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Trinidad Man Extradited to United States to Stand Trial for 1999 Hicksville Murder, Officials Say
 (Long Island, NY) The Homicide Squad reports the arrest of a man for a Homicide that occurred on June 13, 1999 in Hicksville. According to detectives, on June 13, 1999 Balkumar Singh, 38 of Trinidad was a guest at a wedding being held at the Masonic Temple 18 West Nicholai Street in Hicksville when he was involved in a verbal argument with another guest Abzal Khan, 19 of Queens. As Khan stood outside the temple Singh approached armed with an automatic hand gun and shot the victim multiple times before fleeing the scene. On March 27, 2015 Singh was located in Trinidad and placed in custody by the Trinidadian police’s Interpol office. The United States Marshals office made the arrangements for Singh’s extradition back to the United States which was executed on Friday, August 14, 2015 by U.S. Marshals with the assistance of Nassau County Homicide Squad Detectives. |
OMAHA, Neb. —An Omaha church is asking for help identifying two people who attacked and robbed a 76-year-old woman right in the church’s entryway. The attack happened Sunday at St. Cecilia Cathedral, and was caught on surveillance video. The church posted the video on its Facebook page. The video shows the victim standing in the vestibule, just feet away from the north entrance to the church. The post on the church's Facebook page says the woman was standing at a table reading a copy of the parish newsletter when the two men walked in, and one of them snatched her purse. The post describes what happens next: “The second, for no explainable reason, hit the woman squarely on the side of her face, knocking her down where she hit her head against the side of the table,” he wrote. The woman went to the hospital to be treated for her injuries. The church closes the post asking anyone with information to come forward. “And please share. Someone knows who they are,” they wrote. - (Black-on-white)
CORDOVA, TN - Andre Bowen, 36, is the second man charged with first-degree murder in the death of 
OMAHA, Neb. —A judge has found Milton Dortch guilty in the death of 
Columbia, SC - A judge has sentenced a man to 40 years in prison for shooting and paralyzing a University of South Carolina student in Columbia's Five Points nearly two years ago. Circuit Court Judge Robert Hood imposed the penalty against Michael Juan Smith just before 8 p.m. Monday. That sentence included 30 years for attempted murder, and two separate consecutive five year sentences on weapons-related charges. Smith will get credit for the 674 days he's already served; however, after he's spent his time in state prison, he will then have to serve a 10 year federal sentence for a weapons charge, which he plead guilty to last year in connection with the case. Earlier in the evening, it took the jury comprised of 11 women and one man a little over an hour to find Smith guilty of all the charges against him. Moments after the verdict was read,
AKRON, Ohio — Police have charged an Akron man with voluntary manslaughter after he allegedly shot and killed a home invasion suspect earlier this month. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The father and grandparents of the
NORTH PHILADELPHIA -- A 15-year-old boy has been taken into custody, and police say he will be charged with the rape and attempted murder of 
OCALA, Fla. —An Ocala sanitation worker is accused of raping 
Huntsville police arrested a man on sex crime charges against a child. Wendell Lovell Smith, 52, was arrested Monday morning. He is charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. Police spokesman Lt. Darryl Lawson said
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Police are looking for a man who knocked out a woman's teeth and raped her in Brooklyn, and they're hoping surveillance will lead to an arrest. The incident happened around 3 a.m. Monday on Putnam Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section. Sources tell Eyewitness News that the 52-year-old old victim went out for a pack of cigarettes around 3 a.m Monday, when police say she encountered the suspect near the intersection of Bedford and Putnam avenues. Armed with a gun, he forced the woman to leave with him, taking her to a basement stairwell at Classon Avenue and Lefferts Place, where he allegedly assaulted her and pushed his fingers down her throat. The suspect then removed the victim's underwear and raped her near an outside staircase, according to investigators.
The trial began Monday for an Augusta man accused of setting a woman on fire and sexually assaulting her. Ronnie Jones, 31, has pleaded not guilty in Richmond County Superior Court to charges of aggravated battery and rape.
The trial got off to a slow start Monday as the judge and attorneys tried to deal with Jones’ complaints about the fairness of the proceeding. Jones insisted he needed a mannequin wearing the victim’s clothes to demonstrate what happened Aug. 22 was an accident. He also wanted more of the victim’s medical records, and experts in rape and aggravated battery. 
WOODBURY — A judge has denied a bail reduction request for a Louisiana man accused of sexually assaulting 
SAN ANTONIO – A man has been arrested after authorities said that he targeted college-age women in San Antonio, Austin and Dallas and coaxed them into prostitution. According to San Antonio police spokesman Douglas Greene, 38-year-old Steven Sumlin was arrested Monday on suspicion of aggravated promotion of prostitution. Greene said that authorities believe Sumlin
Mandela's grandson has been charged with raping
SUNNYVALE — A man who was shot and killed by Sunnyvale public safety officers on Saturday afternoon was identified Monday as 23-year-old San Diego resident Allen Matthew Baker III, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety. Baker had a no bail warrant in San Diego County for robbery, according to Sunnyvale police. He was shot and killed after allegedly fleeing from officers responding to a report of suspicious activity at the Motel 6 at 806 W. Ahwanee Ave. The second suspect managed to get away despite officers searching the area for hours. Police said he is believed to be Shawn Lamont Brown, a 19-year-old Fresno resident wanted there in connection with a homicide.
A 14-year-old boy who was shot by police this month after they say he pointed a gun at them during a foot chase was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault and gun charges. Law enforcement officers and witnesses said the boy pointed a .22-caliber handgun at the officers when two state troopers and a Mercer County sheriff's officer began to chase him Aug. 7 in Trenton, the Attorney General's office said in a statement announcing the charges. The teen, who has previously been identified by a lawyer and family members as Radazz Hearns, has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home. Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for the Attorney General's office, said a judge will order him to appear in court once he's medically cleared. 
PHILADELPHIA – The mother accused of leaving her disabled son in a Southwest Philadelphia park last spring appeared before a judge Monday. 41-year-old Nyia Parler waived her preliminary hearing, as several misdemeanor charges were dropped against her. Parler is accused of abandoning her 21-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy, for five days in April with nothing but a Bible and a blanket.
KANSAS CITY, MO - Violence broke out at the mayor's annual Rock the Block event, as several fights erupted prompting the mayor's office to shut the party down early at Union Station. Police said they arrested three people for fighting and disorderly conduct Saturday night. Even though it was the event's fourth year, it was not the first time fights have broken out, and Kansas City Mayor Sly James is still calling the party a "success." Rock the Block is the ending celebrations of summer for Club KC and Mayor's Night. 
Authorities describe the suspect as a black male, 5’10”, with a thin build, missing all teeth. Police say he was wearing a black and red baseball cap with the letter “P” on the front, a black shirt with green print with the words “Got Bit” on the front and “Bite” on the back, dark colored shorts and was carrying a light blue book-bag. Police the female he was with was a black woman, with a medium build, wearing a black shirt, dark colored shorts, white tube socks and sneakers. 
WASHINGTON -- Police have a possible lead on persons of interest connected to the shooting death of American University graduate, 
WASHINGTON -- Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man wanted for fatally stabbing a person on a Metro train. Jasper Spires is wanted on charges of first degree murder while armed for stabbing 24-year-old 
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A New Bedford teen accused of murder was ordered held without bail Monday, District Attorney Thomas Quinn announced. Darian Cardoza, 17, of New Bedford, is charged with murder, armed robbery, and illegal possession of a firearm, according to Quinn. Cardoza is accused of murdering 24-year-old
Fayetteville, N.C. — Police have arrested a second man in the beating death of a homeless Fayetteville man a week ago. Guy Harold Harris III, 51, was charged with first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon. Harris, who also is listed as being homeless, was being held without bond in the Cumberland County jail. Passersby discovered the body of 
Police need your help finding a man who they say sexually assaulted a young girl. Joey Floyd, 28, is wanted for criminal sexual conduct. Chief Timothy Taylor, from the Atlantic Beach Police Department, says 
A 28-year-old man is accused of repeatedly raping his 
ERIE, Pa. -- An Erie woman said she can no longer close her eyes without fearing she will see Christopher A. Holder when she opens them. Holder raped and beat her so severely a year ago that she spent eight months in a nursing home, she said in a letter to Erie County Judge William R. Cunningham Friday in Erie County Court. She suffers memory loss as a result of Holder striking her over the head twice with a 40-ounce glass bottle, and she also has scars where Holder cut her back with the glass and bit her. His blows to her face knocked her teeth out, she said. "It all took place during laughter I will never forget," she said in the letter that was read aloud in court by Assistant District Attorney Erin Connelly. The woman, who is in her early 30s, attended the hearing and stood before the judge but was too emotional to read it herself.
BALTIMORE — On trial. The Baltimore Ravens head of security is in court. Darren Sanders is pleading not guilty to groping a stadium worker. Alex DeMetrick reports the alleged assault took place at M&T Bank Stadium. Darren Sanders is facing a charge of fourth-degree sexual assault. Meanwhile, the jury is facing two very different versions of the story. On December 14, the Baltimore Ravens beat the Jacksonville Jaguars. Following the game, staff met with Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti in his private suite. As chief of security, Darren Sanders was there. When he left, he crossed paths with a cleaning crew supervisor. She claimed Sanders repeatedly fondled her buttocks, kissed her and then tried to force her hand onto his genitals.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have charged a man in connection with a rape case from 1998. Police say Dwight Lamont Burch forced his way into a motel room at the Queen City Motel in the 4600 block of Wilkinson Boulevard on March 1, 1998. Burch and the victim engaged in a violent struggle, police say, in which Burch physically and sexually assaulted the female victim. The Sexual Assault Cold Case Unit developed Burch as their suspect and arrested him Monday morning.
BROCKTON - A woman walking into the main entrance of the Brockton Police station Sunday night told police that a man on the nearby train platform was committing a lewd act toward her. Anthony Scott, 52, of 91 Ames Way, Apt. C343, Dorchester was arrested and charged with open and gross lewdness. The victim, a 46-year-old woman, was delivering food to the Brockton Police station, at 7 Commercial St., about 7 p.m. when she noticed Scott on the nearby MBTA Commuter Rail platform. Scott was sitting on a bench facing the entrance to the police department with his hand inside his unzipped shorts committing a lewd act, Brockton Police Lt. Kenneth LeGrice said.
LAS VEGAS -- With the help of the FBI, Metro has arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with a June attempted murder and robbery at a Subway in the southeast valley. Erin Ware was taken into custody Monday in Reno and was transported to Las Vegas and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Friday. The charges include attempted murder with a deadly weapon, two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, burglary with possession of a firearm and battery with intent to commit robbery. The alleged crimes were committed about 2:30 p.m. on June 10 at a Subway in the 8900 block of S. Maryland Parkway. 
FDNY Lt. 
A man has been convicted of first- and third-degree murder in the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend in the basement of her south Philadelphia home more than three years ago. Jurors returned the verdict Friday on their fourth day of deliberations in the case against 22-year-old Aaron Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was convicted of first-degree murder in the February 2012 slaying of 24-year-old 
A 29-year-old Milwaukee man who police say sexually assaulted 
A Jacksonville Florida single parent mother/ disabled veteran needs your compassionate financial help. On August 10 Th, 2015 her 
MIAMI -- A Miami teen who pleaded guilty to killing his mother and throwing a party while her body was still inside the home will spend 28 years in prison. Kit Darrant pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the 2012 slaying of 
Anthony Curry, 50, asked the judge to have mercy on him. "I have never had any malice in my body for anyone," he said Tuesday. And he had none for 
SHILOH, IL – An Illinois man has been arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a woman in Hawaii. Curtis Hodges, 35, of Shiloh was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder while visiting the Aloha state. A homeless man found the body of a 49-year-old woman just before 1am in downtown Hilo, HI. Police say the deceased woman had injuries. Officers say there were obvious signs of foul play. Investigators reviewed surveillance video of the crime scene. They named Hodges as a suspect after watching the footage. The identity of the victim has not been released. Investigators are waiting on fingerprint analysis to process. Hodges was arrested at a hostel off Waianuenue Avenue in Hilo. He is a registered sex offender and has a criminal record.
A 24-year-old man convicted of committing five armed stranger rapes last fall — four of them after police had already identified him as a suspect in the first attack — was sentenced Thursday to 155 years in prison. At a trial in June, jurors found Robert C. Brown guilty of 15 counts, including first-degree sexual assault while armed with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping and armed robbery. In addition to the string of armed assaults, Brown was convicted in the 2012 sexual assault of 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man faced several charges, including rape, kidnapping and attempted murder, after a violent attack on a woman. Police say 22-year-old Devin Coston kidnapped a woman last week outside a store on Oakwood Street in Memphis. The victim told police she had just gotten into her car when Coston got in, pulled out a gun, and told her to drive. The affidavit said a second suspect got in the back of the car after a short distance. Police say Coston directed her to a field where she was raped, pistol whipped and beaten.
HIGHLAND PARK – A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 to 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting 
More criminal charges have been filed in the June 4 shooting death of 
WAYNE – Murder charges have been filed against a woman involved in a deadly hit-and-run accident in Wayne. Onika Fields was arraigned Friday in 29th District Court on charges of second degree murder and driving while license suspended causing death. She pleaded not guilty to the charges and was ordered held. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said cars can be a murder weapon, just like a gun or knife. “The alleged defendant’s conduct in this case was dangerous to everyone who was on Wayne County roads” said Worthy. The incident began when Fields, who was driving even though her license is suspended, allegedly ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle. After the collision, police say Fields continued driving westbound. She allegedly ran another red light striking two vehicles — one driven by a 67-year-old Romulus woman who had to be cut out of her car with the Jaws of Life. That woman, identified in reports as 
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- On the fourth day in court for Norman Clark, the jury heard from 
MURFREESBORO, TN - Murfreesboro police have charged Brandon Richmond Bowling, 22, with first degree murder in connection to the death of 
TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa Police have made an arrest in the death of a Tulsa woman. Homicide detectives said a man is in custody in connection to the death of a mother at the Stonecrest Apartment back in March. Renese Bramlett is a suspect in the death of 34-year-old 
Metro arrested a man and a woman in connection with the December death of a 4-month-old baby. The baby, identified by the Clark County coroner's office as 
Last week, David Conley killed his ex-girlfriend, her husband and six children inside their home in Houston, Texas. One of the victims was Conley’s own son. The family of his ex-girlfriend, 
A 19-year-old man is dead and his 18-year-old friend is in jail after an accidental shooting in Springfield Township on Wednesday. Police said Christopher Watley, 18, was "playing around" with a .32-caliber revolver when the gun fired and a bullet struck 
COLUMBUS — Police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting death of a Papa John’s delivery driver in July. According to court records, 18-year-old Sir Jeffrey Scott Carroll was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated murder. According to Sgt. Jeffrey Strayer, the Columbus police gang unit arrested Carroll early Wednesday morning. Strayer said the effort to find Carroll was a collaboration between several units and involved searching through many social media pages. According to court documents, a check of Papa John’s phone records showed the call for delivery came through an online text-and-talk service. The call was eventually traced to a specific email address, which led to Carroll’s Facebook page. Investigators then subpoenaed Google for Carroll’s phone information and matched the serial number of the phone with the phone used to place the order, according to court documents. Police were called on July 30 to the intersection of South Hamilton Road and Kimberly Parkway after a report of a minivan crashed into a pole. Officers discovered 59-year-old 
A man was arrested Wednesday in a murder that occurred a decade ago, authorities say. The man, Jerrold Micah Burnett, 39, was arrested on one count of armed robbery and one count of first-degree murder stemming from an incident that occurred July 1, 2005, court documents say. Police say Burnett shot 29-year-old 
POWDER SPRINGS, GA - Powder Springs police have arrested a second suspect in connection to the double homicide in which two people were found inside a vehicle, shot to death in front of their 3-year-old girl. Demarco Thomas, 22, was arrested Friday for the death of 
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A 43-year-old man who strangled a woman last year and left her to die in a bathtub admitted to the crime on Monday. Raheem Thorpe appeared in St. Louis Circuit Court where he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. In early June 2014, 
Sedrick "Ricky" Cobb: A former delivery man from Naugatuck, was convicted of capital felony, kidnapping, murder, sexual assault and robbery in the Dec. 16, 1989, attack on 23-year-old 
Richard Reynolds: The Brooklyn, N.Y., crack dealer was convicted in the Dec. 18, 1992, murder of 
Daniel Webb: Convicted of kidnapping and murder for the 1989 slaying in Hartford of 
