WEBVTT - Four Arrested in Nantucket Extension Cord Kidnapping Beatdown | Crime Alert 07.21.26

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<v Speaker 1>Crime al Art hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Sidney Silbonnie. A violent and terrifying incident on the island

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<v Speaker 1>of Nantucket, Massachusetts, has left four local residents facing severe

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<v Speaker 1>criminal charges after a victim was brutally beaten and discovered

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<v Speaker 1>bound with an extension cord. According to the Nantucket Police Department,

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<v Speaker 1>officers responded around four to thirty pm local time on

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<v Speaker 1>Thursday following reports of an attack occurring at a residence

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<v Speaker 1>on Essex Road. Upon arrival, Massachusetts State Police troopers located

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<v Speaker 1>a twenty eight year old man tied up with an

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<v Speaker 1>extension cord. The victim was bleeding heavily from his nose

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<v Speaker 1>and mouth, suffering from facial scrapes and severe trauma. Paramedics

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<v Speaker 1>from the Nantucket Fire Department treated him at the scene

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<v Speaker 1>before transferring him to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital for non

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<v Speaker 1>life threatening injuries. Police arrested four local men thirty one

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<v Speaker 1>year old cal Ray Brown, thirty year old Dijon Hazel,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty one year old Alvin Barnett, and thirty four year

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<v Speaker 1>old Newton Lawrence. Investigators believed the four men initially confronted

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<v Speaker 1>the victim in the parking lot of the winter Park

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<v Speaker 1>playground at forty three Essex Road, where they punched, kicked,

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<v Speaker 1>and beat him with a wooden steak. The suspects then

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<v Speaker 1>forcibly kidnapped the man, dragging him to a home at

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<v Speaker 1>twenty four Essex Road, the shared residents of Barnet and Lawrence.

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<v Speaker 1>While held inside, the victim told police he believed one

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<v Speaker 1>of the men struck him with a hammer. Brown Hazel, Barnett,

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<v Speaker 1>and Lawrence are each charged with one count of kidnapping,

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<v Speaker 1>one count of assault, sixteen counts of assault and battery,

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<v Speaker 1>and four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

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<v Speaker 1>All four suspects were released on bail and appeared for

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<v Speaker 1>arraignment on Monday. Nantucket Police had not publicly disclosed whether

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<v Speaker 1>the victim had a prior relationship with any of his

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<v Speaker 1>alleged attackers, and a potential motive is not known at

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<v Speaker 1>this stage of the investigation. More crime and justice news

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<v Speaker 1>after this. A US Army soldier and his girlfriend and

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<v Speaker 1>face federal charges in Georgia after prosecutors say they starved

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<v Speaker 1>their young son to death inside military housing and severely

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<v Speaker 1>neglected three dogs. A federal grand jury returned eight criminal

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<v Speaker 1>counts against twenty three year old Ladarian McRae of Valdosta, Georgia,

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty two year old Emma Bradshaw of Carson City, Nevada,

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<v Speaker 1>on June fourteenth. According to press releases from the US

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<v Speaker 1>Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia and court documents,

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<v Speaker 1>the indictment alleges that between January fourteenth and January twenty eighth,

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<v Speaker 1>while residing in military housing at Fort Benning, Georgia, McCray

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<v Speaker 1>and Bradshaw wilfully deprived their son, identified in court records

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<v Speaker 1>as LM, of necessary sustenance, resulting in his death. Prosecutors

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<v Speaker 1>alleged the couple lied to special agents of the Department

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<v Speaker 1>of Army Criminal Investigation Division, claiming their child showed no

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<v Speaker 1>signs of illness before his death. The indictment also accuses

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<v Speaker 1>McCray and Bradshaw of neglecting three family dogs, a female

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<v Speaker 1>Docs and a male he and a female Doverman. Prosecutors

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<v Speaker 1>say the couple failed to provide adequate food, water, sanitary conditions,

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<v Speaker 1>and ventilation. The docs and died from neglect, and investigators

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<v Speaker 1>found its body discarded in an outdoor trash bin, while

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<v Speaker 1>the two surviving dogs were severely malnourished. McCrae was an

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<v Speaker 1>active duty soldier who had recently been transferred to Fort

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<v Speaker 1>Benning at the time of the alleged crimes, and per prosecutors,

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<v Speaker 1>he is currently subject to discharge proceedings from the United

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<v Speaker 1>States Army. Charges against the couple include felony, murder, cruelty

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<v Speaker 1>to children, making false statements, and animal cruelty. If convicted,

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<v Speaker 1>McCray and Bradshaw face up to life in prison. Both

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<v Speaker 1>pleaded not guilty and were released on ten thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 1>unsecured bonds. A Michigan man was arrested and charged with

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<v Speaker 1>a decades old murder of a former coworker in Alaska

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<v Speaker 1>after repeatedly tipping authorities off to the alleged crime. Christopher Popps,

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<v Speaker 1>a fifty four year old Michigan resident, was arrested in

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<v Speaker 1>July on a murder indictment over a year after the

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<v Speaker 1>Alaska State Troopers received an anonymous tip confessing to a

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety three murder in Fairbanks. According to a press

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<v Speaker 1>release posted Friday by the state Police Agency, after the

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<v Speaker 1>tip arrived on January twenty second, twenty twenty five, the

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<v Speaker 1>Alaska Bureau of Investigation's Cold Case Investigation Unit began reviewing

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<v Speaker 1>the case. Authorities had to wait several months until spring

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<v Speaker 1>to search the area described because it was dark and

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<v Speaker 1>covered in snow. In May twenty twenty five, investigators traveled

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<v Speaker 1>off Stee's Highway and located human remains inside a barrel

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<v Speaker 1>down a steep embankment. Alaska State Trooper spokesperson Austin McDaniel

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<v Speaker 1>stated they were able to locate a beryl with human

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<v Speaker 1>remains in it, got that down to the State Medical

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<v Speaker 1>Examiner's Office, who determined that it was a homicide. The

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<v Speaker 1>Alaska State Medical Examiner's Office identified the remains as thirty

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<v Speaker 1>four year old Patrick Orvil Darth, who was reported missing

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<v Speaker 1>to Fairbanks police in November nineteen ninety three. Investigators identified

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<v Speaker 1>the anonymous tipster as b Pops, who had previously submitted

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<v Speaker 1>multiple anonymous tips to different Alaska law enforcement agencies, claiming

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<v Speaker 1>responsibility for Darth's murder. As for why Pops had been

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<v Speaker 1>attempting to tip authorities off to his alleged crime, the

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<v Speaker 1>spokesperson told reporters that he did not have additional information

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<v Speaker 1>to share. Spokesperson McDaniel said Pops and Earth were former

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<v Speaker 1>co workers in Fairbanks, explaining based on our investigation, we

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<v Speaker 1>determined there was an altercation at an auto shop which

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<v Speaker 1>led Pops to shoot Dearth. A Fairbanks grand jury indicted

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<v Speaker 1>Pops on two counts of second degree murder on June

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<v Speaker 1>twenty fifth. On July sixteenth, Michigan State Police arrested Pops

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<v Speaker 1>near Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he remains in county jail pending

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<v Speaker 1>extradition to Alaska. Dearth's next of kin have been notified.

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<v Speaker 1>For more crime and justice news, be sure to join

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<v Speaker 1>and now streaming on tub with this crime alert. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Sidney Silvanni