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Chinese madman who ‘butchered cousin’s family’ deemed unfit for trial
 The Chinese madman who murdered his cousin’s wife and their four young children has been deemed incompetent to stand trial and will undergo psychiatric treatment until he’s found fit for trial, a Brooklyn judge said Monday. “The report indicates that the defendant is unfit to proceed,” said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice in a hearing Monday. Mingdong Chen, 25, allegedly butchered Qiaozhen Li, 37, and her son Kevin, 5, in a front family room inside their Sunset Park apartment in October, then moved on to the back bedroom where he allegedly killed the woman’s three other children, Linda, 9, Amy, 7, and William, 1.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- An 81-year-old woman remains in stable condition at a hospital after being shot during what police said was an apparent home invasion robbery at her house in Oakland's normally quiet Lincoln Highlands neighborhood below the Mormon temple. The shooting was reported at about 10:30 a.m. today at a home in the 4100 block of Laguna Avenue. Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said investigators believe the incident was a home invasion robbery because the suspect forced entry into the woman's residence. Watson described the suspect, who is still at large, as a black man in his 20s who is about 6 feet tall and weighs about 175 pounds. The man was wearing all-dark clothing and was armed with a gun, she said. - (Black-on-white)
as the rest of her students do NOTHING to help Cell phone footage that was shared on Facebook shows two girls arguing in a Florida classroom as their teacher stands between them - As other students egg them on, the two girls launch into a fight - pushing the teacher out of the way and dragging each other by their hair - The teacher calls for help and other staff arrive 4 minutes into the fight - Staff said they were shocked by the lack of respect for the teacher and the children involved now face punishment 
An unhinged Brooklyn man accused of punching seven women — including a 
Rocky Mount, N.C. — A 17-year-old Rocky Mount teen has been charged in connection with a Monday shooting that injured four other teens on a basketball court behind Word Tabernacle Church on Edwards Street. Shyheim Collins is charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder. Collins shot four teens, including a 12-year-old, on the court behind the church at about 6 p.m. Monday. He was arrested Thursday in the 2800 block of Wellington Drive. Three of the victims, 
A man was charged after he allegedly made threats to blow up bombs around downtown St. Louis. Terry Montgomery, 34, hinted that devices were planted near the Gateway Arch, St. Louis Police Headquarters and at Metro stops. Montgomery is in police custody on Tuesday evening at a medium security jail, charged with making a terrorist threat by calling police directly and demanded a ransom. Montgomery started the scare on January 17 when he picked up the phone. "He called 911 operators with the police department, informed them there were a number of bombs planted around the city of St Louis and he would detonate them if he was not paid $10 million." 
The gunman who killed 12 people in last year's rampage at Washington's Navy Yard lied so convincingly to Veterans Affairs doctors before the shootings that they concluded he had no mental health issues despite serious problems and encounters with police during the same period, according to a review by The Associated Press of his confidential medical files. Just weeks before the shootings, a doctor treating him for insomnia noted that the patient worked for the Defense Department but wrote hauntingly "no problem there." The AP obtained more than 100 pages of treatment and disability claims evaluation records for Aaron Alexis, spanning more than two years. 
Damon Daniels, 43, of the Bronx and Eugene Fladger, 32, of Philadelphia were allegedly selling the fake tickets online, the NYPD said.
- and using his cane on the gas pedal to make getaway - Shamal Battice arrested for driving without a licence or while disqualified - Paraplegic allegedly stole a car using cane to work the pedals - Police chased him through three counties before he was caught - Officers found him at a gas station 60 miles from the dealership
- Emmanuel Augustine, 29, has been a patrol deputy for five years - He was arrested Wednesday morning just north of Houston - Augustine allegedly offered a female undercover $10 for a sex act - He has been suspended while an investigation is carried out. 
Milwaukee police identified the robbery suspect killed by an officer as 19-year-old Cornelius Turner. Turner was shot and killed near the intersection of N. 58th St. and W. Custer Ave. on January 29th. Police say Turner was suspected of robbing a beer delivery man at gun point. The robbery happened around 5:40 p.m. on January 29th. According to police, Turner fit the denoscription of the robbery suspect. When they located him, they confronted the teen things got physical. Police say Turner reached for his gun, and that's when an officer shot and killed him.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Millersville man has been charged with attempted murder after Anne Arundel County Police say he slashed another man’s face with a box cutter. Police say James Bennett, 43, discovered his girlfriend with the man in an unoccupied office in Annapolis on Thursday and cut the man’s face. Police say Bennett fled the building and responding officers found the man bleeding heavily.
Oklahoma City police arrested a 39-year-old man last Friday on suspicion of assault. Authorities said the man bit his girlfriend on her buttocks. Nikil Harris is accused of threatening his girlfriend with a knife. Police said the girlfriend asked Harris for money and he became upset.
MEMPHIS, TN - – Sebastian Pegues, 23, has been convicted of first-degree murder for the 2012 death of his 3-month-old daughter, according to the Shelby County District Attorney's Office. 
LAWRENCE, Ind. – He was in "the wrong place, at the wrong time". That’s what investigators say about the night 19-year-old 
The 56-year-old had been convicted of killing 
PHILADELPHIA —The Philadelphia Police Department has identified three suspects wanted for several pick-pocketing incidents around the city. Police identify the first suspect as Timothy Mosley. The second suspect named is James Black. Authorities say he is known to operate a 1990 Cadillac Deville Coupe tan in color, with a Pa. Tag of JHY-8788. The third suspect is Renza Sheaff also known as Tina Hainey. She has also used the name as Robin Davis in the past as well as several other names. 
“My name is Desmond Manago. I am a pimp.” That’s how Desmond “Goldie” Manago began a confession memorializing the four years he’d spend pimping girls and young women. Then 21, Manago went heavy on braggadocio and light on remorse. That was August 2009, and Manago was among the first in a group of West Seattle-based pimps to plead guilty to related crimes. Like most of the rest of those defendants, Manago did so as the threat of federal prosecution hung over them.
At first, Tavius Woods called a 9-year-old girl’s school, pretending to be her father and asking if she’d been picked up yet, police said. Soon afterward, police said, he tried to touch the girl, then tried to solicit sex acts from her. Woods, 35, has been charged with attempted aggravated sexual battery and solicitation of a minor. He is being held on $30,000 bond. According to police, this began last February, when the girl’s mother informed police about the school incident. In an interview, the girl then said that Woods tried to touch her while she was in his home, then tried to convince her to perform a sex act. According to an affidavit, Woods admitted to calling the school and pretending to be her father.
A man convicted of rape more than a decade after the assault was sentenced to 25 years in prison, which was the maximum sentence possible. Jerald Jefferson, 32, was convicted in December of aggravated rape. The victim, who was 16 years old at the time of the rape, was kidnapped from Trezevant High School by three people in October 2002. She was driven around the city, then raped. It took two years for the rape kit to get tested, but when it finally was, the results did not provide a DNA match to anyone in the system. No results, that is, until Jerald Jefferson was arrested for an unrelated aggravated assault. A grant received by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation allowed the victim's rape kit to be tested. That test led to results and justice for the victim, who is now 27 years old, more than a decade after her rape.
MURRIETA — A 23-year-old high school basketball coach Thursday was facing criminal charges after she allegedly had a sexual relationship with a minor. Lauren Matheney, of Perris, was arrested Wednesday on charges of oral copulation with a minor and annoying or molesting a minor, according to the Murrieta Police Department. An investigation into Matheney began on Jan. 21 after a patrol officer noticed a suspicious vehicle parked near the intersection of Keller and Menifee roads and found the suspect inside with a 15-year-old child.
Undercover agents set up a drug buy and arrested Shantia Dennis(pictured), 26, of East Pittsburgh. Dennis denied wrongdoing to reporters as she was being led away in handcuffs. Authorities said they found 10 bags of heroin in a Happy Meal box and recovered another 50 bags from the suspect.
Four gang members charged in the shooting that killed a
Spokane Police Major Crimes detectives arrested four people believed to be responsible for two bank robberies in the Garland District. Authorities said Adrian Morris, 23, Darren Morris Jr., 24, Tyree Wortham, 28, and John Jones, 28, have been booked into jail on charges of Armed Robbery and/or Bank Robbery. They were arrested in connection to two robberies in the Garland District. The first happened December 20, 2013 at the U.S. Bank. The second happened a few weeks later on January 3, 2014 at Washington Trust Bank.
Pa. – Three people have been arrested in Georgia for a November 2013 bank robbery in Bala Cynwyd. On Nov. 4th around 11:16 a.m., three men entered the Wells Fargo Bank on Levering Mill Road in Bala Cynwyd wearing ski masks. At least one man was armed with a handgun. The three suspects then announced a robbery and ordered everyone to lay on the ground while two of the suspects jumped over the customer counter into the teller area. One of the males, who was armed with the gun, ran around the bank pointing the weapon at customers and employees and threatening to shoot them. After obtaining cash, the men fled the scene. Following an investigation conducted by Lower Merion Police and assisted by the FBI and the Philadelphia Police Department, two of the men were identified. Police also determined that one of the bank employees working at the time of the robbery had actually conspired with the three suspects. The third bank robber was not identified. On Jan. 27, 2014, the two male robbers and the female bank employee were located in Atlanta, Georgia where they were arrested. The male suspects who were arrested were identified as Marquis Wilson, 22, and Malcolm Moore, 20, both of Philadelphia. The bank employee, Calia Kane, 19, is also from Philadelphia.
HOUSTON - Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man who robbed a Houston-area bank. At around noon Friday, a man entered the Woodforest National Bank inside the Walmart at 9700 Hillcroft. The robber gave the teller a note that demanded cash. The robber, described as a black male weighing about 180 to 200 pounds, was wearing a dark-colored hooded jacket and faded jeans.
SC -Sumter County authorities have apprehended a man, they say, tried to rob a bank this afternoon. Franklin R. Johnson of Sumter was allegedly caught on surveillance video inside the "First Citizen's Bank" at the intersection of Washington and Calhoun streets in Sumter. Just before four o'clock, authorities say, the man walked into the bank and gave a teller a note demanding money. While no one reported actually seeing a weapon, we're told he acted in a way that made bank employees think he may have been armed. the suspect fled without any money. 
Authorities in Carrollton were able to apprehend a bank robbery suspect on Saturday morning without having to travel far from the police station. The incident took place just before 10:00 a.m. at a Chase Bank located in the 1800 block of East Jackson Road. Police received a call about the robbery, but arrived at the scene to find that the suspect had already fled. However, just a few minutes later, officers spotted a suspicious man walking in the 2000 block of nearby Jamestown Lane. Both the Chase Bank which was robbed and the location where the man was found are located right behind the Carrollton Police Department’s headquarters. Officers began talking to the suspicious man, but he started to run away. That individual, identified as 49-year-old David Wallace, was caught and arrested. He was carrying the bank’s property which had been stolen, but he changed clothes at some point after the crime occurred.
Former Baltimore Ravens and Chicago Bears linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo says teammates smoked marijuana ahead of one of his two Super Bowls.
Thomas' most devoted fan base might be inside the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, a minimum-security women's facility where his mother Katina Smith and grandmother, Minnie Pearl Thomas, have been incarcerated since 2000. Both were convicted of charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
PORTLAND – A suspect who shot his neighbor during a robbery and then accidentally shot himself in the testicles Tuesday was booked in the Multnomah County Jail, police said. Joseph Johnson, 40, was charged with robbery, assault and felon in possession of a firearm after detectives learned he confronted his neighbor, 32-year-old 
NASHVILLE, TN - A 17-year-old McGavock High School student has been charged in connection to the fatal shooting of another student. Kaemon Robinson has been charged with criminal homicide following the shooting Tuesday night in at an apartment in Hermitage. Police say 15-year-old
JACKSON, Mississippi — The trial of a woman charged with helping arrange the unlicensed buttocks injections that prosecutors say killed a Georgia woman in 2012 is scheduled to begin Monday in Jackson. Adult entertainer Natasha Stewart, also known as Pebbelz Da Model, is charged with depraved-heart murder and other counts in the death of 37-year-old 
A jury on Wednesday convicted a child rapist who was deported in 2009 before he could be tried but was extradited back to Texas last year. Jose Adan Rico, 38, raped
Authorities in northeastern Pennsylvania say a suspect in the strangulation death of a woman in 2012 has been apprehended in Mexico by agents with the U.S. Marshals Service. Authorities have been looking for 36-year-old 
The deranged killer who escaped from a locked mental ward in Queens is a reputed gang member who was repeatedly denied parole while locked up for a fatal shooting and a vicious subway slashing. 
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A suspect in the death of a Canadian man in South Florida has reportedly turned himself in to police. An arrest warrant had been issued for Twane Dobard after the body of 58-year-old 
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - An alert has been issued for parents after a teen said she was attacked near her school bus stop in Altamonte Springs. That attacker is still on the loose. The teen's mother, 
LOS ANGELES — Authorities need the public’s help in tracking down a murder suspect wanted for the killing of a Texas man in Los Angeles. Oscar Bridges, 54, is wanted in the Jan. 23 stabbing death of 22-year-old 
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY— Detectives have made an arrest in the murder of a woman found burned beyond recognition last week. 
FLORENCE, Ariz. -- A Mexican man in the country illegally has been arrested for allegedly using fake identification to work for a construction company and get security clearance at a Tucson Air Force base. Pinal County Sheriff's officials say 
BRISTOL, CT - Family, friends and classmates remembered a former Bristol Central High School student who was stabbed to death at a house party over the weekend. 
Nashville, N.C. — A man charged with killing a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper during a chase more than a year ago tearfully asked for forgiveness from the trooper’s family after pleading guilty Monday in a Nash County courtroom to second-degree murder. Christopher McCoy Rodgers, 41, was sentenced to 21 to 26 years in prison for the Sept. 8, 2012, death of Trooper
A Johnson City man was bound over to a grand jury Monday on multiple sex charges, including eight counts of raping a child. Anthony Eugene Newton, 49, 314 W. 8th Ave., was arrested Jan. 17 and charged with eight counts of rape of a child, three counts of aggravated sexual battery and two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. Newton had a court appearance on Monday, and the charges were sent to the grand jury when it meets again. A court affidavit filed by Johnson City Police Investigator Debbie Carey-Dunn said the victim, now a teenager, was first abused by Newton when the victim was 10. 
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of committing at least five rapes in the 1980s. Daniel Wade, 63, is believed to be the Maintenance Man rapist, a nickname derived from the fact that he posed as a maintenance worker and attacked his victims in their apartments. Police say Wade committed the rapes between January 1986 and January 1987. 
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A North Charleston man was charged in two rapes after meeting women from a personals website. 23-year-old Rodney Edwards was charged with rape after he met an 18-year-old escort at a North Arco Lane motel and then raped another woman almost two weeks later. When police responded to the motel room on Jan. 12, the victim said she met Edwards through the website backpage.com. When Edwards showed up, he had sex with the teen several time before tying her up, taking her phones and wallet and threatening her. Edwards also pointed a gun at the victim's head and told her not to scream. On Jan. 24, officers went to another motel after getting a call about a criminal sexual conduct case. The officers could not find the victim there, but later found her at a Parlor Drive home and took her to Medical University Hospital for treatment. Police were able to link Edwards to both crimes.
The Charlottesville man convicted of raping a teenage girl at a party in 2012 will spend the next 20 years behind bars. Police say Manneh Vay assaulted a teenage girl during a party on Wertland Street in the early morning hours of September 23, 2012. A judge sentenced Vay, 23, to 20 years Thursday afternoon. He was convicted of abduction, rape and sodomy. A jury convicted him in October of last year and recommended a 30-year sentence.
A Selma man is in custody after reportedly raping a woman Sunday night. Jacody Mitchell, 20, is charged with first-degree rape and is currently being held in the Dallas County Jail. Officers were called to the 1700 block of Philpot Avenue concerning a rape victim. Once there, officers met
Former NFL star Darren Sharper faces two rape charges in Los Angeles, police said Saturday. Sharper, 38, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department's sexual assault section of its robbery-homicide unit, according to LAPD spokeswoman Sally Madera. The Miami Beach, Florida, resident has been "linked to two sexual assaults in west Los Angeles" that allegedly happened in October 2013 and this month, an LAPD news release said.
NEW ORLEANS — Jury selection started on Monday in the public corruption trial of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who led the city during and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and now faces charges he profited personally from the city's recovery. Nagin, who was swept into office on promises of good government in 2002 and re-elected in 2006, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 21 counts of corruption, including bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and filing false tax returns.
New Orleans Police say they have arrested a 37-year-old homeless man in connection with a frightening home-invasion rape last week in eastern New Orleans. Corey Blake is being held at Orleans Parish Prison on a $100,000 bond following his arrest hours after the attack last Thursday (Jan. 16). Blake is accused of aggravated rape, second-degree kidnapping and aggravated assault with a knife, after police say he held a woman captive in her bedroom and sexually assaulted her in a pre-dawn attack.
BAY CITY, MI — Four Saginaw men are charged with 18 felonies between them after police allege they broke into a Bay City home, raped a woman, robbed her and then committed a carjacking a few days later. ...police saw four men exit a neighborhood house, a duffle bag in their presence. Police stopped the four men — Nashawn D. Lane, 18, Antonio D. Griffin, 19, Sammie L. Wright III, 19, and Quay’von R. Brown, 17 — and arrested them.
Two men and a teenage boy have been found guilty after a 16-year-old girl was raped and held captive in Ipswich. The victim was attacked at a property in Foxhall Road in June. 
A juvenile and two other men were arrested in the rape of an 18-year-old college student at UC Santa Barbara which occurred over the weekend, authorities announced Tuesday. Casey Avila, 22, and Charles Dunbar, 18, both of Santa Barbara, were arrested along with a 15-year-old from Oxnard, according to a news release from the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department. The attack occurred on Saturday around 1:30 a.m. in the area of Picasso Road and Camino Pescadero in the community of Isla Vista. A witnessed, who flagged down a university police officer, later identified three young men who were earlier suspected in a theft at a near-by convenience store.
A Department of Homeland Security immigration detainer also was placed on Ramirez, who had entered the United States illegally, according to police. 
PORT HURON, MICH. — A paroled ex-convict accused of rape, torture and murder in the deaths of a Michigan couple has been ordered to stand trial. A judge determined there’s enough evidence for 32-year-old 
A 21-year-od Iraqi immigrant was found guilty Tuesday on multiple counts of sexual assault, but innocent on one count of 1st degree assault. 
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In the recent Mall Of Columbia shooting, a black teenager walked into a mall with a shotgun, killed two white people his own age, possibly because he'd been rejected by a white girl in favor of a white man. Here's 
HAMPTON — A murder trial is scheduled Monday for a Hampton man charged with killing a 73-year-old man in 2012. Darren Johnson, 46, is charged with murder, abduction, robbery and carjacking in the death of 
Wilson, N.C. — A 28-year-old Wilson man has been charged in connection with the death of a 22-year-old woman who was found dead inside a home on Mercer Street Thursday afternoon, police said. According to investigators, Eric Devon Hooker killed 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A grandfather has been charged with attempted homicide after police said he shot his grandson during a domestic dispute. 33-year-old 
SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco police officer pleaded not guilty Monday morning in Contra Costa Superior Court to 10 felony counts of child molestation and possession of child pornography. Officer Richard Hastings, 38, of Concord, is accused of molesting a 
A stark-naked freshman who “looked like he was on drugs” plunged to his death from the roof of a New York University dorm early Monday – the first day of classes for the spring semester, cops and witnesses said. Aspiring rapper 
A lawyer for the family of a woman who was stabbed to death in White Plains because she was white argued Thursday that the city failed to adequately secure a parking garage near the Galleria where the crime occurred. The lawyer spoke during the opening of a civil trial in the case, pressed by the family of 
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The parents of a slain Auburn University student from Cobb County have filed an official claim against the school stating their belief that their daughter might still be alive if Auburn had a campus police department.
A Marrero man sought in the murder of a 21-year-old outside a Harvey sports bar last week has been captured in Florida, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said Tuesday (Jan. 21). Devin Bonilla, 24, was arrested Tuesday evening by the U.S. Marshal's Southeast Florida Regional Task Force and the Miami Dade Police Department. A second-degree murder warrant was issued earlier this week in Jefferson Parish in the shooting death of
ALBANY, GA - 22-year-old Anthony Jackson is looking at spending the rest of life in prison if convicted in the shooting death of 
A 15-year-old Massachusetts boy was indicted Friday on an additional count of aggravated rape in connection with the death of his high school math teacher. Philip Chism pleaded not guilty last December to murder, aggravated rape and robbery charges stemming from the killing of 
Waxahachie Police said Friday they've arrested a suspect in connection to a 2009 murder and robbery at a pawn shop. Police say Kajlon Jamaal Carroll, 22, is being held on a charge of capital murder by terror threat in the death of 
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Over six years after a 51-year-old man was shot to death in west Birmingham, police have arrested two suspects, charging them with capital murder. According to a release, 36-year-old Richard Morris and 25-year-old Tiera Marchbank, both of Birmingham, were arrested last week for the murder of 
BALTIMORE —Baltimore City police have arrested a man in an brutal attack of a Baltimore Sun editor in Canton last week. Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts announced Friday afternoon that officers arrested Mustafa Eraibi, 19, in connection with the beating and robbery of a man walking in Canton last week. Eraibi is charged with attempted murder, armed robbery and gun violations. 
PALO ALTO — Police released a sketch of a suspect in a Thursday morning home invasion robbery in Palo Alto who made
Police in South Carolina have taken a young man into custody and charged him with shooting to death a fellow student outside a campus dormitory. Sophomore Justin Bernard Singleton, 19, was arrested early Saturday, police said. He is accused of murder in the shooting death of fellow student 
PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi -- Police arrested a Pass Christian man on a murder charge. The arrest was at the Harrison County jail, where he's been held since he allegedly stole a dead Long Beach woman's vehicle. Antoine King, 33, was a recent acquaintance of 
GREENVILLE, N.C. - A Greenville man is facing at least 21 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to second degree murder. 26-year-old Eric Holloway entered the plea Tuesday afternoon in the Pitt County courthouse. He's convicted in the 2010 shooting death of tow-truck driver, 
