Twenty-three years after Duane “Dog” Chapman pursued Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico and captured him on a Puerto Vallarta street, the convicted serial rapist is once again a free man — despite originally receiving a 124-year sentence.

“I hope he’s smart enough — and he’s smart — to never do anything like that again,” Chapman told News Media on Wednesday, reflecting on the capture that helped turn him into a household name.

“I screamed, ‘You’re under arrest by the United States of America.’” — Dog the Bounty Hunter

Chapman, his son Leland and several others traveled to Mexico after receiving a tip about Luster’s location. Luster had fled the United States months earlier, disappearing in the middle of a California rape trial. The group initially identified him through a photograph supplied by tipsters that showed only a knee and a watch.

Chapman said he had spent weeks studying Luster’s face, but the watch also stood out because he had seen it during a televised interview. He credited his son with spotting Luster first as he spoke with a young woman inside a bar on June 18, 2003.

“When I saw him, you talk about an adrenaline rush went through my body,” Chapman told News Media on Wednesday. “Tim got down … he snuck up behind him, and then I pushed him. He fell over. We all jumped on him, and I screamed, ‘You’re under arrest by the United States of America.’”

The group forced Luster into an SUV and drove away, but Mexican authorities stopped them on a road outside town. Amid the confusion, officers arrested everyone involved.

Luster insisted he had been kidnapped, Chapman said. In response, the bounty hunter gave the lead investigator what he described as a “bible” containing information about the case.

Luster, the great-grandson of cosmetics magnate Max Factor, had disappeared during a break in his trial. He was later convicted in absentia on 86 counts related to drugging and raping three women between 1996 and 2000 at his home in Mussel Shoals, California.

“It’s sort of a slap in the face to the victims and also just kind of the safety of the public too.” — Jane Doe No. 3

One of Luster’s victims, who withheld her name because of safety concerns, said she is still struggling to process his release, even though she knew it was approaching.

“It’s very unsettling knowing that he is not behind bars, not in a closed facility,” she told News Media on Wednesday. “He is out in the public, in a community that just — it just doesn’t feel very good at all.”

The woman said she remains worried about her safety, her family, Luster’s other victims and even investigators. A notebook recovered from his hotel room in Mexico contained what she called a “payback list” with their names in it.

She said she dated Luster for five or six months without realizing that he had drugged and raped her on the night they met. Detectives uncovered the assault years later after recovering videotapes from his home.

“It was me, comatose on his bed, wearing the clothes that I was wearing the first night I met him,” she said. “That’s how I knew when it happened, because I had just bought that outfit, and I was wearing it the night that I met him. So that’s how I figured out when it happened to me, which was absolutely horrifying.”

Police recovered more than 100 videos, the woman said. While not every recording depicted a crime, she described the videos that did as “mortifying,” saying Luster spoke to the camera as though he were playing with “a toy.”

“They’re pretty brutal,” she said. “The things that he did to us while we were completely unconscious were things that, I mean, had we been able to feel anything, it would have been awful. He narrated the video and talked to the camera throughout and thoroughly enjoyed the whole entire thing.”

He initially received consecutive sentences totaling 124 years — later reduced to 50, and he was released earlier this month after over two decades behind bars.

Prosecutors had opposed early release in 2024 and again in 2025. However, he was able to earn substantial early release credits under California’s controversial Proposition 57 criminal justice reforms, and his prison term came to an end on Oct. 11.

“I did not know that [Prop 57] meant that it was gonna make Andrew Luster’s crimes be deemed nonviolent,” Doe No. 3 told News Media. “That’s just so baffling. I just feel like if anybody could watch these tapes of what he did to me and all of these other women, just to look at that and try to put the word nonviolent on it, that word could not come out of your mouth. It just would be impossible.”

Chapman said he never received the bounty for Luster and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money for the operation and ensuing legal fallout.

Mexican law did not allow bounty hunters to apprehend fugitives. Chapman said he was arrested alongside his son Leland, longtime friend and associate Tim Chapman, who is not a blood relative, and members of a camera crew.

“He told me, ‘I’m going to get him for you,’ and he did,” Doe said of Chapman. So to help him get out after he put Luster back behind bars, she kicked off a legal fundraiser that she said attracted donations from around the country.

A judge in Mexico later dismissed the case.

The incident happened shortly before Chapman rose to fame with A&E’s reality series, “Dog the Bounty Hunter.”

Chapman is returning to the screen with a new YouTube series launching Saturday — “Dog the Bounty Hunter…Everyone Deserves a Second Chance.”

As part of the series, he plans to help bail out certain inmates with a history of good behavior and positive reports — but not for people facing serious felonies or sex abuse charges, he said.

“We’ll call out the ones that deserve a second chance, right, and you can’t be perfect OK, so if they run, yeehaw,” he said. “I don’t wish they would, but if they do, then I’m going to catch them.”

He said he’s got at least another five to seven years of bounty hunting left in him.

An Oregon elementary school teacher who nearly lost her hand in a devastating school shooting has revealed how she lay perfectly still and pretended to be dead in hopes of surviving a teenager’s attack.

Becky Drury, 54, sustained life-changing injuries after a 16-year-old former student opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, during a deadly rampage last week. Three children and another teacher were killed.

In her first public comments since the October 15 massacre, Drury described the terrifying moment she was left on the classroom floor, unable to move or protect herself after being shot from close range.

The gunfire nearly severed her left hand, while her other arm suffered serious injuries.

With the attacker still in the area, the wounded teacher chose to stay completely still and hope he would assume she was already dead.

‘There was nothing else I could do, so I pretended to be dead and hoped he would not shoot me again,’ Drury said in an emotional statement released Wednesday.

Her testimony provides a chilling account of the violence inside the Oregon elementary school, where four people died and two others, including Drury, were left seriously injured.

Authorities said the attack began when the gunman, identified as 16-year-old Griffin J. John II, fired through the school’s locked entrance doors before entering the building.

Police said the former student then went into a special-needs classroom and began firing.

Drury said she heard a commotion outside her classroom and went to see what was happening, not realizing she was about to encounter the shooter.

‘I turned around to close the door, but he was already standing there,’ she wrote.

‘Before I had time to respond, he shot me at close range, and I collapsed onto the floor.’

The attack happened so quickly that Drury had no chance to react before being gravely wounded.

Once she was on the ground, she could see the extent of the injuries caused by the gunfire.

‘As I lay there, I saw that the gunshot had almost completely severed my left hand, and my other arm was badly injured too,’ she recalled.

‘I was unable to stand, defend myself, or help anyone else.’

Trapped on the floor and terrified that another shot could be fatal, Drury decided her only possible path to survival was to make the gunman believe she was no longer alive.

She stayed motionless on the floor, pretending to be dead while the deadly attack continued around her.

The teacher survived the ordeal, although the injuries she sustained were severe.

Doctors have described her condition as serious but not life-threatening.

Drury’s statement comes amid conflicting accounts of what happened inside the school and the actions taken by those caught in the violence.

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The wounded teacher said she felt compelled to speak out because she wanted to correct what she described as inaccurate reporting about her conduct during the shooting.

‘I want to make sure the events of that day and my actions in particular are reported accurately,’ she explained.

She emphasized that the speed of the attack had left her with no opportunity to intervene before she was wounded.

‘I know there has been contradictory reporting about my actions that day, but the truth is I was shot before I had any chance to act,’ Drury wrote.

Her account makes clear that she was incapacitated almost immediately after encountering the gunman, leaving her unable to protect herself or anyone else.

She also paid tribute to the families and wider school community whose lives have been shattered by the killings.

‘What happened in that classroom was unimaginable, and like so many in this community, my heart is broken for everyone affected by this tragedy,’ she said.

A GoFundMe has been set up to help pay for her medical bills. 

The massacre claimed the lives of three young children, ages five, eight and eleven, along with a 25-year-old teacher. A seven-year-old student was also seriously injured in the shooting.

The identities of the victims and the circumstances surrounding their deaths have left the Bend community struggling to comprehend the scale of the tragedy.

The gunman, who had previously attended Silver Rail Elementary, was eventually confronted as the attack unfolded.

An armed bystander, 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco, followed the shooter into the school and subsequently shot him dead, bringing the rampage to an end.

Investigators have identified John as the person responsible for the attack, although authorities have not established a motive in the information released publicly.

Modern Times Café, the Minneapolis restaurant known for experimenting with a no-price dining model, will close permanently by the end of the year.

Owner Dylan Alverson said Saturday on social media that he had spent the past six years trying to keep the restaurant alive. “I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is,” he wrote.

Alverson said the next two months would be dedicated to celebrating the 16-year-old restaurant while exploring how similar businesses might survive in the future.

“The only way for places like Modern Times to exist in the future is to actively challenge the reasons why it can no longer exist,” Alverson wrote.

In January, Alverson announced on Instagram that the restaurant—rebranded as Post Modern Times—would become a “free and donation-based restaurant.” He said everyone would be welcome “except ICE,” referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as a protest against federal immigration operations in Minnesota and the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

“We absolutely cannot go on as we have. I am sick of generating money for the soldiers in our streets and for a government that won’t protect us — a government who is actively inflicting daily harm on its citizens,” Alverson wrote. “Effective tomorrow we are done making money for the fascists that occupy our city.”

His announcement came after Pretti was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents.

Modern Times Café operated without set prices for roughly six months before temporarily closing in July.

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When the restaurant reopened in August, it reinstated prices but pledged to continue providing 25 free meals each day.

By October, Alverson told The New York Times that the restaurant was operating with a “zero profit margin.” He hoped the experiment could serve as a blueprint for other restaurants.

“If I can create a fundraising mechanism that can raise money to provide hospitality, we can take that program and add restaurants to it,” Alverson said.

Still, he acknowledged that the model placed significant strain on employees and sometimes forced customers to wait as long as two hours for a meal. About half of those meals were typically provided free of charge.

Some neighbors also worried that the program could attract people experiencing homelessness or drug addiction who might exploit the offer.

In comments to Fox News Digital, Alverson defended his statements to The New York Times and argued that the broader crisis facing independent restaurants deserved greater attention.

“I think a bigger question right now is how many independent restaurants are close to collapse?” Alverson said.

PHP rarely makes headlines, yet the programming language has been a foundation of the web for more than three decades. It is estimated to run nearly 70% of websites and online applications, including WordPress, the platform behind more than 40% of all websites.

That widespread use is now driving an urgent security warning. PHP’s development team has issued updates for two critical flaws, each carrying a danger rating of 9.2 out of 10. If exploited, the vulnerabilities could enable attackers to seize control of internet-connected servers.

On Wednesday, the PHP team released patches for what it described as “two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution.” The official PHP website advised every user to install the updates immediately.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, echoed that warning, urging organizations to “immediately patch the recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in PHP.” Although the agency said it had not seen evidence of exploitation when its notice was published, it warned that unpatched systems could put organizations at risk.