Tag: crime
Officer charged in Antwon Walker’s Murder
He got charged but will he get convicted? We know the answer. #BLACKLIVESDONTMATTER #BLACLIVESMATTER?
Another decades-old Tacoma murder solved? Suspected killer of 12-year-old Michella Welch arrested
Michella Welch 1986 murdered Tacoma WA
NEWS from Tacoma WA
Possibly solving a second high-profile cold case murder in two months, Tacoma police on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of killing 12-year-old Michella Welch more than three decades ago.
Officers booked Gary Charles Hartman, 66, into the Pierce County Jail just after 3:15 p.m. on suspicion of first-degree murder, jail records show. Prosecutors are expected to charge him Thursday.
Police declined to talk about the arrest or how they linked Hartman to Welch’s death. A news conference set for Friday is expected to provide answers.
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Police: Woman arrested for transporting children in dog kennels
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman was arrested after a video was shared online showing two children getting out of pet kennels in the 3700 block of Elvis Presley Blvd Saturday evening, Memphis Police said.
Leimome Cheeks 62, was arrested and charged with two counts of child endangerment.
The video was filmed by a concerned citizen who passed by.
According to the affidavit, the children told police there was no room in the backseat so their grandmother told them to get inside of the dog cages.
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http://wreg.com/2018/06/10/police-woman-arrested-for-transporting-children-in-pet-kennels/
Police officer fired after hitting suspect with car
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A Georgia police officer has lost his job after dashcam video from his patrol car captured him plowing into a suspect with his car during a chase.
Taylor Saulters of the Athens-Clarke County police department, who was initially suspended after the June 1 chase, was fired on Saturday, his department announced in a statement.
The decision followed a department review of the video that showed Saulters driving after 23-year-old Timmy Patmon, who was running on foot through a neighborhood while wanted on a felony probation warrant.
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Georgia Teen With No Prior Record Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Stealing a Pair of Sneakers When He Was 15
Dayonn Davis
Dayonn Davis took the shoes from the unsuspecting owner who tried to sell them on Facebook. But despite the fact that he has no prior criminal record, Judge Bobby Peters handed down the stiff sentence, according to the Ledger-Enquirer.
“I don’t get that,” Peters said while sentencing the teen for robbery this week. “Must be some valuable shoes.”
Those “valuable shoes” were a pair of Nike Oreos that sometimes come with a price tag of more than $100.
Davis made contact with the owner after seeing them for sale on Facebook and arranged to meet on Jan. 17, 2016, according to prosecutor Sadhana Dailey.
Another young man came with Davis to the meeting, where Davis asked to try on the shoes. After finding out that they fit, Davis apparently told the owner, “These shoes is took.”
That’s when things further escalated, with Davis’ companion pulling a pistol out. Everyone ran.
However, Columbus police tracked down the then-young teen and found the stolen shoes in his closet.
Davis originally refused to name the person he was with, but eventually he did. The victim, however, could not identify that suspect when shown a photo lineup.
Defense attorney Susan Henderson attempted to plead on Davis’ behalf, saying that the teen wanted to put the matter behind him and move on.
“He’s been extremely remorseful,” she said. “He’s got his life on track now.”
Henderson noted that Davis was charged as an adult in the crime but also had no previous juvenile record. She also noted that her client had been an A and B student at Kendrick High School before his grades dropped after his arrest, and she maintained that he had no idea the guy with him would pull a gun.
“I was young at the time, so I wasn’t in my right mind,” Davis told the judge.
Peters was not buying the excuses.
“Maybe he’s the wrong person,” the judge said of Davis, emphasizing that whether or not Davis intended for anyone to pull a gun, he had obviously intended to take the shoes, since he had been the one who set up the meeting. “He’s the one with the shoes in his closet.”
Source The Root https://www.theroot.com/georgia-teen-with-no-prior-record-sentenced-to-5-years-1826480462?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=theroot_facebook
Jury Awards $4 to Family of Man Fatally Shot by Sheriff’s Deputy in His Own Garage
A federal court jury has awarded the family of a man who was fatally shot by a Sheriff’s Deputy in the garage of his own home $4 in a wrongful death suit.
Gregory Hill Jr, a 30-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Christopher Newman, a white deputy with the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, at his home in Fort Pierce, Florida ,in January 2014 after Newman responded to a noise complaint about loud music, TCPalm.com reported.
St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said he was ‘pleased’ to see a ‘difficult and tragic incident come to a conclusion.’ St Lucie County Sheriff’s Office
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Newman and his partner, Deputy Edward Lopez, had reportedly knocked on Hill’s garage door to investigate the noise complaint. When the garage door eventually opened, Hill was standing by it with his left hand on the door and his right hand by his side.
It is still unclear what exactly happened in the seconds that unfolded, as Newman drew his gun and fired four times toward Hill as the garage door started to go down.
However, when a SWAT team arrived, they found Hill dead. He had been shot three times, including once in the head.
Toxicology reports had shown Hill had been intoxicated at the time of the incident and the SWAT team found a gun in the 30-year-old’s back pocket, but it was not loaded, TCPalm reported.
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On the second anniversary of Hill’s death, the 30-year-old’s mother, Viola Bryant, launched a lawsuit for wrongful death.
Her battle for justice ended last Thursday, when the jury came to the conclusion that Newman had not used excessive force in the incident following 10 hours of deliberation.
The jury did find that St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara had been negligent in his role, but determined him to be liable by just 1 percent, the New York Times reported.
Hill, the jury said, was responsible for 99 percent of the negligence in the case.
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As a result, the jury awarded $4 in damages to Hill’s family, with $1 going towards funeral expenses and $1 going towards each of Hill’s three children for their loss.
The family’s lawyer, John M. Philips told the Times he would have preferred the jury to have found no negligence than award such insignificant damages, calling the award “hurtful.”
“I think they were trying to insult the case,” Philips said. “Why go there with the $1? That was the hurtful part.”
Mascara said that his office was “pleased to see this difficult and tragic incident come to a conclusion,” in a statement posted on Facebook.
“Deputy Newman was placed in a very difficult situation and like so many fellow law enforcement officers must do every day, he made the best decision he could for the safety of his partner, himself and the public given the circumstances he faced,” Mascara said, adding: “We appreciate the jury’s time and understanding.”
Via: https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-awards-4-family-man-122406421.html
Shooter Arrested For Killing Man In Queens Home
The shootings just never seem to stop do they? Up in Queens, New York, Denzel Floyd has been arrested for the alleged murder of Jonathan Polanco, whom was found with a gunshot wound inside Floyd’s home Monday morning.
The chaos then spilled out into the streets when Floyd fled his house in a black Mazda with a man and a woman in tow a short time after the shooting. Floyd traveled 8 blocks before crashing into parked and moving cars.
The shooter then ran from the car with a pink gun in his hand and threw the weapon into a woman’s yard then returned to the car to get a crying woman who’d been riding in the backseat and was unable to walk The other passenger in the car, a 28-year-old man, was screaming that he’d blown his finger off.
Medics took the passenger shot in the finger and Polanco to Jamaica Hospital, where Polanco later died. Also during the shootout, it was said that Floyd shot a 28-year-old man in the back. The victim walked into Long Island Jewish Medical Center where he is in stable condition.
Floyd was charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder, two counts of assault, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evidence, police said. Floyd’s passengers have not been arrested.
2 Mississippi Police Officers Fired After Brutally Beating, Kicking Black Man
Two Mississippi officers were swiftly given the boot after being accused of brutally beating up a black man last week for avoiding a police checkpoint.
According to ABC News, 36-year-old James Barnett was chased by officers after he reached a vehicle checkpoint and turned around. After a short chase, Barnett was pulled over, and the officers ran up to his vehicle with their guns already drawn.
The officers from the Laurel, Miss., Police Department ordered Barnett to the ground, which he readily complied with, but that’s when they began kicking him in the head and face with steel-toe shoes, Barnett said.
“I wouldn’t wish this on NOBODY!! One even had the nerve to ask me how did those steel toes feel boy, trying to get a rise out of me, but I just laid there and prayed!!” Barnett wrote in a Facebook post showing his injuries. “I’ve never been so afraid in my life, 6 white cops surrounded my bed taunting me as if the assault wasnt enough!! I will not let this go, I dont this to happen to anyone else. There is no justice in what they did to me!! But I will get JUSTICE!!”
The photos show one side of his face swollen and red with scratches and bruises all over.
Not only that—Barnett claimed that after police took him to South Central Regional Medical Center, he was beaten up more. To add insult to injury, officers charged him with five misdemeanors, including resisting arrest and driving on a suspended license.
However, according to the Laurel Police Department, a supervisor on duty saw that there was a problem with the arrest and handed the case over to the department’s internal-affairs team, who launched an investigation mere hours after the incident occurred. By the next day, the officers, who remain unidentified, were fired.
The Police Department also noted that it has been communicating with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation about possibly pressing additional charges against the officers.
“The Officers and Administration of LPD take these types of allegations very seriously,” the LPD said in a statement to ABC News. “It should be noted that the [internal affairs invesigation] was initiated only hours after the incident occurred before any media attention, social media posts or even a formal complaint from the individual involved.”
Pennsylvania man caught on video harassing black neighbors gets prison time and loses home on ‘ethnic intimidation’ charges
Please save us the white people tears. Keep in mind this racist was doing this stuff BEFORE Trump was elected or even ran for President of the United States .
white Pennsylvania man is going to prison and losing his home after he was convicted of harassing his black neighbors over a period of years, reports The Morning Call.
According to the report, 45-year-old Robert Kujawa of Easton, was found guilty by a jury of ethnic intimidation, harassment, stalking and is facing two to four years in state prison…..
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