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Local Family Attacked, Slashed On Freeway (by drug-crazed Hispanic) - stabbed baby - tried to set car on fire
 WILDOMAR — The family attacked and stabbed by a man while they changed a tire on the 215 Freeway is speaking out about their ordeal. A Romoland man is in custody after police say he stabbed an infant and attacked family members with a broken piece of a plastic freeway marker. Nicholas Lopez Garcia, 44, is behind bars after officers say he ran up to the family and attacked them on the freeway just south of Newport Road in Menifee on Monday, May 11. According to investigators, the suspect began stabbing the 18-month-old boy in his neck and tried pulling the child in a car seat out of the vehicle. 18-month old Abel now has seven stitches under his ear. His mother — Charlene Roberts — has stab wounds and bruises across her back and arm. “Every attack, every hit,” says Roberts, “was meant for the baby. It wasn’t meant for us. He was trying to kidnap the child. And who knows what he would have done with him after that.” Family members tried valiantly to pull Garcia back and away from Abel, but they told Kastner he kept swinging. Roberts says Garcia then pulled out a bottle of gasoline and started dumping it all over the backseat and that he was also able to pull out some matches. Roberts’ brother James St Clair says Garcia started to light the car on fire.
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WESTLAND, Mich. - The teenager accused of stabbing a man to death Saturday morning after an argument over noise has been charged with murder. The suspect accused, 17-year-old Dion Patterson, was arraigned Monday on charges of felony murder, second degree murder, felonious assault and home invasion. Friends say the victim, Matt Green, lit up a room and describe him as unique and caring, a loving father, brother and son. Westland police say the 33-year-old Belleville man was stabbed to death inside his girlfriend's home in Westland. Police say Green and his girlfriend, along with another couple, returned home just after 2 a.m. and were apparently making too much noise outside. Their next door neighbors, Patterson's parents, came out. Police say the Pattersons told the group to be quiet, getting into an argument with Green and his friends. While both neighbors went inside, according to police about three minutes later Dion Patterson got out of bed and asked what happened. Allegedly he grabbed a kitchen knife, went through the side door of the home and stabbed Green. The young father later died at the hospital from his wound. - (Black-on-white)
LAS VEGAS -- Metro detectives have announced the arrest of a suspect in connection with the deadly shooting of a female case worker on March 17 near West Charleston Boulevard and Lindell Road. Metro arrested 21-year-old Michael De Angelo Scott, also known as "Bones." Police last month sought two people in connection to the homicide. The second male has been identified as 18-year old Jehru Petty-Williams, also known as "Louie Vee." 
NEW YORK – The NYPD believes they know the identity of the man caught on video smashing a chair over the heads of two men at a Dallas BBQ restaurant in Chelsea earlier this month. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce identified the suspect as Bayna El-Amin. “He is a career criminal,” Boyce said. “We believe he has fled the state.” The shocking incident took place at around 11 p.m. on May 5. Boyce said the NYPD had identified El-Amin about a week ago. 
A Manhattan judge Monday sentenced one of the twin sisters accused of tying up and robbing a kinky 85-year-old man they met on a sugar-daddy Web site to 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison. Shalaine Foster, 17, copped to robbery in the second degree April 2 as part of a plea deal. The judge also granted the reformed teen youthful-offender status which means she’ll dodge a criminal record. Shalaine blamed her allegedly evil twin, Shaina, for hatching the sinister plot and dragging her along for the wild ride. Shaina met retired lawyer 
Boston University, which has already condemned the racist Tweets of an incoming faculty member, has now been sent an outrageous Facebook exchange in which a poster who identifies herself as the controversial sociology professor mercilessly ridicules 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Jonathan Neal played an important role on Mallard Creek's Championship Football team. The 18-year-old senior played on the football team. Monday afternoon, the teen was behind bars in the Mecklenburg County Jail, charged with second-degree rape for allegedly assaulting
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Police say a Louisville man tried to sodomize a woman in her own back yard. According to the arrest report, it happened on May 18. Police say 18-year-old Devin Dougherty followed the victim into her back yard, "pushed the victim to the ground and started to remove her pants." Police say Dougherty then exposed himself and demanded oral sex. That's when police say the victim got up and ran to a neighbor's home and called for help. Police say Dougherty then ran away, but was later arrested. When Doughtery was searched, officers found a small bag of marijuana in his pants pocket. 
COLUMBUS, Ga. - A Columbus homeless man is charged with public indecency after allegedly exposing himself to a woman as she was leaving church. Jama Zanders was arrested Saturday. Police say a woman was walking home from church on Benning Drive that day around 9:30 a.m. when she saw Zanders. The victim claims Zanders, 26, exposed his genitals while shouting at her. Zanders then followed the victim home.
NEW YORK -- Police have made an arrest in connection with a violent attack in the Bronx. 30-year old Rudell Caldwell is charged with attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. He is accused of trying to rape a woman inside an apartment building stairwell in Melrose May 12. Police said he followed the 26-year old victim into the building in the vicinity of Wales Avenue and East 151 Street. The woman managed to fight off the attack and the suspect fled. 
It's been five months since Pei Xia Chen's husband, 
The dad savagely beaten by a motorcycle mob in 2013 wept as he recounted in public for the first time the harrowing ordeal, testifying that he was “scared s—tless” and just trying to get away from the swarm of enraged bikers. Victim 
ST. LOUIS - An attorney for the family of a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty, white St. Louis police officer said Tuesday he plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, after a prosecutor said the officer would not face criminal charges. In a report released Monday, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce said her office's "independent and exhaustive investigation" concluded that a criminal violation could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in VonDerrit Myers Jr.'s death.
A "woman" is dead after being stabbed in the back and neck by a man during a fight inside an abandoned North Philadelphia home London Chanel, a 21-year-old transgender 
NEW YORK — Police have arrested the man who they say recorded video of last week’s brawl at a Brooklyn McDonald’s. Amir McCants, 24, of Brooklyn, was escorted by police out of the 88th Precinct station house on Tuesday. McCants has been charged with inciting a riot.
Memphis, TN - - A Florida man has been sentenced to death for a second time in the 2003 murders of an elderly Bartlett couple. Saturday, a jury found Henry Lee Jones guilty of two counts of first degree murder then sentenced him to death. 
DOVER, Del. -- Dover Police detectives are looking for 25-year-old Rakim Strickland, in connection with an attempted murder on Friday. Investigators found the 19-year-old victim sitting in the driver side of a gold Dodge Intrepid with several gunshot wounds. This was in an alley between Sussex Avenue and Easter Water Street. The victim was rushed to the hospital for treatment. Strickland is wanted on several charges, including Attempted Murder and possession of a firearm.
PHILADELPHIA — A suspect wanted in connection with an abduction and sexual assault in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood was taken into police custody Monday evening. Police say a 22-year-old woman was walking along East York Street at around 5:30 a.m. May 1 when she says a man approached her with a handgun and forced her inside a minivan. Police say the woman was sexually assaulted inside the van and dropped off at Almond and Boston Streets. Sources say 24-year-old 
A woman accused of marrying 10 times in an immigration scam has reported to a Bronx court a day late after a warrant was issued for her arrest. 
TALLADEGA COUNTY, AL - Talladega County authorities say a man accused of stabbing a Sylacauga woman to death has been arrested. Edmond Jeremiah Woods is charged with the murder of 34-year-old 
JACKSON, Miss. - A man accused of carjacking and rape will have to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Eddie Devine was sentenced to 130 years Friday in court. He appeared before Hinds County Judge Bill Gowan. Devine changed his plea to guilty in court and was given the maximum sentence. Devine was arrested after being accused of an armed carjacking that happened in December 2014 in Flowood. The victim was attacked outside of the Flowood Bed Bath and Beyond a few days before Christmas. The two struggled in the car and the suspect displayed a knife, according to police. The victim was able to get away, but her purse and car were taken. In 2013, he was arrested on two charges of armed robbery. In April of last year, Devine was charged with rape, kidnapping, and carjacking in Jackson. He was 16 at the time. 
Fort Valley's police chief says they've arrested a possible suspect in a series of recent break-ins and rapes. Chief Lawrence Spurgeon said the man was arrested outside a home on Persons Street around midnight, after a call about a suspicious person outside a home. Lasha Gibson says after coming home from dinner with her boyfriend late Saturday night, she saw a suspicious person walking around her apartment complex. When officers arrived, they arrested 26-year-old Darrell Ross. Ross fits the denoscription of a man who broke into several homes in the past two months, raped two women, and assaulted at least one other. Ross has not been charged with those crimes, but he is facing several other charges, including criminal trespass and having a gun while committing a crime. Ross is the only suspect in the recent string of break-ins and rapes.
SEATTLE — A woman charged with raping a man while he slept has agreed to plead guilty to 2nd degree assault and 3rd degree attempted rape, according to court documents first posted by the Smoking Gun. Chantae M. Gilman, 28, was originally charged with 2nd degree rape, but came to an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to these lesser charges, according to documents. Gilman will be required to register as a sex offender, and is expected to serve nine months in jail, the Smoking Gun reported.
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — One man is dead, and his partner is in police custody, in a suspected domestic homicide in a residential neighborhood on Escondido’s east side Saturday, police said. It happened about 11 a.m. in the 2000 block of Lee Drive at North Midway Drive, near El Norte Parkway at Lincoln Avenue, police Lt. Neal Griffin said. Officers arrived and found the suspect, Ehren Dragt, 35, on the doorstep of the couple’s residence and his partner dead inside the home. Dragt was treated at a local hospital for dehydration. Upon his release, he will be placed in custody, police said. Investigators continued searching the home for evidence Saturday evening. A cause of death has not been revealed.
Durban - The sentences handed to the two KwaZulu-Natal men found guilty of the rape and murder of 
MONCKS CORNER, SC - Berkeley County Sheriff Lt. 
CINCINNATI —A man is in custody after he allegedly exposed himself to people in a Washington Park bathroom. Police said James Robinson, 38, was arrested just after 6:30 p.m. Friday and was charged with two counts of public indecency. According to authorities, Robinson was exposing himself in the women’s bathroom in front of women and children. Witnesses said the children ran away screaming.
ATHENS, Ga. -- The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has released a composite sketch of a sexual assault suspect. The suspect is accused of 
A report that a Pineville man was having sex with a juvenile member of his family led to an investigation and an arrest, according to police. Leroy Moore, 34, of 252 Ray St., was arrested on May 5 by Pineville police after the complaint. He was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center, where he is being held without bond, on one count of aggravated crime against nature and a probation violation.
A 56-year-old Grafton man is charged in connection with a February 1 hit-and-run that killed a York County woman and seriously injured another person. 
The Oceanside man accused of vehicular manslaughter in a Carlsbad jogger’s death was taken into custody Friday, the day after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Joseph Knight, 52, was at the Vista courthouse when Oceanside police officers recognized him and alerted a sheriff’s deputy. The deputy arrested Knight at about 5:30 p.m. Investigators say on Dec. 28, 2014, Knight was driving the Ford Expedition that veered onto a sidewalk and hit 
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City police have arrested a driver involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed an employee of a Wal-Mart neighborhood market early Friday morning. According to police, at about 3:15 a.m., officers responded to the report of a disturbance in the area of Hefner and N. Rockwell. Police learned that the suspect, 21-year-old Jabari Berry, had been creating a disturbance the Crest Store. Police said they initially learned that there were 
Eleven months to the day their son was killed, a family received “righteous justice” Friday when the man accused of fatally "sucker-punching" him in a Gaslamp Quarter fight was convicted of second-degree murder. The family of 25-year-old 
CLARKSDALE, MS - Three men are charged with shooting and killing a Clarksdale, Mississippi security guard. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. Tuesday at the Clarksdale public utility guard house in the 200 block of Hicks Street. Police say the 59-year-old security guard was inside the gate when he was shot by someone on the other side. The guard, who family members say is 59-year-old 
A Lexington man is in jail this morning in connection to a home invasion LEX 18 told you about last week. The home invasion happened around 3:00 a.m. on Mother's Day morning. Several people were inside a house on Suburban Court when four men broke in to burglarize the home. 
ROMULUS – Police say an Amber Alert for a 16-month-old boy who was reportedly taken during a carjacking has been called off. Romulus police tell WWJ that the alert was called off Saturday around 8 a.m. after 
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Stafford County investigators are calling a Friday night shooting a murder-suicide. Deputies found the bodies of 32-year-old 
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A 17-year-old boy at the center of the rape case at Capital High School was taken into custody. An arrest warrant had been issued earlier Friday. At that time, Kanawha County Prosecutors confirmed that bond for Dallas King has been revoked and that a bench warrant has been issued for his arrest. Details of the warrant and case information are not being released at this time because King is a minor. In March, King admitted in court that he forced
Cobb County police have arrested a Marietta man who is now accused of two attempted rapes at the same apartment complex. Patrick Demetrius Payton, 32, was picked up last Friday after a brutal attack that day at the Belle Chase apartment complex. Investigators now believe he is also responsible for another attempted rape at the complex Jan. 24, police said Friday. According to investigators, last week a man approached a woman on her patio, partially removed his pants and then began forcibly removing her clothing. He punched her in the face when she resisted, police said. The woman was treated for severe facial injuries at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, police said. The May attack was similar to the one in January, police said. They
FLINT, MI -- A state appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Burton man who raped an elderly woman as she was taking groceries into her home. The Michigan Court of Appeals, in a decision released Wednesday, May 13, affirmed the conviction of Denzel Berry for the Oct. 15, 2012, rape and robbery of 
HILLSIDE, Ill. - A cafeteria monitor at a west suburban high school accused of having sex with an underage male student was ordered held on a $25,000 bond in court Thursday. Joi Taylor, 32, of Chicago is charged with criminal sexual assault in a position of authority and indecent solicitation of a child, according to Hillside police. Taylor was hired as a lunchroom monitor at Proviso West high School in March, according to prosecutors. Shortly after being hired, she met 
A 27-year-old Chicago man has been charged in connection with the discharge of a gun on a Megabus earlier this week. Jacques L. Anderson was charged Thursday with armed violence, possession of a firearm by a felon, reckless discharge of a firearm, and other offenses, the Illinois State Police said. A man fired a gun while in the restroom on a Megabus late Tuesday night and then reportedly tried to take control of the bus from the driver. Another passenger tackled the suspect and held him down until police arrived in Des Plaines, where the bus came to a stop. 
LAS VEGAS - Police thought a suspect in a California murder had barricaded himself Wednesday night in a home near Nellis Air Force Base. A standoff began about 10 p.m. in the 6300 block of East High Sierra Avenue near Carey Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, and lasted until mid-morning Thursday. Metro Lt. David Gordon said detectives tried to make contact with the suspect, Henry Lee Hall, 30, but without response. Seven adults and three children were evacuated from the house. Metro SWAT spent the next 12 hours searching the residence, tearing out walls and inspecting the attic. 
The family of a deceased Oklahoma woman whose corpse was mutilated at a funeral home by a friend have revealed her identity, saying that they are afraid for the safety of her four children now that the suspected vandal is out of jail. Shaynna Sims, 26, of Tulsa, was arrested after the alleged incident April 30 on three counts related to corpse vandalism and burglary. On Thursday, prosecutors added a fourth charge of unlawful removal of a deceased person's body part, claiming the suspect had sliced off her supposed romantic rival's breasts and a toe. 
According to JulieAnn, Tabatha had known Sims' husband, Montie Smith, from her high school days and kept in touch with him over the years. The Sims family and Tabatha were also Friends on Facebook. But contrary to previous reports suggesting a love triangle, Tabatha’s relative insisted that she and Montie Smith had never been involved in a romantic relationship, and there was no reason for Shaynna Sims to attack her lifeless body. 
Six and a half years. That’s how long a D.C. rabbi will spend behind bars after admitting he secretly videotaped naked women in a Jewish ritual bath. Rabbi Barry Freundel used his position as a professor at both Towson and Georgetown universities to lure in victims. Some of those victims faced him in court.
CINCINNATI —A driver involved in a crash that killed a retired Forest Park police officer has been arrested. Anton Palmer, 31, was charged with vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular manslaughter for the death of 
A 37-year-old man told police he put a stone in a sock and beat another man outside a Southeast Portland Plaid Pantry so severely that he thought the victim was dead, court documents say. Surveillance footage from the store near Southeast 12th Avenue and Morrison Street on Monday shows James L. Edwards Jr. hitting 
The police said on Thursday that they had filed assault charges against David Baril, who was suspected of wielding a hammer in a series of attacks before he was shot by an officer in Manhattan on Wednesday. When the officers approached Mr. Baril near 37th Street around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, he brandished a bloodstained hammer and swung it, claw-end forward, at 
ST. CHARLES COUNTY • A former Lindenwood University wrestler was found guilty Thursday of exposing one of his sex partners to HIV and attempting to expose four others to the virus that causes AIDS. Michael L. Johnson, 23, was found not guilty on a sixth charge — exposing another man to HIV. That man testified he had unprotected sex with Johnson in the fall of 2012 but wasn’t diagnosed with HIV until September 2013. Another of Johnson’s sex partners also contracted the virus. Jurors deliberated for two hours and 20 minutes before returning the verdict. A sentencing hearing will be Friday; Johnson faces a maximum of life in prison. 
DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — A 16-year-old boy is sought in connection to a school bus shooting on the Westside. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said a warrant has been issued for Edgar Robles. He is considered armed and dangerous. JSO said this is not a gang-related crime. 
Va. – A Newport News man has been charged with indecent exposure after he exposed himself near a school bus stop with children present, according to police. Police were dispatched to the area of 36th Street and Marshall Avenue around 11:40 A.M. on Tuesday for a report of a man exposing himself in the area. The victim, a 61-year-old Newport News woman, told officers that she had seen 31-year-old Justin Deandre Lacott exposing himself.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Police are searching for a man who is accused of raping a woman after giving her a ride from Remington Park. Police responded to a call at N.E. 23rd and Martin Luther King Ave. shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, April 27. The call was in regards to a woman claiming she had been raped earlier in the evening at a different location. The woman said she accepted a ride home from a man at Remington Park, but he allegedly took her to a different location and raped her. Surveillance video shows the suspect as a balding black male, wearing a striped shirt, a black jacket, blue jeans, and black shoes.
New Orleans police have released composite sketches of two men they say are suspected of raping a 37-year-old woman earlier this month (May 4) in eastern New Orleans. The woman told police she was walking in the 5400 block of Crowder Boulevard around 3:30 a.m. when a man with a tattoo of a star and a cross on the right side of his face approached, police said. Armed with a semi-automatic handgun, the man forced the woman inside a vehicle driven by another man, police said. The woman said the pair drove her to an unknown location where she was sexually assaulted. Police said the first suspect also has a tattoo on his back that reads, "Taqueria."
GRAHAM — A man has been charged with the rape of a child after the victim, a teenage runaway, went to stay with him. Willie Earl McDaniels, 28, of 120 Albany St., Apt. 34, Graham, was arrested Monday and charged with felony first-degree statutory rape. He was held in the Alamance County jail under a $100,000 bond. According to the Graham Police Department, the victim was
KNOXVILLE – A man wanted in Kentucky on charges of raping and sexually abusing four children was arrested in Knoxville Tuesday during an identity theft investigation. Michael Mease, 40, is charged locally with identity theft, criminal impersonation, resisting arrest and being a fugitive from justice. He is wanted in Hardin County, Kentucky on multiple charges including one count of rape and three counts of sexual abuse. 
DENVER - Auraria Campus Police are searching for a man who tried to sexually assault a woman Saturday. The woman reported being attacked on May 9, at about 2:05 p.m. on the second floor the West Classroom building. The woman said the man grabbed her, pushed her to the floor and attempted to rape her, but she fought back and was able to get away. The suspect is described as a black man in his 40s, about 6-feet tall, with a thin build and a patchy mustache and beard. The suspect has noticeable red discoloration on the inside of his lips and two marks on his cheek, and may frequent the Auraria campus, investigators said. 
A cab driver has been arrested and charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of sexual assault and one count of robbery for allegedly taking a woman from Lower Downtown on Christmas Eve to his home in Green Valley Ranch and raping her before returning her home. 
PHOENIX - A Valley mother who left her kids in a hot car while she went to a job interview has been sentenced to 18 years of supervised probation. Shanesha Taylor was sentenced Friday morning in Maricopa County Superior Court. She also is required to undergo parenting classes. 
DOUGLAS, GA - A man has been captured in connection to an Atkinson County murder. Roderick Brock was arrested Monday night in Douglas, according to the Atkinson County Sheriff's Office. Brock is believed to be involved with the murder of 64 year-old 
OVERLAND PARK, KS - A 21-year-old woman says she was attacked in her Overland Park home and her security system caught it on camera. 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The mother of two who was strangled to the point she literally saw stars got a chance to tell her assailant exactly what she thinks of him in the moments before he was sentenced to 33 to 100 years in prison. "I think you're a shame to your family and friends," 
BRUNSWICK | A man who was to have stood trial Monday for murder in the shooting death of his live-in girlfriend pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter and was sentenced to 28 years in prison, the district attorney said. Jermaine Javon Thomas, 38, was charged with shooting 33-year-old 
Days after a Georgia woman was arrested for a Facebook post advocating the shooting of “every white cop in the nation,” an Iowa man cribbed the threatening words for his own Facebook page, a copy and paste job that now has him locked up in jail. Michael Leshawn McCullum, 30, was arrested Tuesday by Iowa City cops on a warrant charging him with harassment. McCullum is being held on $100,000 bail on the aggravated misdemeanor count. According to investigators, McCullum earlier this month posted a Facebook message stating, “I’ve thought about shooting every white cop I see in the head until I’m either caught by the police or killed by them.” He added, “Ha!!!! I think I can pull it off. Might kill at least fifteen tomorrow. I’m plotting now.” 
A fifth suspect has been arrested in the shooting deaths of two Mississippi police officers over the weekend. Abram Wade "Pete" Franklin was awaiting his initial appearance in court on Wednesday after the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation charged the 29-year-old with obstruction in the case, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said. Four others have already been charged in the Saturday shootings of Hattiesburg officers 
Police on Wednesday shot the hammer-wielding maniac who randomly attacked four people during a bloody rampage around Manhattan, law enforcement sources said. The bearded suspect, identified as 30-year-old David Baril, was in critical but stable condition at Bellevue Hospital. Around 10 a.m., two Midtown South cops were leaving the scene of an unrelated assault at 38th Street and Eighth Avenue when they recognized Baril as the madman who attacked four people on Monday. As they approached the suspect, Baril turned around, pulled out his hammer and “violently started swinging” the claw end of the tool at Officer
