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Illegal immigrant hit and run suspect had deportation warrant; bond raised to $1 million
 Marcos Santiaga Bautista was charged Thursday with felony hit-and-run, is a fugitive with an outstanding deportation warrant, according the N.C. Highway Patrol. Bautista, a native of Mexico, failed to attend a non-detention immigration hearing in South Carolina Vicent Picard, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Southern Region, said a detainer has been placed on Bautista with the Wilson County Jail. "Following the adjudication of his criminal charges and the completion of any sentence imposed, Mr. Bautista will be taken into ICE custody for removal from the United States." On Thursday morning, siblings German Arroyo-Correa, 10, and Areli Arroyo-Correa, 5, were struck by a Ford Explorer while they were getting on their school bus before 7 on Rock Ridge Sims Road. The driver of the vehicle left the scene. - (Drudge) - (Invasion!)
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An ex-convict found guilty last month of fatally stabbing a suburban teenager in her home in 2011 was sentenced Friday to 160 years in prison. A jury in September found John Wilson Jr. guilty in the murder of Kelli O’Laughlin. Prosecutors said the 14-year-old Lyons Township High School freshman interrupted Wilson as he was burglarizing her family’s Indian Head Park residence. Besides first-degree murder, Wilson was convicted of armed robbery, residential burglary and home invasion. - (Black-on-white)
A robber who stumbled and shot a medical student as he raided a fraternity residence has been found guilty of murder. Dajeon Franklin, 22, had no reaction when a jury convicted him of killing 25-year-old 
SPRINGFIELD — A registered sex offender has been arrested on charges including rape and strangulation, along with other crimes — some of which, police said, occurred in front of children. Johnny Deon Taylor, 36, who lists a local rescue mission as his address on his sex offender registry, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree rape, first-degree sexual penetration, fourth-degree assault, strangulation and menacing. He was booked into the Lane County Jail. Springfield police Det. David Grice said the case is still under investigation and is very similar to a case in which Taylor was convicted of sexual abuse in 2005. Taylor knew the victim for several weeks, Grice said. 
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A tip from a news viewer led Henrico Police to arrest Arnold Raphael Eason, 27, of Sunbury, South Carolina, in connection to the sexual assault of a woman inside a model home in Glen Allen. Police said the woman was attacked Wednesday afternoon when someone arrived at the Woodman Hills Court model home and acted like a potential home buyer. After the attack, a man matching the denoscription of the attacker broke into a home on Rudwick Road, took someone’s car keys and stole a White Nissan Pathfinder.
MINNEAPOLIS — The man arrested Thursday on suspicion of back-to-back assaults in a downtown Minneapolis parking ramp has been formally charged. According to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, 22-year-old Peijan Lamont Hodges is suspected of assaulting two women in broad daylight Tuesday on the seventh floor of Ramp C. The assaults happened within three hours of each other. He was charged Friday with four counts of criminal sexual conduct.
MILWAUKEE — U.S. Marshals are looking for 25-year-old Johnnie Walker. Walker is charged with two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child. Between June and July, U.S. Marshals say he repeatedly sexually assaulted
ZEPHYRHILLS, FL - Detectives with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect that forced his way into the home of an elderly Zephyrhills woman on Friday. The incident occurred at approximately 2:30 pm at a residence on 23rd St. According to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report the suspect is a black male in his late teens or early ‘20s. The victim fought off her attacker with a vacuum cleaner. He grabbed the home appliance from the woman before fleeing the scene on foot. Investigators say the suspect attempted to sexually assault the woman during a struggle. The victim suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
Police at Sacramento State University were successful in apprehending a man who exposed himself to students Friday. Around 2:15 p.m., officers received word of a man exposing himself near the elevators on the third floor of the University Union. When officers arrived, the man tried to escape by leaping over a short wall near the stairwell. However, the man fell over the stairwell and onto the concrete floor, breaking his leg. The man, who was not a student, was identified as Shawan Wimberly. Wimberly was also identified as the man wanted for fleeing the Academic Information Resource Center after exposing himself to a female student this past Sunday.
A pervert choked a woman into unconsciousness in a brutal rape attempt at a crowded Hell’s Kitchen nightspot, then ran off with her underwear when bar security stepped in to halt the sick attack, cops said Friday. The man jumped the 34-year-old woman as she left the bathroom at Flaming Saddles Bar on 9th Avenue at 10:35 p.m. on Oct. 3. The suspect choked her, threw her to the ground, and took off her underwear before bar security noticed something was wrong, cops said. “Security walked over to the restroom area after noticing a man leaning over a passed-out woman, and the guy just took off when he saw them,” a police source said. “It was pretty clear what he was going to do to her.” Police describe the suspect as a black man...
Florida State University administrators and Tallahassee police took steps to both hide and then hinder the criminal investigation of the school’s Heisman Trophy winning quarterback 
Rapper and Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Wakka Flocka Flame was recently arrested at Atlanta's main airport on suspicion of carrying a gun and spent more than two hours in jail. The 28-year-old, whose real name is Juaquin James Malphurs, was detailed on Friday. He has not commented.
allowing him to remain in the U.S. in exchange for money in 1997. “It was wrong then and it is wrong now and I am here today to accept the consequences,” Ms. Hayes, the fiances of Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber, said at the news conference, a local Fox affiliate reported. She added that she was “ashamed” and did not tell the governor about the marriage until it was reported in the news. Ms. Hayes met 18-year-old Ethiopian immigrant 
WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been sentenced to prison for his role in the theft of a wedding ring from a dying woman's hand. Forty-three-year-old 
CAMP LEJEUNE, ONSLOW COUNTY - A Marine has been sentenced to military prison and is dishonorably discharged for accidentally shooting and killing another Marine at Camp Lejeune's main gate in April. A military judge sentenced LCpl. Brandon Little (pictured left) Wednesday to two years in the brig, a dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps, forfeiture of all pay, and a reduction of rank to E-1. The original sentence was actually three years in confinement, but the last 12 months were suspended due to a pretrial agreement. Little accidentally shot and killed 21-year-old LCpl. 
HOUSTON -- Homicide investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect wanted in the murder of a good Samaritan in east Harris County last month. At around 6am on September 12, investigators say 
LUBBOCK, TX - The Ebola virus is now impacting a Lubbock murder trial. Defense attorneys for 23-year-old 
Johnson County Judge Brenda Cameron on Wednesday granted prosecutors’ request to bind over Roy Lee Maney on six charges — including first degree murder — stemming from his involvement in the Oct. 11, 2013, crash at 75th Street and Roe Avenue that took the life of Prairie Village resident 
RICHMOND, Va. — A 46-year-old Richmond man has been arrested for allegedly robbing and 
LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville man is accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend and then trying to dispose of her body by burning it. Police say it happened near Churchill Downs at their home on Iowa Avenue. Police arrested Antoine Montrell Bosley, 46, early Oct. 9 for the murder of 
A Jersey City Sunday school teacher who was ecstatic after her recent engagement was brutally stabbed to death by her former fiance this morning in the Heights apartment they still shared, officials said. “I feel horrible,” said St. Anne Church pastor the Rev. Nigel R. Mohammed of the murder of 
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A South Texas teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother and then defiling her body. A Nueces County jury took less than an hour Wednesday in deciding the life sentence for 18-year-old Kevin Jazrael Davis, who pleaded guilty earlier in the week to killing Kimberly Hill. Prosecutors say Davis in March struck his mother about 20 times with a hammer. He then sexually assaulted her corpse 
MONTGOMERY, AL - It's an announcement that continues to rock a Montgomery church and the surrounding community. Reporters confirmed with church leaders, including the now former pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Juan Demetrius McFarland himself, that McFarland confessed from the pulpit a few Sundays ago that he had full blown AIDS and had slept with church members without revealing he had AIDS. He admitted to drug use and mishandling of church funds. "He concealed from the church that he had knowingly engaged in adultery in the church building with female members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church while knowingly having AIDS," Williams said. 
PHOENIX - She's a month old; a twin girl and she stopped breathing as paramedics rushed her to the hospital. Doctors told police she had been beaten badly, and that is when police arrested the father. He was the only adult at home watching the twins and five other kids when it happened. Little 
A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the sexual assault last week of a 
WICHITA, Kan. - A Wichita man has been sentenced for his role in a theft and rape case of an elderly woman. A Sedgwick County judge sentenced John Thompson, 19, to more than 10 years in prison for attempted kidnapping, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery. He pleaded guilty to those crimes in July. Police said Thompson and co-defendant Marquatesz Redman admitted to their involvement in the robbery in a home near Lincoln and George Washington Blvd. last summer. Detectives said DNA samples on Redmon were consistent with the suspect's own profile and the victim's. 
Marquatesz Redmon was charged with aggravated burglary, rape, aggravated robbery and criminal threat, or in the alternative, aggravated intimidation of a witness in the he case. Friday afternoon, a jury found him guilty on all counts. Police said Redmon was 17 when he and co-defendant, John Thompson admitted their involvement in the robbery. Each gave different accounts about who decided to rob the woman and who went into her bedroom. But during a preliminary hearing, a detective read a report that showed DNA samples on Redmon were consistent with the suspect's own profile and the victim's.
A Paulsboro man was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office. It took two days and four hours for a Gloucester County jury to find Dajon Lester, 21, guilty of sexual assault and trespassing, the prosecutor's office said. Authorities said Lester, who had an on-again, off-again relationship with the girl that lasted two years, forced his way into the girl's Westville apartment before school, held his hand over her mouth and assaulted her. The teen testified before the jury, the prosecutor's office said. A DNA test later showed a match to Lester's DNA, authorities said. 
OKLAHOMA CITY – Authorities arrested a 53-year-old man after a police officer allegedly caught him raping a woman. On Thursday, officers rushed to the intersection of Main St. and Brauer Ave. after a caller said a woman was being raped. When police arrived, an officer said he found 53-year-old Dean Blunt holding a woman on the ground. According to the arrest affidavit, Blunt’s pants and the victim’s pants were pulled down mid-thigh.
DAYTONA BEACH — A Holly Hill man convicted of raping a woman was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison. Kenneth Bronson Jr., 26, was convicted Aug. 20 of sexual battery with deadly force and false imprisonment after a two-day trial in front of Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson. Bronson beat and choked the woman and threatened to kill her during the rape that occurred in March 2013 at a home in the 300 block of Kingston Avenue. The woman told police she had just met Bronson on the street and agreed to have a beer with him when he suddenly dragged her by her hair and sweatshirt onto the home’s front porch and put her in a choke hold. 
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – A New Britain man was arrested Thursday after police say he was committing sex acts while peeking into the windows of young girls. Elliot Nails, 25, is facing a list of charges that include stalking and indecency. Police say more than a dozen times he showed up to the windows of
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A man was sentenced Wednesday to death for killing two women in Los Angeles three decades ago, as the judge made note of the brutality of the crimes. Kevin Haley, 50, was sentenced to death in the killings of
A 72-year-old woman who was stabbed in South Berkeley in September has died after nearly three weeks in medical care. 
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — Police in New Kensington announced Thursday that they have identified a suspect in an unsolved double homicide that left the community shaken. But it turns out, that man is dead. Investigators said they believe 18-year-old Brian Hall, of Penn Hills, is responsible for the shooting deaths of 
An Indianapolis man was sentenced to 60 years in prison this week for a murder than happened in June 2013. Keith Brown was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years in the Department of Correction but received about 16 months of jail credit. A court recommended mental health and substance abuse treatment and also a GED for Brown. Police arrested Brown for the murder of 37-year-old 
A southeastern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing a childhood friend to death and setting the apartment on fire last year. Twenty-two-year-old Shakeem Carter pleaded guilty Tuesday in Chester County to first-degree murder, robbery and arson in the February 2013 murder of 17-year-old 
“I can rest and sleep now and know that he will be rotting in hell,” Allen’s mom 
- just 10 miles from where 
HOUSTON - Houston police are asking for help to identify the man who they say raped and robbed a 
A callous creep slashed a woman’s throat after she rejected his romantic overtures in Queens, cops said. The ruthless Romeo approached the victim in the lobby of an apartment building on 171st Street in Jamaica at 5:15 a.m., Oct. 1, and tried to strike up a conversation, police said. Investigators said the persistent goon then asked the 26-year-old out on a date, but the uninterested woman declined and turned to walk away. The scorned thug flew into a rage, grabbing the woman from behind and slashing her neck with a blade before running off, authorities said.
ROCKVILLE, Md. - A former Baltimore police officer who pleaded guilty to aggravated animal cruelty for killing his girlfriend's puppy will spend a year in jail. Alec Eugene Taylor of Silver Spring was sentenced Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court. State sentencing guidelines had suggested a range of no jail time to three months. Taylor pleaded guilty in late August for beating his girlfriend's
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Two brothers have been charged with felony assault after a bathroom brawl at the new Levi's Stadium during Sunday's San Francisco 49ers game. Santa Clara County prosecutors say 27-year-old 
A man who led police on a high-speed chase while high on PCP before slamming his car into another and killing a two-year-old girl has been found guilty of murder. Marvin Travon Hicks, 47, of Palmdale, California, was convicted of second-degree murder on Friday in the DUI pursuit crash that ended with the death of 
GREENSBORO — Officials have released a photo of the suspect in a fatal stabbing that happened on Sunday. Shiquan Jermaine Richardson, 22, of 1118 Summit Ave. faces a charge of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of
DAYTON — The death penalty trial of Anthony L. Stargell Jr., accused of murdering Dayton businessman 
A Colonial Heights man has been charged with the murder of a McDonald’s employee who was taking a break outside the restaurant July 20 in the 5100 block of Nine Mile Road. Deonte Maurice Jenkins Jr., 19, made a brief appearance in Henrico Circuit Court this morning and will return to court next week when a trial date could be set. He was indicted earlier this month on the murder charge after initially being arrested for attempted robbery and conspiracy charges. Jenkins faces three other felonies in connection with the shooting death of McDonald’s employee 
A Chicago police captain was shot in Englewood attempting to apprehend a suspect in multiple shootings in Indiana. One suspect was taken into custody and another is dead following a standoff of over five hours. The shooting happened at an apartment building. . SWAT teams and police stormed the building and found one suspect dead and took the other in custody late Tuesday night. Capt. 
FLORENCE, Alabama -- Florence police took a man into custody on Tuesday following a grand jury indictment on sex crimes against a child. Police said Kofi Calloway faces a charge of first-degree rape and two counts of sexual abuse of a child. Police said the incident was reported in October 2013. Calloway is being held in the Lauderdale County Detention Center on a $90,000 bond.
Wis. —A Waukesha woman is charged with kicking a 2-year-old so hard that it caused her death. Nicole Wagester, 31, is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of the girl. She lived at the apartment with the girl's father, but she was not related to the girl. An autopsy performed by the Waukesha Medical Examiner's Office found that the girl had a severely lacerated liver. The girl's biological mother is also in jail. Wagester's former boyfriend (and father of one of her children), Andre Pirtle, said. "She did what she had to do..." 
OPELIKA, Ala. - A jury convicted a man of capital murder in the shooting deaths of two former Auburn University football players and a third man, rejecting claims that he fired in self-defense. Jurors returned the verdict against 24-year-old Desmonte Leonard. Jurors will recommend a sentence to Circuit Judge Jacob A. Walker III, who must make the final decision. Relatives of the victims held hands and nodded in agreement as the verdict was read. The Montgomery man was charged with fatally shooting ex-Auburn players 
Police reports claim the incident began when another Penn student began shouting at Countryman as he walked down the street around 2 a.m., then yelled racial slurs and shoved him. The reports allege when 
REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A man who was wanted in connection with a home invasion Monday morning in Livonia ended up crashing into a woman's car at 6 Mile and Beech Daly roads in Redford Township. That 26-year-old Royal Oak woman, 
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - A St. Johns County Sheriff's Office K-9 died early Tuesday morning and investigators believe a suspect they were searching for may have drowned him. Deputies responded to a home on Twin Aspen Circle around 3:20 a.m. in reference to a disturbance. The suspect, Brandon Allison, 26, fled before deputies arrived, according to SJCSO. Deputies said Allison was also wanted on a felony arrest warrant from April for selling cocaine. Deputy Farrah Ashe and her
Prosecutors have offered an illegal Ecuadoran immigrant from Hackensack 20 years in state prison in exchange for his guilty plea to repeatedly raping a Moonachie girl over several years, beginning when she was 10. Prosecutors have offered an illegal Ecuadoran immigrant from Hackensack 20 years in state prison in exchange for his guilty plea to repeatedly raping a Moonachie girl over several years, 
A reluctant witness claiming to forget a murder confession left Maryln Dunlap weeping and in tears last week, scared that her son's alleged killer would walk free. Her eyes grew moist once more Tuesday as she texted her younger son the verdict: He's guilty. After deliberating only 31/2 hours, a jury found that Macyo Joelle January murdered 
BRUNSWICK, Ga. - Katrina Elkins, 35, the aunt of a teenager convicted last year of killing a
SAN ANTONIO - A Northside Independent School District bus driver has been arrested in connection with a fatal Friday morning crash in Western Bexar County. David L. Wayne, 64, has been charged with failure to stop and render aid-death, a felony, after Bexar County Sheriff's investigators said he failed to stop at a stop sign at FM 471 and Old FM 471 around 6 a.m. Wayne pulled the school bus out in front of a westbound 18-wheeler, causing the driver of the 18-wheeler to swerve to avoid hitting the bus. Instead, the 18-wheeler collided with an eastbound Ford Focus, driven by 62-year-old 
NEW YORK — A family was tied up and robbed in a frightening attack in Bellmore, Long Island Friday morning. A man identified as the homeowner was seen standing outside of his home on Ellen Road Friday afternoon. He was wearing a hospital bracelet and his head was heavily damaged, after police said he was pistol-whipped during the robbery. But around 10:40 a.m. Friday, Nassau County police said the home was broken into by three black men dressed as construction workers wearing hard hats and dust masks. 
Police have charged a man with murder in connection with the home-invasion killing of a popular member of a Philadelphia synagogue. Police said they charged 33-year-old Jonathan Williams, a.k.a. William James, after a witness identified him as having seen Williams fleeing 
LANCASTER — A pit bull owner whose dogs fatally mauled a jogger was sentenced Friday morning to 15 years to life in prison. Alex Donald Jackson, 31, was convicted in late August of second-degree murder of in the death of 
Five people have now been formally charged after 20-year-old 
A 19-year-old has been charged with shooting and killing a fair worker across the street from where the Robeson County Regional Agricultural Fair is set to open in two days. Terrence Devon Paige turned himself in to police on Tuesday evening and was charged with attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon and first-degree murder in the death of 53-year-old 
The DeKalb police officer who was shot while transporting a prisoner was in stable condition Friday as police continue to investigate how the officer lost his gun to the handcuffed prisoner. The shooting happened Thursday night when Detective 
BALTIMORE – A 24-year-old man is listed in critical condition after being robbed and stabbed multiple times by a group of teenagers. Early Monday morning around 4:20 a.m. officers were called for a reported stabbing. When officers arrived they located 24-year-old 
A Louisa County woman is dead and her boyfriend faces charges in what authorities are calling a “domestic violence-related shooting.” A person called to report a possible shooting Thursday night at a house on Lasley Lane in Louisa. Deputies responded to the residence around 9:30 p.m. and found 39-year-old 