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Illegal alien Guatemalan migrant accused in North Bergen hit-and-run arrested; 20-year-old victim dies
   Three weeks after the hit-and-run of two brothers on a North Bergen street, authorities have arrested the man they say struck them and left the scene. The hit-and-run initially left Michael Viruet, 20, critically injured, but he died Thursday evening. His younger brother, Adrian, 11, is currently in therapy at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick. U.S. Marshals arrested Rogelio Chavix-Tacen, 38, of Guatemala in Annapolis, Maryland. Chavix-Tacen will be arraigned Monday at the Hudson County Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City and will face charges of death by auto, leaving the scene of a critical injury accident and aggravated assault by auto, said Schillari. All charges are second-degree, said Schillari, and it is unknown how much prison time Chavix-Taxen faces. “We’ve got him,” Schilarri said. “You can run, but you can’t hide.” Chavix-Tacen, an immigrant in the country illegally who has been working as a laborer in the North Bergen area for the last three years, had fled to Annapolis to stay with a family member, and was found hiding under the bed of the apartment. Schillari said the man was trying to flee to Texas to return to Guatemala. - (Invasion!)
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19-Year-Old Jessica Lane Chambers was brutally murdered in Mississippi two nights ago. Unfortunately the details of her murder are so horrific to comprehend they make the current racial anxiety in the headlines seem small, yet also potentially more explosive. …When the fire department got there, she was walking down the road on fire. […] They squirted lighter fluid down her throat and in her nose… Yes, Jessica was white; and no, by all accounts her killer(s) were not. She wasn’t just attacked, beaten, and burned alive – she was brutalized beyond all horrific imaginings. When you identify what took place, and contrast her horrific murder against the current national dialogue, you can also understand why the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI), and all Mississippi politicians, will most likely lead the media to bury this story as quick as possible. - (Black-on-white) - (Burned Alive!) 
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Charlottesville Police announced an arrest in the deaths of 
OKLAHOMA CITY - Authorities have arrested a woman accused of kidnapping and assaulting an elderly Oklahoma City man, resulting in his death. According to authorities, Evelyn Goldsmith, 40, was arrested and booked into the Oklahoma County Jail. On October 6, the victim, 
An Orleans Parish jury Tuesday convicted a 20-year-old man on murder charges in the killing of a good Samaritan who tried foiling a 2012 carjacking attempt. After deliberating for almost seven hours, the jury decided Kendall Harrison was guilty of second-degree murder and armed robbery of 
West Haven police have arrested a New Haven man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Police said a 
A New Orleans cab driver accused of raping a Mississippi woman at an eastern New Orleans motel while the woman was intoxicated was arrested Thursday (Dec. 4), court records show. Nicholas Porter Jr., 22, was booked on one count of simple rape, records show, after police say he sexually assaulted a 21-year-old woman at the Royal Inn of New Orleans motel on Nov. 22. 
ATLANTA - Fulton County prosecutors say a serial rapist has been given eight life sentences for attacking nine women. 50-year-old Gregory Hillman of Atlanta was sentenced on charges of rape, aggravated sodomy and false imprisonment. Hillman's victims were between 28 and 48 years old and met him through his mobile auto repair company. Hillman used the business as a way to gain access to the women at their homes or at his. Hillman also told some victims he was widowed, needed help with his small children and asked if they wanted to watch his wedding video before assaulting them. Hillman attacked women between July 2005 and July 2012.
SANFORD, Fla. - Five of the six teens accused of raping a student near Winter Springs High School in November were ordered released Monday morning by a judge. The teens, who have been detained since November 19, were released after the state asked for a continuance, which was granted. No charges have been filed against the teens. Tywuan Johnson, 17, Josea Sims, 17, Deoante Stewart, 17, Marquis Pierre, 16, and Tobert Alexander, 16, were all arrested on charges of sexual battery and false imprisonment. A judge set bond for the sixth teen, Torreano Batton, 18, at $35,000, but as of Monday morning, he remained in jail. Winter Springs police said she managed to record part of the ordeal on her iPod. The video shows several black males asking for sex in the woods. Police said investigators can clearly hear her say, "No," and, "I want to go back to school."
Police shot and killed a disturbed man after he walked into one of Brooklyn’s most prominent synagogues and stabbed someone there. The bloodshed at the world headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown Heights happened shortly after 1 a.m. A Chabad spokesman said witnesses reported that the man said “Kill the Jews,” but police said the man might have shouted, “I will kill all of you.” One witness told The Post that the man did not talk about killing Jews. Calvin Peters, 49, walked into the basement of the synagogue, where people were praying. The victim was
The man charged with stabbing four people on an Amtrak train in Niles Friday night, allegedly told police he thought he was battling demons. Michael Darnell Williams, 44, made his first court appearance today via closed circuit television from the jail. Court documents filed in connection with the case indicate that Williams used a large hunting knife with a five inch blade. According to court documents, Williams told police he could remember being on the train that day talking to a guy, when “the guy he was talking to on the train turned into a demon and he had to fight them.” 
IOWA CITY, IA -- One man is facing serious charges after police say that he broke into a woman's apartment and threatened her with a knife. It happened Saturday morning around 5:30 AM at 325 East College Street. That's when police say Vernard Archer, 30, of Iowa City entered the apartment, while the female victim was sleeping. When she woke up, Archer allegedly shoved her, held a knife to her neck and threatened to kill her. He fled the scene, but police later caught up with him. He faces several charges including first degree burglary, a Class B felony and intimidation with a dangerous weapon, a Class C felony. 
A Muncie man was arrested after he allegedly wounded his wife with a steak knife. Kenneth Allen, 60, was preliminarily charged with domestic battery, criminal confinement, intimidation, criminal recklessness and battery resulting in bodily injury. Allen’s alleged victim said she and her husband were watching television, and consuming alcohol, when he “suddenly became angry” and slapped her in the face. The woman said Allen then “poked” her in the chest with the knife, telling her he intended to kill her. She said she suffered cuts to her thumbs in trying to take the knife from him. The Muncie man — whose criminal record includes convictions for rape (in 1993) and child molesting (in 2004) — was being held in the Delaware County jail.
A man has been jailed following a vicious knife attack in which he slashed his victim more than a dozen times in a family restaurant in Romford. 
PITTSBURGH — Port Authority police have a suspect in custody stemming from a reported machete attack at a downtown Pittsburgh bus stop. Witnesses said that a man wearing a long coat, who was later identified by a Port Authority spokesperson as 26-year-old Jason Butler, walked up to a man and woman and pulled out a machete. The witnesses said the man was hit in the head and hands. “There was a puddle of blood on the ground. It was bad. 
HOUSTON - Workers at the apartment complex found the body Monday afternoon after noticing a strong odor coming from the home. An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 11-month-old after the body of the child's mother was found stuffed inside a refrigerator inside their Houston, Texas apartment. 
CONOVER, N.C. – Conover police are searching for a man they suspect 
LODI — A 64-year-old borough man allegedly held a kitchen knife to his friend’s throat Monday and punched him after an argument, authorities said. 
ST. LOUIS • Shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday, Billie Wilson slipped on a jacket and said her goodbyes at Pooh’s Corner tavern in the Carondelet neighborhood. Then, the front door swung open and three men barged in. “The guy in front held up a black pistol and yelled, ‘Get down,’” Wilson, 49, said Saturday, trembling as she recounted the experience. Then the shooting started. Wilson’s friend 
Hillsboro officials have accused a man of killing 23-year-old resident 
A Tulsa man was arrested in the Nov. 22 slaying of a woman just east of downtown. Stephen Kyle Scyffore, 23, was arrested on a first-degree murder charge. Detectives spotted Scyffore driving a Dodge Avenger near where 
FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. —He was 12 when he was shot and stabbed. His family was killed while he was on the couch. The only survivor of a horrific attack is now an adult, speaking about his forgiveness. 
GARY — A deal to buy marijuana in Gary led to the shooting death of a 17-year-old Lansing, Illinois, girl, police said Friday. 
A former teacher at Bolton High School was indicted on aggravated statutory rape charges stemming from accusations that the had a relationship with a student. LaTorrence Bivens, 31, was a math teacher and assistant football coach when he was accused of sexual misconduct with a student in April 2013. Investigators say Bivens was involved in a sexual relationship with 
ZEBULON — Police have charged a 43-year-old man with statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl last summer. Eugene Smith, whose address was listed as a mobile-home park at 111 Westside Circle, was arrested Friday afternoon and held in lieu of $1 million bail for a court appearance Monday. Police charged in an arrest warrant that the incident happened Aug. 1. 
LAKE ARBOR, Md. -- Police arrested a man in Lake Arbor on Saturday in connection with the homicide of a 34-year-old pizza delivery man. The victim in the homicide has been identified as 
HOUSTON -- A special needs student is now in a wheelchair and officials say two staff members at his school are to blame. Today the first of them was in court. Taja Holly, 26, faces a felony charge of injury to the disabled. Her 56-year old colleague, Sandra Burton, faces the same. The student's family claims the women assaulted him, leaving him with a broken leg and toe. The incident allegedly took place on September 17, 2014, in a gym at Aldine Senior High School. Although the victim is 15, relatives say his abilities are more like that of a 2-year old.
Police have released the name of the suspect who died after being shot by a police officer. Jerry Nowlin, 39, died at an Oklahoma City hospital Sunday night following a police pursuit. Oklahoma City police attempted to pull over Nowlin's vehicle but Nowlin didn't stop, crashing into a fence. Nowlin fled the vehicle on foot and ran south through the complex with
A man accused of swiping a car from a good Samaritan collecting bread for the homeless after Thanksgiving — and fatally mowing him down — whines that he never saw the victim before speeding off, a source says. “He’s crying that he didn’t even see the guy, he didn’t mean to kill him. He doesn’t want to be charged with murder,” said the jailhouse source, who heard Long Island suspect Edwin Gutierrez discussing the incident. Gutierrez was arraigned Sunday on attempted-grand-larceny and second-degree-murder charges after allegedly stealing the elderly do-gooder’s car and running him over in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven in Bay Shore the day after Thanksgiving. The victim, 
A convicted killer who tried to sneak a loaded gun into a Brooklyn courthouse dodged the rap — by claiming he had no idea the weapon was in his bag. Terrance Washington was on his way to Brooklyn Supreme Court on Nov. 26 to face an assault charge for allegedly breaking a man’s arm with a bat when a court officer operating a security X-ray machine detected the loaded .22-caliber handgun in his bag. Washington, 41, was slapped with felony gun charges. But he was never indicted because the grand jury bought his excuse — that the bag wasn’t his and he didn’t know there was a gun inside.
A Brooklyn elementary-school teacher who had been charged with molesting five young girls was accused of sexually abusing another four victims Monday, as court papers revealed that he told cops he hugs his students and admitted that “it may have been misunderstood how he was touching them.” 
Artie and Lisa Adams' learned about the incident while asking their son how his school day was.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - 
FORT WORTH -Two suspects were arrested in connection to the murder of 
STATESVILLE, N.C. -- Statesville Police have arrested two people accused of robbing a gas station while wearing monkey masks. On Sunday, November 23, just before 10 p.m., three men entered the Maxwell's BP gas station in the 1200 block of Garner Bagnal Boulevard in Statesville wearing monkey masks. Two of the men, police say, were carrying handguns, when the trio robbed the store of cash from the register. Statesville Police Friday charged 17-year-old Jaqerius Tyquale Johnson and 18-year-old Shawn Dee Ramsey, both of Statesville, with armed robbery. 
PENNS GROVE, N.J. -- A Penns Grove, New Jersey man was charged in the beating death of a 4-year-old girl in his care. 43-year-old Michael Oliver faces manslaughter, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Police were called to the 200 block of South Broad Street in Salem County on Wednesday evening. The victim, a
Philadelphia police on Friday arrested a 21-year-old man who they say bilked multiple victims out of tens of thousands of dollars in a months-long bank-fraud scheme. Raymond Starr was charged with theft by unlawful taking, conspiracy, possession with intent to deliver, and related offenses. Police say he was the ringleader of a group that engaged in similar behavior. Some in the group were arrested over the summer. Police on Friday also arrested and charged Muhammad Sadaat Ali White, 21, in the scam, and were seeking another suspect Friday night. 
LAWTON, Okla. – A man was charged with first degree murder in connection to the shooting death of an Oklahoma man. Friday afternoon 27-year-old Robert Lawrence Long was charged with murder in the first degree, robbery and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction. He is accused of entering
DETROIT - A Detroit man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a fire that paralyzed a firefighter. Calvin Jones got the punishment in Ann Arbor federal court. He struck a plea deal in August, months after an appeals court found problems with Jones’ trial and threw out his conviction and 15-year sentence. 
FRANKLIN CO - A Franklin county father and son are accused in the Thanksgiving Eve murder of a Chambersburg man. Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane announced charges late today against Barton Patrick Jones, 56 and his son Patrick Leroy Barton Holden, 21, in the murder of 
St. Petersburg, FL - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Tampa Bay area teen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role in a fatal robbery. A Pinellas County judge sentenced Brittany Detwiler on Friday. She previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Authorities say a then-16-year-old Detwiler lured 20-year-old 
Before suffering gruesome and fatal injuries Thursday, 
A former Norwalk man who was accused of raping and killing his disabled neighbor two years ago has been apprehended in Guatemala, federal authorities said Friday. 
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of missing Aynor teen 
STAMFORD, Conn. – Police have arrested the driver they say caused a crash in Stamford last month that killed two people. Felicia Burl is accused of being at the wheel of a 2002 Nissan Altima that ran a red light near the Greenwich-Stamford line and slammed into a station wagon Nov. 7. 
SALISBURY, NC - A Spencer man has pleaded guilty to the murder of his former wife. Rodney Roberto Wallace was charged in June for the murder of his ex-wife, 
GREENFIELD – A man convicted of fatally shooting a woman in a Hancock County cornfield was sentenced to 75 years in prison. The sentence announced for Joe Meyers includes 60 years for murder and 15 years for being a habitual offender, according to the Hancock County Prosecutor’s Office. Meyers was convicted last month in the slaying of
LEESBURG, Fla. - A Lake County chaplain was arrested after police say he was accused of molesting a child. Lance Travis, 53, has been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation on 
Raleigh, N.C. — A Raleigh man has been charged in connection with an October 2000 rape after a DNA sample he submitted in another case was matched to the crime. Maurice Barry-Albert Sullivan, 40, was charged with first-degree rape and first-degree forcible sex offense. A 21-year-old woman was walking home from work on Oct. 1, 2000, when two men came up on her from behind, pulled her into some nearby woods and sexually assaulted her at knifepoint. After the men fled, the woman called police, and DNA of her attackers was collected during a rape exam. The evidence was entered into the state's DNA database, but no matches were ever found. Police said Sullivan was convicted of another crime that required him to provide a DNA sample, and investigators linked him to the 14-year-old rape case after checking his DNA against the state database. 
Authorities have arrested a Gretna man accused of repeatedly raping a young girl. Omar Duplessis, 29, was booked with 12 counts of forcible rape after an investigation by the Gretna Police Department and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, arrest reports said. Duplessis is accused of forcing himself onto the girl when
ALBEMARLE, NC - An Albemarle man is facing multiple charges after a child's parents reported a case of possible sex abuse. Michael Lee Burns, 52, was arrested on Tuesday after detectives investigated the report submitted on Nov. 13. Burns, of Grigg Street, is charged with two counts of first-degree rape and four counts of indecent liberties with a child. He was given a $220,000 secured bond and is expected to appear in court on December 15.
HASTINGS, Fla. - A 20-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon on lewd and lascivious behavior charges along with violation of probation, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office. Earl Robinson was booked into the county jail on no bond pending a first appearance hearing Friday morning, deputies said. The Sheriff's Office said the investigation began about two weeks ago when the mother of a 
UPPER DARBY, Pa. - Police say the search is over for a man they are calling an "animal," after he turned himself in. He's accused of sexual assault on 
NEW YORK — Residents of a Lower Manhattan neighborhood are on edge after police said a man attacked an elderly woman inside her building. It happened around 12:50 p.m. Thursday at an apartment building on Beekman Street. Police said a man followed an 
UPPER DARBY, Pa. – The District Attorney’s Office announced 49-year-old Troy Posey has been found guilty of raping a teenage girl multiple times back in March, 2014. Authorities say Posey raped the 18-year-old victim in a church where he worked as a night repairman. He was found guilty on all charges of rape by forcible compulsion, sexual assault, indecent assault without consent and indecent assault by forcible compulsion for a series of sex acts. Posey’s sentencing is scheduled for March 3, 2015.
SPARTANBURG, SC - More than a year after a home invasion and sexual assault were reported, Spartanburg County deputies said they have charged the man accused of attacking a woman. On Oct. 23, 2013 the victim reported that an unknown man forced his way into her home at gunpoint and raped her, then stole $5 and a lottery ticket. Deputies were able to identify a woman in connection with the lottery ticket. Deputies said they learned the woman and the suspect, a man, were in custody in Franklin County, GA, on unrelated charges. The report states the suspect, identified as 26-year-old Terrace Irby, refused to talk to them but the woman told investigators that Irby robbed the victim while she was asleep in the car. 
CHATTANOOGA, TN - The medical examiner’s autopsy report for the death of 3-year-old 
FLORENCE, SC - A 26-year-old Florence man was booked at the Florence County Detention Center on homicide by child abuse charges. Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff's Office were called to a hospital on Sunday for a report of the death of a 1-year-old boy. FCSO Investigators charged Jerrod Lee Brown, the father of the child, with homicide by child abuse and unlawful neglect of a child or helpless person. Brown is alleged to have inflicted physical injuries on the child resulting in death. The boy was taken to the emergency room by his parents and later died of a ruptured bowel resulting in hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma. 
INDIANAPOLIS — A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested and charged after a 1-year-old child died and had signs of injuries. Diamond Miller, 19, was charged with neglect resulting in death and neglect resulting in bodily injury. Her boyfriend, 26-year-old Frank Larkins III, was charged with murder, aggravated battery, battery resulting in death of a person less than 14 years old, neglect resulting in death and battery on a person less than 14 years old. The child’s biological father had confronted Larkins and Miller in the past about Larkins “putting his hands on my son.” 
KENOSHA —Kenosha police are investigating the homicide of 
Rivera broke into the family's home early morning Sept. 2, 2012, and attacked the girl who was asleep on the sofa. Family members have said that 6-year-old 
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A woman may be spending the rest of her life in prison, after admitting to suffocating her 4-year-old son, 
SANTA ANA —An Orange County man accused of molesting more than 10 boys was being held Friday on $1 million bail. 
NEW YORK — A 98-year-old woman lost her bid Thursday to persuade a judge to erase her 1950 conviction for conspiracy to obstruct justice in the run-up to the atomic spying trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Miriam Moskowitz sought this year to get a judge to reconsider her conviction in light of new evidence that emerged in the last decade. Moskowitz, who lives in Washington Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, was sentenced to two years in prison after her conspiracy conviction. The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in 1953. Since then, decoded Soviet cables have appeared to confirm that Julius Rosenberg was a spy.
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — A man who admitted to killing two women and raping 
KENMORE, N.Y. - The western New York man convicted of killing a prominent Kenmore bar owner was sentenced Thursday morning to 25 years to life in prison. It has been nearly one and a half years since the slaying of 62-year-old 
MILWAUKEE — A man is behind bars, charged with a crime police say was committed seven years ago! In this case, DNA helped Milwaukee police find their suspect. In 2007 
Even the judge was struck by Bryan Nabors' nice-guy demeanor. But that's the very thing that Nabors used to exploit two underage girls – setting them up in hotel rooms and then hiring them out as prostitutes. Nabors, 30, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child. He was also sentenced to 10 years post-prison supervision. Nabors admitted to paying for hotel rooms for the 
CHICAGO — A downstate man, who stands accused of masturbating while walking around a Kohl’s department store, has been charged with public indecency, according to media reports. Police did not say whether it was shoppers or store workers who first noticed the lewd behavior, but officers were called to the store around 4:30 on Monday in Fairview Heights, which is near St. Louis. A loss prevention officer at the store told officers that the man, later identified as Kendall J. Collins, was exposing himself and touching his genitals. Collins, 21, of Belleville, ran from the store and got on a transit bus. Police followed Collins, pulled over the bus and placed him under arrest.
HOUSTON – The mother of a 9-year-old girl who was found dead inside a refrigerator back in June has been charged with injury to a child, Houston police said. Amber Keyes, 35, was arrested Tuesday without incident. Police said neighbors became concerned after not seeing Keyes' child, 
A violent vagrant who has terrorized Soho locals for decades told cops he stabbed a street vendor in the chest with a pair of scissors in June after their discussion about “evolution” got out of hand, according to court documents released Thursday. “We were talking about evolution. I stabbed him to protect myself,” Richard Pearson, 49, nicknamed the “Wildman of SoHo,” told police after the summer attack. Pearson then asked, “How many times did I stab him?” Pearson, 49, who’s racked up more than 23 arrests in 30-plus years, was arraigned Thursday on attempted-murder, assault and possession-of-a-weapon raps. “Not guilty,” were the only words the hulking convict spoke in Manhattan Supreme Court.“He started cussing. He said, ‘F–k you! You’re black! You’re from Africa!’ and tried to push me,” said 
PHOENIX - A suspected drug dealer shot and killed by Phoenix police had a long rap sheet of drug-related and aggravated DUI arrests. Rumain Brisbon, 34, was killed Tuesday night in north Phoenix during a struggle with a police officer outside an apartment complex. The officer had been conducting a burglary investigation when he learned the driver of a SUV was selling drugs at a 7-Eleven convenience store nearby. The officer obtained a denoscription of the suspect and the license plate number and when he ran it through his computer, he got the address of the vehicle's registered owner. When the officer arrived at the address, a person at the apartment complex told him that the occupants of the SUV parked in the vicinity of an apartment unit were selling drugs. As the officer approached, he requested additional units. The driver, later identified as Brisbon, got out of the vehicle and climbed into the rear seat and appeared to be removing something, Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump said. As the suspect closed the door, the officer gave several commands for Brisbon to show him his hands, Crump said. Brisbon placed one or both hands in the area of his waistband. Crump said the officer drew his weapon. 
BUCKEYE, AZ - Two Latino have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman last month. 