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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Jennifer Gould.

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Speaker 1: A lead foot and a sharp eyed deputy may have

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Speaker 1: just saved a life after a routine speeding stop on

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Speaker 1: US seventeen in Crescent City, Florida, turned into a high

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Speaker 1: stakes rescue of a missing North Carolina teen. Joshua McGrath,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven, of Charlotte, was hauled off to jailen cuffs

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Speaker 1: after Putnam County deputies discovered his sixteen year old passenger

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Speaker 1: had been the subject of a desperate, month long manhunt.

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Speaker 1: The drama unfolded when Deputy Tuning clocked mcgraf's car flying

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Speaker 1: down the highway. When the deputy approached the car, McGrath

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Speaker 1: immediately trying to pull a fast one, first claiming the

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Speaker 1: teen was his little cousin. Here's the body cam. Listen,

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Speaker 1: that's your friend in Charlotte hawbery. You have thirty seven

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Speaker 1: and your friends with a sixteen year old girl. The girl,

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Speaker 1: visibly shaken, fed the deputy a string of bizarre lies,

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Speaker 1: even claiming she was born in twenty thirteen, which would

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Speaker 1: have made her a twelve year old child, before eventually

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Speaker 1: breaking down in the back of the patrol car. And

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Speaker 1: revealing she was a runaway from Gastonia, North Carolina, reported

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Speaker 1: missing since February sixteenth. McGrath's cousins story evaporated instantly, replaced

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Speaker 1: by a revolving door of excuses, a friend, he thought

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Speaker 1: she was nineteen, and finally he insisted they were only

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Speaker 1: in Florida to quote unquote play gambling games. But the

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Speaker 1: gambling was far from legal because a search of the

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Speaker 1: car allegedly uncovered nineteen counterfeit one hundred dollars bills, a

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Speaker 1: stash of synthetic marijuana, and other drug paraphernalia. Authorities quickly

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Speaker 1: contacted teen's mom, who confirmed she'd never even heard of mcgraf,

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Speaker 1: fueling suspicions of a much darker motive for their multi

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Speaker 1: state journey. McGrath is currently being held at the Putnam

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Speaker 1: County Jail on a nine thousand dollars bond, facing a

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Speaker 1: laundry list of charges including interference with child custody and

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Speaker 1: possession of counterfeit currency, and more could be pending while

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Speaker 1: the teen awaits a reunion with her family. The investigation

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Speaker 1: is ongoing. More crime and justice news after this, A

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Speaker 1: nightmarish failure of supervision has left a developmentally disabled five

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Speaker 1: year old boy wheelchair bound and traumatized after he was

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Speaker 1: allegedly beaten to a pulp during a Cub Scout meeting

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Speaker 1: in Bowling Green, Ohio. An explosive civil lawsuit filed by

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Speaker 1: parents Brianna and Christopher Russell, it claims their son Id'd

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Speaker 1: only as DR, was brutally assaulted while his pack leader,

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Speaker 1: thirty four year old Christopher Cokeley, stepped outside the room

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Speaker 1: to vape. The carnage unfolded in December of twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five during an indoor snowball fight with fake snowballs at

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Speaker 1: the First Christian Church. According to the filing, DR was

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Speaker 1: bending down to join the fun when a twelve year

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Speaker 1: old boy called LC allegedly launched a savage attack, punching

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Speaker 1: the little boy in the head and stomach before knocking

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Speaker 1: him to the floor and stomping on his leg with

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Speaker 1: enough force to snap his thigh bone. DR's devastated mom, Brianna,

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Speaker 1: spoke to WTL eleven News, I heard him yell for

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Speaker 1: the first time, and that is a sound that I

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Speaker 1: will never never forget as a mother. The injuries were

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Speaker 1: so catastrophic that DR required emergency service to have flexible

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Speaker 1: titanium elastic nails driven into his femur to stabilize the

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Speaker 1: fracture rods that must remain in his body for up

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Speaker 1: to a year, as that child now faces a future

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Speaker 1: of morphine and wheelchairs. The lawsuit further reveals a shocking

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Speaker 1: failure of accountability, alleging the cub Scouts, who are mandatory reporters,

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Speaker 1: waited four days to report the assault, only doing so

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Speaker 1: after the parents filed their own police report. Also that

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Speaker 1: Scouting America and the Eerie Shore's Council violated their own

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Speaker 1: quote two deep leadership rules by failing to separate age groups,

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Speaker 1: allowing a much older child with a documented history of

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Speaker 1: trouble to be in striking distance of a vulnerable five

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Speaker 1: year old child, while Scouting America expresses quote unquote sincere concern.

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Speaker 1: The family is demanding a jury trial and over twenty

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars in damages. Despite the brutal nature of

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Speaker 1: the stomping, juvenile prosecutors have reportedly declined to file criminal charges,

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Speaker 1: leaving the civil courts as the only hope for the

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Speaker 1: family to get justice and finally, talk about a smart

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Speaker 1: device with a very dumb mouth, Christy Hesterman of Texas

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Speaker 1: is officially unplugging from Amazon after her Alexa assistant turned

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Speaker 1: into a digital creeper during a storytime session. Four year

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Speaker 1: old Stella was asked by the AI what she was

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Speaker 1: wearing and if it could quote unquote see her pants.

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Speaker 1: When the child mentioned her skirt, the speaker chirped, quote,

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Speaker 1: let me take a look. That's a virtual voyeur for sure.

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Speaker 1: Amazon claimed the wardrobe malfunction was just a feature misfire

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Speaker 1: and insists its safeguard cards prevented the camera from launching.

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Speaker 1: But this mom not buying the prime excuse. Fearing a

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Speaker 1: predator had hacked the hardware, Hosterman yanked the plug on

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Speaker 1: the bot's subscription to her home. We'll see if Amazon

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Speaker 1: can reboot this glitch before more families disconnect. For the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice news, follow the Crime Alert hourly

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Speaker 1: update on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould.