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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, imancy, grace breaking crimes. Now, a twelve year

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Speaker 1: old main boy emails a suicide helpline detailing his plans

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Speaker 1: to shoot several people at school, teachers, students. The suicide

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Speaker 1: helpline reports the anonymous email to cops who traced the

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Speaker 1: IP address from where it was sent back to the school.

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Speaker 1: Maine State cops tie it back to the boy, who

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Speaker 1: arrest him at his home. Nancy. The boy, as student

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Speaker 1: at Surrey Elementary School, emailed a Washington State based helpline

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Speaker 1: while in class. The school was made aware of the

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Speaker 1: threat that same day, after students had been dismissed. It

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Speaker 1: was confirmed that there was no further credible threat, but

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Speaker 1: the schools still decided to increase security at the bus

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Speaker 1: drop off area. The next morning. The boy expelled from school,

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Speaker 1: now facing charges of terroristic threats. Leon Sykes Junior makes

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Speaker 1: a delivery to a Virginia nursing home, dropping off a

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Speaker 1: mattress cover for a hospital is patient. After the drop off,

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Speaker 1: Sykes enters a ninety two year old memory care patient's

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Speaker 1: room and sex assaults her. The woman wakes up in screams.

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Speaker 1: Sykes runs Chesterfield SVU believe Pykes targeted a patient in

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Speaker 1: memory care because they are less likely to be able

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Speaker 1: to speak about what happened to them and therefore vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: There isn't any evidence suggesting Pykes assaulted other patients, but

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Speaker 1: the SVU is still concerned by his brazenness. Sykes, forty eight,

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Speaker 1: charged with aggravated sex battery, a decent exposure and unlawful entry.

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Speaker 1: May he rot in Helle More crime and justice news

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Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime in justice breaking

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Speaker 1: Knees crime Alines. John Limley, a New Hampshire man, has

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Speaker 1: been convicted of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange business and

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Speaker 1: laundering over ten million dollars in proceeds of romance scams

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Speaker 1: and other Internet frauds. Following a two week federal trial.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors say Ian Freeman created a business that catered to

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Speaker 1: fraudsters by failing to register his business with the Financial

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Speaker 1: Crime's Enforcement Network as required by law, disabling know your

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Speaker 1: Customer features on bitcoin kiosks, and ensuring bitcoin customers didn't

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Speaker 1: tell him what they did with their bitcoin. Freeman's lawyers

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Speaker 1: says Freeman actually warned people of scams and he helped

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Speaker 1: businesses in the community. Forty two year old Freeman, a

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Speaker 1: libertarian activist and radio show host, was released pending his

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Speaker 1: April fourteenth sentence and appeal. Multiple incendiary devices were found

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Speaker 1: at a Colorado Jehovah's Witnesses Hall as authorities were investigating

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Speaker 1: a fire and apparent murder suicide Christmas Day. Sydney Sumner

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Speaker 1: with Crime Online please say the incident unfolded at a

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Speaker 1: church in suburban Denver, where a man shot and killed

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Speaker 1: his wife before fatally shooting himself. Around nine am Sunday,

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Speaker 1: police and Thornton, Colorado, received to call about a fire

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Speaker 1: at the hall. It was later reported that a married

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Speaker 1: couple had been shot and killed there. Later that afternoon,

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Speaker 1: police found three incendiary devices at the hall and rendered

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Speaker 1: them safe. Earlier Sunday, the Adams County Sheriff's Office Hazardous

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Speaker 1: Materials Unit had been investigating what officials called suspicious devices.

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Speaker 1: The couple were former members of the Kingdom Hall Congregation.

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Speaker 1: Their identities have not yet been released, nor has a

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Speaker 1: motive in the shooting. The city of Thornton is located

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Speaker 1: about eleven miles north of Denver. One person was killed

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Speaker 1: another injured in a crash during a police pursuit involving

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Speaker 1: a vehicle linked to an armed robbery Tuesday in North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: A license played reader alerted Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officers to

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Speaker 1: the vehicle, and officers tried to stop bit The driver

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Speaker 1: refused to pull over, and officers pursued the vehicle since

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Speaker 1: it was associated with a crime dangerous to life. Police

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Speaker 1: say the pursuit lasted ten to twelve minutes before the

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Speaker 1: vehicle struck a deflation device police put down and continued

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Speaker 1: for a time until it crashed into a tree. The

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Speaker 1: driver died at the scene, and the passenger, who was

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Speaker 1: not seriously hurt, was taken to a hospital for treatment.

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Speaker 1: The department's Major Crash Unit is investigating the crash, the

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Speaker 1: Armed Robbery Unit investigating the crime that led to the pursuit,

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Speaker 1: and Internal Affairs is investigating to make sure officers followed policy.

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Speaker 1: A judge has postponed a court hearing this week for

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Speaker 1: a former Georgia prosecutor charged with meddling in the police

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Speaker 1: investigation of the twenty twenty killing of amaud Arbury Crime

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Speaker 1: on Line's Sydney Sumner. Superior Court Judge John R. Turner

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Speaker 1: ordered former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District attorney Jackie Johnson's court appearance,

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Speaker 1: initially scheduled for Thursday, be pushed back. The judge has

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Speaker 1: not set a new date. The indictment against Johnson accuses

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Speaker 1: her office of shielding Greg and Travis McMichael from prosecution.

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Speaker 1: White men in pickup trucks chase the young black man

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Speaker 1: February twenty third, twenty twenty after spotting him running in

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Speaker 1: their neighborhood outside Coastal Brunswick. The chase ended with Arbury

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Speaker 1: being shot dead in the street. John Lee, a quote

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Speaker 1: psychick and love specialist, encourages a wealthy client to send

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Speaker 1: in jewelry belonging to her and her loved for quote

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Speaker 1: spiritual cleansing, promising he'd return it. Well, of course he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Lee makes off with one point six billion dollars in jewels.

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Speaker 1: Lee finally caught in Jersey, charged with wire and mail fraud.

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Speaker 1: Not all the jewelry has been recovered. For the latest

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Speaker 1: crime and justice needs go to crime online dot com

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Speaker 1: with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace