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Despite all the wild news that we report about on a daily basis, people never cease to amaze us with their wildly inappropriate and ridiculous BS.

According to a KETK report via KTLA, a woman in Crockett, Texas has been arrested for attempting to purchase another woman’s child at a local Walmart. Yes, you read that correctly, this broad tried to buy a child. If y’all were mad at Drake for “hiding” a child, then this should send you through the roof.

49-year-old Rebecca Lanette Taylor was arrested and charged after Lt. Ahleea Price got a phone call from the child’s mother saying that a white woman with blonde hair just tried to cop her baby as if he was on Amazon Prime.

Taylor “began commenting on her son’s blonde hair and blue eyes. She asked how much she could purchase him for. (The mom) tried to laugh this comment off, thinking Taylor was joking. Taylor told her that she had $250,000 in the car and she would pay that much for him. (The mom) told her no amount of money would do,” wrote authorities.

What’s even creepier is that another woman who was with Taylor asked the mother what the child’s name was. Despite not telling them, the women somehow knew the child’s name already and began to call it out loud!

Then, unconscionably, things took an even crazier turn…

The mother waited for the two women to leave Walmart, then she also left and headed to her car. In the parking lot, “Taylor began screaming at (the mom), saying if she wouldn’t take $250,000 for him, then she would give her $500,000 because she wanted him and she was going to take him,” said the affidavit.

Following Lt. Price’s investigation via the Walmart surveillance cameras and an interview with  Taylor, the woman was arrested and charged with the purchase and sale of a child which is a 3rd-degree felony that comes with a potential 10-year prison sentence.

We hope they keep her forever.

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After the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Connecticut finally determined the cause of death in the case of Lauren Smith-Fields, the Black woman who died mysteriously after a date with an older white man, 37-year-old Matthew LaFountain,   Smith-Fields’ family is far from finished fighting for truth and justice.

For perfectly understandable reasons—including the alleged indifference on the part of the Bridgeport police investigators who handled the case—the family of the 23-year-old is just not very trusting of Bridgeport law enforcement officials.

“We’re going to get the word out on my daughter, Lauren Smith-Fields because her life did matter. Her voice was silenced,” Shantell Fields, Lauren’s mother, told Insider days after a protest on what would have been her daughter’s 24th birthday. “Justice For Lauren. I’m going to be her voice. Her father, her brothers, her whole entire family…we are all going to be her voice. We’re going to work diligently to make sure that everybody knows what’s going on and how they’re treating Black people, Black women, and Black men in Bridgeport, Connecticut.”

As we previously reported, Smith-Field’s family members feel that investigators failed to question LaFountain as a suspect because he “was a nice guy.”

“It seems like they’re trying to erase her and they’re trying to let this Caucasian man just walk away scot-free,” Fields said. “If the shoe was on the other foot and my daughter was found with a Caucasian man dead inside his apartment, she would be in jail right now. We would be trying to raise bond just to get her out.”

Meanwhile, because Smith-Field was determined to have died due to “an overdose of fentanyl combined with prescription medication and alcohol,” Bridgeport Police announced Tuesday that it is launching a criminal investigation into her death.

“As a result of the OCME’s report, the Bridgeport Police Narcotics and Vice Division have opened a criminal investigation,” Bridgeport Police Captain Kevin Gilleran said in the statement provided to Insider. “They will be assisted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.  The Detective Bureau’s investigation will remain open as intelligence transitions to the Narcotics and Vice Division. The Bridgeport Police Department’s thoughts and prayers continue to be with the family and friends of Ms. Lauren Smith-Fields.”

But Fields isn’t impressed by the department’s sudden interest in the case as she told Insider, “I think this right here is just something to shut us up. They’re actually not going to do anything about it.”

The family’s attorney, Darnell Crosland, shared some of Fields’ skepticism, but he also expressed a little cautious optimism saying he hopes the investigation will lead to LaFountain being treated as “a person of interest.”

“We feel like the police department has failed us because they didn’t handle this investigation in the proper manner when it started,” he said. “We’ll accept it because there have been so many dark days between the time Lauren died and today. So, we’ll take any type of sunshine. We want to know what that investigation is going to consist of and we’re hoping it’s…an actual investigation.”

Crosland also said he and the family aren’t taking the OCME report at face value.

“We have to work on our own because we have no confidence in the Bridgeport Police Department,” he said. “So, we have our own independent autopsy on the way. We have our own investigative team on the way.”

According to TMZ, Crosland credits, not the police or any other officials, but Bronx rapper Cardi B for inspiring the launch of the criminal investigation.

Cardi tweeted about the case to her 21.5 million followers.

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Crosland said he and the family have praised Cardi because she “was instrumental in getting Lauren’s tragic death to become a criminal case, because police launched their investigation only after Cardi spoke out,” TMZ reported.