TUCSON - Tucson Police say they know the identity of a suspect who robbed at least five pharmacies at gunpoint, demanded the painkiller oxycodone.
Police say 57-year-old Robert F. Gutierrez committed each of the crimes, which occurred at various pharmacies on Tucson's south and west sides between February 10, 2012, and May 30, 2012. More details on these incidents can be found here.
Gutierrez is described as a Hismanic man, 5'7" tall, weighing 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to call 911 or 88-Crime.
Deandra Lee has been charged with the murder of twins Jordan and Taylor Dejerinett and their babysitter, 73-year-old Jack Mac Girdner.
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — An Alabama man acquitted in a double murder is being charged with killing 9-year-old twins and their elderly baby sitter earlier this week, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Police are looking for Deandra Marquis Lee, 22, who was out on bail on felony gun and robbery charges when the killings occurred Tuesday. He has been charged with three counts of murder, Lowndes County District Attorney Charlotte Tesmer said.
Authorities believe the slayings happened on a dirt road where the bodies were found. All three victims had been shot, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation said Thursday night.
It was unclear if Lee knew any of the victims or their families.
Authorities previously identified Lee as a person of interest in the deaths of 9-year-old Jordan Dejerinett and his sister Taylor, as well as 73-year-old Jack Mac Girdner.
Girdner was a family friend who watched the children for their mother while she was at work. Authorities said Girdner had known the family for about three years after meeting them at the church they attended in Montgomery.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fourteen dismembered bodies were found in a truck in the center of a town in northern Mexico on Thursday in what appeared to be the latest atrocity committed by rival gangs battling over drug-smuggling routes, local media said.
The bodies of 11 men and three women were discovered in the sugar-cane farming town of Ciudad Mante in the south of Tamaulipas state, which borders on Texas, daily Milenio reported on its website.
Officials at the state attorney general's office could not immediately confirm the report. Tamaulipas has been one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Mexico's drug war.
More than 55,000 people have been killed in the conflict since President Felipe Calderon sent in the army to fight drug gangs shortly after he took office in December 2006.
Calderon's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, looks likely to lose power in the presidential election on July 1, due partly to rising frustration with the violence.
The government has blamed the turf wars between the brutal Zetas gang, founded by army deserters, and the Sinaloa cartel of Mexico's most-wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, for an escalation of killings in recent weeks.
Suspected drug cartel killers dumped 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies on a highway near the affluent northern city of Monterrey in May. Days before, 18 mutilated bodies were found near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
At the beginning of May, the bodies of nine people were hung from a bridge and 14 other dismembered victims were found in the city of Nuevo Laredo, also in Tamaulipas state and just across the border from Laredo, Texas.
Seven people were wounded on Thursday, including a boy who was seriously hurt, when a male suspect threw a grenade into a restaurant in the town of Amecameca outside Mexico City, a state of Mexico official said.
Authorities are investigating a possible extortion attempt against the business as well as the conflict between two gangs in the area, she said.
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have arrested a woman who allegedly drove off after forgetting that her 5-week-old baby was in a car seat on the roof of her vehicle.
Officer James Holmes said officers were called out early Saturday after witnesses found a child strapped in a safety seat in the middle of an intersection.
The boy wasn't hurt. He's now in the custody of Arizona Child Protective Services.
Authorities say the child's mother, 19-year-old Catalina Clouser, her boyfriend and their friends had been smoking marijuana earlier in the evening at a nearby park.
Upset that her boyfriend was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence, police say Clouser went to the home of friends and smoked more marijuana.
Clouser left around midnight. Police say she apparently put the sleeping baby on the roof and drove off, forgetting he was there.
CORONADO — The attorney for the family of Rebecca Zahau has submitted a detailed request to the state Attorney General’s Office asking for an independent investigation into her hanging death at her boyfriend’s Coronado mansion last summer.
COVER UP (THIS CASE STINKS)
Rebecca Zahau — AP
Seattle-based attorney Anne Bremner said the Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office have turned down similar requests she submitted, paving the way for the official request to the attorney general.
Zahau’s family continues to suspect foul play in her death.
Zahau, 32, was found hanging nude and bound at her wrists and ankles at the historic Spreckels mansion on July 13. The vacation home was owned by boyfriend Jonah Shacknai, CEO of Arizona-based Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp.
Sheriff’s investigators ruled the death a suicide, saying she was apparently distraught over the grave injuries suffered by Shacknai’s 6-year-old son, Max, who had fallen over a second-story railing while she was babysitting. He died days after Zahau.
A shooting at a Seattle cafe and an apparent carjacking have left two men and woman dead and three others seriously wounded, police reported Thursday.
Two men were killed at a coffeehouse in the city's University District, while a woman died in the carjacking, Seattle police said. Three more people -- another two men and a woman -- were wounded at the coffeehouse.
Investigators were looking for any connections between the two incidents, which happened about four miles and a few minutes apart, police spokesmen said.
Suspect shot and killed himself (above picture of suspect in cafe)
"We're definitely in a dynamic situation right now," Deputy Police Chief Nick Metz told reporters.
The gunman ran away from the coffeehouse shooting.
"Whether he is armed at this time, we don't know," Metz said. But he added, "We're assuming he's very dangerous."
One of the wounded had life-threatening injuries, while the other two were seriously hurt, the department said. The black sport-utility vehicle was found empty a few miles southwest of downtown, police reported.
SEATTLE – Police are responding to a shooting in the 5800 block of Roosevelt Way NE in the Ravenna neighborhood. Seattle police say there are multiple victims.
The shooter was seen running away from the scene northbound, armed with a gun. He is described as a white male, 30 to 40-years-old. He is 6 feet tall with a medium build, brown hair and a goatee or beard. He was wearing a dark shirt.
The public is advised to stay away from the area.
More details to come. (Two people Killed)
Two people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting this morning in North Seattle.
Seattle police say the shooting happened at Cafe Racer Espresso in North Seattle. Seattle police say two people are confirmed dead and one person has life-threatening injuries. Two others also suffered gunshot wounds.
A law enforcement source says it could be a domestic violence situation.
TUCSON - Tucson Police say they know the identity of a suspect who robbed at least five pharmacies at gunpoint, demanded the painkiller oxycodone.
