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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Gray's breaking crime news now.

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Speaker 2: Name Guy gets.

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Speaker 1: In a drunken argument with his New York City taxi

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Speaker 1: driver when his payment cards decline, The driver asked him

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Speaker 1: to get out. He does, but when the driver follows him,

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Speaker 1: Guy shoves him to the ground, punches him in the stomach,

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Speaker 1: then wraps his hands around the driver's neck. He eventually

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Speaker 1: lets go. It takes off in the cab while the

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Speaker 1: forty seven year old driver tries to catch his breath.

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Speaker 1: A few miles later, Guy crashes the cab into a

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Speaker 1: parked car. He's quickly caught by police.

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Speaker 3: Nancy Guy ran from the scene of the crash on foot,

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Speaker 3: but only makes it about a bluff before he's putting cuffs.

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Speaker 3: Guy has one previous arrest for dui back in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty three. The taxi driver treated at the scene of

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Speaker 3: his attack, but did not require hospitalization. The NYC Taxi

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Speaker 3: and Limo Commission commented on the assault, quote violence against

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Speaker 3: the city's hard working drivers as deplorable, and we're grateful

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Speaker 3: to the NYPD for quickly bringing the individual who committed

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Speaker 3: this outrageous assault and theft into custody.

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Speaker 2: Mame Guy.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five, now charged with robbery, grand larceny, DUI, and assault.

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Speaker 1: A Florida man walks into a high tech restaurant that

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Speaker 1: uses robot servers twenty minutes before opening and asks if

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Speaker 1: he can use their restroom. Employees agree, but the man

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Speaker 1: quickly doubles back from the restroom and awkwardly tries to

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Speaker 1: carry one of their four feet tall robot watrons out

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Speaker 1: the door. Employees yell at him to stop, but the

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Speaker 1: man gets the bot loaded into the back of his car.

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Speaker 1: The robot's only inside the car about ten seconds before

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Speaker 1: employees wrestle the hot bot back into the restaurant and

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Speaker 1: tackle the thief. The robot worth nearly eighteen thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: but it's worthless outside the location where it's programmed to work.

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Speaker 1: The unnamed robot robber now facing grand larceny. I hate

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Speaker 1: to think of what he was going to do with

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Speaker 1: the robot waitress. More crime and justice news after this

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Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime

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Speaker 1: Onlines John Lemlight, A.

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Speaker 2: New York jury has convicted three men and a deadly

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Speaker 2: scheme that targeted clubgoers in Manhattan. Prosecutors say thirty seven

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Speaker 2: year old Jaquan Hamilton, thirty six year old Robert Demayo,

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Speaker 2: and thirty two year old Jacob Barasso befriended victims at

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Speaker 2: nightclubs and bars, drugged them, and then robbed them, leaving

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Speaker 2: two men dead. The victims, Julio Ramirez, a twenty five

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Speaker 2: year old social worker, and John Umberger, a thirty three

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Speaker 2: year old political consultant, were found dead weeks apart in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Medical examiners determined they had been given

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Speaker 2: a mix of fentanyl, cocaine, and other drugs before their

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Speaker 2: bank accounts were drained. Ramirez died in a taxi, while

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Speaker 2: Umberger was found in a townhouse. Their family suspected foul

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Speaker 2: play when they discovered unauthorized transactions from the men's accounts.

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Speaker 2: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg called the crimes callous and

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Speaker 2: driven by greed, saying he hopes the convictions bring some

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Speaker 2: comfort to the grieving families. Hamilton, Demayo, and Barroso were

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Speaker 2: found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and robbery. They now faced

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Speaker 2: twenty five years to life in prison. Investigators believed the

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Speaker 2: scheme was part of a broader pattern of drug facilitated

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Speaker 2: thefts in New York's night life scene. While similar crimes

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Speaker 2: have been linked to different groups, authorities say there is

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Speaker 2: no evidence they were working together. In a significant cybersecurity breach,

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Speaker 2: an Alabama man has confessed to hacking a federal agency's

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Speaker 2: social media account to manipulate cryptocurrency markets. We hear more

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Speaker 2: now from Sydney sumnerrov Crime online.

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Speaker 3: In January twenty twenty four, twenty five year old Eric

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Speaker 3: Council Junior from Ethens, Alabama, orchestrated a cyber attack on

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Speaker 3: the US Securities and Exchange Commission's ex account, formerly known

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Speaker 3: as Twitter. Utilizing a technique called simswapping, Council impersonated in

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Speaker 3: an individual with access to the SEC's account, convincing a

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Speaker 3: cell phone provider to issue him a sincard linked to

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Speaker 3: that person's number. This allowed him and his co conspirators

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Speaker 3: to post a fraudulent message falsely announcing the SEC's approval

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Speaker 3: of bitcoin exchange treated funds. The deceptive posts led to

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Speaker 3: an immediate surge in bitcoin's price, spiking by over one

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars before the SEC regained control of the account

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Speaker 3: and clarified the misinformation. Following the correction, Bitcoin's value dropped

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Speaker 3: by more than two thousand dollars. Council was arrested in

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Speaker 3: October twenty twenty four and recently pleaded guilty to identity

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Speaker 3: theft charges in a Washington, d c. Federal court. He

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Speaker 3: is scheduled for sentencing in May and faces up to

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Speaker 3: five years in prison, a two hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars fine, in three years of supervised release.

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Speaker 2: This case underscores the vulnerabilities in digital security and the

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Speaker 2: potential for significant financial impact through social media manipulation.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John. Jerry Welkins, twenty one, lays his Childresburg, Galaban

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Speaker 1: home ten am to get a haircut in nearby Lincoln,

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Speaker 1: driving a white twenty thirteen Yukon Excel with a personalized

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Speaker 1: University Alabama license plate number p Peter L. Love Y

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Speaker 1: Yellow s sally A Alpha x X ray. Peter's white

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Speaker 1: SUV spotted in Lincoln an hour later, but he did

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Speaker 1: not make it to the barber shop and he's never

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Speaker 1: been heard from since. The twenty one year old left

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Speaker 1: his cell phone and meds at home, and he hasn't

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Speaker 1: used a credit card or bank accounts since that day.

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Speaker 1: January three, twenty twenty five, Jerry six feet two hundred pounds,

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Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes, last wearing a T shirt and

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Speaker 1: blue jeans. He's classified as an endangered missing adult. If

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Speaker 1: you have info on the disappearance of Jerry Wilkins, please

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Speaker 1: contact Talladega County, Alabama Sheriffs two five six two four

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Speaker 1: unsolved homicides. With this crime alert, a Missy Grace