SC Church Shooter will Face Jury: Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof's upcoming federal death penalty trial will not be decided solely by a judge. John Monk of the Herald reports that U.S. Judge Richard Gergel ruled Monday that Roof, 22, an avowed white supremacist facing several charges in the murders of nine African-American churchgoers last June, must be tried by a jury, rejecting Roof's request last week to waive his right to a jury trial. Roof's trial is set to begin Nov. 7, beginning with jury selection. Opening arguments will commence once the jury is selected, likely later in the month. He is also scheduled to be tried in state court, set to begin in late January. He faces the death penalty at both trials. Friday marks one year since Roof gunned down the nine black parishioners during a Bible study at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.
AR Murderer Escapes Prison: A man convicted of murdering a teenager four years ago escaped from an Arkansas prison Monday by walking away from a work crew. Kelly P. Kissel of the AP reports that Lloyd Jones, 40, was discovered missing by guards around noon at the East Arkansas Unit at Brickeys, a 24-year-old maximum-security prison that has work programs in which inmates perform work in the agricultural fields outside the prison walls. Jones, who is a registered sex offender after a 2001 rape conviction, met Angela Allen, 16, online in 2012 and picked her up for a rendezvous. After missing for a week, her body was discovered in a plastic barrel on Jones' brother's property, and an autopsy determined that she had been strangled to death. Jones was sentenced to 60 years for Allen's murder, plus 20 years on two child pornography charges and 10 years for one child pornography charge and abuse of a corpse.
Man Sentenced for Shipping Metals to Iran for Nukes: A CEO was sentenced to prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to export a specialty metal from the U.S. to Iran to be used in nuclear weapons. Maria Biery of the Washington Examiner reports that Erdal Kuyumcu, CEO of Global Metallurgy LLC based in New York, will serve 20 years and pay a $1 million fine for attempting to export a metallic powder composed of cobalt and nickel -- used to coat gas turbine components such as turbine blades, aerospace missiles and nuclear applications -- to Iran. Kuyumcu attempted to ship over 1,000 pounds of the substance to Iran by first having it flown to Turkey, hoping to avoid detection. His action violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
AR Murderer Escapes Prison: A man convicted of murdering a teenager four years ago escaped from an Arkansas prison Monday by walking away from a work crew. Kelly P. Kissel of the AP reports that Lloyd Jones, 40, was discovered missing by guards around noon at the East Arkansas Unit at Brickeys, a 24-year-old maximum-security prison that has work programs in which inmates perform work in the agricultural fields outside the prison walls. Jones, who is a registered sex offender after a 2001 rape conviction, met Angela Allen, 16, online in 2012 and picked her up for a rendezvous. After missing for a week, her body was discovered in a plastic barrel on Jones' brother's property, and an autopsy determined that she had been strangled to death. Jones was sentenced to 60 years for Allen's murder, plus 20 years on two child pornography charges and 10 years for one child pornography charge and abuse of a corpse.
Man Sentenced for Shipping Metals to Iran for Nukes: A CEO was sentenced to prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to export a specialty metal from the U.S. to Iran to be used in nuclear weapons. Maria Biery of the Washington Examiner reports that Erdal Kuyumcu, CEO of Global Metallurgy LLC based in New York, will serve 20 years and pay a $1 million fine for attempting to export a metallic powder composed of cobalt and nickel -- used to coat gas turbine components such as turbine blades, aerospace missiles and nuclear applications -- to Iran. Kuyumcu attempted to ship over 1,000 pounds of the substance to Iran by first having it flown to Turkey, hoping to avoid detection. His action violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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