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A Santa Fe County magistrate has issued an arrest warrant for a Santo Domingo Pueblo man after the man’s ex- girlfriend told Santa Fe police that he had choked her and prevented her from leaving a vehicle during an argument. An arrest warrant affidavit by a Santa Fe police officer charges Joseph Reano , 35, with false imprisonment , a fourth-degree felony, and aggravated battery against a household member that does not result in great bodily harm , a misdemeanor. The affidavit says Reano came to his former girlfriend’s Santa Fe apartment Saturday night to visit their 7-year-old son. He asked to speak with the woman outside, and the two got into an argument inside his vehicle, according to the affidavit. When she attempted to leave the vehicle, he grabbed her by the shirt and began to yell obscenities as she tried to escape, the affidavit says, adding that Reano then started to choke the woman. She was able to kick the passenger door open , and he let go after an...

A River Ridge mother allegedly barricaded herself in another person's apartment early Sunday morning as Jefferson Parish Sheriff 's Office deputies attempted to investigate a claim that she had left her 5-year-old daughter home alone for several hours. In addition to child desertion, Shannon Hill, 37, was booked with false imprisonment for allegedly refusing to allow the apartment's resident to leave, according to Glen T. Boyd, spokesman for the department. JPSO Shannon Hill Boyd said an unidentified person flagged down a passing deputy just after midnight Sunday to tell them that a little girl in the the area of Cumberland Street in River Ridge had been home alone for several hours. The tipster told deputies the girl's mother was nearby, possibly doing drugs, Boyd said. Deputies spent almost an hour searching for the girl before they found her inside of a Cumberland Street home . Authorities had to contact the residence's landlord to get inside the house.  O...

Velmando Williams . (PBSO) RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) —  A man accused of setting fire to an apartment complex in Riviera Beach with children trapped inside , stabbed their mother in the head during a fight, minutes before flames ripped through the apartment, police said. The fire happened Friday night at the Stonybrook Apartment complex on Martin Luther King Jr . Boulevard in Riviera Beach. Authorities believe the fire began in the living room on two couches, likely from an accelerant. Video shared to CBS12 showed people breaking through the locked apartment door to rescue two young children trapped inside . Riviera Beach firefighters found the third child , a one-month-old girl, underneath a door. It may have saved her life, firefighters said Saturday. Velmando Williams , the father of two of the woman's children, her 3-and-1-year-old sons, is accused of setting the fire. Police wrote in the arrest report the woman, after being stabbed by Williams, ran out of the apartment ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Police have just made an arrest following an apartment fire in Riviera Beach. Police said they' ve charged Velmando Williams for setting a fire at the Stonybrook Apartments. Advertisement Police said based upon statements from the mother of the three children and other witnesses at the scene, Velmando J. Williams was located near the apartment complex and detained for questioning. A State of Florida Fire Marshal confirmed the fire was not an accident but was an intentional act of Arson. The young children's mother advised that the father of her children, Velmando J. Williams set the apartment on fire during an argument that occurred between the two of them. Following extensive investigation, detectives determined that Velmando J. Williams set the fire. He was charged with Attempted Murder, False Imprisonment, Simple Battery Domestic , and First Degree Arson. Williams was arrested and transported to the Palm Beach County Jail . Emergency workers pulled ...

By  Julius Whigham II and Bill DiPaolo The Palm Beach Post RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Quick action by neighbors and firefighters — and a little luck — saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children’s 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments. They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. children inside . (Photo/ Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office)" />Velmando J. Williams, 22, set the apartment on fire with his three children inside . (Photo/ Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office) “They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn’t stop until they got those kids out,” said Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A video taken at the scene ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA , Calif. (KABC) -- A local woman was shot in the chest and held hostage in Rancho Cucamonga for 26 days without medical treatment before finally escaping with her 7-year-old son. Police arrested 37 -year-old Michael Venegas, who lived with the victim in an apartment in the 10800 block of Terra Vista Parkway . According to detectives, back on April 1, the couple had an argument and the woman tried to leave him. That's when he allegedly shot her in the chest and kept her in the apartment against her will - without medical treatment - for 26 days. The bullet went through the victim and came out the other side, according to officials. The victim somehow escaped on Sunday and managed to get to Whittier Presbyterian Hospital on Monday with her son. Her condition is currently unknown. She told doctors that she was in fear for her life, her son's life and her parents' lives and that's why she didn't try to escape sooner. Sheriff's investigators arri...

| Share | Share | Share | Share Aug. 13--RIVIERA BEACH, FL-- Quick action by neighbors and firefighters -- and a little luck -- saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children's 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments. They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. "They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn't stop until they got those kids out," said Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A video taken at the scene shows neighbors struggling to pound through the doors and flames coming through the roof. "There's a newborn baby in there! Somebody locked the doors! Somebody get that baby out of there," a woma...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. -  Quick action by neighbors and firefighters -- and a little luck -- saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children’s 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments . They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. >> Read more trending news “They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn’t stop until they got those kids out,” said  Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A 1-month-old girl was still inside, residents told firefighters when they arrived about 6 p.m. Firefighters were unable to see through the heavy smoke. A thermo- imaging device led them to the child. She was lying on a bed. A door had somehow landed on top of...

RIVIERA BEACH Quick action by neighbors and firefighters — and a little luck — saved three infants trapped inside a burning apartment on Friday that police say was set on fire by their father after a domestic dispute with the children’s 19-year-old mother. Using hammers, chairs and whatever they could grab to smash through hurricane windows, neighbors entered a burning second-floor unit at the Stonybrook Apartments. They handed a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy out the window. “They kept pounding and pounding. They were using hammers and chairs, anything they could get their hands on. They wouldn’t stop until they got those kids out,” said Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters . A video taken at the scene shows neighbors struggling to pound through the doors and flames coming through the roof. “There’s a new-born baby in there! Somebody locked the doors! Somebody get that baby out of there,” a woman screams in the video. A one-month-old girl was still inside, residents told firefi...

A father in Florida is being held without bond after allegedly setting an apartment on fire with his three children inside before escaping through a window, authorities say. Velmando Jahvon Williams , 22, remains jailed at the Palm Beach County Jail on three counts each of attempted homicide and false imprisonment, as well as first-degree arson and battery charges, jail records show . Williams set the apartment on fire Friday during an argument with the children’s mother at Stonybrook Apartments in Riviera Beach, she told WPTV. “I’m trying to get over it, but I can’t,” the children’s mother, Tranice Smith, told the station. “I have no words for him. None.” Williams held Smith down by her shirt prior to setting the fire, but she was able to break free by ripping her shirt off during the scuffle, according to a police report obtained by the Palm Beach Post . Smith then told Williams she was going to call police about the domestic dispute, prompting him to tell her that he was going to...