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Crime Alert 03.15.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace Breaking crimes Now. Joseph o'buckley
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  Speaker 1: and his girlfriend take a trip to North Carolina. A
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  Speaker 1: Buckley then locks the girlfriend in their hotel room and
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  Speaker 1: threatens to kill her, repeatedly assaulting and strangling the woman
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  Speaker 1: over eleven hours. When he falls asleep, she manages to escape.
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  Speaker 1: Crimal eyes John Limley. Nancy o'buckley prevented the woman from
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  Speaker 1: leaving by blocking the door, and his beating left her
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  Speaker 1: with severe injuries that required hospitalization. After his arrest, o'buckley
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  Speaker 1: continued to contact the woman from jail and threatened to
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  Speaker 1: kill her if she testified against him, but it was
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  Speaker 1: ultimately several hours of her testimony that led to o'buckley's conviction.
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  Speaker 1: A Buckley, now convicted of kidnapping, attempted murder, an assault.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking at thirty seven years behind bars. William Knight,
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  Speaker 1: an inmate at of Georgia Prison, sneaks away from word
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  Speaker 1: detail takes off in an abandoned car. Cop spot the
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  Speaker 1: car in the next county, abandoned again. Police set up
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  Speaker 1: a perimeter and search teams eventually track down Night. Night
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  Speaker 1: is serving out his sentence at Baldwin State Prison for
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  Speaker 1: involuntary manslaughter and drug possession charges stemming from a twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifteen conviction. Night got into a Great Toyota Corolla after
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  Speaker 1: leaving his work detail that he later ditched in Washington
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  Speaker 1: County the next day. Night now back behind bars to
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  Speaker 1: finish his teen year sentence, and we'll face additional time
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  Speaker 1: for eluding. More Crime and Justice news after this. Now
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  Speaker 1: at the latest Crime and Justice breaking knees crimealwise John Lemley,
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  Speaker 1: three Mesa Arizona police officers have been injured while fighting
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  Speaker 1: a man who refused to leave a coffee shop. Officers
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  Speaker 1: were called to the scene around nine am Saturday, and
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  Speaker 1: said twenty one year old Teagan Williams refused to leave
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  Speaker 1: when asked by police, who used a stun gun on
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  Speaker 1: him before a six minute fight ensued. As Williams was
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  Speaker 1: being arrested, he allegedly squeezed an officer's hand with such
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  Speaker 1: force to break bones and require surgery to repair. Belief
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  Speaker 1: that another officer was kicked while apparently unconscious, while a
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  Speaker 1: third officer needed X rays on his injured hand. Williams
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  Speaker 1: has jailed on a one hundred thousand dollars bond and
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  Speaker 1: is facing charges that include aggravated assault, disfigurement, resisting arrest,
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  Speaker 1: disorderly conduct, and criminal damage. A Northwest Louisiana teen has
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  Speaker 1: been found guilty of second degree murder and the shooting
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  Speaker 1: death of a star high school basketball player, Sidney Sumner
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  Speaker 1: is with crime Online. Local news outlets report that nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Shay Michael Antonio Pearson was convicted by Cato
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  Speaker 1: Parish jurors on Thursday, and the fatal shooting of Devin
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Myers jurors deliberated less than an hour. Myers was
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  Speaker 1: a basketball player at Shreveport's Huntington High School. The seventeen
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  Speaker 1: year old had gone to a friend's house to get
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  Speaker 1: a phone charger when he ran into Pearson and marched
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. Official said Pearson shot Myers in the back
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  Speaker 1: up to thirteen times. Court testimony showed Pearson's shot at
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  Speaker 1: least twice while standing over Myer's body. He and Myers
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  Speaker 1: had previously argued. Police later found a handgun in a
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  Speaker 1: freezer at Pearson's house, with testing showing it was the
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  Speaker 1: murder weapon and was connected to Pearson by DNA. Pearson
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  Speaker 1: will be sentenced on March twenty seventh. He faces a
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  Speaker 1: mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole, and Ohio
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  Speaker 1: judge is scheduled to his side this week on the
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  Speaker 1: validity of the insanity defense submitted by a man charged
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  Speaker 1: with fatally shooting two of his girlfriend's three young sons
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  Speaker 1: and wounding the third. Judge Eric Gallen Marks last week
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  Speaker 1: herd assessments from two psychologists of the state of mind
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  Speaker 1: of twenty nine year old Kevin Moore at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the February twenty twenty one shootings and Toledo. Marks
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  Speaker 1: then recessed the non jury trial until Thursday afternoon and
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  Speaker 1: now must decide whether Moore knew the wongfulness of his
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  Speaker 1: actions when he shopped the victims, including fourteen month old
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  Speaker 1: Gabriel Phillips and five year old a Mere Phillips, and
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  Speaker 1: wounding of four year old boy. Moore is charged with
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  Speaker 1: two counts of aggravated murder and single counts of attempted
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  Speaker 1: aggravated murder and felonious assault. A second felonious assault count
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  Speaker 1: was dismissed at the end of testimony last week. A
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  Speaker 1: federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for Roy McGrath,
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  Speaker 1: the one time aide to former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.
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  Speaker 1: This after McGrath failed to appear in court as his
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  Speaker 1: trial on federal fraud charges was set to begin. Once again,
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  Speaker 1: Crime Online's Sydney Sumner. US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued
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  Speaker 1: the arrest warrant in US District Court in Baltimore. McGrath
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  Speaker 1: had an arraignment scheduled for nine am Monday in a
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  Speaker 1: superseding indictment in his federal case. Jury selection was scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to begin later that same day. McGrath faces an eight
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  Speaker 1: count federal and charges include wire fraud, including securing a
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty three thousand, six hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: eight dollars severance payment equal to one year of salary
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  Speaker 1: as the head of Maryland Environmental Service. He also faces
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  Speaker 1: fraud and embezzlement charges connected to roughly one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars in expenses. McGrath has pleaded not guilty.
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  Speaker 1: McGrath resigned in August twenty twenty, when he was just
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  Speaker 1: eleven weeks into the job as Hogan's top aide. After
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  Speaker 1: the payments became public. McGrath was appointed by Hogan to
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  Speaker 1: serve as executive director of the Environmental Agency in December
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. The corporation, owned by the state, provides environmental
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  Speaker 1: services such as water and wastewater management, and other services
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  Speaker 1: to state and local government agencies, federal government entities, and
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  Speaker 1: private clients. Shannon Hunter, on probation for drugs and THEFV
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  Speaker 1: has to give urine samples once a week. Easy right wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter creates a fake sample by filling a prescription bottled
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  Speaker 1: with water down soda and tries to pass it off
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  Speaker 1: as urine. Well, authorities are not fooled, for probation now
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  Speaker 1: revoked and a yur analysis fraud charge added on. For
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  Speaker 1: the latest crime in justice news, go to crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.