Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 02.14.25 | Woman Who Shot BF on Stranger's Suggestion Convicted
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grays Breaking crime News Now. Ashley
- 0:04Speaker 1: White riding the bus home, texting with her boyfriend Cody
- 0:07Speaker 1: Delsa about her job interview. When Cody tells her not
- 0:10Speaker 1: to get her hopes up because she probably won't get
- 0:13Speaker 1: the job anyway. Upset, Ashley starts talking about the situation
- 0:18Speaker 1: with a stranger sitting next to her, Michael Stratton. Stratton
- 0:22Speaker 1: tells White that Cody Delisa, the boyfriend, treats her poorly,
- 0:27Speaker 1: so they should kill him. The two practice shooting Stratton's gun,
- 0:31Speaker 1: then returned to Cody's house. When Cody de Lisa answers
- 0:34Speaker 1: the door, Ashley White shoots him in the head twice
- 0:39Speaker 1: and steals his wallet.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Nancy. In the months before the murder, White and Delisa's
- 0:44Speaker 2: relationship became streamed over White's inability to hold down a
- 0:48Speaker 2: job Polisa. Before attacking Delisa, White tried to drown and
- 0:52Speaker 2: burn Delsa's cat. Stratton reportedly introduced himself to White as Scott.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Three years after the murder, Stratton's girlfriend calls police, claiming
- 1:02Speaker 2: Stratton admitted to her that he was involved in Delisa's death.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Ashley White, twenty nine found guilty of murder, conspiracy and robbery.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Michael Stratton implicated in a second murder but found incompetent
- 1:16Speaker 1: to stand trial. Florida cops save more than just a
- 1:19Speaker 1: purse when they foil this robbery. They tracked down a
- 1:22Speaker 1: woman's missing purse using Find My iPhone and locate the
- 1:25Speaker 1: bag and a car registered to Benjamin Cummings. The victim, however,
- 1:31Speaker 1: is more concerned about her one month old kitten she
- 1:35Speaker 1: was taking to the vet when the thief swiped her belongings.
- 1:38Speaker 1: The kitty cat missing from the bag, but after a
- 1:41Speaker 1: few minutes, the black and white kitty crawls out from
- 1:44Speaker 1: under the car, mewing for help. The woman now safely
- 1:49Speaker 1: reunited with kittycat and Benjamin Cummings, thirty four, charged with robbery.
- 1:55Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the
- 2:00Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Onlines John Lemley.
- 2:04Speaker 3: The New York City Police Department has issued an apology
- 2:08Speaker 3: after wrongfully accusing a Brooklyn teen of a fatal shooting
- 2:11Speaker 3: during last year's West Indian American Day Parade. Sidney Sumner
- 2:15Speaker 3: of Crime Online brings US details.
- 2:18Speaker 2: The NYPD has publicly apologized for mistakenly identifying Camden Lee,
- 2:22Speaker 2: a fifteen year old from Brooklyn, as the suspect and
- 2:25Speaker 2: a deadly shooting at the West Indian American Day Parade.
- 2:28Speaker 2: In September twenty twenty four, the department acknowledged that a
- 2:31Speaker 2: social media post Misrepresentedly as wanted for the fatal shooting,
- 2:36Speaker 2: a claim they failed to correct for nearly five months.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Delany Kepner, the NYPD's chief spokesperson, stated that quote, the
- 2:44Speaker 2: NYPD should have immediately corrected this misstatement. We apologize for
- 2:48Speaker 2: the error and will continue to seek justice for the
- 2:51Speaker 2: victims of this shooting. The incident in question occurred during
- 2:54Speaker 2: the annual Labor Day parade, where gunfire resulted in the
- 2:57Speaker 2: death of twenty five year old Denzel Chan and nx
- 3:00Speaker 2: injuries to four others. Lee, who had attended the event
- 3:03Speaker 2: after football practice, was present during the shooting. Weeks later,
- 3:07Speaker 2: the NYPD circulated his photograph on social media labeling him
- 3:11Speaker 2: as the suspect. Lee, who had attended the event after
- 3:14Speaker 2: football practice, was present during the shooting. Weeks later, the
- 3:18Speaker 2: NYPD circulated his photograph on social media labeling him as
- 3:22Speaker 2: a suspect, despite privately informing Lee in his family that
- 3:25Speaker 2: he was not a suspect. The NYPD did not publicly
- 3:29Speaker 2: retract the accusation until recently. This delay subjected Lee to
- 3:33Speaker 2: numerous death threats and forced his family into hiding. Wylee's declo.
- 3:37Speaker 2: The family's attorney criticized the department, saying, quote, even in
- 3:41Speaker 2: their apology, they're painting him with a brush of culpability
- 3:44Speaker 2: to cover their mistake. This apology marks a rare admission
- 3:47Speaker 2: of fault by the NYPD and comes as new police
- 3:50Speaker 2: Commissioner Jessica Tish aims to restore public trust in the department.
- 3:55Speaker 3: The son in law of the notorious Mexican drug lord
- 3:58Speaker 3: has pleaded guilty to using violinces and threats to control
- 4:01Speaker 3: the transnational used car market at the US Mexico border.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Carlos Favian Martinez, married to the daughter of former Gulf
- 4:09Speaker 3: cartel leader Ocel Cardenus Gien, admitted in federal court to
- 4:13Speaker 3: charges including price fixing, extortion, and money laundering. Prosecutors say
- 4:18Speaker 3: his eleven year scheme monopolized customs forwarding services in Los Indios, Texas,
- 4:24Speaker 3: using kidnappings and killings to eliminate competition. Martinez's cartel tie
- 4:29Speaker 3: surfaced in court, linking him to criminal networks in Matamoros
- 4:33Speaker 3: and Renosa. He has now agreed to an eleven year
- 4:36Speaker 3: prison sentence. Meanwhile, Cardenius Gien, recently deported after serving time
- 4:41Speaker 3: in the US, now faces charges in Mexico.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Thanks John. Twenty five year old Kevin Degen spends an
- 4:48Speaker 1: evening out on the town Fort Wayne, Indiana. He goes
- 4:51Speaker 1: to the Brass Rail Bar, then stops at Arby's, calling
- 4:55Speaker 1: family for a ride home. In between, Kevin's caught on
- 4:59Speaker 1: surveillance video at Arby's two forty a m. That's the
- 5:02Speaker 1: last time he's seen, please say. Earlier in the evening,
- 5:05Speaker 1: while he's at Brass Rail Bar, he may have been
- 5:09Speaker 1: in an altercation. A pair of glasses found in the
- 5:13Speaker 1: parking lot of the bar, and Kevin does wear glasses.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Kevin Asian mail six feet tall, one hundred sixty to
- 5:20Speaker 1: one hundred eighty pounds, black hair cut short or shaved,
- 5:24Speaker 1: with brown eyes. Kevin has a birthmark on the inner
- 5:28Speaker 1: right thigh. Now missing seven years. If you have info
- 5:33Speaker 1: on the disappearance of Kevin to Gen, please contact Fort Wayne,
- 5:37Speaker 1: Indiana Police two six zero four two seven one three
- 5:42Speaker 1: six nine. For the latest crime in justice news, go
- 5:45Speaker 1: to crimeonline dot com and please join us for our
- 5:49Speaker 1: daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best to
- 5:53Speaker 1: find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With
- 5:58Speaker 1: this crime alert, I'm Nissy Ray.