National Roundup

Pennsylvania
Cops: Boy’s mom put ex-girlfriend’s nude photo online
BROWNSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police say a woman cyberbullied her son’s ex-girlfriend by posting online a nude picture the girl sent to him when she was just 12.

Troopers from the Belle Vernon barracks are looking to arrest 39-year-old Danita Michaux on charges including felony dissemination of child sex acts.

Police say the girl snapped the picture in 2013 and sent it to Michaux’s son. It shows the girl from the waist up.

Police say Michaux posted the picture on Facebook after they split up.

Police say the girl’s aunt also got harassing Facebook messages from Michaux in December.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Michaux. She doesn’t have a listed telephone number.

New York
Man pleads not guilty to stabbing wife 22 times
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The husband of a prominent pediatrician has pleaded not guilty to stabbing her 22 times inside their multimillion-dollar home in an exclusive New York City suburb.

Scarsdale resident Julius Reich was arraigned Tuesday in White Plains on a second-degree murder indictment.

Acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty says Dr. Robin Goldman was stabbed 22 times in her shower during a January “ambush.”

The two were divorcing but still lived together.

Goldman was affiliated with the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She also was a faculty member at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Reich is a partner in a financial services company.

His attorney, John Pappalardo, calls Goldman’s death “a tragedy for everybody involved.”

Florida
Bill passes to deal with legacy of notorious school
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is offering to pay to rebury students whose remains were once interred on the grounds of a now shuttered reform school.

The Florida Legislature on Tuesday approved the bill, which is a measure to help the state deal with the notorious legacy of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. The school was in
Marianna, 60 miles west of Tallahassee. It was shuttered in 2011, and some former students have accused school officials of physical and sexual abuse.

Officials investigating the allegations exhumed dozens of bodies from the campus.

The bill would provide up to $7,500 for funeral and burial expenses for each exhumed body. It also would require officials to preserve records, artifacts and remains found on the school site.

The legislation now heads to Gov. Rick Scott.

Florida
No bail for alleged leader of $4.8M gold truck heist
MIAMI (AP) — There will be no release on bail for a Florida man accused of orchestrating the heist of $4.8 million in gold bars from a truck along Interstate 95 in North Carolina.

A federal judge ordered 46-year-old Adalberto Perez jailed Tuesday until his trial. His arraignment is set next week.

Perez faces robbery and firearm charges in the 2015 heist. The FBI says Perez used a GPS device to track the tractor-trailer and released pepper spray by remote control to sicken the driver and a passenger before the robbery in Wilson County, North Carolina.

The 275-pound load of gold was heading from Miami to Massachusetts when three armed thieves intercepted it, bound the hands of the two people in the truck and fled in a van. More arrests are expected.

Ohio
Authorities seize computers, knives from teen’s home
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in southwest Ohio have seized computers, knives, a BB gun and other items from the home of a 14-year-old student charged in a school cafeteria shooting.

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports that investigators obtained a search warrant and carried out the search Monday afternoon with the consent of James Austin Hancock’s father. Among items taken were a smartphone, iPad, MacBook, computer tablet, three pocket knives, and a BB gun.

The newspaper reports that a Butler County sheriff’s detective’s affidavit states some 20 witnesses identified Hancock as the gunman.

Authorities say two Madison Local Schools students who were shot and two others hurt Feb. 29 are recovering. Hancock is being held in Butler County juvenile detention on charges including attempted murder.

He has denied the charges through his attorney.

Pennsylvania
Mother seeks mental defense in tub drowning trial
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A judge has set a trial date for a Pennsylvania woman charged with drowning her two young sons in a bathtub nearly two years ago.

The attorney for 42-year-old Laurel Schlemmer also says he’ll pursue a mental health defense if she pursues a trial May 5 instead of working out a plea deal that attorneys said was in the work in November, the last time they met with Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning.

According to police, the McCandless woman told officers she heard “crazy voices” before she held her 6-year-old son, Daniel, and his 3-year-old brother, Luke, under water on April 1, 2014. Luke died that day and Daniel died a few days later.

The attorneys can’t comment outside court because of a court-imposed gag order.

Virginia
DNA tests confirm man as attacker in 1974 rape case
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Recent testing of DNA evidence from a 1974 rape case has confirmed a jury’s decades-old finding that a man serving a life sentence was the person who broke into a Virginia Beach townhouse and robbed and raped the woman sleeping inside.

The Virginian-Pilot reports that the finding was contained in an order entered last month into Joe Stevenson’s court file in Virginia Beach Circuit Court.

Attorneys from the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project first requested the tests in 2014 after being contacted by Stevenson more than a decade before. DNA analysis was not available at the time the then-28-year-old woman was attacked in the Oceanfront-area home.

Stevenson, who was 22 at the time, was arrested two weeks later based on the description provided by the victim and sentenced to life in prison.