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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Gray's Breaking Crimes Now Sean Comb's

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Speaker 1: aka Ditty's bail hearing slater for tomorrow, his lawyers working

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Speaker 1: to get him released until sentencing. How much time will

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Speaker 1: come spend behind bars? Some legal experts say hints from

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Speaker 1: the judge indicate a long time crime stories Nicole Parton explains.

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Speaker 2: Nancy, It's widely speculated that the judge task with determining

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Speaker 2: Ditty's prison sentence has indicated he may lean towards the

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Speaker 2: prosecution and enforce a stringent penalty against the music mogul.

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Speaker 2: Judge Aaron Submarinean rejected Ditty's appeal for a one million

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Speaker 2: dollar bond, asserting that while he was acquitted of the

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Speaker 2: gravest accusations, the trial demonstrated the rapper's propensity for violence,

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Speaker 2: labeling him as a threat to society. The judge noted

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Speaker 2: that Ditty's quote violent behavior was clearly evident in a

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen video showing the rapper attacking Cassie in a

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles hotel corridor. In your closing argument, you explicitly

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Speaker 2: informed the jury that violence was present, and domestic violence

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Speaker 2: constitutes violence, Submarinean remarked, while denying did He's bond request.

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Speaker 2: You stated that this case involved violence. Despite did He's

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Speaker 2: legal team persuading the jury that he was not a

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Speaker 2: sex trafficker or leader of a criminal organization, they acknowledged

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Speaker 2: his history of domestic abuse. The judge may leverage this

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Speaker 2: admission to impose a lengthy prison term for did He's

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Speaker 2: two convictions related to transportation for prostitution. Did He's attorneys

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Speaker 2: suggested that federal sentencing guidelines would likely result in a

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Speaker 2: two year prison term. They urged the judge to allow

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Speaker 2: the mogul to remain in his Miami mansion while awaiting sentencing,

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Speaker 2: but the judge declined that request and scheduled sentencing for

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Speaker 2: October three, Although this date may be a just in

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Speaker 2: an upcoming hearing. Prosecutors have already submitted statements from Ditty's

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Speaker 2: accusers opposing his bond request, including a letter from Cassie

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Speaker 2: Ventira's attorney asserting that miss Ventira believes mister Combs poses

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Speaker 2: a potential danger to the victims who testified, including herself,

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Speaker 2: as well as the wider community. The prosecution is expected

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Speaker 2: to present additional testimonies from alleged victims as they seek

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Speaker 2: a substantial sentence for Ditty. Diddy has been incarcerated since

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Speaker 2: his arrest in September, and has already completed nine months

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Speaker 2: in custody. A jury of eight men and four women

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Speaker 2: acquitted him of racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking charges that

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Speaker 2: alleged he utilized his wealth, influence and intimidating physical presence

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Speaker 2: to coherse girlfriends into participating in numerous drug fueled sexual

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Speaker 2: encounters with men. Ditty's defense argued that the women were

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Speaker 2: consenting participants and that his actions did not merit the

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Speaker 2: severity of the charges. His lead attorney, Mark Agnifilo, requested

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Speaker 2: Ditty's immediate release on bond, contending that the acquittals altered

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Speaker 2: the circumstances regarding his necessity for detention. Quote He's not

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Speaker 2: going to flee. He's been given his life back, Agnifilo stated.

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Speaker 2: Judge Submarinian denied the request, stating that did he had

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Speaker 2: not sufficiently demonstrated quote a lack of danger to any

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Speaker 2: individual or community at this time. As the judge announced

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Speaker 2: his bond decision, did he remained composed and then turned

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Speaker 2: to Agnifilo, jotting down notes while the lawyer spoke. He

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Speaker 2: raised his hand to catch the judge's attention, but ultimately

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Speaker 2: chose not to speak. After conferring with his attorney. As

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Speaker 2: he exited the courtroom for the last time, did he

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Speaker 2: took a moment to address the family members who filled

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Speaker 2: the wooden benches in support of him throughout the eight

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Speaker 2: week trial. Quote. Be strong, I love you, he said,

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Speaker 2: blowing a dramatic kiss to his loved ones.

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Speaker 1: Nicole, thank you. More crime j News After this.

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Speaker 2: A search spanning multiple states for two missing teenagers from

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Speaker 2: Idaho who are suspected to have been abducted by the

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Speaker 2: fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter day Saints

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Speaker 2: has been officially stopped. The Uvaldi Foundation for Kids, which

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Speaker 2: has played a crucial role in the hunt for thirteen

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Speaker 2: year old Alan Fisher and his sister, fifteen year old

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Speaker 2: Rochelle Fisher, announced the end of their volunteer led search

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Speaker 2: and a press conference on July three. The organization indicated

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Speaker 2: they had received new insight into the case and now

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Speaker 2: believe the teenagers are being deliberately concealed by individuals within

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Speaker 2: the FLDS community. They reported that their team of forty

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Speaker 2: eight volunteers had dedicated over one hundred and twenty hours

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Speaker 2: pursuing leads across Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. According to

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Speaker 2: a press release from the Jefferson County, Idaho Sheriff's office,

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Speaker 2: the police were alerted to the teen's disappearance from their

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Speaker 2: home in Montvieu, Idaho, on June twenty two. Investigators speculated

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Speaker 2: that the siblings might have returned to the FLDS community

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Speaker 2: in Trenton, Utah, where they had previously lived. Public Information

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Speaker 2: Officer Jennifer Fulmer explained that the children's mother had once

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Speaker 2: been a member of the FLDS, but was exiled and

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Speaker 2: forced to leave her children behind. After regaining custodies, she

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Speaker 2: brought them back to her hometown.

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Speaker 1: Quote.

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Speaker 2: We believe that her children may have returned to the

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Speaker 2: FLDS lifestyle and are being held. She said. Authorities do

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Speaker 2: not entertain the idea that the children left on their

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Speaker 2: own accord, whether they suspect that members of their former

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Speaker 2: church assisted them. There's no public transportation available. Former noted

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Speaker 2: it's in a remote desert area. The mother believes that

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Speaker 2: someone from the FLDS church picked up the children. The

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Speaker 2: FLDS is a polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs, styled

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Speaker 2: profit and convicted sexual offender. In twenty eleven, Jeffs was

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Speaker 2: sentenced to life in prison for child sexual abuse former

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Speaker 2: shared than. An Amber alert was issued on June twenty

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Speaker 2: three after details emerged regarding the revelation from Jeffs in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two quote, what we have learned was related

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Speaker 2: to this revelation that the children are meant together to

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Speaker 2: contribute to the construction of Zion, which would enable them

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Speaker 2: to die and be transformed into pure beings. She said.

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Speaker 2: We lack clarity on the timeline or the urgency to

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Speaker 2: which the children may have been brought back to the sect,

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Speaker 2: but we are pursuing every lead.

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Speaker 1: Tiffany went in twenty six shops of their boyfriend at

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Speaker 1: a Mary outa Georgia walmart in the early morning hours.

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Speaker 1: After checking out, employees stopped the couple to check their

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Speaker 1: receipts and Quentin runs out, leaving the cart behind. The

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Speaker 1: boyfriend finds her shoes and purse in the parking lot.

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Speaker 1: She used to work at an ihop cross the street,

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Speaker 1: so he stops in. No trace of Tiffany. She usually

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Speaker 1: is active on social but no posts after running away.

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Speaker 1: Leaving behind a six year old daughter. Tiffany Whitten five three,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and five pounds, blonde hair, green eyes, several

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Speaker 1: small tattoos including Chinese symbols on the left wrist and

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Speaker 1: a butterfly on our hip. Last scene wearing a cream

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Speaker 1: V neck T shirt, dark blue jeans, a dark colored headband.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on Tiffany Witten, call Marietta, Georgia

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Speaker 1: PD seven seven zero five two eight three zero three two.

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