Crime Wire Weekly 1/23/26 | Uvalde Officer’s Trial, Nintendo Switch Murder, National Championship Crimes (Preview)

0:16 Welcome back, folks, to your favorite show covering trending true crime headlines throughout the nation this past week. In a quick look at the topics today. In Florida, the Indiana Hoosiers celebrated their historic first national championship on Monday, but it wasn't without its crime. We're going to cover just a few of the incidents that took place during the national championship game in Miami. In Texas, a man is convicted of decapitating his wife and then is found dead in his prison cell. Crazy story there. In Pennsylvania, loven year old boys charged with killing his father after his Nintendo switch was taken away. An unbelievable story in Pennsylvania.

1:01 In Louisiana, a deadly shooting at the iconic Dukie Chase restaurant in New Orleans has the whole community scrambling for answers. Also in Texas, a woman is arrested after hurling a twenty five pound weight at a suspected romantic rival. A wonderful name's Kelly Jennings could be possibly no, because you ain't going lift to have weights? No, And I ain't fighting anybody over anything. We've got all these stories plus much more today that we're going to be covering on crime or are Weekly And I am Jim Chapman. And I'm Kelly Jennings. All right, Kelly, we got a lot to talk about, but before we do, we do want to let all the listeners know that we did not get snow last week, much to my dismay. We thought we were. We talked about it and we didn't.

1:55 But now they're saying no, they're not even saying that this weekend, they're not. They changed it. It's moved a little bit further north of us. And no ice storm either, which I don't want ice storm. I don't either. That ain't no fun, No, it's fun. Rex. Yeah, that's like especially in my car. Oh my gosh, in my car. Could you know if it's raining, you got to be careful much less? Yeah, freaking ice skating out there. I don't want anybody wrecking through my fence. So I'm good. Just no ice is good. Yeah. So if you are in Louisiana and where the majority of our listeners are, no ice for us, and I'm sure most of you are excited about that. It just moved a little further north. The line is what they're saying, or it trends that way. Of course, we could wake up and be a white Christmas gums. You just don't know. You ever know in Louisiana. Yeah, only one person knows, and he don't tell nobody, and that's the Good Lord. So everybody else is just guessing. Yeah, the weather's the only business in which you can be wrong, like eighty percent of the time, and you're a good weather person.

2:58 When I was teaching, a former well known meteorologist in our local area came to teach science. Former well known. He was you would know him, Steve. I'm not going to say that Steve right. Uh And Jay, you know we love our. Ja here a couple of times, Jay. When the sleeves are rolled up on Jay, y'all it's getting real down south. But anyway, this guy was there. I thought I was funny, and we were sitting in a meeting and I was like, man, how do you like teaching? He was like that's cool whatever, And I was like, hey, meteorology is probably better though, because you can be wrong ninety percent of the time and nobody gets on to you. And I was like, he was not amused.

3:39 I'm sure he's heard that once before. Well maybe you were like the tenth person to say that like that day. Yeah, they get ill a lot of them and they do their best. But well, let's get it. Let's turn from weather to crime, and we're going to talk about the National Championship game that was this past asked Monday. Uh, I'm sure a lot of you out there watched that, and it was the Indiana Hoosiers who celebrated the win in that game, a historic first national championship. They had a pretty thrilling twenty seven to twenty one victory over the Miami Hurricanes, and it was, you know, one of the best national championships you could ever watch. Quite frankly. Uh, the Miami Dade Sheriff's Office put out a release on some of the crimes that took place, and I didn't realize that, but I was curious. I'm like, man, these you know, you've got one hundred thousand people coming to Miami.

4:36 You know, they had to act a full while they were here, especially as Indiana people, because they're not used to big city stuff. Man. Indiana's like a lot of cornfields and things like that, very down home country type of state, and they come you know, I'm thinking they're going to Miami, They're gonna act a fool. I didn't know what a hoosier was. I'm not gonna lie who who who? Who? Yeah? But do you know where I got to tell you this? Do you know where it came from? Yes? What? Uh? Who's yours? No, it's from an eighteen thirty three point we're possibly meaning who's your? Like, who's here? God? There you go? Who's your? In a rowdy frontier setting? Now that's to be my second guest.

5:17 Yeah, that's just in the internet. It could be wrong. Well, they have a great cheer. I love it. Who hoo hoo. Who's yours? Yeah, it's awesome. I know y'all love that. But anyway, getting back to crime, they did release a couple of incidents that took place. Uh, just nothing big. Thankfully everybody acted their age, I guess you could say with as far as the adults are concerned, and Miami really did a good job of locking things down and making sure you know that people were there to watch a game and not there to act a fool. Some of the things that came out field trespass and interference. A guy by the name of Alonzo McGill, who is fifty of Miami. He was taken into custody inside the stadium after allegedly jumping onto the field and entering the Miami Hurricanes bench area during the freaking game. He faces a charge of interference with sports or entertainment event, which is only a misdemeanor, and his bomb was set at twenty five hundred dollars. You know, it seems like that should be a little more serious than that. Beck I might run on. I might run onto the field.

6:26 For well worth five dollars. I say worth it for that? Yeah, you go viral ont assault on a deputy. Not so good for ad Liberto che Kon, who was nineteen. So you see the difference there. You got a fifty year old, maybe he's a little drunk, he need to drink some water. This guy here is, Yeah, he's gonna go hit a deputy. That's smart. He was arrested following a physical altercation in the stadium parking lot. Authorities say that he pushed a deputy during the incident, leading the charges of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrests without violence. I don't have any bond details on him. But I believe that's a felony. If I'm not, I would think aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer is a felony. Yeah, he must have a simple battery.

7:13 He must have actually knocked him down down, Yeah, like not just shoved him, but he must have tumbled, swung on him. Or something and hit him. Maybe sounds like it. The only other major or I don't know if I call it. The only other thing listed was a fake ticket scam. So Eddie Hunson was arrested for allegedly selling counterfeit National Championship tickets to a woman for five thousand dollars at the game. You know how, You're sitting there and people are walking around. Got two tickets and this lady walks up and they weren't real. He faces in charge of grand theft with a bond of twenty five hundred dollars and incidentally, on those tickets he sold those to her and she then boed him.

7:55 So golly, I mean, good for her, But what an idiot he is? Yeah, bad for her though, Well, I mean, what do you mean good for her? She goes fat, No, No, I mean that there is a trail like she didn't hit him cash. Oh yeah, yeah, I guess she. Can prove what she what happened there. Yeah, that's true. That's true, And eventually he'll have to pay I'm sore. I'm sure some sort of restitution for that, but heck that, you know, four years from now. Yeah, if he pays it at all. Exactly, no other major violent inch issues and there were no shootings, large scale disturbances or anything else reported. So shout out to Miami for doing a great job. That is not easy when you have one hundred thousand people coming in for a game like that and you only have three incidents. Shout out to him, Miami, Miami County, great job with the policing.

8:48 Now we're going to move on to Texas, and the name here is love Lady Texas. But this is going to be anything but that. So a twenty four year old Texas man serving a forty year sentence for the brutal decapitation of his wife just months after their wedding, has been found dead in his prison cell. Jared Dykas was discovered hanging by the neck in a single persons dikas. I know it should it should be Dickas. We talked about this off camera. But story no, we're not loving the story, but it is. Yeah, he deserved that name. But he was found hanging in his cell at the James j H. Jim Rudd unit. Now it's got two nicks.

9:30 The James. Yeah, it says James then end quote j then h then gem In quotes Rudd unit. So a lot of nicknames here they called they call it the Wainwright unit. So the longer nickname Jesus. Look, it was in Houston County, Okay. But prison staff attempted life saving measures, but Dicas was pronounced dead by the MS personnel shortly before eleven pm that evening, and it was ruled a suicide resulting from a self inflicted injury. Now Dykas pled guilty in in July twenty twenty four to the murder of his twenty one year old wife, Angie Diaz. The couple had married in an impromptu ceremony in October of twenty twenty two, and then on January eleventh, less than four months later, Dikas's parents called nine one one after discovering Diaz's body at the couple's home in the Oak Hollow Boulevard area in Waller County, and deputies arrived to find Diaz decapitated and partially dismembered, with the home covered in blood. When Dykas then confessed to the killings and he had used a kitchen knife to attack her, so Waller County Sheriff Troy Gidry described a scene as one of extreme violence, noting prior domestic disturbance calls involving the couple, but nothing had approached this level of brutality. Dykas was arrested in charge with murders shortly afterwards, and then, following a court ordered competency evaluation, he entered a plea of guilty in an open and shut trial before the district Court, and then he was sentenced to forty years in prison.

10:55 The parole eligibility was not available until twenty forty three. Now he had been trans to the Wainwright Unit, which is a maximum security prison in Love Lady, Texas, to serve his sentence. The tragic case drew widespread attention due to its shocking nature and the short duration of the marriage. Diez originally was from Nicaragua and was remembered by family and friends as a vibrant young woman whose life was cut short obviously in horrific circumstances, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice stated that the incident is under investigation, a standard protocol for inmate deaths. Though initial findings point to suicide, no foul play has. Been reported, you know, and there's some frustration there for me on that story because as a prison or as a jail, you can't let that happen. This guy is meant to see justice. That's why he was put there.

11:47 And it doesn't mean that anybody is crying over the fact that the guy's dead. But as a any prison or any ward naut of prison will tell you it's their job. Those people alive, whether they want to go or not, they need to face the music. And it's aggravating when when this guy just took these way out. Yep, housing custody in quarters, that's pretty much what we you know, what's got to be done there. And usually when something like this happens, well, I'll say usually so procedurally, you know, you go make rounds on your tiers, and you go up and down, and there's like a time frame so many minutes you have to walk down and check and all those types of things. But I don't know if maybe they did a check and then as soon as they you know, turned and walked. That's whenever he just I mean, it doesn't take long to hang yourself.

12:34 Yeah. So yeah, but this guy, he's dangerous. He was dangerous all around. Yeah. Well, there's no doubt about it. He certainly didn't need to be walking amongst the free horrible story. Uh, And I don't have the actual story here in front of me, so I'm just gonna go off the cuff. But this is something that happened late last night or was reported late last night. And I did want to mention, and that is that you remember the Uvaldi shooting. Yeah, okay, So the guy that was on trial for that, the officer, his name was Adrian Gonzales. He was found not guilty of twenty nine counts. I'm not sure of the exact charge that he was charged with, but it was obviously in relation to that he was looked at as a coward.

13:25 There were a lot of things that came out that said that this guy was basically hiding. If you will, I'll tell you what. I watched some of the trial footage for the last week I've been watching it because the defense attorney in this case was absolutely unbelievably amazing. This guy probably one of the best I've ever seen from a defense standpoint, and he really painted a picture that this guy, Adrian Gonzalez, was a scapegoat for people above him in that department, and that that's not to say that there's no one that needs to be held responsible for this, but when they break down the circumstance in his response, and this guy was an SRO, he was not swat team. He was not the dude had like a pistol with six bulletinny, you know he wasn't.

14:21 But what a tragic situation that Uvaldi really was. So many kids died in that incident was just terrible. I haven't watched the trial it was. It sounds really interesting. It sounds like there was a lack of training or something that must have gone on, because you know, I know our parish, Okay, and I know that somebody wants to get crazy in our parish, our deputies and our even you know, our local Dentum PD. They're they're coming in and they're going to do whatever they got to do. I know that. I believe it in my soul. So why this guy failed to respond is.

15:02 Well he didn't and that's the key. See, that's what the public perception is. When you watch that trial, you will learn he did not fail to respond and he did follow his training. As a matter of fact, there were two sides to that training. In the side, they had another gentleman that came from like thirty minutes away. His daughter was actually actually went to that school. He went over there and just busted up in the building. Well that's not the training, right, number one. That is the training issue that I'm thinking is. Yeah, but he's a total ballsing hero and I would have done the same thing. And believe it, my daughter's in there. I'm going grand theft auto up in that place. So I get it. And but nobody is throwing shade on that guy for doing that. It was a brave act and really, your common sense side of you says that's what should have happened. But I found myself feeling bad for this guy because this is a guy that had a pistol with like six bullets in it. He had no bullet per vest on, nothing, and you've got a high power of rifle with over one hundred and fifty shots being fired and you have no idea where it's coming from because it echoes. You know, these these rifles when they echo, you can't tell whether they're coming from north, southeast or west. He's waiting on swat team to come in. And because they got the gear right, they've got the shield, they've got all these things that you can get in this dose.

16:26 On the flip side, I'm not saying they didn't overcharge and all that, but on the flip side, those babies didn't have anything either. And but what good are you if you bust in there and you're dead. No but to me, putting some bullets down range, something to distract, something to buy time for that sh just just not to have open. And again, you know, like I said, I haven't watched the trial to get the in and out. Like I said, I don't charging him. I'm not sure how that came to be, but I think that the scapegoat thing, I understand society at least, because the babies didn't have any way of defending themselves either.

17:06 You at least had a gun something that you could have intervened maybe in some fashion. Why else are you there? And I think that's kind of where the argument came from, was why were you there? Then watch the highlights? I will. I'm just I know, I'm just saying. I'm just saying that perception is exact. I agree with you, Yeah, and it had I not watched the actual trial or pieces of it, I would have had the same thought. So I get it. And I'm not saying somebody should not be held responsible. I absolutely should. I think it just goes far above his PEG grade. Oh absolutely. And why on earth was he not giving given access, assuming to higher powered, you know, response weapons, because you know, you want to beat firepower with superior firepower in my opinion, and so so if someone's coming in, what we're assuming, they're always going to come in with a pistol because they're not, you know, the bad guy, So where they're not. This needs to be revisited, at least in that area for sure. That if you're going to put somebody there and you expect them to put their life on the line to intervene and to protect these children, then we ought to prepare them with the tools necessary to do such a thing is part of it.

18:27 I agree one hundred percent, and I'm not saying if if it weren't me, I'd like if it were me, I'd like to think that, you know, I'm grabbing whatever I got and going in there. Yeah. Period. But he didn't go hide in a closet. And that's kind of how the media has put it, like he went and that's not what happened. He you have to assess and figure out. I mean, you can't just run blindly, and all of your law enforcement training tells you not to run in blindly. That you're You've got to be tactical in some fashion. You have to approach it with an you know, what was he supposed to do? Just like run in and just say shoot me? Yeah. And that's the problem they talked about in this trial, the funneling. It's called a funnel when you open that door and you go in there. Funnel, that's exact name of it. And he would have been caught in that fatal funnel, and he would look if he would have the bottom line is if he would have went in that building, he would be dead, there's no doubt. So he's doing no good to anybody at that point. And I am sure, I truly believe looking at this man and just watching his mannerisms during this trial. There is nobody on God's Green Earth outside of the victims of the victims' families that feel worse about this, and he probably hates himself in a lot of ways, feeling like maybe I should have maybe I could have done something.

19:50 Hindsight's twenty twenty, and you know, he just looked like just defeated man. Like I'm sure he does. And I'll tell you this, This where there's the divide that we and that's why I like the show that we discussed these things. But that's where the divide is. Is that there's training, there's tactics, and there's the reasons that people do what they do, and then there's society that's just looking at it and they think they're looking at it with a microscope, but they're not. That you're looking at a from one angle, a multifaceted situation where common sense, and this is gonna sound crazy, but common sense would tell you don't go run through a fatal funnel when someone's got a much larger weapon. But then you have to put that up against it. But there's children being slaughtered on the other side.

20:38 So I don't think he could have won either way. I think if he died, we would have hailed him a hero. But he lived, and so now he's a coward. I don't think that he could have won in this situation. Now, if I'm a parent of one of those children and I knew that you were standing out there with a gun and you didn't fire it, I'd be pissed. So I yeah, that's right. It's a tough situation. But at the end of the day, a jury of his peers, twelve people found him absolutely not guilty of those twenty nine counts. And one more thing on that story that I found interesting. So there's a phenomenon. It's where you lose time. Okay, so when you're in a high stress situation, you will actually lose time. And there is a word for that. It's called perceived something, and I can't remember it off the top of my head, but it is where a situation will happen and it seems like ten seconds and it was three minutes. I got something like that, And that came into play big time during this trial because there was only like a minute and a half before he got out of his car and he did start putting bullets down range, and the perception was that it was like five minutes. And so this defense attorney did a great job of narrowing that timeline down and he used the term he said, people thought that it was five minutes because of.

22:06 This seems like a lifetime whatever. So it's phenomenal. The way you can think of it, too, is like a car wreck. If you've ever been in a car wreck and you think back on it, it looks like slow motion in your mind. It's everything like slows down. And they do it in the movies too, when there's a car wreck, right, to really emphasize how dramatic it is and the crashing and the booming, and then theent'll speed up. You know, I'm like ripping down the studio while I'm telling the story. I gotta put my hands up. But it's kind of like that. You know, everything in your body too, slows down, and when you're trying to respond to something like this, your entire system of fight or flight, right, it kicks in, and obviously you have to fight. All your blood shoots to your central of your center of your body to pump the major organs your brain, your heart, and so you'll lose like dexterity in your fingers, and you'll lose the ability to respond in the way that you think that you will respond, and people forget that. It's like when society looks like they think it's gonna to be like a robot, you know, and you're just going to And so that's where lots of training comes.

23:05 In, that's right, And that's that's why you need, like your Navy seals and your guys the train every single day, and so it becomes muscle memory to them where when they go through these situations, their body knows how to react without them thinking about it. Muscle memory. And you know what we don't need. We don't need any more cowards going up in schools and shooting children. That's what we don't need. I feel that, all right, So let's go to McDonald's. We want to do that. We're going to be in Springtown, Texas this time, where a nineteen year old McDonald's worker has been arrested after authorities say he allegedly double charged customers at a local franchise, funneling nearly seven hundred dollars to his personal account through a sophisticated yet brazen credit card scam. Giovanni Blunt of Poolville, Texas was taken into custody on Sunday, January eighteenth by the Springtown Police Department following a customer complaint about unauthorized charges on their debit card after a visit to the McDonald's drive through. According to police investigators, Blunt was first processing legitimate payments for customers orders using the restaurant's point of sale system. He then allegedly used a personal device described as a tapping mechanism or mobile payment app to fraudulently charge the same credit or debit card a second time for an additional ten to twenty dollars per transaction. The extra funds were reportedly routed directly to an account under Blunt's control. Investigators believe the scheme of all more than fifty transactions, netting Blunt approximately six hundred and eighty dollars before he was apprehended. Surveillance footage from the McDonald's reportedly captured Blunt carrying out the fraudulent

24:37 taps and plane view of the cameras. He was initially charged with theft of property in the one hundred to seven hundred and fifty dollars range and held in the county jail on a thirty thousand dollars bond. Authorities later upgraded those charges to fraudulent use or possession of identifying information, which is a first degree felony due to the number of transactions that were involved, and I agree with that there were a lot of victims here. Springtown Police urged anyone who visited the McDonald's location and paid with a debit card or credit card in recent days, particularly January eighteenth, to immediately review their bank, their bank, and their card statements for unauthorized or suspicious charges, and officials noted that some affected customers have already received refunds from their financial institutions or the restaurant. So the police department then emphasized preventative measures for consumers, including keeping cards out of sight when possible, using mobile wallets or contactless payments that tokenize card information, and regularly changing your pen or banking passwords to reduce the risk of similar fraud.

25:37 Well, I can tell you one person, he wouldn't have got away. Well he didn't get away with it, but he wouldn't have got away with it to that extent as you because if you would have saw I mean y'all don't know Kelly Kelly will be on it for fifty cent. Yeah, Hey, I work for my money, and uh, you ain't. Glad you took a walace. You damn near took Walmart coke. Look, I was too. They thought I was playing They y'all if you've been following the show, you know. But they one of their employees charged my card for the person behind me is grocery bill of four hundred and eighty dollars and thought I was just gonna let that go, and I will not. It took me one year to get my money back, but you got it back, you dad go.

26:22 Most people would have gave up. I ain't giving up now you aren't multi multi million dollar company billion give me my money back. Yeah. Well, look this is a lesson and always pay attention to your to your charges. Things like that seven hundred dollars he got away with in just a couple of days. It sounds like before he was caught. That's a lot of burgers, man, that's a lot of McDonald's. Yeah, you know, so, I don't know why he thought he was getting. Obviously to see young kid who had no idea how easy it is to catch somebody doing something like that. I mean right on the cameras too. You're listen, okay, Giovanni from Mama Jack kJ here. You need to get get some education because this is not a good pass.

27:08 He's gonna get He's gonna get some now and up in prison, he's gonna get a lot of education. You take my extra ten dollars, I'll educate you. Let's go to Pennsylvania and just a tragic story here. An eleven year old boy has been charged with criminal homicide and the fatal shooting of his adoptive father early last Tuesday morning, after the parent took away his Nintendo Switch gaming console and told him to go to bed. How dare he right? Parent? Pennsylvania State Police responded to a home at about three twenty am, so this eleven year old was up playing Nintendo. At three twenty am after receiving a call about an unresponsive mail, officers discovered a forty two year old by the name of Douglas Deats dad from a single gunshot went into the head. His wife, who was asleep side him, awoke to a loud noise in what she described as a smell of fireworks like gunpowder. According to court documents, the suspect is Douglas Deed's eleven year old son, Clayton.

28:11 The boy allegedly told investigators he was angry because his father had confiscated his Nintendo switched shortly after midnight due to the late hour, and ordered him to go to bed. Clayton reportedly said he was blinded by rage and intended to shoot his father. Authority said Clayton accessed the family's gun safe by finding a key in his father's drawer. Original originally while searching for the Nintendo switch, so he's looking for that, finds the gun safe key. He then removed the firearm, loaded it with bullets, walked into his parents' bedroom, and shot Douglas while he slept. After the shooting, the boy allegedly woke his mother and told her quote, I killed daddy. Wow. He later confessed to police by saying I shot somebody in identify fight his father as a target. The boys facing homicide charges. Neighbors describe the family as quite none, assuming no prior public indications of domestic issues or concerning behavior from the child. Douglas Deets was remembered by family and friends as a devoted father, and before we get into the comments here, shout out Lord Johnson for sending this story.

29:23 We love you, Lorie, You're the best. Yeah, this is unhinged, I guess as the best eleven eleven years old? You know you're in what fifth grade? Yeah? I don't even know what the I mean? This is this is the deal question? Yeah, and this is where this the deal is here. So kids that do these types of things, they don't think long term. We all know that kids don't think long term. He was in rage mode, probably addicted to the video game. And but when you take the steps and it's even plausible in your mind to take the steps to load the gun and then to go shoot your father, we have a massive, massive problem here. He's gonna live with this for the rest of his life, and he's going to need I don't know what the words are because punishment obviously you don't kill people. But you're eleven years.

30:27 Old, I mean, you're I would imagine he'll probably end up getting sentenced to juvenile. I would think juvenile life type thing. Yeah, certainly he'll be out of eighteen and you know what's going to happen here too. The problem is that he's going to go to a juvenile center and he's going to be around other adolescents, thugs, and you're he's gonna just become an even more And I know, and so it makes you wonder, was he a you know, addictions real? I'm sorry, I really do think that kids are addicted. I'm addicted to my vice a device. Everybody is addicted to to this. Have we gotten to that level that we're killing our kids, are killing adults. I mean, it's obviously not the norm, but what in the world and this poor mom, you adopt this child and then he kills your your husband. Wow, that's insane. So we got to figure that one out.

31:22 That's a tough one. Obviously he's little. I mean, I don't know what to say. That's that's crazy. All right, I'm going to stay in Texas. I feel like I've been in Texas this whole show, and we're going to Now it's spelled Humble, but my sister lives here, so I know it's pronounced humble Texas. And in umble what it is? I'm telling you, I. Thought somebody somebody figured it out Humble. I need humble. It is, it's humble, And I fought it for years. I would go there and I'd be like Humble, and even the locals that story. You check it, I'm telling you, and I hate it because it should be Umbulel Texas, but it's Umble anyway. So, a twenty five year old woman from Umble, Texas has been arrested after allegedly confessing to police that she sexually assaulted a five year old child under the direct instructions of her boyfriend. And this is all according to court documents and law enforcement officials.

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