Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Crime Alert 11.30.23

Episode Date: November 30, 2023

Suspect strangles police dog. Caught red boxer-ed? 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. Wichita cops on the search for Kaelin Kirkwood wanted on two felonies for failing to appear and intimidating a witness. Cops spot Kirkwood and he takes off running. They call in canine Bain, who follows Kirkwood down a storm drain. When Kirkwood finally surrenders, cops pull him out on the street. But Bane doesn't follow. Kirkwood, the perp, strangled the canine dog. Nancy, it's unclear what exactly happened in that storm drain, but human officers believe Bane was in fact strangled.

The canine was sent for a necropsy to determine the cause of death. Kalen Kirkwood will face a mandatory minimum sentence, a psychological evaluation, and may be required to attend an anger management course as restitution for harming a police dog. Kirkwood is being held on a $1.25 million bond. Wichita Police Department's Domestic Intervention Violence Reduction Team was looking for Kirkwood as he missed a court appearance for a domestic violence case against him. Kaelin Kirkwood, 24, now charged with harming a police dog, assaulting cops, and resisting arrest. That's on top of the three existing felonies. Three men in ski masks are on closed circuit TV robbing a tobacco shop.

The video shows two men holding employees at gunpoint. The third runs behind the counter, empties the register, grabbing pipes and cigars. While he's bent over, the thief's distinctive boxers on full display, including a giant letter R in the year 1999. Well, a year after the robbery, cops get a tip. An Instagram post from Faithy Hussein wearing the same boxers. Cops do a sting and Hussein, again wearing the same colorful boxers, is arrested for armed robbery. My question, does he only have one pair of underwear? More Crime and Justice news after this.

Now with the latest Crime and Justice breaking news, Crime Online's John Limley. A judge has declined to drop misconduct allegations brought against a former prosecutor from Georgia for allegedly impeding the probe into Ahmaud Arbery's 2020 death. Here with more, Sidney Sumner with Crime Online. Senior Judge John R. Turner's one-page decision was rendered 20 months after former District Attorney Jackie Johnson's defense lawyers submitted a request in court claiming there was insufficient evidence to support their case. Johnson was the lead prosecutor for coastal Glynn County when on February 23, 2020, white men in pickup trucks spotted a young black

man running through their neighborhood. They then pursued that man, Ahmaud Arbery, shooting and killing him. Greg McMichael, a retired investigator for Johnson, started the deadly chase. 25-year-old Arbery was killed on the street by McMichael's adult son, Travis McMichael, using a shotgun. William Roddy Bryan, a neighbor, joined the pursuit and captured the murder on cell phone footage. When Bryan's gruesome video was released online and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case from local police, it took more than two months before the McMichaels and Bryan were taken into custody on murder charges related to Arbery's death. In September 2021, a grand jury indicted Johnson in connection

to Arbery's death. The indictment charged her with the felony count of breaking her oath of office in a misdemeanor of impeding an inquiry by law enforcement. The Georgia Attorney General's office is pursuing the case against Johnson. According to the indictment, Johnson ordered Glynn County police officers not to arrest Travis McMichael the day of the shooting and attempted to shield the McMichaels using her office. Johnson has entered a not guilty plea and denies any misconduct, stating that she instantly withdrew from the Arbery death case due to Greg McMichael's past employment. The Justice Department says that a former senior guard at a federal prison in Virginia

has received a three-year prison term for neglecting to assist an inmate who experienced a medical emergency and subsequently died. 52-year-old Michael Anderson was a lieutenant at a Petersburg, Virginia jail with a medium level of security. He was present for several hours as the second highest-ranking officer during the inmate's health crisis in 2021. Federal prosecutors filed court documents stating that the prisoner, only known as W.W., showed abrupt symptoms such as incoherence and the inability to stand. He fell repeatedly in

his cell and then inside a suicide watch cell. Thanks, John. December 15, Madalena Kajikari's parents report the 11-year-old missing. Mom Deanna says she last saw her daughter in her room November 23. Kojikari says that evening she had an argument with husband Chris Palminer and didn't check on Madalena before going to bed. The next morning, Madalena's gone. Kojikari assumes her daughter's with Palminer, who had gone to her relatives. But when he comes back two days later, Palminer has no idea where the 11-year-old is. The last time Madeline was seen by anyone other than parents, November 21, when she rode the bus home from school.

Both parents arrested for failing to report a missing child. They're all pointing the finger at each other, suggesting Madalena was kidnapped, trafficked, smuggled out of the country. Madalena Kokajari, now missing a year. If you have info on Madalena, contact North Carolina PD 704-892-7773. For the latest crime and justice news, go to CrimeOnline.com. With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace. This is an iHeart Podcast.