Black Man Executed For Pipe Bomb Death Of White Florida Trooper
A drug trafficker who placed a pipe bomb in a gift-wrapped microwave oven in a plot to kill two potential murder witnesses was executed Wednesday for the 1992 death of a Florida highway trooper who became the unintended victim. Paul Augustus Howell, 48, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Florida State Prison in Starke, the office of Gov. Rick Scott said in an email. Howell was condemned for the killing of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmy Fulford on Feb. 1, 1992, when the package exploded during a traffic stop. - (Black-on-white)
LAPLACE, La. – The man believed to be the triggerman in a shooting at a LaPlace animal feed store that left a man dead and his wife injured turned himself to the U.S. Marshalls Fugitive Task Force at noon Thursday after arranging to do so through his attorney, Sheriff Mike Tregre said. The move by Charles Mcquarter III, 22, came less than 12 hours after the first suspect did the same thing. Dracier Dewey, 22, surrendered to police early Thursday morning. In his confession, Tregre said Dewey named Mcquarter as the gunman. He is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery and a parole violation. He is being held without bond. Mcquarter was arrested in 2012 on second-degree murder and weapons charges. It was not immediately clear what came of that arrest since Mcquarter was not in prison. Store owner 
OLYMPIA, Wash. — An Olympia bus driver was attacked by a rider after an argument between the two erupted. Police said the Intercity Transit bus driver, 
Tacoma, Wash. — "I thought he was going to kill me," 
AMES, Iowa —Ames police are investigating multiple reports of a man randomly punching people in the face. Two assaults were reported on the same day, Feb. 16. The people reported to police that a man punched them in the face in two separate incidents. 
BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- Police charged four people for an unprovoked attack on a juvenile inside a Walmart. The alleged attack happened Sunday inside the Walmart on Altama Avenue. The entire incident was captured by the store's security camera. Police said the victim, the son of a Glynn County fire chief, sustained swelling and bruising to the facial area where the punch landed. Police identified the attacker as Brandon Allen, Jr., 18. He and Jervon Sanderson, 18, Kaleb Dirting, 18, and Ramone Roberson, 19 are charged with first-degree cruelty to children. The attack is similar to what has become known as the "Knockout Game" where offenders randomly sucker-punch strangers with the goal of knocking them unconscious, said police. 
CLARK COUNTY — A manhunt contines for a 44-year-old man and a 
PORTLAND, OR - Portland Police are looking for a man who groped one teenager and may have also inappropriately touched another. Police say on Feb. 6, a 
Wayne County deputies say a Dudley man is charged with raping either a
JONESBORO, GA - Clayton County sheriff's office said a suspect wanted on several charges including rape has turned himself into authorities. A representative from the Clayton County Sheriff's Office said Cortez Carmichael is charged with theft by receiving stolen property, rape, aggravated sodomy and false imprisonment. Carmichael is alleged to have committed the crimes on Feb. 2 in Jonesboro, according to authorities. The Clayton County jail log shows Carmichael enter the detention center at 2:55 a.m. Thursday. The arresting agency was listed as Morrow police department. 
Henrico County police have arrested a man on charges that he sexually assaulted a preteenage girl. Lt. Linda N. Toney said Jonathan I. Westinghouse, 22, is known to frequent area roller rinks. Toney said detectives, after receiving information that Westinghouse was having an inappropriate relationship with a girl who was a family friend, investigated and charged him in an alleged incident that occurred this month at a residence off Hilliard Road. Westinghouse was charged Monday with one count of rape and one count of sodomy with a 
A 22-year-old Chesapeake man has been arrested by Virginia Beach Police for the sexual assault of a minor under the age of 13. Police say Tyree Ernest Jefferson was arrested on Friday, February 7th after the victim told detectives that the assaults occurred between December and January after the two met online and then began seeing each other in person. Jefferson has been charged with Forcible Sodomy, Rape, Taking Indecent Liberties with a Child, Object Sexual Penetration and Aggravated Sexual Battery. He is being held in the Virginia Beach Correctional Center without bond.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A Fort Pierce Central High School football player has been arrested on a lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor charge after his 
Police are re-appealing for information on a man in relation to several thefts in Hackney. They would like to speak to Michael Lawrence, 31, in connection with a spate of thefts in which a man befriended 
COBB COUNTY, GA - Marietta police arrested a man they said sexually assaulted a handicapped boy. Police said Daria Lamar Hill, 18, of Athens, violated a handicapped 
LINDENHURST, N.Y. – A Long Island man has been accused of holding a teen girl and a woman against their will and forcing them to work as prostitutes, Suffolk County Police said. On Tuesday, police searched 35-year-old Andy Gayot’s home in Lindenhurst where they said they found the 15-year-old runaway and 21-year-old woman. Gayot used “physical abuse, threats of force, intimidation and large amounts of narcotics to keep them more or less compliant.” The 21-year-old woman was held for over a year, and the teen was held for about four months, police said. Both had been forced to engage in acts of prostitution, police said.
A Missouri man who abducted, raped and murdered a 15-year-old schoolgirl has been executed after the US Supreme Court dismissed a last-minute appeal. Michael Taylor, 47, who admitted killing 
WATERBURY — A man charged with murdering a mother and son in Watertown is refusing to talk to his public defender and was ordered to undergo a psychological exam Thursday. Claude Turner, 36, was charged in 2012 with multiple counts of murder in the brutal slaying of 
Claude Turner, 36, told everyone in the upper courtroom of Waterbury Superior Court, including a judge and a prosecutor, that they were “scumbag dirty demons” before he was ushered out by marshals. Turner was charged in 2012 with multiple counts of murder in the brutal slaying of 
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing his wife in Indiana and dumping her body in a southwestern Ohio ditch. A Vigo County judge ordered the sentence Tuesday for 50-year-old Lorenzo Archer Jr. after he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and other charges in the death of 
LAS VEGAS — A self-described pimp has been sentenced to 16 years to life in state prison in a sex assault case that served as a prelude to his death penalty trial later this year in a Las Vegas Strip shooting and fiery crash that left three people dead. Ammar Harris said nothing during sentencing Wednesday in Clark County District Court. His lawyer, Robert Langford, told Judge Kathleen Delaney that the 27-year-old Harris isn't the bad person he's been made out to be. A jury in September found Harris guilty in a June 2010 sex attack and robbery of an 18-year-old woman. Harris is due for trial in September in the Strip shooting and crash that killed an aspiring rapper, a cab driver and taxi passenger a little over a year ago. 
PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia has now posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man believed responsible for eight violent purse snatch robberies in Overbrook Park since early last month (
CHICAGO - A Washington Heights neighborhood man accused of sexually assaulting a 
FOREST PARK, Ohio —A 29-year old man is accused of having sex with eight underage girls in Forest Park. Police said Christopher Charles gave some of the girls money and gifts or let them drive his car in exchange for sex. Investigators said the girls were between the ages of 11-16. On Tuesday, the Hamilton County grand jury handed down an 11 count indictment, including seven counts of compelling prostitution, two counts of unlawful sexual contact with a minor, and two counts of rape. Police said they fear there may be more victims. 
Two women were allegedly raped at gunpoint between September and early February, and a Marietta man faces a dozen felony charges in connection with both incidents. The first assault occurred just after 3 a.m. Sept. 18, 2013, when Lemon F. McMickens allegedly forced the woman to the back of the apartment building at gunpoint, made her perform a sex act and raped her. The second incident occurred between 3 a.m. and 4:10 a.m. Feb. 1 along a wooded trail in Marietta. McMickens accosted another woman and hreatened to shoot the woman before forcing her into an apartment complex and down a wooded trail, where the assault took place.
HOUSTON - A man who witnesses said was sitting naked at a north Houston bus stop near kids was beaten with a baseball bat by an angry motorist. "I thought he had passed out, but he was just naked right there at the bus stop," said one witness who didn't want to be identified. “He was just sitting down with no clothes on and kids around." According to police, someone driving by Tuesday morning noticed the naked man sitting there and stopped his vehicle in the middle of the street. He got out of his Ford Expedition wielding a wooden baseball bat and began hitting the naked man. The attacker sped away. Surveillance video shows the man flexing and stretching and dancing while disrobing inside the convenience store.
This is the shocking moment a pedestrian was killed by a single punch after he got into a row about cycling on the pavement. 
CLEVELAND, Ohio– 43-year-old Quisi Bryan of Cleveland was a notorious killer when he was sent to prison 14 years ago, but according to Cuyahoga County prosecutors, DNA testing of evidence from cold case rape investigations, has also identified Bryan as a serial rapist. Bryan, who earlier pleaded guilty to charges related to four of the old rape cases, is representing himself as he stands trial for the March, 1994 kidnapping and rape of a fifth victim at knifepoint. During jury selection on Monday, a shackled Bryan stood up and told prospective jurors, “I am 
DAYTON — An RTA bus driver survived being shot and stabbed in a seemingly random attack Monday he told police occurred during what he believes was some kind of gang initiation. 
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A judge denied a suburban West Palm Beach man bond Tuesday in connection with the death of a 27-year-old woman. Youvens Madeus, 24, faces first degree murder charges after the body of 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Police say a man attacked and robbed a stranger he met on a TARC bus. Darnell Smith is charged with first-degree robbery. Police say Smith and another man attacked the victim and threatened to kill him if he didn't cooperate. 
A Philadelphia man was charged today with stealing over $95,000 from an elderly man in the Cobbs Creek section of the city — in part by impersonating district attorney Seth Williams. The alleged scam began when 47-year-old Shelton Thomas started doing odd jobs in June 2011 for 
WEST PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia police say they have identified the suspect who brutally attacked a local business owner with a hammer. Nathanial Maybin, 29, from the 800 block of S. 56th Street is wanted for the attack outside Maple Deli at 49th and Lancaster in West Philadelphia. Police say 
STATESVILLE, NC - A man has been arrested in connection to a Statesville rape case that occurred more than a year ago. The incident was reported to police on January 13, 2013. The victim said that she was walking to her home on Signal Hill Drive when she was attacked and dragged into a wooded area by three males. She was then, officers said, sexually assaulted by one of the males. Exactly one year after the rape was reported, investigators charged 25-year-old James Calvin Smyre, Jr., with first degree forcible rape, based on interviews and evidence collected during the investigation. Smyre was arrested on February 24, taken to the Iredell County Detention Center, and placed under a $250,000 bond.
SARASOTA, Fla. —A Sarasota man faces felony animal cruelty charges after he allegedly poured hot sauce over a 3-month-old puppy. Ephrian Myles, 47, was charged early Sunday morning. 
A former Premier League footballer raped a woman in a hotel after pestering her for weeks "to be his girl", a court has heard. Former Newcastle United striker Nile Ranger, 22, is accused of raping the woman after the pair had been out together in January last year. The player, who is now with League One Swindon Town, denies the charge. Newcastle Crown Court heard the woman woke naked next to Mr Ranger not knowing where she was. 
Three and a half years after 
Three of the four people accused in the murder of a Chester, Pa. drugstore manager were set to go on trial Monday morning but the cases were put on hold shortly before they were set to begin. It could take months to set new trial dates in the shooting death of 40-year-old 
A man who was convicted of a crime spree in southern Colorado has been sentenced to 298 years in prison. Ivan Stamps was found guilty of several charges including aggravated robbery, attempted robbery, criminal impersonation and assault on a peace officer. Last Friday a judge also found him guilty of being a habitual criminal. Stamps was sentenced Monday. Stamps was accused in a crime spree that started in January 2013 when a Colorado state trooper tried to pull over a Subaru without plates near Powers and Platte in Colorado Springs. The driver wouldn't stop and started driving into a nearby field. He reportedly blew a tire trying to get away, disabling the Subaru. 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A suspect has been arrested after a fatal, early morning shooting in Nashville. Officials with the Nashville Police Department said 27-year-old Christian Brown will be charged with criminal homicide and aggravated robbery after the shooting death of 26-year-old 
CHARLOTTE, NC-- One day after a deadly shooting happened inside of a Huntersville apartment complex, the police caution tape is gone and lots of questions remain unanswered. Wednesday evening, 19-year-old 
A GANG of about 20 teenagers set upon a 14-year-old boy, slashing him four times with a blade, in the latest bout of knife violence to strike Melbourne. The group, whom witnesses say were mostly 
BRUNSWICK, Fla. - Glynn County police have arrested a man who they say was waiting inside a woman's home when she arrived home and attempted to sexually assault her. Police issued a warrant Saturday for the arrest of Dene Stephens, 29, They said he fled the woman's St. Simons Island house on foot. Police announced early Sunday morning that Stephens was in custody, but did not provide details of how he was captured.
EDMOND, Okla. —University of Central Oklahoma police arrested a man Thursday after he allegedly exposed himself on campus. 
CATOOSA COUNTY, GA - A man wanted on child molestation charges is dead, following a standoff with authorities. The situation started Wednesday afternoon when a Catoosa County Animal Control Officer attempted to pick up an abandoned dog on Casaloma Trail off of Three Notch Road. The Catoosa County Sheriff's Office says 63-year-old Alonzo Shackleford Hood Sr. opened fire at the officer. When deputies arrived on the scene Hood allegedly fired at them. No one was injured. A standoff followed. After several hours of negotiations, tear gas was thrown into the home when Hood was hiding. The situation ended shortly after 9:30 pm when Hood took his own life. Hood was wanted for Aggravated Sexual Battery and 3 counts of Child Molestation.
MURFREESBORO — A 35-year-old Mexican immigrant who is living in the country illegally was accused of abusing his girlfriend’s child for “not counting numbers correctly,” according to an arrest report from the Murfreesboro Police Department. 
Israeli special forces raided a prison in central Israel on Sunday, killing one of the country's most notorious inmates after he seized a guard's weapon, shot three guards and barricaded himself inside the compound. Police identified the inmate as Samuel Sheinbein, an American who fled to Israel after committing a gruesome murder in Maryland in 1997 and whose case sparked a high-profile row between the two allies. An Israeli court sentenced Sheinbein to 24 years for his slaying and dismemberment of 19-year-old 
A convicted pedophile who sexually molested students at a Chabad-Lubavitch school for boys in Melbourne launched an appeal. David Cyprys, a karate teacher and security guard at the college, was sentenced to jail for eight years in December for sexually assaulting
An 18-year-old man has been charged following the abduction of a 5-year-old boy during a carjacking Thursday in northwest suburban Park Ridge. Park Ridge Police received dozens of tips and phone calls from neighboring police agencies and the public following the abduction, which they say led investigators to Deangelo Fountain. Fountain, 18, of Evanston, was brought to the Park Ridge police department for questioning Friday and was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated kidnapping and unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, all of which are felonies, police said Saturday. 
A passenger attacked by three teenagers after he asked them to stop pressing the bell on a night bus today hit out after they were allowed to walk free from court. 
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - An Atlanta area minister was sentenced to ten years in prison by a Clayton County judge on Friday. Craig Davis had denied everything: the sex outside his marriage and even his positive HIV status -- until now. However, this week, a Clayton County jury convicted him on two counts of Reckless HIV, which is a felony. In his sentence hearing, one of the church women who says she had sex with Davis told the judge that she's "the one serving a life sentence." In the hearing, the prosecutor painted Davis as "unrepentant" and when it comes to unprotected sex, unstoppable. But the hearing took a turn right before the sentence was handed down -- Davis took the stand in a last minute plea for mercy. The pastor confessed that he was HIV and that he had engaged in unprotected sex without telling the women of his status. He also confessed that he believed his actions were "wrong." 
The U.S. Marshals Office is looking for a Delaware man wanted for rape; he is also a person of interest for the Memphis police. Officials say Durron Jones is known to frequent the area of Memphis' Abington Apartments, which is where three women have been recently sexually assaulted.
Toronto Police issued a public safety alert Tuesday after a Toronto man who faces several sex offences was released on bail. It is alleged that between May 17, 2008 and January 11, 2014, a man sexually assaulted a young girl numerous times. Wayne Delroy Henry, 32, was arrested on Jan. 17 and charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of invitation to sexual touching and two counts of sexual interference. 
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A former employee of the Parmadale Institute is facing new charges that she had improper sexual encounters with yet another resident of the treatment center in 2007. Cassondra Goodson, 34, of Shaker Heights, was indicted in December on 29 charges related to what county prosecutors say was an on-going sexual relationship with a different teenage girl who was placed under her care at the Parmadale. According to the indictment, Goodson is accused of having sex with the girl in a hallway and conference room at the treatment center, as well as at Goodson's home and a North Randall hotel. 
A former supervisor in the homicide unit of the Philadelphia district attorney’s office has been sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty to criminal mischief. Authorities say Lynn Nichols helped remove a truck from “stolen” status to help her boyfriend. But later, after they broke up, Nichols admits she went to the original truck owner, 
Authorities in Jefferson Parish have made an arrest in the death of a 15-month-old boy in Metairie. Emergency medical personnel were called to a home. The mother told 911 operators about 7:17 a.m. that her 15-month-old son was not breathing. EMS pronounced the child dead at the scene. Homicide detectives were called to the scene. The victim, identified as 
A 23-year-old Minneapolis man is in custody after severely assaulting an 18-month-old child and a woman last week, according to Minneapolis Police. On the evening of Jan. 25, police officers responded to the report of a domestic assault in progress. While responding, officers were notified of a “serious threat” to the toddler at the same location. When officers arrived, they made contact with a man who resisted officers’ attempts to get into the residence. Once inside, officers located the young girl with severe injuries. The mother of the victim was also located and had also suffered assault injuries. The young victim was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center and is currently in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with facial injuries, a severely fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and a severe brain injury. The suspect, identified as 
ST. LOUIS – A local woman is accused of abusing her two children. Monique Latrice Winston, 27, is charged with two counts of kidnapping, four counts of abuse/neglect of a child, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
State District Judge Mike Snipes sentenced a serial rapist Friday to life in prison for preying on at least two girls and one woman. DNA connects 
Philadelphia Police have charged a suspect in the attempted abduction of a nine-year-old girl Thursday night. The incident happened at about 5:50 p.m. in the 3700 block of N. 5th Street in the city’s Hunting Park neighborhood. “All he said was ‘come here,’” the young girl said. She’s only nine-years-old, but those are two words the young girl is likely to remember the rest of her life. “I’m happy that they said he’s locked up,” she said. According to police, “He” is 24-year-old
DALLAS -- A 17-year-old was arrested for the murder of a man who was discovered when he was dumped from a moving vehicle near the intersection of a LBJ Freeway service road and Coit Road. Police said around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, 
Five more victims have come forward with accusations against a Doylestown psychiatrist arrested last month for allegedly inappropriately touching a patient, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Dr. 
HERKIMER, N.Y. -- Two men were charged with sex crimes against several cows after a farmer installed video surveillance in his barn to find out why his cows weren't producing milk, state police said. Michael H. Jones, 35, of Cedarville Road, Illion, and Reid A. Fontaine, 31, address unknown, were each charged with sexual misconduct, a misdemeanor. 
Authorities say a retired New Jersey priest has been charged with engaging in
A former Boy Scout leader from Florida confessed to molesting dozens of young boys on camping trips after being busted with thousands of depraved child porn images, police said. Fleetwood Peeples, Jr. reportedly admitted to abusing and taking sick pictures of the youngsters who'd been in his care after officers found the horrific stash at his Orlando lock-up. 
A former actress claims she didn't know her husband murdered the 27-year-old mother of his two young children until he pushed her to help hide the body parts more than a week later. Amanda Hayes, 41, took the stand in her defense, saying she only agreed to help hide the chopped up body parts of 
YORK, Pa. —A York man is behind bars, charged with criminal homicide. Jermane Taylor, 23, was arrested in connection with the death of 34-year-old 
Baton Rouge police arrested two teens Tuesday accused in the fatal Feb. 1 attack of a 55-year-old Indiana native, a crime that might have been committed simply because the teens wanted to see who hit harder.
DOWNERS GROVE – 
Four people have been charged in connection with the deaths of three males found in a Detroit house fire last week. Tenisha Jackson, 19; Larry Johnson, 20; Rashawn Johnson, 19; and Keeshon Lake, 19, have all been charged with three counts of first-degree murder; three counts felony murder; two counts armed robbery; and one count of arson. Larry Johnson was also charged for Felony Firearm and Possession of Heroin. Firefighters responded to a house fire on Bentler Street Feb. 10. They discovered three bodies inside the home. Two of the victims were already deceased and the third person was rushed to the hospital. A medical examiner has determined 
A West Palm Beach man remains in jail after being accused of killing an Indiana man and dumping his body in suburban Palm Beach Gardens. Jay-Von Avery was charged with first-degree murder Sunday morning and held without bond. Police say he shot 
(Corinth, MS) A man is being held in the deaths of two brothers found inside their burned home in Corinth, Miss. Investigators say the two brothers, 
Police have charged two teenagers over the murder of 24-year-old 
