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Speaker 1: Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Dave Mack.

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Speaker 1: In Franklin Township, New Jersey, police rushed to a Pittstown

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Speaker 1: home around twelve thirty pm after receiving a report of

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Speaker 1: an unconscious woman inside. Officers find Lauren Semanchik, thirty three

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Speaker 1: years old and Tyler Webb, twenty nine, dead from gunshot

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Speaker 1: wounds in what is being called a targeted attack. Detectives

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Speaker 1: quickly identified Samanchik's ex boyfriend, New Jersey State Police Lieutenant

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Speaker 1: Ricardo Santos as a possible suspect and begins searching for

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Speaker 1: him immediately. Soon after the search begins, Santos is found

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Speaker 1: dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound in his two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight white Mercedes about fifty miles away. A

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Speaker 1: semi automatic handgun is found beside Santos. It started when

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Speaker 1: Franklin Township police officers responded to a nine to one

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Speaker 1: one call in the area of Samanchik's residence the night before,

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Speaker 1: where audible gunshots and screaming were heard by the operator,

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Speaker 1: but we're never able to pinpoint where the noises came from.

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Speaker 1: Police also learned that Semanchik, veterinarian had installed cameras in

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Speaker 1: her car after reporting the Santos was stalking. Her footage

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Speaker 1: captured her vehicle leaving her veterinary office on Long Island

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Speaker 1: at five twenty five pm Friday. The rear camera recorded

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Speaker 1: santos Mercedes closely following Semanchik from her workplace to her home.

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Speaker 1: Semanchik arrives home just before six pm. Ten minutes later,

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Speaker 1: someone emerges from the woods bordering her driveway. Nearly a

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Speaker 1: half hour later, Webb's vehicle arrives at the home and

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Speaker 1: parks next to Semanchik's vehicle. Semanchik's father was the one

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Speaker 1: who discovered his daughter in Webb's bodies on Saturday. It

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Speaker 1: appears that she was running away when she was killed.

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Speaker 1: She was shot in the back, he says. Semanchik and Santos,

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Speaker 1: a highly regarded state trooper, only dated for about three

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Speaker 1: months when Semanchik ended the relationship. Semanchik's family says after

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Speaker 1: she into the romance, Santos began stalking and harassing the vet.

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Speaker 1: She tried to block him many times, and he continued

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Speaker 1: you to call from restricted numbers. He showed up at

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Speaker 1: her work and that's where her car was keyed. Samangik's

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Speaker 1: family says Santos put recording devices in her home and

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Speaker 1: water in her gas tank. Samagik's family also says that

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Speaker 1: she told new law enforcement people what was happening, but

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Speaker 1: nothing was ever done. Santos was so highly regarded as

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Speaker 1: a trooper he previously worked as a supervisor on Governor

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Speaker 1: Phil Murphy's Protection detail. Hunterdon County Prosecutor Rene Rosen confirmed

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Speaker 1: the case was being investigated as an act of domestic

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Speaker 1: violence and a targeted double homicide. A child protective services

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Speaker 1: worker in Alabama has been arrested after a three year

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Speaker 1: old boy in her care died while left alone in

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Speaker 1: a car for hours in one hundred and eight degree heat,

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Speaker 1: and she's already out on bail. The Department of Human

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Speaker 1: Resources employee Kila Stanford, fifty four, was charged ours last

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Speaker 1: Friday over Ketorious Starks Junior's tragic July twenty second demise

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Speaker 1: in Birmingham, Alabama, that saw him left alone in the

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Speaker 1: vehicle for five hours in the searing heat. Stanford, who

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Speaker 1: works for a third party firm contracted by the department,

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Speaker 1: had been tasked with taking the little boy to a

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Speaker 1: supervised visit with his biological father. The day he died.

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Speaker 1: The worker had picked the boy up from a daycare

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Speaker 1: where he'd been dropped off by his foster family ahead

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Speaker 1: of the scheduled visit. After the visit, Stamford allegedly ran errands,

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Speaker 1: including stopping at a grocery and tobacco store instead of

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Speaker 1: taking the child back to daycare. The worker then drove

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Speaker 1: to her own home, where she left the boy buckled

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Speaker 1: inside the car with the windows rolled up as the

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Speaker 1: temperature soared to one hundred and eight degrees. The little

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Speaker 1: boy was later pronounced dead at the scene. Stamford was

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Speaker 1: booked into the Jefferson County Jail under the States Amaia

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Speaker 1: White Act, which prohibits leaving a child or an incapacitated

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Speaker 1: person unattended in a car. She was released on thirty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars bail that same day. From the moment Sean

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Speaker 1: Diddy Combs was arrested, his lawyers have been tasked with

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Speaker 1: getting him out of jail on bond, and they failed.

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Speaker 1: After a jury returned to verdict of not guilty on

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Speaker 1: the most serious charges, he once again asked me let

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Speaker 1: out of jail until sentencing, but the judge said no.

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Speaker 1: Attorneys for the fallen mogul have once again tried to

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Speaker 1: have Didty released until sentencing, offering up fifty million dollars

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Speaker 1: for bond and requirements you wear an ankle monitor and

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Speaker 1: confine himself to his Florida home. This is the fifth

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Speaker 1: time did He has sought release, and this is the

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Speaker 1: fifth time a federal judge denied bail. Did He was

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Speaker 1: denied bail because the judge considers him a flight risk.

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Speaker 1: He was denied bail on account of being that flight

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Speaker 1: risk or danger. Judge Supermania concluded that Combs fails to

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Speaker 1: satisfy his burden to demonstrate an entitlement to release. Combs

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Speaker 1: be sentenced on his conviction of transportation to engage in

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Speaker 1: prostitution on October three. Combs was even able to get

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Speaker 1: an ex girlfriend referred to who has victim three in

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Speaker 1: his indictment, to write a letter to the judge asking

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Speaker 1: for Diddy to be released on bail. In her letter,

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Speaker 1: she asks the judge to grant Comb's bond to quote

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Speaker 1: allow him to continue caring for his family and fulfilling

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Speaker 1: his responsibilities while still subjected to the court's supervision. Colmes

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Speaker 1: was convicted on July second on charges of transportation to

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Speaker 1: engage in prostitution, and when the jury returned not guilty

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Speaker 1: verdicts on more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy,

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Speaker 1: his attorneys asked for his immediate release that was also denied.

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Speaker 1: By the time Combs is sentenced on October the third,

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Speaker 1: he will have been in jail for more than a year,

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Speaker 1: and that time will be credited to whatever sentence the

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Speaker 1: judge imposes. Comes faces a maximum sentence of twenty years

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Speaker 1: in prison. For the latest crime and justice news, follow

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Speaker 1: with this crime Alert, I'm Dave Mac