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Suspect Miguel Angel Hernandez found naked after burglary that left one man dead
 FORT WORTH — A suspected burglar who police say viciously attacked two men inside their home early Sunday, killing one, may have thrown drain cleaner on the victims. Police believe Miguel Angel Hernandez, 29, randomly chose the house in the 2900 block of Cortez Drive to burglarize early Sunday. He allegedly entered the home through an exterior window shortly before 2:30 a.m. and was confronted by the two victims. “We believe that they awoke when they heard the suspect inside the residence,” said homicide Sgt. Joe Loughman. Loughman said a “violent fight ensued.” When officers arrived, James Bowling, 56, was dead inside. A ruling has not been made on his cause of death. Don Keaton, 82, was seriously injured with what police described as “numerous blunt force injuries.” Loughman said the surviving victim suffered chemical burns and may have permanent injuries to his eyes as a result. “Detectives and crime scene personnel located a partially empty bottle of drain cleaner inside the residence,” Loughman said. “Both victims appeared to have burn injuries and none were observed on the suspect.” Patrol officers found Hernandez sitting naked in his parked pickup in the roadway two houses down. Hernandez, a registered sex offender, had been wanted on a warrant since June 27, when his bond in a pending DWI case was held insufficient. His past convictions in Tarrant County include assault with bodily injury, failure to identify, driving while intoxicated and sexual assault. Records show he was sentenced to two years deferred adjudication probation in 2007 after pleading gulity to the sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman. |
The man wanted in connection with the death of a 70-year-old has been arrested. Aaron Demon Jordan, 22, of Statesville was arrested Saturday night and jailed without bond, said Statesville Police Department Chief Tom Anderson and Capt. David Onley, supervisor of the Criminal Investigation Division. Jordan is facing a second-degree murder charge in the beating death of Robert Joseph Dooley, who was found on Chambers Street in the early morning hours of Feb. 22. Dooley died several hours later of injuries authorities said were consistent with an assault. - (Black-on-white)
An ex-convict was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the deadly shootings of a Nassau County police officer and a random motorist during a carjacking in October 2012. Darrell Fuller was found guilty on all counts in the slaying of Nassau County officer 
CINCINNATI —A man accused of raping a 92-year-old woman at an assisted living facility last year received the maximum sentence Monday. 
SPRINGDALE, Ohio —A Springdale father who police say prompted an overnight Amber Alert this weekend is now behind bars. Springdale police said they were sent to the 800 block of Ledro Street around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. According to authorities, they received a report of domestic trouble involving Kaelin Hawkins, 34, who was possibly armed with a knife. His estranged wife had fled to a neighbor's house. The woman said Hawkins had broken into the home and assaulted her. She said Hawkins threatened to kill her and the children, as well as himself. 
A South Jersey woman who fatally stabbed a man last year during an argument in his home has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison. Camden County prosecutor's say 25-year-old Shakeysha Pruitt of Berlin must serve about 17 years of the term imposed Friday before she becomes eligible for parole. Pruitt had pleaded guilty last month to aggravated manslaughter in the July 2013 death of 33-year-old 
Embattled Brooklyn state Sen. John Sampson is up to his old funny-money tricks, critics charge. Sampson was indicted by the feds last year for allegedly stealing $440,000 from housing escrow accounts and using part of the proceeds to help fund a failed bid to become Brooklyn district attorney. Sampson has yet to stand trial and is seeking re-election to his Senate seat. But he is now being accused by a chief rival and election lawyers of using questionable, if not illegal, practices to finance his re-election campaign.
Police cracked down on Times Square’s menacing pack of costumed creeps over the weekend after a Spider-Man punched an NYPD officer — busting five more panhandlers and trailing many others to warn tourists about them. “They’re like little terrorists preying on all the tourists,” a disgusted law-enforcement source said of the pushy panhandlers. Cops got tough after Junior Bishop, dressed as Spider-Man, allegedly flew into a violent rage when rookie cop Eduardo Molina confronted him about charging tourists a whopping $10 per picture Saturday. The Naked Black Cowboy, whose real name is Titus Gandy, was busted when he showed up at the Midtown South Precinct to check on his buddy Bishop, sources said. Also arrested Saturday night were 
Meet your Un-Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man! A panhandler dressed as the iconic webslinger repeatedly punched a cop in the face during a violent Times Square tussle Saturday afternoon, police said. Spidey’s actual name is Junior Bishop, police said. He was due to be arraigned Sunday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges including felony assault. 
OKLAHOMA CITY – Authorities say they have arrested a 28-year-old man who allegedly bound and raped a woman for several days. On Friday, officers were called to an Oklahoma City business after a woman said she had been raped. The alleged victim told police she had been bound and raped since Sunday. According to the arrest affidavit, her alleged attacker tied her hands with speaker wire. When the man went to the bank, she was able to free one of her wrists and run to a nearby business. The victim said the man was an acquaintance she had met on multiple occasions. After picking her up, she said the suspect became angry after seeing pictures on her Facebook page. She told officers that she was raped multiple times over the span of a few days. According to the report, she asked if she could go home and the man told her, “When I am ready to take you home, I will.” When asked why he was doing this, the report claims he said, “Because I got a bad vibe from you and you are just trying to steal from me.” The alleged victim told officers that she was beaten and hit multiple times, which resulted in bruises. She also said the alleged suspect said, “This is how we treat women where I am from. You think you have it bad now, wait until I am done with you and you will be scared of my kind.” Officers arrested 28-year-old 
STUTTGART, AR -- 
Larry Lamont White, already convicted of killing two young women in the summer of 1983, was found guilty Friday of raping and murdering a third woman, shot dead just weeks before his other two victims. 
NEW ORLEANS -- A Central Business District resident is recovering after being brutally beaten by a group of people. NOPD detectives are trying to track down the perpetrators. In the meantime, a neighbor who saw the attack happen remains shocked. "The man was yelling, 'What's happening, What's happening,'" said a Central Business District resident who was walking home from the store last Sunday morning when he stumbled across a man being beaten. Eyewitness News is not identifying him, for safety concerns. The NOPD confirms an aggravated battery happened just after midnight in the 800 block of Gravier Street. "He attacked him from the back. He hit him in the back of the head. He fell on the ground and didn't move. I saw blood on the ground," said the neighbor. According to the NOPD, the victim's girlfriend says the couple had a verbal argument with a group on Bourbon Street before the attack and were followed back to the CBD. A woman named Linda claiming to be the victim's mom called into the WWL Radio Tommy Tucker Show on Friday, saying her son had been waiting for his girlfriend when he was approached by five people. "A liquor bottle was broken over his head, a beer bottle. Some kind of metal rod was used to smash his head," said Linda, adding her son spent three days inside University Hospital's ICU and has undergone surgery. "He had a fractured right frontal lobe that resulted in a brain hemorrhage that has fortunately since subsided, a fractured right eye socket, two fractured sinuses," said Linda over the radio. Linda claims police aren't doing enough. But on Friday, the NOPD released images of two women and three men wanted for questioning in the aggravated battery. 
A smug Brooklyn street thug took his sweet time accepting a plea deal Friday for shooting and permanently injuring a Brooklyn police officer — and even objected that the cop “can still walk.” Rookie cop 
A Brooklyn woman who allegedly dismembered her neighbor and dumped the body parts all over Long Island paused during her grisly mission to pawn the victim’s jewelry and buy lottery tickets, sources said. Leah Cuevas, 42, accused of hacking 
RIDLEY TWP., Pa. - Police say a father fatally shot his son and injured his girlfriend on the 1100 block of Haverford Road in Ridley Township on Saturday night. According to authorities, they found a woman shot four times and a boy who was shot twice. Police have identified the victims as 26-year-old 
JACKSON, MS - Two men suspected in a gang rape of a woman at a Shell Gas station turned themselves into police on Saturday. According to the Jackson Police Department, the incident allegedly occurred Friday, July 18 when the woman stopped at the gas station located at 455 Daniel Lake Blvd. Ja'Lon Jones, 20, and Edward Samuel, 18, both turned themselves into police at JPD Headquarters after video surveillance was shown. Jones is being charged with sexual battery and accessory after the fact to armed robbery of an individual. Authorities said Samuel is being charged with sexual battery. A warrant for the arrest of Marquise Samuel, who was also identified through video surveillance, will be issued.
A Dixmoor man was held on $250,000 bail Saturday on charges of sexually exploiting a young girl who visited his house. Torrance Williams, 40, of the 14000 block of South Western Avenue in the south suburb, is charged with sexual exploitation of a child in connection with two incidents at his house that occurred this year between June 1 and July 9, prosecutors said. 
BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY – Eric Crader entered guilty pleas to 213 counts of Felony Rape of a Child on Thursday. The 33-year-old Pleasant Gap man was arrested in late February after one of his victims told a guidance counselor at school she did not want to be hurt anymore. The
SUMTER, SC — A 20-year-old waitress is charged with murder after admitting she stabbed her live-in boyfriend in Sumter. Deputies responded Saturday a call and found 21-year-old Mallory Jerell Richardson stabbed to death on the mobile home’s living room floor. Helen Louise Wells admitted to officers that she stabbed her live-in boyfriend with a knife after an argument, according to Lt. Robert B. Burnish of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Wells, who works as a waitress at the Huddle House restaurant near Shaw Air Force Base, threw up as deputies examined the body, screamed, then confessed, according to an incident report and Burnish. Wells told deputies that she and Richardson had been arguing about a female friend of hers. She said they had been in physical fights before and that she was afraid. Deputies retrieved a knife allegedly used to stab Richardson from the home’s front yard after Wells told them where she threw it, the report said. 
An 18-year-old Chicago high schooler has been charged with murder after she gave birth to a baby on Saturday morning and then left the newborn in a Walmart bag to die. Ana Rosa Mora returned to bed after giving birth and then concocted a series of lies to hide the fact that he had thrown her baby boy away. Under questioning, she told police that she had thrown away the dark-haired little boy and left him on the gangway because she feared her current boyfriend would notice the resemblance to her former boyfriend, who is the actual father of the child.
Fayetteville, N.C. — Fayetteville police have arrested one man and are searching for two others in connection with an assault that happened in a home on Vista Drive. According to investigators, A man and woman went to 523 Vista Drive at about 6:15 p.m. Friday to collect personal belongings from the home, which is under construction due to a recent fire. When the pair entered the home, they found three men inside, and the suspects immediately began assaulting the male victim. Police responded to the home after receiving a call about someone screaming inside. The unidentified victim was taken to a local hospital and later transferred to UNC Hospitals, where he was listed in critical condition Saturday afternoon. Fayetteville police arrested Alexander James Smith, 26, of 1412 Cobra Drive, Friday night. He is charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, felony breaking and entering and felony conspiracy. 
SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. - South Daytona police say a man who tried to set an apartment building on fire while accidentally setting himself on fire is now in the hospital. Police were called to the Spanish Villa Apartments at 1685 South Ridgewood Ave. around 9:42 a.m. Saturday for a disturbance that turned into an arson. Police said a resident with a small child sleeping in the apartment advised a man, identified as Arthur Avery, was banging on the door... Witnesses told police that they could see Avery's skin coming off his arms and identified a passenger that got out of the car to help put the flames out on his friend.
She walked through her running tests and got winded climbing stairs, yet a physically unfit female FDNY probie was still allowed out in the field like a normal graduate — and given a year to pass, The Post has learned. “She’s literally the most pathetic specimen of physical fitness I’ve ever seen,” fumed an academy classmate of Choeurlyne Doirin, 39, who was given a uniform and a “light-duty” assignment even though she did not graduate on June 2 with the other 286 cadets.
PHOENIX — A hapless burglar in Arizona learned a hard lesson when he broke into the Phoenix home of former World Wrestling Entertainment heavyweight champion 
LEAVENWORTH, KS - Friends and family said goodbye to 
RICHMOND, Va. — Convicted killer Kenneth Wayne Woodfin will remain in jail after a former Richmond Police officer’s letter writing campaign to the Virginia Parole Board. Woodfin shot 
The Missouri Supreme Court today set a Sept. 10 execution date for Leon Taylor, who murdered a service station attendant in Independence, Mo., in 1994. Leon Taylor, 56, killed 
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gripping testimony from the New Jersey police officer on trial for murder after a deadly road rage incident on Interstate 97 in Anne Arundel County. He told jurors the victim was the aggressor and says he shot him in order to protect himself and his wife and kids. New Jersey police detective Joseph Walker emerged from the courthouse holding his wife’s hand after he spent nearly two hours on the witness stand Friday morning recounting the night of June 8, 2013 when he shot and killed 
HENRICO — A man who was shot in the parking lot of the McDonalds on Nine Mile Road late Sunday has died from his injuries, police said this morning. 
KENT — A 14-year-old boy who lured, raped and brutalized an 
A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for burying her 
34-year-old Omar Lamar Brisbane of North Las Vegas has been indicted for attacking 
Tallahassee Police say a man was stabbed five times while he and another man had sex in the Oakland Cemetery last month. Devante L. Johnson, 18, is now facing a charge of attempted murder. The victim said he met Johnson in the cemetery about 11 p.m. on June 24 to have sex. He said while the two were in the act, "the suspect referred to a former boyfriend of (the victim's) by name and said no one would have to worry about (the victim) anymore," court documents said. The suspect, later identified as Johnson, started stabbing him repeatedly. The victim was able to kick Johnson out of the car and lock the door. The victim then drove out of the cemetery crashing his car through the cemetery's fence at 4th Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Tulsa police arrested a man on a complaint of knowingly spreading AIDS after he reportedly bit a health care worker late Friday night, causing a deep cut and bleeding. The police report states the suspect, Darin Bunch, 40, became abusive and uncooperative towards a medical technician at St. John's hospital.
SACRAMENTO – A 28-year-old Chicago man has pleaded guilty to a sex trafficking offense involving an underage girl in the Sacramento area. The federal Department of Justice says Marquist Piere Bradford entered his plea Thursday to sex trafficking of children by force. According to court documents, Bradford recruited a 
ORLANDO, Fla. —A woman was forced to perform oral sex at knife point by a man she met on a site called datehook-up.com just after midnight Wednesday morning, police said. The two agreed to meet in person after talking on the site, and the man picked up the woman in a newer model white Toyota Camry. They drove to a bank parking lot where the man pulled out a knife and demanded oral sex, police said. The suspect then tried to force the woman out of the car, but she refused to leave without her purse. The two continued driving near the intersection of Garland and Concord, and the woman screamed at passing cars that she was raped. Police said at some point, the woman was able to escape the vehicle with her purse, and the suspect stabbed her in the thigh.
The suspect is described as a black male in his early 30s. 
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has been arrested and is in federal custody in relation to a corruption investigation that began in 2011. Federal agents were waiting for Price this morning at the commissioner’s office at 7 a.m. A copy of the indictment shows that Price has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, deprivation of honest services, subscribing to a false and fraudulent tax return, and conspiracy to defraud the IRS.
WILMINGTON, Del. – A graduate student at the University of Delaware has been arrested for allegedly putting hidden video cameras in various campus bathrooms over a two-year period. Thirty-eight-year-old
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - Jacksonville Beach police have arrested a man in connection with the fatal hit-and-run crash of a 25-year-old man on Third Street early July 5. Darrell Lundy, 40, turned himself in to police Wednesday after a warrant was issued, and he was booked in the Duval County jail on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving death. He is charged in the death of 
Authorities say a suspect with a lengthy criminal record has been charged in the death of a Gary, Ind. police officer earlier this month. Lake County Ind. Sheriff John Buncich said Carl Blount, 26, faces one count of murder. “The work that went into this is unbelievable,” Buncich said while crediting a variety of police agencies Thursday. “Each and every one of these investigators were driven by the ardent desire to find those responsible for the murder of one of our own.” Veteran Gary Police Officer 
Dallas County is set to exonerate 
MILWAUKEE — It was to be the final note played out in the story of a stolen Stradivarius violin. The valuable violin was stolen from concertmaster 
LAS VEGAS - A man was arrested in California on Wednesday in connection with the shooting death of a woman in the parking lot of a gas station in Las Vegas last week, according to police. On July 17, police were called to a 7-Eleven at the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Teddy Drive. According to investigators, a man entered the vehicle of a woman, identified as 23-year-old 
A 20-year-old man was arrested Thursday after a 
Community leaders called for the resignation of school board member Skyy Fisher on Friday, a day after he was released from jail on suspicion of 
DAYTON — A 
A 36-year-old Chicago man, who was charged with sexual assault after dozens of rape kits were discovered at a south suburban police station, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday. Steven Murphy sexually assaulted a woman who was on her way to buy milk for her children on Oct. 14, 2002, according to a statement from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office. After the attack, the victim reported the incident and gave her clothing to Harvey police, but the rape kit sat untested for about five years, the statement said. A 2007 raid of the Harvey Police Department uncovered dozens of such untested rape kits. Murphy struck the woman over the head and dragged her by the hair to a nearby alley, prosecutors said. He then sexually assaulted her while continually hitting her.
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 
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 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. 
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.
Unable to move and suffering from excruciating pain, 
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 
BASTROP, Texas — A Texas judge has set an execution date for a death row inmate convicted of
