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Police investigating the homicide of Paeroa businessman Jordan Voudouris, have arrested a convicted drug dealer who's been on the run for two and a half years. 57-year-old Steven Mehrtens was granted electronic bail in 2010 but managed to remove the bracelet and take off. He's now been found him living on a small rural property near Katikati - and has today been sentenced to two months' jail for removing the bracelet and fleeing. He'll be sentenced next week for manufacture and supply of methamphetamine. Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Whitehead says Mehrtens' arrest appears to have no connection to the still unsolved killing of Mr Voudouris. He's urging anyone with information relevant to the fatal shooting to contact the Operation Olive team or call crime stoppers. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

Counties Manukau Police have launched a homicide inquiry after the body of a man was found on Hillside Road in Mt Wellington. They were alerted to the death by an anonymous phone caller just before 11.30pm last night. The 111 call to ambulance was made from a phone box on Panama Road by a man who called himself Hohepa. A woman's voice was also heard describing where the body was. Hohepa told police he would wait at the scene for them - but had gone by the time they arrived. Detective Inspector Dave Lynch is now pleading with him to contact them again. He says the identity of the body isn't yet know and police are seeking information on him. He's a Maori or Polynesian, aged in his 20s or 30s and was wearing blue jeans, held up with a piece of white electrical cable and a green sweatshirt. Police have not yet established the identity of the dead man. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

by Adam Shear TEMPLE - Temple Police have a man in custody for intoxication manslaughter after they say he killed a woman in a head-on collision Saturday night. According to police, emergency responders were called out to a major car accident at 8:13 p.m. near the intersection of Avenue M and 51st St.. When first responders got to the scene they found a blue SUV, which was traveling westbound, crossed into the eastbound lanes, and hit a tan SUV head-on. The woman driving the tan SUV, 35-year-old Shelly Easter, was pronounced dead at the scene. Ramon Rivera, a 21-year-old from Nixon, TX, was driving the blue SUV and had to be taken to Scott & White Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. After officers with the Temple Police Department Traffic Unity Accident Reconstruction Team reviewed the accident they took Rivera into custody. When he is released from the hospital he will be taken to Bell Co. Jail on charges of intoxicated manslaughter. Police believe

One person is dead after a stabbing in New Westminster, B.C., Saturday night. Police were called to the 500 block of 3rd Avenue to reports of a stabbing at around 10:15 p.m. PT. The victim, whose name has not been released, was taken to Royal Columbian Hospital where he later died. The Integrated Homicide Investigation team has taken over the case. "We can tell you that we have spoken to witnesses who have identified an individual leaving the area and we're asking the public's assistance in locating that male," said Sgt. Jennifer Pound. The suspect is described as an Asian male around 25 years old, about five feet five inches tall with a muscular build and short black hair. He was last seen wearing a black muscle shirt and grey shorts. Pound says investigators have not identified a motive. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

A Florida high school teacher accused in a manslaughter for hire scheme against a former colleague considered asking a former student to carry out the hit, according to a phone conversation played in court. James Pepe, 55, a social studies teacher at Bloomingdale High School in Hillsborough County who liked students to call him "Doctor Professor Pepe," was arrested at school on Thursday. He is accused of trying to put out a hit on Robert Meredith, a former co-worker. The two men had apparently worked together at Strawberry Crest High School. On Saturday, prosecutors played in court a phone conversation allegedly between Pepe and a friend, who later tipped off police. "What do you want done with Bob Meredith?" the friend asked. "I want him killed," the man, who prosecutors say is Pepe, replied. Police said Pepe wanted Meredith killed because he believed the teacher was spreading rumors that he was a child molester. Meredith said he knew

By Aaron Mueller | amuelle1@mlive.com The Kalamazoo Gazette on September 30, 2012 at 1:02 PM A 24-year-old Kalamazoo man was shot and killed outside the Quick Stop convenience store on Portage Street Sunday. Aaron Mueller | MLive.com KALAMAZOO, MI -- If the gunshots didn't wake up all the neighbors of the Quick Stop convenience store and gas station on Portage Street, then the police sirens did. A 24-year-old Kalamazoo man was fatally shot early Sunday morning, and police are continuing to search for the suspect. Witnesses of the homicide investigation scene say there were at least 10 police cars and the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety K-9 unit at the scene for several hours after the shooting. The parking lot was taped off during the on-scene investigation that began about 3:15 a.m. and lasted until about 9 a.m., according to neighbors. One neighbor, who wanted to remain anonymous for his safety, said the gunshots "vibrated his toes" and

New York, NY (September 24, 2012) – Digital First Media, which operates MediaNews Group, Journal Register Company and Digital First Ventures, today announced a partnership between The Trentonian and Homicide Watch. The partnership marks the first time Homicide Watch has licensed software to a media partner to carry on the sites' mission statement to: "Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case." "Traditional crime reporting has been a 'just the facts' approach. This partnership goes beyond the names, time and location of the crime and delivers context," said Jim Brady, Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media. The Trentonian staff is currently tracking 14 homicides from in and around New Jersey's capitol city in 2012 on http://trenton.homicidewatch.org/. "Homicide Watch is known for covering every homicide from crime to conviction and Trenton deserves that level of commitment and The Trentonian – through this partnership –

A Florida high school teacher who is accused of masterminding a manslaughter for hire plot against another teacher has a history of disciplinary problems. In a letter dated November 2001 and obtained by ABC News affiliate WFTS-TV, James Pepe, 55, was chastised for an apparent outburst. "Your unprofessional conduct… caused a disruption of a school function and created an uncomfortable and hostile situation…" said a letter from the Professional Standards Director at Tampa Bay Technical High School, where Pepe worked at the time. "Several professionals described your demeanor in terms such as 'hostile,' 'aggressive,' 'extremely volatile,' and your anger as 'alarming,'" the letter stated. Despite the letter, the station noted that Pepe's evaluations were nearly perfect. Pepe, a social studies teacher at Bloomingdale High School in Hillsborough County who liked students to call him "Doctor Professor Pepe," was

A man's death on Chemawawin Cree Nation in Manitoba is under investigation as a homicide, RCMP say. Information on the case was scarce, as police are not saying who died nor providing any additional information about why they believe the death was by foul play. Police said officers from the Chemawawin detachment are being assisted by the RCMP's Serious Crime Unit, and a forensics unit. They said they learned about the man's death around 2:30 a.m. CT Saturday morning. The community is about 460 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

BREAKING By Joyce Lupiani CREATED 11:45 AM Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- Homicide detectives are on the scene on what appears to be a murder in the west part of the valley at a residence in the 2600 block of South Pavilion Center,  near West Sahara Avenue. According to initial reports, a call was received at 9:15 a.m. by dispatch. Upon arrival, officers discovered a deceased female. The death did not appear natural and homicide detectives were called in. At this time, the only thing that is known about the victim is that it is a 45-year-old female. Action News will update this story as soon as new information becomes available. Read More @ Source Criminal Stories Here

A Rowland Heights doctor charged with murder in the overdose deaths of three patients pleaded not guilty Friday. Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng, 42, wearing a blue jumpsuit and her hair pulled into a ponytail, was silent throughout her brief arraignment in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Before the hearing began, Tseng met with several new attorneys handling her defense. Tseng is charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of three men and is accused of recklessly prescribing addictive drugs to patients who had no medical need for them. She is the first doctor accused of murder by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office over the prescribing of drugs. In June, Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar de Longoria ordered Tseng to stand trial for murder, saying the evidence suggested that the doctor may have "improperly used her prescription pad to cause irreparable harm." Tseng's three-week preliminary hearing included more than 40 prosecution witnesses. Ts

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A manslaughter trial set to begin Thursday will determine whether a tour bus driver should be held responsible for the deaths of 15 passengers when the vehicle slammed into a guardrail and crashed last year, shearing the roof end to end. Ophadell Williams pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the March 12, 2011, accident after prosecutors said he was seriously sleep-deprived but drove anyway. The World Wide Travel bus ran off Interstate 95 at daybreak as it was returning to Manhattan's Chinatown from an overnight trip to the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn . The crash killed 15 people, mostly Chinese men and women over the age of 40 who were regulars at casinos. Williams said that a tractor-trailer had cut him off, and that's why he swerved and hit the guardrail. But investigators could find no indication that had occurred. His attorneys have said he was awake and alert, and he's wracked with guilt ov

New York, NY (September 24, 2012) – Digital First Media, which operates MediaNews Group, Journal Register Company and Digital First Ventures, today announced a partnership between The Trentonian and Homicide Watch. The partnership marks the first time Homicide Watch has licensed software to a media partner to carry on the sites' mission statement to: "Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case." "Traditional crime reporting has been a 'just the facts' approach. This partnership goes beyond the names, time and location of the crime and delivers context," said Jim Brady, Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media. The Trentonian staff is currently tracking 14 homicides from in and around New Jersey's capitol city in 2012 on http://trenton.homicidewatch.org/. "Homicide Watch is known for covering every homicide from crime to conviction and Trenton deserves that level of commitment and The Trentonian – through this partnership –

A 27-year-old man suspected in a murder was shot by police during a struggle with an officer Friday afternoon in the city's Strawberry Mansion section, police said. About 2:45 p.m., two 22d District officers stopped a gray sedan for a routine traffic violation in the 3200 block of Oxford Street and obtained identification from the driver, Maceo Emerson Waring, said Lt. Raymond Evers, a police spokesman. The officers ran a check on Waring and found he was wanted in connection with a murder, Evers said. The officers then approached both sides of the car. The officer on the driver's side attempted to get Waring out. As the officers tried to arrest Waring, a struggle ensued, with Waring attempting to grab one officer's gun, Evers said. The other officer fired two shots at Waring, Evers said. The struggling officer gained control of his gun and fired one shot. Evers said Waring was wounded twice and was in critical but stable condition at Temple University Hospital.

Pedro Bravo told investigators that he'd gotten into an altercation with the missing student. NEW: The suspect's family is distraught and worried, one of his lawyers says Christian Aguilar, 18, was last seen September 20 in Gainesville, police say Pedro Bravo told investigators he got into a fight with Aguilar that night and left the scene Police announce that Bravo, who was already in custody, is charged with murder (CNN) -- Police charged an 18-year-old with murder in the case of a University of Florida student last seen eight days ago, a police spokesman said Friday. Officer Ben Tobias announced that the Gainesville police department charged Pedro Bravo with the death of Christian Aguilar. He did not offer further details. Ron Kozlowski, one of Bravo's attorneys, told CNN on Friday night that he has "not been presented with any new evidence thus far." Bravo's family is distraught and worried about the murder charge, K

St. Joseph County Metro Homicide says they have made another arrest in connection with a murder from 2011. Police say they arrested a man for murder, felony murder and robbery in connection with the death of 31-year-old Dietrich Perkins. He was arrested around 8 Friday night near Portage and Cleveland roads in South Bend. Police are not releasing the man's name. Metro Homicide based this new arrest on information from a plea deal earlier Friday. The suspect arrested Friday night will be arraigned on Monday or Tuesday.  Perkins, of Hammond, was shot and killed near the corner of Lathrop and Johnson streets in April of 2011. At the time of his death, he was wanted in Elkhart for dealing drugs. Also charged in Perkins' death are Bryant Hunt, 28, Mitchell Thomas, 20, Sylvester Garner, 20, and Forest Lamar, 18. Thomas was charged with attempted murder; Hunt with felony murder and attempted robbery; Garner with aiding in murder; and Lamar with assisting a criminal.

  by JOHN RAWLINS STRAWBERRY MANSION - September 28, 2012 (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police shot a homicide suspect in Strawberry Mansion after the man allegedly tried to grab an officer's gun. It happened around 3:00 Friday afternoon at 32nd and Oxford streets. Two 22nd district officers spotted a gray Chevrolet and conducted a routine traffic stop. That's when it was discovered that the driver - 27-year-old Maceo Emerson Waring - was wanted for a recent homicide. As officers went to arrest him, Waring allegedly tried to grab the officers gun. "They tried to get the male out of the vehicle, when a violent struggle occurs. Mr. Waring reaches for the officer's weapon and he starts to get the weapon out of the holster. The officer's partner shoots two times, the struggle continues and the other officer fires one shot," said Lt. Ray Evers. The suspect was struck at least three times and was taken Temple University Medical Center in critical but stab

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A chef who told police he boiled his wife's body for four days to hide evidence of her death was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder. David Viens showed no reaction as the verdict was read. The sister of his victim burst out sobbing. In a recorded interrogation presented by prosecutors during the trial, Viens, 49, can be heard saying he cooked the body of his 39-year-old wife, Dawn Viens , in late 2009 until little was left but her skull. "He treated her like a piece of meat and got rid of her," said Karen Patterson, the couple's best friend who spoke to reporters outside court. She was the key witness in Viens' trial and the person who prodded police to investigate her friend's disappearance. At a news conference, she tearfully warned others to take heed of domestic violence among friends and call police. She apologized for failing to call 911 when Dawn Viens called her during an incident of abuse but begged her not to

New Brunswick's chief provincial court judge has ruled additional information should be released from the sealed warrants in the year-old Richard Oland manslaughter investigation. Chief Judge R. Leslie Jackson released his decision on Friday morning. "I have concluded that the police have not demonstrated a serious and specific risk to the investigative integrity of the Oland manslaughter investigation; indeed their position is based on vague and general assertions of risk," Jackson stated in his 20-page decision. "Other than the issue of hallmark evidence, which I did deal with later, there has been no legal basis established for most of the redacting sought to be retained, such as the names and statements of persons who are neither suspects, persons of interest or subjects of search warrants." But information about the physical position and condition of Oland's body, as well as the condition of his office and location of any of his personal eff

Victor Chu for New York Daily Ne The manslaughter trial of Ophadell Williams, the bus driver in a horrific crash that left 15 people dead in March, got underway Thursday in the Bronx. The bus driver blamed for a Bronx wreck that left 15 gamblers dead was asleep at the wheel because he had been tooling around town instead of resting before the deadly crash, prosecutors charged Thursday. Cell phone and car rental records show that when Ophadell Williams "was supposed to be sleeping during daytime hours, he was in various parts of the city and Nassau (County)," Assistant District Attorney Gary Weil as the driver's manslaughter trial got under way. "The evidence will show that he fell asleep or was so fatigued he could no longer pay attention to what was happening," Weil said. "He knew the risks of driving while fatigued and ignored those risks and, as a result, 15 people died." Williams' lawyer insisted his client got plenty of sleep a

New York, NY (September 24, 2012) – Digital First Media, which operates MediaNews Group, Journal Register Company and Digital First Ventures, today announced a partnership between The Trentonian and Homicide Watch. The partnership marks the first time Homicide Watch has licensed software to a media partner to carry on the sites' mission statement to: "Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case." "Traditional crime reporting has been a 'just the facts' approach. This partnership goes beyond the names, time and location of the crime and delivers context," said Jim Brady, Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media. The Trentonian staff is currently tracking 14 murders from in and around New Jersey's capitol city in 2012 on http://trenton.homicidewatch.org/. "Homicide Watch is known for covering every murder from crime to conviction and Trenton deserves that level of commitment and The Trentonian – through this partnership – is m

WINCHESTER, RIVERSIDE COUNTY (KABC) -- Law enforcement announced in a statement Thursday that a murder unit had taken over the investigation of a 68-year-old woman's death near French Valley. Earlier, the California Highway Patrol had been leading the investigation as a possible hit and run after a coroner's report concluded Wanda McGlover suffered injuries consistent with being struck by a car -- findings the victim's children disagreed with. "This was not a hit and run, she was approached and brutally attacked and murdered. They dragged her from one side of the street to the next and wanted her to die in the ditch," said McGlover's daughter, who asked not to be identified. McGlover's daughter, who lives in Georgia, says her mother called her to talk while out on a morning walk. Their conversation came to a sudden and frightening end 20 minutes later. "She said excuse me, they grabbed her phone, I heard them grab her phone and she scre

A teenager whose murder trial was abandoned by prosecutors will now face a new murder charge over the killing of retired nurse Pirjo Kemppainen, the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard. The 63-year-old Adelaide hills woman was stabbed and bludgeoned to death with a brick at her Callington home in September 2010. Prosecutors said the "heinous" and "brutal" crime was a random attack. Two boys aged 14 were arrested for murder. One pleaded guilty and is serving a 15-year non-parole term in jail. The second boy had been due to stand trial last month, but prosecutors dropped the charge. Director of Public Prosecutions Adam Kimber then applied to increase the first boy's sentence. He has now told the Court of Criminal Appeal that due to a change of circumstances he wants to adjourn that application, because the second boy will now be re-charged. Suppression orders prevent the ABC from revealing the reasons for the changes in the case. Read More @ S

Camden recorded its 48th homicide of the year Tuesday, putting the violence-weary city 11 deaths away from surpassing its annual record with more than three months to go. City resident Stephen Thomas, 18, was shot multiple times near 35th Street and Rosedale Avenue in East Camden around 8:20 p.m., the Camden County Prosecutor's Office and city police said Wednesday. Thomas was found lying in the street and died shortly afterward at Cooper University Hospital. His shooting was one of four gun incidents in the city within 10 1/2 hours. A 27-year-old Camden woman was wounded around 10 a.m. on the 900 block of Bailey Street in North Camden. Around 8:30 p.m., two men were shot - a 51-year-old near Ninth and Vine Streets in North Camden and a 24-year-old on the 1600 block of Pershing Street in Whitman Park. All three survived. Most of this year's recorded homicides have taken place in North Camden and the Lanning Square, Whitman Park, and Gateway neighborhoods. The reco

Lanes Reopen After Car Overturns On I-95 In Richmond Lanes Reopen After Car Overturns On I-95 In Richmond Updated: Thursday, September 27 2012 4:03 PM EDT 2012-09-27 20:03:27 GMT UPDATE: All lanes have reopened after a vehicle overturned in the northbound lanes of I-95 in Richmond Thursday afternoon. More >> UPDATE: All lanes have reopened after a vehicle overturned in the northbound lanes of I-95 in Richmond Thursday afternoon. More >> Dinwiddie AVE Homicide Victim Identified Dinwiddie AVE Homicide Victim Identified Updated: Thursday, September 27 2012 3:58 PM EDT 2012-09-27 19:58:19 GMT Police are investigating two shooting incident one near 20 th and Dinwiddie Avenues in the city of Richmond, that victim was transported and later died of his injuries... More >> The victim of a homicide in the 2000 block of Dinwiddie Avenue Wednesday night has been identified as 22-year-old Andre T. Harper... More >> Wom

Canadian teenager Colleen MacMillen disappeared while hitchhiking in 1974. 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen was manslaughtered in British Columbia in 1974 On Tuesday, Canadian authorities said DNA tied an American man to her death The man, Bobby Jack Fowler, died in a U.S. prison in 2006 But he remains a "person of interest" in 9 cases of missing or manslaughtered Canadian women (CNN) -- DNA evidence links a now-dead American convict to the manslaughter of a Canadian teenager who disappeared in 1974, authorities in British Columbia said Tuesday. Bobby Jack Fowler, who died in an Oregon prison in 2006, is responsible for the manslaughter of 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen, Inspector Gary Shinkaruk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said at a news conference. Authorities said while the case is closed on MacMillen's death, investigations continue into the abductions and killings of other women in the same region of Canada, and the search i

New York, NY (September 24, 2012) – Digital First Media, which operates MediaNews Group, Journal Register Company and Digital First Ventures, today announced a partnership between The Trentonian and Homicide Watch. The partnership marks the first time Homicide Watch has licensed software to a media partner to carry on the sites' mission statement to: "Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case." "Traditional crime reporting has been a 'just the facts' approach. This partnership goes beyond the names, time and location of the crime and delivers context," said Jim Brady, Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media. The Trentonian staff is currently tracking 14 homicides from in and around New Jersey's capitol city in 2012 on http://trenton.homicidewatch.org/. "Homicide Watch is known for covering every homicide from crime to conviction and Trenton deserves that level of commitment and The Trentonian – through this partnership –

NEW YORK (AP) — A manslaughter trial set to begin Thursday will determine whether a tour bus driver should be held responsible for the deaths of 15 passengers when the vehicle slammed into a guardrail and crashed last year, shearing the roof end to end. Ophadell Williams pleaded not guilty to murder and criminally negligent homicide in the March 12, 2011, accident after prosecutors said he was seriously sleep-deprived but drove anyway. The World Wide Travel bus ran off Interstate 95 at daybreak as it was returning to Manhattan's Chinatown from an overnight trip to the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn . The crash killed 15 people, mostly Chinese men and women over the age of 40 who were regulars at casinos. Williams said that a tractor-trailer had cut him off, and that's why he swerved and hit the guardrail. But investigators could find no indication that had occurred. His attorneys have said he was awake and alert, and he's wracked with guilty over the