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All four (black) cowardly terrorist suspects arrested after Polk robbery, slayings of two unarmed White women - one 72-years-old
   Four suspects were arrested after a Polk County crime spree that started with a pawn shop robbery, led to a shootout with a police officer and ended with the killings of a 72-year-old Haines City woman and her daughter. Michael Gordon, 34, of Lakeland, was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 72-year-old Patrica Moran and her 51-year-old daughter Deborah Royal. Gordon also was charged with armed robbery and attempted murder on a law enforcement officer, along with 22-year-old Devonere McCune, 25-year-old Jovan Lamb and 29-year-old Terrell Williams, all of Haines City. The crime spree began Thursday evening with a robbery at Cash America Pawn. Surveillance images show the intruders in white hoodies with assault rifles. Witnesses said three were inside the store while one waited outside in a red GMC Jimmy. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said the “well-designed” robbery was planned “to incite terror” among store employees. He said the foursome even called 911 with a false report of a shooting to distract police. Judd said a Haines City police officer spotted the Jimmy and when he attempted to pull it over the suspects started firing at the officer’s patrol car from the SUV. The officer was not injured. The vehicle eventually became stuck in sand and all four men ran. Authorities caught up with McCune when he was bitten by a sheriff’s K-9. A short time later, officers learned from a resident about suspicious activity at a neighbor’s house on Astor Drive. When authorities surrounded the house, a blue car came barreling out of the garage, straight at them. Judd said officers fired “many times.” The vehicle went a short distance before it also got stuck in sand. Gordon was the only person in the car and he was arrested. He suffered gunshot wounds and bites from a K-9. His injuries were not life-threatening. Officers then found the bodies of Moran and Royal inside the house, “viciously” killed in a way “much too graphic to describe,” Judd said. Moments earlier, one of the men had knocked on the door of a woman’s home, claiming to be a police officer. When the woman saw through a glass door it wasn’t an officer, and when the man asked to use her phone, she shut the door and called 911. - (Black-on-white) |
FT LAUDERDALE – Four people have been charged in the death a homeless man whose body was found floating in George English park. William Peterson told police that 24-year old David Harrison and 24-year old Ashley Barrientos had an ongoing fight with Jerome P. Harte. Harrison and Barrientos lived at Covenant House on the beach but frequented George English park, according to Peterson. On Sunday, January 4th, Harrison and Barrientos threatened to beat Harte and throw his body in the water along with all of his belongings. Peterson said that night he was sleeping in the park when Barrientos and Harrison woke him up and told him he should leave right away. The following morning when he saw all the police in the park, Peterson said he realized what had happened. On January 5th, Harrison’s mother reportedly contacted police and told them that her son and Barrientos had confessed to killing Harte. Both were taken into custody. Ft. Lauderdale investigators also implicated two other people in Hart’s murder: a 17-year old female and 18-year old Jean Cyma. During questioning Cyma, 18, admitted to stomping on Harte and hitting him several times before he was thrown into the water. Harrison, Barrientos and Cyma have all been charged with murder. - (Black-on-white)
Douglas High graduate and former Gardnerville resident 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The brother of a man suspected in the 1990 killing of 
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A western Indiana jury has convicted a Terre Haute man in the slaying of his estranged wife, whose remains were found dumped in a rural area. The Vigo County jurors deliberated about eight hours Saturday before finding 40-year-old Enzert Lewis guilty of murder, obstruction of justice and altering the scene of a death. The Tribune-Star reports that Lewis will be sentenced Feb. 17 on the charges stemming from the October 2012 killing of 39-year-old 
A fugitive foreign doctor accused of child rape in the U.S. has been allowed to stay in Britain - in case the Americans lock him up for too long. Judges ruled it would be a breach of Tobias Bowen's human rights if they agreed to his extradition. The 48-year-old fled New York for Africa four years ago while on $10,000 bail charged with two counts of raping a child. Detectives working with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force tracked his travels, which included a stay in Holland, and he was taken into custody at Heathrow when he visited Britain in April last year. Westminster Magistrates' Court yesterday heard that he had since settled in Milton Keynes with his wife and young family – making Britain his 'safe haven'. Daniel Sternberg, acting on behalf of the American authorities, told the court: 'Bowen is undoubtedly a fugitive from justice from the legal powers of the United States. 'He was granted bail for a huge amount of $10,000 and subsequently left the country in 2010. 'He was given bail and released and his record is not good, he has not attended court and travelled in Liberia and the Netherlands.' But, in a judgment likely to spark outrage in America, magistrates ruled that Bowen's 'right to liberty and security' under the European Convention on Human Rights was at threat from his extradition. District judge Margaret Rose rejected claims that putting him on a plane would breach either his right to a fair trial or his freedom of expression. 
MILWAUKEE — 32-year-old Derrick Brown made his initial appearance in a Milwaukee County courtroom on Wednesday, January 21st. He’s facing criminal charges in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in December in the Riverwest neighborhood. Brown is specifically charged with attempted first-degree sexual assault (use of a dangerous weapon) and kidnapping. In court Wednesday, the judge ordered Brown be held on $100,000 cash bond — and then set a preliminary hearing date for Thursday, January 29th. As Brown entered and just before he left the courtroom, Brown shouted, “God’s wrath is on white America.”
A man accused of robbing and sexually assaulting 
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA - A teenager was arrested in Gwinnett County, accused of 
LOS ANGELES — Embattled former Husky and former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens was arrested this week for an alleged DUI in Los Angeles, TMZ Sports reported. According to TMZ, the 35-year-old former tight end was in the car with his wife, Seattle Reign and USA Soccer star Hope Solo, when he was pulled over early Monday morning. Stevens was arrested for driving under the influence, TMZ reported, and his bail was set at $5,000 after refusing to submit to a breath test. Solo was allegedly “acting belligerent,” while police talked to her husband, TMZ reported. She was not arrested. 
GARY — Another victim of suspected serial killer Darren Vann has a name. A body found Oct. 19 in a vacant house at 2200 Massachusetts St. has been identified as 
As the search for more bodies continues– the families of the identified victims are trying to work through their grief. Police say Darren Vann confessed to killing 36-year-old 
ORLANDO, Fla. — Seminole County prosecutors have charged five underage Winter Springs High football players with gang rape. Two are now being prosecuted as adults. Three will be prosecuted as juveniles. Those three are scheduled to be in juvenile court Tuesday for arraignment. The other two may appear in adult court. A sixth suspect — the only adult, 18-year-old Torreano Batton — has not been charged. He's due back in adult court Tuesday for his arraignment. 
A Fort Worth couple charged with abuse of a corpse after their funeral home was shut down last summer now face theft charges. Dondre Johnson and Rachel Hardy Johnson were indicted last week, accused of accepting payments and dead bodies in exchange for services they did not intend to deliver. The couple was first charged in July after police found 
The Houston Police Department describes the suspect as a black man with dark complexion and a thin muscular build. He is believed to be about 20 to 25 years old and is about 6 feet tall. Police say he has a deep voice.
SPRINGFIELD TWP, OH - A Cincinnati man is up for parole after he was convicted for the kidnapping and the death of a 3-year-old boy more than 30 years ago.
Two men have been arrested in a Sunday home invasion and shooting at a Lakeland home that left one man dead and three wounded, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Auban Carter, 24, and Tobarais Hudson, 25, both of Lakeland, were charged in the incident on Chase Road in Lakeland. About 9 p.m. Sunday, deputies went to a home and learned two men had approached the home where 10 people had gathered, demanding money and drugs. The intruders were offered a small amount of marijuana and a small amount of money, but the suspects apparently thought there would be a large amounts of money and drugs at the residence, deputies said. The intruders forced the victims into the home and
Police arrested a suspect Saturday night in the fatal shooting Thursday of a night manager at a Drury Inn & Suites hotel in St. Louis. St. Louis police issued a statement that “a person of interest in connection” with the slaying had been arrested “in another jurisdiction on unrelated charges” and was being interviewed by homicide investigators. A police source identified him as Joseph Bernard Bowens, 43, arrested in the Poplar Bluff area, about 2½ hours south of St. Louis. Police said Thursday that the robber was buzzed in through a locked door at the hotel at Hampton Avenue and Interstate 44 by night manager 
PEMBERTON TWP., N.J. -- Authorities have charged a woman with killing her newborn daughter by setting the baby on fire in the middle of a road in Burlington County, New Jersey. Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, of Pemberton Township, is charged with one count of murder. She is being held on $500,000 bail. Officers were called to the unit block of Simontown Road around 11:00 p.m. Friday. Dave Joseph and his family made the discovery. They say they had no idea what was on fire outside of their home but saw Dorvilier standing in front of an SUV, behind the fire. She allegedly told Joseph that she was burning dog waste she found in her SUV. He told her to put it out. "She grabbed a bottle of water, poured it on there, my wife was down there and said it was a baby," said Joseph. Horrified, Joseph and his wife called 911 and held Dorvilier until police arrived and she was taken into custody. The baby was transferred to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children where she later died. 
A Deerfield Beach man is being held without bond, accused of using his cellphone to video record
SUNRISE, Fla. - Sunrise police arrested a man Thursday for sexually abusing a 
New Orleans police on Friday released computer-generated illustrations of two men wanted in the reported kidnapping of a woman in Gentilly and sexual assault of her in eastern New Orleans. Police said the woman was abducted Thursday around 3 p.m. by a gunman who forced her back into her car in the 4900 block of Demontluzin Street. He drove around the block to pick up two more men, and they took the woman to a secluded area near the 11000 block of Old Gentilly Road, where she was sexually assaulted. Police have not said how many of the suspects participated in the sexual assault.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Chatham County man has been sentenced to four years in prison for intentionally exposing four women to HIV. Antonio Myawn Bacon Jr. must remain on probation for 16 years following his release. The Savannah Morning News reports a grand jury indicted Bacon on reckless conduct charges. Prosecutors said Bacon learned he was HIV positive before he exposed his victims to the sexually transmitted disease. 
About two dozen protesters rallied outside Bill Cosby's show in Pueblo Friday night. The Pueblo Chieftain reports the demonstrators chanted "no means no" and "Colorado believes the women." The 77-year-old comedian is facing sexual assault allegations from
Chinese spies stole key design information about Australia's new Joint Strike Fighter, according to top secret documents disclosed by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. Sensitive military technologies and data stolen included information relating to the B-2 stealth bomber; the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter; nuclear submarine and naval air-defence missile designs; and tens of thousands of military personnel records. 
CLAYTON • A man charged with killing an Imo’s delivery driver in Dellwood in November 2012 was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison. Earon Anthony Rivers, who was 17 at the time of the murder, was caught in a house with the empty pizza boxes and murder weapon, authorities say. Rivers, of the 10000 block of Bon Oak Drive, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 17. St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Michael Burton sentenced him to 25 years on each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. The delivery driver, 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The man convicted of the brutal murder of 
HOUSTON - A River Oaks man says mysterious photos have begun appearing on his iCloud account, a week after his iPad and other items went missing from his truck. 
TOLEDO, OH - A man already serving time for murder in an Ohio prison has entered an Alford plea to charges he killed a Toledo woman back in 1976. Martin Woods entered the plea Friday in the murder of 
Police described the suspect as a black man between the ages of 20 and 25, approximately 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 150 to 180 pounds. They say he wears a black Yankees baseball hat.
KINGSPORT, TN - Police Department detectives are continuing to investigate an Allandale Falls Apartments shooting, where Sullivan South student 
HOUSTON -- A woman confronted a man she claims grabbed her sexually while she was shopping. Now he's in custody, because she refused to back down. That woman was in the Big Lots when she says a man groped her not once, but twice.
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EATTLE - Darren Gayles, the 44-year-old suspect in the stabbing of a Renton store clerk, faces charges of attempted murder in the first degree and robbery in the first degree. King County prosecutors also say Gayles was wanted on an outstanding warrant from Indiana for violating a protection order. Gayles declined to appear in King County Jail Court Thursday; he's expected to appear before a bond hearing Friday. 
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drunken vagrant who hurled a Pace University student onto subway tracks because the victim tried to stop the man from beating a woman took a plea deal in a Manhattan court. Rayfield Grant, 30, pleaded guilty to attempted assault in exchange for eight years in prison. He faced as much as 15 years behind bars if he had been convicted of attempted murder — the top charge against him. The unhinged drifter was beating his girlfriend when he socked 
For the second time, Shaquille Jones has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for his involvement in the shooting death of University of Michigan medical student 
One of the two women charged in the stabbing death of two young children during an "exorcism" entered a guilty plea Friday. The court found Monifa Sanford not criminally responsible for the murders. She will be committed to a psychiatric hospital. Prosecutors say Sanford and Zakieya Avery killed 
Las Vegas Metro police have released video surveillance images of three suspects wanted in connection to a robbery of a hotel room in January. The three suspects forcefully entered a victim's hotel room in Las Vegas and stole undisclosed items from the victim. The police are hoping that someone will recognize the pictured suspects and help the police identify them. Suspect No. 1 is described as a black male in his 20s to 30s with short or shaved hairstyle who used a walking cane. Suspect No. 2 is described as a heavyset black female in her 20s or 30s. Suspect No. 3 is described as a thin white female in her 20s or 30s who wore eye glasses.
TULSA, Okla. — Police arrested one and said they are building a case against others who are accused of plotting and killing two women outside an east Tulsa apartment complex in November. The suspected trigger man, Quantell Jamar Alverson, is behind bars, but detectives said the investigation is far from over. “They need to be aware that we are here, and we take this stuff serious,” Sgt. Dave Walker said about those still on the run. “They made a lot of mistakes, and it was obvious they had a lot of time to think and plan and they did not do a good job.” Walker said they found evidence to prove Alverson shot 
Larry Oscar Douglas Jr., Amanda’s husband, is an obvious person of interest in the case, police said, but they’ve found no evidence linking him to the crime. Amanda Douglas petitioned for a protective order against her husband six days before her death.Court records show she also sought protective orders on Feb. 27 and June 23, alleging he had physically, mentally and emotionally abused her over the past five years, including choking her while 
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ACKSON, MS - Two men who are believed to have shot and killed 69-year-old 
CARRICK, Pa. — The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed late Tuesday that a boy brutally beaten at a group home in Carrick over the weekend has died. 
Cincinnati police arrested an Avondale man for allegedly strangling a 44-year-old woman to death in his apartment Tuesday night. The two were friends from the neighborhood and had known each other for about three years, a homicide investigator said. The investigator declined to discuss potential motive for the killing. Police responded to the 3600 block of Reading Road early Wednesday morning to investigate the incident and found 
A man on trial accused of murdering the mother of his child while high on cocaine allegedly told police their taser was not strong enough after being shot with a stun gun. 
A Bronx grand jury handed up indictments against the two men charged with sticking up a bodega before opening fire on two cops, while a lawyer for one of the men insisted his client had no involvement in the shooting. Accused cop-shooter Jason Polanco, 24, was indicted on two felony attempted-murder raps that could put him behind bars for life, and career criminal Joshua Kemp, 28, was indicted on charges including robbery as his accomplice, the Bronx district attorney announced Monday. Polanco is accused of shooting Officers 
OLATHE, KS - One of the four suspects in a shooting at a Shawnee gun shop that left one of the owners dead is now out of the hospital. Nicquan Midgyett, 19, is now booked into the Johnson County Jail on first-degree murder charges. Londro E. Patterson, 20, and De'Anthony A. Wiley, 19, still remained hospitalized. Each has a bond of $500,000. Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe charged Midgyett and three other men in the death of 
BEAUMONT, Texas — A Beaumont man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in the stabbing death of maintenance worker last year. A judge on Monday sentenced 39-year-old Samuel Thomas to life in prison in the April death of 
ST. LOUIS, MO – A college student shot in a Downtown St. Louis robbery attempt has died. Police say 19-year-old 
