Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm
Speaker 1: Sidney Silbonnie. A violent and terrifying incident on the island
Speaker 1: of Nantucket, Massachusetts, has left four local residents facing severe
Speaker 1: criminal charges after a victim was brutally beaten and discovered
Speaker 1: bound with an extension cord. According to the Nantucket Police Department,
Speaker 1: officers responded around four to thirty pm local time on
Speaker 1: Thursday following reports of an attack occurring at a residence
Speaker 1: on Essex Road. Upon arrival, Massachusetts State Police troopers located
Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old man tied up with an
Speaker 1: extension cord. The victim was bleeding heavily from his nose
Speaker 1: and mouth, suffering from facial scrapes and severe trauma. Paramedics
Speaker 1: from the Nantucket Fire Department treated him at the scene
Speaker 1: before transferring him to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital for non
Speaker 1: life threatening injuries. Police arrested four local men thirty one
Speaker 1: year old cal Ray Brown, thirty year old Dijon Hazel,
Speaker 1: twenty one year old Alvin Barnett, and thirty four year
Speaker 1: old Newton Lawrence. Investigators believed the four men initially confronted
Speaker 1: the victim in the parking lot of the winter Park
Speaker 1: playground at forty three Essex Road, where they punched, kicked,
Speaker 1: and beat him with a wooden steak. The suspects then
Speaker 1: forcibly kidnapped the man, dragging him to a home at
Speaker 1: twenty four Essex Road, the shared residents of Barnet and Lawrence.
Speaker 1: While held inside, the victim told police he believed one
Speaker 1: of the men struck him with a hammer. Brown Hazel, Barnett,
Speaker 1: and Lawrence are each charged with one count of kidnapping,
Speaker 1: one count of assault, sixteen counts of assault and battery,
Speaker 1: and four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Speaker 1: All four suspects were released on bail and appeared for
Speaker 1: arraignment on Monday. Nantucket Police had not publicly disclosed whether
Speaker 1: the victim had a prior relationship with any of his
Speaker 1: alleged attackers, and a potential motive is not known at
Speaker 1: this stage of the investigation. More crime and justice news
Speaker 1: after this. A US Army soldier and his girlfriend and
Speaker 1: face federal charges in Georgia after prosecutors say they starved
Speaker 1: their young son to death inside military housing and severely
Speaker 1: neglected three dogs. A federal grand jury returned eight criminal
Speaker 1: counts against twenty three year old Ladarian McRae of Valdosta, Georgia,
Speaker 1: and twenty two year old Emma Bradshaw of Carson City, Nevada,
Speaker 1: on June fourteenth. According to press releases from the US
Speaker 1: Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia and court documents,
Speaker 1: the indictment alleges that between January fourteenth and January twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: while residing in military housing at Fort Benning, Georgia, McCray
Speaker 1: and Bradshaw wilfully deprived their son, identified in court records
Speaker 1: as LM, of necessary sustenance, resulting in his death. Prosecutors
Speaker 1: alleged the couple lied to special agents of the Department
Speaker 1: of Army Criminal Investigation Division, claiming their child showed no
Speaker 1: signs of illness before his death. The indictment also accuses
Speaker 1: McCray and Bradshaw of neglecting three family dogs, a female
Speaker 1: Docs and a male he and a female Doverman. Prosecutors
Speaker 1: say the couple failed to provide adequate food, water, sanitary conditions,
Speaker 1: and ventilation. The docs and died from neglect, and investigators
Speaker 1: found its body discarded in an outdoor trash bin, while
Speaker 1: the two surviving dogs were severely malnourished. McCrae was an
Speaker 1: active duty soldier who had recently been transferred to Fort
Speaker 1: Benning at the time of the alleged crimes, and per prosecutors,
Speaker 1: he is currently subject to discharge proceedings from the United
Speaker 1: States Army. Charges against the couple include felony, murder, cruelty
Speaker 1: to children, making false statements, and animal cruelty. If convicted,
Speaker 1: McCray and Bradshaw face up to life in prison. Both
Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty and were released on ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: unsecured bonds. A Michigan man was arrested and charged with
Speaker 1: a decades old murder of a former coworker in Alaska
Speaker 1: after repeatedly tipping authorities off to the alleged crime. Christopher Popps,
Speaker 1: a fifty four year old Michigan resident, was arrested in
Speaker 1: July on a murder indictment over a year after the
Speaker 1: Alaska State Troopers received an anonymous tip confessing to a
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three murder in Fairbanks. According to a press
Speaker 1: release posted Friday by the state Police Agency, after the
Speaker 1: tip arrived on January twenty second, twenty twenty five, the
Speaker 1: Alaska Bureau of Investigation's Cold Case Investigation Unit began reviewing
Speaker 1: the case. Authorities had to wait several months until spring
Speaker 1: to search the area described because it was dark and
Speaker 1: covered in snow. In May twenty twenty five, investigators traveled
Speaker 1: off Stee's Highway and located human remains inside a barrel
Speaker 1: down a steep embankment. Alaska State Trooper spokesperson Austin McDaniel
Speaker 1: stated they were able to locate a beryl with human
Speaker 1: remains in it, got that down to the State Medical
Speaker 1: Examiner's Office, who determined that it was a homicide. The
Speaker 1: Alaska State Medical Examiner's Office identified the remains as thirty
Speaker 1: four year old Patrick Orvil Darth, who was reported missing
Speaker 1: to Fairbanks police in November nineteen ninety three. Investigators identified
Speaker 1: the anonymous tipster as b Pops, who had previously submitted
Speaker 1: multiple anonymous tips to different Alaska law enforcement agencies, claiming
Speaker 1: responsibility for Darth's murder. As for why Pops had been
Speaker 1: attempting to tip authorities off to his alleged crime, the
Speaker 1: spokesperson told reporters that he did not have additional information
Speaker 1: to share. Spokesperson McDaniel said Pops and Earth were former
Speaker 1: co workers in Fairbanks, explaining based on our investigation, we
Speaker 1: determined there was an altercation at an auto shop which
Speaker 1: led Pops to shoot Dearth. A Fairbanks grand jury indicted
Speaker 1: Pops on two counts of second degree murder on June
Speaker 1: twenty fifth. On July sixteenth, Michigan State Police arrested Pops
Speaker 1: near Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he remains in county jail pending
Speaker 1: extradition to Alaska. Dearth's next of kin have been notified.
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