Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 12.28.22
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, imancy, grace breaking crimes. Now, a twelve year
- 0:04Speaker 1: old main boy emails a suicide helpline detailing his plans
- 0:08Speaker 1: to shoot several people at school, teachers, students. The suicide
- 0:12Speaker 1: helpline reports the anonymous email to cops who traced the
- 0:15Speaker 1: IP address from where it was sent back to the school.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Maine State cops tie it back to the boy, who
- 0:23Speaker 1: arrest him at his home. Nancy. The boy, as student
- 0:26Speaker 1: at Surrey Elementary School, emailed a Washington State based helpline
- 0:31Speaker 1: while in class. The school was made aware of the
- 0:34Speaker 1: threat that same day, after students had been dismissed. It
- 0:38Speaker 1: was confirmed that there was no further credible threat, but
- 0:42Speaker 1: the schools still decided to increase security at the bus
- 0:46Speaker 1: drop off area. The next morning. The boy expelled from school,
- 0:50Speaker 1: now facing charges of terroristic threats. Leon Sykes Junior makes
- 0:55Speaker 1: a delivery to a Virginia nursing home, dropping off a
- 0:58Speaker 1: mattress cover for a hospital is patient. After the drop off,
- 1:02Speaker 1: Sykes enters a ninety two year old memory care patient's
- 1:06Speaker 1: room and sex assaults her. The woman wakes up in screams.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Sykes runs Chesterfield SVU believe Pykes targeted a patient in
- 1:17Speaker 1: memory care because they are less likely to be able
- 1:20Speaker 1: to speak about what happened to them and therefore vulnerable.
- 1:24Speaker 1: There isn't any evidence suggesting Pykes assaulted other patients, but
- 1:29Speaker 1: the SVU is still concerned by his brazenness. Sykes, forty eight,
- 1:34Speaker 1: charged with aggravated sex battery, a decent exposure and unlawful entry.
- 1:40Speaker 1: May he rot in Helle More crime and justice news
- 1:43Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime in justice breaking
- 1:49Speaker 1: Knees crime Alines. John Limley, a New Hampshire man, has
- 1:53Speaker 1: been convicted of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange business and
- 1:58Speaker 1: laundering over ten million dollars in proceeds of romance scams
- 2:03Speaker 1: and other Internet frauds. Following a two week federal trial.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Prosecutors say Ian Freeman created a business that catered to
- 2:11Speaker 1: fraudsters by failing to register his business with the Financial
- 2:15Speaker 1: Crime's Enforcement Network as required by law, disabling know your
- 2:21Speaker 1: Customer features on bitcoin kiosks, and ensuring bitcoin customers didn't
- 2:26Speaker 1: tell him what they did with their bitcoin. Freeman's lawyers
- 2:30Speaker 1: says Freeman actually warned people of scams and he helped
- 2:34Speaker 1: businesses in the community. Forty two year old Freeman, a
- 2:37Speaker 1: libertarian activist and radio show host, was released pending his
- 2:42Speaker 1: April fourteenth sentence and appeal. Multiple incendiary devices were found
- 2:48Speaker 1: at a Colorado Jehovah's Witnesses Hall as authorities were investigating
- 2:53Speaker 1: a fire and apparent murder suicide Christmas Day. Sydney Sumner
- 2:58Speaker 1: with Crime Online please say the incident unfolded at a
- 3:01Speaker 1: church in suburban Denver, where a man shot and killed
- 3:04Speaker 1: his wife before fatally shooting himself. Around nine am Sunday,
- 3:08Speaker 1: police and Thornton, Colorado, received to call about a fire
- 3:11Speaker 1: at the hall. It was later reported that a married
- 3:13Speaker 1: couple had been shot and killed there. Later that afternoon,
- 3:17Speaker 1: police found three incendiary devices at the hall and rendered
- 3:20Speaker 1: them safe. Earlier Sunday, the Adams County Sheriff's Office Hazardous
- 3:24Speaker 1: Materials Unit had been investigating what officials called suspicious devices.
- 3:29Speaker 1: The couple were former members of the Kingdom Hall Congregation.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Their identities have not yet been released, nor has a
- 3:37Speaker 1: motive in the shooting. The city of Thornton is located
- 3:40Speaker 1: about eleven miles north of Denver. One person was killed
- 3:44Speaker 1: another injured in a crash during a police pursuit involving
- 3:48Speaker 1: a vehicle linked to an armed robbery Tuesday in North Carolina.
- 3:53Speaker 1: A license played reader alerted Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officers to
- 3:57Speaker 1: the vehicle, and officers tried to stop bit The driver
- 4:01Speaker 1: refused to pull over, and officers pursued the vehicle since
- 4:05Speaker 1: it was associated with a crime dangerous to life. Police
- 4:08Speaker 1: say the pursuit lasted ten to twelve minutes before the
- 4:12Speaker 1: vehicle struck a deflation device police put down and continued
- 4:16Speaker 1: for a time until it crashed into a tree. The
- 4:19Speaker 1: driver died at the scene, and the passenger, who was
- 4:22Speaker 1: not seriously hurt, was taken to a hospital for treatment.
- 4:26Speaker 1: The department's Major Crash Unit is investigating the crash, the
- 4:30Speaker 1: Armed Robbery Unit investigating the crime that led to the pursuit,
- 4:35Speaker 1: and Internal Affairs is investigating to make sure officers followed policy.
- 4:41Speaker 1: A judge has postponed a court hearing this week for
- 4:44Speaker 1: a former Georgia prosecutor charged with meddling in the police
- 4:47Speaker 1: investigation of the twenty twenty killing of amaud Arbury Crime
- 4:52Speaker 1: on Line's Sydney Sumner. Superior Court Judge John R. Turner
- 4:57Speaker 1: ordered former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District attorney Jackie Johnson's court appearance,
- 5:01Speaker 1: initially scheduled for Thursday, be pushed back. The judge has
- 5:05Speaker 1: not set a new date. The indictment against Johnson accuses
- 5:08Speaker 1: her office of shielding Greg and Travis McMichael from prosecution.
- 5:13Speaker 1: White men in pickup trucks chase the young black man
- 5:16Speaker 1: February twenty third, twenty twenty after spotting him running in
- 5:20Speaker 1: their neighborhood outside Coastal Brunswick. The chase ended with Arbury
- 5:25Speaker 1: being shot dead in the street. John Lee, a quote
- 5:29Speaker 1: psychick and love specialist, encourages a wealthy client to send
- 5:33Speaker 1: in jewelry belonging to her and her loved for quote
- 5:37Speaker 1: spiritual cleansing, promising he'd return it. Well, of course he doesn't.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Lee makes off with one point six billion dollars in jewels.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Lee finally caught in Jersey, charged with wire and mail fraud.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Not all the jewelry has been recovered. For the latest
- 5:55Speaker 1: crime and justice needs go to crime online dot com
- 5:57Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace