Perrish Cox Sexual Assault Documents Will Remain Sealed

Colo. judge won't release Cox allegation details
Denver Broncos football cornerback Perrish Cox clears security at the Douglas County Justice Center in Castle Rock, Colo., on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, as he arrives for a hearing in connection with the Sexual Assault charges that are pending against him. A Colorado judge won't release a court document outlining the Sexual Assault allegations against Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox. Douglas County Judge Susanna Meissner-Cutler said Friday that she couldn't release Cox's arrest affidavit becaus...

Rep. Giffords Shot in the Head, Condition Unknown
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [D, AZ-8] was shot in the head today while appearing at a public even in Tuscon, Arizona. At the time of this writing, 2:50 p.m. ET, reports are conflicting as to her condition. Some outlets have reported that she has been killed, while other say she remains in critical condition. NPR describes what happened: Giffords, who was re-elected to a third term in November, was hosting a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ra...

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and over a dozen others were shot earlier this afternoon. At last reports, she was in critical condition and in surgery. The gunman is in custody but no details on his identity or motive have been released. The left-blogosphere already is blaming the shooting on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. I'll have more on that later. For now, my prayers go out for Congresswoman Giffords and the other Shooting Victims. Consider this an open thread. -----------------...

Fixes under way to 911 call errors
Time Warner Cable and its telephone service partner, Intrado Communications, appear to be moving closer to eliminating the kind of 911 glitches that happened Monday in Depauville, according to the Jefferson County Office of Fire and Emergency Management. In the second Conference Call of the week involving a Time Warner official and emergency management directors in several New York counties, the cable company gave assurances Friday that "they have identified the flaws" causing the issues plagu...

Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords Shot
It is being widely reported and has been confirmed that Arizona Congressional Representative Gabriel Giffords has been shot. There are conflicting reports as to whether Rep. Giffords survived the shooting. Giffords was attending a community event at a local stripmall in Arizona where she and several others were Victims of gunshots. As details unfold, more information will be added to this post. Rep. Giffords was elected to the House in 2006. She represents the state’s 8th Congres...

BLOODBATH...
The nude, sexually mutilated body of a Portuguese Journalist was found in a pool of blood on the floor of a posh Times Square Hotel Room last night — and hours later a male model suspected in the grisly slay stumbled into a nearby Hospital with a pair of slit wrists. The castrated corpse of Carlos Castro, a 65-year-old gay Activist and gossip columnist, was discovered shortly after 7 p.m. in a 34th-floor room at the InterContinental New York Times Square hotel on West 44th Street, near Eig...

The Rape Victim as Criminal
This news story from The Saudi Gazette (hat tip: Vlad Tepes) is so fundamentally disturbing that I’ve put the entire text of the article below the jump. If you are sensitive to issues related to Rape and sexual violence, you may want to skip it: JEDDAH - A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year Prison term and 100 lashes for committing Adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus. The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed t...

Bail restored for man accused of firing at car
Jefferson County Judge Kim H. Martusewicz restored bail of $300,000 Wednesday on a town of Greig man accused of firing a gun at an occupied vehicle last month in Lewis County. Wayne T. Ernst, 43, of 7369 Fish Creek Road, is charged with second-degree Attempted Murder for allegedly repeatedly shooting at Rebecca L. Damuth, Glenfield, on Dec. 11, with the shots also being fired in the direction of three Children and Ronald D. Munoz. Bail was set at $100,000 at Mr. Ernst's initial arraignment...

Brand New Molesting Teacher
Aren’t these women reading the papers? Don’t they see that their bent hobby is fully in the purview of Law Enforcement? Haven’t they seen the sentences being handed down? They are almost in line with the sentences a man would receive. Here’s the new Cougarette who goes after cubs. From the Beacon News A Plainfield North High School Teacher was arrested Tuesday night after police allegedly caught her having sex with a 16-year-old Student in a Parking Lot. Ashley M. Blume...

Handcuffed Man Abandoned In Courthouse Conference Room For 18 Hours...
GENEVA, Ill. (WBBM/CBS) - An Elgin man abandoned overnight in the Kane County Courthouse last month is reportedly considering suing the county. As WBBM Newsradio 780’s Bernie Tafoya reports, Husan Smith, 32, was supposed to have been taken to the Kane County Jail after his court appearance last month. LISTEN: Newsradio 780′s Bernie Tafoya Reports. He was supposed to be spending four nights in jail for testing positive for drugs, in violation of his Parole for an earlier drug ...

Alabama man gets 15 years for failed toy gun robbery
Steffon Tolver demanded the man's wallet on a street near Dothan in April, threatening him with a toy gun that was also a belt buckle. Tolver ran away when a neighbor saw what was happening and yelled at him. Nothing was stolen and Tolver was quickly picked up by police. "Alabama law is based on the opinion of the person being robbed, if they were in fear for their life. In this case, the answer was 'yes'," said Banks Smith, Assistant District Attorney for Houston County, who prosecuted the cas...

Algonquin man charged in slot machine theft case
An Algonquin man implicated in the theft of up to 45 slot machines was arrested after authorities were tipped that one of the machines was seen posted for sale on the Internet. Leszak Zujko, a dispatcher at a Wood Dale trucking company, had his bond set at $200,000 on Wednesday by a DuPage County Judge. Zujko, 42, is accused of stealing one of the slot machines, which was valued at $10,000, authorities said. The thefts are believed to have occurred at a distribution center in Wood Dale. Chica...

Substitute teacher accused of sex offenses
A Cook County Judge has set bond at $20,000 for a substitute teacher from Midlothian accused of fondling one female Student and soliciting two others for sex. In setting bond Friday for 25-year-old Ross Larson, Circuit Court Judge Darron Bowden attached several special conditions. He said Larson cannot have any contact with the alleged Victims, or with Bremen High School in Midlothian, where he was a substitute teacher and freshman boys Basketball coach. He is also forbidden to have contact wi...

Judge rules in favor of former insurer in case of developer's house fire
A former insurer of the destroyed home of developer John Kline is off the hook to pay Two Rivers Bank and Trust nearly $1 million on the residence. Polk County Judge Robert Hutchison has ruled that the bank failed to provide sufficient evidence during a three-day bench trial to require Federal Insurance Co., the original insurer of the Kline’s 16,000-square-foot home, be held liable to pay any part of a $1.5 million Mortgage remaining on the property. ...

Governor appoints new Clark County judge
Governor Brian Sandoval on Thursday said he has selected Jerry Tao as a Clark County District Court Judge. "With experience in over 100 trials and as a Clark County Public Defender, I believe Jerry will make an outstanding judge," Sandoval said at a news conference in Las Vegas. "His legal reasoning and insight will bring a broad new perspective to the bench." Tao, a chief deputy public defender, has been a lawyer focusing on civil litigation in Private Practice and with firms in both Los Angele...

Judge bars suspect's statement at murder trial
A Will County Judge today granted a defense motion to quash one statement made by the 35-year-old Frankfort area man accused of murdering a Frankfort-area female in 2009 and hiding her body in the trunk of a car. Judge Richard Schoenstedt, in granting the motion, found investigators had continued to question Brian Trainauskas about Monica Timar's death after 3:51 p.m. Jan. 23, 2009, when Trainauskas said he wanted to consult an attorney. Read more in TribLocal. ...

Alabama man gets 15 years for failed toy gun robbery
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama | Thu Jan 6, 2011 3:49pm EST BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A court in south Alabama sentenced a 19-year-old to 15 years in jail for attempting to rob an old man using a toy gun, authorities said on Thursday. Steffon Tolver demanded the man's wallet on a street near Dothan in April, threatening him with a toy gun that was also a belt buckle. Tolver ran away when a neighbor saw what was happening and yelled at him. Nothing was stolen and Tolver was quickly picked up by pol...

LAPD Hunts For Group Of Men Accused Of Raping Severely Disabled Women...
LOS ANGELES (CBS)  — Sheriff’s investigators are on the hunt for a group of men suspected of sexually assaulting at least 10 severely Disabled women. A computer Hard Drive obtained from an anonymous source contained more than 100 hours of video footage showing at least 10 women being sexually assaulted by at least eight men, said Sgt. Darren Harris of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. It’s not known where and when the attacks took place, but Harris said th...

Man kills self on day he faces NH sex assault case
Brentwood, N.H. — Officials say a man found dead the day he was to go on trial for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in New Hampshire committed Suicide. Police in Bridgton, Maine, say officers were called to the home of 65-year-old Roger Goode on Monday morning, but found him dead. Goode had been scheduled to go on trial Monday in Brentwood on 11 charges stemming from the Sexual Assault of a girl in 2009. He was arrested last January in a Hampstead Parking Lot where he had thought he...

Garland Man Allegedly Pimped Child
IRVING, Texas - A North Texas man faces several charges for allegedly pimping and sexually assaulting a child. Irving police on Wednesday arrested Kenzie Lecarey Nelson at his Garland home. The 31-year-old forced an endangered runaway into Prostitution in Dallas and also sexually assaulted the Victim, according to Irving police representative John Argumaniz said. Nelson is charged with one count of trafficking of persons younger than 18 years old, one count of compelling Prostitution and three c...

Los Angeles officials receive 100 hours of video of disabled women being sexually assaulted by men
What is wrong with human beings that makes them capable of such depravity? These filthy raping bastards are so low that I'd want to take a Taser to their "boys." They wouldn't want me on a jury. (CNN): Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators made a public appeal Thursday in seeking at least four men who were videotaped sexually assaulting at least 10 women who appear to be severely Disabled, including women in a care home. The video came from 11 DVDs that an anonymous tipster dropped off ...

Grooming gang ringleaders jailed
The ringleaders of a gang which groomed and abused teenage girls in Derby have been given indeterminate jail terms. Mohammed Liaqat, 28, and Abid Saddique, 27, were found Guilty of charges including Rape at a trial in November. At Nottingham Crown Court, Saddique was jailed for at least 11 years and Liaqat for a minimum of eight. Many of the gang's Victims were given Alcohol or drugs before being forced to have sex in cars, rented houses or hotels across the Midlands. Six other men have alr...

Fallout
The Pentagon is likely to face stepped-up scrutiny from representatives pushing to leverage the Navy’s lewd video Scandal into change. Rep. Niki Tsongas (D) of Massachusetts and several colleagues want closer examination of whether Sexual Assault offenders are adequately punished, as well as better training for a Military leadership that she says is often unequipped to deal with matters of Sexual Harassment and assault. The US Navy is unlikely to face hearings on Capitol Hill as a direct r...

Incident in Aria elevator could land California tourist in prison
One inebriated night in Las Vegas could mean years in Prison for a California tourist caught on tape allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a CityCenter elevator. Anthony Woon Cheng, 25, of Fremont, Calif., was indicted by a Clark County Grand Jury on 10 counts, including Sexual Assault, first-degree Kidnapping, battery and open or gross lewdness....

2 teen girls attacked in south suburban Riverdale
Riverdale police officials are searching for a man who sexually assaulted two 17-year-old girls at gunpoint in a yard in the South Suburb, police said today. The attack occurred on Thursday at about 7 p.m. on the 142nd block of Wallace, Riverdale Police Chief William McHenry said in a Press Release. The teens were walking home after getting off the Pace bus at 142nd and Halsted Streets when the man approached them and forced them at gun point into a yard where he sexually assaulted both girls, ...