Latest / Crime Alert Hourly Update / Selma Blair In-Flight Altercation Leaves Two with Bite Marks, Bloody Nose | Crime Alert 10.13.26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now.
- 0:04Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani. A violent confrontation at 30,000 feet leaves
- 0:09Speaker 2: two people injured and a Hollywood actress in custody. According
- 0:13Speaker 2: to 911 dispatch audio, actress Selma Blair allegedly attacked a
- 0:18Speaker 2: flight attendant and a fellow passenger aboard an October 11th
- 0:21Speaker 2: Delta Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York's John F.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Kennedy International Airport, leaving victims with a bloody nose and
- 0:29Speaker 2: bite marks. As the flight approached New York, emergency dispatches
- 0:34Speaker 2: revealed the pilot urgently requested police and medical personnel to
- 0:39Speaker 2: meet the aircraft directly at the gate, reporting that the
- 0:42Speaker 2: cabin disturbance had turned violent.
- 0:44Speaker 1: We'd like to have some medical personnel at the gate
- 0:47Speaker 1: for a couple of the FAs involved in the passenger incident.
- 0:51Speaker 1: They just need to get a couple things looked at. Okay,
- 0:54Speaker 1: I will pass that along. Just get an estimated station
- 0:56Speaker 1: count for me, please. How many ambulances will need? No ambulances,
- 1:00Speaker 1: just some medical personnel available should be fine. Sounds like
- 1:03Speaker 1: there were two, yeah, one flight attendant and one passenger
- 1:07Speaker 1: that sustained some minor injuries. A bloody nose as well
- 1:10Speaker 1: as some bite marks as well. So I don't think
- 1:13Speaker 1: we need an ambulance or anything like that, but we
- 1:15Speaker 1: should get some medical personnel at the gate to look
- 1:18Speaker 1: at their injuries.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Moments later, the pilot radioed back to emergency dispatchers with
- 1:23Speaker 2: an alarming update, warning first responders that the disruptive passenger
- 1:27Speaker 2: had also injured herself during the altercation. Delta 938 Heavy,
- 1:33Speaker 2: we do have paramedics approaching the gate right now, and
- 1:36Speaker 2: there are law enforcement already at the gate.
- 1:39Speaker 1: And then one additional add-on, it sounds like the disruptive
- 1:42Speaker 1: passenger also.
- 1:56Speaker 2: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed
- 1:59Speaker 2: Blair was physically abusive aboard the flight. Police took the
- 2:02Speaker 2: actress into custody and transported her to a hospital, while
- 2:06Speaker 2: an injured flight attendant was also hospitalized. Blair, famous for
- 2:10Speaker 2: cruel intentions, legally blonde, and hellboy, was previously arrested following
- 2:15Speaker 2: an outburst on an international flight in 2016, which she
- 2:18Speaker 2: attributed to mixing alcohol with medication and called a big mistake.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Blair publicly disclosed in 2018 that she is living with
- 2:27Speaker 2: multiple sclerosis. More crime and justice news after this. A
- 2:33Speaker 2: weekend trip from prison to the hospital marks the latest
- 2:37Speaker 2: blow for Sean Diddy Combs. Amid reports of high-living indulgences
- 2:41Speaker 2: and contraband behind bars at FCI Fort Dix, the Bad
- 2:45Speaker 2: Boy Records founder has seen his release date pushed back
- 2:48Speaker 2: by more than 40 days. Combs is now scheduled to
- 2:52Speaker 2: walk out of the New Jersey Minimum Security Facility on
- 2:55Speaker 2: March 2, 2028, after his previous release date of January
- 2:59Speaker 2: 21 was delayed. His release date has fluctuated since Combs
- 3:03Speaker 2: was sentenced in September 2025 to a 50-month prison term
- 3:08Speaker 2: after a New York jury convicted him of two counts
- 3:10Speaker 2: of transportation to engage in prostitution. Bureau of Prison sources
- 3:15Speaker 2: warn Combs faced serious consequences for sneaking a smartphone into
- 3:19Speaker 2: Fort Dix, obtaining fine booze, and paying a staff of
- 3:23Speaker 2: fellow inmates, landing him in solitary confinement. Then on October 10,
- 3:28Speaker 2: Combs was rushed to a nearby hospital with a head injury,
- 3:31Speaker 2: as first reported by TMZ, before returning to Fort Dix
- 3:35Speaker 2: before dawn Sunday. The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment
- 3:39Speaker 2: on his medical condition, citing safety and security policies. Spokesperson
- 3:44Speaker 2: Judah Engelmeyer stated representatives are confirming the circumstances and prioritizing Combs' health.
- 3:51Speaker 2: While acquitted two years ago of racketeering conspiracy and sex
- 3:54Speaker 2: trafficking in a Manhattan federal trial detailing Cassie Ventura beatings,
- 3:59Speaker 2: exploding cars, drug binges, and freak-offs, the 56-year-old Combs still
- 4:04Speaker 2: faces multiple civil suits and a potential Los Angeles sexual
- 4:08Speaker 2: battery indictment. In Boston, witness testimony begins on October 13th
- 4:13Speaker 2: at the John J. Moakley Courthouse in the federal murder
- 4:16Speaker 2: trial of former police officer Matthew Farwell. Sandra Birchmore dreamed
- 4:21Speaker 2: of becoming a police officer when she enrolled in the
- 4:24Speaker 2: Stoughton Police Explorers program at 13, where she met Farwell.
- 4:29Speaker 2: According to detention affidavits, Farwell used his authority to groom
- 4:33Speaker 2: Birchmore and began raping her when she turned 15, continuing
- 4:37Speaker 2: the exploitation into her adulthood. Prosecutors say the relationship ended
- 4:42Speaker 2: on February 1, 2021, when Farwell arrived in a mask,
- 4:46Speaker 2: strangled his pregnant mistress, and staged the scene to look
- 4:49Speaker 2: like a suicide. The plan initially worked, with examiners finding
- 4:53Speaker 2: no foul play. But in September 2024, federal authorities declared
- 4:58Speaker 2: her death a homicide and arrested Farwell, who allegedly began
- 5:02Speaker 2: raping Birchmore a month before his wedding and killed her
- 5:05Speaker 2: hours before his wife gave birth to their third child.
- 5:09Speaker 2: DNA tests in 2025 revealed Farwell was not the father
- 5:13Speaker 2: of Birchmore's unborn child. Prior to criminal charges, Birchmore's aunt
- 5:18Speaker 2: filed a wrongful death suit alleging three program instructors exploited
- 5:22Speaker 2: the teen, who was orphaned at 18 following the death
- 5:26Speaker 2: of her chronically ill single mother. Farwell's twin brother, William,
- 5:30Speaker 2: also an officer, admitted to a two-year sexual relationship with
- 5:34Speaker 2: Birchmore and is named on the witness list alongside Farwell's wife, Angela.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Farwell pleaded not guilty, maintains Birchmore committed suicide, and faces
- 5:44Speaker 2: life imprisonment in a trial expected to last a month.
- 5:48Speaker 2: For more crime and justice news, be sure to join
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- 5:58Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Silvani.