Bronx man who killed his brother for waking him up gets 10 years
CASTLE HILL, The Bronx —A Bronx man who fatally stabbed his younger brother was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Dennis Martinez, 53, woke up on March 4, 2016 because his brother, Jorge Montanez, was making noise, court documents show. They argued in their Castle Hill Houses apartment and then Martinez stabbed his 36-year-old brother in the chest, back and right leg.
“The defendant killed his brother because the victim was being loud and woke him up,” District Attorney Darcel Clark said. “Now the defendant will serve 10 years in prison for a senseless crime.”
Martinez told police a group of men had attacked his brother. He said he’d tried to help him, but was stabbed in the leg.
Martinez will also face five years of post-release supervision.
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7 Nooses Found in Trees Outside Mississippi Capitol Ahead of Senate Runoff
State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says the nooses were accompanied by handwritten signs referring to Tuesday’s election as well as to lynchings — most of them in the state’s turbulent past, but also one recent case that remains under investigation, of a black man whose body was found hanging in central Mississippi. The department posted photos of the signs on social media and sought information about them from the public.
One sign referred to the Tuesday runoff between appointed Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is white, and Democrat Mike Espy, who is black. The sign also read: “We need someone who respects the lives of lynch victims.”
Another sign read: “We’re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven’t changed.”
Hyde-Smith has drawn fire for a photo showing her wearing a replica hat of a Confederate soldier, and a video showing her praising a supporter by saying, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” She said the hanging remark was an “exaggerated expression of regard” for the supporter, but the remarks drew sharp criticism in a state with a 38 percent black population. She apologized “to anyone that was offended.”
Espy is trying to become the first African-American U.S. senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
At a midday event, before the content of the signs was disclosed, Espy said he knew nothing about the nooses or signs. He said it would be “unfair” to make any connection between the items and Hyde-Smith.
Hyde-Smith campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan later condemned the nooses by saying: “Obviously, this behavior is offensive and has no place in a civilized society.”
Chuck McIntosh, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration, which oversees the Capitol, said the nooses and signs were found starting shortly before 8 a.m. Monday outside the Capitol in downtown Jackson.
The matter is under investigation by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Mississippi Capitol Police and the U.S. attorney’s office.
“With our law enforcement partners, we are actively looking into these acts of hate and intimidation,” U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst said in a statement. “Let me be perfectly clear — there is absolutely no place in our state for these unacceptable symbols or tactics to intimidate others. If we find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that a federal crime has occurred, these criminals will be swiftly prosecuted.”
Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who has an office in the Capitol, called the nooses and signs “reprehensible.”
Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings. The NAACP website says that between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings in the United States, and that nearly 73 percent of the victims were black. It says Mississippi had 581 lynching during that time, the highest number of any state.
Civil rights activists were also beaten and killed in Mississippi as they pushed for African-Americans’ voting rights, particularly from the end of World War II until the 1960s.
Man stabs brother, sets fire to Suffolk County house while parents are home
DIX HILLS, N.Y. — A man stabbed his brother in the neck then set a fire inside a house while their parents were home on Monday, according to Suffolk County police.
An altercation between brothers, ages 30 and 32, ended with the younger man allegedly stabbing his older brother.
The victim was hospitalized in unknown condition.
The 30-year-old then set fire to the home on Northwood Court, police said.
The men’s parents were home at the time, according to police, who said they were not physically harmed but the mother was taken to the hospital for stress-related reasons.
Officers used a Taser on the 30-year-old while attempting to take him into custody, police said.
He was hospitalized, as is routine when a Taser is used, police added.
Doctor accused of impregnating teen he planned to marry
A Missouri doctor facing child pornography charges is accused of impregnating a 16-year-old girl whom he planned to wed, according to court records.
Dr. Ashu Joshi, who works at St. Louis University Hospital, pleaded not guilty to charges of production and receipt of child pornography and transportation of a minor across state lines for sex, the St. Louis Dispatch reported.
Details of the 46-year-old doctor’s alleged relationship with the Kentucky teen were made public last week after he was released from jail on bail.
Prosecutors allege that Joshi began a relationship with the teen girl after treating her mother as a patient.
The teen initially wanted to discuss becoming a doctor with him, according to officials, but later became his babysitter.
The girl’s mother told officials that she knew her daughter was “dating” Joshi, but didn’t approve of them having a sexual relationship.
The alleged relationship became known to authorities after the pair exchanged images containing child porn on Facebook, the St. Louis Dispatch reported. They allegedly traded hundreds of photos and videos, some of which showed the pair naked together, according to officials.
Investigators said Joshi asked the girl to marry him and she admitted to officers that he was the father of her unborn child.
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Gamer’s alleged rape of teen girl overheard on PlayStation
A video game player faces rape charges after he was reportedly overheard through his PlayStation console forcing a teen girl to have sex, police said.
Daniel Enrique Fabian, 18, was charged Wednesday with lewd and lascivious battery in connection to an incident earlier this year at his New Port Richey, Florida, home, news station WFTS reported.
Police said Fabian was playing “Grand Theft Auto” against another gamer online in June when he said he planned to “smash” a girl who was over his house.
The other player said Fabian left his gaming microphone on and he could hear the 15-year-old victim refusing his advances.
The girl reportedly told Fabian “no” four times, but he continued to have sex with her, according to an arrest affidavit.
About 15 minutes later, Fabian resumed the game with the other player, police said.
The victim told officers that she was sitting on Fabian’s bed when he covered her mouth with his hand and pushed her down to rape her. The girl completed a rape kit, which linked Fabian to the alleged crime through DNA testing, news station WFLA reported.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/11/26/gamers-alleged-rape-of-teen-girl-overheard-on-playstation/
Man Accused of Killing Woman on Same Day He Was Released From Arizona Prison
A man is accused of killing a woman on the same day he was released from an Arizona prison, authorities said Saturday.
David James Bohart was arrested at a hotel Friday on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of Marika L. Jones, 49. Tucson police said they found her body with stab wounds at a house two days earlier as well as a file of prison records on Bohart.
He was released Monday from the Tucson state prison complex, where he served a three-year sentence for possession or use of dangerous drugs, the Arizona Department of Corrections website said. A warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to check in to a court-ordered treatment facility, police said.
Bohart, 34, remained in jail Saturday. Online court records don’t list an attorney who could comment on his behalf.
Police say Jones’ body was found after a man identifying himself as a lawyer from out of state called police Wednesday with information about a possible killing at the home. Authorities didn’t release the caller’s identity.
Police said they were already investigating in the same area after a man using a false name called 911 to report he had just been released from prison and killed his girlfriend. The man didn’t provide an address, and police weren’t able to immediately find anything.
Bohart served two previous stints in prison, according to the corrections department website. One was for a forgery conviction, and the other was another conviction for possession or use of dangerous drugs.
Kim Kardashian: I was high on ecstasy in Ray J sex tape
High times indeed for Kim Kardashian.
Reflecting on her wildest moments during Sunday’s episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” the mother of three said she was on ecstasy while filming her infamous 2003 sex tape with Ray J.
“I did ecstasy once and I got married. I did it again, I made a sex tape. Like, everything bad would happen,” Kardashian, 38, told Scott Disick and sister Kendall Jenner.
Kardashian wed music producer Damon Thomas in 2000 when she was 19 years old. He filed for divorce in 2003.
In 2007, Kardashian became a household name after her sex tape with then-boyfriend Ray J, now 37, was released.
“Like, my jaw was shaking the whole time,” Kardashian said of the experience.
She also recounted the time when she and pal Paris Hilton slept on rafts in the ocean after departing a party in Ibiza at 7 a.m.
“I definitely went through a wild phase, I would say in my late teens. I’m not like that anymore. But I still have fun — don’t get it twisted, I’m always the life of the party,” she said.
Kardashian has tamed herself in recent years, wedding Kanye West in 2014 following her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries in 2011.
Burger joint shutters after video shows workers grilling rat
A restaurant in Hawaii was forced to close temporarily when a stomach-turning video of a rodent sizzling on its grill popped up on social media, according to reports.
“We are horrified a former employee would create something like this trying to destroy our reputation without regard for our 20-plus years of quality and aloha,” Teddy’s Bigger Burgers President Richard Stula told Hawaii News Now.
The video, which surfaced on Snapchat, appears to show two teenage workers joking as they fry up the baby rat next to a beef patty at the restaurant in Honolulu.
“Braaaaah. Gnarly. Employees at Teddy’s Bigger Burger cooking a rat at the 99 ranch location. Ummmmm … so gnar,” reads the caption, according to a screengrab posted by Fox News.
The restaurant fired at least one employee — and plans to conduct a “complete sanitization” of equipment and replace utensils, company reps told the station.
“We will then send a corporate team in to inspect and complete a thorough audit of the location before it is allowed to re-open,” Stula told Fox.
He added, “We are horrified that a former teenage employee would conduct themselves in that way and make such a video of which we are investigating its authenticity.”
The state’s Department of Health was scheduled to inspect the restaurant Friday.
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13-year-old who wrote essay about gun violence is shot dead
Milwaukee, WI. (WTMJ) — A young girl penned a winning essay about gun violence in Milwaukee, two years before she was killed by a bullet in her own home.
That girl was 13-year-old Sandra Parks, an eighth-grade student. She was was in her bedroom Thursday night near 13th and Hopkins when someone shot into her house, killing her.
In an essay she wrote two years before her death, she talked about hoping to see an end to violence in her neighborhood.
“We shall overcome has been lost in lies of who we are. Who we have become,” wrote Parks an essay. “We need to rewrite our story so that faith and hope for a better tomorrow is not only within us. But we believe it and we put it into action.”
The words of then-11-year-old Parks as she reads her essay on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior.
“Our first truth is that we must start caring about each other,” said Parks in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio in 2017.
A message her friends and family want to continue. They came together Friday night to remember the young girl with dreams of changing the world. A world she told said had too much death.
“In my own words it would be really violent because the world that we have become now is like is all you hear about is somebody dying. Somebody getting shot. And people do not think about who’s father or son or granddaughter or grandson that was that you just killed,” said Parks in the interview.
“Do you look forward to doing big things in your lives?” asked host Kathleen Dunn.
“When I like take over I would like to like stop all the violence and negative, negativity that is going on,” answered Parks.
Now her mother needs the community to take up that cause for her.
“She was a star that was trying to get out by didn’t know how,” said Bernice Parks. “Don’t never forget my baby.”
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Florida man arrested for having sex with miniature horse on multiple occasions
Marion County, Fla. — A Florida man has been arrested for having sex with a miniature horse on multiple occasions, deputies say.
According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, 21-year-old Nicholas Anthony Sardo, of Citra, has been arrested and charged with four counts of bestiality/sexual contact with an animal.
Deputies say that on Oct. 16, a witness came forward and reported that she had witnessed Sardo having sex with a miniature male pony named Jackie G in a pasture on a family member’s property three days earlier.
Another witness came forward saying she saw it as well, and she approached Sardo about what she had seen, according to the sheriff’s office. Sardo immediately admitted to her that he had sex with the horse and also gave the same admission to a detective investigating the allegation.
Sardo added that he had sex with the horse four times during the course of a week, according to the detective. The sheriff’s office stated in a press release that, “he used a condom each time because he didn’t want to get a disease from the horse.”
Additionally, Sardo told the detective that he knew he was wrong for what he did and that, “he was a sick man,” according to the sheriff’s office.
One of Sardo’s family members is the owner of the horse and the horse is currently under their care. Stipulations of Sardo’s future contact with the horse could be determined by a judge in the near future.
Sardo is currently being held in the Marion County Jail.
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