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Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jackie Howard. Two fifty eight am, Austin, Texas. Two

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Speaker 3: young men are breaking into cars.

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Speaker 4: MoMA, my car is gone, and I was like, we

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Speaker 4: were just out there putting stuff.

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Speaker 2: In the car, so for you to go home.

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Speaker 3: Anthony Sallas at home in the Valley packing his sister's car,

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Speaker 3: helping her get ready to leave. Fox seven Austin spoke

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Speaker 3: with Salas's mother, Robin Alba.

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Speaker 1: He of course heard it and like what where oh,

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Speaker 1: and he's ready to go, and I told him at y'all,

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Speaker 1: don't go, don't go.

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Speaker 2: Stay here and just call the police. Please. I know

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Speaker 2: what I'm doing, and you know when they win.

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Speaker 3: Salas didn't come home. A nine to one one call

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Speaker 3: comes into police someone has been hit near De Valley Elementary.

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Speaker 3: Anthony Sallas along with his family track the stolen car,

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Speaker 3: finding it near Ross Road. During a confrontation, Salas is shot,

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Speaker 3: then run over by the car.

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Speaker 2: Cud he's not coming back. In over Way.

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Speaker 3: Police arrest two, a twelve year old and a thirteen

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Speaker 3: year old. Copps say the boys had been targeting vehicles

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Speaker 3: throughout the night and are now facing capital murder. By

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Speaker 3: terrorist threat. Alston Police say they are looking for other suspects.

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Speaker 3: More crime and Justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole pardon.

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Speaker 5: Cassie Ventira, the former partner of Sean Didde Combs and

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Speaker 5: one of his accusers, has spent two days delivering compelling

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Speaker 5: testimony in his federal trial concerning sex trafficking. During her statements,

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Speaker 5: she recounted the physical abuse she claims to have suffered

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Speaker 5: at Combe's hands and discussed the so called freakofs, which

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Speaker 5: she described as drug fueled sexual performances that he orchestrated.

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Speaker 5: The jury was presented with explicit images and videos that

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Speaker 5: Combs allegedly kept for leverage. The defense is set to

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Speaker 5: begin cross examination of Ventira today, with the expectation that

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Speaker 5: that will extend into Friday. Combs has pleaded not guilty

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Speaker 5: to a range of charges, including racketeering, conspiracies, sex trafficking,

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Speaker 5: and transportation for prostitution. If found guilty on all charges,

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Speaker 5: he faces a potential life sentence. Cassie Ventira has continued

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Speaker 5: her testimony, with prosecutors honing in on issues related to cohersion.

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Speaker 5: The jury was shown several pieces of evidence as Ventira

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Speaker 5: detailed the alleged instances of physical violence. She experienced multiple

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Speaker 5: photographs showing her injuries, including black eyes, a swollen lip

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Speaker 5: of forehead, gash, and various bruises. Approximately seven steals from

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Speaker 5: the freak Off videos depicting her alongside several escorts, which

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Speaker 5: were shown exclusively to the jury and not the public.

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Speaker 5: Ventira identified the individuals in the images to the jury,

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Speaker 5: saying she in fact knew them and had helped book

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Speaker 5: them as escorts. For more, Here's Crime on Lines Jackie Howard.

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Speaker 6: She was tasked with finding escorts for the freak Offs,

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Speaker 6: but Combs always demanded to approve them. She typically handed

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Speaker 6: the escorts their cash, but the money came from Combs.

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Speaker 6: The cash and delivered by staff members. Combs always double

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Speaker 6: checked that Cassie had verified the escorts weren't undercover cops,

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Speaker 6: and that's when it hit her that the situation was

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Speaker 6: not legal.

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Speaker 5: Her mother is anticipated to take the stand soon.

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Speaker 1: Blood from the top of his head all the way down.

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Speaker 7: I'm Drew Nelson, a man in Oregon is sentenced to

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Speaker 7: nearly six years in prison for stabbing another man fifteen

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Speaker 7: times after following him home from a bar where he

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Speaker 7: won two thousand dollars in the lottery and attack. The

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Speaker 7: victim survived by playing dead until his attacker fell asleep.

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Speaker 7: It happened on the night of August seventeenth of twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty four.

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Speaker 2: The victim had just.

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Speaker 7: Won on a video lottery machine at Montana's Bar in

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Speaker 7: southeast Portland. As he left, sixty two year old Pablo

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Speaker 7: Figueroa followed him to the Ye East Plaza apartments on

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Speaker 7: Southeast Ash Street. Figureoa slipped through the building security gate,

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Speaker 7: shadowed the man up to his apartment, and burst in

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Speaker 7: as he opened the door. Surveillance video later showed Figaroa

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Speaker 7: just a few paces behind. Inside he tackled the man

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Speaker 7: and demanded the winnings. The victim handed over six hundred

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Speaker 7: and twenty four dollars, but Figueroa wanted more.

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Speaker 2: He pulled a.

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Speaker 7: Pocket knife and stabbed the man fifteen times in the arms,

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Speaker 7: chest and face. The victim later told police he began

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Speaker 7: to black out and decided to play dead. The victim said,

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Speaker 7: in court quote, mister Figueroa had the money and could

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Speaker 7: have left my apartment, but instead decided to sit at

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Speaker 7: my kitchen table and watch me die. He fell asleep

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Speaker 7: and eventually began to snore. When the victim heard that,

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Speaker 7: he opened his eyes and escaped.

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Speaker 4: And we heard banging, we heard furniture, we heard yelling,

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Speaker 4: some type of argument. So I decided to go smoke

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Speaker 4: a cigarette, and then on my second cigarette, the stabbing

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Speaker 2: The neighbors speaking to Kpna. Blood all over his.

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Speaker 1: Head, his ear, his throat, his arms, his stomach, and

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Speaker 2: He did not look like a good friend of mine.

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Speaker 7: Police reviewed surveillance footage and realized Figueroa had never exited

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Speaker 7: the building. They found him hiding in the trash room

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Speaker 7: and used mace to arrest him. Officers later found the

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Speaker 7: knife hidden in a cat litter box inside the apartment.

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Speaker 7: Figureoa was carrying blood stained pants and six hundred and

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Speaker 7: twenty four dollars cash. He pleaded no contests to assault

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Speaker 7: and burglary. A judge sentenced into five years ten months

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Speaker 7: in prison.

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Speaker 2: He's currently being.

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Speaker 7: Held at Coffee Creek Correctional Institution awaiting his permanent prison placement.

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Speaker 2: Figueroa has a long criminal history.

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Speaker 7: He is a registered sex offender with prior convictions in California, Arkansas,

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Speaker 7: and Arizona, including a cold case capital murder in Texas,

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Speaker 7: for which he received three life sentences.

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Speaker 2: He also has pending identity.

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Speaker 7: Theft charges and a past of stealing cars using shaved keys.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Coold. A Texas mom is facing chilling charges

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Speaker 1: after allegedly turning her own home into an armory for

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Speaker 1: her son's twisted dream becoming famous through mass targeted violence

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Speaker 1: at his middle school. Ashley Pardo is seen in her

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Speaker 1: mugshots sporting purple hair and multiple face tattoos. The thirty

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Speaker 1: three year old was busted for allegedly buying Ammo and

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Speaker 1: tactical gear for her child, even brushing off his alarming

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Speaker 1: violent expressions to school officials. According to a bombshell San

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Speaker 1: Antonio Police Department affidavit, this parent spoke to Ken's Five News.

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Speaker 1: For a mother to do that, it makes me feel

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Speaker 1: like what kind of mother is she to be supplying

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Speaker 1: her children with that. The terrifying plot began to unravel

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Speaker 1: when school officials at Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School raised red

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Speaker 1: flags about the student's disturbing behavior, including explicit threats of

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Speaker 1: a mass attack. Detectives alleged Pardo was not just aware

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Speaker 1: of her son's dark intentions. She actively fueled them, purchasing ammunition, magazines,

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Speaker 1: a tactical vest, a helmet, and even army clothing to

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Speaker 1: aid his scheme. The affidavit reveals that Pardo bought the

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Speaker 1: gear in exchange for her son babysitting his younger siblings.

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Speaker 1: The grandmother of the boy stumbled upon a horrifying discovery

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Speaker 1: the child hitting a live bullet with a hammer. When

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Speaker 1: she questioned him, he allegedly confessed his mom had given

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Speaker 1: it to him, boasting about the guns and ammo at

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Speaker 1: her house. A subsequent search of his room on earth

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Speaker 1: a makeshift ied a mortar style firework wrapped in duct tape,

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Speaker 1: along with a rifle and magazines loaded with live rounds.

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Speaker 1: Even more disturbing was a handwritten note referencing past masked shootings,

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Speaker 1: their perpetrators, and victim counts, including a nod to the

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Speaker 1: New Zealand christ Church mosque shooter and white supremacist symbols.

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Speaker 1: Adding to the awful picture, the boy allegedly told his

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Speaker 1: granny he was going to be famous just before Pardo

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Speaker 1: arrived to take him to school on the very morning

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Speaker 1: his arsenal was found. He arrived at the school that day,

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Speaker 1: wearing a mask, camouflage jacket, and tactical pants. School officials,

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Speaker 1: unable to find him immediately called the cops out a

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Speaker 1: fear of an imminent attack. Sapd's investigation revealed a disturbing pattern.

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Speaker 1: As early as January, school officials had concerns about the

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Speaker 1: boy's violent drawings, including a map labeled quote suicide route

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Speaker 1: end quote, and the school's name next to a rifle.

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Speaker 1: He admitted also to a fascination with past mass shooters.

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Speaker 1: In April, he was suspended for researching the christ Church

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Speaker 1: shooting on a school issued laptop, followed by a suicide

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Speaker 1: attempt with a straight race that required over one hundred stitches.

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Speaker 1: Despite this alarming history, Pardo allegedly dismissed her son's behavior,

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Speaker 1: even defending his quote unquote violent expressions and drawings to

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Speaker 1: authorities unbelievable. Parto was arrested and charged with aiding in

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Speaker 1: the commission of terrorism. She posted a seventy five thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars bond and was released. Her next core hearing is

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Speaker 1: set for July seventeenth. The child is still in custody.

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