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Rochester police link gun to triple homicide
 Six people have been accused of having more than 80 pounds of marijuana and two illegal guns, one of which was linked to a recent homicide, after New York State Police and Rochester police officers executed a search warrant at a Clifford Avenue apartment building last week. Interim Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli said of the two loaded guns retrieved, one was linked to the Feb. 24 triple homicide at 809 Chili Ave. One week ago, Rochester residents Michael Nelson, 24, and cousins Jermeliah Simmons, 21, and Jacquelyn Simmons, 24, were found shot dead inside an upstairs apartment. Marlando Allen, 34, Steve Fulcott, 21, Andre McFarlane, 34, Carlos White, 38, all of Clifford Avenue, and Ronald Jefferson, 46, of Town House Circle, all pleaded not guilty in City Court Monday to first-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a felony. The five are accused of having 78 pounds of marijuana, mostly stashed in black garbage bags, inside the Clifford Avenue apartment Friday evening, according to court documents. Two of the men — Allen and McFarlane — are in the country illegally, Hochul said. McFarlane has been deported to Jamaica at least four times, he said. |
Tulsa, Okla. — Update: One of two men accused in a deadly shooting at a Skelly Best Buy was found guilty Friday night. Tulsa court clerk says the jury convicted Willie Wise of killing Scott Norman and Graydon Brown in July of 2012. Jurors deliberated for a little more than two hours. Jeremy Foster will also stand trial for the shooting deaths. - (Black-on-white)
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Police say it appears that after Demarco Carnegie strangled 
MADISON -- Police arrested six people believed to be involved in what they're calling one of the most brutal crimes in recent memory. Madison police say three men planned a home invasion, but broke into the wrong home on Quincy Avenue on the north side around 6 a.m. on February 23. Police say the suspects were aware it was not the intended home, but they proceeded to violently attack the two victims who had been sleeping. The suspects are accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting the woman who was six months pregnant. "I can tell you that in my 27-plus years of policing here in Madison, this is probably one of the most disturbing and heinous crimes that I've ever seen," says Interim Chief Randy Gaber. Three suspects are accused of the break-in: Kristopher Hughes, 20, Michon Thomas, 22, and Eric Bass, 23. They face charges of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, and six counts each of first degree sexual assault. Hughes also faces a charge of substantial battery while armed and both he and Thomas are accused of unauthorized use of an individual's personal identifying information. In the past week, three others were also arrested. Efemia Neumaier, 21, and DeAndre Mayweathers, 23, are both accused of conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Demarco Mallit, 22, faces charges of aiding a felon and theft.
A Detroit woman is being sought in the robbery of a Dalton convenience store and the murder of the clerk on Sunday night. The victim has been identified as 
An arrest has been made in Friday’s hit-and-run that left a Philadelphia police lieutenant injured. Philadelphia Police say 24-year-old Kendall Davis, of Philadelphia, was arrested on Friday for his involvement in the accident. According to police, the lieutenant was driving an unmarked police vehicle when he was struck by another vehicle at 13th and Market Streets. When the lieutenant activated his light and sirens to stop the vehicle, police say it fled the scene. After going over police radio, other responding officers in marked police vehicles located the vehicle and attempted to stop it. Police say the vehicle fled again and officers followed until the vehicle came to a stop at 5th and Oxford Streets. According to police, the driver exited the vehicle and fled into a warehouse and later apprehended by K-9 and SWAT. 
A 22-year-old woman who died under mysterious circumstances in a Manhattan hot sheets hotel last summer was the victim of a botched buttocks lift — and now a New Jersey woman has been charged in the death, police sources said Tuesday. 
HOUSTON - Charges have been filed against the men who police say opened fire and robbed customers at a House of Pies restaurant. Detectives say the men also murdered someone just hours before the robbery. Marquis Davis, 19, was in court Monday and charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. The other suspect, 19-year-old Donald Nealey 
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Montgomery police have arrested two suspects in connection with the homicide of a Taco Bell night manager as she was leaving work early Monday morning. Rendauldous Chisholm, 19, and Kenneth Temple, 19, both of Montgomery, are charged with capital murder in the death of 
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo city worker Shanon Richardson’s felony hearing in Buffalo City Court was adjourned, Tuesday. A judge was expected to hear arguments on animal cruelty charges that were filed last December. Shanon Richardson has been employed by the City of Buffalo Police Department, as a cell block attendant, since September 17, 2012. Richardson has been arrested before, by Buffalo Police. According to a police report, dated June 10, 2013, Richardson was arrested after police say he beat his “nine-year-old son with a leather belt attached to a metal belt buckle.” In this arrest report, the officer notes, “the child was struck several times causing extensive bruising/swelling…” Richardson was charged with third degree assault, acting in a manner injuring a child less than 17 years old and second degree harassment. Richardson was arrested back in December, when police were called to his home for a purported burglary. Detectives never found any proof of someone trying to break into his house. Instead, police say they found four malnourished pit bulls, along with fighting and training equipment.
DETROIT - A high-ranking Detroit EMS officer has been charged with sexual assault. The alleged sexual assault happened in 2002. The alleged victim was under the age of 13 at the time. Dwayne Dixon, 44, resigned after being charged with four felony counts of criminal sexual conduct. Each carries a life sentence. If Dixon is convicted he could receive multiple life sentences. 
FREMONT, OH - Fremont Police have arrested the suspect wanted after a deadly bar shooting over the weekend. Around 9:30 a.m. Monday, police officers went to a residence in the 600 block of South Park Avenue, following up on leads. When they knocked on the door, a relative to the suspect answered. 
A man broke into a woman's home and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint, according to an arrest report from the Broward County Sheriff's Office. Deputies say Ronald St. Hill, 31, went into a Pompano Beach house and sexually assaulted a woman whom he knew just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of Southwest 36th Avenue. He stole the keys to the victim's apartment unknowingly and entered while she was sleeping, according to the report. At one point during the attack, he tied her hands and feet with duct tape, the report said. Deputies said he also put a gun to her head. 
NEW BRITAIN, CT - Police have arrested an New Britain man for a homicide that happened in New Britain in January. An arrest warrant was put out for Darren Davis, 48, on Saturday, March 8, and was taken into custody the same day. On Jan. 27, 2014, New Britain police officers responded to 85 Spring Street, apartment 410, on a welfare check. Investigators found 
Omaha, NE - Omaha police have made an arrest in the shooting death of 21 year old 
GREENVILLE, SC - Greenville County deputies have charged an Upstate special education teacher's former student with murder after she was found dead at a local hotel. Dispatchers said they received a call about an explosion at the Quality Inn and Suites motel on South Pleasantburg Drive near Mauldin Road at 5:28 a.m. Monday. Deputy Jennings Autry said a woman was found dead inside the room where the reported explosion occurred, but there were no other injuries reported. He said guests in the surrounding rooms were evacuated. Coroner Parks Evans said the woman had to be identified with dental records because of the severity of her burns. Evans identified her as 39-year-old 
A Lawrenceville man was found guilty of molesting a girl more than a dozen years ago, Cobb prosecutors said. Adrian DeShawn Burney, 38, previously served prison time in Alabama after pleading guilty to
KISSIMMEE, Fla. —A Kissimmee man is accused of sexually assaulting a 
A Lorain man was charged Tuesday for allegedly raping an 
A man raped a girl over several years, fathered a child with her, then killed the newborn baby, prosecutors said Wednesday. The allegations come in the form of a new indictment filed against Herman Robinson, 38, formerly of Lenox Road. He faces a host of charges, including murder and predatory sexual assault, that could put him in prison for life if he is convicted. Robinson is accused of raping the child beginning in 2006 when 
FORT WORTH — A 49-year-old Grand Prairie man was sentenced to 60 years in prison this week for repeatedly having sex with a 
A police officer who was dispatched to help a domestic violence victim instead sexually assaulted the 31-year-old woman inside her home, and then threatened to return the next morning. Officer Deon Nunlee, 40, was on duty at 3 a.m. Oct. 30 when he and his partner were sent to a home in the 16800 block of Asbury Park on the city’s northwest side after a woman dialed 911 to report her boyfriend had assaulted her. But instead of aiding the victim, Nunlee is accused of taking her upstairs and sexually assaulting her. “When Nunlee and his partner arrived at the scene, the woman alleged that she had been assaulted by her boyfriend. Nunlee took the woman upstairs and his partner remained with the male downstairs. “It is alleged that when Nunlee was in an upstairs bedroom with the woman he sexually assaulted her. While they were alone upstairs, Nunlee indicated he would be coming back to the house later at 7 a.m.” 
The principal of a small Pompano Beach charter high school was charged this week with sexually assaulting a female employee in October, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Detectives say Peter Nicholson, 55, of Coral Springs, was at Flagler High School, 1951 W. Copans Rd., when he forced himself on the employee as she worked in the office. According to the report, Nicholson began to rub her back and “then placed her against a wall and started to kiss her face area.” The woman told Nicholson “several times to stop, but he refused,” according to the report. He forcibly pulled down her pants and had sex with her against her will, the report said. 
Tulsa Police arrested a man Thursday afternoon who they say sexually assaulted women in his apartment. Officers said Ashley Pullen, 30, used a Facebook profile to lure at least three women to his apartment. In the police report, officers said Pullen posed as a roommate of a male model from California named Corey Davis. They said when the women showed up at Pullen's apartment, he would invite them inside and offer them a drink. The women all described losing consciousness or not being able to move after taking a drink. One woman stated she believed Pullen had "put something into her drink." Police said that is when Pullen assaulted them. 
NORFOLK -- Authorities are asking for the public's help in locating a Norfolk man suspected of rape and robbery. Police say the alleged rape took place inside an apartment in Thomasville, North Carolina early Wednesday morning. The 21-year-old victim told police Jerome Brockington, 44, assaulted and forcibly raped her. The suspect is also wanted by the Norfolk Police Department for an armed robbery that occurred on Feb. 1. “Brockington has a violent history and should be considered armed and dangerous,” said Det. Jaime Foley with the Thomasville Police Department. “We believe he is still in the immediate area, however, he does have ties to South Carolina and Virginia.” He also has a mole on his nose.
Houston: Investigators say they're looking for a black male, possibly in his early thirties, 5 feet 11 inches to 6 feet tall, with a slim build. They say he was wearing a gray sweatshirt and red or black pants and may go by the name of "Patrick." 
According to police, the 42-year-old female victim was confronted by two females which escalated into a physical altercation. Police say the victim was bitten by one of the females and a portion of her finger was severely severed. The victim was taken to Cooper Hospital where she remains in stable condition. The suspect is described as a Black female in her mid-thirties, heavy set build with “bushy” hair possibly operating an older model Audi sedan, dark in color.
Metro Transit Police have arrested and charged a Glenarden man with attempted murder after an assault aboard a Green Line train Friday night that left a man in critical condition. Police say the fight between two men happened while the Metro train was traveling between Greenbelt and Fort Totten after 9:30 p.m. Officers boarded the train at Fort Totten and found one of the men with serious injuries. The other suspect was not on board. After MTPD broadcast a suspect denoscription and photo throughout the Metrorail system, a man who fit the denoscription was arrested a short time later at L'Enfant Plaza, police say. He was identified as Dionte Daniels, 22, of Glenarden, Md. 
Omaha Police arrested a former murder suspect on a weapons charge overnight Saturday. Arrest records show officers booked 23-year-old Akeem Jones. The weapons charge investigators listed is a Class-IV felony. Jones was a suspect in a 2009 murder, but prosecutors later dropped charges. Records also show someone shot Jones in 2010. The wound was not life-threatening. Jones was a speaker at the "Turning Point Rally" in Omaha following 5-year-old 
MINNEAPOLIS – While getting to the gym can be a challenge in itself this winter, members of the LA Fitness in Roseville have had more serious problems to deal with. On Sunday, city police responded to a call involving 10-15 people fighting at the gym’s Cleveland Avenue location. It started all on the basketball court over a call and escalated, moving into the main fitness area. “People were actually throwing two and a half, five, 10 pound weights within the building,” said Police Lt. Lorne Rosand. 
A Bristol Township woman, who made national news last year when she alleged police brutality against her teen son, has been arrested for allegedly shoplifting from the same Tullytown Wal-Mart where her son was caught. Marissa Ann Sargeant, 32, was arrested Thursday night at the store along with a 23-year-old woman after a security employee saw the pair placing items into bags and leaving the store without paying for them, according to a probable cause affidavit. 
A south suburban Glenwood man has been charged with holding a steak knife to his mother's throat and then stabbing her repeatedly and stealing about a hundred dollars from the woman. Prosecutors said Willie J. Jackson, 23, held a knife to his mother’s throat at the home they shared in the 500 block of South Minerva Avenue. Jackson demanded money from his mother, who was sitting at her desk when he confronted her. After the woman was thrown to the ground and sustained several stab wounds to her neck, hands and thigh area, Jackson made away with $101 in cash. Police arrived and found Jackson covered in blood. Jackson later made statements that implicated himself.
HOUSTON -- An 18-year-old is facing charges after investigators say he set his mother's clothes on fire at an apartment in northwest Harris County Saturday morning. Investigators with the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office say the damage was minor at the complex in the 15500 block of Ella Blvd. They also believe the fire was intentionally set. "Our investigation found that 18-year-old John Carter was angry at his mother because she would not give him money so he could buy marijuana, so he started setting her clothes on fire," said Lt. Dean Hensley with the Harris County Fire Marshal Office. Carter was arrested and charged with arson.
A Brooklyn man who used a JetBlue flight attendant as a punching bag in a drunken assault says he is a victim — of cyberbullying. 
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FORT MILL, SC - A Fort Mill mom wants to send a message to parents after she caught her 
The man accused in a Minneapolis "good Samaritan" slaying also sexually assaulted the shooting victim's wife, prosecutors say. Devon Derrick Parker, 20, was initially charged with a single count of second-degree murder that accused him of acting with intent but not premeditation in the Jan. 31 death of 
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - A 12-member jury has unanimously recommended the death penalty for a man it convicted last month of kidnapping and murdering a Florida State University student. Quentin Truehill, 26, was the first of three suspects to stand trial in the killing of 
SPRINGFIELD — A federal jury took less than two hours Friday to find the daughter of President
SPRINGFIELD — Former Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans plead guilty Monday to federal obstruction-of-justice and witness tampering charges in connection to a $1.25 million state grant-fraud scheme. Evans appeared in federal court and entered a guilty plea to one count each of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and conspiracy to obstruct justice and witness tampering. 
SPRINGFIELD — A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted the former inspector general of a south suburban police department with mail fraud and money-laundering charges for his role in the alleged misuse of $1.25 million in state grant funds. Ronald W. Evans, 45, of Country Club Hills, was named in a three-count federal indictment, accused of the same crimes as his previously indicted wife, Regina Evans, who is the former Country Club Hills police chief. 
The first blow from the shotgun stock sent the woman to the floor. The 
Terrence Miller, 19, and Napoleon Cottrell, 15, were each hit with four felony charges: assault with intent to murder, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, armed robbery, and carrying a concealed weapon. Cottrell will be charged as an adult. 
PITTSBURGH – Arthur Leroy Whitfield III wasn’t talking when he was escorted out of a district magistrate’s office. But earlier this month, he’s accused of talking a lot, telling his ex-girlfriend, “This is the last time you’re going to (expletive) me up.” Witnesses, including his own daughter, say he then fired nine shots into 
A man is in police custody after a young woman told her mother that he sexually assaulted her while babysitting her in New London. Erik Walton, was taken in custody by the Waterbury Police before being transported to the New London Police Department where he is being held on charges of Sexual Assault and Risk of Injury to a minor. Police received the complaint on December 27, 2013, when the mother of the young female victim told them that her daughter said Walton forced her to perform sexual acts on him while he was babysitting her.
FORT WORTH — A 35-year-old registered sex offender convicted in 2010 of exposing himself to several women is in jail again, this time accused of raping a 62-year-old woman. Kenny Fernell Graves was charged Thursday with aggravated sexual assault by threat. The alleged rape occurred July 7 at a south Fort Worth motel where the 62-year-old woman had been living. The victim had been sitting near a window inside her room with her front door open when she saw a man she later identified in a photo lineup as Graves standing outside her door and masturbating. The woman told the man to stop it and go somewhere else but he indicated that he wanted her to perform oral sex on him. The victim had told the suspect no and had gotten up to shut her door when the man overpowered her, pushing his way inside and shutting the door. The man again demanded oral sex from the woman, threatening to have sex with her if she did not. 
RALEIGH — A Belk loss-prevention officer has been charged again with felony extortion after Raleigh police say he demanded sex from an 18-year-old woman in return for not testifying against her in a shoplifting case. Modou Thomas, 37, was arrested Wednesday at his home. Detectives had also arrested him at his home last Friday. The new charges involve a woman, Samara Chance, who was arrested Dec. 20 at the Belk store and charged with misdemeanor larceny. Thomas contacted Chance two days later intending “to wrongfully obtain sexual intercourse by texting the victim repeatedly telling her that she would only be able to avoid prosecution in a pending shoplifting case by having sex with him.” Last week’s arrest warrant laid out a similar case involving a 23-year-old woman whose name was listed as Divine Mayaka. Acting on behalf of federal immigration officials, Wake sheriff’s deputies checked on Thomas, a native of Gambia, last week and did not ask for an Immigration and Custom Enforcement 48-hour hold on him, but this week they did. 
MEMPHIS, TN - - A woman said she was shot and told to climb on all fours to get her purse. Now, a Memphis teacher is fighting back against her accused attackers. Two teens knocked on her door, asked to rake her leaves, then allegedly robbed and shot her on Nov. 27. She faced them for the first time Friday. 
As San Francisco Police search for man in a wheelchair who has attacked multiple people in the area of SF General Hospital, a victim of one of those assaults on Thursday described how she fought off the attacker with her cane. The Sheriff's Department issued a crime alert earlier this week stating at least four people have been attacked near San Francisco General Hospital. Investigators describe the man as African American, between 40 and 50 years old. His right leg is partially amputated and he's in a wheelchair. SF resident 
A jury on Thursday convicted a man of shooting and paralyzing a Florissant police in May 2012. Brian Lamont Cannon, Jr.’s trial on charges of first-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, armed criminal action and second-degree burglary began Monday. According to the Florissant Police Department, a jury found him guily on those charges Thursday evening. Florissant police officers responded to a call of a burglary in the 1800 block of Banstead around 3 a.m. on May 28, 2012. Police said Florissant Police Officer
Convicted teen killer Jordan Wallick has won a new sentencing hearing, meaning he could possibly avoid spending the rest of his life in prison. On Wednesday, the state Superior Court agreed with defense attorney Dawn Cutaia's argument that an automatic life sentence without parole for Wallick was unconstitutional because he was 15 at the time he murdered law student 
PHILADELPHIA — A 29-year-old Philadelphia man has been ordered to stand trial on aggravated assault and other offenses for an allegedly unprovoked attack in Germantown last October. The attack was caught on video, which led to the identification and arrest of the suspect, since the victim, 33, is legally blind. He says he can see only vague shadows and light, and had little to say at the preliminary hearing: “I don’t know him. He hit me. End of story.” The witness, who was wearing dark glasses and says he had his guide cane with him at the time of the attack, testified that he was knocked out with the first punch and woke up later on the ground. 
NEW YORK – 
The pregnant mother who wildly drove her three children into the surf at a Florida beach was booked on a slew of charges that included attempted murder and child abuse, authorities said. Ebony Wilkerson, 32, was arrested after her release Friday from a local hospital, where she has been under evaluation since the apparent murder-suicide bid at Daytona Beach, authorities said. Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson told reporters that Wilkerson was cuffed after several interviews with 
A man claiming to be the "black Hitler" held captive a Manhattan live-in Nanny and tortured her for three days in an East Side apartment. Sherman Gamble, 54, beat the woman with his fist, pulled her hair out and beat her with a cellphone on the head. He also allegedly "rolled up a newspaper and shoved it down her throat, and shouted, 'I am going to kill you. You don’t know who I am. I am the black Hitler.'" 
Miami Dade County, FL official reports show that a man of 50 years age, Sherman Gamble, was busted for begging.
UNION TOWNSHIP - A man who admitted stabbing and strangling a Union Township woman in 2010 pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Tuesday. Arnell Yearwood, 28, of Irvington, will spend 30 years in state prison with no chance of parole after agreeing to a plea deal that included admitting to killing 54-year-old 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 68-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced this week to a minimum mandatory 25 years in prison for lewd or lascivious molestation on a child younger than 12. Carl Downer was also sentenced to 16 years for sexual battery and 16 years for lewd or lascivious molestation on a child older than 12 but younger than 16. The sentences run concurrently. The abuse started when the victim was 9 years old.
A 43-year-old man is in jail after a 15-year-old girl reported that he sexually molested her for the last five years, according to an affidavit. The victim said Darrell Randolph began touching her 
MEMPHIS, TN - A Church Of God In Christ pastor was sentenced to six years in prison on sexual battery by an authority figure charges in criminal court on Thursday. Michael Bryant, the then pastor of Hour of Restoration COGIC, admitted to inappropriately touching and exposing himself to a 
D.C. Police are working to identify about a dozen teens wanted for setting up a "flash mob"-style robbery at a high-end jeans store in Georgetown two weeks ago. Surveillance videos from Feb. 20 shows the teens entering the True Religion Brand Jeans store on M Street just before 6:30 p.m. The teens then stuffed more than a thousand dollars worth of the jeans into bags they'd brought with them before running out of the store, in just a couple minutes.
RICHMOND, VA - Richmond Police arrested two people who they say abducted a woman in Shockoe Bottom last summer, forced her to withdraw money from several ATMs, then sexually assaulted her. Bradford Gaskins, 43, and Tina Marie Hancock, 42, have been charged in the robbery, abduction and sexual assault. Detectives say on August 14 around 2:30 a.m. Gaskins and Hancock took the woman at gunpoint near 25th and East Cary streets, forced her to drive them around and withdraw money from several locations before Gaskins sexually assaulted her. Police had released surveillance images of the two suspects, which helped identify them. Gaskins has been indicted on robbery, abduction and sexual assault. Hancock has been indicted for robbery and abduction.
A former leader of the Black Panthers has been released from prison more than four decades after being convicted of killing a Baltimore police officer. Marshall 'Eddie' Conway, 67, was freed from the prison in Jessup, Maryland on Tuesday. The decision came after state prosecutors agreed to change his life sentence to time served and probation. Conway is one of dozens of inmates who have been released after Maryland's Court of Appeals ruled in 2012 that judges had given improper instructions to juries before 1980. Conway was convicted in 1971 of fatally shooting 35-year-old
EAST LIBERTY, Pa. — A man charged with robbing and killing two sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker at their East Liberty home last month turned himself in at police headquarters Wednesday. Allen Darell Wade, 43, was wanted on numerous charges including criminal homicide, robbery, theft, and a firearms violation in the slayings of 
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Westminster woman with unlawful neglect of a child charges relating to an ongoing Criminal Sexual Conduct case. 44 year old Shirley Amanda Moore of 107 John Smith Road in Westminster was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 7:44am yesterday morning. She was released yesterday from the Detention Center on a $5,000 surety bond. According to the arrest warrant, Moore admitted to allowing her 
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - The family of a man suspected of abusing dogs wants to know what led to his mysterious death. Treon Johnson died just hours after being taken into custody Thursday. Hialeah police said a 911 caller claimed the 27-year-old man jumped into the backyard of his home and was
The 66-year-old proprietor of a Gold Coast framing company was gunned down over the weekend at the Southwest Side factory complex where he had worked for 30 years, police and family members said. Described by his son as a jack of all trades and animal lover, 
SEATTLE — Byron White told Seattle police detectives he killed 54 -year-old 
TACOMA, Wash. — A man wanted for hiding in the back seat of a Tacoma woman’s car, then robbing her, has been arrested, thanks in part to social media. Christopher Brown, 31, was already in the Pierce County Jail on an unrelated burglary charge when Tacoma police told him he would also be facing charges of robbery and theft for the Feb. 13 incident. Brown is accused of hiding in 
MADISON, Wis. - Sheriff’s deputies looked for evidence that may have been discarded in connection to the Mazomanie homicide. Deputies "randomly" chose to look for evidence on Highway 14 just east of Black Earth. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office has named a person of interest in the death of a Mazomanie woman. Phillip A. Byrd, 39, has been named a person of interest in the homicide investigation of 
A Floridian with an IQ as high as 75 may be diagnosed as mentally disabled and be eligible for help getting a job. But on death row, the state says having an IQ higher than 70 categorically means an inmate is not mentally disabled and may be executed. The Supreme Court barred states from executing mentally disabled inmates in 2002, but until now has left the determination of who is mentally disabled to the states. In arguments Monday, 68-year-old Florida inmate Freddie Lee Hall is challenging the state's use of a rigid IQ cutoff to determine mental disability. He was sentenced to death for murdering 
Tampa Police have arrested a second man in connection with the December murder of a Bay area cab driver. Landrick Donyell Edwards Jr. is facing one count of first-degree murder with a firearm and one count of attempted robbery with a firearm. He is being held without bond at the Hillsborough County Jail. The 24-year-old suspect has been behind bars since December 13, 2013 – five days after the murder Yellow Cab driver
Aaron De Silva, 21, stabbed 
St. Petersburg Police arrested two men who are suspected in a carjacking and chase Thursday that caused four accidents and injured a 91-year-old woman. Investigators identified the suspects as 19-year-old Travonte Brishard Banks and 20-year-old Savon Jamar Hunter. The pursuit began around 5:15 p.m. after the carjacking of 
HOUSTON – Two suspects wanted in the shooting death of a cab driver in southwest Houston are now off the streets. Jock Quinn Wilson and Jermaine Palmer were both charged with capital murder. 
