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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. Kid Cutty is set to testify today

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Speaker 2: regarding his past relationship with Cassandra Cassie Ventira, who is

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Speaker 2: the key witness in Sean Diddy Combe's ongoing sex trafficking trial.

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Speaker 2: The musician arrived clad in blue jeans, a leather jacket,

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Speaker 2: and smoking. He was laser focused as he walked past

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Speaker 2: reporters and headed into the courtroom.

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Speaker 1: What are you expecting today?

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Speaker 2: The forty one year old musician had a brief romantic

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Speaker 2: involvement with Ventira back in twenty eleven while she was

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Speaker 2: still linked to Comb's. Last week, Ventira recounted an incident

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Speaker 2: where Combs allegedly attacked her with a wine bottle opener

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Speaker 2: after discovering an email exchange between her and Cuddy during

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Speaker 2: a freak off. George Kaplan, a former assistant to Comb's,

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Speaker 2: previously testified that he witnessed Comb's exhibit violent behavior toward

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Speaker 2: Ventira on a private jet in twenty fifteen. Caplan also

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Speaker 2: mentioned observing visible injuries on Ventira's face. Later that same year,

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Speaker 2: Caplan stated that the physical behavior he observed led him

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Speaker 2: to resign from his position. In related developments, Homeland Security

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Speaker 2: Investigation Special Agent Gerard Gannon, who oversaw the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four raid on Comb's Miami residence, revealed that agents uncovered

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Speaker 2: two disassembled AR Style fifteen rifles, along with twenty five

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Speaker 2: bottles of baby oil thirty one bottles of lubricant on

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Speaker 2: the premises. Combs is confronting charges of sex trafficking, transportation

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Speaker 2: for prostitution, and conspiracy to commit racketeering. He was apprehended

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Speaker 2: in September, as federal officials accuse him of threatening, abusing,

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Speaker 2: and cohersing victims to quote satisfy his sexual desires over

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Speaker 2: a two decade span from two thousand four to twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four. Combs has firmly denied all allegations against him

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Speaker 2: or Crime and Justice News after this. A man in

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Speaker 2: Florida is facing a potential life sentence after being found

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Speaker 2: guilty by a jury of abducting his wife and their

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Speaker 2: four children during a heroing crime spree that involved physical

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Speaker 2: violence and threats to their lives. Antonio Caban thirty six,

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Speaker 2: is scheduled for sentencing on July seven at the Collier

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Speaker 2: County Courthouse. According to a statement from the Sheriff's office.

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Speaker 2: His wife and children had escaped from Puerto Rico to

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Speaker 2: Florida in an effort to flee years of abuse at

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Speaker 2: his hands. However, Caban tracked them down, resulting in a

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Speaker 2: terrifying incident in January. The family agreed to meet Caban

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Speaker 2: at a motel in LaBelle on January three, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: He insisted on seeing them again, as detailed in a

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Speaker 2: probable Cause affidavid. They met at a grocery store parking lot,

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Speaker 2: where a heated argument erupted between Caban and his wife.

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Speaker 2: In an attempt to escape with the children, His wife

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Speaker 2: tried to drive away, but the man intervened forcibly, removing

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Speaker 2: the keys from the ignition. Taking control of the car,

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Speaker 2: Caban threatened to destroy it and harm everyone inside. His

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Speaker 2: wife attempted to escape from the car, but was bitten

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Speaker 2: by the man in the face. They then drove through

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Speaker 2: multiple counties, with Caban eventually stopping in a rural area.

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Speaker 2: He ordered his family out of the car and issued

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Speaker 2: death threats on every one of them if they didn't comply.

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Speaker 2: In a further act of violence, Caban used a tire

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Speaker 2: iron to assault his wife before forcing everyone back into

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Speaker 2: the car and continuing to drive. He even threatened to

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Speaker 2: stop at a home depot to purchase a shovel to

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Speaker 2: bury their bodies after threatening to kill them. When his

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Speaker 2: wife received phone calls, he stopped the car and buried

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Speaker 2: her phone in a citrus field. The wife cleverly persuaded

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Speaker 2: him to take them to a shelter where she had

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Speaker 2: previously stayed to retrieve her personal items. Once there, she

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Speaker 2: sought assistance, prompting a swift response from the Collier County

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Speaker 2: Sheriff's deputies, who rescued the family and arrested the man.

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Speaker 2: Sheriff Kevin Ramsback remarked this case highlighted the severe risk

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Speaker 2: that victims of domestic violence often endure. I commend the

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Speaker 2: victim for her bravery and quick thinking in such a

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Speaker 2: perilous situation. I also want to express gratitude to our

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Speaker 2: deputies and partner agencies for their prompt and coordinated efforts

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Speaker 2: that ensured the safety of this family. He will be

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Speaker 2: brought to justice, and fortunately their lives have been saved.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miss carriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see What

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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