Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 11.12.24 | 7 and 4yo Children TASED as Punishment
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alert, imancy, grace breaking, crime needs Now, an Oregon
- 0:04Speaker 1: first grader spills juice on himself and has to change
- 0:06Speaker 1: his shirt. That's when his teacher notices bruises and burns
- 0:10Speaker 1: all over his torso. When police arrived, the boy tells
- 0:13Speaker 1: him his parents punish him and his four year old
- 0:16Speaker 1: little sister with a taser. Cops searched Brandon Rodgers in
- 0:21Speaker 1: Heather Black's home, finding the taser and several other weapons
- 0:24Speaker 1: the parents are seen using on their children in home
- 0:27Speaker 1: surveillance footage.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Nancy Rogers and Black were initially arrested and released on
- 0:32Speaker 2: lesser charges, but when cops discovered evidence of clear abuse
- 0:36Speaker 2: rather than misguided punishments, Roger and Black were re arrested
- 0:40Speaker 2: and denied bail. The two children now in the state's custody,
- 0:43Speaker 2: placed with other family members. Investigators have not revealed what
- 0:47Speaker 2: weapons other than the taser were used on the two children.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Brandon Rogers forty four, head the Black thirty six, charged
- 0:54Speaker 1: with assault, criminal mistreatment, and unlawful use of a stun gun,
- 0:58Speaker 1: with more charges expected. How about felony child neglect and
- 1:04Speaker 1: felony aggravated assault Just for starters? Cops called when Domingo
- 1:10Speaker 1: Pagan becomes disorderly at Disney's House of Blues in Orlando.
- 1:14Speaker 1: When cops arrived, Pagan extremely intoxicated, they try to escort
- 1:18Speaker 1: him out, he actually spits on the officers. Cops use
- 1:21Speaker 1: a spit mask to protect themselves from Pagan. When cops
- 1:25Speaker 1: try to load him into a patrol car, he briefly
- 1:28Speaker 1: loses consciousness and seems like he needs to vomit. As
- 1:31Speaker 1: cops remove the spit mask, he immediately spits on another officer.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Domingo Pagan, forty seven, charged with disorderly intoxication, resisting and
- 1:41Speaker 1: battery on a cop. Enjoy your jail, Cell Pagan or
- 1:45Speaker 1: Crime and Justice News after this. Now with the latest
- 1:52Speaker 1: crime in Justice, Breaking News Crime Onlines John Lemley.
- 1:55Speaker 3: We begin with a critical development and the long running
- 1:58Speaker 3: case of the alleged nine eleven an mastermind to lead
- 2:01Speaker 3: Sheik Mohammed and two co defendants. A military judge has
- 2:05Speaker 3: upheld plea agreements allowing the men to avoid the death
- 2:08Speaker 3: penalty in exchange for guilty. Please. The ruling issued by
- 2:12Speaker 3: Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall overturns Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's
- 2:17Speaker 3: recent order to dismiss the Plea deals. McCall's decision, yet
- 2:21Speaker 3: to be officially posted, argues that Austin lacked the authority
- 2:25Speaker 3: to nullify the agreements after they were approved by Guantanamo's
- 2:29Speaker 3: top official. If left unchallenged, this ruling could allow the
- 2:33Speaker 3: men to plead guilty, potentially closing a chapter on the
- 2:36Speaker 3: government's nearly two decade effort to prosecute those accused of
- 2:40Speaker 3: orchestrating the deadliest attack on US soil. The Plea deals,
- 2:44Speaker 3: made public this summer, sparked political backlash and led Austin
- 2:48Speaker 3: to argue that such decisions in death penalty cases should
- 2:52Speaker 3: rest solely with him. However, McCall's decision warns that following
- 2:56Speaker 3: Austin's directive would grant Defense Secretary Mary's unchecked veto power
- 3:01Speaker 3: in military trials. Caroline Ellison, the former top executive at
- 3:07Speaker 3: Sam Bankman Freed's once dominant cryptocurrency Empire FTX, has officially
- 3:12Speaker 3: begun a two year prison sentence. As Crime online Sydney
- 3:16Speaker 3: Sunder tells this, this marks another chapter in a high
- 3:19Speaker 3: profile fraud case that left investors, lenders, and customers facing
- 3:24Speaker 3: billions of dollars in losses.
- 3:26Speaker 2: The thirty year old Allison reported to a federal facility
- 3:29Speaker 2: in Danbury, Connecticut. This according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
- 3:33Speaker 2: she had previously pleaded guilty to criminal charges and provided
- 3:37Speaker 2: extensive testimony against Bankman Freed, her former boyfriend in ftx's founder,
- 3:42Speaker 2: ultimately contributing to his conviction and subsequent twenty five year
- 3:46Speaker 2: prison sentence. Allison, who served as the CEO of Alameda Research,
- 3:50Speaker 2: the cryptocurrency hedge fund under Bankman Freed's control, had faced
- 3:54Speaker 2: the possibility of spending decades behind bars. However, the judge
- 3:58Speaker 2: and prosecutors acknowledged your significant cooperation with the investigation, crediting
- 4:02Speaker 2: her for her assistance in unraveling the extent of the fraud.
- 4:06Speaker 2: During her sentencing in New York in September, Ellison expressed
- 4:09Speaker 2: deep remorse, tearfully apologizing and admitting she was, in her words,
- 4:13Speaker 2: deeply ashamed. Once a highly popular platform, FTX collapsed in
- 4:18Speaker 2: twenty twenty two after it became widely known that customer
- 4:21Speaker 2: accounts had allegedly been rated by Bankman Fried and other executives.
- 4:26Speaker 2: According to US prosecutors, the funds were used to fuel
- 4:29Speaker 2: a range of high risk investments, as well as to
- 4:31Speaker 2: make millions in illegal political donations, pay bribes to Chinese officials,
- 4:36Speaker 2: and purchase luxury properties in the Caribbean.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Ellison Sentencing underscores the wider fallout of the FTX scandal,
- 4:43Speaker 3: one of the most significant cases in the history of cryptocurrency,
- 4:47Speaker 3: leaving a long list of victims and raising hard questions
- 4:51Speaker 3: about oversight in this rapidly evolving industry.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Thanks John, Lewis Thornton, fifty nine bars his roommate's car
- 4:58Speaker 1: to drive to a trail off Burnt Bridge Road, Hattiesburg,
- 5:02Speaker 1: Mississippi with his dog, Big Head. Several people see Lewis
- 5:07Speaker 1: and Big Head on their walk, nothing amiss, but Lewis
- 5:10Speaker 1: in Big Head never come home. When he doesn't answer
- 5:14Speaker 1: his roommate's calls, the roommate reports Lewis missing. Jones County
- 5:18Speaker 1: Sheriff's eventually find the roommate's car abandoned at the end
- 5:21Speaker 1: of a dead end road near the Trailhead searches turn
- 5:25Speaker 1: up nothing. Canines returned to the trail to search for Lewis.
- 5:29Speaker 1: They've never even picked up a scent. Cadaver dogs find nothing.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Lewis Thornton six ' one one hundred and seventy pounds,
- 5:36Speaker 1: close cropped, gray hair, blue eyes, usually wears a baseball cap.
- 5:41Speaker 1: The dog, big Head, a brown pitbull with pointy ears
- 5:44Speaker 1: and a white diamond on his chest. No strays matching
- 5:48Speaker 1: the dog's description found. If you have info on Lewis Thornton,
- 5:54Speaker 1: called Jones County, Mississippi Sheriff's six zero one four two
- 5:58Speaker 1: five three one four seven. For the latest crimestice news,
- 6:03Speaker 1: go to crime online dot com and please join us
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- 6:09Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.