Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 01.18.24

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

Man breaks into Colorado Supreme Court, sets fires. Hot dog man refuses to pack up shop.  For more crime and justice news go to crimeonline.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Brandon Olson rear-ends the car in downtown Denver. When the other driver gets out to check, Olson brandishes a gun and takes off. He runs to the Colorado Supreme Court building, shooting out a window, then holds an unarmed security guard at gunpoint. He takes the guard's keys, heads to the seventh floor, and starts several fires. He then calls 911 and surrenders. Nancy, authorities initially believed Olsen's motive may have had to do with the state's ruling that Donald Trump wasn't eligible for the upcoming presidential election, but Olsen's ex-wife says he is not a

political man and was instead angered that she would not allow him to see their child. She describes Olson as having issues with mental health and drug addiction. Olson, 44 and old enough to know better, now charged with robbery, burglary, and arson. Where's the ag assault charge? Florida cops tell Jason Stoll it's time to take his hot dog stand and go home. His food cart permit has expired. Stoll says he will, but an hour later, cops find him still selling hot dogs. When they confront him, the 47-year-old starts pelting them with hot dogs. Police quickly pack up his stand for him and charge him with battery and resisting a cop. Frankly, he should have known better.

More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. After being accused by police of aiding her mother in the killing of a pregnant teen whose unborn child was removed from her womb, a 29-year-old Chicago woman has now entered a

guilty plea to first-degree murder. For details, we turn to Sydney Sumner with Crime Online. Desiree Figueroa entered a plea in the Leighton Criminal Court building in southwest Chicago. According to our friends with the Chicago Tribune, the deal requires her to testify against her mother, Clarissa Figueroa, whose first-degree murder trial is set to begin later this month. Desiree Figueroa will serve 30 years in prison as part of the plea agreement. It was on April 23, 2019, that prosecutors say that Clarissa Figueroa used a cable to strangle 19-year-old Marlon Ochoa Lopez. The victim, who was nine months pregnant, had been enticed to the Figueroa's home with the promise of free clothing for her unborn child.

Clarissa Figueroa then contacted 911 to report that she had given birth and the infant was not breathing. According to investigators, Clarissa Figueroa informed her family that she was pregnant shortly after her adult son passed away from natural causes. They claim she spent months planning to become a mother and that she shared images of a baby-themed room and an ultrasound on her Facebook page. She made contact with Ochoa Lopez on a pregnant women's Facebook group in March 2019. Ochoa Lopez had visited the Figueroa's residence as detectives looking into her disappearance discovered. Two weeks after she vanished, authorities discovered her vehicle

nearby and were informed by Desiree Figueroa that Clarissa Figueroa had recently given birth. DNA testing later proved that the child was not Clarissa Figueroa's. A man suspected of attacking the convicted killer of California college student Kristen Smart in prison has now entered a not guilty plea to an attempted murder charge. According to our friends at KSBY-TV, 43-year-old Jason Boudreau pleaded guilty to four felonies in Fresno County Superior Court, including using a lethal weapon created in prison and assault by a prisoner serving a life sentence. The prosecution says that Boudreau allegedly stabbed Paul Flores in the neck on August 23 in the Pleasant Valley State Prison Yard in the central California city of Coalinga.

Overseas now, as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that he's been placed in a small punishment cell at the Arctic Penal Colony, where he is serving a 19-year sentence due to a minor infraction. Once again, Crime Online's Sydney Somner. This latest move is an effort to increase pressure on President Vladimir Putin's most formidable political opponent. In a social media post from behind bars, Navalny said that he was given a seven-day sentence in a punishment cell by jail officials who accused him of not presenting himself, quote, in line with protocol. 47-year-old Navalny has been imprisoned for extremism. He had been detained in the Vladimir region of central Russia, some 140

miles east of Moscow. However, last month he was sent to a penal colony above the Arctic Circle known as the Special Regime, a facility which has the greatest level of security among Russian jails. Opponents of his transfer condemned it as another attempt to quiet Navalny. The colony is located in the town of Karp in the Yamalo-Nanets area, some 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow. Winters in this isolated area are known to be harsh and long. After recovering in Germany from nerve agent poisoning, which he attributed to the Kremlin, Navalny returned to Moscow and has been detained since January of 2021. Navalny waged a campaign against government corruption and spearheaded significant anti-Kremlin demonstrations prior to his incarceration.

Thanks, John. Chelsea Woods calls 911, afraid of her boyfriend who attacked her and her son in the past. During the call, Chelsea becomes incoherent and runs from her Arkansas home. When police arrive, they find Chelsea down the street. She only wants to speak with a specific officer who helped her before. When she learns the officer's on another call, she runs into the woods. Officers try to convince Chelsea to return home over an hour. Eventually, they stand down when she refuses.

Three days later, Chelsea's aunt calls for a welfare check. Cops find the doors to her home wide open, her purse at a nearby property. Cops find no other clues to Chelsea's location. Chelsea Woods is now missing nearly 18 months. If you have info on Chelsea Woods, call Van Buren Sheriff's 501-745-2112. For the latest crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com. For This Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.