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(Heartless black) Fero's Bar killer Dexter Lewis, spared the death penalty, sentenced 5 life terms plus 180 years
  DENVER - Dexter Lewis, the killer convicted of stabbing 5 people to death in Fero's Bar during 2012, was sentenced to five life sentences plus another 180 years on Wednesday. Lewis was convicted on Aug. 10 of five counts of first degree murder after deliberation, five counts of felony murder, five county of attempted robbery and an arson charge. However, the jury decided that aggravating factors, including an abusive childhood, were significant enough that he should not face the death penalty. Because Lewis was found guilty in a death penalty case, Colorado law dictated that Lewis be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the counts of murder. The judge sentenced him to five life sentences, to be served consecutively, for the murders. The judge gave Lewis an additional 180 years on the other charges. That was the maximum sentenced allowed. This was the second case of the summer where a jury was unable or unwilling to reach the required unanimous decision that would sentence a killer to die.
     Prosecutors said Lewis led a four-man robbery crew at Fero's Bar and Grill. He killed the bar's owner and four customers. The robbery netted a measly total of $170. Two of the men at the robbery testified that Lewis, 25, went down a line stabbing his victims while they were held at gunpoint. "He simply went down the line, not caring about them, not showing any of them any mercy," prosecutor Matt Wenig told jurors when they began considering execution for Lewis. The bar was set ablaze before the men fled. Killed in the robbery were the bar's owner, Young Suk Fero, 53, and four customers - Daria M. Pohl, 21, of Denver; Kellene Fallon, 44, of Denver; Ross Richter, 29, of Overland Park, Kansas; and Tereasa Beesley, 45, of Denver. - (Black-on-white)
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Prichard police have identified a suspect in the shooting death of Timothy Bruce Russell. Russell was shot on the afternoon of Sept. 11 on Dunlap Circle in the Alabama Village area of Prichard. He died from his wounds at a local hospital later that same day. Police later identified 18-year-old Deangelos Trimone Jeffery as a primary suspect. He was already in jail on unrelated charges when served the warrant. Jeffery is now charged with murder, according to court and Mobile County Jail records. He is scheduled to be arraigned at 8:30 a.m. Monday. - (Black-on-white)
A Chicago man was ordered held without bail Sunday after murder charges were filed in connection with a fatal shooting Sept. 19 in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Ladarren Ball, 31, of the 200 block of North Leamington Avenue, was charged with murde. The shooting happened about 6 p.m. Sept. 19 in the 1200 block of North Keeler Avenue and left 38-year-old 
The owner of a Baltimore County restaurant was beaten and robbed while trying to get a bag of money out of his car Saturday. Authorities said 
BOSTON – Officers are searching for a man who allegedly carjacked a woman in a Boston’s South End. Police were called to the area of Cumberland and Saint Botolph Streets where a woman said that while she was parking her car a man came up to her driver’s side door and opened it. The victim of the carjacking was
COPLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A Michigan man held his 9-month-old daughter in a motel room while the baby's mother had sex with another man for money, police said. Derohn Wilburn, 25, of Detroit, is charged with fourth-degree felony promoting prostitution and misdemeanor child endangering. He is scheduled Friday for his first appearance in Barberton Municipal Court. The child's mother, Melissa Coleman, 26, of Akron, is charged with misdemeanor child endangering and prostitution. She pleaded not guilty Friday at a hearing in Barberton Municipal Court and was released on a $5,000 signature bond. Copley police released the baby to a family member. 
A Lower Paxton Township man has been charged with the rape of a child numerous times between August of 2013 and December of 2014. Otis Adam Thomas III, 32, of the 1600 block of Buckingham Road, was arrested Thursday as he left his home, police said. Thomas has been charged with: Rape of a child. Involuntary deviate intercourse of
MILWAUKEE -- U.S. Marshals are looking for 35-year-old Jermaine Jones. Jones is a registered sex offender. He was convicted of a brutal sexual assault in 1999. U.S. Marshals say Jones and two accomplices raped a woman inside a home on Milwaukee's south side. Afterward, the woman had hot sauce, baby powder and lighter fluid poured on her body. U.S. Marshals say the woman escaped to a bathroom and when Jones opened the door, she saw fires had been lit in her living room. The woman was able to get out of the house alive. Jones was convicted and sent to prison. U.S. Marshals say he served nine years of a 15 year prison sentence. U.S. Marshals say Jones has violated the rules of his supervision multiple times. In April, Jones went missing and hasn't been seen since.
DENVER - Police are looking for a man who's wanted for an unlawful sexual contact that happened in the area of East 18th Avenue and Broadway Street. The suspect is a black male, in his 50s. He's said to be about 5 feet 6 inches tallw ith a thin build and slightly graying hair at the temples. He has a beard and mustache and was wearing a red and white striped polo shirt, cargo jeans, and a dark colored hoodie around his shoulders.
A 21-year-old Englewood neighborhood man is accused of exposing himself and touching a woman inappropriately Friday on the CTA's Green Line, police said. Anton M. Johnson, 21, of the 6600 block of South Sangamon Street, was charged with aggravated battery to a transit passenger, police said. Johnson appeared for a bond hearing Sunday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, where he was held in lieu of $150,000 bail. In an alert issued Friday evening, police said a man touched a woman and exposed himself at the 35th/Bronzeville-IIT station about 11:05 a.m. Friday.
STOCKTON – Police say a woman set fire to her ex-girlfriend’s Stockton apartment in a homicide attempt. The incident happened Saturday a little after 5 a.m. Stockton Police say the woman – identified as 29-year-old Lashanda Thompson – somehow got into the 8600 block of Acapulco Way apartment and started turning on the burners on the stove. A pot of grease left on the stove then heated up and ignited, causing the downstairs of the apartment to catch fire – trapping the three adults and a child inside. Stockton Fire crews were soon at the scene and helped the people jump out of a second-story window. It appears no one was seriously hurt in the fire. Officers later caught up to Thompson at a hotel room in the area and arrested her. Investigators believe Thompson was upset that her ex-girlfriend, one of the people inside the apartment, had gotten a new girlfriend. 
FREMONT — Police are seeking the public’s help in tracking down a man suspected of violently killing his own mother in Fremont Tuesday morning. Officers conducting a welfare check at an apartment in the 3900 block of Monroe Avenue around 11 a.m. Tuesday reportedly found a dead woman in her 60s. Investigators said the “level of violence involved” in this case was “severe.” The victim’s son, 31-year-old Omar Malik Pettigen, has been named as a suspect in the homicide and detectives have obtained a warrant for his arrest. Pettigen is described as a 150 pound black man with brown eyes and black hair standing roughly 5 feet 11 inches tall. He’s known to frequent the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, according to police, and may have access to guns. Anyone with information about Pettigen’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Fremont Police Department at (510) 790-6800.
CAMDEN An 18-year-old city man has been wrongly accused of killing one teenager and wounding two others in an Easter night attack, the suspect's lawyer said Friday. Daikwon Alford is charged with the murder of 18-year-old 
Phoenix police are trying to track down a pair of carjacking suspects, one of which was naked. The suspects are seen here on video taken at McDonalds near 51st Avenue and McDowell. That's where officers say the suspects drove after car-jacking a man at gunpoint. That allegedly happened down the street from the McDonalds, on 51st and Roosevelt. The victim ended up wrestling the gun away from the suspects, but they got away with his car. Police think someone might remember the couple especially since the woman was nude. "The video shows that when the woman got out of the vehicle at the McDonald's, she wasn't wearing any clothes, so it's our hope that somebody picked up on that," said Jamie Rothschild with Silent Witness. The suspects are described as an African-American male wearing camouflage shorts and an African-American female.
A Brooklyn woman turned herself in to cops Saturday on charges she slugged a boy she thought was behaving rudely at his father’s Bronx bodega. Jathiyah Richards, 47, surrendered to cops about six weeks after she was caught on video punching 
Dallas police say they have arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting a Dallas dentist last month at her Uptown apartment parking garage. Kristopher Love, 31, is charged with capital murder and is being held on a $2.5 million bond, Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron announced in a Friday evening press conference. Love also faces a federal charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Geron said when Love was arrested, he was allegedly in possession of the weapon believed to have been used in the murder. Jail records did not list an attorney for Love Friday. Geron said an alleged accomplice, 33-year-old Brenda Delgado, is wanted on a capital murder charge and is considered a fugitive. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The man convicted of attempted armed robbery in connection with the shooting of a Navy airman was sentenced Friday. Courtney Phillips got 30 years on the charge with a minimum-mandatory of 10 years. The jury in Phillips case deadlocked on a second charge of attempted murder in the 2012 shooting of 
Ian Mercer and Laurel Harper are the parents of Oregon Shooter 
BRIDGE CITY, La. -- Jefferson Parish authorities are looking for a man wanted for the alleged rape and molestation of 
Former NFL star Irving Fryar was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for his role in a mortgage scam. His mother, Allene McGhee, was sentenced to three years' probation in the same case. Both were convicted in August of applying for multiple mortgage loans in quick succession while using the same property as collateral.
Fryar, 53, was a star wide receiver at the University of Nebraska and played for the New England Patriots, the Miami Dolphins, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins. 
GLENDALE, Colo. — A sex crime suspect appears to have slipped through the fingers of the criminal justice system yet again. 34-year-old 
Austin police say they arrested 25-year-old 
SPRINGFIELD — A man has been arrested in connection with the August beating death of a Springfield man. Jeremy Carmichael, 29, of Springfield, was picked up by the SOFAST regional task force early Friday in Springfield. A Clark County grand jury issued a secret indictment of Carmichael on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, said Sgt. Jeff Flores of the Springfield Police Division. 
FAIRFAX, Va. — 
A Cincinnati man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of rape. Adrian Sims, 23, was arrested last month and will head to court next week after being accused of sexually assaulting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A woman living in an apartment complex just off the Plaza told police an intruder climbed into bed with her and sexually assaulted her. The assault happened at a complex in the 4800 block of Belleview Avenue in Kansas City, Mo., during early morning hours this past weekend during the Plaza Art Fair. Police haven't arrested anyone yet, but know exactly who they're looking for after the suspect dropped his ID inside the apartment and the victim was able to snap several pictures of him on her cell phone before he ran off. One of those pictures was distributed to other residents so they could be on the lookout, but FOX 4 is not revealing his identity because he has not been charged with the crime yet. The intruder got into an apartment through an unlocked backdoor, according to police.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A man was booked on public indecency suspected of flashing a woman near the Oregon State University campus. Police arrested 19-year-old David James Brown on Thursday; his bail is set at $75,000. According to Corvallis police, a man followed a young woman home from the OSU campus at around 4:40 p.m. Tuesday. She told officers that she made it into her house and saw the man across the street, completely nude and apparently masturbating while looking in her direction. She called her friends, who came over to her house and took some photos of the suspect as he left the area on a long board.
ATLANTA, Ga. — A man who was mistakenly released from a Louisiana facility despite a murder charge has been recaptured in Atlanta. Benjuiel Johnson, 32, was arrested by the US Marshal Service just after midnight at a Motel 6. When deputy marshals opened the motel room door, Johnson was described as “very shocked” to see the authorities. He was booked into the Gwinnett County Hail and is awaiting extradition back to Louisiana.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's ex-son-in-law has been sentenced to six to 12 months in jail for stealing $140 from an alleged drug dealer's luxury car. What 45-year-old Gerold Gibson didn't know at the time is that the car was wired with hidden cameras and he was being watched by Philadelphia police internal affairs.
NEWARK — A veteran police lieutenant was fired Wednesday for disparaging 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man previously charged with pawning jewelry stolen from a murdered 71-year-old woman has now been charged with her killing, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office announced Thursday. Marvin Jones, 50, is charged with murder, burglary, dealing in stolen property and grand theft, Lt. Steve Gallaher said. He said it appears that 
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- A couple is recovering after they were beaten and robbed in a Henrico home invasion. Nine days have passed since 
NORFOLK, Va. — After seven years of investigating, police just arrested and charged a man in a 2008 Norfolk murder case following a traffic stop in North Carolina. On Tuesday, authorities announced they charged 27-year-old Michael Brown of Goldsboro, North Carolina with second-degree murder in the death of 
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. - A driver suspected of hitting and leaving a jogger for dead on a Douglas County street is now in custody, deputies announced Wednesday evening during a news conference. Markus Lide, 32, turned himself in a day after allegedly hitting 
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Police in St. Louis County have taken a person of interest into custody in the armed robbery and shooting of 
Irving police say a man and woman are under arrest after a crash victim said she was robbed by a person pretending to be a good Samaritan. 
LAS VEGAS - Medical examiners identified a 72-year-old man as the victim of an attack that took place last week in a west Las Vegas parking lot. As of Tuesday, the Clark County Coroner's Office has not yet ruled a cause and manner of death for James Northcott, of Surrey, B.C. in Canada. Northcutt was the person who succumbed to injuries after an attack that happened about 3 p.m. Sept. 23 in the parking lot of the Walmart store at the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Arville Street. According to Las Vegas Metro police, the victim was traveling through the parking lot when he was involved in an argument with another driver. The second driver got out of his vehicle, attacked the victim and then left the scene. The victim was eventually taken to Spring Valley Hospital for treatment, but was pronounced dead Monday, police said. The first person was described as a black man in his 20s, about 5’10” tall and 160 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray baseball cap, a white T-shirt, blue shorts, white socks and blue Nike sandals. The second person was described a short woman, who was last seen wearing a black shirt and denim shorts. 
Ann Arbor — The double life of a self-professed pimp who chronicled his sexploits in a homemade reality show will be on display in federal court this year. Detroiter Donald Clifton Allen Jr., known on the streets as “D’Nero Armani,” is scheduled to stand trial in December in a case that will feature video clips of his YouTube reality show “D’Nero’s Player Show” and explicit movies, including one of
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Virginia execution of an El Salvador native convicted of killing Yorktown High School graduate 
Three thugs charged with gang-raping and robbing a string of Asian hookers – including one at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan – callously plotted their vicious attacks via text, court papers show. 
FOX LAKE, Ill. -- The northern Illinois police officer found dead last month was shot with his own weapon, but detectives were still treating it as a homicide investigation based on evidence that included signs of a struggle, the lead investigator said Thursday. After vetting the information and concluding it wouldn't harm the investigation, authorities confirmed for the first time that 
Columbia, SC - Forest Acres Police Chief Gene Sealy says one of his officers was killed Wednesday morning during a struggle with a suspect at an area mall. Sealy confirmed at a noon news conference that 32-year-old 
Curtis Kyles, the former death row inmate whose 1984 murder conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court, is headed back to prison for life for killing a Metairie woman. Kyles, 56, of Algiers was convicted Tuesday (Sept. 29) of second-degree murder in the death of 
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — A South Los Angeles shop owner is hoping police will find the group of kids he said 
LA PLATA, Md. - Police have charged a man after they say he used social media to make a threat of violence against an entire Maryland town. The message was uncovered Wednesday afternoon when La Plata Police were alerted to a post on Twitter that read, “IM NOT GONNA STAND FOR THIS NO. MORE. TONIGHT WE PURGE! KILL ALL THE WHITE PPL IN THE TOWN OF LA PLATA.” That tweet sparked a massive police effort and the man accused of sending the tweet was tracked down and arrested. So many people were frightened after this tweet was sent out that local law enforcement not only went after the man who posted it, but the chief of police in La Plata also called some officer in early and kept other officers to work overtime. The chief wanted to make sure there was high visibility of officers in the area to calm fears. Officials arrested 20-year-old 
DNA from the man charged in the July homicide of 
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - Sandy Springs Police said they have arrested a man for molesting 
ONTARIO — Police on Tuesday said they arrested a man suspected of waiting inside an Ontario hotel room for a woman to enter Monday evening, then attacking and robbing the woman before fleeing. The Ontario Police Department responded to a Doubletree Hotel about 5:45 p.m. Monday to investigate a reported sexual assault. Hotel staff said they found a female guest who had been attacked. The 63-year-old victim told police that she had just checked into her room when she was attacked by a man waiting inside. The man tied up and sexually assaulted the victim, police said, before robbing her of several items and fleeing. Investigators with the help of hotel security personnel identified the suspect as Clifford Brown, 31, of Pomona.
Orangeburg County, SC - Orangeburg County deputies have charged a Santee man with accessory after the fact of murder. They say he helped his brother dispose of a murder victim's body. Jason Glover, 25, was charged after his brother was found guilty in the 2013 murder of Orangeburg businessman 
The state is probing the Saturday night shooting death of an Effingham County woman in her home. 
A verdict has been reached in the Christopher Compton triple murder trial. The jury finds Christopher Compton guilty but mentally ill on the first three counts after 90 minutes of deliberation. Compton faced charges for the deaths of 28-year-old
PHILADELPHIA — A demolition contractor charged with murder after a building collapse 
EDINBURG, Texas – One illegal immigrant has been formally charged with capital murder and another is expected to be charged soon in connection with the execution of two men and the burning of the victims’ corpses in Texas. The two jailed illegal immigrants are said to be members of a fearsome gang called the 
LOS ANGELES — Two 22-year-old men were charged Tuesday in the murder of a UCLA student found dead in her burned Westwood apartment. 
A Brooklyn handyman was done in by his own chilling boasts — detailing how he’d choked to death and then dismembered his boss — as a jury took less than a day to find him guilty of murder. The panel of six men and six women deliberated just three hours of before convicting Luis Perez for the grisly 2006 murder of 
