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Court documents possibly link between carjacking of White man by two black men and a black girl to her murder
  KANSAS CITY, MO - Court documents accuse at least one of 14-year-old Alexis Kane's alleged killers of a carjacking just days before the slaying. A probable cause court document shows that Kansas City police responded to the Bennington Ridge Apartments in the Northland for a carjacking. Kevin Moberg, 29, told police his 2013 Ford Fusion was stolen by two men with dreadlocks and an underage girl about 6:30 a.m. Jan. 7. "As soon as I unlocked it and opened my door, they jumped on me from behind, put a gun against my head," Moberg said. Moberg didn't see the two men's faces during the carjacking. However, he saw the young girl, who he says wasn't Alexis, take his keys and drive away while the two men held him down. "The guy forced me down on the ground, went through all my pockets, took my wallet, tried to get my phone and couldn't find it," Moberg said. "Stuck the gun up against my head one more time and shoved it forward on the back of my head." Police found Alexis' body Jan. 11 at The Bay Water Park. Isaac "Malik" Carter, 17, Ce-Antonyo Kennedy, 17, and Dominic McDaniel, 18, each are charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in her death. - (Black-on-white) |
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Accused by prosecutors of first-degree murder, burglary and two counts of theft, a Wyandotte County jury returned guilty verdicts for intentional second-degree murder and the other counts as charged against Darrell Lee Broxton on Tuesday. The jury found Broxton, 51, guilty of killing Peter Belmont in December of 2012. Belmont was found beaten to death in his home near 115th and Leavenworth Road, an autopsy revealed that he had been dead for several days before he was found. Police also said his minivan and other valuables were taken from the home before officers recovered the van and some of the missing property. Belmont was 69 years old and was a well-respected dog breeder. He also spent 35 years as a teacher and retired from USD 500 where he taught art. - (Black-on-white)
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – A man faces second degree murder charges after he allegedly beat his girlfriend to death over the weekend in St. Joseph. According to court documents, James Earl Eackles, 45, is accused of beating
Henry County prosecutors plan to take court testimony from
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A lawyer for a convicted rapist argued that a 112-year prison sentence imposed for crimes committed when he was 15 is unconstitutional and the Ohio Supreme Court should overturn the sentence. Brandon Moore was tried as an adult and convicted by a jury in the 2001 armed kidnapping, robbery and gang rape of a
NORWICH, Conn. – It was behind the only gas station on Central Avenue that Norwich police say the attack happened in April 2009. The victim was sexually assaulted and beaten by a man who claimed to have a gun. She was hurt so badly,
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Dauphin County District Attorney has sentenced a former Harrisburg man to at least 5 and a half years in a state penitentiary for the rape of a woman back in 2008. 
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Police have finally filed charges in a 15-year-old murder investigation. The suspect, Anthony Heyward, is being charged in the murder of 44-year-old 
Crowds marched to City Hall in Bridgeton, New Jersey Tuesday night to protest the police-involved shooting death of 
42-year-old Warren Sapp was arrested by Phoenix Police early Monday morning after a disturbance at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Phoenix. Two women told officers they were escorts hired by Sapp and that he assaulted one of them during an argument over money.
On Thursday, authorities said Knight ran over two men with his vehicle outside a fast-food restaurant in Compton near the set of Universal Pictures’ “Straight Outta Compton”. 
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Police announced a woman has been arrested in connection with a shooting following an altercation in a Laundromat in the Nicetown section of the city. Officials say Lashanda Anderson was identified as the person that shot the first victim in her legs. They say she was also standing with the unidentified shooter. Police say Anderson is charged with one count of Attempted Murder, four counts of Aggravated Assault, Simple Assault and related offenses. Both shooting victims were taken to Temple Hospital in stable condition. 
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. - Sheriff's deputies say a first-grade teacher accused of striking a student during lunch at Bains Lower Elementary School in St. Francisville has been arrested. The West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office issued an arrest warrant for the teacher, 31-year-old Chanel Lemelle, on Thursday after witnesses reported seeing Lemelle allegedly berate, kick and slap a first-grade student on Jan. 23. Deputies say Lemelle also is accused of taking some of the boy's lunch food. 
An accused hit-and-run killer may be done in by one key, if not repulsive, piece of evidence — his own bag of rats. Prosecutors revealed Monday at the start of the manslaughter trial for 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A former hospital security guard has been arrested and charged with five counts of misdemeanor battery after five employees at Memorial Hospital accused him of assaulting them on the job. Anthony Holley, 47, was arrested Saturday, and if convicted could face up to a year in the Duval County jail on each count, the State Attorney's Office said. 
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WEST PARK, Fla. - Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a man who allegedly performed a sex act in front of
ORLANDO, Fla. —The man accused of kidnapping, raping, beating and robbing a woman in a downtown Orlando alley way has been arrested, according to police. Investigators said a witness found the victim bloody, with a broken jaw, a broken nose and a swollen right eye just after 5 a.m. Monday. She was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical condition, police said. The victim was able to remember a few things about her attacker, including his distinctive size: about 6 feet 3 inches tall and 300 pounds. Police said footage from IRIS cameras helped identify Javonte Jones, 21, as the attacker. Jones, a transient, was arrested near Lake Eola and charged with sexual battery with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, robbery and kidnapping.
A Trenton man working at Princeton House Behavioral Health has been charged with sexually assaulting a patient, authorities announced Monday. Jonathan D. Hodges, 36, faces one count of second-degree sexual assault. He is free on $50,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in Princeton Municipal Court on Feb. 9. On Jan. 28, a 34-year-old woman reported that prior to being discharged that morning, an employee came into her room, pushed himself against her, put his hand inside her pants and underwear and sexually assaulted her, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said in a release. Video surveillance showed Hodges, a mental health associate, entering the victim's room several times during a 14-minute period, staying various lengths of time, prosecutor's said.
SARASOTA, FL - A Sarasota mental healthcare worker is accused of some disgusting crimes against some his underage patients. Police say he groped them in their hospital rooms, and committed lewd acts that are too disturbing to share. 27-year-old Jeremy Henry had worked as a psych at the Bayside Center for Behavioral Health here since July. The center treats patients who battle suicide and mental illness. Hospital officials say he passed all his background checks and had a spotless record. But all was not as it seemed. Police spokesperson Genevieve Judge said, "This particular tech used his power as a tech as part of the staff at the facility to abuse these girls" Sarasota police learned last month, Henry committed numerous sexual acts with
ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. -- The Alameda County Sheriff's Office released a still taken by a surveillance camera of the suspect who allegedly sexually assaulted of an 
A Houston musician has been murdered by an illegal alien who had been allowed to stay in the United States, even though the alien had been convicted in Texas previously for selling narcotics. The suspect was killed by police following a second murder that he committed immediately after killing the musician. The illegal alien’s name was 
MARIETTA, Ga. — Jennifer Jones says her 4-year-old rat terrier mix saved her daughter from being abducted. "My hero. My daughter's hero," Jones said holding her dog. The girl told Cobb County police she was walking her sisters to school around 7 a.m. Thursday when a man drove past her and stopped. “She kept walking and when he had jumped out of the truck he tried to grab her and my dog goes crazy,” Jones said the dog bit the suspect on the ankle, just enough to run him off. "Who knows what would have happened if the dog hadn't reacted to that sudden movement by the suspect as he actually grabbed the young lady by the wrist," said Sgt. Dana Pierce with the Cobb County Police Department. 
Volusia County deputies arrested Christopher Todd for battery and animal cruelty miles from the scene of a strange hit-and-run. Deputies said he plowed into a group of riders on horseback on Sunday after a verbal altercation. He struck horse 
The building has been closed since the September 2013 shooting, in which 
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — A man who was accused of stabbing his ex-wife on a RIPTA bus is now being evaluated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Christopher James confessed to stabbing 
Raleigh, NC – On Sunday, police arrested Thomas Earl Mercer, 33, after he reportedly stabbed a woman around 3:00 a.m. Mercer grabbed a bag of Cheetos (jalapeno cheese flavored, priced at $1.49) and attempted to walk out of Hannah Stop ‘N’ Shop, without paying, according to police. The clerk tried to stop him, and was stabbed in her side. Mercer fled the scene, but was apprehended in nearby Moore Square in less than an hour. The 22-year-old victim was transported to a local hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. Mercer has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and robbery with a dangerous weapon. He is currently being held at the Wake County Detention Center on $250,000 bail. This is not Mercer’s first brush with the law… In October 2014, he was charged with a brutal assault on his ex-wife. 
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - 
BURLINGTON, Vt. —Police in Burlington are investigating an early morning groping incident. The Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations said around 2 a.m. Monday a University of Vermont student was walking east on Main Street, past the Prospect Street intersection, when she was approached by an unknown African-American man. The student told police the man groped her and took off in an unknown direction. Anyone with information is asked to call CUSI at 802-652-6800. 
TULSA, Oklahoma - Police arrested a Tulsa man on a complaint of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman Saturday night. Officers said Dewayne Alexander, 48, attacked the victim and another person over $12 he thought he was owed. They said he hit the victims with a box fan, then grabbed the woman and took her to his apartment in the 4600 block of South Fulton against her will. The woman told officers Alexander ordered her to perform a sexual act. Jail records show police arrested Alexander Sunday morning. he's in the Tulsa County jail on a $197,750 bond. Alexander has a court appearance set for February 9, 2015.
LADSON, S.C. -- Charleston County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an armed robbery and sexual assault that happened early Saturday morning. Deputies responded to a home on Clovewood Street around 4 a.m. One victim said he and a female victim were hanging out with a person named "Will" when an unknown black male arrived, robbed him of $20 at gunpoint and raped the female who had "passed out on a couch." The female woke up during the assault and fought the black rapist off of her. Soon after deputies saw the suspect arguing with someone on Midview Drive and apprehended him. The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Clifford Melvin Bickham, is charged with armed robbery, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, kidnapping, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
KOKOMO, Ind. – A corrections officer arrested for sexual misconduct with detainee at a juvenile detention center. Howard County police issued an arrest warrant for Isaiah C. Christmas, 60, of Kokomo, on Jan. 23. However, it was not until Jan. 30 that Christmas turned himself in to authorities. According to police, a sexual misconduct complaint came from a female detainee at the Howard County Community Corrections program, a juvenile detention center about Christmas. At the time, Christmas was a Community Corrections Field Officer at the center. Christmas was taken into custody and released on bond on Jan. 30.
PALM BAY, Fla. - A 27-year-old man has been arrested on lewd and lascivious battery and molestation charges, according to the Palm Bay Police Department. Police said Vincent Clarke had been in a relationship for the past month with 
China launched a secret 100-year modernization program that deceived successive U.S. administrations into unknowingly promoting Beijing’s strategy of replacing the U.S.-led world order with a Chinese communist-dominated economic and political system, according to a new book by a longtime Pentagon China specialist. ... “The Hundred Year Marathon” reveals new details of secret CIA cooperation with China in covert action programs in Afghanistan and Angola, as well as nearly $1 billion worth of weapons transfers during the 1980s. 
EDMONDS, Wash. — Domino's deliveryman 
Dozens of nurses filled a Multnomah County courtroom Friday afternoon to watch the sentencing of a woman who hurt one of their own. Sierra McDonald, 25, was given five years probation for assaulting a nurse -- breaking her arm "like a chicken wing" -- and harassing a doctor. The medical professionals in attendance, many still dressed in blue scrubs, said the case illustrates the need for stricter laws and better enforcement when patients behave badly. 
MEMPHIS, TN - A man from Coldwater, MS was convicted in the 2012 rape of an 
A Massachusetts man faces multiple charges after allegedly shooting cars left in parking spots that had been shoveled of snow, days after two feet of snow blanketed the town. Jose Osorio was arrested Friday after witnesses reported he fired multiple shots at two parked cars that were parked in shoveled spaces on a street in Fall River, Massachusetts. "During the course of the investigation the fact came up that he was observed yelling and banging on doors in the neighborhood about vehicles parked out in the street," said Lt. Ronald Furtado, of the Fall River Police Department. "Additional facts came to light that he had produced a handgun and fired at two of the vehicles." 
LITTLE ROCK - A missing teen out of Virginia is safe tonight after police find her in Little Rock. Donald Quesenberry Jr., 33, of Normal, Illinois, is accused of picking the teen up in a stolen car on Monday. Christiansburg Police Chief, Mark Sisson, said they determined that
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - A Maryland man was sentenced Friday in a hit-and-run crash that killed a University of Maryland student from New York. Thirty-year-old Liam Adepo of Hyattsville received the maximum of two-years in prison at his sentencing in Prince George's County Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty in November to leaving a fatal accident scene in a plea agreement with prosecutors, who dropped other charges in exchange. Adepo turned himself in on Jan. 18 last year, the day after police say he hit 22-year-old 
22-year-old Malcolm Jarrel Hartley and 18-year-old Brianna Johnson were arrested Thursday, January 29, in the double homicide of 
Texas death row inmate Robert Ladd was executed this evening for the killing a 38-year-old woman nearly two decades ago while he was on parole for a triple slaying years earlier. Robert Ladd, 57, received a lethal injection after the US Supreme Court rejected arguments he was mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty. The court also rejected an appeal in which Ladd's attorney challenged whether the pentobarbital Texas uses in executions is potent enough to not cause unconstitutional pain and suffering. Ladd was put to death for the 1996 slaying of 
A crackling radio transmission in the early morning hours of Sept. 25, 2012, was heard by local police departments. It was two words that cause officers dread: “Shots fired.” In two seconds, the actions that sparked that transmission ended the 27-year law enforcement career of Fairview Heights Officer 
BELLEVILLE • Authorities said two men jailed on a string of charges in St. Clair County are connected to the murder of 
Downtown is safe, St. Paul police declared Friday as they announced an arrest in a recent skyway assault that left one man with a broken wrist and another with a bloodied face. Michael James Jackson, 28, of St. Paul, who had not yet been charged in the Jan. 19 attack, was being held in the Ramsey County jail on a suspected probation violation in connection with a July assault conviction. Jackson has a long criminal history and was described by police in a 2013 case as the founder and leader of local gangs. A criminal complaint from the case called him a "heavy-handed enforcer." 
Another woman has come forward to share her story about being a victim of "America's dad." 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 22-year-old man was sentenced this week to three consecutive life sentences in prison for his conviction in a 2013 murder and armed robbery. According to the Office of the State Attorney, Cyrus Anthony Benjamin was involved in a series of crimes in July 2013 that resulted in the death of 56-year-old 
GRANT COUNTY, Wis. - A Grant County judge sentenced a 26-year-old man to 50 years in prison and 18 years of supervised release for robbing, kidnapping and killing a Platteville taxi driver in June 2014. In November, Timmy Johnson, Jr. pleaded no contest to first degree reckless homicide, armed robbery with use of force, and kidnapping. The criminal complaint said Johnson admitted to killing 
BERKELEY, CA — 
NEW YORK – Opening statements begin Friday in the trial of 
Becky Bieker
A man is being held in the Escambia County Jail after he was arrested by Pensacola Police today and charged with homicide. Kenneth Salter, 69, no permanent address, was charged in connection with the murder of 
Madison Heights, VA - Edward Leroy Marshall in behind bars without bond tonight for his alleged involvement in Thursday's crime on Martin's Lane. He's facing a burglary and grand larceny charges in Amherst County and a grand larceny charge and probation violation in another jurisdiction. 43-year-old Marshall has had several run-ins with the law, including grand larceny. Marshall was arrested Friday morning in Campbell County and was held without bond on a grand larceny charge and probation violations before being charged in this crime here in Amherst County. 
DURHAM, N.C. - A Durham man was arrested in Columbia, South Carolina Tuesday in the Jan. 19 death of his 63-year-old housemate, police said. Brian Lamont Davis, 40, was charged with murder in the death of 
HIGH POINT — A composite sketch of a second suspect in a High Point homicide was released by the Guilford County Sheriff's Office today. The sketch was completed with the help of a witness, according to the sheriff's office. 
HORRY COUNTY, SC – A Conway man has been charged with murder after he admitted to police that he knocked a 60-year-old man unconscious and dragged him outside his house Wednesday. The victim was identified by Horry County Coroner Robert Edge as 60-year-old 
A Conway woman was shot and killed Sunday night at a Conway convenience store -- the second fatal robbery at an Horry County convenience store in over 3 weeks. Also, police said Monday afternoon that the pair wanted it Sunday's fatal robbery also held up a Scotchman store on Lake Arrowhead Road, in Myrtle Beach, about an hour before the fatal incident. According to a police report, in the fatal robbery, Horry County Police officers were called to a holdup alarm at the Sunhouse convenience store on Oak Street, near Conway, a little after 10 p.m. Sunday night. Officers arrived to find evidence of a shooting and the clerk deceased. HCPD is asking anyone who may have been at the store between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Sunday night to contact them at 843-248-1520. Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick said via press release that 30-year-old 
CONWAY -- One person died after a shooting at the Sunhouse Convenience store off in Longs around 10 p.m. Friday, according to Horry County Deputy Coroner Michelle McSpadden. The victim was the store clerk and has been identified as 
