” the oldest girl, age 5, says. Domini and Dioni were left with extra diapers when their mom abandoned them.

A malevolent mom who deserted her two daughters, ages 3 and 5, on a Brooklyn sidewalk Sunday, leaving them each extra diapers and a heartbreaking lesson in hard knocks, has been busted, officials said Monday.

“Mommy just left us on the sidewalk and drove away,” the older girl told a Daily News photographer just seconds after a good Samaritan found her and her sister stranded on a bustling corner in Canarsie on Sunday.

The girls were bundled up in hooded down coats, wearing UGG boots and holding fresh disposable diapers when they were found just before 3 p.m. in front of the Bay View Houses on Shore Parkway, cops said.

“They gave us their first names and said their mom dropped them off,” a police source said.

The older girl told cops her name is Domini and that her little sister, who said very little to police, is Dioni, a source said.

“We live in a blue house with flowers in front,” Domini told The News as cops took custody of her and her sister.

She told cops she believed they lived on 53rd St., but could not recall what neighborhood or borough they were from, according to the source.

The sisters bore no obvious signs of abuse, but were taken to Brookdale University Hospital as a precaution.

Cops fanned out in the area, going door-to-door hoping to identify the forsaken sisters and track down their mother. Detectives also scoured surveillance video from the Bay View Houses and nearby buildings.

The older girl told cops their mother’s name is Dalisha and she was driving a white car, but she did not know the make nor model of the vehicle.

Cops were able to piece together the mother’s identity and arrested Dalisha Adams, 26, of Glenwood Road in Brooklyn, police said. She was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Cops were first alerted to the bizarre case when they received a 911 call after an elderly couple found the children standing at the busy intersection of Shore Parkway and E. 102nd St. with cars zooming by, sources said.

“They were wandering up and down the sidewalk for a while, just playing by themselves,” said Michelle Davis, 43, of Brooklyn, who was visiting a friend at the Bay View Houses when the girls were found.

“It’s horrible. How could you leave your own children out there?” Davis said. “They’re babies and you just leave them out there like that?”

Domini was dressed in a a brown down jacket, and blue jeans and had pink and white beads in her hair. Dioni was wearing a pink down jacket and matching pants.

The girls were not crying, but appeared confused as to why their mother would desert them on the streets.

Officials from the city Administration for Children’s Services took temporary custody of the sisters.

The state’s Abandoned Infant Protection Act allows parents of newborns up to 30 days old to anonymously, and without fear of prosecution, drop their infants off at a hospital, police stationhouse or firehouse.

“I don’t know how anyone could do that to little kids like that,” said Lizzette Santiago, 38, a mother of three who lives at the Bay View Houses.

Santiago said she learned of the abandoned sisters from cops who took them door-to-door in the area. Like others in the housing project, Santiago did not recognize the girls.

“I have three children of my own. I felt really bad to see young children like that left on the street at a really young age,” Santiago said. “It’s really messed up.”

LET THE RIOTING BEGIN: Food stamp bills seek to PROHIBIT junk food being purchased with food stamps

Florida legislation is the latest to prohibit shoppers from buying 'nonstaple, unhealthy foods' with federal aid. It's a trend driven by health concerns but also by tight budgets.
Reporting from Atlanta

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Ronda Storms is a Republican state senator from Florida. She is also a mom who buys the groceries for her family of four.

A few months ago, Storms, 46, started noticing that some fellow shoppers were using federal food stamp money to purchase a lot of unhealthful junk. And it galled her — at a time when Florida was cutting Medicaid reimbursement rates, public school funding and jobs — that people were indulging in sugary, fatty, highly-processed treats on the public dime.

"If we're going to be cutting services across the board," she said, "then people can live without potato chips, without store-bought cookies, without their sodas."

That sense of unfairness, plus a concern about the health of needy children, is the motivation behind a bill Storms sponsored that would prohibit people from purchasing "nonstaple, unhealthy foods" with funds provided by the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

The bill, which was approved 4 to 2 last week by a committee on child and elderly affairs that Storms chairs, is the latest in a flurry of recent statehouse efforts to restrict what shoppers can buy under the federal government's decades-old food stamp program.

It's a trend driven by anxiety about health — particularly the national obesity epidemic — but also, in some cases, by a renewed scrutiny of public benefits in a time of tight budgets and staggering want.

According to federal records, more than 46 million Americans are eating groceries bought with SNAP funds. In the last year, legislation seeking to restrict SNAP purchases was introduced in Illinois, Oregon, California, Vermont and Texas, though none was successful, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

That is in part because theU.S. Department of Agriculturehas been unwilling to issue further restrictions on food stamp purchases, beyond traditionally ineligible items such as alcohol, tobacco and "hot foods."

Last year, the USDA rejected New York City MayorMichael R. Bloomberg's "demonstration project" that would have prohibited soda purchases with food stamps. In 2004, it rejected a Minnesota plan to prohibit the purchase of soft drinks and candy.

In Florida, Storms' bill is being resisted by anti-hunger advocates, as well as Democrats like Sen. Audrey Gibson of Jacksonville, one of two lawmakers who voted against it Wednesday.

"It's like we're attacking poor people because they're poor, and because they're asking for some assistance," Gibson said.

But Storms noted that the other opponents had been the lobbyists for big business: the Corn Refiners of America, the Florida Beverage Assn., the Florida Petroleum Marketers and the Convenience Store Assn.

"Why is that? Because they know they are raking it in from food stamps," Storms said.

Nationwide, the pushback has come from a rather odd coalition of activist groups and the food industry. In July, a group that included the National Council of La Raza, the Snack Food Assn. and the Frozen Potato Products Institute issued a statement asking the federal government to "preserve food choice" for the poor.

One key objection raised by the coalition — an objection the USDA echoed in its denial of New York's demonstration project — is the possibility that further restrictions might lead to further stigma. Feeling ashamed or uncomfortable about being on public assistance, advocates believe, may deter people from signing up for food aid. Alleviating such discomfort is one reason SNAP recipients now use electronic benefit cards similar to debit cards, instead of the old paper stamps, which easily identified shoppers on public assistance.

"This business of being treated differently is a big piece of it for us," said Ellen Vollinger, legal director for the Food Research and Action Center in Washington. "It's a big step backward, to the age of paper coupons."

Agriculture Department officials, in a 2007 paper, identified other "serious" problems with the idea of restricting unhealthful foods. Keeping tabs on hundreds of thousands of American food products would be costly and complicated.

Moreover, they argued, there are no "clear standards" for what constitutes healthful food: by some measurements, diet soda, which is low in calories and sugar, could be considered "healthier" than orange juice.

The USDA has also explored the link between SNAP and obesity. A 2008 report found "some evidence" to suggest that food stamp participation increased body mass index, and might contribute to obesity in non-elderly women, though not in children, the elderly and non-elderly men.

Washington is looking for other ways to encourage healthful eating among the poor: In Hampden County, Mass., a federal pilot program is kicking 30 cents on every dollar back to SNAP participants when they buy fruits and vegetables with their benefit cards.

It's like a bad joke: Colored man charged with impersonating a Chicago police officer...WHERE? Where else, a DOUGHNUT SHOP!

Chicago man is accused of impersonating a cop as well as kidnapping and robbing a man at local doughnut restaurant

A Chicago man impersonating a police officer kidnapped another man from a South Side doughnut shop this week and stole his money and DVDs before releasing him, prosecutors said.

Douglas Martin, 45, is charged with kidnapping with a weapon, armed robbery and impersonating a police officer. Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered him held on $850,000 bond Sunday.

On Wednesday, Martin approached a 33-year-old man who was carrying a portable DVD player and DVDs in a doughnut shop in the Roseland neighborhood, prosecutors said. Martin had a badge and a gun, and he told the man he was to be cited for some kind of violation, prosecutors said.

Martin, of the 300 block of East 119th Street, led the man to a van, and another man drove the group a few blocks before the man was robbed of possessions that included the DVDs and $70 and ordered out, according to a police report.

Martin was arrested Friday a few blocks from the doughnut shop.

Illegal Beaner Victor Ozuna charged after barricade on NW Side of the Sanctuary City of Chicago

19-year-old Chicago man who was armed with a knife and barricaded himself inside his Northwest Side apartment on Saturday was charged with attacking a police officer, officials said.

Victor Ozuna residing in a free Section 8 government apartment in the 3400 block of West Sunnyside Avenue was charged with aggravated assault of a peace officer, a felony, police said.

Ozuna was ordered held without bail today, according to the Cook County Sheriff's office.

Ozuna was arrested Saturday after police were called to a domestic situation that escalated into a barricade situation at the man's home.

Police responded at 2:17 p.m. to the home and the situation escalated. At about 2:35 p.m. the Hostage Barricade Terrorist Unit responded to the scene, police said.

During the incident a police officer had fired a shot at Ozuna, who had a knife, but did not strike him, police said.

Illegal Beaner Santa Ana Zuloaga-Campuzano: Pisses on the floor of the Chicago police station while playing air piano & singing!

After police found him asleep and surrounded by empty beer cans in an SUV that was obstructing traffic, a Chicago man urinated on the police station floor and then entertained himself by singing loudly and playing air piano, prosecutors said.

The man told Chicago officers his performance, which also involved rattling his handcuffs against a police station bench, sounded good, according to a police report.

Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered Santa Ana Zuloaga-Campuzano, 30, held on $10,000 bond Sunday. He is charged with aggravated driving under the influence and various traffic offenses.

When officers encountered Zuloaga-Campuzano early Sunday, he was sleeping in a 2002 Ford Expedition that was stopped in the median of 115th Street at South Doty Avenue in the Riverdale neighborhood, according to a police report.

The vehicle was littered with empty beer cans, and Zuloaga-Campuzano mumbled, belched and laughed as he talked with officers, authorities said.

He admitted he had drank eight beers, three shots of tequila and three shots of cognac, according to the police report.

Zuloaga-Campuzano told officers he went to sleep so he wouldn’t hurt anyone, police reported. Asked to submit to a breath test, he refused, asking, “What’s the point? I know I’m drunk,” according to a police report.

Taken to the Calumet District police station, he urinated on the floor, sang loudly and kneeled as he pretended to play piano, prosecutors said.

Would hate to be the paper car on this accident... At least 10 killed and dozens injured in chain reaction vehicle crash in Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least 10 people were killed.

When rescuers first arrived, they could only listen for screams and moans because the poor visibility made it difficult to find victims in wreckage that was strewn for nearly a mile, police said.

Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the pileup south of Gainesville on Interstate 75, which had been closed for a time because of the mixture of fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire that may have been intentionally set. At least five cars and six tractor-trailers were involved, and some burst into flame.

Steven R. Camps of Gainesville said he and some friends were driving home several hours before dawn when they were drawn into the pileup.

"You could hear cars hitting each other. People were crying. People were screaming. It was crazy," he said. "If I could give you an idea of what it looked like, I would say it looked like the end of world."

Photographs of the scene taken hours later revealed an aftermath that resembled a Hollywood disaster movie. Twisted, burned-out vehicles were scattered across the pavement, with smoke still rising from the wreckage.

Cars appeared to have smashed into the big rigs and, in one case, a motor home. Some cars were crushed beneath the heavier trucks.

Reporters who were allowed to view the site saw bodies still inside a burned-out Grand Prix. One tractor-trailer was burned down to its skeleton, charred pages of books and magazines in its cargo area. And the tires of every vehicle had burned away, leaving only steel belts.

Before Camps hit the fog bank, a friend who was driving ahead of him in a separate vehicle called to warn of the road conditions. The friend said he had just seen an accident and warned Camps to be careful as he approached the Paynes Prairie area just south of Gainesville.

A short time later, Camps said traffic stopped along the northbound lanes.

"You couldn't see anything. People were pulling off the road," he said.

Camps said he began talking about the road conditions to a man in the car stopped next to them when another vehicle hit the man's car.

The man's vehicle was crushed under a semi-truck stopped in front of them. Camps said his car was hit twice, but he and another friend were able to jump out. They took cover in the grass on the shoulder of the road.

All around them, cars and trucks were on fire, and they could hear explosions as the vehicles burned.

"It was happening on both sides of the road, so there was nowhere to go. It blew my mind," he said, explaining that the scene "looked like someone was picking up cars and throwing them."

At least 18 people were taken to a hospital.

All six lanes of the interstate — which runs virtually the entire length of Florida — remained closed Sunday afternoon as investigators surveyed the site and firefighters put out the last of the flames.

It was not clear when the highway would reopen because part of the road melted, police said.

At some point before the pileup, police briefly closed the highway because of the fog and smoke. The road was reopened when visibility improved.

Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan said he was not sure how much time passed between the reopening of the highway and the first crash.

Traffic was being diverted onto U.S. 301 and State Road 27, Riordan said.

A spokeswoman for the Florida Forest Service said the fire began Saturday, and investigators were trying to determine whether the blaze had been intentionally set. She said there were no controlled burns in the area and no lightning.

Ludie Bond also said the fire had burned 62 acres and was contained but still burning Sunday. A similar fire nearby has been burning since mid-November because the dried vegetation is so thick and deep. No homes are threatened.

Four years ago, heavy fog and smoke were blamed for another serious crash.

In January 2008, four people were killed and 38 injured in a series of similar crashes on Interstate 4 between Orlando and Tampa, about 125 miles south of Sunday's crash. More than 70 vehicles were involved in those crashes, including one pileup that involved 40 vehicles.

Most men get "stabbed" in the ass after leaving a Wrigleyville bar... This one got stabbed by a homo illegal beaner with a knife!

A 24-year-old man is hospitalized after being stabbed by a man who seemingly was about to give the victim a hug outside of a Wrigleyville dance bar early this morning, police said.

The victim was on his cell phone outside of Deuces and The Diamond Club, 3505 N. Clark St., when the incident happened, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan.

The victim and the offender had a verbal altercation in the bathroom of the dance club about 45 minutes before the attack occurred, said Sullivan.

At about 1:10 a.m., the victim was on his phone when the offender appeared to give the victim a hug but instead stabbed the man twice in the back and once in the upper left arm, Sullivan said.

"This guy came up, and was going to give him a hug," said Sullivan. "He said, 'Hey what's up,' then stabbed him."

The victim was taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Sullivan said. The man's current condition was not available.

After the stabbing, the suspect fled.

The offender is described as a Hispanic man with a dark complexion. He is between 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 9 inches tall, between 185 and 190 pounds, and had long black hair in a pony tail. The man had brown eyes and wore glasses, police said.

FBI seeks man who robbed 9 N. Side banks "Wicker Park Link Card Bandit"

A man dubbed "The Wicker Park Bandit" after being suspected of robbing eight North Side banks struck again late Saturday morning on the Northwest Side.

A Chase bank branch in the Roscoe Village neighborhood on the 3500 block of North Western Avenue was robbed about 11:37 a.m. Saturday, officials said.

The man walked into the bank and handed the teller a note where he indicated that he was armed and that he was robbing the bank, Chicago police said.

The teller handed the man an undisclosed amount of cash before the man fled, police said.

The FBI described the man as black, between the ages of 20 to 30, standing 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches tall. Police said he had a goatee and was wearing a black skull cap, black hooded sweatshirt and black pants.

The bandit is thought to be responsible for eight previous robberies including the North Community Bank branch at 2335 N. Clark St. on Dec. 20; the PNC Bank branch at 4400 N. Broadway on Dec. 22; the Chase Bank branch at 1350 N. Wells St. on Dec. 30; the North Community Bank branch at 1555 N. Damen Ave. on Jan. 6; the North Community Branch at 1600 W. Chicago Ave. on Jan. 6; the Chase Bank branch at 1200 N. State Parkway on Jan. 9; the North Community Bank branch at 448 N. Wells St. on Jan. 16 and the Chase Bank branch at 71 W. Chicago Ave. on Jan 21., the FBI said.

No one was injured, police said.

A reward is being offered to anyone with information about his identity or whereabouts. Anyone with information should contact the FBI Chicago office at (312) 421-6700.

Interesting Headline: Inmate arrested for trespassing after refusing to leave jail cell

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Most people can't wait to leave jail, but one northern Arizona inmate has been charged with trespassing after refusing to leave the Coconino County lockup.

Coconino County Sheriff's Office spokesman Gerry Blair says 44-year-old Martin Batieni Kombate was arrested in Flagstaff last week for trespassing and was scheduled for release Monday on his own recognizance on the charge.

But when detention officers from the sheriff's office showed up to escort him out, Kombate allegedly said he wasn't leaving and was staying because he couldn't find his wallet.

Blair tells The Associated Press that Kombate was disorderly in a jail cell, would not leave, so the police were called and Kombate was arrested.

Blair says Kombate remains in jail.

Hat Trick of accidents - Next 3 postings involve accidents - 5 escape watery ditch in rollover crash near Posen

Five people were injured this morning when they escaped a vehicle that landed in a watery ditch near Posen.

The rollover crash happened about 5:15 a.m. on Interstate Highway 57 near mile marker 349 outside of south suburban Posen, according to Illinois State Police.

According to preliminary reports, the vehicle rolled over in the northbound lanes and landed in a ditch on the right side of the road, police said.

The occupants were able to escape by climbing through the vehicle's windows, police said.

Five people were taken to an area hospital but their injuries were thought to be non-life threatening. Police said they were being observed for hypothermia.

Timothy Kreiss "falls" out of the van his father is driving on Dan Ryan.... Timothy was 55 just like the speed his father was driving

A man died after tumbling from the van his father was driving late this afternoon on the Dan Ryan expressway, according to authorities.

Timothy Kreiss, 55, was found in the express lanes near 45th Street about 4:30 p.m. and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to Illinois State Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Kreiss, of Oak Park, was pronounced dead at 4:57 p.m. at the hospital, a spokesman for the medical examiner’s office said.

It’s unclear why the man left the vehicle, but State Police Trooper James Gawel said no other vehicles were involved.

Police didn’t know how fast the van was traveling when the man exited.

Kreiss’ father was driving and he was the only other person in the vehicle, Gawel said.

2 seriously injured in Far South Side traffic crash

Hard to drive, talk on the cell phone, roll a blunt and drink from a 40 ounce bottle all at once...

Photo: The aftermath of a 3-car accident today at the intersection of 106th Street and Ewing Avenue in Chicago

Two people were seriously injured in a traffic crash this morning on the city's Far South Side, officials said.

Chicago Fire Department paramedics responded about 7:30 a.m. to a call of a traffic crash on the 10500 block of South Ewing, according to fire media information.

Two people were taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Their ages and genders were not immediately available, officials said.

Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said it was 3-car accident but had no other details.

Twin sister of murder victim Holly Staker charged with attempted robbery

The troubled twin sister of Holly Staker, the Waukegan girl murdered in 1992, is being held in the Lake County Jail on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery.

Heather Staker, 31, went into a cigarette shop Wednesday and tried to rob it, but instead was overpowered by a clerk and held for police, sources said. Waukegan Police Chief Dan Greathouse, though, declined Friday to release any information on the arrest.

“The family has been through enough at this time,” Greathouse said through a spokesman.

Holly Staker was 11 when she was raped and killed Aug. 17, 1992, in the Waukegan apartment where she was baby-sitting two younger children.

Juan Rivera, who lived near the apartment, was convicted three times of the murder and spent 19 years in prison for the crime before finally being released this year because DNA evidence found in Holly’s body did not match him.

Heather Staker has struggled with addiction, been convicted of petty crimes and at least one felony. She has served time in prison. Her 4-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son are being raised by her mother, who lives in Wisconsin.

She recently told reporters she and her boyfriend were having financial difficulties, and she still owed a lot of money for medical bills because of a stroke and brain surgery four years ago.

And she said she still believes Rivera is guilty of her sister’s murder.

“I need closure,” she said, “I need to know what happened, exactly what (Holly) went through. Before I even knew she was dead, I knew she was dead. I felt it.”

She remains in the jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Dougherty bank robbers get busted trying to escape from jail....Lee Grace Dougherty became even more famous when her nude pics hit the web....

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DENVER (AP) — One of three siblings who was part of a multistate crime spree and nationwide manhunt planned to escape from a Colorado jail with his sister, telling the FBI in a letter that he had enjoyed his stay, authorities said in a document released Friday.

Dylan Dougherty, 26, got out of his cell in Walsenburg, Colo., and wrote a note to his sister telling her he was going to break her out of jail, officials said. Dylan Dougherty is now being held at the Pueblo County Jail, some 45 miles north of the jail in Walsenburg where he was being held, along with his two siblings.

Dougherty's attorney, Cobea Becker did not immediately return phone messages.

During a Jan. 10 search, deputies found a homemade knife and letter to the FBI in his cell, according to an arrest affidavit.

Deputies also discovered that a panel in Dougherty's cell that allows access to the plumbing had been tampered with, as had the insulation just inside. A deputy followed the plumbing to the ceiling and discovered footprints in there, and in the female section of the jail, a letter addressed to his sister, Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, who was being held in that area.

Dylan Dougherty told his sister he planned to subdue the guards, steal their keys and escape with her. The note stated that when the FBI received the letter, he would be long gone from the Huerfano County Jail and he would leave the tools he used to escape behind, authorities said.

"I have enjoyed staying here, so don't take any of this personal," investigators quote the note as saying.

The letter to his sister said she should "have all her personal belongings ready, and that Dylan was going to get in through the ceiling to the control room where the detention staff are, and drop down on them," according to the affidavit. "He stated he would then tie them up and take the keys from them, and then they would just walk out."

Dylan Dougherty's was able to move around so freely in the ceiling that he was able to pass the note to his sister. Deputies discovered the note in the pod where she is being held, Huerfano County Sheriff Bruce Newman said.

"He's the first one who has ever gotten into one (an access panel)," Newman said. "All you can do is go from cell to cell. You can't escape from there."

Newman said the ceiling bumps into cinderblocks. As for Dougherty's plan to drop down into the control center, Newman said that area is enclosed by cinderblocks and not accessible from the ceiling.

"We've repaired the access panel and double locked them," Newman said.

The Doughertys and their brother, Ryan Dougherty, 22, were captured in southern Colorado on Aug. 10 after a chase, capping a nationwide search. All three had been held at the tiny jail that can hold up to 34 inmates in five pods that have two to four cells each. It was opened in 1989, Newman said.

Ryan Dougherty and Lee Grace Dougherty remain at the jail. Newman said there are no plans to move them elsewhere.

"With Dylan being the instigator of this and his being caught, the major part of this threat is gone," Newman said. "We're really a lot more alert and watching them a lot closer now."

Newman said there was some concern with holding all three in the same jail, adding that guards took stepped up security measures that included more impromptu searches — called shakedowns —of Dylan's Doughtery's cell that uncovered the plan.

The three siblings are accused of robbing a Valdosta, Ga., bank and firing at a police officer in Zephyrhills, Fla., who was chasing their car when one of the suspects began shooting at his cruiser, disabling it, the FBI said.

In the Colorado chase, shots were fired at officers before the suspects' car rolled and crashed into a guardrail, authorities said.

Lee Grace Dougherty is set to go on trial Feb. 21 on attempted second-degree murder, assault and other charges related to the chase.

The brothers were granted a stay in proceedings until Monday, so federal and Florida prosecutors can decide how to proceed in the case.

In addition to charges stemming from the crime spree, Dylan Dougherty faces counts of conspiracy to escape and possession of contraband for the escape plan discovered during the search, authorities said.

During a September hearing, a Colorado Springs detective testified that Ryan Daugherty, the youngest of the three, told him that they hatched a plan to rob a bank and take the money to flee to Mexico.

Ryan Dougherty had just been sentenced to register as a sex offender for a conviction of sending sexually explicit text messages to an 11-year-old girl.

The siblings' mother, Barbara Bell of East Palatka, Fla., told The Associated Press in August that her son was discouraged by the terms of his probation and feared the conviction would prohibit him from seeing his newborn son.

Authorities in Florida said all three siblings had been living together in Lacoochee, Fla., about 45 miles northeast of Tampa, and each had a criminal record. Lee Dougherty has charges pending against her in Florida for hit and run and had previously been charged with battery. Stanley Dougherty had been charged with marijuana possession.

Santa Maria CA Police Officer under investigation for sexual misconduct shot & killed by fellow officer

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Authorities say a police officer under investigation for sexual misconduct with a minor was shot and killed by fellow officers trying to arrest him on California's central coast.

Santa Maria police Chief Danny Macagni said in a statement that the officer was on duty early Saturday when officers were sent to arrest him. Macagni says he physically resisted, then fired his gun.

Macagni says an officer coming to help the arresting officers shot him once, and he was declared dead at a hospital. No one else was hurt.

The chief says the dead officer, a four-year department veteran, had just learned of the internal investigation of an alleged relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and had to be arrested immediately.

The officer's name has been withheld until family is notified.