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Pantego police arrest Arlington man for 2004 rape

Pantego police have arrested an Arlington man they believe raped a woman at gunpoint eight years ago.

Charles Anthan Larry, 54, was arrested at his home Friday on an aggravated sexual assault warrant based on DNA evidence collected from the 2004 crime, Pantego police Detective Chris Whitwell said.

Larry, who is also known as Charles Anthony Green, has since been released on $25,000 bond, Whitwell said.

Pantego police arrested him on a warrant as he was leaving his home.

Read about the case in this aritcle by Susan Schrock.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/12/4407787/police-track-down-suspect-in-8.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/12/4407787/police-track-down-suspect-in-8.html#storylink=cpy

Maxwell: Torturing woman was a 'fantasy'

2:39 p.m. FRIDAY UPDATE: Defense attorney Richard Alley grilled Texas Ranger Tony Bradford about the search and seizure at Jeff Maxwell's home

Alley also questioned Bradford about Maxwell's rights and his medical care.

Bradford told Alley that authorities sent at least 40 to 50 items taken from Maxwell's home to labs for testing. More than 100 items were confiscated from the Corsicana's home.

 

 

 

 

 

12:16 p.m. FRIDAY UPDATE: The Corsicana man accused of kidnapping a Parker County woman and sexually torturing her at his home and garage for 12 days last year told investigators that it was a "fantasy."

In a March 16 interview with investigators, Jeff Maxwell couldn't explain why he did it, but he "felt bad" after the first day.

Maxwell said he wasn't worried about what other people thought of what he did.

The man who an investigator described as the "nightmare of every parent" told authorities that he did pray with the woman while she was at his Corsicana, even loaning her his father's Bible.

At times, Maxwell says he felt like someone else was beating and sexually assaulting the 63-year-old woman.

When he realized how much trouble he was in by kidnapping and beating her, Maxwell said thought about letting the bruises heal up before letting her go or marrying her.

"I realize it was desperation," Maxwell told authorities in the March 16 interview which was almost an hour long.

  10:22 a.m. FRIDAY UPDATE: Jeff Maxwell told a Texas Ranger that he put a kidnapped Parker County woman in a wooden box when he had to go to town.

The box is about six to seven feet long and three feet wide.

The 59-year-old Maxwell had built the box for tools and kept it in his Corsicana garage.

Jurors heard the confession this morning during Maxwell's 59-minute interview with Texas Ranger Tony Bradford on March 14 at the Parker County Jail.

Maxwell said he had sex with the woman even though he told Bradford that he wasn't fighting any sexual desires at the time.

"I don't have any," Maxwell confessed answering Bradford's question about sex.

 

 

Jurors are expected to hear more of the taped interview of Jeff Maxwell today in the 43rd District Court in Weatherford.

The 14-member jury could get the case soon.

Mom is arrested at strip club for abandoning baby

A Texas woman, applying for work at a strip club, was arrested on a felony warrant of child endangerment and abandonment, a TV station reports. Deputy constables received information that the woman, who was on probation, had had a baby. But when they asked her where the baby was, she said she did not know. Authorities later learned she had given the newborn to two other women, according to the station.

Daycare worker wanted in deadly Houston fire surrenders

A daycare worker who became one of the U.S. Marshal's 15 most wanted fugitives after leaving the country following a fire that killed four children has surrendered.

News station KTRK reports that Jessica Tata surrendered at a consulate in Nigeria Sunday after she was accused of leaving children alone in a west Houston daycare when it caught fire on February 24.

Two days after the fire, Tata allegedly boarded a flight to her homeland Nigeria. Charges were filed against her the next day.

Authorities are tight-lipped about the details of her surrender but the report states that Tata's family might have convinced her to turn herself in at a consulate in Nigeria after more than 20 days on the run.

Tata faces manslaughter charges in addition to ten other charges that range from reckless injury of a child to child abandonment.

-Chance Welch

Report: Man fled Dallas crash, leaving injured girl in roadway

The Dallas Morning News reported this morning that a man fled the scene after an overnight crash that seriously injured a 5-year-old girl, who was ejected from his vehicle and left on the side of the road.

Three other kids were in the car and at least one of them was injured in the crash, the Morning News reported.

Police said the crash occurred about 10:45 p.m. in the Pleasant Grove area of southeast Dallas when the vehicle struck a utility pole. He then drove the SUV to a nearby park, where he left two of the children but ran off the an infant who was later found safe with a relative, the paper reported.

The injured 5-year-old girl was taken to Children's Medical Center Dallas, the Morning News reported.

-- Lance Murray

Police: 2 hungry kids left in car for two days while dad, uncle drank

Two men in Michigan faces child abandonment charges after police said they left two hungry children inside a locked vehicle while the men went on a two-day drinking and partying binge, according to clickondetroit.com.

Police were called Sunday to a bowling alley in Summit Township, where they found 4- and 6-year-old children locked inside a filthy car, the Web site reported.

The kids told police they hadn't eaten in two days while their father and uncle drove around drinking. The men were found inside the bowling alley drunk, the Web site reported.

The children were returned to their mother, the Web site reported.

-- Lance Murray

Boy abandoned in shoplifting case ID'd

Police in Oklahoma City have identified a young boy abandoned inside a Wal-Mart by a man who fled the store when confronted on allegations he was shoplifting. The man left the boy in a shopping cart. Relatives told police the man was not the boy's father.

-- Lance Murray

Man flees store, leaves boy behind

When a man was confronted at an Oklahoma City store for shoplifting, he didn't take valuables with him when he fled the store. Instead, he left something really valuable behind -- a 2- to 3-year-old boy in the shopping cart. The boy is in state custody and police say that  he isn't able to identify himself. Police are looking for the man who left him.

-- Lance Murray