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Speaker 1: Crime Lord hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Dave Mack.

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Speaker 1: A Michigan mom is devastated by a judge's decision to

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Speaker 1: not send a team to jail for causing a wreck

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Speaker 1: at a high rate of speed, leading to the death

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Speaker 1: of her son. Eighteen year old college freshman Flynn mccrell

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Speaker 1: is home for Thanksgiving break when a friend, sixteen year

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Speaker 1: old Karen and Tag, picks him up in his mother's BMW.

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Speaker 1: Five minutes later, Teg is going over one hundred miles

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Speaker 1: per hour in a twenty five mile per hour residential

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Speaker 1: zone in gross Pointe, Michigan, when he loses control of

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Speaker 1: the vehicle, hitting a pole and then a tree, killing mccrell,

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Speaker 1: instantly splitting the car in two, reducing the BMW X

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Speaker 1: three M series into a pile of unrecognizable metal and glass.

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Speaker 1: The family of Flynn mccrell push to have Tag's mother,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Puli O'tegg, investigated by police after text messages reveal

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Speaker 1: she was not only aware of her son's speeding, she

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Speaker 1: had intimate knowledge of his driving habits through the life

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Speaker 1: three sixty GPS app shortly before the wreck that caused

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Speaker 1: the death of Flynn mccrel. Teg wrote to her son

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Speaker 1: telling him to quote slow the blank down. Despite being

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Speaker 1: aware of her son's reckless driving. Puli o'tagg also allows

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Speaker 1: her son to continue to use her brand nude BMW.

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Speaker 1: Mcrell's parents compared Pulli o'tagg's behavior to another pair of

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Speaker 1: Michigan parents, Jennifer and James Crumby, the parents of Oxford

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Speaker 1: High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, who were held responsible for

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Speaker 1: their child's actions in a school shooting. Police released video

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Speaker 1: showing Tag filming himself driving recklessly and well over the

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Speaker 1: speed limit on numerous occasions. Karen and Tagg is now eighteen.

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Speaker 1: He was initially charged with second degree murder for killing

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Speaker 1: fle mccrell in the deadly crash in November twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: but was able to get the charge reduced to manslaughter

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Speaker 1: with a motor vehicle. Teg, who is sixteen at the

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Speaker 1: time of the crash, was charged with adult designation, meaning

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Speaker 1: the judge could sentence him as a juvenile, as an adult,

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Speaker 1: or create a blended sentence. Judge Mark McClory opted to

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Speaker 1: sentence the teen to serve probation at a level two.

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Speaker 1: June Uvenile Placement Facility, which is an out of home

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Speaker 1: residential facility. His time at the facility will be determined

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Speaker 1: by his progress, allowing him to be released on probation

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Speaker 1: once he completes his treatment. However, if take is found

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Speaker 1: in violation at any term of his probation, he will

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Speaker 1: be sentenced as an adult to nineteen to thirty eight

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Speaker 1: months to be served at the Wayne County Detention Facility.

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Speaker 1: Wayne County prosecutors declined to charge the teen's mother. Investigators

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Speaker 1: have determined that a fire that killed a pregnant mother

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Speaker 1: and two of her children in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood

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Speaker 1: of Philadelphia was intentionally set. Early in the investigation, fire

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Speaker 1: police and ATF were investigating the cause of the fire,

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Speaker 1: with the focus being on the front steps as the

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Speaker 1: accelerants sniffing dogs kept leading investigators there. The woman who

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Speaker 1: died was thirty one year old Ashley Thompson, who was

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Speaker 1: seven months pregnant, and the two children who also died

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Speaker 1: in the fire were four and five year olds, a

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Speaker 1: Leah and Assad, Ashley Thompson's children. Another woman inside the

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Speaker 1: home when the fire broke out was the children's grandmother,

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Speaker 1: who grabbed a one year old child and jumped from

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Speaker 1: a second story window. She remains in critical condition in

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Speaker 1: the hospital and the child she saved is in stable condition.

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Speaker 1: Neighbor Yasinia Yeves described what she witnessed. We looked up,

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Speaker 1: the window was already engulfed conflames by the time my

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Speaker 1: husband came down, so she had already jumped out the window,

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Speaker 1: and there there was no going back in to help

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Speaker 1: anybody else. Ashlely Thompson was found dead on the second floor,

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Speaker 1: and the two children died after being transported to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: Officials said the firing gulfed the home so quickly that

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Speaker 1: he gave the people inside barely any time to escape.

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Speaker 1: Police do not have anyone charged with the crime, but

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Speaker 1: they do have a person of interest in custody. R

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Speaker 1: Kelly back in the news after spending two days at

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Speaker 1: a North Carolina medical facility over the past weekend. His

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Speaker 1: lawyer files a third supplement to his emergency motions seeking

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Speaker 1: release from prison due to for his safety. Kelly claims

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Speaker 1: the reason he ended up in the medical facility to

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Speaker 1: start with was due to an overdose he suffered from

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Speaker 1: medications provided to him by prison employees. While he was

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Speaker 1: in solitary confinement. Kelly's lawyer claims he was placed in

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Speaker 1: solitary confinement as punishment for filing the emergency motion to

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Speaker 1: be released from the prison. The third supplement to his

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Speaker 1: emergency motion states Bureau of Prisons officials administered an amount

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Speaker 1: of medication that significantly exceeded as safe dose and caused

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Speaker 1: mister Kelly to overdose, putting his life in jeopardy. Kelly

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Speaker 1: takes medications for anxiety and to help him sleep, in

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Speaker 1: addition to other medications. The third supplement also claims that

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Speaker 1: doctors informed Kelly he had blood clots in his legs

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Speaker 1: and lungs that required surgery, but prison officials refused to

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Speaker 1: let him undergo the procedure because it requires a week

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Speaker 1: of recovery. Mister Kelly's life is in jeopardy right now

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Speaker 1: because the Bureau of Prisons denied him necessary surgery to

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Speaker 1: clear clots from his lungs. The supplement says, he could

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Speaker 1: die from this condition and they're letting it happen. There

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Speaker 1: is no legitimate explanation for that. Kelly's lawyer, Bo Brindley

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Speaker 1: also says that the alleged overdose happened almost immediately after

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Speaker 1: he spoke publicly about this singer being kept in solitary confinement.

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Speaker 1: Brendley says the incident occurred on June thirteenth, when Kelly

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Speaker 1: woke up in solitary confinement at the Federal Correctional Institution

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Speaker 1: in Buttoner, North Carolina. Feeling faint and dizzy. He started

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Speaker 1: get up on his feet. Unable to walk, Brindley says

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Speaker 1: Kelly crawled to the door of the cell and lost consciousness.

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Speaker 1: The singer has allegedly been in solitary confinement ever since.

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Speaker 1: Brinley filed an emergency motion seeking a temporary furlough for

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Speaker 1: his client on June ten. The emergency motion claimed that

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Speaker 1: officials within the Bureau of Prisons were plotting to kill Kelly,

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Speaker 1: and requested that the singer be granted a temporary furlough,

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Speaker 1: during which he replaced under house arrest. Watch Crime Stories

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