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Police: White family attacked by blacks for being in "wrong neighborhood"
 BATON ROUGE, LA - He was in the "wrong neighborhood" is just one reason a man gave as to why he was punched in the face. His wife and daughter were also hit. Police arrested one man and ticketed two others. They are all accused of punching the family. A family stopped to get gas Sunday around 10 p.m. "Upon our arrival, we located three victims who were attacked in the parking lot," said Cpl. Tommy Stubbs, spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Police Department. Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument. "The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated. It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground." At this time, his wife got out of the car and ran to help her husband. The victim said, "he continued to struggle with the defendant and was eventually knocked unconscious, which later he awoke in the hospital." His wife told police, "after running to help her husband, she remembers falling to the ground and (being) knocked unconscious." According to a close family friend, that's when the couple's teenage daughter got out of the car to check on her parents and, "observed a female punch her mother in the face, when her mother then fell to the concrete, hitting her head on the surface." The daughter was also punched in the face. Dickerson was arrested and charged with second-degree battery. The other two suspects, Devin Bessye, 24, and Ashley Simmons, 22, were released on site after police wrote them each a summons for simple battery. The victim suffered "a broken eye socket, broken nose, and several lacerations to the face," and his wife was knocked unconscious. "I feel that's racist," said Henderson. - (Black-on-white) |
A wanted man with a criminal history dating back nearly 15 years was identified by police Saturday as the masked home invader involved in the death of a Hofstra University student early Friday morning. Dalton Smith, who was wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction, attempted to rob the off-campus home where he and Hofstra junior Andrea Rebello were fatally shot, Nassau County police said. Authorities said police were involved in the shooting although it isn't clear who fired the shots that killed Rebello and Smith around 2:30 a.m. Friday. Police said they are still investigating. Smith was identified using fingerprints just hours after funeral arrangement were made for Rebello, 21, a popular public relations major who was with her twin sister Jessica and several other students in an off-campus house at the time of the break-in. - (Black-on-white)
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Four former high school football players in Pflugerville will not serve time for their roles in the rape of a 9-th grader two years ago. All 4 men pleaded guilty to attempted unlawful restraint and were sentenced to 5 years deferred adjudication. Leonard Scales, 20 and 21-year-old Tommie Robins Jr had been charged with sexual assault. Deionta James, 21, and 19-year-old Curtis Franklin were charged with unlawful restraint. The victim told police that James and Franklin held her down in the shower area at a pool while Scales and Robins took turns sexually assaulting her. 
A St. Louis man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to 48 years in prison for raping a woman at gunpoint in Castle Point in 2001. Jerrell Scott, 28, was linked to the attack by DNA, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said Scott grabbed the woman off the street on Oct. 26, 2001, and took her to two adjoining yards where he raped her. Scott also asked the woman to perform oral sex on him but she refused, prosecutors said. The woman immediately sought help after the attack. The DNA hit, linking Scott to biological material left on the woman's pants, came last year, according to prosecutors. 
A suspect in custody Friday for allegedly kidnapping a 7-year-old girl and stuffing her in his trunk is a registered sex offender who has attacked before. It’s the exact scenario the mother of the suspect’s first victim says should never have happened. Christy says Cedreic Holland should still be in prison for the horrible things he did to her daughter when she was only 5 years old. The man of her nightmares is now accused of snatching a 7-year-old girl walking with her mom in south Sacramento, and throwing her in his trunk. Holland was charged in 2006 with multiple counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child. 
DAYTON — A 35-year-old man remains in jail on a $300,000 bond following an indictment accusing him of rape and other felonies. Erick White was formally charged this week by a Montgomery County grand jury on charges of domestic violence and aggravated burglary as well, according to the county prosecutor’s office. White is accused of entering a home on Karwin Drive without permission on May 2 and assaulting a woman there. According to court records, he has domestic violence convictions from 1998 and 2011.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A Belleville man has been charged for allegedly abusing a 28-year-old woman. Police were called by a woman who said she was sexually abused. She said she was sitting on the steps to her apartment building smoking a cigarette when a man approached her and asked her for a cigarette. The victim says she gave the man a cigarette, and was chatting with the man when she became uncomfortable. She says she gathered her belongings and was walking back into her apartment when the suspect, identified as 35-year-old Anthony T. Graham, grabbed her arm and pulled her between two buildings. Graham allegedly put his hand down the woman's pants. The woman says she struggled and was able to break free and run inside her apartment where she called police. Police found Graham nearby hiding under bushes. 
PHILADELPHIA – A 27-year-old woman has been arrested for assaulting a student at a Philadelphia elementary school. Atiff Brown, of S. 60th Street in Philadelphia, was arrested for allegedly assaulting an 11-year-old student at A.B. Anderson Elementary School on Monday. Brown was charged with Terroristic Threats, Simple Assault, Recklessly Endangering Another Person and Defiant Trespass.
A homeless man has been arrested in the rape of an unconscious homeless woman in a downtown alley, police said. Just after midnight Friday, officers were alerted to a possible assault in the 200 block of McCrea Street, the alley southwest of Georgia and Meridian streets. The officers found a man raping a woman between a trash compactor and a fence, police said. The woman was found to be unconscious and took two minutes to respond, police said. The man was identified as Theodore Bryant, 56. He was arrested on a preliminary charge of rape.
A Nashville man has been charged with aggravated child abuse stemming from the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son. 30-year-old Donald Harris admitted to whipping the child multiple times with a belt and striking him with his hand. Police said an ambulance was called to the mother's home after she reported the child had stopped breathing. The child died shortly after he arrived at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital. The hospital staff reported finding multiple bruises on the child's abdomen, chest, back, leg, arms, face, and head. The affidavit said he had also sustained abrasions on his face, chest, and neck areas, as well as injuries on the inside of his upper and lower lips.
After deliberating for just 10 minutes, a Dallas County jury found 34-year-old 
OH - A baby girl was fatally stabbed at a Sandusky home on Thursday. The baby was just 11-months, and was attacked inside a house on Dewey Street. Denzel Castile, 19, was arrested at the scene. He is charged and is being held without bond. The relationship between the baby and Castile is not clear at this time.
A judge has denied bail for a man accused of killing a 2-year-old boy in Mount Pleasant from abuse. The Charleston County Coroner’s Office has identified the boy as
Police announced this afternoon that Zachary Barber, 28, has been charged with involuntarily manslaughter -- after he allegedly struck his two-year-old son, who died a short while later. Police say that an autopsy revealed Isiah Barber was struck in the chest. And a probable cause statement from the St. Louis circuit attorney, on view below, says that the father admitted to police that he had hit his son. 
Mich. - Center Line Police need the public's help looki n g for a man wanted for sexually assaulting a juvenile relative at gunpoint.
SC - Investigators say a 31-year-old man arrested for groping a woman at a gas station in West Ashley is also accused of making an obscene comment to a
A federal grand jury has indicted state Rep. Tyrone Brooks over allegations claiming he misappropriated more than $1 million in charitable funds. Brooks, a Democrat from Atlanta, was charged Thursday with 30 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and false tax returns. The allegations involve Brooks' relationship with Universal Humanities, a charity he founded in 1990, and the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials. The indictment alleges the 67-year-old repeatedly solicited contributions from individuals and corporate donors to combat illiteracy and other causes, but then used the money for personal expenses.
A Raleigh man and his girlfriend have been charged with child abuse after investigators say the pair used zip ties to bind his 4-year-old daughter and fasten her to a baby gate in their home. Gerald Thomas Swinehart, 26, and Marlaine Victoria Coffey, 28, both of 931 S. East St., were arrested last month in Marin County, Fla., where, police say, they fled after the child was removed from their custody in March. The pair was extradited to Raleigh last week. "The
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of a popular Philadelphia DJ. Police say Josephe Murray, an 18-year-old from the 5700 block of Reedland Street, was arrested for the murder of 36-year-old
An accomplice in the shooting of a Christian Brothers Academy coach Jan. 23 was sentenced this morning to 16 years in state prison. Shireff Williams, 19, was involved in the robbery of liquor store owner
A Jersey City man who police say molested a 7-year-old girl after breaking into a Jersey City apartment Sunday night made his first appearance in court. Tyrone Hatchett, 49, was charged with sexual assault and burglary in the case The mother of the 7-year-old told police that around 9:45 p.m. she noticed a rear door to her apartment open and heard movement coming from her daughter's bedroom. The mother said she went to her daughter's bedroom and found Hatchett in the room with his jeans off, but wearing, "green and white pajama pants," reports state. The mother told police she had met Hatchett a week earlier through her cousin, and he had in fact helped her move into the apartment, reports state. Fearful for her and her daughter's safety, the mother told police she ran to the kitchen and got a knife and returned to her daughter's room. The mother told police Hatchett said to her he didn't want any problems, and left the apartment, despite her attempts to keep him inside. The daughter told her mother that Hatchett "got on top of her," reports said. Marcel Walston, Marsha McGill and Robin Christopher McGill were also arrested and charged with hiding Hatchett from police in the apartment. 
The Baltimore man who was convicted of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl in a vacant home has been sentenced to life in prison. A city court judge Wednesday sentenced Alvin Ray Wright Sr. to four life terms, plus 25 years in prison for the attack. Wright grabbed the girl from behind while she was walking and pulled her into a nearby vacant house and pushed her down. Since there was no floor on the first level of the structure, the victim fell roughly six feet to the basement floor. When she landed on the basement floor, the victim's eyeglasses fell off and landed in debris. Wright followed. He beat her and threatened to kill her if she made a sound. He then alternated between raping her and ordering her to perform fellatio, three times each.
CLEVELAND -- The man who beat his former girlfriend with a hammer while their children slept across the hall has been sentenced to 14 years in jail. Seven months ago, John Whitfield locked his ex-girlfriend in her room, then went in with pepper spray and a hammer. He blinded her with the spray and then beat her repeatedly in the head with the hammer. He went before a judge and pleaded guilty. His sentence was the maximum allowed by law -- fourteen years in prison and five years probation. It's been a long seven months for 
Md. —Howard County police said a man wanted in connection with a homicide in Columbia has been taken into custody in North Carolina. Authorities said Ryan Patrick Matthias, 43, of Charlotte, N.C., is being held in the killing of 
A Fayetteville man accused of raping and killing a 
Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, 25, has been charged with human trafficking, felony child abuse–prostitution, filing a false police report and obstructing a police investigation. Arrest warrants state that Davis "did knowingly provide Shaniya with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude" and "did permit an act of prostitution with Shaniya." 
A Kansas City man has been sentenced to life in prison for raping an
Fla. - A 49-year-old pastor who also worked at Disney World was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of viewing online child porn videos at the theme park while preparing a sermon. Cedric Eugene Cuthbert, who worked as a custodial manager at Port Orleans Resort and pastor at Historic St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sanford, was arrested on charges of solicitation of a minor via computer and possession of material depicting sexual performance by a child.
IL – An Alton man is under arrest charged with tackling a firefighter. Police say Henry Jarrett tackled one of the firefighters as they started to head inside a house to save the only person who hadn’t escaped the flames. They say the force of the hit knocked the firefighter off the porch. The firefighter suffered back injuries from landing on his air tank. The man in the house suffered second degree burns. Jarrett is charged with aggravated battery.
HOUSTON—A man who did not like the relationships between blacks and the Jewish community threatened to blow up a synagogue, according to Houston police. Dante Phearse, 32, was charged with three counts of making a terroristic threats. Police said on April 30, Phearse called and made threats against the Beth Israel Jewish Synagogue. Phearse said that there were no white Jewish people, only black Jewish people, and said he was going to blow up the temple. He then called back and said that Jewish people were oppressing the black man and threatened to rape their women and children.
TAMPA - Rashad Hales rolled his eyes just once in our direction Tuesday as opening statements and the first witness took the stand today in his rape trial. That first witness? The victim. The victim would speak in a soft, but sure, voice as she described the December 2011 day that she says Rashad Hales forced his way into her home and attacked her. She would describe in detail how she was choked, beaten, strangled with a chord, and then raped. "He tells me to do what I do to my husband to satisfy him. And if he's not satisfied, he's going to kill me." 
Dayton police have arrested a man for the attempted sexual assault of a 56-year-old woman who was allegedly attacked at her home. The arrest was made shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14. Detective Doug O’Quinn said that Dayton Police Department was able to quickly solve this case because the victim was able to identify her attacker from a photo line-up. The suspect is Kyle Antoine, 27, of Dayton, who has been charged with Burglary of a Habitation with the Intent to Commit a Sexual Assault. * 
The jury trial of Billy Frank Davis Jr., which was scheduled to start Oct. 7, was postponed Tuesday until April 2014 to allow defense attorneys more time to prepare. Davis, 29, faces two alternative counts of capital murder in the killing of 
A tip called in to Crime Alert Berks County led to the arrest of a man wanted in the rape of a Hamburg woman last week, police said. Keyen Camper was apprehended without incident just after noon Tuesday in Waynesboro, Franklin Co., said Chief Pedro Rivera, Hamburg Police Dept. Camper, police said, forced his way into a home on South 3rd Street in Hamburg early on the morning of May 9 and physically and sexually assaulted a 24-year-old woman.
A man was arrested Monday after a rape victim and her alleged attacker sought treatment at the same hospital and the victim alerted police. According to police, Jeremy Jermell Staples, 23, of 1801 Welborn St. in High Point is charged with first-degree rape, common law robbery and assault by strangulation. He sexually assaulted a woman early Monday, said High Point Lt. Kevin Ray. 
Va. – A homeless woman was raped while inside of her tent in Woodbridge. Police said the victim was asleep at an homeless encampment in the area of Potomac Mills Road and Town Center Drive at when a man she knew entered the tent and raped her at 4:11 a.m. The man then fled the area and then turned himself into police a short time later. Anthony Eugene Wilson, 46, is charged with rape and forcible sodomy, said Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok. Wilson was held without bond and his court date was not released.
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The man accused of a rape at a University of Missouri dormitory pleaded guilty in court Monday. 47-year-old Marvin Jones pleaded guilty to charges of forcible sodomy and forcible rape for a 1999 rape. On October 16, 1999, the University of Missouri Police Department investigated a rape at the Gillett Residence Hall on campus. In November of last year, police said they had received a "significant lead" in the case from the Missouri State Highway Patrol's crime lab and arrested Jones. Jones was required by law to provide a genetic sample after a 2010 sexual misconduct conviction. In court Monday, the prosecution and defense recommended sentences to the judge. Prosecutor Dan Knight is requesting a life sentence for all three counts. That means Jones could be sentenced to up to 60 years in prison.
The man accused of raping a jogger in West Hartford is expected to be sentenced next week after being offered a plea deal that has outraged the victim. Eddie Monroig-Rosario is charged with first-degree sexual assault, unlawful restraint, and second-degree strangulation in the October 2010 attack that happened in the front yard of a home on Fern Street. Monroig-Rosario is expected to receive 18 years in prison, according to Stephanie Blozy, who is the owner of Fleet Feet Sports in West Hartford and is also a friend of the victim. "He took our freedom and that deserves more than a two to three year sentence," said Blozy.
A woman is suing Philadelphia 76ers star Nick Young for sexual assault -- claiming he 
Queens Park Rangers' striker 
West Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, convicted yesterday of murdering babies born alive, today agreed to give up his right to all future appeals in his case. In exchange, Philadelphia prosecutors have agreed not to pursue the death penalty against the 72-year-old physician. Gosnell was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder for killing three babies born alive and viable during abortion procedures, and was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who died at his clinic during a procedure (
JOHN McDANIEL, former campaign manager for City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, was sentenced yesterday to one year in federal prison for stealing more than $100,000 from her campaign account.
Three people have been arrested and charged with murder in the double-homicide case in Monroe County. A fourth person has been charged with murder but has not been arrested yet, according to a release. Sameeria Rikiea Carter, 16, Marquez Deshawn Martin, 19, and Jordan Keaugh Maxwell, 18, all of Macon, have been arrested, according to the Monroe sheriff's department. They are charged with the murder of 
The man police arrested for his alleged involvement in the death of a three-year-old boy made his initial appearance in court. Marcus Johnson is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of
OXFORD, AL - Oxford Police confirm that they have arrested a man in the death of a 2-year-old boy last week. Bryan Butts, 24, of Oxford was arrested on a capital murder warrant in the death of 
S.C. -- A Rock Hill couple is in the York County Detention Center on charges that they sexually assaulted
A hooker in high-heeled sandals turned a new trick in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday. Blond-maned Desiree Ellis popped in to help defend a team of father-son pimps against charges that they brutally forced her and four other young women into their lucrative prostitution ring. When a defense lawyer gave her a nod, Ellis waved her turquoise nails to the courtroom audience and smiled, insisting that Vincent George Sr., 56, and Vincent George Jr., 34, are not money-laundering sex-traffickers.Prosecutors say the men ran a ruthless two-state ring that threatened the women with violence if they left, “branded’’ them with tattoos and referred to them as “animals.”
PLAINFIELD, Ind. - Officials say one person is dead and two others have been arrested following a shooting and bank robbery in Plainfield Friday. Hendricks County officials say the incident began as a bank robbery at the State Bank of Lizton. Police said he FBI had the bank under surveillance at the time of the hold up. A suspicious vehicle was seen on surveillance, which has been determined to be the getaway vehicle in the robbery. A police action shooting involving members of the FBI Safe Street Task Force ensued. Police say William McKnight, 43, was fatally wounded when he revealed a handgun and refused to comply with verbal comments to disarm, according to a release. Saturday evening, Demetrius Worley, 24, and Lori A. Armstrong, 44, were in custody at the Hendricks County Jail.
Testimony is set to begin in the trial of one of five people charged in the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia-area musician in December 2011. Twenty-year-old-year-old Jermaine M. Jackson is on trial in the killing of Levittown musician 
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Antoine Garner has long been linked to the death of 
CAHOKIA, Ill. - A 35-year-old teacher's aide has been arraigned on charges of abusing a student. Mario Hunt is accused of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and transmission of HIV. Court documents accuse Hunt of committing the crimes against a 
Cowardly Jiervon Bartlett and Nayed Hoque, both 15, left partially-sighted
A year after a horrific hit-and-run killed an aspiring actress walking near Union Square, the city employee behind the wheel has gotten off scot-free. Harry Robinson, 64, a $105,000-a-year highway repairman for the Department of Transportation, drove the city-owned, 10-wheel Mack dump truck that ran over and crushed
An immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police said. Carabinieri paramilitary police in Milan said the 21-year-old attacker was taken into custody shortly after the attacks in a residential area on the northern outskirts of the city. People working in cafes and other businesses near the attack said that the man wildly swung a pickaxe, running down streets and ferociously striking passersby, mainly on the head. Pools of blood stained the streets. A 40-year-old man died after being struck on the head with the pickaxe and suffering further blows to the abdomen while he lay on the ground, police said. The man, identified as 
Md. — A Baltimore City police officer faces some serious charges after investigators catch him in a prostitution sting, and his alleged partner in the business was his wife. The FBI is also investigating this case. That’s because the city officer was also charged with human trafficking. On the Baltimore police force for less than a year, Officer Lamin Manneh now faces prostitution and human trafficking charges. According to charging documents, he and his wife, 19-year-old Marissa Braun, owned an Internet escort business. That caught the attention of detectives Thursday night. “They came across this posting where this young woman was posting her services,” said Elena Russo, Maryland State Police. 
One suspect in last week's brutal beating of a couple at the Riverwalk in downtown Augusta is behind bars this morning. 21-year-old Robbey Eugene Moses was arrested in Newberry, South Carolina. He is charged with two counts of robbery by force and aggravated assault. He was also wanted in connection to a separate incident that happened last Thursday on Broad Street. Richmond County deputies are still searching for a second suspect, Kevin Richardson, in connection to the May 3rd beating. 
A suspect wanted in the murder of a gay Oak Cliff man after they arranged to have sex on Craigslist was taken into custody. Dalas Police issued an arrest warrant , for 27-year-old Christopher Howard Beachum on a charge of capital murder. The warrant alleged that Beachum murdered 68-year-old 
Many of the seven men worked for or had connections with fast-food restaurants across Telford and some of the girls were sold for sex to workers. The men were all arrested as part of West Mercia Police's Operation Chalice. Officers said the total number of girls targeted between 2007 and 2009 could be above 100. The Telford Muslim Forum condemned the offences and said the whole community had been shocked by what had happened, particularly as it was "in their back yard".
A former yeshiva teacher is on trial in New Jersey on charges he sexually abused a socially awkward boy whose family members, prosecutors say, were ostracized by their Orthodox Jewish community for taking the allegations to civil authorities. Rabbi 
