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Illegal immigrant ordered to deport ducks into church: I’m not leaving
 An illegal immigrant, 36, defied a federal order to leave the United States and instead, took cover in a Tucson, Ariz., church, and is now vowing to stay there indefinitely. Daniel Neyoy Ruiz, a maintenance supervisor for a Tucson apartment facility, was supposed to head back to Mexico before the close of business on Tuesday. But instead, he ducked into a local church, the Southside Presbyterian, and called for his wife and American-born son to join him at the known sanctuary. Law doesn’t bar authorities from storming the church and taking him into custody, or forcibly putting him across the border. But the church has built a reputation as a sanctuary and safe haven for illegals for the last 30 years, and authorities are hesitant to act, AP said.
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A 27-year-old man has been charged with capital murder in the slaying of a Fort Worth auctioneer. Romon Henderson is accused of fatally shooting Sheila Johnson, 54, during a robbery at 4A Good Auction in the 3900 block of Mansfield Highway on April 13. Johnson was shot multiple times in the torso, police said. Henderson was arrested on an unrelated aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge May 4. The capital murder charge was added Thursday. His bail has been set at $235,000 on both charges. Authorities said Johnson shot at burglars who broke into the auction business. They returned fire. She would often go to the auction barn late at night or sleep there after reporting multiple break-ins since December, police said. - (Black-on-white)
BETTENDORF, Iowa — Authorities say a convicted sex offender faces felony charges after he was found hiding under a child’s bed in Bettendorf. The Quad-City Times reports the two charges were filed Tuesday for 33-year-old Julien Martell Skipper. He remains at the Scott County Jail. Court records do not list an attorney. Skipper was found April 19 hiding at a neighbor’s apartment as police investigated a disturbance call. He was arrested at the time and charged with possession with intent to deliver and a parole violation. Police say Skipper failed to notify authorities he had been living in the neighbor’s apartment since early March. He also didn’t disclose that two children ages 5 and 10 lived in the apartment. Skipper was convicted in 2007 of lascivious acts with a child. 
CROWN POINT | A Merrillville man credited for helping convict Jeremy Blue in the slaying of a Lucky Mart Foods clerk was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison. Donvell A. Edwards, 23, pleaded guilty to robbery. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to dismiss charges of murder and murder in the perpetration of a felony. According to court records, Edwards helped plan the March 4, 2012, armed robbery of the Lucky Mart Foods in Merrillville. Police said Blue was walking out of the store with two drawers of cash when he stopped and shot the store's clerk, 
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Columbus Police say they have arrested the man who killed a great-grandmother on her 71st wedding anniversary. 
ST. LOUIS — A former convict and registered sex offender was charged Friday with a federal weapons count linked to a botched southern Illinois bank holdup in which
A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with the murders of two women in Bossier City last weekend. 26-year-old Brandan Santrell Butler of Bossier City was taken into custody shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday by authorities in Bogalusa, Louisiana and arrested on a warrant from Bossier City Police charging him with two counts of first degree murder. Butler is charged with murdering 24-year-old Jacqueline Darlene Beadle and 26-year old 
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Virginia State Police announced a major development in the kidnapping and murder of a Waynesboro Reserve Police Captain 
A Chicago missionary has been murdered, found dead in the very country he was trying to help. 
HOUSTON - Police say a 16-year-old student at Nimitz High School was so upset with his substitute teacher for taking his phone, he pushed her onto the ground. The video shows the student, who's described as 6 foot 3 and 325 lbs., standing up and pushing the teacher three times and on the third time the
SAN FRANCISCO — The images are grainy. The attack was quick and violent. Surveillance tape shot last June 30th during San Francisco's Pink Saturday celebration shows a young woman lying on a sidewalk being kicked in the head and knocked unconscious, moments after she was robbed by three people. On Friday, a San Francisco Superior Court judge sentenced 23 year-old Christopher Porter-Bailey, the Oakland man convicted in that vicious attack, to six years in prison. The 
CLEVELAND, OH - In April 2014 former Cleveland Police Officer Gregory Jones was convicted of rape and kidnapping and on Friday, May 16, he was sentenced to nine years in prison. At the start of the hearing, things intensified for Jones when he would not cooperate with Judge Steven Gall. When prompted to fill out a form stating that he understood his responsibility as a sex offender, Jones refused. When Judge Gall asked Jones if he understood what was being asked of him, he would not give confirmation. The hearing ended with Jones neither signing the form nor answering the Judge's questions about his new obligation. On July 13, 2012, Jones, 48, sexually assaulted a 34-year-old female victim of Chicago. 
SCOTTSDALE, AZ - Three men have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female friend at their Scottsdale apartment. The 19-year-old victim said she had been drinking with the three men at their place on 78th Street on May 12 and she decided to sleep at the home because she felt she was too intoxicated to drive. She reported that one of the men came in the room overnight and sexually assaulted her, and then his two roommates came into the room and also allegedly sexually assaulted her. The victim left the apartment and called a family member who took her to the hospital and police were called. Scottsdale police said the suspects, Martell Clark, Renon Lorenzo, both 21, and Jaborie Rucks, 20, made statements to police indicating their involvement and they were all arrested.
CHICAGO - A South Suburban man apparently didn’t learn his lesson the first time he was caught pimping minors for sex, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Just a month after leaving state prison Tyrelle Lockett again began, allegedly, trafficking minors for sex, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed this week Lockett, 21, is now charged with transporting an underage victim from Indiana to Illinois with the intent that the minor engage in prostitution. The prostitution business was, authorities believe, a family affair. Lockett’s twin brother, identified only as Individual E, acted as a minor’s pimp. The brother also dated that minor. Lockett’s brother, Myrelle Lockett, was also charged in 2010 alongside his brother. The twins were convicted of trafficking people for forced labor or services and were sentenced to four years in state prison. The twin’s father, identified only as Individual B in the complaint, also is accused of being involved in the sex business. 
TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. – A man was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to child molesting in April. In November, a
Nearly three decades after a woman named 
A New York City cab driver insisted Friday that it is his right, hands down, to wear a Nazi armband – even if the Taxi and Limousine Commission says otherwise. 
He thought it was a joke, but nobody else is laughing over the e-mails a high-school wrestler allegedly sent a female classmate suggesting he wanted to cut her up and eat her. "Hello, I think you are delicious and tasty. I like to eat people, particularly girls. You are the chosen few," a criminal complaint quotes 
Two and a half years after 12 year-old 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A St. Johns County judge has agreed to a jury's decision to give a man the death penalty after being convicted of killing a Florida State University student in 2010. Judge Raul Zambrano agreed with the jury's 12-0 recommendation for the death penalty for Quentin Truehill, 26, during a sentencing hearing Friday morning in the murder of 
HOUSTON -- Police are looking for a man who assaulted and tried to rape a 68-year-old woman in Greenspoint. The incident happened on April 1 around 9:15 a.m. in the 800 block of Greens Road. 
A 14-year-old boy grabbed a woman by the neck, demanded her cell phone and then sexually assaulted her in a nearby bush, according to a West Palm Beach police arrest report. Police said Thyreke Mills, 14, started following the female just after 9 p.m. April 26 after she walked outside her apartment in West Palm Beach. The unidentified female, whose age was not released, told police she was walking across the complex when she saw Mills standing by the clubhouse. She walked a little further and he began following her. Mills led her to an overgrown area near a canal and threw her to the ground while the female tried to fight back. Mills sexually assaulted her and she began yelling
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Vienna man who admitted hiding a friend’s body in the woods after a heroin overdose rather than seeking help for her has been sentenced to nearly seven years in prison. Prosecutors on Friday requested a 10-year sentence for 20-year-old Kyle Alifom, who pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence after first being charged with heroin distribution resulting in death. Alifom was with 
TUCSON - A park employee left for dead at the Chiracahua National Monument nine months ago, speaks out about her attack. 
BLUFFTON, SC - The Charleston County Sheriff's Office named a suspect in the disappearance of a missing Hollywood woman. Deputies have identified Jerry Lee Manigault, 53, as a suspect in the disappearance of 
HANOVER, VA - Ten years after a man was found shot to death in a car in Mechanicsville, Hanover County Sheriff's have made an arrest in the case. Investigators arrested Devion M. Gentry, 32, in connection with the 2004 homicide of 
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio —Middletown police arrest one man and one juvenile in connection with the house fire in the 2000 block of Roosevelt Avenue in Middletown Tuesday. Police said Thaddeus Shields, 18, was charged with aggravated arson, which is a second-degree felony. A 17-year-old juvenile was also arrested and charged with unruly to wit aggravated arson, officials said.
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but her supervisors failed to report the attack for 73 DAYS'. A female prison guard has claimed that she was sexually assaulted by 17 inmates - and that it took her bosses more than two months to call the police. The woman, who has not been identified, was on duty in December at a Miami-Dade correctional facility in south Florida when she was cornered by a gang of men while responding to an out-of-control murder suspect. While she was dealing with the prisoner, other inmates flooded into the enclosed area after a cell door that should have been closed was left open. 'I was devastated. I was traumatized. I was physically and sexually assaulted.' In a horrifying video, prison guards can be seen struggling to get control of dozens of inmates in the open housing bay. 
HOUSTON - A man stepping off a METRO light rail train was punched in the face and left with a black eye, a cut and fractured nose. "I looked down at my phone to read a text message and the next thing I know...POW!" said 
Charity Stevens (aka Charity Johnson) is being held in a Texas jail on $500 bond for "failure to identify and giving false information," after it was discovered that she was posing as a high school student half her real age, fooling even the woman acting as her guardian
FLINT, MI -- A Flint teen was ordered to spend a minimum of nearly three decades in prison even after jurors acquitted him of killing a 71-year-old man. Estes Jamone Walker, 19, was sentenced Tuesday, May 13, by Genesee Circuit Judge Geoffrey Neithercut guilty of carjacking, first-degree home invasion and unarmed robbery following a four-day trial stemming from the death of 
TOWSON, Md. — A man claiming to be God slammed a stolen landscaping truck into a Baltimore-area television station Tuesday morning, then spent hours watching live TV news footage of the scene before local authorities arrested him. He has been identified as 28-year-old Vladimir Mehul Baptist, of Parkville. Among the slew of charges he faces include three counts of attempted second-degree murder. Baptiste is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $750,000 bail.
Tthe suspect was “speaking in tongues” while inside the station. He was “ranting and raving,” and was “incoherent.” 
TULSA, Oklahoma - A Tulsa couple is in jail, accused of locking their 
A Tulsa pastor has been arrested on complaints of lewd molestation at an Owasso residence. According to Owasso police, a juvenile female reported that she was sexually abused in April by an adult male she met at a Tulsa church. The suspect was identified as 32-year-old Damien Keith Bonner, who is a pastor at Galilee Baptist Church in Tulsa. The victim was 
An Atlanta man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 26-year-old woman in Buckhead, will spend the remainder of his life in prison. Willie Devontae Tims was convicted Monday on charges of rape, aggravated sodomy, kidnapping, hijacking a motor vehicle and weapons offenses. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms, plus 70 years. Tims was arrested in March 2013, two weeks after he was part of a group that abducted a woman who was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of Peachtree and Roxboro roads. Police say four men approached and got into the woman’s car while she was at a traffic light. The men had the woman drive around the Buckhead area and eventually pointed a gun at her before forcing her into the back seat, where she was sexually assaulted. Police say two weeks later Tims called the woman and sent her a picture of himself. He was arrested a few days later.
The arrest of a Monticello man on a felony rape charge Tuesday ended an eight-month investigation, Kingston police said Wednesday. Jonathan G. Johnson, 42, of Monticello, was arrested in connection with a rape reported to police on Sept. 11, authorities said.
A Gainesville teenager was arrested early Wednesday morning after police allege he sexually assaulted and molested a child. Javon Jaquez Cray, 18, of 4121 NE 15th St., Apt. 78, was arrested after the girl's mother reported to the Gainesville Police Department that her daughter was raped by a family friend Tuesday at 7 p.m., a police report said. The girl told police Cray had sexually assaulted and molested her while they were at her home. The girl also said similar incidents had happened “a thousand times,” but that all of them had occurred in the past year, the report said. 
One adult and two teenagers were arrested Monday by Auburn Police and charged with several felonies, including rape, sodomy and burglary. Lakeith D. Black, 18, was arrested and charged along with a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old. They were charged with burglary first degree, theft of property first degree, rape first degree and sodomy first degree. The 15-year-old was also charged with receiving stolen property second degree. 
PINELLAS COUNTY, FL - A 27-year-old man is charged with sexual activity with a minor after an investigation revealed he fathered a teen girl's child. Cordara Crenshaw, 27, of Largo, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Tuesday night. Detectives say they started investigating earlier this year when
PARMA, OH (WOIO) - The Parma Police Department has arrested an 18 year-old Normandy High School student after he was accused of sexually assaulting a female student inside the high school on May 12, 2014. Raylon Etheridge, who lists an address in Maple Heights, is accused of sexually assaulting a 15 year-old female student inside of a school restroom after regular school hours. 
Parents said a Metro East karate instructor accused of sex crimes is trying to charge them for taking their children out of the academy he runs Tony E. Harris Jr., 32, is owner and instructor at Invictia Martial Arts Academy in O’Fallon, IL. In April, 2013, Harris was charged with three counts of criminal sexual assault for allegedly sexually abusing a female student and is still in jail. 
Investigators have evidence linking a suspect to a brutal rape and robbery in downtown St. Louis. Investigators are looking for Terrence Walker, 38. DNA evidence has linked him to a 1995 case of a woman who was held at gunpoint and sexually attacked. St. Louis Police ask that anybody with information about his whereabouts call them. 
MEMPHIS, TN - - A man could serve up to six years in prison for dousing a dog with lighter fluid and setting it on fire, investigators say. Tuesday's incident followed an argument that happened nearly two years ago when Brian Gillum, 31, fought with his girlfriend over his car keys at a Whitehaven home. According to police reports, Gillum is a two-time DUI offender. Following the disagreement, Gillum walked outside on the porch and targeted the couple's 2-year-old 
MARION COUNTY -- A Marion County man was arrested Friday night on animal cruelty charges, according to deputies. Witnesses said Wayne Gibson, 35, of Belleview, was walking his pit bull on a leash around 9:30 p.m. Gibson made his way to a nearby backyard, which was about a three-minute walk from his residence. Witnesses said Gibson let go of the leash and ordered the attack of 
TULSA, Oklahoma - Late Monday night a woman returned home just hours after being shot in the head. With the help of family members, 
A South Carolina woman was arrested Tuesday in the 2008 slaying of her husband, whose dismembered body was found in two Texas lakes, Ennis police say. Investigators suspect that Gloria Aiken, 47, killed 
PEARLAND, TX -- Pearland police have made an arrest in the murder of a pregnant high school teenager. Police say the suspect murdered 16-year-old Dawson High School student 
PROVIDENCE - A man accused of killing his estranged wife in Central Falls was ordered held without bail Monday. Robert Bethea, of West Warwick, was arraigned on charges of murder and violating a no-contact order. He's accused of killing 41-year-old 
and whose grandfather is the infamous Kansas City mobster 'Willie the Rat'. He has now been named as 
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A federal appeals court has rejected a Texas death row inmate's appeal that his execution could result in a bungled lethal injection similar to one two weeks ago in Oklahoma. State records show Robert James Campbell was convicted in the 1991 abduction, rape, and murder of a Houston bank teller. According to court documents and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Campbell was involved in a string of armed carjackings in 1990 and 1991. In one incident, 
MONTGOMERY, AL - 
Meridian, Miss. Three people have been charged in connection with the capital murder of 
Chicago police today released a sketch of the man thought to have fatally shot a Gold Coast business owner outside a South Side factory complex where he had worked for 30 years. 
LOS ANGELES — A convicted smuggler who rammed his boat into a Coast Guard vessel off the Southern California coast, killing a crewman, has been sentenced to life in federal prison. 
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PROVO — The teenager accused in the death of a Utah County sheriff’s sergeant pleaded not guilty in court Monday morning. It appears plea negotiations could be in the works for 17-year-old Meagan Grunwald, who was charged as an adult with aggravated murder in the death of Sgt. Cory Wride. The last time Grunwald appeared in court, a judge determined there was enough evidence to send the case to trial. But Grunwald's attorney told the media he was open to a plea deal. Prosecutors believe Grunwald drove her boyfriend, 27-year-old
NORTH COVENTRY TWP., Pa. - - Authorites have announced an arrest in the shooting of an 8-year-old boy who was riding his bike in Chester County, and police say the suspect's interview on Action News helped them make that arrest. The shooting happened around 5:00 p.m. Friday in the unit block of West Main Street. Police say 55-year-old Wayne Snowden fired a random shot that struck 8-year-old 
Shelby police said Saturday night they have issued an arrest warrant for the boyfriend of a 17-year-old girl who was shot and killed early Saturday morning. Aaron Byers is in custody. Byers has been charged with murder, possession of a firearm by felon and attempted armed robbery. Police spent much of Saturday investigating 
The man accused of murdering
A Madison man who broke into his neighbors' apartment and killed a mother and daughter before police fatally shot him had been convicted of disorderly conduct in the past, court records show. The Dane County coroner identified the suspect as Londrell Emone Johnson and the victims as 57-year-old 
A Flint man who killed an elderly woman when he was 14 was spared life in prison Friday, May 9, becoming the first person sentenced in Genesee County under a new law that gives judges more leeway in juvenile murder cases. Genesee Circuit Judge Archie Hayman sentenced Mark Anthony Jones Jr. Friday, M ay 9, to (only) 40-60 years in prison after he was convicted of first-degree felony murder for the Nov. 16, 2010, fatal shooting and robbery of 
More than a month after a man was shot to death during an armed robbery at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex, police have identified two suspects they believe were involved in his death. And on Wednesday they announced they were searching for the men. Investigators have obtained warrants, charging Demetrius Fortson, 19, and Jeremy Southern, 24, with murder, according to Atlanta police. And they are asking for the public’s help in finding them. The shooting happened around 1:30 p.m. March 26 at the Windsor Square Townhomes at 3804 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Investigators said 
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Knox County Grand Jury returned a True Bill Tuesday on three men, charging them with Felony Murder and Attempted Especially Aggravated Robbery. 
LANCASTER – A 26-year-old woman accused of driving her boyfriend to and from a robbery that turned into a homicide at a Lancaster computer store in 2012 has pleaded no contest. Jinea Ingram pleaded no contest Tuesday to one count of voluntary manslaughter, and she admitted the allegation of use of a firearm. As part of the negotiated settlement, the prosecutor will ask the judge to dismiss the remaining counts against Ingram in connection with the case – one count of murder and two counts of second degree robbery. Ingram now faces a total of 21 years in state prison; and she is expected to be sentenced after the trial of her co-defendant and one-time boyfriend, Timothy Jerode Johnson. The two were arrested in March of 2012 in connection with the death of Lancaster business owner 
OMAHA, Neb. — Anthony Vaughn went back-and-forth with prosecutors the morning his trial in a series of serial rapes was set to begin. In the end, the trial never happened. Vaughn instead struck a deal, changing his not guilty pleas to no contest pleas. Judge Mark Ashford found the 42-year-old guilty -- setting him up for nearly 140 years in prison. "He will be behind bars for the rest of his life," Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said of the deal. The bargain also meant Vaughn's victims wouldn't have to testify in court. Now, a new court filing shows Vaughn has had a change of heart. The convicted rapist wants the judge to throw out his no contest pleas. He made that intention clear in a letter dated May 2. 
Macon, N.C. — A Warren County family was the victim of a carjacking late Wednesday when they stopped along a rural road to help who they thought was a stranded driver. The husband, wife and their two young sons – who did not want to be fully identified – were on their way home around 11:20 p.m. when they stopped along U.S. Highway 158 with the intention to help the man. "He was crying, sobbing, saying, 'My mom, my mom she's hurt. Please come help us. She's dying,'" the wife, Liza, said Thursday. When the husband, Chris, got out to help, the man – later identified by authorities as Demontae Lassiter, 24 – got into the car and took off with Liza and her boys. "All I could think of was 'I've got to get this car stopped, because the further we go, the worse this is going to get,'" Liza said. They went for about a quarter mile, she added, before she was able to kick the ignition switch to get the car to shut off. 
DAPHNE, Alabama — Two men have been identified as persons of interest in a Feb. 25 robbery at the home of a disabled military veteran, but there is not enough evidence to charge the men in the crime, an investigator said Tuesday. Among the reasons investigators believe Joseph "JoJo" Johnson, 35, and Melvin Safford, 30, are connected to the robbery are calls from "sources in the community pretty much just indicating that they were responsible," Daphne police Cpl. Jason Vannoy said. "We are still in the process of gathering evidence," Vannoy said. "We are not ready to file charges at this point but that could very well change in the future." 
PUYALLUP, Wash — Puyallup Police said Nathan Allen was arrested by Tacoma Police at a homeless shelter in Tacoma. “A citizen saw media coverage about Allen and alerted TPD to his location,” said Capt Scott Engle with Puyallup Police. Puyallup Police had issued two arrest warrants for Nathan Allen and were actively searching for him after the complaints surfaced from the teens. Police said the first incident happened Jan. 10 at a youth program at the YMCA. One of the victims, 