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Advocates in Virginia filed a lawsuit Wednesday against four federal immigration agents over a practice known as “ collateral arrests ” that have helped boost the number of undocumented immigrants apprehended under President Trump’s administration. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, claims that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated the constitutional rights of two men who are accused of being in the country illegally, but have been otherwise law-abiding, by detaining them without reasonable suspicion. The ICE agents encountered Mynor Abdiel Tun -Cus and Jose Pajarito Saput in the parking lot of the Fairmont Gardens apartments as they were on their way to work and asked about another man who hadn't lived at the complex for about five years, according to the lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Justice Center in Northern Virginia, which seeks unspecified damages . Unable to find their intended target, the ICE agents then took Tun-Cus and...

Published: Thursday, August 24, 2017 @ 8:12 PM Updated: Thursday, August 24, 2017 @ 9:56 PM By: Breaking News Staff UPDATE @ 9:25 p.m.:   Police are still looking for two women suspected of stealing clothes from Justice, a clothing store in Huber Heights, speeding away and then running from a collision on I-75 South at Benchwood Drive in Butler Twp.  MORE LOCAL NEWS: Crash involving car , semi shuts down I-70 West Police apprehended a third woman who ran from the crash and released two other women who were left behind in the wreckage, Huber Heights police Sgt . Brandon Sucher said.  Police were called to Justice, in the Northpark Center, 8275 Old Troy Pike (state Route 202), just after 7 p.m. on a report of a theft in progress.  Witnesses told police that two of a group of five women in the store ran out carrying armloads of clothing and their getaway car hit a vehicle as it left the parking lot. One of the witnesses followed the getaway car, a Volkswagen sedan, and saw the collisio...

In 2013, Randy Dillard was living with his four sons and a daughter in an apartment at 198th Street and Bainbridge in the Bronx. The windows were broken; mold and mildew streaked the walls. In the winter, Dillard’s family had to boil water on the stove to bathe; there was no heat or hot water. When the New York City Housing Authority conducted an inspection of the apartment on behalf of Section 8, the federal rent assistance program that financed Dillard ’s rental, the unit failed the test, and Section 8 stopped paying Dillard ’s landlord, demanding that he make repairs. That winter, Dillard was hospitalized for two months with a bout of emphysema; when he came out, he was served with eviction papers for nonpayment of rent. advertisement “I stood in the middle of my hallway looking around my apartment thinking: What am I going to do with my stuff?” Dillard tells Fast Company . “I told myself: I’m going to end up homeless. I’m going to wind up in a shelter.” Dillard got word of a Bron...

A judge ruled Thursday that web hosting company DreamHost must turn over data from an Inauguration Day protest website to federal prosecutors looking to find evidence against people charged with rioting during the event. D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin said there would be safeguards in place to address First Amendment concerns raised by the company, which said it was “problematic” to turn over such sensitive information. As a result of the ruling, investigators will be able to review emails related to the website DisruptJ20 .org and identify those who sent and received communications through the domain. But the judge, who ruled from the bench, ordered the government to abide by strict rules to minimize the collection of information about individuals who communicated through the website but committed no crime. “I am going to be supervising their search,” Judge Morin told the lawyers. The Justice Department said it’s no longer looking for casual visitors to the websit...

The former manager of a senior living center in Missoula was formally charged with financial elder abuse and theft on Friday. Ron Nelson, 51, allegedly used his position at River Ridge Apartments to gain residents' sympathy and trust while extorting nearly $50,000, according to charging documents. Nelson worked as the manager of River Ridge Apartments for about 18 months, from November 2004 until he was fired in April 2006, when authorities in Missoula began unraveling an intricate scheme to embezzle money from the independent living center and more than 20 individual tenants, according to records. During his appearance Friday in Missoula County Justice Court , Nelson was charged with four counts of felony elder abuse , one count of felony theft, five counts of misdemeanor elder abuse and two counts of misdemeanor theft. Nelson, who lives in Hamilton, could face a punishment of up to 50 years in the Montana State Prison and more than $250,000 in fines. Justice of the Peace J...

Shares 273 By Maggie Lee Up on Peachtree Road on a sticky July morning , the sign at the Darlington Apartments already read 87 degrees a little after 10:30. James Curtis was on the sidewalk about a block up, alongside northbound traffic , eyeballing a work crew off the side of the road up ahead. He pointed to a broken-up patch of sidewalk at his feet that had filled with sandy dirt. That could stop an electric wheelchair, said Curtis. lacks good sidewalks . Credit: Maggie Lee" /> James Curtis says he wants to know why Peachtree Road, Atlanta’s main artery and one he uses often, lacks good sidewalks . Credit: Maggie Lee On just a few blocks to the north of the Shepherd Center where he volunteers in several departments, Curtis pointed out a half-dozen other obstacles that make it hard or dangerous to get by for folks who use mobility aids. There are cracks that could catch a wheelchair’s small front wheel , tip it over, throw out its user. There’s broken pavement and commercial...

CINCINNATI -- Police say a pair of 20-year- olds set fires in an under- construction luxury apartment building overnight . Duncan Ray and Ryan Barnes got into the high-rise building between Eighth and Sycamore through a parking garage before setting fires in a bathroom and common area on two different floors, according to police. Both men appeared in court Wednesday morning , each charged with arson for one fire, though police said they're suspected of setting several others. The pair started setting fires on Court Street Downtown , according to police. They were targeting things like port-a-potties. Security cameras recorded them setting a fire in an alley outside the library. Katy Crossen with the Al Neyer Co. said the company is still hoping to keep construction of the luxury apartment building on schedule. "This does present an unexpected challenge," Crossen said. "We had hoped to deliver it early, and this presents another challenge we're going to work t...

All charges against Terrell Walton, one of two men accused of committing a double homicide in Aberdeen in June 2016, have been dropped, but police and prosecutors say they have not ended their pursuit of justice for the victims and their loved ones. "We're still working it as an open and active investigation," Lt. Will Reiber, a spokesperson for the Aberdeen Police Department , said Wednesday. Twenty-three charges filed against Walton, 31, of Aberdeen, were dropped Aug. 15, according to online court records . He had not been to trial. He was charged with the shooting deaths of Jumal Rodale Dudley , 43, of Havre de Grace , and Taneisha Chenay Smothers , 31, of Aberdeen. Prosecutors were concerned they could not secure a conviction for murder against Walton after his co-defendant — who faced the same charges based on the same evidence — was only convicted of second-degree assault in a trial earlier this year. "By dismissing it prior to trial, we keep it an open case a...

A known Oklahoma gang member is accused of killing a man at a birthday pool party in June. On Monday, Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn filed a second- degree murder charge against known gang affiliate , 21-year-old De Abray Amonda Reese , of Oklahoma City. According to an Oklahoma City police affidavit , at about 9:20 p.m. June 13 officers responded to a report of multiple gunshots at the Brookwood Village Apartments , 9401 S. Shartel Ave. near the office swimming pool . Once on scene, officers found Steven Morgan Jr . lying inside the swimming pool area . Morgan was transported to OU Medical Center where he later succumbed to his injuries on June 15, two days after the shooting. Detectives interviewed witnesses that said Reese, who witnesses referred to as “Osama King,” was at the party, and was seen shooting a gun. According to National Crime Information Center (NCIC) records, Reese is a known Rolling Nineties Crip gang member . He also told l...

Aug 16, 2017 The first time Captain Noorullah Aminyar traveled to the United States, in 2012, he felt calm and peaceful in a way he never had before. Back home in Afghanistan, he had slept fully clothed , boots on, hand on his rifle. The Taliban attacked every night, and he had to be ready. "But when I come to America," he told me, "I have no stress in America. I sleep good. I tell you, I have no stress. It was really easy. It was a good thing. You feel safe. I was born in the war. I grew up in the war. Always, your life is in danger. You find a little safe time, for sure you'll be happy." Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Advertisement - Continue Reading Below For Aminyar, then twenty-eight, coming to America was an honor and an achievement. He attended the prestigious Defense Language Institute in San Antonio, the culmination of more than a decade of studying English, followed by a basic infantry officer 's course at Fort Benning, Georgia, with Ame...