OAKLAND, CA - A 66-year-old ex-felon was sentenced Friday to 5 years to life for his second-degree murder conviction for killing a 13-year-old girl at her family's home in East Oakland 40 years ago. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman apologized to family members of Julie McElhiney for the lenient sentence he imposed for Curtis Tucker for killing her on Aug. 9, 1974, but said his hands are tied by the sentencing laws that were in effect at the time. "I wish there was more that I could do but there's a reason they changed the law so crimes like this would get punished more severely," Goodman said. Tucker, who has prior convictions for sexual assault and burglary, pleaded no contest to second-degree murder on July 8, just before a trial was to begin on allegations that he sexually assaulted and murdered McElhiney. According to Oakland police, McElhiney, a sixth-grader at Sequoia Elementary School, was found at about 5:40 p.m. on Aug. 9, 1974, face down on the second floor of her family's apartment at 3022 Pleitner Ave. She was then transported to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy said her cause of death was blunt force trauma to her head. The coroner also documented that there was an injury to her vaginal area. The case remained unsolved until 2012, when Tucker's DNA was found on the clothing that McElhiney was wearing at the time of her death. - (Black-on-white)- VINELINK: Offender Name: CURTIS TUCKER Offender ID:1719408 Date of Birth: 06/24/1948 Race: African American
- Judge apologizes to teenager's family after law limits him to giving her killer just FIVE YEARS in jail
- found that a T-shirt Julie was wearing had semen stains on it.
- Tucker was arrested on March 12 at a Veterans Administration outpatient clinic at 2221 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland.
- ALAMEDA COUNTY Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman (left) chats with fellow Judge Don Clay at a reception
Instead of sending Bedford to prison, Goodman gave him probation along with a mentor who shared a similar background - 10/09/2006 - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman wrote in his scathing opinion... - May 1, 2014
- "White lives matter"
SPERRY, Okla. – A 78-year-old man is now behind bars for first degree murder. Tulsa County Deputies say the victim had apparently been helping the suspect for a decade. Deputies found a man with a gunshot wound to the chest near Highway 75 and East 86th in Sperry, Okla. around 2:00 a.m. Sunday. Fletcher Foster was arrested at the scene for the shooting death of 42-year-old 
Jevon Mallory, 20, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sneaking up behind 
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HOUSTON -- Six people were arrested in Harris County at the Cowgirls Men's Club after an undercover operation Wednesday. One woman was charged with prostitution. Five others face permit violations for operating a sexually-oriented business and serving alcohol. The Harris County Constable's Office says when investigators arrived at the club on the 900 block of FM 1960W, they were charged at $10 cover fee. Once inside, three women in thongs and bikini tops gave them lap dances. Authorities note, "Furthermore, during the dances the females allegedly exposed the areolas of their breasts while dancing in a manner that simulated sexual intercourse; all of which are violations of the Harris County Sexually Oriented Business Ordinance." During the operation, investigators say one woman, Angela Lynne Constable, 18, prostituted herself, allegedly agreeing to engage in sex for money. Investigators add they were served alcohol, a service for which the business does not have a permit. The owners of the club, Cassius Mclinton Johnson, 35, and Willie Earnest Davis Jr., 34, are charged with operating without business and alcohol permits. Darcie Rae Pepin, 23, Cheyenne M. Thayer, 19, Crystal Nicole Chapman, 19, are also charged with working without a permit. Constable is charged with prostitution. 
The FBI is probing the August hanging death of a 17-year-old black boy whose death was quickly ruled a suicide by local police. Lennon Lacy, 17, was found hanged to death from a swing set in a predominantly white trailer park, and his family suspects his death may be a modern-day lynching. Here’s what you should know about Lennon Lacy and the renewed investigation into the circumstances of his tragic death. 
Almost seven years after she was brutally attacked outside the Bloomingdale Regional Library, 
A Shawnee County District Court jury convicted Billy Frank Davis Jr. on Thursday afternoon of two counts of capital murder, one court of premeditated first-degree murder and seven other counts linked to the slaying of 
DECATUR – A 39-year-old Decatur man was charged in Macon County Court with nine felony sex offenses, including four counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, for allegedly assaulting a girl over a period of several years, beginning when 
WILTON MANORS – Wilton Manors police have arrested a man for the alleged sexual battery of a teenager. Detectives accused 27-year-old Peterson Simbert of 12 counts of sexual battery Thursday after learning about 12 encounters between Simbert and a child between 12 and 15 years of age. Detectives took a sworn statement from
A West Virginia man is being held in the Cumberland County Prison without bail on charges he raped an East Pennsboro Township woman at gunpoint. Township police said Robert E. Jackson, Jr., 48, raped the woman at her home just before 8 p.m. on Oct. 31. "The victim heard a knock on the door and observed Jackson Jr. standing outside. Jackson pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the victim's head and threatened to kill the victim if she spoke above a whisper. Once inside the residence, Jackson continued to hold the gun to the victim's head while forcing her to perform sexual acts," according to a news release from the police.
WHEATON, Md. – Holiday shopping at the Westfield Wheaton mall came to a screeching halt Thursday as police cornered a man suspected in a midday kidnapping attempt - and on Friday said they also connected Christian Jordan, 20, of Kensington, to a pair of sex assaults. Officers stopped Jordan, who was wearing a black hooded coat, and located what they said turned out to be a fake handgun on him. Investigators on Friday also charged Jordan with two recent sex assaults at the nearby Wheaton Metro station parking garage. During questioning, detectives said Jordan admitted committing those crimes. 
East Cleveland Police say someone is cruising the city's streets preying on women. "A male walked up behind her. Grabbed her and violently attacked her. She ended up with a broken leg." The victim was knocked out and woke up behind a building. Due to evidence at the scene, police are treating this as an assault and rape. Investigators say the suspect is extremely dangerous. He not only attacked the victim, he did it in broad daylight on Friday, December 5, just before noon. After the victim regained consciousness she noticed that her keys, jacket and shoes were gone. She describes her attacker as a Black male with a dark complexion and a patchy goatee with missing teeth. The suspect looks to be in his 40's and about 5'9" to 6'0" tall.
TUSCALOOSA, AL - Tuscaloosa investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect who sexually assaulted a woman on a running trail in June 2013. A
New Orleans police released composite sketches of two men they say raped a woman late last month in the city's Bywater neighborhood. Police said the woman was raped inside a residence around 8:30 p.m. Nov. 28. The suspects left the area in a four-door, black compact vehicle. One of the suspects was armed with a kitchen knife at the time, police said. He is believed to be between 17 and 19 years old, between 6 feet, 2 inches and 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and 180 pounds. The second suspect, also believed to be between 17 and 19 years old, was shorter at 5 feet, 7 inches to 5 feet, 9 inches, and weighed about 150 pounds. 
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Detectives have released a composite sketch of a man suspected of attempted sexual battery on a 
Anthony Smith said his mom won’t let him watch porn in the house. “Instead, he goes outside nude and walks around hoping that someone will see him,” an arrest affidavit states. Two people shortly after 1 p.m. said they saw Smith standing in his yard. He had no clothes on and was masturbating. When a sheriff’s lieutenant pulled up, he noticed Smith “bending down naked in the driveway.” Smith, of the 1900 block of Southeast Monroe Street in Stuart, was arrested on an exposure of sexual organs charge.
PITTSBURGH —Deputies made an arrest Friday in a July assault case. Authorities with the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office said Lakeysh Collins, 41, of Pittsburgh, was being sought in connection with an assault case July 28 in McKees Rocks. Investigators said Collins was captured naked on video committing the assault at the Hays Manor apartment complex. 
ATLANTA - Police in Atlanta say they have the man that killed two homeless men in custody while Decatur Police say the same man is wanted in connection to the death of a Marietta hairstylist. Aeman Lovel Presley, 34, has been taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder. Decatur Police say they have taken an arrest warrant out for Presley. Police say
Police believe he killed two homeless men as they slept, wrapped in blankets on the streets of Atlanta. Both murders happened within three days and three miles of each other. Atlanta Police Detective David Quinn called the murders "sinister" and "evil" since there was no monetary gain. They say one of the murders; the gunman actually reloaded the revolver and kept firing. Police say a revolver was used to kill both 
THOMASVILLE, GA - The Thomas County Sheriffs Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have arrested someone for the May 2014 murder of
MARIETTA, Ga. — Police say a man is in jail after beating up at least five people at Kennestone Hospital without being provoked. Cobb County police say those attacks happened in the emergency room. 
A video posted on Facebook is generating hundreds of responses, and it shows at least two young men on a CTA Blue Line train, slapping an older man and taunting him. The video goes on for more than two minutes. It shows at least two young men, both African American, slapping an older man on top of his head. And then they appear to tease him. 
A violent Bloods gang member and career criminal assaulted a seasoned NYPD inspector during an anti-police protest in Harlem, cops said. Jonathan Allen, 31, who has a lengthy rap sheet including an arrest for criminally negligent homicide, clocked Deputy Inspector 
ORLANDO, Fla. - A South Carolina mother was insane when she drove her three children into the ocean and therefore not guilty of child abuse, a Florida judge determined Friday. Prosecutors, in turn, dropped three attempted murder counts against Ebony Wilkerson. After ruling that Wilkerson was not guilty by reason of insanity of three counts of child abuse, Circuit Judge Leah Case ordered a hearing next week to determine whether the woman should be involuntarily hospitalized for treatment or released with court supervision. The judge and attorneys said the process was rare. 
Doug Krane's wife, 
DAYTON, Ohio — A former Veterans Affairs worker who pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in a VA hospital shooting that wounded an employee in the ankle was sentenced Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison. Neil Moore, 59, will get credit for time served. He had pleaded in September to the one count in an agreement with prosecutors. They dropped a count of use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a violent crime. Moore entered a break room at the Dayton VA Medical Center on May 5 and pointed a gun at several employees, one of whom was shot in a scuffle. Moore pointed the revolver at another person before fleeing. The injured man asked the judge in Dayton federal court on Friday to be lenient and said he didn't think Moore meant to hurt him.
Alleged accomplices, Erik Nunez and St. Bernard Parish deputy Brandon Licciardi, were also indicted by the grand jury. All face possible life sentences for aggravated rape charges after Friday's indictment. The indictment stems from a New Orleans Police Department arrest warrant in connection with an alleged incident in September 2013. Later, police said a second victim claimed she was raped by both Sharper and Nunez in the same apartment as the first victim on September 23. Sharper, who remains in a Los Angeles jail, is under investigation for a total of eight alleged rapes and 11 druggings in four states: Louisiana, Nevada, Arizona and California. 
A Brazilian man arrested for stabbing a woman to death calmly 
Authorities in Mississippi questioned and released a man over the killing of a teenager who was set on fire and burned to death over the weekend, according to local media. Derrick Turner, 31, had been held in the Panola County jail since Monday for questioning in the grisly killing of 
DETROIT - A 35-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for killing two 20-year-old employees at a Family Dollar store. Lavere Bryant was sentenced Thursday in Wayne County Circuit Court after being earlier convicted by a jury of first-degree murder for the deaths of
VANCOUVER, WA - A man who crashed his car into a wall after hitting and killing a woman on the sidewalk claimed he didn't know anyone had been hit and said his cousin was driving the car. Matthew Purifoy, 33, appeared in court on the charges of vehicular homicide and hit-and-run resulting in death. He was arrested after 57-year-old 
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A serial rape suspect struck one of his attorneys from behind, knocking him unconscious, inside Cook County Jail on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. Jimmie Terrell Smith, who is being held in a maximum-security division, appeared to strike one of his public defenders with his handcuffs as their meeting ended shortly after 2 p.m., said Cara Smith, the jail's executive director. "It's a very unfortunate, disconcerting event," she said. Jimmie Terrell Smith has been awaiting trial for five years in the alleged
MINNEAPOLIS – Police are looking for a 23-year-old man after a 1-year-old boy died of an apparent assault. Brooklyn Park Police were called just before 8:30 p.m on a report of a 
A deranged homeless man chased several straphangers around a Manhattan subway station Tuesday trying to throw them onto the tracks. The vagrant harassed commuters as they waited on the 6 train platform nd threatened to shove several people onto the tracks. When he appeared to want to make good on his threats by actually lunging toward several people, a witness called 911. “A customer came over and said that somebody was trying to push someone off the track,” said a station agent who was alerted to the disturbance by another. He refused to cooperate with police. He was then taken to Mount Sinai Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after sticking out his tongue and shouting gibberish at reporters outside the station house. 
CULVER CITY — Authorities have announced the arrest of a man in the attack of a passenger in his 60s on Culver City bus last month. The man, who police declined to name citing a continuing investigation, was taken into custody. Culver City Police Lt. Jason Sims said the man was arrested in Los Angeles. Video from Nov. 22 confrontation showed an older man walking to the back of the bus about 1:45 p.m. The man sat down near a woman sprawled across more than one seat. Moments later, a black man in camouflage shorts and a maroon hoodie who was with the woman got up and hit the older man several times in the face.
The suspect is described as a black male between the ages of 40 and 50, standing 5'8" to 6'0", with a thin build.
PAYSON — A man who is reportedly an illegal alien was arrested Wednesday after police discovered he bought a green card and social security card and also sexually abused two young girls. Payson police officers were dispatched Wednesday afternoon to a home where 
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EDGEWATER PARK, NJ – Two people suspected of stealing more than $45,000 from Burlington Coat Factory company, located in Edgewater Park, have been taken into custody. Police say 
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VIERA, Fla. - The Brevard County Grand Jury issued a first-degree murder indictment against Marcus Antonio Royal, 34, in the death of 
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis grandmother is recovering from serious facial injures after she says she refused to give in to three young men who tried to steal her van Sunday night. 
BESSEMER, AL - Bessemer police have arrested the suspect accused of fatally shooting a 19-year-old man at a convenience store parking lot on Saturday. On Monday, police charged Markey Jerail Evans, 33, with capital murder in the death of 
JACKSON, Ga. - Authorities say a Georgia man has been executed for the 1995 killing of a sheriff's deputy, who was slain minutes after a convenience store robbery. Authorities said 49-year-old Robert Wayne Holsey was declared dead at 10:51 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Jackson. Holsey received the death sentence for the Dec. 17, 1995, killing of 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man convicted of second-degree murder in the road rage shooting death of a man after a confrontation at a Northside gas station last year was sentenced to life in prison. Isreal Williams was also sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting into an occupied vehicle and 15 years for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Prosecutors said he killed 46-year-old 
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A central Kentucky man is furious that a man accused of killing his brother received a plea deal for a lesser charge in Lexington. Lexington police originally charged Quante Johnson with murder. The victim, 
Two adults and a juvenile face armed robbery charges, accused of setting up men looking for prostitutes and then robbing them at gunpoint when they showed up for sex. A total of four men reported being robbed of cash, cellphones and debit/credit cards by the offenders in the past few weeks. The fourth man, however, gave a false story in an attempt to hide the fact he had sought a prostitute. Joshua Hampton, 25, of Chicago, is charged with a Class X felony count of armed robbery with a firearm, etc. Kristin Robson, 19, of the 600 block of Indigo Lane, Woodstock, is charged with Class X felony count of armed robbery with a firearm, etc.
BATON ROUGE, LA - East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's office have arrested Paul Adrian Wright Jr. for forcible rape of a 
NEWARK — A New Jersey woman has been charged in connection with the death of young daughter. 
RALEIGH — Police found the driver they think was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident on New Bern Avenue last month after an anonymous tip alerted them to the man’s pickup truck, according to a search warrant made public this week. Police say 
OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. – The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department says it has arrested an illegal immigrant who stole beer and clothing from a Meijer and
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. 
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 
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. 
