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Crime Alert 09.03.24 | Uber Driver Kidnapped for Three Days · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now. Miguel
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez orders an uber for a short ride to an Arlington,
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  Speaker 1: Texas gas station. When they arrived, he refuses to get
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  Speaker 1: out of the back seat, pulls a gun, loads around
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  Speaker 1: in the chamber. He holds the driver at gunpoint, demanding
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  Speaker 1: he drive to South Florida. The driver has no choice
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  Speaker 1: but to make the one thousand mile drive, Hernandez telling
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  Speaker 1: the driver to go to Ahialia, Florida store for quote supplies.
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  Speaker 1: When that happens, the driver makes a break Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: On the way to Florida, Hernandez described his plans to
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  Speaker 2: kidnap another person and hold them for a three million
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  Speaker 2: dollar ransom. Hernandez intended to send the driver into the
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  Speaker 2: store for materials for that attack. When the driver fled
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  Speaker 2: three days into the kidnapping, Hernandez was caught on foot
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  Speaker 2: lead that day and admitted to his crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Miguel Hernandez, now facing kidnapping, carjacking, and gun charges, question
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  Speaker 1: who paid the bill for that thousand minthrive Zier Dennis
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  Speaker 1: takes the phrase catch a tiger by the tail way
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  Speaker 1: too literally. Dennis spends a day at New Jersey's Cohansig
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  Speaker 1: Zoo with friends and gets the idea to pet a
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  Speaker 1: tiger climbing over a fence with signs clearly saying do
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  Speaker 1: not climb, walks up to the tiger and reaches out
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  Speaker 1: a hand to pet the beast. Witnesses film as the
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  Speaker 1: tiger tries to bite Dennis before she runs out of
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  Speaker 1: the enclosure. Not satisfied yet, she pulls a similar stunt
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  Speaker 1: at the bear cage. Zier Dennis twenty four now charged
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  Speaker 1: with two counts defiant trespassing. I wonder what the bear
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  Speaker 1: and the tiger have to say about that. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this Now with the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: In a disturbing case out of East Point, Michigan, a
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  Speaker 3: fourteen year old girl and her seventeen year old boyfriend
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  Speaker 3: now faced serious charges after allegedly conspiring to kill the
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  Speaker 3: girl's mother. Let's bring in Sidney Sumner of Crime Online
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  Speaker 3: for more.
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  Speaker 2: According to the McComb County, Michigan Prosecutor's Office, the events
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  Speaker 2: unfolded in July when the teenage boy reportedly gained access
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  Speaker 2: to the family's home through an unlocked door. Once inside,
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  Speaker 2: he attempted to strangle the mother while she slept. The
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  Speaker 2: attack was interrupted when other family members confronted the assailant,
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  Speaker 2: forcing him to flee the scene. Subsequent investigations by East
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  Speaker 2: Point Police revealed that the two teenagers had orchestrated the
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  Speaker 2: plot together. The fourteen year old girl was arraigned on
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  Speaker 2: charges including solicitation of murder in conspiracy to commit first
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  Speaker 2: degree premeditated murder, with her bond set at one million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Her boyfriend was arraigned two days earlier, facing charges of
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  Speaker 2: conspiracy to commit first degree premeditated murder and assault with
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  Speaker 2: intent to murder. His bond was set at two and
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  Speaker 2: a half million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Authorities have indicated that the mother had recently taken her
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  Speaker 3: daughter's phone away due to ongoing issues at home, and
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  Speaker 3: was reportedly unaware of her daughter's relationship with the boy
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  Speaker 3: now to Arkansas as A Jonesborough police officer has been
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  Speaker 3: terminated after a video surface showing him violently assaulting a
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  Speaker 3: handcuffed inmate in the back of his patrol car. Once
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  Speaker 3: again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The video, which captures officer Joseph Harris punching, elbowing and
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  Speaker 2: slamming a car door on the inmate, was recorded on
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  Speaker 2: his own vehicle's camera. Jonesborough Police Chief Rick Elliott took
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  Speaker 2: swift action, firing Harris the day after reviewing the footage.
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  Speaker 2: The video came to light following a complaint from the
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  Speaker 2: Craighead County Sheriff's Office, prompting the department to publicly release
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  Speaker 2: the video and announce the officer's dismissal. The incident involves
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  Speaker 2: Billy Lee Korham, the inmating question, who is seen in
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  Speaker 2: the video wearing a hospital gown and dangerously wrapping a
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  Speaker 2: seatbelt around his neck. As the car pulls over. Harris
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  Speaker 2: exits the vehicle, opens the door and repeatedly strikes Korum
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  Speaker 2: in the face while attempting to unwind the belt. In
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  Speaker 2: a particularly disturbing moment, Harris has seen slamed the car
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  Speaker 2: door on Korum's head. Details on Korum's injuries remain unclear.
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  Speaker 2: Koram was being held at the Craighead County Jail on
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  Speaker 2: escape charges and had additional warrants from out of state.
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  Speaker 2: He had initially been taken to a local hospital after
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  Speaker 2: claiming to have ingested ventanyl and had subsequently attempted to
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  Speaker 2: escape before being apprehended by Harris. Chief Elliot has stated
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  Speaker 2: that the case will be referred to local prosecutors and
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  Speaker 2: the necessary paperwork will be submitted in the coming days. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: Elliott has contacted the FBI's Little Rock office and intends
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  Speaker 2: to request the state to decertify Harris as a police officer.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't the first time Harris's face scrutiny. He was
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  Speaker 2: suspended two years ago for excessive force and is currently
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  Speaker 2: named as a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit involving
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  Speaker 2: an inmate who died in the Craighead County jail earlier
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 3: This incident also adds to growing concerns over the use
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  Speaker 3: of force within the department there in Jonesborough, located about
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  Speaker 3: one hundred thirty miles northeast of Little Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Sean Suzanna Torres Salto nine gets a restraining order
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  Speaker 1: against his strained husband, Javier Chavez, and she's granted full
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  Speaker 1: custody of their three year old boy. She also has
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  Speaker 1: an older son from a previous relationship. The day before
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  Speaker 1: she has a court date to make that restraining order permanent, Chavez,
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  Speaker 1: a Bush's Susannah as she's leaving a grocery store, forcing
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  Speaker 1: her into the passenger seat of her car at gunpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Her two boys are waiting in the back seat. Chavez
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  Speaker 1: drops the boys off at his parents' house, then takes
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  Speaker 1: Susanna across the border to Mexico. Susanna Torres Salto, never
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  Speaker 1: seen again. Chavez last seeing driving Susanna's silver two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine Chevy and Palla Tag seven R red tee
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  Speaker 1: toy B brother two seven three. Susannah Hispanic five five,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. If
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  Speaker 1: you know or think you know anything about Susannah's disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: she's now missing three years, please called Stanislaus County, California
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  Speaker 1: Sheriffs two zero nine five two five seven one one seven.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice needs, go to crime
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  Speaker 1: podcast Crime Stories with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.