Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 06.05.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I mean c grace breaking crime news now Carlos.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Profit finds two guys in his New Mexico property trying
- 0:07Speaker 1: to dump an old boat. Profit insists they remove it,
- 0:10Speaker 1: but when they refuse, Profit points an assault rifle at them.
- 0:14Speaker 2: And slashes the tires on their boat trailer, Nancy. This
- 0:17Speaker 2: is not the first time Profit has had to run
- 0:19Speaker 2: in with unethical campers. Twenty years ago, Profit held people
- 0:23Speaker 2: hostage for dumping garbage on the MESA. In twenty eighteen,
- 0:27Speaker 2: Profit held a family with three young children hostage because
- 0:30Speaker 2: he believed they had shot and killed a redtail hawk.
- 0:33Speaker 2: This time, the DA's office has called for pre trial
- 0:35Speaker 2: detention for Profit, who was quote an obvious danger to society.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Profit now charged with agassault, false imprisonment, and criminal property damage.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Joshua McCarthy Thomas uses lock picks breaking into Florida businesses,
- 0:49Speaker 1: stealing rare books, newspapers, rare comics, and two rare tortoises.
- 0:55Speaker 1: McCarty Thomas sells several of the books and comics on eBay,
- 0:58Speaker 1: leading detectives straight to his home, where they find the
- 1:01Speaker 1: remaining stolen books. One of the Galapagos turtles in the
- 1:05Speaker 1: backyard and the other turtle dead and McCarty Thomas's freezer
- 1:11Speaker 1: is now facing eight counts of burglary charges? Why did
- 1:15Speaker 1: he have to kill the turtle? More crime and justice
- 1:18Speaker 1: news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice
- 1:23Speaker 1: breaking news by.
- 1:24Speaker 3: Onlines John Lemley, we begin in Colorado, where a judge
- 1:27Speaker 3: has decided to postpone the first criminal trial connected with
- 1:31Speaker 3: the death of Elijah McLain. The twenty three year old
- 1:34Speaker 3: black man died almost four years ago after being detained
- 1:38Speaker 3: by police in a Denver suburb, brutally restrained and given
- 1:42Speaker 3: a powerful sedative. Since prosecutors have not specified what actions
- 1:46Speaker 3: by their clients are allegedly the cause of McLean's injuries,
- 1:50Speaker 3: or whether they are accused of being directly responsible for
- 1:53Speaker 3: his injuries or considered complicit in the actions of other defendants,
- 1:58Speaker 3: the attorneys for the two officers, whose trial was originally
- 2:01Speaker 3: scheduled to began July tenth, ask for more time. They
- 2:05Speaker 3: claimed that without this information they are unable to mount
- 2:08Speaker 3: a proper defense. Overseas Now, as an Australian judge has
- 2:12Speaker 3: dismissed accusations by Victoria Cross recipient been Robert Smith that
- 2:17Speaker 3: he was falsely accused by the media, finding that Australia's
- 2:21Speaker 3: most decorated living war veteran unlawfully killed captives and committed
- 2:26Speaker 3: other war crimes in Afghanistan. For more, we turned to
- 2:30Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Former Special Air Service Regiment Corporal Robert Smith, now a
- 2:36Speaker 2: media firm executive, was found to have committed a variety
- 2:39Speaker 2: of war crimes, according to a ruling by Federal Court
- 2:42Speaker 2: Justice Anthony Bissanco. The ruling was made in twenty eighteen.
- 2:46Speaker 2: According to Bizonco, Robert Smith, who was also given the
- 2:49Speaker 2: Medal of Gallantry for his service during the Afghanistan War,
- 2:53Speaker 2: broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement and
- 2:56Speaker 2: dishonored Australia with his actions. The decision came after a
- 3:00Speaker 2: contentious trial lasting one hundred and ten court hearing days
- 3:03Speaker 2: and costing an estimated twenty five million Australian dollars in
- 3:06Speaker 2: legal bills. Is viewed as a landmark victory for press
- 3:10Speaker 2: freedom against Australia's very draconian defamation rules.
- 3:13Speaker 3: The attorney for Robert Smith has requested an additional forty
- 3:17Speaker 3: two days to consider filing an appeal with the Federal
- 3:20Speaker 3: Court's full bench. In a report released on Thursday, the
- 3:25Speaker 3: National Police Agency of Japan states that insufficient security measures
- 3:29Speaker 3: such as lack of metal detectors and bag checks allowed
- 3:33Speaker 3: an assailant to get into a crowd during an election
- 3:36Speaker 3: campaign and throw a pipe bomb at Prime Minister Fumio
- 3:40Speaker 3: Kashida in April. Before the bomb was able to explode,
- 3:43Speaker 3: special police moved Kashida away from it, protecting him from injury.
- 3:48Speaker 3: The twenty four year old suspect, Ruiji Kimura was arrested
- 3:52Speaker 3: at the scene of the incident April fifteenth, that the
- 3:55Speaker 3: fishing town of Sakazaki in the western prefecture of Wakiyama,
- 3:59Speaker 3: where kish Shah was preparing to deliver a speech in
- 4:02Speaker 3: support of a local candidate. Kimura is still being held
- 4:05Speaker 3: by police while undergoing a psychiatric examination authorized by the
- 4:10Speaker 3: court until September one. Back in this country now, as
- 4:14Speaker 3: Alabama lawmakers have given their final approval to a bill
- 4:18Speaker 3: that may result in longer jail terms for felonies committed
- 4:21Speaker 3: as part of a quote criminal enterprise once again crime
- 4:25Speaker 3: onlines Sidney Sumner the Senate pass.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Bill which allows for harsher sanctions for people associated with
- 4:31Speaker 2: organized crime groups, including street gangs, has been approved by
- 4:34Speaker 2: the House of Representatives ninety five to six. The legislation
- 4:38Speaker 2: now heads to Alabama Governor k Ivy's office, where she's
- 4:42Speaker 2: expected to sign the bill. According to the legislation, if
- 4:45Speaker 2: the prosecution can show that a defendant belongs to a
- 4:48Speaker 2: criminal organization and that an offense was done for the
- 4:51Speaker 2: benefit of that organization, the penalties might be increased when
- 4:55Speaker 2: a gun is used in the commission of a crime.
- 4:57Speaker 2: It also establishes obligatory minimum punishments.
- 5:00Speaker 3: According to the approved bill, a criminal enterprise is defined
- 5:04Speaker 3: as a network of three or more individuals who together
- 5:07Speaker 3: engage in a pattern of criminal activity.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Rajah McQueen, home from college, runs errands around Cleveland. Last
- 5:15Speaker 1: scene on surveillance video in her silver twenty eighteen Nissan
- 5:19Speaker 1: Sentra license plate jajoy G Georgia H Happy three nine
- 5:24Speaker 1: five three. Stopping for gas, The queen leaves the gas station.
- 5:29Speaker 1: The next time her car is caught on video a
- 5:31Speaker 1: man is driving the car, also riddled with bullet holes,
- 5:35Speaker 1: the hubcaps missing, and a fake dealer license displayed in
- 5:39Speaker 1: the back window. Cleveland cops say they've identified and interviewed
- 5:43Speaker 1: the man, but he did not provide leads on McQueen's whereabouts.
- 5:47Speaker 1: If you have information on Raja McQueen's disappearance, please contact
- 5:52Speaker 1: Cleveland PD two on sixty six two three, five four
- 5:56Speaker 1: one eight. For the latest crime injustice news, go to
- 5:58Speaker 1: crime online dot com with this crime alert. I Nancy
- 6:01Speaker 1: Grace