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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Man Pleads Guilty to Food Contamination, After Nearly 380 People Allegedly Became Sick
A man accused of contaminating food at a Kansas City, Missouri restaurant has pleaded guilty to dozens of charges. The charges include 22 counts of criminal threat, criminal damage greater than $25,000, and 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a child/possession of child pornography. Jace Hanson, 22, was employed at Hereford House restaurant in Leawood for approximately one month in 2024. The affidavit states that he was then reported by someone to the FBI after allegedly posting videos online. Hanson was accused of spitting in food, caressing food with his feet and genitals, placing food down his pants numerous times, and urinating on food while working in the restaurant's to KCTV, more than 380 people called into the Leawood Police Department to report that they had become ill after eating at the restaurant. This ensued in at least 10 civil lawsuits that were filed by customers who allegedly became sick with gastrointestinal discomfort, some citing serious illnesses, after consuming food at the restaurant. Hanson initially claimed to investigators that the videos were intended for men he had connected with on social networking apps like Grindr, Sniffy's, SnapChat, and Scruff. The men then allegedly requested clips of him contaminating the food. RELATED: The former restaurant employee originally pleaded not guilty to all counts in September 2024, but recently switched gears, now admitting to over 20 instances of food contamination throughout the time he worked at the restaurant. After Hanson's guilty plea on July 3 of last week, the judge ordered a pre-sentencing investigation to be completed. The next court hearing date is set for Aug 26, 2025. The eatery has since closed its Leawood and Zona Rosa shopping center locations due to "financial strains" after the legal proceedings were revealed, NPR reports. The steakhouses' locations in the Shawnee and Independence areas of Kansas City have remained Pleads Guilty to Food Contamination, After Nearly 380 People Allegedly Became Sick first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 10, 2025
Chicago Tribune
02-07-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Jury deliberating in sex abuse case against former CPS dean
Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday asked a jury to hold a former Chicago Public Schools dean accountable for allegedly using his position of power to coerce a student into a sexual relationship. One day earlier, jurors began hearing testimony on Tuesday in the case against Brian Crowder, 43, who is facing multiple felony sex charges that allege he had a relationship with the student from around 2013 to 2016. The conduct allegedly took place while her was serving as an associate dean at the Social Justice High School, a part of Little Village Lawndale High School. In their final pitch to the jury at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, the state displayed a smiling photograph of a girl and asked the jury to remember that she was a child. 'She was young. She was vulnerable,' said Assistant State's Attorney Sarah Kofoed. 'The defendant saw that saw a young impressionable girl was looking for love, and he moved in on that.' The Tribune is not naming the woman because she is alleged to be the victim in a sexual assault case. During closing arguments, though, Crowder's attorneys called the relationship a 'friendship' and said the case was a matter of 'he said/she said.' They argued that she sought money from Crowder. 'You're not called upon to decide whether Brian Crowder should be employed at Chicago Public Schools,' attorney Barry Sheppard said. 'Bad judgment doesn't make you a criminal.' The jury began deliberating around 4 p.m. The woman, who is now 26, testified for hours on Tuesday, describing how Crowder first approached her in the school's lunch room when she was around 15 and asked her for her SnapChat username. She was initially confused, she said, but he reassured her he wouldn't add her as a friend. 'That makes sense in my head because he was my school dean,' she testified. But he did connect with her on the app, and began sending her inappropriate messages, she said. They soon developed a relationship. The woman told the jury that Crowder forced her to get abortions when she got pregnant twice. She wept as she watched the closing arguments a day after she testified. 'He wasn't just a teacher. At that point he was the dean of discipline,' Kofoed said, adding that he controlled whether she received punishments at school. 'He controlled the relationship because he was in power.' During the state's rebuttal, Assistant State's Attorney John Sviokla addressed the defense's argument of a financial motivation. 'She looked to be made whole in some capacity,' he said. The case went before a jury as CPS' handling of sexual abuse allegations has been the subject of scrutiny in recent years and as Crowder is also named in a 2024 lawsuit that accuses CPS of failing to protect its students. In 2018, the Chicago Tribune's 'Betrayed' investigation revealed failures in how the nation's fourth largest school district handled allegations of abuse, including neglecting to report accusations to police or child welfare investigators and failing to conduct effective background checks. The civil complaint filed by the woman against Crowder and the school district heavily references the Tribune's investigation and alleges that CPS at the time 'did not track child abuse by its employees or agents in a publicly available format.' The suit also accuses employees at Little Village Lawndale High School of failing to act when an inappropriate relationship between Crowder and the student was noticed by others who 'would joke about how much time was spent alone' between Crowder and the student. At one point, the suit alleges, the student told a teacher about her relationship with Crowder, but the teacher never took steps to report or stop the abuse.
Chicago Tribune
01-07-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Former CPS dean stands trial accused of sexually abusing a student
While serving as a dean of discipline in the Chicago Public Schools system, Brian Crowder approached a 15-year-old student in the lunch room at a Little Village school and asked her for her SnapChat username, the woman, now an adult, testified on Tuesday. Slightly confused, the woman said she gave him the information for her social media account. That led him to start messaging her, she said, before entering into a relationship with her. Crowder began standing trial this week on charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault and other felonies after Cook County prosecutors accused him of engaging in a sexual relationship with a student from around 2013 to 2016 while serving as an associate dean at the Social Justice High School, a part of Little Village Lawndale High School. The case goes before a jury as the handling of sexual abuse allegations by Chicago Public Schools has been the subject of scrutiny in recent years and as Crowder is also named in a 2024 lawsuit that accuses CPS of failing to protect its students. Attorneys opened their cases on Tuesday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building before the former student, now 26, testified for hours, telling jurors that Crowder engaged her in a relationship and then coerced her into having two abortions. The Tribune is not naming the woman because she is alleged to be the victim in a sexual assault case. Growing occasionally emotional, the woman began her testimony by recalling her sophomore year of high school. When Crowder had asked about about her Snapchat, a social media platform in which messages and photos usually disappear after a time, she said she asked him why her wanted her account information. 'He said, it's not like I'm going to add you,' she said. 'That makes sense in my head because he was my school dean.' But he quickly began messaging her photos and telling her he wanted her, she said, adding that they eventually began talking every day and engaging in a sexual relationship. He offered her alcohol, she said, and he would pass her notes during school suspensions, which he was in charge of monitoring. The woman told jurors that Crowder got her pregnant twice and badgered her to get abortions, even though she preferred to continue the pregnancies. 'He said there's no way I could have the baby,' she said. 'He would text me day and night all day to get me to not have this baby because he was going to go to jail and lose his son.' Because she was underage, she could not consent to the abortions herself. Crowder, using false names, signed the consent forms, she said. 'I was just upset and emotional,' she said. 'He was just very relieved.' In 2018, the Chicago Tribune's 'Betrayed' investigation revealed failures in how the nation's fourth largest school district handled allegations of abuse, including neglecting to report accusations to police or child welfare investigators and failing to conduct effective background checks. The civil complaint filed by the woman against Crowder and the school district heavily references the Tribune's investigation and alleges that CPS at the time 'did not track child abuse by its employees or agents in a publicly available format.' The suit also accuses employees at Little Village Lawndale High School of failing to act when an inappropriate relationship between Crowder and the student was noticed by others who 'would joke about how much time was spent alone' between Crowder and the student. At one point, the suit alleges, the student told a teacher about her relationship with Crowder, but the teacher never took steps to report or stop the abuse.
7NEWS
24-06-2025
- 7NEWS
Bruce Lehrmann tries to shut down rape trial amid police conduct claims
Bruce Lehrmann has sought to halt a rape case against him, claiming that police 'illegally obtained' his lawyers' phone calls. Lehrmann, 30, is accused of raping a woman twice during the morning of October 10, 2021 after they met at a strip club the previous night in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Defence lawyer Zali Burrows filed an application in Toowoomba District Court on Monday seeking a permanent stay in Lehrmann's pending trial. In court documents seen by AAP, Burrows sought a 'declaration that intercepted calls between Lehrmann's lawyers and Queensland Police (were) illegally obtained'. Burrows' application was in response to an affidavit by Peter Blake-Segovia, a practice manager at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Toowoomba chambers. The affidavit stated police had possession of four audio recordings of calls between a detective and Lehrmann's previous lawyers. Blake-Segovia stated he had emailed the arresting officer in Lehrmann's case, Detective Senior Constable Ashlee Ryder, concerning material in the case. 'Can you please confirm whether a copy of anything that is relevant to the proceeding? has been disclosed?' Blake-Segovia emailed on June 17. In the court affidavit, Blake-Segovia stated Detective Ryder had 'outlined items that were in her possession that were not provided as part of the brief to the Director of Public Prosecutions'. The items included 'four audio recordings between the arresting officer and (Lehrmann's) previous legal representatives'. 'I will review the contents of the material to ascertain whether they ought to be disclosed,' Blake-Segovia stated to the court. In Queensland, it is generally lawful for a person to record a phone conversation without the consent of the other people on the call. However, Lehrmann — a former ministerial staffer to Liberal senator Linda Reynolds — has ongoing legal matters in NSW and Tasmania, where it is generally illegal to record a phone conversation without consent. The alleged victim previously told Toowoomba Magistrates Court she consumed cocaine with Lehrmann during a night out before consensual sex at about 4am. The woman said she was woken about 10am by Lehrmann sexually assaulting her. Lehrmann's former defence barrister, Andrew Hoare, said at a prior hearing the alleged victim was too intoxicated to remember giving consent and Lehrmann could have mistakenly believed he had consent. Burrows on Monday also applied for a declaration that Queensland Police did not have the discretion to determine what is relevant to the defence case and must disclose all materials. Blake-Segovia stated to the court that police held items, in addition to the phone call recordings, that had not been disclosed. SnapChat messaging app. The Ipswich District Court is due to hear Burrows' application on Wednesday.
The Advertiser
24-06-2025
- The Advertiser
Lehrmann seeks to halt rape trial over police conduct
Bruce Lehrmann has sought to halt a rape case against him, claiming that police "illegally obtained" his lawyer's phone calls. Lehrmann, 30, is accused of raping a woman twice during the morning of October 10, 2021 after they met at a strip club the previous night in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Defence lawyer Zali Burrows filed an application in Toowoomba District Court on Monday seeking a permanent stay in Lehrmann's pending trial. In court documents seen by AAP, Ms Burrows sought a "declaration that intercepted calls between Mr Lehrmann's lawyers and Queensland Police (were) illegally obtained". Ms Burrows' application was in response to an affidavit by Peter Blake-Segovia, a practice manager at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Toowoomba chambers. The affidavit stated police had possession of four audio recordings of calls between a detective and Lehrmann's previous lawyers. Mr Blake-Segovia stated he had emailed the arresting officer in Lehrmann's case, Detective Senior Constable Ashlee Ryder, concerning material in the case. "Can you please confirm whether a copy of anything that is relevant to the proceeding … has been disclosed?" Mr Blake-Segovia emailed on June 17. In the court affidavit, Mr Blake-Segovia stated Det Ryder had "outlined items that were in her possession that were not provided as part of the brief to the Director of Public Prosecutions". The items included "four audio recordings between the arresting officer and (Lehrmann's) previous legal representatives". "I will review the contents of the material to ascertain whether they ought to be disclosed," Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court. In Queensland it is generally lawful for a person to record a phone conversation without the consent of the other people on the call. However, Lehrmann - a former ministerial staffer to Liberal senator Linda Reynolds - has ongoing legal matters in NSW and Tasmania, where it is generally illegal to record a phone conversation without consent. The alleged victim previously told Toowoomba Magistrates Court she consumed cocaine with Lehrmann during a night out before consensual sex at about 4am. The woman said she was woken about 10am by Lehrmann sexually assaulting her. Lehrmann's former defence barrister Andrew Hoare said at a prior hearing the alleged victim was too intoxicated to remember giving consent and Lehrmann could have mistakenly believed he had consent. Ms Burrows on Monday also applied for a declaration that Queensland Police did not have the discretion to determine what is relevant to the defence case and must disclose all materials. Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court that police held items, in addition to the phone call recordings, that had not been disclosed. Those items included two audio recordings and two emails between the alleged victim and Det Ryder, an audio recording of a witness and information about Lehrmann's account on the SnapChat messaging app. The Ipswich District Court is due to hear Ms Burrows' application on Wednesday. Bruce Lehrmann has sought to halt a rape case against him, claiming that police "illegally obtained" his lawyer's phone calls. Lehrmann, 30, is accused of raping a woman twice during the morning of October 10, 2021 after they met at a strip club the previous night in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Defence lawyer Zali Burrows filed an application in Toowoomba District Court on Monday seeking a permanent stay in Lehrmann's pending trial. In court documents seen by AAP, Ms Burrows sought a "declaration that intercepted calls between Mr Lehrmann's lawyers and Queensland Police (were) illegally obtained". Ms Burrows' application was in response to an affidavit by Peter Blake-Segovia, a practice manager at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Toowoomba chambers. The affidavit stated police had possession of four audio recordings of calls between a detective and Lehrmann's previous lawyers. Mr Blake-Segovia stated he had emailed the arresting officer in Lehrmann's case, Detective Senior Constable Ashlee Ryder, concerning material in the case. "Can you please confirm whether a copy of anything that is relevant to the proceeding … has been disclosed?" Mr Blake-Segovia emailed on June 17. In the court affidavit, Mr Blake-Segovia stated Det Ryder had "outlined items that were in her possession that were not provided as part of the brief to the Director of Public Prosecutions". The items included "four audio recordings between the arresting officer and (Lehrmann's) previous legal representatives". "I will review the contents of the material to ascertain whether they ought to be disclosed," Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court. In Queensland it is generally lawful for a person to record a phone conversation without the consent of the other people on the call. However, Lehrmann - a former ministerial staffer to Liberal senator Linda Reynolds - has ongoing legal matters in NSW and Tasmania, where it is generally illegal to record a phone conversation without consent. The alleged victim previously told Toowoomba Magistrates Court she consumed cocaine with Lehrmann during a night out before consensual sex at about 4am. The woman said she was woken about 10am by Lehrmann sexually assaulting her. Lehrmann's former defence barrister Andrew Hoare said at a prior hearing the alleged victim was too intoxicated to remember giving consent and Lehrmann could have mistakenly believed he had consent. Ms Burrows on Monday also applied for a declaration that Queensland Police did not have the discretion to determine what is relevant to the defence case and must disclose all materials. Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court that police held items, in addition to the phone call recordings, that had not been disclosed. Those items included two audio recordings and two emails between the alleged victim and Det Ryder, an audio recording of a witness and information about Lehrmann's account on the SnapChat messaging app. The Ipswich District Court is due to hear Ms Burrows' application on Wednesday. Bruce Lehrmann has sought to halt a rape case against him, claiming that police "illegally obtained" his lawyer's phone calls. Lehrmann, 30, is accused of raping a woman twice during the morning of October 10, 2021 after they met at a strip club the previous night in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Defence lawyer Zali Burrows filed an application in Toowoomba District Court on Monday seeking a permanent stay in Lehrmann's pending trial. In court documents seen by AAP, Ms Burrows sought a "declaration that intercepted calls between Mr Lehrmann's lawyers and Queensland Police (were) illegally obtained". Ms Burrows' application was in response to an affidavit by Peter Blake-Segovia, a practice manager at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Toowoomba chambers. The affidavit stated police had possession of four audio recordings of calls between a detective and Lehrmann's previous lawyers. Mr Blake-Segovia stated he had emailed the arresting officer in Lehrmann's case, Detective Senior Constable Ashlee Ryder, concerning material in the case. "Can you please confirm whether a copy of anything that is relevant to the proceeding … has been disclosed?" Mr Blake-Segovia emailed on June 17. In the court affidavit, Mr Blake-Segovia stated Det Ryder had "outlined items that were in her possession that were not provided as part of the brief to the Director of Public Prosecutions". The items included "four audio recordings between the arresting officer and (Lehrmann's) previous legal representatives". "I will review the contents of the material to ascertain whether they ought to be disclosed," Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court. In Queensland it is generally lawful for a person to record a phone conversation without the consent of the other people on the call. However, Lehrmann - a former ministerial staffer to Liberal senator Linda Reynolds - has ongoing legal matters in NSW and Tasmania, where it is generally illegal to record a phone conversation without consent. The alleged victim previously told Toowoomba Magistrates Court she consumed cocaine with Lehrmann during a night out before consensual sex at about 4am. The woman said she was woken about 10am by Lehrmann sexually assaulting her. Lehrmann's former defence barrister Andrew Hoare said at a prior hearing the alleged victim was too intoxicated to remember giving consent and Lehrmann could have mistakenly believed he had consent. Ms Burrows on Monday also applied for a declaration that Queensland Police did not have the discretion to determine what is relevant to the defence case and must disclose all materials. Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court that police held items, in addition to the phone call recordings, that had not been disclosed. Those items included two audio recordings and two emails between the alleged victim and Det Ryder, an audio recording of a witness and information about Lehrmann's account on the SnapChat messaging app. The Ipswich District Court is due to hear Ms Burrows' application on Wednesday. Bruce Lehrmann has sought to halt a rape case against him, claiming that police "illegally obtained" his lawyer's phone calls. Lehrmann, 30, is accused of raping a woman twice during the morning of October 10, 2021 after they met at a strip club the previous night in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Defence lawyer Zali Burrows filed an application in Toowoomba District Court on Monday seeking a permanent stay in Lehrmann's pending trial. In court documents seen by AAP, Ms Burrows sought a "declaration that intercepted calls between Mr Lehrmann's lawyers and Queensland Police (were) illegally obtained". Ms Burrows' application was in response to an affidavit by Peter Blake-Segovia, a practice manager at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Toowoomba chambers. The affidavit stated police had possession of four audio recordings of calls between a detective and Lehrmann's previous lawyers. Mr Blake-Segovia stated he had emailed the arresting officer in Lehrmann's case, Detective Senior Constable Ashlee Ryder, concerning material in the case. "Can you please confirm whether a copy of anything that is relevant to the proceeding … has been disclosed?" Mr Blake-Segovia emailed on June 17. In the court affidavit, Mr Blake-Segovia stated Det Ryder had "outlined items that were in her possession that were not provided as part of the brief to the Director of Public Prosecutions". The items included "four audio recordings between the arresting officer and (Lehrmann's) previous legal representatives". "I will review the contents of the material to ascertain whether they ought to be disclosed," Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court. In Queensland it is generally lawful for a person to record a phone conversation without the consent of the other people on the call. However, Lehrmann - a former ministerial staffer to Liberal senator Linda Reynolds - has ongoing legal matters in NSW and Tasmania, where it is generally illegal to record a phone conversation without consent. The alleged victim previously told Toowoomba Magistrates Court she consumed cocaine with Lehrmann during a night out before consensual sex at about 4am. The woman said she was woken about 10am by Lehrmann sexually assaulting her. Lehrmann's former defence barrister Andrew Hoare said at a prior hearing the alleged victim was too intoxicated to remember giving consent and Lehrmann could have mistakenly believed he had consent. Ms Burrows on Monday also applied for a declaration that Queensland Police did not have the discretion to determine what is relevant to the defence case and must disclose all materials. Mr Blake-Segovia stated to the court that police held items, in addition to the phone call recordings, that had not been disclosed. Those items included two audio recordings and two emails between the alleged victim and Det Ryder, an audio recording of a witness and information about Lehrmann's account on the SnapChat messaging app. The Ipswich District Court is due to hear Ms Burrows' application on Wednesday.
