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White man beaten, robbed in park by pack of blacks believes attack was racially motivated
  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, Joseph Rountree, said three others have not yet been arrested for the crime he said left him not only humiliated but physically injured. "For a while I didn't get out hardly at all. I just feel threatened every time I leave my house. I was afraid walking down the street somebody might grab me from behind," said Rountree. Rountree said he has lived in fear for the past 15 months. It was at Okolona Park on April 12, 2013, when he went for a walk. He said the park was empty around 5 that evening when a group of young, black men were making their way to him. "They were yelling 'honky' and 'white boy,' 'cracker' and 'white trash,'" said Rountree. He was beaten and knocked unconscious; doctors later discovered bleeding on the brain. The group, Rountree said, took his two cellphones and the $22 he had in his pocket. "I believe they might have thought I looked like I was an easy target because I'm white, because they were calling me racial names," said Rountree. - (Black-on-white) - (Hatecrimes) |
When Margaret Seeman of Ottawa, Illinois agreed to correspond by mail with a prison inmate in 1990, she expected to be introduced to a woman from the local Dwight, Illinois woman’s facility. She was shocked when her new pen pal turned out to be an African American male convicted of murdering ten innocent people and accused of seven more. Now, 24 years later, the 94-year-old and serial killer Milton Johnson have done more than kept up a regular correspondence. They have become fast friends and until she was incapacitated ten years ago, she would make the hour-long trip from her home to visit with the man who, she tells MailOnline in an exclusive interview, 'touched my heart.' Milton Johnson committed up to 12 known murders in Illinois. He was convicted of five murders and is still a prime suspect in seven others, including two police officers Will County Illinois Auxiliary Deputy Stephen Mayer and Auxiliary Sergeant Denis Foley were murdered in an ambush slaying in July 1983. Milton remains the prime suspect in that crime - (Black-on-white)
ANCHORAGE – A 19-year-old man has been arrested on murder and arson charges after he allegedly set fire to his bedroom and stabbed two people, killing his foster mother. Kenneth Adams faces charges of second-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder and first-degree arson. In a sworn affidavit, Alaska State Trooper Andrew Adams said 66-year-old Wasilla resident 
WASHINGTON -- Two men posed as a father and son over the Internet to lure a 
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A Fort Wayne man is facing multiple felony charges after police said he raped a 
AUSTIN -- Two University of Texas football players have been charged with sexual assault and are in police custody, officials say. Kendall Sanders, a junior wide receiver from Athens, is charged with sexual assault and improper photography. Montrel Meander, a sophomore wide receiver from Amarillo, is charged with sexual assault. Officials say the charges come from an incident on June 21 at the San Jacinto Dormitory. According to the warrants, the alleged victim knew Meander and Sanders for about a year before the alleged assault. She ran into Meander on Sixth Street in Austin on the night of June 20 and went back to his room in the San Jacinto dorm, where they had sex.
A man is accused of reaching under a woman's skirt and trying to remove her underwear while they were both at a CVS pharmacy in Alexandria. Police arrested Abayneh Yemer, 25, of Alexandria, Wednesday afternoon at the pharmacy in the 3100 block of Duke Street shortly after the incident, authorities said. Yemer was charged with sexual battery and attempted sexual penetration. He was held without bond. (
A Manhattan judge sentenced former Knicks guard Raymond Felton Wednesday to 500 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine for possessing an illegal gun that his ex-wife turned into cops, claiming he’d pointed it at her. “I apologize. I realize what I did was wrong,” mumbled the recently traded Felton, who now plays for the Dallas Mavericks. He pleaded guilty in court to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm as part of a no-jail plea deal. The troubled baller, who wore a wrinkled gray suit in court, has a year to complete the community service, which he can perform out of state, said Justice Larry Stevens.
A Financial District salon customer was so upset that her hair was left “knotty” by her stylist that she threw everything in sight at the woman – including hair curlers, shampoo bottles and a metal box, cops said Wednesday. Rachel Meyers, 26, a mail carrier, popped into Century 27 salon on Beaver Street on her lunch break on July 18 to get a conditioning treatment and wash and set. She screamed that the stylist “screwed up her hair” and turned violent, accidentally smashing customer 
TAMPA — A man ran up a $7,753.22 bill at an Apple store. When his debit card was declined, he pretended to call his bank. He gave the store clerk a fake authorization code to punch into the card reader. And that's how the man, 24-year-old Sharron Laverne Parrish Jr. of Tampa, scammed one of the biggest high-tech companies in the world — not once but 42 times — totaling $309,768, according to federal court records. A Secret Service criminal complaint charges Parrish with wire fraud, alleging that he tricked Apple clerks in 16 states into accepting meaningless override codes. He is accused of hitting the Brandon store twice, along with stores in Orlando, Wellington and Boca Raton. 
The man accused of breaking into a Gulph Mills home this week, tying up a woman, and then forcing her fiance to get him money from an ATM has confessed to that and another burglary in Upper Merion Township, Police Chief Thomas Nolan said. Keith Darrin Morrison, 24, of Philadelphia, allegedly broke into a Holstein Road home around 8 a.m. Tuesday after taking a SEPTA train to the neighborhood and walking to a house. Inside, he was confronted by the man who owned the home, police said. After tying up the man's fiancee, according to police, the intruder armed himself with a shotgun he found in the house and forced the man to drive to an ATM in West Conshohocken, and withdraw an undisclosed amount of money for him. 
Norfolk, Va. – One man was looking for love online, but instead he says he was beaten up and robbed when he went to meet a woman he saw on the popular dating site, Plenty Of Fish. “I was definitely catfished,” he says. The man didn’t want to show his face or give his name but felt compelled to share his story. A few weeks ago he says he messaged a woman named Kim on the online dating site. “I just messaged her because I thought she was attractive,” he says. On July 2nd they agreed to meet at a home on Hough Avenue in Norfolk. But when he knocked on the door, he says the person who answered looked nothing like Kim. “Completely different person,” he says. “Much heavier, apparently younger.” He says a gut feeling told him to leave but he chose to ignore that, hoping Kim may be in another room. Instead police say it was 19-year-old Shaquan Bethea and 20-year-old Devonte Young who attacked him.
EL PASO, Texas - The document shows the incident ended with the man allegedly biting 
PHILADELPHIA – Police have made an arrest after a 31-year-old woman said she was sexually assaulted in Logan Circle (
A judge sentenced the disgraced former head of the 
A Brooklyn rabbi who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for fake charities and used the money to pay his cable TV and electric bill has agreed to pay restitution of $500,000 in a settlement reached today with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The rabbi, Yaakov Weingarten, pled guilty in New York State Supreme Court in May to felony tax fraud, admitting that, between 2007 and 2012, he raised money from thousands of donors for a handful of charities that did not exist. 
SPARTANBURG, SC - Her name is LaKeisha Smith but those who know her call her Kee- Kee. "Again it's Miss Kee with four Es," she said. She is admittedly the woman behind a recorded repo that went wrong in Spartanburg. "I gotta say, I was funny as s---! It was funny as h---," Smith said. "I mean like- it's me! Miss Kee4Es. You never know what to expect from me." The video shows Smith smashing out several windows of a black Cadillac Escalade while it was hooked up to a tow truck. 
BRADENTON, FL - A Bradenton man is accused of impregnating a 
CHICAGO – A volunteer track coach at Simeon Career Academy High School has been charged with sexual assaulting three female students. Cook County prosecutors said 42-year-old Gerald Gaddy has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault, and aggravated battery. Gaddy was ordered held on $300,000 bond at a court appearance Wednesday. Gaddy allegedly had “inappropriate sexual contact” with 
MIDDLE Twp., N.J., – A 34-year-old English teacher is facing several charges, including sexual assault and possession of child pornography. Joseph Towns turned himself in to authorities Tuesday and was charged with having sexual contact with one of his students. The Cape May County Prosecutor’s office alleges the 34-year-old teacher at Middle Township High School engaged in criminal sexual contact with the student from October 2012 through October 2013.
A gynecologist named Nikita Levy (now deceased) who secretly photographed his female patients cost he hospital which employed him almost 200 million dollars. If you click through on that story, you’ll see a picture of two white lawyers discussing the settlement. Dr. Levy was from Jamaica, and worked in a hospital in East Baltimore. His victims were mostly black women.
NEW YORK — Police late Tuesday were asking the public to help them find a suspect who attacked a 65-year-old man at a Bronx subway station last week. Around 5:15 a.m. Monday, July 14, the suspect walked up to the 65-year-old man in the mezzanine area of the 205th Street and Bainbridge D Train station and demanded money, police said. The victim said he did not have any money, and the suspect punched him in the back of the head, pushed him to the ground, and threw an unknown liquid at him, police said. The suspect then ran off, police said, The suspect was described as a black male around 25 years old, standing about 5 feet 7 inches tall, with black hair. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans, police said.
OROVILLE, CA >> A Chico man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years, eight months in state prison for a May 2013 stabbing and a shooting last January. Butte County Superior Court Judge James Reilley handed down the upper-term sentence on Anthony Lavel Zeigler, 25. On June 13, a jury convicted Zeigler of felony assault with a deadly weapon likely to produce great bodily injury for a stabbing outside a Wall Street nightclub on May 18, 2013, in Chico. The jury also found Zeigler guilty of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm likely to cause great bodily injury for a Jan. 18 shooting on the 100 block of Broadway. 
DUMFRIES, Va. - A man has been arrested for allegedly 
RADNOR, Pa. — A worker at a McDonald’s on the Main Line was serving up more than a happy meal, police say. Investigators say what he is accused of doing in the parking lot was illegal and now he is facing serious charges. According to investigators, the worker, identified by Radnor Police as 29-year-old Allen Trammell, was allegedly selling crack cocaine in the parking lot of the restaurant on Lancaster Avenue while he was on the clock.
A man is in the hospital while another is in custody after a road rage incident led to a stabbing outside a gas station in Collingdale Tuesday afternoon. Police said that 34-year-old Stanley Williams of Philadelphia was driving when another driver cut him off. Williams and the man then began to argue at a nearby Sunoco Gas Station, according to investigators. Williams left the gas station and then returned in his wife's silver Lexus while she sat on the passenger side, according to officials. He then allegedly took out a knife and stabbed the victim in the arm. 
LAS VEGAS – The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says it has arrested a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults and is asking the public whether it has information on more possible victims. 
More allegations have surfaced against a Mercer County man who was arrested last May for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a 14-year-old girl. Adam Carnevale, 27, of Lawrence Township, is now accused of paying money to at least six underage girls in exchange for sex. According to police, Carnevale repeatedly paid the girls money, clothes, alcohol and cigarettes for sex. Investigators say the six victims ranged in age from 12 to 17. Police also say he threatened to put a 15-year-old girl’s nude photographs on the Internet if she didn’t perform oral sex on him. 
A British male nurse who was pals with New York’s infamous “Cannibal Cop” was convicted Monday of plotting to eat a 
An attorney for Pittsburgh's police union says more pictures and video have surfaced showing what happened before a city officer punched a woman at the city's gay pride parade and festival last month. Fraternal Order of Police attorney Bryan Campbell says the other images show 19-year-old Ariel Lawther pushing a preacher who was protesting the event before she grabbed and pushed at the officer she accuses of wrongfully striking her. 
CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Arapahoe County sheriffs on Friday arrested a woman in connection with a June 23 apartment-complex fire that injured eight. 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Volusia County father who beat up an 18-year-old who he says sexually abused his 
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A convicted murderer accused of having persuaded a woman to bring two girls to visit him in a northeastern Pennsylvania prison so he could molest them has been sentenced to additional prison time and fined. Forty-eight-year-old Andre VanCliff pleaded no contest Monday in Luzerne County Court to conspiracy to corrupt minors. Judge Michael Vough added 42 to 84 months onto VanCliff’s life prison sentence and fined him $15,000. VanCliff, who was convicted a 1994 Philadelphia murder, initially acknowledged having fondled the girls during visits to the Newport Township prison but withdrew a guilty plea in April, saying he had felt pressured to enter it. Forty-two-year-old Rebecca Ann Butler of Danville was convicted of child endangerment and conspiracy in the case and was sentenced to 3½ to 10 years in prison.
Only because he was tired of being questioned did a former DeKalb County police officer admitted to having sexual contact with two women while on duty, his attorney said Tuesday, but he did not understand that his words could be used to prosecute him. Jeremy Reynolds, a police officer of almost three years, said he was unfamiliar with the Miranda statement, a warning to a crime suspect that their comments could be used against them. Reynolds has pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated sodomy and two counts of violating his oath of office.
A Maryland couple kept their twin 
Public School 28 Principal Sadie Silver, 40, of Bushwick, was removed from her position after she and Michael Acosta, 34, were arrested Friday when cops said they caught the pair bringing heroin and prenoscription drugs into Coxsackie Correctional Facility. They had a 10-year-old with them when they are arrested, police said.
A serial killer, already convicted of raping and murdering two women, could be sentenced this week to die by lethal injection if a jury finds he shot a third woman dead in the summer of 1983. Larry Lamont White, 56, is accused of raping 
Unable to move and suffering from excruciating pain, 
A Dover man has been arrested on charges he stole from a home then attempted to sell the stolen items at a nearby parking lot. Police say 47-year-old Deon Brown broke into the residence on the 400 block of S Governors Avenue on Monday around 4 a.m. and stole several items including a laptop and a safe containing jewelry and cash. Shortly after the burglary, Dover police received a call from a person who saw Brown in the parking lot of the Courtney Square Shopping Center on S New Street, where he was allegedly attempting to sell the stolen items.
A former Philadelphia police civilian radio dispatcher pleaded guilty today to bribery charges, admitting she took money to circumvent the city’s efforts to try to curb notorious and dangerous tow truck “wreck chasers.” Former police dispatcher Dorian Parsley admitted she was the wreck chasers’ inside connection, taking more than $35,000 in bribes (
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. - Police are looking for a man responsible for robbing a 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man was assaulted in Riverside on Saturday night in front of his girlfriend, near their home, and they told police they believe he was a victim of the “knockout game.” The young couple was walking down College Street shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday. The victim and his girlfriend were approached, and the man was punched on the right side of his face. According to the police report, the man and woman spotted three men walking in their direction, then realized they were being followed. Police do not have a good denoscription of the perpetrators
MIAMI – The two professional athletes that were arrested outside of a South Beach nightclub have been bonded out of jail but have yet to make any public comments. 
TEMPE, Ariz. – A Philadelphia Eagles player is facing charges in Arizona after authorities say he pushed a police officer investigating a bar brawl. Officials said Keelan Johnson, a first-year safety, was arrested early Saturday following a confrontation with officers outside a bar in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, home of Arizona State University. A probable cause statement says Johnson "violently pushed" an officer in the chest, causing him to strike his head against a tree. Police say Johnson appeared drunk and refused officers' orders. He has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Following a booze-fueled incident at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in May, Ray J has been charged with 10 misdemeanors. On Monday, Brandy’s 33-year-old brother was charged with four counts of resisting arrest, three counts of assault and battery, two counts of vandalism and one count of sexual battery, reports TMZ. Allegations of sexual battery are being disputed after Ray J claims to have accidentally brushed against a woman’s rear. While police say the action was unintentional, he’s still being charged by the district attorney. Things quickly escalated when Kim Kardashian‘s ex-boyfriend became “belligerent with the valets and refused to leave,” said Beverly Hills public information officer Lt. Lincoln Hoshino, reports E! News. When he was placed into custody, he allegedly kicked out a window of the cop car, before allegedly spitting on an officer.
PHILADELPHIA — Two suspects are facing murder charges in the deaths of an elderly couple who were found in their Philadelphia home late last week. Investigators say the suspects confessed to their alleged roles in the strangulation deaths of 
PLANO, Texas – A suspected illegal immigrant has been thrown in the Collin County jail, accused of using his cell phone camera in a most improper way. Plano Police say a male shopper happened to see 44-year old Fermin Morales-Gonzalez taking pictures up the skirts and dresses of unsuspecting women. Reports say the man told the store management and then flagged down a Plano Police officer who was driving by. 
A Wall Street financier who specializes in Chinese corporate mergers was slapped with a $75 million sex-harassment lawsuit by a 24-year-old former underling who claims he “trapped” her into merging as well. 
HOUSTON -- Jurors have found a man guilty of capital murder in the fatal shooting of a Bellaire police officer in 2012. It didn't take long for the verdict to be reached against Harlem Lewis, who fatally shot 
HONOLULU — A former Hawaii soldier convicted of killing his 
A Rochester man has been accused of killing his grandmother, then setting a fire to conceal the crime. A Monroe County grand jury on Friday indicted Donkish Lesane, 22, with felony charges of second-degree murder and second-degree arson in connection with the July 8 death of his grandmother 
Dallas man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman with autism. Timmy Ray Spratt is charged with sexual assault of an elderly or disabled person. The police report says Spratt, 42, lived in the same extended-stay hotel as the victim, and that the woman's caretaker was running errands when the attack occurred Thursday in South Oak Cliff.
Three St. Lucie County men were Sunday and charged with the rape of an 18-year-old woman, according to St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office. Stanley Leros, 19, Kenzy Francois, 20 and Gupeone Belizaire, 21, allegedly raped the victim in one of their homes after a party Saturday night. One of the suspects was friends with the victim on Facebook.
KEANSBURG – A Camden man was arrested Friday and charged with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl on a Monmouth County beach, according to borough police. Victor Bennett, 20, was arrested Friday by police after authorities interviewed the girl at her home, Deputy Police Chief Michael Pigott said in a news release. Police Detective Michael Deany and Patrolman Christopher Rogan of the Keansburg Street Crimes Unit responded to the victim's home, where they interviewed the girl after a relative contacted police, Pigott said.
BOWLING GREEN -- Bond for a Bowling Green State University football player who is accused of attempted rape has been set at $25,000. 
ALBUQUERQUE – Three teenagers have been charged with murder, accused of beating 
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A 5-year-old Kansas girl died on Friday after her mother's boyfriend allegedly kidnapped her and engaged in a shootout with police officers. The sequence of events began about 7:30 pm on Friday when 
TORONTO -
BASTROP, Texas — A Texas judge has set an execution date for a death row inmate convicted of
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 
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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Indianapolis Metropolitan police said tips led them to arrest a man accused of fatally shooting gas station clerk 
