Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 10.24.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, Breaking crime news now. A
- 0:03Speaker 1: network of Indiana Hardy's employees take photos of customers debit cards,
- 0:08Speaker 1: using them to make large deposits into inmates jail accounts
- 0:13Speaker 1: at the Laporte County Jail. The inmates then bond out,
- 0:17Speaker 1: getting a debit card with the remaining money from their
- 0:21Speaker 1: commissary account. The released inmates immediately withdraw the balance at
- 0:25Speaker 1: an ATM and give the extra cast to the scheming
- 0:29Speaker 1: Hardy's employees. Cops catch on to the money laundring scheme
- 0:33Speaker 1: and work to id the fraudsters.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Nancy Corrections officers notified cops when they noticed several inmates
- 0:40Speaker 2: left jail with large sums in their securest accounts. Darien Ward,
- 0:44Speaker 2: Prince Arnold, and Kristen van Schoik appear to be the
- 0:47Speaker 2: ringleaders due to their more serious charges. The money stole
- 0:50Speaker 2: in totals more than fourteen thousand dollars, and the thuff
- 0:53Speaker 2: victims are working with their financial institutions to have the
- 0:56Speaker 2: sums restored.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Ten Hardy's employees arrested in connection with the scheme, all
- 1:00Speaker 1: charged with organized crime and fraud. Madison Bingham, nineteen gets
- 1:06Speaker 1: treatment at a Louisiana behavioral health unit, but gets increasingly
- 1:10Speaker 1: combative with staff After dinner, she refuses to let go
- 1:14Speaker 1: of her utensils, including a plastic spork. When a nurse
- 1:17Speaker 1: tries to take it away, Bingham lunges, trying to stab
- 1:20Speaker 1: the nurse with the spork. The nurse dodges Bingham and
- 1:23Speaker 1: cause police, who arrest her on assault by spork. More
- 1:27Speaker 1: Crime and Justice news after this Now with the latest
- 1:32Speaker 1: crime and Justice breaking news. Crime on Lize John.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Lemlak, police and family members say an Illinois landlord targeted
- 1:39Speaker 3: his victims due to their faith and in retaliation for
- 1:42Speaker 3: the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas for war. We
- 1:47Speaker 3: turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:49Speaker 2: The landlord is accused of killing a six year old
- 1:51Speaker 2: Muslim child by stabbing him to death and gravely hurting
- 1:54Speaker 2: his mother. The landlord is now facing hate crime charges.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Federal authorities and city police in the US The United
- 2:00Speaker 2: States have been on high alert for acts of violence
- 2:02Speaker 2: motivated by anti Semitic or Islamophobic attitudes in recent days.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Jewish and Muslim organizations, as well as FBI authorities, have
- 2:10Speaker 2: noted an upsurge in threatening and bigoted speech in the
- 2:13Speaker 2: Chicago area. The will County Sheriff's Office posted a statement
- 2:17Speaker 2: on social media reporting that the thirty two year old
- 2:19Speaker 2: woman and boy were discovered by police in a residence
- 2:22Speaker 2: in an unincorporated area of Plainfield Township, some forty miles
- 2:26Speaker 2: southwest of Chicago. The dead child was identified as the
- 2:29Speaker 2: wounded woman's son by relatives and a Muslim civil liberties
- 2:33Speaker 2: and advocacy organization. Hospital staff lead pronounced the boy dead.
- 2:37Speaker 2: According to the statement, The woman sustained many stab wounds
- 2:40Speaker 2: but is expected to live. An autopsy revealed that the
- 2:43Speaker 2: child had been stabbed numerous times. According to the Sheriff's office,
- 2:46Speaker 2: seventy one year old Joseph M. Cuba of Plainfield was
- 2:49Speaker 2: charged with first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, two
- 2:53Speaker 2: counts of hate crimes, and aggravated violence.
- 2:55Speaker 1: With a deadly weapon.
- 2:56Speaker 3: The names of the two victims have not been released
- 2:58Speaker 3: by authorities. After an internet conversation devolved into requests that
- 3:03Speaker 3: he paid money to keep private images secret, a teenager
- 3:07Speaker 3: in a small Michigan town committed suicide. Last year. According
- 3:12Speaker 3: to FBI director Christopher Ray, he was one of several
- 3:15Speaker 3: individuals who had been targeted online by two men who
- 3:18Speaker 3: have been extradited from Nigeria to face charges. The FBI
- 3:23Speaker 3: and Michigan Police collaborated to look into the death of
- 3:26Speaker 3: seventeen year old Jordan de Maay, who was among thousands
- 3:29Speaker 3: of American youth targeted in a rapid increase in online
- 3:33Speaker 3: sex torsion instances in recent years. This led to the
- 3:37Speaker 3: charges Samson and Samuel Ogoshi, two Nigerian brothers from Legos,
- 3:42Speaker 3: have both entered not guilty pleas. A New Mexico man
- 3:46Speaker 3: accused of shooting a Native American activist has now been
- 3:50Speaker 3: ordered to stand trial on charges of attempted murder once
- 3:53Speaker 3: again crime online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:56Speaker 2: The September attack came amid protest over canceled plans to
- 3:59Speaker 2: reinstall a statue of a Spanish conqueror outside a government building.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Judge Jason Lydiard of the State District Court determined that
- 4:06Speaker 2: there was enough evidence to bring charges of attempted murder
- 4:09Speaker 2: and assault with the deadly weapon against twenty three year
- 4:11Speaker 2: old Ryan David Martinez in connection to the shooting recorded
- 4:14Speaker 2: on security cameras and by bystanders using mobile phones. Martinez
- 4:19Speaker 2: was taken into custody on September twenty eighth, following gunfire
- 4:22Speaker 2: at an open air event in Espanola. The chaos came
- 4:25Speaker 2: after the cancelation of plans to erect a bronze statue
- 4:28Speaker 2: of the conquistador Juan d'annote, who was both hated and
- 4:31Speaker 2: venerated for his part in founding the first settlements along
- 4:34Speaker 2: the Upper Rio Grande beginning in fifteen ninety eight.
- 4:37Speaker 3: John Jacobs of Spokane, Washington, a well known environmental activist
- 4:41Speaker 3: and supporter of Native American rights who is descended from
- 4:45Speaker 3: the Hopi tribe, was injured in the attack.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Cornelius box Slag, a marine veteran, works at the Alta
- 4:51Speaker 1: Ski Area Salt Lake City, esca patrol, doubling as a
- 4:54Speaker 1: watershed ranger in summertime. Cornelius leaves his apartment for work,
- 4:59Speaker 1: but he never made makes it in His car, found
- 5:01Speaker 1: abandoned near the Wyoming border two hours northeast. The license
- 5:06Speaker 1: plate gone. Utah cops find his phone pinged last in
- 5:10Speaker 1: downtown Salt Lake, forty five minutes away from his job.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Around that time, one hundred bucks withdrawn from his bank account.
- 5:18Speaker 1: No further activity from the bank or the phone since
- 5:21Speaker 1: Cornelius Box LAG twenty nine, now missing over a year.
- 5:25Speaker 1: There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for info leading to
- 5:29Speaker 1: box LAG's discovery. If you know anything about Cornelius Box Flag,
- 5:33Speaker 1: please call South Salt Lake PD eight nine one four
- 5:37Speaker 1: one two three six sixty four. For the latest crime
- 5:41Speaker 1: injustice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.
- 5:44Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.