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Crime Alert 11.08.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert, I Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Alfred
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  Speaker 1: Lewis walks trails out of Houston Park searching for participants
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  Speaker 1: for a social media video. Notice I did not say
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  Speaker 1: willing participants. Lewis makes his choice and starts recording, then attacks,
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  Speaker 1: beating his victims horribly. Bystanders pull him off the second
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  Speaker 1: victim and call police, but the team leaves before cops arrive.
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  Speaker 1: Police find the videos posted to tik tok, then track
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  Speaker 1: Lewis down.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy. Lewis attacked two men in Houston's Wortham Park. In
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  Speaker 2: the first attack, Lewis tried to rob a man of
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  Speaker 2: his cell phone at gunpoint and threatened to shoot him
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  Speaker 2: in the foot if he didn't cooperate. The man refused,
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  Speaker 2: so Lewis punched and choked him. In the second attack,
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  Speaker 2: Lewis sucker punched a man in the back of the head.
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  Speaker 2: We're now learning that Lewis had an accomplice, eighteen year
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  Speaker 2: old Kingston Micer, who was behind the camera and arrested
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  Speaker 2: several days after Lewis. He will face the same charges.
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  Speaker 1: Alfred Lewis nineteen charged with aggravated robbery and assault. Florida
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  Speaker 1: Copps Patrol Oldtown, Key West. On Halloween night, they spot
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  Speaker 1: a banana relieving himself on the sidewalk outside of bar.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to stop the University of Miami student Kyle Mortimer,
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  Speaker 1: but the banana tries to split. Mortimer run, slips out
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  Speaker 1: of a cops grasp, refuses to stand still so he
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  Speaker 1: can be handcuffed. Mortimer, twenty, poses for a muckshot in
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  Speaker 1: the banana costume. Now facing disorderly conduct. More crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice breaking news. Crime aligns John Limley.
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  Speaker 3: We began on the West Coast as a twenty three
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  Speaker 3: year old man has been taken into custody by police
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  Speaker 3: on suspicion of killing his grandmother. A woman discovered dead
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  Speaker 3: with her head severed in a northern California residence with
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  Speaker 3: more here Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: The decapitated body of the sixty four year old woman,
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  Speaker 2: Elvia Lopez Arroyo, was found near Santa Rosa, north of
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco last Thursday by police responding to complaints of
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  Speaker 2: a probable home the victim's twenty three year old grandson,
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  Speaker 2: Luis Gustavo, a royal Lopez, who police say was seen
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  Speaker 2: walking away from the crime scene was recognized by investigators
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  Speaker 2: as the suspect. According to a police statement, investigators think
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  Speaker 2: the man took the victim's head with him when he
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  Speaker 2: left the residence. Official say Up patrol officer in San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco identified the man from law enforcement bulletins and made
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  Speaker 2: the arrest without incident. Detectives have reported that the victim's
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  Speaker 2: head was discovered on the south bank of Santa Rosa
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  Speaker 2: Creek on Saturday evening. The Sonoma County Main Adult Detention
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  Speaker 2: facility is holding the suspect without bail on suspicion of murder.
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  Speaker 3: We're learning from police that the suspect, who had been
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  Speaker 3: imprisoned for assault with a deadly weapon, had just been
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  Speaker 3: released from a California prison. Now to Florida, where a
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  Speaker 3: dentist has been found guilty of murder and the twenty
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  Speaker 3: fourteen shooting death of his one time brother in law,
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  Speaker 3: a well known college professor, outside his home in Tallahassee.
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  Speaker 3: The crime occurred after a long custody struggle with the
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  Speaker 3: dentist's sister. The conviction indicated that jurors believed prosecutors claim
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  Speaker 3: that the defendant, Charles Adelson paid to have Florida State
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  Speaker 3: University law professor Don Markel murdered. According to our friends
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  Speaker 3: at the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper. Jurors found Adelson guilty of
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  Speaker 3: first degree murder, conspiracy to commit first degree murder, and
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  Speaker 3: solicitation of first degree murder. At trial, prosecutors presented evidence
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  Speaker 3: to the jury that Adelson paid to have the well
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  Speaker 3: known professor killed and that he arranged for his girlfriend,
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  Speaker 3: Catherine mcbanua, to pay Sigfredo Garcia to carry out the murder.
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  Speaker 3: Garcia is the father of Catherine's two children. In Maine,
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  Speaker 3: a fifteen year prison sentence has been handed to a
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  Speaker 3: nineteen year old man who the FBI says constructed homemade
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  Speaker 3: explosives as part of a plan to assault a mosque
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  Speaker 3: in the name of the Islamic State Organization once Again
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  Speaker 3: Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Sidney Sumner Waterville resident Xavier Pelk and the prosecution came
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  Speaker 2: to a plea deal in April when Pelkey admitted to
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  Speaker 2: giving material support to terrorists in exchange for the dismissal
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  Speaker 2: of a second allegation. Law enforcement officials say that Pelk
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  Speaker 2: discussed the plot with two teenagers, one in Canada and
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  Speaker 2: the other in Chicago, and that he intended to provide weapons, ammunition,
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  Speaker 2: and explosives for a mass shooting at a Shecheite mosque
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  Speaker 2: in other houses of worship in the Chicago area. After
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  Speaker 2: discovering three improvised explosives in his home, FBI agents apprehended Pelki,
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  Speaker 2: who was then eighteen years old. According to the FBI,
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  Speaker 2: the devices were made of fireworks wrapped with pin staples
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  Speaker 2: and thumb tacks as shrapnel. Detectives discovered a handwritten document
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  Speaker 2: allegedly bearing the Islamic State group's name with details regarding
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  Speaker 2: the intended mosk attack. The teens were portrayed by the
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  Speaker 2: prosecution as a homegrown terror cell, but Chris MacLean, Pelki's attorney,
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  Speaker 2: countered that they were simply spurred on by one another's
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  Speaker 2: online arrogance.
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  Speaker 3: The defense had requested a six year prison term, claiming
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  Speaker 3: Pelke had admitted guild, had no violent criminal passed and
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  Speaker 3: was only a few months removed from being charged as
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  Speaker 3: a juvenile thinks.
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  Speaker 1: Vern Morris works as the video game developer. He's Type
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  Speaker 1: one diabetic and lives with his parents. Around one in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, he's sick from low blood sugar. His mother
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  Speaker 1: makes him a sandwich. He seems to improve, but Vern's confused,
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  Speaker 1: slurring his speech. He says good night and goes to bed.
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  Speaker 1: When the mom goes to test his levels. An hour later,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone. Vern was not wearing a shirt or shoes
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  Speaker 1: when he disappeared, leaving all his belongings behind. There have
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  Speaker 1: been several possible sightings of Verne Morris in Utah and
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  Speaker 1: Devada towns, but none confirmed. Vern Morris thirty four, now
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  Speaker 1: missing two and a half years. There's a ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars reward for info leading to Morris. If you know
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  Speaker 1: anything about Vern Morris, please contact Tully CDPD four three
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  Speaker 1: five eight eight two eighty nine hundred. For the latest
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  Speaker 1: crime justice news, go to crimeonline dot com with this
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  Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.