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Last three defendants sentenced in Ascension Parish triple homicide
        GONZALES — One by one, the last three men convicted in the home invasion triple homicide committed over a safe of valuable coins stood before state Judge Alvin Turner Jr. more than three years after the fact Wednesday evening. One by one, eachreceived sentences from Turner, of the 23rd Judicial District, bringing an end to a long, painful judicial process for the families damaged in that February 2012 night. Robert Irwin Marchand; his wife, Shirley Marchand; and her son, Douglas Dooley, were beaten and had their throats slashed in the couple’s home in a quiet corner of Ascension just north of Gonzales. “The family can finally have some closure,” Charlotte Guedry, spokeswoman for District Attorney Ricky Babin, said after the sentences. “You know, they’re on the way to that now.” Robert Marchand, 74, and Dooley, 50, of Cross Plains, Tennessee, were found dead at the scene on Feb. 18, 2012.Shirley Marchand, 72, died on March 2, 2012. Michael Aikens and Bernard James, had previously been convicted on three murder counts and sentenced to life in prison. Rolando Durrell Stewart, 25, received the longest sentence, 63 years at hard labor. Travis “Buddah” Moore, 22, 4950 Wilot St., Baton Rouge, who had agreed along with co-defendant Devon James, to testify for prosecutors, received 26 years in prison. - (Black-on-white) |
ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A woman arrested in connection with the robbery of an elderly woman in Bellevue is accused of a similar crime in Ross Township. Crystal Rudolph, 48, of McKees Rocks, was arrested Tuesday after she was seen on surveillance video stealing an envelope from a 71-year-old woman’s purse at a Dollar General, police said. Paul Murphy, 55, was also arrested for his alleged involvement in the robbery. "They told me she was actually in my purse three times, and I didn't even feel that,” said Helen, the 71-year-old woman Rudolph is accused of robbing. “The first thing that came out of my mouth was, ‘Why me?’ I mean there were people there, and (the police) said, ‘Ma’am, not to hurt your feelings, but you're older, you're dressed nice.’” Police are calling Rudolph a “serial criminal” who steals from the elderly. Rudolph has been caught lifting purses since 2008. - (Black-on-white)
WASHINGTON - Police are trying to identify the man who assaulted and punched in the face
SAN DIEGO - A 54-year-old man allegedly broke into a man's Hillcrest apartment early Thursday and rode off on a stolen electric wheelchair, but was arrested nearby after being bitten by a police dog. Stanley McQuery allegedly confronted the 
MONROE -- Monroe Police have arrested several suspects wanted for a murder from last July. The suspects are identified as Ivory Jenkins, Rendarious Golden, Jamar Harris and Tamara Stewart. Business owner 
LAKE WYLIE, NC - Six gang members have been charged in the October 2014 killings of a business couple in Lake Wylie. Three of those members reportedly robbed a store owned by the couple months earlier and were attempting keep the couple from testifying. Six members of the "United Blood Nation" (UBN) are charged in the killing of 
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Police are continuing to investigate an incident that led to the shooting of a 19th District Police Officer. That officer has since been released from the hospital. The shooting happened while the officer was on bike patrol in west Philadelphia's Parkside section. Around 10:15 p.m. Officer 
In late March, a woman contacted the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office and told them
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — An Orange County high school security guard has been arrested on charges of sexual crimes involving a child. Deputies arrested Patrick Collins on Thursday. Collins is accused of following a child into a bathroom stall at Evans High School and touching the student inappropriately. According to statements from witnesses, Collins followed a student into the bathroom, where he started to kiss and touch the child in the “private area.” He’s also accused of exchanging nude pictures with the child. Collins allegedly drove down a street near the school and performed oral sex on the victim. 
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An attorney for an Alpharetta woman raped by a guard at a South Georgia jail said they plan to sue Roswell and the city of Pelham over what happened. Dennis Logan, 51, of Camilla, Georgia, is facing charges of sexual assault and violation of his oath of office stemming from the April 1 incident. Officials said Logan’s supervisor was also fired. The woman, who we are not identifying because she’s the alleged victim of a sex crime. “I didn’t think it was right. He’s the police,” she said. 
COCOA, Fla. —A Brevard County woman said she woke up in a motel room to find a rapist attacking her. Ira Davis has already served a prison term for the rape of 
Comedian 
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — A man accused of shooting his father from the back seat of the car as it traveled along the Schuylkill Expressway in rush-hour traffic is now facing attempted murder in addition to several other charges. At a preliminary hearing today in front of district justice William Maruszczak in King of Prussia, attempted murder was added to the list of charges against Kymere Corbin. That’s in addition to eleven charges already filed, including three felony counts. Corbin is accused of shooting his father from the back seat of the car while they were heading west on the Schuylkill Expressway, near 
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia mother who is accused of leaving 
Philadelphia police are searching for two suspects who forced a man to drop his pants during an armed robbery inside a take-out restaurant. The robbery happened at about 8:15 p.m. on April 23rd at a Chinese take-out restaurant
The first suspect is described as a dark-complected black male, 20 years-of-age, 5’8”, with a thin build. He was wearing a black or gray-hooded sweatshirt, black pants, prenoscription glasses and armed with a handgun. The second suspect is described as a dark-complected black male, 20 years-of-age, with a beard. He was wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt.
SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA -- Authorities say two people have been arrested in the kidnapping case of an 
Philadelphia Police are looking for two men, who they believe are responsible for nearly a dozen robberies throughout the city. Cops say these guys are armed, and they want them off the streets. Surveillance video of the armed robbers in action at a Citgo convenience store on East Susquehanna, show Pam Robinette working the store solo that night fearing for her life but trying to stay calm, as the men enter the store. "They said we want money out of the register and out of the safe I stood there put my hands up to show I wasn't gonna be aggressive I wasn't going to be confrontational," Robinette recalled. 
The new mayor of a Missouri city had a tough first day on the job when she was met by police at City Hall and informed she had been suspended over allegations of voter fraud. Betty McCray, the newly elected mayor of the city of Kinloch, was met in the parking lot at City Hall Thursday by police officers and the city attorney holding articles of impeachment. “You can’t come in as mayor,” attorney James Robinson told McCray. “You have been suspended.” The city, located between Ferguson and Lambert St. Louis Airport, has fewer than 300 residents and is plagued by shady land deals and bitter political fights. 
Former Kinloch Mayor Keith Conway was indicted in federal court in downtown St. Louis. It’s alleged that Conway falsified employment records while in the custody of the Unites States Bureau of Prison, at the Dismas House Residential Reentry Center in St. Louis. Conway had been staying at the Dismas halfway house as part of sentence from his conviction for using Kinloch city money to pay for personal expenses, person travel, buying a condo in Florida and influence peddling of Kinloch city officials. His original sentence was for 21 months in a federal prison, was served at the Marion, Illinois facility. As part of conditions for full release from the bureau of prisons, Conway was to obtain full time employment. The indictment says Conway submitted false records for employment and paycheck stubs.
Protesters in Baltimore promised to hold their biggest march yet Saturday after near-daily demonstrations this week over the death of Freddie Gray. 
SEATTLE - For the first time, a Sea-Tac Airport baggage handler who fell asleep in a cargo hold and forced a passenger plane to turn around is talking about the terrifying take-off. Willa Junior says he woke up in the dark with jetliner's engines roaring in his ears as it took off from Sea-Tac. He now says he's sorry he caused some passengers to panic when the flight had to turn around. He says he panicked himself when the plane got back on the ground and he saw the police, the helicopters - and his boss. "I kind of thought I was going to go to jail or something," he says. 
This weekend, leaders of the 
PONTIAC – A 3-year-old girl has died of injuries she sustained in an alleged drunken driving crash over the weekend. Oakland County Sheriff’s officials said 
INDIANAPOLIS — Two men accused in a deadly shooting in Indianapolis in 2013 have been found guilty of robbery and murder. Christopher Bell and Adrian Anthony were found guilty in the murder of 
A 17-year-old man was arrested on an attempted-rape rap after being identified by his classmates on surveillance video released by police, cops said. After Darrien Warren arrived at the Eagle Academy for Young Men in Tremont Thursday, he was taken into custody in connection with the sexual assault of 
A 41-year-old man who had been a fugitive since December and a 32-year-old Donovan Drive man were both arrested by Buffalo Sex Offense Squad detectives for allegedly raping two young girls. Lenard Harris, who reportedly fled Buffalo and went out of state after the alleged incident, was arrested on Winslow Avenue where he initially used a fake name when confronted by police officers, police said. Harris was charged by Detective Jacqueline S. Sullivan with first-degree rape and criminal impersonation for allegedly raping 
A Harrisburg man entered a city home unannounced and exposed himself to a teenager, believing the girl's mother wasn't home, police said in charging documents. James Harris, 45, was arrested and charged with burglary, felony criminal trespass, corruption of minors, indecent exposure and open lewdness, as well as summary criminal trespass charge, according to online court records. Police responded to a sexual assault report just before 4:40 p.m. on April 18 and met with the teenager's mother who said Harris exposed himself to the girl, according to the documents prepared in the case.
A stain containing DNA that was left by on 
An assistant school principal in Texas has received a lenient sentence after admitting to sneaking off with an 
The caregiver of an 8-year-old north suburban boy was charged with criminal neglect after he suffered burns in a hot bath last month, and may face upgraded charges after the boy died. 
MUNCIE -- The president of the Muncie chapter of the NAACP was arrested Wednesday on multiple charges of dealing cocaine. Timothy Miles, 49, of Muncie, is accused of selling a total of 1 gram of cocaine on three different occasions to a confidential informant of the Delaware County Sheriff's Department. A probable cause affidavit accuses Miles, who is the assistant director for the Muncie Indiana Transit System (MITS), of selling cocaine to the police informant while in his MITS uniform and driving his MITS vehicle. The affidavit also claims Miles attempted to solicit sexual favors in exchange for the cocaine. During one buy, police said Miles identified himself as the president of the Muncie NAACP chapter. "I'm the president of that," Miles told the informant. 
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A man wanted in connection to a quadruple murder in Petersburg, Va., was captured just over a year later in Buffalo. U.S. Marshals in Buffalo and Virginia arrested Alexander Hill, Jr., at St. Luke’s Mission. Hill was wanted on four first-degree murder counts for the April 19, 2014, quadruple murder of 
Vancouver mayor 
LAS VEGAS – A 15-year-old suspect was turned in by his mother and is cooperating with Metro's investigation of the deadly shooting of a female case worker on March 17 near West Charleston Boulevard and Lindell Road. Police said the suspect surrendered to detectives due to extensive coverage on Metro's social media sites. The suspect surrendered at Metro headquarters located at 400 South Martin L. King Boulevard Wednesday morning. Due to the juvenile status of the suspect, his identity will not be released. The police had been looking for a person of interest only described as a young black male with short, curly dark hair. 
FLINT, MI -- A man who was brutally attacked more than two years ago has died of his injuries at a long-term care center. A medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide, giving Flint 68 slayings for 2012 — a year that had already broken the city's record homicide mark. Dequarius Antoine Brown is already serving six years, nine months to 40 years in prison for the attack. Prosecutors have not decided if they will seek fresh murder charges. 
ST STEPHEN, SC - One man is dead, and two people are recovering from injuries after an in St. Stephen assault that ended in murder. John Dazle, Jr.'s contact with law enforcement began Wednesday evening in Bonneau. They say he hit this median curb on Highway 52 at a high rate of speed, went out of control, off the road, slamming through signs wood and electric boxes before crashing into the woods. Debris and tire marks can be seen along a number of properties. Police say Dazle was probably traveling in excess of 120 miles per hour. Dazel was issued a ticket for the incident. Thursday night, police were called to a house on Ravenell Drive in St. Stephen, the home of 
Mekel Blash, a 27-year-old Nadir man, was arrested Friday and charged with murder in the January 2014 death of James Malfetti on St. John, the V.I. Police Department reported Friday night. According to the VIPD, Blash was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
The Iowa Court of Appeals has overturned the murder conviction of a Des Moines man who played a role in a fatal 2013 beating at a party along the Des Moines River near Wells Fargo Arena. Kent Anthony Tyler III, 20, was convicted of second-degree murder in the Aug. 24, 2013, death of 
Three 18-year-old men have been charged with murder in the beating death of a Des Moines man last weekend. Yarvon Nathaniel Russell, 18, James Alon Shorter, 18, and Kent Anthony Tyler III, 18, all of Des Moines, were charged Friday with first-degree murder. Officers found 
UNION – Daniel Wolfe was fatally wounded by a New Jersey State Trooper on Tuesday after he was allegedly driving a carjacked vehicle. Police converged on the stolen Jeep to arrest the suspect. As troopers approached, Wolfe drove the jeep in reverse, ramming a parked vehicle. He then allegedly accelerated forward in the direction of a trooper. The Trooper fired multiple rounds from his service weapon, wounding Wolfe in the shoulder and chest. Wolfe was removed from the vehicle and given medical aid before he was transported by emergency medical service personnel to the hospital where he died.
Four Swedish police officers took a break from their New York vacation to answer the call of duty Wednesday, breaking up an out-of-control fight between two homeless men on a Manhattan subway train. He and his fellow cops were in desperate need of a beer before proceeding to the Broadway show. “We came here for vacation; we’ve been here one day,” he said. “We’re no heroes, just tourists.”
An Upper West Side after-school program “mentor” who allegedly raped
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with sexually assaulting a Blue Line rider on a train earlier this week, according to Chicago police. The attack happened on a Blue Line train headed for the Loop at 3:10 in the afternoon Monday. Police say the juvenile attacked the woman from behind, knocking her to the ground shortly after she boarded at the Oak Park Ave. stop. Police say he also stole the 41-year-old woman’s iPhone and some cash. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office says DeShawn Isabelle, 15, was charged as an adult with one count of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault/Bodily Harm and one count of Robbery. Police say the teen turned himself into police accompanied by his guardian after police released surveillance images of the suspect. 
WASHINGTON -- Police have arrested 24-year-old Glenvert Leon Green in connection with a first-degree sexual assault, robbery and kidnapping offense in D.C. Police say a woman was walking in the 1400 block of Clifton Street, Northwest at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday when she was forced to the rear alley by a man. The man robbed and sexually assaulted her, police said. The suspect is described as a black male, 5'11" in height, medium to dark complexion, wearing a black jacket, black pants, and black and white sneakers.
SEATTLE — Police are looking for a suspect who reportedly groped a middle school student Thursday morning as she walked to school. Madison Middle School officials called police around 11 a.m. after a student reported that a man followed her off a bus near California Avenue and SW Stevens Street and grabbed her from behind, Seattle police said. Shortly after the groping, the man allegedly boarded a bus in the West Seattle Junction neighborhood. The student ran to school and told school officials. The suspect is described as a black male in his mid 20s, with short dreadlocks. He was wearing a black sweatshirt and black jeans, police said. 
A second defendant accepted a plea deal with prosecutors in the case of a Hollywood girl who was beaten, dragged, kicked and raped in a Hollywood home nearly 18 months ago. Erica Avery, 17, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery and one count of kidnapping. Broward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter sentenced her to four years in prison as a youthful offender and two years of probation. She has credit for 490 days time served. Avery was one of five teenagers charged with attacking the victim on Nov. 1, 2013. Parts of the incident were captured on cell phone videos. A co-defendant, Patricia Montes, 17, pleaded no contest to the same charges on Monday and received the same sentence. The other three accused in the case are all male. Dwight Henry, 18, and Lanel Singleton, 19, are due in court May 6. Jayvon Woolfork, 20, who is accused of forcing the victim to perform oral and vaginal sex as the other defendants taunted her, is due in court in June.
Earlier this week U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services admitted gang member and illegal alien 
ST. PAUL, Minn. A federal judge has ordered that four Minnesota men accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State remain in custody while their case is pending. Magistrate Judge Becky Thorson made her ruling after several hours of testimony Thursday. The men are among six charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday. Thorson's ruling caused an outburst in a courtroom packed with more than 100 people, many from Minnesota's large Somali community. One man was led out of the courtroom after he admonished the judge. All six of the men charged are Somali-American. Minnesota has struggled for years to stem recruiting by militants, first from al-Shabab in Somalia and more recently the Islamic State in Syria. 
Arizona SU Army ROTC members run in heels to support sexual assault awareness month Arizona SU’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) hosted a “Walk A Mile in Her Shoes” event Monday to raise awareness against sexual violence and abuse in the community and the military. ROTC members sported heels and walked throughout the Tempe campus to draw attention to the cause. 
EVERETT, Wash. — The man who killed a 15-year-old girl while she walked down the street with her friends learned his fate Tuesday. Erick Walker was sentenced to 90.75 years in the death of 
MEDIA COURTHOUSE >> Two cousins who pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and related offenses for their roles in the September 2013 shooting death of 
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man is charged with aggravated murder in connection with the death of off-duty firefighter 
A 77-year-old grandfather from LaPlace who shot a man during an argument on a Kenner street pleaded guilty to negligent homicide and agreed to serve five years in prison. Roger Batiste never denied he shot 
MEMPHIS, TN - Clarence Pruitt is on the books as a violent sex offender, but he has been on the run for over two years. Pruitt was first arrested in 1991 for aggravated attempted rape, but was only in jail for four days. Following that arrest, his status as a violent sex offender meant he must report his address within 48 hours of release, but he didn't. In 2009, Pruitt was arrested again, charged with stealing items from an Ike's store and assaulting workers as he tried to flee. After several drug arrests, Pruitt's latest affidavit says he 'befriended' a 20-year-old woman who was walking on Madison Avenue between 2 and 4 a.m. in August 2011. The victim says she withdrew $20 from an ATM to give to him, but he demanded more money. When she refused, he began to attack her. Pruitt stole the woman's credit and debit cars, ID, cell phone, and left her naked. Investigators identified Pruitt as the suspect responsible in this case from DNA he left on the victim's shirt. The TBI was able to find his information in their system.
ROCKVILLE, Md. – Montgomery County Police have arrested a Waldorf man and charged him in the sexual assault of a Rockville woman with a learning disability. Warren Giddings, 23, is facing 10 total charges, including three counts of first-degree sexual assault. Police say Giddings and the alleged victim met through an online dating site. They eventually agreed to meet at the woman's Rockville home in February. That's when police say Giddings sexually assaulted the 20-year-old. He is also accused of stealing her tablet computer. Police say the woman has a cognitive learning disability. 
A woman told Erie police that she heard a window rattling at her residence early Sunday morning and opened her front door to encounter a man who forced his way in. The man fondled the woman's breast and demanded that she perform a sex act on him. The man ran off after the woman hit him with the door, then grabbed a knife. Officers who responded apprehended the suspect a short time later. Godfrey O. Lohitai, 21, was apprehended shortly after 6 a.m. on Sunday. The victim was shown a photo lineup that included Lohitai's photograph, and she identified him as the man who attacked her. The victim described her attacker as a black male who was about 5 feet 5 inches tall, had a medium build, spoke with a heavy accent and was "dirty and disheveled." 
Michael Darnell Sykes was brought into custody April 17 when police spotted him wearing the same mask as a the suspect in a police sketch. He was sitting in a Buick wanted in a robbery. Police say he abducted three young women ages 19, 20 and 21, at gunpoint from a gas station at Fenkell and Schaefer. He took them to an abandoned garage on Monica Street and allegedly raped them. When police ran Sykes' DNA, they were able to link him to two other cases with the same m.o. dating back to 2008, when he was 14 years old. He has also been charged with the kidnapping, robbing and rape of a 25-and 26-year-old in an alley. Sykes has already served time as a juvenile for another rape. 
MUSKOGEE, Okla. – Authorities arrested a man who allegedly held a woman captive by tying her up. Muskogee police say the suspect is accused of kidnapping and raping the victim. Evidence from the investigation led Muskogee police to arrest and book the suspect, 53-year-old Anthony Givens. The victim told authorities she went to a Motel 6 with a friend and when they entered their room a man was waiting. She said she remembered meeting the man a few years before but could not identify him at the time. The woman then said she opened a bottle of alcohol and began to consume it, then she went to the restroom and after that point the evening became hazy. Muskogee police did say the victim remembered waking up to discover she was tied up and had been beaten at some point. Police say she requested food from her captor and when he untied her hands to let her eat she was able to find a cellphone and escape through a window. She then contacted a relative and was rescued, then taken to police.
COLUMBIA, TN - Police in Columbia have launched an investigation after a man died in police custody. Brian Acton, 40, was a convicted sex offender in Utica, KY, and was on the sex offender registry. Police said Acton attacked another woman on Saturday night and died after police put him in handcuffs. The woman told police Acton was only an acquaintance from church who showed up unannounced just before 3 a.m. Saturday. "He was in the living room asking for a glass of water." "When she went to retrieve the glass of water, he was no longer in the living room. She found him unclothed in her bedroom." The 30-year-old woman said she then told Acton to leave, but he refused. She said he began mumbling incoherently and then sexually assaulted her. The woman's 10-year-old daughter was in the other room at the time. Her mother told her, 'Go get help.'" The girl ran to a neighbor who called police. Police said when EMS crews pulled up to the house, Acton stopped breathing. He was pronounced dead at Maury Regional Hospital. 
NEW ORLEANS —New Orleans investigators have released a sketch of a man who sexually assaulted a woman after a robbery last weekend in the Bywater. A 26-year-old woman was walking in the neighborhood when she was approached by the man, who was armed with a handgun. The NOPD said he took her cellphone and purse and sexually assaulted her. He left the neighborhood on foot, heading in an unknown direction. He is described as a black man, 19 to 20 years old, and around 6 feet tall and weighing 140 pounds.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —A Louisville man has been charged with attacking a woman inside her home. Police said her child called 911 to report the crime early Monday morning. Devante Watts, 19, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and first-degree possession of a controlled substance (cocaine). Police said Watts forced his way into the victim's home on Monday morning. Watts had burglarized another home across the street, but when the residents of that home became alarmed, Watts took off and rang the victim's doorbell. The woman and her three children were asleep. When she answered the door, Watts demanded money and forced her into a bathroom at gunpoint, where he raped and sodomized her. A child called 911 to report that his mother was being raped.
VIRGINIA BEACH -- A 23-year-old Norfolk man is charged in Monday's shooting and attempted robbery at a Virginia Beach Rite-Aid. Dontario Andre Johnson is also a suspect in the attempted robbery of a Chesapeake hotel 30 minutes before the drug store incident. Johnson was arrested Monday. Police say 
Two dapper thieves netted $6,500 in cash and $5,000 in Best Buy gift cards after stealing the identify of another man, cops said. The two suspects, both seen on surveillance wearing eyeglasses, suits and ties, managed to withdraw a total of $6,500 from three Chase Banks in Brooklyn on April 13, police said. Two days later, they made a $263.73 purchase at the Target at 517 E. 117th Street and bought a $5,000 gift card at Best Buy in East Harlem, according to police. The victim filed a police report in Brooklyn after noticing the fraudulent activity in his account. No arrests have been made, police said.
The former mayor of a small Rockland County village was found guilty Monday of public corruption charges — brought down by the same crooked developer who helped land similar convictions for federal authorities against ex-state Sen. Malcolm Smith and ex- Councilman Dan Halloran, both of Queens. Following a week-long non-jury trial, White Plains federal Judge Colleen McMahon found former Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin guilty of selling her support for a local community center and catering hall project in exchange for $5,000 in cash bribes and 50-percent ownership in the development.
WASHINGTON - “I was walking on the right side of the elevator when someone hit me, punched me on the right side of my jaw,” a 23-year-old victim of a brutal attack said. The attack came out of nowhere and left the victim with his jaw broken in two places and four teeth nearly knocked out. He has dozens of stitches, two metal plates in his mouth and his mouth is now wired shut, which is why it is difficult to understand when he speaks. After the first punch, he was thrown to the ground and the group of (black) young men were hitting and kicking him repeatedly. “I did hear someone yell, ‘Get that effing fa****,' while I was on the ground,” the victim said. Metro Transit Police is investigating whether this was a hate crime because the victim is gay or a random mugging because the suspects took off with his phone. Images of the suspects were taken from surveillance video at the Congress Heights Metro station in Southeast D.C. on Saturday April 11 between 10:45 and 11 p.m. when the victim was jumped.
PHOENIX - A Phoenix father who said he drank a bottle of gin while driving with his two sons instead of taking them to get haircuts was arrested after the lifeless body of one of his sons was found in the family car outside their house. 41-year-old James Koryor was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of manslaughter and child abuse in connection with the death of his 
WATAUGA – Police said Saturday afternoon they have arrested and charged a person of interest in the attempted kidnapping of an 
MADISON COUNTY, Ind. – Madison County prosecutors charged Geraldine Jones, 36, with murder, 
confinement and kidnapping in connection with the death of Anderson mother 
FLINT, MI -- A Flint teen is facing charges after police allege he shot and killed a 36-year-old man earlier this year on the city's south side. Shamar Quantee Lewis, 19, was arraigned Friday, April 17, on a charge of first-degree felony murder in the Jan. 2 shooting death of 
CHARLACK - A man said a woman with a knife attacked him and yelled racial slurs at a convenience store in Charlack. Twanna Brown is facing armed criminal action charges. Police said Brown yelled racial slurs and death threats at a man at a 711 on St. Charles Rock Road. “The customer behind her got too close in her words and she whipped out a knife and attempted to stab the guy. She told him she ‘kills crackers all the time,” said Charlack Police Chief Steve Runge. The victim, who did not want to share his name, said Brown's actions were unprovoked as he stood behind her in line. “Her finger came within an inch of my face the first time. Then she went to go reach again and the clerk behind the counter was trying to tell me she had a knife,” the victim said. The victim said Brown pulled the knife but he said he never saw the blade. He also said he wonders if hate crime charges will be filed. Police chief 'poo-poos' racial motive. 
An Orangeburg County man has been accused of having sex with a puppy. Freddie James, 79, made his first court appearance on Saturday after he was charged with buggery, the state's law forbidding an individual from having sex with an animal. On Friday, a woman reported a neighbor saw the suspect strike a dog in the head before committing a sex act with it. That neighbor, in turn, called the woman. The 
