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Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes is not qualified to practice as a lawyer in the state of North Carolina, according to the state's database of registered lawyers. The revelation comes after it was reported that Stokes released Decarlos Brown on cashless bail after his last brush with the law before he was charged with stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska to death in August. When Stoke's name is entered into the North Carolina State Bar lawyer look-up tool, an error is presented, indicating the judge, although overseeing a magistrate court, does not have the ability to practice law as a lawyer professionally in...

Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed her team to federally prosecute Decarlos Brown Jr., 34 — a repeat offender with a lengthy felony rap sheet — accused of murdering 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska. “Iryna Zarutska was a young woman living the American dream — her horrific murder is a direct result of failed soft-on-crime policies that put criminals before innocent people,” Bondi said in an X post on Tuesday. “I have directed my attorneys to federally prosecute DeCarlos Brown Jr., a repeat violent offender with a history of violent crime, for murder,” she continued, making it clear that they are seeking...

See new posts Conversation Isabella Maria DeLuca @IsabellaMDeLuca Newly released footage captures what unfolded immediately after Iryna Zarutska was stabbed on a Charlotte train. Absolutely horrific.

Today is relatively calm. There are no riots, no burning cars or buildings, no streets shut down. But there ought to be. It's time for a come to Jesus meeting with judges and DA's. Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled to the United States in 2022 to escape the war in Ukraine, was fatally stabbed on a Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) Blue Line light rail train on August 22, 2025, around 9:45 p.m. The attack took place on a train en route to the East/West Boulevard Station in Charlotte’s South End. Zarutska was pronounced dead at the...

Police launched a massive manhunt Tuesday for a violent sex offender and career criminal sought in the horrific Queens fire that killed the elderly parents of an FDNY paramedic. Jamel McGriff, 42, an ex-con on parole with a string of career busts, has been identified as a suspect in the vicious deaths of 78-year-old Maureen Olton and her husband, Frank Thomas Olton, 76, who was found bound to a pole in the basement with multiple stab wounds after their Bellerose home was torched Monday, police and law enforcement sources said.NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said McGriff is “armed and dangerous” and...

NJ Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour fatally shot outside her home: reports New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was gunned down outside her home late Wednesday, crashing her car after being repeatedly shot while behind the wheel, officials said. Dwumfour, 30, was found dead in her white Nissan SUV after it crashed near the Camelot at La Mer apartment complex in Sayreville, NJ, ABC 7 News reported. The Republican councilwoman was found with multiple gunshot wounds, and pronounced dead at the scene, officials told the outlet. Some locals told RLS Media that the gunman was spotted racing off to the Garden State Parkway,...

WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK IS HAPPENING IN NEW JERSEY? This happened a week ago: New Jersey GOP councilwoman gunned down outside her home in targeted attack And then this news broke today, one week later: New Jersey GOP councilwoman gunned down outside her home in targeted attack 51-year-old Milford Councilman Russell Heller was found dead on Wednesday just after 7 am in the Somerset parking lot of the local energy company PSE&G where Heller worked, according to the New York Post. Police identified 58-year-old former employee Gary Curtis as the suspect, and discovered him dead in his car from a...

The “shocking” murder of Sayreville, New Jersey, Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour does not initially appear to be politically motivated, according to Garden State Gov. Phil Murphy. Murphy told WNYC Thursday that the murder late Wednesday — in which the 30-year-old Republican was repeatedly shot in her SUV, which then crashed with her slumped over the wheel — felt “very specific.” “Unfortunately, there’s very little that is known right now,” Murphy said in his weekly sit-down with the radio show, according to NJ.com. But “it does not appear to be related to her position as an elected councilwoman in Sayreville,” he said...

Horrific video of the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee’s death in an apparently random stabbing has become a flashpoint in the debate over crime in U.S. cities. The shocking and apparently random fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 22 has inflamed already furious debates over race and crime in U.S. cities. This uproar comes at a particularly perilous moment, with the Trump administration widening its National Guard deployments across the nation and the Supreme Court lifting restrictions that would prevent ICE agents from profiling people based on their ethnicity or what...

An Auburn University professor emerita was killed during the theft of her Ford F-150, according to newly released court documents. Harold Rashad Dabney II, 28, is charged with two counts of capital murder in the weekend slaying of 59-year-old Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle.Dabney is charged with capital murder during a kidnapping and capital murder during a theft, according to warrants made public Monday.Though police initially said Dabney was from Montgomery, court records list an Auburn address for the suspect.The warrants do not provide any additional details about Schnuelle’s murder, and a first court appearance for Dabney is not yet listed.State...

Eleven years after the death of Ferguson, Missouri, teen Michael Brown sparked national protests over police brutality, the man who accompanied Brown on that fateful day in August of 2014 is dead. Dorian Johnson, 33, was shot and killed around 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning in an apartment complex less than a mile from where the incident between himself and Brown, who were black, and then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, played out.Dorian Johnson you mean the kid that lied until he got in front of the FBI then had to tell the truth about hands up don't shoot?...

Teresa Stokes, the last judge to release Decarlos Brown Jr. (a homeless, violent schizophrenic with a lengthy criminal rap sheet) earlier this year, is a woman of many hats. Not only is she an activist judge who makes decisions based on a progressive perspective of criminality, uses her gavel to mete out “reparative” and “equitable” justice—as evidenced by the no-cash bail release for a perp like Decarlos in January—but she’s also apparently the Director of Operations for a mental health and addiction clinic in her very own community. 🚨 NEW: Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who RELEASED 14-time criminal DeCarlos Brown...

Police released mugshots of the two 17-year-olds accused in the June shooting death of a Capitol Hill intern in Washington, D.C. The victim, 21-year-old University of Massachusetts Amherst student Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern for Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., was fatally shot June 30 about a mile from the White House. Suspects Kelvin Thomas Jr., of Southeast D.C., and Jailen Lucas, of Northwest D.C., are pictured in mugshots obtained by FOX5 DC. The two were arrested Friday and charged as adults with premeditated first-degree murder while armed. Police are also searching for Naqwan Antonio Lucas, 18, of Granby, Massachusetts, who is...

35-year-old Hugo Hernandez-Mendez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, brutally murdered a Maryland teen and threw her body off a bridge last month. 19-year-old Dacara Thompson went missing two weeks ago after she left her father’s house to put gas in her car. Surveillance video from the gas station shows Dacara Thompson approaching Hernandez-Mendez’s vehicle. After speaking to him for about a minute, she gets into the passenger side. Police said they drove to the suspect’s home, where he may have sexually assaulted Thompson before killing her in his bedroom. Hernandez-Mendez threw Thompson’s body off a highway bridge in the Annapolis...

A woman fled war-torn Ukraine to Charlotte, North Carolina before she was fatally stabbed in the throat on public transportation on Aug. 22. Video released by the Charlotte Area Transit System shows 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska enter a train car wearing a black Zepeddie's Pizzeria shirt and hat. She had earphones in while she sat in front of Decarlos Brown Jr., 34 on the Blue Line, using her phone. Minutes later around 9:50 p.m., Brown allegedly stabbed Zarutska three times with a pocket knife, at least once in the throat before walking away. He was later arrested and charged with first-degree...

Detectives working the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island visited Jones Beach after discovering disturbing evidence — including a bloody glove — near where suspect Rex Heuermann once worked, The Post has learned.

CARMICHAEL, Calif. — The third man killed during an apparent attempted robbery Sunday in Carmichael has been identified. Jonathan Derek Bush, 21, of Antelope, was found shot to death around 7 a.m. inside the Lance Apartments complex on El Camino Avenue, per the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. The other two also found dead were identified earlier this week as Zavion Larue Dorsey, 22, of Rancho Cordova, and 24-year-old Wayne Douglas Doerr. A fourth man and complex resident, 18-year-old Jaylen Davis, was detained at the scene, per the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. One man was allegedly being robbed by two men...

A Kentucky judge who was allegedly killed by a local sheriff didn’t have a relationship with the county’s top cop’s daughter, according to new grand jury testimony. Former Letcher County, Kentucky Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines allegedly shot and killed former Kentucky 47th Judicial District Judge Kevin Mullins on Sept. 19, 2024. The shooting happened following a lunch outing that included Mullins and Stines, officials said. Video earlier obtained by Fox News Digital shows Stines entering Mullins’ chambers, where he asked everyone else to leave the room so he could speak with the judge privately. The pair talked for around seven...

Australia and Nauru signed an agreement on Friday to allow the Australian government to deport formerly detained people without valid visas to the tiny island nation, the Australian Associated Press reported. Under the memorandum of understanding, Australia will pay Nauru 408 million Australian dollars ($267 million) up front once the first people arrive, followed by 70 million Australian dollars ($46 million) annually for the resettlement. The move is being slammed by refugee advocates, some of whom say the deal could open the door to mass deportations without notice. Human rights organizations have protested deportations to Nauru since a report by...

Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the “narco-state” that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts said. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of Latin America’s most notorious cartels, which placed proxies in state institutions while he pocketed millions of dollars in drug money. Extradited to the United States upon leaving office in 2022, Hernandez was sentenced this week to 45 years in jail for his crimes after prosecutors said he had turned his country...