Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140731 : vimarsana.

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140731

Neighbors say its snatching birds, targeting small pets and theyre afraid for their children. What is being done to catch it. Plus a local couple heads for denver and never looks back. Why they say Legal Marijuana is giving their three year old daughter her life back. We begin with developing story in Burlington County. A kitten test positive for rabies a cat a lot of people have handled. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Shawnette wilson is live in medford for us tonight. Shawnette . I can tell you this is causing a big concern for people here in this neighborhood. Some who say they had contact with this cat and just learned today they may need to be trea treated. I found it had couple things wrong with its foot i cut off it and we were all holding it and everything. David winger says his 11 year old daughter and her friends found the cat they say the Burlington County Health Department is warning had rabi rabies. Now my daughters best friend was at the hospital yesterday getting shots. Now, we both might have to go again tomorrow and get shots, too. People had live in Medford Township in the areas of eaves mill road, route 541 and route 70 are getting letters in the male warning of possible expose. I would be concerned. But i do take precautions. You dont know what it could have been anything. 13 people three cats an dog exposed and are being treated. Linda devine has dog and cat of her own. My cat comes out on a lead. It doesnt go loose. Thats the lead and it gets on the swing and lace there all day long. I dont know whats going to come up to my cat. Meanwhile 11 year old sarah is anxious about possibly being infected and having to get a shot. I hope not to be. So youll do it to be safe . Yes. Reporter and the Burlington County Health Department says if you were bitten or scratched by a stray animal or wildlife within the past month in this area you should call them. Iain, back to you. All right, shawnette, thank you. Happening now a search tonight in Burlington County. Police are looking for this duo accused of burglarizing a Police Officers car and stealing his wallet. Police say the officers credit card was then used at a wawa in New York Landing road in maple shade. The card was also used at the jughandle inn in cinnaminson. The officers badge, police id, drivers license and cash were also inside his wallet. One of the women injured in the germantown avenue carjacking and hitandrun is out of the hospital tonight. Doctors say 69 year old thelma brown is now home recovering. The mother of the three children killed in the crash remains in a coma. They were all hit while selling fruit to support their local church and garden last week. Two suspects are behind bars facing murder charges. Six philadelphia Police Officers off the streets and in federal court. Theyre accused of kidnapping, stealing money and drugs. Its all part of a conspiracy prosecutors say goes back years. Fox 29s bruce gordon was there as the officers faced a judge. Its a story you saw first on fox. Reporter the indictment calls six former members of the Police Departments narcotics field unit traders in the war on drugs. Theory of the operation was to identify suspected drug dealers and use extortion means and threats in order to get their money and property and if it happened to be drugs then they distributed. The alleged dirty half dozen thomas, brian reynolds, michael spicer, perry bets, Linwood Norman and john spicer are accused of shaking down drug dealers for more than half a until i dont know bucks from 2006 through 2012. Its alleged they beat and threatened uncooperative targets who are naturally reluctant to go public with their stories. In one case, officer norman is accused of lifting a man off his feet and leaning him over the rail on the 18th floor of an apartment house. Ive been a Police Officer for more than 40 years, and this is one of the worst cases of corruption that i have ever heard. Reporter already convicted dirty cop Jeffrey Walker is believed to have copped with authorities. No comment from the u. S. Attorney except to say he was part and parcel of these groups of individuals and they participated in different acts and furtherance of the conspiracy report lost defendants plead guilty in federal court. Instead of rushing to judgment lets where the allegations come from, lets who is making them want they said in the past about these allegations in courts of law and my guess is that behind each of these allegations is nothing. Reporter in attendance the lawyer representing dozens of people suing the cops over the exact mistreatment alleged in the indictment. Most important thing is not my case. The most important thing we need to have a Justice System where Police Officers actually follow the law they dont break it and get away with it. Its a mag thats there and if you dont cut it out, it will not improve on its own. You have to get rid of it. And thats what were committed to doing. However painful it may. Report the report the officers were arrested without incident and remain behind bars much this scandal has already led to the dismissal of scores of drug cases in which these officers were involved. Its not clear at this point how many, if any, more cases will have to be dumped in the fallout over this prosecution. In the newsroom, bruce gordon, seven news. Five people under arrest in connection with a wild Armed Robbery at caesars casino in atlantic city. The robbery happened on july 212 masked men stormed the casino and made off with boxes of money. Police say the suspec suspects e nearly 200,000. 19 year old plumber, 20 year old Dwayne Morgan and 23 year old aaron evans sitting in jail tonight. Two more suspects Monique Kelly and lance rogers facing charges as well. Police say theyve been able to recover most of the money. A wild day for police in philadelphia. Tonight investigators are looking into two cases of Police Involved shootings. The first one happened around 4 30 on the 3200 block of page street in strawberry mansion. Plea say a man pulled a gun on an officer and the officer shot the guy in the stomach. The officer is not hurt and its not clear how the man is doing tonight. Police shot a suspect in the citys eastwick section. It its it happened around 5 30 at elm rood and island avenues. Police say they were in the middle of making an arrest for stolen motorcycle when a suspect tried to run over the officer. An officer fired his gun hitting a suspect one in the arm. The suspect is in stable condition. Officers were not hurt. Newark, new jersey, Police Officer is recovering tonight after being shot in the leg. It happened this afternoon on clinton avenue. The mayor said the officer was struggling with a suspect during an Armed Robbery when the shooting happened. The officer is expected to be okay. Police arrested the suspect at the scene. Taking down the mainline takeover project. For people plead guilty to dealing drugs at local high schools and colleges. 18 year old Garrett Johnson and 18 year old reid cohen plead guilty to misdemeanor marijuana charges. Willow lynn and 29 your old Dominic Curcio both plead guilty to felony conspiracy with intent to deliver marijuana. Prosecutors say the two ringleaders are 18 year old timothy brooks and 25 year old neal scott. Investigators say the drug ring was pushing coke cane, ecstasy, marijuana and hash oil at five mainline high schools and three colleges in the area. What happened today is critical to the case, because the four who have plead guilty have also agreed to testify against the suspected ringleaders. Sunset boulevard looks more like sunset lake after major water main break. Ucla campus cleanup operation is underway repairs could be difficult. Foxs william longness explains. Reporter crews are hard at work on sunset boulevard after a water main broke and millions of gallons of water gushed out of the ground near the ucla campus. Though the water has been turned off, Officials Say a number of valves are leaking. The general superintendent of water distribution says workers are assessing all of their options but the location of the break makes the repair process especially difficult. Normally a break of this size we just just go in and cut out section of pipe and replace it real quick. This is locate ready two pipes come together and creating a lot of complexity for us. Reporter the nearly century old pipe burst on tuesday afternoon. Creating a geyser that flooded the streets at a rate of up to 75 thus sand gallons a minute. Students nearby rushed to grab sandy bags. Saw this happening and i just said what the heck ill rush out here and help out. Reporter the water rushed on to streets and athletic fields on campus threatenin thrg polly pavilion. Some areas are expected to need serious repairs. Tremendous damage it room now everybody is trying to understand what is going on. Biggest concern is to dry it well enough without any chances of growing mold report roar despite the break residents still have water service. Traffic is something else. There is a huge sink hole on sunset boulevard and officials cannot say with certainty when it will be fixed. In los angeles, william longness, fox news. Skyfox over deadly accident in deptford, new jersey an 82 year old man has died. His car collided with a Public Works Department dump truck. Police say the man was making a uturn on delsea drive at fox run road and the truck was behind him when it happened. The driver of the truck is not hurt and that crash is under investigation. Two attacks today in a gaza push. Palestinian death toll to more than 1300 people. Strikes today hit a crowded shopping area in gaza city. Earlier in the day, tank shells tour through the wall of un school packed with war refugees. At least 17 people died there and 90 more people were hurt. Israeli Officials Say they will not leave gaza until all hamas tunnel noose their country are destroyed. Hamas says they wont stop the violence until the blockade is lifted. Huge python on the prowl in south jersey. Neighbors say its snatching birds and targeting cats. Now theyre worried about little kids. What is being done to catch this illusive reptile. And marijuana refugees, local family moves to colorado so they can give their three year old daughter cannibus oil three times a day. So this is vivians primary cannibus medicine. Its a strain called charlottes web. How they say legal pot is changing their little girls life. A mother arrested for letting her seven year old walkway ron to the park. The danger cops say lives just around the corner and why the mom stands by her decision to let her little boy play alone. Philadelphia Elementary School students say lebron james no problem. Our teacher can take him. What theyre doing to get the basketball greats attention sing that prove it. And temperatures today almost 10 degrees below average. So where is the heat . Well talk about the weather changes ahead plus when youll need the rain gear and if youre making plans for the weekend. Why you might want to have the umbrellas handy. Another snake has a neighborhood on edge tonight. This time its in cape may county. Wildlife Officials Say a python is slithering the streets and nearly 12 feet long. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell has the story from lower township. Its tail was at one corner of my patio and its head was at the other. Reporter Becky Clements was sun bathing in her backyard in the villas when something caught her eye creeping up the crate myrtle tree feet away. The snake was coiled up the tree. Its tail was hanging about 3foot down and it was eating a full sized seagull. She soon realized this was no black garden snake. This was the real deal. A python right there under the patio table. It turned around. Retreated that way. Reporter after killing a sea gull the snake came back for more. It was thick constructing and just moved fast. Report roar this time the snake attacked a neighbors cat. Then tried to devour another snake that michael had to resc rescue. So far we saved a snake an cat from it. Reporter now some are worried about their small pets and children. Were all definitely on edge. Its a pretty big snake. Week later the unwelcomed guest showed up in judy thomps thompsons backyard. The girth of a football which scares me because if the end is that big, the mouth is probably twice the size. Reporter the python is now on the move. The last snake sighting this morning in a completely different neighborhood about a mile away. Cape may county wildlife officers have been searching for the snake that was most likely a pet that someone had released into the wild. Its a big snake. 12foot. I never seen. Were actually looking for it. Reporter neighbors hope it gets caught before it tries to find more food. I think someone let it go in the area. Its not normal to see that kind of snake in this area. Report roar in the villas, Chris Oconnell, fox 29 news. A woman visiting philadelphia fights off an tack kerr. Police say a man tried to tie a rope around her neck. It happened this afternoon at 45th and large wood streets but the woman were not go down without fight. Police say she tore the mans shirt right off his body. They say, they caught the guy and hes charged with this case and a similar incident that happened sunday. The woman by the way is doing just fine. Atlantic city Police Arrest man accused of robbing a bank and then taking a cab to casino. Police say 34 year old lonnie britain held up the bank of america on the 2900 block of atlantic avenue. Cops say he then hailed a cab and headed toward harrahs casino. Police quickly caught up with britton at the cass soon know hes facing a long list of charges tonight. And what was in Spring Garden apartment that had the bomb squad responding. You saw it breaking right here last night at 10 00 on the fox 29 news. And tonight, Philadelphia Police are still trying to answer that question. The scene a building at ninth and Spring Garden streets. Police found a Pressure Cooker and something growing inside the apartment. Theyre now sending the substances to crime lab to solve the mystery. A violent death a little girl covered in blood and tonight the man who police say is behind it all is formally charged a judge arraigned 5284 old Kevin Ambrose today for the stabbing and killing of 41 year old jennifer bonko in new jersey. Prosecutors say he dumped her body along ariel and will tons landing road. And had her five year old daughter with him. Prosecutors say he then dropped off the little girl at the home they all shared and he took off leaving her alone. Thats where the childs aunt eventually found her. Short time later she found jf alone at the door with what appeared to be blood on her clothing. Jf told the 91 werent caller that mommy is dead. Jennifer boncko is jf mother. If convicted ambrose faces 30 years to life in prison. In montgomery county, two, 17 year olds are accused of breaking in a home and baking pot brownies. Police say it happened on the 100 block of lincoln road and perkiomen township. They say they caught the teens in the home with more than 2 pounds of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Why did they target that home . As of right now that is still a mystery. At least 20 new jersey residents now tested positive for a mosquito born virus spread throughout the caribbean. The state Health Department says the residents who came down from chikungunya returned from new jersey to the caribbean it it causes a high fever and spear pain in the joints but its rarely dea deadly. Little loggers from south philadelphia are state champions with their eyes on an even bigger prize the Little League world series. And they have a very special pitcher on the mound leading the way. Fox 29s drew dickman introduces to the taney dragons. Reporter the boys of summer arent alone this season. Meet monet davis. Shes a girl and her coaches say shes a star. Get treated differently but not always, but get treated the same most of all, because all just playing one sport. Reporter davis pitches and plays third base. 13 year old is hoping to lead the taney dragons to the Little League world series in williamsport two weeks from now. Trying to put the name taney out there in the world to let everyone know that inn are in city kids can make a big difference in baseball industry. Reporter if successful, shell be only the 17th female to play in the tournament 68 year history. Thats 17 out of nearly 9,000 athletes. Davis doesnt mind being a girl among boys and hopes her success inspires others. To change this whole, like, only like men and boys play baseball to change that different genders can play baseball and not just one gender and i kind of want all the other girls who play baseball. Report roar shes also thrilled to have her city behind her. Thats a lot of support, and it just keeps motivating us to keep going and to go as far as we can. Reporter drew dickman, fox 29 news. All right. Lets join Scott Williams now for look at your thursday morning forecast. Looking pretty good tomorrow morning, iain. Temperatures in the suburbs well do it again into the upper 50s. 64 degrees in the city. A mixture of sun and clouds. It will be a dry and comfortable start across the area but we will have some changes during the day tomorrow. But looking right now at the satellite and radar its dry. But look off to the west. There is diminishing line of showers weakening trying to make its way toward the pocono mountains and also sections of be

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