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Murder Charges for Man Who Shoved 83-Year-Old Veteran onto Subway Tracks | Crime Alert 6AM 04.01.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Drew Nelson. A New York City man is indicted
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  Speaker 1: for murder after a random subway shove killed an eighty
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  Speaker 1: three year old veteran who hid his head and never
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  Speaker 1: regained consciousness. Prosecutors say Baron Hernandez pushed two men under
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  Speaker 1: the tracks at the Lexington Avenue sixty third Street station
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  Speaker 1: on March eighth. Eighty three year old Richard Williams died
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  Speaker 1: nine days later from a brain bleed. The other man
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  Speaker 1: survived with less serious injuries. Authorities say the attack was
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  Speaker 1: random and unprovoked. Investigators say Hernandez first shoved a thirty
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  Speaker 1: year old man from behind onto the tracks. Moments later,
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  Speaker 1: they say he walked up to Williams, who was walking
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  Speaker 1: with a cane, and pushed him as well. Williams was
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  Speaker 1: pulled from the tracks by bystanders before a train arrived.
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  Speaker 1: He was taken to the hospital in critical condition and
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  Speaker 1: never woke up. Hernandez was arrested two days later. He's
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  Speaker 1: now been indicted on second degree murder, attempted assault, and
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  Speaker 1: assault charges. His daughter is now speaking out on w NA.
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  Speaker 3: The only reason I'm talking to anybody is because I
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  Speaker 3: just want the break thing to be done by this man.
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  Speaker 3: I want to draw attention. This is everybody's father, This
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  Speaker 3: is everybody's grandfather now.
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  Speaker 1: Debbie Williams describing a man who was still full of life.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoying his best life, living on Musgaulk Island, going to
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  Speaker 3: the city independently at age three years old, doing whatever
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say Williams had planned to go shopping that morning,
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  Speaker 1: he never made it. Family members say the loss has
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  Speaker 1: been overwhelming. Debbie tells the NBC outlet Hernandez is satan.
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  Speaker 3: There's no words. How do you talk to the devil.
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  Speaker 3: I can't give you an answer to that. You can't.
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  Speaker 3: He's the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutor say the victim did not pose any threat and
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  Speaker 1: had no interaction with the suspect before the attack. Hernandez
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  Speaker 1: is pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he could face decades
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  Speaker 1: in prison. More Crime Man Justice News after this. A
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  Speaker 1: military review is now underway in Tennessee after US Army attack.
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  Speaker 1: Helicopters flew low over a protest and then maneuvered near
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  Speaker 1: kid Rock's home, raising questions about whether the flight was
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  Speaker 1: routine training or something more Army officials say two A
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  Speaker 1: sixty four Apache helicopters tied to the one hundred first
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  Speaker 1: Airborne Division flew over a No King's protest in downtown
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  Speaker 1: Nashville before making low altitude passes near the home of
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  Speaker 1: the musician, whose real name is Robert Ritchie. A spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: for the United States Army says all of the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: involved have been suspended. Leaders at Fort Campbell have launched
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  Speaker 1: what they now call an administrative review to determine whether
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  Speaker 1: the pilots followed proper rules after video showed one helicopter
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  Speaker 1: hovering just beyond the entertainment's pool and another sweeping past
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  Speaker 1: the property. Kid Rock can be seen saluting the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: in the cockpit. The Army says it is aware of
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  Speaker 1: the circulating online that shows the helicopters operating in the
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  Speaker 1: vicinity of a private residence, and officials say the review
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  Speaker 1: will assess the mission and verify compliance with flight regulations,
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  Speaker 1: adding that action will be taken if any violations are found.
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  Speaker 1: At the center of the concern is how close the
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  Speaker 1: aircraft appeared to fly to the home, sometimes holding position
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  Speaker 1: before briefly moving off, while a second helicopter crossed behind it,
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  Speaker 1: creating what looked like coordinated low altitude maneuvering near the property.
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  Speaker 1: The Army says the helicopters were flying a planned training
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  Speaker 1: route through the Nashville area and that any connection to
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  Speaker 1: the protest happening in the same day was coincidental, but
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  Speaker 1: commanders also acknowledge they do not yet know whether the
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  Speaker 1: specific maneuvers near the home were intentional or incidental. A
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  Speaker 1: spokesperson says pilots routinely fly outside Fort Campbell, but ads
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  Speaker 1: they still cannot say if this flight path and behavior
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  Speaker 1: were deliberate or simply part of normal operations. The flight
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  Speaker 1: has drawn attention online, with some questioning whether military aircraft
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  Speaker 1: were used in a way that could appear personal or political.
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  Speaker 1: The singer posted a pro military message on Instagram with
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  Speaker 1: the footage. Military officials stressed that training flights over civilian
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  Speaker 1: areas are common and necessary, with pilots required to practice
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  Speaker 1: low altitude navigation and real world environments, but those flights
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  Speaker 1: are typically not conducted in such close proximity to private homes.
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  Speaker 1: A Colorado sheriff resigns after a grand jury indictment details
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  Speaker 1: mishandled human remains an alleged excessive force inside a small
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  Speaker 1: rural department. But it's not just Cristia County Sheriff Danny
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  Speaker 1: Sanchez stepping down his under sheriff. His son, and two
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  Speaker 1: deputies were also indicted. There are only seven officers in
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  Speaker 1: the department. The county has already moved to a point
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  Speaker 1: an interim sheriff as the investigation continues. District Attorney A.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly framed the case as a matter of public trust.
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  Speaker 2: In order to support these honorable and brave men and women,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot and will not ignore violations of the trust
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  Speaker 2: that a community should have in their police. No citizen
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  Speaker 2: of the San Luis Valley should have any doubts about
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  Speaker 2: the integrity of their police force. This office is not
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  Speaker 2: afraid to defend that trust.
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  Speaker 1: The indictment lays out two separate cases. One centers on
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of human remains in a remote area near
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  Speaker 1: wild Horse, Mesa in twenty twenty four. According to the
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  Speaker 1: grand jury, a property owner found a skull, teeth, and
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  Speaker 1: other remains and reported it to the sheriff's office. Photos
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  Speaker 1: show a skull and dental work in the brush. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: say Sanchez and former deputy Keith Schultz went to the scene.
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  Speaker 1: They only took the skull. They left the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the remains behind. They never returned to collect them. The
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  Speaker 1: indictment says the sheriff failed to notify the coroner as
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  Speaker 1: required by law. It also says the remains were removed
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  Speaker 1: without permission and without proper authority. Testimony presented to the
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  Speaker 1: grand jury describe what happened next. The skull was placed
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  Speaker 1: in a paper grocery bag. It was not labeled, it
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  Speaker 1: was not sealed, It had no chain of custody. Report
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  Speaker 1: investigators say the teeth that were seen in photos were
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  Speaker 1: never recovered. The report on the case was written months
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  Speaker 1: later and described as unusually short. The sheriff's office later
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  Speaker 1: told the reporting party the case was closed and no
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  Speaker 1: further work was done. Experts told the grand jury that
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  Speaker 1: proper procedure requires securing the scene, documenting all evidence, and
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  Speaker 1: coordinating with the coroner. They testified that removing remains without
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  Speaker 1: that process can destroy evidence and violate state law. The
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  Speaker 1: indictment states those failures caused harm to the investigation and
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  Speaker 1: quote would outrage normal family sensibilities. The second case involves
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  Speaker 1: a man in a mental health crisis. Prosecutors say a
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  Speaker 1: deputy used a taser on a person who was unarmed
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  Speaker 1: and not under arrest. That man suffered a broken rib
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  Speaker 1: under Sheriff Cruz Soto is accused of failing to intervene.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Caleb Sanchez and Deputy Roland face assault charges tied
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  Speaker 1: to that incident.
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  Speaker 3: D A.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly says the work is not over.
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  Speaker 2: We have been investigating for over a year now, and
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  Speaker 2: we will continue with our efforts to investigate, specifically to
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  Speaker 2: respond to and look into all reports from citizens of
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  Speaker 2: Costa County about police misconduct.
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  Speaker 1: The sheriff and deputies turn themselves in and are expected
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  Speaker 1: to post bond. A string of armed robberies is targeting
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  Speaker 1: Pokemon card sellers in Illinois, where a gunman uses online
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  Speaker 1: listenings to lure victims and steal high value cards at
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  Speaker 1: gunpoint at meetups and just wait until you hear how
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  Speaker 1: much some of these cards are worth. Chicago police are
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  Speaker 1: searching for the suspect after four people was robbed on
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  Speaker 1: the southwest Side. The most recent case happened Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say the victims listed Pokemon cards for sale on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook marketplace. A buyer reached out and arranged a meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Sellers were directed to a building in the fifty two
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  Speaker 1: hundred block of South Kedzie Avenue in Chicago. Police say
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  Speaker 1: the suspects let them into the lobby and then pulled
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  Speaker 1: a gun. Police described the suspect as a Hispanic mail
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  Speaker 1: between twenty and thirty years old. He stands between five
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  Speaker 1: six and five ten, weighs around two hundred pounds his beard,
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  Speaker 1: and wears black framed glasses and dark clothing. The robberies
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  Speaker 1: are tied to at least four incidents between March seventeenth
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  Speaker 1: and March twenty ninth. Police have linked the same suspect
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  Speaker 1: to multiple victims in the Gauge Park area. Trading car
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  Speaker 1: dealer Ronnie Holloway tells WGN the value of these cards
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  Speaker 1: has surged in recent years. That demand has made them
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  Speaker 1: a target, but it.
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  Speaker 4: Goes back to twenty sixteen when they started the Pokemon goal.
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  Speaker 4: In twenty nineteen, when we had the pandemic, everyone started
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  Speaker 4: getting into it.
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  Speaker 1: That surge has pushed prices into the stratosphere, a range
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  Speaker 1: that definitely attracts criminals.
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  Speaker 4: You can get cards that go all the way up
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  Speaker 4: to two hundred thousand dollars one hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 4: dollars based on the grading level and how a rarity
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  Speaker 4: those cards are.
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  Speaker 1: Police say the suspect uses deception to get victims into
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  Speaker 1: a controlled space before the robbery. Sellers are always urged
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  Speaker 1: to meet in public places like police stations or banks.
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  Speaker 1: If a buyer refuses, collectors say that is a warning sign.
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  Speaker 4: The black market is where cards are stolen, and they're
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  Speaker 4: also to be clear about it is that people will
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  Speaker 4: sell them to those who are not really familiar that
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  Speaker 4: it's a stolen card.
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  Speaker 1: This kind of crime has shown up in other cities recently.
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  Speaker 1: In New York City, armed men stormed a Pokemon shop
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan's meatpacking district that happened in January. Police say
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  Speaker 1: three masked suspects entered the store on West thirteenth Street.
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  Speaker 1: They were armed with a gun and hammers. More than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars of merchandise was taken while dozens
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  Speaker 1: of customers remained stuck inside. Back in Chicago, the suspect
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  Speaker 1: in these robberies remains on the run. Anyone with information
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  Speaker 1: is asked to contact Chicago Police Area one detectives at
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