Mortuary Room Filled with Caskets is the Scene of an X-Rated Video and Firearm Selfies for Social Media Clout | Crime Alert 4PM

A funeral home in Highlands, Texas is under scrutiny after a former worker posted photos with caskets online in a bid for social media fame, leading to the revelation of an X-rated video in the same place. Drivers in New York are getting stuck with fines, points on their license, and insurance rate  hikes under the state’s “Slow Poke Law,” even if they are going the speed limit. Drew Nelson reports.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
A funeral home in Highlands, Texas is under scrutiny after
a former worker posted pictures with caskets online in a
bid for social media fame, which led to the revelation
of an X rated video in the same place. Alexander's
mortuary confirmed the images and video are real. Addressing the pictures,

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they show the twenty one year old man posing next
to several caskets. In one photo, he is brandishing a firearm.
Staff said he admitted to taking the photos to go
viral and was fired right away.

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This is not what we do. This is not who
mister Alexander is. This is not who Alexander's mortuary is.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Derek Anderson from the funeral home says the young man
allowed them to search his phone. He spoke to KPRC.

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He's twenty one years old, infactuated with social media, was
trying to go viral and get his likes up. Plain
and simple, he broke the rules of Alexander's mortuary. He
did not follow on a non disclosure agreement.

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Anderson said they forgive him, but he still has to
suffer the consequence. In a separate case, a woman invited
by a family to cut the deceased's hair before the
funeral also recorded a video. She was not an employee,
but she was known to them. The body was being
prepared for the service followed by cremation. As Anderson spoke
to KPRC, Melvin Alexander, owner of the funeral home for

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forty years, stepped in.

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I am deeply hurt and said I've never had never
had any type of blimas of this sort at this
funeral home.

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The video shows addressed man and then pans to a
nude woman. The family contacted the funeral home later with
their concerns and identified the woman. Alexander says he plans
to file a police report against a woman. The Texas
Funeral Commission would not confirm or deny whether there is
any investigation ongoing. More crime and Justice news after this.

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Drivers in New York are getting stuck with fines, points
on their license, and insurance rate hikes under the state's
slow Poke law, even if they're going to speed limit.
Authorities are bringing new attention to the law. The law
says these drivers must stay in the right lane unless
they are passing or avoiding a hazard. The leftmost lane
is for passing only. Violating the law can result in

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a one hundred and fifty dollars fine, three points on
the license, and a further ninety three dollars surcharge. Those
points on your license will cost you in your insurance bill.
Nearly every state has similar rules. States like Georgia and
Tennessee enforce them strictly. In Georgia, drivers in the left
lane must move over when a faster vehicle approaches. In Tennessee,

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a violation is a Class CE misdemeanor with a fifty
dollars fine. Alabama has passed the law that limits how
long someone can stay in the left lane to one
and a half miles unless you're passing appropriately. That law
is called the Anti Road Rage Act. A Georgia man
is arrested in Miami after offering two thousand dollars to
his son's fifteen year old babysitter to spend the night

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with him on Monday time. Showed up without warning at
his ex's apartment. Her younger sister was watching his son.
Telez hadn't seen the boy in two years. The babysitter
let him take his son shopping after getting permission from
her older sister by phone. Later that day, Telez called
the fifteen year old. He told her he would give
her two grand if she spent the night with him.

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She told him not to speak to her that way
and hung up. He followed up on WhatsApp, writing quote
two thousand for us to spend the whole night. The
girl showed her sister the messages. Her sister called police
officers posed as the teen and began texting telees. When
they wrote quote you know I'm about to turn sixteen,
he replied quote don't tell me you have not masturbated.

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He added quote let's make love and told her he
had a vasectomy and would wear a condom. Police said
he went into graphic detail about sex ax. He claimed
he was at a hospital with his dying grandmother, sent
his GPS coordinates and a photo of an elderly woman
in a hospital, then went on to offer to pay
the girl for nude photos. Police arrested him at the hospital.

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He first claimed a friend had borrowed his phone, but
when investigators showed him the text, he admitted to sending
them and said he didn't have any money. He was
charged with lude and Lascivia's conduct and promoting sexual performance
by a child and released on bond Wednesday. A teenage
boy from Illinois disappears after leaving home with his guitars
and has never heard from again. John Catzileiras was seventeen

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when he vanished. He was last seen at his family's
home in Oak Park, Illinois, on August fifteenth of nineteen
eighty five. He left with five guitars and was believed
to be heading to California. The next day, he was
reportedly seen in Santa Anna. That was the last known
sighting of him. He has not made contact with anyone since.
Police say he is missing under suspicious circumstances. John was

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white with brown hair and blue eyes. He was between
six feet and six two weighed about one hundred and
sixty pounds. He may have had facial hair, mustache, beard,
or go tea. He would be fifty seven years old today.
Anyone with information can contact the Santa Anna Police at
seven point four two four five eighty six hundred to
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I'm Drew Nelson.