#violent-crime

#violent-crime

Violent crime is a risk throughout Jamaica. The homicide rate reported by the Government of Jamaica is among the highest in the Western Hemisphere. The State Department has placed a travel restriction for U.S. government employees working in the region, prohibiting them from using public transit or driving overnight, and encourages American citizens who are visiting to follow the same guidance.

In April 2023, Eric Anyango and his friend Joe Ochieng suffered hours of violence and verbal abuse after they traveled to the house of a man they met on Facebook. Soon after they arrived, three other men crashed through the door. The young men in their 20's were stripped, kicked, slapped, and beaten, called homophobic slurs, and blackmailed into getting friends and family to send their kidnappers hundreds of dollars through bank transfers.

A man who broke into a family home on Christmas Eve and beat a mother in front of her young children and stabbed her boyfriend has been jailed for six years. Stephen Power, (34), who had prior convictions including for arson, possession of knives, possession of drugs for sale or supply, burglary, theft, criminal damage, was sentenced by Judge Colin Daly at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court.

The arrest of 39-year-old Marquis Davis, announced Thursday by a Solano County Sheriff's news release, occurred just one day after the burned body of Damarrea Neal, 29, was discovered by fire crews near the Lake Herman Recreation Area in unincorporated Benicia. Davis was arrested in Emeryville driving the victim's car, which contained firearms and other evidence linking Davis to the killing, authorities said.

Police responded around 6:40 a.m. to a 911 call reporting an assault inside 956 Sherman Avenue, within the 44th Precinct. Officers arriving at the scene found a 42-year-old woman with stab wounds to her neck, torso and back, and a 16-year-old male with stab wounds to his neck and back.

Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, filmed the 30-minute attack on a mobile phone and kept the sheep's ear tag as a token, which was later hidden inside a Monster energy can and discovered inside a communal toilet. The duo, who were enrolled at Plumpton Agricultural College, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal and with Ashby sentenced to two years behind bars and Hollands receiving a 20-month sentence at a youth offender institution.

Eric Immesberger posed as a hit man in undercover operations to gather evidence against people attempting to hire one. He is a former agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who spent 21 years investigating violent crime, including firearms trafficking, organized criminal crews, and murder-for-hire plots. Movies and TV often portray murder for hire as a clean, professional transaction.

OAKLAND - Oakland recorded its fewest homicides in nearly six decades last year, a striking turnaround that came despite historic lows in the number of police officers on the force. The number of killings investigated last year fell to 67, with 57 of those categorized as murders - excluding cases such as justifiable homicides - a total not seen since 1967, according to data compiled by this news organization.

'Williams committed an appalling crime and yet his prison sentence is paltry. 'A five year sentence, reduced further under the early release scheme, is not justice. I am writing to the Attorney General asking that it is reconsidered.'

Crime is flourishing in the Americas, particularly violent crime. The murder rate remains very high, at more than 20 per 100,000 inhabitants. The expansion of the drug trade, which is stronger than ever, has nourished the criminal landscape from the once-tranquil Uruguay to the perpetually troubled Guatemala. Armed groups born from the drug trade are seeking new businesses, left and right, top and bottom.

Convicted drug dealer Jonathan Braun, who had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump during his first term, is being sent back to prison after he violated terms of his supervised release with a series of heinous acts, including allegedly assaulting a three-year-old and sexually abusing a nanny. Braun was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Monday in New York City.

But almost 20 years ago, just a few blocks from the town square where the mayor was gunned down at point-blank range, another event occurred that marked the country's recent memory. In the early morning of September 6, 2006, about 20 hooded men with assault rifles, dressed in police uniforms, stormed into a nightclub, firing shots. Before leaving, they took five human heads out of a bag and left them on the dance floor.

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer's identity-including by allowing calls to a local police precinct. "Ensure law enforcement personnel adequality [ sic] identify themselves during operations and cooperate with individuals who request further verification," it says.

We need more Gardaí

Majors, 18, an aspiring punk-rock musician, fought like hell, biting Weaver in the finger and causing him to fly into a rage, stabbing her as feathers flew out of her down jacket. Davis admitted to picking up a knife dropped by Weaver and handing it back to him. Lewis held Majors in a headlock, and Weaver repeatedly knifed her, piercing her heart and leaving her to die.

A beloved Italian churchgoer who was ruthlessly beaten to death outside a Brooklyn subway station was remembered for his kindness, cheerful laugh and unwavering faith, as more than 100 family members and friends gathered Friday night to honor his life. Nicola Tanzi, 64, was killed on Oct. 7 when a recidivist psycho savagely attacked him for no reason as the devout Catholic held a door open at the Jay Street-MetroTech Station - near where he had worked as a security guard for 15 years.

Because many of his cases were sealed, it is unclear why Bohler remained free for years. His latest case came while he was already locked up at Rikers Island on the machete attack, when he was charged on Oct. 9 with hitting and killing pedestrian Lelawattie Narine, a cancer survivor who was out for a walk in Queens on March 22, 2024, when she was struck and killed.

According to investigators, the suspect used a 30-centimeter kitchen knife to attack a group of children in Schontal Park. A two-year-old Moroccan boy was fatally wounded, and a 41-year-old German man who tried to help was also killed. The attacker also allegedly stabbed a two-year-old Syrian girl and a 73-year-old German man, both of whom survived. A 59-year-old teacher broke her arm during the assault.

On Wednesday, police arrested 25-year-old David Mazariegos, who faces charges including murder, robbery, and grand larceny for the death of 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi. The incident occurred at the Jay Street-MetroTech Station on Tuesday, where Mazariegos allegedly punched, kicked, and stomped on Tanzi in an unprovoked attack.