Biker Killed by Rival Gang Members in California Bar | Crime Alert 6AM 04.30.25

Mongols kill a Vagos gang member in a bar over "disrespect." Ranch dog leads a missing toddler to safety. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime alert.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I mean see grace breaking crime news now March forward.
Just after midnight, two motorcycle gang members violently attack a
rival motorcycle gang member in a bar, shooting him dead.
Clifford Michael Lavoy fifty one aka Buckshot, and Julian Pulito
aka Jewels, approached the victim, demanding he show them a respect.

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They first choked and punched him in the face. When
he tried to run, Polito allegedly pulled a gun and
shot him several times in the back. Pallito leaves California
cops on a nine hour chase across five counties. He's
taken into custody after he crashes his motorcycle into a ditch.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Nancy, the victim is part of the Vegos gang, while
Lavoy and Polito belonged to the Mongols. It's unclear what
exactly spurred the Mongols demand for respect and the subsequent
violent attack. The victim fell through the doors of the
bar and bled out on the sidewalk, and are also
facing racketeering charges for the gang associated violence. Polito was

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not hospitalized for his injuries after crashing during the police chase.
Polito faces life imprisonment, while the most Lavoy can receive
is twenty years.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Jillian Polito charged with murder. Clifford Michael Lavoy charged with
assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Two year old Bowden
Allen vanishes from his home Seligman, Arizona. Mom and dad,
Sarah and Corey Allen, are focused on their one year
old and don't notice Abouten, leaving. Forty search and rescue
members and police officers scour the desert seven miles away

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from home. A rancher's dog, Beauford and Anatolian Pyrenees, finds
a child in a tree and walks a mile back
to the ranch house. Dunton recognizes the child from the
news and emails cops, good dog, Piuford. More crime and
justice news after this, the latest crimeate Justice breaking me

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is crime on Lines.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
John Lenley, a Long Island man, is facing federal charges
for allegedly hiding his role in Rwanda's nineteen ninety four
genocide to gain US citizenship. Sixty five year old Faustine
Insabu Mukunzi was arrested and charged with immigration fraud. Prosecutors
say he led local efforts during the genocide. Encouraging mass

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killings and sexual violence, then lied about it to US authorities.
He was convicted in absentia by Rwandan court and sentenced
to life in prison. Insabumukunzi entered the US as a
refugee in two thousand and three and later applied for citizenship,
denying any involvement in the violence. At his arrest, he

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reportedly told agents quote, I know I'm finished. His lawyer
calls him a peaceful gardener and genocide survivor who plans
to fight the charges. If convey he faces up to
thirty years in prison. A former executive at a Detroit
nonprofit will spend nearly two decades in federal prison for

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stealing millions meant to improve the city's riverfront. Crime Online
correspondent Sidney Sumner has more for us.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
William Smith, the former chief financial officer of the Detroit
Riverfront Conservancy, has been sentenced to nineteen years in federal
prison for embezzling more than forty million dollars from the organization.
Federal investigators say Smith's siphon funds over more than a decade,
using the money for luxury travel, designer goods limousine rides,
and to support side businesses, including real estate and a nightclub.

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The Conservancy, which relies on public and private funding, is
behind the transformation of Detroit's riverfront into public parks and
green space. Prosecutor say Smith's theft significantly delayed parts of
that work. The fifty two year old Smith pleaded guilty
last November to wire fraud and money laundering. At sentencing,
he expressed remorse, telling the court he allowed quote selfishness

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and pride to leading down a destructive path. A judge
also ordered him to repay forty four point three million dollars.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Despite the setback, the Conservancy says it's moving forward with
renewed oversight and remains focused on revitalizing Detroit's riverfront.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thanks John. Police rush to a Greensboro, North Carolina, gas
station after Marissa Carmichael, twenty five, makes a distressed nine
one one call asking for a ride home. The mother
of five speaks to the operator two minutes, saying a
man ask her to pick up some things at the
gas station but drove off while she's inside, He takes

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her phone, leaving her stranded. Marissa doesn't show up for
work the next day, setting off alarms for her family,
who fears she's being held against her will. Marissa light
brown skin, five four, two hundred pounds long, black and
blonde braids, heart tattoo on her face, butterfly tattoo near

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her eye. Last seen wearing a white tweedybird T shirt,
blue jeans, yellow sneakers. Police ask anyone with information regarding
Marissa Carmichael call crime Stoppers three three six three seven
three one thousand. For the latest crime injustice news, go
to crimeonline dot com and please join us for our

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daily podcast, Crime Stories, where we do our best to
find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides. With
this Crime on Earth, I'm Missy Race.