Over the past two years, Daniel and Jocelyn Medrano told NBC affiliate WOWT that they’ve often rented out their home on the popular app to help lay for their travel costs.

So when they saw that 11-day booking show up, they couldn’t have been more excited. “Probably one of the best bookings we have ever got,” Daniel told the news outlet. “We were super excited because that right there paid for our trip to Florida.”

The guests paid through instant booking, and despite some communications difficulties and the guest arriving a day late, the Medranos still thought everyone was going to be fine. That feeling didn’t last.

“All of a sudden, he brings two or three other men to the house that are not on the reservation,” Jocelyn said, explaining that they had surveillance cameras set up outside their property to keep an eye on it.

“So, then I have to message him and I am like, ‘Hey you can not do that, that is against Airbnb policy,’” she continued.

Unfortunately, her message didn’t seem to accomplish anything, and the Medranos could only watch as the man and his mysterious guests brought strange items into and out of their home, including utility fans and cooking pots, per WOWT.

Daniel then said they saw the first man bring in “four bags of white powder,” which he guessed were at least 50 pounds each.

Hoping that maybe it was just going to be a wild party, calls and messages from neighbors quickly confirmed their worst fears. With this, the couple started contacting local authorities in Omaha to look into what was going on at their house, including a tip through the department’s crime stoppers portal.

With the couple’s blessing, the Omaha Police Department reportedly set up their own surveillance outside the home. Lt. Steve Fornoff of the department’s Narcotics Unit said they followed the men from the house and executed a traffic stop.

“We utilized our K-9 handlers,” he told WOWT. “They came on scene, they ran a dog around the car and got a positive alert for narcotics.”

With enough now to get a warrant, police were able to make their way into the home where they discovered that the men had allegedly produced more than 100 pounds of meth and two to three additional pounds of liquid meth in less than a week.

Three men were arrested by the police and charged with meth possession. They’re currently being held on $500,000 bonds each.

While that was great news for the Omaha community and the police department, and even the Medranos — who’d had to watch their house being used for nefarious activities — the couple was still facing a massive problem at home.

Rather than come home from a relaxing vacation, the Medranos followed up their stressful time in Florida by coming home to a massive and expensive mess in their family home.

According to WOWT, the parents of two young children reported chemical dust all over the house, a strong smell of ammonia, and actual shards of meth stuck in the carpet.

“They used our bedroom as the drying room, same with my daughter’s room,” said Danie. “They would dry the crystal meth there. They cook the crystal meth in our kitchen and then use our bedroom for drying.”

Calling their current home unlivable, the couple got an estimate on what it would cost to repair the damage and were hit with a staggering total: $26,000. And that’s “without replacing furniture, without replacing paint or anything,” Jocelyn added.

Talking with People about the shocking incident, an Airbnb spokesperson said, “The reported criminal activity has no place on Airbnb, and we have removed the guest from the platform. We are supporting the impacted host, including under our AirCover host damage protection, and stand ready to assist the Omaha Police Department with their investigation.”

The couple said that they are currently staying with friends as it will be three to four months before their home would be livable again.

They are working with Airbnb, through the AirCover host damage protection, and contractors to begin the work on rebuilding their house. AirCover provides up to $3 million protection in the event of property damage during a stay.

In a new interview with BBC Radio 1, Roan, who rose to the top pf the charts in 2024 with the release of her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, spoke about being labeled a “diva” after speaking out about the pitfalls of fame.

“I was looking around, and I was like, ‘This is what people are OK with all the time? And I’m supposed to act normal? This is not normal. This is crazy,’” Roan recalled of the now-viral moment at the MTV VMAs when she scolded a photographer who had been taunting stars on the red carpet.

“I’ve been responding that way to disrespect my whole life — but now there are cameras on me, and I also happen to be a pop star, and those things don’t match,” she continued. “It’s like oil and water.”

Referencing how so many people were quick to deem her spoiled or whining, Roan quipped, “I think, actually, I’d be more successful if I was OK wearing a muzzle.”

“If I were to override more of my basic instincts, where my heart is going, ‘Stop, stop, stop, you’re not OK,’ I would be bigger,” she surmised. “I would be way bigger…. And I would still be on tour right now.”

Roan, who is up for six Grammys next month, refused to extend her 2024 tour and instead opted to protect her physical and mental health.

As for what helped her make that decision, she told the BBC that it was an inspiring message related to her by her late grandfather.

“There’s something he said that I think about in every move I make with my career. There are always options,” Roan shared.

“So when someone says, ‘Do this concert because you’ll never get offered that much money ever again,’ it’s like, who cares?” she added. “If I don’t feel like doing this right now, there are always options. There is not a scarcity of opportunity. I think about that all the time.”

After his Might 2022 arrest and October 2022 responsible plea, Moody spoke in a brand new interview on November 13, 2024 the place he promised to share the “full and truthful details about the kidnapping, rape, and homicide of Brittanee,” per a sentencing memorandum obtained by ABC affiliate WCIV.

His settlement purportedly comes as a part of an settlement that may see the Drexel household permit a portion of his property to stay in a belief for Vause’s grandchildren.

Drexel was visiting Myrtle Seashore, South Carolina for spring break when she was kidnapped on April 25, 2009. In accordance with Moody’s latest assertion, he and Vause collectively “have been searching” for a woman that evening once they noticed Drexel strolling.

In his new assertion, Moody stated that he was stunned when Vause texted him she “had at all times fantasized about snatching some lady.” Previous to that, he stated he’d solely ever achieved that alone.

He informed investigators that he responded, “So that you need to go searching with me, huh?” to which she despatched again, “Yeah.” He additionally shared that they’d earlier had consensual intercourse along with one other girl.

Moody stated that Vause lured Drexel to their automobile by telling her they have been vacationers, as nicely, providing her a trip again to her lodge. He stated that he was initially driving, however then pretended to be misplaced. At that time, Vause took over behind the wheel whereas Moody says he restrained Drexel within the again seat.

He stated that he informed the teenager he typically kidnaps ladies and calls for ransom cash from the Metropolis Chamber of Commerce, per WCIV, to the tune of $5,000. However that was, in fact, by no means the precise plan.

As a substitute, the couple took Drexel to a tent they’d arrange, per his assertion. He stated that Vause left him and the teenager alone within the tent whereas she went again to their residence for the keys, however informed him to not rape Drexel till her return.

Investigators stated that based on Moody, the plan had at all times been that they might rape their sufferer collectively. He stated that after Vause returned with the keys to the residence, he left her there with Drexel whereas he returned to the residence for his intercourse toys, which he stored in a briefcase.

Moody informed authorities that Vause had time to launch Drexel was away, and that upon his return, he raped the sufferer whereas Vause was current. He didn’t, nevertheless, recall her collaborating within the assault. He additionally stated that his girlfriend didn’t know the totality of his intentions towards Drexel, particularly that he supposed to kill her.

He’d by no means killed anybody earlier than, Moody informed investigators, however killed Drexel by strangling her with a yellow nylon rope. Vause was within the tent and current for Drexel’s loss of life, based on the courtroom doc.

Moody added that after he’d strangled Drexel, he stabbed her with an ice choose via the center. He then stated he wrapped her physique in a sleeping bag or a blanket and Vause drove with him to their residence with Drexel’s physique within the truck.

The convicted killer stated that each he and Vause slept for some time. It was throughout this time, based on Moody, that Vause expressed she was scared, which left him frightened she may confess to what had occurred.

As such, Moody stated he disposed of Drexel’s physique alone, leaving her there for 13 years till he led police to her burial website after his 2022 confession to her homicide.

He stated that after killing her, he slowly disposed of her private gadgets, beginning together with her cellphone that evening, which he threw into the North Santee River. Her purse and pockets he put right into a Salvation Military field in Georgetown, discarding the torn-up contents of her pockets out the window of his automobile as he drove round to completely different random locations.

Moody continued that he disposed of her faculty ID and the tent, however stored the ice choose for years. Finally, he informed authorities he acquired paranoid about retaining it, and so tossed it right into a pond.

In Might 2022, 10 years after police had first thought of him as an individual of curiosity, Moody turned himself in to the Sheriff’s Workplace on an obstruction of justice cost. He confessed to the assault and homicide of Drexel and led police to the place her stays have been discovered on Might 11.

On October 19, 2022, Moody pleaded responsible to expenses of kidnapping, first-degree prison sexual misconduct, and homicide. He was sentenced to life in jail and two consecutive 30-year phrases.

On September 29, 2024, Vause pleaded responsible to 3 counts of mendacity to federal brokers in connection to what occurred to Drexel in 2009. She is ready to be sentenced on February 13 on the J. Waties Waring Judicial Heart in Charleston.

“He is the place he belongs and she or he must go the place she belongs,” stated Drexel’s mom Daybreak Conley after Vause’s confession, based on ABC affiliate WPDE.

“I simply don’t have any phrases. She’s a mother and a grandmother. How may you do that to a human being?” she continued. “I do not assume you ever get closure after shedding a baby. She can pay for what she did to my daughter.”

The 57-year-old misplaced every thing she owned after her Pacific Palisades house was destroyed on January, 7.

Nicely, every thing aside from one heirloom from her late mom, Joan Rivers — a well-known assortment of jokes which she saved on index playing cards and catalogued.

“The jokes and the foremost archival items, fortuitously, about two and a half, three months in the past had been picked up for a nationwide comedy heart,” Melissa instructed PEOPLE.

The submitting cupboard incorporates over 65,000 of Joan’s authentic jokes from all through her profession, ranging from 1950 and persevering with up till her loss of life in 2014.

Mellissa additionally added that the jewellery from her mom was saved in a safety deposit field in a financial institution vault.

As for any of Joan’s iconic clothes items, numerous them had been auctioned off for charity over time.

When she was compelled to evacuate, Melissa did handle to seize her mom’s Emmy and an image of her father, Edgar Rosenberg. Nonetheless, she mentioned that was all.

“After we say we misplaced every thing, effectively you possibly can’t get it till you see the video,” Melissa instructed the publication.

“It is not simply my life, however my son Cooper’s life, too. We had been each solely kids, and simply all of it’s gone.”

She mentioned that whereas her and her household are doing “in addition to may be anticipated,” she continues to be in shock.

“We’re all doing the very best we will,” she mentioned. “Cooper’s product of the identical powerful stuff I’m. And we’re all leaning on one another and coping.”

Two issues that belonged to her mother and father she is feeling upset about shedding are their bathrobes.

“Everyone is like, ‘What about her wardrobe?’ However I am like, I misplaced the one three issues of theirs that I saved in my home as a result of they jogged my memory a lot of them.”

Melissa and her household have discovered momentary housing, however she is not sure if she is going to rebuild in Pacific Palisades.

“I imply I am unable to even image the way it will look a yr from now,” she revealed. “The retailers are gone. It was a whole decimation of a complete city. I maintain excited about all of those individuals who both owned shops or labored within the shops, a few of them have misplaced not solely their properties, they’ve misplaced their livelihood as effectively.”

In a brand new profile finished on the Bohemian Rhapsody actor by The Guardian, Malek claimed that he was as soon as suspected of an alleged crime as a result of authorities purportedly believed he “match the outline.”

“I obtained thrown on the bonnet [hood] of a [Los Angeles Police Department] cop automotive as a result of somebody had robbed a liquor retailer and stolen a lady’s bag,” the Oscar winner, who’s Egyptian-American, alleged. “They stated the [thief] was of Latin descent and, ‘You match the outline.’”

He continued, “I keep in mind how sizzling that engine was, they should have been racing over there and it was nearly burning my palms. My pal, who was Caucasian, was intelligent sufficient to go, ‘Really, sir, he is Egyptian. Not Latin.’ I keep in mind laughing on the cop automotive, pondering, ‘OK, this can be a very precarious scenario. I could be going to jail for one thing I’ve not finished.’”

Malek’s mother and father immigrated from Cairo earlier than he was born, and whereas he didn’t go into additional particulars concerning the alleged police incident or when it seemingly occurred, the actor did dish on some comparable incidents of mistaken identification he claimed have been because of his background.

“It is troublesome sufficient touring. Do not make it tougher,” he informed the British outlet. “I began to suppose, ‘What is occurring?’ each time I attempted to enter a rustic. Nowadays, there may be a second. Then they’re going to go, ‘Nah, that is the man from Bohemian Rhapsody. Let him by way of.’”

Malek, who is probably finest recognized for taking part in Queen frontman Freddie Mercury within the Oscar-winning biopic, grew up in L.A. together with his mother and father and twin brother Sami, with their Center Jap heritage at all times obvious to the pair.

“I do not know the way you ever recover from that. I am what’s referred to as ‘white-passing,’ however I’ve very distinctive options, and we undoubtedly did not slot in,” Malek, who says he did not converse English till he was 5 or 6 years previous, recalled. “We simply had an uncanny method of sensing individuals. … I do not know if it is a blessing or a curse. Typically I discover it detrimental. You possibly can’t assist it.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Malek paid homage to his immigrant mother and father, and the way exhausting they labored to supply for him and his twin brother and their older sister, Yasmine.

“The varsity system in Los Angeles was not nice. She would handwrite these lengthy letters in blue fountain pen explaining our scenario. She’d say, ‘I’ll give my children each alternative doable,’” Malek stated of his mom who helped her sons get into personal faculty in L.A.. “I might hear tales about her being pregnant with my brother and me, and taking three buses — three totally different buses — to get to work and again.”‘

Malek, whose father died in 2006, stated he is all of the extra “protecting” of his mom now amid the various sacrifices she made for his or her household, particularly because the tide begins to activate immigrants with the second presidency of Donald Trump.

“The concept a person with a father from Kenya and a mom from Kansas might grow to be president of america, it was one of the hopeful moments from the story of the American dream,” Malek stated of former President Barack Obama. “That is been flipped on its head. I at all times have a look at conditions like this and simply hope that it brings out the very best in us.”

He continued, “And, yeah, at occasions I do really feel a bit unhappy that [my parents] needed to make this extraordinary pilgrimage to America to analyze the probabilities. And now [my mother is] coping with, maybe, a sure sense of repression that they could not have recognized had they not moved. If that is smart.”

And whereas the proceedings started pretty regular — exterior of the inauguration’s distinctive location — issues took a really, properly, Trumpish flip when the now forty seventh president took to the rostrum to ship his inaugural handle.

Along with promising to vary the title of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America — a high precedence for the president — Trump made a promise that elicited shock on-line and applause from his supporters when he declared that there will probably be solely two genders acknowledged in the USA going ahead: Male and Feminine.

This slight to the LGBTQ+ group, trans people specifically, was defined previous to Trump’s handle in assertion from a White Home official who stated that in sensible phrases, official paperwork going ahead could be be compelled to “replicate intercourse precisely.”

“Now not will the federal authorities be selling gender ideology,” the official stated.

The federal government would additionally solely acknowledge two genders — female and male — ending official insurance policies that acknowledged a 3rd gender, denoted by an “X” on US passports for instance.

“What we’re doing at present is defining that it’s the coverage of the USA to acknowledge two sexes: female and male,” the official stated.

Underneath the chief order, which Trump guarantees to signal making this declaration official, prisons and settings comparable to shelters for migrants and rape victims could be segregated by intercourse, based mostly on this standards.

The order would additionally block necessities at authorities services and at workplaces that transgender folks be referred to utilizing the pronouns that align with their gender.

Trump’s staff claims these necessities violate the First Modification’s freedom of speech and faith.

The president additionally promised to take a deep dive into range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and finish their federal funding.

As a part of this, officers stated there could be a month-to-month assembly of related companies to evaluate any DEI packages and whether or not they need to be shut down.

As anticipated, the “two genders” declaration blew up on social media, with sturdy reactions coming down on either side of the aisle from smugness and pleasure to shock and outrage.

Throughout a TikTok Reside interview with Bethenny Frankel Saturday, The Hills alum mentioned he requested Cooper to “submit” a music from Montag’s 2010 album, Superficial, in an effort to help the couple amid the fires which destroyed their dwelling within the Pacific Palisades — together with the houses of many different celebrities and non-celebrities alike.

“I requested [Alex] to submit the music, and I texted her husband [Matt Kaplan] and I used to be like, ‘Hey, it might actually assist,’” Pratt instructed Frankel. “I saved tagging her, messaging, after which she wrote to me, ‘Now we have lots of people displaced at our home,’ and I am like, ‘Publish the music, lady.’”

Pratt continued, “Respectfully, if I maintain my platform, if I maintain being an A-list, wealthy celeb, she’s so f–ked, as a result of I’ve beef together with her now. Like she’s going to be focused.”

“Wow,” Frankel replied, who then requested Pratt how “huge” his “hit checklist” at present is, referring to the individuals in Pratt’s  life who’ve upset him.

“Proper now, it is solely Alex Cooper,” Pratt maintained.

The alleged request comes after Montag’s album topped the music charts following the lack of their dwelling, with followers of the couple, celebs and mates all sharing and posting about Montag’s music in an effort to assist the pair recoup a few of their monetary losses after their dwelling burned down within the January 7 fireplace.

Pratt, who has been married to Montag for greater than 16 years, and shares sons, Gunner, 7, and Ryker, 1, with the man Hills alum instructed Frankel that Cooper’s purported diss of Montag has pushed him to align with Cooper’s former Name Her Daddy cohost Sofia Franklyn, who now hosts the Sofia With an F podcast.

“Now I experience with Sofia With an F, that is my crew now,” Pratt instructed Frankel, noting that Franklyn was amongst these to submit Montag’s music. “Sofia With an F posted the music, did a dance.”

Cooper has but to reply to Pratt’s feedback, however she did re-share her 2022 interview with the fact star on YouTube, with little to no rationalization for the re-post, resulting in many followers flogging Cooper within the feedback for sharing the clip however not any of Montag’s songs.

Different celebs who posted Montag’s music embody the couple’s former Hills co-stars Brody Jenner and Kristin Cavallari, Paris Hilton and Jhené Aiko, mannequin Emily Ratajkowski and extra,

Superficial shot to the highest of iTunes’ albums chart on Saturday 11, confirmed by Montag on the time. “Thanks a lot to everybody. No 1 on iTunes chart, oh my gosh,” she shared by way of her Instagram Tales. “Thanks for the overwhelming love and assist of my music and actually rallying behind us on this devastating time and making it such a blessing.”

Iron County Sheriff’s deputies have been dispatched to the scene on the night time of January 17 after reviews of gunfire aimed on the teen’s pink truck and an injured sufferer, as coated by ABC affiliate KUTV.

The woman was nonetheless alive once they arrived and started life-saving efforts, however she died shortly after being transported to the hospital.

In keeping with the police investigation, they decided that the teenager driver was pursued by an unknown automobile for roughly 5 miles earlier than that automobile pulled up alongside hers and opened hearth, putting the teenager.

On account of being struck, she misplaced management of her automobile, crashing by a vinyl fence and coming to a cease close to an intersection. One other 17-year-old woman was within the automobile on the time of the capturing, however was not critically injured.

On January 19, Fox affiliate KSTU revealed the identities of the 4 males suspected to be concerned with the capturing. Reserving paperwork on the Iron County Sheriff’s Workplace element the suspects as Michael Hess-Witucki, 23, Ethan Galloway, 23, Aldric Felipe, 21, and Matthew Sorber-Petrie, 22.

In keeping with the paperwork, Hess-Witucki is the suspected driver on the time of the capturing, whereas Gallow is believed to have been the shooter. The gun used, per police, belonged to Sorber-Petrie, with police believing that each he and Felipe knew the alleged driver and shooter supposed to make use of it to commit against the law.

All 4 males have been arrested on Saturday and charged in relation to the capturing. Hess-Witucki and Galloway have been each hit with one rely of homicide and 12 counts of felony discharge of a firearm for the 12 pictures fired. Felipe and Sorber-Petrie are taking a look at obstruction of justice prices.

Police mentioned they have been capable of back-trace the chase after the surviving sufferer described the suspects’ automobile and the place they first encountered them. That enabled investigators to search out witnesses who have been capable of ID the automobile, a darker-colored SUV, and thus make them the suspects at an condominium advanced.

When police arrived on the advanced, Hess-Witucki, Galloway, and Sorber-Petrie all tried to flee, however have been shortly apprehended and picked up, mentioned police, per CrimeOnline. In the end, each Hess-Witucki and Gallow confessed to their suspected roles within the capturing in a post-Miranda interview with police.

In keeping with the suspects, they believed the women have been stalking them after having seen their truck within the neighborhood. Investigators mentioned the sufferer and her passenger have been within the space for solely unrelated causes.

“These two younger women … have been simply out form of joyriding across the valley,” mentioned Iron County Sheriff Ken Carpenter. “This was a pointless demise, and I feel that it is onerous on all people. It is utterly mindless for this to have taken place … and that makes it onerous. Whenever you have a look at two 17-year-old women that have been simply having fun with life and having a superb time and that life is minimize brief.”