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Black men force 16-year-old girl into week of sex, prostitution, police say
 MIAMI - Seven men are accused of forcing a teenager into a week of sex and prostitution, sometimes with more than one man at a time, police said. The suspects, ranging in age from 18 to 43, are accused of forcing a 16-year-old girl into a week of drug-fueled prostitution. They were identified as Cornelius Edwards, Mark Evans, Jerome Grace, Greg Hill, Derrick Powell, Derrick Powell Jr. and Branden Sands. According to police reports, the girl's school reported her missing Dec. 4 after she had gotten into a black Ford Taurus with three other people. The girl was taken to several locations in northwest Miami-Dade County, where she was given cocaine, marijuana and alcohol and then forced to engage in sex acts with more than 16 men during the course of a week, police said. On two occasions, she was forced to have sex with up to eight men at once, police said. |
The woman who was found slain – along with two of her children – late Saturday night inside her mobile home in Garland was trying to escape an abusive relationship, according to a family member. Maine State Police allege that Christina Ann Sargent, 36, and her children Destiny Sargent, 8, and Duwayne Coke, 10, were killed by her live-in boyfriend. Keith Coleman, 27, of 12 Paul Road in Garland, was arrested Sunday night and charged with three counts of murder, said a state police spokesman. Coleman has a criminal record in Maine. He was arrested in July 2010 on a misdemeanor charge of cultivating marijuana and was later found guilty. Sargent was in the process of trying to leave Coleman because he had become increasingly violent. Kane said the couple had been living together in Garland since 2012. All three victims had been suffocated or strangled to death. - (Black-on-white)
JEFFERSON CO. -- A Mt. Vernon man has pleaded to guilty to the 2011 murder of a cab driver. Damondros James now faces up to 60 years in prison when he's sentenced next February. James and three others were charged with shooting 
TACOMA, Wash. — Andrake Morris was a teenager when he began sexually assaulting and robbing women in what prosecutors call a reign of terror. Now, at 20-years-old, Morris will spend 23 years to life in prison. He pleaded guilty in September to eight counts -- including attempted rape, indecent liberties, theft, robbery, burglary, assault and unlawful possession of a firearm. 
One of the victims at Dereck Jermaine Sanders’ sentencing hearing Friday told the convicted rapist that because of him, “I am scared of passing men on the street.” Another said she was “so angry” after he raped her that “hate took over me,” and things got so bad with her family they wound up putting her in a group home. “You took my sleep, my sense of safety and security, my calm nature and my self-esteem,” said a third. “You gave me fear, shame and self-loathing.” From April 1998 through March 2003, Sanders raped and sexually attacked women all over Sacramento, in a range so far and wide that law enforcement nicknamed him “The Roaming Rapist.” On Oct. 15, a Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted him on 28 felony counts for his 
MILWAUKEE — The man arrested and accused of raping 
People on Milwaukee’s near south side call him a predator. A man wanted by police for sexually assaulting a 
Milwaukee police are investigating the sexual assault of a
HACKENSACK — An Englewood woman Thursday was indicted on child endangerment and sexual assault charges after she allegedly abused a 
RACINE — Racine Police Department have arrested 75-year-old, George Stinson, for allegedly sexually assaulting a then 
The brother of Rumain Brisbon, who was shot and killed by Phoenix police earlier this month, has been arrested in Glendale after a sexual assault was reported. Rickey McGee Brisbon, 38, was taken into custody at his residence by Glendale police on Friday after a Valley woman reported an alleged assault. The victim also told police that Brisbon had 
SACRAMENTO- A man was arrested outside of a local Target on Wednesday. According to the Sacramento Police Department, officers rushed to the Target on 65th Street around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Police say Elue Palmer, 20, had been detained by Target staff for shoplifting. But as officers investigated the scene, a woman came forward and said the man had sexually assaulted her in the store. Palmer was booked into Sacramento County Jail on charges of sexual assault, burglary, and false imprisonment.
The woman charged with the 
Camden police confirm they've made an arrest in the deadly shooting that killed grocery store manager 
INDIANAPOLIS – The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office formally charged two men with murder after a triple homicide on the city’s east side in March. Officials said 59-year-old
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Deputies are working on sketches they hope will help track down four men accused of breaking into an Orange County home, where they
IRVINGTON — Police have arrested a registered sex offender who they say had a child runaway in his home. Irvington Police announced last night that they began investigating township resident Jaray Drayton when they received information that he had been “consorting with juveniles.” When detectives went to Drayton’s home, they found an underage female runaway there, a "direct violation" of the terms of his release, police said. Drayton was arrested on two counts of a “violation of special sentence of community supervision for life,” police said. The girl was returned to her family. No other information about the girl – including her age, how she might have known the 34-year-old man, or how long she had been staying there – was immediately available. Drayton was charged with sexual assault of an underage girl in 2004.
Highland Park Police are looking for a man who abducted and sexually assaulted an 
A man received the maximum sentence for violently raping an East Garden City woman and robbing her home soon after Hurricane Sandy struck. Artie Jackson, 48, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Jackson was found guilty in October of 18 felony charges including rape, attempted murder, and strangulation after a month-long trial. On Nov. 11, 2012, just two weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck, Jackson broke into an East Garden City home as the
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A South Bay man is in jail after police say he savagely attacked two women in the Willow Glen area of San Jose. Kenneth Bridges of Morgan Hill, 26, is on parole after serving time for robbery and was taken into custody after someone reported the assault in progress. Bridges is accused of breaking into an apartment on Stokes Street early Wednesday morning. Once inside, police say he terrorized the women who live there; one is 54 and the other is 63. A neighbor says both are mentally challenged. "It is very disturbing," San Jose Police spokesperson Officer Albert Morales said. "Our idea is to find some closure for the victims." One woman managed to dial 911while Bridges was still in the apartment. Police arrested him on the spot. Detectives don't think the women knew Bridges, but they do think more victims could be out there.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A man wanted on allegations of raping and impregnating a 
Chattanooga police said Thursday a man accused of raping two women over the age of 60, allegedly committed the acts just two days after he was released from jail on a criminal trespassing charge. Police said they got valuable information from the suspect that matched stories from both victims, and it helped put together the pieces. Derrick Dewayne Caldwell, 30, is now charged with two counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated burglary for allegedly entering two women's homes and raping them on December 10 and December 11. 
A Tarpon Springs police officer was shot and killed overnight, and a man identified as a transient has been charged with first-degree murder, authorities said. Veteran officer 
NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn man has been charged in connection with the assault of two police officers during a protest Saturday night on the Brooklyn Bridge, police said. The charges against Eric Linsker, 29, of Crown Heights, who was arrested shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday, include assault in the second degree, rioting in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and unlawful possession of marijuana. Linsker allegedly tried to throw a metal garbage can at officers on the Brooklyn Bridge.
NEW YORK — A woman went through an emotional confrontation in court in the Bronx Friday, as she came face-to-face with the man who attacked her. 
Frankfort (Kentucky) police say that a man indicted for setting a woman's home on fire, did so because she spurned him on social media. Now, that woman is trying to rebuild her life from the ashes. Joanie Yount's Hillview Drive home was set on fire in November. James Graham, 37, was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday and is now facing charges of arson. Police say the entire incident started after Graham added 
Authorities were searching Friday for a man who they say tied up a
A Plattekill man will be charged in two separate incidents after police said he sexually assaulted 
Two suspects have been charged in the brutal gang rape of a teenage Texas girl, known as Jada, who discovered the attack on social media under the offensive #JadaPose tag. Prosecutors allege that the suspects, Clinton Onyeahialam, 19, and a 16-year-old juvenile co-defendant, sexually assaulted the teen in July in Houston, Texas, the report says, citing court documents filed earlier this month. The younger teen was charged as a juvenile. In response to the abuse, the teen emerged with her own hashtag, #IAmJada, which went viral.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — The trial began Wednesday for a Long Island man accused in two separate killings. Loved ones of the two victims packed the Suffolk County courtroom, some with tears in their eyes as opening statements began at the trial of Reginald Ross. Construction flagman 
Cedric Theodis Hobbs Jr. will spend the rest of his life in prison after jurors deadlocked Thursday on his punishment for killing 
SPRING, Texas – A reward is being offered for information in a violent robbery that left an Army veteran with a gunshot wound to his face. The robbery happened Sunday night at the Gatti's in the 400 block of Rayford Road in Spring. Two gunmen stormed in and demanded money from a manager who was closing the restaurant. The victim tried to grab one suspect's gun. During the struggle, the robber shot him in the face. 
The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday set an execution date for Marcellus Williams, the man who fatally stabbed former Post-Dispatch reporter
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —A grand jury cleared five officers involved in the shooting death of the Florida State University gunman. Myron May was shot and killed by police in the early morning hours of Nov. 20th. Before the 31-year-old was killed, May shot at students and one library employee. Three bullets struck 21-year-old student 
Police are searching for the thug who was caught on tape punching an elderly man inside a bar in Philadelphia. The attack happened at about 1:20 p.m. on Monday at Brownie’s Lounge located at 7137 Ogontz Avenue in the city’s West Oak Lane section. According to investigators, the suspect, who was carrying a clipboard and handbag, knocked on the front door of the establishment and said he was a trash inspector. After several minutes inside, the suspect suddenly punched the victim, an
On Friday – eight years later – it took a jury of 12 to decide the fate of the man who shot 
PANOLA CO, MS - One week later and police have no answers on who could have been behind the death of 
COXSACKIE >> Two men are facing felony rape charges following a reported sexual assault at a residence here, state police said Wednesday. Muhammad D. Mills, 19, of Albany, and Anthony A. Chandler, 20, of Troy, were arrested Tuesday by state police at Catskill and charged with rape, a felony. The arrests followed investigation of a reported sexual assault at a residence in Coxsackie, police said. They did not provide any information about the alleged victim or the circumstances of the alleged assault.
MIAMI BEACH – Two men reportedly dragged a passed out mentally ill woman behind a Miami Beach bar, where one of them raped her. M iami Beach police said they were alerted to a sexual assault occurring in an alley around 5:30 p.m. on Monday. When the officers pulled up to the scene, they said they watched as Derrick Barnes dismounted the the woman. Barnes’ pants and underwear were still at his ankles exposing his genitals and the woman was naked. The officers found a used condom on some cardboard boxes near the woman.
A witness told police he watched as Barnes and Bobby Lee Bryant dragged the woman to the alley next to the Lost Weekend Bar. When authorities asked the woman for her age, she replied she was 12 years old. But it is reported she is around 40 years of age. She is presumed to be homeless.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Terrance Watson is charged with aggravated rape charges after raping a woman at Martyr's Park on Channel 3 Drive December 6. Watson and the victim were at the park together when he asked her for sex. When she said no police say he choked and raped her. After the assault, police say the two went back to his house where he hit her several times before she ran to get help. Watson was arrested Sunday after police went to his home, but not before he tried to flee. Watson faces an evading arrest charge in addition to the aggravated rape charges.
There is new information today about a former St. John Fisher College student and soccer player accused of raping a woman on campus. Twenty-year-old 
AKRON, Ohio -- An Akron man has been sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of a homeless woman. Tyrone Benford, 42, had pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, felonious assault and breaking and entering. All counts were felonies.
ATLANTA — Several police agencies held a news conference Tuesday morning releasing new details into the arrest of Aeman Presley accused in four murders. When police arrested Presley, officers found a loaded gun and box of ammunition on him. Police said Presley killed
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 
SAGINAW, MI — As days turned into months and months turned into years without somebody facing consequences for fatally shooting 
Fort Worth police have asked for the public's help in identifying a man wanted in connection with a homicide investigation. Detectives released surveillance video showing a man wearing a dark-colored hoodie and a light-colored hat. 
BALTIMORE —Police said they have charged a repeat violent offender in connection with the shooting of a city police officer during a traffic stop on Sunday night. Police said that officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car and called it in. The car was pulled over a short time later by 27-year-old Officer 
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Terre Haute police made a cold case arrest this week. It’s a case that was reopened in 2010. According to new arrest records, Harry Rowley is in the Vigo County Jail booked on a charge of murder as of Sunday night. Police believe Rowley was involved in the 1980 murders of 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Metro police officer was shot and a 16-year-old suspect was ultimately killed in an incident in south Nashville Sunday night. It began as officers were investigating a robbery at an apartment around 7 p.m. Metro police stated a man called to report he was robbed of his personal belongings by two individuals while he was in his car. An investigation led police to the Long Hunter Court apartment. Several people were inside and consented to a search, during which officers say they located the robbery victim’s credit card. While officers were there, a teen came out of a room, saw the police, then retreated to a bathroom, essentially barricading himself. The suspect, who has been identified as 16-year-old Xavier McDonald, ultimately came out of the room. Officers attempted to Tase him and take him into custody, but were unsuccessful. McDonald pulled a gun and fired at police, striking one officer in the thigh. . Officers then returned fire, ultimately killing McDonald. He was listed as a runaway by the police department. His mother reported scuffling with McDonald over a box of bullets on December 7. McDonald’s mother reported that he threatened to kill her and was carrying a gun in his waistband at the time. The injured officer has been identified as 18-year veteran 
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OMAHA, Neb. — Courtney Washington, 28, and Mary Frederickson, 25, were charged with two counts of child abuse. Washington was also charged with sexual assault of a child. Police brought an 8-year-old child to Children’s Hospital, malnourished and alarmingly underweight. The child weighed only about 25 pounds, about 50 pounds lighter than the child should be, according to medical experts. Washington is now in Douglas County Corrections, charged in this case and in another investigation involving 
A black man was booked in the Gwinnett County jail on Friday and charged in connection with a homicide in Auburn last week. Marquavis Benton, 26, was charged with armed robbery, murder and held for other charges out of Spaulding County and held without bond. 