STRANGE CRIMES

VANCOUVER, Wash., April 23 (UPI) -- A Washington state man accused of stealing an English bulldog puppy at gunpoint was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Jajuane Etheridge, 23, of Vancouver pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of stolen property in Clark County and was sentenced Monday by Judge David Gregerson to 20 months in prison, The (Vancouver) Columbian reported Tuesday.

Investigators said Etheridge responded to a Craisglist post advertising puppies for sale near Portland, Ore., and he met the couple Oct. 19 in the parking lot of the Clackamas Town Center mall in Happy Valley.  Full Article

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Deputies responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle stopped in the middle of a Bradenton intersection at 1:45 a.m. on Saturday, according to an arrest affidavit from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

When deputies arrived they observed a man, later identified as Enrique Barrera-Morales, asleep at the wheel of a silver Hyundai with the motor running and the gear in drive while the traffic light cycled through multiple sets of green lights, the affidavit stated. Full Article

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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – A 28-year-old man fatally shot and killed his live-in girlfriend inside an apartment south of Seattle, then went on a rampage that left three men dead, including a neighbor who had phoned 911 to report hearing gunfire, authorities said.

Arriving officers found a chaotic scene in Federal Way on Sunday night, and authorities say officers twice shot at the suspect, in a stairway and in a parking lot.

Federal Way Police Chief Brian Wilson said at a news conference Monday that the suspect confronted officers with a shotgun. They fired upon the suspect, Wilson said, but the man fled to a nearby parking lot. Full Article

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PORTLAND, Oregon – A Trimet bus driver is recovering after someone stabbed him in the leg.

It happened around 11 p.m. near Southeast 92nd and Flavel.

Portland police say the driver, Brian Nixon, 35, was in a portable restroom when a man started banging on the door.

The victim opened the door after hearing the banging.

That’s when police said the attacker, an African American man in his 30s who is about 5’9″ tall, stabbed Nixon after demanding to use the restroom. Full Article

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Watertown, Massachusetts - The older of the two Chechen brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon was wounded but alive following a police gun battle when his younger brother ran him over with a car, possibly causing his death.

Offering the first detailed account of the firefight, Police Chief Edward Deveau, of Watertown, Massachusetts, where the drama had unfolded early Friday morning, has revealed that 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev walked towards officers firing a gun before he ran out of ammunition and was tackled to the ground.

He was in the process of being handcuffed by two or three officers when his younger brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar, jumped behind the wheel of a black SUV the two had allegedly carjacked earlier and barreled toward the group.

Officers who were restraining Tamerlan Tsarnaev got out of the way of the speeding vehicle, which ended up driving over the wounded suspect. Full Article

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CHICAGO – A suburban Chicago woman who reported that her 1-year-old son had been kidnapped is now being accused of killing the boy in a savage beating and concocting the abduction story as a cover-up.

Cook County prosecutors said Saturday that Lakeshia Baker of Maywood beat her son to death with a belt as her boyfriend restrained the child and placed his hand over the boy’s mouth to muffle his screams. Both are charged with first-degree murder.

The toddler, Bryeon Hunter, has been missing since Tuesday and is now presumed dead, though authorities have yet to find a body.

The report of his kidnapping prompted an Amber Alert and set off a search of abandoned buildings, trash bins and industrial areas by authorities and volunteers. Canine units were brought in, and a search of the Des Plaines River was carried out with divers and sonar equipment. Full Article

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Tamerlan transformed into terrorist by mystery 'mentors'...

'Thrown out of his mosque for raged-filled rant'...

Had 'Air of Power,' Was 'Intense'...

FBI interviewed 2 years ago; ties to extremist group...

Russian Relatives Had Kicked Him Out...

'Sympathetic to Al Qaeda'...

Cops handcuffing Tamerlan when Dzhokhar drove over him...

DOCTOR: DEAD BOMB SUSPECT HAD WOUNDS 'HEAD TO TOE'...

NEXT: INTERROGATION...

Suffered throat injury, may not be able to talk...

REPORT: Failed attempt to kill himself...

Police reveal bombers about to plant MORE devices...

Man who lost 2 legs in bomb gave key clue in 8 words...

'Bag, saw the guy, looked right at me'...

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A grisly post-mortem photo of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers appears to have been taken early today after medical personnel turned the body over to law enforcement officials.

The image of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, began circulating online this afternoon after it was posted on popular web sites like Reddit and 4chan. The source of the photo remains unclear.

the picture shows Tsarnaev–naked from the hip up–after he died at 1:35 AM at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Tsarnaev was mortally wounded during a gun battle between him and his 19-year-old brother Dzhokar and police.

In an interview, Dr. Richard Wolfe, chief of the hospital’s emergency medicine department, said that he had seen the photo, but stressed that the image “was not taken during the medical procedures or when the medical team had control of the body.” Full Article – WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTO

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New Bedford, Massachusetts – The two men who own a BMW with the license plate ‘Terrorista #1’ and who are said to be friends with the younger Boston bombing suspect were taken into custody again on Saturday.

This time the two foreign nationals were arrested over alleged immigration violations in the Massachusetts town, New Bedford, where police say the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have once lived.

The students, named by neighbors by their first names Azmat and Diaz, drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalized plate and a sticker on the back which reads: ‘F*** you, you f****** f****’.

They are thought to be from Kazakhstan and had not been seen since the bombings until Friday night when their ground floor apartment in New Bedford, MA, was raided by a dozen FBI agents at gunpoint.

One of their girlfriends was also arrested on Friday. All three are in their late teens or early 20s. Full Article

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The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.

Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.

More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.

A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google.  More

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DENVER - Police are searching for the two men who fired shots during the 4/20 pot rally in Denver's Civic Center Park on Saturday, injuring three people and causing thousands of festival-goers enjoying the jovial atmosphere to flee in panic.

A man and woman, between 20 and 30 years old, were shot in the leg, Denver police tweeted. Their injuries were considered non life-threatening.

A third victim, a juvenile, was grazed by a bullet and walked into a nearby hospital, police tweeted.

A dog, belonging to one of the victims, also appeared to have been grazed or shot and was seen limping from the scene. Several other people suffered some minor injuries from running or being trampled, according to witnesses who talked to 7NEWS.  Full Article

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Georgetown, Texas – Former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson was arrested and booked into jail and then released on bail after a specially convened court found that he intentionally hid evidence to secure Michael Morton’s 1987 conviction for murder.

In a blunt and scathing ruling, District Judge Louis Sturns said Anderson acted to defraud the trial court and Morton’s defense lawyers, resulting in an innocent man serving almost 25 years in prison.

“This court cannot think of a more intentionally harmful act than a prosecutor’s conscious choice to hide mitigating evidence so as to create an uneven playing field for a defendant facing a murder charge and a life sentence,” Sturns said. Full Article

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OLMSTED TOWNSHIP, OHIO - Since the discovery of a badly decomposed body floating in a pond Wednesday afternoon, April 17, 2013, the Olmsted Township police have worked with the County Medical Examiner's Office and State investigators to determine the still unidentified male.

Police say the victim died of multiple stab wounds.

After searching the pond and an unoccupied apartment adjacent to the pond police ruled that this is as an isolated crime. Olmsted Township Police and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation are currently investigating.

The victim has been identified as an African American male approximately 20-40 years of age, 5'11"tall, approximately 142 pounds, black hair, and brown eyes.

When discovered, the victim was wearing a red-Betty-Boop Tank-Top, three black-bras, and a light black hooded jacket, he was nude from the waist down. It was determined the victim had a rope tied around his waist and knotted from behind. The rope was attached to a piece of concrete and steel pipe. Full Article

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Florida – A couple who were caught trying to steal $2,388 worth of baby formula from a Palm Springs Walmart store brought their 9-month-old son along on the early-morning shoplifting spree, according to a Palm Springs police arrest report.

While his parents were jailed, the baby was placed in the care of the Florida Department of Children and Families, police said.

Sonya M. Barbour, 32, and her fiance, Glenn K.C. Martin, 31, were arrested by Palm Springs police at about 3:40 a.m. Thursday after a Palm Springs police officer and two Walmart employees saw Martin leaving the store with a baby stroller covered with a blanket.

The baby wasn’t in the stroller, police said. Instead, Martin had loaded it with about 15 to 24 cans of baby formula. Full Article

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A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition Saturday after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days, officials said.

The girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents, said Delhi police official Deepak Mishra. The girl was found alone locked in a room and left for dead, he said.

The girl suffered severe internal injuries, as well as cuts and bite marks on her face and torso, said D.K. Sharma, the medical superintendent of the government-run hospital in New Delhi where she was being treated. Sharma described the girl's condition as "serious" and said doctors were trying to stabilize her condition.  Full Article

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West Virginia – When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school on Thursday he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights.

“I never thought it would go this far because honestly I don’t see a problem with this, there shouldn’t be a problem with this,” Jared said.

It was the image of a gun printed on Jared’s t-shirt that sparked a dispute between a Logan Middle School teacher and Jared, that ended with Jared suspended, arrested and facing two charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, on his otherwise spotless record.

Jared’s father Allen Lardieri says he’s angry he had to rush from work to pick his son up from jail over something he says was blown way out of proportion.

“I don’t’ see how anybody would have an issue with a hunting rifle and NRA put on a t-shirt, especially when policy doesn’t forbid it,” Lardieri said. Full Article

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Spring Hill, Florida – Some bandits get no respect.

Wednesday evening a dude wearing a black ski mask, black gloves, blue jeans, a green shirt and a blue denim vest entered the Village Pizza in Spring Hill brandishing a knife and demanding money from the clerk, according to a news release from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.

The female clerk assumed the masked bandit was joking and told him no — twice.
It worked.

As the man left the pizzeria, he removed the ski mask and fled the scene in a small silver car — but not before one of the workers got a good look at him, the report stated.

Then a passing motorist — with good instincts — decided to follow the man he saw removing the ski mask. The motorist alerted 911, who then dispatched deputies, as he continued to trail the silver car to a Spring Hill address, according to the report.

Phillip Joseph Steinberg, 22, was in custody exactly 12 minutes after the time of the attempted robbery. Full Article

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The final prosecution witness against Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor on trial for the capital murder of seven babies and one adult patient, was Kareema Cross, a former employee of Gosnell's.

Thursday Cross testified that she saw ten babies breathe before Gosnell killed them.

The AP reports that Cross "saw the babies' chests move but was told by Gosnell they were not breathing." 
She also claims to have seen three of the babies move their limbs and another let out a "soft whine," before they were aborted alive.  Full Article

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Reasons to call 911 include reporting your house is on fire; a thug is robbing you; and an alligator is munching your leg.

They do not include reporting that you are lonely.

Fleurette French, 64, found that out the hard way March 30 after being arrested on an abuse of 911 charge, according to recently released records.

An Indian River County Sheriff's deputy at 8:10 p.m. went to an address in the 2000 block of Pine Creek Boulevard in Vero Beach for a medical call.

French dialed 911 for a medical issue, along with the fact that she'd been imbibing. She "was in no obvious distress" but "was highly intoxicated."

A firefighter/medic told a deputy "French told him the real reason she called 911 was 'because she was lonely.'" French was taken to Indian River Medical Center. Full Article

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