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Cops: (Black) Boy, 13, Charged With Terrorizing Women In South Jersey - grabbing buttocks
 BLACKWOOD, N.J. — A 13-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with five sexual contact incidents in an apartment complex in Camden County. Investigators say the incidents began in December of last year at the Autumn Ridge Apartments on Little Gloucester Road in Blackwood, New Jersey. This woman says her friend was attacked. “She kind of fought with him and actually kicked him so she was able to get away from him and then her husband heard her screaming and she was able to get into her apartment,” she said. According to investigators, on Sunday, a resident of the complex spotted a suspect matching the denoscription of the male wanted in the sexual contact cases. Officers responded to the scene and eventually tracked the 13-year-old down after a brief chase.
- January 31, 2014: Suspect approached woman, shows her a condom. As she walks away, suspect grabs her buttocks, woman screams and suspect runs away.
- February 18, 2014: Suspect approaches a woman who is clearing snow off her car, grabs her buttocks and attempts to kiss her, woman screams and suspect runs away.
- February 18, 2014: Suspect approaches another woman walking, grabs her buttocks and attempts to kiss her, woman screams and suspect runs away.
- February 20, 2014: Suspect approached a woman going to her apartment, grabs her buttocks, she yells at him and suspect flees. Unknown date in December 2013: After seeing Gloucester Township Police Community Crime Alert, woman reported that a male approached her and rubbed her shoulders inappropriate way, she yelled at him and he fled.
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UNION TOWNSHIP - A man who admitted stabbing and strangling a Union Township woman in 2010 pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Tuesday. Arnell Yearwood, 28, of Irvington, will spend 30 years in state prison with no chance of parole after agreeing to a plea deal that included admitting to killing 54-year-old Diane Zaleski. Yearwood admitted to stabbing Diane Zaleski with construction scissors and then strangling her. The victim died from multiple injuries to the head and neck. On the one-year anniversary of Zaleski's death, police released additional details about the slaying, hoping to revive a case with few leads. A Massachusetts woman who had befriended Yearwood on Facebook contacted authorities after she read an article about the case because Yearwood had mentioned some details of the murder during an online conversation. Detectives had believed that Zaleski knew her killer because friends said she never liked to open her door for anyone she didn't know. They discovered Yearwood had lived in the house right across the street at the time of the murder. - (Black-on-white)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 68-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced this week to a minimum mandatory 25 years in prison for lewd or lascivious molestation on a child younger than 12. Carl Downer was also sentenced to 16 years for sexual battery and 16 years for lewd or lascivious molestation on a child older than 12 but younger than 16. The sentences run concurrently. The abuse started when the victim was 9 years old.
A 43-year-old man is in jail after a 15-year-old girl reported that he sexually molested her for the last five years, according to an affidavit. The victim said Darrell Randolph began touching her 
An alleged serial rapist is behind bars in Dauphin County thanks to DNA evidence linking him to the sexual assault of three women in Harrisburg. The alleged acts happened in Harrisburg’s Allison Hill area last summer and fall. DA Marsico says three DNA matches got an accused serial rapist in Harrisburg off the streets. Jyrell Selvey, 23, is accused of raping three women last year. Police say he robbed two of them. One was 17 and the other two were in their 20s. Police say he threaten them with a knife. 
MEMPHIS, TN - A Church Of God In Christ pastor was sentenced to six years in prison on sexual battery by an authority figure charges in criminal court on Thursday. Michael Bryant, the then pastor of Hour of Restoration COGIC, admitted to inappropriately touching and exposing himself to a 
Police are searching for a man who has been urinating on people near the University of Florida campus. The victims told police they were standing with their backs turned to the man when they felt themselves being urinated upon. The incidents took place on Saturday, February 22, 2014 after 3:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 26, 2014 after 12:00 p.m., and Saturday, March 1, 2014 after 3:30 a.m. The victims all told police that when they confronted the man, he ran away. The suspect is described as a black man, approximately 25-30 years of age, 6’ tall, medium to “chunky” build, short curly hair, dark complexion and was last seen wearing grey or dark hoodie and baggie jeans. 
BRIDGEPORT, CT - A man was arrested Wednesday for attacking an exotic dancer in Bridgeport, according to police. Marlon Powell, 34, was accused of assaulting a woman around 4 a.m. at his home on Bond Street. Police said they arrived to the scene to find the victim bleeding from a laceration on her arm. She told them that she and Powell had an argument because she refused to have sex with him. At that point, she told police that Powell pushed her into something that cut her arm. She also said Powell threatened her with a gun. Police said they followed a blood trail back to Powell's home, where he answered the door.
SILVER SPRING, Md. — A shocking case of animal cruelty out of Montgomery County, where a Baltimore City cop is accused of choking his girlfriend’s dog to death. The officer—a five-year veteran with the force—is suspended without pay after beating the dog with a mop and strangling it to death. For five years, Baltimore City police officer Alec Eugene Taylor has protected and served the city of Baltimore—until now. He is charged with animal cruelty and abuse.
D.C. Police are working to identify about a dozen teens wanted for setting up a "flash mob"-style robbery at a high-end jeans store in Georgetown two weeks ago. Surveillance videos from Feb. 20 shows the teens entering the True Religion Brand Jeans store on M Street just before 6:30 p.m. The teens then stuffed more than a thousand dollars worth of the jeans into bags they'd brought with them before running out of the store, in just a couple minutes.
RICHMOND, VA - Richmond Police arrested two people who they say abducted a woman in Shockoe Bottom last summer, forced her to withdraw money from several ATMs, then sexually assaulted her. Bradford Gaskins, 43, and Tina Marie Hancock, 42, have been charged in the robbery, abduction and sexual assault. Detectives say on August 14 around 2:30 a.m. Gaskins and Hancock took the woman at gunpoint near 25th and East Cary streets, forced her to drive them around and withdraw money from several locations before Gaskins sexually assaulted her. Police had released surveillance images of the two suspects, which helped identify them. Gaskins has been indicted on robbery, abduction and sexual assault. Hancock has been indicted for robbery and abduction.
OMAHA, Neb. —Omaha police said a 19-year-old is in custody after an attempted abduction was reported south of downtown Wednesday afternoon. According to authorities, officers were sent to the area of 9th and Frances streets around 4 p.m. to investigate a report of child enticement. The mother of the 
An accused Philadelphia priest took the witness stand today to say he never sexually molested a
BROOKLYN - A Brooklyn rabbi and teacher at a girls seminary has been arrested for alleged distribution of child pornography. According to prosecutors, 52-year-old Samuel Waldman, is accused of distributing the illegal material over the Internet by enabling others to download videos that show minors engaged in sexual acts. Authorities say they established a connection to Waldman's computer back in November, and were able to download several videos that he allegedly made available through file sharing software, which include clips of children as young as 4 years old. 
A former leader of the Black Panthers has been released from prison more than four decades after being convicted of killing a Baltimore police officer. Marshall 'Eddie' Conway, 67, was freed from the prison in Jessup, Maryland on Tuesday. The decision came after state prosecutors agreed to change his life sentence to time served and probation. Conway is one of dozens of inmates who have been released after Maryland's Court of Appeals ruled in 2012 that judges had given improper instructions to juries before 1980. Conway was convicted in 1971 of fatally shooting 35-year-old
EAST LIBERTY, Pa. — A man charged with robbing and killing two sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker at their East Liberty home last month turned himself in at police headquarters Wednesday. Allen Darell Wade, 43, was wanted on numerous charges including criminal homicide, robbery, theft, and a firearms violation in the slayings of 
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Westminster woman with unlawful neglect of a child charges relating to an ongoing Criminal Sexual Conduct case. 44 year old Shirley Amanda Moore of 107 John Smith Road in Westminster was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 7:44am yesterday morning. She was released yesterday from the Detention Center on a $5,000 surety bond. According to the arrest warrant, Moore admitted to allowing her 
ORLANDO, Fla. - Orlando Police arrested 29-year-old Kyle Yearby who is accused of kissing an 
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - The family of a man suspected of abusing dogs wants to know what led to his mysterious death. Treon Johnson died just hours after being taken into custody Thursday. Hialeah police said a 911 caller claimed the 27-year-old man jumped into the backyard of his home and was
BRANDON FL - Deputies shot and killed a man armed with a large butcher knife in Brandon early Tuesday morning, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday, deputies were called to 3117 Bloomingdale Villas Court where Sheriff David Gee says the suspect, 41-year-old Lew G. Tyree II was carrying a large butcher knife. Sheriff said Tyree 
TOLEDO, OH - A Toledo man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl last April went in front of a judge Tuesday. John Quincy Smith was arrested last week by U.S. Marshals. Police say his 
CHARLOTTE, NC - A man has been sentenced to at least 47 years in prison for sexually assaulting and robbing a Charlotte woman twice within a two-year period. The first incident occurred in April 2010 when, officials say, 23-year-old Daven Lorenzo Teeter forced his way into a woman's home at knifepoint and "bound her arms and legs, covered her mouth and attempted to sexually assault her." Teeter then took cash and jewelry and left the home. Officials say two children were in the home during that first incident. Then, in October 2011, Teeter went to the same home, pried open a hole in the roof, and rappelled inside. Once in the home, he raped the woman while threatening her with a knife.
A Wall Street scammer conned investors out of more than $4 million he used to buy himself sports cars and pay off his mortgage, prosecutors said. 
The 66-year-old proprietor of a Gold Coast framing company was gunned down over the weekend at the Southwest Side factory complex where he had worked for 30 years, police and family members said. Described by his son as a jack of all trades and animal lover, 
SEATTLE — Byron White told Seattle police detectives he killed 54 -year-old 
TACOMA, Wash. — A man wanted for hiding in the back seat of a Tacoma woman’s car, then robbing her, has been arrested, thanks in part to social media. Christopher Brown, 31, was already in the Pierce County Jail on an unrelated burglary charge when Tacoma police told him he would also be facing charges of robbery and theft for the Feb. 13 incident. Brown is accused of hiding in 
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams shocked some local business and community leaders at a Borough Hall meet-and-greet recently, hitting them up for cash to fund pet projects — with the money to be funneled through a nonprofit that doesn’t even exist. “If this is how Eric is starting out, the borough is really in trouble,” said a business leader who attended Thursday’s event. The former state senator and retired NYPD cop, who took the borough’s reins in January, had his staff distribute fliers and “Partner/Sponsor” application forms — claiming the money would go to his “affiliated nonprofit,” called One Brooklyn, to fund various cultural events throughout the year.
MADISON, Wis. - Sheriff’s deputies looked for evidence that may have been discarded in connection to the Mazomanie homicide. Deputies "randomly" chose to look for evidence on Highway 14 just east of Black Earth. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office has named a person of interest in the death of a Mazomanie woman. Phillip A. Byrd, 39, has been named a person of interest in the homicide investigation of 
Antonio Tarver made millions in the boxing ring, held numerous championship belts and starred opposite Sylvester Stallone in the sixth installment of the "Rocky" movie franchise. And late Saturday night, Tarver was reportedly arrested in Florida on a fugitive warrant issued in Nevada. Tarver is being held without bond on an insufficient check and theft charges filed by law enforcement officials in Clark County, Nevada.
A 20-year-old woman staying at a south suburban motel last summer opened her door just a crack when she heard someone knocking early in the morning, prosecutors said Saturday. When she did, authorities allege, Donald C. Gatewood stormed in and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. Gatewood stole her belongings and tried to lock her in the bathroom before leaving the South Holland motel on Aug. 3, Assistant State's Attorney Joel Bruckman said in bond court.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — A man was arrested Saturday night after exposing himself to a woman in a downtown Palo Alto parking lot, police said. At about 10 p.m. on Saturday police received a 911 call from a woman reporting that a man was indecently exposing himself to her at a parking lot. The suspect, identified as Eric Alexander Edwards, 48, of San Leandro, approached the victim while she was sitting inside her parked car and masturbated in front of her, police said. Edwards' pants were around his ankles and he was masturbating while looking directly at the victim, police said.
A Florida court has heard how a cruise ship passenger was found "painted in blood from head to toe" after being beaten, raped and nearly thrown overboard allegedly by a Holland America crew member. Prosecutors say 
A Floridian with an IQ as high as 75 may be diagnosed as mentally disabled and be eligible for help getting a job. But on death row, the state says having an IQ higher than 70 categorically means an inmate is not mentally disabled and may be executed. The Supreme Court barred states from executing mentally disabled inmates in 2002, but until now has left the determination of who is mentally disabled to the states. In arguments Monday, 68-year-old Florida inmate Freddie Lee Hall is challenging the state's use of a rigid IQ cutoff to determine mental disability. He was sentenced to death for murdering 
Tampa Police have arrested a second man in connection with the December murder of a Bay area cab driver. Landrick Donyell Edwards Jr. is facing one count of first-degree murder with a firearm and one count of attempted robbery with a firearm. He is being held without bond at the Hillsborough County Jail. The 24-year-old suspect has been behind bars since December 13, 2013 – five days after the murder Yellow Cab driver
LINCOLN HEIGHTS, Ohio – A local man facing animal cruelty charges for beating his dog with a shovel and choking it with a chain appeared in a courtroom for arraignment. Witnesses saw Standley Bryant, 59 of Jackson Street, hit the dog several times in the head with a shovel and belt. Bryant is also accused of choking the dog by pulling it off the ground by a chain. Once arrested, Bryant went on to threaten physical harm to people. Bryant said he would shoot his neighbor in the face and kill her kids and family after police released him from jail. Bryant believed she called in the alleged abuse. Police gave the mixed-breed dog to the SPCA for treatment of its wounds.
HOPKINSVILLE, Tenn. – An Indiana man has been accused of beating his mother to death at an apartment complex in Christian County, Kentucky. Officials with the Hopkinsville Police Department said 29-year-old Jamal S. Mounts, of Evansville, Indiana, was taken into custody around 6:15 p.m. Saturday. He has been accused in the beating death of his mother, 65-year-old
A Somali man wanted for two counts of rape and a single charge of sodomy in the United States was arrested by U.S. customs officers in Niagara Falls on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 
An alleged 27-year-old madam was arrested for selling sex out of a local hotel. A detective working undercover responded to an ad online last month and Linda Dupree arranged for transportation for two prostitutes to arrive. Dupree is also accused of negotiating the price for their services at the hotel on the northern edge of Maryland Heights. When police arrived, three women, including Dupree were at the hotel. They were arrested moments later. Police say Dupree has a dangerous criminal history.
A New Jersey man whose rap lyrics boasted he would "blow your face off and leave your brain caved in the street" will have his attempted murder case considered by the state's Supreme Court, which will decide whether the words he penned should have been admitted at trial. Vonte Skinner's case is being watched closely by civil liberties advocates who contend the lyrics should be considered protected free speech under the Constitution. In an amicus brief in support of Skinner, the ACLU New Jersey contends that rap lyrics, because of their violent imagery, are treated differently than other written works.
Police have arrested a man in connection with the death of an MTA bus driver last month. Baltimore police arrested Kevin Carroll, 34, on Saturday on accusations that he fatally shot 
WARR ACRES, Okla. – Warr Acres police arrested a man they say was caught with his pants down. Witnesses called police saying the man was exposing himself in a car outside of a Family Dollar. This was in the 3900 block of Macarthur. Based on the denoscription callers gave, police were able to find Jerome Mccoy in a nearby parking lot. When officers approached his car, Mccoy was not wearing any pants and was fully exposed. They say he had several stuffed animals and roses inside the vehicle. Mccoy was arrested for indecent exposure.
A Sacramento man is under arrest for allegedly exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl, officers said Saturday. Sacramento Police say the victim was walking near Branch Street and North Avenue Friday evening, when a man in the area, Anthony Smith, reportedly exposed himself. Officers quickly tracked down Smith, and brought him into custody. Smith is now booked in Sacramento County Main Jail, facing charges of indecent exposure. 
ROSENBERG, TX -- A police officer in Rosenberg has quite a story to tell after an unruly suspect did something unexpected while being arrested. Officers responded to an officers assist call involving an alleged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at an apartment complex. Police say 21-year-old Keandra Harrison was in her car and refused to open it when officers asked. The officer says when he tried to arrest her she urinated on him and began laughing. When she was asked if it was intentional she said "it sure was." She now faces charges of harassment and resisting arrest. 
A group of Massachusetts parents are holding out hope for an apology or even just a correction from CNN’s Piers Morgan and others who, the parents say, unfairly smeared their kids in a story now lost like a pair of tube socks to the news cycle’s constant churn. “These kids were slandered. Just absolutely torn apart,” said Tom Johnson, whose son is a member of the
Investigators probing the racist spray painting last month of the small-town Massachusetts home of an eighth-grade football player are now focusing on the 13-year-old boy's mother. Andrea Brazier, mother of football player Isaac Phillips, is now being investigated as the sole suspect in a crime that shocked the town and nation when she blamed her son's teammates for spray painting racist graffiti all over the family's home. ‘Knights don’t need n*****s' was found spray painted on the side of their Lunenburg home. The school cancelled the remainder of the Blue Knights' season in response. - (
Aaron De Silva, 21, stabbed 
St. Petersburg Police arrested two men who are suspected in a carjacking and chase Thursday that caused four accidents and injured a 91-year-old woman. Investigators identified the suspects as 19-year-old Travonte Brishard Banks and 20-year-old Savon Jamar Hunter. The pursuit began around 5:15 p.m. after the carjacking of 
Prosecutors in Brockton Superior Court had urged Judge Carol Ball Tuesday to sentence Mark Sargent, 46, to up to 12 years in prison for fires he allegedly started at an unoccupied Scituate vacation home, a Marshfield marina, and a West Bridgewater building that was under construction. They also asked that she sentence Sargent’s (colored) stepson, Jeanmarie Louis, 24, who was only charged in connection with the West Bridgewater fire, to 4 to 6 years. But Ball said Sargent would serve up to three years in state prison, and Louis, up to 2½ years in a house of correction.
In a series of eight self-made videos posted online, a person who appears to be Mark Edwards depicts himself as both a predator and a monster. Mostly set to harsh rock music with ominous chords, the violently toned videos highlight a unique part of Edwards life. Edwards is being sought by Clark County law enforcement. Edwards and a 
HOUSTON – Two suspects wanted in the shooting death of a cab driver in southwest Houston are now off the streets. Jock Quinn Wilson and Jermaine Palmer were both charged with capital murder. 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has asked for help locating a man wanted for questioning in a murder in east Nashville last weekend. East Precinct detectives believe 20-year-old Andre Dewayne Lewis has important information in connection with the death of 
PHILADELPHIA — Bail has been set at $1 million for the man police say attacked another man with a hammer in West Philadelphia last week. Nathaniel Maybin Jr. turned himself in Tuesday after being identified as the suspect in last Thursday’s hammer attack near 49th & Lancaster in West Philadelphia. 
The Allentown man who drove a homicide victim's car to North Carolina has now been charged with her death. Anthony Heath, 24, formerly of Easton, has been charged with homicide and other charges related to the death of 
A 55-year-old Hazelwood man is accused of sexually assaulting a13-year-old girl multiple times. Jerry Lee Mooney was charged with three counts of statutory sodomy in the first-degree, two counts of statutory rape and one count of child molestation. Police say Mooney sexually abused the girl on two different occasions. Mooney is being held on $100,000 cash only bond. 
NORMANDY • A Cool Valley woman faces charges after she stabbed a Normandy police officer in the cheek with a butcher knife, breaking off the tip of the knife and missing his eyeball by a centimeter, police said. The officer received five stitches and will be okay, said Normandy Chief Frank Mininni. The knife hit the officer's cheek bone, and the eyelid had swollen shut, he said. Tinisha Washington, 26, was charged Wednesday with assault of a law enforcement officer, armed criminal action, and resisting arrest. The incident happened at about 9 p.m. Tuesday night after the woman's mother called police, saying that there was a disturbance and the daughter was off her medication for mental illness, police said.
Two teenagers have been arrested charged with the beating death of a Guatemalan man who came to New Jersey just weeks before. Eighteen-year-old 
Philadelphia police have issued an arrest warrant for a man wanted in a string of burglaries that have plagued two dozen city businesses. Authorities say his crime spree may stretch into Delaware County. Police are looking for 49-year-old Devon Powell who they say is seen in several surveillance videos throwing a brick through glass, entering targeted businesses and trying to grab registers. Powell is believed to be homeless and possibly a substance abuser.
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
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, 
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. 
