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Two White women thwart attempted kidnapping of baby in Sligo Creek Park by black sexual pervert who also exposed 'himself'
  SILVER SPRING, Md. - A morning stroll through a well-known Silver Spring park turned terrifying for a nine-month-old girl, and her nanny. Around 10 a.m. the infant and her caretaker were relaxing at a playground in Sligo Creek Park. While standing near the swings, police say, Raynard Holmes, 20, approached the nanny and asked, "Do you know what kind of animals you are?" Confused and troubled by the strange question, the nanny picked-up the baby in one hand and pushed the stroller in the other, but Holmes reportedly followed. Holmes became angry and aggressive, and pried the stroller straight from the nanny's hands while repeatedly yelling, "Give me the baby!" The nanny replied, "no", but Holmes refused to relinquish. About that time, longtime friends and daily walking companions, Trish Bunn and Liz Ranasinghe, stumbled upon the midday kidnapping attempt. They were stunned by the sight. "We saw this young lady, who was obviously distraught, holding onto a baby," Bunn remarked. "She was pointing at a man who was off to the side." In what can only be described as an act of gallant goodwill, Bunn and Ranasinghe confronted Holmes, who reportedly asked, "How do I get out of here?" The duo distracted the 20-year-old with a long-winded answer, giving the nanny and child enough time to run away. "He exposed himself to us, and that wasn't the most pleasant thing to see, but then he just turned around and took-off. I was glad about that," Bunn added. Bunn then grabbed her cell phone and dialed 911. Responding officers quickly apprehended Holmes about half-a-mile away with his shirt over-his-head, pants loose and zipper undone. - (Black-on-white) |
CLARKSTON, Wash. - A Clarkston man could face the death penalty if convicted of raping and killing a 69-year old woman and dumping her naked body on a public beach. 69-year-old Ina Richardson was beaten, strangled and her body was left naked under a blanket at a park near the banks of the Snake River. Richardson was last seen late Thursday night near the Albertson's in Clarkston. Witnesses came forward saying they saw Richardson at the grocery store the night she was last seen. She asked at least one person for a ride home, but he was going the other direction and could not drive her home. Richardson was seen walking towards a vehicle, described as a "box-style, older American-made vehicle" with mismatched hubcaps. On Monday Clarkston Police Officer Darin Boyd stopped a vehicle matching the denoscription of the vehicle. The driver was Bisir B. Muhammad, otherwise known as Billy Joe Dallas. He was questioned about his whereabouts the night of the murder, but said he was somewhere else and that there's another vehicle matching that denoscription in Clarkston. Police developed enough evidence to search Muhammad's vehicle and inside they found condoms, latex gloves and other items in the trunk. He told police he knew Richardson, because he used to work at Albertson's and would see her there. He denied seeing her that night and said he had never talked to her for any period of time. However surveillance video obtained from that Albertson's shows Richardson talking to Muhammad for at least seven minutes on October 31 two weeks before she was killed. It also showed Muhammad carrying her grocery bags out of the store. Muhammad's wife said they don't use birth control because they're unable to have children, so she couldn't explain why he would have condoms in his car. - (Black-on-white)
COLMA — Colma police have arrested a 27-year-old woman, accused of attacking a shopper at Nordstrom Rack after being asked to quiet down a tantrum-throwing child with her. Officers identified Terrie Elzie as the woman on surveillance video, and she is being held on $50,000 bail on suspicion of felony battery causing serious injury. A shopper at the Colma store said she was punched in the face by a mother after telling her to quiet down her child, who was throwing a tantrum on November 3rd. 
TEMPE, AZ - The man suspected of raping 
FORESTVILLE, Md. -- A man accused of raping a juvenile in August is in custody in Prince George's County, according to the sheriff's office. Samuel Davis was arrested at a nightclub in the 6400 block of Old Branch Road in Temple Hills. He faces second degree rape, second degree child abuse, sex abuse of a minor and second degree assault. Police say Davis forced an underage victim to have sex with him on August 24 in Forestville, Md. Davis was arrested on an October 29 warrant. 
The young man convicted of raping a fellow student at Parkside High School pleaded guilty to the remaining count he faced — a gun charge — on Monday. Jocori Scarborough, 18, pleaded guilty to possessing a regulated firearm under age 21. That count had been severed from the other five counts, which included second-degree rape. He went to trial on the other charges, and a Wicomico County jury found him guilty on Oct. 21 of all five counts he faced in connection with a May 5 rape of a fellow student, a then-
Today, the shining example of ridiculous thinking comes from Lincoln University President Robert R. Jennings. For those who aren’t familiar, Lincoln is the historically Black university in Oxford, Pennsylvania. During a speech he delivered in September at an All Women’s Convocation, Jennings made all types of remarks about how women set the tone for how a man will treat them and explained how men will use women up if they allow it. But the blow came when he essentially accused women, specifically three women last semester, for falsely filing rape charges against their fellow male students. 
ATLANTA - Police in Forest Park are looking for a man they say attacked an elderly florist. Officers were called to the Red and Gold Florist. A customer came into the shop and found the shop owner, a 
BENSALEM, Pa. – Some shocking news on Veterans Day. Police have announced the arrest of a Feasterville man for allegedly burning gravesite American flags and other items removed from veterans’ graves. Anthony Davis Carter, 29, is accused of five incidents that took place on the property of Roosevelt Memorial Park at 2701 Old Lincoln Highway and Rosedale Memorial Park at 3850 Richlieu Road. In all of the incidents, gravesite American flags, veteran flag holders and gravesite décor was removed from gravesites, placed on a pile and then burned.
An illegal immigrant driving drunk and without a license crashed through a fence Sunday, hitting and killing a 
A 33-year-old man was charged with multiple offenses Monday after he allegedly struck a pedestrian and then continued to drive with him through the windshield. Patrolman Kyle Flatt observed a vehicle traveling north on Main Street with what appeared to be a person lying on the hood of the vehicle. The driver – who was identified as 
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LANCASTER CITY, Pa. —Police say an innocent bystander was shot and killed just after 10 p.m. Friday, at Shenk's Cafe. When officers arrived in the area, they found 28-year-old Lamar Douglas Clark in a roadway, about a block from the reported shooting. When officers arrived at Shenk's Cafe, they found a 54-year-old man shot in the back. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died. He has been identified as 
WOODBRIDGE, Va. -- Police have identified a 16-year-old student who was found shot and killed in the area of Oakwood Dr close to Woodbridge Senior High School Monday afternoon, Prince William County Police said. The victim has been identified as 
One of four men wanted in connection with the videotaped beating and armed robbery of a French Quarter tourist last month has been arrested. Edward Doyle, 27, was booked with armed robbery. Doyle is one of four suspects police say surrounded a 27-year-old man walking by himself Oct. 12 around 4:30 a.m. in the 800 block of St. Louis Street. The victim was thrown to the ground, punched, kicked and robbed at gunpoint of his wallet and a Cartier gold watch worth more than $10,000. Police obtained an arrest warrant Oct. 17 for another suspect in the case, 23-year-old Bruce Jones. The other two suspects have not been identified and remain, with Jones, at large. 
A suspect is in custody following an armed hostage situation at an Oklahoma office building Monday, according to police. Negotiations between the suspect and Norman police lasted for more than four hours at the employer services company, Nextep, located about 20 miles south of Oklahoma City, police said. The suspect, who identified himself to investigators as 29-year-old Devin Rogers, was taken into custody just before 5 p.m. CST without further incident, said police. 
Police charged a 31-year-old homeless woman in connection with a dog being thrown from a third-floor hotel balcony during a dispute with her boyfriend. Jamie Taylor Gonzalez, 31, was jailed Tuesday on charges of criminal domestic violence and mistreatment of animals. Officers were called at 2:20 a.m. to Summer Sands Motel for a disturbance. Gonzalez told officers she argued with her boyfriend and they fought. The victim, a 38-year-old man, told officers that he argued with Gonzalez and she pushed and scratched him. The victim said Gonzalez took 
A defense attorney for the Brooklyn man accused of kicking a cat high into the air tried to get the case dismissed Monday by claiming prosecutors never said the cat had been hurt. Andre Robinson, 21, was supposed to start trial Monday on misdemeanor animal-cruelty charges for booting the cat a helpless cat high into the air in Bedford-Stuyvesant in May – an act that went viral when video of the kick was posted on YouTube.
NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Police arrested a 32-year-old North Hills man accused of trying to rape an unconscious woman inside her New Castle home. A woman told officers she awoke and found a man lying on top of her and making sexual advances. The woman told police when she realized the man was not her fiancé, she screamed and pulled his hair. The woman said she ran out of bed, grabbed a shotgun and pointed it at the suspect until he eventually left. The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Samuel Lee Lowry, was arrested a short time later. He’s charged with rape of an unconscious victim, burglary, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, criminal trespass and indecent assault of a person unconscious.
A Cottage Grove Heights man has been charged with engaging in sexual acts with a 
A registered sexual predator has been charged with public indecency after visibly masturbating one afternoon last month in his vehicle near South Shore High School, prosecutors said. Nakia Kali, 39, was held in lieu of $750,000 bail in bond court Saturday. He is listed by the Illinois State Police and Chicago Police Department as a registered sexual predator. 
Police said four men attacked the
LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for former Raiders defensive end Anthony Wayne Smith, who is charged in four killings nearly a decade apart, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. Jurors deadlocked 8-4 in April 2012, unable to agree on whether Smith had murdered 31-year-old 
A career attorney with top ratings at Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that she faced retaliation from superiors for refusing to drop cases pending against illegal aliens guilty of DUI, identity theft and other crimes.
A man with an extensive criminal record in Washington County is in Allegheny County Jail on charges that he plied a
A Sherbrooke, Que., man was arrested in Florida on the weekend following an online sting centring on his belief he was going to the U.S. to meet a 
Portland police say Ian Martin Elias, 47, killed his ex-wife 
A Port Jervis man has been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a longtime local shop owner. Dennis McBee, 29, is accused of fatally beating 
The woman who was allegedly attacked by her husband in North College Hill in early October has died. According to police, a 
FUQUAY-VARINA, NC - Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old woman Thursday night. Police were dispatched to a shooting call at 9:38 p.m. Thursday. Upon arrival, police found 
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has obtained a photo of Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign. The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling and possession and illegal possession of a firearm. He is currently sentenced to five years at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility, with the prison term stayed for three years while he is under supervised probation until 2016. If he violates terms of his probation during that time, he will serve the five years behind bars. The photo was taken a week before the November election while the mayor canvassed neighborhoods with a nonprofit group in a get-out-the-vote event. Hodges declined repeated requests for interviews, but her spokesperson told us the mayor enjoys meeting with many people who are organizing on the North side. 
A 35-year-old prostitute has been charged with manslaughter after the death of a man found in a Gold Coast apartment. Queensland Police probing the suspicious death of businessman 
MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee County judge sentenced 42-year-old Salah Salahadyn on Monday, November 10th to seven years in prison and another five years of extended supervision. Salahadyn pleaded guilty in October to a robbery charge related to the case of the stolen Stradivarius violin. The valuable instrument was stolen from concertmaster 
BEAVER, Pa. —A Beaver County man who pleaded guilty to raping an 85-year-old nun was sentenced to prison time Wednesday by a judge who said that he had not seen such depravity in all his 42 years in the criminal court system. Andrew Bullock, 19, was sentenced to 18 years and six months to 37 years in state prison. He admitted to targeting the woman behind St. Titus Church in Aliquippa last December. The victim testified at a preliminary hearing that she was grabbed, punched, choked and ultimately raped, and she told the magistrate she thought she was going to die. 
Three convicted felons were arrested in connection with a string of violent rape attacks in South Florida, including a gunpoint robbery and sexual assault of a woman they lured to a vacant home early Friday by texting her, police said. Miramar police charged locals Britton Blackwood, 19, Frankie Lee Gatlin Jr., 20, and Kinshon Johnekins, 19, with sexual battery, armed robbery and assault on Saturday after surveillance video and DNA evidence tied them to at least four rapes
A Dubuque man has been charged with six felony counts accusing him of trying to entice underage girls for sex. 20-year-old Jacquille Williams was arrested Thursday night on a warrant charging him with six felony counts of entice a child. He appeared in court Friday morning and was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victims. Police say they interviewed 
A 43-year-old Minneapolis man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for criminal sexual conduct involving a vulnerable adult. Corey Gordon had been convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in the case for posing as a personal care attendant in order to have sex with the victim. A jury found him guilty, then ruled that multiple instances of sex acts in the case were an aggravating circumstance to serving life in prison. Gordon will be eligible for parole in 30 years. “I am astounded at your view of the world,” Hennepin County District Court Judge Elizabeth Cutter. “No one deserves a life sentence more than you.” Gordon posed as a personal care attendant, allowing him to take the victim to the assisted dressing rooms and engage in inappropriate sexual contact. 
MEMPHIS, TN - Memphis police officers are searching for a sexual assault suspect in the 3400 block of Ridge Meadow Parkway. Officers say a teen girl was walking to a friend's house in the area on Thursday at 10:30 p.m. when four men confronted her. She told police that one of the men was armed with a handgun. That man took her cell phone and forced her behind a business where he sexually assaulted her. After he let her go, she told police she walked home and told her parents about the attack. Police released a sketch of the suspect. He is described as being about 5 feet 8 inches tall, 170 pounds, with a dark complexion.
New Orleans police arrested a man Thursday in an aggravated rape investigation in the Seventh Ward. 18-year-old Brodrick Cotton was arrested in the case.
Hours after an 18-year-old wanted man taunted police in Delaware County -- telling detectives to "come and get me" -- the teen surrendered early Friday morning to police for allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl Wednesday. Kassim Hill, accompanied by his mother, turned himself in to Darby Police. The 14-year-old girl was heading to a friend's house Wednesday afternoon when the suspect leaned out his window and told the girl her friend was in his home along the 200 block of North 9th Street in Darby, police said. Once inside, Hill forced himself on the girl, investigators said. The assault was interrupted by a knock on the suspect's door and, when he answered, the person heard the girl's screams and called 911, police said. 
A Woodstock teen awaiting trial on sexual assault charges is in McHenry County Jail following a recent misdemeanor theft arrest, according to court documents. Corion Simpson, 18, who had been free on bond, was charged with retail theft stemming from an alleged incident on Halloween. Simpson "knowingly distracted the clerk so his accomplice could take possession of ... one carton of Newport cigarettes" at a Woodstock gas station. Simpson faces charges of criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse and intimidation related to an alleged incident over Christmas break last year involving a 
Police are asking for help in finding a man they believe attacked a woman after following her home from a Stockton grocery store. The woman was able to fight off her attacker, but officers believe the man could try to do the same thing again to another victim.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Police arrested three men accused of breaking into an apartment and
BEACON – A 24-year-old City of Beacon man was charged with raping a 
Aguirre, who came to the U.S. from El Salvador nearly two decades ago, was arrested Thursday at a county court. He was there to settle a case of driving under the influence. The arrest stems from a past criminal case: Aguirre was deported in 2000 after a drug conviction; he then unlawfully re-entered the country.
OMAHA, Neb. -- A second man has been arrested on suspicion of playing a role in the September fatal shooting of an Omaha jewelry store owner during a botched robbery. Authorities said Wednesday that 20-year-old Christopher Hicks is being held on suspicion of receiving stolen property, violation of probation and felony criminal conspiracy. Police have not said what role Hicks is believed to have played in the Sept. 17 shooting death of 
FAIRFIELD, Calif. —A convicted felon, with a lawyer by his side, turned himself in to Fairfield police after an arrest warrant was issued for the robbery of an elderly woman's home, police said. Darnell Underwood, 42, of Fairfield, knew he was wanted and walked into the police department to turn himself in. On Sept. 12, an 82-year-old Fairfield woman walked out to her garage when Underwood forced his way into her house. Underwood hit the woman in the head with a handgun, which knocked her to the ground. He then handcuffed her to a chair, searched the home for valuable and left the house. 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - An 84-year-old man says his body aches after he was followed home, attacked and robbed. 
RIVERSIDE — A man who, with three accomplices, tormented and killed a Marine sergeant and his wife during a home invasion robbery near Murrieta was sentenced Friday to death. Kesaun Kedron Sykes, 27, was convicted in August in the 2008 slayings of 26-year-old 
DETROIT, MI – Detroit Police took a very dangerous man off the streets and now that suspect Andre Haynes Jr., 33-years-old, was arraigned on multiple felony counts on November 2nd, 2014. Andre Haynes has been charged with First Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct, Second Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct, Armed Robbery, Kidnapping, Second Degree Felony Firearm and Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Detroit police have stated that Haynes kidnapped a 21-year-old women who was walking to work on the east side of the city by forcing her into his car at gun point, took her to the west side and raped her before she was released. It is also alleged that he then went out, 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - It took a Duval County jury only five minutes to convict a man of second-degree murder in the in the shooting death of a man after a confrontation at a Northside gas station last year. Isreal Williams was accused of shooting and killing 46-year-old
A Trenton man accused of fatally shooting a Hamilton woman in a drug deal gone bad was given his final plea offer from prosecutors Thursday. Keyon Powell, 22, has two months to decide whether he will accept a 20-year sentence in the killing of 
ANAHEIM — A 29-year-old Orange County murder suspect died late Monday in a single-vehicle crash after a pursuit, officials said. Santa Ana police officers were in pursuit of a white Chevrolet Tahoe when it plowed into a retaining wall and caught fire. Investigators believe the driver intentionally drove into the wall as the vehicle was accelerated and the driver failed to brake immediately prior to the impact. The chase began in Santa Ana, where officers were told to be on the lookout for a vehicle related to a death investigation. Hours earlier, police received a frantic call regarding a 55-year-old woman who had been shot at home. 
An old-school rap battle broke out at a Long Island library, when the director used lyrics from a classic track to diss an underling who refused to discriminate against white people. 
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - New details have emerged about DNA found from the man accused of abducting University of Virginia student 
SUMTER, SC - The South Carolina Court of Appeals reversed a murder and armed robbery conviction and has called for a retrial of a man serving life in prison in connection with the 2008 slaying of a pizza delivery driver in Sumter County. Attorneys for Daniel Deangelo Jackson successfully argued state prosecutors improperly admitted statements of another man also convicted in the crime. Jackson and Reginald Canty were both convicted of the armed robbery and murder of Sambino's Pizza delivery driver 
HOUSTON - A 32-year-old Houston man sent to death row for the fatal shooting of a police officer more than a decade ago has won a new trial. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed that telephone records bolstering Alfred Dewayne Brown's claims of innocence in the death of Houston officer 
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