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Davion Irvin Charged With Stealing Dallas Monkeys

Davion Irvin is a twenty four year old man from Dallas Texas who was just charged for stealing a pair of monkeys from the Dallas zoo. According to police reports Davion Irvin allegedly broke into the Dallas zoo and stole a pair of emperor tamarin monkeys. Thankfully the monkeys would be found the next day unharmed in an abandoned house. Now Davion Irvin has been charged with multiple counts of cruelty of animals to start. Of course the question everyone wants to know is why the heck would anyone want to steal a pair of monkeys?

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A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Dallas and charged in connection with the suspected theft of a pair of emperor tamarin monkeys that were recovered unharmed this week in an abandoned home a day after they vanished from the Dallas Zoo, police said.

Davion Irvin was arrested late Thursday night and charged with six counts of animal cruelty-non-livestock, Dallas Police said in a news release.

Davion Irvin is being held at the Dallas County Jail. It was not immediately clear if he has a lawyer.

“The preliminary investigation and help from the public identified Irvin as the man Dallas Police were looking to speak with regarding the missing monkeys at the Dallas Zoo,” police said.

The monkeys’ disappearance followed a series of suspicious incidents at the zoo in recent weeks involving a leopard, langur monkeys and vulture, all of which led to a hike in security, including more cameras, security patrols, overnight staff, fencing and technology. Meantime, a Louisiana zoo reported the weekend theft of 12 squirrel monkeys.

A $25,000 reward was offered in the Dallas missing monkeys case as zoo officials released surveillance footage that “seems to have been critical in generating a tip that led to the recovery of the tamarins” in the home in Lancaster, Texas, about 15 miles away.

Police also released a photo of an unidentified man they said they were searching for and wanted to interview. The video shows a man walking slowly down a nearly empty zoo sidewalk, looking back and forth as he moves. Another person is seen in the background walking in the opposite direction; the photo shows a man wearing a navy hooded sweatshirt and a navy and red beanie cap while eating a bag of Doritos.

The monkeys went missing Monday from a habitat that had been “intentionally compromised,” the zoo said, adding Dallas Police said they had reason to believe they were “intentionally taken from the enclosure.” The zoo was closed Monday due to inclement weather, it earlier had announced, with the closure extended through Wednesday due to an ice storm

How the animals left the zoo and got into the Lancaster house is still a mystery. Upon their return, the monkeys were put into quarantine, the zoo said.

“Emperor tamarin monkeys, Bella and Finn, were so happy to snuggle into their nest sack here at the Zoo last night!” it said on Facebook. “Our veterinary and animal care teams have said, beyond losing a bit of weight, they show no signs of injury and both started eating and drinking almost immediately once the team completed health exams on Tuesday night.”

Other strange developments with animals have unfolded in recent weeks at the Dallas Zoo.

A clouded leopard named Nova disappeared January 13, and the zoo closed to search for the animal. Police launched a criminal investigation after they found the fence around Nova’s enclosure had been “intentionally cut,” they said. Later that day, Nova was found near her habitat.

Meanwhile, zoo staff observed a similar cut to the enclosure of some langur monkeys, but none of them had escaped, the zoo said. Police did not immediately determine whether the two incidents were related.

The incidents prompted the zoo to ramp up security, including installing more cameras and boosting overnight security personnel and staffing, its president and CEO Gregg Hudson said. Restrictions were also placed on animals’ ability to go outside overnight, he added.

Then, a lappet-faced vulture named Pin was found dead January 21 in his habitat. “Circumstances of the death are unusual, and the death does not appear to be from natural causes,” the zoo said in a statement.

The bird’s death was “suspicious” and it suffered “an unusual wound and injuries,” Hudson said. The zoo is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of a suspect in the vulture’s death.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/03/us/dallas-zoo-stolen-monkeys-arrest

Magen Fieramusca Murders Friend Steals Baby

Magen Fieramusca is a woman from Texas who wanted a baby so badly that she would murder her friend and steal her baby. According to court documents Magen Fieramusca would murder Heidi Broussard, 33, shortly after she gave birth and would steal the newborn. Magen Fieramusca would attempt to tell friends and family the baby was hers but her story would soon fall apart. Magen Fieramusca would be arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping and would ultimately plead guilty and was sentenced to 55 years in prison

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Tammy Broussard gazed at a photo of her daughter, Heidi Broussard, as she spoke to her convicted kidnapper and murderer in Travis County state district court Thursday.

“Heidi’s hugs were strong and full of love,” Tammy Broussard said. “They lingered in the atmosphere. I still feel them now. … This is something I never imaged in in my whole life that her children would face.”

Her brief but emotional speech took place immediately after Magen Fieramusca, 37, pleaded guilty to the murder of Heidi Broussard, Fieramusca’s friend of a decade. Fieramusca had kidnapped Broussard and Broussard’s then-2-week-old daughter in 2019, investigators said. Fieramusca then strangled Broussard and tried to pass off the baby as her own after faking a pregnancy for months.

State district Judge Selena Alvarenga sentenced Fieramusca to 55 years in prison as a result of a plea deal between the Travis County district attorney and Fieramusca’s defense attorney.

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to find justice or any sort of resolution to this horrendous crime,” Alvarenga told Fieramusca from the stand. “Ms. Fieramusca, the fact is that by your actions, you have deprived an innocent child, an innocent baby of the opportunity of growing up with her mother. You have destroyed an entire family. No matter what the sentence — no matter how long, no matter how harsh — nothing can change that. Nothing can make this family whole again.”

Heidi Broussard vanished Dec. 12, 2019, with her infant daughter, Margo Carey, touching off a frantic search that drew national attention. One week after Heidi Broussard was last seen, detectives found her body inside a duffel bag in the trunk of a car parked outside Fieramusca’s home northwest of Houston. Authorities were able to safely rescue Margo, who was inside the house with Fieramusca.

Fieramusca was originally charged with capital murder. District Attorney José Garza said he felt the plea bargain was appropriate and “saved the family potentially decades of the painful post-litigation process and helped secure justice.”

Fieramusca’s defense attorney Brian Erskine agreed.

“I imagine many have questions that will never be adequately answered,” Erskine said in a statement last week. “Nevertheless, I hope that this plea brings some closure to this family’s great loss.”

Fieramusca, who family and friends say had met Heidi Broussard through a church-affiliated program and been friends with her for years, acted suspiciously soon after Broussard gave birth at a hospital in Austin, according to investigators. The newborn’s grandfather noted that Fieramusca interrupted his first meeting with his granddaughter, asking to hold the baby first.

When a Texas Ranger asked Green where Magen Fieramusca gave birth, he said: “She’s been really distant with me about that stuff. I don’t know why.”

An investigator with the Texas Rangers had approached Fieramusca outside Green’s Houston-area home on Dec. 19, 2019, while Green was out shopping for baby formula. Fieramusca, who was holding a baby monitor, told the investigator she had given birth on Dec. 12, at a birthing center in The Woodlands and went home later that day.

Pressed for the specific birthing center, Fieramusca said she could not remember it.

Texas Rangers detained Magen Fieramusca in her backyard for roughly seven hours while they waited for warrants. Victims services personnel and an Austin police officer stayed inside with the baby. Once detectives obtained warrants, they arrested Fieramusca, and she has been at the Travis County Correctional Complex in Del Valle since they took her into custody.

On the stand Thursday, Tammy Broussard said she often thinks of her daughter while she’s cooking, wondering what her daughter would be saying or thinking.

“Thinking of her gives me peace amidst the pain,” she said. “We miss her dearly.”

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/courts/2023/02/02/heidi-broussard-baby-megan-fieramusca-plea-deal-guilty-murder-kidnapping-prison-sentence/69867398007/

Wesley Ruiz Execution Scheduled Tonight

Wesley Ruiz is scheduled to be executed tonight, February 1 2023, for the murder of a police officer in Dallas Texas. According to court documents Wesley Ruiz was involved in a high speed chase with the officer and when the chase came to an end he would fatally shoot Dallas Police Sr. Corporal Mark Nix, in March of 2007. Wesley Ruiz is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, if the execution goes through it will be the second this year for Texas as Robert Fratta was executed in January

Wesley Ruiz would be executed by lethal injection on February 1 2023

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A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago faces execution on Wednesday.

Wesley Ruiz, 43, is set to receive a lethal injection for the March 2007 killing of Dallas Police Senior Corporal Mark Nix.

Ruiz had led officers on a high-speed chase after being spotted driving a car that matched the description of one used by a murder suspect. Authorities said Nix tried to break the vehicle’s passenger window after the chase ended and that Ruiz fired one shot. The bullet hit Nix’s badge, splintered it and sent fragments that severed an artery in his neck. Nix later died in a hospital.

The 33-year-old officer was a U.S. Navy veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He’d been on the Dallas force for nearly seven years and was engaged to be married when he was killed.

Ruiz’s attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, which was scheduled for Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. They argue that jurors relied on “overtly racist” and “blatant anti-Hispanic stereotypes” in appraising whether Ruiz would be a future danger, an element needed to secure a death sentence in Texas. Ruiz is Hispanic.

Last week, U.S. District Judge David Godbey in Dallas denied a request to stay Ruiz’s execution, saying his attorneys failed to show that jurors made statements during trial that showed “overt racial bias.” On Monday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a similar stay request based on alleged racial bias. The appeals court did not consider the merits of the claim, but rejected it on procedural grounds.

Ruiz’s attorneys have previously argued unsuccessfully that an expert witness for the prosecution falsely testified at Ruiz’s 2008 trial about whether he would be a future danger. Defense attorneys alleged prosecutors knew about the false testimony and remained silent. In his ruling, Godbey said the expert testimony “was quite possibly harmless” and even if the testimony was corrected, it would not have changed the jury’s decision to sentence Ruiz to death.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday unanimously declined to commute Ruiz’s death sentence to a lesser penalty.

Ruiz is one of five Texas death row inmates who are suing to stop the state’s prison system from using what they allege are expired and unsafe execution drugs. Despite a civil court judge in Austin preliminarily agreeing with the claims, the state’s top two courts allowed one inmate who had been part of the litigation to be executed on Jan. 10.

Prison officials deny the lawsuit’s claims and say the state’s supply of execution drugs is safe.

At his trial, Ruiz testified he was afraid for his life and only fired in self-defense after Nix allegedly threatened to kill him. The defendant also said he believed police fired their weapons first.

“I didn’t try to kill the officer. I just tried to stop him,” Ruiz testified.

Ruiz said he fled police that day because he had illegal drugs in his car and had taken drugs.

Gabriel Luchiano, who knew Nix when the officer worked as a security guard, said he always responded quickly when people needed help at the convenience store in northwest Dallas where Luchiano worked.

He was a “guardian angel,” said Luchiano, 55. “It’s still painful no matter what. Nothing is going to close it.”

Ruiz would be the second inmate put to death this year in Texas and the fourth in the U.S. Seven other executions are scheduled in Texas for later this year, including one next week.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-convicted-killing-dallas-officer-16-years-faces-execution

Wesley Ruiz Execution

A Texas death row inmate was executed Wednesday after being convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago following a high-speed chase.

Wesley Ruiz, 43, received lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the March 2007 killing of Dallas Police Senior Corporal Mark Nix.

“I would like to apologize to Mark and the Nix family for taking him away from you,” Ruiz said as he was laying strapped to a gurney in the death chamber. “I hope this brings you closure.”

Ruiz never looked at Nix’s relatives and friends, which included his mother and sister, who watched the execution a few feet away from him through a window. Instead, he thanked his family and friends for support, while urging his children to “stand tall and continue to make me proud.

“Don’t worry about me. I’m ready to fly,” he said. “All right warden, I’m ready to ride.”

As the lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital began taking effect, he took two quick breaths, then began snoring. His 11th snore was his last and there was no further movement. Twenty-two minutes later, at 6:41 p.m., he was pronounced dead.

Ruiz led officers on a high-speed chase after being spotted driving a car that matched the description of one used by a murder suspect nearly 16 years ago. Ruiz fired one shot at Nix when the officer tried to break the vehicle’s passenger window after the chase, authorities said.

The bullet hit Nix’s badge, splintered it and sent fragments into his neck, which severed an artery. He later died at a hospital.

Ruiz said he had fled from police that day because he had illegal drugs in his car and had taken drugs. He also said he did not mean to kill Nix, but rather stop him after alleging that Nix had threatened to kill him. He also said he believed police fired their weapons first.

Ruiz was the second inmate put to death this year in Texas and the fourth in the U.S. Seven other executions are scheduled in Texas for later this year, including one next week.

Nix, 33, a U.S. Navy veteran of Operation Desert Storm, had been on the Dallas force for nearly seven years and was engaged to be married when he was killed.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-cop-killer-executed-delivering-last-message-victims-family-feet-away

Ocastor Ferguson Charged With Kayla Kelley Murder

Ocastor Ferguson is a man from Frisco Texas who allegedly murdered Kayla Kelley to cover up their affair. According to police reports Kayla Kelley learned that her boyfriend Ocastor Ferguson was actually married and had children and she planned to confront his wife. However before she had a chance Kayla Kelley was kidnapped and murdered.

Friends and family would report Kayla Kelley missing and told friends that she was dating a man named “Kevin”. When Ocastor Ferguson was questioned he admitted that he was “Kevin” but denied knowing what happened to Kayla Kelley. However when police would look at Ocastor Ferguson cell records they saw on the day that Kayla disappeared he had driven to her home in McKinnely Texas and then back to the area where police would find Kelley burned car. Days later they would discover the body of Kayla Kelley. Ocastor Ferguson has been charged with kidnapping and murder

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A Grand Prairie man is now charged with the murder and kidnapping of a McKinney woman whose body was found buried near his home this week, online records showed Friday.

Ocastor Ferguson, 32, has been jailed since Saturday on charges of kidnapping and arson in the disappearance of 33-year-old Kayla Kelley. Court records on Friday showed a murder charge was added after Kelley’s body was found Wednesday in a field along the 2800 block of Prairie Oak Boulevard, about one mile from his home in Grand Prairie.

Kelley was reported missing Jan. 11 and her burned car was found in a remote area of Frisco a day later. According to an arrest affidavit, her aunt and co-workers said they hadn’t heard from her in several days.

According to the affidavit, Ferguson told investigators that he met Kelley, who knew him as Kevin Brown, online and they began dating over the summer. He said he’d used a fake name with her but that she would figure out his actual name and that he was married, it added.

In conversations found by investigators on Ferguson’s phone between him and Kelley, she’d told him that she would tell his wife about the affair if he didn’t answer her, according to the affidavit.

Investigators also found that a vehicle Ferguson’s wife had reported stolen was located near Kelley’s home in McKinney with gloves, duct tape and a blanket inside, the affidavit said

Following the identification of Kelley’s body, the Collin County Sheriff’s Office had said that it is working with the district attorney’s office to determine what additional charges will be brought against Ferguson.

Ferguson was held in the Collin County Jail on bonds totaling more than $1 million. Jail records did not list an attorney.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/murder-charge-added-to-man-accused-of-mckinney-womans-kidnapping/3175234/

AMBER Alert For Jessica And Jennifer Burns

An AMBER alert has gone out for 9-year-old Jessica Burns and 6-year-old Jennifer Burns who were allegedly abducted by their grandmother Jame Burns. According to police in McKinney Texas Jessica and Jennifer burns were on a supervised visit with their father when they suddenly disappeared. The father of Jessica and Jennifer Burns was arrested however police are still searching for the two girls and Jame Burns.

Both girls are white with blue eyes and blond hair. Jessica is 4’10” and weighs 90 pounds, police say, while Jennifer is 4 feet tall and weighs 60 pounds. Jennifer was reportedly last seen wearing purple-framed glasses.

Anyone who spots the girls or the woman in question is asked to call 911 immediately, or the McKinney police at 972-547-2700.

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An Amber Alert has been issued for two sisters who police say were abducted Thursday night in McKinney, Texas

The McKinney Police Department is looking for 9-year-old Jessica Burns and 6-year-old Jennifer Burns. Authorities believe they are in grave or immediate danger.

The girls were last seen just before 6 p.m. Thursday at a restaurant near Central Expressway and Virginia Parkway, police said. Authorities said the sisters were at a supervised visit with their father, along with CPS, who had temporary custody of them.

Police are searching for the girls’ grandmother, 60-year-old Jame Burns, in connection to their disappearance.

Police say the grandmother is driving a black SUV with an unknown make, model and license plate number. The SUV reportedly has a white scratch on the front with silver door handles and a black interior.

Jame is described as a white woman, 5’2″, 230 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. Police said she was last seen wearing black clothing.

Police describe Jessica as a white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. She’s 4’10”, 90 pounds, and was last seen wearing dark-framed glasses, a red long-sleeve shirt with black shoulders/sleeves and blue jeans.

Jennifer is also described as a white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. Police say she’s 4’0″, 60 pounds, and was last seen wearing purple-framed glasses, a light blue shirt with a sparkle design on the front and blue jeans.

McKinney is about 30 miles north of Dallas, Texas.

Police are expected to provide an update on the search for the sisters sometime Friday morning.

Anyone with information on the girls’ whereabouts is urged to call the McKinney Police Department at 972-547-2700.

https://abc13.com/amber-alert-texas-sisters-abducted-child-abduction-mckinney-children-last-seen-during-cps-supervised-visit/12721249/