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Three (black) soldiers accused of rape
 AUSTIN - Three soldiers are accused of raping a woman in an Austin hotel last year. Police said Perris Dumas, 30, Marcus Davis, 32, and Timothy Slack, 33, now face sexual assault charges. Dumas and Davis are staff sergeants at Fort Hood. Slack is a staff sergeant at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. The woman told police she woke up at the Days Inn, 3105 North Interstate 35, on Feb. 25, 2012, according to the arrest affidavit. She said she woke up drunk and partially naked with three men who she did not know. The victim said she repeatedly asked the men for their names, but they would not give them to her, the affidavit said. |
FREEPORT, N.Y. -- In Nassau County, there is disgust and dismay following the arrest of a middle school principal. John O’Mard, the principal of J.W. Dodd Middle School in Freeport, was arraigned on four counts of criminal sexual act in the third degree. O’Mard, 44, is accused of having sex with a teenager he met online. He hid from the media after pleading not guilty and being released on bail. O’Mard arranged to meet the 16-year-old boy on Sept. 15, 2012 after the pair met on the gay men’s sex website Grindr. They then arranged a meeting to have sex, according to police.
GULFPORT, MS - Just after midnight Saturday, Gulfport police arrested 19-year-old Oneal Keaton. He was charged with one count of statutory rape, based upon an ongoing investigation on the 2400 block of 31st Street in Gulfport. 
He is accused of having sexual encounters with four female inmates at the Cobb County jail and other places for more than three years. A Cobb County grand jury has indicted a former sheriff's deputy from Douglasville on charges of rape, sexual assault against persons in custody, violation of oath by public officer, and other charges. In a warrant, Cobb authorities alleged that 51-year-old Alvin Blake Sutherland made physical contact with an unamed female inmate at the Cobb jail on Jan. 11. He was fired from his job and arrested Jan. 18. But Kim Isaza, the spokeswoman for Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds, said this afternoon that the indictment alleges that Sutherland had sexual encounters with not just one, but four female inmates. 
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The hearing for a man accused of raping a Paine College student earlier this month has been continued pending a mental evaluation. Jairus Rayshawn Dantzler, 18, is being charged with rape, attempted rape, two counts of burglary, armed robbery and possession of a knife on three separate occasions. The Public Defender's Office has 60 days to have the mental evaluation completed. After the evaluation is completed, they will have the bond hearing. Dantzler, a Josey High School student, is accused of two separate incidents on the Paine College campus as well as a home invasion and robbery in February.
DNA has helped Denver prosecutors charge a man in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman 12 years ago. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey on Thursday formally charged 45-year-old Eddie Simon with felony kidnapping, two counts of felony sexual assault and misdemeanor assault. In the early morning hours of Feb. 24, 2001, a 20-year-old woman was leaving her parents’ house to return to her own home. The charges allege that Simon pulled her into his car and took her to a remote area at the old Lowry Air Force Base site where he sexually assaulted her at knifepoint, said district attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough.
A judge has praised a pensioner for fighting off an attacker who tried to rape her in her home. Judge Simon Hammond spoke of the victim's "courage, tenacity and presence of mind" as he yesterday jailed 
A Pierce County prosecutor filed 12 charges Thursday against a man who is accused of beating and sexually assaulting a woman at a Tacoma day care. Police said Andrake Morris, 18, is accused of beating and sexually assaulting a woman at the Tender Heart Day Care on Monday morning. Morris was arrested later that evening and made his first court appearance on Tuesday. A police source said Morris was also being investigated in connection to other crimes, including sex crimes.
The former officer who killed his mistress and left their 11-month-old daughter to die in a hot car in 2011 will spend the rest of his life in jail. Richmond Phillips, who was convicted in January of fatally shooting 
Two teen boys in this coastal city were under arrest Friday, accused in the fatal shooting of a 
DNA testing has linked a 24-year-old man to the rape and robbery of an elderly woman at gunpoint in June, police said Tuesday. Court records indicate he also was linked to a January 2008 sexual assault of a minor in St. Ann. Dary McCoy, of the 10100 block of Ventura Drive, was charged with six felonies —forcible rape, forcible sodomy, first-degree robbery and three counts of armed criminal action. County police said 
A 48-year-old Evans man was arrested Thursday, accused of sexually assaulting a woman he had met at a Boulder bar and then stealing cash and other items from her home.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office arrested one of its own, charging the deputy with sexual assault. The sheriff's office said Detention Officer Zel Mitchell was arrested for allegedly performing inappropriate sex acts with a male inmate at the DeKalb County Jail. Investigators from the Office of Professional Standards said the sex acts were done in exchange for food and other contraband items Mitchell would obtain for the inmate. The inmate said he was not forced into the sex acts. 
A substitute teacher at Aurora West College Prep Academy has been arrested, accused of masturbating in a special needs classroom. There were at least boys in the classroom when the incident occurred at 2 p.m. Thursday. 
The woman was naked and injured when a visitor first spotted her in October 2010, wedged below the bottom shelf of a closet in a Breckenridge Hills apartment. Police who responded to a 911 call saw “multiple circular burns” on the
A Maryland Heights woman is facing charges after St. Louis County police say she operated a prostitution ring disguised as an escort service. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorneys charged Badia Thomas of the 11800 block of Park Court on March 6 with one count of promotion of prostitution. 
A jury has found William Beavers guilty in his tax corruption trial. The jury deliberated for about an hour and found him guilty on all four counts of tax evasion. Beavers, a former alderman and current county board commissioner, is accused of failing to report as income more than $225,000 in campaign cash he used for personal expenses, including gambling sprees at a Hammond Casino. 
Kearsley Peters, a special needs teacher accused of sexual assault and assaulting involving two young boys had a long career of advocating for Toronto's black community. The special needs teacher accused of sexual assault and assault involving
Lashon T. Hollman “brutally murdered” his neighbor by dropping a television on her head and stabbing her 54 times, a prosecutor says. Saginaw County Assistant Prosecutor Paul Fehrman on Wednesday, March 20, told a jury of eight women and six men that Hollman, now 21, killed
A Tulsa man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a 10-year-old girl accused him of molesting her, according to reports. 
A Memphis man has been arrested in the rape of a 14-year-old girl, according to police documents. Demarcus McClendon is charged with rape and statutory rape. He is being held on a $95,000 bond. According to police, the incident happened on Dec. 23, 2011. The victim's mother reported the rape to police. The victim said that she was home when two unknown men came in, took her and drove her a short distance away. Both men threatened to shoot her if she didn't comply, then both raped her. 
Police say an Aurora teen forced his way into a girl’s southwest suburban Bolingbrook house to sexually assault her last summer. Zachary M. Holland, 18, turned himself in last week, after police obtained a warrant charging him with home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual assault for the July 30, 2012 incident, according to Lt. Mike Rompa. Around 2:30 that morning a 17-year-old girl walked out of her downstairs bathroom and was grabbed from behind by an intruder. “(He) forced her into the living room and attempted to assault her. She struggled as he began to strike her in the face while threatening to stab her,” Rompa said.
including kidnapping, gross sexual imposition, attempted rape, and attempted sexual battery. Box, who is the Project Director with the Community Relations Department, was indicted on Thursday for the alleged offenses that occurred between August and October 2011 in Shaker Heights. According to court documents, Box allegedly kidnapped a woman, held her against her will, and sexually assaulted her.
The trial began Tuesday for the DeKalb County man accused of being behind a string of sexual assaults that terrorized a community in the fall of 2011. Between October and November of 2011, prosecutors say Gary Wendale Mincey followed
Calif. — An Oakland man was convicted of first-degree murder and other charges for the shooting death of a Virginia man who had come to the Bay Area for a job interview at Google. George Huggins, 26, also was convicted of the special circumstance of committing a murder during a robbery for the fatal shooting of 45-year-old
Police in Lyons are crediting an observant neighbor who helped them chase down three people after an elderly woman was robbed at gunpoint. At 1:30 Thursday morning, a neighbor noticed a suspicious car on VanMarter Lane in the Village of Lyons. That neighbor called police and officers followed the car and found three individuals wearing ski masks and carrying guns. Twenty-year-old Karon James, 18-year-old Shaka Nesmith and a 14-year-old were arrested and taken into custody. Police say the suspects held the victim -- a 70-year-old woman -- at gun point while robbing her of money and jewelry
who classmates are now calling a 'snitch' and a 'whore' on social media.
Torrington High School, Connecticut, football players Edgar Gonzalez and Joan Toribio, both 18, are accused of felony second-degree sexual assault and other crimes.
The young victim has been taunted on social media sites by dozens of classmates upset at the allegations against the star footballers.
Charges come just days after two star players in Steubenville, Ohio, were convicted of rape in a case that shook the nation 
Tulsa police say they have a man behind bars who is suspected of violently raping a woman at a motel in February. Burnis Howard was arrested Monday for first-degree rape. Police say it was Feb. 5 at the Desert Inn Motel near 11th and Yale when Howard told the victim "I want to have sex with you." When she declined Howard punched her in the face and head multiple times. Police say the victim was knocked on her back and pinned down. Howard allegedly continued punching the woman in the head, and when she woke up two days had passed. Police say the victim described severe pain in her vaginal area and during a medical exam seminal fluid was found. 
The man accused of killing an 80-year-old Cocoa woman and seriously injuring a man who came to her aid Sunday turned himself in to authorities in Virginia on Tuesday. Marcus Antonio Royal, 33, will be charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and burglary with battery under a warrant issued by a Brevard County judge. Royal was released from the Brevard County Jail on Saturday at 10:15 a.m., less than 24 hours before police said he killed
A man has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in the strangulation death of a woman in a northeast Philadelphia apartment more than two years ago. Forty-one-year-old William Walton pleaded guilty earlier this month to voluntary manslaughter and a drug charge in the death of 22-year-old 
A man who was originally from the Jamestown area was shot and killed during a terrifying home invasion in Indianapolis early Friday morning. 67-year-old 
A special needs student was reportedly raped in a West Memphis High School bathroom. Now, three students are facing charges. The students arrested are ages 15 and 17. They are charged with battery and first degree rape of a 16-year-old special needs student. Investigators say the three suspects were skipping class in the bathroom. When the victim walked in, the suspects tried to rob him, made fun of him, and started beating him. The victim ended up with two broken ribs. The victim told police one of the suspects raped him in the bathroom. He said he told the principal and was sent back to class and was told it would be handled the next day. The victim's aunt called police when she learned of the incident from her nephew. 
King County detectives are looking for additional sexual assault victims as well as information regarding possible attacks by a Level 3 sex offender. Demarcus B. Linwood is a Level 3 registered sex offender suspected of sexual assaults in the Seattle and Shoreline areas. Linwood has been in custody since Feb. 8, and King County Sheriff’s Office Special Assault detectives are attempting to discover if there may be additional victims or people that may have relevant information regarding Linwood.
A convicted sex offender is accused of luring two young girls into his vehicle for sex at South County Center. Police say 25-year-old Samwell Fowler never registered as a sex offender. Fowler was charged in 2005 with second-degree sexual misconduct and ordered to join the sex offender registry. Police say he never did and now has two new counts of enticement of a minor against him. Police say
Kevin J. Brewer, of Kansas City, was charged with second-degree murder, burglary and two counts of armed criminal action in the death of 
A Florida family claims in a lawsuit that they feared for their lives when Cleveland Browns defensive lineman Desmond Bryant allegedly showed up drunk and shirtless at their home, repeatedly banged on the front door and ripped off a door handle. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, seeks unspecified damages on behalf of
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating the death of
A Long Island high school assistant principal was arrested Monday for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to students and faculty members, police said. Craig Cohen, a 47-year-old assistant principal at Wyandanch Memorial High School, is accused of sending messages that were sexual in nature during February and March, according to Suffolk County Police. He was charged with three counts of second-degree aggravated harassment and one charge of endangering the welfare of a child.
A suspended magisterial district judge in Lancaster, Pa. has been fined $1,500 for fixing her own parking tickets. A judge Monday ordered Kelly Ballentine to pay the fine for dismissing the tickets in December 2010 and January 2011. The parking fines totaled $269.59. The state Judicial Conduct Board is weighing Ballentine's status as a judge.
A 34-year-old Benicia man was behind bars Sunday, arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an underage teen relative. Michael Joseph Wallace ran off before police arrived but was later found at a home in the 200 block of Manhattan Street, in Vallejo, a police lieutenant said. A woman told police she arrived at her home in the 700 block of East Military Street about 1:45 a.m. Sunday to find her husband assaulting the relative, 
A 30-year-old man exchanged Facebook and email messages with a 
have failed in their bid to have their conviction’s overturned. Gang ringleader 
A Shreveport man has been found competent to stand trial in the shooting death of a Bossier City apartment manager. 32-year-old 
Three men have been arrested in what police described as an "unusually violent" death in Southwest Portland. The Oregon Medical Examiner said 25-year-old 
A 39-year old Chattanooga man was arrested this morning in connection with the shooting of a Chattanooga Police Department officer. Celvin “Squeaky” Houston is charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a weapon, Chief Bobby Dodd said this morning. Houston was arrested without incident. Area law enforcement agencies and local pastors assisted in the massive manhunt for Houston. Officer 
