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A punch from nowhere, and Michael Daniels' rough life ends in a senseless beating
 The first blow struck Michael Daniels on the side of his head, a witness said. Daniels staggered and looked around. There was no one in front of him. The kid who threw the punch was young, maybe 10 or 12, and had lunged from the side to strike Daniels, according to a witness. The kid and four other teenage boys ran across the street and stopped to look back at Daniels. Then a taller kid in a red hoodie, the hood tied close around his face, and the kid who threw the first punch ran back toward Daniels. The smaller kid waved back the others, a witness said. When the two reached Daniels, the bigger kid in the hoodie started swinging. Three punches and a kick dropped Daniels to his knees, broke his glasses and left him sprawled on the sidewalk, said Joe Brown, who says he saw the attack from an upstairs window. Police also say the attack was unprovoked. So without an arrest, the kids' motivation remains a mystery. Brown was asked if he thought the youths were motivated by race. The attackers are black, police say; the victim was white. "Black people are attacked in this neighborhood, too," Brown said. Daniels had grown up on Shonnard Street. His father was Irish, his mother was Mohawk, McIntyre said. |
A Burlington man is charged with rape after he allegedly broke into a woman's home and sexually assaulted her. Derick Johnelle Miles, 40, allegedly went to a 26-year-old woman's residence and knocked on her door at about 2 a.m. Sunday. The victim told police Miles forced himself into her home and raped her when she went to the door. He then allegedly kidnapped the victim and took her back to his residence in Burlington when the sexual assault continued. Miles reportedly tried to escape after being arrested by Burlington police, but was caught a short distance later. 
An Albemarle County grand jury indicted Henry Lee Jasper on rape and abduction charges. There is no word on a trial date. Officers with the Albemarle County Police Department arrested an individual involved in a rape on Sunday afternoon. Henry Lee Jasper was charged with forcible rape and abduction. Jasper, 32-years-old is being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail without bond. The incident took place around 3 p.m. in the 1600 block of 5th Street. The victim did not know the suspect and was able to escape her attacker and call police. Jasper was arrested in the area shortly after the incident.
A Berkeley County man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to raping a woman two years ago during a home invasion while he was wearing an ankle bracelet with a GPS-monitoring device. 25-year-old Brandon Bannister pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree burglary. Moncks Corner Police Department investigators said Bannister broke into a woman’s home early Mar. 11, 2011 and raped her, but he left his Walmart card at the scene. Police realized Bannister was out on bond from a previous offense and was wearing an ankle bracelet, which led them to him.
CHARLOTTE, NC - An elementary school employee is behind bars after he was charged with rape and sex crimes against children. Officials say the victim was not a student. 25-year-old Tafari Higgins was charged with first-degree rape and indecent liberties with a child. Higgins is an Associate in the Technology Department as a Support Staff at Hornets Nest Elementary School Higgins is still in prison, being held on a $75,000 bond. School officials say Higgins has been suspended with pay, pending the outcome of an investigation. 
TN - A sex offender is in custody after police said he was caught Tuesday afternoon at a school in Wilson County. The suspect, Kenneth Thomas of Nashville, is required to wear a GPS device on his ankle after he was convicted of a violent rape in 2003. Thomas is not allowed to be around children or the property of any school. But police said Thomas's GPS tracker showed he was walking around West Wilson Middle School in Mount Juliet. Police said they verified there were children on the campus while Thomas was there, and authorities couldn't reach him by phone. Officers arrived at the school and took him into custody.
A 22-year-old school bus attendant and lunch monitor has been arrested after police say he allegedly indecently assaulted a teen girl – And it took place at the same West Philadelphia school where a five-year-old girl was abducted earlier this year. Philadelphia Police say, in April, Christopher Robinson allegedly indecently assaulted a
A Central Florida boxing coach has been accused of raping a teenaged girl who was training with him, according to police. 
A Battle Creek parolee was ordered to stand trial Tuesday on charges of rape. The case against Sidney McKinney, 41, charged with first and third degree criminal sexual conduct, was bound over to Calhoun County Circuit Court after testimony by a 17-year-old woman. District Judge John Holmes made the ruling after the woman testified she woke on May 20 and found McKinney on top of her.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested two teen girls for sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl. Conyers police said they got involved after the young victim allegedly had sex with customers at the Motel 6 and America's Best Value Inn & suites near West Avenue and Interstate 20. A sergeant said the young woman estimated some nights she was made to have sex with 15 or more men at various places in metro Atlanta. "It's hard to believe someone would do that to a child, let alone it was two females that were taking her to these hotel rooms." Jadaisha Jackson, 19, and Essence Archie, 18, victimized a child, subjecting a 14-year-old girl to sex with men at a variety of locations.
A suburban Minneapolis high school cheerleader is accused of prostituting a younger student by creating an online ad and taking her to see potential customers, pocketing $60 in one case. Montia Marie Parker, 18, of Maple Grove, faces felony charges of sex trafficking and promoting prostitution. She is scheduled to appear in court June 12. Parker was a senior at Hopkins High School when she allegedly set up a Backpage.com ad for a 16-year-old, driving her to an apartment to have oral sex with a man, and taking the $60 the girl made. Authorities allege Parker and the girl drove to another home the next day, but left after the man refused oral sex. 
Instead of declining to speak on-camera, Melissa Lawrence replied "OK, that's good," and then suddenly hurled a rock at ABC6 photographer Marc Jackson. The rock just missed the photographer's head. The crew then started to leave, but Lawrence came out wielding a baseball bat. She then told her two dogs to attack.
Charleston police say they have arrested a man who groped and choked an 18-year-old female as she was walking down King Street early Sunday morning. According to a police report, the victim was walking down King Street near Columbus Street around 6:50 a.m. when the suspect, 50-year-old Michael Anthony Gorham, yelled something at her from across the street. The victim kept walking. The report states Gorham then came up behind the victim and grabbed her side and breasts. When she pulled away, the suspect started choking her. Police say Gorham ran off when a man who was driving to work saw the two fighting, and yelled at the suspect to stop. He then gave the victim a ride home and told her to call police. 
Ala. A Spanish Fort High School football player arrested on rape charges has applied for youthful offender status. Nineteen-year-old Deon "DJ" Johnson was arrested three times, twice in September 2012 and once in March 2013, on charges of second degree sodomy, second degree rape and two counts of first degree rape with force. Police say the incidents involved separate victims. Johnson was indicted on those four charges. Investigators say the March arrest stemmed from accusations Johnson contacted one of his victims, and was also using a computer to send sexually explicit message to other underage girls. 
The man charged with the brutal stabbing death of a Montpelier woman who took him into her home last year will go on trial for murder and grand larceny in September. Hanover Circuit Court J. Overton Harris set a two-day jury trial for Sept. 23 and 24 after hearing that extensive psychiatric assessments of Brian Mallory showed him able to assist in his defense and that he was not insane at the time of 
OAKLAND, Calif. — An unrepentant Oakland man who claims that he is innocent was sentenced Monday to life in prison for murdering a Virginia man who had come to the Bay Area for a job interview at Google three years ago. George Huggins, 26, was convicted on March 20 of first-degree murder and the special circumstance of committing a murder during a robbery for the fatal shooting of 45-year-old
A 24-year-old Charlotte man will serve 34 to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to charges related to two rapes and an attempted rape at a south Charlotte apartment complex in 2009. Phillip Payton pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree burglary, two counts of second-degree rape and one count of first-degree sexual offense. The victims were all neighbors at the Yorktown Garden Apartments where Payton also lived. In all three incidents, Payton was dressed in all black and used a substance to blur the victims’ vision. 
A Jefferson County judge today sentenced a 22-year-old Birmingham man to 228 years in prison for his conviction in the 2010 rape of a jogger.Nathaniel Lee Baker, 22, was convicted March 13 by a Jefferson County jury on charges related to the rape of a female jogger. He was convicted of first degree sex abuse, first degree rape, first degree sodomy and second degree kidnapping in the Sept. 16, 2010, attack in the 4000 block of Altamont Road. "This sentence is almost racial because he is black and the lady is a white female," the rapist's attorney said. "The only person who sees race in this case is the defendant's attorney." 
Fargo - In a rare departure from the mandatory minimum prison sentence required by state law, a Cass County judge on Monday spared a 20-year-old convicted of forcible rape from 20 years in prison, instead sentencing him to five years. Without 
Wilfred Matthews, the craven murderer of a 95-year-old, WWII vet was sentenced to life without parole today. He'd been caught after the fatal robbery with victim 
A 22-year-old man charged with involuntary sexual servitude and trafficking a minor was ordered held on $1 million bail.
NC -- A Brunswick County man is in jail charged with rape, kidnapping and assault. A sheriff's spokeswoman says Richard Teremaine Gore turned himself in Friday. Gore, 30, is accused of kidnapping and raping a woman Wednesday. The warrants say Gore choked "her until she lost consciousness and left bruises around her neck area by strangulation by putting his hands around her neck." The warrants also accuse Gore of hitting the alleged victim in the head and biting her fingers and nose. 
A boozy Brooklyn lawyer tried to skip out on a $6 taxi fare — then was busted after stripping off her panties and tossing them at cops while screaming profanities, police said. Cops they found a very drunk Stephanie Hendricks, 39 — in front of a Williamsburg deli after she bolted from a yellow cab at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. The bawdy barrister, who lives with her churchgoing mom in Flatlands, pulled off her panties, showed cops her lady parts, then lunged at them and yelled, “Suck my p---y,’’ and, “Eat my ass, you f--king pigs!” police said.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A Sept. 10 sentencing date has been set for a Mexican man who pleaded guilty in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death revealed the botched
An immigrant was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting a 
Rabbi Aryeh Dudovitz (AKA: Larry Dudovitz) was arrested on charges of molesting a teenage boy back in 2006. 
HOUSTON—A man fatally shot another man and wounded two others before barricading himself in a northwest Houston apartment overnight, police said. Police said the shootings and subsequent SWAT scene occurred at three different locations early Thursday morning. According to the Houston Police Department, officers were called around midnight. A man, later identified as 
Tuscaloosa Police have arrested six men and charged them with rape and sodomy of a 15-year-old girl. Officers say the girl was visiting Tuscaloosa with her father in late April when she ran away. Investigators located the girl May 18 and after questioning her, she said she had been staying in several different hotels and private residences in Tuscaloosa. It is during this time that officers believe the girl was prostituted by different individuals. The investigation is ongoing and police say more charges could be filed. The individuals charged so far int he case are: Christopher Lacell Lee, 18 years old, Darnell Lucious Jr., 18 years old, Michael Antonio Long, 19 years old, Tavares Jermaine Nixon, 35 years old, . Wahdrecus Jaamal Morgan, 21 years old, and Kenton Jamaal Collins, 29 years old.
A Plainfield man has been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in the summer of 2010 when he was worked as a security guard at the Franklin Township Middle School. Jason Belin, 33, allegedly assaulted the girl in his pickup truck after an event at the school. The girl, now 17, reported the incident to police. The girl said she spoke with Belin at the school event, when he was working security. While returning home from the event, the girl said, she saw a pickup truck parked in the street with its flashing lights on. Belin, who was in the vehicle, asked her to get in and she did, police said. Belin then took the girl to “a secluded dark area” in Franklin and assaulted her.
Wareham police arrested a level 3 sex offender Thursday morning on new charges of kidnapping, assault to rape, and assault and battery. Joseph Gomes, 23, of 5 Apple St., was ordered held without bail. The female victim reported that while at the residence with Gomes, he made aggressive sexual advances toward her, and physically prevented her from leaving the residence. Police said the woman was able to escape from the residence unharmed and immediately drove to the Wareham Police Dept., where she reported the incident. Gomes is listed as a level 3 sex offender due to a 2012 conviction on a charge of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 years of age. 
A 41-year-old Spring mom has been charged with child abandonment after her 11-year-old son allegedly choked and drowned their neighbor’s 
The man accused of hitting and killing a Harris County sheriff’s deputy while driving drunk was in the country illegally, a judge said in court overnight. 
A convicted rapist attacked a schoolgirl after targeting her when she lost her friends on a night out.
A 50-year-old man who had been on a tour at the city pound was charged with having sex with a pit bull, prosecutors said in court today. 
FORMER Salesian College Rupertswood principal Frank Klep has been charged with raping students after alleged victims came forward. Police have charged the former principal with 20 new offences. The 69-year-old former priest is now facing 31 charges of sexual abuse of boys between 1974 and 1984. The new charges include two counts of rape of a child under the age of 14 and a child under the age of 16. The Salesians have previously denied allegations they moved Klep to Samoa after investigations into sex assault allegations began. The former principal is one of three Salesians from Rupertswood College currently facing criminal proceedings. Former vice-principal David Rapson is due to stand trial at the County Court later this year charged with 
The 2011 killing of 22-year-old
Police have arrested a Nashville woman and are searching for her boyfriend after they were suspected in the fatal shooting of a man at an attempted illegal drug deal last month. 
A Providence man accused of fatally punching another man was ordered held without bail as a probation violator. William Robertson, 29, was arraigned on one count of manslaughter. A Superior Court judge ordered Robertson held without bail for violating the terms of his probation in a 2005 robbery. The court said he failed to appear for his arraignment in a 2010 felony assault. Robertson is accused of punching 
MINNEAPOLIS – A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to fatally beating a homeless man last June on the city’s north side. Willis Esposito Richardson, of Minneapolis, was sentenced to 128 months in prison. He pleaded guilty in April to one count of second-degree unintentional murder. According to authorities, Richardson and a teenager beat 50-year-old 
MILWAUKEE — 
Hundreds of people attended a rally on Friday to remember a 33-year-old man killed in east Atlanta. Patrick Cotrona was shot and killed during an armed robbery as he walked home in East Atlanta Village early Sunday morning. Investigators believe that there is a strong possibility Cotrona's murder is connected to two armed robberies that occurred in Reynoldstown that same night. Authorities have released a sketch of a suspect in an armed robbery on Kirkwood Avenue. In that crime, a gunman stole a couple's wallets and phones. 
Prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old St. Paul man with one felony charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct accusing him of sexually assaulting a mother in front of her children over the weekend. Tyron Joshua Thomas, broke into a woman's apartment hile she was sleeping early Saturday and told her he would kill her if she did not cooperate. St. Paul police were responding to a call of a suspicious man in the area and found Thomas lurking in the 1000 block of Burns Avenue as described. While they were speaking with him, a woman shouted to them. Investigators met with her and noticed she was wrapped in a blanket and appeared traumatized. She told police she had just been sexually assaulted. She described Thomas to police, including a distinctive necklace he was wearing at the time of his arrest. The woman also told police that her children were present for the assault, with two of them in the same room where the assault occurred. Thomas has two prior sexual assault related arrests in the city from 2007 and 2008.
A second-degree murder charge is warranted for a 29-year-old man whose pit bulls allegedly mauled a jogger to death because he had four other violent dogs destroyed in 2006, among other vicious attacks. Authorities are aware of at least three incidents in which Alex Jackson's dogs attacked people or horses this year, in addition to the mauling that killed 
On May 14th, 
Jackeith Harrison was the one who shot 
A man accused of raping a 21-year-old prostitute at gunpoint and trying to rape a second 21-year-old prostitute before shooting at both of them in a hotel room Friday has been arrested. Clifton Lee Jones, 37, was booked Friday with aggravated rape, attempted aggravated rape, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, illegal use of a weapon, aggravated criminal damage to property and resisting an officer. In addition to the rape and attempted rape, Jones took out a gun and robbed the victims before firing four shots at them inside the hotel room.
INDIANAPOLIS - A man accused of sexually assaulting a young child was arrested by police Thursday. According to a police report, Thomas Winfrey was arrested Thursday and taken to the Marion County Jail. The victim says Winfrey touched her and kissed her inappropriately while he was babysitting. The 7-year-old girl told her mother the incident occurred more than once. Winfrey faces preliminary charges of child molest.
An Indianapolis serial rapist who was found guilty of sexual assaults on four women in 2009 was sentenced to 100 years incarceration Thursday. Quanardel Wells was convicted of confining, raping, torturing and abusing four prostitutes in 2009. The trial was over two days, but it took less than four hours for a jury to deliberate. In 2010, he was convicted for the 2008 sexual assault of a 
N.C. — Police said a man walked into a Gastonia nonprofit, which is a safe place for rape victims, and exposed himself. Officials said they believe he is the same man who showed himself to a woman at a church a few days ago. Dea Williams went to jail to serve two months for indecent exposure. Police said the registered sex offender was only out of jail for two weeks when he came to Family Services Incorporated. Williams was looking for a place to stay when someone working at the nonprofit said he exposed himself. "This is not acceptable," said Executive Director Jan Deans. "Not here." A rape counselor said Wednesday she saw Williams expose his private parts while standing in the lobby. "When someone exposes himself like this man did, it's just another form of sexual assault." 
SC - A judge set bond at $50,000 Friday for the Charleston County School of the Arts theater manager accused of having sex with a 
A 19-year-old man was arrested this week for sexually assaulting a custodian at his former high school. According to Prince George's County police, the alleged assault occurred after-hours at Gwynn Park High School Tuesday. Drew Emory Joiner has been charged with second degree assault and fourth degree sex offense.
PORTLAND -- Investigators said a pimp took a Greyhound bus from central California to Portland Wednesday to recruit an 18-year-old woman into prostitution. Instead, he met police. Torrey Duckett, 36, was charged with promoting prostitution, a class C felony. Members of Portland Police Bureau’s Prostitution Coordination Team said Duckett popped up on their radar earlier this month, during a sting targeting johns and pimps.
An employee at a Hypoluxo business whipped out her iPhone, called 911 and started filming as a man began performing a sexual act on the business' door on Monday. It began when the employee, who was not identified in the report, told police she saw Anthony Bruce Berry, 57, of Lake Worth, walk to the back of the business on the 7200 block of South Federal Highway around 2 p.m., according to a Lantana Police Department arrest report.
Police arrested a Disneyland employee on suspicion of putting a so-called dry ice bomb in a theme park trash can where it exploded, authorities said Wednesday. No one was injured in the small blast, but Disneyland briefly evacuated the Mickey's Toontown section where the incident occurred Tuesday. Christian Barnes, 22, of Long Beach was arrested for investigation of possessing a destructive device, just hours after the blast, Anaheim police Sgt. Bob Dunn said in a statement. 
SC - State Sen. Robert Ford has submitted a letter of resignation Friday morning while a State Ethics Committee continues to investigate whether or not he improperly used campaign funds. In the letter, Ford says he will resign from the District 42 seat immediately. The committee held a hearing against Ford on Thursday. During that hearing, Ford was accused of using donations to purchase items from two adult stores. Ford claimed those purchases were gag gifts for his staff. In all, the committee said Ford had $47,000 in unreported campaign contributions.