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Yahoo
2 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Champaign Police looking for tips in $500 theft from Kohl's
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The Champaign Police Department is asking for help through Crime Stoppers in solving a case of retail theft. The theft happened Nov. 19 at the Kohl's on Convenience Center Road. Officials said that a man walked into the store just after 9 a.m. and hid several items in a duffel bag. He then walked out of the store, making no attempt to pay for the items he selected. The stolen merchandise was worth nearly $500. UPDATE: State Police name victims, release new info in Shelby Co. car vs. train crash The suspect was recorded on security cameras; he appeared to be a Black male wearing a navy-blue Adidas sweatshirt and white sneakers. He left the area in a gray sedan, possibly a Hyundai Elantra. Anyone who has information about this crime, such as the identity of the thief, is asked to submit their knowledge to Champaign County Crime Stoppers. Tips can be submitted by calling 217-373-8477, visiting the organization's website or using the P3 Tips app. All tips to Crime Stoppers are both anonymous, even to law enforcement, and eligible for a cash reward if an arrest is made using the tip. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Driver runs from scene after crashing into construction equipment on I-70; 1 flown to hospital
One person was flown to the hospital after a crash on I-70 in Clark County early Monday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] As reported on News Center 7 Daybreak, Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers and medics responded just before 1:45 a.m. to Interstate 70 near State Route 4 on reports of a crash. TRENDING STORIES: 18-year-old dead, 1 injured in Champaign County crash Body found in trunk of burning car in Dayton; homicide investigation launched Police looking for man suspected of stealing over $1,300 worth of items from Kroger An investigation found that a driver of a Subaru Legacy was eastbound on I-70 and hit a truck-mounted attenuator (TMA). TMAs are energy-absorbing devices attached to the rear of trailers or trucks. After hitting the TMA, the Subaru was disabled in the roadway, and the driver ran from the scene, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. A Hyundai Elantra hit the disabled Subaru. The operator of the TMA and the 28-year-old driver of the Hyundai were not hurt in the crash. The 36-year-old passenger in the Hyundai was flown to Miami Valley Hospital. An ODOT spokesperson confirmed the crash involved an ODOT contractor. He said 66 ODOT crews have been hit in 2025. They had 88 ODOT crews hit in 2024. We will continue to follow this story. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Corpus Christi police detain suspect in Houston fatal shooting
Corpus Christi police said May 30 that they have arrested a man in connection to a deadly shooting that happened in Houston the day before. Alexis Garcia, 20, is in custody at the City Detention Center after Corpus Christi police and Nueces County Sheriff's Office deputies found him in a field along with a stolen vehicle, according to a news release issued by the Corpus Christi Police Department. Garcia matches the description of a person of interest who Houston police officers believe was involved in a fatal shooting that happened at about 6:35 p.m. on May 29 at the 11700 Southwest Freeway service road, according to news releases published by the Corpus Christi Houston police departments. Houston Police Department homicide division detectives arrived at the scene and found a gray Dodge Charger and a black Toyota Prius disabled after crashing on the service road. A witness saw the person of interest get out of the driver's seat of the Dodge Charger and talk briefly with the driver of the Toyota Prius, the Houston police news release said. The witness told police he saw the person of interest begin walking south toward Wilcrest Drive and described him as a young, Hispanic male with a thin build and mullet-style haircut and wearing black pants and a T-shirt. While officers gathered information, a second witness came forward and purported to have seen a man matching the same description walk into traffic. The witness heard a gunshot and saw a red Hyundai Elantra speed away. The witness said he turned to where the gunshot had come from and saw the person of interest pointing a gun at him. The person of interest then stole the witness' gray Audi SQ5. The drivers of the Toyota Prius and the Audi SQ5 were uninjured. However, the driver of the Hyundai Elantra suffered a gunshot wound and was transported to Ben Taub General Hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased. The name of the 55-year-old victim will be released once the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences notifies the family. Houston police tracked the stolen vehicle to the Corpus Christi area. They sent out an alert to all local police in the area, and Corpus Christi police officers heard a broadcast at about 9:55 p.m. that night that notified them of the fatal shooting and stolen vehicle. Nueces County deputies found the stolen vehicle abandoned on County Road 43, just south of County Road 2444. The vehicle was still warm to the touch, Corpus Christi police said. The Corpus Christi Police Department Gang Unit and Violent Crimes Unit, along with the department's K-9 Unit, drove to the area on County Road 43 to help deputies search for Garcia. The units sent drones to check the fields in the rural area. Officers found Garcia in the middle of an empty field and safely took him into custody, they said. He had a handgun, they said. After taking Garcia to a local hospital for medical clearance, they booked him at the City Detention Center on Harris County warrants for felony theft due to the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful carrying of a weapon. More: Corpus Christi man sentenced to 75 years in prison for 2022 Labor Day shooting This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: Man in custody in Corpus Christi after fatal Houston shooting
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Plant City woman gets 67 years for 2nd fatal drunk driving crash
TAMPA — The Plant City woman who for the second time in her life admitted driving drunk and causing a crash that killed someone should serve 67 years in prison, a judge ruled Friday. Jennifer Carvajal wept and buried her face behind her long black locks throughout a three-hour sentencing hearing. She apologized repeatedly to the family of Pedro Carbajal, her cousin who was killed in the crash off Interstate 4, and two others who were seriously injured. 'No matter how many sorrys I say to each of you, or even him, I could never forgive myself,' Carvajal said. Hillsborough Circuit Judge G. Gregory Green said he struggled to comprehend how Carvajal, 28, for the second in her life could be accused of the same deadly crime. 'It is almost as if instead of taking every step to avoid putting yourself in that situation again, you took steps to ensure that it happened,' Green told Carvajal. 'And that is incomprehensible for this court.' The sentence dwarfed the five-year term Carvajal previously served the first time she was convicted of DUI manslaughter. In that case, and on Friday, too, judges heard testimony about Carvajal's horrific childhood, which included sexual abuse at the hands of male relatives. The abuse only came to light after Carvajal, at age 9, was diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease, a social worker testified. She never received substantial mental health treatment for what was later pegged as post traumatic stress disorder and depression. At age 11, she was caught drinking beer in school. She contemplated suicide and was known to harm herself with broken glass. This time around, though, there was little notion that the horrors of Carvajal's past should ensure anything but a lengthy prison sentence. 'Two people have lost their lives at the hands of Jennifer Carvajal,' Assistant State Attorney Dawn Hart said in court. 'This community is not safe if Miss Carvajal is ever allowed back in society.' A packed courtroom heard the details of what led up to the crash from one of the survivors. Lexcia Gonzalez was Pedro Carbajal's girlfriend. They had a son named Julian. On the witness stand, she said she knew Jennifer Carvajal, but not well. She knew she had been to prison. On the night of April 24, 2021, the three of them met up for a family gathering at Pedro's grandfather's home in Plant City. Another cousin, Grady Ramirez, was there too. Late that night, they left in Gonzalez's car, a silver Hyundai Elantra. They first went to the Twilight Zone Lounge, a liquor store near the Hillsborough County line. They bought a bottle of Hennessey cognac. They later went to a Circle K store and bought Polar Pops to mix the liquor. They spent the evening drinking, hanging out at a Waffle House, alternating between the Polar Pops and taking swigs directly from the Hennessey bottle. Late that night, they went to another Circle K to use a restroom. While they were there, Carvajal asked Gonzalez if she could drive. 'I kind of ignored it the first time,' Gonzalez testified. 'She asked again.' When they left, Gonzalez was the front passenger. The two men sat in the back seat. Carvajal drove. They headed toward Ybor City. As they moved to get onto Interstate 4, Gonzalez noticed Carvajal having trouble steering. On the highway, she pressed the gas. Gonzalez watched her use her phone to take a SnapChat video of the Speedometer, showing the car topping 100 mph. Blue lights came on behind them. Gonzalez told Carvajal to slow down. 'She started panicking,' Gonzalez said. 'And saying that she didn't want to go back to jail.' Carvajal turned the wheel hard. The car went into a ditch, then up an embankment, then over a fence into the parking lot of the Gator Ford auto dealership. It overturned, smashed into a truck and knocked down a concrete pole and a palm tree. Gonzalez blacked out. When she awoke, she was on the pavement. She felt a burning pain in her body. Both her thighs were broken. Pedro Carbajal lay on a patch of grass bleeding from his head, his legs pinned beneath the car's crumpled metal. Jennifer Carvajal crawled out of the wreckage and went to him. She tried to pull him out and began to cry, Gonzalez said. She told Gonzalez: Tell them you were driving. She walked to a fence line that bordered the interstate. A road ranger who'd responded to the crash and two bystanders encountered her there. 'I'm on papers,' the ranger heard her say. 'I have a curfew. I'm not even supposed to be driving.' She said she needed to leave. Soon, though, Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrived. They noticed bruising on Carvajal's left shoulder extending down toward her waist. The driver's seat belt in the car was extended; none of the other belts had been used. An FDLE analyst determined that Carvajal's blood alcohol content at the time of the crash was between .10 and .14, above the .08 limit at which the state presumes impairment. A decade ago, Carvajal was accused of causing the death of a man named Keith Allen Davis. He was delivering copies of the Tampa Tribune early one morning in February 2014. As the sun rose, he moved his black Toyota Echo onto North Alexander Street. Carvajal at that same moment sped at 55 mph through a red light in an SUV, plowing into his car. Davis was declared dead at a hospital. Carvajal was days away from her 17th birthday when that happened. This is a developing story. Check back with for updates.
Los Angeles Times
5 days ago
- Los Angeles Times
Trial begins for man accused in DUI fatal crash in Irvine
A 45-year-old convicted drunk driver flashed through a 'solid, stale' red light and crashed into another car, killing a 20- year-old backseat passenger in Irvine, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday as the defendant's attorney argued his client was 'overcharged' and not behind the wheel at the time of the collision. Antonio Calixto Navarrete is charged with second-degree murder, hit-and-run with permanent and serious injury and driving under the influence of alcohol in excess of the legal limit of .08% causing injury, all felonies. He is accused of killing 20-year-old Isadora Stabel on Aug. 22, 2020. The crash occurred around 8:45 p.m. at Main Street and Culver Drive in Irvine. Calixto Navarrete faces an upgraded charge of murder instead of vehicular manslaughter because of a prior conviction for misdemeanor DUI and hit-and-run with property damage from Feb. 20, 2019, in Newport Beach, according to court records. When convicted of DUI, drivers are given what's known as a Watson advisement — a warning that they could face a murder charge, rather than manslaughter, if they are later involved in a fatal DUI crash. Calixto Navarrete's blood-alcohol level was 0.184 about seven or eight hours following the crash, Deputy Dist. Atty. Mallory Miller told jurors in her opening statement of the trial. As part of the defendant's plea deal for his DUI May 3, 2018, he had to attend classes on the dangers of drinking and driving as well as meet with a Mother's Against Drunken Driving panel of victim advocates, Miller said. Calixto Navarrete 'admitted' to police at the crash scene, 'I don't drive with my kids in the car when I'm drinking,' Miller said. Stabel was in the backseat of a Hyundai Elantra driven by Theodore Guyot, who saw the light switching from green to yellow so he accelerated to make it, Miller said. 'He was trying to get through the intersection because he didn't think he could stop in time,' Miller said. Experts are expected to testify to the signal system at the intersection, which is triggered by the amount of traffic waiting for a light to change, Miller said. Witness Brenda Arandazenil told investigators she was waiting at the intersection in a car for the light to change when she heard the collision and saw her signal turn green, Miller said. She then followed the Ford F-150 pickup truck that fled the scene and alerted police to its location, Miller said. A few other motorists were also expected to testify how the light changed just after the collision, Miller said. Another witness, Crystal Bakker, was crossing Main Street as the signal began to change, Miller said. She quickened her pace to finish crossing and then witnessed the crash, according to Miller. Then, 'boom, she saw the impact and then the aftermath,' Miller said. 'The only explanation is [Calixto Navarrete] drove through a red light,' Miller said. 'The way the lights are situated, there's no way Mr. Calixto Navarrete had a green light... The only way he would have had a green light is if he had stopped at the intersection and waited for it to turn.' Calixto Navarrete 'drove through a solid, stale red light and he murdered' Stabel, Miller said. Defense attorney Nicholas Valk of the Orange County public defender's office told jurors, 'This case has been over-charged' and the prosecutor 'over promised' what the evidence would show. Calixto Navarrete lived in San Clemente and worked all over Orange County for a Santa Ana-based pool cleaner, Valk said. 'He was enjoying a day off from work relaxing at home,' when he joined neighbor Jesus Mendoza in his apartment complex for a drink, Valk said. Calixto Navarrete had just bought the pickup truck so they got to talking about the vehicle when the defendant asked his neighbor to go with him to Santa Ana to pick up his paycheck and to get some tacos, Valk said. Mendoza told police he was in the passenger seat slumbering before the crash, Valk said. Valk contended that Mendoza was driving at the time of the crash and, after, told the defendant to switch seats and drive away because Mendoza was on parole for felony gang-related vandalism and didn't want to risk violating the terms of his release. Calixto Navarrette did as he was told and drove away from the scene, Valk said. But officers who responded to the crash, with help from witnesses, followed them to Main and Veneto about a mile away where the two were sitting on a curb, according to police. Calixto Navarrete was so intoxicated he 'doesn't even realize the air bags went off,' Valk said. He did tell officers that he was behind the wheel for the crash, but he did not remember it at all and only assumed he was the driver because it was his pickup truck, Valk said. 'There are no other witnesses other than Mr. Mendoza, who's on parole,' who can say who was behind the wheel for the collision, Valk said. None of the other witnesses identified Calixto Navarrete as the driver in the crash, Valk said. The Elantra's driver, Guyot, was under the influence of ketamine and marijuana, Valk said. The defense attorney said the 'evidence is not consistent the light was red' for his client, Valk said. Valk also said his client was so drunk it is unlikely he could have gotten as far as San Clemente to Irvine without crashing earlier. The defendant did drive away from the crash scene, but is not guilty of second-degree murder, Valk said.
