Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced on October 3 in New York after a federal jury found him guilty on two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution. As new civil suits are piling up, Diddy's male escorts are spilling the tea. Brian Kohberger's signed guilty plea is now public. A California man is behind bars after police say he tried to slip back into the country just days after the body of his missing ex-girlfriend was found. A former MTV 16 and Pregnant star is back in jail in Georgia, charged in a man's fentanyl death just weeks after losing her teenage son. An Indiana man is behind bars for murder after police say he hunted down and killed a sex offender who had been released from prison just weeks earlier for molesting his young family member. Drew Nelson reports.
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Crime Alert hourly update Breaking crime these Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
Sean Diddy Combs will be sentenced on October three in
New York after a federal jury found him guilty on
two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution. The
sentencing date is set after both sides reached an agreement
before Tuesday's hearing, Combs's representatives dropped a plan to ask
(00:22):
for an earlier sentencing date. Prosecutors planned to argue for
a sentence of four to five years, the defenses pushing
for a sentence closer to two years, claiming Combs did
not profit from prostitution and that any sex acts were
between consenting adults. Meanwhile, new civil lawsuits continue to surface.
On Monday, a man using the name John Doe sued
(00:42):
Combs for sexual battery and emotional distress. He alleged Comb's
masturbated into a shirt once worn by the late Notorious
Big and threw it on him, saying quote Rip Biggie.
The suit also claims Combs forced him to take drugs
and sexually assaulted him in two thousand and five and
two thousand and seven. Another male escort known during the
trial as Dawn has spoken publicly. Now Don says he
(01:05):
had taken part in sex parties with Combs and his
girlfriends Cassie and Jane, but claimed he did not know
the women were being coerced. On Saturday, a former escort
named Clayton Howard, who testified under the name Dave, filed
a twenty million dollar lawsuit against both Combs and Cassie Ventura.
Howard says he was drugged, manipulated, and forced into sex
(01:25):
acts for nearly a decade. He accused Ventura of giving
him an SDD, coercing him into unprotected sex, and aborting
his child without his knowledge. He also claimed that federal
prosecutors ignored Ventura's role in order to focus on convicting Combs.
Howard said in a video quote, the US Attorney's Office
is well aware that she was a co conspirator. They
(01:47):
only cared about getting ditty. Another exotic dancer, Charay Hayes,
who calls himself the Punisher, gave an interview to Radar
Online describing his own encounters at Freakf's. He said Combs
would watch from behind a head scarf while he had
sex with Ventura. In one instance, Combs reportedly got so
excited that he threw down a stack of cash mid
(02:07):
act in approval of what he was seeing. Since Comb's
acquittal on racketeering charges, the comparisons to the O. J.
Simpson trial have grown. Robert Shapiro, who helped acquit Simpson
in nineteen ninety five, praised Comb's legal team on Fox
News Digital for winning quote a rare federal acquittal. Harvard
Law professor and OJ lawyer Alan Dershowitz agreed, telling Fox
(02:29):
Quote the smart decision was not putting Combs on the
witness stand. He called the judge's denial of bail quote
vindictive and wrong, adding quote he was convicted of transactional
consensual sex with two adults, and Comb's lawyer, Tenny Gerrigos
just so happens to be the daughter of OJ lawyer
Mark Gerrigos. Combs sentencing on October third, comes coincidentally on
(02:50):
the same day O. J. Simpson was acquitted three decades earlier.
For more on the trial of Sean Diddy Comb's follow
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcast app
and join us Nancy at her new time seven pm
Eastern on Merritt Street Media. Check your local listenings, four
Channel Assignment more crime and justice news after this. Brian
(03:15):
coburger signed confession in the stabbing deaths of four University
of Idaho students is now public. Last Wednesday, Coburger submitted
a written statement to the court in Leyta County, Idaho,
confessing to all five felony charges against him that includes
one count of burglary and four counts of first degree murder.
In the signed document, Coburger said he quote did unlawfully
(03:37):
enter the residence located at eleven twelve King Road, Moscow, Idaho,
with the intent to commit the crime of murder. He
also admitted he quote did wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation
and with malice of forethought, kill and murder Madison Mogan,
Kaylee Gunzalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Coburger's attorneys said
(03:57):
he made the statement voluntarily without co version. Sentencing has
not yet been scheduled. Under the plea agreement, he avoids
the death penalty and does not have to give a
detailed confession. A California man is behind bars after police
say he tried to slip back into the country just
days after the body of his missing ex girlfriend was found.
Martin Mendoza, aged twenty, was arrested Sunday at the Calexico
(04:20):
border crossing. Police say he had fled to Mexico soon
after eighteen year old Marissa Danapoli vanished. He is not
cooperating with authorities. Danapoli was last seen alive June twenty ninth.
She had left a home in Morgan Hill that morning
with Mendoza, who was her ex boyfriend. Dianapoli had sent
a text to her family the night before saying she
was staying with a friend. When she didn't return messages
(04:41):
or answer calls, her family reported her missing on June thirtieth.
On Thursday, police found her body near Anderson Reservoir. Investigators
found footage of Mendoza walking away from the home again alone,
this time carrying a large bag. Pelisse say he refused
to answer questions and disappeared soon after. Appoli's family blames
police for letting him go. They are asking for an
(05:03):
outside review of how the case was handled. An Indiana
man is jailed for murder after police say he hunted
down and killed a sex offender who had been released
from prison just weeks earlier for molesting his young family member.
Nicholas Stanley, H thirty five, is accused of shooting Alan
Cogswell June twenty fourth at the Daylight Inn in Elkhart.
Witnesses saw Stanley looking through the window of Cogswell's motel
(05:27):
room holding a gun. Police say he knocked on the door,
opened fire, and then fled. Cogswell was found dead inside
the room with gunshot wounds to his head and chest.
Surveillance footage captured Stanley at the scene. The getaway vehicle
was traced to his father, Pelise Say. Stanley first claimed
he did not know Cogswell had been released. Stanley later
spoke in a jailhouse interview with WBND, I did what
(05:49):
I had to. I took him out. I'm just I'm
tired of pretending like I get something wrong, you know,
I don't feel like I did anything. Long in their
thousands of people out there that agree with Stanley is
being held without bond. A former MTV sixteen and pregnant
star is back in jail, and Georgia charged in a
fentanyl death just weeks after losing her own son, Whitney
(06:11):
Blake Purvis, aged thirty three, is being held without bond
in Floyd County. Police say she gave thirty seven year
old John Mark Harris a street drug mix known as Trenk,
which includes fentanyl and the animal tranquilizer zylazine. He overdosed
inside a home in Rome, Georgia, on February sixteenth. Purvis
is charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and other crimes. Court
(06:34):
records say she did not mean to kill Harris, but
that the drugs that she gave him quote directly contributed
to his death. Just a month earlier, June second, Purvis
lost her son, Weston Owen Gosa Junior, at age sixteen.
After his death, Purvis accused her ex partner, Weston Gosa Senior,
of neglecting the boy's medical needs. She said Weston Junior
(06:54):
had health problems and no insurance. She also said Gosa
blocked her from attending the funerals. Stepmother later told the
media that Purvis hadn't spoken to her son in years
and arrived late to the funeral service. Purvis appeared on
MTVS sixteen and Pregnant in two thousand and nine. Before
her arrest. She commented on John Mark Harris's online obituary quote,
(07:15):
thank you for being such a great friend to me
and always making me feel beautiful and cared for. For
the latest crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly
update on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert.
I'm Drew Nelson
Crime Alert hourly update Breaking crime these Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
Sean Diddy Combs will be sentenced on October three in
New York after a federal jury found him guilty on
two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution. The
sentencing date is set after both sides reached an agreement
before Tuesday's hearing, Combs's representatives dropped a plan to ask
(00:22):
for an earlier sentencing date. Prosecutors planned to argue for
a sentence of four to five years, the defenses pushing
for a sentence closer to two years, claiming Combs did
not profit from prostitution and that any sex acts were
between consenting adults. Meanwhile, new civil lawsuits continue to surface.
On Monday, a man using the name John Doe sued
(00:42):
Combs for sexual battery and emotional distress. He alleged Comb's
masturbated into a shirt once worn by the late Notorious
Big and threw it on him, saying quote Rip Biggie.
The suit also claims Combs forced him to take drugs
and sexually assaulted him in two thousand and five and
two thousand and seven. Another male escort known during the
trial as Dawn has spoken publicly. Now Don says he
(01:05):
had taken part in sex parties with Combs and his
girlfriends Cassie and Jane, but claimed he did not know
the women were being coerced. On Saturday, a former escort
named Clayton Howard, who testified under the name Dave, filed
a twenty million dollar lawsuit against both Combs and Cassie Ventura.
Howard says he was drugged, manipulated, and forced into sex
(01:25):
acts for nearly a decade. He accused Ventura of giving
him an SDD, coercing him into unprotected sex, and aborting
his child without his knowledge. He also claimed that federal
prosecutors ignored Ventura's role in order to focus on convicting Combs.
Howard said in a video quote, the US Attorney's Office
is well aware that she was a co conspirator. They
(01:47):
only cared about getting ditty. Another exotic dancer, Charay Hayes,
who calls himself the Punisher, gave an interview to Radar
Online describing his own encounters at Freakf's. He said Combs
would watch from behind a head scarf while he had
sex with Ventura. In one instance, Combs reportedly got so
excited that he threw down a stack of cash mid
(02:07):
act in approval of what he was seeing. Since Comb's
acquittal on racketeering charges, the comparisons to the O. J.
Simpson trial have grown. Robert Shapiro, who helped acquit Simpson
in nineteen ninety five, praised Comb's legal team on Fox
News Digital for winning quote a rare federal acquittal. Harvard
Law professor and OJ lawyer Alan Dershowitz agreed, telling Fox
(02:29):
Quote the smart decision was not putting Combs on the
witness stand. He called the judge's denial of bail quote
vindictive and wrong, adding quote he was convicted of transactional
consensual sex with two adults, and Comb's lawyer, Tenny Gerrigos
just so happens to be the daughter of OJ lawyer
Mark Gerrigos. Combs sentencing on October third, comes coincidentally on
(02:50):
the same day O. J. Simpson was acquitted three decades earlier.
For more on the trial of Sean Diddy Comb's follow
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcast app
and join us Nancy at her new time seven pm
Eastern on Merritt Street Media. Check your local listenings, four
Channel Assignment more crime and justice news after this. Brian
(03:15):
coburger signed confession in the stabbing deaths of four University
of Idaho students is now public. Last Wednesday, Coburger submitted
a written statement to the court in Leyta County, Idaho,
confessing to all five felony charges against him that includes
one count of burglary and four counts of first degree murder.
In the signed document, Coburger said he quote did unlawfully
(03:37):
enter the residence located at eleven twelve King Road, Moscow, Idaho,
with the intent to commit the crime of murder. He
also admitted he quote did wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation
and with malice of forethought, kill and murder Madison Mogan,
Kaylee Gunzalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Coburger's attorneys said
(03:57):
he made the statement voluntarily without co version. Sentencing has
not yet been scheduled. Under the plea agreement, he avoids
the death penalty and does not have to give a
detailed confession. A California man is behind bars after police
say he tried to slip back into the country just
days after the body of his missing ex girlfriend was found.
Martin Mendoza, aged twenty, was arrested Sunday at the Calexico
(04:20):
border crossing. Police say he had fled to Mexico soon
after eighteen year old Marissa Danapoli vanished. He is not
cooperating with authorities. Danapoli was last seen alive June twenty ninth.
She had left a home in Morgan Hill that morning
with Mendoza, who was her ex boyfriend. Dianapoli had sent
a text to her family the night before saying she
was staying with a friend. When she didn't return messages
(04:41):
or answer calls, her family reported her missing on June thirtieth.
On Thursday, police found her body near Anderson Reservoir. Investigators
found footage of Mendoza walking away from the home again alone,
this time carrying a large bag. Pelisse say he refused
to answer questions and disappeared soon after. Appoli's family blames
police for letting him go. They are asking for an
(05:03):
outside review of how the case was handled. An Indiana
man is jailed for murder after police say he hunted
down and killed a sex offender who had been released
from prison just weeks earlier for molesting his young family member.
Nicholas Stanley, H thirty five, is accused of shooting Alan
Cogswell June twenty fourth at the Daylight Inn in Elkhart.
Witnesses saw Stanley looking through the window of Cogswell's motel
(05:27):
room holding a gun. Police say he knocked on the door,
opened fire, and then fled. Cogswell was found dead inside
the room with gunshot wounds to his head and chest.
Surveillance footage captured Stanley at the scene. The getaway vehicle
was traced to his father, Pelise Say. Stanley first claimed
he did not know Cogswell had been released. Stanley later
spoke in a jailhouse interview with WBND, I did what
(05:49):
I had to. I took him out. I'm just I'm
tired of pretending like I get something wrong, you know,
I don't feel like I did anything. Long in their
thousands of people out there that agree with Stanley is
being held without bond. A former MTV sixteen and pregnant
star is back in jail, and Georgia charged in a
fentanyl death just weeks after losing her own son, Whitney
(06:11):
Blake Purvis, aged thirty three, is being held without bond
in Floyd County. Police say she gave thirty seven year
old John Mark Harris a street drug mix known as Trenk,
which includes fentanyl and the animal tranquilizer zylazine. He overdosed
inside a home in Rome, Georgia, on February sixteenth. Purvis
is charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and other crimes. Court
(06:34):
records say she did not mean to kill Harris, but
that the drugs that she gave him quote directly contributed
to his death. Just a month earlier, June second, Purvis
lost her son, Weston Owen Gosa Junior, at age sixteen.
After his death, Purvis accused her ex partner, Weston Gosa Senior,
of neglecting the boy's medical needs. She said Weston Junior
(06:54):
had health problems and no insurance. She also said Gosa
blocked her from attending the funerals. Stepmother later told the
media that Purvis hadn't spoken to her son in years
and arrived late to the funeral service. Purvis appeared on
MTVS sixteen and Pregnant in two thousand and nine. Before
her arrest. She commented on John Mark Harris's online obituary quote,
(07:15):
thank you for being such a great friend to me
and always making me feel beautiful and cared for. For
the latest crime and justice news, follow Crime Alert hourly
update on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert.
I'm Drew Nelson
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