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(Cold-blooded black killer) guilty in 2012 killing of Muhammad cabbie - also murdered White woman
  WASHINGTON — 20-year-old Joshua Mebane was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder for the Nov. 2012 killing of a taxicab driver in Northeast, Washington. In addition to the murder charge, Mebane was found guilty of nine other charges, including conspiracy, assault with intent to commit robbery while armed, and firearm offenses. A (white) co-defendant, Linda Bury, also 20, pled guilty to charges of second-degree murder while armed and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. She is awaiting sentencing. According to police evidence, Mebane and Bury, both 17 years old at the time, met online in Oct. 2012. Displeased with their living situations, they planned to meet and run away together. On Nov. 1, 2012 Mebane took a taxi from his home in Waldorf, Md. to Bury's home in Parkton, Md. Together, they took a cab to D.C. where they stayed at a motel in Northeast Washington from Nov. 2 to Nov. 7, 2012. Realizing they were short on money, the two planned to commit a robbery of a taxicab driver on Nov. 7, 2012. Minutes before 9 p.m., they randomly hailed a taxicab driver, and instructed 44-year-old Muhammad Quadeer, to take them to the back of Hamilton Junior High School in the 1400 block of Brentwood Parkway NE. Once there, Mebane put on a black latex glove, pulled out his 9 mm pistol and fatally shot Mr. Quadeer once in the back of the head. Mebane and Bury then set the taxicab on fire with Mr. Quadeer inside. Mebane is also reported to have murdered Teresa Ann Bass while walking her dog on Oct. 26, 2012. He attempted to murder her husband too, shooting him multiple times. Sentencing for Mebane will be held on Nov. 13, 2015. He could face decades in prison for the various crimes. - (Black-on-white) |
NATICK, Mass. — A man convicted of killing a Massachusetts woman and her 9-year-old daughter broke down in tears before telling the state parole board he wants to spend the remainder of his life in prison.
Marvin Cathey was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the 1999 killing of 36-year-old Deborah Kucher, of Leicester, and her daughter Cassie Kucher. He also received a concurrent 10 to 15 year sentence for sexually assaulting Cassie Kucher. Forty-seven-year-old Cathey began weeping at the Tuesday hearing when he learned that Deborah Kucher’s son, Derrick Grippin, took his own life in 2011.
Kucher’s relatives informed Cathey of other deaths in the family. - (Black-on-white)
SHREVEPORT, La. - Judge John Mosley found Robert Calvin Farris, of Bossier City, guilty as charged on two counts of second degree murder Wednesday afternoon. Farris waived a jury trial, therefore the judge reached the verdict on his own. The decision came in the second week of the trial. Farris was arrested for the deaths of 
Cops in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, thought they were pulling over a run-of-the-mill car thief Tuesday afternoon — but instead wound up capturing a pistol-packing fugitive wanted for a one-man spree of murder, rape and robberies in Raleigh, North Carolina. Kendrick Keyanti Gregory, 21, had been on the lam since Monday, when he allegedly fatally shot one man, wounding another man and then raped a 15-year-old girl. Gregory’s alleged crime spree turned violent, however, when he allegedly committed an armed robbery at the Knights Inn hotel, where 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two cousins have been indicted on charges they murdered a man leaving a convenience store. Police say 
CHICAGO - There's relief in the Southwestern suburbs after a man was charged in connection with the Willowbrook home invasion, stabbing and sex assault. The family of the victim, 
A man who allegedly set up the drug deal that led to a double homicide, then drove the suspected gunman to the hospital is the third suspect arrested in the Powder Springs deaths of a young couple. Raymond Ladell Webb was arrested Sunday night and charged with concealing a death, hindering the apprehension of a criminal and a felony drug charge, Cobb County jail records showed. According to police, Webb used his cellphone to set up a meeting so 
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (September 2, 2015) – Indianapolis Metropolitan Police arrested a second suspect after a mother died in July when she was hit with a stray bullet. 
Months before the gruesome murder of her mother on the beautiful island of Bali, Heather Mack apparently had a request for Tommy Schaefer. So the troubled Chicago teenager sent her boyfriend a Facebook note riddled with grammatical errors on May 26, 2014, records show. It began simply: “Can you not tell people i asked you to kill my mom.” That dispatch — typos and all — is contained in a document that reveals the Aug. 12, 2014, murder of 
UPDATE: Kameron Orr, 24, who allegedly shot
DETROIT - A man blamed for a dog attack that left a Detroit man without a lower leg has pleaded guilty. Derick Felton made the plea Thursday to three counts of harboring a dangerous animal causing injury. His sentencing hearing will be Sept. 25. 
PITTSBURGH —The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided against hearing an appeal of a lower court's decision to grant a new trial to a man in the deaths of three Pittsburgh firefighters two decades ago. The commonwealth's highest court on Monday said it would not review the case of Gregory Brown Jr., 38, who was sentenced to three life terms in the February 1995 fire on Bricelyn Street in Homewood. Prosecutors alleged that Brown poured a half-gallon of gasoline on some clothes in the basement of the four-story home in hopes of collecting $20,000 in insurance money for a down payment on a new home. Authorities said 
A Hollywood (Florida) teenager whose brutal beating was captured on cell phone videos recorded by her attackers took the stand Tuesday to describe the night she was set upon by five friends and raped. The 
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips has been charged with murder in the death of his cellmate at a Central California prison. Phillips is suspected of killing 37-year-old
OAKLAND, Calif. -- An assault suspect who was fatally shot by an Oakland police officer in a confrontation near Lake Merritt last Thursday morning was identified by police as 30-year-old 
STAUNTON — Nearly 16 months after a city worker found the body of a mentally disabled Staunton man who was stabbed 11 times in the head and eight times in the neck, the teen accused in the killing will stand trial Tuesday on a charge of first-degree murder. Isaiah D. Stuart, 17, of Staunton, is charged in the slaying of 26-year-old 
Italy’s simmering anti-immigrant sentiment has been stoked by the murder of an elderly couple in their home in Sicily, allegedly by an African asylum seeker. 
The anger of 
MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA – Meriwether County Sheriff Chuck Smith said that law enforcement have made three additional arrests in the murder of 
LOS ANGELES, CA — UCLA defensive back Ishmael Adams has been arrested on suspicion of robbery on campus, school officials said. Adams was taken into custody by UCLA police shortly after 3:30 a.m. Sunday after a report that he used force to take a cellphone from an Uber driver, according to a UCLA spokesman. The Daily Bruin reported Adams is alleged to have tried to take the phone outside university police headquarters on campus. He was being held on $100,000 bail after his arrest. A Twitter page apparently belonging to Adams shows several posts from the days leading up to his arrest, including one in which he says he’s ” being attacked by satan.” . 
Shannon Miles, the man accused of fatally shooting 
A Delaware County police officer whose life was saved by his bulletproof vest when police say an armed man shot him early Sunday morning has been released from the hospital. 
PEABODY, Mass. —The mother of a Salem man charged with fatally stabbing a co-worker at a Peabody restaurant is coming to her son's defense. Jaquan Huston is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on a first-degree murder charge in the weekend death of 
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. -- Police in the western suburbs released vehicle details and a sketch of the suspect Sunday after a 
Paul Schuster, the victim's father
FAYETTEVILLE, NC — Authorities say that a man with stomach scar and a “pink patch” of skin in his private area forced a woman into a car during a sex assault this week in Fayetteville. On Monday at approximately 5 a.m., detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department’s Special Victims Unit were notified of a sexual assault that occurred in the area of E. Russell Street and Broad Street. The victim was walking along Person Street near Eastern Blvd when she was approached by a subject offering a ride. The victim refused the offer and the suspect forced the victim into his car, police said. “The suspect then drove the victim to the area of E. Russell Street and Broad Street where he sexually assaulted her,” Fayetteville Police said in a press release. The suspect was described as a black male, approximately 25 to 30 years of age, 5’10 to 6 feet tall, 180-210 lbs., muscular build, with long, thick dreads that go midway down his back, and a receding hairline. “The suspect was also described as having a scar on his stomach and a ‘pink’ patch of skin in his groin area,” police said.
A homeless man was arrested Thursday in the rape of a 52-year-old woman who was attacked early Aug. 17 in an outdoor Bedford-Stuyvesant stairwell. Kareem David broke two of the victim’s teeth in the attack on the stairs leading to the basement of a building on Lefferts Place, police said. David, 28, allegedly threatened to shoot the woman, although he never displayed a gun.
HYATTSVILLE, Md. -- A convicted sex offender was apprehended Friday after he walked from a court-ordered home visit in Hyattsville on Thursday. James Norris Jr., 49, was apprehended in the Dupont area of Washington, D.C. and he is currently in police custody, police said. Norris Jr. walked away from a home in the 4000 block of Warner Avenue at around 2 p.m., during a court-ordered home visit, Prince George's County police say. He is a patient at a state hospital. 
CONCORD, CA – A public hearing has been scheduled in Fairfield to determine if a man convicted of rape and assault should be placed at a Concord home once he is released from custody. The Department of State Hospitals is seeking to place Fraisure Smith, 51, who is currently being housed at a state hospital, in a single family home, located in the
U.S. Marshals are searching for a sexual offender who has violated his parole and absconded from authorities. John Garrison, said marshals are asking for the public's assistance in locating 26-year-old Justin Lee Paul who is a registered sex offender and was last known to be in the Athens area. He is described as a black male, 202 pounds and five-feet-seven inches tall. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety sex offender website, Paul was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of 
Opening arguments in the rape trial of former Colts linebacker Josh McNary have concluded. Deputy Prosecutor Courtney Curtis recounted the events of Dec. 1, when McNary and the woman who has accused him of rape met. Curtis said the woman went to three Downtown bars with friends. She got drunk that night and met McNary at Tiki Bob's. Curtis said the two talked, danced and flirted before going to McNary's Downtown apartment. The woman said she doesn't remember how they got to the apartment but said she voluntarily went home with McNary, Curtis said. They kissed and flirted more, but the woman later realized she didn't want to be there, Curtis said. "She realized, 'You know what, I don't want to do this. I don't feel good,' " Curtis said. The woman was apparently drunk and had to lie down. Curtis said when the sex began, the woman told McNary several times to stop. "The defendant isn't stopping ... and she's scared," Curtis said. Curtis said the woman didn't remember much of that night. "She just knew she'd been raped." "She did go home with him willingly, but then he raped her," Curtis said. 
SEATTLE — Level 3 sex offender Demarcus Linwood, aka ‘Charm’, was arrested in a “citizen’s arrest” Friday in White Center, the King County Sheriff’s Office said. Linwood was taken into custody by a citizen who saw his appearance on Washington’s Most Wanted, sheriff’s deputies said. Linwood pleaded guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender and was granted permission to attend a funeral. He was supposed to return but disappeared instead. He is facing 43 months in prison when caught for the failure to register as a sex offender charge and another 43 months for one he already pleaded guilty to. Police say his MO is to befriend teenage girls on the bus, on the streets or at events around town. He hangs out with them, gains their trust and then beats them up, threatens to kill them, chokes them and rapes them.
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – State judges have allowed a convicted rapist to be provisionally discharged from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program despite several doctors testifying he was not ready. Christopher Coker, 47, has been fighting his civil commitment for years. The Minnesota Attorney General's office argued on behalf of the Minnesota Department of Human Services that Coker was not ready to be provisionally released. The Hennepin County Attorney's office also argued against his release. "It's pretty clear, he's a sick man," said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. "We think he's still a threat to public safety." Judges Joanne Smith, Kathleen Gearin and Leslie Metzen sit on the State Supreme Court Appeal Panel. Gearin and Metzen approved the release in a court document filed Friday. Smith did not.
BATON ROUGE, La. —A man wanted on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child in Texas was arrested earlier this week in Alexandria. Christopher Pryor, 32, was arrested by the state's Fugitive Apprehension Unit, according to the Louisiana Attorney General's Office. Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell said Pryor was wanted by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office in Texas for sexually assaulting a child. He was found at a business in Alexandria and taken to the Rapides Parish Jail. 
WASHINGTON - Prince William County Police arrested two men Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting two teenage girls on multiple occasions. Khayree Lamarr Moore, 19, and Kevin Ballard, 21, were each charged with two counts of carnal knowledge of a child. Moore was also charged with one count of indecent liberties and Ballard was charged with 2 counts of the same. Police say the
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – A 55-year-old Muskegon Heights parolee with a long criminal record has been charged with raping 
Nashville, N.C. — An alleged Nash County sex offender was captured Tuesday afternoon after leading deputies on a car chase and fleeing into the woods earlier in the day. Robert Earl Lewis Sr., of 7440 Bunting Road in Nashville, was involved in a car chase on Interstate 95. The chase ended after stop sticks were deployed, but Lewis ran from the vehicle. He was spotted later in the day and ran into the woods. After an extensive search, Lewis was found in a crawl space under a church. Lewis was arrested and charged with first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and indecent liberties Lewis is a registered sex offender and has previously been charged with statutory rape, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, breaking and entering, assault on a female, felony larceny, aiding and abetting felony larceny, malicious maiming, communication of threats and several felony drug charges involving heroin and cocaine. 
SALISBURY, NC - A man was jailed on Thursday morning under $25,000 bond, charged with sex crimes involving children. Jamar Obrien Still, 24, was charged with three counts of statutory rape of someone aged 13, 14, or 15, by an offender at least six year older. Still was arrested early Thursday morning and booked into the jail just after 4:00 am.
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh police say a man told them he was adjusting a gun he kept in his underwear when it fired, killing one of his friends. Nineteen-year-old Eietyoung Kemp was jailed Friday on charges including criminal homicide and carrying a firearm without a license in the death of 19-year-old 
Morris Hinton
A Queens woman murdered her boyfriend, had her son help burn the body and then might have gotten away with the heinous crime except for a sliver of evidence miraculously left behind — her broken fingernail. Dawn McIntosh, 46, had flown into a murderous rage at beau 
The driver in a hit-and-run that killed a two-year-old boy and injured his mother in Philadelphia earlier this year surrendered to police Monday. 
Terry Lee Loewen came to the attention of the FBI in late May 2013, when he became a Facebook friend of an individual who regularly posted information supporting violent jihad, or holy war. Agents became concerned after looking back through Loewen's own Facebook activities. An online undercover agent contacted him, and offered to introduce him to someone who could help him engage in jihad. Loewen's case is among at least 462 terror crimes associated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State that the U.S. government has prosecuted since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
BARBERTON, OH - Detectives with the Barberton Police Dept. made two arrests Friday in a New Years Eve triple homicide investigation. Cops picked up Michael Deon Hendon, 22, and his brother Eric Donta Hendon, 30, both of Akron. Police say the brothers went to 
NASHVILLE, TN - The man charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two 18-year-old women has been returned to Nashville from a California prison. Patrick Lamonte Streater is accused of stabbing Exotic Tan employees 
A man was convicted of strangling the mother of his child in Sacramento, driving her body 80 miles to San Francisco and setting it ablaze in a car in the Lower Haight neighborhood. Almon Johnson, 33, of Sacramento was found guilty Tuesday by a San Francisco Superior Court jury of first-degree murder and arson in the 2011 slaying of preschool teacher 
