1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crimes Now. A Kentucky 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: mom costs nine to one one over domestic violence concerns 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: between her grown son and his girlfriend. When cops arrive, 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: they find a trap door in Zachary Jones's floor with 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: a missing sixteen year old North Carolina girl inside. Jones 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: lied about his age and online chats with the girl, 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: then lured her from her home and held her captive. 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: Nancy officers who found the girl described her as shaken 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: up and very high. She told them Jones had been 10 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: threatening her with a gun, forcing her to take cocaine, 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: assaulting and raping her. She said Jones demanded she tell 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: people she was eighteen, and it's unclear whether Jones's mother 13 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 2: realized her son was holding the girl against her will. 14 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: Jones thirty four, now facing nearly thirty charges, including false 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: imprisonment and rape. Daniel Palomino, thirty two, orders chicken out 16 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: a Florida Huawaz convenience store and specifies he wants extra 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: spicy Nasville sauce. Palomino gets his order, but he's convinced 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: the chicken is not completely cooked, so Palomino checks the 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: chicken at the wah wah worker getting the spicy sauce 20 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: in her eyes. Please show up. Palomino's arrested on battery, 21 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: buy chicken and spicy sauce. More crime and justice news 22 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: after this Now with the latest crime and justice breaking 23 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: news Crime Onlines John Linley. 24 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 3: A Las Vegas bail hearing for a former gang member 25 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 3: accused of planning the nineteen ninety six murder of hip 26 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 3: hop icon Tupac Shakur has now been rescheduled to allow 27 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 3: defense lawyers to address claims made by the prosecution that 28 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: witnesses could be in danger. Details now from Sydney Sumner 29 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 3: with Crime Online. 30 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 2: The court appointed council for Dwan Keefey d Davis requested 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: a postponement in response to the prosecutor's assertion last week 32 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: that Davis poses a public safety risk if he is released, 33 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: citing recordings from his jail phone and a list of 34 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: names given to his relatives. Our friends with the Associated 35 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: Press were informed by one of Davis's attorneys, Robert Arroyo, 36 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: that the defense wanted to reply in writing to the court. 37 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 2: He refused to say more. According to a Royo's statement 38 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 2: from the previous week, there is no proof that any 39 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: witness had been threatened or named in the nineteen ninety 40 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 2: six drive by shooting that also injured rap mogul Marion 41 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 2: Shug Knight, who's currently serving twenty eight years in a 42 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 2: California jail for a separate fatal shooting in Metro Los 43 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 2: Angeles in twenty fifteen. Davis is the only person who 44 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: has ever been charged with a crime accused of murder. 45 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: Davis is scheduled to go on trial in June after 46 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: entering a not guilty plea. His arrest on September twenty 47 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 2: ninth outside his Henderson home has left him behind bars 48 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 2: without bail. It was in mid July that Las Vegas 49 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 2: police served Davis with a search warrant at his residence. Davis, 50 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 2: who is currently being held in the Clark County Detention 51 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: Center in Las Vegas, is originally from Compton, California. Phone 52 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 2: calls made by inmates at the detention center are recorded 53 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: as a matter of routine. 54 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 3: Davis may serve the rest of his life in prison 55 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 3: if found guilty at trial. Gipsy rose Blan now says 56 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 3: she's discovered a way to forgive both her mother and herself. Still, 57 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 3: it's been a long road from years of abuse to 58 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 3: living behind bars as the worst moments of her life 59 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: were reported in the tabloids. Now, a Missouri women's prison 60 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 3: has granted parole to the thirty two year old Blanchard. 61 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 3: She's been freed some eight and a half years after 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 3: convincing her then boyfriend to kill her abusive mother, Claudine 63 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 3: Dede Blanchard, in a desperate attempt to escape her gypsy. Rose. 64 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 3: Blanchard's mother made her pretend for years that she had 65 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 3: muscular dystrophe, leukemia, and other life threatening ailments in order 66 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 3: to try a former NBA minor League player and his 67 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 3: ex girlfriend jointly for the murder of a woman whose 68 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: body was discovered in southern Nevada last month. A prosecutor 69 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 3: has now announced that separate murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy charges 70 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: will be combined once again. Crime Online Sidney Sumner. 71 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,839 Speaker 2: Tuesday marked Chance Comanche's first court appearance. Comanche, a twenty 72 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: six seven year old native of Los Angeles, was a 73 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: player for the Stockton Kings prior to his arrest in Sacramento, California, 74 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: on December fifteenth, When a judge asked him if he 75 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: understood the charges against him, He stood in chains and 76 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: answered yes, ma'am. After the brief court appearance, Comanche's defense counsel, 77 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: Gary Gyman declined to speak and did not immediately request bail. However, 78 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: he did state that Comanche plans to enter a not 79 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 2: guilty plea at upcoming hearings. Sakari Harnden, Comanche's nineteen year 80 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 2: old former girlfriend, is also being held in Las Vegas 81 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 2: for a separate hearing on a theft allegation relating to 82 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 2: the disappearance and death of twenty three year old Marianna 83 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 2: Rogers of Lynwood, Washington. Kennedy Holtus, the prosecutor, informed Judge 84 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: Diana Sullivan that Steve Wolfson, the district attorney for Clark County, 85 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 2: plans to consolidate all of the cases against Comanche and Harndon. 86 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 2: Sullivan fixed Comanche's next court date for February eighth, and 87 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: stated that the defendant will remain behind bars without bail. 88 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 3: Investigator say Marina Rogers, a medical assistant, was strangled to 89 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 3: death early on the morning of December sixth. He was 90 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 3: discovered later in a roadside ditch in suburban Henderson. 91 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: Thanks John Nicholas Downey takes a job in Tampa, Florida, 92 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,239 Speaker 1: but often drives back to Gulfport, Mississippi, to visit his wife. 93 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: He rents a Tesla for a four day visit through 94 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: the car sharing app Truro. On the night he's set 95 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: to return, Downey stops at a McDonald's five hours north 96 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: of Tampa to recharge the rented Tesla. Instead of returning 97 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: to the highway, Downey starts driving down State Road seventy one. 98 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: The tesla's owner notices the wrong turn and texts Downey, 99 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: but Downey never responds. He also never makes it to work. 100 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: The next morning, the car is found abandoned one hour 101 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: south of the McDonald's. Downey's phone bag, and work equipment 102 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: all found inside. Despite extensive searches of the area, no 103 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: leeds found. If you have info on Nicholas Downey, now 104 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: missing nearly a year, contact Liberty County Sheriffs eight five 105 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: zero six four three two two three five. For the 106 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: latest crime injustice news, Go to crimeonline dot com with 107 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.