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Suspect Miguel Angel Hernandez found naked after burglary that left one man dead
 FORT WORTH — A suspected burglar who police say viciously attacked two men inside their home early Sunday, killing one, may have thrown drain cleaner on the victims. Police believe Miguel Angel Hernandez, 29, randomly chose the house in the 2900 block of Cortez Drive to burglarize early Sunday. He allegedly entered the home through an exterior window shortly before 2:30 a.m. and was confronted by the two victims. “We believe that they awoke when they heard the suspect inside the residence,” said homicide Sgt. Joe Loughman. Loughman said a “violent fight ensued.” When officers arrived, James Bowling, 56, was dead inside. A ruling has not been made on his cause of death. Don Keaton, 82, was seriously injured with what police described as “numerous blunt force injuries.” Loughman said the surviving victim suffered chemical burns and may have permanent injuries to his eyes as a result. “Detectives and crime scene personnel located a partially empty bottle of drain cleaner inside the residence,” Loughman said. “Both victims appeared to have burn injuries and none were observed on the suspect.” Patrol officers found Hernandez sitting naked in his parked pickup in the roadway two houses down. Hernandez, a registered sex offender, had been wanted on a warrant since June 27, when his bond in a pending DWI case was held insufficient. His past convictions in Tarrant County include assault with bodily injury, failure to identify, driving while intoxicated and sexual assault. Records show he was sentenced to two years deferred adjudication probation in 2007 after pleading gulity to the sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman. |
NEW HAVEN, CT - A former New York City man was sentenced to 60 years in prison for a 1986 killing in which another man was convicted and served 20 years in prison before he was exonerated and freed. Kevin Benefield, 47, was sentenced Friday in New Haven Superior Court for the beating death of Barbara Pelkey, a 30-year-old mother of four who police said was also sexually assaulted. The former Bronx resident was convicted in January of murder and felony murder, which both carry 25 to 60 years in prison. Benefield worked near Pelkey and lied to police during the investigation. Benefield actually talked to Channel 3 Eyewitness News right after the murder. Pelkey's nude body was found at a manufacturing company where she worked in Wallingford. All four of Pelkey's children talked at Benefield's sentencing including the youngest daughter who broke down several times. She was 9-year-old at the time and remembers her father holding her hand, touching the casket, afraid of what was inside. The children also lost their father years later after he committed suicide. The judge told Benefield the list of people he hurt is endless. - (Black-on-white)
18-year-old D'Angelo Bell has been arrested and charged with capital murder, along with aggravated assault and assault of a public servant, in connection with the deadly stabbing at the Grove apartments early Sunday morning that lead to the death of 19-year-old 
HOUSTON - A jury decided the punishment Tuesday for the man convicted of killing a Bellaire police officer and an innocent bystander in 2012. Harlem Harold Lewis III was sentenced to death. The verdict was returned after about 12 hours of deliberation. Twelve jurors - nine men and three women - unanimously agreed that Lewis should pay with his own life for shooting and killing Cpl.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 12-year-old boy shot and killed a 54-year-old homeless man last month in a Westside parking lot, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Sharron Townsend is charged with murder in the death of 
A 17-year-old Stuttgart male was formally charged with capital murder Wednesday following last week's fatal shooting. Arthur L. Hicks Jr. has been charged as an adult in the crime. The Arkansas County Prosecuting Attorney's Office said the charge was formally filed Wednesday afternoon. According to Stuttgart Police Department Assistant Chief Steven Bobo, the capital murder charge requires an additional aspect, in this case robbery or attempted robbery. No other arrests or charges in the matter were filed Wednesday. The Arkansas State Police are still investigating after the state's law enforcement agency was called in to assist in the investigation. Dittrich explained last week that charges would be upgraded from first-degree battery to a homicide after the victim, 
LAS VEGAS -- The Coroner's Office has identified the man killed during what Metro Police say was a "road rage" incident in the northwest part of valley early Saturday morning. He's 28-year-old 
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A jury sides with a New Jersey police detective who claims he shot and killed a road-raging Anne Arundel County man in self-defense. Prosecutors said his actions amounted to first-degree murder, but a jury didn’t buy it, and found nothing criminal in Walker’s actions when he pulled out his gun and opened fire. The jury ruled Detective Joseph Walker was acting in self-defense to protect his wife and kids when he shot and killed a road-raging 
A man is facing attempted murder charges after he allegedly attacked a woman in broad daylight and tried to strangle her with a rope. 
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. – St. Charles police say they've arrested and charged a man for raping a 22-year-old woman three months ago. Rico L. Frazier, 23, of St. Louis, is charged with first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sodomy, first-degree burglary, and felonious restraint. Officers were called to the Time Center Apartments at 3:48 a.m. May 1. The victim told police the suspect, now identified by police as Frazier, forced his way into her home and raped her. She was taken to an area hospital for treatment.
CLAYTON, MO – Felony charges have been filed against two St. Ann men in connection with a rape in Bridgeton. 20-year-old Dalonte Ball and 18-year-old Joseph Hester are both charged with one count each of forcible rape and sodomy. Police say the two men took the victim to a basement of a Bridgeton home in April 2013, where she was given alcohol and raped.
A Jersey City man with an "extensive criminal history" was arrested and charged with groping a woman this morning on a Jersey City street, Port Authority police said. A 23-year-old woman was walking near the intersection of Montgomery and Summit avenues at about 6 a.m. this morning when Alfonzo Williams Jr., 37, reportedly stalked her from behind and forcibly grabbed her buttocks, said Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department. Two bicyclists witnessed the episode unfold, and managed to intervene and scare off Williams, Pentangelo said. The bicyclists immediately spotted two Port Authority Police officers in the area and told them what happened, Pentangelo said. Williams, who is 6-foot-1 and approximately 200 pounds, was soon discovered about a half-mile away at the intersection of Summit and Van Reipen avenues, Pentangelo said.
Police are searching for a man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman on the subway in Queens Tuesday morning. The suspect was sitting in front of a 48-year-old woman on the Jamaica Center-bound E train and exposed himself as the train approached the Jamaica/Van Wyck Expressway station, police say. When the train pulled into the station, the suspect ran off. 
NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans police are looking for a man wanted for a sexual assault in the St. Roch neighborhood. The incident happened on July 19 in the 1100 block of Spain Street. The unidentified suspect was captured on surveillance video. Investigators say he's a black man in his late 30s or early 40s. If you help identify him, call Crimestoppers at 822-1111.
NEW YORK – Police are looking for two men who followed a woman into an apartment building and attacked her. In surveillance video released by the police, the 18-year-old victim was walking into a building in Midwood Sunday night at around 9:35 p.m. The suspects followed her in a few seconds later. The suspects are described by police as two young black men. 
READING, Pa. – Officials in Reading, Berks County say a prison inmate failed to return from work release. Randy Allen Robertson, a 24-year-old from Reading, did not show up at the Berks County Prison at the scheduled time following work release. He is described as 6’2” and 175 lbs. 
The 19-year-old charged with murder in connection with last week's fatal assault on a USC graduate student told immigration officials that he entered the country illegally about seven years ago, a federal official said. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, said 
A Syracuse veteran accused of a savage, unprovoked attack on a North Syracuse police officer partially blamed the attack on debilitating emotional trauma he suffered while in the Marines. Danon Edwards, 33, said through his lawyer that his military service left him emotionally scarred and unable to work. He told is lawyer, Chris Gaiser, that he served in the "Gulf War." But Edwards was actually a peacetime food service worker and never left the country, according to the U.S. Marines. His record shows he was a Marine from July 19, 1999 to Jan. 31, 2003. He had the rank of private and served as a "food service specialist." There's no indication of overseas assignment or deployment, the Marines noted. In court, Gaiser said Edwards' service "may have had an effect on his emotional stability." Edwards is accused of attacking North Syracuse Police Officer 
NELLVILLE, Ga. -- Police are warning shoppers to be aware of a man who is creeping up on women and stealing their valuables right out of their purses -- and he's being very bold about it. Snellville Police released surveillance video of the suspect who stole a woman's wallet from her purse while she was shopping at the Kroger on Highway 124. They're convinced he's done it before. The video shows a woman shopping; while she's looking for a product in one of the aisles, the man creeps up behind her, reaches into her purse and steals her wallet. "Her purse is laying in the top basket of the shopping cart and its wide open," said Snellville Police Capt. Carey Roberts. 
The mug shot was of 19-year-old Shamir Allen. He's a suspect in several shootings in the city. We looked further on the mug shot and found next to line labeled "complexion," that Allen is listed as a "negro." Next to negro it reads "DA" According to Lockport Police, this means dark. So, Shamir Allen, a 19-year-old suspect is listed as a "dark negro," in the Lockport Police database.
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NEW YORK — A woman was stabbed in the neck and left for dead in a brutal random attack on the subway in Queens earlier this month, and the man who did it remained on the loose Tuesday. Around 11 p.m. Saturday, July 12, the woman got off an R Train at the Woodhaven Boulevard station near Queens Center Mall. She said she saw a man she estimates was in his late 30s. 5 feet 10 inches tall, heavy set, and dark-skinned – wearing a blue shirt and black pants. What she didn’t see until it was too late was a screwdriver with a blade taped on to the end of it. “I thought he was just rushing trying to get past me, and the next thing I know he grabs me,” the woman said. “He did this, and immediately slashed my neck — not a word.” 
Police are on the hunt for a robber who stalked and attacked an elderly man in the Washington Square section of the city back on July 4. The suspect was caught on surveillance video at 14th and Lombard Streets in Center City stalking a woman with a cane as well as a man with a walker. Police say he then passed them up and decided to go after 
NEWPORT, Ky. —A man responsible for a murder 16 years ago was about to get out of prison, and 
Two Brooklyn men are suing ex-Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes and his former sex trafficking unit chief for charging them with raping an Orthodox Jewish woman despite knowing that she had recanted her story. Jawara Brockett and Jamali Brockett claim in their $25 million Brooklyn federal court lawsuit filed Wednesday, that Hynes and former prosecutor Lauren Hersh flagrantly ignored the woman’s story reversal and knowingly pressed forth with a bogus case. The Crown Heights accuser told cops on March 31, 2010 that the Brockett brothers and two other men – Darrell Dula and Damien Crooks – forced her to have sex with strangers for cash beginning when she was 13 years old. But the then-20-year-old reversed herself just a day later, telling authorities that the activity was consensual and that she made the accusations because one of the men hit her and refused to use a condom. Norma Ramos, director of the coalition Against Trafficking Women, also slammed the decision, claiming prosecutors ignored the traumatic bonding many sex-trafficking victims develop with their tormentors.
A New Orleans police officer has been placed on emergency suspension without pay after being arrested on
HOUSTON - A woman is accused of trying to sexually assault her little sister’s 12-year-old friend during a sleepover at their home, according to Houston police. Jasmyne Lashay Gilder, 21, has been charged with attempted indecency with a child. Police said the girl was spending a night with Gilder’s sister on July 25 when Gilder tried to sexually assault her. The girl told her mother, who immediately reported the incident to police. The victim was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital to be checked out. The child had minor injuries.
Cindy Johnston says Sunday evening a stranger rode his bike up to their front porch near Northeast 84th and Broadway and started talking to her 
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. —A man known as "The Candyman" was arrested on accusations that he molested a 
DENVER – A jaywalking stop may be the key to closing an old rape case. Gregory Carter, 46, is now charged with two counts of sexual assault. DNA evidence linked him to a 2012 case when a woman was raped in a Denver alley. While Carter has been a suspect for a while, police didn’t find him until last week when he was stopped for jaywalking. He was then arrested on the outstanding warrant.
Tyreek McNeil allegedly shared two things with Jahmir Carney: a neighborhood bicycle and the knowledge that he shot and killed a man last year in a failed attempt to steal a backpack. Both wound up getting McNeil, 22, held for trial Tuesday on murder and robbery charges in the killing of 
Four teens detained in connection with the violent beating death of a USC graduate student were charged Tuesday with capital murder. 
An illegal immigrant has been jailed after making a last-minute guilty plea to three counts of sexual assault against a young girl aged under 13. 
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams called them "Bastards" during a press conference held yesterday, July 28, 2014, but early today, Jonathan Rosa and Cornelius Crawford were ordered held without bail for their roles in the events of July 25, 2014. Both were responsible when they are alleged to have carjacked a vehicle from a realtor, sexually assaulted her and then driven the vehicle when she was not driving it fast enough for them. The SUV blew a tire and crashed, killing
TRENTON, N.J. – According to the Mercy County Prosecutor, a Trenton man was sentenced to 28 years in prison for an incident involving kidnapping and sexual assault back in May 2012. In January 2014, 20-year-old Dante Picott pleaded guilty to the 10-count indictment charging him with kidnapping, robbery and several aggravated sexual assault offenses. At that time, Picott admitted to choking and punching the victim until she was unconscious and dragging her behind a row of bushes and sexually assaulting her and stealing her keys in an attempt to take her money.
Police have arrested a man they believe sexually violated 3 different women since April of last year. According to The Sacramento County Sheriff Sexual Assault Detectives, Robert Derrick Hill, 20, was arrested at work on behalf of the Sacramento County DA’s Office. Hill was booked on multiple felony charges and his bail is currently set at $2,000,000.00. 
HAMLET, N.C. — A janitor at Sandhills Regional Medical Center is accused of sexually assaulting two female patients in the hospital’s psychiatric ward. Thadus Gerome Primus, 44, of 116 Bryson Drive, Hamlet, was arrested Saturday on charges relating to the alleged sexual abuse. Both patients told police that Primus committed the assaults during their time in the hospital. The first victim filed a police report after she was discharged from the facility, interim Hamlet Police Chief Rodney Tucker said.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – The trial of a former MetroAccess driver charged with sexual assault is scheduled to begin Tuesday. Ezra Porter Jr., is accused of sexually assaulting a female rider on April 19, 2013. Porter was driving the woman home from her job when he allegedly pulled the vehicle to a stop and threatened to hurt the woman if she did not take off her pants. The victim obliged and Porter allegedly sexually assaulted her before resuming the transport and taking the woman home. The victim later reported the incident to police. Porter was charged with one count of second degree assault, and one count each of first, second, third and fourth degree sex offense. 
SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Area woman has been monitoring the Ebola outbreak closely as she is adopting a 14-year-old boy from Sierra Leone in West Africa. Natalie Wisniewski of San Francisco is preparing for a trip that may be a threat to her health, but one that she says is worth the risk. The biotech engineer said during her first trip to Sierra Leone in January, she met 
The man wanted in connection with the death of a 70-year-old has been arrested. Aaron Demon Jordan, 22, of Statesville was arrested Saturday night and jailed without bond, said Statesville Police Department Chief Tom Anderson and Capt. David Onley, supervisor of the Criminal Investigation Division. Jordan is facing a second-degree murder charge in the beating death of
An ex-convict was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the deadly shootings of a Nassau County police officer and a random motorist during a carjacking in October 2012. Darrell Fuller was found guilty on all counts in the slaying of Nassau County officer 
CINCINNATI —A man accused of raping a 92-year-old woman at an assisted living facility last year received the maximum sentence Monday. 
SPRINGDALE, Ohio —A Springdale father who police say prompted an overnight Amber Alert this weekend is now behind bars. Springdale police said they were sent to the 800 block of Ledro Street around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. According to authorities, they received a report of domestic trouble involving Kaelin Hawkins, 34, who was possibly armed with a knife. His estranged wife had fled to a neighbor's house. The woman said Hawkins had broken into the home and assaulted her. She said Hawkins threatened to kill her and the children, as well as himself. 
A South Jersey woman who fatally stabbed a man last year during an argument in his home has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison. Camden County prosecutor's say 25-year-old Shakeysha Pruitt of Berlin must serve about 17 years of the term imposed Friday before she becomes eligible for parole. Pruitt had pleaded guilty last month to aggravated manslaughter in the July 2013 death of 33-year-old 
Embattled Brooklyn state Sen. John Sampson is up to his old funny-money tricks, critics charge. Sampson was indicted by the feds last year for allegedly stealing $440,000 from housing escrow accounts and using part of the proceeds to help fund a failed bid to become Brooklyn district attorney. Sampson has yet to stand trial and is seeking re-election to his Senate seat. But he is now being accused by a chief rival and election lawyers of using questionable, if not illegal, practices to finance his re-election campaign.
Police cracked down on Times Square’s menacing pack of costumed creeps over the weekend after a Spider-Man punched an NYPD officer — busting five more panhandlers and trailing many others to warn tourists about them. “They’re like little terrorists preying on all the tourists,” a disgusted law-enforcement source said of the pushy panhandlers. Cops got tough after Junior Bishop, dressed as Spider-Man, allegedly flew into a violent rage when rookie cop Eduardo Molina confronted him about charging tourists a whopping $10 per picture Saturday. The Naked Black Cowboy, whose real name is Titus Gandy, was busted when he showed up at the Midtown South Precinct to check on his buddy Bishop, sources said. Also arrested Saturday night were 
Meet your Un-Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man! A panhandler dressed as the iconic webslinger repeatedly punched a cop in the face during a violent Times Square tussle Saturday afternoon, police said. Spidey’s actual name is Junior Bishop, police said. He was due to be arraigned Sunday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges including felony assault. 
OKLAHOMA CITY – Authorities say they have arrested a 28-year-old man who allegedly bound and raped a woman for several days. On Friday, officers were called to an Oklahoma City business after a woman said she had been raped. The alleged victim told police she had been bound and raped since Sunday. According to the arrest affidavit, her alleged attacker tied her hands with speaker wire. When the man went to the bank, she was able to free one of her wrists and run to a nearby business. The victim said the man was an acquaintance she had met on multiple occasions. After picking her up, she said the suspect became angry after seeing pictures on her Facebook page. She told officers that she was raped multiple times over the span of a few days. According to the report, she asked if she could go home and the man told her, “When I am ready to take you home, I will.” When asked why he was doing this, the report claims he said, “Because I got a bad vibe from you and you are just trying to steal from me.” The alleged victim told officers that she was beaten and hit multiple times, which resulted in bruises. She also said the alleged suspect said, “This is how we treat women where I am from. You think you have it bad now, wait until I am done with you and you will be scared of my kind.” Officers arrested 28-year-old 
Larry Lamont White, already convicted of killing two young women in the summer of 1983, was found guilty Friday of raping and murdering a third woman, shot dead just weeks before his other two victims. 
A smug Brooklyn street thug took his sweet time accepting a plea deal Friday for shooting and permanently injuring a Brooklyn police officer — and even objected that the cop “can still walk.” Rookie cop 
PHOENIX — A hapless burglar in Arizona learned a hard lesson when he broke into the Phoenix home of former World Wrestling Entertainment heavyweight champion 
LEAVENWORTH, KS - Friends and family said goodbye to 
RICHMOND, Va. — Convicted killer Kenneth Wayne Woodfin will remain in jail after a former Richmond Police officer’s letter writing campaign to the Virginia Parole Board. Woodfin shot 
The Missouri Supreme Court today set a Sept. 10 execution date for Leon Taylor, who murdered a service station attendant in Independence, Mo., in 1994. Leon Taylor, 56, killed 
HENRICO — A man who was shot in the parking lot of the McDonalds on Nine Mile Road late Sunday has died from his injuries, police said this morning. 
