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Speaker 1: Crime Alert, imancy, grace breaking crime news. Now a perfectly

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Speaker 1: healthy twenty seven year old woman gets drunk and high

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Speaker 1: and shoves a beloved eighty seven year old voice coach.

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Speaker 1: She hits her head and the voice coach dies. Lauren

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Speaker 1: Pazienza says her defense is, I was so drunk and high,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened really in the last hours.

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Speaker 1: A stunning guilty plea at what many believe to be

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Speaker 1: a sweetheart sentence, Lauren Ponzienza was charged with manslaughter in

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Speaker 1: the first degree.

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Speaker 2: Under the terms of the plea agreement, Ponzienza will be

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Speaker 2: sentenced to eight years in state prison, followed by five

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Speaker 2: years of supervision. Lauren Ponzienza was initially charged with men's

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Speaker 2: in the first degree in the shoving death of eighty

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Speaker 2: seven year old voice teacher Barbara Mayor Gustern. After a

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Speaker 2: night of drinking, Ponzienza shoved Gustern for no apparent reason

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Speaker 2: as she waited on the street outside of her building.

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Speaker 2: Ponzienza shoved Gustern to the ground and walked away. Gustern

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Speaker 2: was taken to the hospital but died several days later.

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Speaker 2: The two did not know each other.

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Speaker 1: More crime and Justice needs after this. Now with the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice breaking, these crimalized John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: In a confrontation that police initially claimed involved a driver

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Speaker 3: lunching at an officer with a knife outside a vehicle.

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Speaker 3: A judge has now dismissed murder and other charges against

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Speaker 3: a Philadelphia coup who shot and killed the driver through

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Speaker 3: a rolled up window with the latest Sydney sumner with

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Speaker 3: Crime Online.

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Speaker 4: Municipal Judge Wendy Pugh agreed with the defense counsel who

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Speaker 4: claimed the officer might have feared for his life because

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Speaker 4: he believed the driver, twenty seven year old Eddie Irozari,

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Speaker 4: had a gun. Irazari was seen clutching a knife close

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Speaker 4: to his right leg as officers approached his stopped vehicle

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Speaker 4: in footage from a police body camera that was played

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Speaker 4: at the preliminary hearing of dismissed officer Mark Dial After

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Speaker 4: a brief pursuit caused by erratic driving, the officers had

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Speaker 4: stopped Irazari on a residential street. The decision was reached

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Speaker 4: following a twenty minute viewing of the terrifying film in

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Speaker 4: a courtroom that was crowded with police and Irazari's family members.

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Speaker 4: According to his lawyers, it was shortly after noon on

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Speaker 4: August fourteenth that Dial discharged his weapon at close range,

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Speaker 4: acting in self defense. Irosari's family members seems shocked and

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Speaker 4: upset by Pugh's decision, which prosecutors expect to appeal. The

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Speaker 4: victim's relatives told the press that police shouldn't have to

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Speaker 4: shoot someone dead just because they are speeding or acting unreasonably.

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Speaker 3: Bodycam video reveals Dials shot Irozari roughly seven seconds after

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Speaker 3: exiting a police suv and approaching the vehicle. He discharged

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Speaker 3: a total of six rounds now to Iowa. As a

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Speaker 3: month after one man was found guilty for his parts

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Speaker 3: in the killings, Juras have now acquitted another defendant accused

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Speaker 3: of murder in the shooting deaths of two students at

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Speaker 3: a Des Moines alternative school. Our friends with the Des

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Speaker 3: Moines Register report that twenty year old Bravon Tukes was

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Speaker 3: found not guilty on two counts of first degree murder

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Speaker 3: and one count each of attempted murder, involvement in a

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Speaker 3: criminal gang, and wilful damage inflicting serious injury. About a

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Speaker 3: month prior, nineteen year old Preston Walls was found guilty

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Speaker 3: of second degree murder, manslaughter, and wilful damage inflicting serious

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Speaker 3: injury for his involvement in the January twenty third shooting

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Speaker 3: at the Start's Right Here program. The prosecution's aim was

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Speaker 3: also to find Walls guilty of first degree murder. A

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Speaker 3: Louisiana man who escaped his attempted murder conviction in nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety one has now been apprehended more than three decades later,

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Speaker 3: after police discovered him hiding in Mexico once again. Crime

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Speaker 3: online Sydney Sumner.

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Speaker 4: The FBI says sixty three year old Greg Lawson was

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Speaker 4: located in Mexico and returned to the United States. In

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Speaker 4: nineteen ninety one, Lawson was charged with shooting a man

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Speaker 4: in Bienville Parish. According to our Friends with KSLA, Lawson

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Speaker 4: left the courthouse as the jury was about to enter

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Speaker 4: the courtroom to find him guilty of the charge of

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Speaker 4: attempted murder. His truck later discovered a block from the courthouse.

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Speaker 4: The FBI shared a video of Lawson being escorted by

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Speaker 4: police at an airport on x formerly known as Twitter.

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Speaker 4: In the footage, Lawson seems to laugh nervously as police

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Speaker 4: restrain him with handcuffs. A mother from western Michigan has

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Speaker 4: been given a sentence of up to five years in

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Speaker 4: jail after she crashed her suv into an ice covered pond,

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Speaker 4: killing her three young sons. Letitia Gonzalez had entered a

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Speaker 4: no contest lee in August to three misdemeanor charges of

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Speaker 4: a moving fraction resulting in death, as well as operating

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Speaker 4: a vehicle while drunk causing serious injury. According to our

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Speaker 4: friends at WODTV, Gonzalez informed the court that she has

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Speaker 4: been plagued with survivor's guilt ever since her children's murders,

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Speaker 4: and an Ottawa County judge sentenced the Holland area mother

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Speaker 4: to a minimum of two years and a maximum of

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Speaker 4: five years. It was in February of twenty twenty two

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Speaker 4: when Ottawa County Police say Gonzalez drove her suv off

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Speaker 4: the side of a Holland township road, jumped a curb,

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Speaker 4: and rolled into an ice covered retention pond. The woman's

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Speaker 4: three sons, four year old Jerome the third, three year

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Speaker 4: old Jeremiah, and one year old Josiah, were strapped into

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Speaker 4: child's safety seats at the time and drowned during the incident.

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