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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. Timous

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Speaker 1: Powell takes his two year old nephew to the emergency ram,

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Speaker 1: claiming he found a piece of glass in the baby's

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Speaker 1: diaper that cut the baby's penis. Doctors are confused. The

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Speaker 1: cut is extremely clean and precise, not matching Powell's description

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Speaker 1: at all. Hospital staff call protective services, who review security

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Speaker 1: footage showing Powell standing over the baby with an unknown

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Speaker 1: object until the baby screams, then putting a fresh diaper

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Speaker 1: on the top.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Powell was babysitting the child while his sister was

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Speaker 2: at work. Powell initially told doctors that he noticed glass

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Speaker 2: in the infant's diaper and he broke the skin trying

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Speaker 2: to wipe it away. Then he said he broke the

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Speaker 2: skin wiping the baby too hard. Doctors were able to

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Speaker 2: repair the cut by gluing it, but it appeared to

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Speaker 2: be the result of an at home circumcision attempt.

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Speaker 1: Powell, twenty nine, now charged with aggravated child abuse. Quick

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Speaker 1: thinking employees at an Ohio junkyard use a creative method

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Speaker 1: to stop a car thief Alexander Funk, who makes off

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Speaker 1: with the stolen car from the junt yard twice in

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Speaker 1: the past. Decides to try his luck at the third time,

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Speaker 1: but employees are ready. As Funk tries to drive off

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Speaker 1: in a hotwired suv, a fort lift scoopes the car up,

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Speaker 1: holding Funk twenty feet above ground. When cops get there,

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Speaker 1: they lower the car gently back to the ground. Funk cuffed.

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Speaker 1: Alexander Funk twenty six now charged with trespassing and robbery.

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Speaker 1: Guess he's left hanging. More Crime and Justice news after

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Speaker 1: this Now with the latest crime in Justice breaking news

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Speaker 1: Crime Onlines John Lemley.

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Speaker 3: Medical complications have claimed the life of a man awaiting

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Speaker 3: trial in connection with the abduction and eventual murder of

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Speaker 3: a sixteen year old girl from western Michigan. For more,

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Speaker 3: we turned to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online.

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Speaker 2: Federal Attorney Mark Tauton announced that sixty three year old

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Speaker 2: Gerald Bennett of Detroit was admitted to a hospital on

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Speaker 2: November seventh to receive treatment for cancer. As his condition

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Speaker 2: works and Bennett was put on life support and subsequently died.

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Speaker 2: In April of last year, Bennett was found competent to

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Speaker 2: stand trial for the kidnapping of Muge Dumbia. Dumbia had

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Speaker 2: claimed in twenty seventeen that she was sexually assaulted at

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Speaker 2: the age of fifteen by Quinn James, a maintenance worker

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Speaker 2: at her school. She was even supposed to testify during

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Speaker 2: his trial in April of twenty eighteen. However, Dumbia was

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Speaker 2: kidnapped from a bus stop in January, and her partially

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Speaker 2: dressed body was eventually discovered in a wooded area of Kalamazoo,

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Speaker 2: about fifty miles southeast of her Grand Rapids home. She'd

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Speaker 2: been strangled. Cotton said James hired Bennett to assist him

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Speaker 2: in abducting and murdering Dumbia, and the two men were

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Speaker 2: charged with murder in state court in April twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: James was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. However,

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Speaker 2: Bennett was found unable to stand trial and the accusations

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Speaker 2: against him were dropped in March twenty twenty two. After that,

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Speaker 2: the FBI and federal prosecutors were tasked with handling the investigation,

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Speaker 2: and in August, Bennett was charged by a federal grand jury.

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Speaker 2: Bennett was found fit to stand trial by a judge

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Speaker 2: after a forensic psychologist determined that he had staged his incompetency.

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Speaker 2: The first jury selection was slated to start in February

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Bennett was charged by federal authorities with

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Speaker 2: conspiracy to conduct murder for hire resulting in death, kidnapping

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Speaker 2: resulting in death, kidnapping of a juvenile victim, and solicitation

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Speaker 2: to commit a violent felony.

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Speaker 3: Totton stated that the case has now been dismissed. Authorities

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Speaker 3: in Texas are reporting that a thirteen year old boy

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Speaker 3: found guilty of killing a Sonic drive in employee will

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Speaker 3: spend twelve years in prison. According to Amy Pardo of

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Speaker 3: the Johnson County Attorney's Office, the judge handed down the

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Speaker 3: sentence after days of evidence hearings regarding the boy's punishment

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Speaker 3: in this unusual murder case against a minor. He may

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Speaker 3: eventually be moved to the adult prison system in the

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Speaker 3: state after beginning his time in the Texas Juvenile Justice

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Speaker 3: Department's care. The boy, whose name has not been released

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Speaker 3: by authorities, could have received a term of up to

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Speaker 3: forty years in prison or probation. In October, a jury

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Speaker 3: in the murder case involving the shooting death of a

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Speaker 3: Sonic employee who got into a confrontation with the teen's uncle,

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Speaker 3: found the boy guilty of delinquent conduct, the juvenile version

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Speaker 3: of a guilty judgment. After pleading guilty to charges related

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Speaker 3: to his sponsorship of his son's gun license application, The

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Speaker 3: father of the suspect and a deadly Fourth of July

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Speaker 3: parade shooting in suburban Chicago has turned himself in to

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Speaker 3: begin a sixty day prison sentence once again Crime online

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Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this month, Robert Crimo Junior pled guilty in Lake

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Speaker 2: County Court in Wakegan, Illinois, to seven misdemeanor counts of

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Speaker 2: reckless conduct. Despite the teen's frequent threats of violence, Cremo

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Speaker 2: sponsored his underage son's handgun application three years prior to

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Speaker 2: the July twenty twenty two attack in Highland Park. On

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Speaker 2: November sixth, Judge George Strickland gave Crimo Junior a sentence

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Speaker 2: of sixty days in jail, two years of probation, and

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Speaker 2: one hundred hours of community service. He consented to hold

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Speaker 2: off on immediately taking him in to custody. Cremo's son,

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Speaker 2: Robert Cremo of a third, is charged with twenty one

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Speaker 2: counts of first degree murder forty eight counts of attempted

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Speaker 2: murder and forty eight counts of aggravated violence. When he

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Speaker 2: was apprehended hours after the shooting in Highland Park, prosecutor

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Speaker 2: said he acknowledged being the shooter.

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Speaker 3: It's anticipated that a trial date for Cremo the third

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Speaker 3: will be set. Do you Senbrey eleven.

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Speaker 1: Dave Lennard, mom of six, moves in with her boyfriend

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Speaker 1: in Divide, Colorado after three years together. She frequently visits

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Speaker 1: her children and looking forward to a large family gathering

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Speaker 1: to celebrators on his birthday. When Dava doesn't show up,

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Speaker 1: her family knows something's wrong. They contact the boyfriend, who

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Speaker 1: doesn't respond. The family eventually asks for a welfare check.

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Speaker 1: Cops fine Dava is gone. Her boyfriend says she went

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Speaker 1: out to run an errand and never came back, leaving

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Speaker 1: behind all her belongings, including her beloved dog Elo. Her

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Speaker 1: family says she never goes anything without him. Dave Lennard

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Speaker 1: now missing nearly three years. She wears black cat eyeglasses,

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Speaker 1: as a dragon tattoo on her back and a scar

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Speaker 1: on her left arm. If you have info on Davia Leonard,

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Speaker 1: please call Taylor County Sheriffs seven point nine six eight

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Speaker 1: seven nine six five two For the latest crime in

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Speaker 1: justice knees, go to crimeonline dot com with this crime alert.

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Speaker 1: I'm Niancy Grace