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16 years after being gang-raped by 4 blacks - 3 Oregon State footballers - Brenda Tracy steps from the shadows
     Her name is Brenda Tracy. In a chilling account, she detailed how she reported to police that she was sexually assaulted in 1998 by four men, three of them college football players. She said she was gang raped, sodomized, robbed, and then, re-victimized -- her word -- when a college football coach suspended two of the players for one game and was quoted as saying his players had made, "a bad choice." She reported the gang rape to police in 1998. She'd told investigators the men stood around, watching it happen and cheering the others on. At one point, she said she begged one of the men to make it stop. "I get sick of reading articles about how great a guy the coach is." That coach is Mike Riley. The team was Oregon State. Tracy's report to police and the ensuing investigation led newscasts, raised questions and divided public sentiment when it occurred 16 years ago. She has never before been identified as the victim and has never before talked publicly about it. Until now...
Two Oregon State football players, defensive back Calvin Carlyle, then 18, and running back Jason Dandridge, then 20, were named as suspects in the report. Also identified as suspects were an 18-year-old Southern California high school football recruit named Michael Ainsworth and Nakia "Ken" Ware, a 23-year-old community college defensive back who was on probation for armed robbery in California. Tracy said: "I wish I'd have pressed charges." Tracy said her friend, Karmen McFadden, was dating Michael Ainsworth's (black) older brother, Greg, which complicated matters. - (Black-on-white) - (Sports) |
Three siblings and another man whom authorities say all belong to the Bloods gang set 99 Goon Syndikate will instead face the possibility of life in prison for their alleged role in the high-profile killing of Capt. Kevin Quick, 45. “I know the attorney general takes these cases very seriously,” said Timothy J. Heaphy, who is prosecuting the case against siblings Daniel Mathis and Shantai and Mersadies Shelton, as well as Kweli Uhuru. Halisi Uhuru, identified in court records as the top-ranking member of the Syndikate in Virginia, and Anthony Stokes also are charged in a 36-count federal indictment handed down by a Charlottesville grand jury last month. Former co-defendants Leslie Hope Casterlow, Anthony White and Devante Bell have pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the alleged conspiracy. - (Black-on-white)
The four charged in May are Daniel Lamont Mathis, Shantai Monique Shelton, Mersadies Lachalle Shelton and Travis Leon Bell, also known as Kweli Uhuru. Quick, 45, went missing the night of Jan. 31 after leaving his mother's Afton home for Charlottesville to see his girlfriend and infant daughter. Federal authorities said he was carjacked, abducted, and driven around while money was withdrawn from his bank accounts before being shot to death. His body was dumped in the woods of Goochland County, near its border with Louisa County, according to a federal indictment. In May, federal authorities indicted nine people in connection with Quick's disappearance and death, including Bell. 
A man who pleaded guilty to rape and assault of a grandmother was sentenced to 14 years and three months in prison. King County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector gave Christopher Anthony Brown the highest sentence she could, and will recommend to the indeterminate review board that he never gets out. Brown attacked a 58-year-old grandmother in March when she walked to get the bus. She was beaten to the point where she was unrecognizable. Friday that victim, 
A drug dealer in the nation's capital has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for selling heroin that killed a 16-year-old girl in suburban Virginia. Antowan Thorne, 37, is a menace to society who has "absolutely no potential of being a law-abiding citizen, ruled U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema Friday. She handed down the tough sentence despite Thorne's not being directly charged to the death of teenager 
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A Jackson County judge on Friday ordered the last two defendants in the 2010 murder of Kansas City businessman 
FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas - Two more people are in custody after a fight broke out at a house party in Fort Bend County. The incident happened on Nov. 1 at a birthday party. Authorities say details of the gathering were posted on social media and as many as 75 people were there, many of whom were not invited by the hosts. 
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A man pleaded guilty Friday to locking multiple women in his Cincinnati home and forcing them into prostitution. Christopher Hisle, 45, was arrested on April 8, 2014, in Louisville, Kentucky after authorities said he drove a young woman from Cincinnati to Louisville to engage in prostitution at a nearby Red Roof Inn. An FBI investigation later revealed Hisle was involved in forcing and compelling the women to engage in commercial sex for at least two years. Authorities said 
found himself facing 34 charges. The charges against him include “attempted murder, sexual assault and kidnapping.” War Machine allegedly assaulted then-girlfriend 
A North Carolina man is accused of beating a veteran he met at a gay bar, police said. The victim had most of both arms amputated after he was severely burned when the hotel room they were in caught fire, his longtime partner said. Garry Joseph Gupton, 26, a Greensboro city employee, has been charged with aggravated assault with intent to kill in connection with the early Sunday attack. There is no indication the incident was motivated by the sexuality of the victim, 
HAMPTON, NH – A California man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a Seabrook, New Hampshire girl. On Thursday, 
OAKLAND, Calif. - An 18-year-old man was charged Friday with multiple felonies including murder, robbery, rape, attempted carjacking and elder abuse in connection with the death of a 72-year-old woman stabbed during an attempted carjacking in Berkeley. Kamau Jawhar Berlin appeared in court today and was charged with five felony counts including felony murder, attempted second degree robbery, attempted carjacking with a deadly weapon, attempted forcible rape and elder abuse resulting in death. Berlin was initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and attempted carjacking on Sept. 19 following the stabbing of Emeryville resident 
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The (black) Tennessee deadbeat who has fathered 
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Police Bureau Cold Case Homicide Unit detectives arrested a 59-year-old man for the 1988 homicide of 
PINELLAS COUNTY, FL - St Petersburg Police officers who were responding to two other burglaries in progress say they followed the sound of screams early Wednesday morning and arrested Michael Odhiamba, age 32. He was attacking
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. —Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies arrested Bryan Augustin late Wednesday morning. The 18-year-old is accused of killing his brother's girlfriend. Monday night, Riviera Beach police responded to a domestic disturbance call. They found 
FISHERS, Ind. - Police in Kentucky are scrutinizing a former Hamilton Southeastern High School football player after a University of Louisville cheerleader was found dead in his college apartment. The cheerleader died in July. New information from police this week revealed where the death occurred. Investigators have not arrested Cameron Polk in connection with that incident, but U of L recently kicked him off the football team for another run-in with police involving drugs. Investigators in Kentucky just released a final report on the death of U of L cheerleader 
DARBY, Pa. -- Authorities say five children were subjected to horrible abuse - both physical and sexual - at the hands of five adults inside a home in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. William Wade, 23; Danielle Hammond, 22; Shakia Jackson, 31; Daryl Carter, 24 and Mark Isom, 22 are facing a number of charges, including endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors, simple assault, and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. The 
A female gang member encouraged her brother to rape a 
A registered sex offender was arrested by Dover police after a report that he engaged in sex with a 
A man has been booked at the Pittsburg County Justice Center on a rape accusation. Artis Clark was arrested Tuesday night by Krebs police. He made an initial appearance in court Wednesday. 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Whitehaven man who entered a guilty plea to raping three women during the summer of 2011 has been sentenced to 60 years in prison with no parole. Proof against Daramis Sharkey, 22, included his DNA, fingerprints, photo identification by the victims and his own confession. He also pleaded guilty in Criminal Court to four counts of aggravated burglary, including one case in which he startled the homeowner but left without attacking her. The rapes happened between June and September of 2011 within a few blocks of his home on Depanne Road. Sharkey will be on the Sex Offender Registry and will be on Community Supervision for life.
DUNCANVILLE, Texas — Duncanville teacher 
Dr. Martin Salia, who is a citizen of Sierra Leone but also a legal permanent U.S. resident, will be flown to the U.S. on Saturday to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, according to a government source. 
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Bond was set at $1 million this morning for the 53-year-old Clarkston man facing rape and murder charges in connection with the death of 69-year old 
AKRON, OH - An inmate is facing more charges after a physical altercation at the Summit County Jail on Tuesday. The Summit County Sheriff's Office says at 9:25 a.m., Jeffrey J. Conrad produced a weapon made from items located within the facility, and stabbed 
ATLANTA - A Nigerian man was arrested Wednesday after police say he used a fake identity to scam a Syracuse woman out of money.
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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. 
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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. 
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 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 
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 