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The death of an Asian American teenager who was set on fire and burned alive in Colorado in 2017 will now be investigated as a possible hate crime by the FBI. The details: In a statement, the federal law enforcement agency shared that it is looking into the case of 17-year-old Maggie Long as a "hate crime matter," reported CBS4. The FBI noted that a hate crime is a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by the individual’s bias agai...

Credit Leonard J. DeFrancisci via Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. On Wednesday, April 28, Park County reported 22 new cases of COVID-19, one of the largest single day increases recently. Through contact tracing the public health department was able to discover the majority of those cases were due to individuals who arrived from out of state and had tested positive. Park County Public Health Officer Dr. Aaron Billin said all those individuals are currently quaranti...

>> no. >> so you have a box of condoms with you, never had sex before. the whole plan was to have sex with a 13-year-old when you got here, okay? >> that was the original plan. >> at this point youre going to be charged with unlawful sexual conduct, attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. >> whats the penalty? >> its a felony on the fourth degree. >> it goes on my record forever? im going to be tried for it? >> yeah. >> nathan spent the night in the dark county jail. >> he wants to engag...

You should probably have a little bit more common sense about things that were doing out here tonight, okay? >> the interesting thing about jay reffner is, once hes arrested and processed and taken in for questioning, it turns out that his mother is a prosecutor in a nearby county. and his father was a police officer. >> my attorney is my mother. >> okay. >> i got a dial tone. >> go ahead and dial. >> now, how do you pick up the phone and tell your mother, the prosecutor, that you just got arres...

>> glen mitchell is driving from indiana. hes on one of these dark country roads. he gets lost. >> yeah. go -- make sure you are going east. >> it was very intense. >> theres a cop following you? >> i think he makes a funny move on the road. and theres a police officer there. this makes mitchell spooked. and so he gets back on the road and starts to hightail it back to indiana. >> theres a cop before him and after him. theyre guiding him back to the freeway because he lied and told them he got l...

As it gets closer, something changes their mind. and thats whats been going on. thats why im not giving you updates on guys, because as the time approaches they keep bailing out. >> perverted justice decoys have been chatting with a number of men right around greenville and in darke county. and there came a point saturday where they just started going away. >> the words out around here. greenville is having a chat where these guys stop talking. >> the detectives later speculated that somehow wor...

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