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MONROE — A suspected illegal immigrant is in the Middletown City Jail facing three counts of rape for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl. Eduardo Nunez-rios, 19, of Sarasota Street in Liberty Twp., is being held on a $75,000 bond after being accused of raping the Lemon Twp. girl. His preliminary hearing has been continued to Jan. 7, according to jail officials. Police said they have reported Nunez-rios’ illegal status and pending charges to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Police said Nunez-rios developed a relationship over summer with the girl — who lives in the same trailer...

According to Newport News police, Jose Rodriquez-Hernandez, 22, filmed himself sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, and posted the video on the internet. The victim reported the assaults to a school employee, who then notified Child Protective Services. Police immediately began an investigation immediately and secured arrest warrants for Rodriguez-Hernandez on Friday night. He is wanted on charges of forceable sodomy, the production of child pornography and taking indecent liberties with a child. Rodriquez-Hernandez is Hispanic, 5-foot 3-inches tall and weighing 135 pounds. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt with light-blue stripes. Investigators believe he may...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Agents along the Mexican border are watching for the man police think killed 16-year-old Megan Ratliff in a hit-and-run accident Saturday night. The teen’s loved ones said goodbye at a funeral Thursday afternoon, where they said they want the suspect caught. “I can't breathe without her. I don't want to open my eyes anymore because she is not here. … I want the man that did this caught," Ratliff’s mother told 24-Hour News 8 Reporter Jacqueline Policastro. Classmates and family gathered at the small funeral at the Blessings of Love Ministry around noon on Thursday. The victim’s...

A 33-year-old Honduran man is accused of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl early Tuesday in South Scranton. Santos A. Garcia-Paz fled when the victim immediately told her mother, who called police, according to city Detective Vince Uher. Officers caught Mr. Garcia-Paz a few blocks away. He was arrested and charged with aggravated indecent assault of a child, unlawful contact with minor, indecent assault and corruption of minors. He was held at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail. Mr. Garcia-Paz was staying the night at the girl's house, where a relative of his also lived. In an interview with...

DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (FOX19) - An illegal Mexican immigrant will spend the next 6 years in prison for raping a 16 year old in June. Armando Hernandez was convicted of all charges against him, Friday. He was convicted of abducting, raping and attempting to rape the 16 year old girl at the Red Roof Inn in Deerfield Township. Hernandez raped the 16 year old 3 times in one hour. He has a Immigration and Customs Enforcement holder, meaning that he will probably be deported back to Mexico after his prison sentence is up. The 16 year old did not her...

It was a car chase that lead to a little girl's freedom. And now an unemployed construction worker is being called a hero. The little girl was playing with friends outside a home on Monday evening when she was approached by a stranger driving a 1975 Chevy pickup truck. Dyer told reporters, "He grabbed her and forced her into the pickup through the driver's door and sped off." Perez saw that video on the news, and when he left his home, he saw that truck -- and decided to follow it, cutting it off not once -- but several times....

"I'm in a gang, and I'm going to kill you if you call the police," Lopez said, according to police.

Oxnard Police have arrested the tow truck driver who ran down a mother and her two small children as they crossed a busy street Tuesday afternoon, dragging the children under the truck for a quarter mile before being stopped. 45-year-old Mehran Khamseh of Santa Barbara was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs. The incident happened shortly after noon at the intersection of Vineyard Avenue and Simon Way in Oxnard. Police say the tow truck driver, Khamseh, was making a left turn from westbound Simon Way to southbound Vineyard when he struck 19-year-old Alma Lopez who was pushing her...

I am on a list that sends me, via email, the latest police bulletins in my town of Bullhead City, AZ. This just came across. The bold is from me. The unthinkable is now everyday.

A teenage girl walking to Bowie High School in southwest Austin for her first day of class yesterday was nearly raped by four men, according to Austin Police Tuesday afternoon. Police say it happened just before nine Monday morning in the 4500-block of Norman Trail, that's near S. Mopac and Slaughter Lane. Det. Santiago Torres says the girl describes the attack as beginning when a silver Ford pickup pulled up beside her. "Four males who she described as Hispanic were inside the vehicle and started calling at her, whistling at her, trying to get her attention. She tried to ignore...

SAN JUAN —Police reunited a teenage woman with her family Monday afternoon, nearly 19 hours after she was abducted, blindfolded and dumped in a Reynosa field. The 18-year-old woman, whose name was not disclosed by police, was walking to a friend’s house about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. A black van pulled up alongside her and three men hopped out, San Juan Police Chief Juan Gonzalez said. They snatched the girl, blindfolded her and took her to Reynosa. The kidnappers began calling the woman’s family demanding ransom money. “The kidnappers somehow missed it that she had a cell phone,” Gonzalez said. “We...

... The ranches are said to be "near Mines Rd. and Minerales Rd. about 10 miles NW of I-35". Whether it is lone members or squads is not certain. Anonymous sources in law enforcement in the Laredo area tonight have passed on word that US law enforcement agencies are in the area and are weighing their options regarding the ranches. The media has been silent on this incident and some law enforcement in the area says that they are furious that the media is not reporting the whole story of the continued violence along the border. Their frustrations are understandable...

An 11-year-old girl was raped in Silver Spring by two men who took her into an apartment after they saw her walking outside Tuesday night, Montgomery County police said. Two men were arrested shortly after the attack. The girl was walking near the intersection of Piney Branch Road and Carroll Avenue when she heard two men speaking to her in Spanish, according to police. She did not understand what they were saying because she does not speak Spanish, so she walked away from them, police said. Shortly after, the girl was in a park near Quebec Terrace when the same...

On Wednesday, a Charlotte, NC man and woman -- illegally residing in the U.S. -- were charged in federal court with conspiracy to kidnap two children in Mecklenburg County, NC in 2009, according to reports obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. According to the indictment, Ruben Garcia-Rosario, 25, and Linda Gonzalez, 21, aided and abetted one another in the attempted kidnapping through the use of cellular telephones and a motor vehicle. Garcia-Rosario is also charged in three additional counts alleging possession of a firearm by...

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009. The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith,...

On Monday, October 17th, SCOTT RITTER, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, will speak at the Woman's Club, 60 Woodland Road, Maplewood NJ. The program runs from 7:30 until 9:30pm. Scott will assess the October 15th referendum in Iraq and war-and-peace politics in the US, as well as his concern that a US attack on Iran has been planned. There will be lots of time reserved for questions and comments.Directions to the Woman's Club are on the SMPA website http://www.beaboutpeace.com/  Go to the Scott Ritter announcement and click "directions"

Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks – if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the al-Qaida mastermind was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. "I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," Clinton tells New York magazine this week. "Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early." "I don’t know if it would have prevented 9/11," he added. "But it certainly would...