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2 St. Louis Women Find Out They’re Getting Cheated on Via TikTok | St. Louis Metro News | St. Louis

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2 years ago

January 25, 2023

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click to enlarge VIA TIKTOK Liesel Julsrud (left) found out that the guy she was seeing was cheating on her after seeing a TikTok that Sophia Marren (right) made. The girls jokingly say that the cheater had a type, since they look similar.
Two St. Louis women have won viral fame for an unfortunate discovery: Finding out via TikTok that their boyfriend was cheating on them.It all started almost a year ago, in March 2021, when Sophia Marren, 26, was headed to a date with her boyfriend. She made a TikTok where she showed her outfit and her drive to the date, then briefly showed her boyfriend in the kitchen preparing a shrimp-and-rice dinner for her. @sophloafy 10/10 night with no food poisoning #foryou #fyp #datenight ♬ original sound – sophloafy | lifestyle + beauty Imagine Liesel Julsrud’s surprise when the video popped up on her For You Page — and she realized it was her boyfriend’s kitchen in Marren’s video.For Julsrud, 25, the revelation didn’t come out of nowhere. She’d seen a text from Marren pop up on his phone one night, but he’d insisted she was a friend from the gym, and Julsrud had believed him.When the video popped up, Julsrud dug a little deeper and found evidence that her boyfriend and Marren had been hanging out for a while.“The way that I spiraled in that moment, I am surprised I did not commit a federal crime,” Julsrud said in a later storytime TikTok. “This just goes to show that TikTok knows everything, and you can’t hide anything from anyone anymore.”After confronting him, the cheating boyfriend “sobbed” an apology to Julsrud, who agreed to take him back, believing that he’d stopped seeing Marren. @lifeoflees really said for you 🥲🫡 #fypシ #dating ♬ original sound – Taylor Dean Fast forward to January 12, 2023. Julsrud and the guy had broken up after he moved to Tulum, Mexico, and she made a TikTok looking back on the cheating incident.The 5-second long TikTok has the words “when you were on your fyp & came across a tikok [sic] of a girl getting ready for dinner at a guy’s house…and it was the guy you had been seeing for 5 months,” while Julsrud uses a voice filter and says, “Shut up. It is not.”“I had honestly forgotten about that happening, but it randomly popped into my head a couple weeks ago,” Julsrud says. “I was just bringing up a memory and turning it into a joke.” @lifeoflees Replying to @am_612_ ♬ original sound – lees As the post was going viral, Marren says a friend sent it to her.“Instantly, I knew it was about me because I had heard about Liesel before from another guy I used to see,” Marren says. “I did some digging and always had a speculation that maybe she saw [the cheater] in the past, before I did. Had no idea that it was DURING the time I was with him.”Marren reached out to Julsrud to “confirm it was about me and that there was no bad blood,” Marren explains. After talking to Julsrud, Marren came forward on TikTok, stitching Julsrud’s post and said, “OK, so basically I was the other girl.” Marren explained in a TikTok storytime that she originally met the man on Hinge, and while they dated for a few months, they were never official. “But, you know, as any girl would think if you’re seeing a guy consistently for a while, like, you guys would probably be, like, exclusive.” They were not. @sophloafy #stitch with @lifeoflees so much was unpacked today lol #fyp #sophloafy #relationshiptok #ghostingstory #fboysbelike ♬ original sound – sophloafy | lifestyle + beauty As the women compared notes, the full extent of the man’s treachery became clear. Marren says now she never realized that Julsrud had caught him cheating from Marren’s TikTok — because Marren had had no idea he was using her to cheat. And after Julsrud agreed to take him back, assuming it was over with Marren, the man secretly continued to juggle both women for another few weeks. In fact, before he left to go work in Tulum, Marren says, he stopped by her place to say good-bye. Marren cried, but the man said he had to go because his dad was taking him to the airport. She now knows that wasn’t the truth. Instead, Julsrud picked the cheater up from his dad’s to spend the night with her, and Julsrud took him to the airport in the morning.Both Marren and Julsrud also made plans to visit the cheater in Tulum, but he started dating someone new. Julsrud says she’d already bought a plane ticket that she had to cancel.All in all, both women have expressed relief that the cheater is out of their lives. “Liesel and I have connected, and we actually met for the first time this past Friday,” Marren says. “So in a way, a crappy situation but also nice that her and I are able to be friends and talk it out.”Adds Julsrud: “Our ex thought we were similar enough, so we may as well be friends!”Coming soon: Riverfront Times Daily newsletter. We’ll send you a handful of interesting St. Louis stories every morning. Subscribe now to not miss a thing.Follow us: Google News | NewsBreak | Reddit | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

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Fenton Man Charged in Sword Attack on Roommate

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7 months ago

May 22, 2024

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A warrant is out for a Fenton man’s arrest after he allegedly attacked his roommate with a sword.

Police say that on Sunday, Angelus Scott spoke openly about “slicing his roommate’s head” before he grabbed a sword, raised it up and then swung it down at the roommate.

The roommate grabbed Scott’s hand in time to prevent injury. When police arrived at the scene, they found the weapon used in the assault.

The sword in question was a katana, which is a Japanese sword recognizable for its curved blade.

This isn’t the first time a samurai-style sword has been used to violent effect in St. Louis. In 2018, a man hearing voices slaughtered his ex-boyfriend with a samurai sword. His mother said he suffered from schizoaffective disorder.

As for Scott, 35, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office was charged yesterday with two felonies, assault first degree and armed criminal action. The warrant for his arrest says he is to be held on $200,000 bond.

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Caught on Video, Sheriff Says He’s Ready to ‘Turn It All Over’ to Deputy

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7 months ago

May 22, 2024

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Video of St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts taken by a former deputy suggests that the sheriff has a successor in mind to hand the reins of the department over to, even as Betts is in an increasingly heated campaign for reelection.

“I ain’t here for all this rigmarole,” Betts says in the video while seated behind his desk at the Carnahan Courthouse. “The Lord sent me here to turn this department around and I’m doing the best I can and I think I’ve done a good job. I’ve got about eight months and I’m going to qualify for my fourth pension.”

He goes on, “Right now I can walk up out of here and live happily ever after and forget about all this…and live like a king.”

The sheriff then says his wife has been in Atlanta looking at houses and that the other deputy in the room, Donald Hawkins, is someone Betts has been training “to turn it all over to him.”

Asked about the video, Betts tells the RFT, “My future plans are to win reelection on August 6th by a wide margin and to continue my mission as the top elected law enforcement official to make St. Louis safer and stronger. Serving the people of St. Louis with integrity, honor and professional law enforcement qualifications is a sacred responsibility, and I intend to complete that mission.”

The video of Betts was taken by Barbara Chavers, who retired from the sheriff’s office in 2016 after 24 years of service. Chavers now works security at Schnucks at Grand and Gravois. Betts’ brother Howard works security there, too.

Chavers tells the RFT that she was summoned to Betts’ office last week after Betts’ brother made the sheriff aware that she was supporting Montgomery. It was no secret: Chavers had filmed a Facebook live video in which she said she was supporting Betts’ opponent Alfred Montgomery in the election this fall. “Make the judges safe,” she says in the video, standing in front of a large Montgomery sign on Gravois Avenue. “They need a sheriff who is going to make their courtrooms safe.”

In his office, even as Chavers made clear she was filming him, Betts told Chavers he was “flabbergasted” and “stunned” she was supporting Montgomery.

“I don’t know what I did that would make you go against the preacher man,” he says, referring to himself. He then refers to Montgomery as “ungodly.”

Betts goes on to say that not long ago, he was walking in his neighborhood on St. Louis Avenue near 20th Street when suddenly Montgomery pulled up in his car and, according to Betts, shouted, “You motherfucker, you this, you that. You’re taking my signs down.”

Montgomery tells the RFT that he’s never interacted with Betts outside of candidate forums and neighborhood meetings.

“I don’t think anyone with good sense would do something like that to a sitting sheriff,” Montgomery says.

Montgomery has had campaign signs missing and on at least two occasions has obtained video of people tearing them down. (Chavers notes that the sign that she filmed her original Facebook video in front of is itself now missing.)

One man who lives near Columbus Square says that he recently put out two Montgomery signs, which later went missing. “If they keep taking them, I’ll keep putting them up,” he said.

Betts says he has nothing to do with the missing signs. In the video Chavers filmed in Betts’ office, Betts says that his campaign isn’t in a spot where it needs to resort to tearing down opponents’ signs.

“If you sit here long enough, a man is getting ready to come across the street from City Hall bringing me $500, today,” Betts says. “I’m getting that kind of support. I don’t need to tear down signs.”

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St. Louis to Develop First Citywide Transportation Plan in Decades

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7 months ago

May 21, 2024

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The City of St. Louis is working to develop its first citywide mobility plan in decades, Mayor Tishaura Jones’ office announced Tuesday. This plan seeks to make it easier for everyone — drivers, pedestrians, bikers and public transit users — to safely commute within the city.

The plan will bring together other city projects like the Brickline Greenway, Future64, the MetroLink Green Line, and more, “while establishing new priorities for a safer, more efficient and better-maintained transportation network across the City,” according to the release.

The key elements in the plan will be public engagement, the development of a safety action plan, future infrastructure priorities and transportation network mapping, according to Jones’ office.

The overarching goals are to create a vision for citywide mobility, plan a mixture of short and long-term mobility projects and to develop improved communication tools with the public to receive transportation updates. In recent years, both people who use public transit and cyclists have been outspoken about the difficulties — and dangers — of navigating St. Louis streets, citing both cuts to public transit and traffic violence.

To garner public input and participation for the plan, Jones’ office said there will be community meetings, focus groups and a survey for residents to share their concerns. The city will also be establishing a Community Advisory Committee. Those interested in learning more should check out at tmp-stl.com/

“Everyone deserves to feel safe when getting around St. Louis, whether they’re driving, biking, walking or taking public transit,” Jones said in a news release. “Creating a comprehensive transportation and mobility plan allows us to make intentional and strategic investments so that moving around St. Louis for jobs, education, and entertainment becomes easier, safer and more enjoyable.”

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