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Diddy's New Release Date | Crime Alert Hourly Update Saturday 04.04.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime News Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole parton Sean Diddy. Combe's prison term has been
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  Speaker 2: reduced by ten days. According to updates from the Federal
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  Speaker 2: Bureau of Prisons. His new expected release date is now
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  Speaker 2: April fifteen, twenty twenty eight, a change from the prior
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  Speaker 2: date of April twenty five, twenty eight and the earlier
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  Speaker 2: date of June four. This adjustment follows a previous modification
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  Speaker 2: that cut more than a month off of his original sentence.
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  Speaker 2: The time frame regarding his release has seen several changes
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  Speaker 2: in the last few months. Initially in December, it was
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  Speaker 2: postponed from May to June twenty eight, but then moved
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  Speaker 2: back to April in early March. Comb's fifty six, is
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  Speaker 2: currently serving a fifty month sentence after being found guilty
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  Speaker 2: last summer on two counts related to transportation for prostitution
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  Speaker 2: during a high profile federal trial in New York. He
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  Speaker 2: was acquitted of more severe charges, including sex trafficking and
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  Speaker 2: racketeering conspiracy, which could have led to a life sentence.
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  Speaker 2: Prior to his sentencing, Combs had already spent nearly a
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  Speaker 2: year at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center after being denied bail.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors pursued a sentence of over ten years, while his
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  Speaker 2: defense team advocated for a maximum of fourteen months, citing
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  Speaker 2: a partial vindication from the jury. Combs is now held
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  Speaker 2: at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey. That's a federal
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  Speaker 2: facility on a military base about forty miles from Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: His attorneys requested this placement due to its access to
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  Speaker 2: drug rehabilitation programs and its proximity to his family. In
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  Speaker 2: a court following in October, his attorney stated, to address
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  Speaker 2: drug abuse issues and maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts,
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  Speaker 2: we request that the courts strongly recommend mister Combs be
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  Speaker 2: placed at FCI Fort Dix. He has since entered a
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  Speaker 2: drug rehabilitation program, which may help shorten his sentence through
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  Speaker 2: good behavior credits. Comb's legal struggles are far from over.
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  Speaker 2: Last December, his legal team filed an appeal against his
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  Speaker 2: conviction and his sentence, contending that the sexual encounters in
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  Speaker 2: question were all consensual and that a trial judge imposed
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  Speaker 2: an excessively harsh sentence. On February twenty, federal prosecutors urged
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  Speaker 2: an appellate court to affirm both the conviction and the sentence,
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  Speaker 2: arguing in documents that Combs was a repeat offender who
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  Speaker 2: employed violence and intimidation to commit his crimes. Colmbs was
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  Speaker 2: convicted under the Man Act. That's a federal law that
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  Speaker 2: prohibits the interstate transportation of individuals for prostitution. During the
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  Speaker 2: eight week trial, testimonies from Cassie Ventira, a former girlfriend
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  Speaker 2: of Combs, and another woman said that he orchestrated drug
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  Speaker 2: influence sexual encounters referred to as freak offs with hired
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  Speaker 2: male escorts. Prosecutors claimed that Combs arranged travel for these individuals,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes across state lines or even internationally, using cohersive tactics
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  Speaker 2: in his relationship. In their appeal to the US Court
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  Speaker 2: of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, prosecutors argued
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  Speaker 2: that the judge duly considered the treatment of the women
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  Speaker 2: when determining Combe's sentence. They stated, according to Combs, the
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  Speaker 2: district court should have ignored how he executed his Man
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  Speaker 2: Act offenses and mistreated his victims, violently assaulting them, threatening them,
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  Speaker 2: deceiving them, and providing them with drugs. Combs's legal representatives
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  Speaker 2: countered that the sexual activities were all consensual. In their
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  Speaker 2: appeal filed on March thirteen, Comb's lawyers characterized his extensive
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  Speaker 2: prison time as a quote perversion of justice, advocating for
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  Speaker 2: immediate release and a judgment of acquittal. In their appeal
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  Speaker 2: filed on March thirteen, Comb's lawyers characterized his prison sentence
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  Speaker 2: as a perversion of justice at vocating for his immediate release,
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  Speaker 2: a judgment of acquittal or at least to remand his resentencing.
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  Speaker 2: Oral arguments for that appeal are set for April nine.
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  Speaker 2: More crime injustice news.
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  Speaker 3: After this, a Tennessee teen says her teacher showed her
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  Speaker 3: nude photos on his phone, and the case is now
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  Speaker 3: under investigation as the school district claims it was an
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  Speaker 3: accident in Montgomery County, Seventeen year old Mackenzie Ellethorpe says
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  Speaker 3: the incident happened on March ninth inside a classroom at
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  Speaker 3: Montgomery Central High School. She says she was speaking with
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  Speaker 3: her teacher, Matthew Vetter, when he began showing her images.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Mackenzie on WTVF.
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  Speaker 4: He showed me a picture and it was like a
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  Speaker 4: project that he was working on, and then he swiped over.
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  Speaker 3: And it was full noon. Mackenzie says the images did
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  Speaker 3: not stop there. She described seeing several photos as he
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  Speaker 3: continued to swipe. She says she left and immediately called
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  Speaker 3: her mom.
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  Speaker 4: I just called her and told her everything. I don't
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  Speaker 4: really know what to think because I was like, Mom, like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand what I did or why he's doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Her parents contacted the sheriff's office. An investigation is now
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  Speaker 3: under way involving the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Children's Services, and the district's attorney's office. Mackenzie says
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  Speaker 3: she does not believe the incident was accidental. She says
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  Speaker 3: the teacher could have reacted differently in the moment, but
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  Speaker 3: did not. She says the moment changed how she viewed
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  Speaker 3: someone she once trusted, just because like.
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  Speaker 4: I looked up to him because he's my teacher, and
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  Speaker 4: so I'm like, why why me?
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  Speaker 3: The school district tells investigators a different version. Officials say
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  Speaker 3: the inappropriate image was quote accidentally briefly displayed while the
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  Speaker 3: teacher was showing an appropriate photo to a student. They
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  Speaker 3: say he was immediately removed from campus and reassigned to
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  Speaker 3: an alternative work site. While the investigation continues. The teacher
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  Speaker 3: just so happens to be married to the district superintendent,
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  Speaker 3: who has stepped away from the case herself. The district
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  Speaker 3: says there are no prior complaints or disciplinary actions in
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  Speaker 3: his personnel file and he has been employed since August
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  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty. Mackenzie's mother, Ashley, describes what her daughter
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  Speaker 3: told her and how it affected her and.
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  Speaker 4: To purposely show her holding something out and showing her
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  Speaker 4: that's disgusting and it scared her.
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  Speaker 3: The family says they have received little communication from the
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  Speaker 3: district since reporting the incident. They say they feel left
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  Speaker 3: in the dark as the investigation moves forward. Meanwhile, officials
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  Speaker 3: confirm the findings will be turned over to prosecutors once
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  Speaker 3: the investigation is complete. The district says it will not
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  Speaker 3: begin its own internal review until those outside investigations are finished.
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  Speaker 3: Mackenzie says she no longer feels safe at school. She
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  Speaker 3: says she is speaking out so other students know they
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  Speaker 3: are not alone and can come forward if something happens
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  Speaker 3: to them.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Sidney Sumner, a North Carolina repeat of thunder arrest
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  Speaker 5: sit in Florida for allegedly stabbing a pregnant mom with
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  Speaker 5: a steak knife in what police are calling a random attack.
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  Speaker 5: The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department announced the arrest of Marvina
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  Speaker 5: Butler Hardy, accused of stabbing a pregnant woman in the
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  Speaker 5: parking lot of the Harris Teeter grocery store in Cottswold
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  Speaker 5: on March eighteenth. Wet honto, We're at the Sharon Amity
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  Speaker 5: Meyers Theater. It's always a stabbed by someone that got
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  Speaker 5: the car and stabbed him, and you're pregnantt A bystander
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  Speaker 5: called nine one one after witnessing the attack, with officers
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  Speaker 5: responding to a stabbing report. The pregnant woman sustained non
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  Speaker 5: life threatening injuries and is expected to make a full recovery.
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  Speaker 5: According to law enforcement, Butler Hardy had no connection to
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  Speaker 5: the victim this time.
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  Speaker 2: It appears that the victim and the suspect did not
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  Speaker 2: know each other and had no prior interaction.
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  Speaker 5: Officers alleged Butler approached the female victim outside the grocery
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  Speaker 5: store at approximately eleven thirty am. The thirty eight year
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  Speaker 5: old mother says she was getting her toddler out of
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  Speaker 5: their car seat when Butler Hardy who pulled out of
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  Speaker 5: the space behind her, stopped her car, got out, cursed,
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  Speaker 5: and attacked her with a knife. Quote. I was facing
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  Speaker 5: my toddler getting him out of his seat, and thankfully
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  Speaker 5: turned around and she was coming at me with a
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  Speaker 5: steak knife. I pushed and kicked and screamed, and thankfully
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  Speaker 5: I think that scared her off. The victim suffered a
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  Speaker 5: stab wound to her sternum, but she and her unborn
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  Speaker 5: child are okay. Following the seemingly random attack, CMPD released
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  Speaker 5: surveillance video of the suspect, later identified as Butler and
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  Speaker 5: a b on the lookout for her vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: One of the windows is taped up and it's also
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  Speaker 2: missing a hubcat.
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  Speaker 5: On Monday, a Florida State Highway Patrol trooper spotted a
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  Speaker 5: silver Hyundai matching cmpd's description traveling south on I ninety five.
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  Speaker 5: The trooper pulled Butler Hardy over and she gave him
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  Speaker 5: an ID card instead of a license. When asked why,
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  Speaker 5: she reportedly said her license was suspended. The trooper checked
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  Speaker 5: with another who confirmed Butler Hardy was the suspect in
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  Speaker 5: the cots while stabbing. She was promptly arrested on charges
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  Speaker 5: of assault with a deadly weapon and battery on an
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  Speaker 5: unborn child. She's now behind bars at the Flagler County
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  Speaker 5: Jail awaiting extradition to Mecklenburg County. Records show Butler Hardy
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  Speaker 5: has a lengthy rap sheet of nine prior convictions, six
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  Speaker 5: felonies and three misdemeanors tied to theft related offenses, along
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  Speaker 5: with more recent convictions for firearm possession and misconduct in custody.
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  Speaker 5: Butler Hardy last regained freedom in April of last year
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  Speaker 5: and completed probation requirements earlier this year. The victim telling
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  Speaker 5: WSOCTV she is shocked Butler Hardy is free to roam
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  Speaker 5: the streets, but grateful she is behind bars once again.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm hoping this charge is enough to keep her
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  Speaker 1: behind bars, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: The amount of mugshots do you.
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  Speaker 3: See of this woman, you wouldn't think that she would
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  Speaker 3: be on the streets.
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  Speaker 6: But the major break in a decade's old homicide case
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  Speaker 6: in southern California, where investigators say new evidence has led
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  Speaker 6: to an arrest after more than twenty years, and they're
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  Speaker 6: now urging anyone with information to come forward as they
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  Speaker 6: continue working to burn closure The case centers on Airnon Marques,
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  Speaker 6: a twenty seven year old man who was found fatally
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  Speaker 6: shot in August of two thousand and two. Authorities say
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  Speaker 6: deputies responded to what initially appeared to be a crash
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  Speaker 6: in Lakita, but when they arrived, they found Marques inside
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  Speaker 6: his vehicles suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced
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  Speaker 6: dead at the scene. Detectives later determined Marquees had been
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  Speaker 6: to a house party shortly before the shooting. Investigators believe
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  Speaker 6: an altercation broke out and that Marquees was shot as
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  Speaker 6: he was leaving. Despite his injuries, he managed to drive away,
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  Speaker 6: but lost control of the car and crashed into parked vehicles.
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  Speaker 6: For years, the case went unsolved. Now, after a renewed
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  Speaker 6: investigation and advances in forensic technology, authorities say they have
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  Speaker 6: identified a suspect. Alex Anthony Uribe, now forty six years old,
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  Speaker 6: has been arrested in connection with the killing, and investigators
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  Speaker 6: believe he may be the sole suspect. Officials say the
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  Speaker 6: case remains active and they are continuing to follow up
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  Speaker 6: on additional leads. For Marquez's family, the development represents a
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  Speaker 6: long awaited step toward answers In a case that has
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  Speaker 6: remained unresolved for more than two decades, five defendants have
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  Speaker 6: now been sentenced in connection with the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 6: shooting at a sweet sixteen birthday party in Dadeville. The
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  Speaker 6: attack left four people dead and more than thirty others injured.
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  Speaker 6: Investigators say multiple gunman open fire during the celebration, which
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  Speaker 6: was being held at a dance studio. The victims ranged
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  Speaker 6: in age from seventeen to twenty three, including high school
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  Speaker 6: seniors and young adults. Under plea agreements, the five defendants
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  Speaker 6: receive senateances of five years in prison, followed by probation.
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  Speaker 6: The outcome has drawn criticism from some victims' families, who
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  Speaker 6: say the sentences do not reflect the scale of the
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  Speaker 6: violence or the laws suffered that night. Prosecutors have defended
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  Speaker 6: the agreements, citing the complexity of the case and challenges
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  Speaker 6: in determining how the gunfire began. In New York, death
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  Speaker 6: inside a correctional facility is now the focus of a
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  Speaker 6: criminal case, with officials saying the investigation remains ongoing and
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  Speaker 6: additional details may be released as court proceedings continue. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 6: have filed manslaughter charges in connection with the death of
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  Speaker 6: inmate Jonah Levy. Authorities say Levy died while in custody,
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  Speaker 6: and investigators allege his death was not simply accidental, but
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  Speaker 6: the result of actions that rose to a criminal level.
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  Speaker 6: While officials have not released all details publicly, the charges
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  Speaker 6: suggest prosecutors believe there was a significant failure in the
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  Speaker 6: duty of care owed to Levy while he was behind bars.
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  Speaker 6: The cases now moving forward in the legal system and
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  Speaker 6: could bring increased scrutiny to conditions and oversight within the facility.
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  Speaker 6: And finally, this hour, concern is growing over an American
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  Speaker 6: journalist kidnapped overseas, where her whereabouts remain unknown as officials
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  Speaker 6: continue at international effort to secure her safe return. Shelley Kittleson,
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  Speaker 6: a forty nine year old freelance reporter, was abducted in
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  Speaker 6: Baghdad earlier this week. Iraqi officials say she was taken
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  Speaker 6: by armed men at a busy intersection and forced into
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  Speaker 6: a vehicle. Security forces quickly launched a search. Authorities say
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  Speaker 6: one suspect has been arrested after a vehicle believed to
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  Speaker 6: be connected to the kidnapping crash during a pursuit. However,
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  Speaker 6: Kittlsen was not inside, and other suspects remain at large.
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  Speaker 6: US officials say Kittlesen had previously been warned about potential threats,
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  Speaker 6: including risks linked to Iran backed militia groups operating in
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  Speaker 6: the region. She's an experienced journalist who has spent years
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  Speaker 6: reporting from Iraq and Syria, often working independently in high
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  Speaker 6: risk environments.
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  Speaker 1: and solve unsolt homicides. With this crime alert, I'm Nansi
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