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5 blacks indicted on assault, ethnic intimidation charges in attack on Whites
   Five people have been indicted in connection with a downtown attack that followed the Taste of Cincinnati. Jon Deters, 24, was assaulted on West Ninth Street as he was walking his sister to her car on Memorial Day weekend. His father is Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters. On Tuesday, Matthew Johnson Jr., 23, Joshua McCoy, 21, Onea Lapsley, 22, Yahdea Brown, 19, and a 17-year-old were each indicted on one count of felonious assault, two counts of assault, one count of aggravated riot and one count of ethnic intimidation. A witness previously said the attack was racially motivated, noting "that was quite obvious in the slurs that were being thrown out.” The suspects are black, while Deters is white. "If that lady hadn't stepped in, Jon would be dead because he was a white kid and it's disgusting either way," Joe Deters said. Joe Deters said his son's girlfriend was also assaulted in the attack. Investigators said another man, Elliott James, 24, was also attacked by the same group of people that night, before Jon Deters and his girlfriend were attacked. - (Black-on-white) - (Hatecrimes) |
BASTROP, Texas — A Texas judge has set an execution date for a death row inmate convicted of raping and murdering a 19-year-old woman. Judge Doug Shaver on Monday set Rodney Reed's execution date for 6 p.m. on Jan. 14. Reed is in prison for the 1996 slaying of Bastrop County resident Stacey Stites. Attorneys for the Innocence Project argued there is more evidence in the case that needs to be DNA tested. Reed's family claims prosecutors withheld evidence during the trial. Prosecutors say there has been enough time to appeal the 1998 conviction. - (Black-on-white)
Fla. - Cocoa police have arrested on Friday the boyfriend of the pregnant woman reported missing a day earlier on kidnapping charges, despite the woman reporting to police she was in no danger. Lance Deloreon Jenkins, 26, was arrested Thursday night and charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment and aggravated battery after police say he took 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Police say a Daytona Beach father beat an 18-year-old man unconscious after finding him sexually abusing his son. Authorities say the father called 911 early Friday after he walked in on the alleged abuse. When officers arrived they found Raymond Frolander motionless on the living room floor. He had several knots on his face and was bleeding from the mouth. Police said the father — who was not identified — told investigators he walked in as Frolander was abusing the boy. Police did not release the boy's age, but Frolander is charged with sexual battery on 
A registered sexual predator was arrested Friday in Daytona Beach after a mother reported he molested her child, Daytona Beach police said. 
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Sadie Bell, 58, is out on bond after admitting she shot the man she had a long-term affair with after they had sex at her Southfield apartment. Bell wasn't happy with the outcome and accused the man of cheating on her. She punched him, he slapped her and then she shot him. He was hospitalized for five months. Bell was convicted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. She also was convicted of a felony gun charge. She was sentenced to four years in prison. 
So far, one person is under arrest for the incident at an Overbrook mosque. Police say the violent assault stems from accusations of stealing. Police say when prayer services ended here at this mosque in Overbook Tuesday morning, two leaders of the masjid allegedly accused another member of stealing from a donation jar. They moved quickly to carry out punishment. "they take his wrist place it on top of a log , second male goes into the mosque, comes out with a machete, one male holds his wrist on the actual log and the male swings down in a downward motion striking his wrist with the machete." Police arrested 37-year-old Merv Mitchell, who also goes by the name Mabul Shoatz. He was charged with aggravated assault and other crimes for the machete attack. Mitchell is a leader at the mosque.
Gregory Moffitt, 26, faced a judge at arraignment Friday morning. Moffitt is charged with four counts of rape, four counts of incest and one count sexual abuse.. Police said Moffitt's alleged
A Joliet man is charged with criminal sexual assault and battery after allegedly attacking a woman who came to his house to buy marijuana, Will County Sheriff's police said. Parnell Samuels, 51, of 106 Anderson Ave., was arrested Thursday evening and was due in court Friday afternoon. Will County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Kathy Hoffmeyer said the 26-year-old victim, a Joliet resident, told police she went to Samuels' home at about 4 p.m. Thursday. During the transaction, Samuels allegedly jumped on her, tore her clothes off and had intercourse with her, Hoffmeyer said.
A woman who allegedly robbed and assaulted an 
FORT WORTH — Authorities have issued seven warrants for Dondre Johnson of the Johnson Family Mortuary following the arrest of his wife Friday. Rachel Hardy Johnson was taken into custody at her home. Mrs. Johnson was charged with seven counts of
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. —In just a matter of weeks, a man beaten and robbed in an area park will come face to face with one of the men he says attacked him. According to police, the suspect was a juvenile at the time. But, the courts said Brejon Ford will now be tried as an adult when he goes to trial Sept. 9. The victim, 
Indianapolis Metropolitan police said tips led them to arrest a man accused of fatally shooting gas station clerk 
A West Philadelphia man charged in the murder of a young Philadelphia woman whose body was found in a duffel bag tried to commit suicide while in police custody, according to law enforcement sources. Jeremiah Jakson, 23, tried to hang himself while at police headquarters Tuesday night. The alleged suicide attempt was made prior to Jakson officially being charged for the murder of 23-year-old
A suspect in a shooting at a Kennesaw bar that left one man dead turned himself in on Thursday morning, said Scott Luther, a spokesman for the Kennesaw police. Lewarner Jaron Scott, 28, of Atlanta, is charged with one count of murder and three counts of aggravated assault after a July 12 shooting at Diamond Dave’s Bar. 
MEMPHIS, TN - - A Mid-South piano instructor is accused of raping a 
Texas - A local man is in the McLennan County Jail after he punched a Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper who told him he couldn't smoke a cigarette inside a hospital. David M. Cleveland has been charged with assault of a peace officer for the incident. Troopers were already at Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest at 3:45 a.m. Tuesday to get a suspect checked out. They report the disturbance began when a man in an emergency department treatment room lit up a cigarette. When ER personnel told him to put it out, he refused. A DPS trooper there was asked to help, and told the man again that he could not smoke in there, and to put out the cigarette. The man is accused of then punching the trooper. A second trooper who was there being checked out following another incident, helped out by using a stun gun. The man was then taken into custody.
Police were called to Market Street late Monday afternoon after an altercation between two men actually stopped traffic right outside the Family Dollar. According to police, the suspect, 61-year-old Arthur Ballanger, fled the scene in a CARTA bus. Police found him when he exited the bus near 11th Street. 
In what sounds like a Southern crime travelogue, police said a pimp known as "Memphis," on the run from the law in Mississippi, has been arrested in New Orleans. Stephen Carter, 21, was booked Tuesday with second-degree battery and simple robbery after 
Two women were arrested after they allegedly beat a woman and held her captive inside a Delaware home. On Tuesday, shortly after 1 p.m., officials received a call from a 29-year-old woman claiming she was being held against her will inside a home in New Castle, Delaware. When officers arrived at the scene, they found 19-year-old Jessica Jones of New Castle and 25-year-old Laneeka Clark of Philadelphia exiting the home, according to investigators. Police say they then then entered the home where they found the battered 29-year-old woman inside a closet. 
MEMPHIS, TN - - Memphis police say a brother and sister knowingly neglected their own mother, whose legs were left to rot. Memphis police say 58-year-old Rose Fayne's mother,
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia Grand Jury clears police in an incident earlier this year involving Darrin Manning, a 16-year-old black boy who claimed excessive force led to a severe injury (
An obese man died of a heart attack Thursday after he was tackled by police officers on Staten Island, cops and witnesses said. Eric Garner, 43, who weighed about 350 pounds, had been selling untaxed cigarettes on the street in Tompkinsville at around 5 p.m. when he was approached by officers and resisted arrest, according to police. Police said Garner had more than 30 arrests.
A teacher who was assaulted and raped after being left alone in a state prison classroom with convicted sex offenders earlier this year filed a $4million claim Thursday against the Arizona Department of Corrections. Department officials declined to comment, but prisons Director Charles Ryan has previously acknowledged that the woman was "brutally assaulted." Inmate Jacob Harvey was indicted in May on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the Jan. 30 attack.
PINE HILL, N.J. – A New Jersey middle school teacher has been charged with 92 counts related to child abuse. Charles Reilly, 44, was indicted by a Grand Jury. Reilly was an art teacher and boys soccer coach at Pine Hill Middle School. According to investigators, the indictment resulted from evidence presented by 
ATLANTA, Ga. - Atlanta Police have arrested and charged a teenager for a brutal assault that critically injured a bicyclist last month. According to investigators, 19-year-old Joseph Alan Lewis drove the SUV that ran over 
A judge has sentenced a young man to six months in jail for a mob attack on a Detroit-area motorist after telling the 19-year-old that his father should have "beat the hell" out of him to discourage him from committing crimes. Judge James Callahan's remarks occurred Thursday when Latrez Cummings said his father wasn't around when he was growing up. Cummings and four others have pleaded guilty to assaulting 
William Potts Jr., the self-described black militant who hijacked a U.S. jetliner to Cuba in 1984, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Miami federal court on Thursday — but it’s unlikely he will have to serve the full term. U.S. District Judge Michael Moore, after hearing an emotional plea for mercy from Potts, sided with the prosecution’s recommended sentence, which would allow Potts to seek parole in about seven years. In effect, Potts would be given credit for the 13 years he had already served in a Cuban prison, which was described as a “hell-hole” by his defense attorney. But under U.S. law, the judge could not legally give the 57-year-old American citizen that credit because Potts had served that time for being convicted of the hijacking offense in Cuba. 
Delaware prosecutors indicated Monday that the state will be re-trying the 23-year-old case against Jermaine M. Wright for the 1991 slaying of 66-year-old 
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Twin brothers face charges of assault and theft after taking a woman's bike on Saturday, police said. Leonardo Thompson and Leonard Thompson, 22, were arrested Saturday. The men are accused of assaulting and stealing a bike from a Shaker Heights woman, according to a police report. The woman said she knew the men who assaulted her and stole her bike at Milverton and Ashby roads. Police recovered the bike and the woman identified the twins as the men responsible for the incident.
CINCINNATI -- A woman police say solicited sex while knowingly carrying the HIV virus is scheduled to appear in a Hamilton County courtroom Wednesday to either enter a plea or set a date for trial. Gloria Lewis, 50, is charged with one count of soliciting after a positive HIV test, one count of soliciting, two counts of loitering to engage in solicitation after a positive HIV test and one count of drug paraphernalia. Police say Lewis recklessly solicited sex on June 6 with knowledge that she had previously tested positive for HIV.
Police have launched an investigation after
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter is apologizing for the profanity used by rapper Nicki Minaj and comedian Marlon Wayans during a family-friendly July Fourth concert. 
READING, Pa. — State prosecutors are investigating allegations of campaign finance violations by the mayor of Pennsylvania’s fifth-largest city, Reading. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Kathleen Kane told the Reading Eagle on Tuesday that an investigation into alleged violations by Mayor Vaughn Spencer is underway. She declined to elaborate.
The Circuit Court has sentenced to jail the 25-year-old man who dipped the hands of his 
STOCKTON — The suspects who robbed a Stockton bank and took three people hostage also intended to kill people in a running gun battle with police, according to the city’s police chief. Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones said at a news conference on Thursday he arrived at that conclusion based on the “havoc” the men created. Police say the suspects took the three women hostage on Wednesday afternoon as they made their getaway and waged a ferocious, high-speed gun battle with officers. The getaway vehicle was eventually disabled, and police and the suspects got into a shootout. One of the hostages and two suspects died. Jones said the surviving suspect, 19-year-old 
In May of 2014, a detective from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, Vice/Narcotics Division, was contacted by 
NEW YORK – Police are looking for a very tall man who they said forced his way into a Washington Heights apartment and raped a 20-year-old woman. The suspect, who is approximately 6-foot-9, pushed his way into the apartment on West 163rd Street off Broadway after the victim answered the door around 11:30 p.m. The suspect raped the victim before running off, police said. The victim was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in stable condition. The suspect is described by police as a Hispanic man between 20 and 25 years old. Police released surveillance images of the suspect in which he is seen wearing black pants and a white shirt with dark horizontal stripes.
A Guatemalan immigrant accused of killing his girlfriend has been arrested in Houston, the Homeland Security Department announced Wednesday. On June 26, 
Investigators found no evidence that a teen who fatally stabbed a classmate had been bullied by the victim at their Bronx middle school — but a city social worker told them she tried to get the boy schooled at home and was turned down. The report from top schools investigator Richard Condon said that neither Noel Estevez, 14, nor his family ever accused victim Timothy Crump, also 14, of bullying by name. The boy’s enraged mother, Maria Estevez, called the report a whitewash. “They’re just trying to cover their ass. He would come home with black and blue marks. He wasn’t going to school for three months because he was scared. He would cry, ‘Mommy I don’t want to,’” she said.
The founder of a northeastern Pennsylvania boys choir has pleaded guilty to several charges of sexual assault and child pornography that date back to 1996. Seventy-four-year-old Kenneth Bernard Schade of Wind Gap entered the plea Monday in Monroe County to statutory sexual assault and two counts of possession of child pornography. Schade, founder of the 
An adopted son of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky is providing details of the alleged sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father. 
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SAN ANTONIO - Cibolo resident Michael Joseph Fobbs, 21, remains in jail after allegedly beating another man to death at the Amtrak station in downtown San Antonio. The medical examiner released the name of victim on Tuesday morning. He’s identified as 
HENRICO -- Blake H. Bryant, a former Marine recruiter and John Marshall High School graduate, was sentenced this afternoon to 30 years in prison in connection with the brutal stabbing death of his fiancé last year. Bryant, 32, the father of an infant daughter with his fiancé 
Michael A. Reams -- who was shot by a Fresno police officer Monday after he stabbed a woman to death -- faced domestic violence charges with different victims in different times in his life, court documents reveal. Besides the domestic violence charges, Reams, 47, skipped court dates, violated probation and displayed bad behavior in court, the documents showed. Reams was first charged with assault with a deadly weapon in 1990. For that offense, he said in a letter in his court file that he completed a domestic violence class, but not one for anger management. Misdemeanor domestic violence charges were filed against Reams again in 2001 involving another victim. Then in 2002, Reams was sentenced to 12 years in prison after hospitalizing yet another woman listed as his spouse or the parent of his child. Reams pleaded guilty to spousal abuse, assault and terrorist threats in that case. Reams stabbed 45-year-old 
Raleigh police arrested two people Monday in connection with sex crimes against a child under the age of 13. Jacqueline Michelle Cannady, 22, was jailed under a $20,000 secured bond on two counts of indecent liberties with a minor. Corey Andrew Shearin was charged with one count of indecent liberties with a minor and three counts of first-degree sex offense with a child. He was jailed under a $750,000 bond. Authorities say the alleged crimes happened in April and that they knew the child. A police spokeswoman said the two were not in a position of authority over the child. 
PORTLAND, Ore. — A 32-year-old man currently in a Pennsylvania jail has been linked to a Portland sex crime through a DNA match. Jason Isaac Demby was arrested in Erie County, Pennsylvania earlier in July for possession of marijuana after being stopped in a vehicle with 
MINNEAPOLIS – A 24-year-old St. Paul man will spend more than 34 years in prison for choking a woman to death last September. Sammy Devel Henderson pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder back in May in connection with the death of 
SCOTTSDALE, AZ - A Scottsdale police report released Tuesday shows officers made contact with an accused rapist and his family more than a week before the suspect was taken into custody. According to the police report, Scottsdale Officer Keith English visited Danny Jackson's home on October 24. The 16-year-old was later accused of committing a sexual assault earlier that evening , near Shea Boulevard and Scottsdale Road. He was also later accused of committing a nearby sex assault on October 18. Throughout the hundreds of pages of police records, there are several mentions of Jackson's body odor. "I noticed a very pungent body odor coming from Jackson," one officer wrote. "This body odor was also something that both sexual assault victims had said that the perpetrator had."
Robert H. Scott Jr. , 27, of Virginia Beach, is charged with producing child pornography by having women he met on the Internet send him sexually explicit photos of children. Scott is accused of hosting "sex parties" with the women in exchange for money. But a prosecutor said he never paid, and demanded that the women send him the child porn or else he would post the sex party tapes on the Internet. 
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- Investigators on Wednesday asked the public for help in identifying the man who sexually assaulted 
A Dallas man serving time in prison for a Kaufman County murder has been charged in the 1989 Plano homicide based on new DNA evidence, police reported Tuesday. Temmie Cooley, 48, is accused in the death of 
NORMAN, Okla. – There are stunning new developments in a 32 year old Norman rape case. After one wrongful conviction and almost two decades of silence, prosecutors have filed charges against a Mississippi man. The crime happened back in 1982 when 
A recent rash of break-ins has runners, walkers and bikers at a popular Philadelphia park on edge. According to investigators, thieves are hiding out in the woods of Wissahickon Valley Park, waiting to break into cars and steal valuables. Despite three recent arrests, investigators say the number of thefts is increasing. One victim, 
A memorial for a man who was killed after he ambushed and shot to death a 23-year-old rookie police officer 
A 911 dispatcher was lauded for convincing a Pasadena gunman to surrender peacefully after he had allegedly fatally 
A man is facing numerous charges after a boy was allegedly sexually assaulted while at a Toronto day camp. Last Friday,
NEWARK, Del. — A couple was arrested after police say they had sex on the roof of a restaurant in Delaware. The bizarre incident happened at about 9:40 p.m. Saturday at the Chipotle restaurant on East Main Street in Newark. The restaurant closes at 10 p.m. and was still open for business. According to investigators, officers with the Newark Police Department were called to scene after receiving multiple reports of a male and female having sex on the roof of the restaurant. When an officer arrived, he was on the opposite side of the street and clearly observed the couple engaging in sexual intercourse on the roof at the very front of the Chipotle building. The male suspect has been identified as 39-year-old 
Billionaires Warren Buffett, Sheldon Adelson and Bill Gates have teamed up to call for amnesty for America’s illegal immigrants as a solution to the ongoing crisis at the border as President Barack Obama mulls granting amnesty to millions via executive power. “The President cannot be trusted to enforce any immigration law,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said in a statement. “We are in the midst of a border disaster—created by the President’s lawlessness—and Mr. Adelson, Mr. Gates, and Mr. Buffet want to implement a massive amnesty bill. Such a plan would wreak havoc on our nation’s laws and borders, which mean a great deal to the good and decent citizens of this country. It is clear that three of the richest billionaires in the world have no clue what Congress ‘owe[s] to the 318 million who employ them’. We owe them our loyalty, our compassion, our devotion. It is precisely because of our duty to the working people of this country that we must stop legislation that would import tens of millions of lower-wage workers to replace them.” 
A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to 23 years behind bars for fatally shooting a retired police dog during a burglary. Ivins Rosier was convicted in May for breaking into the Florida home of a trooper and shooting the officer's five-year-old German Shepherd two years ago. 