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Speaker 1: Crime Alert.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crimes now. Margaret Sweeney calls a

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Speaker 2: friend and says someone's trying to kill her. The calle drops.

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Speaker 2: Sweeney's friend calls North Carolina police, reporting Sweeney is in

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Speaker 2: trouble or may already be dead. Police launch a search

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Speaker 2: for Sweeney and find her the next day, alive and

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Speaker 2: well and in no danger. Sweeney made the whole thing up,

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Speaker 2: even going so far as to report her murder to

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Speaker 2: Social Services Nancy.

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Speaker 3: The reasons behind Sweeney's farce are still unclear. Sweeney made

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Speaker 3: several odd comments on a Facebook post from the Franklin

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Speaker 3: Police Department providing an update on her case. Sweeney wrote,

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Speaker 3: social media has us believing we're entitled to know about

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Speaker 3: people or situations that have nothing to do with us.

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Speaker 3: In place of support, we ridicul those that do not

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Speaker 3: answer questions that make them uncomfortable. I decide when, what,

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Speaker 3: and with whom I can fight in no one for

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Speaker 3: a long time.

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Speaker 2: Sweeney, thirty seven, now charged with false report and obstruction.

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Speaker 2: On their first day back to school, Oklahoma, third grade

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Speaker 2: students so does the teacher. Kimberly Coates has red eyes,

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Speaker 2: slurred speech, and can't seem to finish sentences, so they

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Speaker 2: ask another teacher for help. She gets the school's resource officer,

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Speaker 2: who performs a breath test that Coats fails with a

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Speaker 2: whopping three times the legal limit for alcohol. The officer

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Speaker 2: finds a cupful of wine on Coates's desk As she's

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Speaker 2: escorted out of school, Coates asks if she'll be fired.

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Speaker 2: The principal responds, you can resign. Coats fifty three, now

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Speaker 2: charged with public intoxication. More crime and justice news after

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Speaker 2: this and now for the latest crime and justice breaking

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Speaker 2: news Crime Onlines John Lemley.

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Speaker 1: We begin in central New York as authorities say ten

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Speaker 1: people have been charged in connection with the death of

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Speaker 1: a man abducted from a homeless camp outside of Ithaca.

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Speaker 1: For more, we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 3: The accusations were made public one hundred days after thirty

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Speaker 3: three year old Thomas Roth went missing from the jungle,

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Speaker 3: a tract of woodland home to improvise huts and tents

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Speaker 3: hidden behind a row of shops less than two more

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Speaker 3: miles from Cornell University. The victim's body was later discovered

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Speaker 3: buried in another county. Nine of the individuals are accused

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Speaker 3: of kidnapping, while two are accused of murder. According to authorities,

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Speaker 3: the men and women were detained over the course of

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Speaker 3: the last two weeks, and further arrests are anticipated. Officials

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Speaker 3: did not disclose Roth's cause of death or address a

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Speaker 3: potential motive at a news conference this week, saying only

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Speaker 3: that the investigation was ongoing. State Police Captain Lucas Anthony

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Speaker 3: stated that quote, these people all knew each other, also

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Speaker 3: saying that he wouldn't go so far as to say

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Speaker 3: it was a planned event, but that it was a

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Speaker 3: continuous event from beginning to end. Numerous people live year

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Speaker 3: round at the campground where police began their investigation with

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Speaker 3: a wellness check for Roth on May twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: It was on August third of this year that Roth's

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Speaker 1: remains were found hidden in a wooded area of Tioga

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Speaker 1: County now to Michigan, where a man from Metro Detroit

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Speaker 1: associated with an anti government group and detained just before

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two election, has received a one year

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Speaker 1: prison term four offenses involving firearms. Timothy Teagan, a member

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Speaker 1: of the Boogaloo Boys, a group preparing for a US

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Speaker 1: civil war, had attended several demonstrations clad in a Hawaiian

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Speaker 1: shirt and carrying an AR fifteen style rifle. The twenty

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Speaker 1: three year old Teagan was not charged with terrorism. However,

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Speaker 1: he admitted to lying on his application for a weapons

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Speaker 1: purchase about his regular marijuana usage and having a rifle

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Speaker 1: and AMMO while using drugs. Both of those are considered

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Speaker 1: federal offenses. A seasoned politician from Los Angeles has been

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Speaker 1: given a three and a half year prison term for

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Speaker 1: his part in a plot to obtain benefits for his

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Speaker 1: son in exchange for backing lucrative government contracts with the

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Speaker 1: University of Southern California's School of Social Work. Once again,

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Speaker 1: crime online Sydney Sumner.

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Speaker 3: Mark Ridley Thomas, who was most recently a member of

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Speaker 3: the Los Angeles City Council, was convicted in US District

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Speaker 3: Court for seven felonies, including conspiracy, bribery, and fraud, stemming

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Speaker 3: from activity he took while serving on the influential Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Sixty eight year old Ridley

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Speaker 3: Thomas was also given a thirty thousand dollars fine by

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Speaker 3: Judge Dale S. Fisher. In March, a jury ruled that

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Speaker 3: Ridley Thomas and Marilyn Louise Flynn, the former dean of

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Speaker 3: USC's School of Social Work, conspired in twenty seventeen. In

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen to use the university to transfer one hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars from a Ridley Thomas campaign fund to a

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Speaker 3: nonprofit organization led by his son. According to the prosecution,

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Speaker 3: the son also benefited from the plot and bribes by

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Speaker 3: receiving graduate school admittance, a scholarship, and a paid professorship.

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Speaker 3: Eighty four year old Flynn entered a guilty plead to

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Speaker 3: one count of bribery last year and received a one

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Speaker 3: and a half year home detention term as a result.

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Speaker 3: At the time of the verdict, Ridley Thomas expressed regret

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Speaker 3: for his deeds and apologized to his family and the audience. However,

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Speaker 3: he also insisted that what he did was not necessarily

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Speaker 3: against the law.

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Speaker 1: Following Ridley Thomas's conviction, the city council suspended him and

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Speaker 1: announced that his seat was open.

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Speaker 2: Destony Sanath twenty seven, Borrow's Mom's car to go on

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Speaker 2: a visit to a friend in Southwest Philadelphia. When Destiny

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Speaker 2: does not return, Mom calls the friend, who says Destiny

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Speaker 2: never made it Sannath reported missing. New Jersey cops realized

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Speaker 2: they spoke to Destiny in the early morning hours the

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Speaker 2: day after she left. Her car broke down, so cops

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Speaker 2: helped her move it to a nearby parking lot, then

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Speaker 2: gave her a lift to a convenience store. Destiny's caught

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Speaker 2: on surveillance video entering the store to buy a drink

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Speaker 2: before disappearing behind the building. Destiny Sanath has not been

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Speaker 2: seen in over a year. If you have info on

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Speaker 2: Destiny Sanath, called Philly PD two one five six eight

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Speaker 2: six three zero one three. For the latest crime in

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Speaker 2: justice news. Go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace.