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Crime Alert 10.26.23 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Prime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news now. Children
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  Speaker 1: playing in the front yard of a Denver home pelted
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  Speaker 1: with water by angry neighbor Jason Arroyo. When Patricia Cruz,
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  Speaker 1: fifty five, confronts him, he leagues, but he comes back
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  Speaker 1: with a gun. Six shots fired, two people hit, one
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  Speaker 1: of them Cruise Cruse dies of her injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks later, Nancy Cruz was defending her grandchildren who
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  Speaker 2: were playing near a Royo's fence. Cruz's son was shot
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  Speaker 2: and her granddaughter was also injured by shrapnel. Arroyo took
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  Speaker 2: off after the shooting, weaving in and out of neighboring
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  Speaker 2: yards to avoid cops. Arroyo was eventually cornered in a
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  Speaker 2: detached garage and was taken into custody without a struggle.
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  Speaker 1: Arroyo thirty three, now convicted of murder ie facing mandatory
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  Speaker 1: life behind bars no parole. An Iowa woman flying home
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  Speaker 1: from Kenya declares a small box containing giraffe faces. It's
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  Speaker 1: in her luggage. She plans to make jewelry from the giraffe.
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  Speaker 1: The ses Federal Customs Agency pooh pooh the plans and
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  Speaker 1: destroys the rather large pellets over disease concerns. No charges
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  Speaker 1: pending since it was declared, but oh what a waste.
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  Speaker 1: More crime in justice news after this. Now with the
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  Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Onlines John Lenley.
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  Speaker 3: In testimony presented during the trial of three Tacoma, Washington
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  Speaker 3: police officers accused of Manuel Ellis's death, a forensic pathology
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  Speaker 3: expert has stated that Ellis probably would have survived if
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  Speaker 3: the cops had not restrained him. For more, we turned
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  Speaker 3: to Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
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  Speaker 2: Our friends with the Seattle Times have reported that doctor
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  Speaker 2: Roger Mitchell, the former chief medical examiner for Washington d C,
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  Speaker 2: issued the remark and upheld the conclusion of former Pierce
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  Speaker 2: County Medical examiner doctor Thomas Clark that Ellis died as
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  Speaker 2: a result of physical restraint induced oxygen deprivation, a homicide.
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  Speaker 2: Charges of murder and manslaughter have been brought against white
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  Speaker 2: officers Matthew Collins and Christopher Burbank for the March third,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty death of Ellis, a thirty three year old
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  Speaker 2: black man. Asian American officer Timothy Rankin is accused of manslaughter.
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  Speaker 2: According to Collins and Burbank, the first cops to confront Ellis.
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  Speaker 2: Their reason for approaching the victim was because he was
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  Speaker 2: harassing vehicle passengers as he walked through an intersection. All
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  Speaker 2: three defendants have entered not guilty police and are still
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  Speaker 2: unpaid leave from the Tacoma Police Department. Patty Ekes, the
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  Speaker 2: special prosecutor, questioned Mitchell regarding the medical evidence that supported
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  Speaker 2: his conclusions. One of the most important ones, he claimed,
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  Speaker 2: was the existence of acidosis, a disorder suggestive of low
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  Speaker 2: oxygen levels. According to Mitchell, people who are experiencing low
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  Speaker 2: oxygen naturally want to breathe, and the body naturally heals
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  Speaker 2: acidosis by forcing them to breathe heavily. According to Mitchell's testimony,
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  Speaker 2: Ellis was forced to lie on his stomach by the
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  Speaker 2: police and was unable to find a posture that would
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  Speaker 2: allow him to breathe. Ellis's final words, according to the prosecution,
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  Speaker 2: were quote, I can't breathe.
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  Speaker 3: The trial that began October third, is anticipated to continue
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  Speaker 3: four days a week through December. The search of Google
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  Speaker 3: user's keyword history to identify suspects in a fatal arson
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  Speaker 3: fire in twenty twenty has been upheld by Colorado's highest court.
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  Speaker 3: Critics have referred to this method as a digital dragnet
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  Speaker 3: that threatens to violate people's privacy and their constitutional rights
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  Speaker 3: against arbitrary searches and seizures. The Colorado Supreme Court stressed
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  Speaker 3: that it was making a decision based solely on the
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  Speaker 3: facts of this particular case and caution that it was
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  Speaker 3: not issuing a quote broad proclamation regarding the legitimacy of
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  Speaker 3: such warrants. The matter brought before the court was a
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  Speaker 3: search warrant issued by Denver police, which demanded that Google
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  Speaker 3: give the IP addresses of all those who had looked
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  Speaker 3: up the address of the house that caught fire and
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  Speaker 3: killed five immigrants from the West African country of Senegal
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty. Now to California as federal prosecutors say
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  Speaker 3: that three family members have entered guilty pleas to conspiracy
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  Speaker 3: for their part in a scheme that transported six hundred
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  Speaker 3: million dollars worth of stolen catalytic converters from California to
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey once again crime Online Sidney Sumner.
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  Speaker 2: According to a statement from the U. S. Attorney's Office,
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  Speaker 2: brothers Tao Souvong and Andrew Vong, along with their mother,
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  Speaker 2: Monica Mua were part of a quote national network of thieves, dealers,
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  Speaker 2: and processors that supplied the stolen auto anti smog devices
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  Speaker 2: to a metal refinery for more than six hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors revealed that twenty one individuals from New Jersey in
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  Speaker 2: California had been accused in this investigation. The three family
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  Speaker 2: members from Sacramento entered a guilty plea to planning to
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  Speaker 2: transfer the devices in exchange for almost thirty eight million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors reported that Tao Souvong entered a guilty plea to
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine counts pertaining to money laundering.
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  Speaker 3: Platinum and other valuable medals are found in catalytic converters,
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  Speaker 3: which are easily stolen.
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  Speaker 1: Kowski gets a restaurant job in Omaha, Nebraska, where he's
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  Speaker 1: home from college for the summer. He gets a call
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  Speaker 1: from Mark asking him to come in early. The nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old agrees, plans to walk over four miles there,
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  Speaker 1: but managers say they'll arrange a ride with another Forzzoli's coworker.
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  Speaker 1: Jowalski plans to meet the coworker at his old school,
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  Speaker 1: Benson High, a much more familiar walk just a half
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  Speaker 1: mile from his home. A neighbor sees Jowaski pulling trash
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  Speaker 1: cans up the driveway, then walking toward the school. The
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  Speaker 1: coworker waits for Djowalski till he's going to be late,
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  Speaker 1: but Jowaski never shows up. Security footage from the school
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  Speaker 1: confirmed Jason never made it. Police initially treat the disappearance
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  Speaker 1: as a runaway, not investigating until ten days later. Jason Jewalski,
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  Speaker 1: then nineteen, now missing twenty two years. If you have
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  Speaker 1: info on Jason Jowalski's disappearance, please call Omaha PD for
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime injustice news, go to crimeonline dot
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  Speaker 1: com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace M.