Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 08.17.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs Now. Kevin Lance,
- 0:04Speaker 1: a Kentucky elementary school teacher, but friends one of his
- 0:06Speaker 1: students outside class. Texting the nine year old boy on
- 0:09Speaker 1: a regular basis, Lance begins to pressure the boy into
- 0:13Speaker 1: sending nude photos and sends him example photos from adult pornography.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Nancy Lance worked as an English teacher in Lexington and
- 0:22Speaker 2: was put on leave after the allegations. After sending the
- 0:25Speaker 2: pornographic material, Lance instructed the boy to delete the photos
- 0:28Speaker 2: so his parents wouldn't see them. The Fayette County School
- 0:31Speaker 2: District has not publicly commented on the matter.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Lance forty nine, facing seventeen sex offenses, including distribution of
- 0:39Speaker 1: obscene matter to a minor. Two men break into a
- 0:42Speaker 1: home where a family of eight is sleeping. They knock
- 0:45Speaker 1: out the father, drag him to another room, and continue
- 0:48Speaker 1: the robbery. A few minutes later, dad wakes up, arms
- 0:51Speaker 1: himself with a sword and chases the man out of
- 0:54Speaker 1: the home, cutting off one of the men's fingers. Cops
- 0:57Speaker 1: fingerprint that lone finger and id the suspect as repeat
- 1:02Speaker 1: offender Terrence Stewart, but it takes cop seventeen years to
- 1:06Speaker 1: find him. Stuart now finally charged with aggravated assault and
- 1:10Speaker 1: attempted robbery. Was it worth it? Terence Stuart behind bars
- 1:15Speaker 1: and missing a finger? More crime and justice news after this.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime
- 1:24Speaker 1: on lized.
- 1:24Speaker 3: John Lunley, a southern California judge accused of killing his
- 1:28Speaker 3: wife during an argument while drunk, has pleaded not guilty
- 1:32Speaker 3: to murder. His lawyer claims it was an accidental shooting.
- 1:36Speaker 3: For more, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:39Speaker 2: As part of the new bail condition sought by prosecutors,
- 1:41Speaker 2: Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson was ordered to
- 1:45Speaker 2: surrender his passport, submit to searches, and wear monitoring devices
- 1:49Speaker 2: for blood alcohol content and GPS. Ferguson, who is free
- 1:52Speaker 2: on a million dollar bill, is also prohibited from owning
- 1:55Speaker 2: firearms or alcohol, as well as visiting bars or liquor stores,
- 2:00Speaker 2: since lawyers told reporters after the hearing that the longtime
- 2:02Speaker 2: judge and former prosecutor was certain a jury would agree
- 2:05Speaker 2: with him that no crime had been committed. The hearing
- 2:08Speaker 2: took place in Los Angeles because Ferguson has been a
- 2:11Speaker 2: judge hearing criminal cases in a courthouse about twenty five
- 2:14Speaker 2: miles to the southeast in Orange County. The seventy two
- 2:17Speaker 2: year old was arrested on August third at his home
- 2:19Speaker 2: in the posh Anaheim Hills neighborhood after police discovered his wife,
- 2:23Speaker 2: Cheryl Ferguson, shot to death. Prosecutors set in court records
- 2:26Speaker 2: that the pair was arguing and the judge was drinking
- 2:29Speaker 2: when he grabbed a pistol from an ankle holster and
- 2:31Speaker 2: shot her in the chest. According to the filings, the
- 2:34Speaker 2: couple's adult son and Ferguson contacted nine one one, and
- 2:38Speaker 2: Ferguson texted his court clerk and bailiff to say he
- 2:40Speaker 2: shot his wife.
- 2:41Speaker 3: Ferguson's next court appearance is scheduled for October thirtieth. Prosecutors
- 2:46Speaker 3: have obtained a second expert study of the pistol used
- 2:50Speaker 3: in Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the
- 2:53Speaker 3: set of a Western film in New Mexico as they
- 2:56Speaker 3: consider whether to recharge the actor. Baldwin c claims the
- 3:00Speaker 3: revolver unintentionally discharged when he followed instructions to aim at
- 3:05Speaker 3: at cinematographer Helena Hutchins, who was behind the camera during rehearsal.
- 3:09Speaker 3: It was on October twenty first, twenty twenty one, at
- 3:13Speaker 3: a movie ranch on the outskirts of Satafe that Baldwin
- 3:16Speaker 3: said he pulled back the hammer but not the trigger,
- 3:19Speaker 3: and the gun fired, mortally wounding Hutchins. In April, special
- 3:23Speaker 3: prosecutors dropped an involuntary manslaughter allegation against Baldwin, claiming they
- 3:28Speaker 3: were told the gun had been modified before the shooting
- 3:31Speaker 3: and had malfunctioned. They commissioned a new investigation of the gun,
- 3:35Speaker 3: as well as other guns and ammo recovered from the
- 3:37Speaker 3: set of the film Rust, which was relocated from New
- 3:41Speaker 3: Mexico to Montana. A former high ranking FBI counterintelligence official
- 3:46Speaker 3: has pleaded guilty to conspiring to breach Russian sanctions by
- 3:50Speaker 3: working with an oligarch he once investigated. After the official's
- 3:54Speaker 3: retirement once again crime online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:57Speaker 2: Fifty five year old Charles McGonagall told a federal judge
- 4:00Speaker 2: in New York City that he was deeply remorseful over
- 4:02Speaker 2: work he conducted in twenty twenty one for Russian entrepreneur
- 4:06Speaker 2: Oleg Darapaska. McGonagall told the judge that he accepted more
- 4:09Speaker 2: than seventeen thousand dollars to assist Darapasca in gathering damaging
- 4:13Speaker 2: information about another Russian oligarch who was a business adversary.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Deripaska has been sanctioned by the United States since twenty
- 4:21Speaker 2: eighteen for reasons linked to Russia's takeover of Crimea. According
- 4:25Speaker 2: to Assistant US Attorney Rebecca Dell, McGonagall was also trying
- 4:29Speaker 2: to help Deripaska get off the sanctions list and was
- 4:31Speaker 2: in negotiations with co conspirators to receive a fee of
- 4:34Speaker 2: six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to three million dollars
- 4:37Speaker 2: to hunt for electronic files revealing hidden assets worth five
- 4:41Speaker 2: hundred million dollars belonging to the oligarch's business rival. McGonagall
- 4:45Speaker 2: applied guilty to a single count of money laundering, conspiracy,
- 4:48Speaker 2: and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. He could
- 4:52Speaker 2: be sentenced to up to five years in prison.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Judge Jennifer Rearden set his sentencing date for December fourteenth.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Tracy band Bradley goes to work, leaving two daughters, ten
- 5:02Speaker 1: year old Tianda and three year old Diamond at their
- 5:04Speaker 1: Chicago apartment with strict destructions to say inside and not
- 5:08Speaker 1: answer the door. Bradley calls home three times to check
- 5:11Speaker 1: on the girls. No one picks up. When Bradley arrives
- 5:14Speaker 1: home eleven thirty, there's a note from Tianda that she
- 5:16Speaker 1: took Diamond to the store and playground. Bradley frantically searches
- 5:20Speaker 1: the neighborhood, no sign of the girls. Cops find a
- 5:23Speaker 1: voicemail from Tianda asking if she could let George inside.
- 5:28Speaker 1: George could have been Diamond's father or a neighbor who
- 5:31Speaker 1: regularly babysat. The Bradley family also believes Tianda was coached
- 5:36Speaker 1: into writing the note. Diamond's father, George, continually denies being
- 5:41Speaker 1: involved in the girl's disappearance, but purchased forty two gallon
- 5:45Speaker 1: trash bags and was seen burning something in a fifty
- 5:48Speaker 1: five gallon drum the day the girls disappear. Tianda and
- 5:52Speaker 1: Diamond Bradley now missing twenty two years. If you have
- 5:58Speaker 1: info on these little girls to Yonda and Diamond, please
- 6:02Speaker 1: contact the FBI three one two four two one six
- 6:06Speaker 1: seven hundred. For the latest crime injustice news, go to
- 6:09Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace