Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 03.07.23

Episode Date: March 7, 2023

Body builder fights off attacker at her apartment's gym. Biker gang tensions lead to murder.  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. Nishali Alma working in her Florida apartment complex gym. She recognized the man from the complex standing outside the door, opens it for him, but Xavier Thomas Jones isn't there to work out. Thomas Jones tries to grab Alma, chasing her around the gym, pins her to the floor. Alma, a bodybuilder, fights back, punching Thomas Jones until she can get away and call cops. Crime Online's John Limley. Nancy, Alma recognized Thomas Jones from around the apartment complex and let him in, assuming he had just left his key behind.

She says she didn't have any fear during the attack, and her fight or flight response kicked in, choosing fight. Thomas Jones got away that day, but the day after the attack, Thomas Jones entered a woman's apartment and attempted to attack her before the woman's partner fought him off. Thomas Jones, 25, now charged with sexual battery, false imprisonment, burglary, and kidnap. Jesse Metzger meets up with friends for dinner and tells them he thinks he's being followed. The friends part ways, but minutes later, Metzger calls to tell them he's been shot. The friends find him lying in a parking lot.

Texas cops review surveillance video ID Aaron Grant, a former cop and biker himself, as the shooter. Houston police officers initially thought the shooting was part of a road rage incident, but now believe the violence may have been over tensions between two local motorcycle clubs. Grant has tattoos indicating he may associate with the Beast and is barred from any contact with any members of either club as part of his bond conditions. Grant, 36, now charged with murder. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley.

A 19-year-old Florida man is now facing three first-degree murder charges related to a shooting last month that killed a TV news reporter, a 9-year-old girl, and a 38-year-old woman. Orange County Sheriff's officials have released an arrest warrant that includes two new murder charges against Keith Melvin Moses in the attack in an Orlando neighborhood on February 22. Investigators say Moses fatally shot Natasha Augustine seconds after the car she was riding in stopped to offer him a ride. A witness in the car described Moses as acting strangely and sweating before the shooting. Moses ran after the shooting and hours later returned to the scene while TV crews were working on a story about the shooting. According to investigators, Moses first went to a nearby house where he shot Tiana Major,

a young gymnast, and her mother. Tiana died at a hospital a short time after the shooting. After leaving the Major's house, the suspect walked to the vehicle belonging to the Spectrum News 13 crew, where he fatally shot reporter Dylan Lyons and critically wounded video journalist Jesse Walden. Deputies responded to the scene after getting 911 calls from both locations. British police are urgently searching for a two-month-old baby after officers arrested the infant's mother and her boyfriend,

who had been missing since January. 35-year-old Constance Martin and her boyfriend, 48-year-old Mark Gordon, a convicted sex offender, had been on the run since the baby was born in early January. They have been spotted around the country and police said they sought to avoid being detected by paying for everything in cash and covering their faces when on CCTV. Martin and Gordon were arrested February 28 on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. They were initially arrested on suspicion of child neglect when they were detained February 27th in Brighton, southern England, after a tip-off from a member of the public.

The baby was not found with them and Detective Superintendent Louis Basford said police had to, quote, consider the possibility that the baby has come to harm. Asford said police had to, quote, Hong Kong police began searching a landfill February 27th for evidence related to the grisly killing of model Abby Choi, whose dismembered body parts were found in a refrigerator and pots. Ex-husband Alex Kwong, his father Kwong Kau, and his brother Anthony Kwong Kau, and his brother, Anthony Kwong, were charged with murder after police found her remains in a house rented by Kwong Kau in a suburban part of Hong Kong near the border with mainland China. Alex Kwong's mother, Jenny Lee, faces one count of perverting the course of justice. All four were detained without bail.

They have not yet entered their pleas, and it does not appear that their lawyers have commented on the case to the media. The hearing was adjourned until May. On February 28, more than 100 officers wearing protective gear went to Northeast New Territories landfill in Ta Kualing, about a 15-minute drive from mainland China, to search for the missing body parts with excavators and shovels. Police had said earlier they were still looking for her hands and torso. A leader of a Los Angeles-based fraud ring that stole $18 million in COVID-19 aid money has been extradited from Europe to the United States, where she could face more than a decade in prison. Police in Montenegro say 41-year-old

Tamara Dadian was turned over to the U.S. Marshal Service at an airport in Podgorica, the capital of that Balkan nation. She had pleaded guilty to three felonies and vanished after her 2021 sentencing but before she was to report to prison. Dadian, her sister, brother-in-law, and five others fraudulently applied for about 150 relief loans intended to help businesses and employees struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. They applied using fake identities on names belonging to dead or elderly people and foreign exchange students and backed up the applications with phony tax and payroll documents. Catalytic converter thieves choose a conspicuous target, one of six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles in town for the Super Bowl.

The Wienermobile hit while parked outside a Vegas motel. The parts needed to permanently fix the legendary Wienermobile had to be ordered and will take months to come in, but a temporary replacement gets the 27-foot-long Wienermobile running. No word on the thieves so far. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.