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Texas mother tortured, cut children with knives, attempted to put 3-year-old in oven: police
A Texas mother has been arrested after being accused of torturing her children, including attempting to put her 3-year-old daughter into a hot oven.
According to an arrest affidavit acquired by FOX 4, Lul Top, 36, was arrested after her five children were removed from her custody on January 8 in the family’s rented home in the Dallas suburb of Allen, Texas.
The woman’s children, who were 3, 6, 9, 10-years-old, allegedly told Child Protection Services that Top regularly “tortured” them to find her alcohol.
Authorities said that the children had scars “resembling knife cuts” and that two of the children said their mother used a knife to cut them.
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An Allen, Texas woman arrested after a SWAT standoff was wanted for allegedly abusing her children, according to an arrest affidavit. (FOX 4)
The 10-year-old child also shared that his mother tried to put his 3-year-old sibling into a hot oven and had to physically fight her off to take the child upstairs to hide her.
A 4-year-old child said they also saw the incident, according to the affidavit.
One boy told detectives his mother once held a knife to his tongue.
The boy also shared that his mother made him drink alcohol, but he spit it out, according to the affidavit.
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The children told investigators that Top threatened to kill everyone with a cleaver and that the children would hide knives so that their mother would not be able to threaten them, according to the affidavit.
A SWAT team in Allen, Texas arrested the 38-year-old mother of four who allegedly threatened her childen. (FOX 4)
On Thursday, Feb. 8, Top was forcefully removed from her home.
Neighbors took video of a SWAT standoff and her eventual arrest at her home.
“Come out with your hands up,” a police is heard saying into a loud speaker in footage of Top’s arrest.
Top hid in the attic of the house for an hour and finally came out, the affidavit said.
Lul Top is charged with six counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. (Collin County Jail)
Neighbor William Whitney told FOX 4 that there was “always weird stuff” going on at Top’s house.
“Always weird stuff over there. The police were always there,” he said. “Seeing the kids playing out in the back by themselves, no supervision. And to know that was actually happening, it’s sad. It’s really sad.”
Neighbors say the family started renting that home about a year ago.
Allen police say knives inside the home were taken into evidence when Top was arrested.
Top is charged with six counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She is currently in the Collin County Jail where she is being held on a $600,000 bond.
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A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
If you live or want to live in Los Angeles, the city controller has released a new dashboard highlighting some of the city’s most notorious problem rental properties, a tool designed to help renters avoid future headaches.
“This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very few of the complaints end up leading to strong enforcement or real accountability,” L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said in a media release Thursday.
The new Top 100 Problem Rental Properties dashboard includes a searchable database of all residential addresses with reported housing violation cases within the city of Los Angeles, a ranked list of the 100 addresses with the most violations and an interactive map.
“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address,” Mejia said in the release.
Data for the dashboard was compiled from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles City Planning and the L.A. County Assessor’s Office, according to the controller’s office.
The release also identified the top three addresses with the highest number of reported housing violations:
1. 636 1/2 North Hill Place, Chinatown
192 housing violation cases
2. 11700 West Wilshire Boulevard, Sawtelle
166 housing violation cases
3. 6650 West Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills
113 housing violation cases
“Our new dashboard is an easy‑to‑understand public tool that we hope will help renters and organizers document patterns of harm, as well as put pressure on both landlords and the City to act,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”
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