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(Black) Man to be sentenced for 2013 slaying, on trial for rape
  The Rochester man convicted of killing a relative of a child he is accused of raping is to be sentenced Monday, just before his next jury trial is slated to begin in Monroe County Court. Marcus Freeman, 27, claimed he was protecting himself and his family when he shot two people, killing one, on Pullman Avenue last September. He was convicted last month of six felonies in the eight-count indictment he faced for the Sept. 4, 2013 slaying and surrounding events. Among them, he was convicted of second-degree murder for killing Walesy Alvarez, 28, of Rochester. Alvarez is related to a 12-year-old child Freeman was accused of raping. Last fall, Freeman fired multiple times outside his home, striking Alvarez as she was in a car, and Martin Moore, then 33, who was near the car. Alvarez, who was shot in the head, died. Moore, who was shot in the torso and shoulder, survived. |
One of the men accused of shooting and killing a deputy sheriff was put away for life today. In August, Lamont D. Byrd pled guilty to federal charges of killing Deputy Warren "Sneak" Lewis. He then pleaded guilty in state court the next day for Lewis' murder, as well as for the killing of Thomas Hinton. Byrd was sentenced to life in federal court in Raleigh. State prosecutors said on June 2nd of 2011, four people decided they wanted to kill someone, and the D.A. said it just so happened that Hinton rode by on his bike at the time. The man was found shot, left in the street. Within a few days, officers had warrants out for 18-year-old Lamont Byrd, his older brother Maretto Byrd, 16-year-old Kion Dail, and 17-year-old Devine Slade. Raekwon Bryant also was part of that group at age 14, according to prosecutors. On June 9th, U.S. Marshals engaged in a standoff on West Lenoir Avenue in Kinston. Lewis was acting as a special deputy U.S.marshal when he was shot through a door. - (Black-on-white)
The two Walker County, Ga., men named as suspects in the Oct. 20 slaying of a Cherokee County, Ala., man have been extradited to Alabama to face murder charges. Jeremiah Jackson, 21, of 932 Garretts Chapel Road, Chickamauga, and 36-year-old Darrell Burgess of 1015 Lee Ave., Rossville, are each being held on $500,000 bond at the Cherokee County Jail in connection with the fatal shooting of 39-year-0ld 
An El Paso County constable died early Saturday morning in a fight while working a security detail in Canutillo during a Halloween event, officials said. 
SARASOTA COUNTY, FL - Michael Minor accepted a plea arrangement of 30 years in prison for the death of a Charlotte County Fire and EMS lieutenant medic 
The emotion was evident in his voice as a Dauphin County judge sentenced Christopher Slaughter to 29-1/2 to 59 years in state prison for causing a crash that severely injured a city policeman and a bystander. The judge imposed his sentence in front of a standing room only crowd of city cops three months after a county jury convicted Slaughter, 31, of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, fleeing police and drug possession charges for the April 2013 crash that injured 
A senior fireman has been arrested for hitting four boys with a golf club after they threw candy at his son on Halloween, police say. Captain Carl Holmberg was trick-or-treating in Revere, Boston, on Friday 
Cameron Clarkson and Gail Gagne. The sophomore and 25-year-old teacher began having sex at her parents' home and at a motel but the liaisons began to have a deeply unsettling effect on the schoolboy. The former football player said that rumors began to circulate at the esteemed school and left him with the reputation of a 'teacher f*****' and a pervert. He said that after using marijuana to numb the pain, he headed to Howard University in DC so that he could get away from Minnesota. 
MIRAMAR, Fla. - The Broward Sheriff's Office says a man molested an 
OAKLAND PARK – Five months after her murder, Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives said they have arrested the alleged killer of 19-year-old 
Police are searching for two robbers who allegedly attacked an 
PITTSBURGH — A man was arrested at Heinz Field Sunday night after police said he assaulted a woman. According to the criminal complaint, 29-year-old Stephan Sapp was drunk outside of Gate C and was throwing steel dividers at officers who tried to force him to leave. Police say Sapp was screaming and cursing after he was asked to leave the game and that he threw the crowd dividers in "a dangerous, disorderly manner." Police said one of the steel dividers
A first date took a turn for the worse when a man arrived at a church parking lot to meet a woman he'd met online and was robbed. 21-year-old Hunter Walls, of Antioch, drove to Hannaway Church in Columbia last Thursday night to meet the woman he'd connected with on the website MeetMe.com. Walls told police he got out of his car and stood in the parking lot waiting for the 22-year-old woman who identified herself as "Megan" online. He said that's when two males jumped out from behind bushes on the side of the church and robbed him. One of the males punched Walls in the face and the other held one hand under his shirt as if he had a gun. Walls fell to the ground and eventually handed over cash and a cell phone before they fled on foot. He sustained a chipped tooth and some bruising to his face during the attack. Walls reported he believes “Megan” was working with the men when he was robbed. The profile lists her as a 22-year-old white female. Police describe one of the suspects as a black male, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall. The other suspect is a Hispanic male, also around 5 feet, 9 inches tall with a thin mustache. 
An 18-year-old man accused of breaking into a car and assaulting an officer is also considered a suspect in attacks on two women in east Denver. Kijan Lazahn Jelks wore a flannel shirt and ski mask when he tried to choke the women until they passed out Sunday night before they fought him off and escaped. As he fled officers, Jelks broke into a car and tried to hide from police. When officers approached him, Jelks pushed one to the ground, injuring her. He then ran toward Cherry Creek, trying to elude officers before they arrested him. Jelks is accused of first assaulting a woman about 6 p.m. near Bayaud Avenue and Emerson Street. A short time later, he assaulted a second woman in the 200 block of South Pearl, police said. "The denoscriptions of the suspect were very similar, and those locations are in close proximity to each other. Therefore, officers believed that it was the same suspect responsible for both incidents." 
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) —A 27-year-old Cincinnati man has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a Florida woman after offering her a ride home. Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet on Monday sentenced Corderro Ryan Britten to a minimum mandatory 25 years in prison, followed by 50 years. Prosecutors say Britten pulled off road while taking the woman home from a party on Sept. 30, 2013. He beat and raped her in the car and left her on the side of the road, miles from her home.
A 19-year-old Davenport man has been accused of breaking into a woman's apartment, holding her at gunpoint as she drove him to an ATM and raping her multiple times in one night. Gary C. Marshall of 907 E. 39th St., Apt. 219, was being held Monday in the Scott County Jail on a $1 million bond. He was arrested Sept. 20 on charges stemming from two burglaries, including one at the Winding Hills apartment complex where the victim lived. A Davenport police investigation into accusations of kidnapping and rape resulted in new charges against Marshall that were filed Friday.
PLANTATION – A man who allegedly uses online chatrooms to lure underage girls has been arrested. Now police are seeking victims seduced by the man. On October 10th, a Plantation police officer was on patrol when he said he witnessed 30-year-old Gary Glanville performing a sexual act on a 
A man is accused of raping a University of Delaware student on Halloween. Authorities identified 28-year-old
Wilkerson elaborated that after a “normal day at school,” Josh failed to return home. Her son had offered a ride home to another boy, 
One of the men convicted in the 2007 Cheshire home invasion and triple homicide is suing state Department of Correction officials, claiming his rights are being violated because he isn’t being given a kosher diet in prison. Steven Hayes, 51, who is on death row at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, filed the hand-written civil rights complaint in U.S. District Court against the Rev. Anthony Bruno, director of religious services; wardens Edward Maldonado and Angel Quiros, and members of the Religious Review Committee. In his complaint, Hayes describes himself as an orthodox practicing Jew, and claims he has been denied a kosher diet, which he has been requesting since May 2013. The complaint seeks to ensure that all Jewish prisoners have access to kosher food. 
The Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders occurred on July 23, 2007, when 
The decorations appear to show two large people along with one smaller person dangling in the air, and are fastened to a tree with rope. At the bottom of the central figure, a smaller figure is seen holding onto its legs with a knife sticking out of its body. The decorations were spotted in front of a Litwin Street home at Fort Campbell. A spokeswoman for the base said they are no longer up. The figures have black trash bags for heads.'Lynching wasn't even on my mind when we put this up. It was the furthest thing from my mind,' 
LEE COUNTY, AL - The Lee County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest in the death of 
CHARLESTON, S.C. – A man accused of shooting a North Charleston police officer twice during a criminal investigation pleaded guilty on this week and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Timothy Darrell Johnson shot 
ROSWELL, Ga. - Police have released sketches of two men they say attacked an officer at an apartment complex in Roswell Wednesday morning. Officer 
Namibia's press agency said an American citizen attempted to escape from a prison in the capital, Windhoek, but was caught. The Namibian Press Agency, reported Monday that Los Angeles native Marcus Kevin Tomas climbed a tree inside the Windhoek Central Prison and tried to jump over the barbed wire fence but instead landed on top of the fence. Prison authorities told the press agency that they found Tomas hanging from the barbed fence and called emergency medical services to remove him. The agency said Tomas had injuries on his upper body and feet and was taken to a local hospital. Tomas and another American national Kevin Townsend were charged with the murder of 
ORLANDO, Fla. - Police said a group of four robbed a man at gunpoint after he'd organized a date with two women he met online Sunday. 
A Harrisburg man who said he thought the gang rape of a 
Garland police need help identifying a man they believe is the suspect in an October rape. A woman reported that she had been raped in the area around Northwest Highway and Saturn Road on Oct. 5. She told police the man had stolen her debit card, police said. Detectives recovered surveillance video of the man attempting to use a debit card around the same time at a Wells Fargo Bank ATM in the 4700 block of Saturn Road. Police described the suspect as a black man with a thin build, 5-foot-9 with short hair.
MARION – Police arrested a Kentucky man just hours after a woman reported being raped early Saturday morning in her home, Maj. Jay McDonald said. Curtiss Waine Brown, 28, was in the Multi-County Correctional Center on Monday afternoon after he was charged with one count of rape, one count of aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated burglary, all first-degree felonies, in Marion Municipal Court. Police arrested Br
A man was just caught in a lewd act on the same Cleveland street corner where he had been busted for the same incident once before. 
PIQUA — A man charged with kidnapping, rape and compelling prostitution denied the charges in Miami Municipal Court this morning. Brian Clay Hawkins, 43, of Trotwood, was arrested Friday morning at a rest area near Piqua by an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper, WHIO’s Steve Baker reports. The alleged victim was a female passenger in Hawkins’ vehicle at the rest area, according to court proceedings. 
INDIANAPOLIS – A man accused of not registering as a sex offender was mistakenly released from the Marion County Jail. Torrey Pargo, 27, of Indianapolis, was brought back into custody on Sunday. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is blaming the court system. According to a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, a wrong code is behind the latest mistake. Records show the Marion Superior Court issued an order Friday to release Pargo from jail. Pargo was being held for failure to register as a sex or violent offender.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Police are searching for a man who is suspected of exposing himself in a convenience store last month. The Raleigh Police Department said a man entered a convenience store located in the 5000 block Spring Forest Road on Oct. 15 and exposed himself in one of the aisles.
Fla. - A Hollywood woman was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last weekend after she smuggled cocaine in her vagina on a flight from Jamaica to South Florida. KathyAnn Ferguson, 26, arrived at the airport Sunday on a JetBlue flight from Montego Bay, Jamaica. During a search, Ferguson admitted to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer that she had a "package" inside her vagina. Ferguson voluntarily removed the package, which turned out to be .175 kilograms of cocaine. 
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Southern California police have arrested a 31-year-old man in the hit-and-run deaths of three teenage girls who had gone trick-or-treating on Halloween. Santa Ana police Chief Carlos Rojas said Monday that Jaquinn Bell of Orange was booked for investigation of felony hit-and-run causing death. The chief says the Orange County district attorney's office is considering the case. Authorities say 13-year-old twin sisters,
A man arrested in the killings of two women in a Denver apartment on Wednesday told investigators that he doesn't remember why he allegedly shot his roommate and her friend. The two women shot and killed Wednesday night have been identified as 19-year-old
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Montgomery man who confessed to driving drunk, crashing his vehicle and killing 25-year-old 
OKLAHOMA CITY — After a number of delays, Charles Frederick Warner is now scheduled to die by lethal injection January 15, 2015. It was August 22nd, 1997 when Oklahoma City Police detectives first arrested Warner for the 
MCCOMB, Miss. —McComb police are searching for a man suspected of kidnapping a girl as she walked to her school bus stop. Police said the 16-year-old girl was lured early Thursday morning into a yard of an abandoned house in the 200 block of South Cherry Street. The suspect, who police have identified as Justin Brumfield, would not let the girl leave and then sexually assaulted her. The girl was treated at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center and released.
TOMS RIVER —A man convicted of sexually assaulting a 
Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in the 60's TV version of "Star Trek," did better on spaceships than planes because her travelling companion was busted at LAX after meth fell out of his suitcase ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ. We've learned the 81-year-old actress was with a male companion in his 20's at the American Airlines terminal. We're told he had attached his luggage to hers and her name tags were on his bags. Law enforcement sources tell us, his suitcase fell to the ground, opened and a bag of meth and drug scales spilled out. Nichols rep tells TMZ ... the companion is her assistant.
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — A sixth California University of Pennsylvania football player allegedly involved in a brutal assault near the campus early Thursday morning has turned himself in to police. Shelby Wilkerson, 20, of Harrisburg, turned himself in to campus police Saturday, authorities said. He was then turned over to the California Borough Police Department and charged with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, harassment and criminal conspiracy. 
SANTA CRUZ -- It appears that someone in the liberal bastion of Santa Cruz doesn't like the overtly conservative Fox News -- imagine that! -- or anyone dressing up like a Fox News reporter on Halloween, for that matter. At downtown Santa Cruz's annual parade on Friday night, police said, 29-year-old Sean Kory said "I hate Fox News" before grabbing the victim's microphone prop. The dreadlocked Kory then made an obscene gesture with it before attacking the victim with an aluminium tennis racket, police said. The victim wasn't injured, but he called police, who ran down the suspect as he attempted to flee. 
MAYS LANDING, N.J. — A southern New Jersey man has been sentenced to 24 years in state prison for killing a man during a house burglary two years ago. Atlantic County prosecutors say 
MABLETON, GA - Police released video of a man who loaded a shopping cart with batteries at a Kmart and then threw several punches at a Kmart loss prevention officer. 
A 56-year-old 
England — 
GREENVILLE, N.C. - A man accused of breaking into and killing a pastor in Greenville pleaded guilty in court Wednesday. Shamel Brown is accused of the August 2012 murder of Pastor 
St. Petersburg police have charged a 32-year-old man with a 2012 murder. Police said Christopher E. Roberson killed 
A Tulsa man who police say fatally shot the mother of his child and then shot himself was charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of feloniously pointing a firearm. Robert Julius Tillotson III, 31, survived a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after police say he fatally shot 
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — Five football players from California University of Pennsylvania were arrested and suspended from the school after police said they beat and stomped a man outside an off-campus restaurant, then fled yelling, "Football strong!" The players attacked 30-year-old
District of Columbia police are searching for a man they say swung a large ax at an officer in an unprovoked attack.Chief Cathy Lanier said the officer was sitting in a marked police car in the 1200 block of Quincy Street, NE shortly after 3 a.m. Friday when a man swung the ax and shattered the driver's side window. The officer got out of the car and struggled with the attacker, who fled on foot without the ax. The officer was injured in the scuffle, but not by the blade of the weapon; he suffered a dislocated shoulder. The attacker was described by police as a black man who is approximately 6 feet tall with a stocky build, wearing dark-colored or black coveralls. 
ROCK HILL — John Tyrone Roddey Jr., 24, who is not a Winthrop student, is charged with criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping. A female Winthrop student was held against her will and sexually assaulted Friday morning outside her dormitory, but her screams during the attack may have saved her life, police said. The attacker sexually assaulted the victim and took pictures of her before officers arrived. 
After untested rape kits sat in a Detroit warehouse for years, the victims of a serial rapist had to wait and wonder if he would strike again. Michael Eugene Swygart’s sex crime arrests date all the way back to the late 1980s. So why did at least two of his more recent victims have to wait years for anyone to investigate what happened to them? When the 43-year-old was dragged into court last month, a woman he raped wanted vengeance. “If I could have you castrated while you’re locked up, you would be castrated,” she said to Swygart during his sentencing. 
Melvin Edwards, a 15-year-old Puyallup boy was sentenced Friday under a scheme that will keep him locked up for at least 19 years and possibly for life. Edwards pleaded guilty earlier this year to attempted first-degree murder, second-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping for luring a 
DENVER - Denver jurors have convicted a 36-year-old man for pimping a teenager. Thomas White was found guilty Thursday of the pimping of a child, pandering of a child, procurement of a child, keeping a place of prostitution and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. His sentencing for the crime is scheduled for Jan. 5. That's also the day when he will be tried on whether he is a "habitual criminal." If he is convicted of being a habitual criminal, Kimbrough says White will face a mandatory 48 years in prison. White met the victim in Arizona during July of 2012, when she was 17 years old, and brought her to Colorado, where he sold her for sex and kept all of the money. 
Just Thursday, three Republican senators who have supported immigration reform legislation — sent Obama a letter warning that any unilateral steps he might take to give large numbers of immigrants quasi-legal status could doom the chances of more permanent immigration reform legislation. “If [Obama] starts moving on immigration on his own through executive action, Republicans will get very angry and it will really be gridlock for a long time,” Thurber predicted. 
The family of an 8-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while playing outside an Alexandria home 14 years ago is afraid his killer could walk free. 
AKRON, OH - The Summit County jury deliberating in the trial for Shawn Ford has found the Akron man guilty on two counts of aggravated murder. The panel began deciding the fate of the 18-year-old on Monday and reached a verdict two days later. Ford was on trial for murdering his girlfriend's parents,
A man who appeared in Cook County Court Thursday morning on aggravated battery charges attacked judge Geary Kull after his hearing, sending him to the hospital, Cook County Sheriff's authorities said. The sheriff's office said Michael Ganter was being escorted by two sheriffs to a holding cell just before noon when he broke free near the side of the judge’s bench. Ganter went to the judge and punched him in the head and face, authorities said. Sheriff's officers and other law enforcement in the courtroom assisted in subduing him. A taser was deployed during the incident, sheriff's authorities said, and officials confirmed the judge was hit in the hand with a probe from the device. The judge was transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. His condition wasn't immediately released. 