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Investigation continues into arson, double homicide - two White victims of gang of murderous black thieves
  AMERICUS — Bond was denied to the first four arrested in an arson and double homicide case in Sumter County, even as another suspect was taken into custody Wednesday. Sumter County Sheriff Pete Smith said Demetrious Hubbard, 21, of 118 Foster St., DeSoto is charged with felony murder Wednesday. Arrested earlier in the week were Ruhemmeion O. King, 17, of 514 Henry Hart Road, Americus, charged with two counts of felony murder; Qwinterrious J. Dodson, 22, of 541 Henry Hart Road, Americus, charged with felony theft by receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; Reginald K. Mathis, 28, of 513-B Bessie Mayes Circle, Americus, charged with felony theft by receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; and Brandon L. Prince, 21, of 121 Frieda Lane, Americus, charged with theft by receiving stolen property. All five remain incarcerated at the Sumter County Jail. They will be bound over to Sumter Superior Court. The Sumter County Fire Department responded to a fire shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at 780 R.W. Jones Road in rural eastern Sumter County. The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office and Coroner’s Office were notified with two bodies were discovered, those of Bonnie Freeman, 54, and her 33-year-old son Dallas Freeman. Both had been shot multiple times, according to the sheriff. - (Black-on-white) |
EMPORIA, Va. — Nearly two months after her burned body was found in a Tennessee field, investigators tracked down one of the people believed responsible for the murder of 
CINCINNATI, Ohio — A mother is accused of trafficking her
ATLANTA - Fulton County prosecutors say a man has been given a life sentence for raping a woman in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood in March 2013. Prosecutors said Monday that 20-year-old Torrance Deandre Hambrick was sentenced on charges of rape, aggravated sodomy, kidnapping, hijacking a motor vehicle and weapons charges. Prosecutors say Hambrick was in a group of men who forced their way into the victim's car at a stoplight and pulled a gun on her. Prosecutors say Hambrick and accomplice Willie Tims took turns sexually assaulting the woman in the backseat. Authorities have said two weeks after the attack, Tims called the victim and was arrested after texting a picture of himself to her. Tims was given two life sentences plus 70 years. A third defendant, Steven Brown, was sentenced to 30 years.
NEW YORK — The NYPD is still on the hunt for a suspect in a pair of Upper West Side knifepoint robberies. On Sunday Jan. 18, at 5:30 p.m. 
A man who killed a 2-year-old Inkster girl in front of her father last year is scheduled to be sentenced to life in prison today. A Wayne County jury convicted Raymone Jackson, 25, of first-degree murder in the death of 
A Queens judge who once blasted the head of a judicial committee as racist is now being accused of lobbing anti-Italian remarks himself. Supreme Court Judge Duane Hart, who has been censured twice for improper conduct, asked during a January property-dispute hearing whether 
UNION GROVE — Following a nearly 24-hour manhunt, Racine County Sheriff’s officials apprehended 20-year-old Stan Sillas. On Monday evening, March 23rd, Sillas died at the hospital after he shot himself when law enforcement officials closed in. Sillas was wanted in connection with an abduction incident Sunday in Union Grove. Investigators say Sillas abducted a woman at gunpoint on Sunday afternoon at the Racine Neurological Center near Waterford. Police got a denoscription of the car Sillas was driving, and soon after, it was reported in the parking lot of the Union Grove Piggly Wiggly store. Sillas was approached by Racine County Sheriff’s deputies and allegedly opened fire. At least two shots were fired — one into a parked squad car with a deputy inside. 
ANAHEIM — A 28-year-old waitress was recovering Monday after she was run over by customers who authorities say drove off and refused to pay their bill in Anaheim. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were sent shortly before 6:30 p.m. Sunday to 
A Camden Metro Police officer accused of masturbating inside a Camden County Starbucks last year pleaded guilty to lewdness charges Monday. Lt. 
An eastern Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial in the stabbing death of his roommate earlier this year. Twenty-five-year-old 
PHILADELPHIA – Police announced a second 15-year-old has been charged for his involvement in the murder of a man walking his dog in West Philadelphia. Authorities say on Friday, March 20, Tyfine Hamilton was arrested and charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, robbery, violation of the uniform firearms act and related offenses. Hamilton turned himself into police Friday morning. Brandon Smith was already charged in the murder of 51-year-old
SACRAMENTO— Police arrested a man on Tuesday, March 17, in the brutal murder of a Citrus Heights woman. Allen Bocteemus Franks, 48, was arrested after police found him in the victim’s van. The victim, 
A St. Louis business owner is accused of luring two young children into his business, molesting and sodomizing them. Hakeem Rasheen, 62, operates Union Motors in North St. Louis City. His business is near the boys' bus stop and it's there where he allegedly lured the
A Trenton man has been charged with sexually assaulting 
LACEY, Wash. — A man who police said stole a car that had two children in its back seat is also a suspect in two rapes, one of which occurred on the same day as the car theft. On Wednesday morning, a running car with two children inside was stolen from a church parking lot in the 3800 block of College Street Southeast. The car was found abandoned in the 2600 block of the same street a short time later. The children were unharmed. Lacey police and the Thurston County deputies identified the suspect as 25-year-old Lacey man Curtis Harmon and determined that Harmon fled Washington on an Amtrak train and was in the Portland, Oregon area. 
Long Island cops fatally shot a 21-year-old man who tried to steal a car with two kids in the back seat, officials said Monday. The mayhem unfolded in Bay Shore about 7:45 p.m. Sunday after the Suffolk County police responded to a reported robbery at a Best Buy at 1851 West Sunrise Highway. A witness told police that the suspect, Denzel Brown of Amityville, was hiding outside the store, cops said. When an officer tried to arrest Brown, he ran away through a parking lot. A cop chased him on foot and then Tasered Brown to no avail, police said. As he fled, Brown frantically tried to open the doors of both moving and parked vehicles, cops said. He tried to steal a running car from a couple while
PACIFIC, Wash. — A Pacific woman's dog stopped an attack by a man who was about to rape her earlier this month, the woman told authorities. Pacific police arrested Ralph Alexander Young on attempted rape charges in the March 3 attack. Young entered the victim’s home on Third Avenue Southwest in Pacific and said he was returning borrowed dishes. Once inside, he told the victim that he wanted to touch her and tried to kiss her, but she told him she wasn’t interested. Young pushed the woman down on her bed and got on top of her, pushing her shirt up and pulling her pants down, despite her physical resistance and repeated protests. As Young pulled his pants down and got back on top of her, her dogs, which were in the bedroom, were “becoming very agitated by the commotion and started barking at Young.” As Young was about to rape the victim, “one of her dogs climbed on top of her and in between her and Young and started ‘nipping’ at Young.” Police said Young then pulled up his pants and left. 
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A man accused of robbing two women and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents is in police custody. Jaquese North, 18, from the 3300 block of Werder, was taken into custody around 6:00 p.m. Saturday after St. Louis County Police Officers located him at a park near Lilac and Interstate 270. North is suspected of striking a woman in the face in the 500 block of North Skinker around 4:00 p.m. Wednesday. The victim, a 53-year-old woman, told police she was walking on Skinker when the suspect approached her, struck her in the face and stole her cell phone. North is also accused of grabbing a woman, who was walking on the foot-bridge that crosses the Forest Park Expressway, and demanding money from her Friday morning. According to police, when North was taken into custody, he admitted that he was also responsible for a sexual assault that took place on March 3 in the area of Trinity and Washington.
CHARLOTTE, NC - A Charlotte neighborhood is meeting with police Monday night after they say a neighbor repeatedly stands naked for everyone to see. The story made national headlines last week after neighbors said enough was enough. People in the Cardinal Glen neighborhood in north Charlotte say the man, Gerard Leeper, has been doing this for nearly ten years. They want it to stop. He has been arrested eight times by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police for indecent exposure, among other charges. "He only exposes himself to females and teens.
PHILADELPHIA – Police say the man wanted for the shooting of a 
PITTSBURGH – One man has been arrested after a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood. A 25-year-old woman was shot around 3:30 a.m. in a home on courtright Street. She has been identified as 
TAMPA, FL - Tampa Police have not announced the arrest of any suspects in a shooting at a birthday party Saturday at a birthday party. About 50 teens showed up at the party at Sitka and 9th in Sulfur Springs. Witnesses tell us the party spread out into the streets and police were called. But shortly after police left shots were fired into the crowd striking three teens. One teen, 14-year-old 
HOUSTON - Two people were hospitalized after shots were fired at a birthday party attended by singer 
A Baton Rouge man was arrested early Sunday after he confessed to shooting his 18-year-old son in the buttocks during an argument over orange juice. Eldridge Dukes, 58, and his son were fighting about the lack of orange juice in their north Baton Rouge home, according to a Baton Rouge police arrest report. The squabble escalated when the victim broke a porcelain vase, and Dukes grabbed his .357 caliber handgun, family members told detectives. Dukes chased the victim out of the house and down the street, firing at least three times. He hit the victim once in the buttocks, detectives said. The victim was taken to Baton Rouge General Mid-City Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the report says.
Two Dauphin County women have been charged with stealing more than $7,000 from an airline, according to Lower Swatara Township police. Investigators said China Lee Scott, 44, of the 100 Block of Nissley Street in Middletown, stole several business checks totaling
History was made in Delaware Sunday as a same-sex couple became they first to be ordained jointly as ministers by the Presbyterian Church USA. The joint ordination of Kaci Clark-Porter and Holly Clark-Porter took place Sunday afternoon at First & Central Presbyterian Church. 
AUSTIN — An Austin lawyer is claiming responsibility for several stickers placed on East Austin businesses that claimed they were “exclusively for white people.” 
ATLANTA — Police are looking for leads in a deadly double-shooting in northeast Atlanta. Atlanta police say two men were shot and killed just before 3 a.m. Saturday. 
A Domino's Pizza manager was struck on the head with a metal bar during a robbery in Arizona that was caught on surveillance camera. 
SHREVEPORT, LA - Bossier Parish sheriff's investigators have arrested a Shreveport man in connection with the murder of a woman found dead in the Haughton area Sunday. According to a statement released by the Bossier Sheriff's Office late Monday afternoon, 34-year-old Nathaniel Allen Mingo is charged with 2nd degree murder for the killing of 33-year-old 
A woman has died after being stabbed Thursday night (March 19) in the parking lot of the McDonald's at 3025 Elysian Fields Ave. Her boyfriend has been arrested in connection with the crime, New Orleans police said. Christopher Hutsell, 38, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, according to police. Authorities said the woman didn't have any identification on her when she was found and that she remains unidentified. Both Hutsell and his girlfriend are believed to be homeless.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Six people were arrested in the Delmar Loop Saturday for failure to disperse and peace disturbance. Officers responded to a call for several groups of juveniles fighting in the area. Five were arrested for peace disturbance and one for failure to disperse. Another suspect, a 15-year-old male, was taken into custody after officers observed him firing shots. The arrests do not appear to be related to protests in the area, according to police. 
A man wanted in the fatal shooting of another man following a bar fight in New Jersey on Valentine's Day has been captured in Georgia. Middlesex County prosecutors say 32-year-old Franklin Township resident Jahmmel Chephas was arrested Friday in DeKalb County. But further details on the capture have not been disclosed, including how authorities learned Chephas was in the area. Chephas faces a murder count and a weapons charge in the death of 31-year-old 
The hard-partying cop behind the wheel in a wrong-way crash that killed two of his pals on Staten Island also wrecked his luxury car the year before, according to friends and neighbors. “I’ve seen him come home many times late, obnoxious with his friends,” a neighbor of New Jersey police officer
District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that Thomas Young (DOB 5/19/47), of Birmingham, Alabama, was sentenced today for the July 30, 1980, murder of 15- year-old. Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Bennett sentenced Young to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found him guilty on February 26, 2015, of first-degree murder in the commission of rape. The murder took place during the daytime when Young entered the home of teenager 
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — A North Carolina man has been indicted on a second degree murder charge after a fatal crash that claimed the life of a retired Elizabeth City teacher. Police say 30-year-old Elbert Justin Horton was drunk when he was involved in a head-on collision in Pasquotank County and crashed his 2006 Chrysler minivan into 62-year-old 
A man armed with a machete and wasp spray stormed through a security area at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday night before being shot, authorities said. Richard White, 62, was taken to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said. The suspect in the attack on TSA agents at the New Orleans-area airport is taken away on a stretcher. The incident started when White entered a security checkpoint for Concourse B and began spraying Transportation Security Administration agents and bystanders with a can of wasp spray, a sheriff's office statement said. White soon pulled out a machete from his waistband and began wielding it at agents and others in the area. The machete allegedly used against TSA officers is seen on the floor of the airport. One of the agents blocked the machete with a piece of luggage as White chased him through a security checkpoint metal detector. At that point, Lt. Heather Slyve of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office opened fire, shooting White in the chest, face and thigh. 
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A massage therapist who admits that he groped a woman’s breasts during a Bellevue spa treatment is headed to jail for nine months. As part of his deal with the King County Prosecutor’s Office, Reggy Michael Arntsen (aka Reggy Michael Nelson), will also give up his license to practice massage in Washington State. Arntsen was originally charged with assault for the sexually motivated attack on 
RICHMOND, Va. — Police identified the 19-year-old woman fatally shot at a Richmond gas station over the weekend during a dispute as 
MIAMI - Authorities are investigating after an elderly woman was nearly sexually assaulted by a man who entered her home while she was alone. It happened around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Detectives said the woman was in her home when she was startled by a man who walked toward her from the living room area, as she went about her daily chores. The woman, who had left her front door open to let fresh air inside the house, claimed the man forced himself on her in an attempt to sexually assault her. In fear, the woman shouted and freed herself from the man. After a struggle, the man fled in an unknown direction. The woman's alleged attacker was described by Miami police as a black man in his 20s to early 30s who is about 5 feet 8 inches tall, and has a slim build, black long-braided hair and big brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a red tank top, dark shorts, black tennis shoes and a fingerless glove on his left hand.
MILWAUKEE — U.S. Marshals are looking for 53-year-old James Scott., Jr. Scott is known to spend nights at downtown homeless shelters. Scott was charged in February with 1st degree sexual assault of a child. A criminal complaint says
A Queens man was convicted Thursday of murdering a 73-year-old Holocaust survivor in a cold case that had gone unsolved for 32 years, prosecutors said. 
DALLAS -- When a man raped a woman last month inside a parking garage elevator at Baylor Hospital, the hospital took steps to notify its employees, contractors and physicians. The hospital, however, didn't notify patients or the general public about the attack. William Johnson, a deaf 50-year-old convicted sex offender, has been arrested in the attack. He's being held in the Dallas County jail on charges of sexual assault and violating the state's sex registry laws. He was out of prison for about three weeks at the time of the attack. 
A New Jersey mother was arrested on child endangerment charges after giving birth to twins -- her 6th and 7th children -- earlier this week. The woman, along with the father of her five other children, allegedly left their five other children in a home strewn with human waste. 
Perth Amboy's mayor says she did nothing wrong when she had a highly-paid police officer drive her to a wedding in Brooklyn. The 2013 wedding was for Rabbi Shabsi Ganzweig, who is a volunteer police chaplain. (Hispanic) Police Chief 
LONGMONT, Colo. – The family of a woman who was attacked and lost her baby in a bizarre and gruesome crime says she is in critical but stable condition at Longmont United Hospital. 
The trigger man in the March 2012 homicide of a Madison County Mississippi State University student pleaded guilty to murder on Thursday. Mason Perry Jones, of Jackson, is one of three men accused in the shooting death of 
DETROIT, MI -- It was about 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 when a pack of up to 12 pit bulls, four of them puppies, mauled 50-year-old 
BRONX, N.Y. -- Police are looking for three men who attacked a woman and tried to steal her cell phone in the Bronx, and they're hoping dramatic surveillance video will lead to an arrest. The suspects approached 18-year-old 
The badly decomposed body of a missing black man who did 25 years in prison for murder was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi on March 19. Otis Byrd, 54, had been missing since March 2 in Claiborne County. Authorities aren’t saying much about the circumstances that led to Byrd’s death, just that they’re not ruling anything out. In 1980, Byrd murdered a woman in a robbery that netted him $101. He was released from prison in November 2006. He Spent 25 Years in Prison for Murdering the Mother of a Republican Congressional Candidate. In 1981, Byrd was found guilty of murdering 
NEW YORK — A U.S. Air Force veteran and airplane mechanic accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group will plead not guilty to terrorism charges. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, of New Jersey, was indicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist group and obstructing justice, federal prosecutors announced. Pugh had been stopped at a Turkish airport in January carrying a laptop with information on Turkey-Syria border crossing points, 180 jihadist propaganda videos including footage of an Islamic State prisoner beheading, and a letter declaring: “I will use the talents and skills given to me by Allah to establish and defend the Islamic States.” “There is only two possible outcomes for me. Victory or martyr,” continued the letter, which authorities believe was to Pugh’s Egyptian wife.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police announced Thursday that they've filed 32 sex crime charges against a Charlotte doctor. Dr. 
Two men have been arrested in relation to a burglary incident in which a father discovered the ashes of his teenage daughter were stolen. Franklin police officers said they developed evidence with the help of witnesses pointing to Jwyanza Weaver and Christopher Gengler as the suspects in the case. Monday afternoon,
DEVON, Pa. — A Chester County lawyer is going to prison for child molestation. Lawrence Carroll, 46, of Devon, Pa., was charged a year ago with abusing a child between 1990 and 1995 inside a home he owned at the time in Tredyffrin Township. He pleaded guilty, and today was sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison. “This sentence of more than a decade in state prison shows how seriously his crimes will be treated in Chester County,” said Michael Noone, the first assistant DA in Chester County, afterward. 
HUMBOLT, Tenn. - A bank employee was shot three times during an attempted robbery just after 8 a.m. Wednesday at BancorpSouth on Main Street in Humbolt, Tenn. According to the Gibson County Sheriff, the suspect was waiting for the victim, who is a bank employee, in a garage at her home. The suspect grabbed the victim, later identified as 
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. - The driver accused of causing a deadly head-on crash early Tuesday morning - then running from the scene - is being held on several charges, including vehicular homicide. Investigators say 22-year-old Jeremy Brown was driving a 2000 Toyota Camry when the car crossed a concrete median. The Camry flipped and landed on top of a 1999 Honda Civic, continued rolling and came to a stop on its roof a short distance away. The driver of the Civic, a 41-year-old man from Aurora, died in the crash, according to the Colorado State Patrol. There were four passengers in the car with Brown, according to Nate Reid with the CSP. The passengers were identified as 23-year-old Triauna Jackson from Commerce City, a 17-year-old female from Denver, 18-year-old Kymbreanne Parker from Denver and 20-year-old Ty-Ron Elam. Jackson was not hurt. The other passengers were treated for moderate injuries, Reid said. Brown has prior arrests for assault, robbery, obstructing police and trespassing. 
A Springfield man has been charged with vehicular homicide five months after a Clark County man and his granddaughter died in a crash. A Clark County grand jury indicted Lewis Chambers, 54, on Monday on multiple charges, including aggravated vehicular homicide, operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, aggravated vehicular assault and vehicular assault. Chambers was behind the wheel of an SUV when it slammed into a car on Dayton-Springfield Road on Oct. 11, killing 
A would-be burglar who set a convent fire that left a Staten Island nun with a broken back pleaded guilty on Wednesday and faces 10 years in prison. Vincent Calder, 20, admitted lighting the fire at St. Joseph Hill Academy in Arrochar at 5 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2013. He pleaded guilty to second-degree arson. Investigators said Calder and two other men broke into the residence after smoking pot and drinking beer. The other men pleaded guilty to burglary, but only Calder was responsible for the arson, according to Staten Island DA Dan Donovan. 
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City police have arrested one suspect and are looking for two more after a video surfaced online showing two brothers being brutally beaten. Two brothers were brutally beaten and kicked while someone else cheered and recorded the fight with their cell phone. The fight took place at the park across the street from Putnam City West High School where some of the boys go to school. Thursday morning, Oklahoma City police confirmed that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested by the police gang unit in connection to the beating. He was booked into the Berry House on a complaint of aggravated assault and battery. According to police, two others have been identified, but are still at large. One of the brothers suffered a broken cheek bone and orbital fracture. The other suffered a broken nose and concussion. Both may have to have reconstructive surgery. 
An NYPD cop who led the charge into a barricaded Sheepshead Bay apartment in 2012 took the stand in the alleged shooter’s attempted-murder trial Monday to give the first full denoscription of his actions. “The girlfriend walked slowly towards the door, cradling her little guy,” Detective 
When a Lewisville woman showed up at a tax preparation company looking for a 
