Woman charged in fatal hit-and-run of wheelchair bound man

On Friday, Hampton police charged Rosonda Monikia Brown, 31, after allegedly crashing into a man in a wheelchair on W. Mercury Boulevard which resulted in the man’s death. The victim, identified as 58-year-old Edward Bruton was killed on the night of April 14th.

According to police, Brown was driving a 2007 Toyota Camry eastbound on when she hit the man as he attempted cross the street in his wheelchair. Bruton was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said Brown left the scene and returned after an extended period of time.

Brown has been charged with one count of felony hit and run resulting in death.

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Update: Duke Lacrosse accuser likely to be charged with murder

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Jr. has announced that the man Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, is charged with stabbing died on Wednesday evening.

On April 3, Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend, Reginald Daye, 46.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of a stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found Daye suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital.

Mangum is currently being held in the Durham County Jail, where she has remained on $300,000 bail since her arrest.

Aside from the false allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, Mangum actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Five guilty pleas in Va. Beach drug trafficking case

On Tuesday, Romaroe Eugene Scott, 29, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and firearm charges in Norfolk federal court. He was the last of five defendants in a local drug trafficking ring to plead guilty.

Scott faces a minimum of five years and possibly as much as life in prison when he is sentenced.

Damion Kirkland, 29; Marcus Dentmond, 25; Larry Alonzo Oliver, Jr., 26; and Corey Silas Trowel, 34, all of Virginia Beach already pleaded  guilty to related charges.

According to a press release from Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendants were involved in distributing approximately 100 kilograms or more of marijuana and possessing with intent to distribute controlled substances in the Newtown Road and Baker Road areas of Virginia Beach. 

Large quantities of marijuana, close to an ounce of cocaine base, nearly 1 kilogram of heroin and over $60,000 in cash was seized when the men were arrested in October 2010.

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Police asking for public’s help in horrific animal abuse case

Since December, animal control officers in Newport News have found two puppies suffering from severe chemical burns in the Hilton Village section of the city.

The dogs, a six-month-old Staffordshire Terrier mix, was found in December and a 3-month-old Labrador retriever mix, was found on March 30.

Police need help finding the person(s) responsible for the attacks.

Newport News investigators are asking that anyone with information call their Animal Services Division at (757) 595-PETS or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Why did the FBI drop local hate crime investigation?

In May 2010, Hampton police announced that an assault case against William Douglas, 25, was been turned over to the FBI, for possible prosecution as a hate crime.

On April 16, 2010, Douglas allegedly followed 59-year-old Sylvia Hollingsworth, who is white, out of a 7-Eleven at the corner of North King Street and Rip Rap Road in Hampton.

As she got into her car, he attacked her.

According to the police report, he punched the woman in the face, neck and arms and repeatedly slammed her legs with the car door. Throughout the ordeal, the woman was subjected to a tirade of racist profanity.

Hollingsworth was actually punched with a closed fist to the throat.

After the attacker’s ride sped away, the man fled the scene.

Police believe that a few minutes later, the Douglas shot at someone.

The victim told WVEC 13 News: “Never once did he try to take my keys. Never once did he ask or try to take my pocketbook or any money. He was just out to hurt.”

Hollingsworth continued: “It leaves me hurt, and I feel like I'm a victim of a hate crime. Just in his own words, he hated whites and he was going to kill my 'f---ing' white ass, as he put it, and that's what he was trying to do.

William Douglas was charged with malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

He recently pleaded guilty to assault and firearms charges, and will have to serve a minimum of three and a half years in prison.

The federal hate crimes investigation was dropped.

I recently spoke with the victim who informed me that the FBI interviewed her on multiple occasions, but did not offer her an explanation as to why the case was simply dropped.

Mrs. Hollingsworth told me that she has not been back to the convenience store where the attack occurred. She also said that for a time following the brutal assault, she was called a “racist” by some in her neighborhood for pressing charges against her attacker.

However, Hollingsworth is not bitter.

She said: “I’ve got some good friends, black and white.”

Though Douglas was not prosecuted for a hate crime, Hollingsworth is relieved that he will be off the streets for at least a few years.

The Norfolk and Hampton FBI offices refused to comment on this case.

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Three years later...Norfolk Naval officer's murder remains unsolved

On April 24, 2008, Navy Lt. Todd Michael Cox was taking an evening walk in his quiet Norfolk neighborhood with his girlfriend and their two daughters when he was approached by an unknown assailant and shot to death. To date, there has not been an arrest in this case, and police have no suspects.

A little after 8:00 p.m., as the family walked with their dog along Beverly Ave., a blue and white Ford pick up truck drove past them on the dead end street, then turned around and pulled up beside them. Apparently Lt. Cox knew they were in grave danger, as he shoved his fiancée out of the way, the girls ran behind a tree. The man exited the vehicle and shot Cox repeatedly at point blank range.

The killer then calmly walked back to his truck and quietly drove away. He appeared to be in no hurry, even though he had just fired several shots on the quiet street.

Lt. Cox was taken to Norfolk General Hospital, where he was soon pronounced dead.

Lt. Todd Michael Cox, 40, was from Altoona, PA and assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron VAW 125, as an aviation maintenance officer at Norfolk Naval Station. He enlisted in the Navy in 1985 when he was only 17, eventually achieving the rank of Lieutenant.

In 2009, Laurie Cox, the victim’s ex-wife appealed to the public for answers in the unsolved murder. She told the Virginian-Pilot that her children have been traumatized and will continue to live in fear until their father’s killer is apprehended.

Cox said: “I need closure for my children. And without knowing anything, or anyone coming forward, there is no closure. There's only constant fear.”

“I mean, my 10-year-old daughter is always looking over her shoulder and wondering if this person is going to come out and get her. She was there. She saw it. So, I don't want my children to live in fear. I want them to have an answer.”

Since her ex-husband’s murder, Laurie Cox has moved from Norfolk to Virginia Beach in an attempt to alleviate some of her daughter‘s fears. “I had to get out of Norfolk,” she said. “Because she would have a panic attack. I couldn't even get her out of the house.”

The killer is described as a black man with a medium complexion, 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall and a short haircut.

A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the man who killed Lt. Michael Cox. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

 

 

 

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Local man pleads guilty to Oceanfront slashing

On Tuesday, Stephen James Franklin, 40, of Taft Road in Chesapeake, pleaded guilty in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to aggravated malicious wounding and unlawful wounding in the commission of a felony.

According to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney’s Office, the attack occurred around 2:00 a.m. on August 21, as a woman walked along the oceanfront near the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel.

Franklin grabbed the woman from behind and cut a three-inch gash in the woman’s throat. He then shoved the victim to the ground and fled the scene.

A doctor living nearby heard the woman’s cries for help and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived.

The woman was able to give a detailed description of her attacker, and a few days later, Franklin was discovered already in jail on an unrelated burglary charge.

He eventually confessed to the attack.

Franklin will be sentenced in August.

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Duke Lacrosse Team accuser arrested again in North Carolina

The woman who gained national notoriety for rape allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, has been arrested again.

On Sunday night, Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found a 47-year-old man suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

The victim remains in the hospital

Mangum is currently being held on $300,000 bail.

She actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Local man pleads guilty to Oceanfront slashing

On Tuesday, Stephen James Franklin, 40, of Taft Road in Chesapeake, pleaded guilty in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to aggravated malicious wounding and unlawful wounding in the commission of a felony.

According to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney’s Office, the attack occurred around 2:00 a.m. on August 21, as a woman walked along the oceanfront near the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel.

Franklin grabbed the woman from behind and cut a three-inch gash in the woman’s throat. He then shoved the victim to the ground and fled the scene.

A doctor living nearby heard the woman’s cries for help and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived.

The woman was able to give a detailed description of her attacker, and a few days later, Franklin was discovered already in jail on an unrelated burglary charge.

He eventually confessed to the attack.

Franklin will be sentenced in August.

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Police asking for public’s help in horrific animal abuse case

Since December, animal control officers in Newport News have found two puppies suffering from severe chemical burns in the Hilton Village section of the city.

The dogs, a six-month-old Staffordshire Terrier mix, was found in December and a 3-month-old Labrador retriever mix, was found on March 30.

Police need help finding the person(s) responsible for the attacks.

Newport News investigators are asking that anyone with information call their Animal Services Division at (757) 595-PETS or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Update: Duke Lacrosse accuser likely to be charged with murder

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Jr. has announced that the man Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, is charged with stabbing died on Wednesday evening.

On April 3, Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend, Reginald Daye, 46.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of a stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found Daye suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital.

Mangum is currently being held in the Durham County Jail, where she has remained on $300,000 bail since her arrest.

Aside from the false allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, Mangum actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Why did the FBI drop local hate crime investigation?

In May 2010, Hampton police announced that an assault case against William Douglas, 25, was been turned over to the FBI, for possible prosecution as a hate crime.

On April 16, 2010, Douglas allegedly followed 59-year-old Sylvia Hollingsworth, who is white, out of a 7-Eleven at the corner of North King Street and Rip Rap Road in Hampton.

As she got into her car, he attacked her.

According to the police report, he punched the woman in the face, neck and arms and repeatedly slammed her legs with the car door. Throughout the ordeal, the woman was subjected to a tirade of racist profanity.

Hollingsworth was actually punched with a closed fist to the throat.

After the attacker’s ride sped away, the man fled the scene.

Police believe that a few minutes later, the Douglas shot at someone.

The victim told WVEC 13 News: “Never once did he try to take my keys. Never once did he ask or try to take my pocketbook or any money. He was just out to hurt.”

Hollingsworth continued: “It leaves me hurt, and I feel like I'm a victim of a hate crime. Just in his own words, he hated whites and he was going to kill my 'f---ing' white ass, as he put it, and that's what he was trying to do.

William Douglas was charged with malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

He recently pleaded guilty to assault and firearms charges, and will have to serve a minimum of three and a half years in prison.

The federal hate crimes investigation was dropped.

I recently spoke with the victim who informed me that the FBI interviewed her on multiple occasions, but did not offer her an explanation as to why the case was simply dropped.

Mrs. Hollingsworth told me that she has not been back to the convenience store where the attack occurred. She also said that for a time following the brutal assault, she was called a “racist” by some in her neighborhood for pressing charges against her attacker.

However, Hollingsworth is not bitter.

She said: “I’ve got some good friends, black and white.”

Though Douglas was not prosecuted for a hate crime, Hollingsworth is relieved that he will be off the streets for at least a few years.

The Norfolk and Hampton FBI offices refused to comment on this case.

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Duke Lacrosse Team accuser arrested again in North Carolina

The woman who gained national notoriety for rape allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, has been arrested again.

On Sunday night, Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found a 47-year-old man suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

The victim remains in the hospital

Mangum is currently being held on $300,000 bail.

She actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Police asking for public’s help in horrific animal abuse case

Since December, animal control officers in Newport News have found two puppies suffering from severe chemical burns in the Hilton Village section of the city.

The dogs, a six-month-old Staffordshire Terrier mix, was found in December and a 3-month-old Labrador retriever mix, was found on March 30.

Police need help finding the person(s) responsible for the attacks.

Newport News investigators are asking that anyone with information call their Animal Services Division at (757) 595-PETS or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Update: Duke Lacrosse accuser likely to be charged with murder

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Jr. has announced that the man Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, is charged with stabbing died on Wednesday evening.

On April 3, Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend, Reginald Daye, 46.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of a stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found Daye suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital.

Mangum is currently being held in the Durham County Jail, where she has remained on $300,000 bail since her arrest.

Aside from the false allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, Mangum actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Local man pleads guilty to Oceanfront slashing

On Tuesday, Stephen James Franklin, 40, of Taft Road in Chesapeake, pleaded guilty in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to aggravated malicious wounding and unlawful wounding in the commission of a felony.

According to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney’s Office, the attack occurred around 2:00 a.m. on August 21, as a woman walked along the oceanfront near the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel.

Franklin grabbed the woman from behind and cut a three-inch gash in the woman’s throat. He then shoved the victim to the ground and fled the scene.

A doctor living nearby heard the woman’s cries for help and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived.

The woman was able to give a detailed description of her attacker, and a few days later, Franklin was discovered already in jail on an unrelated burglary charge.

He eventually confessed to the attack.

Franklin will be sentenced in August.

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Why did the FBI drop local hate crime investigation?

In May 2010, Hampton police announced that an assault case against William Douglas, 25, was been turned over to the FBI, for possible prosecution as a hate crime.

On April 16, 2010, Douglas allegedly followed 59-year-old Sylvia Hollingsworth, who is white, out of a 7-Eleven at the corner of North King Street and Rip Rap Road in Hampton.

As she got into her car, he attacked her.

According to the police report, he punched the woman in the face, neck and arms and repeatedly slammed her legs with the car door. Throughout the ordeal, the woman was subjected to a tirade of racist profanity.

Hollingsworth was actually punched with a closed fist to the throat.

After the attacker’s ride sped away, the man fled the scene.

Police believe that a few minutes later, the Douglas shot at someone.

The victim told WVEC 13 News: “Never once did he try to take my keys. Never once did he ask or try to take my pocketbook or any money. He was just out to hurt.”

Hollingsworth continued: “It leaves me hurt, and I feel like I'm a victim of a hate crime. Just in his own words, he hated whites and he was going to kill my 'f---ing' white ass, as he put it, and that's what he was trying to do.

William Douglas was charged with malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

He recently pleaded guilty to assault and firearms charges, and will have to serve a minimum of three and a half years in prison.

The federal hate crimes investigation was dropped.

I recently spoke with the victim who informed me that the FBI interviewed her on multiple occasions, but did not offer her an explanation as to why the case was simply dropped.

Mrs. Hollingsworth told me that she has not been back to the convenience store where the attack occurred. She also said that for a time following the brutal assault, she was called a “racist” by some in her neighborhood for pressing charges against her attacker.

However, Hollingsworth is not bitter.

She said: “I’ve got some good friends, black and white.”

Though Douglas was not prosecuted for a hate crime, Hollingsworth is relieved that he will be off the streets for at least a few years.

The Norfolk and Hampton FBI offices refused to comment on this case.

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Police asking for public’s help in horrific animal abuse case

Since December, animal control officers in Newport News have found two puppies suffering from severe chemical burns in the Hilton Village section of the city.

The dogs, a six-month-old Staffordshire Terrier mix, was found in December and a 3-month-old Labrador retriever mix, was found on March 30.

Police need help finding the person(s) responsible for the attacks.

Newport News investigators are asking that anyone with information call their Animal Services Division at (757) 595-PETS or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Duke Lacrosse Team accuser arrested again in North Carolina

The woman who gained national notoriety for rape allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, has been arrested again.

On Sunday night, Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found a 47-year-old man suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

The victim remains in the hospital

Mangum is currently being held on $300,000 bail.

She actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Local man pleads guilty to Oceanfront slashing

On Tuesday, Stephen James Franklin, 40, of Taft Road in Chesapeake, pleaded guilty in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to aggravated malicious wounding and unlawful wounding in the commission of a felony.

According to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney’s Office, the attack occurred around 2:00 a.m. on August 21, as a woman walked along the oceanfront near the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel.

Franklin grabbed the woman from behind and cut a three-inch gash in the woman’s throat. He then shoved the victim to the ground and fled the scene.

A doctor living nearby heard the woman’s cries for help and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived.

The woman was able to give a detailed description of her attacker, and a few days later, Franklin was discovered already in jail on an unrelated burglary charge.

He eventually confessed to the attack.

Franklin will be sentenced in August.

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Why did the FBI drop local hate crime investigation?

In May 2010, Hampton police announced that an assault case against William Douglas, 25, was been turned over to the FBI, for possible prosecution as a hate crime.

On April 16, 2010, Douglas allegedly followed 59-year-old Sylvia Hollingsworth, who is white, out of a 7-Eleven at the corner of North King Street and Rip Rap Road in Hampton.

As she got into her car, he attacked her.

According to the police report, he punched the woman in the face, neck and arms and repeatedly slammed her legs with the car door. Throughout the ordeal, the woman was subjected to a tirade of racist profanity.

Hollingsworth was actually punched with a closed fist to the throat.

After the attacker’s ride sped away, the man fled the scene.

Police believe that a few minutes later, the Douglas shot at someone.

The victim told WVEC 13 News: “Never once did he try to take my keys. Never once did he ask or try to take my pocketbook or any money. He was just out to hurt.”

Hollingsworth continued: “It leaves me hurt, and I feel like I'm a victim of a hate crime. Just in his own words, he hated whites and he was going to kill my 'f---ing' white ass, as he put it, and that's what he was trying to do.

William Douglas was charged with malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

He recently pleaded guilty to assault and firearms charges, and will have to serve a minimum of three and a half years in prison.

The federal hate crimes investigation was dropped.

I recently spoke with the victim who informed me that the FBI interviewed her on multiple occasions, but did not offer her an explanation as to why the case was simply dropped.

Mrs. Hollingsworth told me that she has not been back to the convenience store where the attack occurred. She also said that for a time following the brutal assault, she was called a “racist” by some in her neighborhood for pressing charges against her attacker.

However, Hollingsworth is not bitter.

She said: “I’ve got some good friends, black and white.”

Though Douglas was not prosecuted for a hate crime, Hollingsworth is relieved that he will be off the streets for at least a few years.

The Norfolk and Hampton FBI offices refused to comment on this case.

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Update: Duke Lacrosse accuser likely to be charged with murder

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Jr. has announced that the man Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, is charged with stabbing died on Wednesday evening.

On April 3, Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend, Reginald Daye, 46.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of a stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found Daye suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital.

Mangum is currently being held in the Durham County Jail, where she has remained on $300,000 bail since her arrest.

Aside from the false allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, Mangum actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Why did the FBI drop local hate crime investigation?

In May 2010, Hampton police announced that an assault case against William Douglas, 25, was been turned over to the FBI, for possible prosecution as a hate crime.

On April 16, 2010, Douglas allegedly followed 59-year-old Sylvia Hollingsworth, who is white, out of a 7-Eleven at the corner of North King Street and Rip Rap Road in Hampton.

As she got into her car, he attacked her.

According to the police report, he punched the woman in the face, neck and arms and repeatedly slammed her legs with the car door. Throughout the ordeal, the woman was subjected to a tirade of racist profanity.

Hollingsworth was actually punched with a closed fist to the throat.

After the attacker’s ride sped away, the man fled the scene.

Police believe that a few minutes later, the Douglas shot at someone.

The victim told WVEC 13 News: “Never once did he try to take my keys. Never once did he ask or try to take my pocketbook or any money. He was just out to hurt.”

Hollingsworth continued: “It leaves me hurt, and I feel like I'm a victim of a hate crime. Just in his own words, he hated whites and he was going to kill my 'f---ing' white ass, as he put it, and that's what he was trying to do.

William Douglas was charged with malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

He recently pleaded guilty to assault and firearms charges, and will have to serve a minimum of three and a half years in prison.

The federal hate crimes investigation was dropped.

I recently spoke with the victim who informed me that the FBI interviewed her on multiple occasions, but did not offer her an explanation as to why the case was simply dropped.

Mrs. Hollingsworth told me that she has not been back to the convenience store where the attack occurred. She also said that for a time following the brutal assault, she was called a “racist” by some in her neighborhood for pressing charges against her attacker.

However, Hollingsworth is not bitter.

She said: “I’ve got some good friends, black and white.”

Though Douglas was not prosecuted for a hate crime, Hollingsworth is relieved that he will be off the streets for at least a few years.

The Norfolk and Hampton FBI offices refused to comment on this case.

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Police asking for public’s help in horrific animal abuse case

Since December, animal control officers in Newport News have found two puppies suffering from severe chemical burns in the Hilton Village section of the city.

The dogs, a six-month-old Staffordshire Terrier mix, was found in December and a 3-month-old Labrador retriever mix, was found on March 30.

Police need help finding the person(s) responsible for the attacks.

Newport News investigators are asking that anyone with information call their Animal Services Division at (757) 595-PETS or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Duke Lacrosse Team accuser arrested again in North Carolina

The woman who gained national notoriety for rape allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, has been arrested again.

On Sunday night, Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found a 47-year-old man suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

The victim remains in the hospital

Mangum is currently being held on $300,000 bail.

She actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Local man pleads guilty to Oceanfront slashing

On Tuesday, Stephen James Franklin, 40, of Taft Road in Chesapeake, pleaded guilty in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to aggravated malicious wounding and unlawful wounding in the commission of a felony.

According to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney’s Office, the attack occurred around 2:00 a.m. on August 21, as a woman walked along the oceanfront near the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel.

Franklin grabbed the woman from behind and cut a three-inch gash in the woman’s throat. He then shoved the victim to the ground and fled the scene.

A doctor living nearby heard the woman’s cries for help and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived.

The woman was able to give a detailed description of her attacker, and a few days later, Franklin was discovered already in jail on an unrelated burglary charge.

He eventually confessed to the attack.

Franklin will be sentenced in August.

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Update: Duke Lacrosse accuser likely to be charged with murder

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez Jr. has announced that the man Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, is charged with stabbing died on Wednesday evening.

On April 3, Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend, Reginald Daye, 46.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of a stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found Daye suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital.

Mangum is currently being held in the Durham County Jail, where she has remained on $300,000 bail since her arrest.

Aside from the false allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, Mangum actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Duke Lacrosse Team accuser arrested again in North Carolina

The woman who gained national notoriety for rape allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, has been arrested again.

On Sunday night, Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found a 47-year-old man suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

The victim remains in the hospital

Mangum is currently being held on $300,000 bail.

She actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Local man pleads guilty to Oceanfront slashing

On Tuesday, Stephen James Franklin, 40, of Taft Road in Chesapeake, pleaded guilty in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to aggravated malicious wounding and unlawful wounding in the commission of a felony.

According to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney’s Office, the attack occurred around 2:00 a.m. on August 21, as a woman walked along the oceanfront near the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel.

Franklin grabbed the woman from behind and cut a three-inch gash in the woman’s throat. He then shoved the victim to the ground and fled the scene.

A doctor living nearby heard the woman’s cries for help and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived.

The woman was able to give a detailed description of her attacker, and a few days later, Franklin was discovered already in jail on an unrelated burglary charge.

He eventually confessed to the attack.

Franklin will be sentenced in August.

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Police asking for public’s help in horrific animal abuse case

Since December, animal control officers in Newport News have found two puppies suffering from severe chemical burns in the Hilton Village section of the city.

The dogs, a six-month-old Staffordshire Terrier mix, was found in December and a 3-month-old Labrador retriever mix, was found on March 30.

Police need help finding the person(s) responsible for the attacks.

Newport News investigators are asking that anyone with information call their Animal Services Division at (757) 595-PETS or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

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Local man pleads guilty to Oceanfront slashing

On Tuesday, Stephen James Franklin, 40, of Taft Road in Chesapeake, pleaded guilty in Virginia Beach Circuit Court to aggravated malicious wounding and unlawful wounding in the commission of a felony.

According to the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney’s Office, the attack occurred around 2:00 a.m. on August 21, as a woman walked along the oceanfront near the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel.

Franklin grabbed the woman from behind and cut a three-inch gash in the woman’s throat. He then shoved the victim to the ground and fled the scene.

A doctor living nearby heard the woman’s cries for help and rendered first aid until paramedics arrived.

The woman was able to give a detailed description of her attacker, and a few days later, Franklin was discovered already in jail on an unrelated burglary charge.

He eventually confessed to the attack.

Franklin will be sentenced in August.

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Duke Lacrosse Team accuser arrested again in North Carolina

The woman who gained national notoriety for rape allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, has been arrested again.

On Sunday night, Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found a 47-year-old man suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

The victim remains in the hospital

Mangum is currently being held on $300,000 bail.

She actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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Duke Lacrosse Team accuser arrested again in North Carolina

The woman who gained national notoriety for rape allegations she made against the Duke Lacrosse Team, has been arrested again.

On Sunday night, Crystal Gail Mangum, 32, was arrested by Durham police for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a report of stabbing at the couple’s apartment on Century Oaks Drive, and found a 47-year-old man suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Mangum was arrested at a neighbor’s apartment and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.

The victim remains in the hospital

Mangum is currently being held on $300,000 bail.

She actually has a long history of criminal behavior, and making allegations of rape.

-In December 2010, Mangum was found guilty of child abuse.

-In August 2010, Mangum landed in the Durham County Jail for violating a release agreement stemming from an arrest earlier in the year.

-In February 2010, Mangum was arrested for the assault and attempted murder of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, among other charges.

According to police, Mangum set his clothes on fire, physically assaulted and attempted to stab him, all in view of her three children, ages 3, 9 and 10. The 911 call was actually placed by one of the children.

She initially gave the responding officers a false name, "Marella Mangum," and allegedly fought with the officers.

Mangum was charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

-In 1996, two months after her graduation from Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Mangum went to the police and claimed that she had been raped three years earlier and identified her attackers as her boyfriend and two of his friends. In 2006, CNN reported that the police interviewed Mangum and asked her "to write a chronological-order statement for investigative purposes."

She originally told police that her three alleged attackers had held her against her will, raped her, and threatened her life. However, she failed to follow up with police after the initial interview and simply dropped the charges.

Late in 1996, Mangum joined the U.S. Navy, signing on for an eight year enlistment. She began active duty in 1997. Though committed for eight years, the Navy discharged her in 1998.

In 1997 at age 19, she met and married a 33-year-old man named Kenneth Nathaniel McNeill. Under Navy orders, her and her new husband moved to California, where she was assigned to the USS Mount Hood. While aboard the Mount Hood, she reportedly began an affair with another sailor and became pregnant as a result

The U.S. Navy has refused to disclose the reason for Mangum's abrupt discharge.

Because of the extra-marital affair, Mangum and McNeill separated.

-On June 16, 1998, she filed charges against McNeill in which she claimed that he had taken her into the woods and threatened to kill her. A hearing on the matter was held on June 23, Mangum failed to appear in court to prove the charges and the complaint was dismissed.

-After a string of low-wage jobs, Mangum decided to become a stripper. She showed up one evening in 2002 at the Diamond Girls strip club in Durham. Club owner Larry Jones said that she was looking for a job and auditioned by giving lap dances to several men.

Jones decided not to hire Mangum because she was "acting funny."

One of the men she entertained with a lap dance was a taxi driver.

According to a Durham County Sheriff's report: "As she was feeling him up and putting her hands in his pockets she removed the keys to his taxi cab, without him knowing. He [the cabbie] told her he would drive her home but needed to go to the restroom first. While in the restroom he was advised that she was driving off in his taxi cab."

Durham County Deputies went looking for Mangum and when they tried to stop her, she sped away driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 70. They quickly caught up with her in a wooded area, as deputies approached the vehicle she aimed the car at one of them and attempted to run him over. She was finally apprehended after hitting one of the sheriff's cars. Mangum passed out while being questioned by deputies and was transported to Duke University Medical Center. Her blood alcohol level was .19 (more than twice the N.C. legal limit).

That incident resulted in Mangum's conviction on the following charges: -larceny -speeding to elude arrest -assault on a government official -DUI

She received a sentence of three consecutive weekends in the Durham County Jail and two years probation.

Eventually, Mangum landed a job as a stripper at a club known as Platinum Pleasures. She was also working for an escort service called Bunny Hole Entertainment. After the Duke rape allegations, she told a reporter with The News and Observer that she went on dates with clients about three times a week.

The false rape accusations she leveled against the Duke Lacrosse team went forward despite the fact that the district attorney in the case, Mike Nifong sat on DNA evidence which would have actually cleared the players.

At the time, Nifong was in the midst of a re-election campaign and many felt his actions were purely politically motivated.

The case garnered a tremendous amount of national attention and stirred-up racial tensions in the Raliegh-Durham area.

Eventually, the truth prevailed, charges against the students were dropped, and Nifong was discredited and forced to step down. He was ultimately disbarred for his actions in the case and spent one night in jail for lying to a Superior Court judge.

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