Man allegedly tries to buy 7-year-old girl for $200 at grocery store
COBB COUNTY, GA (WGCL) — A Marietta man has been arrested and charged following an investigating that involved the suspect trying to purchase a female child for $200.
Cobb County authorities say the incident took place May 7 at a Kroger located in the 2100 block of Roswell Road.
According to investigators, the grandmother of a 7-year-old female became alarmed when an unknown male began following them around the grocery store and making inappropriate comments about the child.
At one point, the grandmother says the man asked to purchase the child for $200. She also states she has seen the male at a Wal-Mart and during that incident, the male requested to “have” her granddaughter for $100.
The suspect, Einodd Samimi, was chased through the store and to his vehicle by several shoppers after the exchange at the Kroger. He was arrested later that day at his residence.
Samimi was charged with enticing a child and criminal solicitation.
Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to contact the Cobb County Crimes Against Children unit at 770-801-3470.
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Man accused of trying to hire hit man through white supremacist group to kill black neighbor
A white South Carolina man is accused of trying to hire a hit man through a white supremacist group to kill his black neighbor.
Brandon Cory Lecroy, 25, of Hodges, was arrested in April after he contacted the white supremacist group, and then made an arrangement with an undercover FBI agent to carry out his plan, authorities say in federal court documents.
A grand jury Tuesday indicted Lecroy on federal charges of soliciting someone to commit a violent crime, and using interstate commerce facilities — in this case, a cellphone — in the alleged scheme, the US Attorney’s Office in Greenville says.
Prosecutors didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. It wasn’t clear whether Lecroy has an attorney.
A probable cause affidavit doesn’t say how Lecroy came in contact with the undercover agent, or why he allegedly wanted his neighbor dead.
According to the affidavit, an FBI informant told investigators in March that Lecroy contacted a white supremacist organization, and “indicated that he wanted to seek assistance with the murder of his African-American neighbor.”
The next day, Lecroy talked by phone to an undercover FBI agent in Virginia, and allegedly made an arrangement with the undercover agent “to pay for the murder of his neighbor,” according to court documents.
In the call, Lecroy made a request “to put a ‘flaming cross’ in the front yard and hang his neighbor from a tree,” the affidavit says.
“Five hundred dollars and he’s a ghost,” Lecroy said during the phone call, according to the court document.
In a phone call two days later, Lecroy reaffirmed the agreement and gave the undercover agent “further intelligence on when to best … commit the murder as well as plans to take over the victim’s property,” the affidavit says.
On April 9, Lecroy met the undercover agent in Greenwood, South Carolina, discussed “future targets,” and gave the agent “a $100 cash down payment with acknowledgment that this payment was for the murder of his neighbor,” the affidavit says.
Lecroy was detained on April 9. After a hearing that day before a US District Court in Anderson, a judge ordered that Lecroy be committed for up to 45 days to a federal facility for a psychiatric or psychological evaluation. It wasn’t immediately clear where Lecroy was being held.
If convicted on all charges, Lecroy could receive up to 10 years in prison and be fined up to $250,000, prosecutors said.
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A Black Student at Yale Was Napping in a Common Area, and a White Student Called the Police
A black graduate student at Yale who fell asleep in her dorm’s common room said she had a disturbing awakening this week when a white student flipped on the lights, told her she had no right to sleep there and called the campus police.
It was the latest in a string of recent episodes across the country in which the police have been summoned to respond to minor complaints involving people of color.
As in many of those encounters, including the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the questioning of black Airbnb guests in California, the Yale incident was captured in a widely shared video that set off anger online.
The graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola, posted a 17-minute recording of her encounter with police officers who responded to the call, and it touched a nerve, with more than 600,000 views as of Wednesday.
Ms. Siyonbola, 34, who is earning her master’s degree in African studies, said that she had camped out in the common room to work on a “marathon of papers.” On Monday night, she decided to take a nap.
Around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, she said, someone came in and turned on the lights, asking: “Is there someone in here? Is there someone sleeping in here? You’re not supposed to be here.”
Ms. Siyonbola said the woman told her she was going to call the police. In a shorter video that Ms. Siyonbola posted, the woman, who is not identified, says: “I have every right to call the police. You cannot sleep in that room.”
The woman, who also lives in the dorm, reported “an unauthorized person in the common room,” said Lynn Cooley, the dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences, who addressed the episode in an email to students on Tuesday.
Several officers responded to the call.
“We need to make sure that you belong here,” a female officer says in the longer video.
Ms. Siyonbola produced the key to her apartment and opened the door, and the officers told her they needed to see her ID.
After she asked why, one says, “I don’t know anybody from anybody, so I’m here just to make sure you’re supposed to be here, make sure she’s supposed to be here, and we’ll get out of your hair.”
Ms. Siyonbola relented and handed over her ID.
But the officers struggled to verify it, and Ms. Siyonbola appeared to grow more frustrated.
At one point, she says, “I am not going to justify my existence here.”
At another, an officer who identifies himself as a supervisor says, “We determine who is allowed to be here or who’s not allowed to be here, regardless of whether you feel you’re allowed to be here or not.”
“I hope that makes you feel powerful,” she responds.
The Yale Police Department referred inquiries to the university.
“We believe the Yale police who responded followed procedures,” Tom Conroy, a spokesman for the university, said on Wednesday. “As we do with every incident, we will be reviewing the call and the response of the police officers to ensure that the proper protocol was followed, and to determine if there was anything we could have done better.”
When asked if it was common practice to run IDs in such situations, he said it was.
Confirming her identity took longer than usual because the Ms. Siyonbola’s preferred name, which was printed on her ID, was different from what was in the university record, a school official said.
Late Wednesday, in an email to graduate students, Kimberly M. Goff-Crews, Yale’s vice president for student life, said that she was “deeply troubled” by the episode and that she and Dr. Cooley would hold listening sessions with students in the coming days.
“This incident and others recently reported to me underscore that we have work to do to make Yale not only excellent but also inclusive,” Ms. Goff-Crews said.
Earlier, Ms. Siyonbola called the police “ridiculous” for not leaving after seeing that she had a key and an ID. She said the larger issue was that “there are not consequences to you if you call the police on an innocent person, especially if they’re black.”
In her view, it was not an isolated incident at Yale. “I can tell you tons of other minor stories of microaggressions,” she said.
Ms. Siyonbola, who founded the Yoruba Cultural Institute in Brooklyn, is the author of a book about African history and diaspora migration. At Yale, her research focuses on migration and identity formation.
Dr. Cooley said in her email that more work needed to be done “to make Yale a truly inclusive place.”
“I am committed to redoubling our efforts to build a supportive community in which all graduate students are empowered in their intellectual pursuits and professional goals within a welcoming environment,” she wrote.
Ms. Siyonbola said she was disappointed in the dean’s response.
“It wasn’t compassionate,” she said. “It was very high-level — like we have to do better someday, somehow.”
She said she hoped this episode and others like it would prompt the administration to take action.
“This is what happens every day in America,” she added. “These things are unfortunate, they’re disappointing, they’re disheartening, but they’re not shocking anymore.”
Article via: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html
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Mom admits she let men rape daughters, ages 5 and 6, in exchange for money
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A 25-year-old woman pleaded guilty to allowing two men to sexually assault her two daughters in exchange for cash.
The Office of the Fulton County District Attorney said Friday that the girls, ages 5 and 6, told their guardians that their mother, Morgan Summerlin, would take them to men’s homes to be molested and raped. The men would then pay them and Summerlin would take their money.
One of those men, 78-year-old Richard “Pop” Office, was found guilty on Tuesday of rape, child molestation, trafficking a person for sexual servitude, enticing a child for indecent purposes and sexual battery. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 146 additional years.
Summerlin also allowed Alfredo Trejo to abuse the girls in multiple and similar ways. Trejo was convicted of rape, sexual battery, child molestation and aggravated child molestation. He was sentenced to 25 years and life on probation.
The children’s grandmother, Teresa Davidson, also pleaded guilty to cruelty to children for failing to protect the girls after they told her they were being abused. She was sentenced to five years in prison.
Summerlin pleaded guilty to cruelty to children, trafficking a person for sexual servitude and enticing a child for indecent purposes. She will be sentenced on June 4.
11 children sickened after eating feces, cereal off floor of home
WARREN, Mich. — A suburban Detroit mayor says children were eating feces and cereal off the floor of a home where 11 were sickened.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said Tuesday that some of the children suffered from malnutrition and were grossly underweight.
Warren Fire Commissioner Skip McAdams says an aunt took three children to a hospital Monday after they suffered vomiting, disorientation and weakness. McAdams says eight other children under the supervision of a 10-year-old also were transported to hospitals.
Warren Police Chief William Dwyer says only one child, a baby, remains hospitalized Tuesday, in stable condition.
Dwyer says police have turned the case over to the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office for possible charges.
Fouts says the 11 children belong to two mothers.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/05/08/11-children-sickened-after-eating-feces-cereal-off-floor-of-home/
Father of twin 10-year-old girls shot to death while taking out trash
SACRAMENTO — Friends and relatives are mourning a California father who was fatally shot Saturday night while taking out the trash in front of his Sacramento home.
Roy Eunice’s two twin daughters were feet away when they heard three gunshots. One bullet even pierced the front door of their apart along Broadway near Santa Cruz Way in Oak Park. Another went through two of their walls.
“This was a senseless murder,” Mary Thompson, Eunice’s sister, told KTXL. “He came out of his house just to dump his garbage.”
The third hit Eunice in the chest.
“He walked in his house, told his 10-year-old daughters that he’s been shot,” Thompson said. “‘Call your mom. Call 911.’ He collapsed in front of his daughters and died.”
Thompson says before her brother died, he was able to calm his daughters — both of whom turned 10 last week.
“Their dad told them that it would be OK … they’re going back telling their mother that dad said it’s going to be OK,” she told KTXL.
Eunice is the father of three daughters. He was known at the twins’ school for always helping out.
“He is a parent that would get awards from the school for his participation,” Thompson said. “He not only helped out the school he helped out the teachers with supplies.”
Investigators say they have no motive or suspect information in Eunice’s death, but Thompson hopes whoever shot her brother does the right thing.
“To the person that did this, I forgive you. But if you have any remorse in your body, in your soul. You will come forward,” she said. “Because I need to know why you would do this to my brother. It’s not right.”
In a sad twist of fate, Thompson says Eunice comforted a dying teenager on that same block back in December.
“And he actually came out here, to comfort the person that was dying on the ground. This is the type of person that he is,” Thompson said.
That person was 16-year-old Timothy Jeter — whose homicide remains unsolved.
“I’m still heartbroken, I’m still devastated,” Heather Jeter, Timothy’s mother, said. “I’m in limbo waiting to find out at least … who did this.”
Jeter says she is not surprised that another life has been taken by gun violence on that block. She believes police should focus more on Rout Avenue Park, which is next to Eunice’s apartment complex.
“That park has always been a hotspot. Drugs, shootings, violence — all sorts of things go on over there,” Jeter said. “But there’s no action from the city, from the police department, from the state, from anyone.”
Both Thompson and Jeter think neighbors can help solve both cases.
“In relation to my son’s death, in relation to the death of this man, speak up,” Jeter said.
There is a GoFundMe campaign for Eunice and his family.
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Woman blew up microwave at 7-Eleven with urine sample
DENVER — A Colorado woman has been cited by police after a container of what appeared to be urine blew up as she was heating it up in a microwave at a 7-Eleven.
Police say the incident occurred in the convenience store chain’s Aurora location last week when the clerk heard a loud bang and saw 26-year-old Angelique Sanchez take a white plastic bottle out of the microwave.
A police report says when confronted by the clerk, Sanchez wiped a yellow liquid that smelled like urine onto the floor and walked out.
Police located Sanchez at a nearby clinic where she had planned to take a urinalysis test for a potential employer.
The Denver woman was issued a summons for damaged property. She could not be reached for comment.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/05/06/woman-blew-up-microwave-at-7-eleven-with-urine-sample-cops/
Man accused of trying to burn several sex offenders to death at motel
OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A man is accused of trying to burn sex offenders to death at a Florida motel.
Jorge Porto-Sierra, 50, was arrested and charged with four counts of attempted premeditated murder, WESH reported
Porto-Sierra confessed to the crime and said he arrived at the motel to “barbecue all the child molesters on fire and kill them.”
Authorities said the suspect broke a window at a room at the Friendly Village Inn in Kissimmee, Fla., to pour gasoline inside.
Witnesses said he screamed, “I’m going to kill you, child molester,” and started throwing gasoline on the room’s front door, all while carrying a cigarette. He’s also accused of pouring gasoline on a car.
At least two of the four victims are confirmed sex offenders.
The suspect has been jailed in Osceola County, Fla., without bond.
Deputies asked him why he didn’t carry his threats out and Porto-Sierra reportedly responded by saying, “You got here too soon.”
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Student’s mom drags boy down hallway of Bronx school by the neck
MELROSE, the Bronx — An 8-year-old boy loved being a third grader at P. S. 146 in the Bronx until a classmate’s parent assaulted him.
Jalen Swinton fought with another classmate in the school cafeteria on April 26. The next day, the classmate’s mother walked into the school in the morning and found Swinton eating breakfast. She grabbed him and dragged him by the neck from the cafeteria and down the hall into the principal’s office.
The school never filed a police report, Sanavya Hodges – Swinton’s mom – told PIX11 in an exclusive interview.
“It’s sad,” she said. “I’m tired of crying.”
Her son has been absent from school since the incident.
“I have dreams about her and she is going to drag me again,” he said.
His mom believes assault charges should be filed against that parent.
She asked the school for an emergency transfer for her son, but was told it was a one time incident.
“I feel like they turned their backs on me when they should have been reaching out to me,” she said.
A Department of Education spokesperson said they NYPD is now conducting an investigation. The DOE is working with police on that.
“The safety of students and staff is our top priority and the school has followed protocol in addressing this incident,” the spokespersons said. “The family is being provided with ongoing support.”
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