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Second arrest made in Phoenix pastor's murder
   Phoenix police made a second arrest Tuesday in connection with the homicide of Phoenix pastor who ministered to the homeless from his south Phoenix church, according to a Phoenix police spokesman. Jaime Norberto Sapien, 30, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder, burglary, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and theft for his involvement in the homicide and robbery of Jack Moriarty. Moriarty, 53, was shot and killed on Feb. 27 at his home near 20th Avenue and Monroe Street, police said. He was pastor at the Redeemed Outreach Center, a church in downtown Phoenix known for its work with former inmates and the homeless community. A resident of the home called police because of an "in progress" burglary at her home, officials said. When police arrived, the robbers had already fled the area, police said. |
An Oklahoma reserve deputy says he thought he grabbed his Taser stun gun -- but instead had inadvertently pulled his service revolver -- when he fatally shot a suspect being handcuffed. The officer, Robert Charles Bates, 73, shot and killed convicted felon Eric Courtney Harris, 44, as the suspect was struggling with deputies arresting him on gun charges, the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office said Friday. Bates, an insurance company executive and a former full-time officer, is assigned to the Violent Crimes Task Force. Bates fired one shot Thursday during an undercover operation to sell Harris a pistol and ammunition. Police said Harris initially ran, then was on the ground as a deputy tried to handcuff him. Police said he was shot moments after officers "observed him reaching for his waistband area ... causing concern for the deputies' safety," CNN reported. The suspect died an hour later at the hospital.
LAKELAND -- The family of a Lakeland man killed in a fatal car crash Friday is reacting to charges being filed in the crash. Police have arrested 20-year-old Antonio Jones on a vehicular homicide charge along with burglary, grand theft and fleeing to elude. Officers said Jones was driving a stolen SUV when it crashed head on into 
Jordan and Tommy Gray's 3-year-old daughter
Two college students have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in Panama City Beach, FL, in an incident that hundreds of bystanders did nothing to stop according to local authorities. Delonte’ Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, both students at Troy University in Alabama, were arrested Friday and charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators according to a statement from the Bay County, FL Sheriff’s Office.
The victim of a rape comes forward nearly five years after she says she was attacked. The suspect in that rape investigation is now facing charges of Second Degree Sexual Assault. Erique Spencer Harris, 22, had a preliminary hearing scheduled on Friday, April 10, 2015. The victim came forward on March 23, 2015 about an incident that happened at a home in Beckley in Sept. 2010. 
A 29-year-old Arcadia man who was out on bail in a sexual battery case when he allegedly abducted a woman off the street and raped her for hours was charged in that case. Philippe Mengi Brian Lutete was already facing charges of false imprisonment by violence and sexual battery by restraint in connection with an alleged attack last November. Prosecutors amended the felony complaint to include five additional charges: two counts of forcible rape and one count each of kidnapping to commit rape, forcible oral copulation and assault with intent to commit rape in the most recent case. 
Authorities have arrested a man accused of raping a woman in Harvey last year. And Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office investigators are still searching for his accomplice. Charles Williams, 26, of Harvey was booked Wednesday (April 8) with aggravated rape. He and an unidentified man are accused of assaulting a 30-year-old woman on Dec. 30. The woman told investigators that she and a male companion met up with two men to buy cocaine. The woman and her companion got into a car with the men to make the transaction. But the woman's companion paid for the drugs with a counterfeit $100 bill. When the two men discovered the money was fake, the woman's companion quickly jumped out of the vehicle and fled. The two men, with the woman still in the car, drove around looking for her companion with no success. The men are accused of pulling over to the side of the road and raping the woman.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rapper and reality TV star Nelly is facing felony drug charges after being arrested in Tennessee on Saturday. Tennessee Highway Patrol said that Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Haynes, was pulled over about 9:20 a.m. because the bus he was riding in failed to display a U.S. Department of Transportation and International Fuel Tax Association sticker. Troopers smelled marijuana when they reached the bus. When troopers searched the bus, they found five rocks that tested positive for meth, as well as a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Troopers also say they found numerous handguns. 
A Philadelphia mother accused of abandoning her quadriplegic son in the woods before skipping town to see her boyfriend has been arrested. Nyia Parler, 41, was taken into custody by authorities in Montgomery County, Maryland overnight Saturday on charges including aggravated assault, simple assault and neglect of a care-dependent person. Police say she traveled to Maryland from Pennsylvania either last Sunday or Monday after leaving her 21-year-old wheelchair-bound son in a wooded park with nothing but a blanket and a Bible. Parler's son, who is non-verbal and suffers from cerebral palsy, was found on Friday night lying beneath a rain-soaked blanket and a pile of leaves on the ground, 10 feet from his wheelchair and the Bible. 
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The action came after renewed allegations by women alleging decades-old sexual assaults. Cosby has strongly denied wrongdoing and has never been criminally charged. 
A Manhattan straphanger learned a hard lesson Saturday morning about giving the stink-eye to a violent stranger on a subway train. The female straphanger made the mistake of casting a stern look at to a belligerent woman who was threatening and cursing out a toddler-aged child. When the train pulled into the Fulton Street station, the berserk woman stormed up to the woman who gave her the glare and hit her on the right side of the head with the same bottle she’d been threatening to strike the child with, police said.
Tampa, FL -- A 25-year-old man was found guilty on Friday of killing a University of Tampa student in 2009. The jury deliberated more than three hours on Friday before returning the verdict against David Williams. He also was found guilty of robbery and attempted robbery. Shortly after hearing the verdict, Williams also received his sentence: life in prison without the possibility of parole. Williams was accused of murdering University of Tampa student
Six students (Robert Bailey, then aged 17; Mychal Bell, then 16; Carwin Jones, then 18; Bryant Purvis, then 17; Jesse Ray Beard, then 14; and Theo Shaw, then 17) were arrested in the assault of Barker. Mychal Bell was initially convicted as an adult of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery. His convictions were overturned on the grounds that he should have been tried as a juvenile. Before a retrial in juvenile court, Bell pled guilty to a reduced charge of simple battery. The other five defendants later pled "no contest" to the same offense, and were convicted. 
A 20-year-old Kansas man plotted to kill American soldiers with a vehicle bomb at the Fort Riley military base, an attack he planned to carry out on behalf of the ISIS terror group, prosecutors announced Friday. John T. Booker, also known as 
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A police officer who was honored for his role during the Boston Marathon bombings was released from the hospital, the city's police department said today, a day after they released video of him being shot. The Boston Police Department described officer 
A 28-year-old Tuscaloosa man was arrested Tuesday and charged with the sexual abuse and sodomy of 
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg police took David Barksdale by surprise when they showed up at his home with an arrest warrant. Police said he seemed shocked when officers announced the man was being charged in the death of his 83-year-old roommate. 
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Police are investigating a violent aggravated assault in the Olney section of Philadelphia. Two women have already been arrested for their involvement in the assault, but authorities are still looking for several additional suspects. Police have released surveillance footage of the April 7th attack that took place just before 7:00 p.m. on the 5500 block of North 5th Street. Officers responded to a report of a fight in the street, and arrived on location to find 
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland police on Thursday released surveillance photos of a person they say sucker-punched a St. Patrick's Day reveler who then woke up in an ambulance with a broken jaw. The
U.S. District Court Judge Jon S. Tigar in San Francisco ruled that denying sex reassignment surgery to 51-year-old Michelle-Lael Norsworthy violates 'her' constitutional rights. 'Her' birth name is Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy. 
ATLANTA - Atlanta police say a second suspect, 25-year-old Shontavious Chestnut, was arrested in Pensacola, Florida in connection to the murder of 
PITTSBURGH —A judge has declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict in the trial of a man charged with having killed a woman found dead in the basement of a vacant Pittsburgh house more than a decade ago. Forty-two-year-old Michael Molina is charged in the murder of 21-year-old 
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have charged a Gastonia man with murder following a shooting Tuesday, authorities said Thursday. David Benjamin McCullough, 63, was served with the murder warrant Thursday morning. At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to the 4400 block of Ridgevalley Drive, where they found 
A one-time family friend who stabbed a teen to death in a bloody melee involving knives and a samurai sword in Murrieta pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Friday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. William Gary Simpson Jr., 22, had been facing the death penalty in the Dec. 20, 2011, attack that killed 18-year-old 
A Philadelphia man whom police identified as a pimp has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the 2013 death and dismemberment of a longtime customer he had tried to rob. Thirty-five-year-old Keith Tolbert is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, one day after entering a plea as his trial was about to begin. A plea deal calls for a sentence of 22 to 44 years. Police say the victim, 40-year-old 
22-year-old Stephanie Foulke and 34-year-old Keith Tolbert are charged with second-degree murder and related charges. Foulke testified at a hearing Wednesday that 40-year-old 
STROUDSBURG, Pa. – We’ve all probably been there. Sometimes when you’re watching a movie, the people sitting around you can get a little too loud. Cindy Santamaria Williams says she took a stand against it and wound up being assaulted. 
ORLANDO, Fla. - Investigators said a thief is on the loose after surveillance cameras captured him taking a woman's wallet from her purse as it sat in the grocery cart unattended while she shopped. The incident happened at a Publix grocery store. 
A Cincinnati man used Facebook to communicate with "numerous" teen boys, court documents say, offering money for sex acts or for naked photos of the boys. At least two of the boys were 
BOSTON – Police arrested a Dorchester man who is accused of an unprovoked attack on a woman at the Chinatown MBTA station just minutes after allegedly exposing himself to another woman. Transit police were called to the Chinatown station for a report of a woman being assaulted. Officers found Anthony Samuel, 25, of Dorchester, on the inbound platform being restrained by another passenger. Multiple witnesses told police that Samuel was sitting next to a 63-year-old woman when he “suddenly and without provocation” started punching the woman in the head. Other passengers jumped in to stop the alleged assault. Samuel was arrested on charges of assault and battery of an elderly person. While police were completing the arrest, another woman told officers that about 15 minutes earlier at the Ruggles MBTA station, Samuel allegedly exposed himself to her.
A self-described ordained preacher faces the prospect of life in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to federal charges that he helped detain, abuse, and exploit
CHICAGO — Adolfo Davis admits he was a swaggering thug by the age of 14 as he roamed and dealt drugs with a South Side gang. At 14, in 1990, he was out with two gang members when they robbed a rival drug house and shot the occupants, 
Indiana Pacers forward 
DOVER, Del. – Police in Delaware have charged a man with a whopping 18 commercial burglaries that happened over a six month period. During an investigation, police in Dover noticed that several burglaries in Prince George County were very similar in nature to 18 burglaries in Dover. A meeting was held between officials in Maryland and Delaware, where they determined that one person was likely responsible for all of the crimes. Within a few days of that meeting, Thomas Jenkins, 49, of Maryland, was identified as a suspect after police found a vehicle behind a building that had been targeted. On March 9th, Prince George’s County Sheriff reportedly saw Jenkins at a business cutting a hole in the roof and entering through it. Jenkins was arrested and found to be in possession of a .45 caliber handgun that was stolen from a business in Delaware. A search of Jenkins’ vehicle revealed an additional .45 caliber handgun stolen from the same business.
According to CBS New York, 
CHICAGO -- Child welfare authorities say the father of a 
PORTAGE | An initial hearing was continued until Friday morning after the FBI showed up at court Wednesday to talk to a Wisconsin man, accused of violently attacking Portage police officers during a traffic stop Tuesday and shouting God is great in Arabic. 
TIJUANA — Chinese restaurants across Tijuana have been suffering a sharp drop in customers this week following the discovery that workers at one establishment had been killing dogs and cooking their meat. Two days after authorities shut down Restaurant Lo Yen City, in the heart of a working class community several miles from downtown, three Chinese nationals and two Mexicans remained in custody on Thursday. The Chinese Consulate estimates that some 8,000 Chinese live in Tijuana, with many working in the restaurant industry. The city’s restaurant chamber estimates there are some 500 Chinese restaurants in Tijuana. . In one restaurant, they reported finding caged dogs on the premises, as well as blood and dog hairs in the vicinity, but no dog corpses.
Four-time confessed murderer, Craig Price, threatened prison guards in Florida and made mention of his gruesome crimes of the late 1980's. "I'm going to kill every officer I can get my hands on, just like I killed those little kids,” said Price, according to a disciplinary report. Now 41-years-old, Price has been behind bars for 26 years. In 1989, he was only 15, but bulky and 280 pounds when he confessed to four murders in his Warwick neighborhood. 
OLATHE, KS - A man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for slamming his car into another car and killing a woman. The judge sentenced Roy Lee Maney to 188 months on Wednesday. Maney pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in the death of 30-year-old 
COLUMBIA, Tenn. – Columbia police have identified a 17-year-old as the second suspect involved in the deadly robbery of a Papa John’s Pizza worker that occurred last October. Kavoyeh Pye, who remains at large, is wanted by authorities for felony murder and especially aggravated robbery. 
ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Authorities revealed in court Wednesday that a selfie helped them link an accused gunman to the shooting of a store clerk during an attempted robbery in December at a Ross Township store. The prosecutor showed a bathroom selfie of the suspect, George Wilson, allegedly wearing the exact jacket he had on the night he tried to rob The Exchange store and shot 23-year-old 
On March 19, 
NORTH BRADDOCK, Pa. — Allegheny County police are questioning a woman accused of setting a couple’s North Braddock home on fire Wednesday afternoon as an act of revenge. "She showed up at the house, threatening to do something to them, and she must have waited until she left,” said Sheena Smith. Smith said 
MERRIMACK, N.H. —State police said they caught the man who stole a cash box from a troop of Girl Scouts in Rochester last month. roopers arrested Pierre Thibault, 20, during a traffic stop along the Everett Turnpike in Merrimack. Police said he grabbed the cash box from a group of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside Walgreens, but actually dropped most of the money while making his escape. Kayla Lonergan, 19, who allegedly drove the getaway car, was also charged last month in connection with the incident. 
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An East Texas man on death row for the slaying of 
VANCOUVER, WA - Vancouver police say they've arrested a man in connection with a 19-year-old's murder. Gregory Wright, 34, was already in jail serving time for another crime when police linked him to 
A man was arrested and charged with the murder of a woman who was found dead in a shallow grave in a yard in Philadelphia's Frankford section last month. Jeffrey Bowen, 30, is accused of killing 39-year-old 
PETERSBURG, Va. — Police have made an arrest in a deadly double shooting at a Tri-Cities motel late Friday night. Petersburg police said officers were called to the Loyalty Inn at 25 South Crater Road just before 11:30 p.m. “Inside one of the rooms, police found the bodies of 39-year-old 
WEST HILLS — Police asked for the public’s help Tuesday to identify a man who was caught on surveillance video carjacking a woman as she pumped gas at a Chevron station in West Hills. The carjacking happened Saturday in the 22700 block of Vanowen Street, Los Angeles police officials said. A woman told officers she was pumping gas when the man approached her on foot and threatened her with a knife, police said. The woman moved away from the gas pump, police said, then the man pulled the gas nozzle from the vehicle, threw it on the ground, then drove her car northbound on Fallbrook Avenue. The stolen car is a grey, 2000 Toyota Camry four-door with California license plate 4KBA401. The suspect is described as a black man, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-11, between 25 and 35 years old and 200 to 230 pounds, with curly hair and a short beard. The carjacker was last seen wearing a gray T-shirt, a light-colored flannel short-sleeved shirt and blue jeans. 
