Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 11.04.24 | Husband Shoots Wife's Ex-Affair Partner
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crimes out. When Hannah
- 0:03Speaker 1: Alilamy's sex partner ends their relationship, her husband, Omar b Tawni,
- 0:10Speaker 1: feels his wife has been disrespected. Ali Lamy drives to
- 0:14Speaker 1: the restaurant where her lover delivers food, parks next to
- 0:17Speaker 1: his car, gesturing for him to get in. The sex
- 0:20Speaker 1: partner tells Ali Laimy his wife found out about the
- 0:23Speaker 1: affair and he must end the relationship. When he tries
- 0:28Speaker 1: to get out miss Toy, the husband pops out from
- 0:31Speaker 1: behind a curtain in the backseat of the car and
- 0:33Speaker 1: shoots him twice. The victim rush to the hospital, now
- 0:37Speaker 1: in stable condition.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Nancy ads bizarre as the situation seems. The victim says
- 0:42Speaker 2: that during the incident, Bishtowe told him he quote had
- 0:46Speaker 2: to die for dishonoring his wife. The victim was shot
- 0:49Speaker 2: in the thigh and foot. Now recovering from his injuries,
- 0:53Speaker 2: he says he ended his relationship with Alialami three months ago,
- 0:56Speaker 2: but she would not leave him alone, even showing up
- 0:59Speaker 2: at his no apartment, an address he never provided her with.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Al Alami and Bishtawi have three young children, now in
- 1:06Speaker 2: protective custody.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Look I don't get it, but this I know. Hannah
- 1:11Speaker 1: Ali Lami and Omar Bishtowe charged with aggravated kidnapping and agassault.
- 1:17Speaker 1: An employee at Knoxville's CMC Recycling starts the normal procedure
- 1:22Speaker 1: to melt down a large steel locker, but puts the
- 1:25Speaker 1: fire out when he notices smoke coming from the inside.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Police investigate and consult with the FBI and ATF They
- 1:33Speaker 1: all believe the boxes filled with dynamite. Residents in the
- 1:37Speaker 1: area evacuate while authorities try to determine how to safely
- 1:40Speaker 1: dispose of the box. Police still investigating if the locker
- 1:44Speaker 1: was left with explosives intentionally. More crime and justice news
- 1:48Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Crime Onlines.
- 1:54Speaker 3: John Lenley Eric and Lyle Menndez, convicted in nineteen ninety
- 1:58Speaker 3: six for the nineteen eighty nine murders of their parents,
- 2:02Speaker 3: will appear in court December eleventh for a resentencing hearing
- 2:06Speaker 3: that could potentially open the door for their release. The
- 2:09Speaker 3: Los Angeles County Superior Court date set by Judge Michael
- 2:13Speaker 3: Jesseck follows a recommendation by District Attorney George Gascone, who
- 2:18Speaker 3: suggested the brothers be eligible for parole under a new
- 2:21Speaker 3: sentence of fifty years to life. This decision considers their
- 2:25Speaker 3: young ages at the time of the crime and their
- 2:28Speaker 3: educational and rehabilitative efforts in prison. Both men, now in
- 2:32Speaker 3: their fifties, have completed several degrees and initiated programs for inmates,
- 2:38Speaker 3: including a beautification project led by Lyle Meanndez. While their
- 2:42Speaker 3: lawyers maintain the brothers acted in self defense following years
- 2:46Speaker 3: of alleged abuse by their fathers, some family members, as
- 2:49Speaker 3: well as certain voices within Gascone's office, oppose the resentencing.
- 2:54Speaker 3: If the judge agrees to it, the Menendez brothers would
- 2:56Speaker 3: still need approval from the state Parole Board WI each.
- 3:00Speaker 3: California Governor Gavin Newsom would have one hundred and fifty
- 3:03Speaker 3: days to review the board's decision. This case has resurfaced
- 3:07Speaker 3: in public interest, partly due to a recent Netflix series
- 3:11Speaker 3: highlighting the brother's story. Governor k Newsom recently discussed the
- 3:15Speaker 3: case on iHeartRadio, mentioning that Gascon's recommendation and public opinion
- 3:20Speaker 3: are under review. The US government has imposed new sanctions
- 3:25Speaker 3: on senior operatives tied to the Mexican cartel La Linea,
- 3:29Speaker 3: a violent drug trafficking group linked to the Warez cartel.
- 3:33Speaker 3: We hear details now from crime Online Sidney Sumner.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Five individuals and two companies now face economic restrictions aimed
- 3:41Speaker 2: at curbing the flow of fentanyl and synthetic drug smuggled
- 3:44Speaker 2: from Chihuahua, Mexico, into the US. This action targets a
- 3:48Speaker 2: primary source of fentanyl, a deadly opioid contributing to America's
- 3:52Speaker 2: overdose crisis. Between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty one, drug
- 3:56Speaker 2: overdose deaths in the US rose more than sevenfold, since
- 4:00Speaker 2: CDC data shows a slight decline in twenty twenty three.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Over the past two years, the Treasury has sanctioned more
- 4:06Speaker 2: than three hundred and fifty individuals and entities involved in
- 4:10Speaker 2: drug trafficking. Most fentanyl smuggled into the US originates in
- 4:13Speaker 2: Mexico and China, with nearly all precursor chemicals for the
- 4:17Speaker 2: drug coming from China, according to the DEA. In a
- 4:20Speaker 2: statement released in recent days, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Audieima
- 4:25Speaker 2: warned that quote if law Linia continues to directly contribute
- 4:29Speaker 2: to the proliferation of deadly fentanyl throughout our communities. The
- 4:32Speaker 2: Treasury will continue to use every tool in our arsenal
- 4:35Speaker 2: to go after their criminal activity. President Biden has stepped
- 4:39Speaker 2: up efforts against ventanyl traffickers, including the bipartisan Fendoff Fentanyl Act,
- 4:44Speaker 2: which recognizes international fentanyl trafficking as a national emergency.
- 4:48Speaker 3: The issue of fentanyl trafficking, closely linked to border and
- 4:52Speaker 3: immigration debates, remains a significant focus of the twenty four
- 4:56Speaker 3: presidential race.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Thanks John Jamie val Daz gets an an argument with
- 5:00Speaker 1: his wife when she picks up an extra shift on
- 5:03Speaker 1: their day off. Valdez had cancel plans to see his
- 5:06Speaker 1: daughter because he thought he was spending the day with
- 5:08Speaker 1: his wife. He drives from their Boonsal Arkansas home to
- 5:11Speaker 1: his wife's job to apologize, but she refuses to see him,
- 5:15Speaker 1: so he goes back home packs the bag to make
- 5:18Speaker 1: the trip to ozark to see his daughter. A week later,
- 5:21Speaker 1: no one's heard from Jamie Valdez. A family friend stumbles
- 5:24Speaker 1: on his car abandoned near a lake. The seats are
- 5:27Speaker 1: torn up and under the hood, the car's computer system
- 5:31Speaker 1: and battery aren't dismantled. His phone last pained from the
- 5:35Speaker 1: middle of the lake. Searches in the area turn up nothing.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Jamie Valdez forty seven, now missing three years. Jamie Valdaz
- 5:44Speaker 1: Hispanic five nine, two hundred pounds, brown hair, brown eyes.
- 5:48Speaker 1: If you have info on Jamie Valdez, called Boonville, Arkansas
- 5:52Speaker 1: PD four seven nine six seven five three five zero eight.
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- 6:04Speaker 1: Stories with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.