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Hispanic pervert charged in gang rape-robberies, 2 suspects still at large
 A man has been charged in two gang-rape-robberies — including one at the upscale Grand Hyatt Hotel, authorities said. Fernando Sandel, 26, was charged late Saturday, and police released the names of his two alleged accomplices who are still at large: Joey Cruz, 26, and Isaiah Rivera, 31. The Grand Hyatt rape took place Monday after the victim agreed to meet one of her attackers there. Once he was in the room, the pervert threw her on the bed and opened the door for his two pals. The three tied her up and raped her, cops said. The thugs left with her cellphone and pocketbook, police said. The next day, the same three men raped a 32-year-old woman in Gramercy, authorities said. She had arranged to meet one of the three at her apartment, and when he showed up, he Maced her and threw her on the bed. Then he opened the door for his accomplices, and the three raped and robbed her.
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ELYRIA — Brady Phillips was not happy with his plea deal Monday, cursing in court and insulting a prosecutor, but he still went through with a deal that calls for him to serve 14 years in prison for his role in a botched 2009 robbery that left two men dead. Phillips, 44, has long insisted he shouldn’t be facing murder charges for deaths of Hermino Serrano and Michael Stump, who were killed after Serrano and Phillips forced their way into Stump’s David Drive apartment Dec. 20, 2009. The pair had planned to rob Stump of cash and prenoscription drugs that they thought were in a safe there. According to Elyria police, Serrano pistol-whipped Stump and, during the ensuing struggle, shot him in the head. David McDonough, who was in the apartment when the robbery began, managed to get a gun and shoot Serrano. McDonough was shot in the stomach but survived. During the gunfight, Phillips and others in the apartment fled, but Phillips was arrested within days of the killings and charged with murder. Although Phillips didn’t actually kill anyone, he faced felony murder charges because he was involved in criminal conduct that led to a killing. - (Black-on-white)
GRAND BLANC TWP, MI -- An elderly man may end up serving the remainder of his life behind bars after what the judge called a "ridiculous" argument over an unpaid cable bill that resulted in him shooting a police officer. Marvin Edward Ware was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 11, by Genesee Circuit Judge Joseph J. Farah to nine years and 10 months to 20 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to assault with attempt to murder for shooting a Grand Blanc Township police officer who responded to his home for a domestic dispute 
Two suspects who were wanted following an attack on a customer at an Applebee’s restaurant in Winter Haven early Tuesday morning have been arrested. They are Daryon S. Jones, Jr., 31, and Eric L. Davis, 31, both of Winter Haven. The two were charged after turning themselves in to authorities in Bartow Wednesday afternoon. 
RACINE — A Confederate flag hanging in a Racine resident’s house reportedly led to a fight that ended with a man forcing his way into the home to tear it down. The Racine Police Department responded to the 1300 block of Center Street on Friday afternoon. The caller said Tajaun D. Boatner, 37, of Racine, had confronted her at her house about a Confederate flag hanging in her window and eventually pushed her down, the complaint said. In a later interview with the police, the resident said Boatner had politely asked her to take the flag out of her kitchen window, and she moved it to her bathroom window, the complaint said. They both began yelling and the resident had called Boatner a racial slur, the complaint said. The argument ended after Boatner reportedly walked up her front porch, pushed her down, and walked into the house to remove the Confederate flag, according to the complaint. Boatner reportedly told an officer he had politely asked the owner of the Confederate flag to take it down, but instead she moved it to a different window. The officer asked for more details, and Boatner became argumentative, according to the complaint. Boatner reportedly struggled against officers to avoid being handcuffed. Boatner would not spread his feet so the police could pat him down for weapons, so two officers forced him to move his feet, the complaint said. After police arrested him, Boatner tried to resist getting into the car, and he reportedly kicked at the officers as they tried to close the door of the vehicle. 
The alleged gunman who is accused of opening fire in Ferguson on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death posed holding guns on Facebook and bragged about being a gangster. Tyrone Harris called himself 'Ty Glocks' after the gun maker and claimed he was part of a group called 'Pistol Gang'. He posed in multiple photos on Facebook with pistols and rifles whilst his friends waved wads of cash in front of the camera. Harris also bragged in one post that he would 'do da hit by myself' and made gang signs for the camera. 
LOS ANGELES — Three women came forward for the first time on Wednesday to accuse Billy Cosby of victimizing them. The women shared their allegations against Cosby during a news conference alongside attorney Gloria Allred. One of the victims, 
Allred said the two other victims were actresses who appeared in feature films or television and theater.
The third accuser, 
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A 21-year-old man is in custody Monday on suspicion of raping 
HOUSTON – Houston Crime Stoppers and investigators with the Houston Police Department are looking for a man accused in three sexual assaults. The suspect is identified as Ryan Allen Coleman. Coleman is charged with three counts of sexual assault. According to police, it was about May 1, 2012 when a 27-year-old woman at a bar on Beverly Hill Street became intoxicated and went to the restroom. Coleman is accused of entering the women's restroom and sexually assaulting the woman. He's on the run after investigators say he cut off his GPS ankle monitor.
PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. —Deputies charged a man after they said he abducted a woman at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her, the Pickens County Sheriff's Office said. Creed Hashe, of the Sheriff's Office, said Antwon Marcees Rogers, 28, of Greenville, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, grand larceny, kidnapping, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, armed robbery and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Authorities said Rogers abducted a woman at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Dollar General Store on Farrs Bridge Road after midnight on Sunday. Hashe said Rogers sexually assaulted her in her vehicle and forced her inside the trunk of her car, drove her to Greenville County, and once again sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. 
ALAMEDA -- Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with a string of burglaries in the city's West End, including one Sunday in which the suspect allegedly sexually assaulted a juvenile while she slept in her bedroom. The teenager turned himself in at the police station about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, just a day after investigators distributed surveillance photos of him, describing him as a "person of interest" in one of the burglaries. The Alameda resident, whose name was not disclosed because he is a minor, was booked on two counts of burglary and on a sexual assault charge, police said. He remains in custody at Juvenile Hall.
LAS VEGAS — An inmate in a Nevada state prison died just seven weeks after being incarcerated. The Nevada Department of Corrections reported that 44-year-old Larry Royal died Sunday in his single cell at High Desert State Prison near Las Vegas. The man had been in prison since June 19 after being sentenced to two consecutive prison terms of eight to 20 years for attempted sexual assault and attempted lewdness with a minor. An autopsy is pending and no other details were provided.
The case has been dismissed for three man who had been charged in a Detroit rape and robbery last month. Antoine Orr, Jordan Reese and Chico Bruce were in court Tuesday morning for a preliminary hearing. The prosecutors stated that the accusors did not wish to pursue charges and did not wish to testify, and asked Judge Kenneth King to drop the case.
Officials have charged a father in the 2014 overdose death of his 2-year-old son in suburban Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Levittown resident Coco Wallace was charged with a general count of criminal homicide in
Kentucky doctors removed a
Friends and family gathered in West Kensington Tuesday night to honor a Philadelphia man who police say was shot and killed by a gunman who was caught on video carrying a rifle in the middle of the street. A vigil was held around 7 p.m. for 46-year-old
The hapless Jets lost starting quarterback 
SAN BERNARDINO — A San Bernardino man remained in custody on Tuesday for allegedly killing a 62-year-old man during an altercation. According to the San Bernardino Police Department, 26-year-old Travon Jenkins was arrested on July 27 for assault with a deadly weapon. Just after 4 p.m. on July 26, officers were sent to the 1500 block of East Highland Avenue for report of a possible strong arm robbery that had just occurred. Upon their arrival, authorities learned an altercation occurred between Jenkins and another man, who was later identified as 
Fayetteville, N.C. — Fayetteville police late Monday afternoon identified the man found dead in a Ray Avenue parking lot as 
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — One of the two suspects accused of murdering a local cab driver has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Dyshawn Simpson, age 20, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the first-degree murder of 
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A man who is accused of shooting and killing his boss appeared in court on Monday. Willie Parker was arrested on August 6 after a standoff that lasted nearly six hours. Parker is accused of killing his boss 
BATON ROUGE, LA - After being found guilty for a 2011 double murder at an auto parts store in Baton Rouge, a judge has sentenced Lee Turner, Jr. to death by lethal injection. Turner and his attorney were in court Monday and filed a motion for a new trial. The motion for a new trial was denied and the sentencing phase continued. "In my opinion, based on what this person did, this is the only appropriate, just decision," said East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore. In May, Turner was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two men during a robbery at CarQuest Auto Parts on Airline Highway in 2011. A few days later, a jury recommended he be sentenced to death. "This defendant has never accepted responsibility, never reached out whatsoever to this office or the victims’ families and now seeks again to blame everyone else for his behavior, which is completely unacceptable," Moore said. 
The husband of a woman facing felony murder, robbery and home invasion charges in the slaying of an elderly Las Vegas neighbor will also face prosecution in the case, a chief deputy district attorney said Tuesday. Timothy Coleman is jailed in an unrelated felony vehicle vandalism case, and prosecutor David Stanton told a judge that he'll seek an indictment against Coleman in the slaying of 
The Calhoun County prosecutor said Thursday he wants a judge to decide if DNA testing should be conducted on hair found in the bloody grip of a murder victim 30 years ago. David Gilbert said Thursday the courts must rule on a request from defense attorneys to test DNA which might free a man imprisoned for the stabbing death of 
to protect cops from rocks and bottles being hurled at them by unruly demonstrators. 
PITTSBURGH – Two people in Fayette County have been charged after a teen boy was allegedly challenged to set his buttocks on fire, then was refused treatment for a month, causing his wounds to become infected. Police say 37-year-old Connie Kirby of Redstone Township convinced her stepson, 
DAYTONA BEACH — The president of Keiser University's Daytona Beach campus was mugged and carjacked over the weekend while meeting with two women for a "sexual rendezvous," police Chief Mike Chitwood said Monday. When 60-year-old 
ANDERSON, Ind. (Aug. 10, 2015) – Police in Anderson arrested a man believed responsible for a November 2014 homicide at a barbershop. The homicide, which happened around 2 a.m. on Thanksgiving, killed 
The California man suspected of murdering his mother, niece, ex-girlfriend, their infant daughter and her daughter from another relationship has now been charged in the October death of his ex-lover's son. 
Frankfort residents Meisha Nichols, 28, and Cameron Wright, 32, pleaded not guilty in Franklin District Court in relation to the alleged murder of 
"For someone so close, you just can't believe it, can't get it through your head. You don't know what to think. It's awful," said 
Two Mississippi residents have been arrested on charges that they tried to travel abroad to join the Islamic State militant group. A detention hearing was scheduled to continue on Tuesday in Oxford for the two, Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 19, and Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, 22. They were arrested on Saturday at Golden Triangle Regional Airport near Columbus, Miss. A criminal charge indicates that undercover F.B.I. agents engaged online with Ms. Young about her desire to travel to Syria to join the group. She and Mr. Dakhlalla bought airline tickets to Istanbul. An affidavit by an F.B.I. agent says both confessed to plans to join the Islamic State. The couple had planned to travel to Turkey to get married before crossing into Syria. The man's father, 
A 21-year-old suburban Chicago man accused of trying to join al-Qaida-affiliated fighters in Syria is set to change his plea to guilty. 
New York: A 20-year-old Jordanian-American who flew overseas in an apparent bid to join the Islamic State extremist group, appeared in court near New York on Monday on terror allegations, prosecutors said. He is one of at least four US citizens from the greater New York area arrested in recent months on suspicion of being part of a ring of supporters of the group fighting in Iraq and Syria. 
NEW YORK — A grand jury in Brooklyn has indicted two New York City men accused of trying to provide support to ISIS. 
DENVER - The man charged with stabbing five people to death in a Denver bar has been found guilty of murder, robbery, attempted robbery and arson. Dexter Lewis now faces the death penalty in the murders that allegedly followed a botched robbery at Fero's Bar & Grill in October 2012. Three others went to the bar with Lewis. Brothers Joseph and Lynell Hill pleaded guilty under deals with prosecutors. The fourth, Demarea Harris, was a confidential federal informant and wasn't charged. Harris and Lynell Hill say Lewis stabbed all five people. Joseph Hill refused to testify. Lewis allegedly told his cellmate that he had to kill everyone in the bar because they'd seen his face as he killed the first victim. Those killed were bar owner 
A friend of Michael Brown is in a 'critical, unstable condition' after being shot by police when he used a stolen handgun to fire on officers during a protest to mark the one-year anniversary of the 18-year-old's controversial death. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said that plainclothes officers were tracking the man at around 11:15pm, while several hundred people gathered on West Florissant Street to take part in the demonstration. He added that the man approached the officers, who were in an unmarked police car and opened fire. The officers returned fire from inside the vehicle. They then pursued the man on foot. The chief said the man again fired on the officers and all four fired back. The suspect has been identified as 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Junior by his father, who revealed that his son was a 'real close' school friend of the late Michael Brown. 'We think there's a lot more to this than what's being said,' Harris Senior was quoted as saying in local media reports. Footage shot by protester Tony Rice, who was live-tweeting near a McDonald's under the Twitter name @search4swag, showed a black man lying face down on the floor with his hands cuffed behind his back and a large blood stain on his torso. Two police officers can be seen standing over him with their guns drawn but do not assist him. 
FERGUSON, Mo. — A man who was shot and critically injured by police here after authorities said he opened fire at officers was in critical condition Monday, his father said, even as questions remained about what sparked gunfire amid protests marking the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of 
Post-Dispatch reporter Paul Hampel
PITTSBURGH — The medical examiner’s office has identified a rifle-wielding man who was killed in an exchange of gunfire with officers after shooting at people and carjacking a vehicle in Pittsburgh Monday morning. Lt. Edward Cunningham of the Zone 3 Police Department said the incident started just after 10 a.m. with a report of shots fired in the area of Jucunda Street. The medical examiner’s office identified the suspect in Monday's shootout with police as 20-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr.
MIAMI – A Miami man was arrested in the accidental shooting of 
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – David Conley, 49, told Harris County Sheriff's investigators that he broke into his former home and killed eight people, according to a Harris County prosecutor. Investigators said Conley admitted to breaking into the home through an open window after the woman he formerly lived with,
A mother of three was killed in her Brooklyn Park home around 3 a.m. on Thursday. And police say her live-in boyfriend is to blame. This was an all-too-familiar scenario where the family noticed bruising and confronted 36-year-old 
A White House staffer has been charged with domestic violence after police say she threatened her boyfriend, a U.S. Capitol Police officer, with his own weapon during an argument. According to charging documents, Barvetta Singletary sent her boyfriend a text on Friday, asking him to come to her Upper Marlboro home for sex. After they had sex, Singletary confronted her boyfriend about other woman he was dating. Singletary is currently a Special Assistant to the President and House Legislative Affairs Liaison. 
OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City woman was arrested for several warrants after allegedly being caught with her pants down. On Sunday, officers were called to a car wash near N.E. 16th St. and Bryant after learning about an intoxicated person. When officers arrived, they reportedly found 34-year-old Christie Pinkston lying on the ground with her pants and underwear around her knees. After awaking Pinkston and putting her in handcuffs, authorities say she began trying to remove her pants again. Pinkston was in the backseat of the patrol car, she was able to pull her pants down and remove a tampon before attempting to touch herself.
Police are looking for a man who masturbated on a busy Brooklyn subway platform and then followed a 51-year-old woman onto a train and groped her. The victim was waiting on the B/Q train platform at the Atlantic Avenue station when the creep, began to fondle himself in front of her Aug. 7 about 6:20 p.m., cops said. The woman walked away and boarded the train, but the pervert hopped aboard with her and grabbed her behind. The victim managed to snap a picture of the deviant with her cellphone and handed it over to authorities.
A much-reviled veteran East Flatbush school principal was yanked from his post last week amid allegations he stole money, iPads and other electronics — and even fabricated break-ins to cover up his thefts. Lowell Coleman was stripped of his post at Public School 181 — sending “parents partying in the streets,” said Marie Souffrant, a parent who happened upon the spontaneous celebration Monday.
A Center Point man with a violent past is now charged with 
Rashard C. Poche, 37, got a five-year prison sentence after he plead guilty to one count of aggravated cruelty to animals for throwing a six-pound Chihuahua named Jojo against the wall. The Killona man was arrested on Feb. 20 and indicted by the St. Charles Parish Grand Jury on the cruelty charge. Poche plead guilty to the charge Thursday (Aug. 60 and was sentenced by Judge M. Lauren Lemmon to five years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections, consecutive to one year of parole revocation. He is also required to undergo a psychological evaluation and prohibited from owning, keeping or possessing animals for five years after his release. Poche was apparently arguing with his girlfriend, who was dog sitting 
POTTSVILLE — Pottsville police charged two young men with first-degree murder on Friday for a stabbing death in the city. Joshua Lukach, 18, and Shavinskin Thomas, 21, are both from Pottsville. Police say they were arraigned Friday night on charges that also include aggravated assault and robbery. They are locked up without bail. According to Pottsville police, the two used a kitchen knife and a box cutter to stab 
A family doctor has been accused of sexually assaulting 
DONALDSONVILLE, LA - An arrest has been made in connection to a double homicide that happened on the outskirts of Donaldsonville on January 26, 2015. Deputies have arrested and charged 26-year-old Quinton Jackson with two counts of first degree murder. On January 26, 2015, 37-year-old
Three teenagers have been charged as adults with second-degree murder in the death of a Pennsylvania police officer who fell 15 feet while chasing them. 
CHARLOTTE, NC - Something many of us take for granted is the same thing that may have made 
ST. LOUIS, MO – A renegade cab driver now faces hate crime charges after reportedly 
