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Black Sports: Rutgers University football players among 10 charged in series of home invasions and assault
 NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Several Rutgers University football players are among 10 facing charges in a series of assault and home invasion incidents. The Middlesex County Prosecutor said Thursday that four RU students and two former RU students were involved in the crimes. The investigation kicked off after police investigated a home invasion in New Brunswick on April 25, where three masked men forced their way into a house and stole cash and marijuana from five students at gunpoint. From that incident, police arrested 23-year-old Tejay Johnson, of Egg Harbor. He's a former Rutgers student and football player who was sidelined due to injury. He was a a three-star recruit. Police linked Johnson to another home invasion that happened on Harwell Street in New Brunswick two days after the first one. According to prosecutors, Johnson and 20-year-old Andre Boggs, of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, were armed with a bat and a knife when they forced their way into the house and robbed a student of $900 and marijuana. Boggs is also a former Rutgers student and played football at the school. As the investigation continued, police arrested another Rutgers student, 19-year-old Dylan Mastriana, of Rio Grande, after they say he helped planned the robbery. There was a third attempted home invasion that occurred at a dorm at Livingston College in Piscataway on May 5. Prosecutors said Johnson and Boggs were involved in that incident. Mastriana and 19-year-old Jianan Chen, of New Brunswick, planned that robbery, according to prosecutors, and 20-year-old Kaylanna Ricks, of Perth Amboy, drove the getaway car. In that incident, the would-be victims closed and locked their room - and the suspects fled without getting anything. The prosecutor's office said that the investigation also led them to connect Johnson to an assault incident on Delafield Street on April 25. In that case, Johnson and five others allegedly surrounded a group of four people and assaulted them. At least one of the victims in that case was a student at Rutgers, and the prosecutor said a 19-year-old suffered a broken jaw during the incident. Police later identified others they say were involved in the assault: 22-year-old Ruhann Peele, 20-year-old Nadir Barnwell, both of Piscataway; 20-year-old Rahzonn Gross, of Franklin Park; 22-year-old Delon Stephenson and his brother, 23-year-old Daryl Stephenson, both of Sayreville. Daryl Stephenson is a former Rutgers student. Peele is a fourth-year junior and cornerback at Rutgers. Barnwell is a football recruit from Piscataway High School, studying criminal justice. Gross is a fullback from Don Bosco Prep and also a criminal justice major. - (Black Sports) |
Detroit — A hapless carjacker failed to get away with the crime after his gun jammed, he forgot to release the parking brake and let a witness go, saying: “You good, I only rob white people,” according to the FBI. Court records filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit chronicle a failed carjacking that led to a 24-year-old man facing federal carjacking and firearm charges, which carry penalties of 25 or more years. The carjacking happened Tuesday afternoon at Rouge Park on Detroit’s west side. Brandon Lamar Williams, 24, allegedly approached two men inside a 2015 Ford Fusion while holding a revolver in each hand, according to the FBI. (more entertaining details...). - (Black-on-white)
Jackson police say 24-year-old Loren Danielle Shell turned herself in Saturday for questioning in the shooting death of 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two brothers have been convicted for the rape and robbery of three women at an apartment complex on Mt. Moriah. According to the District Attorney’s Office, Devan Denton, 27, and Leon Denton, 25, were found guilty of three counts of aggravated rape, one count of facilitation of rape and three counts of aggravated robbery on Thursday. Their bonds were revoked after the verdicts were reached. During the trial, 
WASHINGTON -- A man wanted in connection to a pair of sexual assaults that happened as the victims were walking from Metro stations has been arrested. D.C. police announced Friday that Demetrius Banks of Riverdale, Md. was arrested in connection to the two assaults, as well as three robberies. According to police, Banks, 31, was identified after police released surveillance video of him inside a convenience store. The first sexual assault happened July 28 at around 10:45 p.m. in the Unit Block of Riggs Road NE. The victim had just exited Fort Totten Metro station. The second sexual assault one month later on August 28 at around 12:08 a.m. in the 1500 block of Michigan Avenue NE. The victim had just exited the Brookland/CUA Metro station. Both incidents were investigated as First-Degree Sexual Assault. On Tuesday, police released surveillance video of a suspect inside a convenience store. Police say tips from the public helped them identify Banks.
An off-duty NYPD cop with a Jekyll-and-Hyde past was arrested for choking his girlfriend during a spat in her Bronx apartment, police said Saturday. Efrain Santiago, 42, allegedly throttled his partner at about 8 a.m. inside her Soundview home, authorities said. The 17-year NYPD veteran was slapped with charges of criminal obstruction of breathing and assault after the girlfriend claimed there had been a previous, unreported attack, sources said. The victim declined medical attention at the scene.
A Harlem shop stiffed its workers, failed to collect sales tax and fabricated the story of its whiz-kid founder — and is now being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. 
Three illegal immigrants were charged Saturday in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old Virginia high school student who was gunned down on his way to a bus stop Friday morning. 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A year after 12-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn executed a bizarre suicide scheme where he would kill another child so that he would be executed for the slaying, a jury has found him guilty of murder. At 13, the boy will be the youngest convicted murderer in West Michigan. After more than four hours of deliberation Friday, Sept. 4, the jury comprised of seven men and five women found Jamarion guilty of first-degree murder in the Aug. 4, 2014, stabbing death of
HOUSTON — Thousands of law enforcement officers stood at attention to form a wall Friday outside one of Houston's largest churches as a 21-gun salute and flyover by police helicopters were carried out in honor of a slain sheriff's deputy. The symbolic gestures followed the funeral for 
The victim of a brutal attack in a Chicago suburb last weekend left the hospital Friday and said in an emotional statement about the arrest of her alleged attacker that she "won." "I defeated him," said 
INDIANAPOLIS - One person has died and another was critically injured in a shooting on the Indianapolis south side. Indianapolis Metro Police were called to the scene in the 3000 block of Chase St. at around 9:30 am. That's near S. Harding and W. Troy Ave. Police believe the shooting stemmed from an argument, and they say it was not a random incident. The murder victim's mother identified him as 28-year-old 
PHILADELPHIA – Police say a suspect threatened a worker with a 2 x 4 then stole an unknown amount of money from the cash register at a store in Philadelphia. Authorities say the suspect entered the Lee’s Food Cart in West Kensington and demanded money from an employee. Police say the man then went behind the counter, still holding the 2 x 4, and took an unknown amount of cash. The suspect then fled the scene on foot and was last seen north on Front Street, police say. No one was injured during the incident. Police describe the suspect as a black male, 30-years-old, with a goatee and medium build. He was wearing a white shirt, blue jeans, white sneakers and silver watch. 
A 20-year-old man is accused of raping and impregnating 
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — It was a wild scene Tuesday in a Westchester County courthouse as a judge sentenced a 16-year-old rapist. The judge said Javon Roberts exhibited sadistic depravity like no one she had seen in her court before. Roberts was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison — the maximum punishment allowed because he was just 15 years old when he attacked a woman and child in separate incidents in Mount Vernon. As the court session ended, the older victim threw a wedge shoe at Roberts’ mother out of frustration. The woman was struck in the head and later wheeled out to an ambulance. She was not seriously hurt. The victim was not taken into custody, but was given a ticket. Both attacks by Roberts, who pleaded guilty to to rape and criminal sexual act, were hours long ordeals of brutality. Authorities said
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, N.J., — Jackson Township Police and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrest of Ronnie U. Lacy on Tuesday. Lacy, 21, has been charged with Criminal Sexual Contact and Endangering the Welfare of a Child stemming from an incident that took place at Six Flags Great Adventure over the weekend. According to police, Lacy made contact with 
A Harlem mom turned an alleged would-be rapist over to the cops after watching the news and recognizing the familiar face of the suspect — her own teen son. Anthony Ramon, 19, was taking in the TV news with his mom, Brenda, on Wednesday night when they saw a report on the harrowing Washington Heights rape bid, police sources said. After detailing how the creep tried to force himself on the 33-year-old victim in her West 172nd Street apartment building around 1 a.m. Saturday, the report flashed a surveillance photo of the suspect, whom Brenda immediately recognized as her son.
A 12-year-old Modesto, Calif. boy has been cited for a hate crime and battery after attacking one of his Black classmates while they waited for the school bus. NuPhaeya Hassen, 12, a student at La Loma Junior High School, said she was waiting for the school bus on August 24 when the boy came up to her brandishing sticks, holding them in the shape of a cross, while saying he was a member of the Klu Klux Klan. He proceeded to swing the sticks, scratching her arm before Hassen smacked him in defense. When the boy crossed the street, he began throwing rocks at her until the bus arrived. After school the boy’s sister confronted Hassen about slapping her brother. Hassen said, “she grabbed my hair, pulled me to ground and then started hitting me in the head repeatedly”. While both the boy and sister were suspended, Hassen’s grandmother, Rita Trillery, said La Loma administrators imposed a one day of in-school suspension on her granddaughter. In a meeting with school officials, administrators referred to the suspension as a “cool down period” rather than discipline. The incident has garnered the attention of the local NAACP chapter, which has questioned the Modesto City Schools district’s handling of the matter
SANTA ANA — A distracted driver who caused the death of another motorist in 2011 was sentenced Friday to six years in prison. Jorene Nicolas, 32, was going about 85 mph when, authorities said, she was texting and answering her cellphone before causing the deadly crash that killed 23-year-old 
LAS VEGAS - Police have released the booking photos of the three men charged with the murder of Todd Tipton. Officers say 18-year-old Derek Balint, 18-year-old Andrew Hall, and 18-year-old Stephon Jordan are now facing charges. All three are charged with Murder with a Deadly Weapon, Robbery with a Deadly Weapon, Burglary with a Deadly Weapon and Conspiracy. The woman originally sought as a person of interest was identified and located but detectives are not connecting her with the case. On Monday police say they found a man shot in the head in his own home. Now we’re learning that the victim’s wife was the one who discovered her husband murdered. Home surveillance cameras caught the teens wandering outside the murder victim's neighborhood. The coroner's office identified the victim as 50-year old 
One man was sentenced to death and another was sentenced to life in prison Friday morning for their part in the murder of 
MADISON, Wis. - A Madison police officer was confronted by a crowd and punched after a street fight Wednesday night. The officer said that as he went to arrest the woman he was surrounded by a crowd that was voicing anti-police sentiments, including "We need to start killing these officers." The
HILLSDALE COUNTY, MI — Police are asking the public's assistance in locating a 32-year-old woman and 5-year-old boy in Hillsdale County. 
Two 16-year-old boys pleaded guilty Monday (Aug. 31) in New Orleans to a slew of crimes in the Faughborg Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods, including robbing, kidnapping and raping a 30-year-old woman in her home on the day after Thanksgiving. Corey Miller, of 8200 Curran Road, and Derryl Rainey, of 2008 Benton St., each was sentenced to 35 years in prison and will be required to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives after incarceration, Criminal District Court Judge Laurie White ordered in accepting the plea arrangement. Prosecutors charged Miller and Rainey as adults, including with six counts of aggravated rape, one count of aggravated kidnapping and one count of armed robbery.
An Orleans Parish judge on Tuesday (Sept. 1) found probable cause to keep a 7th Ward man who was convicted of rape 23 years ago jailed on suspicion of raping and molesting 
Edin Carey Avendano-Hernandez
Last July, Knoxville police arrested 
Sacramento police arrested Rico Ridgeway, one of the men who received a minor injury during the Sacramento City College shooting, for assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the case. Ridgeway, 24, was booked into the Sacramento County Jail Thursday morning and placed on parole hold. Police are still searching for the suspected gunman who shot and killed 
NATICK, Mass. — A man convicted of killing a Massachusetts woman and her 9-year-old daughter broke down in tears before telling the state parole board he wants to spend the remainder of his life in prison.
Marvin Cathey was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the 1999 killing of 36-year-old 
SHREVEPORT, La. - Judge John Mosley found Robert Calvin Farris, of Bossier City, guilty as charged on two counts of second degree murder Wednesday afternoon. Farris waived a jury trial, therefore the judge reached the verdict on his own. The decision came in the second week of the trial. Farris was arrested for the deaths of 
Cops in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, thought they were pulling over a run-of-the-mill car thief Tuesday afternoon — but instead wound up capturing a pistol-packing fugitive wanted for a one-man spree of murder, rape and robberies in Raleigh, North Carolina. Kendrick Keyanti Gregory, 21, had been on the lam since Monday, when he allegedly fatally shot one man, wounding another man and then raped a 15-year-old girl. Gregory’s alleged crime spree turned violent, however, when he allegedly committed an armed robbery at the Knights Inn hotel, where 
WASHINGTON — 20-year-old Joshua Mebane was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder for the Nov. 2012 killing of a taxicab driver in Northeast, Washington. In addition to the murder charge, Mebane was found guilty of nine other charges, including conspiracy, assault with intent to commit robbery while armed, and firearm offenses. A 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two cousins have been indicted on charges they murdered a man leaving a convenience store. Police say 
A man who allegedly set up the drug deal that led to a double homicide, then drove the suspected gunman to the hospital is the third suspect arrested in the Powder Springs deaths of a young couple. Raymond Ladell Webb was arrested Sunday night and charged with concealing a death, hindering the apprehension of a criminal and a felony drug charge, Cobb County jail records showed. According to police, Webb used his cellphone to set up a meeting so 
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (September 2, 2015) – Indianapolis Metropolitan Police arrested a second suspect after a mother died in July when she was hit with a stray bullet. 
Months before the gruesome murder of her mother on the beautiful island of Bali, Heather Mack apparently had a request for Tommy Schaefer. So the troubled Chicago teenager sent her boyfriend a Facebook note riddled with grammatical errors on May 26, 2014, records show. It began simply: “Can you not tell people i asked you to kill my mom.” That dispatch — typos and all — is contained in a document that reveals the Aug. 12, 2014, murder of 
UPDATE: Kameron Orr, 24, who allegedly shot
DETROIT - A man blamed for a dog attack that left a Detroit man without a lower leg has pleaded guilty. Derick Felton made the plea Thursday to three counts of harboring a dangerous animal causing injury. His sentencing hearing will be Sept. 25. 
PITTSBURGH —The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided against hearing an appeal of a lower court's decision to grant a new trial to a man in the deaths of three Pittsburgh firefighters two decades ago. The commonwealth's highest court on Monday said it would not review the case of Gregory Brown Jr., 38, who was sentenced to three life terms in the February 1995 fire on Bricelyn Street in Homewood. Prosecutors alleged that Brown poured a half-gallon of gasoline on some clothes in the basement of the four-story home in hopes of collecting $20,000 in insurance money for a down payment on a new home. Authorities said 
A Hollywood (Florida) teenager whose brutal beating was captured on cell phone videos recorded by her attackers took the stand Tuesday to describe the night she was set upon by five friends and raped. The 
OAKLAND, Calif. -- An assault suspect who was fatally shot by an Oakland police officer in a confrontation near Lake Merritt last Thursday morning was identified by police as 30-year-old 
STAUNTON — Nearly 16 months after a city worker found the body of a mentally disabled Staunton man who was stabbed 11 times in the head and eight times in the neck, the teen accused in the killing will stand trial Tuesday on a charge of first-degree murder. Isaiah D. Stuart, 17, of Staunton, is charged in the slaying of 26-year-old 
Italy’s simmering anti-immigrant sentiment has been stoked by the murder of an elderly couple in their home in Sicily, allegedly by an African asylum seeker. 
The anger of 
MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA – Meriwether County Sheriff Chuck Smith said that law enforcement have made three additional arrests in the murder of 
