TUCSON - The DPS officer who left his police dog in a hot patrol car will face an animal neglect charge in Tucson.
City Attorney Mike Rankin tells News 4 Tucson Officer Kory Lankow will face the misdemeanor charge, but it has not yet been filed.
Pima County chose not to pursue charges against Lankow for leaving his dog, Jeg, in the hot car for more than an hour.
Jeg later had to be euthanized.
A class one misdemeanor can carry a fine of up to $2,500 and up to 180 days in jail.
On the 911 recording, Deanna Cook pleads to her ex-husband to stop attacking
her.
“Delvecchio, why are you doing this?” she screams during the Friday morning
call, according to police documents. “Red, please stop, I didn’t do anything to
you.”
Two Dallas police officers were sent to her home in the Rylie area of
southeast Dallas. No one answered the door, and they left.
Two days later, her family found Cook, 32, dead in her home. Her ex-husband,
35-year-old Delvecchio Patrick, who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and
been convicted of prior family violence attacks on her, finally succeeded in
taking her life, authorities say. He is being held at Lew Sterrett Justice
Center in lieu of $500,000 bail.
Friends and family of Cook, who said she went by “De-de,” criticized police
for not doing more to try to help her on Friday.
“That’s negligence,” said friend Lakesha Davis, 37. “They kick in your door
for everything else … It needs to be investigated.”
Dallas Police Chief David Brown did not respond to a request for comment, but
the department issued a statement Monday evening stating that it is conducting a
“comprehensive review” of how communications personnel and patrol officers
handled the call.
A body that was recovered off the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., this
weekend has been identified as missing diver Rebecca Weiss.
Recreational divers Saturday found the body of 50 year old Weiss just 200
yards off her favorite beach.
An autopsy is expected to be conducted today.
Weiss, 50, was free diving in a cove near Rancho Palos Verdes on Aug. 11, her
husband, Alan Weiss, told
police. The experienced diver had gone alone, he said.
After divers, life guards and a Coast Guard helicopter spent four days
searching for Weiss but failed to find a body, homicide detectives turned their
attention to her husband.
When Rebecca Weiss did not return, Alan Weiss, 60, told detectives he went to
search for her in areas where the two would frequently dive.
He told authorities that he found his wife's car in a parking lot and her
dive bag on the shore where she presumably entered the water.
Rebecca's mother, Vilma
Causey, told ABC News that her daughter is an experienced diver who was
swimming in calm waters near a popular beach.
"I was there yesterday because I wanted to see where this happened, and it's
in a cove, it's nice water. There's no strong waves or anything like that. It is
a very, very busy place, a big hotel and restaurant. It's for tourists and
everybody. There are a lot of people. If she was there, somebody would see her,"
Causey said.
Causey declined to speculate about whether something suspicious happened to
her daughter, saying that she would wait for the investigation to be completed.
She said that Rebecca and Alan have been together for 25 years, married for more
than 18, and that they seemed to be happy.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mark David Chapman, who shot and killed former Beatle
John Lennon 32 years ago, will
have his seventh parole hearing this week, New York state's Department of Corrections said on Saturday.
A decision on whether to release him will likely be made public by the end of
the week, said department spokeswoman Linda Foglia.
Chapman's interviews with the parole board will take place at Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison
in Alden, New York, where he is
being held, she said.
Chapman, 57, is serving a prison sentence of 20 years to life for shooting
Lennon four times in the back outside the musician's New York City apartment
building on December 8, 1980. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A missile launched from a U.S. drone struck a suspected
militant hideout in a tribal region in northern Pakistan where allies of a powerful warlord were
gathered Saturday, killing five of his supporters, Pakistani officials said.
The strike in North
Waziristan against allies of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a militant commander whose forces
frequently target U.S. and other NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan, comes amid speculation
over whether Pakistan will launch an operation against militants in the tribal
region.
The U.S. has pushed Pakistan repeatedly to take such a step and earlier this
week U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told The Associated Press that
Pakistan was preparing an operation targeting the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan.
Pakistan has been reluctant to undertake an offensive there, saying its
military is already overtaxed by fighting in other tribal areas and parts of
Pakistan. But many in the U.S. believe Pakistan does not want to upset the many
militant groups there such as the Haqqani network that could be useful allies in
Afghanistan after foreign forces leave.
They should paint "lone wolf" on those Drones.
On Thursday, the top U.S. commander in the region, Gen. James Mattis, met
with Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
During the meeting the Pakistani general repeated his government's stance
that it would undertake an operation in North Waziristan only if it coincides
with Pakistan's interests and not in response to outside pressure, according to
a military press release.
Pakistan's foreign ministry condemned the latest drone attack.
"Pakistan has consistently maintained that these attacks are a violation of
its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and are in contravention of
international law," the ministry said in a statement.
Drone attacks are very unpopular in Pakistan, where they are seen as a
violation of the country's sovereignty and responsible for the deaths of
innocent civilians. The U.S. maintains the targeted strikes are directed against
militants and necessary to combat groups like al-Qaida.
