1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Crime Alert, I'm asy grace breaking crime news Now. Randy 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: Vale stuffed the backpack with bolt cutters, two cans of gasoline, 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: two rifles, takes off on his motorcycle destination a High 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: Joe Electric power station on the Idaho Oregon border. Veil 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: shoots at a dam for nearly half an hour, then 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: heads north to a second dam and begins shooting again. 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: Idaho cops catch Veil as he's leaving Nancy. 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 2: The shootings caused more than one hundred thousand dollars in 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 2: damage and left Washington, Idaho, and Oregon residents with power 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: interruptions for weeks until the damage could be repaired. Veil 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 2: resisted arrest, leading cops on a chase where he reached 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: speeds of eighty miles per hour in a twenty five 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 2: mile per hour zone. If convicted on any charges, Vale 14 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 2: could face up to twenty years in prison. 15 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: Veil now facing federal charges including destruction of an energy facility. 16 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: Davis and Winston scrolls on his phone while he drives, 17 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: causing him to swerve in and out of his lane. 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: Frustrated the driver behind, Winston hawks and him for not 19 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: moving on as the top light turns. Grain Weston gets 20 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: out of his car with a can of white spray 21 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: paint and gets to work on the victim's car and 22 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: eventually the victim's face. Passers by called nine one one, 23 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: and by the time Houston cops arrived, both men covered 24 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: its spray paint. Whinston thirty five, charged with criminal mischief? 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 3: Is that all? 26 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this Now with the 27 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime Onlines John Lemley. 28 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 3: After being found guilty of first degree murder and other 29 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 3: offenses and the killing of his estranged wife in western Illinois, 30 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 3: A judge has handed down a life sentence to a 31 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 3: former competitor on the game show Family Feud. For more, 32 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. 33 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: According to news sources, forty year old Timothy Bleefnick did 34 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 2: not respond as Adams County Circuit Judge Robert Adrian read 35 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: the sentence. A jury found Beliefnik guilty of murder, use 36 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: of a firearm to commit first degree murder, and home 37 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 2: invasion in the death of forty one year old Rebecca 38 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 2: Bliefnet on February twenty third, after she failed to pick 39 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 2: up her children from school. A family member discovered her 40 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 2: body inside her Quincy house. She had sustained multiple gunshot wounds, 41 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 2: according to our Friends at Cage QATV. Timothy Bleefnik and 42 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 2: some of his relatives were featured on ABC's Family Feud 43 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. The host Steve Harvey posed the question, 44 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,959 Speaker 2: what was the biggest mistake you made at your wedding? 45 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: Bliefnick said, I do quickly adding not mine to say 46 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 2: I cherish my wife. Along with that, he said, I'm 47 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 2: going to get in trouble for that, aren't I. Harvey retorted, 48 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: it will be a lot of hell to pay at 49 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 2: your house. 50 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 3: The couple were in the middle of a divorce and 51 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 3: were living separately. Now to Connecticut as relatives question the 52 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 3: police shooting death of a man attempting to flee in 53 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 3: a stolen automobile as an officer and police dog entered 54 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 3: the vehicle and the CA nine attacked, Mike Alexander Garcia 55 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 3: was shot by West Hartford police, and as Connecticut's Officer 56 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: of Inspector General looks into the incident, the victims families 57 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 3: and attorneys say they don't think it was justified. During 58 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 3: a news conference this week, lawyer Ken Kraieski said, quote 59 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: the use of deadly force in this situation was unnecessary, excessive, 60 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 3: and irresponsible, According to Kreeski and another family attorney, Peter Billings, 61 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 3: Police escalated the situation and failed to offer Alexander Garcia 62 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 3: clear instructions on how to avoid being shot. Police and 63 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 3: West Hartford have not yet responded to the family's complaints. 64 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 3: Earlier this week, Chief Vernon Riddick released a statement in 65 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 3: which he described the circumstances leading up to the shooting 66 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 3: as a dangerous situation and stated that the department quote 67 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 3: believed strongly in transparency and in all facts being gathered 68 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: and impartially evaluated. Seven months after her son used a 69 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: handgun to seriously wound a teacher in a classroom full 70 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 3: of students, the mother of a six year old has 71 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 3: pleaded guilty to a charge of felony child neglect once 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: again crime Online Sidney Sumner. 73 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 2: The mystemere allegation of reckless firearm storage against Desiah Taylor 74 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: has been dropped by the prosecution. As part of the 75 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 2: plea deal, the prosecution agreed that they would not ask 76 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: for a sentence greater than the state's recommended sentence of 77 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: six months in jail or prison. The duration of Taylor's 78 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 2: sentence will ultimately be determined by the judge, who will 79 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 2: have complete discretion. In April, Taylor was accused of felony 80 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: child maltreatment in a misdemeanor count of reckless storing of 81 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 2: a handgun. The January shooting stunned the nation and shook 82 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: the Chesapeake Bay Area shipbuilding city. The case against Taylor 83 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: is one of three legal actions to demand responsibility, along 84 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 2: with the teacher's forty million dollar lawsuit accusing the school 85 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: system of gross negligence. Police reported that the first grader 86 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 2: deliberately shot teacher Abby's Werner while she was seated at 87 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: a reading table during the lessons. Werner underwent numerous surgeries 88 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 2: after being struck in the hand and chest. She was 89 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: hospitalized for about two weeks. 90 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,239 Speaker 3: A sentencing hearing is scheduled for October twenty seventh. 91 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Prescott, enjoying married life with her husband of two months, 92 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: Coy Prescott, was to plan a special birthday dinner to 93 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: celebrate him. She asked him to call before he leaves 94 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: work that day so she can get everything ready. The 95 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 1: couple kisses goodbye, Prescott leaves Elizabeth at home. Corey Prescott 96 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: calls home around two thirty. No one answers. When Prescott 97 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: arrives back at the Florida home, Elizabeth's gone with fifty 98 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: dollars missing from her wallet, but the rest of her 99 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: belongings all left behind. Elizabeth did not have a cell 100 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: phone and there has been no activity on her bank account. 101 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: Both Corey Prescott and an ex boyfriend pass polygraphs indicating 102 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: they had no involvement in her disappearance. Elizabeth Prescott now 103 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: missing nineteen years. If you have info on Elizabeth Prescott, 104 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: please call Bay County Sheriffs eight five zero seven four 105 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: seven forty seven hundred. For the latest crimestice news, go 106 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.