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Crime Alert 11.27.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Prouty breaks into a woman's home in Florida, robs her,
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  Speaker 1: and steals her car. While running from cops, he crashes,
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  Speaker 1: gets out, and hoofs it on foot to a Starbucks
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. He then tries door handles on cars in
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  Speaker 1: the drive through. Finding one of them on loot, he
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  Speaker 1: pulls the woman out of the driver's seat. Shane Spicer,
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  Speaker 1: an army vet in line with his wife and daughter,
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  Speaker 1: gets out of his car and tackles Prouty to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: holding him till police arrive.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, the woman Proudy attacked in the drive through, was
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  Speaker 2: six months pregnant, but thankfully did not sustain any major injuries.
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  Speaker 2: She was extremely grateful Spicer was able to stop Proudy
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  Speaker 2: before he took off with her car. Spicer told media
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  Speaker 2: outlets quote, I feel like if you got the ability
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  Speaker 2: to watch out for someone, you should, I would just
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  Speaker 2: hope that someone would do the same for my family.
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  Speaker 1: Spicer no doubt a hero. Michael Proudy, facing a long
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  Speaker 1: list of charges, including a tempted carjack and fleeing the
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  Speaker 1: scene of a crime. Now that's a hero. Shane Spicer,
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  Speaker 1: Army VET. Connecticut cops tipped off to people selling drugs
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  Speaker 1: out of a home, but they have no idea they're
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  Speaker 1: walking into a multi million dollar psychedelic mushroom growing operation.
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  Speaker 1: They speak with Weston Sewell, who shows them a detached
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  Speaker 1: garage on rural property housing the growth operation. Sewell denies
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  Speaker 1: the mushrooms are illegal, declines to let cops search the home.
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  Speaker 1: They come back with a warrant and find dozens of
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  Speaker 1: dog food sized bags full of psilocybin mushrooms, a Schedule
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  Speaker 1: one drug street value about eight point five million dollars. Sewell,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, now charged with operating a drug factory. Man
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  Speaker 1: that was a bad trip. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: after this. Now with the latest criming justice break making
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  Speaker 1: Knees prime on lines John Lemley.
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  Speaker 3: Four high school students have been formally charged as adults
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  Speaker 3: with murder by Las Vegas prosecutors in connection with the
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  Speaker 3: fatal beating of a classmate. Here's Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The two sixteen year olds and the two seventeen year
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  Speaker 2: olds are accused of plotting to commit assault and second
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  Speaker 2: degree murder. The fight was caught on cell phone video.
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  Speaker 2: And has been extensively circulated on social media. Following the hearing,
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  Speaker 2: District Attorney Steve Wolfson stated that the evidence indicated the
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  Speaker 2: teen's beating was not a premeditated act, which is why
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  Speaker 2: his office had decided not to prosecute the teenagers with
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  Speaker 2: first degree murder. The four teenagers will remain behind bars
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  Speaker 2: without being allowed to postpond However, a court did grant
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors and defense attorneys joint plea to move the teens
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  Speaker 2: from county jail to the Juvenile Detention Center, citing their safety.
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  Speaker 2: As of this moment, at least eight teenagers ranging in
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  Speaker 2: age from thirteen to seventeen, have been taken into custody
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  Speaker 2: in connection to the brawl on November first that resulted
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  Speaker 2: in the death of seventeen year old Jonathan Lewis Junior.
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  Speaker 2: Since the remaining students are under the age of sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: they are all awaiting separate hearings. Wilson announced to the
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  Speaker 2: media outside the courthouse that there had been an additional
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  Speaker 2: student arrested. Police in Las Vegas have stated that they
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  Speaker 2: are trying to identify and track down all ten students
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  Speaker 2: they believe were involved in the meeting.
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  Speaker 3: Due to the fact that all the suspects are minors.
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online is not releasing their names. Attorneys for the
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  Speaker 3: first prisoners slated to die by nitrogen gas are claiming
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  Speaker 3: in court documents that Alabama wants to use their client
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  Speaker 3: as a test case for an experimental type of execution.
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  Speaker 3: They requested a federal judge to stay the execution scheduled
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  Speaker 3: for January. Attorneys for fifty eight year old Kenneth Eugene
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  Speaker 3: Smith filed an additional lawsuit arguing that the new execution
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  Speaker 3: technique would violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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  Speaker 3: In order to prevent the execution from taking place early
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  Speaker 3: next year, they have requested a federal judge grant a
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  Speaker 3: preliminary injunction. Earlier this month, Alabama Governor k Iby scheduled
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  Speaker 3: Smith's execution for January twenty fifth, using nitrogen hypoxia technique
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  Speaker 3: that has never been used to execute a prisoner, but
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  Speaker 3: is permitted in Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. In a complaint
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  Speaker 3: filed in recent days, a nineteen eighties stand in actress
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  Speaker 3: for the TV program The Cosby Show is claiming that
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  Speaker 3: Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her after agreeing to
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  Speaker 3: help guide her in her entertainment career, once again, Crime
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  Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: The case is the most recent in a series brought
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  Speaker 2: against Cosby under the Expired Adult Survivors Act of New York,
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  Speaker 2: which allowed victims of sexual abuse to file claims for
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  Speaker 2: up to a year after they would have otherwise been
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  Speaker 2: barred by time constraints, Thanksgiving mark the end of that window.
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  Speaker 2: The unnamed woman said that shortly after they first met
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  Speaker 2: while working on Cosby's show, he began giving her acting
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  Speaker 2: and style advice in his dressing room, according to the lawsuit.
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  Speaker 2: She added that she accepted his invitation to his house
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  Speaker 2: in part because of Cosby's wholesome image as America's Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Once she arrived at Cosby's residence, she claims that, after
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  Speaker 2: consuming wine that appeared to be tainted with an intoxicant,
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  Speaker 2: she blacked out during acting exercise. The claim, filed in
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  Speaker 2: State Supreme Court in New York, states that the woman
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  Speaker 2: woke up quote partially undressed and vomiting into a toilet.
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  Speaker 2: A representative for the eighty six year old Cosby declined
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  Speaker 2: to comment on the details of the case, but recommended
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  Speaker 2: that so called look back windows be closed in New
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  Speaker 2: York and other cities since they are being exploited to
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  Speaker 2: target wealthy celebrities.
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  Speaker 3: The complaint accuses NBC Universal, Kaufmann, Astoria Studios, and the
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  Speaker 3: carc Werner Company of negligence related to Cosby's purported actions.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks John. Candace Caffus, thirty four, has praeter Will syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: It's a genetic disorder affecting her appetite, growth, and cognitive function.
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  Speaker 1: She has the mind of a ten to twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old child. Candace occasionally is allowed more freedom by her parents,
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  Speaker 1: but when they find her missing from their Pennsylvania home
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, they know something is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Candace climbed out of a bathroom window between ten pm
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  Speaker 1: and three a m. She had thirteen dollars with her
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  Speaker 1: when she disappeared. Her id left behind. Multiple people report
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  Speaker 1: seeing her walking on railroad tracks that morning, heading toward
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  Speaker 1: Kennaught Lake, but extensive searches of the area turn up nothing.
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  Speaker 1: There's a nearly thirteen thousand dollars reward for information leading
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  Speaker 1: to Candice Coffas, now missing over a year. If you
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  Speaker 1: have info, call Pennsylvania Police eight one four three, three, two,
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  Speaker 1: six nine one one. For the latest crime in justice news,
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  Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com with this crime alert.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace