Former Marion County deputy pleads guilty to attempted bank robbery

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A former Central Florida deputy is behind bars after pleading guilty to trying to rob a bank.

Detectives said former Marion County deputy Christina Thagard was covered from head to toe as she gave the teller her list of demands.

Thagard threatened to shoot the teller if any alarms were triggered or dye packs were included with the money.

Thagard’s sentencing is scheduled for next month.

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Minneapolis Police Chief Questions ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good — Tells 60 Minutes He Violated ‘Basic Steps’ of Being An Officer

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara questioned the actions of the ICE agent who shot and killed protester Renee Good earlier this month during an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday. O’Hara said the agent violated “basic steps” that officers know about approaching vehicles.

Correspondent Cecilia Vega said the shooting has become a national “Rorschach test,” where some Americans see a “senseless killing” and others see an “officer defending his life.”

O’Hara said he has watched clips of the incident — and come away asking why the officer was in front of Good’s SUV right before the shooting.

“It’s not clear to me why he appears to be in the path of the vehicle more than once,” O’Hara said. “When you approach someone in a vehicle in a law enforcement encounter, there are very basic steps you take to ensure the officer’s safety and de-escalate the situation.”

Vega then said Vice President JD Vance put the blame for the shooting “squarely” on Good the day after the attack. She also said Homeland Security officials accused Good and her partner of “stalking” immigration officers; Vega did not mention DHS shared footage last week of Good blocking traffic for three minutes with her vehicle before agents approached her.

CBS News reported this week the ICE agent — Jonathan Ross — suffered internal bleeding after being struck by Good’s vehicle right before he opened fire.

O’Hara told 60 Minutes he was in favor of “targeted, precise pre-planned operations on violent offenders,” which he said are a “good thing.”

“But I’m concerned that people in the [Trump] administration don’t understand the reality of what is happening on the street,” he added.

The 60 Minutes crew also captured a heckler shouting at O’Hara that he was a “pig” who was enabling ICE while they he was walking-and-talking to Vega.

“People have a right to say disrespectful things… however, they cannot physically obstruct law enforcement from performing a function,” O’Hara said. “Those things are illegal.”

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Woman, 24, Charged with Aggravated Assault After Throwing 25 lb. Weight Plate at ‘Someone Her Partner was Involved with’

A personal bond/bail order reviewed by PEOPLE claims that Martinez said, “bitch, I’m going to drop this plate on you” before the incident

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Aralyn Martinez, 24, allegedly threw a weighted plate at “someone her partner was involved with” while at a 24 Hour Fitness in Spring, Texas, according to a press release from the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 Office
The weighted plate was 25 lb., according to a charging document reviewed by PEOPLE
KHOU 11 reported that the victim moved out of the way in time, avoiding injuries

A Texas woman has been charged with aggravated assault after throwing a weighted plate at “someone her partner was involved with.”

The incident occurred at a 24 Hour Fitness in Spring, Texas, the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 Office said in a press release.

“Upon arrival, deputies learned that a female suspect assaulted the complainant inside the gym after recognizing the complainant as someone her partner was involved with,” said the press release.

Aralyn Martinez, 24, is alleged to have thrown that weighted plate at the complainant’s head.

A charging document reviewed by PEOPLE alleges that Martinez intentionally and knowingly threatened the victim with “imminent bodily injury by using and exhibiting a deadly weapon, namely, a 25-pound weight plate” on Tuesday, Jan. 6.

A personal bond/bail order reviewed by PEOPLE states that the altercation was caught on cell phone video.

The order alleges that Martinez said, “bitch, I’m going to drop this plate on you” before throwing the plate. KHOU 11 reported that the complainant moved out of the way in time, avoiding injuries.

Precinct 4 Capt. Juan Flores told KHOU 11 that the incident didn’t escalate further because nearby people intervened.

While Martinez left the gym after the confrontation, per KHOU 11, she was arrested on Jan. 7, according to the charging document.

Martinez was arrested and booked into the Harris County Jail, and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, but was released on a $1000 bond, online records reviewed by PEOPLE show.

According to an amended order for pretrial supervision and bond conditions reviewed by PEOPLE, “facts giving rise to probable cause suggest that alcohol was a factor in the offense.”

“Mastermind” of Minnesota’s biggest fraud scheme speaks out

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Tue, January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM GMT+7

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The Trump administration has justified its ongoing immigration crackdown in Minnesota by citing a need to curb fraud and pointing to a widening scandal involving members of the Somali American community. Yet prosecutors say the mastermind of the state’s biggest fraud scheme to date was not Somali but a White woman — 45-year-old Aimee Bock.

In an exclusive interview from her jail cell, Bock defended her conduct, admitted regrets and argued that state officials who she worked with should bear some of the blame. It was the first time Bock spoke publicly since she was arrested for her role in what prosecutors say was a $250 million COVID-era effort to defraud a federal program to feed hungry children.

“I wish I could go back and do things differently, stop things, catch things,” said Bock, who was the head of Feeding Our Future, the now-infamous nonprofit that signed up restaurants and caterers to receive taxpayer money for providing meals to kids. “I believed we were doing everything in our power to protect the program.”

So far, prosecutors have charged 78 defendants connected to Feeding Our Future, with more than 60 pleading guilty or convicted at trial. All are Somali American, except for Aimee Bock.

Aimee Bock in jail in Minnesota. / Credit: CBS News(CBS News)

During a five-week trial last year, prosecutors alleged Bock signed off reimbursement claims for millions of meals that were never served. She was also charged with collecting bribes. Together, she and the meal site operators were accused of stealing tens of millions of federal dollars and spending it on luxury cars, real estate ventures and vacations.

“That money did not go to feed kids,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick at the time. “It was used to fund their lavish lifestyle.”

A jury convicted her on all counts. She’s now awaiting sentencing and faces up to 33 years in prison. Evidence submitted at trial included text messages where Bock compared Feeding Our Future to the mob.

“The jury saw overwhelming evidence of what Bock knew,” said lead prosecutor Joe Thompson following the verdict. “She was at the head of the scheme from Day One. She signed every single fraudulent claim that was submitted to the state of Minnesota.”

Bock told CBS News she was neither mastermind nor mob boss.

“It was heartbreaking,” Bock said, describing the moment she heard the verdict. “I believe in accountability. If I had done this, I would’ve pled guilty. I wouldn’t have gone to trial. I wouldn’t have put my children and my family through what we’ve been through. I’ve lost everything.”

Last month, a judge ordered her to forfeit more than $5 million in proceeds from the scheme.

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Most of the millions federal officials seized from her were sitting in a bank account for the nonprofit, and Bock denied she personally lived a lavish lifestyle. She downplayed the items FBI agents found at her home when they raided it in 2022 — a home she had lived in for more than a decade.

“They found minimal jewelry,” Bock said. “I believe it was like two pairs of earrings, a bracelet, a watch. There was some cash there.”

Bock’s attorney, Kenneth Udoibok, shared video showing stacks of food at meal sites operated by Feeding Our Future contractors. Bock said she was doing everything in her power to root out fraud and terminated agreements with dozens of entities she believed were cheating the system.

“I was the only one that stopped a claim and said, this is fraudulent,” Bock said. “There are tens of millions of dollars in claims that we did not pay, that we refused.”

The sudden growth of Bock’s organization was staggering. In 2019, Feeding Our Future submitted $3.4 million worth of meal claims. In 2021, it submitted nearly $200 million. Bock attributed the increase to the looser guidelines during the pandemic that allowed parents to pick up meals and bring them home. Asked whether the spike in volume raised red flags at the time, Bock claimed she had sign-off from Minnesota officials.

“We relied on the state,” she said, adding that local officials, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, would often visit the meal sites. “We told the state, this site is going to operate at this address, this time, and this number of children. The state would then tell us that’s approved.”

Omar has denied she was aware of individuals defrauding the food program, and previously has condemned the misuse of funds. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has drawn widespread scrutiny for his handling of fraud in the state. But Walz has defended his administration’s response, saying “we’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters” and accusing the Trump administration of “politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.”

Udoibok, Bock’s attorney, said state officials at the time weren’t particularly interested in stopping the fraud, because the nonprofit was providing at least some food to an important constituency during a time of significant instability.

“What is a lie is that they were policing this fraudulent activity at any time,” Udoibok said. “They wanted a scapegoat. She ran the only food program in the state, so they pinned it on her.”

A spokesperson for Walz did not respond to a request for comment.

“Nobody wants to be labeled a racist”

Bock spoke to CBS News in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good, as Minneapolis became a flashpoint in the administration’s push to crackdown on illegal immigration. According to Bock, some of the individuals picked up in ICE sweeps are now being held at the jail where she is being held until she is sentenced.

In some ways, it’s possible to trace origins of the current tensions in Minnesota to Bock and her nonprofit. Good was killed by an ICE agent after the Department of Homeland Security surged thousands of personnel into the state with a twin mandate to enforce immigration laws and help investigate fraud.

Yet long before the issue of fraud became a galvanizing issue for the right — and fodder for conservative influencers — federal prosecutors in Minnesota had zeroed in on Bock. A lifelong Minnesotan, Bock earned a degree in elementary education and held roles at day cares and early childhood centers before starting Feeding Our Future in 2016.

“Our goal as an organization was to reach the kids that were not being fed,” said Bock, who has two sons of her own. “There is kind of this quiet need in Minnesota, these food deserts, where there’s just not access to healthy nutritionist food for children.”

The nonprofit became a so-called “sponsor” for two federal nutrition programs funded by the Department of Agriculture and overseen by Minnesota’s Education Department that paid for kids’ meals during the school year and over the summer. When COVID hit, the USDA issued waivers that gave sponsors like Feeding Our Future more flexibility in how they distributed the food.

“During COVID, for obvious reasons, parents were allowed to come and pick up meals,” Bock explained. “So we suddenly were able to reach more children. We were also able to deliver meals to homes.”

Restaurants and caterers, particularly from Minnesota’s large Somali immigrant community, were eager to sign up. Bock said her organization was well-positioned to fill the need, but state education officials were wary about letting in some of the business that applied.

“The Department of Education was sitting on the applications,” Bock said. “They were just not processing them.”

As racial justice protests swept the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Bock filed a lawsuit, alleging the state’s scrutiny of Somali applicants was discriminatory and deprived low-income and minority children access to “desperately needed federal food programs.”

Asked how she believed state officials received the lawsuit, Bock acknowledged “nobody wants to be labeled as racist.”

That aggressive advocacy won her praise from the tight-knit Somali community. One community leader told a local reporter Bock was “a modern-day Robin Hood.”

Bock denied the lawsuit was a scare tactic. The parties reached a settlement where Minnesota’s Education Department agreed to process applications to the meal program “reasonably promptly.”

“The notion that a state government is paralyzed and has to allow this level of fraud because they were afraid of what I might do in a lawsuit is preposterous,” Bock said.

Years later, education officials told a state watchdog “the threat of legal consequences and negative media attention” intimidated them into easing off. Still, officials with Minnesota’s Department of Education (MDE) insist they did act, noting they were the ones who referred Bock to the FBI in 2021.

“Criminals took advantage of the program even though MDE met or exceeded federal regulations,” the education commissioner wrote in a letter to the state watchdog. “At all times MDE made its best judgments about its authority for oversight in the context of legal requirements and pushback.”

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Kiefer Sutherland’s Arrest Incident Takes A Dark Turn As Shocking Details Emerge

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New details have emerged in Kiefer Sutherland‘s latest run-in with the law, as reports claim he punched and tried choking the Uber driver.

The “24” star, who has a long history of falling on the wrong side of the law as he was arrested several times for alcohol related issues, was allegedly “under the influence” when he carried out the attack against the driver.

Kiefer Sutherland’s arrest incident comes amid claims that the actor is struggling with his career after peaking with his role in the TV series, “24.”

Kiefer Sutherland Allegedly Punched And Tried To Choke His Uber Driver

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Kiefer Sutherland allegedly punched and tried to choke the Uber driver he had an altercation with, which eventually led to his arrest, per the Daily Mail.

The incident, which occurred on January 12, saw the 59-year-old actor clash with a ride-share driver near Hollywood around Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.

The driver then took to his heels in an attempt to evade Sutherland, and while at it, he called 911 to report the situation.

According to ABC News, eyewitnesses claim the “Designated Survivor” star appeared to be “under the influence” as he’s suspected of assaulting the driver and getting into the vehicle without consent.

Authorities have reportedly been shown dashboard camera footage from the vehicle, which may have captured the entire incident, as investigations continue.

The Actor Could Face Up To Three Years In Jail

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Authorities confirm that no injuries that would have required immediate medical attention were sustained, and after the incident, Sutherland was taken into custody on suspicion of felony criminal threats, a charge that can carry up to 3 years in state prison under California law.

He has since been released upon posting a $50,000 bond. Sutherland is yet to be charged in connection with the incident, as officials from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office explained that the LAPD has yet to file a case with them.

However, it may not be long before the Emmy winner is brought to book as DA sources say they expect the charges to be filed next month, probably after his February 2 court appearance.

Kiefer Sutherland Has A Long History Of Arrest

This isn’t Sutherland’s first brush with the law, as he has been arrested several times in the past, especially for crimes related to drunk driving. He has racked up about 4 DUI convictions between 1980 and 2008, the latter resulting in a 48-day jail sentence.

For that incident, he was initially handed a 30-day sentence after entering a no-contest plea in October 2007 to driving while under the influence. However, the court added an extra 18 days after Sutherland violated probation he had been on for a 2004 offense of the same kind.

Following his eventual release at the time, a LAPD official told People Magazine that he “looked like he was glad to be out” of jail and was quite a model inmate behind bars.