Category Archives: US crime

Woman escapes from Oregon kidnapper who posed as undercover police officer

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Authorities are looking for additional victims after linking Negasi Zuberi to sexual assaults in at least four more states

A man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her to his home in Oregon and locked her in a makeshift cell in his garage before she managed to escape, the FBI said Wednesday.

The man, Negasi Zuberi, faces a federal interstate kidnapping charge, and authorities said they are looking for additional victims after linking him to sexual assaults in at least four more states.

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Idaho woman convicted of killing her two children sentenced to life in prison

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Lori Vallow Daybell was also found guilty of murdering a romantic rival and will serve three consecutive life terms

Lori Vallow Daybell, an Idaho mother convicted of murdering her two youngest children and a romantic rival, was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday.

Vallow Daybell was found guilty in May of killing her children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, seven, and Tylee Ryan, 16, as well as conspiring to kill Tammy Daybell, her fifth husband’s previous wife. Vallow Daybell will serve three life sentences one after the other, the judge said.

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Oregon prison nurse guilty of sexually abusing nine women in custody

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Tony Klein, 38, convicted of 21 of 23 federal charges and could face life imprisonment

A former nurse at women’s prison in Oregon was found guilty of sexually abusing nine women while they were in custody.

Tony Klein, 38, was convicted of 21 of the 23 federal charges, including 17 counts pertaining to sexual assault and four of making false statements under oath in a deposition.

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Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis charged with ‘brazen’ insider trading

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Billionaire allegedly gave friends, employees and romantic partners information on companies in which he was investor

The billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur football club was charged with orchestrating “brazen” insider trading by US federal prosecutors on Tuesday.

According to Damian Williams, the US attorney for the southern district of New York, Joe Lewis gave friends, including his personal pilots, assistants and romantic partners, inside information from companies in which he was an investor.

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Oregon hospital mourns guard shot dead while defending maternity ward

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Bobby Smallwood stood between gunman and maternity patients and staff when he was shot and killed on Saturday

A community in the US state of Oregon is mourning a hospital security guard who was shot to death while protecting a maternity ward from an intruder over the weekend.

The slain guard, 44-year-old Bobby Smallwood, started out handling administrative and computer-related tasks when he first joined Portland’s Legacy Health network last year, according to a profile of him published by the news website oregonlive.com. But staffers at the hospital network often called Smallwood to help out with security because he was 6ft, 5in tall and weighed 270lbs.

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Third man arrested in firebombing of California Planned Parenthood clinic

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The suspects – including a US marine – face up to 31 years for the 2022 molotov cocktail attack on the Costa Mesa clinic

US authorities have arrested a third man for his alleged involvement in the firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southern California last year.

Xavier Batten, 21, was arrested on federal charges on Friday in Florida, the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles said. Officials allege that Batten, along with two other men, including a US marine, conspired to attack a women’s health clinic because it had provided reproductive health services.

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Carlee Russell admits she wasn’t abducted and didn’t see child on road

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Alabama woman could face charges for fabricating story, police say, as they try to determine where she was for two days

A woman in Alabama has confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of the interstate.

Carlee Russell’s attorney, Emory Anthony, provided a statement to police on Monday saying there was no kidnapping.

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US woman who hired hitman using bitcoin to kill ex-husband gets five years in prison

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Kristy Lynn Felkins of Nevada pleaded guilty in March to murder-for-hire charge as part of a deal to avoid trial

A Nevada woman who admitted to hiring a hitman on the internet for $5,000 in bitcoin to kill her ex-husband “and make it look like an accident” was sentenced to five years in prison.

Kristy Lynn Felkins, 38, of Fallon, Nevada, pleaded guilty in March to a charge of murder-for-hire as part of a deal with federal prosecutors that avoided trial, court records show.

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Nevada home raided in link with Tupac Shakur killing tied to suspect’s uncle

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Property in Henderson linked to Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, whose late nephew, Orlando Anderson, was long suspected in rapper’s killing

A home that Las Vegas police searched this week in connection with the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur is tied to a man whose nephew had emerged as a suspect shortly after the rapper’s killing.

Detectives sought items “concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur” from Duane “Keffe D” Davis, according to a copy of the warrant obtained Thursday. Davis is the uncle of Orlando Anderson. Anderson denied involvement in Shakur’s killing at the time, and died two years later in an unrelated gang shooting in Compton, California.

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Trump under investigation for civil rights conspiracy in January 6 inquiry

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Federal prosecutors say they have evidence to charge Trump with three crimes over efforts to overturn 2020 election

Federal prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results have evidence to charge the former president with three crimes, including section 241 of the US legal code that makes it unlawful to conspire to violate civil rights, two people familiar with the matter said.

The potential charges detailed in a target letter sent to Trump by prosecutors from the office of special counsel Jack Smith, who also charged Trump with retaining classified documents last month, was the clearest signal of an imminent indictment.

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Alabama police investigate mystery of woman’s missing 48 hours

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Boyfriend hits back at skeptics and insists ‘Carlee’ Russell, 25, fought off ‘kidnapper’ after stopping to check on child on highway

Police in Hoover, Alabama, are trying to pin down exactly what happened to Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, the 25-year-old woman who set off a two-day search after she stopped to check on a child who was walking along a highway on Thursday and disappeared.

And as investigators carry out that process, Russell’s boyfriend issued a strongly worded statement in which he asserted that she had to fight off at least one abductor to come back home alive.

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Alabama woman missing after reporting lost child on highway returns home

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‘Carlee’ Nichole Russell went missing for two days after she stopped to check on a toddler walking on side of highway

An Alabama woman who went missing after calling 911 about a child she reported spotting on a highway has returned home after a two-day search.

On Thursday, the Hoover police department received a call at 9.34pm from 25-year-old Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell on I-459 south near mile marker 11. According to the police, Russell reported that she saw a toddler walking on the side of the interstate.

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Police kill suspect wanted in shooting deaths of four people in Georgia

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Andre Longmore, 40, was shot by police as they tried to take him into custody after weekend killings of four people south of Atlanta

Authorities in Georgia hunted Saturday for a man who remained at large hours after he was suspected of gunning down three men and a woman in a suburban neighborhood south of Atlanta.

Andre Longmore, 40, is believed to be armed and dangerous, Hampton police chief James Turner said during a news conference. The shootings happened late Saturday morning in a subdivision in Hampton, a city of roughly 8,500 people.

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Burner phones and search history led police to Long Island killings suspect

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Charging documents released on Friday show how investigators have tied architect Rex Heuermann to 11 sets of human remains

A New York architect, who allegedly made taunting calls to the relative of a victim police investigators suspected he murdered, is in custody facing accusations that he is the so-called Long Island serial killer.

Rex Heuermann’s arrest and indictment on Friday, on six charges of murder, marks a key moment in a case that has captivated the public and confounded authorities for more than a decade.

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Suspect in Long Island serial killer case arrested and charged with murder

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Police arrest Rex Heuermann in significant breakthrough in decade-old Gilgo Beach case which gripped country

A man who appears to have been hiding in plain sight in a small seaside community for more than a decade while a serial killing gripped the nation was arrested and on Friday charged with murder in connection with several grisly deaths.

Police in Suffolk county, New York, arrested the 59-year-old local architect Rex Heuermann, in a significant breakthrough in the so-called Gilgo Beach case in Long Island.

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Ex-Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison after 53 years

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Van Houten, now 73, is out on parole after her conviction for participating in the 1969 LaBianca murders at age 19

Leslie Van Houten, who was sentenced to life for participating in the infamous murders by the Charles Manson cult when she was 19, walked free from a California prison on Tuesday after 53 years behind bars.

Van Houten, now 73, was convicted for helping Manson’s followers carry out the 1969 killings of Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and his wife, Rosemary.

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California man charged with femicide in deaths of three women in Mexico

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Mexican authorities will seek to extradite Bryant Rivera of the Los Angeles area for the death of Angela Carolina Acosta Flores

US authorities have arrested a California man accused of killing three women in the Mexican border city of Tijuana and crossing back and forth across the international line after each of the deaths, which occurred over the course of nearly a year starting in 2021.

According to US court records, 30-year-old Bryant Rivera, a resident of the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, was arrested on 6 July on a femicide charge in the strangulation death of Angela Carolina Acosta Flores, whose body was found in a hotel room in Tijuana on 25 January 2022.

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US mother pleads guilty to giving daughter abortion pills and burying fetus

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Jesssica Burgess of Nebraska admits to providing abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human skeletal remains

A Nebraska mother has pleaded guilty to giving her 17-year-old daughter pills for an illegal abortion last year and helping to burn and bury the fetus.

Under a plea agreement, Jessica Burgess, 42, of Norfolk, admitted to providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, false reporting and tampering with human skeletal remains. Charges of concealing the death of another person and abortion by someone other than a licensed physician were dismissed.

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Pennsylvania authorities warn of ‘very dangerous’ inmate escaped from jail

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Michael Burham broke out of jail where he was being held on arson and burglary charges and was suspect in murder investigation

Authorities were searching on Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who escaped from a jail in north-western Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said.

Michael Burham was last seen wearing a blue denim coat from the jail, white and orange pants, and orange shoes, Warren police said late on Friday.

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Teen charged in connection with Baltimore block party shooting

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Shooting on 2 July resulted in two deaths and 28 people injured at a neighborhood block party in the Maryland city

Baltimore police said on Friday they had arrested a 17-year-old in connection with a 2 July mass shooting that killed two people and injured 28 at a neighborhood block party in the Maryland city.

The suspect, whom the Baltimore police pepartment did not name, “is being charged with possession of a firearm by a minor, assault weapon possession, reckless endangerment and handgun in vehicle”, the department said in a statement.

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