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Biker Killed by Rival Gang Members in California Bar | Crime Alert 04.30.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert.
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  Speaker 2: I mean see grace breaking crime news now March forward.
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  Speaker 2: Just after midnight, two motorcycle gang members violently attack a
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  Speaker 2: rival motorcycle gang member in a bar, shooting him dead.
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  Speaker 2: Clifford Michael Lavoy fifty one aka Buckshot, and Julian Pulito
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  Speaker 2: aka Jewels, approached the victim, demanding he show them a respect.
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  Speaker 2: They first choked and punched him in the face. When
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  Speaker 2: he tried to run, Polito allegedly pulled a gun and
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  Speaker 2: shot him several times in the back. Pallito leaves California
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  Speaker 2: cops on a nine hour chase across five counties. He's
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  Speaker 2: taken into custody after he crashes his motorcycle into a ditch.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy, the victim is part of the Vegos gang, while
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  Speaker 3: Lavoy and Polito belonged to the Mongols. It's unclear what
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  Speaker 3: exactly spurred the Mongols demand for respect and the subsequent
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  Speaker 3: violent attack. The victim fell through the doors of the
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  Speaker 3: bar and bled out on the sidewalk, and are also
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  Speaker 3: facing racketeering charges for the gang associated violence. Polito was
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  Speaker 3: not hospitalized for his injuries after crashing during the police chase.
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  Speaker 3: Polito faces life imprisonment, while the most Lavoy can receive
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  Speaker 3: is twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: Jillian Polito charged with murder. Clifford Michael Lavoy charged with
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  Speaker 2: assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Two year old Bowden
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  Speaker 2: Allen vanishes from his home Seligman, Arizona. Mom and dad,
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  Speaker 2: Sarah and Corey Allen, are focused on their one year
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  Speaker 2: old and don't notice Abouten, leaving. Forty search and rescue
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  Speaker 2: members and police officers scour the desert seven miles away
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  Speaker 2: from home. A rancher's dog, Beauford and Anatolian Pyrenees, finds
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  Speaker 2: a child in a tree and walks a mile back
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  Speaker 2: to the ranch house. Dunton recognizes the child from the
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  Speaker 2: news and emails cops, good dog, Piuford. More crime and
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  Speaker 2: justice news after this, the latest crimeate Justice breaking me
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  Speaker 2: is crime on Lines.
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  Speaker 1: John Lenley, a Long Island man, is facing federal charges
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  Speaker 1: for allegedly hiding his role in Rwanda's nineteen ninety four
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  Speaker 1: genocide to gain US citizenship. Sixty five year old Faustine
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  Speaker 1: Insabu Mukunzi was arrested and charged with immigration fraud. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: say he led local efforts during the genocide. Encouraging mass
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  Speaker 1: killings and sexual violence, then lied about it to US authorities.
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  Speaker 1: He was convicted in absentia by Rwandan court and sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to life in prison. Insabumukunzi entered the US as a
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  Speaker 1: refugee in two thousand and three and later applied for citizenship,
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  Speaker 1: denying any involvement in the violence. At his arrest, he
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  Speaker 1: reportedly told agents quote, I know I'm finished. His lawyer
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  Speaker 1: calls him a peaceful gardener and genocide survivor who plans
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  Speaker 1: to fight the charges. If convey he faces up to
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  Speaker 1: thirty years in prison. A former executive at a Detroit
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit will spend nearly two decades in federal prison for
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  Speaker 1: stealing millions meant to improve the city's riverfront. Crime Online
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  Speaker 1: correspondent Sidney Sumner has more for us.
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  Speaker 3: William Smith, the former chief financial officer of the Detroit
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  Speaker 3: Riverfront Conservancy, has been sentenced to nineteen years in federal
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  Speaker 3: prison for embezzling more than forty million dollars from the organization.
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  Speaker 3: Federal investigators say Smith's siphon funds over more than a decade,
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  Speaker 3: using the money for luxury travel, designer goods limousine rides,
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  Speaker 3: and to support side businesses, including real estate and a nightclub.
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  Speaker 3: The Conservancy, which relies on public and private funding, is
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  Speaker 3: behind the transformation of Detroit's riverfront into public parks and
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  Speaker 3: green space. Prosecutor say Smith's theft significantly delayed parts of
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  Speaker 3: that work. The fifty two year old Smith pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 3: last November to wire fraud and money laundering. At sentencing,
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  Speaker 3: he expressed remorse, telling the court he allowed quote selfishness
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  Speaker 3: and pride to leading down a destructive path. A judge
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  Speaker 3: also ordered him to repay forty four point three million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the setback, the Conservancy says it's moving forward with
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  Speaker 1: renewed oversight and remains focused on revitalizing Detroit's riverfront.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John. Police rush to a Greensboro, North Carolina, gas
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  Speaker 2: station after Marissa Carmichael, twenty five, makes a distressed nine
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  Speaker 2: one one call asking for a ride home. The mother
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  Speaker 2: of five speaks to the operator two minutes, saying a
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  Speaker 2: man ask her to pick up some things at the
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  Speaker 2: gas station but drove off while she's inside, He takes
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  Speaker 2: her phone, leaving her stranded. Marissa doesn't show up for
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  Speaker 2: work the next day, setting off alarms for her family,
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  Speaker 2: who fears she's being held against her will. Marissa light
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  Speaker 2: brown skin, five four, two hundred pounds long, black and
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  Speaker 2: blonde braids, heart tattoo on her face, butterfly tattoo near
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  Speaker 2: her eye. Last seen wearing a white tweedybird T shirt,
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  Speaker 2: blue jeans, yellow sneakers. Police ask anyone with information regarding
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  Speaker 2: Marissa Carmichael call crime Stoppers three three six three seven
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  Speaker 2: three one thousand. For the latest crime injustice news, go
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