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(Heartless black) Fero's Bar killer Dexter Lewis, spared the death penalty, sentenced 5 life terms plus 180 years
  DENVER - Dexter Lewis, the killer convicted of stabbing 5 people to death in Fero's Bar during 2012, was sentenced to five life sentences plus another 180 years on Wednesday. Lewis was convicted on Aug. 10 of five counts of first degree murder after deliberation, five counts of felony murder, five county of attempted robbery and an arson charge. However, the jury decided that aggravating factors, including an abusive childhood, were significant enough that he should not face the death penalty. Because Lewis was found guilty in a death penalty case, Colorado law dictated that Lewis be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the counts of murder. The judge sentenced him to five life sentences, to be served consecutively, for the murders. The judge gave Lewis an additional 180 years on the other charges. That was the maximum sentenced allowed. This was the second case of the summer where a jury was unable or unwilling to reach the required unanimous decision that would sentence a killer to die.
     Prosecutors said Lewis led a four-man robbery crew at Fero's Bar and Grill. He killed the bar's owner and four customers. The robbery netted a measly total of $170. Two of the men at the robbery testified that Lewis, 25, went down a line stabbing his victims while they were held at gunpoint. "He simply went down the line, not caring about them, not showing any of them any mercy," prosecutor Matt Wenig told jurors when they began considering execution for Lewis. The bar was set ablaze before the men fled. Killed in the robbery were the bar's owner, Young Suk Fero, 53, and four customers - Daria M. Pohl, 21, of Denver; Kellene Fallon, 44, of Denver; Ross Richter, 29, of Overland Park, Kansas; and Tereasa Beesley, 45, of Denver. - (Black-on-white)
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man previously charged with pawning jewelry stolen from a murdered 71-year-old woman has now been charged with her killing, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office announced Thursday. Marvin Jones, 50, is charged with murder, burglary, dealing in stolen property and grand theft, Lt. Steve Gallaher said. He said it appears that Marilyn Alu was killed when Jones attempted to steal her jewelry. She was found strangled in her East Arlington home on Swimming Salmon Place North on Sept. 8, 2013. Gallaher said evidence shows that Alu's killer entered her home through an unlocked sliding glass door in the back of the home. Alu had hired a company Jones worked for to do some home improvements around her house, but Jones offered to do the jobs cheaper on the side, Gallaher said. He said detectives quickly focused their efforts on Jones in the murder and learned that he had a girlfriend named Constance Messina, who pawned jewelry belonging to Alu on Sept. 9, 2013. Jones also pawned Alu's jewelry that day, detectives said. The couple left Jacksonville for Clewiston, Florida, soon afterward, and when detectives searched a room in which the couple had stayed in Clewiston, they found some of Alu's jewelry in a bag, Gallaher said. - (Black-on-white)
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- A couple is recovering after they were beaten and robbed in a Henrico home invasion. Nine days have passed since 
NORFOLK, Va. — After seven years of investigating, police just arrested and charged a man in a 2008 Norfolk murder case following a traffic stop in North Carolina. On Tuesday, authorities announced they charged 27-year-old Michael Brown of Goldsboro, North Carolina with second-degree murder in the death of 
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. - A driver suspected of hitting and leaving a jogger for dead on a Douglas County street is now in custody, deputies announced Wednesday evening during a news conference. Markus Lide, 32, turned himself in a day after allegedly hitting 
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Police in St. Louis County have taken a person of interest into custody in the armed robbery and shooting of 
Irving police say a man and woman are under arrest after a crash victim said she was robbed by a person pretending to be a good Samaritan. 
LAS VEGAS - Medical examiners identified a 72-year-old man as the victim of an attack that took place last week in a west Las Vegas parking lot. As of Tuesday, the Clark County Coroner's Office has not yet ruled a cause and manner of death for James Northcott, of Surrey, B.C. in Canada. Northcutt was the person who succumbed to injuries after an attack that happened about 3 p.m. Sept. 23 in the parking lot of the Walmart store at the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Arville Street. According to Las Vegas Metro police, the victim was traveling through the parking lot when he was involved in an argument with another driver. The second driver got out of his vehicle, attacked the victim and then left the scene. The victim was eventually taken to Spring Valley Hospital for treatment, but was pronounced dead Monday, police said. The first person was described as a black man in his 20s, about 5’10” tall and 160 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray baseball cap, a white T-shirt, blue shorts, white socks and blue Nike sandals. The second person was described a short woman, who was last seen wearing a black shirt and denim shorts. 
Ann Arbor — The double life of a self-professed pimp who chronicled his sexploits in a homemade reality show will be on display in federal court this year. Detroiter Donald Clifton Allen Jr., known on the streets as “D’Nero Armani,” is scheduled to stand trial in December in a case that will feature video clips of his YouTube reality show “D’Nero’s Player Show” and explicit movies, including one of
An Ann Arbor man was arraigned Tuesday for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a woman in West Park over the weekend. Brent Allen West, 48, shook his head as Magistrate Elisha Fink read off the charges at 14A-1 District Court on Sept. 29. West is charged with criminal sexual conduct for assault with intent to commit sexual penetration. He also faces two counts of assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer. The 38-year-old woman later told police the man had approached 
A 23-year-old man was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Monday in the rape of a child alleged to have occurred when the accused was a teenager. Kartez Jamal McKneely, of the 100 block of Pine Bayou Circle in Monroe, was incarcerated in that city when a report of the rape surfaced last year. A 2014 verified complaint written by East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Hatch describes
DENVER -- Her pictures show Kinyaita Davis took good care of herself. Police say the same cannot be said for her two children. Police said the sister said both children made "outcry to her" of extensive physical abuse over five years. The son claimed his mother placed an iron against his shoulder and pushed the steam button, causing a large burn. Worse, police say the daughter still has scars from when she was 8 years old. She told them it was from the mother driving a power drill though her hand as she tried to cover her face.
Police arrested a woman who they say struck and killed a high school football player with her SUV, fled the scene and tried to cover up the crash. Jamina Washington, 21, was arrested and charged with homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, leaving the scene, leaving the scene while not licensed and tampering with evidence. Police say Washington was driving southbound on 2nd Street at Hunting Park Avenue back on July 12 at 1:20 p.m. Washington tried to speed past a vehicle that was stopped in front of her and went into the wrong lane, striking 17-year-old 
Officials say the mother of a Delaware man in a wheelchair who was fatally shot by police has been accused of assaulting a woman she thought made a 911 call about her son. Officials said the woman Phyllis McDole allegedly assaulted was not the woman who made a 911 call last week about a man who had shot himself and was still armed with a gun. Police say officers fatally shot 28-year-old Jeremy McDole after he ignored commands to drop his weapon and reached toward his waist.
Police in the Philadelphia suburbs say the Man of Steal was undone by his Superman T-shirt. 18-year-old Kyree Henneghan was charged with two Upper Darby burglaries that police linked him to because of the shirt. Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says a man wearing a T-shirt with the Superman shield broke into one home on Sept. 24 and a second on Tuesday. In that heist, the homeowner walked in and Henneghan bolted with a laptop computer. Henneghen made a not-so-speedy getaway on his BMX bicycle and police found him a short time later still wearing the Superman shirt trying to sell the computer to men in a car.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Virginia execution of an El Salvador native convicted of killing Yorktown High School graduate 
Three thugs charged with gang-raping and robbing a string of Asian hookers – including one at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan – callously plotted their vicious attacks via text, court papers show. 
FOX LAKE, Ill. -- The northern Illinois police officer found dead last month was shot with his own weapon, but detectives were still treating it as a homicide investigation based on evidence that included signs of a struggle, the lead investigator said Thursday. After vetting the information and concluding it wouldn't harm the investigation, authorities confirmed for the first time that 
Columbia, SC - Forest Acres Police Chief Gene Sealy says one of his officers was killed Wednesday morning during a struggle with a suspect at an area mall. Sealy confirmed at a noon news conference that 32-year-old 
Curtis Kyles, the former death row inmate whose 1984 murder conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court, is headed back to prison for life for killing a Metairie woman. Kyles, 56, of Algiers was convicted Tuesday (Sept. 29) of second-degree murder in the death of 
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — A South Los Angeles shop owner is hoping police will find the group of kids he said 
LA PLATA, Md. - Police have charged a man after they say he used social media to make a threat of violence against an entire Maryland town. The message was uncovered Wednesday afternoon when La Plata Police were alerted to a post on Twitter that read, “IM NOT GONNA STAND FOR THIS NO. MORE. TONIGHT WE PURGE! KILL ALL THE WHITE PPL IN THE TOWN OF LA PLATA.” That tweet sparked a massive police effort and the man accused of sending the tweet was tracked down and arrested. So many people were frightened after this tweet was sent out that local law enforcement not only went after the man who posted it, but the chief of police in La Plata also called some officer in early and kept other officers to work overtime. The chief wanted to make sure there was high visibility of officers in the area to calm fears. Officials arrested 20-year-old 
DNA from the man charged in the July homicide of 
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - Sandy Springs Police said they have arrested a man for molesting 
ONTARIO — Police on Tuesday said they arrested a man suspected of waiting inside an Ontario hotel room for a woman to enter Monday evening, then attacking and robbing the woman before fleeing. The Ontario Police Department responded to a Doubletree Hotel about 5:45 p.m. Monday to investigate a reported sexual assault. Hotel staff said they found a female guest who had been attacked. The 63-year-old victim told police that she had just checked into her room when she was attacked by a man waiting inside. The man tied up and sexually assaulted the victim, police said, before robbing her of several items and fleeing. Investigators with the help of hotel security personnel identified the suspect as Clifford Brown, 31, of Pomona.
SALISBURY, Md. - — A woman has been arrested after police say she doused her boyfriend with bleach and rubbing alcohol and then set him on fire. Police say officers responded to a Salisbury home on Monday for a domestic-assault call. Police say 53-year-old Natalie Chase Robinson and her unidentified 48-year-old boyfriend were involved in an argument. Authorities say the victim told police that Robinson threw bleach onto his face and rubbing alcohol onto his upper body and face before setting him on fire.
Orangeburg County, SC - Orangeburg County deputies have charged a Santee man with accessory after the fact of murder. They say he helped his brother dispose of a murder victim's body. Jason Glover, 25, was charged after his brother was found guilty in the 2013 murder of Orangeburg businessman 
The state is probing the Saturday night shooting death of an Effingham County woman in her home. 
A verdict has been reached in the Christopher Compton triple murder trial. The jury finds Christopher Compton guilty but mentally ill on the first three counts after 90 minutes of deliberation. Compton faced charges for the deaths of 28-year-old
TUCSON - A jury found Michael Dwayne Leday guilty on several counts in a brutal New Year's Day double homicide. Leday was found guilty of two counts of second degree murder for the deaths of 
LAKE OSWEGO, OR - A former cheerleader at Lake Oswego High School is accused of recruiting an underage former classmate into prostitution to work for her alleged pimp. Konrod Mason and Julia Haner were arraigned on federal indictments. They are both charged with sex trafficking of a minor and transportation of a minor for prostitution. The Portland Police Bureau's Prostitution Coordination Team conducted a sting operation on March 11 to contact an underage girl featured in online prostitution advertisements. Court documents state an undercover officer set up a "date" with the girl and took her into custody when she entered the hotel room. According to court documents, the 
FAIRFAX, Va. - Four years ago, Michael Edwards pleaded guilty to squirting his own bodily fluid from bottles
LANSING, Ill. -- The man accused of kidnapping, raping and setting a south suburban woman on fire last week had a history of violence and was part of a church transition program for ex-cons. Carleous "Mad Dog" Clay is charged in a horrendous kidnapping after authorities said he lived up to that nickname while part of a church transitional program for ex-cons. Clay - who lives in a church-rented home in south suburban Lansing - is now accused of attacking a woman who lived a few blocks away. It has angered a community and is raising questions about why he was there. Last weekend, authorities say a surveillance camera captured an image of Clay - driving the victim's car as she was locked in the trunk - at her bank taking money from an ATM. The I-Team has learned that Clay had been at Danville Correctional Center until his parole last December. He moved to Lansing and was living in a home rented by the Oak Glen United Reformed Church. Church officials said Clay joined their fellowship program after several years of Christian discipleship behind bars.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The man police say wandered the halls of the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel until he found a victim to sexually assault has pleaded guilty to home invasion and sexual assault. Keith Darrius Manders, 22, was in the hotel the night of March 8, 2014, listening at the doors of various rooms before he picked a particular door to knock on, apparently a random choice, according to Grand Rapids Police. A female guest opened the door and Manders told her he needed toilet paper. When the woman turned away to get the toilet paper, Manders attacked her, police said. Manders then fondled the woman before she was able to get away from him, leaving her uninjured but traumatized, investigators said.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A man was arrested and charged with rape after police say he attacked an Indiana University student in her Bloomington home. Donwan Townsley, 26, was arrested Sunday for the August 2014 rape. According to the Indiana Daily Student, Townsley broke into the woman’s home while she was sleeping, and assaulted her in bed. She woke up to him performing sex acts and attempting to have sex with her. DNA evidence collected at the scene reportedly matched Townsley’s. 
A Bronx woman suspected of hurling her 
PHILADELPHIA — A demolition contractor charged with murder after a building collapse 
EDINBURG, Texas – One illegal immigrant has been formally charged with capital murder and another is expected to be charged soon in connection with the execution of two men and the burning of the victims’ corpses in Texas. The two jailed illegal immigrants are said to be members of a fearsome gang called the 
LOS ANGELES — Two 22-year-old men were charged Tuesday in the murder of a UCLA student found dead in her burned Westwood apartment. 
A Brooklyn handyman was done in by his own chilling boasts — detailing how he’d choked to death and then dismembered his boss — as a jury took less than a day to find him guilty of murder. The panel of six men and six women deliberated just three hours of before convicting Luis Perez for the grisly 2006 murder of 
Zakout, who’s been behind the wheel for 15 years, allegedly gave passenger 
A Chelsea floral designer suffocated to death in 2012 after two male prostitutes bound and gagged him so tightly he couldn’t breathe, prosecutor Lanita Hobbs told a Manhattan jury Monday at the men’s murder trial. Grifters Edwin Faulkner, 33, and 
A suburban West Palm Beach family confirmed a missing man has been found dead. 
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —Detectives with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office have arrested two suspects in the disappearance and death of 31-year-old 
William Booth, 22, is charged with being an accessory to first-degree murder after the fact and tampering with evidence in the death of 
The assault reportedly occurred in the early morning hours of Sept. 20. Later that same day, the alleged victim reported to UGA police that she had been assaulted, and campus police quickly secured an arrest warrant charging 19-year-old 
A Washington County jury found Joda Cain guilty of manslaughter Friday in the sledgehammer bludgeoning of his great-grandmother, rejecting aggravated murder charges. 
Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a man a week ago on Polk Drive in Huntsville. Nathaniel Keliche Smith, 23, is charged with murder in the Sept. 18 death of 
