PENN TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania – Joshua Lee Long, a 26-year-old man who’s incarcerated by Cumberland County in connection with a string of burglaries in Pennsylvania, is facing new charges after police say a human brain was found under his porch in a Walmart bag. Police believe the brain was stolen. The new charges include misdemeanor abuse of a corpse and conspiracy to commit abuse of a corpse, the Sentinel reported.
Police said the brain was discovered by Long’s aunt while she was cleaning the trailer-home, according to NBC affiliate WGAL. The station reported that she contacted her nephew in prison to ask about the brain, and he told her that it belonged to him. At some point, she contacted police and told them about the brain, according to The Associated Press.
“The defendant related that he knew it was illegal to have the brain and that he and (another man) would spray the embalming fluid on ‘weed’ to get high,” Trooper John Boardman, an investigator involved in the case, wrote in court documents cited by the AP.
A 20-year-old college student was found in the roadside bushes of a small northern Indian city last week, raped and left for dead. In the days afterward, a shocking possibility came to light: Her attackers may be the same five men who had raped her three years earlier but were out on bail. They allegedly raped her again because she had been so steadfast in her case against them.
Family members said the attack last week was retaliation for not withdrawing the case. Instead of settling the matter in court, the five men had wanted to do so out of court, the victim’s family members said. The accused wanted to pay about $75,000, a great deal of money in a country where the average annual income hovers about $1,500, but the victim’s family members said they repeatedly rejected the offer.
The victim’s family said her attackers took her from outside her college, drugged her and raped her in a car.
The victim was interviewed in her hospital bed and could barely speak. She was able to tell a TV crew that she went unconscious during the rape but could not muster any more words. Her mother said she had relocated her family to Rohtak after the first rape for safety and better education prospects.
NEW YORK – In an election year filled with debate over immigration, Adriano Espaillat hopes his personal story makes its own statement. After living at one point in the country without documentation, he could become the first Dominican-American in Congress.
After winning the Democratic primary in a strongly Democratic district that includes Harlem and parts of the Bronx, Espaillat is heavily favored in November’s general election to succeed the long-serving Rep. Charles Rangel.
It would break ground for the historically black district, which includes Harlem and has been represented by only two African-Americans, Rangel and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. before him, for more than 70 years even as Hispanics have been the majority in the district for at least the past several years.
As an immigrant, Espaillat sees his rise as a “strong message against the intolerance that’s being spewed by the Trumps of the world.” He was especially looking forward to seeing how his story could resonate in Congress, especially among those opposed to immigration reform.
Associated Press & Washington Post
