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A wide-eyed Uber driver who cops say pointed a gun at a Miami rapper in a viral video has been arrested ... and, while she was screaming and waving what looked like a weapon around in that clip, she's much calmer in the police body cam footage.

Jennifer Benitez was arrested May 17 after cops stopped her in Port St. Lucie, Florida because she had active warrants out for her arrest. In the video, cops yell at her to get out of the vehicle.

She follows their instructions to the letter, lying on the ground with her hands behind her back as they slap the cuffs on her.

The man who allegedly plowed his vehicle through a sea of celebrating Liverpool FC fans earlier this week has just been hit with over half a dozen criminal charges, officials announced.

Merseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims said Thursday 53-year-old Paul Doyle has been charged with two counts of unlawful and malicious wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, two counts of causing unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, two counts of attempted unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and one count of dangerous driving for his alleged actions during Liverpool FC's trophy parade on Monday.

Sims revealed Doyle has been taken into custody ... and will appear before a judge on Friday morning to face the charges.

The 2023 OceanGate Titan submersible implosion left no survivors and minimal physical remnants ... but now the U.S. Coast Guard has revealed the shocking items that did survive the tragic disaster.

In a TikTok shared by Discovery, a US Coast Guard member reveals a pen -- completely intact -- was found while she and her colleagues were sifting through the waterlogged remains of the Titan.

The official reveals the pen was discovered in a surviving piece of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush's suit sleeve and was "caked" in sand.

Annie Knight, an OnlyFans powerhouse who's raked in millions from her romps, says she'd smash her viral 583-man marathon again -- even if it meant doing it for free!

Yep, the Aussie content creator -- who recently made headlines for bedding 583 men in just six hours -- made one thing clear to us: She's in it for the thrill and passion, not just the dough ... and not even winning the lottery could convince her to sit out of future sexcapades.

The 30-year-old bombshell put it this way -- she would've totally done her infamous bang-a-thon for free, or earn tens of thousands, even millions for it ... so right now, it’s twice the benefits for her.

The moment a Bitcoin trader finally escaped his alleged crypto hellscape was caught on surveillance -- and the footage is just as dramatic as it sounds.

In video obtained by NBC New York, Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan can be seen in a casual top and shorts, sprinting barefoot up to an NYPD traffic cop Friday afternoon … clearly distressed, clearly desperate, and looking like he just lived through a straight-up nightmare.

Cops say Carturan was allegedly held captive for nearly 3 weeks inside a SoHo townhouse by two ex-business partners, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, who allegedly shocked him with wires, pistol-whipped him, dangled him over a ledge, and even allegedly urinated on him -- all while trying to force him to cough up the password to his crypto fortune.

William Duplessie just took his walk of shame -- getting perp-walked by NYPD outside a police station Tuesday in connection to one of the wildest crypto horror stories we’ve seen.

TMZ’s got the video ... the Swiss businessman looked dead serious and totally ignored the flood of media questions about his alleged role in the twisted SoHo torture plot as he was led to the car and got in.

Duplessie turned himself in to the NYPD Major Crimes Unit hours earlier -- becoming the second suspect in the alleged weeks-long abduction and torture of crypto investor Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan.

A day of celebrations for a top UK football club took a disastrous turn when a car suddenly plowed into their trophy parade crowd -- and a 53-year-old man was cuffed soon after.

Disturbing social video shows the exact moment a car came crashing into crowds of fans celebrating Liverpool FC’s Premier League win on Monday in northwest England -- plowing through in seconds, hitting people and sending some flying.

It’s a brutal sight -- for a few seconds, the car showed zero mercy, tearing through large groups of fans. But when it finally screeched to a halt, the chaos was just beginning.

The man suspected of kidnapping and torturing an Italian man over a crypto dispute suffered his own indignity when he was arrested -- his bathrobe came undone.

Photographer and street vendor Ciaran Tully was minding his own business Friday when John Woeltz was removed from his fancy NYC apartment wearing only a robe.

As he was escorted down the stairs, Tully says his robe came undone, so cops spared him the embarrassment and bundled him back up.

Virginia Giuffre, who publicly accused convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, was laid to rest weeks after taking her own life.

The 41-year-old was reportedly cremated and laid to rest in a private ceremony north of Perth, Australia a few days ago.

Her burial comes just a month after she died by suicide at the end of April. At the time, the Western Australia Police Force told us officers responded to a call for an unresponsive woman at a residence. Emergency first-aid was provided, but she could not be revived. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged in New York City after he allegedly tortured a man for weeks -- with reports claiming he was trying to obtain passwords related to cryptocurrency.

John Woeltz -- a 37-year-old Kentucky man -- was arrested Friday after a 28-year-old man allegedly escaped a house in the city's SoHo neighborhood. NYPD tells TMZ he told a police officer he'd been held captive and tortured for weeks.

According to reports ... Woeltz allegedly lured the man -- who is believed to have had prior business dealings with Woeltz -- to a house on May 6.

Three cops got into a fatal shootout with a motorist in Virginia -- and it was all caught on police body cam ... and the footage is just wild.

The Fairfax County Police Department publicly released the videos Friday after the April 23 shooting in which the driver, Jamal Wali, was killed by cop bullets in Fair Oaks.

Police say they pulled over Wali because he had an expired registration on his car -- and the fireworks started the moment one of the officers approached the driver’s side window.

Passengers on a flight in India might be canceling their next plane trip and looking for train tickets ... 'cause a huge storm rocked their plane -- and had them in hysterics.

Turbulence rocked IndiGo Flight 6E-2142 -- an Airbus A321 carrying 227 passengers from New Delhi to Srinagar on Wednesday ... and, one passenger filmed his fellow travelers' reactions as they screamed, prayed and held on for dear life.

Check out the clip ... lightning lights up the cabin, and the constant thud of hail against the outside of the craft can be heard as screams echo through the cabin.

Jamie Foxx is once again addressing the wild conspiracy theory that Sean "Diddy" Combs tried to kill him in 2023 -- when he suffered a serious medical emergency he later confirmed was a stroke.

The actor and comedian spoke on the rumor during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable Thursday, confirming the disgraced music mogul -- who is currently in the middle of a sex trafficking and racketeering federal trial in NYC -- did not try to off him.

However ... he admitted he did "flip" over one theory -- that doctors were trying to clone him, but make him white, so he could "sell better overseas" -- while he was hopped up on a mix of doctor-prescribed drugs.

Shutterbugs beware ... don’t snap a picture of this fashionable woman, because police say she might just stab you in NYC.

The NYPD recently released photos and a video of the dolled-up beauty walking along the street in Manhattan’s West Village.

What do the cops say she did wrong on the afternoon of May 5?

The former drummer for the metal-core band The Devil Wears Prada was killed in a plane crash early Thursday morning in San Diego, TMZ has learned from his family.

Larry Williams tells TMZ ... his son, Daniel, was among the victims of the Cessna crash around 4 AM, which set part of a residential neighborhood of U.S. Navy-owned housing on fire. Several people on the ground were hurt in the fire and one home was destroyed.

Larry tells us the family is confident he was on the plane and they know there were no survivors -- but they have yet to get an official confirmation from authorities, which is making the entire situation even worse.

Two Israeli Embassy workers were shot to death Wednesday by a gunman at the Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. — and the arrest of the suspect was caught on dramatic video.

Check it out ... The alleged shooter — identified as Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, Illinois — is grabbed by a couple of cops inside a building on Wednesday night.

One of the officers slaps the cuffs on Elias, who starts screaming, "Free free Palestine." Both officers then escort him through an exit door as witnesses stare in shock, with one horrified woman seen covering her mouth.