All 4 escapees from Ohio jail arrested in North Carolina
CARY, N.C. (AP) — All four inmates who overpowered two female corrections officers and escaped from a county jail in Ohio were caught Monday in North Carolina after more than a day on the run, authorities in both states said.
Three men who escaped from the Gallia County jail early Sunday were “captured without incident” at around 2 a.m. in Cary, North Carolina. Gallia County Sheriff Matt Champlin announced Monday afternoon that the fourth was taken into custody in Durham, North Carolina.
The fourth man, Lawrence R. Lee, 29, got away at the time Christopher Clemente, 24, Brynn Martin, 40 and Troy McDaniel Jr., 30, were being arrested. The four will be held pending extradition to Ohio.
Cary police said the North Carolina Highway Patrol had alerted the department that the men were in the area, around 370 miles (595 kilometers) southeast of Gallipolis, the city where the jail is located. The two agencies, along with Raleigh police and the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, remained onsite for two hours after the arrests to “conduct a thorough search,” police said.
No details were released immediately on the circumstances of Lee’s arrest.
Champlin has said authorities believe the escaped inmates had help from at least one person outside the southeast Ohio jail. The four inmates overpowered the two officers with a homemade weapon, forced open a secure door, entered the jail’s administrative wing and stole keys to a corrections officer’s vehicle and drove it about a block away, where another vehicle awaited them, Champlin said.
Champlin said authorities in Pennsylvania located the suspected getaway vehicle and believed Clemente was in the area, prompting the evacuation of the Westmoreland Mall outside Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Clemente was being held for an indictment of two felony counts of complicity to trafficking drugs. Martin, who Champlin said escaped for the second time from the jail, is charged with breaking and entering, receiving stolen property, two counts of failure to appear, and escape — all felonies. McDaniel was being held for failure to appear from Gallia County Juvenile Court and Lee is charged with felony identity fraud and two misdemeanors: obstructing official business and assault.

NYPD officer was killed by friendly fire
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police said Monday that an officer killed while wrestling with an armed man was fatally struck by gunfire from his fellow officers.
Police Commissioner James O’Neill said Officer Brian Mulkeen, 33, was hit twice by police bullets during the confrontation early Sunday in the Bronx.
“This is a tragic case of friendly fire,” O’Neill said during a news conference at police headquarters.
Suspect Antonio Williams, 27, was also killed during the burst of gunfire, in which several officers fired shots. The entire exchange took around 10 seconds, O’Neill said.
Police say a .32-caliber revolver belonging to Williams was recovered at the scene. It had not been fired.
Investigators had previously suggested that Williams had wrested the officer’s gun away as the pair struggled on the ground, saying body camera video had recorded Mulkeen saying, “He’s reaching for it!”
But police said Monday that Mulkeen retained control of his gun and fired several shots during the encounter.
Mulkeen’s death is the second time this year that a member of the NYPD has been killed by friendly fire.
Detective Brian Simonsen died in February after being hit once in the chest by crossfire as he and six other officers fired 42 shots at a suspect who charged toward them and mimicked pulling the trigger of a fake handgun.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman is slamming as “beyond repugnant” President Donald Trump’s tweet of a conservative pastor’s comment that removing Trump from office would provoke a “civil war-like fracture” in America. Rep. Adam Kinzinger is a former Air Force pilot from an Illinois district Trump won in 2016. Kinzinger tweeted on Sunday that he has “visited nations ravaged by civil war” and that he “never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s allies are struggling over how he should manage the starkest threat to his presidency: Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Mixed messaging reflects the difficulty Republicans are having defending Trump against documents released by the White House that feature Trump’s own words and actions. A partial transcript and a whistleblower complaint describe Trump pressuring Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe Biden’s family and form the heart of the House impeachment inquiry.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign contacted top television anchors and networks on Sunday to “demand” that Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, be kept off the air because of what they called his misleading comments about the Biden family and Ukraine. The note, which was obtained by The New York Times, was sent to executives and top political anchors at ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC, including star interviewers like Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd and Chris Wallace. The news networks had no comment on Sunday and no comment so far from Guiliani.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. But she conceded that Democrats could face huge costs in 2020 as a result of impeaching Trump during an interview at Tribune Fest, hosted by the Texas Tribune. Pelosi said – quote – “It doesn’t matter because you cannot have a president of the United States undermining his oath of office.. Our first responsibility is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

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UNITY, Pa. (AP) — Some retail stores in Pennsylvania are increasingly taking an approach to combat shoplifting that bypasses local police. Stores like Walmart, Sears, Kohl’s and others are filing private criminal complaints against suspected shoplifters directly to the district attorney’s office. Legal experts say it’s within the law for store security personnel to question a suspected shoplifter and use the information in a criminal complaint, though some say it’s prudent to notify a suspect of Miranda rights.

CARY, N.C. (AP) — Three of four inmates who authorities say overpowered two female corrections officers and escaped from an Ohio county jail have been caught in North Carolina. A release from Gallia County Sheriff Matt Champlin in Ohio says the three men – one of whom was spotted in Westmoreland County, PA over the weekend – were taken into custody in Cary, North Carolina, around 2 a.m. The fourth inmate, Lawrence R. Lee III, is believed to have accompanied the other three, but fled from authorities at the time of the arrests.