Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial: Juror dismissed over 'concerns about his candor' | Crime Alert 6AM 06.17.25

Inside a federal courtroom in Manhattan Monday, prosecutors presented jurors with portions of three sexually explicit videos said to feature Sean Combs in what witnesses have described as “freak-off” sex marathons. The clips, played only for jurors and courtroom parties wearing headphones, came from a cellphone linked to Combs and turned over by his former girlfriend, Casandra Ventura.

Two teenage brothers have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for their roles in a drive-by shooting that killed a 5-year-old girl in Albuquerque.  The shooting, part of a surge in violence in 2023, led New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to declare a public health emergency, temporarily restricting guns in public parks and playgrounds.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert, Imancy, Grace Breaking, crime News. Now over a
dozen celebrities names are dropped in the Shawn Combs multi
count federal indictment trial, but the only ones to take
the stand so far, Cassie Ventira, Dawn Rashard, and Kid
Cuddy none support the star Rapper. As the defense now
takes center stage, will the biggest star of all, Shawn

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Combs aka Diddy himself take the stand? Standing by our
Sydney Sumner with the latest sid.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Inside a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Monday, prosecutors presented
jurors with portions of three sexually explicit videos said to
feature Shawn Combs and what witnesses have described as freak
off sex marathons. The clips, played only for jurors and
courtroom parties wearing headphones, came from a cell phone linked
to Combs and turned over by his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.

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One video, dated October fourteenth, twenty twelve, was recorded the
same day Combs allegedly hosted a session with Cassie and
sex worker Charay Hayes, nicknamed The Punisher, at the Trump
International Hotel near Columbus Circle. Prosecutors also entered a hotel
invoice and texts arranging the encounter into evidence. Two additional

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videos from twenty twelve and twenty fourteen were shown. Reactions
from the jury were mostly subdued, though at least one
juror winced Comb's attorneys maintained the footage shows only consensual sex.
Earlier in the day, Judge Arun Subermanian dismissed adjuror over
credibility concerns tied to inconsistent residency claims. The government is

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expected to rest its case Wednesday, after six weeks of testimony.
Defense attorneys say their witnesses will follow.

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Speaker 4 (02:01):
Two teenage brothers have been sentenced to twenty years in
prison for their roles in a drive by shooting that
killed a five year old girl in Albuquerque. The shooting
part of a surgeon violence in twenty twenty three led
New Mexico Governor Michelle Luhan Grisham to declare a public
health emergency, temporarily restricting guns in public parks and playgrounds.

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Authorities say Galilea So Diego was sleeping in a mobile
home when the teens driving stolen vehicles open fire, targeting
another teenager inside. The shots struck Galilea in the head.
She died at a hospital. The brothers, ages fifteen and
nineteen at the time, were among five defendants who reached
FLEA agreements. Prosecutors in Bernalillo County say another suspect received

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sixteen years, while two others received lesser sentences. Despite the
crackdown on crime, Albuquerque continues to see deadly violence involving juveniles,
leaving communities on edge. In Cleveland, an Ohio attorney accused
in a decade old murder case as now facing new charges.
Fifty one year old Gregory J. Moore pleaded not guilty

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to aggravated murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy in the twenty thirteen
stabbing death of Eliza Sherman, a fifty three year old
nurse and mother of four. Sherman was found stabbed more
than ten times outside the downtown office where she was
supposed to meet More to discuss her divorce just one
day before trial. Prosecutor say More staged the attack to

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delay that trial, luring Sherman to the locked office than
misleading investigators afterward. Moore, already convicted in twenty seventeen for
lying to police and making bomb threats to delay other
court cases, was arrested in May in Texas and extradited
to Ohio. His bond two million dollars. Sherman's killing sparked

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years of public outcry and remembrance events. New Hampshire has
agreed to a ten million dollars settlement with Michael Gilpatrick,
who says he was raped and abused at a state
run youth detention center in the nineteen nineties. Gilpatrick's lawsuit
was set for trial, but was settled instead. His payout
is four times the state's usual compensation for victims, but

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far less than a thirty eight million dollar jury award
in a similar case last year, a verdict the state
is fighting to reduce. Gilpatrick, now forty one, was fourteen
when he was sent to the Youth Development Center in Manchester.
His allegations led to criminal charges against four former staffers.
Two have faced trial. One was sentenced up to forty

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years in prison, while another's case ended in a mistrial.
The facility now named for former Governor John H. Senunu
is set to close, with a smaller replacement planned. Since
twenty nineteen, eleven former staffers have been arrested in connection
with abuse claims, two have been convicted, and more trials
are pending.

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