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A father was arrested and banned for life from Walt Disney World Resort property.

Last week, Diego Rodriguez was at the Happiest Place on Earth when he reportedly assaulted a theme park actor dressed as Mirabel from the 2021 film “Encanto.”

This incident highlights ongoing challenges theme parks face in managing large crowds and guest behavior, particularly during high-traffic character meet-and-greets. Disney parks enforce strict conduct policies for visitors, with violations potentially resulting in removal or permanent bans from property.

According to The Travel, Rodriguez was with a woman and child in the Epcot area while waiting in line to take a photo with the actor, who was accompanied by another park employee managing large groups of families.

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Rodriguez reportedly grew impatient and attempted to cut to the front of the line multiple times, despite being told by an employee that he could not.

The child then tried to run to the actor before being stopped. The woman with Rodriguez also asked Mirabel to sign her child’s autograph book, but the actor said she was only taking photos at the time. The woman then waved the book in the employee’s face.

Rodriguez then got involved, reportedly grabbing the Disney employee’s arm, shaking her and verbally assaulting both the actor playing Mirabel and the employee.

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Witnesses said they heard Rodriguez yelling during the interaction, saying, “Why everyone can take a picture but us?”

Following the incident, he received a lifetime trespass notice, permanently banning him from Walt Disney World Resort property, and was held on battery charges by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in connection with the incident.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office and a representative for Disney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

This enforcement aligns with Disney’s official park rules, which state that guests who engage in disorderly or unsafe behavior will be removed without refund and may face long-term bans.

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In recent years, Disney has added specific language to its “Guest Courtesy” policy, emphasizing a zero-tolerance approach to physical or verbal abuse directed at its “Cast Members.”

These rules grant Disney, as a private property owner, the right to trespass individuals for any violation of park safety protocols. Once a lifetime ban is issued, it is rarely overturned, serving as a permanent reminder that the “magic” of the parks depends strictly on guest cooperation and mutual respect.

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A former mixed martial arts fighter who founded an anti-violence nonprofit with a specific focus on gun crime was convicted of murder in the shooting death of another man in Colorado earlier this week.

A jury found Lumumba Sayers, 47, guilty of second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and attempt to commit tampering with physical violence, according to a release from the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Sayers will be sentenced on July 24. Sentencing guidelines in Colorado prescribe a 16-to-48-year prison sentence for second-degree murder.

Prosecutors said Sayers left an anti-violence event Aug. 10, 2024, and drove to a children’s birthday party at a local water park, where he walked up to the victim, Malcolm Johnson, and shot him multiple times, Colorado Public Radio reported.

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Sayers admitted to having a weapon on him at the time of the murder, but that was not the weapon used to KILL Johnson, the Macomb Daily reported. Prosecutors said an untraceable 3-D printed gun, or “ghost gun,” was used in the shooting. It was never found.

They said it was handed off to another man, never to be seen again. There was no surveillance video of the murder.

The murder was carried out in revenge after Sayers’ son, Lumumba Sayers Jr., was gunned down in August 2023, prosecutors said. A man named Tyrell Braxton was charged in that case, but the case was eventually dismissed.

Sayers reportedly believed Johnson was involved in his son’s murder. Prosecutors also said that Sayers attempted to plant the gun on Johnson after the killing. Sayers contended he was simply removing his gun and putting it down before police arrived on the scene.

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The now-convicted murderer ran Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts, a nonprofit that describes itself as a “non-profit organization dedicated to transforming lives through education, mentorship, and community.” It is heavily focused on physical training, and reportedly received state and federal grants for its “Glovez Up, Gunz Down Movement” program.

“At Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts, we foster a culture of accountability, both in and out of the gym,” the organization’s site says. “Through training, individuals learn discipline, respect, and self-control, promoting responsible behavior and healthy relationships.”

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Sayers competed in Strikeforce MMA in 2011 and 2012, where he fought against future UFC contenders, according to MMA Junkie. Strikeforce was acquired by a different company and eventually absorbed completely into UFC.

Sayers’ attorney did not immediately return a request for comment.

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The Mexican government is pushing back against a massive U.S. indictment announced Wednesday that accuses the governor of Sinaloa and ten other high-ranking officials of operating a deadly drug trafficking conspiracy with the Sinaloa Cartel.

Just hours after the U.S. confirmed charges alleging corrupt officials protected cartel leaders, facilitated shipments of fentanyl into the U.S. and helped torture and murder a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) source, Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) fired back, arguing the U.S. failed to provide proof.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York claims officials took millions in bribes from the “Chapitos” faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, allowed the cartel to operate with total impunity and helped transform the region into the global epicenter of the deadly narcotics trade.

In a public statement, Mexico’s SRE confirmed the U.S. Embassy in Mexico received the extradition requests Tuesday night. However, after a legal review, the Mexican government said the U.S. documents “do not have evidentiary elements” to determine the officials are responsible for the alleged crimes.

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The SRE said it forwarded the requests to Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, which will evaluate the evidence and decide if there is any legal viability to arrest and extradite the officials under the Mexican justice system.

The cartel bust has sparked immediate diplomatic friction between the two nations, with Mexico criticizing U.S. officials’ decision to publicly announce the indictments. Mexican officials said existing bilateral treaties mandate strict confidentiality.

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In response, the Mexican government said it is sending a formal diplomatic reprimand called an “extrañamiento” to the U.S. Embassy to formally protest how the charges were publicized.

The White House, U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, U.S. Embassy in Mexico and Mexico’s Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

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The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts have concluded their investigation into the horrific December mass shooting at Brown University and the subsequent murder of an MIT professor, revealing that the lone gunman started plotting the attack as early as 2022.

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who lived as a legal permanent resident in Miami, Florida, carried out the December 13 massacre in Providence, Rhode Island, before murdering MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts, two days later.

Two Brown students, Ella Cook, 19, and Muhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, were killed in the on-campus attack and nine other people were wounded.

Valente, a former Brown student, studied physics with Loureiro from the fall of 2000 through the spring of 2001 before withdrawing from the program by 2003. The FBI confirmed the shootings had no connection with terrorism.

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According to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, Valente viewed his victims as “symbolic” targets. Struggling with long-term suicidal ideations, paranoia and an ongoing “failure to thrive,” the unemployed former ride-hailingdriver had an “inflated sense of self” and blamed others for preventing him from reaching his full potential.

Valente, a former physics prodigy, used violence to overcome his shame and punish those he felt contributed to his downfall, investigators found.

The FBI said the attacks were meticulously planned over several years in isolation.

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Valente began plotting the Brown University massacre as early as 2022, renting a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, to stash his weapons.

Officials said that because of his transient lifestyle and social isolation, Valente did not have family or peers to report warning signs to authorities.

Following the two shootings, Valente left behind a chilling series of audio and video files confessing to the murders, showing no signs of remorse and failing to explain why he committed the crimes.

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In one file, he called his shooting victims “kind of stupid.” Valente added that he didn’t “give a d—” if he was judged for his actions.

Authorities recovered his body in Salem, New Hampshire, alongside two 9mm Glock pistols after he committed suicide.

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The FBI noted both firearms, a Glock 34 used at Brown University and a Glock 26 used in the murder of Loureiro, were legally purchased by Valente from a Florida pawn shop in 2020 and 2022.

Officials said the multi-agency probe into Valente’s motivations involved scouring more than 11,000 surveillance files, analyzing over 2,100 audio and video files from his personal devices, and conducting upward of 260 interviews.

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A Mississippi man is charged with killing his mother after authorities allegedly found him trying to flush pieces of her flesh down a toilet in what a local sheriff called one of “the most heinous crimes that I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life.”

Zachary Lavel Jackson Jr., 29, faces charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, mayhem and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of his mother, Lana Brown Bradley, 62, a retired teacher.

The Adams County Sheriff’s Office said deputies initially responded April 4 to Bradley’s home in Natchez, after her relatives reported her missing.

Jackson was initially identified as a family member of Bradley before investigators confirmed he was her son.

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“This is by far the most heinous crime that I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life. We weren’t out there that day; this was one of those things when we walked up. This was one of those cases that you will never, ever forget in your life. This is the type of case that follows you home,” Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten told WJTV.

Deputies were called to Bradley’s home after her oldest son could not reach her the previous day. Two of Bradley’s other sons lived with her.

“As soon as they walked in the house, they could just see where somebody had been cleaning up, and they could smell chemicals all throughout the house. Floor was extremely slippery. And the older son said that this is just unusual for the youngest son to be cleaning up the house like that,” Patten explained.

Jackson, the youngest son, was found in a bathroom where deputies allegedly saw a black substance in the toilet.

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“I can say what was in the toilet, and it was her flesh. He chopped her up in pieces and dismembered her in a way that whoever came looking for her would have to do their due diligence to find her, and that’s just what we did,” the sheriff said.

Authorities stated that Jackson had allegedly placed his mother’s body parts in a suitcase and flushed the rest down the toilet after dismembering her. Bradley had threatened to evict her son from the home, according to the sheriff, who cited interviews with family members stating that Jackson was mentally unstable.

However, Patten noted that Jackson was “very calculating” when he allegedly committed the crime.

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“He had threatened her the day before because she was looking to have him evicted from the home. She was in the process of doing so and had just gone to court the day before to have him removed from the home,” Patten explained.