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Illegal alien Guatemalan migrant accused in North Bergen hit-and-run arrested; 20-year-old victim dies
   Three weeks after the hit-and-run of two brothers on a North Bergen street, authorities have arrested the man they say struck them and left the scene. The hit-and-run initially left Michael Viruet, 20, critically injured, but he died Thursday evening. His younger brother, Adrian, 11, is currently in therapy at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick. U.S. Marshals arrested Rogelio Chavix-Tacen, 38, of Guatemala in Annapolis, Maryland. Chavix-Tacen will be arraigned Monday at the Hudson County Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City and will face charges of death by auto, leaving the scene of a critical injury accident and aggravated assault by auto, said Schillari. All charges are second-degree, said Schillari, and it is unknown how much prison time Chavix-Taxen faces. “We’ve got him,” Schilarri said. “You can run, but you can’t hide.” Chavix-Tacen, an immigrant in the country illegally who has been working as a laborer in the North Bergen area for the last three years, had fled to Annapolis to stay with a family member, and was found hiding under the bed of the apartment. Schillari said the man was trying to flee to Texas to return to Guatemala. - (Invasion!)
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Michael Williams, a 44-year-old man from Saginaw, has been charged with four counts of assault with intent to murder after he was arrested in connection to the stabbings on board an Amtrak train headed to Port Huron on Friday. Police say Williams stabbed multiple people on the train at the Niles train station on Train 364. Four people were stabbed in the incident, according to NBC's WNDU. "Train 364 is the Blue Water service that travels daily between Chicago and Port Huron," Amtrak officials said in a statement. "The train was heading to Port Huron at time of incident."
LAWTON, Okla. – A man was charged with first degree murder in connection to the shooting death of an Oklahoma man. Friday afternoon 27-year-old Robert Lawrence Long was charged with murder in the first degree, robbery and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction. He is accused of entering
DETROIT - A Detroit man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a fire that paralyzed a firefighter. Calvin Jones got the punishment in Ann Arbor federal court. He struck a plea deal in August, months after an appeals court found problems with Jones’ trial and threw out his conviction and 15-year sentence. 
FRANKLIN CO - A Franklin county father and son are accused in the Thanksgiving Eve murder of a Chambersburg man. Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane announced charges late today against Barton Patrick Jones, 56 and his son Patrick Leroy Barton Holden, 21, in the murder of 
St. Petersburg, FL - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Tampa Bay area teen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role in a fatal robbery. A Pinellas County judge sentenced Brittany Detwiler on Friday. She previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Authorities say a then-16-year-old Detwiler lured 20-year-old 
Before suffering gruesome and fatal injuries Thursday, 
The father of a 2-year-old boy, who shot himself in the head on Sept. 30 in his Delaware home, turned himself into police. Anthony Graves, 34, surrendered at New Castle County Police headquarters. Authorities charged him with unlawfully permitted a minor access to a firearm and felony endangering the welfare of a child. 
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed charges Saturday against 24-year-old Valisa Ebberson in the death of her 19-month-old son, 
A former Norwalk man who was accused of raping and killing his disabled neighbor two years ago has been apprehended in Guatemala, federal authorities said Friday. 
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of missing Aynor teen 
STAMFORD, Conn. – Police have arrested the driver they say caused a crash in Stamford last month that killed two people. Felicia Burl is accused of being at the wheel of a 2002 Nissan Altima that ran a red light near the Greenwich-Stamford line and slammed into a station wagon Nov. 7. 
SALISBURY, NC - A Spencer man has pleaded guilty to the murder of his former wife. Rodney Roberto Wallace was charged in June for the murder of his ex-wife, 
GREENFIELD – A man convicted of fatally shooting a woman in a Hancock County cornfield was sentenced to 75 years in prison. The sentence announced for Joe Meyers includes 60 years for murder and 15 years for being a habitual offender, according to the Hancock County Prosecutor’s Office. Meyers was convicted last month in the slaying of
LEESBURG, Fla. - A Lake County chaplain was arrested after police say he was accused of molesting a child. Lance Travis, 53, has been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation on 
Raleigh, N.C. — A Raleigh man has been charged in connection with an October 2000 rape after a DNA sample he submitted in another case was matched to the crime. Maurice Barry-Albert Sullivan, 40, was charged with first-degree rape and first-degree forcible sex offense. A 21-year-old woman was walking home from work on Oct. 1, 2000, when two men came up on her from behind, pulled her into some nearby woods and sexually assaulted her at knifepoint. After the men fled, the woman called police, and DNA of her attackers was collected during a rape exam. The evidence was entered into the state's DNA database, but no matches were ever found. Police said Sullivan was convicted of another crime that required him to provide a DNA sample, and investigators linked him to the 14-year-old rape case after checking his DNA against the state database. 
Authorities have arrested a Gretna man accused of repeatedly raping a young girl. Omar Duplessis, 29, was booked with 12 counts of forcible rape after an investigation by the Gretna Police Department and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, arrest reports said. Duplessis is accused of forcing himself onto the girl when
ALBEMARLE, NC - An Albemarle man is facing multiple charges after a child's parents reported a case of possible sex abuse. Michael Lee Burns, 52, was arrested on Tuesday after detectives investigated the report submitted on Nov. 13. Burns, of Grigg Street, is charged with two counts of first-degree rape and four counts of indecent liberties with a child. He was given a $220,000 secured bond and is expected to appear in court on December 15.
HASTINGS, Fla. - A 20-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon on lewd and lascivious behavior charges along with violation of probation, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office. Earl Robinson was booked into the county jail on no bond pending a first appearance hearing Friday morning, deputies said. The Sheriff's Office said the investigation began about two weeks ago when the mother of a 
UPPER DARBY, Pa. - Police say the search is over for a man they are calling an "animal," after he turned himself in. He's accused of sexual assault on 
NEW YORK — Residents of a Lower Manhattan neighborhood are on edge after police said a man attacked an elderly woman inside her building. It happened around 12:50 p.m. Thursday at an apartment building on Beekman Street. Police said a man followed an 
UPPER DARBY, Pa. – The District Attorney’s Office announced 49-year-old Troy Posey has been found guilty of raping a teenage girl multiple times back in March, 2014. Authorities say Posey raped the 18-year-old victim in a church where he worked as a night repairman. He was found guilty on all charges of rape by forcible compulsion, sexual assault, indecent assault without consent and indecent assault by forcible compulsion for a series of sex acts. Posey’s sentencing is scheduled for March 3, 2015.
SPARTANBURG, SC - More than a year after a home invasion and sexual assault were reported, Spartanburg County deputies said they have charged the man accused of attacking a woman. On Oct. 23, 2013 the victim reported that an unknown man forced his way into her home at gunpoint and raped her, then stole $5 and a lottery ticket. Deputies were able to identify a woman in connection with the lottery ticket. Deputies said they learned the woman and the suspect, a man, were in custody in Franklin County, GA, on unrelated charges. The report states the suspect, identified as 26-year-old Terrace Irby, refused to talk to them but the woman told investigators that Irby robbed the victim while she was asleep in the car. 
CHATTANOOGA, TN - The medical examiner’s autopsy report for the death of 3-year-old 
FLORENCE, SC - A 26-year-old Florence man was booked at the Florence County Detention Center on homicide by child abuse charges. Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff's Office were called to a hospital on Sunday for a report of the death of a 1-year-old boy. FCSO Investigators charged Jerrod Lee Brown, the father of the child, with homicide by child abuse and unlawful neglect of a child or helpless person. Brown is alleged to have inflicted physical injuries on the child resulting in death. The boy was taken to the emergency room by his parents and later died of a ruptured bowel resulting in hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma. 
INDIANAPOLIS — A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested and charged after a 1-year-old child died and had signs of injuries. Diamond Miller, 19, was charged with neglect resulting in death and neglect resulting in bodily injury. Her boyfriend, 26-year-old Frank Larkins III, was charged with murder, aggravated battery, battery resulting in death of a person less than 14 years old, neglect resulting in death and battery on a person less than 14 years old. The child’s biological father had confronted Larkins and Miller in the past about Larkins “putting his hands on my son.” 
KENOSHA —Kenosha police are investigating the homicide of 
Rivera broke into the family's home early morning Sept. 2, 2012, and attacked the girl who was asleep on the sofa. Family members have said that 6-year-old 
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – A woman may be spending the rest of her life in prison, after admitting to suffocating her 4-year-old son, 
SANTA ANA —An Orange County man accused of molesting more than 10 boys was being held Friday on $1 million bail. 
NEW YORK — A 98-year-old woman lost her bid Thursday to persuade a judge to erase her 1950 conviction for conspiracy to obstruct justice in the run-up to the atomic spying trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Miriam Moskowitz sought this year to get a judge to reconsider her conviction in light of new evidence that emerged in the last decade. Moskowitz, who lives in Washington Township in Bergen County, New Jersey, was sentenced to two years in prison after her conspiracy conviction. The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in 1953. Since then, decoded Soviet cables have appeared to confirm that Julius Rosenberg was a spy.
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — A man who admitted to killing two women and raping 
KENMORE, N.Y. - The western New York man convicted of killing a prominent Kenmore bar owner was sentenced Thursday morning to 25 years to life in prison. It has been nearly one and a half years since the slaying of 62-year-old 
MILWAUKEE — A man is behind bars, charged with a crime police say was committed seven years ago! In this case, DNA helped Milwaukee police find their suspect. In 2007 
Even the judge was struck by Bryan Nabors' nice-guy demeanor. But that's the very thing that Nabors used to exploit two underage girls – setting them up in hotel rooms and then hiring them out as prostitutes. Nabors, 30, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child. He was also sentenced to 10 years post-prison supervision. Nabors admitted to paying for hotel rooms for the 
CHICAGO — A downstate man, who stands accused of masturbating while walking around a Kohl’s department store, has been charged with public indecency, according to media reports. Police did not say whether it was shoppers or store workers who first noticed the lewd behavior, but officers were called to the store around 4:30 on Monday in Fairview Heights, which is near St. Louis. A loss prevention officer at the store told officers that the man, later identified as Kendall J. Collins, was exposing himself and touching his genitals. Collins, 21, of Belleville, ran from the store and got on a transit bus. Police followed Collins, pulled over the bus and placed him under arrest.
ST. LOUIS • A former city police officer who shot a robber at a south St. Louis bar in 2008 did it again late Tuesday night in a gunfight that wounded him and four others, and killed a woman. Two of the wounded were trying to rob Pooh’s Corner, police said. The other victims — including the former officer, 65 — were customers. On Wednesday, 
HOUSTON – The mother of a 9-year-old girl who was found dead inside a refrigerator back in June has been charged with injury to a child, Houston police said. Amber Keyes, 35, was arrested Tuesday without incident. Police said neighbors became concerned after not seeing Keyes' child, 
A violent vagrant who has terrorized Soho locals for decades told cops he stabbed a street vendor in the chest with a pair of scissors in June after their discussion about “evolution” got out of hand, according to court documents released Thursday. “We were talking about evolution. I stabbed him to protect myself,” Richard Pearson, 49, nicknamed the “Wildman of SoHo,” told police after the summer attack. Pearson then asked, “How many times did I stab him?” Pearson, 49, who’s racked up more than 23 arrests in 30-plus years, was arraigned Thursday on attempted-murder, assault and possession-of-a-weapon raps. “Not guilty,” were the only words the hulking convict spoke in Manhattan Supreme Court.“He started cussing. He said, ‘F–k you! You’re black! You’re from Africa!’ and tried to push me,” said 
PHOENIX - A suspected drug dealer shot and killed by Phoenix police had a long rap sheet of drug-related and aggravated DUI arrests. Rumain Brisbon, 34, was killed Tuesday night in north Phoenix during a struggle with a police officer outside an apartment complex. The officer had been conducting a burglary investigation when he learned the driver of a SUV was selling drugs at a 7-Eleven convenience store nearby. The officer obtained a denoscription of the suspect and the license plate number and when he ran it through his computer, he got the address of the vehicle's registered owner. When the officer arrived at the address, a person at the apartment complex told him that the occupants of the SUV parked in the vicinity of an apartment unit were selling drugs. As the officer approached, he requested additional units. The driver, later identified as Brisbon, got out of the vehicle and climbed into the rear seat and appeared to be removing something, Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump said. As the suspect closed the door, the officer gave several commands for Brisbon to show him his hands, Crump said. Brisbon placed one or both hands in the area of his waistband. Crump said the officer drew his weapon. 
BUCKEYE, AZ - Two Latino have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman last month. 
According to a federal plea agreement, 50-year-old 
A New York City grand jury has declined to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold case of Eric Garner, the unarmed man who died while being arrested on Staten Island earlier this year. In delivering a vote of "no true bill" Wednesday, jurors determined there was not probable cause that a crime was committed by NYPD officer 
CINCINNATI - A man charged in the fatal shooting of an ATM technician in Roselawn has been found incompetent to stand trial. Yonah Israel will undergo mental treatment, and Judge Nadine Allen set a hearing for May 27, 2015, to determine his progress. Israel's former girlfriend said the 36-year-old suffers from manic bipolar disorder and schizophrenic depression, and that he was taking medication. "He's got voices in his head and everything," said Tiffany Price. Police charged Israel with killing 54-year-old 
NEWARK By all accounts, 18-year-old 
KIRKLAND, Washington – A Kirkland man was arrested this week after authorities said he threatened to kill former Ferguson Missouri Police officer 
LORAIN -- A 26-year-old Lorain man was murdered late Monday night while delivering food for a pizza chain. Police responded to the Lake Motel in the 3900 block of West Erie Avenue around 11:30 p.m. where they found 
ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Even with her fractured vertebrae still healing, a 91-year-old woman faced one of her accused attackers in a Westmoreland County court Monday. Police say 
ST. LOUIS • One teen was charged with murder, two more were held and a fourth was sought Monday as officials spent another day trying to quell speculation that the bludgeoning death of a Bosnian immigrant was racially motivated. “There is no evidence that this was a crime occasioned by the race or ethnicity of the victim,” Mayor Francis Slay declared in a formal statement. Police have been saying the same thing about the killing of 
LAS VEGAS — A 22-year-old man is due to face a judge in the fatal stabbing of a pedestrian on a walkway bridge over the Las Vegas Strip. A court clerk says Calvin Boyden III is due Tuesday before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Janiece Marshall on felony charges including murder and robbery in the early Nov. 25 slaying on a bridge at Harmon Avenue. That's near the CityCenter hotel, casino and shopping complex. The victim was later identified as
RICHMOND, VA - A man sentenced to die for murdering a South Richmond family is suing over conditions on Virginia's death row. Ricky Gray is one of five death row inmates suing the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections and the warden of the Sussex State Prison. They claim they aren't given enough freedom as they spend their days in solitary confinement. Gray was sentenced to death for the murders of the 
A Delray Beach man was arrested Friday night after police say he tried to incite a riot while officers were dealing with a “shooting in progress” call. Tommy Lee Willis remains in the Palm Beach County Jail on $3,000 bail and faces charges of inciting or encouraging a riot and resisting arrest without violence. Willis began yelling at a Delray Beach police lieutenant as he was giving commands through a patrol car P.A. system to a possibly armed suspect. Willis got so close to the lieutenant that he was forced to stop using the P.A. system “to attend to Willis’ obstructing behavior.” After the shooting suspect was in custody, Willis yelled at officers and repeated several times: “This is not right. You did this because he’s black.” Willis then allegedly turned to a group of about 15 bystanders and said: “The police should be shot. They are the bad guys here.” The report said that Willis encouraged the crowd to riot and that his statements “were clearly meant to cause racial tension in a predominantly black neighborhood.” “You can’t come here and tell people what to do,” Willis shouted at police. “He [shooting suspect] should have shot you.” Records show that Willis has been arrested several times in Palm Beach County and was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison in August 2002 for selling cocaine.
Two weeks after telling Entertainment Tonight that 
LOCKPORT – A Lockport shooting charged as a hate crime involves a black teenager accused of shooting 
A person of interest has been taken into custody in connection with a fatal shooting Tuesday, a news release from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said. Reginald Sherrod Williams, 24, has been identified as a suspect in the death of 22-year-old 
If ever the facts of the case were a problem for the defense, it's the case playing out in room 4A of Cumberland County Superior Court, involving accused killer Cedric Hobbs Jr. Through his lawyer, Hobbs, who is 33, admitted, even before the jury was seated, that in the late afternoon of Nov. 6, 2010, he pointed a .380-caliber handgun at teenager and college student 
Death Row inmate Gregory Thompson has died at the age of 52. He was pronounced dead at 5:40 p.m. on Thursday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Thompson died of natural causes. Thompson was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the murder of a female newspaper reporter, 28-year-old 
SAN FRANCISCO — Police said an argument led to a shooting that injured a man in San Francisco’s North Beach Sunday afternoon, according to a police spokeswoman. Police responded to a report of a shooting at 2:32 p.m. at Columbus Avenue and Vallejo Street, said Sgt. Monica Macdonald. The victim, a man named 
All four of the people accused in the shooting of a Domino’s Pizza employee during a robbery in September were indicted last week by a Boyle County grand jury, including a juvenile who will now be treated as an adult by the court system. Nathaniel Sinclair Davis, 16, of Harrodsburg, was picked out of a police photo lineup as the “possible shooter” by 