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Firefighter allegedly grilled over GoFundMe campaign for suspended colleague
 The FDNY firefighter who launched a campaign that raised $41,500 for a disciplined deputy chief wound up in hot water himself, sources told The Post. Firefighter Anthony Henry of Engine 10, on Liberty Street next to the World Trade Center, started a GoFundMe campaign on July 24 for Deputy Chief Paul Mannix to cover his loss of income from a 50-day unpaid suspension. Mannix, founder of Merit Matters, a firefighter group opposed to hiring quotas, was accused of leaking information about some minorities and women getting special treatment despite a lack of qualifications. He was often quoted in The Post and other news media. As donations poured in to cover $30,000 in lost wages for Mannix, a married dad, Henry was called into FDNY headquarters and grilled about the fund-raiser, sources said. Henry declined to comment. Some 660 people gave $41,588 in seven days, the GoFundMe site says. Mannix’s family will get a check for $35,000 with the rest going to a firefighter cause of his choice. Many donors posted comments in support of Mannix, who was forced by the FDNY to disband Merit Matters, and take down his blog. “Chief, thank you for being the voice of the members who believe in maintaining the high standards of this great department!” one wrote. Wrote another, “All you did was show that the job was about merit. Not about what race a person is.”
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A home health care aide who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from an elderly client has been indicted on a theft charge. Camden County prosecutors say 31-year-old Latoya Williams, of Pennsauken, is also charged with fraudulent use of a credit card in the indictment recently handed up by a county grand jury. Prosecutors say Williams provided in-home care for an 89-year-old Voorhees woman. The woman's family gave Williams a credit card so she could pay the victim's daily expenses. But Williams allegedly used it to make fraudulent charges in excess of $6,700 between March and April 2014. 
MEMPHIS -- A fugitive suspected of fatally shooting a Memphis police officer was on federal parole at the time of the killing, according to federal probation officials, and the marijuana found in the car he was riding in may have constituted a violation of his parole. Twenty-nine-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of 
A person of interest was taken into custody Sunday as part of an intense manhunt after the fatal shooting of a Memphis police officer during a traffic stop. Dispatchers received a call at 9:18 p.m. Saturday about an officer being shot multiple times, 
Prosecutors say a New York City man has been convicted of beating his 
KANSAS CITY, MO - A barking dog sparked a neighborhood’s curiosity and what they found was a pet left in extreme filth and poor health. 
A high-risk registered sex offender has been arrested for reportedly sexually assaulting a male in the dressing room of a store in the Longview Mall. Police responded to the call and arrived while the assault, allegedly at the hands of Lester Levelle Reedy, 41, was happening. Reedy, who is also a cross-dresser and goes by a female alias at times, was convicted of sexually assaulting 
TAMPA — An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, accused in the slaying of 
“If you scream I’ll kill you,” were the last words the
Two men who allegedly mugged a couple sitting on a Central Park bench were arraigned early Monday. Lorenzo Devone, 29, and Dwayne Turner, 23, were charged in Manhattan Criminal Court with robbery for allegedly attacking the 20-year-old man and 19-year-old-woman early Saturday morning. Cops said Devone punched the victims and took the man’s iPhone while Turner allegedly was his accomplice. A third suspect Nashir Whitaker, 19, will be arraigned tomorrow.
A Long Island pot dealer allegedly went nuts over a customer’s complaint that his “dime” bag of marijuana was a “penny” short. James Nicholson shot 
Gym teacher Peter Maliarakis said Principal Namita Dwarka has refused to account for the sales — the profits from which are supposed to pay for student activities and phys-ed equipment. 
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Metro police charged an East Nashville woman Thursday with arson after they say she set two neighbors' luxury-model cars ablaze, causing a raging fire that took firefighters nearly an hour to snuff out. Chantel Kimble, 19, who suffered second- and third-degree burns during what firefighters described as an inferno, was booked into the Davidson County Jail on Thursday afternoon in connection with the July 17 fires. Kimble admitted to investigators that just before 2:45 a.m. on the day of the crime, she grabbed a gas can from her house and walked a short distance to 730 N. Fifth Ave., where she set fire to
A New Jersey man is behind bars for not telling his sexual partners he was HIV-positive, police said. According to the Easton Police Department, Ricky Daniel Webster is facing six counts of Recklessly Endangering Another Person -- two counts for each victim. Investigators say the 25-year-old Webster had sexual relations with 
BATON ROUGE, LA - Police said a man suspected of raping
A 24-year-old Arlington man remains behind bars on a charge of sexual battery of 
ESSEX, Md. — A civilian employee for the Baltimore City Police Department is suspended, charged in a disturbing child pornography case. Baltimore County police say 28-year-old Carl Ross of Essex received and shared pornographic images of children. Ross is also facing charges of sexually abusing 
One dollar for sex; that’s what police say a 24-year-old man offered 
Town of Dickinson, NY -- An employee at Broome Developmental Center is accused of sexually abusing an adult client. On July 24, New York State Police arrested Noel Smith, 21, of Binghamton, for endangering the welfare of 
TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa police have arrested a man in a sexual assault reported Wednesday at the Brightwater Apartments on Southwest Boulevard. Emmanuel Thomas, 27, was arrested early Thursday. Police said the victim was approached by a man outside her apartment who asked for a cigarette. They said he later knocked on her door and at some point he came into the apartment and assaulted her. 
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. -- Police believe a 24-year-old man arrested Tuesday in connection with a sexual assault in Claremont is linked to a similar attack in Rancho Cucamonga. Jacob Latham allegedly attacked a woman who was jogging at about 7 a.m. Monday. He approached her from behind, pushed her to the ground and sexually assaulted her. The victim, identified as "Murphy," fought off the man and fled the scene. "I felt him kind of thrusting his hips against me... I started screaming and he took his hand up, put his hand over my mouth and so I bit him," she said. Approximately one hour prior to the assault in Claremont, Latham allegedly assaulted
Newport News, Va. – A 46-year-old convicted rapist was arrested in Newport News on Tuesday by a U.S. Marshals Task Force. Gerald Leland Griffin was wanted out of Delaware on an outstanding warrant for Second Degree Rape. Gerald was previously convicted of rape in Newport News in 1989 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was indicted in New Castle County, Delaware on June 23, 2015 for allegedly raping a woman in late 2014.
MEMPHIS, TN - Police released a sketch of a man they said raped and beat a 25-year-old woman. It happened April 14 around 11:30 p.m. in the 2600 block of Wood Glade Lane. The woman said she was sitting in her car outside the Mill Creek Apartments when a man smashed through her driver's side window with a crowbar. He then swung the crowbar into the woman's head. The man then locked the woman in the trunk of her car and drove her to a nearby park. There, he took her out of the trunk, raped her and hit her again with the crowbar. The woman ended up in the hospital in critical condition. 
DETROIT - A third man suspected of raping and attacking couples in Detroit is in custody after turning himself into police. Chico Lee Bruce, the third suspect named by police in a string of gang rape robberies, said goodbye to family before turning himself in. Over the last month three couples have been robbed beaten and raped and police believe up to six men are responsible for the vicious attacks up and down McNichols in Detroit during three separate incidents. The men forced the couples into alleys at gun point, stole their cell phones and raped the women forcing the men to watch. Last week two suspects 18-year-old Antoine Orr and 17-year-old Jordan Reese were arrested last week. On Monday police released a picture of a third suspect, Bruce, 22.
A Clinton Township man who raped a woman posing as a police officer pleaded no contest to several charges on the day he was to go on trial last week. Theron Lambert, 40, was charged for a September 2013 incident in which he knocked on a door at Green Valley Apartments in Clinton Township, pretended to be a police officer, forced himself inside and beat and sexually assaulted the female resident.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The song, ‘Hit The Quan’, has become a hit and recently received national attention. The song and dance, inspired by mainstream rapper Rich Homie Quan, were created by Memphis rapper I Heart Memphis. “I love I Heart Memphis,” children at a local community center said. The kids in Memphis loved the viral song creator, and many in the city stood behind him as thousands of people re-posted videos and hailed his praises. But WREG discovered I Heart Memphis’ real name was Richard Colbert, and he was facing real trouble with the law. Colbert was one of two men accused of gang raping a woman, who was under the influence, at a home on Long Meadow in Raleigh. He was charged with aggravated rape.
ZACHARY, LA - Zachary Police say a teen accused of being involved in an aggravated rape of a juvenile surrendered Tuesday morning to authorities. Now, four males between the ages of 15 and 20 have been arrested and charged in connection to this case. According to police reports, the aggravated rape happened on June 7, 2015 around 8 p.m. Documents say the victim received a text message from 17-year-old Tyquan K. Paul of Zachary, saying he wanted to help celebrate her birthday. She later received a text message from 17-year-old Denzel "Deezy" Hamilton, saying he would be with Tyquan. The victim told police Tyquan and Denzel convinced her to leave her home and meet them at the front entrance of her subdivision. When they arrived, a juvenile male was with them. The three males and the victim traveled on bicycles to a house in Zachary where the victim claims the males forcibly removed her clothing and repeatedly had oral and sexual intercourse with her, even after she continuously told them to stop. The victim says she was then led into a bedroom and thrown onto a bed. She told police she was then forced to have sexual intercourse with 20-year-old Bertrae "Tre" Paul after he told the other males to get out of the room. 
MILPITAS -- A fitness trainer is in jail after he was accused earlier this month of raping 
A City Council candidate who used to work for Mayor Bill de Blasio hired a registered sex offender — who is also a convicted crack dealer— to go door to door for her to collect the signatures she needs to run for office, The Post has learned. Records show Richard Torres pleaded guilty in 2005 to committing a lewd act on a child in South Carolina — but that didn’t stop Rebecca Lynch from tapping him this June to visit the homes of unsuspecting Queens families to gather names for ballot petitions.
NEW YORK — New York City police are looking for a man accused of attempting to strangle a woman in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn Tuesday. The 26-year-old victim was walking in front of 233 16 Street around 6:10 a.m. when she says the suspect approached her, grabbed her by the throat and started to strangle her. The woman was able to scream, scaring the suspect away. The woman received injuries to her neck, but refused medical attention on scene. The suspect is described as a black male in his early twenties, 5’11” weighing 160 pounds.
CHARLOTTE, NC - A Charlotte man is in jail in South Carolina charged in a 2011 rape case involving a Winthrop University student. Merrilled Christopher Stewart, 27, is charged with kidnapping, first degree criminal sexual conduct and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Stewart was arrested after a DNA match by the York County Sheriff’s Office forensic lab. In December 2011, a 20-year-old Winthrop student told police she was raped after walking outside of her apartments, located near campus, around 2 a.m. The suspect told her he had given her AIDS and then fled on foot, the report states.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Kelvin Stokes is facing two counts of aggravated rape charges. Police say the crime happened back in 2000 when a woman said Stokes and another man raped her inside her home after a party. According to police documents, the victim’s rape kit was collected in 2000 but DNA testing wasn’t conducted until October 2013. TBI agents found a match to her test in February of this year.
Six years after a woman was raped at knifepoint in east Oak Cliff, a suspect was arrested thanks to recently tested DNA, police said Tuesday. Dallas police say Joseph Beaty, 41, is a suspect in at least five other rapes in the city. Of the six sexual assaults, police say four were linked to Beaty through DNA from rape kits that were tested as part of the department’s effort to clear its backlog of roughly 4,000 untested kits. Detectives identified Beaty, of Irving, as a suspect in two more sexual assaults that occurred in 2014. In those cases, DNA evidence is not available because the victims didn’t undergo rape exams, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
More than three decades after he allegedly raped a Plantation woman during a home invasion robbery, a 49-year-old Miami man has been arrested and charged with sexual battery, kidnapping and armed burglary after a DNA match linked him to the crime, police said. Aaron Todd Rhone was linked to an assault that occurred in 1983 after detectives took another look at dozens of cold cases that had not been worked for years, according to Plantation police. During his first appearance before a judge Thursday, Rhone ignored the advice of a public defender to remain silent and cried out, "I was 17 years old. I was just a child." "The only thing he regrets is that he was caught." There is no statute of limitations. The assault began about 9 p.m. on March 15, 1983, as the couple were putting their 5-year-old son to bed. Demanding money and jewelry, he then followed the woman to the master bedroom, where he ordered her to pull down her pants. "Do you see this bullet? If you don't do what I tell you, I will shoot your head," he allegedly told her.
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Thirteen people were injured during a barrage of gunfire at a backyard house party in Brooklyn early Sunday — one of four shooting incidents overnight, cops said. A group of unidentified men opened fire on the Stanley Avenue house party in East New York around 2:25 a.m. after an argument, cops said. Six women were struck in the legs and arms and three men were hit—one in the neck, cops said. They were all taken to area hospitals and are expected to survive. Four others were hauled away by EMS for injuries sustained by debris launched by the flying lead, police said. A nearby deli worker heard the mayhem, which spilled onto the street.
A 62-year-old Storrs woman who was charged with falsely reporting that a Connecticut state trooper racially profiled her during a traffic stop is a college professor who teaches about diversity, according to the union, and they are asking for an apology. 
A man accused of decapitating 
The U.S. Supreme Court this fall will hear arguments in a challenge to the way Florida sentences people to death — a challenge backed by three former Florida Supreme Court justices and the American Bar Association. The case, which stems from the 1998 murder of a Nine Mile Road Escambia County fast-food worker, focuses on the role that juries play in recommending death sentences, which ultimately are imposed by judges. Timothy Hurst, now 36, was convicted in the 1998 murder of 
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A Paterson man pleaded guilty Friday of killing a man whom he said was his boyfriend, angering the victim’s relatives who insisted that he was not gay. 
PHILADELPHIA - U. S. Congressman Chaka Fattah was standing tall Thursday. Despite a federal indictment, he told supporters he's going to be around in office in the years to come. The Philadelphia Democrat made that statement just a day after being hit with a 29-count corruption indictment. Fattah was being celebrated by a business organization, the U.S. Black Chambers Inc.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A teenage girl who police say was abducted from her home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania late Thursday night has been found and her alleged kidnapper has been arrested. Police say 
A Florida man attempted to chew off his fingerprints while in a patrol car to avoid being identified by the police. On Thursday, Lee County Sheriff detectives noticed a 2015 Mercedes that had been reported stolen and after stopping the vehicle, they found the driver, Kenzo Roberts, was using a fake ID, had a concealed firearm and possessed three fraudulent credit cards. Surveillance video shows Roberts unsuccessfully trying to bite off his own fingerprints while in the backseat of the patrol car.
SANTA CRUZ >> As a sharper picture formed Thursday of a shy 15-year-old raised in a troubled and sometimes violent home, 
Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, 
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man who prosecutors say was a leader of an Israeli organized crime ring that moved drugs and money across the globe was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison. 
FORT LEE — A borough man allegedly punched and violently shook his 
PHILADELPHIA — Police in Port Richmond are trying to find out who shot and killed a young mother, with her two-year-old daughter in the house at the time. It is a crime that has people in this community shaking their heads. Neighbors here in the 3000 block of Aramingo Avenue say they heard a single shot around 11 p.m., and found 22-year-old 
A Gentilly man suspected in one of New Orleans' most high-profile murders of 2015 could be back on the streets within days because he has not been indicted within the requisite 120 days. Court records show Orleans Parish Magistrate Commissioner Jonathan Friedman on Thursday ordered the release of Michael Portis, whom police arrested April 1 in connection with the slaying of Domino's pizza deliveryman 
As 32-year-old 
A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 51-year-old Anaheim man who confronted a spray-painting group of young men. 
The man accused of killing two Good Samaritans who tried to help him on a Montana roadside was encountered by immigration authorities earlier this year after a burglary arrest, but was unable to be deported because he had already gotten legal status, federal authorities said this week. 
Deric Madison managed to avoid a capital murder conviction for the May 2014 slaying of a Dallas insurance salesman. But he will still serve a life sentence for killing 33-year-old
West Spruill is charged in the April murder of mom-of-two 
Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday filed capital murder charges against a man accused of using a shotgun to ambush a woman with whom he had a business dispute, shooting her in the head as she walked to dinner near Hollywood’s tourist hub. 
