US Crime and Arrests

Maine State Police have arrested a man in connection to the death of his girlfriend in the town of Clifton. Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland says police charged 37-year-old Dwight Osgood Jr. with murder Tuesday in the death of 35-year-old Kary Dill. Dill was found shot to death in the couple's home on Airline Road Monday morning.

Syracuse police have arrested two teenagers in connection with the Dec. 19 killing of Asim Musa, a Sudanese immigrant, who was shot and killed while working behind the counter at Eddie’s Eagle Market on Oakwood Avenue. Troy Derby and Stanley Sawyer, both 18, of Syracuse, were charged with murder on Monday, police said.

A man who previously worked as a Walmart Santa Claus has been arrested after police found bodies of his son and daughter buried in his backyard. Last Thursday, Georgia's Effingham County Sheriff’s deputies searched Elwyn Crocker’s home after receiving a tip that his 14-year-old daughter Mary Crocker was missing.

Detectives interviewed witnesses and processed the home in the Douglas Acres neighborhood for evidence. Crime scene technicians remained at the scene hours later, taking photographs near the front yard that was roped off by cautionary, yellow police tape. Officers guarded the area, blue and red lights from their vehicles flashing off falling snow and nearby homes.

her face and chest stabbed repeatedly — at 4 a.m. on Dec. 20, 1979, in her family’s tan 1972 Buick in Cedar Rapids’ Westdale Mall parking lot. The Kennedy High School senior drove to the mall after a school choir banquet to shop for a new winter coat. Wounds on the teen’s hands showed she fought her killer, but the medical examiner’s office said Martinko was found fully clothed and had not been sexually molested. An examination showed she was stabbed at least eight times.

Johnny Rodriguez, 47, of Hyde Park was arrested on Saturday, Dec. 15, and charged by Lloyd police with misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. He was issued tickets to appear in Lloyd Town Court.

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