(CBS/AP) BUFFALO, N.Y. - A trauma surgeon and former military weapons expert continued early Thursday to elude authorities who began searching for him shortly after the fatal shooting of a receptionist at the Buffalo hospital where they worked. Police warned that Dr. Timothy Jorden may be armed and should be considered dangerous.
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Jorden, who has been licensed to practice medicine in New York for a decade, has served as a role model for black youth in Buffalo, people who know him told the Buffalo News. Betty Jean Grant, chairwoman of the Erie County Legislature, told the newspaper she watched Jorden grow up and
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never knew him to get into any trouble. "It's tragic that a doctor who saved countless lives might be accused of taking someone else's life," she said. "It puts a dark cloud over the mission of a hospital
American travelers to Mexico should beware of possible violent retaliation for this week's arrest of alleged Zetas drug cartel associates and family members inside the U.S., the U.S. State Department has warned.
Though the warning does not specify which "Transnational Criminal Organization" might engage in "anti-American" violence, on Tuesday federal authorities arrested seven alleged associates of the powerful Zetas drug cartel in New Mexico and Oklahoma for allegedly laundering millions in drug profits through breeding and racing quarterhorses in the U.S. Those arrested included Jose Trevino Morales, the brother of Zetas leaders Miguel Angel and Oscar Omar Trevino Morales, who were also indicted but remain at large in Mexico.
According to the indictment, the Zetas cartel steered drug money to Jose Trevino Morales and his wife to purchase, train and race quarterhorses. Horses owned by the Zetas' alleged front companies competed at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico and won lucrative races, including the $1 million All American Futurity in 2010. Some of the horses, like Morning Cartel and Coronita Cartel, had the word "cartel" in their names.
The travel warning issued Tuesday, the day of the arrests and the unsealing of the indictment, urges U.S. citizens in Mexico to be on guard. "Given the history and resources of this violent TCO, the U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens to maintain a low profile and a heightened sense of awareness."
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.
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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.
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - He was fired from his coaching job at Altar Valley Middle School, after reporting inappropriate texting between a girl and his assistant, but not reporting it quickly enough.
Then he was arrested for something worse---sexual conduct with a minor.
A video from a Norwegian TV crew shows Hezlitt working with Shawna Forde's border vigilante group. Forde was sentenced to death for a home invasion and murder of a man and his 9 year old daughter. Hezlitt was never charged in that crime.
Now deputies say both Todd Hezlitt and a 15 year old girl have disappeared---and are most likely together---but there could be yet another twist to this story.
UPDATE (IN CUSTODY) IN MEXICO 15 YEAR OLD FEMALE OK
In a February interview with KGUN9 News, Hezlitt talked about the case of another school coach fired for inappropriate conduct with a 15 year old girl. Hezlitt was fired too, the Altar Valley School District said, for failing to report the incident right away.
We first met Todd Hezlett when Altar Valley School District fired him as a wrestling coach and bus driver, on the claim he had failed to immediately report inappropriate contact between another coach and a 15 year old girl.
In a February interview with KGUN9 News he said he simply took the weekend to figure out exactly what do and how to do it.
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.