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State Declares Iryna Zarutska Accused Killer Incompetent For Trial | Crime Alert 04.10.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update, breaking crime news Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Silvani. A complex legal battle is unfolding over the
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  Speaker 1: death of a twenty three year old Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte.
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  Speaker 1: After a state court ruled the suspect incompetent to stand trial,
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  Speaker 1: federal prosecutors are stepping in to ensure the case does
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  Speaker 1: in stall indefinitely. On August twenty second, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: Irena Zarutska was traveling on the Links Blue Line when,
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  Speaker 1: according to investigators, thirty four year old de Carlos Brown
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  Speaker 1: Junior pulled a knife and stabbed her three times without provocation.
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  Speaker 1: The sheer randomness of the attack left passengers in a
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  Speaker 1: state of shock. Charlotte nine one one police fire medic
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  Speaker 1: you said a mail stout is the one for no reason?
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  Speaker 1: Did an need medic? You glieve it? Okay? Cal Brown
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  Speaker 1: was apprehended moments later, but the road to a conviction
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  Speaker 1: has hit a major snack. This week, court documents revealed
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  Speaker 1: that a state evaluation determined Brown is incapable to proceed
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  Speaker 1: in his upcoming criminal trial, effectively halting the North Carolina prosecution.
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  Speaker 1: The defense has pointed to a long history of mental illness,
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  Speaker 1: supported by Brown's own statements to authorities and family members.
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  Speaker 1: A year before the attack, Brown called nine to one
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  Speaker 1: one from a hospital claiming he was being manipulated by
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  Speaker 1: external forces, leading to a welfare check in Brown's arrest.
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  Speaker 1: My body got exposed to to Seario. I need you
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  Speaker 1: guys to investigate. It's not if I get a m
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  Speaker 1: roy and they see what the see what it is,
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  Speaker 1: what they gonna say. We gotta get surgery and get
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  Speaker 1: that out so we can investigate what the hands on
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  Speaker 1: your back. He's being arrested for missus nom on one.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me as I told you you didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: police emergency and that if you call back over some
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  Speaker 1: nonsense that we wouldn't have to arrest you for issuse
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  Speaker 1: inn on wana. While the state cases stalled, the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice is moving forward. Assistant Attorney General Harmeit Dillon
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  Speaker 1: confirmed that the state's competency ruling is completely separate from
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  Speaker 1: federal proceedings. Brown remains in federal custody, and the US
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office in Charlotte is preparing for its own independent
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric evaluation. Even while behind bars, Brown has continued to
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  Speaker 1: deny personal responsibility for the killing. In a jailhouse call
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  Speaker 1: to his sister, he blamed his actions on materials he
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  Speaker 1: believes were implanted in his brain. Because Brown is in
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  Speaker 1: federal custody, the state's process for restoring his competency is
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  Speaker 1: currently on hold. The move by the doj ensures that
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  Speaker 1: even if the state case remains frozen, the federal charges
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  Speaker 1: provide a parallel path towards a resolution. More crime and
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  Speaker 1: justice news after this. A fifty eight year old disabled
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  Speaker 1: woman is recovering today after authorities says she was kept
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  Speaker 1: prisoner in a basement for two years, starved, isolated, and
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  Speaker 1: used for her disability checks. On March fifteenth, a Saginaw
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  Speaker 1: man was stunned to find an intruder in his living room.
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  Speaker 1: A woman described as skin and bones and looking decades
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  Speaker 1: older than her actual age had used a metal pike
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  Speaker 1: to smash through his window to escape the house next door.
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  Speaker 1: The neighbor called nine one one, and the victim told
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  Speaker 1: police she had been held captive by her sister in law,
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  Speaker 1: forty eight year old Tasha Beeman, since her husband's death
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. She claimed she was rarely fed,
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  Speaker 1: had no access to running water. And was forced to
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  Speaker 1: live on an old mattress while a radio blared nearby
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  Speaker 1: twenty four seven to drown out any noise she might make.
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  Speaker 1: Saginaw Police Detective Sergeant Jeff Dowd reported that officers found
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  Speaker 1: a lock on the basement door, a mattress on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and a five gallon bucket of urine. The victim only
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  Speaker 1: managed to escape when she realized she was home alone
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  Speaker 1: and found the strength to force a door open. At
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, staff treated the woman for severe malnourishment, stating
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  Speaker 1: she would likely have died if she hadn't escaped when
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  Speaker 1: she did. Tasha Beaman was arrested on April second and
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  Speaker 1: hit with felony charges of vulnerable adult abuse and unlawful imprisonment.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators suspected Beeman was keeping the woman captive, specifically to
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  Speaker 1: collect her disability payments. Following the victim's rescue, Beaman reportedly
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  Speaker 1: made forty separate calls to the hospital where her sister
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  Speaker 1: in law was being treated. She is currently being held
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  Speaker 1: at the Saginaw County Jail and is scheduled for a
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  Speaker 1: preliminary examination on April twentieth. As for the victim, she
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  Speaker 1: remains under medical care as she begins the long process
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  Speaker 1: of physical recovery. A Florida woman who treated thousands of
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  Speaker 1: patients while posing as a licensed nurse has learned her fate.
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  Speaker 1: Between June twenty twenty four and January twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine year old Autumn Bardisa worked at Advent Health
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  Speaker 1: and Palm Coast. Investigators say she landed a job as
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  Speaker 1: an advanced nurse technician by claiming she was a recent
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  Speaker 1: graduate awaiting her licensing exam. To finalize her credentials, she
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  Speaker 1: allegedly stole the license number of a legitimate nurse who
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  Speaker 1: shared her first name. When hospital staff noticed inconsistencies in
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  Speaker 1: her records, Bardisa claimed she had simply changed her last
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  Speaker 1: name after getting married, though she never produced the paperwork
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  Speaker 1: to prove it. The deception unraveled when a suspicious coworker
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  Speaker 1: independently checked her credentials. They discovered that Bardisa's only real
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  Speaker 1: medical qualification was a Certified Nursing Assistant license, and even
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  Speaker 1: that had expired. By the time the Flagler County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office launched its seven month investigation, Bardisa had already interacted
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  Speaker 1: with thousands of patients. This week, Bartisa pleaded no contest
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  Speaker 1: to charges of unlicensed practice of health care and fraudulent
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  Speaker 1: use of identification. Circuit Judge Jawn Nichols withheld education, sentencing
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  Speaker 1: Bardisa to five years of probation and fifty hours of
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  Speaker 1: community service. As part of the plea deal, Bardisa must
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  Speaker 1: write a formal letter of apology to the nurse whose
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  Speaker 1: identity she stole, and she is strictly barred from working
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  Speaker 1: in the medical field for the duration of her probation.
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  Speaker 1: The Sheriff's Office is still encouraging any one who believes
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  Speaker 1: they were treated by Bardissa during her time at Advent
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  Speaker 1: Health to come forward. For the latest crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Silvanni