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Rape, Carjacking Suspects Denied Bond
 Two teenagers, ages 13 and 16, went before a judge this morning in a Jackson courtroom to face additional charges, including rape and kidnapping. The judge denied bond for both 16-year-old, Eddie Devine III and 13-year-old, Remy Harvey. Both Harvey and Devine were arrested after police say they carjacked, kidnapped and raped a woman over the weekend in Jackson. According to Jackson police, several complainants have come forth since the carjacking. Devine is now facing four kidnapping charges, two counts of sexual battery, two counts of auto theft, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of armed robbery Harvey is facing two kidnapping charges, auto theft, aggravated assault, armed robbery, sexual battery, armed carjacking, and rape. On Saturday, Jackson police tell us the two suspects pulled into the gas station to get gas and as they were leaving the victim jumped out of the car. |
FRESNO, Calif. -- A man is dead after being shot in the head at a Northwest Fresno apartment on Friday, and the man accused of accidentally shooting him is under arrest. Coroner's officials have identified the victim as 65-year-old Gerald Perry. The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. at an apartment on Ashlan near Valentine. Fresno police believe 30-year-old Lemont Smith negligently discharged a semi-automatic handgun. The bullet went through the sliding glass door of the apartment and hit Perry. Officers say the victim was sitting on a couch visiting his granddaughter at the time. Perry was rushed to Community Regional Medical Center and died Saturday afternoon. - (Black-on-white)
Rochester Police have identified the homicide victim as 
DETROIT - The trial dates have been set for the four men charged in the vicious beating of 
57 times in argument over DVR'. A 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing his grandmother more than 50 times went to school afterwards covered in blood, an Atlanta court heard yesterday. Charles Price III is being charged as an adult over the murder of 
A Garland man was arrested early Monday after a security guard interrupted a rape near the Borden Dairy plant in South Dallas, police said. Robert Lee Hughes, 66, is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a charge of sexual assault. His bail was set at $25,000. The guard got a call about 11:15 p.m. Sunday from a truck driver who saw a man and woman “wrestling on the ground” behind an unlit building near the plant. A second semi driver pulled up and saw the suspect grab the partially clothed woman in a bear hug and try to carry her across a dark field. The security guard showed up next and saw Hughes on his knees with his shirt off and the victim sitting down, nude from the waist down. Upon seeing him she yelled, “Help! Rape!” The guard handcuffed Hughes and detained him until police arrived.
A woman has accused a former Baltimore Orioles pitcher of raping her in a Washington, D.C., hotel last year, according to a civil suit filed Thursday. According to the suit, the woman claims to have met Alfredo Simon, currently a pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds, at a D.C. nightclub last April when the Reds were in town playing the Washington Nationals. The suit alleges Simon bought the woman drinks and took her to the team hotel. The victim "was visibly intoxicated and was therefore incapable of consenting to any sexual contact with (Simon)." The suit alleges Simon physically attacked and got rough with the victim and that he ignored a plea from the victim for him to stop as he sexually assaulted her. The woman claims Simon pinned her down on her stomach and raped her to the point of bleeding. 
BEXAR COUNTY, Texas -- A sheriff's investigator said 60 year old Eugene Elmer Boston was arrested while digging up a body Saturday. The sheriff's office would not say where Boston was digging up the body. Boston remains in the Bexar County Jail with a bond of $75,000.
FRESNO, CA -- A man is in the hospital following a shooting in Fresno, California. Police said around 1 a.m. on Friday, 46-year-old Henry Bess confronted a man at a gas station at Shaw and Brawley. They said Bess initiated a fight with the man, then he reached for a gun in his waistband. "They're wrestling over the gun. As they rolled over, a shot goes off and the victim believes that's the shot that struck the suspect in the crotch," said Lt. Joe Gomez, Fresno Police Department. 
MONTGOMERY, AL - Police have confirmed that the victim who suffered a gunshot wound in a shooting on Friday in Montgomery has died. 
Police are calling it the "Cinderella punishment," but the story of a Muncie mother and her stepdaughter hardly has a fairy tale ending. Investigators say Elgenia Bennett whipped the 
A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty today to beating a 4-year-old boy so severely that the boy sustained permanent brain injuries because the man lost a video game. Terrance Clay was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the January 2012 attack of the boy. He pleaded guilty to aggravated battery to a child. Clay was watching the boy while the boy's mother was working an overnight shift at a local restaurant. On January 7, 2012, Clay was playing the NBA 2K12 video game until 4 a.m. As Clay was badly losing in the game he became enraged and pulled the sleeping boy out of his bed and slammed the boy to the ground. After that Clay put on the young boy's boxing gloves and began punching the child in the head and abdomen. 
A Maryland father is accused of abusing his two-month-old daughter after she was found with severe injuries throughout her body. Police say 27-year-old Reynold O'Brien Gibbs took his baby to MedStar St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown April 16, after finding her leg was hanging limp. Emergency room staff called police after noticing the girl had fractures to her left tibia and right femur, several broken limbs and internal abdominal and spinal trauma. Later that day, Gibbs was charged with three counts of child abuse and two counts of child assault. He's behind bars with a $75,000 bond.
DJ Rashad, aka Rashad Harden, started out as a dancer in Chicago clubs and streetcorners, and turned into a pioneering producer. He helped usher in the next wave of dance music known as footwork. Harden, 34, of Calumet City, was found dead Saturday afternoon in an apartment on Chicago’s West Side and pronounced dead shortly after. Narcotics and drug paraphernalia were found near his body, police said.
SEALE, AL - An arrest has been made in the homicide investigation of 
More than eight months after a teen admitted to murdering a (White) 12-year-old girl, a judge decided to allow his mother to file a civil complaint against the boy and his father, seeking to hold them liable for potential damages in a lawsuit brought by the homicide victim's father. The Courier-Post reports a judge granted Anita Saunders request this week. Saunders is the mother of Justin Robinson, who pleaded guilty last August in adult court to aggravated manslaughter in the October 2012 slaying of 12-year-old 
California -- An Oakland man has been charged in the beating death and rape of a woman whose body was found April 5 outside a recreation center not far from Lake Merritt, police said Tuesday. Prince F. Tsetse, 40, is charged with murder and the special circumstance that the slaying occurred during a rape in the death of 
TOWN OF LOCKPORT, N.Y. – New York State Police say 18-year-old Jared Person 
A martial arts instructor in O’Fallon, Ill. has been charged with three counts of criminal sexual assault against a former student. According to police, Tony E. Harris Jr., 32, of Mascoutah is accused of sexually assaulting a
An Englewood woman was charged this week with sexually abusing a 
Dayton police say forensic evidence links three rapes reported this year to the same suspect. The serial rape suspect is not identified, but police on Friday confirmed he is the suspect in three sexual assaults on West Grand Avenue. The suspect is described as a heavyset man who stands about 6 feet tall with medium-dark skin, a medium Afro and a long face. He possibly drives a silver sedan, possibly a Toyota Camry, with a tan interior and a dolphin on the key chain. According to police, the suspect took two of three women inside an abandoned home at 1957 W. Grand Ave.
State District Judge Jeanine Howard gave Sir Young 5 years of deferred adjudication probation after he pleaded guilty to sexual assault. He faced up to 20 years in prison. He must serve 45 days in jail as a term of probation, as well as 24 hours every Oct. 4 — the date of the rape — while he is on probation. She also ordered Young to serve 250 hours of community service at a rape crisis center. Deferred adjudication probation means that if he meets these and other terms of of probation, he will not have a criminal conviction. He must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Sir Young was 18 and
A woman was walking in East Toledo late Thursday when she said she was grabbed, dragged into an abandoned house, and raped, according to court documents. Raymond Green, Jr., 18, of 1073 Sisson Dr. was charged with abduction with a sexual motivation and rape. He was arraigned Friday in Toledo Municipal Court and ordered to remain in the Lucas County jail in lieu of $200,000 bond. According to affidavits, the woman was walking when a man grabbed her, put a knife to her throat, and dragged her into an abandoned house at 504 E. Broadway. Police said the incident was reported at 11:24 p.m. Thursday. Inside the house, the man held the knife to the woman's throat and demanded she perform oral sex on him, according to court records. 
A former high school teacher accused of having sex with a student has been found guilty on rape charges. A judge found Tyrone Nash guilty of rape. Tyrone Nash was arrested and charged in 2011 with five counts of second degree rape and five counts of oral sodomy. The victim told authorities the relationship between the two started in 2010. She told authorities the two had sex multiple times while she was a sophomore and a junior at the school. Nash rejected a plea deal and continued case as a bench trial. A bench trial means the case was held in front of a judge and there was no jury present.
RADFORD — A judge on Friday upheld a jury’s recommendation and sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for raping a Radford University graduate. Shawn Bonds, 35, of Radford, was convicted of the charge in January after jurors listened to six hours of testimony and arguments. The case began more than a year ago, when a 23-year-old woman reported to police that she had been raped while sleeping on a small couch at a house party.
A man is behind bars after he allegedly abused an elderly couple who allowed him inside their home. Investigators say an 
KYLE, Texas — After less than six hours of freedom, police dogs tracked down 34-year-old Kendrick Davis, an inmate who escaped from the Kyle Correctional Facility south of Austin on Saturday afternoon. Davis was located shortly after 8 p.m. hiding in a wooded area a few hundred yards from the privately-run minimum security prison. Police said the 34-year-old inmate was found naked, wearing only one shoe. He suffered minor injuries.
SAN DIEGO - A homeless man was arrested this morning after assaulting several employees at the DMV office in Uptown. Police say the man was seen urinating outside the building on Normal Street around 7:30 a.m. When an employee told him to leave, the man struck as many as three employees. Officers arrived and took the man away in handcuffs.
A Woodlawn man was charged Tuesday with fatally shooting his neighbor, saying he felt "disrespected" when the victim left a Sunday cookout early, according to charging documents. Police said Brandon Jerome Stanfield, 30, shot and killed 
An Atlantic City man already serving time in prison was sentenced to an additional 38.5 years for guilty charges including attempted murder. Roger Howard, 21, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault for a shooting incident on Oct. 13, 2012. Police responded to a call of reported gunshots that day and found
A predatory pizza deliveryman pleaded guilty Tuesday to the 2012 rape of a former actress sleeping alongside her daughter in their luxury Upper West Side high rise. Baby-faced 
A man found dead inside a freezer at an abandoned auto body shop in Ceres last week was married to the man accused of killing him. Ceres police identified the victim Friday as 
A former Met Police officer has been summonsed to appear in court to face a charge of indecently assaulting 
Hanifi Sahin,
WACO - Some hardball questioning by the prosecution during the sentencing phase of Carnell Petetan Jr. trial led to some near fireworks by the defense. Petetan, who faces the death penalty for murdering his wife, sat stoic for most of the day as witnesses came up to testify against him, but that all changed as his mother spoke Wednesday afternoon. Two former cell mates of Petetan and another former inmate talked to the jury as well. All three men claimed to have been sexually assaulted while in prison by Petetan. They all said because of their short and weak stature, Petetan took advantage of them and threatened them to have sex with him or else he would hurt them or in some cases kill them. 
DAYTON -- Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. says 24-year-old Paul Cokes Jr. of Trotwood was found guilty as charged Thursday to one count of rape of a child under 10. Heck said Cokes raped the child June 11, 2013. The child is the daughter of a friend. The girl told her mother about the rape a few days later. The mother then contacted Trotwood police. Police say their investigation confirmed the girls' allegations. Cokes is facing life in prison, when he is sentenced, at 9 a.m. May 9.
A metro area pastor is charged with forcible rape. Pastor LeNell McGee was arrested by the U.S. Marshals. McGee reportedly was pastor of both Greater Livingston Missionary Baptist in Flora, Miss. and Greater Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist in Terry, Miss. McGee is a former employee of the Jackson Public School District. He worked as a custodian at Forest Hill High School. Magee resigned from that position in March. The incident came to light in March when a Forest Hill student walked into the school and began crying. She told school officials that McGee had taken her to a hotel and had sex with her, investigators said. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 23-year-old Jacksonville man pleaded guilty Friday to child sex trafficking. Clive Nelson faces up to life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to the plea agreement, Nelson enticed and recruited a 
Authorities have arrested a man for the alleged sexual assault of a female student at the University of South Alabama. Jawaun Dawson, 24, is charged with sexual abuse, sodomy, kidnapping, robbery and fraudulent use of a credit card. The Mobile resident is a former USA student who last attended classes in 2011. On Wednesday, police at the University of South Alabama received information that a female student was allegedly abducted at gunpoint in the North Chemistry parking lot, forced into her car, and sexually assaulted. Police reported her cell phone, cash and her car were taken by the suspect. 
A North Carolina teenager tried to kill her grandmother by dumping insecticide and termite killer into a pot of collard greens because the woman took the girl's cell phone, authorities said. Tyt'ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson, 17, of Fayetteville, was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder for dumping the chemicals into a pot of the greens being cooked by 
NEW ORLEANS - Nearly five months after 
BROOKS COUNTY - A Mexican national who crashed a vehicle while transporting illegal immigrants across the Texas border back in November of 2013 was sentenced Friday to 200 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay more than $2.65 million in restitution. It was Nov. 23, 2013, when 19-year old 
Raymond Michael Miranda
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling tells his girlfriend, 
OAKLAND, Calif. — Two suspects have been arrested in the Oakland slaying of beloved dog walker who was killed last July as she drove down an East Oakland street, authorities announced Thursday. The Alameda County District Attorney's Office filed murder charges against Stephon Lee and 21-year-old Mario Floyd in the death of 66-year-old 
Jerry Temple is not the guy you want living in the apartment above you. Especially if you rely on a wheelchair, own a flat-screen TV and value your life. In Temple's case, the unlucky neighbor was 
A suspect has been arrested in connection to the April 15th death of 
Frederick Gray appeared smug, showing no remorse as he was sentenced to life in prison plus 52 years for shooting Wilmington Police Officer 
and Jared Wiggins
, were arrested and police are looking for a third suspect.
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. - Three people have been arrested and one is being sought in connection with the robbery and shooting of an Orange Park man last month. Dramil Smith, 19, Corlis Thompson, 26, and Toccara Lockhart, 19, are charged with armed robbery and aggravated battery in the March 23 robbery and shooting of 
ORANGE PARK, Fla. - A man who met a woman on an online dating service was robbed and shot Sunday night in Orange Park. Deputies said the woman, known only as Brittany, met the 43-year-old victim, 
The man accused of opening fire on officers in the front lobby of the LAPD’s West Traffic Division earlier this month died Thursday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Daniel Christoph Yealu, 29, died in the hospital around 2 a.m., Officer Drake Madison of LAPD Media Relations said. Yealu allegedly walking into the West Traffic Division lobby in Mid-City on the night of April 7, said he had a complaint, and then opened fire on two desk officers, according to police. 
A hammer-swinging homeless man attacked a sleeping mom and two sisters in their Queens apartment this week — stealing a kiss from one and property from the others while cracking all three women in their heads. Lawrence Parsons, 29, allegedly broke into the Astoria apartment of Ilene Picota at 2:40 a.m. April 20 and bashed the 53-year-old mom in the head as her adult daughters, 
CHICAGO - A Chicago man is facing felony charges after failing to tell his ex-girlfriend that he had HIV and ended up giving her the virus, Cook County prosecutors said. Johanson Little and
A New Orleans man was convicted in a Jefferson Parish courtroom of trying to rape a 
A Tulsa man has been arrested on four counts of lewd molestation against two teenage boys. An investigation through the Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force found 26-year-old Roy Lee Matheney had sexual contact with 
BECKLEY - A man who was convicted of Third Degree Sex Abuse involving a minor is now the target of a manhunt. Christopher Lee Preston, 35, of Beckley is wanted by the West Virginia State Police. Preston was convicted of a sex crime in 1998 and must register as a sex offender. He is now under investigation by law enforcement out of Kanawha County. The new investigation, which began in March 2014, involves a possible sex assault to which Preston and what police are calling a "female acquaintance" may be connected. While State Troopers were looking for Preston he reportedly ran off the with the female. That puts him in violation of the requirement to register as a sex offender, since any change of address must be updated within 10 business days of the change. Warrants for Preston's arrest have been issued.
SAN ANTONIO - A 32-year-old man is accused of pointing a knife at a woman and forcing her to have sex with him, a crime the alleged victim said he claimed to have committed before. Marcus Cooper was arrested Wednesday on a charge of aggravated sexual assault in connection with the March 30 incident San Antonio police responded to a call about a rape in progress and spoke to a 20-year-old woman. She told officers that she had agreed to have sex with a man for money, then got into his car to go to a different, more private location. Once they arrived, she said the man pulled out a knife, ordered her to take off her clothes and threw them out of the window, then forced her to have sex.
MATTESON, Ill. – A woman was sexually assaulted Thursday morning on a jogging and cycling trail near a Metra station in south suburban Matteson — an incident that could be related to attacks on women in nearby suburbs, police say. Matteson police received a call about the rape along Old Plank Road Trail between Main Street and Homan Avenue at 5:30 a.m. A 34-year-old woman who was walking to the nearby Metra station from her home in Park Forest was grabbed and raped along the trail. Her attacker then fled the scene on foot. She was taken to a hospital to be treated for her injuries. The rapist was described as a clean-shaven African American male in his late 20s to early 30s...
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - An Aldine Independent School District teacher is accused of giving a middle school student a lap dance on his birthday in front of other students. Court documents show Felicia Smith, 42, was charged with improper relationship with a student on Thursday. Court records state Smith performed a nearly 4-minute long lap dance for a 
The stowaway teenager who miraculously survived a five hour flight to Hawaii hidden in the wheel well of a Boeing 767 was falsely told by his own father that his mother was dead – and he discovered the truth two years ago, it was claimed today. 
BLENDON TOWNSHIP, Ohio - A plea deal has been reached for the teen accused of murdering a jogger in a Blendon Township park. 55-year old 
A felony warrant was issued Thursday for the arrest of 18-year-old Adrian Lester, wanted for first-degree murder in the April 14th shooting death of 
A DeKalb County detention officer is behind bars on accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman after getting her drunk, officials said. Keenan Notae, 24, was arrested Wednesday by DeKalb County police and charged with rape, sodomy and furnishing alcohol to a person under age, authorities said. On Jan. 14, DeKalb police spokesman Capt. Stephen Fore said he went on a date with a 19-year-old woman and gave her alcoholic drinks. "She became intoxicated and was sexually assaulted by Notae," Fore said.
BOSTON – Harvard University is telling students to be on alert after a student was allegedly assaulted off-campus. It happened just after 1 a.m. Monday around 300 Beacon Street in Somerville. The student, who was walking home from Porter Square MBTA Station, told police she screamed and fought off her attacker. She was later able to describe him as a thin black man, in his thirties, six feet tall, clean shaven, and wearing dark clothing. Police have provided a sketch of the suspect. Officials say the incident is similar to an assault that was reported in Cambridge last week. Last Wednesday, a woman was assaulted on Richdale Ave. while walking home from Porter Square MBTA Station. Police are investigating whether the two incidents are connected. Harvard Police also sent out an alert Wednesday after a man reportedly exposed himself to a grad student. 
A Cherokee County man was in jail Monday and facing a murder charge in the stabbing death of his wife, a mother of four children. 
DETROIT - Stubborn squatters who have reportedly disrupted a quiet Detroit neighborhood aren't making things any easier on themselves. They have finally been evicted, but they didn't leave quietly. When 7 Action News reporter 
LOS ANGELES — Authorities said a man convicted of strangling a teen girl and raping another has been sentenced to 49 years to life in state prison. Damond Williams, 37, was convicted of first-degree murder, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, forcible rape, sodomy by use of force and forcible oral copulation in February. The judge ordered the defendant to pay restitution to the murder victim’s family. On Sept. 17, 2012, the teenage girl’s body
A man faces charges after he allegedly dragged a woman in the street and forced her at gunpoint to perform sex acts on him. According to police, Ramone Mangual, 32, attacked the victim while she was walking on West Florissant early Tuesday morning. Mangual then allegedly dragged the victim to his home one block away on East John Street. Once at his home, police said he pulled a gun on the victim and forced her to perform various sex acts. Witnesses said they heard the woman call for help. According to investigators, the victim was released after Mangual threatened to kill her if she told anybody.
LAS VEGAS -- Metro detectives are looking for additional potential victims who may have come in contact with sexual assault suspect Jonathan Tyron Thompson. Detectives from the LVMPD Sexual Assault Section on April 7 received information that an adult male, later identified as Thompson, was contacting a female juvenile through a social media site with the intent to persuade and lure the victim to have sex with him. Thompson was taken into custody on April 21and transported to the Clark County Detention Center and was charged with two counts of luring of a child with sexual intent; two counts of child abuse or neglect; solicitation of prostitution from a juvenile; and sex trafficking of a child.
HAVERTOWN, Pa. – A respected ophthalmologist in Havertown is now in handcuffs as he walks out of court. Dr. Paul Ezell and his 23-year-old daughter Victoria were arrested Wednesday morning for growing and selling marijuana out of his home. Lt. Charles Moore says, “We can estimate somewhere a yearly revenue between $30,000 to $40,000.”
A New Jersey woman was sentenced to a fine and community service for suffocating four of her boyfriend's bulldog puppies inside a food cooler, officials said. Kimberly Matthews, 27, was found guilty of four counts of animal cruelty Wednesday after her arrest last fall. Police said they were alerted to the case after an acquaintance of hers told them that Matthews had given him a blue Igloo cooler with 
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. -- An aspiring rapper previously named as a person of interest in the discovery of burnt remains was arraigned on new charges Wednesday. Reggie Cummings was ordered held without bail on charges of illegal disposal of a corpse and accessory after the fact. He pleaded not guilty. Cummings was a person of interest in the November 2013 discovery of remains near Bridgewater State Hospital and Hyde Park. Limbs and other body parts were found near the hospital, while a torched torso was found in Hyde Park. Investigators say the remains belong to 24-year-old 
But like millions of other “temporary” visa overstayers, Auntie 
TULSA - The jury trial for a man accused of gunning down two people at south Tulsa Quiktrip is underway. Nineteen-year-old Jermaine Jackson is accused of shooting and killing 18-year-old
