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Los Angeles (AFP) - US rapper Killer Mike was arrested for misdemeanor battery at the Grammy Awards, police said Monday, after winning all three categories he was nominated for. "On Sunday February 4th just after 4pm a male adult was detained & handcuffed for a physical altercation," the Los Angeles police told AFP in a statement. A video posted on social media by a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter showed the rapper -- real name Michael Render -- taken in handcuffs to an undisclosed location at Crypto.Com Arena, where the Grammys were being held Sunday. According to the Los Angeles Police ...
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Washington (AFP) - A couple living in the United States for decades under false names stolen from dead babies have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government, in a case tinged with suspicion of espionage. Walter Primrose and his wife Gwynn Morrison, both born in 1955, were arrested Friday in Hawaii. According to documents, a search of the pair's home turned up an old photo of the couple dressed in KGB uniforms. A federal judge ruled Thursday that the husband was a flight risk and ordered his continued detention. The wife will appear before the judge next week. Accor...
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Washington (AFP) - An eight-year-old boy shot dead a baby and wounded her toddler sister while playing with his father's gun in Florida last weekend, police said. The father, 45-year-old Roderick Randall, was arrested and charged with culpable negligence, unlawful possession of a firearm and concealment of evidence, Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said. The tragedy -- all too common in a country awash with firearms -- took place in a motel where Randall, who has a criminal record that forbade him from owning a gun, met with his girlfriend. He had brought his son, while his girlfriend had...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced Monday the arrest of a man on charges of illegally trafficking firearms, in a case underscoring the difficulties American authorities face in preventing guns from ending up in the wrong hands. Demontre Antwon Hackworth, 31, was charged with legally buying at least 92 guns, mostly handguns, between 2019 and 2021 and reselling them without a license -- and therefore without performing background checks on the buyers -- US Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference. Sixteen of the weapons were then used in crimes including h...
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New York (AFP) - Police in New York arrested a 25-year-old man Tuesday on suspicion of shooting dead a bank executive on the city subway at the weekend. After a two-day manhunt, Andrew Abdullah, whose identity and photo had been released, was taken into custody, the New York Police Department announced on Twitter. According to the New York Times, he surrendered to law enforcement in Chinatown, in the southern part of Manhattan. He was arrested over the murder of Daniel Enriquez, 48, a Goldman Sachs executive who was shot in the chest at noon on Sunday with a 9mm bullet while traveling on the ...
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Washington (AFP) - The leader of the Proud Boys, one of the main rightwing militia groups in the US, was arrested Tuesday over his role in the assault against the US Capitol last year, officials said. Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, 38, has been indicted on conspiracy and other charges along with five other members of the organization, said Matthew Graves, US attorney for the District of Columbia, who is leading the sprawling probe into the insurrection targeting the seat of US democracy on January 6, 2021. Tarrio, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, is not accused of physically breaching the US Capi...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A father and son have been arrested on charges of starting a huge forest fire that burned more than 200,000 acres in northern California this summer, local officials said. David Smith, 66, and Travis Smith, 32, were charged with starting a fire which led to the conflagration known as the Caldor Fire on August 14 near Lake Tahoe, a densely forested area popular with tourists. It took firefighters 67 days to bring the fire under control, during which time five people were injured and 1,000 residential or commercial buildings were destroyed, according to the California fire d...
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Orange (United States) (AFP) - Four people, including a child, were shot and killed Wednesday evening at an office building in Southern California, police said. It is the third such shooting in the United States in weeks, with 18 people killed in two separate gun violence incidents in March. The shooter, whose motivations are so far unknown, sustained a gunshot wound and was taken to hospital, police lieutenant Jennifer Amat said, adding the suspect was in a critical condition. She continued that officers were still working to determine whether the wound was self-inflicted or a result of an ex...
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Washington (AFP) - Two protesters among the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol in January have been charged with assaulting a police officer with bear spray before he died, authorities said Monday. Officer Brian Sicknick died of injuries suffered during the riot, but his cause of death has not been confirmed. The justice department said two men, aged 32 and 39, were arrested and charged with assault involving a chemical substance, allegedly a spray designed to deter wild bears, among other counts. They were not charged with homicide. Video footage showed one of the men "holding...
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New York (AFP) - A US grand jury declined to charge any police officers in the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who suffocated while being arrested during a mental health emergency in Rochester, New York last year, the state's attorney general Letitia James said Tuesday. "I'm extremely disappointed," James said, while explaining that the jurors have the final say in the matter. The US justice system often sees prosecutors convene a grand jury to study the evidence of a case and decide whether or not to press charges and go to trial. "We sought a different outcome than the one the grand jury...
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