DEARBORN, Mich. - On the same day the Family Dollar store in Dearborn reopened where 20-year-olds Joseph Orlando and Brenna K. Machus worked, a former employee was charged with their murders. Police said the night of July 16, 34-year-old Lavere Bryant shot and killed Orlando in the bathroom, robbed the store and abducted Machus. He eventually shot her, too, and dumped her body in a field less than a mile away. Family Dollar confirmed Bryant was fired last spring, but would not say why or explain how a man with a lengthy rap sheet was hired in the first place. Records show in 1999, Bryant was convicted of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting a woman. He only served a year. It was not long before he was in trouble again. In 2001, Bryant was convicted of assault to commit great bodily harm less than murder after he picked up a prostitute and stabbed her in the neck until she was able to escape. According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, he was a problem inmate under maximum security, never granted parole and served his maximum sentence. Bryant was arrested at a Detroit car wash. Bryant was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, armed robbery and unlawful imprisonment. - (Black-on-white)- Man dead, 20-year-old woman missing after shooting in Dearborn
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DESOTO COUNTY, MS -- It's been over a year since two people were murdered on Mississippi's highways. It was the case that gripped the Mid-South, and the nation, for weeks as investigators wondered if a serial killer was impersonating a police officer. James Willie will go on trial for the murders next month. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Willie's accused of 
BOSTON (WHDH) -- A man accused of attacking two women in South Boston is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon. Officers arrested Edwin Alemany for two attacks in South Boston, including a stabbing on Gates Street. Alemany is a person of interest in the death of 
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs police have issued arrest warrants for a man they said robbed a local art student, then drove off with the victim hanging out of his car. Victim
Police arrested a minister after he allegedly sexually assaulted an underage girl at a group home where he worked part-time.Rashaun Davis, 32, allegedly sexually assaulted the girl at a Hainesport group home back in May, 2013. Davis worked as a substitute residential counselor at the home which houses teenage girls. Police say the victim was one of the girls under his care. Davis is also a minister at Kingdom Church which has locations in Burlington Township and Ewing Township. He was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with aggravated sexual assault and other related offenses.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A man has been arrested after police said he pimped out a 17-year-old girl for sex. The victim told police that she met 27-year-old Jeffery Dale at the bus station when he asked her if she needed help. An affidavit said Dale rented a room at the Hickerson Motel on Nolensville Pike so the victim could have sex with another man, who turned out to be an undercover police officer. Police said they first made contact with the girl on a popular website. Dale was also charged with statutory rape and sex trafficking. He was held on $55,000 bond.
The 93-year-old Omaha woman beaten and raped Sunday in her home died Wednesday from her injuries. A 19-year-old man is charged with the crime. The Omaha Police Department will continue to coordinate with the county attorney on the pending charges against the suspect,
Mansfield police are searching for a woman's boyfriend as a suspect in her murder after she was found dead inside the couple's apartment Sunday night. Police found 23-year-old 
Toronto police have identified a 72-year-old woman whose body was discovered during a fire at her North York apartment earlier this month. Police ruled the death of 
Two Jacksonville brothers are charged with rape, arson and attempted murder after two women at a motel on Dix Ellis Trail were tied and attacked before the room was set on fire. A third victim who was also tied was able to free himself and help the women out of the Motel 6 room and likely save their lives, police said. The motel room and others burned in the Friday fire. Donald Jerome Dickerson, 32, and James Lamont Dickerson, 30, were arrested Tuesday after one of the victims, who was shot in the head when she resisted the attack, was able to write names the police could use in the investigation.
A woman told police she was raped Sunday night on Capitol Hill, and police arrested a 20-year-old suspect after a search. Shortly before 10:30 p.m., police were driving through an alleyway when they saw two men walking through a nearby parking lot. “After the men walked past police, a woman ran out of the parking lot and said she had been sexually assaulted one of the men.” “The woman told officers she'd met up with two men near 12th Avenue and East Olive and accompanied them into an alley, where one man attacked her” Officers went down East Olive Way and found Alexander Dominque Allen, 20, about a block away.
A former Fort Polk soldier who attacked and raped a gas station attendant at knifepoint near Mandeville in 2010 has been convicted by a St. Tammany Parish jury of aggravated rape. Judge William Burris sentenced Nelson Ted Lopez, 23, to life in prison following the verdict.
A woman told jurors that she had been dozing in her reclining chair early one morning in August 2007 when she awoke and noticed her dog looking toward the kitchen of her Hemet apartment. “I went to go into the kitchen and he was crouching down on the floor,” the 69-year-old woman said of the intruder she saw there. In the courtroom she identified the man she saw as Kenneth Daniels Jr., 26, of Hemet. Daniels also is charged with murder in the slaying of 
SPRINGDALE, AR - Two men are behind bars, both accused of raping the same woman. Police say Keon Plummer, 22, of Springdale, and his friend Martez Butler, 23, of Fayetteville, went to the woman's apartment. She told officers that both men raped her while her children were sleeping in the next room.
Police have arrested a third man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl who ran away from a foster home in North Austin. The girl told police she ran away from Settlement Home on June 29 and accepted a ride from three men who took her to the Avalon Palms Apartments. There, police say she was raped by as many as 10 men who filmed the attack with their cell phones. After the girl left that apartment complex, she met a woman on the street. The girl went with the woman to the Lantana Trace apartment complex where she and the woman smoked crack, police said. That's where police say Donald Ray Lewis then assaulted the girl. He’s charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Two other men already face charges in the previous incident.
Police in Austin, Texas, arrested two Mexicans and held them on immigration detainers, after a 
A Douglasville woman accused of fatally stabbing her neighbor appeared in court Thursday, demanding to be released from jail and saying Allah was on her side. 
A Tulsa man said an armed robber beat him unconscious with a piece of lumber in north Tulsa early Saturday morning. "I thought I was going to die," Tom Bush said. "I thought, ‘this is my last day.'" The attacker also stole Bush's wallet and his vehicle. Bush was loading his van to go on early-morning service calls when a man carrying a 2-by-4 walked up to him about 5:30 a.m. and asked for a cigarette. "He walked up and said, ‘I just came to say hi,'" Then the man attacked him. " [I] got blindsided by a 2-by-4 to the head," Bush said. "When he showed me his gun I had no more fight." The assailant took off in Bush's service van, a 2003 white Dodge Caravan with a ladder rack. Bush described him as a black man of medium build, between 28-30 years old and wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans. 
Ga. -- Valdosta police are charging two men with murder in the death investigation of 
Ohio — The search resumes today for more bodies in the neighborhood where three dead women, their bodies wrapped in plastic, have been found since Friday. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office has not yet identified the
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – MTSU's head coach and athletic director have confirmed charges against three football players after an incident having to do with a female believed to be one of the player's girlfriends. The players have been suspended from the team. Officials at the Rutherford County Jail confirmed Middle Tennessee State sophomore and defensive tackle James DeAngelo Jones was booked and charged with two counts of aggravated assault last week. MTSU officials said sophomores Marcus Robinson and Rodney O'Neal were also charged. Sources told NewsChannel5 Robinson and O'Neal had not yet been taken into custody, but warrants were out for their arrest for failure to report a crime. All three players were suspended from the team. 
CINCINNATI, OH - A man has been arrested for a rape that allegedly occurred in 1995. Stanley Lightner, 45, is behind bars in the Hamilton County Justice Center on one count of rape. According to Hamilton County court documents, Lightner forced a 17-year-old into sex in January of 1995. His bond was set at $50,000 during an arraignment on Friday.
A 32-year-old Rochester man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 
Bryan K. May and his son, Jeremy A Putra,
Police are searching for a suspect after a man was beaten while walking to a bus stop Thursday afternoon. 21-year-old 
A man is in custody after he allegedly murdered his Transgender lover and then dumped "her" body parts in a vacant lot. Police received a call from a woman who claimed that her boyfriend had killed someone. The woman claimed she returned to her home on Sunday where she heard her boyfriend, 43-year-old Charles Sargent, making noise on the second floor. The woman says Sargent then confronted her while naked and with blood on his leg and threatened to kill her if she said anything about the noise she had just heard. Sargent allegedly killed the victim after finding out she was a 
A Toledo woman has been arrested in Texas, charged with two counts of murder in a fatal 2012 fire in Springfield Township. Fire crews rushed to the Hidden Cedars condominium complex on Garden Road just after 11 p.m. on Sunday, March 25, 2012. By the time firefighters got the blaze under control, two people were dead, several others injured. More than 70 people lost their homes in the fire. Killed in the fire were 61-year-old 
According to court documents, the woman, 58-year-old Merry Finley, also said that she is "happy when officers are hurt" -- and she was arrested for the second time that night for slamming a door into a cop. Finley's encounter with police started around 10 p.m. on July 10, when she was pulled over near Warner Road and Gilbert Road on suspicion of driving under the influence after she was seen weaving on the road.
SPARTANBURG, SC - A man has been charged after he was "dirty dancing" and pestering people at Music on Main in Spartanburg, according to police. Clarence Scott, 54, was charged with disorderly conduct on Thursday, police said. The police report said that Scott was inappropriately "dirty dancing" near the band and in close proximity to
BROOKLYN -- Police are searching for one of two men accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl before throwing her off the roof of a building in Brooklyn. Antonio Owensford and Anwar Desouza lured the girl to the rooftop around 4 a.m. on July 14. The victim was taken to a hospital with multiple injuries to her arms, legs and neck. Police arrested the 24-year-old Desouza and charged him with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree rape, first-degree assault, first-degree criminal sex act and second-degree strangulation. Owensford (pictured) remains on the loose.
NEW YORK CITY — The stepmother of the 7-year-old Florida girl who survived a six-story plunge from a Brooklyn apartment was arrested Thursday morning on charges she beat the child before she fell the window. Authorities also accused her of endangering the girl by leaving her alone in a sixth-floor room with an open window and no window guards. Diana Metellus, 19, was charged with assaulting her stepdaughter with a folded belt before the girl fell out her relatives' apartment in the Gravesend Houses last Wednesday.
CHICAGO – A 33-year-old man threw a woman down a flight of stairs on the South Side during a fight late Monday, causing her to lose her foot, police said after the man was arrested following a chase. About 11:45 p.m. Monday, Mario Jackson got into an argument, which turned into a physical confrontation, with a 28-year-old woman. He alledgedly threw the woman down a flight of stairs, causing severe injury. The woman, who was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in serious condition, suffered a compound fracture to her ankle, which resulted in the amputation of her left foot.
after bragging about their lavish lifestyle on Facebook. Amanda Zieminski (left), 26, and her fiance, 29-year-old Clyde Forteau have been arrested and charged with identity theft for allegedly bilking nearly $700,000 from senior citizens 
With a ruling on his status with the NFL looming after his arrest on a charge of intoxicated manslaughter in the death of teammate
39-year old 
Officials say the ring was part of a network of brothels in New York and surrounding states that paid people to smuggle the women, often under the guise that they would work as house cleaners or baby sitters. State prosecutors say 38-year-old 
A witch-doctor who murdered a farmer and cooked his genitals has been declared insane by a court in South Africa. 
EL CERRITO, CA — Two young men were arrested and charged with robbery after allegedly assaulting and stealing from a group of teens at Nation’s Giant Hamburgers in El Cerrito over the weekend, a police lieutenant said. Around 5:40 a.m. Sunday, the two suspects approached a group of six teenage boys who were eating at the 24-hour restaurant, located at 6060 Central Ave., and started making comments about the teens’ race, El Cerrito police Lt. Paul Keith said.
BRADENTON, Fla. - The search is over for a man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in Bradenton.The Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of Dominick Jerome Hawkins, 36. A detective tracked Hawkins down in Sarasota and took him into custody. Sheriff W. Brad Steube said Hawkins "made several admissions to us." Steube said he admitted that he was the man seen on surveillance footage inside a convenience store buying a little girl candy. Steube said he also admitted he was the one seen on surveillance footage trying to board a county bus. Around 1:00 p.m. on Monday the girl was playing with another child at the Wayside Glen mobile home park when Hawkins approached. Hawkins lured the girl to a store and then to a vacant mobile home where she was choked and sexually battered. The 5-year-old was able to escape, run home and tell a family member about the attack. 
A New Orleans jury on Wednesday convicted a 38-year-old man of sexually abusing a girl in 2011, when she was
Police arrested a 46-year-old man after investigating a 20-year-old woman’s complaint of years of sexual abuse from the suspect, including when she was a teenager. Detectives booked Rodrick Oneal Taylor at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on two counts of forcible rape and one count of molestation of a juvenile. Taylor surrendered to police. In a July 12 interview with police, Taylor denied ever sexually abusing the woman, the police chief said.
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A grand jury indicted a former major in the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday. Former Gwinnett County sheriff's Maj. Nick Neal is accused of using his position for personal financial gain. He faces several charges, including theft, identity fraud and false statements. 
In 1986, Warren Lee Hill, Jr. initially landed himself in prison after he murdered his 18-year-old girlfriend 
CHARLESTON, SC - Authorities say they have arrested a former employee of the King Street Grille accused of telling a manager at the restaurant that he would return to the business with a gun. The Charleston Police Department arrested 23-year-old Shyrome Jaquane Johnson and charged him with intimidation. Johnson's arrest stems from an incident that happened on April 28 at the King Street Grille on 304 King Street. An assistant manager at the restaurant said Johnson shoved him and said,"No [one] fires me, I quit." A police report states after a witness stepped between the two men, Johnson grabbed a 10-inch butcher knife and held it in the victim's face and said,"I don't get paid enough at this job to put up with this. I'm going home to get my gun and I'll be back." Authorities say Johnson then threw the knife down and ran out of the back door.
GOODLETTSVILLE, TN - A young man in Goodlettsville is facing charges of animal abuse after two dogs had to be euthanized. According to the arrest report, two dogs owned by the suspect, Cameron Taylor, 19, had to be euthanized because they were in such poor condition. According to the arresting officer, Taylor was seen by a neighbor abusing one of the dogs in his driveway in Goodlettsville. Taylor's mother reportedly came home and found her son's animals near death. According to reports, Taylor told police he wanted to kill the dogs because he hates his mother and wanted to leave home. He was taken to Skyline Medical Center in Madison for a mental evaluation and charged with aggravated animal cruelty.
A Huntsville man charged in the death of his 3-year-old son is due in court today for a preliminary hearing, according to court officials. Maurice Antionne Cartwright, 33, was initially charged with aggravated child abuse after his 3-year-old son was taken to the hospital on April 30 and showed signs of brain trauma and being choked. Cartwright was charged with capital murder after the child died.
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Bail was denied Sunday for a Chicago grandmother charged with strangling her 8-year-old grandddaughter in the family’s Austin apartment. Helen Ford, 51, who is facing first-degree murder charges, walked very slowly and with assistance into the 26th and California courtroom, sniffling and whimpering as she approached and then stood before Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. who ordered the woman jailed without bond
A South Side man was sentenced to more than two years in prison Thursday after admitting that his 8-month-old son drowned in a bathtub while he walked away for a cigarette break. Willie Strong pleaded guilty to child endangerment and Judge Joseph Kazmierski Jr. sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in prison. Strong was given credit for 290 days served in the Cook County Jail. On Sept. 11, 2012, 
A state grand jury on Thursday indicted the mother accused of leaving her 5-year-old daughter to fatally shoot herself in the head in a house in the St. Roch neighborhood on June 23, along with a man who lived in the house who had told The Advocate that it was his gun. Laderika Smith, who turned 28 on the day her daughter, 
A young mother and her mate were facing charges after the woman’s 
Claude Alexis savagely whipped a 2-year-old boy to death with a belt because the toddler spilled bathwater “all over” the floor. That’s the story 32-year-old Alexis told North Miami Beach Police detectives Monday when he reportedly confessed to killing
LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. – More than 15 years after the bodies of two newborn babies were discovered in a Virginia college dorm, a woman has been arrested for their murders. Police arrested Darnesha Paulita Berry, 35, Tuesday at her Henrico workplace. Lawrenceville Police Chief Everette Gibson said investigators believe the woman, a Henrico resident, was the mother of the slain babies.The children, born alive in a dorm bathroom on Feb. 16, 1998, were killed and then thrown down the trash chute, police said. Berry would have been age 19 at the time.
Two Orlando Police officers were at the LYNX Central Station on Garland Avenue Wednesday evening when they watched Rosetta Jackson, 33, get off a bus completely naked. When police asked why she had no clothes, they say Jackson put her hands over her face and asked to go to jail. Police said they handcuffed her and arrested her for violation of indecent conduct. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla - Police said what started as a conversation lead to gunfire outside a Golden Corral restaurant on Normandy Boulevard Sunday night. It happened just after 9 p.m. in the parking lot of the Westside business. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 19-year-old Jacksonville man has been arrested on two counts of felony murder and two counts of armed robbery in the killings two brothers Sunday night outside a Golden Corral restaurant on the Westside. Avery Wood is charged in the shooting deaths. A witness came forward and provided investigators with information that Wood requested that the witness participate in a robbery of his acquaintances, the Bohannon brothers, for drugs. Other witnesses came forward and told police that Wood made statements that he and other suspects were going to rob the brothers of their drugs. Police said they're currently working the case and more arrests are pending.
WASHINGTON, N.C. - A teenager who murdered a paraplegic man with a pitchfork and a shovel will spend the rest of his life in prison, but have the chance for parole. It was an emotional day in the courtroom during the mini-trial as family members for the victim and defendants testified. It was three years ago when 
Mich. - A man long suspected in the strangulation of a 35-year-old woman who lived next door to him in suburban Detroit has been charged with first-degree murder. A spokeswoman for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Sunday that 42-year-old Myron T. Williams should be arraigned Monday in Grosse Pointe Park Municipal Court. 