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Filipino Ex-NYPD cop, brother get 3 years for overseas gun dealing
 A disgraced NYPD cop and his California customs officer brother were both sentenced to three years in prison Friday for illegally trafficking military grade weapons to contacts in their native Philippines. Rex Maralit, an NYPD officer for 11 years, and Wilfredo Maralit, a Customs and Border Protection officer for nine years, both begged Brooklyn federal Judge Allyne Ross for leniency. “I was blind to allow myself to believe that I was merely avoiding red tape,” Rex Maralit, 46, of Lawrenceville, NJ, said. “I ruined my dignity, honor and good reputation.” Wilfredo Maralit, 49, of Garden Grove, Calif., said he suffered from depression and destroyed a once promising career. From 2009 and 2013, the duo purchased assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons without proper licensing and sold them to fences in the Philippines.
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AURORA, Colo. - The passenger in a car involved in a road-rage crash in Aurora is being held on several charges, including attempted murder. Michael Christopher Hall, 25, was riding in a 2005 Silver Chrysler Sebring driven by 24-year-old Danielle Marie Buffum Saturday afternoon, according to Sgt. William Revelle with the Aurora Police Department. Police said Hall got into some kind of argument with a man riding a Honda CBR 600 motorcycle on Interstate 225 near East Iliff Avenue at around 4:50 p.m. Hall grabbed the steering wheel and jerked it right, and the Chrysler hit the motorcycle, Revelle said. 
ST. LOUIS -- Two people were killed and another injured inside a home in St. Louis' Bevo Mill neighborhood Friday afternoon. Now police say a second shooting scene is related. Police say 
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia police officer is in hot water after showing up drunk at the station in a patrol car early Saturday morning and assaulting a supervisor. Authorities say 12th District officer Darryl Cathey pulled up in a marked vehicle a little after midnight with three flat tires and bent rims, which first sparked the attention of his coworkers. A Sergeant then noticed the smell of alcohol on Cathey’s breath and that he had bloodshot eyes. Police say the officer could not explain how the tires were flattened. As Cathey was being taken into custody, police say, a struggle ensued with the supervisor and other cops before he was taken for processing.
Tampa, Florida -- It was a living nightmare for a Tampa mom this morning when she found a naked, grown man in bed with
HOUSTON – Investigators say they've caught the man wanted for sexually assaulting two women in their 60s. Fred Hubbard, 37, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault.The first case happened last June when a 
PATERSON — Authorities are looking for a 23-year-old Paterson man who they say kidnapped a “young lady” on Saturday afternoon and twice sexually assaulted her — first in an abandoned home on Bloomfield Avenue and then at his apartment in the 6th Ward, police said. The suspect also struck the victim during the sexual assaults, according to Captain Heriberto Rodriguez. The victim escaped and called police at 1:48 p.m. when the suspect momentarily left his apartment, police said. An investigation by city detectives determined that the attacker was 23-year-old Craig Hall, who lives on the 800 block of Main Street, police said. Hall, who has been charged with kidnapping and sexual assault, was last seen wearing a red jersey with the number “8” on it, blue and white jeans, and white and green sneakers, according to Rodriguez. 
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Orange County deputies arrested a man after they say he exposed himself to a Wendy's drive-thru worker on Friday morning. Nicholas Garrison, 23, has been charged with exposure of sexual organs in the incident at the Wendy's on Central Florida Parkway. Deputies said Garrison drove up to the window and ordered a glass of water at 1 a.m. Friday and when the worker opened the window, Garrison was touching himself inappropriately.
The “bomb guru” for the terrorist group the Weather Underground never served a day in jail — but he did spend decades teaching in New York City classrooms, a new book reveals. Ronald Fliegelman built explosives for the 
BOSTON – Police Commissioner William Evans said Saturday Boston police officer John Moynihan remains in critical after he was shot “without provocation” on Friday night in Roxbury. Evans said at a press conference from the Boston Police Department headquarters that officers approached 41-year-old Hyde Park resident Angelo West’s vehicle without guns drawn and the man opened fire. According to police, West has a violent criminal history with several gun convictions. The Boston Globe reported that West was arrested in 2001 after he allegedly fired a shot at police officers who were trying to arrest him after witnessing West complete a drug deal. The police commissioner called the incident “a real violent confrontation that was clearly unprovoked by our officers,” and added that there is “excellent video” that shows how the events unfolded. The shooting took place at about 6:40 p.m. Friday in the area of Humboldt Ave. and Ruthven Street. 
A man was assaulted in a St. Louis, Mo. Light rail train on Monday after refusing to get into a conversation about the shooting of Michael Brown. The suspect, who was caught on camera by St. Louis Metro surveillance video, punched the victim in the face. Two more men joined in the fighting, according to police reports. Another passenger recorded the attack on a cell phone. 
Police in Voorhees, New Jersey were looking for two men considered persons of interest in the beating and robbery of an elderly man. Police said an
Police arrested a 34-year-old Myrtle Beach woman in connection with attempted murder and unlawful conduct toward a child on Wednesday after she allegedly tried to hit someone with a car following an argument over a cinnamon bun, according to a police report. Amy Joe Derepentigny was charged with attempted murder and unlawful neglect of a child or helpless person and was booked into the J. Reuben Long Detention Center, according to jail records. Police were called about 2 p.m. Tuesday to the 400 block of 28th Avenue North for an incident involving a car crash. An investigation revealed that Derepentigny and the victim of the alleged attempted murder had argued at a local gas station about not having enough money for a cinnamon bun before driving to the home where the incident happened, police said. Derepentigny told the victim, “If you step in front of this car, I’ll run you over,” according to the arrest warrant. Derepentigny then quickly accelerated toward the victim and attempted to strike him in a 2000 Ford Expedition, police said. 
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 53-year-old man accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with
DAYTON — A 49-year-old man is facing felony charges in a child sex case. A Montgomery County grand jury today indicted Charles F. Singleton, 49, on rape, a first-degree felony, and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a third-degree felony, according to a county grand jury report. Singleton has been held in the Montgomery County Jail without bond since his March 17 arrest by Dayton police. He is expected to be arraigned on the new charges Tuesday, online jail records show. 
A man New Orleans prosecutors described as a "serial rapist" pleaded guilty Friday (March 27) to two counts of forcible rape in incidents authorities said happened in 2003. Michael Lee Jones, 42, was sentenced to 45 years in prison on the charges, according to District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office. Cannizarro's spokesman, Christopher Bowman, said the two New Orleans rapes Jones was accused in were cold cases, but that authorities knew the same man was a suspect in both. DNA was recovered both times, he said, and was entered into a federal DNA database.
CINCINNATI —A University of Cincinnati backup quarterback has testified in court that a group of young men taunted him with racist remarks shortly before he knocked one of them down with a punch. But the victim tells a different story. He says he wasn't even with the other men who taunted Jarred Evans and didn't know why he got punched. Evans is standing trial in Cincinnati on a misdemeanor assault charge related to the incident last October near campus. Evans, who is black, testified Friday that he jabbed 20-year-old 
DETROIT – A teenager told authorities that her mother killed two siblings and forced her to put one of the bodies in the freezer of their Detroit home where both were found by an eviction crew. Details of death and extreme abuse emerged Thursday as Mitchelle Blair appeared in court, two days after the bodies of a
ST. PAUL — A St. Paul woman is accused of chasing her developmentally delayed stepson through a St. Paul elementary school Wednesday afternoon, where police say she threatened to kill him. Tashay Caprice Johnson, 24, is charged in Ramsey County with one count of making terroristic threats and one count of malicious punishment of a child. According to the criminal complaint, a school administrator told police Johnson chased her stepson through Dayton’s Bluff Achievement Plus Elementary, threatening him, while the visibly injured 9-year-old screamed, “My mom is trying to kill me, don’t let me go back to her.”
CHICAGO – A national guardsman from Aurora and his cousin were arrested Wednesday night, for allegedly conspiring to join the Islamic State terrorist group and attack a Joliet military facility. Federal prosecutors said 22-year-old Army National Guard Spc. Hasan Edmonds, 22, was arrested at Midway International Airport, while trying to fly to Cairo, Egypt. His cousin, 29-year-old Jonas Edmonds, was arrested at his home in Aurora. Each has been charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. A lengthy affidavit filed in federal court outlines the investigation that resulted in this week’s charges. Both suspects made appearances in federal court Thursday.
LONGMONT, Colo. – A woman suspected of cutting an unborn baby from a woman’s belly in Longmont won’t face murder charges for the baby’s death, according to the Boulder County district attorney. District Attorney Stan Garnett won’t charge Dynel Lane, 34, with murder, but she will still face a variety of other charges. Police say 
ATLANTA — Atlanta police have made an arrest after a man was fatally shot outside a Kroger grocery store in northeast Atlanta. Investigators said Demarius Thompson, 29, was arrested Thursday afternoon at a Popeyes restaurant for the murder of
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A man who may be from Kansas City has been charged after allegedly leading police on a pursuit from Warrenton, Missouri to Lambert Airport Wednesday evening. Police said 22-year-old Reginald Adams has been charged by Warren County prosecutors with six counts of first degree assault and six counts of unlawful use of a weapon. According to police, the pursuit began when officers in Warren County received a call stating someone was firing gunshots along Interstate 70 around 6:00 p.m. 
WILMINGTON, NC -- A Wilmington man pleaded guilty to a stabbing death that happened in 2012. Anthony Leon Harris, 26, entered a plea of guilty in the second degree murder of 43 year old
Doug Jandebeur
A man forced his way into a Philadelphia home early Thursday and tried to sexually assault a woman during a burglary. A woman told Philadelphia Police a man broke into her home, demanded money and choked her in her Point Breeze along the 1700 block of S Chadwick Street, near 17th and Morris streets, around 3 a.m. The man tried to sexually assault the woman before he was forced to flee, said special victims unit investigators. 
Tampa, Florida -- One of the victims of the so called Hyde Park rapist says he put her through a living hell. Now, she can't believe he's back living in Tampa - where he targeted his victims. "You don't forget it," says 
Sentencing has been postponed for a former day care worker convicted of abducting 
LENEXA, Kan. — A 20-year-old man is accused of endangering more than a dozen children and injuring three of them during a playground incident in the Kansas City suburb of Lenexa. The Kansas City Star reports that Johnson County prosecutors charged Javon Locket of Lenexa with three counts of aggravated battery. Those charges allege 
A whirlwind romance quickly turned into a nightmare for a British grandmother who married a man 20 years her junior in The Gambia. Anne-Marie, 52, from Warwickshire, met husband 
Victor Manuel Solis
BLOOMINGTON — Bond was reduced to $2 million for one of three men charged with murder in the beating death of a homeless man last summer. Judge Scott Drazewski agreed the $3 million bond for Willie Chambers was excessive but in lowering it to $2 million, the judge acknowledged the bond remains unreachable for the 18-year-old defendant. Chambers faces murder charges, along with Tory Washington, 20, and Anthony Davis-Dickson, 19, all of Bloomington, in the beating death of 
EAST COVENTRY TOWNSHIP--Police are searching for a man who allegedly ripped
A jury today found a Michigan woman guilty of firing a shot into a McDonald’s drive-thru window after employees failed to put bacon on a cheeseburger she ordered. Shaneka Monique Torres, 30, was convicted of a felony firearms charge after only an hour of deliberations by the panel. Torres, seen at right, faces a minimum of two years in state prison when she is sentenced next month. 
CINCINNATI - A judge has ordered the 20-year-old woman charged with decapitating her baby to undergo treatment at a mental health facility after an initial evaluation showed she is not competent to stand trial. However, DeAsia Watkins can be rehabilitated with treatment, the evaluation said, and prosecutors want her to go to trial eventually. The state said Watkins is trying to blame others for killing her 3-month-old, 
AUSTIN — A rapper accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met during South By Southwest last week has been arrested. Asa Asuncion, 25, who goes by the stage name “Yung Gleesh,” was arrested on Tuesday. According to Austin Police, the victim and her friend were staying at a friend’s house when Yung Gleesh and his friends stopped by. Witnesses said Yung Gleesh was a friend of one of the men who lived at the home. The victim’s friend, who went out with her the night before, said she woke up and found Yung Gleesh on top of the victim and both were mostly unclothed. The victim’s friend said she pulled Yung Gleesh off her friend and a verbal altercation took place before the victim was taken to the hospital.
KANSAS CITY, MO - A 29-year-old Kansas City man will be sentenced in May for raping a 70-year old woman in her home. A Jackson County jury on Wednesday found Jason L. Berry guilty of rape, sexual abuse and burglary. He was acquitted of attempted sodomy. The victim testified Tuesday that the man broke into her home last May and raped her. Berry's attorney argued that evidence suggested someone else raped the woman. Berry denied the allegations. Berry is being held without bond while awaiting sentencing on May 21. 
MILWAUKEE — A 39-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of raping a ten-year-old girl — and getting her pregnant. The accused is Darrick Guider. He faces a charge of first-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 12. The victim moved into a relative’s home where Guider lived in June 2014. The victim told police that “one night, shortly after she moved into this home, she was watching television upstairs in a room. She was lying on the bed when the defendant came in. The defendant told her that ‘this is how [you] make money.'” The complaint then indicates the victim “tried to get her (relative’s) attention by screaming, but the defendant put his hand over her mouth.” Guider then allegedly assaulted the girl. The complaint says the victim “recalls various instances” where Guider attempted to have sex with her. The complaint also says the victim told her relative in December that Guider had been “messing with her.” But the relative apparently did not believe the victim.
PITTSBURGH — A convicted sex offender is back behind bars following a traffic stop in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. Police said Clifford Ross Sr., 62, was driving on Fifth Avenue when he was stopped for a burned out headlight. "(A sheriff’s deputy) observed the suspect vehicle with the burned out headlight, made contact with the driver and passenger and realized the driver was driving without a license,” said Allegheny County Sherriff’s Office Chief Deputy Kevin Kraus. The sheriff’s deputy followed up and learned that Ross, who was convicted of indecent assault in Washington County in 2012, was in violation of Megan’s Law.
CHICAGO – A west suburban man is charged with breaking into a building in Chinatown and sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman Sunday night, police said. Latayuss Curry, 21, was charged with single counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, home invasion and kidnapping by force or threat of force, police announced Tuesday night. About 10:15 p.m. Sunday, police were called to the 2200 block of South Stewart after receiving calls of a burglary in progress, police said. Officers then discovered that Curry had forcibly entered a building and sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman, police said. 
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee - A Chattanooga man is facing one count of rape after the alleged victim told police he sexually assaulted her while she was babysitting children. Carvonta Petty, 27, was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon after the victim identified him as the suspect. The crime reportedly happened on Monday in an apartment building in the 100 block of Hollyberry Lane. The victim told police that Petty came over to the residence where she was babysitting children. While the children were taking a nap, Petty reportedly locked the front door then proceeded to force himself on her. Both the victim and the person who rents the apartment knew Petty which made it easy for police to track him down. 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A South Memphis man is locked up and accused of paying 
CHARLOTTE, NC - The woman told officers she agreed to perform one sex act for five dollars and then went to Fitzgerald Rice's apartment on Central Avenue. She says Rice became aggressive in the car driving to his apartment, and once in his bedroom. She says he forced her to do more than the one thing she agreed to and he put his hand on her windpipe. She also admitted she was ashamed she put herself in that situation. She stopped to cry several times during her testimony. Investigators say this isn't the first time Fitzgerald Rice has been accused of this.
A pair of Manhattan thugs are facing at least two decades behind bars after copping pleas Monday for the execution-style 2009 slaying of a Queens pizzeria owner’s son who died trying to protect his cancer-stricken dad during a "botched" Mob-connected home invasion. Antoine Burroughs, 26, and cohort Leon Whitfield, 24, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges of robbery and robbery conspiracy. Through the plea agreement with the government, they avoid prosecution for murder and other crimes that could have landed them in jail for life for the shooting death of 
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT -- A woman's face was disfigured in a random attack. She was slashed by a maniac with a razor blade as she stepped outside for a cigarette. Surveillance video shows her walking out of a bar in Brooklyn last month and right into the middle of a violent attack. "It's really not hard not to just curl up in a ball and just cry. But I can't do that," said 
An Evansville man has been arrested for allegedly 
Abdur-Rashid Jackson, 30, of Ithaca, is facing charges of first-degree rape, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, according to Ithaca police. His charges will soon move up to the Tompkins County Court. Jackson was arrested March 19 and arraigned that day in the City of Ithaca Court. He was remanded to the Tompkins County Jail in lieu of $100,000 cash bail and $300,000 bond.
A search for an offender with warrants led to discovery of large cache of crack and lizards, police say A raid to find a probation violator led to three arrests and seizure of 17 dangerous and illegal reptiles in a Milltown-area apartment, New Castle County police said Tuesday. In addition to a boa constrictor and lizards up to 6 feet long, police said they seized about 115 grams of crack cocaine, nearly 100 grams of marijuana, prenoscription medications, paraphernalia for drug sales and two loaded handguns. Jennifer Chadwick, 25; Jerimiah Feaster, 28, and Antonio Graves, 32 all of the 5500 block of Heritage Court Drive at the Heritage Court Apartments, were charged with drug and gun offenses, as well as endangering
WAYCROSS, Ga. - Two men were arrested early Tuesday morning on charges connected to a weekend stabbing death of 57-year-old 
AMERICUS — Bond was denied to the first four arrested in an arson and double homicide case in Sumter County, even as another suspect was taken into custody Wednesday. Sumter County Sheriff Pete Smith said Demetrious Hubbard, 21, of 118 Foster St., DeSoto is charged with felony murder Wednesday. Arrested earlier in the week were Ruhemmeion O. King, 17, of 514 Henry Hart Road, Americus, charged with two counts of felony murder; Qwinterrious J. Dodson, 22, of 541 Henry Hart Road, Americus, charged with felony theft by receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; Reginald K. Mathis, 28, of 513-B Bessie Mayes Circle, Americus, charged with felony theft by receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; and Brandon L. Prince, 21, of 121 Frieda Lane, Americus, charged with theft by receiving stolen property. All five remain incarcerated at the Sumter County Jail. They will be bound over to Sumter Superior Court. The Sumter County Fire Department responded to a fire shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at 780 R.W. Jones Road in rural eastern Sumter County. The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office and Coroner’s Office were notified with two bodies were discovered, those of 
EMPORIA, Va. — Nearly two months after her burned body was found in a Tennessee field, investigators tracked down one of the people believed responsible for the murder of 
CINCINNATI, Ohio — A mother is accused of trafficking her
NEW YORK — The NYPD is still on the hunt for a suspect in a pair of Upper West Side knifepoint robberies. On Sunday Jan. 18, at 5:30 p.m. 
ANAHEIM — A 28-year-old waitress was recovering Monday after she was run over by customers who authorities say drove off and refused to pay their bill in Anaheim. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were sent shortly before 6:30 p.m. Sunday to 
PHILADELPHIA – Police announced a second 15-year-old has been charged for his involvement in the murder of a man walking his dog in West Philadelphia. Authorities say on Friday, March 20, Tyfine Hamilton was arrested and charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, robbery, violation of the uniform firearms act and related offenses. Hamilton turned himself into police Friday morning. Brandon Smith was already charged in the murder of 51-year-old
SACRAMENTO— Police arrested a man on Tuesday, March 17, in the brutal murder of a Citrus Heights woman. Allen Bocteemus Franks, 48, was arrested after police found him in the victim’s van. The victim, 
A St. Louis business owner is accused of luring two young children into his business, molesting and sodomizing them. Hakeem Rasheen, 62, operates Union Motors in North St. Louis City. His business is near the boys' bus stop and it's there where he allegedly lured the
ATLANTA — Police are looking for leads in a deadly double-shooting in northeast Atlanta. Atlanta police say two men were shot and killed just before 3 a.m. Saturday. 
A Domino's Pizza manager was struck on the head with a metal bar during a robbery in Arizona that was caught on surveillance camera. 
SHREVEPORT, LA - Bossier Parish sheriff's investigators have arrested a Shreveport man in connection with the murder of a woman found dead in the Haughton area Sunday. According to a statement released by the Bossier Sheriff's Office late Monday afternoon, 34-year-old Nathaniel Allen Mingo is charged with 2nd degree murder for the killing of 33-year-old 
District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that Thomas Young (DOB 5/19/47), of Birmingham, Alabama, was sentenced today for the July 30, 1980, murder of 15- year-old. Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Bennett sentenced Young to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found him guilty on February 26, 2015, of first-degree murder in the commission of rape. The murder took place during the daytime when Young entered the home of teenager 
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — A North Carolina man has been indicted on a second degree murder charge after a fatal crash that claimed the life of a retired Elizabeth City teacher. Police say 30-year-old Elbert Justin Horton was drunk when he was involved in a head-on collision in Pasquotank County and crashed his 2006 Chrysler minivan into 62-year-old 
A man armed with a machete and wasp spray stormed through a security area at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday night before being shot, authorities said. Richard White, 62, was taken to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said. The suspect in the attack on TSA agents at the New Orleans-area airport is taken away on a stretcher. The incident started when White entered a security checkpoint for Concourse B and began spraying Transportation Security Administration agents and bystanders with a can of wasp spray, a sheriff's office statement said. White soon pulled out a machete from his waistband and began wielding it at agents and others in the area. The machete allegedly used against TSA officers is seen on the floor of the airport. One of the agents blocked the machete with a piece of luggage as White chased him through a security checkpoint metal detector. At that point, Lt. Heather Slyve of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office opened fire, shooting White in the chest, face and thigh. 
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A massage therapist who admits that he groped a woman’s breasts during a Bellevue spa treatment is headed to jail for nine months. As part of his deal with the King County Prosecutor’s Office, Reggy Michael Arntsen (aka Reggy Michael Nelson), will also give up his license to practice massage in Washington State. Arntsen was originally charged with assault for the sexually motivated attack on 
RICHMOND, Va. — Police identified the 19-year-old woman fatally shot at a Richmond gas station over the weekend during a dispute as 
