Partners
Browse by tags
Home » All tags » crime ( RSS)
-
Wednesday, May 14
|
Source: Muncie Star-Press , Herald Bulletin MUNCIE -- A gay Ball State University student said he and his friends were attacked in The Village early Friday morning because of their sexuality. "I consider it a hate crime," the student, Kyle Flood, told the Muncie Star-Press . Flood, 21, Indianapolis, suffered a swollen eye, cuts and bruises and a scratched cornea that required treatment at Ball Memorial Hospital. No arrests had been made as of Monday. Ball State University Police Chief Gene Burton said attacks on gay students were rare. "Let me put it this way, I've seen it before...
|
-
Monday, May 12
|
Source: The Star PENANG, Malaysia -- In their third raid on a fitness and sauna center since November, police detained 14 men Saturday at what they called "a front for gay activities." George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abd Hamid said six men, all naked, were caught in three toilets while the others were found simply "patronizing the joint" as a report in theStar online newspaper puts it. He said the suspects, aged between 20 and 30, had been remanded to assist in investigations into what the commander called "immoral activities at the center". In the 6pm raid on Saturday...
|
-
Monday, May 12
|
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel , Express Gay News , Palm Beach Post The last time interior designer Scott Graham was heard from, it was the evening of April 14 and he was in the company of a Honduran friend named Ricardo, police said Wednesday. That friend turned out to be Ricardo Funes-Valle, who police said has confessed that he stabbed Graham to death in Graham's West Palm Beach home at 113 Ellamar Drive. The body was discovered April 16. Funes-Valle, 20, was arrested in Tampa on April 29 by Hillsborough County detectives and the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Apprehension Team on a West...
|
-
Friday, May 09
|
Source: Los Angeles Times , Ventura County Star King shooting The arraignment of Brandon McInerney, accused of the fatal shooting an Oxnard schoolmate, was postponed again Thursday and rescheduled for June. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kevin McGee granted the delay requested by McInerney's lawyer, William Quest, Ventura County senior deputy public defender. The 14-year-old from Oxnard is set to be tried as an adult in the classroom killing of Larry King, a 15-year-old who sometimes wore lipstick and told friends he was gay. Earlier, Quest said in an interview that he is working on a...
|
-
Thursday, May 08
|
Source: Star-Ledger , Secaucus Reporter A gay couple in Secaucus, New Jersey was awakened at about 1 am in April, 2004 by the sound of raucous partying at the firehouse next door to their house. When one of the men asked the firefighters to keep it down, they responded with outrage, according to a civil suit filed by the couple which is being tried this week in a Jersey City courtroom. When Timothy Carter returned to the house after asking the firefighters to quiet down, a drunken mob banged on the side of the house and loudly threatened to kill the men and their dogs, according to the couple....
|
-
Friday, May 02
|
Source: Monsters & Critics , AFP Two men were jailed for five years each today after being found guilty of a £50,000 ($100,000 USD) blackmail plot against a member of the royal family. Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan demanded the money for a set of recordings featuring "scandalous" remarks by a royal employee and charges of gay sex. They were convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey following a three-week trial estimated to have cost more than one million pounds. Each salacious detail of the trial was splashed onto the covers of London tabloids last month. In early 2007, the pair made...
|
-
Friday, May 02
|
Source: Telegraph , Sun , Metro Anthony Morley, left -- once crowned Mr. Gay UK, was arrested after Damian Oldfield's body was found with a chunk of flesh missing from his leg photos via Daily Mail An advertising executive for the London gay lifestyle magazine Bent was found stabbed to death at the Leeds home of a friend who has been charged with his murder. According to the Telegraph, police believe executive Damian Oldfield, 33, was killed a week ago. They discovered his body at the home of Anthony Morley, 35, after Morley showed up at a neighborhood kebab shop covered in blood and wearing...
|
-
Wednesday, April 30
|
Source: Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader , Citizens Voice WILKES-BARRE, Penn -- The estate of a gay porn producer stabbed to death in his Dallas Township home has won a civil lawsuit filed against the man’s suspected killers. Michael Kocis, the father of Bryan Kocis, filed suit in January against Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes. The two Virginia men are accused of killing Bryan Kocis, their rival in the gay porn industry, inside his home and then setting it on fire in January 2007. Kocis, 44, was found dead by firefighters. The suit filed in Common Pleas court claimed Cuadra and Kerekes entered Bryan...
|
-
Tuesday, April 29
|
Source: Jeffersonville News and Tribune , Louisville Courier-Journal Floyd, Indiana -- The remains of an unidentified man who was buried 13 years ago after he was found dead near an Indiana interstate highway were exhumed yesterday in an effort to determine if he may have been the victim of a serial killer. In September 1995, hunters discovered the remains of a man, likely in his 40s, in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, said Floyd County Sheriff’s Department Detective Capt. Jeff Topping at a Monday news conference. The remains -- which were estimated to have been there for between four and 12 weeks -- were...
|
-
Friday, April 25
|
Source: Washington Blade , Associated Press via Newsday Two teens charged with murder in the slaying of three college students in a Newark schoolyard last summer made their first appearance in adult court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty. If convicted, the youths and four other suspects could get life terms for the execution-style shootings that brought outrage and scrutiny to a city struggling to shake its reputation for violence. A fourth student survived. One of four college students shot execution style in a Newark, N.J., schoolyard in August 2007, the day before they planned to attend a...
|
-
Tuesday, April 22
|
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel , Advocate , Palm Beach Post , WPTV By the time police announced Friday that the slain man found in a West Palm Beach home was, indeed, interior designer Scott Graham, his many friends and family already knew. Lt. Chuck Reed told West Palm Beach Post that there were "obvious signs of foul play," reporting that when he approached Graham's home, he found the garage door half-open and the front door unlocked. But the gay community is now left to contemplate the death of three community leaders and contributors in just over a month. "A lot of people...
|
-
Wednesday, April 16
|
Source: Ventura County Star , Lambda Legal press release King shooting A coalition of 27 groups advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is calling for Ventura County prosecutors to try 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in juvenile court, not as an adult. McInerney has been charged as an adult in connection with the Feb. 12 fatal shooting of a classmate, Larry King, at E.O. Green School in Oxnard. According to students, King, 15, might have been targeted because he was openly gay. The coalition of lesbian, gay and other organizations, including Lambda Legal, the National Center...
|
-
Thursday, April 10
|
Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- A Tennessee native was found not guilty today of felony murder in the slaying of Victor Manious, a Gaines Township man whose body was found in the trunk of his own vehicle, parked on a downtown street. The jury found Steven Scarborough, 22, guilty of a lesser charge voluntary manslaughter. Scarborough was accused of luring 62-year-old Victor Manious to a friend's apartment to rob him. The prosecution said he then struck Manious in the head with a blunt force object before dragging him down stairs to Manious' car, stuffing...
|
-
Thursday, April 10
|
Source: Grand Rapids Press MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- While a jury considers the fate of Steven Scarborough who admits to killing Victor Manious, members of the dead man's family turned to the local press to dispute pictures painted of Manious by both prosecutors and defenders in the case. While lawyers on the two sides of the case described vastly different scenarios during the trial, both had a common theme -- that Manious, a father of four and lay leader of the local Coptic Church, was arguably gay. Family members insist that can't be true of the man they knew. Assistant Prosecutor...
|
-
Wednesday, April 09
|
Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial [post updated at 7:26 pm PT with breaking information from WOOD TV ] Grand Rapids, Mich. -- A Kent County jury here has begun deliberations into whether Steven Scarborough is a robber and kidnapper who bludgeoned a 62-year-old man to death, or whether the 22-year-old defendant was being molested and wielded a baseball bat in self defense. Closing arguments were presented in the first part of the day. Then jury began discussing the evidence presented around 2 p.m. Wednesday, and went home for the day around 5:30 p.m. Defense lawyers said again...
|
-
Tuesday, April 08
|
Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial Steven Scarborough testified in his own defense on Monday and Tuesday WOOD TV screen capture GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- It was phrased as a question, but the look on accused murderer Steven Scarborough's face made it appear it was news to him. "If you hadn't stolen from Victor Manious, you would have gotten away with this," Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Helen Brinkman said to Scarborough, who returned to the stand Tuesday in his own defense on the charge of felony murder. Brinkman told Scarborough there were no prints on the...
|
-
Tuesday, April 08
|
Source: 13WHAM TV , WHEC TV Rochester, NY -- Police Chief David Moore said four Rochester Police Officers accused of responding inappropriately to an alleged gay bashing attack last June will go back to work Tuesday. The officers were suspended after an internal police investigation into their handling of a reported gay bashing incident. Five people claim they were victims of a hate crime on June 1, 2007 on S. Goodman Street. They claim they were attacked while walking home from a bar because some members of their group are gay. The alleged victims claim the officers who responded to the scene...
|
-
Tuesday, April 01
|
Source: Grand Rapids Press MI Manious trial Steven Scarborough GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- As part of the so-called "gay panic" defense being used to explain the actions of accused killer Steven Scarborough, his lawyer planned to show there was a connection between victim Victor Manious and a friend of the accused -- a person described as being "up to his eyeballs in this crime." Defense attorney Paul Denenfeld said in his opening statement to the jury that 19-year-old Justin Robinson played a major role in the alleged murder of Manious, a 62-year-old found dead in a car trunk in...
|
-
Friday, March 28
|
Source: Associated Press via Washington Post King shooting [ seaQwa editor's note: The in-depth AP story by Greg Risling summarized here has been carried widely by US and international papers. It finally seems to have given this tragic story wider circulation -- something that's been unaccountably missing in the five weeks since the shooting. The LA Times and other California papers have -- as one can see from the summaries here -- given it extensive coverage while national press mostly ignored the story until now. It is true, as Risling writes here, that "King's death has drawn...
|
-
Friday, March 28
|
Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, NY -- A Rochester woman has been acquitted of a felony hate crime charge alleging that she and another woman attacked two lesbians outside a Park Avenue bar. [see Qnews summary ] Monroe County Court jurors late Thursday acquitted Yalidsa Ortiz, 27, of third-degree assault as a hate crime for the alleged attack on June 27, 2006. Ortiz’s lawyer, John L. DeMarco, told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the dispute was motivated by hate. The jury also found Ortiz not guilty...
|
-
Thursday, March 27
|
Source: AAP via The Age A Melbourne teacher who blackmailed his gay lover using a video of them involved in a sex act has been fined and given a suspended sentence. David Robert Hicks, 31, has pleaded guilty to one count of blackmail. Hicks, whose address has been withheld for legal reasons, appeared yesterday in the Victorian County Court for sentencing. Judge Michael McInerney convicted and fined Hicks $3,000 and gave him a three-year suspended jail sentence. The court was told that Hicks had a sexual liaison with his victim, who cannot be identified, when he was 29 years old. The pair met in...
|
-
Wednesday, March 26
|
Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS -- Two vastly different accounts of what happened before, during and after the death of a local businessman and church leader were presented to jurors today in opening statements for the murder trial of Steven Scarborough. The prosecution said Scarborough is a killer, while the defense put forth that Scarborough got dragged into the murder by a friend with whom he was staying. Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Helen Brinkman said Scarborough lured 62-year-old Victor Manious from a local gay bar to a friend's apartment in July...
|
-
Tuesday, March 25
|
Source: Grand Rapids Press , Muskegon Chronicle MI Manious trial GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- A jury was to be selected today to hear the case against 21-year-old Steven Scarborough, accused of luring 62-year-old Victor Manious to a Southeast Side apartment where the older man was beaten and robbed, then stuffed into the trunk of a Toyota only in his underwear and left to die. Scarborough faces mandatory life in prison if he is convicted of murder, but defense attorney Paul Denefeld is expected to argue the younger man overreacted to homosexual advances from the late businessman and lay leader of the...
|
-
Monday, March 24
|
Source: Mercury A WOMAN killed in a hit-and-run incident near Burnie, Tasmania on Good Friday was a prominent gay activist. Yvette Suzanne Sneddon, of Natone, was riding a motorcycle in a collision with a car on a road south of Burnie in the Australian state of Tasmania. Police are investigating and want to speak to anyone who saw a red Ford on Natone Rd. Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group spokesman Rodney Croome said yesterday that Dr Sneddon, 49, had been the convenor of a North-West gay support group in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Mr Croome said she had stood up to the challenges of...
|
-
Sunday, March 23
|
Source: UK Gay News , GayNZ.com LAGOS -- A gay leader of the Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN) group in Nigeria says he feared for his life after a mob attack outside a funeral ceremony in Port Harcourt on Thursday. "I have never known fear like I knew when they were brutalizing me. I thought they were going to kill me there and then," says the victim, who did not want to be named. On its website, CAN says the group is "Working for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion." The group's goal, according to the site is "the day when...
|
-
Sunday, March 23
|
Source: Al Jacinto, Arab News , GMA News ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead a gay salon owner in front of his horrified friends in the largely Muslim province of Sulu, about 950 kilometers south of Manila, police said Saturday. Police said Romeo Lim, 25, the son of an army soldier, was killed while having dinner on a friend's house on Friday in the village of Asturias in Jolo town. He was shot several times and died instantly, said Inspector Usman Pingay, the town's chief of police. "We still do not know the motives of the killing or who were behind the murder...
|
-
Sunday, March 23
|
Source: Palm Beach Post , South Florida Sun Sentinel Michael Brown WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A prominent south Florida gay activist and bar owner was killed last week by his ex-boyfriend, police say, in what they're calling a murder-suicide. Michael Brown, owner of HG Roosters, a bar that has been a gathering spot for the city's gay community for more than two decades, was beaten and stabbed to death by a former boyfriend who was found dead in his apartment with him Friday evening, police have determined. On Saturday night scores of men and women packed HG Roosters, where candles flickered...
|
-
Sunday, March 09
|
Source: Los Angeles Times [seaQwa editor's note: This is the most complete article yet published on the King school shooting and devastating because of its detail. I've included a larger digest than usual, but still recommend reading the complete article in the LA Times . -- REvans ] By Paul Pringle and Catherine Saillant , Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Larry King in 2006 portrait photo: Memorial website King shooting For teens living in a shelter for abused and neglected children, school can provide a daily dose of normalcy, a place to fit in, a chance to be just another kid. It didn't...
|
-
Saturday, March 08
|
Source: Reuters , News.com.au , BBC News Two lesbian lovers, one who drank blood as part of a vampire culture, were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for what an Australian judge said was the "evil" killing of a girl they bludgeoned to death before dumping her body in a wheelie bin. Jessica Ellen Stasinowsky, 21, and her girlfriend Valerie Paige Parashumti, 19, were sentenced in the West Australian Supreme Court after pleading guilty to Stacey's wilful murder at a Perth house in December 2006. They were each handed a strict security life sentence, with a minimum of 24 years in...
|
-
Thursday, March 06
|
Source: YNet News The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced four residents of east Jerusalem to two to eight years in prison Thursday, after they were convicted of the assault and robbery of several young homosexuals in Tel Aviv's old central bus station. According to the indictment, in January 2007, the four scoured the station's area for men seeking to rendezvous with other men, going as far as to place one of them as a decoy. Around 4:30 am, one of the plaintiffs fell for the scam, picked up the man posing as a decoy in his car, and the two made their way to a nearby car park. Once inside...
|
1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >
Drill down
Items above also use the following tags. Click to filter further.
|