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MIAMI — An Amber Alert has been issued for a 5-year-old Miami girl.
Authorities said Jayda Destiny Velazquez was last seen in Miami wearing a gray skirt and pink shirt. She may be with Kimberly Burgos Lopez.
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Jayda is described as a Hispanic female, who is 3-feet tall, 50 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on Jayda’s whereabouts should contact the North Miami Police Department at 786-255-6011.
City fire marshals arrested this weekend a Bronx woman and charged her with intentionally setting a fire in her apartment that led to the death of her boyfriend.
Wendy Walston, 46, was charged with manslaughter, arson and reckless endangerment.
Fire officials say Walston started the fire on the night of September 12 inside a second-floor apartment she shared with 50-year-old Thomas Galvin at 2727 University Avenue in Kingsbridge.
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The fire caused so much smoke that residents on the fifth floor panicked and one man knocked out the windows with his bare hands, leaving graphic blood stains on the building.
Other residents saved themselves by hanging out on the roof as more than 100 firefighters put out the flames.
Galvin died of his injuries, while 10 other people were seriously hurt, including a four-year-old child.
WESTON, Fla. — A 28-year-old South Florida woman has died after hitting her head in the aftermath of a robbery.
Broward Sheriff’s officials said Kimberlyn Clarke was at a truck stop along US Hwy 27 in Weston last week to celebrate Jamaican Night.
Surveillance video shows a group of people were gathered in the parking lot when one suspect sprayed the crowd with pepper spray, causing the crowd to quickly disperse. During the commotion, another suspect grabbed the victim’s gold chain.
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Authorities said Clarke was overcome by the pepper spray and fell and hit her head on the rear bumper of a van when the crowd scattered.
She was transported to the hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead Saturday.
Detectives are asking for help identifying the suspect captured on surveillance video.
Authorities are asking for helping finding a Wyoming man who was last seen Friday, Sept. 21.
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Jeff Brost, 20, is originally from Pinedale, Wyoming. He is is 6 feet tall. He was last seen at the Casper unemployment offices last Friday.
Anyone with information that might lead his family to finding him, is asked to call their local law office.
ESSEX COUNTY — A former public adjuster from Englewood was sentenced to 18 months probation today for defrauding her clients and insurance companies out of more than $42,000.
According to a statement from Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa, an Essex County judge also ordered 59-year-old Sheena Clarke to surrender her public adjuster’s license, pay $42,519 in restitution and perform 300 hours of community service.
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She was indicted in Feburary, and pleaded guilty to insurance fraud on Aug. 13.
Between 2005 and 2010, Clarke submitted fraudulent claims to four insurance companies claiming that properties of her clients in Newark, Paterson, Irvington and East Orange had been damaged and subsequently repaired.
Clarke then collected reimbursements from the companies when in fact, the repairs had never been completed, according to Chiesa.
Insurance fraud is a third-degree crime, which generally do not carry jail sentences for those without a prior criminal record.
The official search has been called off for an Onalaska, Wis., man who has been missing for a week, but members of his church are continuing the hunt for one of their worship leaders and musicians.
More than 100 people from official agencies and civilian volunteers have been involved this week in a ground, air and water search for 45-year-old Dave Schroeder, a diabetic who needs medication and has been missing since his family last saw him a week ago at their home on Brice Prairie.
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“He hasn’t been found,” Pastor Steve Meyer of Journey Lutheran Church said after the sheriff’s office called off the ground search at 4 p.m. Friday. “They’ve exhausted the search area.”
That area covered hundreds of acres of fields, wooded areas and marshes, Meyer said.
Church members are shifting their focus to distributing search fliers.
Investigators checked bus stations and talked to Schroeder’s friends, relatives and co-workers to determine whether he might have left town, sheriff’s Capt. Mike Horstman said.
Disappearing like this is not typical behavior for Schroeder, his pastor said.
“This is a big mystery. There is nothing to indicate this radical behavior,” Meyer said.
“We don’t know whether this is intentional or if he became disoriented,” he said. “You don’t know if he was hitchhiking and got picked up by the wrong person.”
Schroeder, who has three sons ranging from elementary to college age, had been scheduled to lead services and play the guitar at
Sunday services, Meyer said.
Schroeder was last seen wearing a bright blue T-shirt, jeans and black shoes. He is about 6 feet tall and 300 pounds with graying black hair.
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan boys — ages 8 and 9 — could be charged with arson for a fire that destroyed a slide structure at a Jackson playground.
Jackson County Prosecutor Hank Zavislak told MLive.com for a story (http://bit.ly/Sr7XuP ) Saturday that he will issue petitions for the charges and bring the boys under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
Officials want to find out why the boys set the fire and what can be done to prevent similar behavior from occurring again, Zavislak said. They could be enrolled in an intervention program.
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“These are very young children. It’s a whole different approach,” he said.
The boys told police they set the Aug. 25 fire at Partnership Park.
Devastated by the fire at her favorite playground, 6-year-old Akaysha Dempsey-Owens raised more than $100 in one day this month with a lemonade stand.
Local businesses and residents have started cleanup of the playground. Crews on Friday dismantled and threw away scrap metal left at the park.
“I think it’s important for that area to put that park back up so the kids can have a place to play that is safe,” said Ken Williams.
Williams’ Concord Excavating is expected to remove poles and other materials next month from the playground’s foundation.
A 10-year-old boy is taken to the hospital after his family tells LEX-18 he was hit by a car.
It happened around 5:30 on Beauford Place in Nicholasville. The boy’s older brother says Bryce Cornett was getting into his mom’s car when a truck was driving by and the man behind the wheel didn’t stop in time.
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“The next thing I knew, he just flew on top of the hood, rolled off, and his shoe was over by the yard, and he just started crying,” says Stephen Cornett, the victim’s brother.
Police won’t say if any charges have been filed. No word on how the boy is doing.
The discovery of a woman’s body in a South Everett restaurant parking lot is being investigated as a homicide, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday morning.
Authorities provided no information about the woman’s age, identity or how she may have died. The sheriff’s major crimes unit is probing the death of the woman, whose body was found and reported at 6:45 a.m. Saturday.
“While the investigation is still in its earliest stages, we do not have concerns that there is a continuing danger to the public at this time,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
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The parking lot is at Palmera Mexican restaurant, 1629 Center Road, off Highway 99, Seattle Times community news partner myeverettnews.com reported.
The Sheriff’s Office said the woman’s identity and cause of death will be released by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The body of a 33-year-old Desert Hot Springs woman was found in a shallow grave in the desert community of Sky Valley early Friday morning, Sept. 28.
A Thousand Palms man is in custody on suspicion of her murder.
The woman, whose name has not been released pending formal identification, was found at 1 a.m. after a search that included the use of a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department bloodhound. The discovery followed a chase Thursday afternoon that began at a home on Longvue Road where the body was found.
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Carl Richard Perdock was booked into the Indio Jail. His bail was set at $1 million.
According to a Sheriff’s Department news release, deputies responded at 1:29 p.m. Thursday report from a man in the 23000 block of Hot Springs Road in Thousand Palms who said his roommate was depressed over a break-up with an ex-girlfriend and was making threatening statements.
When deputies arrived, they were directed to the 21900 block of Hot Springs Road, where they found evidence of a possible struggle, the release said. The investigation then led them to a home in the 23000 block of Longvue Road, where a man fled in a red Jeep Cherokee, and leading deputies on a chase into the desert area.
At one point a California Highway Patrol helicopter and police dog joined in the hunt. Perdock was eventually taken into custody.
Investigators began searching for a victim and with the help of the bloodhound, discovered the woman’s body.
The Sheriff’s Department is asking anyone with information about the incident to contact investigators at 760-393-3500.