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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. Early morning, Houston,

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Speaker 1: Texas driver's spot. Free dogs frolicking along the Katie Freeway.

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Speaker 1: The fate of their owner, thirty two year old Kristen

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Speaker 1: Chevez much darker. Police called to her home. When they arrive,

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Speaker 1: her husband, thirty four year old chance Zane Chevez, stands

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Speaker 1: in the doorway covered in blood, hands up. He surrenders

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Speaker 1: without incident. Inside, they find Kristin unresponsive in a bedroom.

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Speaker 1: She suffered blunt force trauma. A broken clothing iron lies nearby.

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Speaker 1: Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. The fourth dog,

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Speaker 1: a docs and named Peaches, also dead on the roadside.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Kristin was so badly beaten she had to be

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Speaker 2: identified through DNA analysis. Kristin's mother, Laura Bell, says the

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Speaker 2: Shaveaza's marriage deteriorated and it was not a good situation,

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Speaker 2: but Kristin remained by her husband's side, hoping things would improve.

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Speaker 2: Chavez is charged with murder and his bond initially set

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Speaker 2: at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. However, a second

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Speaker 2: hearing on bail arguments, Chauvez refused to leave his cell

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Speaker 2: for the appearance, delaying the hearing for several hours. Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: a judge agreed to raise the bond amount.

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Speaker 1: Bond five hundred thousand dollars. Prosecutors say animal cruelty charges

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Speaker 1: to follow. For a m Memphis, gunshots ring out, jerking

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Speaker 1: Gerald Kirkwood and his female friend awake in bed. Kirkwood,

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Speaker 1: thirty three, looks down to find his one year old pitbull,

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Speaker 1: Orio with a paw caught in the trigger guard of

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Speaker 1: a gun and what he calls a freak accident. The

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Speaker 1: gun goes off, grazing Kirkwood's thigh. Police respond. Pyramedics treat

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Speaker 1: Kirkwood at the scene, then transport him in non critical condition.

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Speaker 1: Companion leaves before officers arrive, reportedly taking the gun with her.

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Speaker 1: Police haven't said if the firearm or the woman was located.

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Speaker 1: A reporter doesn't find Kirkwood home, but gets a chance

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Speaker 1: to meet Oreo State's witness. More crime in Justice news

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Speaker 1: after this it's latest crimeate Justice breaking news Crime Onlines

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Speaker 1: John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: We began in New York as a Brooklyn mother and

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Speaker 3: her two young daughters are dead, struck and killed while

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Speaker 3: out for a walk by a driver police say had

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Speaker 3: no business being behind the wheel. A four year old

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Speaker 3: boy also hit as now fighting for his life. The

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Speaker 3: crash has devastated a community and sent shockwaves across the city.

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Speaker 3: Authorities say Miriam Yuremi was driving on a suspended license

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Speaker 3: when she sped through a red light at a busy intersection,

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Speaker 3: rear ended another car, and then careened into the family

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Speaker 3: in the crosswalk. The impact was so violent that her

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Speaker 3: audie flipped over. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tish called

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Speaker 3: it a horrific tragedy, adding that Euremi should never have

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Speaker 3: been on the road. Mayor Eric Adams described the loss

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Speaker 3: as extremely painful and said the entire city mourns for

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Speaker 3: the victims. Uremi, who was among those injured in the crash,

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Speaker 3: now faces multiple charges, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

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Speaker 3: In a significant development on the Las Vegas Strip, Resorts

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Speaker 3: World faces a hefty penalty over allegations tied to illegal

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Speaker 3: gaming activities. Our Sydney Sumner delves into the details surrounding

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Speaker 3: this landmark case.

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Speaker 2: Resorts World Las Vegas, a prominent fixture on the strip,

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Speaker 2: has been fined ten point five million dollars by Nevada

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Speaker 2: gaming regulators. This marks the second largest fine ever imposed

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Speaker 2: by the Nevada Gaming Commission. The penalty addresses allegations that

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Speaker 2: the casino engaged with individuals linked to illegal book making

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Speaker 2: in those with prior gambling related felony convictions. Central to

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Speaker 2: these allegations is Matthew Boyer, a Southern California book maker.

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Speaker 2: Boyer accepted thousands of sport bets from Epei Mizuhara, the

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Speaker 2: former interpreter for Baseball Star Show hey Otani. Mizuhara was

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Speaker 2: convicted of bank fraud and tax eVision after embezzling nearly

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Speaker 2: seventeen million dollars from Otani to cover gambling debts. He

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Speaker 2: was sentenced to fifty seven months in federal prison in

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Speaker 2: order to pay restitution. The Nevada Gaming Control Boards complaint

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Speaker 2: highlighted that Resorts World permitted Boger to gamble over an

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Speaker 2: eighty day span across approximately fifteen months. During this period,

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Speaker 2: Boger incurred losses exceeding six point six million dollars. Despite

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Speaker 2: these substantial losses, the casino extended various incentives to Boger,

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Speaker 2: including complimentary gifts, discounts, and private jet flights. In response

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Speaker 2: to the settlement. Resorts World and its parent company neither

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Speaker 2: admitted nor denied the allegations.

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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Resorts World has agreed to implement leadership changes and

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Speaker 3: enforce stricter anti money laundering protocols.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Rice. Still cooking on the stove the first

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Speaker 1: sign something's wrong. December sixteen, forty four year old Chen

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Speaker 1: Sook Kim aka Gina Basher's vanishes from her Homewood, Alabama home.

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Speaker 1: She lives in the basement of her hair salon. Sheer exposed,

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Speaker 1: which police say is also a front for a brothel.

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Speaker 1: Just one week before she disappears, the business is rated.

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Speaker 1: When police check her living area, they find no signs

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Speaker 1: of struggle, but it doesn't look like she leaves willingly.

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Speaker 1: Her id personal items and both of her cars left behind,

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Speaker 1: but Shears has black hair, brown eyes, facial scars from

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Speaker 1: chicken pox, a circular scar on her upper arm or shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Shears Asian five to two one hundred and fifteen pounds.

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Speaker 1: If you have info, please contact Homewood PD two zero

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Speaker 1: five three three two sixty two hundred. For the latest

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Speaker 1: and solve unsolved homicides with this crime alert. I'm Nancy

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