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Yahoo
07-08-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Jasper County clerk seeks poll workers for upcoming elections
A local election official is putting the spotlight on the workers who make sure people get the chance to vote. Jasper County Clerk Charlie Davis is recruiting people to serve as poll workers. A person must be a registered voter in Missouri to apply and be available to serve on election day, as well as training ahead of time. Davis said it can be tough to find enough election judges to staff all the polls, but it is a crucial role to fill. 'Poll workers are very important. Without them, we could not run the elections. So, for all of our 200+ poll workers that work every election, we're so grateful to them because they are performing a fantastic service to our community,' said Davis. Poll workers in Jasper County work 3 elections a year on average and earn $150 per election day. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
13-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Boy, 17, is found dead in brush after road trip with uncle as police make arrest
A man with a 'significant' criminal history has been arrested after being accused of murdering his teenage nephew and leaving his body on the side of a road. Victor 'Jerry' Carver III was arrested in Tennessee on a manslaughter charge on Monday, two days after checking 17-year-old Caden Cantrelle out of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services (DCS) on July 5 with permission. The two then illegally drove to rural Mississippi, where the boy's body was found deep in a deep ditch off a road in Jasper County on Monday. Cops made the discovery after receiving a tip from the boy's father that his phone last 'pinged' in Mississippi. He had tracking software installed on his son's phone. DCS contacted him after the allotted time of the preapproved visit had expired, cops said. Cantrelle's phone last pinged Sunday in the Jasper area before being found the following afternoon. Carver III, 37, is now facing manslaughter charges as a result. He was cuffed in Tennessee after deputies there found him asleep inside his home with the car used for the 'trip' parked outside. Those charges could be upgraded as evidence is collected, officials said this week . The suspect also has a criminal history in the state dating back nearly 20 years, according to Nashville NBC affiliate WSMV. He was still allowed to check the boy out, for what was proposed as an innocent road trip to Louisiana to visit family. At some point on the way back, though, the two got into an argument, investigators were told. It remains unclear what Cantrelle's father and DCS' relationship was regarding Cantrelle's care. Deputies came across Cantrelle's body on the edge of a gully overgrown with vines. Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson recalled to Law&Crime on Friday how, after driving to the location where the phone's activity had been last recorded with four of his deputies, he immediately 'suspected foul play.' The cops then learned who Cantrelle was, before contacting the Wayne County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee. A warrant was subsequently secured for Carver's arrest. The suspect admitted to leaving his nephew on the side of the road, cops said. The uncle has not admitted to harming his nephew, however, only conceding there was some sort of argument. He never contacted authorities in either state about his nephew, cops said. Carver, moreover, has a criminal history dating back to 2007, records reviewed by WSMV revealed. Among those is record of a guilty plea for attempted aggravated assault, the outlet reported. The circumstances of that alleged incident are still unclear. Also unclear is the living situation that saw the victim left with CPS in the first place -and how state officials failed to see the danger of leaving the boy with someone with a criminal record such as the suspect's. Stacie Odeneal, a certified child welfare law specialist who had been tasked with taking care of the teen during his stay, admitted to WSMV: 'We as a system prevented him from having a chance.' 'If it'd been presented to me, if it'd been presented to a judge, and we knew the criminal history, and I think many of us knew this uncle had a significant criminal history, we would have been opposed to giving this level of access to this child,' she added. She called Cantrelle's case 'Worst outcome [she's] seen' in 15 years of CPS work, while a statement from Tennessee DCS expressed 'sadness' over the death. 'DCS has taken immediate steps to engage with our law enforcement partners as they conduct a criminal investigation,' the agency added in a statement. '[T]he employees involved are currently on leave as the department continues to assess its established policy and the application of those policies in this particular case.' The criminal investigation into Cantrelle's death, meanwhile, remains ongoing.
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Yahoo
Authorities saw open Bitcoin ATM to recover scammed money — almost $32,000 seized from machine
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Sheriff in Jasper County, Texas, located a little over 100 miles northeast of Houston, used a circular saw to break into a Bitcoin ATM after determining it was used for fraud. According to a Facebook post from the Sheriff's office, a county constituent was defrauded of $25,000 on a crypto scam, which they deposited into the machine. After securing the necessary warrants, the investigators broke open the Bitcoin ATM and seized $31,900 found inside it. Many elderly Americans are being targeted by online scammers. Fraudsters primarily use cash gift cards to circumvent the protections many financial institutions have in place to prevent activities like these. However, the advent of crypto ATMs, like the Bitcoin Depot ATM used in this incident, has made it cheaper and easier for perpetrators to access their stolen funds. The decentralized and anonymized nature of cryptocurrency has made it more difficult for the authorities to trace these transactions, and its global availability means that cross-border transactions do not require identification. According to the FBI, elderly Americans lost $107 million in scams in 2024 through crypto ATMs. Unfortunately, Bitcoin Depot seems to be a victim of this scam. After all, it converts cash to Bitcoin and only acts as a money transmitter or money services business. It also claims to proactively employ robust compliance, AML, and KYC protocols. That means the company and its franchisee, if the affected machine is owned by one, are on the hook (at least for now) for the damaged ATM and the seized contents. Bitcoin Depot told Decrypt that it 'regularly collaborates with investigators to clarify when recovery may be possible' and 'such efforts typically involve the receiving wallet provider or exchange, not the kiosk itself.' They also said, 'We actively support and educate law enforcement agencies, particularly those less familiar with cryptocurrencies. Even though the authorities have already recovered the cash from the ATM, it doesn't mean the victim will get their money back. They must first go through legal means so that the authorities can issue an order to seize the stolen funds. From there, their only hope is that the attacker made a mistake and used an exchange that cooperates with the authorities. Nevertheless, it's not impossible—for example, the U.S. Department of Justice recovered $2.3 million in Bitcoin paid as ransom in the Colonial Pipeline attack. Still, it will be a harrowing journey for the victims to reclaim their money—if they're able to recover it at all. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Bitcoin firm says police shouldn't saw open Bitcoin ATMs to seize cash for scammed customers, will seek damages for destroyed machines — firm claims seizures are criminal and victimize the company
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Bitcoin Depot Chief Legal Officer, Chris Ryan, said that police departments using brute force to open Bitcoin ATMs and seize the cash inside is bordering on law enforcement overreach. Sawing them open might even be breaking banking and criminal laws, added Ryan. The executive told Decrypt that the money inside Bitcoin Depot ATMs rightfully belongs to the company, and that any damage to its machines will be held against the offending organization. 'You've got these rogue law enforcement officers thinking that they're doing the right things by these consumers,' Ryan said. 'What they're actually doing is creating another victim, which is us, with the damage of our property and seizing of our funds.' Just last week, the Jasper County Sheriff broke into a Bitcoin Depot ATM after one of its constituents reported getting scammed out of $25,000. Although the victim went through proper channels, and they were able to secure a search warrant, the money inside the ATM is legally no longer the property of the victim. Instead, the authorities should be going after the wallet address where the cryptocurrency was deposited. Because the Sheriff used a power tool to break open the ATM to get its contents, Bitcoin Depot said that its machine — which cost $14,000 each — was completely totaled. This is particularly unfortunate because the company said that it always cooperates with law enforcement and will open the machine for them when going through the proper channels. Requests like this happen up to 20 times a year, Ryan said to Decrypt, and that doesn't even include cases where the police just straight up break their machines open. As for the latter, the company would charge the jurisdiction for the damage — something many can't afford. Crypto ATMs are similar to regular deposit machines, wherein they accept cash and credit the same amount to your bank account. But instead of going into your account, it would instead go into your nominated wallet address. Depositors that use the machine are required to confirm that they're depositing the money into their own wallets, and it even warns users using third-party addresses that they might be getting scammed. So, if someone was scammed out of their cash with a regular deposit machine, the police would not break the ATM — instead, they would coordinate with the courts and the bank to freeze the account and potentially get the money back. This should be the same pathway that victims should take when scammed through crypto. Unfortunately, many people, including law enforcement and the courts themselves, do not understand how crypto works. Because of that, we get incidents like these where police forcibly open crypto ATMs, causing damage to a third party's property. While Bitcoin Depot and other similar operations are legitimate, they're often used by scammers because of how fast and easy it is for them to get the stolen funds. Even though you can easily track crypto transactions due to the public nature of the ledger, getting them back is often difficult because of anonymity. Moreover, if the scammer does not use an exchange that works with the authorities, it's difficult, often nearly impossible, to get the money back. Because of these attributes, scammers are increasingly switching from gift cards to Bitcoin ATMs. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News to get our up-to-date news, analysis, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Yahoo
Man arrested in Angelina County for East Texas church burglary
ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — A man was arrested by Angelina County officials on Thursday for allegedly burglarizing Roganville Baptist Church in Jasper County. Man arrested in Livingston after multiple drugs found inside his apartment According to Angelina County Sheriff Tom Selman, Jasper County officials placed a warrant for Gavyn Randall Deaton's arrest as a suspect in the burglary of the Roganville Baptist Church. Jasper County Sheriff's Office said Angelina County deputies stopped and arrested Deaton without incident at around 12:45 p.m. Officials investigating after Smith County hit-and-run leaves bicyclist dead Selman said Deaton is facing three burglary charges and is currently booked in the Angelina County Jail. Official are working to extradite Deaton back to Jasper County. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
