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Speaker 1: Prime alert, I meansy grace breaking crime news Now. Andrew

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Speaker 1: Vanegas twenty three for friends high school girls in college

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Speaker 1: women over Snapchat, then hacks their accounts. He steals nude photos,

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Speaker 1: then blackmails the girls into sending more porn photos and videos.

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Speaker 1: Venegas sells the photos via quote Telegram, advertising them specifically

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Speaker 1: as underage blackmail porn. What a creep.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more, Nancy. The FBI began their investigation with

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Speaker 2: an account under the name Starky Lol on a website

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Speaker 2: made to share explicit images of women. They later tied

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Speaker 2: that user name back to Venegas by tracing cryptocurrency payments.

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Speaker 2: Venegas have uploaded nearly one thousand images and videos of

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Speaker 2: often underage women and advertised them for sale in packages.

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Speaker 2: FBI agents posed as buyers on the encrypted messaging platform

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Speaker 2: Telegram just before a rate of Venegas's home. When the

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Speaker 2: messages appeared on his phone, it proved Venegas was responsible

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Speaker 2: for the blackmail.

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Speaker 1: Charged with sexploitation of children. Michael Brennan, twenty four, charges

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Speaker 1: three grand to a stolen credit card to reserve a

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Speaker 1: seventeen day stay at a Florida hotel. Cops track him

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Speaker 1: to his room and find multiple driver's licenses, social Security cards,

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Speaker 1: credit cards under all sorts of different names, and arrest

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Speaker 1: him for identity fraud. While Brennan's booked into jail, He's

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Speaker 1: warned contraband on his person would get additional charges, but

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Speaker 1: when he searched, cops discover a live bullet hidden him

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Speaker 1: on his body. Brennan now charged with contraband. More Crime

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Speaker 1: and Justice news after this Now with the latest crime

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Speaker 1: and justice breaking news by Online's John Limley.

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Speaker 3: We begin in Hawaii as the murder trial gets under

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Speaker 3: way for a man charged in the shooting death of

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Speaker 3: an acupuncturist having an affair with his wife. A defense

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Speaker 3: attorney tells jurors that his client wasn't the only person

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Speaker 3: with a motive to kill. For more, we turned to

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Speaker 3: Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Since his arrest on Valentine's Day of last year, Eric

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Speaker 2: Thompson has been living under house arrest in a posh

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Speaker 2: area of Honolulu. According to police, Thompson shot his wife's acupuncturist,

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Speaker 2: John Tokuhara, after learning about their relationship through Instagram messages.

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Speaker 2: Our friends with the Honolulu Star adviser are reporting that

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Speaker 2: Thompson's defense attorney claims that Tokuhara had a track record

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Speaker 2: of cheating, including with women who had families. The newspaper

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Speaker 2: quotes attorney David Hayakawa as stating that the jilted ladies

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Speaker 2: Tokuhara ghosted would have had the same motive. Hyakawa claims

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Speaker 2: that police disregarded additional clues regarding potential suspects, pointing out

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Speaker 2: that Tokuhara was a gambler and that almost four thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars in cash was discovered in his office next to

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Speaker 2: his body. A prosecutor quoted by kho N TV contends

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Speaker 2: Thompson killed Tokuhara because he had damaged the couple's image

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Speaker 2: of a perfect life. Surveillance of it Yo shows Thompson

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Speaker 2: parking close to Tokuhara's office and entering while wearing a

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Speaker 2: hat and sunglasses. Police say the hat dropped to the

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Speaker 2: ground as Thompson was leaving. In DNA tests revealed that

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Speaker 2: it was most likely worn by Thompson.

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Speaker 3: The trial continues and the judge expects it to wrap

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Speaker 3: up by the end of the month. Now to Indiana

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Speaker 3: as an inmate accused of murdering an Indianapolis Sheriff's deputy

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Speaker 3: during an attempted escape while being transported in a van.

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Speaker 3: Has been charged with murder. Prosecutors say they will seek

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Speaker 3: the death penalty against the man. According to authorities, thirty

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Speaker 3: four year old Orlando Mitchell choked sixty one year old

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Speaker 3: Deputy John Durham with his handcuff chain while the prisoner

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Speaker 3: was being returned to the Criminal Justice Center in Indianapolis

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Speaker 3: after a hospital visit. Mitchell was formally charged with two

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Speaker 3: counts of murder, as well as one count each of

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Speaker 3: robbery causing serious bodily harm and escape. Mitchell was in

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Speaker 3: jail awaiting trial for the murder of his ex girlfriend,

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Speaker 3: Crystal Walton at the time of Durham's killing. He has

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Speaker 3: been behind bars in that murder since his arrest in

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Speaker 3: September twenty twenty two. Lobbyist Matt Borges has appealed a

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Speaker 3: five year sentence he received in the sixty million dollar

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Speaker 3: bribery conspiracy that also resulted in the conviction of former

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Speaker 3: Ohio House speaker Larry Householder. With details crime online Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: It was in March that a jury found fifty one

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Speaker 2: year old Borges and Householder both guilty of racketeering. The plan,

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Speaker 2: according to the authorities, involved making covert payments to Akron

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Speaker 2: based utility corporation First Energy in order to maintain Householder's

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Speaker 2: control when his ally seats in the legislature passed legislation

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Speaker 2: that included a one point three billion dollar bailout for

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Speaker 2: two outdated nuclear plants owned by a First Energy affiliate,

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Speaker 2: and then thwart attempts to overturn the new law. Prosecutors

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Speaker 2: contend that Borges's main role in the scheme was to

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Speaker 2: deny Ohian the chance to overturn what he recognized to

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Speaker 2: be dishonest legislation and had referred to as the outcome

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Speaker 2: of a quote unholy alliance. Jurors were shown proof that

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Speaker 2: he received a budget of twenty five thousand dollars which

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Speaker 2: he laundered through his own bank accounts to use in

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Speaker 2: bribing a political operative for confidential, real time information on

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Speaker 2: the referendum campaign against House Bill six. After Borges expressed

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Speaker 2: regret at his sentencing hearing and appealed for leniency, US

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Speaker 2: District Court Judge Timothy Black sentenced him to the low

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Speaker 2: end of the five to eight year range. Suggested by

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Speaker 2: federal prosecutors.

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Speaker 3: Black's decision regarding Borges came one day after the judge

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Speaker 3: handed sixty four year old Householder the maximum legal penalty

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Speaker 3: of twenty years in prison and one year of probation.

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Speaker 3: Householder has also appealed.

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Speaker 1: Lan Miller, a thirty eight year old autistic woman, works

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Speaker 1: in the flower department at a Sedona, Arizona, grocery store.

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Speaker 1: Just before her shift Jue nineteen. Just before her shift

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Speaker 1: ju nineteen, Yulawn packs items from her apartment, telling her

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Speaker 1: roommates she's heading to Jerome, Arizona, about an hour away.

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Speaker 1: Miller then missus work and a doctor's appointment. Never returns home.

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Speaker 1: Her car found abandoned near a local hiking trail. Family

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Speaker 1: members say she could never have hiked due to health issues.

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Speaker 1: Yulan Miller now missing over a year. If you have

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Speaker 1: info on Yulan Miller, please contact Sedona p D At

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Speaker 1: nine two nine two eight two thirty one hundred. For

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