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Ronald Poppo, Miami Face Mauling Victim, Releases Video Message
Poppo remains completely blind following the attack and has undergone four surgeries since the attack but remains in good spirits, his doctors said. The incident unfolded when a naked, 31-year-old Rudy Eugene attacked Poppo and stripped him of his clothes on the causeway last May, police said. An officer eventually shot and killed Eugene after he refused to stop the attack, police said. By that point Eugene had gnawed away more than half of Poppo's face, gauged out his left eye, and severely damaged his right one. Authorities had initially speculated that bath salts may have been the cause of the attack, but the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner said tests showed only marijuana in Eugene's system.
- Remember The Guy Whose Face Was Eaten By The Miami 'Bath Salt Zombie'? (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
  So back in May of 2012, this homeless guy, whose name is Ronald Poppo, was chilling near a Miami road when he encountered this guy... Rudy Eugene and according to numerous reports, he was high on bath salts. And for whatever reason he decided to eat Poppo's face. Gross. Police shot him to death, rescued Poppo. Poppo's doctors didn't give up. They nursed the man back to good health and reconstructed what was left of his face.
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A woman was sexually assaulted in her west Houston home earlier this month. And now, police have a sketch of a man they say is responsible. Police say the victim, who is a grandmother, was home alone when she heard a knock on her door, and answered it, thinking it was someone she knew. The man pushed his way inside the home and began hitting the woman on the head. He told her he had a gun and then sexually assaulted her. The suspect is described as a black male in his early 30s. He's about 5 feet 10 inches tall with a slim build and muscular shoulders, a thin moustache and a goatee. He wore plaid green shorts, a black T-shirt, a blue do-rag and carried a green backpack. 
Two Long Beach men have been charged with a total of nine felony counts related to the kidnapping and forced prostitution of two women, Long Beach police announced Friday. Lebrette Win, 22, and 24-year-old Eric Avery were arrested on May 16 and have been collectively charged with human trafficking, pimping, pandering, mayhem, kidnapping, and other counts relating to sexually based offenses
A Xenia man was arrested Wednesday following an investigation into rape allegations by a child under 13. Joshua Landers, 24, is being held in a Greene County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond. Xenia Police said he will be charged with forcible rape. The rape allegedly occurred in March at a location off of Kinsey Road. Landers is an acquaintance of the family of the victim.
A SWAT team was dispatched Wednesday to arrest a Beaverton police officer accused of sexually assaulting a 
“An extremely popular and witty soldier, Drummer Rigby was a larger than life personality within the Corps of Drums and was well known, liked and respected across the Second Fusiliers. He was a passionate and life-long Manchester United fan. “A loving father to his son Jack, aged 2 years, he will be sorely missed by all who knew him. The Regiment’s thoughts and prayers are with his family during this extremely difficult time.” His former brother-in-law voiced the family’s anguish, saying “he died in the most horrific way.” 
taking their war on the West to a new level of horror. The two black men in their 20s, waited calmly for armed police to arrive before charging at officers brandishing a rusty revolver, knives and meat cleavers. When the old pistol was shot towards police it backfired and blew the thumb off one of the men. 
Authorities say the extradition process has begun for the man who police suspect killed a Grand Prairie mother and her teenage daughter over the weekend. Kirkland Reed, 45, was taken into custody Sunday at hospital in Alamogordo, N.M., after police discovered
"O.J. Simpson is back in the news thanks to his request for a new trial, and a woman who dated him for 12 years and somehow lived has resurfaced as well. The Juice's ex-girlfriend Christie Prody recently told Inside Edition that he was "very charming," but often threatened her ... trade-offs, right? O.J. also frequently likened her to his ex-wife, Nicole Brown". - “He would say things to me like, ‘You better watch out so something bad doesn’t happen to you like Nicole,'" she told the celebrity news program." 
North Little Rock police have a man in custody who they say set his fiancé on fire, who died as a result of her injuries. Matthew Wayne Nichols 46, allegedly set his fiancé 38-year-old
A Clarke County grand jury on Tuesday indicted an Athens man for strangling and binding a woman with duct tape during an alleged rape attempt nearly a year ago. Charlie Daniel Dorsey, 33, was arrested July 31, soon after the alleged victim escaped from the home where she had been held against her will. Athens-Clarke police said at the time that the 22-year-old woman claimed Dorsey duct taped both her wrists and strangled her while raping her, causing her to lose consciousness.
Defense attorneys for 15-year-old Sheldon Jefferson and 18-year-old Christopher Davis are trying to convince Judge Franz Zibilich that the confessions the two teens gave to police in the presence of their mothers should not be allowed in their trial on rape and kidnapping charges of a Garden District resident. A third defendant, Joseph Davis (no relation to Christopher), refused to talk to police,
Sentencing has been pushed back for a former Louisville Metro Police Department recruit convicted of rape and sodomy.
More than a year into his current 30-year sentence at Lebanon Correctional Institute, Erick Howard, who was found guilty of robbing and raping a female victim during a home invasion, faces a resentencing. A 12-person jury found Howard guilty of aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, rape and kidnapping, all carrying firearm specifications. He joined two others in tying up and robbing a North Canton couple in their home Aug. 20, 2012. 
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Testimony is underway in the case of the 19-year-old illegal immigrant who is accused of trying to rape a 67-year-old woman.
The girl started screaming and she and her mother then chased after Rodriguez to no avail. The girl and her mother called 9-1-1 and the 16-year-old told deputies that she knows Rodriguez from school. The girl also told deputies that Rodriguez is infatuated with her, but she wants nothing to do with him. Rodriguez was found sometime later and he told deputies that he thought he was entering his own house. But then he admitted that he went into the girl's residence because he wanted to have sex with her. Rodriguez was charged with attempted sexual battery, child abuse and burglary with battery. 
Mississippi -- Kendrick Jackson, 39, pleaded guilty today to 3 counts of touching of a child for lustful purposes and 1 count of sexual battery involving 3 different victims, who were all younger than 14. The crimes date back to December 2006 until July 201. Judge Dale Harkey sentenced Jackson to 15 years in prison on the 3 touching charges, the maximum penalty. On the sexual battery charge, Jackson was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with 25 years to serve and 5 years on post-release supervision. "The defendant stole the innocence from several children in our community and violated the trust their families had in him." "This defendant's actions not only victimized these young girls but also took away part of their childhood that they can never get back"
CLEVELAND, OH - Convicted sex offender Hernandez L. Warren has been charged in the 1984 rape and murder of 
Police arrested a man after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman while asking her for driving directions in Newark Sunday. Police say 31-year-old Charles Word pulled his car over asked the woman for directions. When the woman approached the car and looked inside, police say Word’s pants were down and he exposed himself.
A 25-year-old woman allegedly was raped while sleeping in Dumfries, Va., Saturday. An investigation revealed the victim was asleep at the suspect's home in the 17400 block of Wilson Street when she woke to an acquaintance raping her, police said. MC Stewart, 22, was arrested and charged with rape following the investigation.
Authorities asked for the public’s help Monday in locating a man they consider to be extremely violent and an imminent public threat. Frank Edward Edmonds, 40, is wanted on a warrant for a parole violation and a pending battery case, the LA County Probation Department said. Officials say during a recent confinement at the UCLA Harbor General Mental Health Facility, Edmonds made “several disturbing comments to staff that he was thinking about killing school children and then ending his life in a suicide by cop scenario.”
OH - A Colerain Township man is arrested on charges he raped a 12-year-old girl. Toussaint Thrower, 37, is accused of committing the crime over a period of two years. He is expected to appear in court this morning. The police report also states the victim is pregnant and the act happened at least four times between 5-18-2011 and 1-1-2013.
A Florida man has been arrested after deputies say he slashed his wife 
A wanted man with a criminal history dating back nearly 15 years was identified by police Saturday as the masked home invader involved in the death of a Hofstra University student early Friday morning. Dalton Smith, who was wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction, attempted to rob the off-campus home where he and Hofstra junior 
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Four former high school football players in Pflugerville will not serve time for their roles in the rape of a 9-th grader two years ago. All 4 men pleaded guilty to attempted unlawful restraint and were sentenced to 5 years deferred adjudication. Leonard Scales, 20 and 21-year-old Tommie Robins Jr had been charged with sexual assault. Deionta James, 21, and 19-year-old Curtis Franklin were charged with unlawful restraint. The victim told police that James and Franklin held her down in the shower area at a pool while Scales and Robins took turns sexually assaulting her. 
A St. Louis man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to 48 years in prison for raping a woman at gunpoint in Castle Point in 2001. Jerrell Scott, 28, was linked to the attack by DNA, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said Scott grabbed the woman off the street on Oct. 26, 2001, and took her to two adjoining yards where he raped her. Scott also asked the woman to perform oral sex on him but she refused, prosecutors said. The woman immediately sought help after the attack. The DNA hit, linking Scott to biological material left on the woman's pants, came last year, according to prosecutors. 
A suspect in custody Friday for allegedly kidnapping a 7-year-old girl and stuffing her in his trunk is a registered sex offender who has attacked before. It’s the exact scenario the mother of the suspect’s first victim says should never have happened. Christy says Cedreic Holland should still be in prison for the horrible things he did to her daughter when she was only 5 years old. The man of her nightmares is now accused of snatching a 7-year-old girl walking with her mom in south Sacramento, and throwing her in his trunk. Holland was charged in 2006 with multiple counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child. 
DAYTON — A 35-year-old man remains in jail on a $300,000 bond following an indictment accusing him of rape and other felonies. Erick White was formally charged this week by a Montgomery County grand jury on charges of domestic violence and aggravated burglary as well, according to the county prosecutor’s office. White is accused of entering a home on Karwin Drive without permission on May 2 and assaulting a woman there. According to court records, he has domestic violence convictions from 1998 and 2011.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A Belleville man has been charged for allegedly abusing a 28-year-old woman. Police were called by a woman who said she was sexually abused. She said she was sitting on the steps to her apartment building smoking a cigarette when a man approached her and asked her for a cigarette. The victim says she gave the man a cigarette, and was chatting with the man when she became uncomfortable. She says she gathered her belongings and was walking back into her apartment when the suspect, identified as 35-year-old Anthony T. Graham, grabbed her arm and pulled her between two buildings. Graham allegedly put his hand down the woman's pants. The woman says she struggled and was able to break free and run inside her apartment where she called police. Police found Graham nearby hiding under bushes. 
PHILADELPHIA – A 27-year-old woman has been arrested for assaulting a student at a Philadelphia elementary school. Atiff Brown, of S. 60th Street in Philadelphia, was arrested for allegedly assaulting an 11-year-old student at A.B. Anderson Elementary School on Monday. Brown was charged with Terroristic Threats, Simple Assault, Recklessly Endangering Another Person and Defiant Trespass.
A homeless man has been arrested in the rape of an unconscious homeless woman in a downtown alley, police said. Just after midnight Friday, officers were alerted to a possible assault in the 200 block of McCrea Street, the alley southwest of Georgia and Meridian streets. The officers found a man raping a woman between a trash compactor and a fence, police said. The woman was found to be unconscious and took two minutes to respond, police said. The man was identified as Theodore Bryant, 56. He was arrested on a preliminary charge of rape.
A Nashville man has been charged with aggravated child abuse stemming from the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son. 30-year-old Donald Harris admitted to whipping the child multiple times with a belt and striking him with his hand. Police said an ambulance was called to the mother's home after she reported the child had stopped breathing. The child died shortly after he arrived at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital. The hospital staff reported finding multiple bruises on the child's abdomen, chest, back, leg, arms, face, and head. The affidavit said he had also sustained abrasions on his face, chest, and neck areas, as well as injuries on the inside of his upper and lower lips.
After deliberating for just 10 minutes, a Dallas County jury found 34-year-old 
OH - A baby girl was fatally stabbed at a Sandusky home on Thursday. The baby was just 11-months, and was attacked inside a house on Dewey Street. Denzel Castile, 19, was arrested at the scene. He is charged and is being held without bond. The relationship between the baby and Castile is not clear at this time.
A judge has denied bail for a man accused of killing a 2-year-old boy in Mount Pleasant from abuse. The Charleston County Coroner’s Office has identified the boy as
Police announced this afternoon that Zachary Barber, 28, has been charged with involuntarily manslaughter -- after he allegedly struck his two-year-old son, who died a short while later. Police say that an autopsy revealed Isiah Barber was struck in the chest. And a probable cause statement from the St. Louis circuit attorney, on view below, says that the father admitted to police that he had hit his son. 
Mich. - Center Line Police need the public's help looki n g for a man wanted for sexually assaulting a juvenile relative at gunpoint.
A Raleigh man and his girlfriend have been charged with child abuse after investigators say the pair used zip ties to bind his 4-year-old daughter and fasten her to a baby gate in their home. Gerald Thomas Swinehart, 26, and Marlaine Victoria Coffey, 28, both of 931 S. East St., were arrested last month in Marin County, Fla., where, police say, they fled after the child was removed from their custody in March. The pair was extradited to Raleigh last week. "The
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of a popular Philadelphia DJ. Police say Josephe Murray, an 18-year-old from the 5700 block of Reedland Street, was arrested for the murder of 36-year-old
An accomplice in the shooting of a Christian Brothers Academy coach Jan. 23 was sentenced this morning to 16 years in state prison. Shireff Williams, 19, was involved in the robbery of liquor store owner
CLEVELAND -- The man who beat his former girlfriend with a hammer while their children slept across the hall has been sentenced to 14 years in jail. Seven months ago, John Whitfield locked his ex-girlfriend in her room, then went in with pepper spray and a hammer. He blinded her with the spray and then beat her repeatedly in the head with the hammer. He went before a judge and pleaded guilty. His sentence was the maximum allowed by law -- fourteen years in prison and five years probation. It's been a long seven months for 
Md. —Howard County police said a man wanted in connection with a homicide in Columbia has been taken into custody in North Carolina. Authorities said Ryan Patrick Matthias, 43, of Charlotte, N.C., is being held in the killing of 
Dayton police have arrested a man for the attempted sexual assault of a 56-year-old woman who was allegedly attacked at her home. The arrest was made shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14. Detective Doug O’Quinn said that Dayton Police Department was able to quickly solve this case because the victim was able to identify her attacker from a photo line-up. The suspect is Kyle Antoine, 27, of Dayton, who has been charged with Burglary of a Habitation with the Intent to Commit a Sexual Assault. *