Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 03.09.23

Episode Date: March 9, 2023

Mother lures her child's father to a hired gunman. Early release violates his parole within three days of freedom.  For more crime and justice news, go to crimeonline.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Erica Tate gives her child's father a ride to her Tennessee apartment to pick up his car. He asks to use the restroom, so Tate hands over the key. When dad walks inside, a man armed with an AK-47 threatens to shoot. Dad runs to his car, drives away while shots are fired. The gunman then hops in the car with Tate, and the two drive off together. Crime Online's John Limley. Nancy, Tate apparently hired the gunman to wait inside her apartment and kill her child's father when he entered.

The victim's Cadillac was shot multiple times, causing about $9,000 in damage, but the victim was not injured. Tate admitted to helping the gunman flee the scene before they arrived. Tate now charged with facilitation of first-degree murder, gun charges, aggravated kidnapping, and vandalism. Randall Wadsworth released from prison early due to Alabama's new laws aimed at reducing prison overcrowding. When Wadsworth shows up to his first parole meeting just three days later, he's visibly under the influence of drugs and carrying opioids. Wadsworth was arrested on the spot, but Pell City Police Chief Clay Morris says Wadsworth was granted bond and could be back on the streets again. Morris went on, mentioning that the state has programs for releasees with addiction problems.

But by the time Wadsworth was attending the appointment to get involved in that program, he had already re-offended. Wadsworth now back in jail, facing two drug charges and parole violation. More crime and justice news after this. Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. Three Kansas City police officers were shot and wounded while executing a search warrant, prompting a standoff at a home March 1st. Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves says the tactical response team members had begun to breach a door around 9.30 p.m. February 28th when they were fired upon. The officers returned fire and were taken to the hospital,

where they were in non-life-threatening condition. Two people came out of the house between 3 and 4 a.m. and were taken into custody. Their names were not immediately released and no charges had yet been filed. Law enforcement remained outside the house the following day while trying to determine whether anyone else was still inside. Law enforcement officials seized dark clothing, medical gloves, a flashlight, and other items from a Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. This, according to newly unsealed court documents. The records were made public two months after Pennsylvania State Police arrested Brian Koberger at his parents' home in eastern Pennsylvania.

Koberger, a 28-year-old former doctoral student at Washington State University, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary in connection with the stabbing deaths in Moscow, Idaho. The bodies of Madison Mogan, Kaylee Gonsalves, Zaina Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were found November 13, 2022, at a rental home across the street from the University of Idaho campus. The slaying shocked the rural Idaho community and neighboring Pullman, Washington, where Koberger was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University. Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter, projected as one of the top players in next month's NFL draft, has been charged with reckless driving and racing in connection with the crash that killed offensive lineman Devin Willock and a recruiting staff member. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department issued an

arrest warrant alleging Carter was racing his 2021 Jeep Trackshaw against the 2021 Ford Expedition driven by the recruiting staffer, 24-year-old Chandler LeCroy, which led to the January 15th wreck. The crash occurred just hours after the Bulldogs celebrated their second straight national championship with a parade and ceremony, killing LeCroy and Willock. According to the arrest warrant, the investigation by Athens police found that LeCroy and Carter were operating their vehicles, quote, in a manner consistent with racing after leaving downtown Athens around 2.30 a.m. Mexico's Defense Department has now confirmed that soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck in the violent northern border city of Nuevo Laredo last month, killing five men and wounding a sixth. The shooting ignited a clash

between the soldiers and residents who came to the scene to protest, a seventh person in the vehicle was unharmed. The department said in a statement that soldiers heard gunshots and approached a pickup with no license plates and no lights in the pre-dawn hours of February 26th. The soldiers said the speeding pickup then crashed into a parked vehicle and that when they heard the crash, they opened fire. The Army did not say whether they thought the bang was a gunshot. Laura Soto comes back to the U.S. from Mexico using the pedestrian access at the border crossing. Soto avoids eye contact with agents, acting nervous, so she gets searched. She looks pregnant and tells agents she is, but upon inspection, they find Soto's wearing a girdle stuffed full of meth. Soto sentenced to three years behind bars for importing drugs.

For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.