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(Black) Sexual assault suspect sentenced to 14 years in prison for violent rape of a 91-year-old (White) woman
  PHOENIX -- It was a brutal case that shocked a Tempe neighborhood, a 91-year-old woman was violently raped inside her own home. Now, the man who carried out the attack was sentenced to 14 years in prison. But before the judge handed down the sentence, his victim spoke out in court. "I am here today as an advocate for women who are sexually assaulted to report the incident," said the victim named Anne. Courage comes in all shapes, sizes, and ages. During the sentencing hearing, it came in the form of a 91-year-old woman. "I am here today to ask women, in general, if this happens to you, do not be embarrassed, do not be ashamed, be strong, go to the police," said Anne. Anne was inside her Tempe home back in October of 2014 when a man, later identified as Ekwunze Owen, broke into her house and sexually assaulted her. Police say Owen was responsible for a string of sex crimes, it first began with trespassing, then it escalated into indecent exposure, and eventually rape. He pleaded guilty to kidnapping, sexual assault, and public indecency. - (Black-on-white) |
NEW ORLEANS – Police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found in the trunk of her burned out car in New Orleans East in June. On June 21, Lindsay Nichols, 31, was found in the trunk of her car when firefighters and police responded to a car fire at the intersection of Lake Forest and Michoud boulevards. The coroner later determined that she had been shot multiple times. Thayon Samson, 30, was arrested and booked with one count of second-degree murder Monday. Samson was arrested for Nichols' murder. According to police, a witness saw Samson standing behind Nichols' burned car, and cell phone records and DNA evidence link him to the victim. - (Black-on-white)
MEHLVILLE, Mo. — Police think they’ve found the man who broke into 
CLEVELAND- A convicted sex offender is sitting in the Cleveland city jail suspected of a new attack on a woman waiting for a bus. Eddie Brisbon, 41, was picked up on a warrant and is now charged with rape. A police report shows the attack happened early one morning back in June. A woman told police she was robbed and raped in an attack that began near East 79th Street and Euclid Avenue, a bus stop for RTA’s HealthLine bus. Court records show the suspect had a gun and took the woman’s purse. When he found nothing of value, he forced the woman to go to several warehouses and perform sex acts. The victim said the man had a broken beer bottle and threatened to kill her.
VOORHEES, NJ – Authorities say a man and two women have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking case in Camden County. Officials say Michael D. Watts, 43, is accused of luring a 20-year-old Texas woman to New Jersey by promising her a modeling job. He then allegedly forced her to dance at a Philadelphia strip club for several days, not allowing her to leave.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A Volusia County man has been arrested after deputies say he left puppies in his vehicle while he went to the beach in 92-degree weather. Shanton Penn, 23, has been charged with animal cruelty in the Sunday afternoon incident at Daytona Beach. Deputies said they were flagged down by beachgoers just after 3 p.m. who said that Penn had locked three puppies in his vehicle and left them to return to the beach for 15 to 20 minutes. According to the report, deputies found the 5- to 7-week-old puppies panting heavily, with one laying on his side with his eyes closed. No water was found in the vehicle, which had the windows down 1.5 inches.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda shut down the 
Police obtained an arrest warrant charging Terrance Finklea of Cleveland with felonious assault. 
OAKLAND, CA — A man who died after becoming wedged between structures while fleeing from police officers during a traffic stop in the Lockwood Gardens area of East Oakland on Sunday evening was wanted for a $10,000 warrant, police said. Patrol officers stopped the solo male driver as part of a traffic enforcement stop. About a minute later, the man fled on foot into nearby yards. In addition, officers found about a pound of marijuana in the man’s car. About a half-hour into the search, officers located the driver wedged into a small space between two structures. Officers began CPR and called for an ambulance, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital. The suspect’s name is being withheld pending notification of his family. Police said officers didn’t use force on the man at any time during the incident.
Police are searching for two suspects who were caught on tape trying to steal over $100 in DVDs from a South Jersey Target. The incident happened about noon on July 2 at the Target on Cross Keys Road in Sicklerville, New Jersey. The suspects were last seen leaving the area in a white extended cab Chevy Silverado 2500. 
LAWTON, Okla - James Davis Jr., the suspect in Lawton’s fifth homicide of 2015, was charged Friday. Davis is accused of fatally stabbing 36-year-old 
ROANOKE, Va. - Friends and family were hurting Saturday night at a candle light vigil as they remembered a toddler shot and killed in Roanoke earlier in the week. Warner Hunter III is accused of shooting 
According to Live Oak Police Chief Buddy Williams, Casey Cason, 22, is being charged with murder in the stabbing death of her friend on 5th Street in Live Oak. However, Cason isn't saying what started the altercation that led to the fatal stabbing. **** Around 4 p.m. Sunday, Live Oak Police Chief Buddy Williams said Cason got into an altercation with a friend at Cason’s residence on 5th Street. The fracas took to the street in front of the home, where Cason ultimately pulled out a knife and stabbed 23-year-old 
Deportation orders failed to oust two illegal immigrants who are now up on drug charges and under investigation in the July 4 shooting death of a Lawrence grandmother — in an alarming case that critics say illustrates a revolving immigration door with dangerous consequences. Dominican Republic nationals Wilton Lara-Calmona and Jose M. Lara-Mejia were arrested on drug charges by police investigating the shooting death of 
PHILADELPHIA –A guilty plea may come as early as Tuesday in the deadly Center City building collapse of 2013. According to sources close to the case, crane operator Sean Benschop may enter a plea at a hearing Tuesday morning. The 43-year-old faces multiple counts of Third Degree Murder, which carry a potential life sentence.
A 20-year-old college student has been charged with murder after allegedly bludgeoning his boyfriend to death after a night out. Bryan Canchola viciously beaten Stephen Sylvester, 19, during a heated argument on Friday at an apartment they shared in Austin, Texas, before strangling
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A local man who just turned 18 is charged with the murder of an Army veteran and the stabbing of his friend in a Walgreens parking lot early Saturday. Erico Montalvo, of 10 Pocasset Ave., wore no expression as he was led handcuffed into District Court to face the charges. The timing, coincidentally, was just before the funeral Mass for 26-year-old 
HAMDEN, Conn. — A fifth person, who sources say is the grandson of a former New Haven police chief, has been arrested in connection with the July 4th homicide where the victim’s body was found in West Rock State Park in Hamden following reports of an explosion. Police tracked down 26-year-old Maurice Wearing of West Haven. Sources say he’s the grandson of Melvin Wearing, who was New Haven’s police chief from 1997-2003. Wearing is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree hindering prosecution, and tampering with evidence. Police say Wearing and four other people, who were arrested Monday, were involved in the homicide of 39-year-old 
INDIANAPOLIS – Police released new information in the murder of a 34-year-old woman found in the basement of an east side home. When officers arrived they saw a black male, later identified as Stephen Jones, 32, walk out of the residence. Jones told the officers everything was fine and there was no one else inside the house. Several officers then went into the basement where they found a dead woman in a blue plastic tub. The woman’s head, arm, and leg were covered in plastic trash bags. Upon further investigation, officers discovered the woman was shot in the chest and the face and she had several other injuries to her head. Additionally, her ankle had a large laceration and it appeared to be broken. "Candace" told police she owned the house. She said she got into a fight with Jones over missing money. The woman said she left the house at 7 p.m., and when she left her friend 
ORLANDO, Fla. — A third teenager was arrested Saturday in connection to an incident that severely injured an Orlando police officer early Monday morning. Orlando police arrested 17-year-old Alfonza Singleton Saturday on a warrant. He is charged with resisting arrest without violence. Authorities said Singleton ran from a vehicle that was stopped by
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Clifton man who allegedly shot a reputed Bloods-affiliated gang member in Stapleton last month was arrested on assault and weapons charges late Tuesday night, police said. Corey Mills, 26, a resident of the Park Hill Apartments, shot Tombstone Gangstas member 
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police have arrested two men, one of them a Bloods gang member, in connection with 
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Police are now saying they have all four suspects in custody in connection with the shooting of an off-duty police officer in the Central West End. So far, two suspects have been charged. The alleged shooter has been identified as 23-year-old Dale Wolford. Police and prosecutors believe it was Wolford who fired shots at the officer as he sat in his car on private security duty. One bullet hit his bulletproof vest. Wolford has been charged with first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, two counts of armed criminal action, and discharging a firearm from a vehicle. The alleged driver of the car, 27-year-old Edward Davis, has also been charged.
BALTIMORE –
NEW YORK — An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with the rape and torture of an 
DETROIT – The hunt is on for a group of men in Detroit who allegedly attacked two couples while they were walking down the street, forcing the male victim to watch as his female companion is gang raped. The first incident unfolded around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in a well-lit area. The alleged attack happened in a neighborhood just blocks away from Marygrove College. According to police, a 22-year-old man and his 21-year-old girlfriend were walking along McNichols when they were approached by a group of six men. The men reportedly forced the couple behind a nearby business where they were robbed and stripped of their clothes. The group then allegedly took turns sexually assaulting the woman. After the attack was over, the nude victims ran to a nearby liquor store for help. Just hours later, at 2:40 a.m. Friday, another couple was attacked.
SEATTLE — Over the sobs of the victim, an advocate recited in King County Superior Court the devastating impact of the sexual assault the woman had endured for 15 long minutes more than a year ago. "Fourteen months, three jobs, 30 pounds, severed relationships," the victim said, speaking through the advocate. The assault left her with post-traumatic stress disorder and a multitude of other ills. "I have constant nightmares of fighting him off of me," she said. "Struggling to free myself from his weight; screaming at the top of my lungs." The 34-year-old victim told prosecutors she had returned to her apartment in April 2014 from her job at a Capitol Hill bar. She was drunk and struggled to get her keys in the door. Apparently watching her was 38-year-old Anthony Hawkins, a career criminal with 86 arrests and nearly 40 convictions. He came up behind her and attacked. The assault was captured on videotape. But forensic evidence of the rape was inconclusive. So Hawkins pleaded guilty last month to attempted second-degree rape. That angered the victim. 
DECATUR – Elroy Mitchell, a 53-year-old Decatur man with an extensive criminal history, is being held in jail on $75,000 bond after he was charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and sexual abuse of a girl beginning when 
GOLDSBORO, Wayne County - A Goldsboro man was arrested for indecent exposure after a woman reported him while in a park. The woman reported a black male had exposed himself while conducting a lewd act in public in Herman Park. The woman stated the man was sitting in his vehicle and tried to talk to her when the incident took place. The woman further stated she had witnessed this same person committing the lewd act in the parking lot of 2513 E. Ash Street in Goldsboro, in the area of the Women’s Only Fitness on June 12. Arrested was Larry Lewis McLaurin Jr., 38, who was charged with two counts of misdemeanor indecent exposure. 
HOUSTON -- A woman was sexually assaulted by two men in southwest Houston last month and now a $5,000 reward is offered in the case. Houston police say on June 11 at 4:00am two men approached a woman while she was parked. The man seen in the sketch above, pointed a pistol at the woman and forced her into the back seat of her vehicle. The men then drove to a deserted neighborhood and both of them sexually assaulted her. After the assault, the men took her purse and cell phone and then fled in her vehicle, leaving her stranded. The woman's car was later recovered in southwest Houston. The first suspect, seen in the sketch, is an African-American male with a skinny build about 5'5" to 5'5" tall. 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City man has been charged with sexually abusing three young children, after he failed a lie detector test while appearing on a national daytime talk show. Prosecutors say Dameion McBride, 22, has been charged with two counts of child molestation and one count of statutory sodomy. According to court documents from the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, McBride is accused of molesting a woman’s three children;
NORWALK — Police arrested a coach for a Norwalk youth tennis organization and charged him Wednesday with sexually assaulting a child. Maurice Thomas-Riley, 20, of Norwalk was charged with sexual assault and rick of injury to a minor. They say he assaulted a child multiple times. Police began investigating Thomas-Riley in May, while he worked for Norwalk Grass Roots Tennis.
A 22-year-old Natchitoches man has been charged with the kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated rape of a 17-year-old woman, authorities said. The suspect is Oshay Devan Hicks of Mary Drive in the Payne subdivision, according to Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Victor Jones Jr. Hicks is charged with charged with one count of aggravated rape, two counts of second-degree kidnapping, two counts of armed robbery and one count of illegal carrying of a weapon.
VOORHEES – A Voorhees man was arrested after he was seen masturbating in public while on the hood of an SUV, police said. Ryan K. Smith, 19, of Corbridge Court was charged with lewdness Monday night. A woman told police she was walking on Echelon Road near her home when she saw the man, about 15 feet away, sitting on the hood of the vehicle and masturbating, police said. The woman provided a denoscription to police, who arrested Smith at his home after he admitted to the lewd conduct, authorities said.
HOUSTON – Houston police have arrested a suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting of a security guard. Jeremy Wayne Miller is charged with murder in the death of 55-year-old security guard 
NEW LONDON, Conn. -- A Haitian immigrant who was released from prison in January after serving a 17-year prison sentence for attempted murder is back in custody on a murder charge in the death of a Connecticut woman last month. The Bulletin reports that 
EAST PALO ALTO – An elderly priest was assaulted with his own cane in the parking lot of an East Palo Alto church earlier this week by a suspected methamphetamine user. 
An Alabama police chief is accused of selling a handgun and ammunition to an illegal immigrant. Franklin Police Chief Michael Clements was arrested Thursday after being indicted by a grand jury on July 8 for selling a .357-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun to a person Clements allegedly knew was living in the United States illegally in July 2014, court records show. Clements is then accused of selling the same person 22 rounds of 38.-caliber ammunition on May 8, 2015. 
PORT EWEN >> Two men are facing felony charges for the rape of
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A federal grand jury has indicted a Sheffield Lake man who was arrested in June after the FBI said he bought an AK-47 assault rifle in pursuit of supporting the Islamic State in the U.S. 
St. Louis police officers instruct protesters to get out of the street outside the St. Louis Police Department headquarters on Monday. 
LANSING – An Ingham County judge called a Lansing teen's role in a sex-trafficking ring "sickening" before sentencing her this morning to at least four years in prison. Mariah Haughton, 17, pleaded guilty to human trafficking and transporting of a female for prostitution last month. Several other charges were dropped as part of her plea agreement, among them human trafficking, child sexually abusive commercial activity and prostitution. Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Joyce Draganchuk sentenced Haughton, who will turn 18 later this month, to four to 20 years on both counts. She will serve the sentences at the same time. "Make no mistake about it, this offense is sickening," Draganchuk told Haughton. "It's sickening and disgusting." The sex-trafficking ring operated between March and July 2014, and involved girls who were then 
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A death-row inmate convicted of fatally beating and stabbing a 93-year-old woman during a robbery at her Texas home is facing execution without any last-minute court appeals. Clifton Lamar Williams is set to die Thursday evening for the 2005 slaying of 
LITTLE ROCK, AR - Police have arrested a second suspect in the killing of a bank security guard inside his home earlier this month. The Little Rock Police Department says Malcolm Jamel Cooksey, 24, faces charges in the beating death of 
Police announced last night that they had found and interviewed all three people in photographs circulated yesterday of "persons of interest" in the slaying of 
LITTLE ROCK, AR - A photo has been released by police of a third person of interest in a July 8 murder. The Little Rock Police Department is working to identify the man seen in the picture and his possible connection to the homicide on South Jackson Street. - Police have a new lead in the investigation into the murder of a bank security guard. Police say the two women pictured above have been using 
New Orleans police confirmed an arrest Monday (July 13) in connection with the July 6 hit-and-run that killed artist and cyclist 
But did Katherine Archuleta stumble into her job? Fernandez points out that she’s an affirmative-action appointee, with her Opm.gov biography stating she’s part of an “inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of America.” And what does she know about computer networks or security? Apparently nothing. As her biography informs. So Archuleta may be qualified to secure “diversity,” and this may include the diversity of foreign spies in American networks. And while an OPM data breach doesn’t sound as sexy as James Bond combating Goldfinger, it’s a serious matter. 
