A South Carolina woman accused of stabbing a Lyft driver 11 times and then stealing his vehicle will remain behind bars after a judge denied her bond Friday, while her defense attorney argued she was in the midst of a serious mental health crisis at the time of the alleged attack.

Naziyha Weatherall is charged in Greenville County with attempted murder, carjacking and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Court records indicate the case is tied to an April 22 incident.

During Friday’s bond hearing, prosecutors described the allegations as a “frightening factual scenario,” FOX Carolina reported, and told the court they believed Weatherall represented an extreme threat to public safety.

“The victim was simply just trying to do his job and was stabbed 11 times,” a solicitor said, according to FOX Carolina. “Not only was he stabbed 11 times, his car was then carjacked by this defendant.”

The driver did not appear in court, but his wife attended on his behalf, telling the judge that the trauma from the alleged attack kept him from being present.

“What concerns us most is that happened while my husband was simply working,” she said. “He was not looking for any confrontation, he was providing a service to a person. If this level of violence could happen to someone who was simply doing his job, we are concerned about potential risks to other people in our community.”

Weatherall’s lawyer urged the court to view the allegations through the lens of her mental state, saying she had never previously been charged with a crime and was in the throes of a psychiatric emergency.

The defense said paranoia had convinced Weatherall that others were monitoring her and trying to harm her, prompting her to summon a ride to report her fears to police.

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“Her mother even called the police station to let them know she was on the way to make a report,” the attorney said. “During that, the crisis got worse.”

The attorney said Weatherall believed she was being trafficked, panicked during the ride and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.

The defense said Weatherall is now medicated, stable and competent, and asked the court to release her so relatives and a social worker could arrange placement at a treatment facility.

Weatherall’s mother apologized to the driver’s family while asking the court to consider her daughter’s mental state.

“She’s not a criminal. She would never, ever, ever hurt anybody like that,” her mother said. “And I understand the family’s side, I truly do, because we are all suffering. We all are.”

A judge ordered competency and observation evaluations in June, court records show. On Friday, the judge denied Weatherall’s bond request and ordered that she remain jailed pending a psychological evaluation scheduled for September.

Lyft told Fox News Digital it permanently removed the rider accounts involved from its platform and has continued assisting law enforcement.

“Violence like this has no place in the Lyft community or in our society,” a Lyft spokesperson said. “The driver’s well-being has been our priority, and we have reached out to them and their family to offer support.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to Weatherall’s attorney for comment.

The woman whose relationship with imprisoned former FBI official Charles McGonigal helped expose the scandal that ended his career has died suddenly at her home in South Florida, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Allison Guerriero, 52, passed away hours after sharing a flurry of 75 posts on X on Thursday, including a video of herself walking in the street demanding a spotlight on other Feds and another where she declared: ‘I hate the FBI.’

Her death follows years of relentless public campaigning, much of it played out on social media, against McGonigal, 58, who was married, as well as against other senior figures within the FBI.

Guerriero, a close friend of former New York City mayor and prominent Donald Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, died sometime on the evening of August 27, according to her devastated father, 80-year-old Bill.

Her 18-month affair with the disgraced former head of FBI counterintelligence in New York helped bring McGonigal’s crimes to light, including his secret work for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

McGonigal is now serving a six-year federal prison sentence, though Guerriero always insisted the punishment was too lenient, telling the Daily Mail in 2024: “He’s a traitor.”

On the day of her death, she posted a selfie video of her strolling in her relatively new hometown of Boynton Beach, Florida, saying: ‘Hey, good morning everybody. Friends and enemies… of course I’m in the middle of all my PTSD from 9/11 but I’m actually breathing a huge sigh of relief…

‘Here’s the problem with Charles McGonigal. You know his name, but you never did before that. You knew Jim Comey’s name. You knew Chris Wray’s name.. all the names that you already know, you know. Why don’t you start looking for the names that you do not know?’

Her father, who lives in Guerriero’s former hometown of Florham Park, New Jersey, told the Daily Mail he has not yet been told the cause of death or the circumstances.

‘We really don’t know yet. We’re waiting to get access to the autopsy report. I believe they’re going to issue a death certificate within the next day so we can get her home and have her put to rest,’ he said.

‘It could have been an accident. She could have slipped. It could have been anything. We’re waiting for the death certificate so we know what happened.’

A Boynton Beach police spokesperson told the Daily Mail that ‘there do not appear to be any signs of foul play at this time,’ but that the investigation is ongoing.

Police responded at 8.03pm Thursday to her apartment at 1499 S. Federal Highway in Boynton Beach. Police are awaiting info from the medical examiner’s office.

Former security consultant Guerriero was also close to Roger Stone, the Florida-based conservative lobbyist and ally of President Trump.

‘I heard from her by text on the day she passed away and she seemed in excellent spirits,’ he told the Daily Mail. ‘They were work related. She was helping with some research.

‘Allison was a brilliant researcher and writer with an excellent knowledge of both law enforcement and our intelligence capabilities and wide network of contacts. She was widely respected in that world.’

Guerriero, who moved to Florida three years ago, was a cancer survivor and also battled severe and permanent injuries following a horrific fire.

‘She was a devout Roman Catholic. She was always trying to get me to go to Latin mass with her. She was an optimist. She had boundless energy, given her various health problems,’ Stone added.

Discounting suicide, he continued: ‘There’s no doubt that she would never take her own life. She was too devout a Roman Catholic. She would never do that. 

‘She overcame enormous adversity in her life. I’m going to miss her tremendously.

‘She was obviously still very unhappy with the fact that McGonigal should have been charged with treason but instead was only charged with taking bribes. She was extremely aggravated.’

While the cause of death is unknown publicly, other sources have hinted at possible darker reasons behind it.

One told the Daily Mail: ‘She was getting threatened a lot by people online for her views. She certainly had enemies.’

Guerriero’s father countered that theory, saying: ‘She showed no concern that there was anyone trying to harm her or anything like that. I really don’t think there was anything suspicious, not from what I know about this.

‘I’m skeptical that there may be anything nefarious here. Believe me, I’m her father and if there were, I’d be adamant about it.

‘Since she moved to Florida she’s been the happiest I’ve ever seen her. She was treating her herself very well. She was walking every day, exercising and eating right. She enjoyed getting up at dawn and walking on to the beach.’

Boynton Beach Police Department said ‘there do not appear to be any signs of foul play at this time’, but an investigation is ongoing.

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Journalist and political consultant Ken Kurson, pardoned by President Trump over a cyberstalking conviction, said of Guerriero in a Facebook post: ‘I never met anyone like her. I can use adjectives to describe her – loyal, chaotic, irreplaceable, occasionally even brilliant.

‘But those words fail to capture someone who boundlessly loved her family and hundreds of friends, supported them so intensely that their critics became Allison’s enemies, their struggles and hopes and aspirations her own… I am bereft.’

Guerriero was a former vice president of US operations for Israeli security firm Mifram while working in New York. 

She first met McGonigal in spring 2017 as a volunteer for the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation charity.

The then $200,000-a-year Fed wooed her over dinner, claiming he was going through a divorce from wife Pamela who he called ‘a nag’ who never agreed to sex.

His family home was in Chevy Chase, Maryland but he lived in a sublet apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn following his 2016 New York appointment by then-FBI director Comey.

In the three years before her death, Guerriero was exclusively interviewed several times by the Daily Mail, spilling on the couple’s sex life and McGonigal’s treachery.

She said they first had sex in a black Ford Explorer government SUV after she showed him where she went to high school in Florham Park.

Shortly afterward, Guerriero moved into the Park Slope apartment believing the spook had separated from Pamela and was getting a divorce.

‘Charlie never talked very often about his wife, but when he did, it really wasn’t complimentary,’ she said. 

‘He did say she was an excellent mother but the marriage was dead and they were both moving on.

The former mistress added: ‘I don’t know if he actually was separated from his wife. I wish I knew. I don’t know what to confess. My priest is so sick of hearing me confess adultery that I don’t know if I did commit adultery.’

While they were together, McGonigal flaunted his relationship with Guerriero, taking her into the FBI’s main office in Manhattan and up to what she calls the ‘Kings of New York’ floor – introducing her as his ‘girlfriend’.

He cleverly masked signs of his overall treachery, passing off any outward clues as part of his role. 

He took a trip to Albania during their relationship in 2017 and at one point asked Guerriero to accompany him to meet sanctioned metals magnate Deripaska, a crony of despot President Putin.

In early October, the couple were due to enjoy a meal for Guerriero’s birthday. But the celebration was abruptly canceled because the then-FBI director Christopher Wray came into town and McGonigal had to attend meetings.

‘So we went out either the fifth, sixth or seventh of October,’ said the former mistress. According to court papers, on October 5 McGonigal received $80,000 from his former Albanian intelligence official associate in a car parked outside a New York restaurant.

Guerriero cannot recall anything that happened the night they were out that would point to the handover. But she does now wonder if the celebration was a smokescreen.

Weeks later she made a startling discovery in their apartment. A bag containing what she now knows was $80,000 in $100 bills, neatly rolled.

‘My mind went to them being what we call flash rolls, money you would give an undercover informant or an undercover agent for them to continue operating in the field,’ she said. ‘They were in black plastic bag with gold writing, the sort you’d get from a liquor store. It wasn’t particularly hidden, it was just by the main door.’

Challenged, McGonigal claimed he had won the money betting on a baseball game. Guerriero listened patiently, but her suspicion antenna was beginning to twitch.

However, it was McGonigal’s confession that he was not divorcing his wife that led to their breakup on Christmas Eve, 2018 – three months after he retired from the FBI and later became an $850,000-a-year head of security for a bank.

‘He said he was staying married, that he and I were breaking up,’ said Guerriero. ‘I said, what the hell were we doing for the last 18 months?’

McGonigal’s decision to quit the relationship may have heralded his eventual downfall. 

Guerriero tipped off people she knew at the FBI about her suspicions in 2019 after reflecting on events.

Her accusations appeared to have fallen on deaf ears, although the wheels of justice obviously did begin to turn on McGonigal and he was arrested in January 2023. At the time, he and Pamela were living in Manhattan.

‘After Charlie and I had broken up, I had spent a series of weeks and months rolling everything over in my head,’ she said.

‘And it had occurred to me, this guy’s a traitor. He was accepting bribes to pedal influence. He was accepting bribes to work with Oleg Deripaska, who he invited me to meet in Vienna when we were still dating.

‘And every time I tried to talk to the FBI about it, they didn’t want to listen. I told his former boss, I told other people within their senior executive service and nobody did anything. 

‘The FBI and the United States Justice Department did not want to hear that their superstar was compromised.’

LOS ANGELES — A well-known couple is demanding answers after alleging that a dog trainer and boarding facility acted negligently before the death of their beloved pet.

Madeleine Fedyk, a popular social media influencer, and her husband, Andrew, said they placed their dogs in the facility’s care for training while they traveled out of the country for three weeks.

According to Fedyk, tragedy struck almost immediately: one of their dogs died within 48 hours of being dropped off.

Andrew Fedyk is best known as a DJ with the hit-making music duo Loud Luxury.

Madeleine Fedyk told ABC affiliate KABC that the trainer said their 2-year-old Bernese Mountain Dog, Dunkin, died from extreme heat while undergoing training at a local park.

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“Dunkin was never taken to a vet… We weren’t called for at least four, five hours after he passed away,” Fedyk said. “The story didn’t really make much sense to us at the time, when he told us. But we now have a very different view of what has happened.”

Fedyk added she’s received other messages from other people who claim their dog also died in that trainer’s care.

“He was not just a dog, he was a member of our family. And we all miss him so deeply and we know nothing will replace him, but we promise we will do whatever we can to get justice for him,” Andrew Fedyk said.

KABC reached out to the trainer and the facility for comment. We aren’t naming the company until we hear back.

A large-scale search is underway in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where 57 rescuers are looking for a missing Illinois man whose vehicle was discovered at one of the park’s busiest visitor areas.

Marcin Bachleda-Blaszczak was last confirmed at the Sugarlands Visitor Center parking lot on Aug. 22, 2025, the National Park Service said. He was reported missing two days later, after which authorities located his vehicle still parked at the visitor center.

The search effort has since widened across Great Smoky Mountains National Park and nearby areas, with park rangers, volunteers and local agencies checking trails, backcountry terrain and surrounding locations. Crews are also using drones to help scan difficult-to-reach sections as they continue looking for Bachleda-Blaszczak, according to the NPS.

Although drones are typically banned within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which spans parts of Tennessee and North Carolina, officials have temporarily authorized their use as part of the ongoing missing-person search.

Bachleda-Blaszczak’s family said nothing seemed unusual shortly before he disappeared.

“The day before, I believe, was when he had pizza with his dad, you know, chatted with him, said he might pick up a shift the next day at work,” his cousin, Corrina Auten, told CBS Chicago.

“It was very, you know, like a normal, normal conversation. There wasn’t anything strange or amiss,” she said. “The next thing we knew, he didn’t show up for work and he was missing.”

Rangers first searched the area around Sugarlands before widening their search. The team grew to 47 rangers and volunteers by Saturday and 57 by Sunday, according to the NPS.

Bachleda-Blaszczak is described as 5 feet, 6 inches tall and approximately 170 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.

Officials asked anyone with information or who believes they have seen Bachleda-Blaszczak to contact Great Smoky Mountains National Park dispatch at GRSM_Dispatch@nps.gov.

Fresh from the Knicks’ unforgettable championship run and the city’s turn on the World Cup stage, New York’s summer sports fever is showing no signs of cooling down. Now that the US Open is underway, tennis-inspired style is having a major moment, from the stands to the streets. Serve up the look with these polished, court-ready fashion picks.

Wear this watch with a Honey Deuce in hand for a pairing that feels instantly iconic.

This charming throwback knit is made for lingering at the club long after the final point.

With its standout detailing, this top-handle bag is a total winner.

A tennis necklace will always have our heart, but this glittering racket charm is claiming the No. 1 spot.

This keychain adds major flair to your ‘fit, whether you’re in a suite seat or the subway.

A crisp vest is ideal for channeling your inner prep.

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Take a cue from the GOAT Serena Williams by swapping classic pleats for this ballet-inspired skirt. 

Ace your look with these sweet socks.

This colorblocked pullover is a sartorial grand slam. 

The perfect pair for daytime rallys.

This pair’s colorway is giving clay court vibes.

An outfit topper that adds sweet spin to your ‘fit.