Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 12.15.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert.
- 0:01Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Note to all,
- 0:05Speaker 2: if you need to know the time, just buy a watch,
- 0:09Speaker 2: don't steal one. Christopher Lawrence caught shoplifting Adam Maryland pennies.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Instead of going quietly, the thirty seven year old barricades
- 0:17Speaker 2: himself in the fitting room, armed with a knife. A
- 0:20Speaker 2: swat team ultimately called in and deploys pepper balls in
- 0:25Speaker 2: the changing room.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Nancy. After Lawrence locked himself in a dressing room, police
- 0:29Speaker 3: evacuated the store before spending nearly four hours trying to
- 0:32Speaker 3: get Lawrence out. Lawrence threatened officers with a knife all
- 0:35Speaker 3: the while. Pepper balls are frangible projectiles that are typically
- 0:39Speaker 3: used in situations where a suspect poses a threat and
- 0:41Speaker 3: officers need to keep their distance. The projectiles are filled
- 0:44Speaker 3: with a powder with effects similar to pepper spray.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Lawrence taken into custody charged with first degree assault all
- 0:51Speaker 2: over a wristwatch. Betty knows what timon is now? Remember
- 0:55Speaker 2: the commercial bus driver who ate thc infused gummies and
- 0:59Speaker 2: passed out by the whill. There were thirty eight passengers
- 1:02Speaker 2: on board. Jinwan Chen fifty nine told a judge he
- 1:05Speaker 2: didn't know the gummies contained the active ingredient in marijuana.
- 1:09Speaker 2: He's now been assigned to a probation program. If he
- 1:12Speaker 2: successfully completes two years of probation, the thirty eight counts
- 1:17Speaker 2: of reckless endangerment will be erased. Hey, check your gummies
- 1:22Speaker 2: next time. More crime and justice news after this Now
- 1:28Speaker 2: with the latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines
- 1:31Speaker 2: John Lemley.
- 1:32Speaker 1: We began in Florida as a judge sentences a dentist
- 1:35Speaker 1: to life in prison for the murder of his former
- 1:37Speaker 1: brother in law following a contentious custody fight. We turned
- 1:41Speaker 1: to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Forty seven year old Charlie Edelson was found guilty last
- 1:47Speaker 3: month of first degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in the
- 1:50Speaker 3: twenty fourteen shooting death of Dan Markle in his car
- 1:53Speaker 3: outside his home in Tallahassee. According to prosecutors, Edelson pade
- 1:57Speaker 3: to have Markle slain. Jurors found him guilty under three hours.
- 2:01Speaker 3: During the eight day trial, prosecutors presented evidence of wiretaps
- 2:04Speaker 3: and conversations that were taped in secret and implicated Adelson.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Phil Markle, Dan Markle's father, stated that he and his
- 2:11Speaker 3: family had suffered tremendously, noting that in addition to losing
- 2:15Speaker 3: his son, he also lost contact with his grandsons, who
- 2:18Speaker 3: were three and four years old at the time of
- 2:20Speaker 3: their father's death. Following her divorce from Markle. Their mother,
- 2:23Speaker 3: Wendy Adelson, Charlie Adelson's sister, who has denied involvement in
- 2:27Speaker 3: is not facing charges, shared custody of the boys in
- 2:30Speaker 3: order to be nearer to her family. She wanted to
- 2:32Speaker 3: move from Tallahassee to South Florida, but a judge had
- 2:35Speaker 3: decided that she couldn't leave without Markle's approval. He declined,
- 2:39Speaker 3: citing his desire to keep the kids close to home.
- 2:42Speaker 3: The prosecution told jurors that Adelson used his girlfriend, Catherine
- 2:45Speaker 3: mcbonawa to hire the father of her two children, Sigfredo Garcia,
- 2:50Speaker 3: to perpetrate the murder. Reports say that Garcia enlisted the
- 2:53Speaker 3: assistance of a childhood buddy, Luis Rivera. Magbonawa and Garcia
- 2:57Speaker 3: are now serving life terms for first degree while Rivera
- 3:01Speaker 3: is receiving a nineteen year sentence after pleading guilty to
- 3:04Speaker 3: second degree murder in exchange for testifying against them. A
- 3:07Speaker 3: week after her son's conviction. In Tallahassee. The seventy three
- 3:10Speaker 3: year old matriarch of the Adolson family was unexpectedly taken
- 3:14Speaker 3: into custody at Miami International Airport on suspicion of planning
- 3:17Speaker 3: her ex son in law's hit man murder. Donna Adelson
- 3:21Speaker 3: had one way tickets to Vietnam and Dubai, two nations
- 3:24Speaker 3: with which the US does not have an extradition treaty.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Donna Adelson is still being held at the Leon County
- 3:29Speaker 1: Jail without bond. She's facing the same allegations as her son.
- 3:34Speaker 1: Prosecutors and Nebraska have charged a man with first degree
- 3:38Speaker 1: murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Catholic priest.
- 3:41Speaker 1: According to authorities, the priest was attacked during a break
- 3:44Speaker 1: in at the church rectory and cried out for help
- 3:47Speaker 1: just before he died of his injuries. Forty three year
- 3:50Speaker 1: old Carrie L. Williams was also charged by prosecutors with
- 3:54Speaker 1: two counts of firearms offenses and burglary in connection with
- 3:58Speaker 1: the crime that shook Fort Calhoun, a small town where
- 4:01Speaker 1: the Reverend Stephen Gutzchl was the minister at Saint John
- 4:05Speaker 1: the Baptist Catholic Church. Minutes after gutschool called to report
- 4:09Speaker 1: to break in. Just after five a m. Sunday, deputies
- 4:12Speaker 1: arrived at the residence. According to an affidavit filed with
- 4:15Speaker 1: the charges. However, the documents only said that the killing
- 4:19Speaker 1: was planned and carried out deliberately during a burglary, providing
- 4:23Speaker 1: no explanation for the attacks motive. No relationship between Williams
- 4:27Speaker 1: and the sixty five year old clergyman is mentioned in
- 4:30Speaker 1: the court papers. A woman who polisse Ay, injured one
- 4:34Speaker 1: person as she drove through a group of religious demonstrators
- 4:37Speaker 1: multiple times in Montana's largest city, allegedly told a clerk
- 4:42Speaker 1: at a nearby convenience store that she was outraged that
- 4:45Speaker 1: members of the group were expressing racist beliefs against white people.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Once again. Crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 4:52Speaker 3: The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Bronx based group
- 4:55Speaker 3: as quote an extreme and anti Semitic sect of black
- 4:58Speaker 3: Hebrew Israelites. Lieutenant Matt Lennox, a spokesman for the Billings Police,
- 5:03Speaker 3: told reporters that the woman drove out or passed the
- 5:05Speaker 3: group of people multiple times while they were standing on
- 5:08Speaker 3: a sidewalk, holding signs and speaking into an amplifier. Authority
- 5:12Speaker 3: say the forty five year old man struck in the
- 5:14Speaker 3: incident had only minor wounds. After being detained for several hours,
- 5:18Speaker 3: fifty five year old Gena vn Rncoret was charged with
- 5:21Speaker 3: eight felonies for assault with the weapon, the vehicle, felony,
- 5:24Speaker 3: criminal mischief, and driving while intoxicated.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Ren Corrett is also being held on a motion to
- 5:29Speaker 1: revoke a suspended or deferred sentence.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Thanks John. Melissa Lemouan dropped off by family at a
- 5:36Speaker 2: local Tampa park. The thirty nine year old there to
- 5:39Speaker 2: meet someone she's been talking with on Facebook. She's expected
- 5:42Speaker 2: home that evening, but she never makes it. Calls to
- 5:45Speaker 2: Melissa's phone that day go straight to voicemail, and since
- 5:49Speaker 2: for July disappearance, her phone doesn't ring at all. Melissa's
- 5:53Speaker 2: five to ten and has blonde hair and blue eyes.
- 5:56Speaker 2: If you have info on Melissa Lemoyan, please contact Hillsborough
- 6:01Speaker 2: Sheriffs eight one three two four seven eighty two hundred.
- 6:05Speaker 2: For the latest crime in justice news, go to crimeonline
- 6:08Speaker 2: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Niacy Grace