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Chris McNabb and Cortney Bell found guilty of murdering 2-week-old daughter
Father gets life without parole plus 10 years. Mother gets 15-year sentence for second degree murder conviction.

Author: Jonathan Raymond
Published: 4:16 PM EDT May 14, 2019
Updated: 5:56 PM EDT May 14, 2019

COVINGTON, Ga. — A jury on Tuesday convicted both Christopher McNabb and Cortney Bell of the murder of their 2-week-old daughter Caliyah in 2017.
The two had been on trial for the past week in Newton County. A jury deliberated for only about an hour after closing arguments.
McNabb was convicted on eight counts, including malice murder. Bell was convicted on three counts, including murder in the second degree.
Judge John Ott sentenced McNabb to life without parole plus 10 years. Bell was sentenced to 15 years in prison - a 30-year sentence with the latter 15 to be served on probation. Additional 10-year and 5-year sentences can be served concurrently, Ott ordered.
"I would never do this. I'm innocent," McNabb declared after being sentenced. "I just don’t understand how you find somebody guilty of doing something to a 15-day-old baby, because there was no evidence whatsoever that proved anything about me putting my hands on my kids. I've never done that. I never would."
Ott asked McNabb, if he thought he was innocent, how he would sentence the real murderer of his child. McNabb said with the maximum penalty.
Judge Ott gave him that sentence.



Bell acknowledged her meth use was a "sickness."
"But I tried to be a good mama. I love my babies," she said.
"You chose methamphetamine and McNabb over a baby," Ott countered.




Earlier, prosecutors argued in closing statements McNabb was a negligent father and violent partner with a short fuse and a penchant for lying who snapped at his crying infant, killed her and frantically tried to hide his crime.
“That child was doomed the moment they left that hospital,” Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney Lalya H. Zon said.
Caliyah, she said, "was carried out of that hospital by two people, unfortunately Cortney Bell and Chris McNabb, and her fate was all but sealed."

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Zon had often argued throughout the six-day proceedings that McNabb, an admitted meth user who frequently hit Bell, could be the only person responsible for Caliyah’s death. The mother was charged with murder in the second degree – effectively enabling McNabb’s murder of their child.
“Her life was valuable,” Zon said in closing statements. “That child cried and didn’t do anything but need love and need support. And her daddy killed her because of that.”



In a roughly two-hour closing statement, Zon examined McNabb’s shifting account of what happened on Oct. 7, 2017, when Caliyah went missing, a timeline that left little room for anyone else to commit the crime that morning and what she called his lies to police about crucial details.
“If the defendant is a liar, why should you believe him at all?” Zon asked the jury. “If he’s lying, that’s a big problem, because an innocent man who just lost his child - who just woke up to find his baby missing - would never lie to the police.”
Zon carefully laid out some of McNabb’s discrepancies.
One involved how he told detectives about brown shoes in the woods that “he wanted investigators to think … would belong to the killer” even though he had put them there after a fight weeks before, disposing of evidence in case police came to his home to ask about the altercation.
“What does that tell you about the way Christopher McNabb thinks?” Zon asked.
She said he told police that the person involved in that fight, Matthew Lester, had broken into his home, though it was not apparent that ever happened. And he omitted telling investigators about Facebook messages he sent to a woman, Courtney Morris, the morning his daughter went missing.
He and Bell maintained they fell asleep around 5 a.m. that morning, woke up at 9:30 to a text from McNabb’s father, with Caliyah and their 2-year-old daughter Clarissa still safe and sound, and by about 10:30 woke again to the toddler yelling, “Sissy gone! Sissy gone!”
Facebook records showed, though, that McNabb changed a profile picture just before 6 a.m., and sent messages to Morris at 9:42.
“He already had a ridiculously small timeframe when somebody could have broke into his trailer and kidnapped and killed his child,” Zon said. “And he just shortened it.”
Zon also argued for the strength of the evidence in the case, after defense attorneys had assailed it as weak and circumstantial.
Much of it was circumstantial, she acknowledged, but she also noted that circumstantial and direct evidence carry equal weight under the law.
“The defense is characterizing this case as a weak case because there’s no evidence,” she said. “Well the baby is found in Chris' bag with his clothes. That’s evidence. That’s very strong, very powerful evidence.”
“What’s the evidence in this case? You gotta be able to see the forest from the trees,” Zon added. “Look at all the evidence, you see a forest instead of individual trees - all of the evidence is right in front of you. Him jumping out of the car, his bag – it’s your bag, it’s your clothes in the bag and your hiding spot, the woods.”
Caliyah was found in a gym bag that belonged to McNabb, wrapped in a blanket and clothes of his, not far from the parents’ trailer. He had also told police in one interview how the woods were “the first place I go on foot if I felt like I was in trouble or something.”
“We cry out for justice for Caliyah and we cry out for a verdict of guilty on each count of both of their indictments,” Zon concluded.

 

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Chris McNabb and Cortney Bell found guilty of murdering 2-week-old daughter
Father gets life without parole plus 10 years. Mother gets 15-year sentence for second degree murder conviction.

Author: Jonathan Raymond
Published: 4:16 PM EDT May 14, 2019
Updated: 5:56 PM EDT May 14, 2019

COVINGTON, Ga. — A jury on Tuesday convicted both Christopher McNabb and Cortney Bell of the murder of their 2-week-old daughter Caliyah in 2017.
The two had been on trial for the past week in Newton County. A jury deliberated for only about an hour after closing arguments.
McNabb was convicted on eight counts, including malice murder. Bell was convicted on three counts, including murder in the second degree.
Judge John Ott sentenced McNabb to life without parole plus 10 years. Bell was sentenced to 15 years in prison - a 30-year sentence with the latter 15 to be served on probation. Additional 10-year and 5-year sentences can be served concurrently, Ott ordered.
"I would never do this. I'm innocent," McNabb declared after being sentenced. "I just don’t understand how you find somebody guilty of doing something to a 15-day-old baby, because there was no evidence whatsoever that proved anything about me putting my hands on my kids. I've never done that. I never would."
Ott asked McNabb, if he thought he was innocent, how he would sentence the real murderer of his child. McNabb said with the maximum penalty.
Judge Ott gave him that sentence.



Bell acknowledged her meth use was a "sickness."
"But I tried to be a good mama. I love my babies," she said.
"You chose methamphetamine and McNabb over a baby," Ott countered.




Earlier, prosecutors argued in closing statements McNabb was a negligent father and violent partner with a short fuse and a penchant for lying who snapped at his crying infant, killed her and frantically tried to hide his crime.
“That child was doomed the moment they left that hospital,” Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney Lalya H. Zon said.
Caliyah, she said, "was carried out of that hospital by two people, unfortunately Cortney Bell and Chris McNabb, and her fate was all but sealed."

CATCH UP: Full trial coverage



Zon had often argued throughout the six-day proceedings that McNabb, an admitted meth user who frequently hit Bell, could be the only person responsible for Caliyah’s death. The mother was charged with murder in the second degree – effectively enabling McNabb’s murder of their child.
“Her life was valuable,” Zon said in closing statements. “That child cried and didn’t do anything but need love and need support. And her daddy killed her because of that.”



In a roughly two-hour closing statement, Zon examined McNabb’s shifting account of what happened on Oct. 7, 2017, when Caliyah went missing, a timeline that left little room for anyone else to commit the crime that morning and what she called his lies to police about crucial details.
“If the defendant is a liar, why should you believe him at all?” Zon asked the jury. “If he’s lying, that’s a big problem, because an innocent man who just lost his child - who just woke up to find his baby missing - would never lie to the police.”
Zon carefully laid out some of McNabb’s discrepancies.
One involved how he told detectives about brown shoes in the woods that “he wanted investigators to think … would belong to the killer” even though he had put them there after a fight weeks before, disposing of evidence in case police came to his home to ask about the altercation.
“What does that tell you about the way Christopher McNabb thinks?” Zon asked.
She said he told police that the person involved in that fight, Matthew Lester, had broken into his home, though it was not apparent that ever happened. And he omitted telling investigators about Facebook messages he sent to a woman, Courtney Morris, the morning his daughter went missing.
He and Bell maintained they fell asleep around 5 a.m. that morning, woke up at 9:30 to a text from McNabb’s father, with Caliyah and their 2-year-old daughter Clarissa still safe and sound, and by about 10:30 woke again to the toddler yelling, “Sissy gone! Sissy gone!”
Facebook records showed, though, that McNabb changed a profile picture just before 6 a.m., and sent messages to Morris at 9:42.
“He already had a ridiculously small timeframe when somebody could have broke into his trailer and kidnapped and killed his child,” Zon said. “And he just shortened it.”
Zon also argued for the strength of the evidence in the case, after defense attorneys had assailed it as weak and circumstantial.
Much of it was circumstantial, she acknowledged, but she also noted that circumstantial and direct evidence carry equal weight under the law.
“The defense is characterizing this case as a weak case because there’s no evidence,” she said. “Well the baby is found in Chris' bag with his clothes. That’s evidence. That’s very strong, very powerful evidence.”
“What’s the evidence in this case? You gotta be able to see the forest from the trees,” Zon added. “Look at all the evidence, you see a forest instead of individual trees - all of the evidence is right in front of you. Him jumping out of the car, his bag – it’s your bag, it’s your clothes in the bag and your hiding spot, the woods.”
Caliyah was found in a gym bag that belonged to McNabb, wrapped in a blanket and clothes of his, not far from the parents’ trailer. He had also told police in one interview how the woods were “the first place I go on foot if I felt like I was in trouble or something.”
“We cry out for justice for Caliyah and we cry out for a verdict of guilty on each count of both of their indictments,” Zon concluded.


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Man in blackface robs Maryland bank, police say
Police described the suspect as a "white male, with paint on his face."
Image: A suspect in a robbery who used blackface to disguise his identity in Perryville, Md.

A suspect in a robbery who used blackface to disguise his identity in Perryville, Md.Perryville Police Department


Jan. 30, 2020, 7:30 AM EST
By Ben Kesslen
A white man in Maryland wearing blackface robbed a bank on Tuesday, police said.
The suspect robbed a PNC bank in Perryville, Maryland, a town about 40 miles northeast of Baltimore, near the Delaware and Pennsylvania borders.

"We are seeking the public’s help in identifying the below pictured subject," Perryville police wrote on Facebook.
Police described the suspect as "a white male, with paint on his face," who seemed to be in his late 20s to early 30s. Authorities did not specify how much money he may have been able to steal from the bank.
 

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Former Florida police officer convicted of sharing child porn

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FEB 12, 2020 | 6:28 AM



Former St. Petersburg police officer Matthew Enhoffer, 34, pleaded guilty Tuesday, February 11, 2020, in Tampa federal court to distribution and possession of child pornography, according to court documents.

Former St. Petersburg police officer Matthew Enhoffer, 34, pleaded guilty Tuesday, February 11, 2020, in Tampa federal court to distribution and possession of child pornography, according to court documents. (St. Petersburg Police)

TAMPA — A Florida police officer faces up to 20 years in federal prison for sharing child porn.
Former St. Petersburg police officer Matthew Enhoffer, 34, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Tampa federal court to distribution and possession of child pornography, according to court documents.
Agents executed a search warrant at Enhoffer’s home in September after Homeland Security Investigations received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, prosecutors said. The center reported that someone at Enhoffer’s address had distributed child pornography on a web-based social media application.
An examination of Enhoffer’s electronic devices revealed that he possessed approximately 391 images and 7 videos depicting child pornography, as well as 293 images of child erotica, investigators said. The images and videos depicted young children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
A forensic analysis of Enhoffer’s laptop also revealed that he had distributed child sex abuse material to another individual in 2018, officials said.


 

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After eliminating his job, police chief strips down to underwear and walks home in snowstorm
Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY
USA TODAYFebruary 20, 2020, 10:41 AM EST

After eliminating his job, police chief strips down to underwear and walks home in snowstorm

After eliminating his job, police chief strips down to underwear and walks home in snowstorm
A New Hampshire police chief stripped down to his underwear and walked home in the middle of a snowstorm after his position was eliminated by the town's selectboard.
Richard Lee was relieved of his duties as police chief of Croydon, New Hampshire, Tuesday night after a three-member board voted to eliminate the one-man department.
After serving the town as police chief part-time for 20 years, Lee was told to immediately turn in the keys to his cruiser as well as his gun and uniform. He went into an office he shared with town officials and began stripping down.
“I gave them my uniform shirt. I gave them my turtleneck, I gave them my ballistic vest. ... I sat down in the chair, took off my boots, took off my pants, put those in the chair, and put my boots back on, and walked out the door," Lee said.
According to The Valley News, Selectboard Chairman Russell Edwards told Lee to turn in his uniform another day, but he declined.
Instead, without spare clothes or a ride, Lee chose to begin his 7-mile walk home in a snowstorm wearing only briefs, a T-shirt, a gray baseball cap and a shirt, the newspaper reported. He walked a little less than a mile in 26-degree weather before his wife picked him up.
Lee said that if he had left with his gear, he didn't want to face the possibility of being arrested. According to The Valley News, Lee and the selectboard have had moments of tension in the past, including when voters shut down a proposal from Lee to increase his salary by 43%.

He told the paper that he still doesn’t know why his position was terminated. However, Edwards said New Hampshire State Police already covered most incidents in the town and Tuesday night’s decision moved that to full coverage.
“Part of the discussion covered the fact that we didn’t feel we were getting the value of the money being paid to the chief versus what we have been paying for the state police coverage,” Edwards told WPTZ-TV.
Lee, who was going to retire in a year and a half, said in an interview with the news outlet that he has no plans to continue his career in law enforcement and will miss the people of Croydon.
“I wish them luck and seriously, good luck," he said. "I wouldn’t wish anybody ill in the town."
Contributing: Associated Press. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.
 

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Cop who told driver not to record police demoted

CBS NewsFebruary 20, 2020, 6:09 AM EST

Cop who told driver not to record police demoted

Cop who told driver not to record police demoted
WILMINGTON, N.C. -- When police stopped an Uber driver to detain his passenger last month, he immediately turned on his cellphone and started recording.
The officers demanded he turn off his phone, citing a reportedly non-existent state law, but what they didn't know was that Jesse Bright was a defense attorney – moonlighting as a driver to make some extra cash in an effort to pay off his student loans. Now, one of the officers involved has been demoted.
Local news outlets report Wilmington police Sgt. Kenneth Becker was demoted and hit with a 5 percent pay cut. Becker has been with the department 17 years.
Police spokeswoman Linda Thompson told The Associated Press an investigation of the incident was closed Thursday. She could not say whether the demotion was directly related to the investigation.
In the first of three videos Bright posted of the February 26 confrontation, one of the officers tells Bright that the passenger was caught leaving a drug house. He also asks Bright if he had anything in the car that he needed "to be concerned about" and if he would mind if he looked.
"I do mind because I haven't done anything. I mind," Bright says in the video.
When Becker ordered Bright to stop recording because of a new law, Bright knew better.
"I'll keep recording, thank you. It's my right," Bright is heard saying in the second video. "You're a police officer on duty. I can record you."
He then threatened him with jail and police began to search the car. Again, Bright refused to allow his car to be searched.
"I know the law, I'm an attorney so I would hope I know the law," he tells the officer.
"And an Uber driver?" Becker asked incredulously, refusing to see the attorney's bar card when offered.
Then a K9 unit was called and Bright was removed from the car. Bright again tells police that he didn't consent to being searched in the third video.
After a search, police let Bright go - without an apology, he tells CBS News.
After Bright went public with the incident, the police department released a statement saying they were launching an internal investigation. The department also addressed what it called a "crucial" question: "Taking photographs and videos of people that are in plain sight including the police is your legal right," Chief Ralph Evangelous said in the statement.
"As a matter of fact, we invite citizens to do so when they believe it is necessary."
A copy of the statement was to be distributed every officer in the department.
"I'd like everyone to film the police during interactions with them," Bright wrote in an email to Crimesider. "It keeps both parties honest."
– The Associated Press contributed reporting.
 
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