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Motly crew of Hispanics and blacks suspect in death of (white) woman whose body was burned in east Fort Worth
     FORT WORTH A woman was arrested early Friday in connection with the beating and suffocation of a woman whose body was found burning in an secluded area near Lake Arlington. Alexandria Flores, 22, was arrested without incident at the Magnuson Hotel in the 6700 block of Fossil Bluff Drive, police said. Police had received a call that Flores was at the north Fort Worth hotel. Flores is the fourth person arrested in the death of Brittany “Pearl” Chappell, 30, a mother of two who was reported missing to Bedford police on Oct. 9. Albert Martinez Jr., 29, Jeremy Myers 23, and Alexandria Flores are accused of capital murder in Chappell’s death. The fourth suspect, Brian Kendrick Thompson, is accused of tampering with physical evidence by helping to dump and burn Chappell’s body after her death.
Martinez, Myers and Flores are accused of holding Chappell against her will and beating and suffocating her with a bag, then a shower curtain. Chappell’s body, burned beyond recognition, was discovered late Sept. 28 after a patrol officer spotted a grass fire in a wooded, secluded area on the far western edge of Lake Arlington |
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- Three Jailed, One Sought in Kidnapping and Killing of Tarrant Co. Mom
- Three jailed, one sought in kidnapping and killing of Tarrant County mother
- Burned Body Identified, Multiple Capital Murder Arrests Made
The victim, Brittany Pearl Chappell, 30, was killed on September 28, 2015. Police have arrested Albert Ray Martinez Jr., 29, for Capital Murder. Martinez placed a bag over Chappell’s head, according to his arrest warrant, and suffocated her before dumping then setting the body on fire.
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HAMILTON TWP., N.J. -- Authorities have made an arrest in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found earlier this month in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. Tyron Lindsay, 38, of East State Street in Hamilton Township, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 38-year-old Jessica Prusik. Prusik's body was discovered on October 6th in Roebling Park in Hamilton. She had been strangled. Prosecutors say during the course of the investigation, detectives determined Lindsay was the last person known to be with Prusik. They say surveillance video showed the victim and Linsday together in Lindsay's 1992 Ford F-150 pickup truck the day before she was found dead. Lindsay was arrested on unrelated charges the day after Prusik's body was found, and police say he was carrying her bank cards at that time. - (Black-on-white)
WAYNESBORO, Va ) - A Staunton man charged in a Waynesboro death will spend the next five years in prison. Wednesday, a Waynesboro judge sentenced 54-year-old Andrew Lewis Watkins Jr. to 10 years in prison, but with half of that time suspended. Watkins had been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in June. Authorities say the crime happened on July 28, 2014 when Watkins hit 52-year-old
AKRON, Ohio — Kenan Ivery convicted of killing off-duty 
Three Sacramento-area high school students were arrested after a principal was slammed to the floor during a melee that was recorded on video and posted to social media. Two 15-year-olds and a 13-year-old face serious charges -- including making threats to students and law enforcement and battery on school staff -- in connection with Monday’s cafeteria brawl at Florin High School, said Sacramento County sheriff's Sgt. Tony Turnbull. At some point during the fight, a student wrestled with 
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Police arrested a man and are looking for another suspect in connection to a shooting death in a Natomas Home Depot parking lot. John Bunch, 24, was taken into custody Tuesday morning in Alameda County, Sacramento police said. Officers are searching for Jason Brown, 18, who may live in the Bay Area. Police said Brown is considered armed and dangerous; he may be linked to two homicides that happened earlier this year in Alameda and Fresno counties. Police said the men are accused of shooting and killing 53-year-old
NASHVILLE, TN - A second suspect has been charged in the murder of a teen at the 
WINONA, Minn. - A woman accused of driving a getaway car in a recent homicide case in Winona went before a judge for the first time on Tuesday. 18-year-old Kayla Clay was extradited to Minnesota from Wisconsin. She was charged in Winona County District Court with felony aiding an offender - accomplice after the fact. She also requested a public defender. Clay was wanted in connection to the October 18 murder of 31-year-old 
Two Detroit police officers, who were honored last year with local and national law enforcement awards, were arrested Tuesday and charged with embezzlement, larceny and filing a false felony report. Charles Lynem, 28, and Chancellor Searcy, 31, were arrested and incarcerated in the Detroit Detention Center on Tuesday, a day after Wayne County prosecutors signed a warrant authorizing charges of embezzlement less than $20,000, larceny less than $20,000 and filing a false felony report. Also, both were charged with misconduct in office. 
BROCKTON – As 
A man who already is serving a 50-year term for committing robberies using Craigslist will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Tahj R. Thomas, 19, was sentenced Tuesday in Allen Superior Court to 80 years — 40 years apiece —for the rape and criminal deviate conduct of a woman on April 29, 2014. The terms are to be served consecutively with each other as well as consecutively with the prior 50-year term.
The suspect that grabbed the victim is described as a black male, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall in his late teens, early 20’s. He had a light complexion was thin build with short black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing glasses, a gray sweater and blue jeans. The second individual is described as a black male in his late teens, early 20’s, approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall, 160 pounda with black dreadlocks. He was wearing a gray sweater. The men were driving a dark or black colored two-door newer model vehicle with tinted windows.
The suspect was described as a black male adult, 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a muscular build and black sideburns down to his earlobes. He was described as having tattoos covering the length of one arm and a "lazy" right eye. He was last seen wearing a plain black hat, plain black shirt and wearing a batting-style glove on one hand.
Police describe the suspect as a black male in his 30's, 5'11' to 6'0, 180 to 200 pounds with a muscular build. He had long braided hair, facial hair on his chin and tattoos on his arms. He was last seen wearing a black tank top and dark colored boxer shorts.
The Delaware Supreme Court is set to hear arguments involving a man who spent more than two decades on death row before being set free. Wednesday's hearing involves prosecutors' appeal of a judge's ruling that they cannot retry Jermaine Wright using a coerced confession he gave to police while high on heroin. Wright was sentenced to death for the murder of 66-year-old liquor store clerk 
Mayor de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, doesn’t have to worry about jury duty for another six years — which is just fine with one court officer, who described the city first lady’s security detail as “uncooperative” and “obstructive.” McCray reported for jury duty in Manhattan on Monday and Tuesday, but was dismissed Tuesday afternoon after another juror’s outburst tainted the jury pool for a personal-injury trial, sources told The Post. Despite the early departure, McCray, who likes to be called FLONYC — for First Lady of New York City — still managed to make an impression.
A video posted online shows a woman being dragged during an argument and the dramatic scene that played out once she let go along the side of a Delaware roadway. The 12-minute long video -- shot from another vehicle -- begins with two women standing outside a car at the BP gas station at 2360 Pulaski Highway (U.S. Route 40) in Newark around 1 p.m. Monday, said Delaware State Police. 
Police arrested a Pennsylvania man after they say he left a loaded gun within reach of two small children and a newborn. Police were called to William Rodriguez's home in Bethlehem on Monday after he began arguing with a woman. Police say the woman told them Rodriguez came home intoxicated. They say a search of his home found an empty gun holster and a loaded pistol between a mattress and the wall of a bedroom where the three children slept. Police say officers saw two of the children jumping on the mattress just a few feet away from the gun. 
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — A grand jury just indicted four people accused of kidnapping a Hanover man while holding his family at gunpoint. Investigators say the motive was robbery. Tyvon Montrey Spencer, Brittany Nicole Bailey, Bryson Jerrell Marshman and Darius Stephon Taylor are all in jail charged with allegedly spear-heading the scary plot. Court records show that on June 8, the suspects showed up at the man’s home. They allegedly held his girlfriend and children at gunpoint then abducted him. Sources say the suspects drove the man to his business, an auto shop in Ashland, then allegedly took a shotgun, a credit card and cash.
Ramon Perez-Rivera
Cops have arrested a suspect in an Oct. 6 triple shooting in which a father was fatally shot while trying to stop a group of punks from breaking into cars. Bryan Aponte, 20, was picked up in East New York by the Brooklyn North Violent Felony Squad Tuesday, according to law-enforcement sources. Aponte allegedly gunned down 
A federal law enforcement official has said the person was
OLD BRIDGE – A township man who beat his mother so severely she lapsed into a coma and died three months later will serve up to 18 years in prison, authorities said Monday. Jamaar Best-Figueroa, 27, pleaded guilty last week to a count of aggravated manslaughter in the August 2013 of 
After a mistrial for the woman accused of killing 17-year-old
New Orleans police have identified a suspect in the Frenchmen Street beating that left a California man paralyzed from the neck down. Police said they are looking for 30-year-old Christopher S. Smith, who faces a charge of second-degree battery in the Oct. 15 incident that left 
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – Police are looking for help finding a man and a woman who they believe stole clothes from three different stores in and around South County Mall over the span of eight days. St. Louis County police say the thefts occurred on Oct. 15 at the Hibbett Sports in the South County Shopping Center, Oct. 21 at the Dick's Sporting Goods outside of the shopping center and on Oct. 23 at the Pink store inside the shopping center. According to police, the suspects made off with $2,315 worth of Dryfit Nike clothes from Hibbett Sports, $2,970 worth of North Face jackets from Dick's Sporting Goods and more than $3,000 worth of merchandise from the Pink store. While running out of the Dick's Sporting Goods store, the thieves knocked 
A search warrant affidavit released Tuesday says slain 18-year-old 
Over the weekend, a North Texas woman saw a familiar face on the news. "He's being walked in the jumpsuit, and it's all very upsetting." She said Antonio Lamar Cochran — the suspect in the Zoe Hastings murder — was one of her Facebook friends. "It very well could've been me." After learning that Cochran was charged with capital murder, the woman said she spent the weekend weeding out all the other strangers she has allowed in her social circles. "I went onto my Facebook and deleted every single person I haven't met in real life," she said, adding that number totaled a few dozen — including Antonio Cochran. 
AUSTIN, Texas — The wife of a jogger who was slashed to death on a popular Dallas hiking trail this month has died of an apparent suicide, police said on Monday, nearly two weeks after the killing in which Thomas Johnson, a former Texas A&M football player has been charged. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office said 
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A judge has sentenced an Evansville man to 200 years in prison after he was found guilty but mentally ill on three counts of murder for starting a fire that killed a former girlfriend, her daughter and her grandfather. Christopher Compton was sentenced Monday in the 2014 deaths of
Virginia Beach, Va. – The Virginia Beach woman charged with voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of her boyfriend has been granted a $2,500 pretrial bond. “We`re just so happy that we are going to get to hold her,” says Sara Stagg, a close friend of DeJesus. “It couldn`t have been any better. IT couldn`t have even been any better for her.” Megan DeJesus was arrested on September 27th after her boyfriend, Terrance Covington, was found stabbed to death in their home in the 400 block of Sedgewick Court. Prosecutors say the two got into an argument that night, after Covington wanted to leave to get alcohol. Police say their fight soon got physical and Dejesus stabbed him once in the chest. DeJesus called 911 and police say When paramedics got there, she was giving him CPR. Covington and DeJesus were in a relationship and had one child together, an infant boy. Neighbors say the baby was inside the home during the stabbing. Friends said the two had been dating for several years and were planning to get married, but they also say their relationship was rocky and they would fight often. 
Man with machete faces battery charge: A man was arrested on battery-related charges after he was accused of hitting a woman and stealing her property over the weekend near downtown Reno. Melvin Jenkins Jr., 31, was booked Friday into the Washoe County jail on several charges including robbery and assault, both with deadly weapon enhancements. He also was accused of battery, resisting a public officer and destroying the property of another, police said. Police also arrested Crystall Wagner, 39, on resisting an officer, robbery and battery charges.
A Fresno man and Washoe County woman were sentenced to multiple years in prison for the robbery of a Sparks man. The Washoe County District Attorney’s Office made the announcement. Jasmine Paul Sanchez, 26, of Fresno, and Debra Dianne Griffin, 27, of Washoe County were both sentenced Oct. 14 for their part in a robbery of 
SALEM, Ore. – A woman held against her will for six weeks told police investigators she was repeatedly beaten, drugged and raped by her captors, according to court documents. The woman said she went to 46-year-old Ronnie Lee Jr.’s house on September 12 to get some heroin. Lee lives at the house on Marvin Court NW with Irish Boyce, 44. Court documents said the woman used some heroin, and Boyce assaulted her with a closet rod. The woman told both Boyce and Lee she wanted to leave, but said they threatened to beat her if she tried. The woman claims Lee shot her with heroin while she was captive at the house. She also said he forced her to have sex. Boyce claims that Lee threatened her with violence if she wouldn’t participate in some of the sex acts as well. The woman told police was held captive for nearly six weeks in the Lee and Boyce’s bathroom until Salem officers conducted a welfare check at the home on Sunday, October 25.
ATLANTA -- An alleged international jewel thief has been arrested after police say she slipped a pricey pair of earrings into her pocket at an upscale shopping mall in Atlanta. A police report says 85-year-old Doris Payne, of Long Beach, California, stole a $690 pair of earrings Friday afternoon at the Saks Fifth Avenue at a mall in Atlanta's upscale Buckhead neighborhood.
Unhappy with the number of potential black jurors called to his court last week, Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens halted a drug trial and dismissed the entire jury panel, asking for a new group to be sent up. “The concern is that the panel is not representative of the community,” said Stevens, who brought in a new group of jurors despite objections from both the defense and prosecutor. And this wasn’t the first time Stevens, who is black, has dismissed a jury because he felt it was lacking enough minorities. Now the state Supreme Court is going to determine whether the judge is abusing his power. 
Some secrets don't stay buried, in the ground or in a guilty conscience. More than 30 years after the body of 
After binge watching a popular show about zombies, a New Mexico man believed his friend was turning into one — so he brutally beat him to death last week, police said. Prior to the alleged crime last Thursday, Damon Perry, 23, watched the Netflix show "The Walking Dead" and drank "multiple" 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor with a friend at a relative's apartment, Grants Police spokesman Moses Marquez said. Then, Perry told police, the victim, 
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - West Palm Beach police said they made an arrest Sunday night in connection with the 2014 fatal shooting of a 34-year-old single mother. Jonathan Peden, 30, was arrested in the homicide of 
DALLAS -- The widow of 
CAMDEN, N.J. — A Honduran man who has entered the United States illegally three times kidnapped his estranged girlfriend and repeatedly raped her at knifepoint on a drive from Missouri to New Jersey, federal prosecutors said. 
ILION, N.Y. -- "I'm gonna miss him. I like Gary, I'm gonna miss Gary", said Andrew Trask. Andrew Trask is just one of the many people who say they knew 
ST. CLAIR COUNTY, IL - Murder charges have been filed in the homicide case of a St. Clair County man. Early Tuesday morning, a violent home invasion took the life of 
The search for the suspect involved in an attempted robbery and carjacking in Gates continued on Thursday. Police say the suspect attempted to rob a realty office on Chili Avenue Wednesday afternoon before fleeing to Sprucewood Lane and carjacking a woman. The Gates police chief says he then drove the woman into Rochester and ditched the car on the edge of the Genesee River. Thursday, police said the suspect pushed the 74-year-old woman into the Genesee River after the carjacking -- and that she didn't just fall on her own. That means when this suspect is caught, he'll face an attempted murder charge. "Luckily this lady was in great shape and she survived the fall into the water," says Gates Police Chief James VanBrederode. "And was able to get herself to the side, but clearly this could have been a homicide yesterday. There's no doubt about it." 
GREENWOOD, SC -- A man has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after he stole a laptop from a 68-year-old Greenwood man who died of a heart attack during the struggle. A jury convicted 26-year-old Wayne Michael Smith. He pleaded guilty Monday to strong armed robbery before his trial began. Circuit Judge Frank Addy Jr. sentenced Smith to 20 years, the total maximum on both charges, and took the unusual step of ordering the sentences to run consecutively. Prosecutors say Smith went to 
BLOOMINGTON – One of three men who beat a homeless veteran to death in O’Neil Park in June 2014 has been sentenced to 42 years in prison. Willie Chambers, 19, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the murder of 
PEORIA — Calling the 2006 slaying of 
Police arrested the second suspect in the Dover-area home invasion that left two people dead last weekend. Saleem Shabazz, 21, was arrested at about 5 p.m. Thursday on the unit block of E. Jacoby St. in Norristown, Pennsylvania, according to Delaware State Police on Friday. Sgt. Richard D. Bratz declined to give any further information about the arrest or the relationship between Shabazz and Matthew Harrington, the 23-year-old Pennsylvania man who turned himself in to the Buckingham Township Police – about 20 miles from Norristown – on Sunday. He is being held at a Bucks County prison and is awaiting extradition, Delaware State Police said. Gunfire during the home invasion left its owner, 
WAUKESHA -- A Waukesha fifth-grader is speaking out after she says a man tried luring her into his car. The attempted enticement happened Wednesday afternoon, October 21st just outside Heyer Elementary School and police are taking this incident very seriously. Police have increased patrols and school staff is on alert after this incident -- especially when kids are being dropped off and picked up and during recess. On Thursday, the young girl and her father said they want everyone to know what happened. "I was really scared," said 
PORTLAND, OR - The man charged with killing an aspiring actress in Portland in 1988 will remain in the Multnomah County Jail. Multnomah County Judge Kelly Skye denied bail for Walter Wayne Howard on Thursday morning, concluding the evidence in the case is strong enough to keep him behind bars while awaiting trial. Howard, now 60 years old, is charged with the murder of 
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