Crime Wire Weekly 9/19/25 | Kentucky Cheerleader Laken Snelling Update, Barbie Jeep Leads to DUI (Preview)

0:00 Hey, folks, another jam packed edition of Crime Wire Weekly is coming your way today. A look at the topics. In Florida, two middle school students are arrested after causing fifty thousand dollars worth of damage to their school library. But wait till you hear who turned them in. In Louisiana, partying and an LSU tailgate took on a completely new meaning and led to the arrest of a Baton Ridge Middle School teacher. In North Dakota, a woman describes the killing of her boyfriend as like splitting wood to police. New details have come out in the case of a Kentucky cheerleader who gave birth to a baby found dead in a closet. We're going to bring you those details.

0:46 A New York man is arrested after getting a DUI while operating a pink Barbie jeep. No kidding, You're not going to believe this story. These stories and more are coming at you today on Crime Wire Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman and I'm why did you sing your name? Kelly Jennis? I don't know Kelly's in a singing made today, folks. She just sung her name. I'm a joy in my heart. I'm gonna start doing I'm Jim Chapman. Oh lord, I'm not cutting any of that out. Great, all right, let's get into the stories for today, and we're gonna start off in Florida to middle school students in Florida have been charged after causing fifty thousand dollars worth of damage to a school's media center. This from authorities on Sunday, September fourteenth. Uh the Sheriff's office shaer bodycam footage on Facebook and the damage done to Friendship Elementary School. Now that's the last school you're you're gonna want to damage.

1:55 This one called Friendship rightly. This is in Deltona, Florida. And yes, I did you checking. Is not Daytona. It is delton Yeah, I'm telling you that is really close to Daytona. I'm like, why would they name it Daltona. But anyway, shout out Daltona, Florida. After deputies responded to a fire alarm overnight quote. Once on the scene, they found that a glass door had been shattered and the media center had been vandalized. The clips saw officers checking the location. They were making their way around overturned tables other pieces of furniture items were actually thrown all over the floor, and police confirmed that someone you wouldn't expect turned them in. It was actually their mother's good How about that?

2:41 That's perfect? So how did they know their children were responsible for this? Well? Police shared those images of the two persons of interest in the video, and they received a ton of emails identifying them. Apparently everybody knew who these kids were. Uh, but two of those emails, as I said, were from the defendant's mothers. So basically, the two boys moms saw those videos and turned them in. I'm sure they were mortified when they saw these on the news. The boys then confessed to the incident and as I said, fifty thousand dollars worth of damage. I mean, they didn't just like spray painted desk right. Officers said they broke into the school during the daytime hours, then returned later in the evening to look at the damage and cause more damage.

3:28 They have each been charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of trespassing on school grounds, criminal mischief, and theft. Friendship Elementary said in a statement that they're thankful for the Sheriff's Office for their investigation of the case, and that they obviously found these two middle school juvenile delinquents. Just like with threats, our campuses have a zero tolerance for destruction of property. They added, all. Right, so have you seen the pictures of these little boys before I start? No? Okay, well I did see it by chance actually last night on television, and one of those little boys looked straight up like a little punk, a little punk who thinks he's a badass. And so when your mommy turns you in, I think that kind of strips you of all your cred bubba. Okay, So, second of all, I was watching TV last night randomly, and you know who Vinnie Polatainn is on Court TV. Okay, I love Veni polatane I think he's cool as shit. Anyway, they were doing kind of a round table talking about this case, and he had two people that were supposed to be like high esteem people that were making comments about how this is just childhood activity, that this is something that we promote in our culture. And they're like, you know, we tp houses, toilet paper houses and we do that, and I'm like, what that was good old fun whenever you toilet paper to house. And I'm saying you're not destroying the property. This was This was insane if you looked at all of the video of it, right, And I remember when I was young, and I'm not going to call out names, but if my friends are listening, they know exactly what I'm talking about. I actually had a neighborhood friend that I grew up with that did

4:59 this at a local I think it was a private school, and it was way more than fifty thousand dollars in damages. This became huge, so and I think his dad ended up having to you know, he could have destroyed his life financially with what all went on with that. Now, I don't remember all the details because I was a kid, but like, what do you doing? Kid? What are y'all doing that you would go destroy a library? Like right? Yeah? And you know, young kids, of course, they don't get They don't get it like adults do. As far as fifty thousand dollars in damage to them means nothing because they've never earned a dime. So they just tearing shit up and they need to get you know, maybe they need to bring back the belt. Yeah, yeah, because I know I will wear that ass out my kids.

5:49 You have never you know, a lie. That's yeah, that's bad stuff right there. That's a lot of money and the parents a lot of times end up having to pay that. Yeah, you know, I. Mean this, that's crazy that the and they weren't very old, so it's like they were when they were loose at night. That kind of made me wonder, Well, this happened during the day, Yeah at first, but then they came back that night, right. Again, Well, it didn't say that said they came back later. It must have been a weekend then if it might. Have been seven o'clock in the morning and then three o'clock in the afternoon. I guess, Hey, good job, mama's I guess. As far as turning in their own kids, that's the right thing to do, right, and hopefully these kids will uh you know something, I think we miss a lot and people may disagree with me, but I don't really care. One thing that irked me when I worked with kids, okay in the school system, is that when they destroyed stuff, they got detention or they got suspended. No, you need to clean up exactly what you messed up. My humble opinion was that no, no, you can turn around, you can go over there with a rag. You can go there with you know, whatever we need, and you can clean it all up. And I hated that they never had to be punished in that way, right someone a janitor would have to pick it up. A janitor would have to go clean up the mess and whatever. And I think maybe we're missing the boat there. Whenever we just suspend somebody. Okay, so you get what a free few days off of school? Wow? What a punishment? Yeah, you come destroy my house like that. The jail's gonna be the least of your worries, cause you come in to pick it up and fix it, no doubt, whenever

7:21 you get out a little pump. I don't like that. Let's move on to a teacher. I don't like either, all right, And it's right here in Louisiana, right here, just down a few interstate exits. A Westdale Middle School teacher was arrested after a random drug search at the school yielded cocaine and marijuana. This is according to the East bat News. Paari Sheriff's Office. Virginia Summers, forty seven years old, was arrested after a random lockdown dog search. The dog alerted officials to drugs in Summer's bag, where they found cocaine in her wallet. Officials say Summers admitted to using the cocaine during an LSU tailgate and was given it for free from a friend. Friends are we hanging out with? Deputy searched her car, I mean, golly.

8:04 Deputies then searched her car, where they found marijuana and pipes in her glove compartment. Summers taught sixth and seventh grade math intervention for two years, O rest document said, and she was booked for possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and violation of controlled dangerous substances in a school zone. Yeah. I don't believe that somebody gave that to her and she forgot it was in her wallet. Number one, number two. Obviously, that gets you out of no trouble. I mean, it's like when Paris Hilton said, remember when she got arrested, she had like cocaine in her pants, and she's like, these are my friend's pants. The cops are a lot. You should look that up. Really, she said, these are my friend's pants pairs. Ain't nobody else fitting those skinny ass pants? Those were your pants pairs?

8:47 Anyway, back to this story, so the lady essentially is blaming this obviously on her friend, and she gave me that at the LSU tailgate and it was a little bump and I was spaced to take that bump, and I must have forgot it was in my purse. The funny thing is about this, if you're looking at for a funny side of things, is these drug dogs are running up and down these and instead of what you would think is them hitting on a student's book sack, it hits on the teacher's purse. And she was probably like a yeah, oh rock I had in there from the weekend, Go Tigers. Yeah that's not good. I actually have a similar story personally. Okay, So I taught criminal justice and part of that was I like I had these boxes I put up on the wall and it had like how a meth lab. Not total.

9:38 I wasn't teaching kids how to make meth. Everybody calmed down, but it had like kind of the common things you can just go to Walmart and get to that meth or made from and stuff like that. Well, some of the paraphernalia that I had was old and was confiscated whenever I was working, or some other friends of mine that earn law enforcement were working. So I had created this display board with some things in it to show kids, you know, what it looks like or whatever. No disclaimer, I did not have a dimebag or something up hanging up there. Okay, anyway, well, apparently one of these grinders or whatever that I had had enough residues. So we did a lockdown and the dogs came through. And guess whose classroom was like overload with these dog with the dog like having a mine okay, because it was hitting on those boxes as if I had drugs in my classroom.

10:28 Talk about shit your pants, because I did not have drugs in the classroom. But well when I explained what it was and the dog went and they're like, oh, yeah, I mean it wasn't There was no drugs in it. It was just a a residue smell and they can pick it up. Because a lot of people don't know this when a canine comes in. Canines are not like humans. Like when we walk into a restaurant and we smell a cheeseburger, we go, ooh, that's a cheeseburger. But whenever a canine smells a cheeseburger. They smell it, by peace. They smell the bread, they smell the lettuce, they smell the tomato. So these dogs noses are very, very, very sensitive, I guess, is my point. And so just the smallest amount and and they can find it.

11:09 Yeah, they they certainly can. And you know one way that a human instead of a dog can tell if cocaine is cocaine is to smell it. Is that what you do. That's what I do. Some people take well, some people do that. I smell it because I know what cocaine smells it. You actively smell it. Good God, Jamathy. And you know she was teaching math intervention. But math is hard enough. Can you imagine that bitch being on cocaine teaching you math and it's supposed to be an intervention class. Yeah, you take it to you and you added to it, and then you get four, and then you take it four and you go down the hollway. And when you go down the hollay, that's when you your friend. You take because they get Yeah, she talks to you fast, that's the lord.

11:50 Yeah, that's one thing you don't want is your math teacher on cocin. Yeah, I'm lady. Yes, it's horrible, Yeah, it really is. Don't do drugs, kids, definitely not. And teachers, yeah, hopefully no kids listen to this. If you do, don't say not to drugs. All right, we're gonna go. In North Dakota, a little more serious story here, a North Dakota woman has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after authorities alleged she tried to kill her boyfriend with a hatchet as he slept. The incidents happened in Fargo, North Dakota, where the woman reportedly left her boyfriend with a large slice in his head and that's how they describe it, a large slice in his head and multiple fingers hanging off his hand.

12:37 Another man was at the house when alleged when the alleged incident occurred and was a witness to what happened. The man told police he saw Lena Davelia delivering a blow with the hatchet, adding that she seemed to be quote out of it during the attack. You think she might have been out of it, he said. He loved he saw her swing down the hatchet. He couldn't see the point of the strike due to obstructions, but heard it sound like splitting wood. Wow, imagine that. Initially thinking she hit the head rest or the headboard, the witness said Davillia appeared to have come to after hearing a click of the foot rest on a nearby recliner chair and seeing blood around her, leading her to quickly flee the scene. Authority said she was arrested two days later in Moorhead, Minnesota, which is about a mile away. How do you go on the run a mile away? I mean a mile is nothing. That's like going from one neighborhood to another. I'm safe now. They'll never find me here.

13:43 I'm a mile away. Police responded to the scene after the victim called nine one one. I bet he did. He was reportedly alone at the house when officers arrived, and said no one else was with him when Davillia attacked him, though police later learned the witness was present. So I wonder why he lied about that. I don't think he did. I think he was disoriented. He got hit in the head with a hatchet. Yeah, that'd be a good excuse. I might have forgot my madoubla obulung gotta got cut in half, and I can't remember I don't know. Investigators found a blood drell coming from the garage of the house to where the victim and witness were all staying. The boyfriend was taken to a local hospital. He had surgery on his fingers and devilia. She declined to speak with police when she was arrested, and has since been charged with attentive murder and aggravated assault. I wonder what he did to piss her off so bad she took a hatchet to him.

14:37 I don't I don't even know. But it's not it doesn't matter what he did. I mean, he's asleep, so he takes someone who's defenseless and can't you know, and that's when you decide to attack. In North Dakota. You're evil, now, Fargo, don't go into the movie. I mean, if she couldn't have just swung it one time, if there's a strike to the head and his fingers are hanging. Off, maybe he went to block it and it went through his fingers and hit his head. While he was asleep. I need more details of this, but yeah, poor guy, man, I'm that's gotta be uh traumatizing. It's like shit out of a cherry. I would say so Wow, I never going to sleep in front of a woman again is probably what he's thinking. They're going to bad first.

15:18 I wonder if she's on drugs or something, uh something. You know. Some people take the taking insomniam that's what as I say. Some people take the sleeping medicine and then like. But they don't cut people's heads off. They cook foods. I know my mother in law drive car. My mother in law made something in a crock pot outside right after the big great flood and didn't even know it because. She's a big great flood. Big grape not know. The ours here locally are. Greape flood of twenty sixteen. Yeah, that thing, the big grape flood. He know, everybody smelled. There's nothing great about that flood. Listen, we all smelled something delicious while we're trying to clean out the house and everything. We're like, who's cooking? And it turned out she had taken her sleep medicine. We called it the blue football. She took her little blue football, blae football. It was shaped like a little blue football.

16:02 Her sleep It was blue. Are you sure was viagar? She didn't take no down via viagra is blue? No, she didn't take it down viagra. But anyway, she cooked a pot roast, smelled delish. She was taking viagaray. I just don't know. It, but you know, you say that my mama went to go get her diabetes medicine one time right here locally. That's what she told you. No, they gave her viagri. I bet, I'm mad. That was an accident. You saw it. She's like, all that's supposed to be my diabetes gave me the all mad? I said, Mama, did you like grow a beard and get excited? Hell? Lord? All right? Yeah, So let's go to Kentucky and this is the story that's been all over the headlines. University of Kentucky cheerleader Lake and Snelling's newborn had been dead for hours when someone discovered the tiny body inside a closet in her off campus home, according to the newly released information from authorities. So, when this story originally broke, we didn't cover it because the details were so limited. But now that there's more detail, we're gonna go ahead and catch you up.

17:03 So on August twenty seventh, at ten thirty four am, a Lexington police dispatcher received a nine to one one call about the discovery of a newborn wrapped in a towel inside of a trash bag in the closet of an on camp or an off campus home. The complainant just found a dead baby in a closet. The dispatcher disclosed, it's cold to the touch. Oh my god, yeah. No. The temperature of the body indicates that the newborn had been dead for at least three to four hours. According to the report, After the first hour of death, the body generally begins to cool by one to one and a half degrees per hour. The newborn was wrapped in a towel inside of a trash a black trash bag, and authorities identified Lake and Snelling as the biological mother of the baby boy. Snelling, who was on the stunt competitive cheer team at the University of Kentucky, wasn't home when the nine one one call was placed, and police, EMTs and the fire department all arrived shortly thereafter. Officers found her about five minutes away from the home shortly after, according to the report, and she was taken to police headquarters and asked to be checked out medically. Snelling admitted to giving birth when interviewed by officers and decleaning up all evidence and throwing it in the trash bag, including the infant who was wrapped in a towel. On Sunday, August thirty first, Lake and Snelling, She's twenty one, by the way, she was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant. After her arrest, Snelling was held at the Fayette County Detention Center, but she was released on September the second on a one hundred thousand dollars bond.

18:34 She appeared in court on Tuesday, September the second, where she has now pled not guilty. On Wednesday, September the third, the Fayette County coroner, his name is Gary gin He said the results of a preliminary autopsy yielded inconclusive findings for the baby's cause of death. The death investigation remains ongoing pending the results of these studies. Given that questions still remained about when she gave birth, if she possibly had a miscarriage, or if the baby was born alive or still born, and whether she even knew if she was pregnant or not, Snelling was placed on house arrest at her parents' home in Jefferson City, Tennessee, where she remains. Just a horrible story, and you know one thing about it.

19:15 First of all, look, I don't know how you wouldn't be able to know you're pregnant. I would think there were and I'm not obviously a female, but I would think there's plenty of signs to that outside of just you having a belly that you didn't initially have. I mean, this was a cheerleader. I saw pictures she was pregnant. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. She wasn't. She was someone who wasn't like heavy set or anything like that prior to this, to where maybe you could use that as some sort of lame excuse. That being said, you know, I don't know that maybe the baby wasn't born still born, and maybe she panicked. I don't know. I mean, it is a really bizarre case. I dug into it, and there's just it's just really bizarre because I couldn't believe they let her out of jail initially, and then I'm like, well, all this other shit's coming out, what the hell happened?

20:13 I can be compassionate to a point, Okay, I can be compassionate if she was pregnant and she didn't want people to know because she wanted to continue cheering, and she's young and she's not making good decisions. I can be compassionate that you gave birth alone and how terrifying that must have been. And I can be compassionate whenever you may have panicked. But where I'm going to draw the line is whenever you think it appropriate to wrap your baby, not try to get help for your baby, and then wrap it and throw it in a trash bag in the back of your closet. That's where I'm drawing the line, because that looks like malice to me. Yeah, and if the baby was still born, it was already dead. That's where I'm talking about the panic. Yeah, like I don't know what to do. Like, obviously this was completely the wrong decision. But everybody, Kelly, everybody that knows this chick says, there's it will be like you doing it. Yeah, I'm like, people are like, this is not who this girl is. Like this is completely bizarre, and she knew she wasn't gonna get away with it.

21:14 She left it in a closet. Well, I'm like she tried to hide it in a garbage can or something. What if and I say it, it was a bean baby boy a baby. She left this baby her son. Yeah, so part of me wonders if she she knew she was pregnant, she didn't want people to know. Then if she did go into labor early, had this baby, the shock of it all, but the baby was dead, then she's like, Okay, well then I can keep it a secret and no one has to know anything. And I'm wondering, but you put it in. You put the baby in a closet. You didn't put the baby in trying to hide the baby, right, That's what blows my mind. But what I'm saying is if the baby was still born, then in her immature, young mind, I'm wondering if she thought, well, he's dead, there's nothing I can do anyway, Maybe I can just keep this a secret and no one will ever know anything. That's why she cleaned it up.

22:03 But why did she hide the baby in a closet, Because if that was my mentality, I'm saying I would have taken the baby somewhere and hid the baby, like. You know, And this is obviously I can't think about, well, I can't. I can't think like that person would think, because I would never do that. But I'm good. I'm not gonna put the baby in a closet and say, Okay, now I'm safe. Nobody's ever gonna find the baby here. That's why I'm saying it. It seems like she wasn't in her right mind. Yeah, but maybe it was temporary because she cleaned up. She just gave birth, and she got up and like she walked and was going somewhere. Was she going to class? The whole thing is is there's something not right about it.

22:48 When you put a baby sound of sound mind, Okay, when you put a baby in a trash bag in your closet, that sound mind goes, what the hell's wrong with you? But I do wonder if maybe that was she wasn't in her right mind. I don't know what. It's horrible, it's bizarre, it's it's just awful. But hopefully more details that come. Out, yeah than that that was your son, of course. Yeah, no doubt about it is. And I'm telling you all accounts of everybody who's ever known this girl said that she thinks the same way you just said, and the way I think and they can't. This makes absolutely zer worth sense to anybody that's ever named this girl, which is just blazed my mind. Horrible, yeah, awful. All right, well let's lighten it up a little bit, then, how about that, and let's go to a far off land, the far off land of British Columbia. Have you ever been to British Columbia? Nope, I have.

23:46 I've been nowhere, Jim. I mean, I've been in like four states, maybe five. Really. I've been to Texas, I've been to have been to Utah, actually, Utah. I've been to al Yeah, I went to Salt Lake City, Utah on a conference. Okay, And I've been to where all have you been? Because I haven't been anywhere? Well, I take the back. I did go on my honeymoon to world to like the Bahamas. You've been to the Bahamas. Well that's that's out of the freaking fifty states. I mean, yeah, I don't even know where British Columbia is, though I'm not. I'm not good at you. Like Canada, Well, no, hell no. Wonder I've been there. It's right next to Canada.

24:26 I've never been up on the map that far. Okay, well, let's go to British Columbia, okay, and we're going to tell you that if you decide that you want a drink and drive in British Columbia, it's probably a bad decision. So it's possible even to get arrusted for driving a pink child size barbigee under the influence. Yes, and we'll tell you about this incident that occurred on a busy street in Prince George, British Columbia, a man by the name of Casper Lincoln Jesus. That sounds like, don't make fun of me. I knew it, Casper, she's the it friendly goes. I thought the same thing. Well, he proved that even driving that Barbie Jeep can lead to a rest if you've had a little bit too much. In an interview with a British Columbia news outlet, he said he had been planning to meet up with a friend to get a slurpy.

25:17 He's a grown ass man. Look all my friends out there. If I call you and say, hey, you want to go get a slurpy in a Barbie Jeep, yeah, think about that. But he got lazy. He was just gonna walk there because British Columbia ain't that big, right, And it's really not. It's like a little quaint town. You could walk from one end to the other. He gets lazy and he's like, you know what, I'm not gonna walk to go get this slurpy. I'm gonna go ahead and take my roommate's child's toy car instead of walking. So he's driving down the road. Multiple onlookers find this funny, as we all would, and they do what you think they do. They pull out their cell phones, so they start taking video of his. Dude, he's cruising down the main strip. He's wearing these large reflective sunglasses and you can see him being trailed by police. Now he told he told this news outlet that he had never drove the Barbie Jeep before. I mean, you got that going for you, because oh yeah, this is my tenth time driving it. You know, really would have been weird. And he was actually using hand signals and everything he said when he would turn. And he also said, I had no idea I was breaking in the laws. I didn't know it was against the law to drive Barbie Jeep drunk.

26:31 I thought it had to be a regular car. Well, police, on the other hand, they thought different. They released a statement saying, quote, while it might seem to some to be an inefficient use of police time to pull over a driver in a toy car, the risk of the driver. The risk of the driver was creating the other murderers on the road who were forced to go around him, coupled with the wrisk to himself and other drivers who are not in the habit of looking for toy cars on a busney road was enough to warn police attention. I gotta say I kind of agree with that. Yeah, like, you know, you can't just be jumping on a major highway, y'all the same a neighborhood subdivision street. Come on, the man said, despite the unfortunate turn of events, he doesn't hold any grudges, and he's chalking it up to a learning lesson which we all should when we go drive Barbie Jeeps drunk.

27:25 Have you ever driven a Barbie Geep drunk? I haven't ever driven a Barbie Jeep proudly drunk or ceber. That was almost a setup and you passed you've never driven one at all, So that's a good thing. We bought one of those electric cars for our kids. But this one was like much faster than like not a barbie car, you know. It was like a bigger one with cool wheels on it and stuff. And so we went out in the front yard and we let him loose, put our helmets on, so go after it. It wasn't fifteen seconds later we heard boom. Our kids slammed into a light pole and almost killed themselves. It looked like actual wreckage on the highway. They flew out of. The car and oh, come off key a toy car.

28:09 Call my husband, Call my husband. It had two batteries in it. It was as it was like a It was like a cool car for a little bit older than little Bitti's. But it went fast. How fast I think it went like twenty miles an hour. You put your babies in a car that went twenty miles an hour. Okay, maybe it wasn't twenty, but it felt like it. As their mother, it felt like it. But sure, okay, well, I thought my children were bright enough not to drive straight into all They're not. No, they're not. No kids are well. We learned that, dumb We learned that lesson. And it looked like an actual wreck. I tell you what. We'll post a picture. Remind me, I'll post a picture. I think of a video of the wreck.

28:54 There you got a police You should have called the police. Like turn turn wown shit? All right, speaking of poor decision making. Uh, let's go to the now. How would you. Say this, Jimithy, how would you say this? Cruise line Royal Caribbean. And that's how the commercial says it. That's how the commerce. I always said it was Caribbean, y'all, you said Caribbean. Check on Jim if you see him, because he's full of shit. Someone get him laxative. All right, I need a fact check. A Royal Caribbean ship turned around. They turn You know when you're get in trouble as a kid and your mom says, I will turn this car around if you don't start this. Captain wasn't a playing nice? Hey everyone.

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