Person of interest speaks about missing Buckhead woman
“When a person disappears without a trace, often the most critical information is hidden in their actions and words in the days before they vanished,” says the narrator of ID Channel’s TV series ‘Disappeared‘.
In the case of Stacey Nicole English, the 36-year-old Buckhead woman who went missing on Dec. 26, 2011, her last actions and words may hold the key to her disappearance.
According to her family, English was acting “out of character” and talking about the end of the world in the days leading up to her disappearance. She is on medication and she was previously hospitalized following a suicide attempt, according to the police report.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Erin Coleman spoke by phone with the last person to see English alive.
Atlanta police named Robert Kirk a ‘person of interest’ in the case. He was visiting English over the holidays when the two got into an argument on Dec. 26. English reportedly threw Kirk out of her apartment that day.
“(I) heard about the reports and it sent a tingle through me,” Kirk told Coleman, according to WSBTV.com.
Kirk said he is praying for English’s safety and that the situation is “crazy.”
Kirk also spoke with a reporter from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a phone interview today. “I don’t know what’s going on. All I know is, I’ve been speaking with [authorities] for a week,” he said.
Kirk declined to say anything more, referring a reporter’s questions to his attorney Scott Rosenblum.
English worked at Sun Trust Bank and lived in a condo off Lenox Road in Buckhead for 4 years. She left behind her cellphone, iPad and keys, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Update: Floyd Mayweather won’t have to turn himself in until June 1
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Prize fighter Floyd “Money” Mayweather won’t need any of his flashy jewels or fancy cars where he’s going. Today is the day the troubled boxer must turn himself in to authorities to begin serving a 90-day sentence for roughing up his children’s mother in front of them in September 2010.
Mayweather will turn 35 in prison on Feb. 24.
It’s cold on the cell block this time of the year — even in Las Vegas. And Mayweather won’t have his curvy model fiancee, Shantel Jackson, to keep him warm for the next 3 months.
The boxing champ was sentenced to serve 6 months on Dec. 21, but a Las Vegas judge suspended 3 months of his sentence and allowed him to remain out over the holidays. The judge also credited Floyd 3 days for time served.
Mayweather has until today (Jan. 6) to turn himself in at the prison — where Bubba awaits.
Update: According to TMZ.com, a judge ruled today that Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t have to turn himself in to a Las Vegas jail until June 1, 2012 … so he can fight in Las Vegas on May 5th.
TMZ adds: “His attorney’s justification … Floyd’s a pro who brings in hundreds of millions in profits for the city of Las Vegas — and hey, thing’s get rescheduled all the time … no bigs.”
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Dallas Teen Mistakenly Deported, in Foreign Prison, and Pregnant
A Dallas teenager, missing since 2010, has now been found pregnant and jailed in a foreign country.
According to published reports, American teenager Jakadrien Turner was 13 when she ran away from home after her grandfather died and her parents divorced in 2010.
Jakadrien turned up a year later, in Houston, Texas, where she was arrested for shoplifting at age 14. Jakadrien had no ID on her when she gave police a false name, which coincidentally belonged to an illegal immigrant who was flagged by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for deportation.
According to WFAA:
ICE officials stepped in… took the girl’s fingerprints, but somehow didn’t confirm her identity and deported her to Colombia, where the Colombian government gave her a work card and released her.
Jakadrien found work cleaning homes as a maid in a Spanish-speaking country where she did not understand the language. After months of searching, Jakadrien’s grandmother found the girl working in Bogota, Columbia. She is 15 now, and pregnant.
Crime: Missing Boy’s Mother Told Police She Had No Child
Police are scouring the South for a toddler who hasn’t been seen since Thanksgiving. According to published reports, Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott says they’re still getting very little help from the mother of the missing toddler about that child’s whereabouts.
The boy’s mother, Zinah Jennings, 22, was taken into custody Dec. 24, when Jennings crashed her Dodge Neon into a tree near her home in Columbia, S.C.
Jennings’ mother, Jocelyn Jennings Nelson, called Columbia police on Dec. 8 to report Jennings’ 18-month-old son, Amir, missing. Amir’s grandmother was concerned because her daughter had gotten into a separate car accident several days earlier and made “cryptic phone calls to other family members indicating her ongoing fight with depression is continuing,” police said in a report.
“Zinah was not necessarily reported as missing,” said Jocelyn, “It was the child that I was concerned with because I had actually seen her the night before.”
Amir’s biological father told police he last saw his son during Thanksgiving. That’s when Jennings left Columbia en route to Atlanta with Amir to stay with her sister. Police were able to confirm that Jennings and Amir had indeed arrived in Atlanta. Police are analyzing video surveillance tapes to determine Amir’s last location in Atlanta.
During 3 days of interrogation, Jennings told police, first, that she had no son. Then she told police that she left the boy with her sister in Atlanta.
Concert Promoter and His Son Kidnapped At Gunpoint After Nas is a No-Show
An American concert promoter and his son learned the hard way that rappers are not the most scrupulous businessmen in the world.
According to TMZ.com, AllGood Entertainment CEO Patrick Allocco and his son are currently being held at gunpoint in an Angola hotel until rapper Nas and another rapper returns the $315K each that they were paid to perform a New Year’s Day concert.
Allocco’s people tell TMZ that Nas and opening act Jemiah Jai were paid $315k to perform 2 shows (Nas’ cash was wired to him in America) — but Nas failed to make his flight in the U.S., and apparently he didn’t reschedule the concert.
Naturally, the Angolan money man who ante’d up the cash for Nas’ concert fee assumed he was being screwed. So he sent his goons to fetch the promoter and his son and bring them to him — at gunpoint.
The promoter and his son were handed over to Angolan police and interrogated for 7 hours until the U.S. embassy stepped in to secure their release.
But they’re not quite free to go.
According to TMZ, the men are being held (likely at gunpoint) “in residence” at a local hotel while the two sides try to resolve the money situation.
Alloco’s people released this depressing message to Nas and his people:
“The hope is that Nas and Jemiah Jai will return all of the monies that were wired to them immediately so that our ransom may be paid and our safe return to the United States may be facilitated.”
Sadly, they’ll be waiting a long time if they expect Nas to return any of that money. We are taking about rappers here.
Lindsay Lohan Hires Bodyguard After Stalker Knocks On Front Door
Are you sure you want to be a celebrity?
Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan was home alone in Venice Beach, California on Sunday when a stranger walked up to her front door and knocked. Lohan asked the elderly man what he wanted but she didn’t open her door. According to celebrity website TMZ.com, the man responded that he was friends with another alleged Lohan stalker, David Cocordan, and he wanted to explain a few things to Lindsay.
It isn’t clear who called the police, but they arrived a few minutes later and cuffed the man. He was later identified as Lonnie Short, 64, (pictured below being arrested) and he apparently can’t afford the 10% ($100) of his $1000 bail to get out of jail, which is probably a good thing for Lindsay.
Her frightening encounter with the stranger has set Lindsay’s nerves on edge, and for good reason. As a very high profile actress whose face is recognized around the world, it makes no sense that she doesn’t live in a gated community patrolled by live security 24 hours a day.
TMZ reports that Lohan has hired a bodyguard to stay with her temporarily, and she has ramped up security in her luxury 3-story Venice Beach rental with surveillance cameras in an effort to protect her privacy — and maybe her life.
Suspect Named in Shooting Death of Rapper Over Candy
The late rapper Notorious B.I.G.’s seemingly prophetic song, “You’re Nobody Until Somebody Kills You,” comes to mind as Atlanta’s underground rap scene grieve over the death of rapper Slim Dunkin, 24.
Dunkin, real name Mario Hamilton, was virtually unknown to the rest of us outside of the underground scene, until he was killed.
Police say Hamilton was shot once in the chest — reportedly over a piece of candy at a southeast recording studio on Dec. 16.
Hamilton, who was 6-8, towered over his shorter assailant who produced a gun and shot Hamilton. Friends loaded the mortally wounded rapper into a car and rushed him to Grady hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police say about 20-30 people were present inside the recording studio on Memorial Drive when the gun went off. But no witnesses came forward.
On Thursday, police identified Atlanta rapper Young Vito, 28, as the gunman. Police say Vito, real name Vinson Hardimon, is in danger, and he is being urged to turn himself in.
