| Wapello inmate charged with murder, abuse
A Wapello County inmate plotted to have his girlfriend, bail bondsman and a county deputy killed in an attempt to escape custody and flee the country, according to charges filed by the Ottumwa Police Department.
Marcelino Madueno-Moreno, 23, was charged with three counts of solicitation to commit murder and one count of domestic abuse today, less than a month after he was jailed when he failed to pay a bail bondsman for a previous, unrelated charge.
Ottumwa Police Chief Jim Clark said Madueno is an alien with permanent resident status, but that he will ask federal authorities to place a retainer on Madueno and deport him after he is through the state court system.
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Judge sides with Houston in challenge to red light cameras
HOUSTON -- A Harris County judge has ruled that Houston's red light cameras are legal and constitutional. State District Judge Sharolyn Wood's ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed by a red light camera critic who sued the city after intentionally running a red light. Bail bondsman Michael Kubosh ran a red light last year, then sued the city after he was caught on camera and fined. He and his brother, lawyer Paul Kubosh, argued that Houston's fines conflicted with state law. But Wood ruled the city has the statutory authority to operate the red light cameras. In a letter to both sides, Wood agreed with the Kuboshes' complaint that the city has failed to present "properly authenticated evidence" in hearings over the tickets. City Attorney Arturo Michel says the city will revise the hearing process to address any problems.
Posted Nov. 1, 2007 – Popular bail bondsman turned reality TV star Duane “Dog” Chapman is doing damage control after ...
Chapman, whose show “Dog the Bounty Hunter" is a popular A&E cable series, reportedly used the “N"-word several times and berated his son's girlfriend, who is Black, in a private conversation. The National Enquirer magazine Web site posted some of the eight-minute-long talk, during which Chapman threatens to fire his son from their bail bondsman business, unless he breaks up with Monique Shinnery. Chapman admits to using the “N"-word during his bounty hunting work and warns his son that Shinnery may reveal this publicly. “I'm not gonna take a chance, ever in life, of losing everything I've worked for, for 30 years, 'cause some f**king ni**er heard us say ‘ni**er' and turned us in to Enquirer magazine. Our career is over," he is recorded saying.
Bondsman disputes claims he disrupted a girls' pizza party
Witneses say a bail bondsman pushed little girls to the ground and grazed one of them with a tazer at a pizza parlor in Spokane Valley. The incident happened Saturday afternoon at Savage Land Pizza at 700 S. Dishman Rd. Employees tell KREM 2 several young girls and their families were enjoying a birthday party when a bail bondsman came inside the play area to arrest one of the girl's grandfathers. According to witnesses, the bondsman twice fired a tazer. One of the tazer shots barely missed one of the little girls and then grazed another. Witnesses say the bondsman then dropped a loaded clip of ammunition on the floor, before finally chasing the man out the door. KREM 2 contacted that bail bondsman on Sunday. Thomas Dixon says none of that actually happened, and that his actions are being blown out of proportion.
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Police charge inmate in attempt to escape
Ottumwa police have charged a Wapello County inmate with solicitation to murder his girlfriend, a bail bondsman and a county deputy in an attempt to escape custody and flee the country.
Ottumwa Police Chief Jim Clark said Marcelino Madueno-Moreno, 23, is an immigrant with permanent resident status, but he will ask federal authorities to place a retainer on Madueno-Moreno and deport him after he is through the state court system. AMES
Carver Trust gives cash for new ISU building
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, based in Muscatine, has committed $4.5 million toward construction of Iowa State University's new chemistry building.
The $74.5 million project is being planned as a three-story, 135,000-square-foot facility.
Mugging suspect describes events
The charges against three Loyola students were reduced from attempted armed robbery to aggravated assault last week.
"The judge understands that it was a prank. That's why he dropped the bonds so low," said management freshman Mohamed Diakite, referring to the recent decrease of the three students' bail bonds from $35,000 to $7,000, then to $4,000.
Diakite, who was arrested for demanding money from pedestrians at gunpoint with a fake gun, said that he didn't expect the consequences of their actions to be so high. He didn't even expect the victims to call the police because he was confident that each person understood it was only a joke.
"We stopped as soon as we saw fear in their eyes ... it seemed like we left the victims on good terms," he said.
Bail bondsmen acquitted in kidnapping trial
A Mobile trial of a bail bondsman and his employee charged with kidnapping ended in an acquittal late Tuesday afternoon for both defendants. Former Mobile County sheriff's candidate Clint Ulmer, 43, and an assistant, 25-year-old Bobby Crook, went on trial Monday before Circuit Judge Rick Stout, accused of kidnapping a woman from the downtown McDonald's fast-food restaurant on Government Street in January 2006. However, even before jurors began deliberating late Tuesday afternoon, Stout told them that since the trial began, he found no elements in the case justifying a charge of second-degree kidnapping. Instead, Stout said, the jury would have to decide whether Ulmer and Crook committed a lesser offense -- unlawful imprisonment in the second degree.
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