The 234 Apartment

Three of the four men charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl are also behind bars. The men are from Honduras, immigrants who found a home at the Heatherwood Apartments. The complex, near Peoria and Colfax in Aurora, is a racial melting pot , one that came to a boil on August 7, when a girl trying to leap to womanhood in a single summer got a very adult lesson. The violence bred more violence -- and more victims. News accounts the next day reported that a seventy-person mob had delivered street justice to one of the accused rapists. Although the reports weren't quite right -- nothing in this saga is -- street justice may be the only justice here. Anna grew up in the neighborhood and has a huge family of siblings and half-siblings. Anna has another daughter who was also taken away by Social Services when Anna went to prison. The girls have a baby brother, too, a child Anna gave birth to after she got out of prison two years ago. That baby has a different father w...

Buy Photo Lamarr Monson , hugs his mother, Delores Monson, after all charges were dismissed against him in the 1996 slaying of 12-year-old Detroiter Christina Brown . “It’s surreal. I want to give God the glory,” he said. (Photo: Photos by Clarence Tabb Jr . / The Detroit News) Buy Photo Lamarr Monson rejoiced with family members Friday as a Wayne County judge exonerated him in a 21-year-old murder case. “It’s surreal,” he said with tears in his eyes as he stood surrounded by relatives in the hallway of Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. “I want to give God the glory.” Monson’s mother, who said she always believed in her son’s innocence, shouted, “He’s free! He’s free! He’s free!” outside the courthouse as bystanders looked on with smiles. “I’m happy as I can be,” said Delores Monson. Monson spent more than 20 years in prison in the 1996 slaying of a 12-year-old Detroit girl, Christina Brown. Judge Shannon Walker of Wayne County Circuit Court dismissed a first- degree murder charge a...

Calhoun County Sheriff Department logo (Photo: Provided) WOMAN, DEPUTY INJURED: An inmate and a deputy were injured in the Calhoun County jail when the inmate fell from a second-story tier in an apparent suicide attempt . Sheriff's deputies reported the incident at 9:16 a.m. and said the inmate, 45, climbed over a security railing about 12 feet above the floor below, according to Sheriff Matt Saxton . The inmate was drinking a nontoxic cleaning solution before she let go of the railing and fell backward. Tosha Cummings, a corrections officer, attempted to catch the woman and break her fall and she was knocked back, hitting her head on a table and then the floor. Both women were taken to Bronson Battle Creek for treatment and released. Cummings is expected to return to work in a couple of days, Saxton said. The inmate was returned to the jail and placed on suicide watch. The inmate was arrested Monday on a warrant for failure to appear for a trial. She is charged with a 2015 ass...

A newborn infant has been found in the apartment Greywind was last known to have been in August 24, 2017 FARGO, ND — Shocking new details in the search for 22-year-old Savanna Greywind of Fargo. A newborn infant has been found in the apartment Greywind was last known to have been in. Police will not confirm if the two-day-old baby girl is Greywind’s but they say they have detained two people who live upstairs in the apartment. Police are still at the scene of the apartment building located on the 2800 block of 9th Street North . They continue to take items out of the building and load them into the backs of vehicles. This all started after police say they received a tip of a baby crying in an upstairs apartment and were able to secure a search warrant. Police arrived this morning and evacuated the building and detained the two people living in the upstairs apartment Savanna Greywind was last seen in. They have not released their identities. Witnesses say they watched an officer ca...

Published: Fri, August 25, 2017 @ 12:00 a.m. Aug. 12 Arrest: David Johnson, 19, of Tyrell Street, Youngstown, faces a breaking-and-entering charge after someone had kicked open a door to a South Avenue apartment last March, then removed a 60-inch TV. Citation: While handling an accident near U.S. Route 224 and Tippecanoe Road , officers charged Sean P. Page, 44, of Spring Lake Lane , Canfield, with operating a vehicle impaired. Domestic violence: Adam D. Cubilette of Aravesta Avenue, Boardman, surrendered on a domestic-violence charge after his girlfriend alleged that during an argument Aug. 10 about their relationship, Cubilette, 32, had grabbed both of her wrists, pushed the accuser onto a bed and tried to hit her arm and chest with an 8- inch wooden device . Identity theft: After one woman each reported fraudulent activity to her checking account and debit card, police charged Jeremy J. Stewart, 40, of Market Street, Boardman, with identity theft and receiving stolen property ....

Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A Miami- Dade Circuit Judge on Wednesday set bond at $300,000 plus collateral for a 51-year-old Pinecrest man accused of molesting a 6-year-old girl at a pool at her family’s Kendall apartment complex . The decision by Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer followed a hearing for Josef Opdeweegh. At that hearing a Miiami- Dade Police officer testified that the girl told authorities that the defendant touched her “in the pee pee.” A prosecutor said there was “no justifiable reason” for Opdeweegh to “stick his hands under water to her legs and touch her multiple times in the genital area.” A Police report said the incident happened May 31st at the complex near S.W. 81st Street and S.W. 72nd Avenue. The report says Opdeweegh touched the girl 3 times over her bathing suit in her private arts. Opdeweegh listened in silence during the testimony in bond court. A defense attorney said, “He’s never been arrested. He’s never been accused of d...

Authorities believe a custody dispute amid a disintegrating marriage triggered a murder-suicide in South Carolina earlier this summer, after 36-year-old Jessica Edens shot and killed the woman whom she believed was her estranged husband ’s girlfriend. Edens then killed her two young children and, finally, shot herself, according to police. She left behind a scathing suicide note for her spouse. Here are four things to know about the tragedy. 1. Edens’ Spree Began with Husband’s Suspected Girlfriend On July 13, police believe Edens fatally shot 28 -year-old Meredith Leigh Rahme at a parking garage at Rhame’s apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, before fleeing the scene in her Jeep. Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said Edens believed Rahme was dating her husband, Benjamin Edens , who had reportedly filed for divorce from her after their separation in April. But officials later said Ben and Rahme were co-workers and described them as acquaintances. According to auth...

The brothers charged in the drive-by shooting that killed a 14-year-old girl in Las Cruces entered not guilty pleas. LAS CRUCES, N.M. – —  The brothers accused in a drive-by shooting that killed a 14-year-old during a party in Las Cruces pleaded not guilty. Julio Gutierrez-Barrera, 20, appeared in court Tuesday. He is the alleged shooter in the drive-by where Jocelyn Trujillo-Pierce died. Gutierrez-Barrera was charged with murder, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to commit a felony. He will remain in jail without bond. His brother, 19-year-old Alonzo Barrera, was also charged in the murder. Barrera pleaded not guilty during his arraignment on Monday. He was charged with tampering with evidence and conspiracy to commit a felony. Barrera will also remain jailed. Police said the brothers were at a party on the 1400 block of Monte Vista Avenue last month before they got into a fight with someone and left. According to police, the brothers returned to the residence shortly after le...