WNBA superstar Brittney Griner has been arrested and detained in Russia on drug charges.
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A man has been arrested for allegedly killing a young woman with autism, weeks after her body was found along the American River in California.
According to a statement from the Rancho Cordova Police Police Department, Mikilo Morgan Rawls was cuffed and booked into Sacramento County Main Jail in connection with the “brutal” sexual assault and homicide of 20-year-old Emma Roark (pictured above).
The 37-year-old suspect, who was described by police as a transient from the Sacramento County area, was charged with murder, rape, and sodomy, and is being held without bail. He’s expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
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Chief Deputy Jim Barnes of Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, which made the arrest, said during a press conference on Friday:
Roark was reported missing on January 27. Four days later, police discovered her partially nude body hanging from a tree in a secluded area at the American river access point, which NBC News reported was a homeless encampment.
Police said Roark was kidnapped before her death, noting that she was found about a half-mile from her family’s home northwest of downtown Sacramento, near a place where she frequently walked along the river. Rawls allegedly sold her cell phone to a man following the murder.
Barnes said investigators connected Rawls to the crime through DNA, which police already had in a statewide database. The suspect had a criminal record dating back from 2005 for burglary, resisting arrest, and being a felon in possession of ammunition, according to the Sacramento Bee.
The chief noted during the presser:
Barnes went on to note that the department is “sympathetic” to the rest of the transient
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cryptocurrency, which was allegedly stolen after a hacker broke into the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in August 2016 and initiated over 2,000 unauthorised transactions.Those transactions were valued at $71million (£52.3m) in bitcoin at the time of the alleged theft, but are now valued at over $4.5billion (£3.3billion). US Department of Justice officials said in a statement that they have since seized over $3.6billion in cryptocurrency (94,000 bitcoin) linked to that hack.The department’s legal complaint alleges that Lichtenstein and Morgan “employed numerous sophisticated laundering techniques” for the bitcoin, and the couple now face charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering – which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison – and conspiracy to defraud the US, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.As The Guardian reports, Anirudh Bansal, a defence attorney for the couple, described the charges as “thin” and added: “I don’t think you’ll find that billions of dollars have been laundered.”Morgan’s past as a rapper under the moniker Razzlekhan has subsequently come to light in the days following the couple’s arrest.My fucking theme song!#endometriosis #endoawarenesshttps://t.co/mktaNJ0Oco— Heather R Morgan (rzk.eth) (@HeatherReyhan) February 6, 2022On her website, Razzlekhan is described as “like Genghis Khan, but with more pizzazz” and “the infamous Crocodile of Wall Street”.“Because Razz has synaesthesia, her art often resembles something in between an acid trip and a delightful nightmare,” a description on Razzlekhan’s website reads.
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