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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm Nicole parton enough fitenil to kill fourteen million people.

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Speaker 2: That's according to the sheriff to Distinctive undercover operations spearheaded

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Speaker 2: by the Polk County Sheriff's Office High Intensity Drug Trafficking

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Speaker 2: Area Task Force have yielded significant results in combating fentanyl trafficking,

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Speaker 2: leading to the arrest of eight people associated with two

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Speaker 2: prominent Mexican cartels, the Sonolia and the Jalisco New Generation

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Speaker 2: Criminal Organizations. Authorities confiscated twenty nine pounds of fitenil linked

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Speaker 2: to the Jalisco cartel, while the Sonolia cartel investigation resulted

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Speaker 2: in a historic seizure of thirty five pounds, making it

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Speaker 2: the largest single seizure of fentanyl in the county's history.

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Speaker 2: These consecutive operations highlight the persistent dangers post by international

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Speaker 2: drug trafficking networks.

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Speaker 1: The investigations were supported in.

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Speaker 2: Part by many authorities, including the US Department of Homeland Security,

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Speaker 2: US Border Patrol agents, law enforcement in Florida and in Arizona,

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Speaker 2: and the US Postal Service. The investigations were supported by

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Speaker 2: the State Financial Assistance for Fittenil, a ratification or the

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Speaker 2: Safe Florida Program. This marks the largest fitinyl seizure in

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Speaker 2: Polk County history. In these two investigations alone, my team

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Speaker 2: has confiscated sixty four pounds of finonyl, enough to pose

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Speaker 2: a lethal threat to over fourteen million people, said Sheriff

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Speaker 2: Grady jud We remain committed to pursuing these criminals to

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Speaker 2: curb the influx of these dangerous drugs into the United

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Speaker 2: States and particularly Florida. For more, here's my favorite Sheriff,

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Speaker 2: Sheriff Grady Judd.

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Speaker 3: We are excited to talk about the largest seizure of

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Speaker 3: fentanyl in the history of the Sheriff's office. And this

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Speaker 3: is all about remarkable work into the two largest drug

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Speaker 3: cartels in Mexico. No single agency can successfully do them.

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Speaker 3: It takes us all working together. And let me underscore

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Speaker 3: that there's no light between any of us. We're shoulder

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Speaker 3: shoulder to protect the people of the United States from

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Speaker 3: this evil drug, fentanyl ample. Between twenty eighteen and twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty three, three hundred and forty thousand people died of

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Speaker 3: fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States. Did you hear

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Speaker 3: what I said? Three hundred and forty thousand people in

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Speaker 3: the United States died a fentanyl overdose between twenty eighteen

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Speaker 3: and twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: The investigation started in July twenty five four when HIDTA

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Speaker 2: Task Force members uncovered counterfeit fentanyl pills linked to the

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Speaker 2: Sonolia cartel. Disguised as blue oxycodone pills. They were trafficked

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Speaker 2: from Sonora, Mexico, through Phoenix, Arizona, and then into Florida.

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Speaker 2: In the initial phase of the investigation, detectives coordinated the

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Speaker 2: shipment of these pills to Polk County, Florida. Between July

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Speaker 2: twenty four and January twenty five, six ship months of

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Speaker 2: the pills were sent to the area, leading to the

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Speaker 2: preliminary seizure of around seventeen pounds of the pills. Shortly

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Speaker 2: before this, undercover detectives arranged with Aldeberto Diaz to transport

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Speaker 2: two of the five kilos about four and a half pounds,

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Speaker 2: to South Florida, agreeing on a five thousand dollars feet

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Speaker 2: Diaz and his daughter, thirty year old Alejandrian Diez, traveled

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Speaker 2: from California to meet with detectives in Polk County to

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Speaker 2: collect the two kilos, only to be arrested on the spot. Ultimately,

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Speaker 2: a toll of twenty nine kilograms sixty four pounds of

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Speaker 2: fittenil were seized throughout this operation, comprising of one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty thousand fininil peels thirteen kilograms of powdered fininyl. Now,

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Speaker 2: all eight of those suspects are being held without bond.

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Speaker 1: Authorities say they believe this.

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Speaker 2: Trafficking halt saved about fourteen million people's lives. Nor Primate

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Speaker 2: Justice News After this, the judge presiding over the case

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Speaker 2: against Rex Huerman, the suspected Long Island serial killer, has

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Speaker 2: announced a date to determine if the prosecution's DNA evidence

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Speaker 2: will be admissible, bringing a lengthy hearing process to a close.

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Speaker 2: State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazia stated on Tuesday that

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Speaker 2: he will deliver his ruling on September three. He has

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Speaker 2: granted defense attorneys until August fifteen to submit their clothes

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Speaker 2: zosing briefs, with prosecutors expected to submit their final brief

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Speaker 2: a week later. Huerman, a sixty one year old man

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Speaker 2: from Manhattan, has been incarcerated since his arrest.

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Speaker 1: Two years ago.

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Speaker 2: He faces multiple charges of first and second degree murder

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Speaker 2: for the deaths of seven women between nineteen ninety three

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Speaker 2: and twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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Speaker 2: The DNA evidence in question involves a specific genome sequencing

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Speaker 2: technique developed by a California based firm that allegedly links

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Speaker 2: Huerman to six of the murders. The defense argues that

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Speaker 2: this novel technique does not satisfy the quote general acceptance

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Speaker 2: standard required in New York courts. Defense attorney Michael Brown

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Speaker 2: commented outside the court on Tuesday, we anticipate a decision

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Speaker 2: on September three that will determine if the court views

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Speaker 2: this technique as generally accepted in the relevant scientific community.

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Speaker 2: If the judge allows this evidence to be presented trial,

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Speaker 2: we will still have the chance to cross examine the

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Speaker 2: witness and address the same issues during the trial. Brown

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Speaker 2: emphasized the novelty of the technique, saying it hasn't been

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Speaker 2: utilized in court across the country except in Idaho, which

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Speaker 2: follows a much different and less rigorous standard. If the

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Speaker 2: judge admits it, then so be it, but we hope

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Speaker 2: he aligns with our stance. Suffolk County District Attorney Ray

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Speaker 2: Tyranny has refrained from commenting on the specifics of the

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Speaker 2: DNA methodology. However, prosecutors have provided evidence suggesting that the

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Speaker 2: techniques employed by Astraya Forensics are gaining traction. During earlier hearings,

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Speaker 2: genetics experts said the company's methodologies are usable. It's concerning

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Speaker 2: that our criminal justice system did not adopt such advanced

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Speaker 2: methods years ago, testified Harris, an associate professor of genome

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Speaker 2: sciences at the University of Washington. In March, Kelly Harris,

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Speaker 2: a Population Genesis described astray as forensic software as quote

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Speaker 2: an elegant and powerful tool, asserting that its results are

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Speaker 2: broadly accepted in the scientific community.

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Speaker 1: Brown indicated that.

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Speaker 2: He expects the case to proceed to trial regardless of

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Speaker 2: Justice Mozilla's ruling on the DNA evidence. Additionally, the defense

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Speaker 2: has filed a motion to separate the cases, with Brown

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Speaker 2: anticipating a decision on this motion following the ruling on

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Speaker 2: the DNA evidence. Hureman is charged with the murders of

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Speaker 2: Melissa Barthelemy Marine, brainerd Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello, Sandra Castilla,

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Speaker 1: I'm Nico Parton