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White wife conspired with her black lover to murder her White husband - attacked from behind and throat slashed
  PRESCOTT - Laura Stelmasek was found guilty Friday, March 27, in the trial of her husband Craig Stelmasek's 2011 murder. Marzet Farris III was convicted in February of actually stabbing Craig to death, but under the legal principal of accomplice liability, Laura could also be found guilty of first-degree murder. Chief Deputy County Attorney Dennis McGrane said the jury returned a verdict of guilty on all four counts - murder, conspiracy to commit murder, evidence tampering, and concealment of a dead body - after about an hour of deliberations. Stelmasek, 48, whose trial began March 5, was accused in the June 1, 2011, murder of her husband in their Prescott home. Farris, 50, whom she was romantically involved with, faces sentencing on April 8. Stelmasek will be sentenced shortly thereafter. Craig's body was found in his van at the Albuquerque, New Mexico, airport, where Farris left it before traveling to his home in North Carolina. The case involved thousands of texts and emails between Stelmasek and Farris, which often included discussions of killing her husband. - (Black-on-white) |
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- Warrant: Wake man flew to Arizona to kill lover's husband - June 22, 2011
Raleigh, N.C. — Authorities believe that a Wake County man flew to Arizona to kill the husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair, according to a search warrant. Marzet Farris III, 46, of Willow Spring, and Laura Jeanna Stelmasek, 46, of Prescott, Ariz., face charges of first-degree murder in the death of her husband, Craig Stelmasek, 57, whose body was found in a van at the Albuquerque International Sunport Airport on June 5. Craig Stelmasek's throat had been slashed, and he had also been stabbed three times in the neck, the warrant states. An autopsy determined that he was likely attacked from behind, and blood evidence indicates he was slain in his bedroom at his home, Prescott police said.
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DETROIT - A parolee who caused a crash that killed a 25-year-old woman while fleeing police has been sentenced to up to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. John McCallum was sentenced to between 20 years and 45 years in prison in Detroit. The plea agreement reached earlier this month included the dismissal of other charges, including reckless driving causing death. A Livonia police officer was chasing John McCallum in October when the home invasion suspect crashed into Francesca Weatherhead's vehicle in Wayne County's Redford Township. Relatives say the newlywed had just moved to a new house in Royal Oak. Michigan paroled the 27-year-old Detroit man last May after five years' imprisonment for home invasion. - (Black-on-white)
A Brooklyn man was convicted Wednesday of shooting three NYPD cops — and he sent a final insult to a half-dozen cops gathered in the courtroom when he turned and hissed, “Suck my d–k,” before being led away in handcuffs. Nakwon Foxworth, 33, was convicted on multiple counts of assault on a police officer for shooting and wounding the Emergency Service Unit cops when he barricaded himself inside his Sheepshead Bay apartment on Easter Sunday 2012. As the Brooklyn Supreme Court jury was led out of the courtroom late Wednesday night, Foxworth turned and spat the vulgar insult at the detectives and cops in the courtroom. A detective seated in the gallery silently returned the sentiment, cockily gesturing to his own crotch as court officers snapped handcuffs onto Foxworth. “Suck my d–k,” Foxworth repeated before court officers led him out. 
Two St. Louis men were indicted Thursday after being arrested by federal agents in November. Brandon Orlando Baldwin, 22, and Olajuwon Davis,22 were indicted on charges involving the conspiracy to maliciously damage and destroy a building, vehicle and other property with explosives and the illegal purchase of firearms from a Cabela's store. The indictment stated that Baldwin stated that he wanted multiple bombs to use against people, buildings, vehicles and property. 
A nurse’s aide allegedly pummeled an 
WASHINGTON - D.C. Police have made an arrest in the stabbing death of 30-year-old lawyer 
PORTLAND, Ore. — Court documents are now providing new details about an elaborate operation to smuggle a wanted man – linked to the shooting of a Portland Police officer, and his K-9 dog – and his girlfriend out of the United States and into Canada. Carli Anja Marshall 
Court documents state Paul Ropp, and two other men — Steven Young and Jemaell Riley — had just committed a burglary at a police supply store where they stole ballistic vests and police and fire badges. Officer Dorn released his police dog “Mick” in an attempt to subdue Ropp, court documents state. Dorn was struck by two bullets, one in each leg, while Mick was struck and killed.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien calls it among the most disturbing crimes he’s ever seen. A Columbus man is accused of raping three young girls, and knowingly exposing them to HIV. 27 year old Keith Anthony Allen is charged with 19 counts, including rape, involving three 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Two women who claim that they were raped by Chris Jones said they were not consulted before his release from home incarceration. Jefferson County Judge Barry Willett signed an order Monday freeing the former UofL basketball player and two co-defendants until a grand jury hears the case later this month. Prosecutors did not object. Dina Bartlett, who represents the women, said her clients only learned about the decision on Wednesday. “They did not know that they were likely to run into the men who brutalized them on the street,” Bartlett said. “And as of yet, we've no full explanation. We still haven't seen the order.” Jones is accused of raping both women at the Cardinal Towne apartments in February. One of the women also accused Tyvon Walker and Jalen Tilford of rape.
A New Jersey man suspected in the brutal kidnapping and rape of a young woman in Paterson last week was collared by eagle-eyed law-enforcement agents Thursday afternoon inside a crowded Manhattan McDonald’s restaurant, sources told The Post. Craig Hall, 23 is accused of snatching his victim off the street last week and raping her in a nearby abandoned building before taking her to his apartment and continuing the sex assault there, sources said. Hall was acquitted of a similar attack in 2012 when a 
KENOSHA COUNTY — A Zion, Illinois man, accused of sexually assaulting a girl when she was
FREDERICK, Md. - A Rockville man could face decades in prison after he was convicted in Frederick of sexually abusing a toddler. Richard Lee Montgomery, 31, was convicted in a plea deal this week. He didn't admit guilt but acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of three counts of sexual abuse of a minor and two of second-degree sex offense. Prosecutors agreed to drop other charges, including four child pornography counts for allegedly videotaping the abuse. 
DAYTON -- The man accused of raping a teen inside a former church was in court today. 49-year-old Charles Singleton pleaded not guilty in the alleged attack of 
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL – Fairview Heights police have arrested 34-year-old Vernon L. Wells for the sexual assault of a woman in his apartment. The assault happened on Monday, March 30 at 6 am on Belle Drive. Police say they were called to the residence and contacted a 46-year-old woman who alleged she had been restrained, strangled and sexually assaulted by an acquaintance at the apartment.
EAST HARLEM, N.Y. -- Police are looking for a suspect in an attempted rape. Around 5 a.m. March 25, the suspect followed a 19-year-old woman into an apartment building on Third Avenue, got onto an elevator with her and then dragged her out when it reached the 12th floor. The suspect took her into a stairwell and attempted to rape her. The victim resisted, but the suspect stole her iPhone before fleeing. The suspect is black, between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 9 inches, 170 to 180 pounds, and he was last seen wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, a black jacket with a white collar, blue jeans, and red sneakers. 
Binghamton, NY - Four people from Binghamton were arrested Saturday for using a backpage.com escort ad to rob a victim. According to the Binghamton Police Department, four people are accused of advertising a female escort and luring a 37-year-old victim to a Lake Avenue apartment where they allegedly robbed him at knife point. Shadaya Spencer, 19, Aasin Hassinger, 21, and Jamel Platt, 18, are charged with first degree robbery. A 16-year-old male was also arrested for first degree robbery.
MACCLENNY, Fla. - A Baker County man will undergo surgery today after deputies say he was severely beaten in an extreme case of road rage. The man responsible is a corrections officer from Georgia. He has been arrested for attacking a man after a road rage incident. "This was an extremely violent attack in our opinion," Major Gerald Gonzalez, of the Baker County Sheriff's Office, said. Police say the incident happened on a busy interstate in Baker County. The Sheriff's Office says the victim was beaten so badly, his entire upper body was covered in blood. 
BALTIMORE — Vicious attack. Police need the public’s help to identify seven people connected to a stabbing. The stabbing unfolded Tuesday afternoon. Police say the 34-year-old victim was the center of the attack after getting into an argument with a group of people on board the southbound train.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- More than two weeks after a fight broke out in the parking lot of a North Charleston restaurant, six women have been charged by police. According to a North Charleston Police incident report, the victims walked into the police station on March 11 and said they were "accosted and savagely beaten by a mob of females" in the parking lot of the IHOP on Centre Pointe Drive. A video was posted to YouTube showing the brawl. In it, several women can be seen punching, kicking, and stomping 
Reno Police have arrested a man on charges of open murder, sexual assault and burglary. Police took 32-year-old
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three jailed men are accused in a attack late last month against a man who was assaulted with a BB gun, a baseball bat and a metal pole. Eric Carrington, 44, James Anderson, 24, and Martin Torres Jr., 18, are each charged with kidnapping, felonious assault and rape. The three forced a man whom they knew into Carrington's van on March 22, and drove him to Carrington's West 47th Street home. The men forced the victim into the garage, where Anderson and Torres took turns hitting him over the head with a baseball bat. Carrington then grabbed a BB gun and shot the man several times. He also pistol-whipped the man with the BB gun. The men then forced the victim to pull his pants down, and Carrington raped him with a metal pole.
CHICAGO – Police in Kankakee County continued a manhunt for a convicted killer who escaped from jail early Wednesday. Taylor recently was convicted of murder in the shooting death of 21-year-old 
COLUMBIA, TN - A teenager charged with murdering a Papa John's employee during a robbery will be charged as an adult. Darious Fitzpatrick was 17 when police said he shot and killed 22-year-old 
New Orleans police Wednesday morning (April 1) said they have arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting of Domino's pizza delivery driver 
Three teenage boys are accused of participating in the murder of a pizza deliveryman in Mid-City this week, a New Orleans police detective testified Friday, and the mother of one said she fears her son faces a possible life sentence because of his poor choice of friends. The case against the two teens in custody - Shane Hughes and Rendell Brown, both 16 - moved forward Friday when a juvenile court judge found there was enough evidence to jail them on charges of first-degree murder. The judge also agreed to send the case to Criminal District Court, where prosecutors will try them as adults in the slaying of Domino's Pizza driver 
A Wichita man will spend more than 11 years in prison for stealing a wedding ring and other items from a woman who was dying from a brain aneurysm in a Taco Bell drive-through in December 2013. Sedgwick County District Judge Christopher Magana ordered Daquantrius Shaquill Johnson to serve the 136-month term consecutive to other sentences he received for crimes committed while on felony probation in a 2013 burglary case. The sentences in those cases totaled 111 months, which means Johnson, 21, will be incarcerated for about 20 1/2 years. A jury in December convicted Johnson of aggravated burglary, robbery and misdemeanor theft for his role in the Dec. 29, 2013, robbery of 
PARMA, Ohio — Parma police say they’ve arrested several people in connection with the March attack of several employees at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. Jermele L. Barkley, 35, of Cleveland, and Albert W. Brown, 41, of Lorain, surrendered to police Tuesday morning and are being held in Parma jail. Both will have their initial appearance at 12:30 p.m. today. Chakara L. Watts, 22, of Cleveland, has also been charged. She was arrested last week, and her case was bound over to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office for charges. Police have also obtained an arrest warrant for a 22-year-old male who lives in another state. They’ll also seek charges against a juvenile male in connection with his involvement. A female patron complained to store employees about a photo booth machine not working.A manager reportedly told she would have to wait, and one of the males from the party then followed the manager into the kitchen, threatened to kill him and then attacked him. The manager was beaten and struck on the face and head. Other workers intervened and were then attacked by other patrons. 
Two suspects are in custody after allegedly assaulting a man on a MetroLink train last Monday. A 15-year-old and a 21-year-old, identified as Ronald Williams were arrested in connection with the assault. A third man seen in video footage from the incident was released without being charged. Williams was charged with 3rd degree assault. The teen's name has not been released. The victim, 
CLEVELAND — A Cleveland man convicted of rape and kidnapping for assaults on four women in the 1990s has been sentenced to 110 years to life in prison after tests matched his DNA to evidence in a backlog of untested rape kits. The judge and a prosecutor called 54-year-old 
A troubled Georgia teen who 
FORT MEADE, Md. — We’re learning new details about the two suspects at the center of the NSA security scare. One person is dead and another injured after driving an SUV through a security barrier at Fort Meade. We’re hearing more about the two people inside that SUV when NSA guards opened fire on the car. The incident began early Monday morning along North Charles Street, where police say Ricky Shawatza Hall and Kevin Lamont Fleming were picked up by a 60-year-old man in a Ford Escape. Investigators say the three went to the Terrace Motel along Route 1 in Elkridge. The two suspects were on an all-night bender with drugs and alcohol. Police say the two stole the Ford Escape from the hotel and may have made a wrong turn onto the exit for the National Security Agency. The SUV smashed through a security barrier and rammed into an NSA police vehicle. That’s when guards opened fire. Twenty-year-old Fleming was injured and 27-year-old Hall—who went by the name of Maya—died on the scene. 
ST. LOUIS – A woman shot in an alley on south 37th near Grace Avenue Friday has died. 54-year-old 
TORONTO – The teenage son of a Canadian diplomat was arrested Monday after his older brother was killed in a shooting in Miami. Miami Police said
A Ghanaian pastor, Prophet Eric Isaiah Adusah, domiciled in the United Kingdom (UK), has been arrested in connection with the death of his pregnant British wife, 
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The prisoner who escaped from INOVA Fairfax Hospital with a guard's gun early Tuesday morning has been captured in D.C., according to Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier and Fairfax County police. Police say someone who knew about the search for Wossen Assaye from social media alerts spotted him and called police.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man accused of raping a child was arrested Monday evening on the city's East Side. U.S. marshals arrested Percy James Jr., 21, at about 6 p.m. at the corner of St. Clair Avenue and and East 140th Street, a spokesperson with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. He had been featured as the "Fugitive of the Week" earlier Monday. Law-enforcement officials say James raped his victim while awaiting sentencing in a separate rape case. The victim in James' most recent case is 
ORLANDO, Fla. - A Central Florida school employee was arrested after accusations that he was having an inappropriate relationship with a 
EVERETT, Wash. — The jury reached a verdict on Monday in the killing of 
SANTA CRUZ >> Nearly three years since 38-year-old shop owner 
SEAFORD, Del. – Police say a Delaware man has been arrested for two violent crimes, including an assault on
A group of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside a New Hampshire business had their cash box stolen Friday night by a man who escaped in a waiting getaway car, according to police. Rochester cops report that the 
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —Former Hog basketball player, Jason Henry, 26, has been booked into the Washington County Jail, on charges including promoting prostitution and sexual assault. According to an arrest report from, Henry, also known as a pimp named "Allstar," is accused of grooming 
A Chattanooga man is now behind bars after reportedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman. According to the affidavit, the victim told Red Bank police Christopher Lane showed up at her home and ordered her into his truck. She says Lane had a weapon, and she feared for her life. Lane then reportedly forced her to rent a room at the Great Value Inn where he tried to kiss her and forced her shirt and bra off. The victim was able to escape the room and scream for help. Someone in earshot heard and called for help. When police got to the scene, the officer saw Lane yelling at the victim, who was shirtless, in the parking lot. When the officer got out of his car, Lane went back to the room and locked the door. The officer heard a loud crash and then Lane opened the door. When the officer entered the room, the victim told him Lane was going to kill her. Police searched the room and found a pistol inside the toilet tank. 
An 18-year-old Everett man charged with raping a young woman after an underage drinking party returned to the festivities after the sexual assault, a prosecutor said today in Malden District Court. Middlesex prosecutor Elizabeth Dunigan told the court Sami Sherif left the neighborhood party with the young woman and then returned to it, leaving his drunk victim on the street where she was found hours later on a driveway on Appleton Street March 7. “He told other people at the party, ‘it’s not his sister. It wasn’t his girlfriend, what was he supposed to do? It’s not my fault.’ He indicated he pulled her pants up slightly and went back to the party,” Dunigan said. He added that when the victim was found she was given only a 30 percent chance of survival. Overnight temperatures were 10 degrees, her body temperature plummeted to 77 degrees and the victim’s blood alcohol level was .23 approximately six hours after she left the party with Sherif.
WILLIAMSBURG - Police are looking for a violent sicko who they say attacked a woman and tried to rape her inside of a Brooklyn building Wednesday night. The 36-year-old woman was walking into an apartment complex on South 3 Street around 11:55 p.m. when a man walked in behind her and followed her up to the third floor. The New York Daily News reports that the man seemed drunk, and told the woman “I’m not going to play games with you” before punching her in the face several times. He then tore down her pants and tried to rape her, according to police, but fled when the woman’s teenage son heard his mother’s screams and confronted him. Her son, who plays football at his high school, chased the man down the stairs and out of the building. He’s described as a 25- to 35-year-old black male who weighs roughly 180 pounds; he was last seen wearing a blue jacket with “Lincoln St. Mary’s Council 112″ in yellow lettering.
MEMPHIS, TN - A Mid-South Sunday school teacher is accused of getting 
the La Vista police chief says it appears they have identified the suspect accused of indecent exposure at two area libraries. However because the investigation is active, they cannot release any further information. Campus police at the south Omaha and Sarpy Center libraries investigated reports of a man masturbating on March 19th and 20th near study rooms and in front of a woman, who said he appeared to also use a cell phone to take images of his exposed penis. Last Thursday, staff at the La Vista Public Library reported a man matching the same denoscription masturbating in a corner of the library around 2 p.m. By the time a victim notified police, the suspect had fled.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Authorities arrested a man after witnesses claimed he was masturbating in the movie theater. On March 27, officers were called to Harkins Bricktown after learning about a disturbance. When they arrived, they saw a man being pinned to the ground by two men in the theater’s lobby. One of the witnesses was in the theater with his 
LEMON GROVE, Calif. - A California school employee faces a slew of charges after she barricaded herself inside a classroom and stripped naked in front of the middle school students. After-school assistant Linda Lira, 31, faces 14 counts of child cruelty and 14 counts of false imprisonment after last Friday’s alleged incident at Lemon Grove Academy on Golden Ave. “Within a short time (the students) realized she was not herself; she started saying some pretty bizarre things,” said school Superintendent Ernie Anastos. “She locked the door, turned down the lights.” One of the students managed to grab Lira’s radio and call for help. When police arrived, Lira began upending desks, throwing objects and repeatedly stripping naked and dressing herself in front of the children, officers reported. Lira exhibited multiple signs and symptoms of narcotics/hallucinogen use. 
BOSTON – Police Commissioner William Evans said Saturday Boston police officer John Moynihan remains in critical after he was shot “without provocation” on Friday night in Roxbury. Evans said at a press conference from the Boston Police Department headquarters that officers approached 41-year-old Hyde Park resident Angelo West’s vehicle without guns drawn and the man opened fire. According to police, West has a violent criminal history with several gun convictions. The Boston Globe reported that West was arrested in 2001 after he allegedly fired a shot at police officers who were trying to arrest him after witnessing West complete a drug deal. The police commissioner called the incident “a real violent confrontation that was clearly unprovoked by our officers,” and added that there is “excellent video” that shows how the events unfolded. The shooting took place at about 6:40 p.m. Friday in the area of Humboldt Ave. and Ruthven Street. 
LONGMONT, Colo. – A woman suspected of cutting an unborn baby from a woman’s belly in Longmont won’t face murder charges for the baby’s death, according to the Boulder County district attorney. District Attorney Stan Garnett won’t charge Dynel Lane, 34, with murder, but she will still face a variety of other charges. Police say 
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A man who may be from Kansas City has been charged after allegedly leading police on a pursuit from Warrenton, Missouri to Lambert Airport Wednesday evening. Police said 22-year-old Reginald Adams has been charged by Warren County prosecutors with six counts of first degree assault and six counts of unlawful use of a weapon. According to police, the pursuit began when officers in Warren County received a call stating someone was firing gunshots along Interstate 70 around 6:00 p.m. 
WILMINGTON, NC -- A Wilmington man pleaded guilty to a stabbing death that happened in 2012. Anthony Leon Harris, 26, entered a plea of guilty in the second degree murder of 43 year old
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BLOOMINGTON — Bond was reduced to $2 million for one of three men charged with murder in the beating death of a homeless man last summer. Judge Scott Drazewski agreed the $3 million bond for Willie Chambers was excessive but in lowering it to $2 million, the judge acknowledged the bond remains unreachable for the 18-year-old defendant. Chambers faces murder charges, along with Tory Washington, 20, and Anthony Davis-Dickson, 19, all of Bloomington, in the beating death of 
