This Shows How Mean People Can Actually Be

Working as a reporter over the years I’ve had to write about some pretty mean and cruel people but in today’s society it seems people just get more cruel with time. I’m writing this column on Tuesday, May 5 and that information will become pertinate to this column once you read it.
As part of my job, I check the GBI and FBI press releases each week to make sure no on in our coverage area has been involved in any cases. Reading those releases, I can tell you that people appear to be mean and cruel.
Since May 1, the GBI has made arrests in a shooting in the McRae-Helen area; a shooting in Cobb County and arrested an Austell man for pandering and sexual battery. Those are the things that are going on in Georgia.
The FBI has reported 13 cases since May 1 and most were violent crimes.
Two case investigated by the FBI and closed out on May 1 really caught my eye and prove just how mean and manipulative people can be.
According to the FBI website, this incident occurred in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A Las Cruces bounty hunter is facing federal charges after he allegedly bonded vulnerable individuals out of jail and exploited them through coercion and threats.
According to court documents, the Federal Bureau of Investigation received information that Robert Jay Hernandez, 62, a bounty hunter working for a bail bond company in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was bonding individuals out of the Doña Ana County Detention Center and requiring them to live at his personal residence. Investigators allege that Hernandez targeted vulnerable individuals, including those struggling with drug addiction and lacking stable housing, and that he exploited them on multiple occasions. Hernandez is specifically alleged to have provided these individuals with drugs and to then have coerced them to perform sexual acts, labor, and other services through threats of being returned to jail.
According to the press release, Hernandez bonded out a male and required him to perform labor without pay and gave him drugs. When the man fled, Hernandez allegedly contacted immigration and had the man arrested.
The release also stated that two women were also bonded out by Hernandez and forced to perform sexual acts all while being threatened by him to return them to jail.
Hernandez is charged with three counts of forced labor and one count each of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and sex trafficking by means of force, threats, fraud and coercion. If convicted of the current charges, Hernandez faces up to life in prison.
In another case in Washington, a man facing a rape charge developed and instigated a plan to get away with his deed by kidnapping two women.
Cierra Charity Lee, 20 and Kayvon Edwards, 21, of the District of Columbia, pleaded guilty on May 1 in U.S. District Court in connection with the Oct. 20, 2025, kidnapping and armed robbery of two female victims in Southeast.
Lee and Edwards pleaded guilty to kidnapping and armed robbery before Judge Christopher R. Cooper. Co-defendant Robynn Danielle Bynum, 18, of Fort Washington, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Apr. 16, 2026, to the same counts.
According to court documents, a U.S. Park Police officer responded on Oct. 20, 2025, at about 11:45 p.m. for a report of a stabbing in the 3200 block of Minnesota Avenue SE. The officer found two victims. One had been stabbed several times in her back. The second had knife wounds on her right wrist.
Investigators determined that the victims were attacked earlier that night and had gone to a residence for a “babysitting job” when two individuals escorted them into a basement and attacked them. Bynum stabbed one victim and injured the other.
The pair then forced both victims into a bathroom where they bound them with duct tape. and questioned about a rape case pending against Edwards. Lee and Bynum then searched the victims’ pockets and stole their phones and car keys.
In poetic justice, the men placed the women in a car and while driving had a flat tire and abandoned the car and the women.
Edwards, from jail, directed the two men to make sure that one of the women was not able to testify in court against him.
This goes to show just how mean people can be today. No respect for the life of others.