Fugitive Dekalb County Cop Captured In Belize

Punta Gorda, Belize

Following a lead given to the US Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, police arrested fugitive Dekalb County Sheriffs Deputy Derrick Yancey in a bar in Punta Gorda, Belize.

Yancey is accused of murdering his 44 year old wife Linda Yancey (who was also a Dekalb police officer) and Marcial Cax Puluc, a 20 year old immigrant "day laborer", inside the Yancey's Stone Mountain, Georgia home in August of 2008. Yancey claimed that the day laborer had shot his wife and then he shot the day laborer. Yancey was arrested after ballistics tests confirmed that he had killed both victims.

On August 28, 2008 Dekalb Superior Court Judge Anne Workman ordered that the accused double murderer was to be released on bond and placed under "house arrest". On April 4, 2009, Yancey cut the electronic monitoring device off his ankle and fled from his mother's Clayton county home, where he had been living under "house arrest".

Yancey remained on the run for five months and was profiled on America's Most Wanted. He's also included in the show's "Cops On The Wrong Side Of The Law" feature.

Police in Belize say Yancey was taken into custody without incident in a bar in southern Belize on September 19, 2009.

"We had his photograph in our possession and upon identifying ourselves, he just handed over himself. There was no resistance in his arrest," said Inspector Andres Makin of the Punta Gorda Police Station.

Yancey will be extradited back to Georgia to face prosecution.

Arrest Made In Gwinnett County Nursing Home Identity Thefts

Buford, GA

Police have arrested Iniabel Ferrer at her home in Buford after someone reported that Ferrer and Jose Luis Cuiro had approached them and asked that they use their computer skills to steal money from the bank accounts of elderly Alzheimer's patients at a Gwinnett County nursing home.

Ferrer, 36, was arrested and charged with six felony counts of Exploitation of a Disabled Adult and six felony counts of Financial Indentity Fraud, when police stopped her vehicle as she and Cuiro were leaving their residence and found in their possession documents containing the medical and financial records of several nursing home patients. An arrest warrant was also issued for the 44 year old Cuiro.

The pair had stolen financial and medical records from six residents of a nursing home where Ferrer worked in Buford and intended to use that information to remove funds from the bank accounts of these elderly victims. Ferrer is being held under a $68,400 bond.

Another Immigrant Practicing Illegal Dentistry In Georgia

Johns Creek, GA

WSB-TV reports that a Colombian woman, living in Georgia under a visa, is under investigation by local police and Homeland Security with practicing dentistry without a license in her home in Johns Creek, Georgia.

Several similar incidents of immigrants practicing dentistry from residential homes have been reported over the past year in various areas of the state.

Local officials and qualified dental professionals urge patients of the illegal dentists to be tested for various diseases. "They probably want to go to a medical doctor now and be tested for hepatitis, AIDS," said dentist Alan Parnes.

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Homeland Security and Johns Creek police are investigating an alleged illegal dental office operating inside a home.

Claudinette Varon-Castro is facing multiple charges for allegedly operating an illegal dentist office inside a home on Ogeechee Drive.


Officials said Varon-Castro had much of the needed equipment to do the job but she didn’t have a dentistry license.

"It did not look like a business operation from the outside," said neighbor Sharon Ferrar.

"We believe there's illegal dental work going on," said Capt. Brian Weaver with the Johns Creek Police Department.

The first floor of her home in a quiet Johns Creek neighborhood is where Varon-Castro practiced her skills, according to investigators. Authorities told Channel 2 her patients were usually immigrants who may not have understood how dangerous her dental practice could be.

Ferrar, said she understands the risks because her father is a licensed dentist in another state.

"I don't know how safe it is to come in and have X-rays and dental procedures out of somebody's home," said Ferrar.

Channel 2 attempted to talk with Varon-Castro, a native of Colombia, but was unsuccessful. Investigators said she had hundreds of prescription pills and other medicines inside her home as well. Homeland Security is also looking in to the case.

"(We don't know) whether the tools are being thouroughly sanitized or cleaned like they should be and whether or not (patients) have been exposed to radiation when you have the X-ray machine. That's real, real scary," said Weaver.

Varon-Castro, who is in the United States on a visa, is out on bond. She faces several charges including practicing dentistry without a license.

WSB-TV

Paki Strangles Own Daughter For Disgracing Family

Jonesboro, GA

A 54 year old Pakistani man residing in Clayton County was arrested on Sunday in connection with the strangulation death of his daughter.

Chaudhry Rashad is in the Clayton County Jail charged with murdering 25 year old Sandela Kanwal at the family's Clayton County home following an argument over her plans to divorce her husband.

Police say Rashad said he killed his daughter as a "matter of honor". The woman's husband, from an "arranged" marriage, resides in Illinois and the couple is reported not to have seen one another for months.

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A Clayton County man was behind bars Sunday, accused of killing his own daughter. Police said the father was angry because he felt his daughter was disgracing the family.

Investigators said 54-year-old Chaudhry Rashad was so outraged at his daughter, Sandela Kanwal, and her plans for divorce that he killed her after a heated argument at the family's home. Investigators said Rashad confessed to strangling the 25-year-old woman.

Controlled media article and video here.

Arrest Made In Dekalb County Murder And Dismemberment

Lithonia, GA

Dekalb Police have arrested 37 year old Renato Adel and charged him with murder in connection with a partially burnt and dismembered body found by the road in a Dekalb County neighborhood early this week.

On Tuesday morning a group of school children were walking to the bus stop in the Marbut Commons subdivision when they found a scorched torso, arms and legs beside the road along with a red gas can. The children alerted parents who upon arriving at the scene found the body out in open view of passersby with no attempt made to hide it.

The head was missing but police later identified the body as that of Mesfin Asfaw, 53, the roommate of the accused suspect.

Photos and further info pending.

Controlled Media Coverage Of The Murder Here (with comment section):
WLXT.COM Channel 19 South Carolina