Michigan man
accused of being a serial rapist may have HUNDREDS of victims after police find
a trove of tapes of women being sexually assaulted in his home
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Gilbert Conway, 60, is accused of raped at
least six woman may have hundreds more victims
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Police are looking at hours of tapes of
alleged sex assaults recorded in his home
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He likely found his victims at local bars and
strip clubs in the Flint area
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Conway is currently behind bars and has plead
not guilty to the charges
PUBLISHED: 09:55 EDT, 10 October 2018 | UPDATED: 16:04 EDT, 10 October 2018
Gilbert Conway was hit with 77 charges stemming from sexual assaults but
he may have hundreds of victims
A man
in Michigan who is accused of raping multiple women was hit with more charges
Tuesday after authorities found a slew of tapes with hundreds of more potential
victims.
County
commissioners in the Flint area have set aside $20,000 to help investigators
process hundreds of videos discovered at the home of Gilbert Conway, 60.
Since
his July arrest, Conway, has been hit with a total of 77 charges stemming from
the alleged kidnappings and sexual assaults of six women over the course of
several years.
According to ABC12,
Conway would allegedly seek out his victims at clubs and bars he frequented,
one of which was The Diamond Girls Show Bar in Flint.
Genesee
County prosecutor David Leyton says the videos go back years and might reveal
'a whole lot more victims.'
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Authorities say he allegedly filmed sexual assaults of women in his
Flint home (pictured) and have hours of tapes to comb through
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One of the clubs Conway frequented was The Diamond Girls Show Bar in
Flint, where he was a
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'We
think most of them happened at his home where he had a video taping system set
up,' Leyton added.
Conway
is in jail on criminal sexual conduct charges that were filed over the summer.
He's pleaded not guilty. He returns to court on Oct. 17.
Leyton
calls it a 'major-league investigation.' He says his office is working with
Flint police and the FBI.
'Each
one of those hi8 tapes runs at least eight hours,' Leyton said.
'We
believe from looking at some of the hi8 tapes that there are additional victims
being sexually assaulted while being videotaped and we want to be able to look
at those video tapes and hopefully identify these additional
victims.'
The
money approved by commissioners Monday will help police transfer the videos to
a digital format and pursue other evidence in the investigation.
Heartless
dognappers are caught on surveillance video stealing 10-week-old puppy named
Chipper over a fence and speeding off in a Cadillac
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Two thieves were caught on camera stealing a
French mastiff puppy, also known as Dogue de Bordeaux
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Dognapping took place at the Mesquite, Texas,
home of Dallas firefighter and dog breeder Matt Ivy
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The stolen puppy is 10 weeks old and named
Chipper; he's microchiped
PUBLISHED: 11:27 EDT, 10 October 2018 | UPDATED: 17:12 EDT, 10 October 2018
Police in Texas are on the hunt for
two men who were caught on surveillance video stealing a French mastiff puppy
from a breeder's yard in broad daylight over the weekend.
The
video, shared online by Dallas firefighter and French mastiff breeder Matt Ivy,
shows a black Cadillac SUV pull over in the 5100 block of Milam Road at 2.20pm
on Saturday.
Two men
get out of the vehicle and one of them walks up to a wire fence enclosing the
property where two adult French mastiffs and a puppy are milling about.
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Dognapping in progress: This screenshot from surveillance footage shows
an unnamed suspect reaching down to steal a French mastiff puppy from a
Mesquite, Texas, yard Saturday
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Heartless: The pooch, a 10-week-old named Chipper, let out a yelp when
the cruel thug lifted it by the scruff
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At least two grown French mastiffs were standing nearby as the puppy was
being taken
The
suspect in a blue baseball cap, low-riding shorts and white sneakers climbs the
waist-high fence, reaches down and roughly grabs the puppy by the scruff,
causing him to yelp in pain.
With
the puppy tucked under his arm and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, the man
briskly walks back to the SUV, jumps in along with his accomplice and the
vehicle speeds off.
Ivy
says the stolen puppy is a 10-week-old named Chipper who has an implanted
microchip.
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The suspect tucked the puppy under his arm and walked back to his and
his accomplice's Cadillac SUV
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Adorable: The breeder says that Chipper (pictured left and right) is
microchipped
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The thieves seen in the CCTV footage might have ties to Lubbok or
Amarillo, Texas
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Since
posting the surveillance video of depicting the dognapping on his Facebook page,
it has been viewed more than 7.4million times and shared more than 218,000
times.
Ivy tells DallasNews.com he
first learned of the French mastiff breed, also known as Dogue de Bordeaux,
from the 1989 film Turner and Hooch starring Tom Hanks.
He has
been raising the animals for sale at his Mesquite home for the past 15 years.
The
thieves seen in the CCTV footage might have ties to Lubbok or Amarillo, Texas,
according to the owner. A $500 reward is being offered for information leading
to Chipper's safe return.
A
French mastiff can cost anywhere from $500 to $5,000, depending on the specific
dog and the breeder.
A fully
grown dog of that breed weighs more than 100lbs and has a life expectancy of
five-eight years.
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Chipper is pictured nibbling on the ear of a grown French mastiff named
Dyson, left, and gnawing on a bone while sitting in the lap of his owner's friend,
right
Chamber of Commerce President Shot, Killed Near Memphis National
Civil Rights Museum
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Memphis Chamber of Commerce president Phil Trenary was shot and killed
Thursday night near the National Civil Rights Museum.
Trenary had
just left a downtown restaurant when he was killed.
The Memphis
Police Department described the suspect:
The Memphis
Chamber of Commerce tweeted, “It is with sad hearts that we confirm that we
have lost our dear leader and friend. Our president and CEO Phil Trenary died
this evening. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Trenary family.”
CNN reports that Memphis’ murder rate is “16.3
murders for every 100,000 residents” and the city sees “1,168 violent crimes
for every 100,000 residents.” As the result Memphis is one of America’s most
violent cities.
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Judge Declares Bill Cosby a ‘Sexually Violent Predator’
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A judge declared Bill Cosby a “sexually violent
predator” on Tuesday as he prepared to sentence the 81-year-old comedian for
drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago.
The classification means that Cosby
must undergo monthly counseling for the rest of his life and report quarterly
to authorities. His name will appear on a sex-offender registry sent to
neighbors, schools and victims.
Montgomery County Judge Steven
O’Neill made the decision as he weighed the punishment for Cosby for violating
Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand at his
suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004.
Cosby declined the opportunity to
address the court before the judge retreated to his chambers around noon to
weigh the sentence. O’Neill said he would announce his decision early in the
afternoon.
The comic once known as America’s
Dad for his role as wise and understanding Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby
Show” in the 1980s faced anywhere from probation to 10 years in prison after
being convicted in April in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
Cosby’s lawyers asked for house
arrest, saying Cosby — who is legally blind — is too old and helpless to do
time in prison. Prosecutors asked for five to 10 years behind bars, saying the
comic could still be a threat to women.
Montgomery County District Attorney
Kevin Steele rejected the notion that “age, infirmity, should somehow equate to
mercy.”
“He was good at hiding this for a
long time. Good at suppressing this for a long time. So it’s taken a long time
to get there,” Steele said.
Cosby’s lawyers had fought the
“sexually violent predator” designation, arguing that Pennsylvania’s
sex-offender law is unconstitutional and that he is no threat to the public at
his age. But O’Neill said prosecutors had met their burden of proof by “clear
and convincing” evidence.
When the ruling came down, a woman
in courtroom shot her fist into the air and whispered, “Yessss!”
Meanwhile,
Constand said in a statement submitted to the court
and released Tuesday that she has had to cope with years of anxiety and
self-doubt that have left her “stuck in a holding pattern.”
Constand, 45, said her training as a
professional basketball player had led her to think she could handle anything,
but “life as I knew it” ended on the night she said Cosby knocked her out with
pills and penetrated her with his fingers as she lay nearly paralyzed on a
couch.
Constand said she now lives alone
with her two dogs and has trouble trusting people.
“When the sexual assault happened, I
was a young woman brimming with confidence and looking forward to a future
bright with possibilities,” she wrote in her five-page statement.
“Now, almost 15 years later, I’m a
middle-aged woman who’s been stuck in a holding pattern for most of her adult
life, unable to heal fully or to move forward.”
She also wrote: “We may never know
the full extent of his double life as a sexual predator but his decades-long
reign of terror as a serial rapist is over.”
In the years since Constand first
went to authorities in 2005, more than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual
misconduct, though none of those claims have led to criminal charges.
The judge ruled on Cosby’s
sex-offender status after a defense psychologist, Timothy Foley, testified that
the chances of the comedian committing another sex offense are “extraordinarily
low” because he is old, legally blind and needs help getting around.
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On Monday, a psychologist for the
state
testified that Cosby appears to have
a mental
disorder that gives him an
uncontrollable
urge to assault women.
Cosby was smiling and joking with
his spokesman and sheriff’s deputies as he settled into the courtroom Tuesday.
On Day 1 of the sentencing, the comic laughed at times as the psychologist for
the state testified.
Cameras were not allowed in the
courtroom; they are generally banned in Pennsylvania.
The proceedings took place as
another extraordinary #MeToo drama continued to unfold on Capitol Hill, where
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces allegations of sexual misconduct
from more than three decades ago.
The AP does not typically identify
people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they come forward
publicly, which Constand and other accusers have done.
Cosby became the first black actor
to star in a prime-time TV show, “I Spy,” in 1965. He remained a Hollywood
A-lister for much of the next half-century.
DC police investigating murder of white jogger as a hate crime
Washington, D.C. police are investigating
the savage stabbing death of a white jogger by a black man as a potential hate
crime.
Wendy Martinez was allegedly stabbed 7
times by 23 year old Anthony Crawford. Video of the aftermath of the attack
(now unavailable) showed Crawford fleeing the scene.
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