3 Women (2W, 1H) Missing a Decade in CLE Found Alive, 329-count kidnap/rape indictment for Spic

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Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight are ALIVE; 3 men arrested
Updated: May 06, 2013 8:33 PM PDT

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -

Three brothers connected to the disappearances of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been arrested.

The men, ages 50, 52, and 54, are expected to be charged within the next 36 hours.

Cleveland Police confirm that the three women were located in a house on Seymour Avenue Monday afternoon.

All three seem to be in good health.

"I can't wait to talk to her, I can't wait to hold her, to see her," said Gale Mitchell, Amanda's aunt.

According to police a woman claiming to be Amanda Berry called 911 Monday. She said she was kidnapped 10 years ago and said she is currently at a home at 2210 Seymour.

She also told the dispatcher that Gina DeJesus was with her.

A third missing woman, 32-year old Michelle Knight, was in the home with Berry and DeJesus. It's believed Knight disappeared in 2000.

One witness says he saw Amanda Berry come running out of the house kicking and screaming "Help me!" She was carrying a baby in her arms.

Amanda was one day shy of her 17th birthday when she went missing on her way home to her birthday party. She disappeared on April 21, 2003 after leaving her job at Burger King at West 110th Street and Lorain Avenue.

Amanda's mother, Louwana, died at age 43 in March of 2006 after years of searching for her daughter. Many say Louwana died of a broken heart.

In July 2012, the FBI received a tip that Amanda's body was buried in an area at West 30th between Wade and Seymour -- right around the corner from where they were found Monday. A backhoe was used to dig about six feet down, searching for anything that could be linked to Amanda.

Reporter Ed Gallek learned prison inmate Robert Wolford, who was convicted of murdering a homeless man, wrote letters to law enforcement telling them he knows where Amanda's body is.

Wolford was driven up from Lucasville and showed officers where they could find Amanda's body. He passed a polygraph during the investigation before the search for Amanda's remains began.

Of course, officials didn't find anything, but were glad they checked the tip out.

Cleveland Police arrested 52-year-old Ariel Castro at the house where the three women were found Monday. He is a Cleveland City Schools bus driver.

Gale Mitchell said she never gave up hope and that she felt Amanda was alive.

"You never give up. You just pray and pray and pray," said Gale. "It's crazy. I always knew that Amanda was a strong-willed person and eventually I knew she would get out of there. I just knew it. I just wondered 'Why not sooner?'"

Nancy Ruiz, Gina DeJesus' mom told 19 Action News reporter Lydia Esparra that they are going to take a least 24 hours to connect with their daughter. After that they will talk to the media Tuesday.

Gina DeJesus disappeared in 2004 at the age of 14. She was walking home from school when she vanished. At the time of her disappearance family members believed she was taken by human traffickers.

 

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These cockroaches need to be strung up.

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May 7, 7:57 AM EDT
Frantic 911 call leads to 3 missing women in Ohio
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN and JOHN COYNE
Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The woman's voice was frantic and breathless, and she was choking back tears. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."

Those words led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where Berry and two other women who vanished a decade ago were found Monday, elating family members and friends who had longed to see them again.

Authorities later arrested three ugly brown squat monster brothers. They released no names and gave no information about them or what charges they might face. A relative said one of them is the homeowner, his nephew Ariel Castro.

City officials have scheduled a news conference for Tuesday morning.

Police Chief Michael McGrath said he thinks Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were tied up at the house and held there since they were in their teens or early 20s.

A 6-year-old half-breed spic bastard was also found in the home, but police didn't disclose the child's identity or relationship to anyone in the home. The women appeared to be in good health and were taken to a hospital to be evaluated and be reunited with relatives.

The women's escape and rescue began with a frenzied cry for help.

A nigger neighbor, Charles Ramsey, told WEWS-TV he heard screaming Monday and saw Berry, whom he didn't recognize, at a door that would open only enough to fit a hand through. He said she was trying desperately to get outside and pleaded for help to reach police.

"I heard screaming," he said. "I'm eating my McDonald's. I come outside. I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house."

Neighbor Anna Tejeda was sitting on her porch with friends when they heard someone across the street kicking a door and yelling.

Tejeda, 50, said one of her friends went over and told Berry how to kick the screen out of the bottom of the door, which allowed her to get out.

Speaking Spanish, which was translated by one of her friends , Tejeda said Berry was nervous and crying. She was dressed in pajamas and old sandals.

At first Tejeda said she didn't want to believe who the young woman was. "You're not Amanda Berry," she insisted. "Amanda Berry is dead."

But when Berry told her she'd been kidnapped and held captive, Tejeda said she gave her the telephone to call police, who arrived within minutes and then took the other women from the house.

On a recorded 911 call Monday, Berry declared, "I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years."

She said she had been taken by someone and begged for police officers to come to the home on Cleveland's west side before the man returned.

"I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years," she told the dispatcher. "And I'm here. I'm free now."

Berry disappeared at age 16 on April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. About a year later, DeJesus vanished at age 14 on her way home from school. Police said Knight disappeared in 2002 and is 32 now.

Berry is now 27, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Authorities didn't provide a current age DeJesus. They were found just a few miles from where they had vanished.

Police said one of the brothers who was arrested, a 52-year-old, lived at the home, and the others, ages 50 and 54, lived elsewhere.

Ramsey, the neighbor, said he'd barbecued with the home's owner and never suspected anything was amiss.

"There was nothing exciting about him - well, until today," he said.

Julio Castro, who runs a grocery store half a block from where the women were found, said the homeowner arrested is his nephew, Ariel Castro.

Berry also identified Ariel Castro by name in her 911 call.

Attempts to reach Ariel Castro in jail were unsuccessful Monday. Messages to the sheriff's office and a jail spokesman went unanswered, and there was no public phone listing for the home, which was being searched by dozens of police officers and sheriff's deputies.

The uncle said Ariel Castro had worked as a school bus driver. The Cleveland school district confirmed he was a former employee but wouldn't release details.

The women's loved ones said they hadn't given up hope of seeing them again.

A childhood friend of DeJesus, Kayla Rogers, said she couldn't wait to hug her.

"I've been praying, never forgot about her, ever," Rogers told The Plain Dealer newspaper.

Berry's cousin Tasheena Mitchell told the newspaper she couldn't wait to have Berry in her arms.

"I'm going to hold her, and I'm going to squeeze her and I probably won't let her go," she said.

Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, who had been hospitalized for months with pancreatitis and other ailments, died in March 2006. She had spent the previous three years looking for her daughter, whose disappearance took a toll as her health steadily deteriorated, family and friends said.

Councilwoman Dona Brady said she had spent many hours with Miller, who never gave up hope that her daughter was alive.

"She literally died of a broken heart," Brady said.

Mayor Frank Jackson expressed gratitude that the three women were found alive. He said there are many unanswered questions in the ongoing investigation.

At Metro Health Medical Center, Dr. Gerald Maloney wouldn't discuss the women's conditions in detail but said they were being evaluated by appropriate specialists.

"This is really good, because this isn't the ending we usually hear in these stories," he said. "So, we're very happy."

In January, a prison inmate was sentenced to 4 1/2 years after admitting he provided a false burial tip in the disappearance of Berry. A judge in Cleveland sentenced Robert Wolford on his guilty plea to obstruction of justice, making a false report and making a false alarm.

Last summer, Wolford tipped authorities to look for Berry's remains in a Cleveland lot. He was taken to the location, which was dug up with backhoes.

Two men arrested for questioning in the disappearance of DeJesus in 2004 were released from the city jail in 2006 after officers didn't find her body during a search of the men's house.

In September 2006, police acting on a tip tore up the concrete floor of the garage and used a cadaver dog to search unsuccessfully for DeJesus' body. Investigators confiscated 19 pieces of evidence during their search but declined to comment on the significance of the items then.

 

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Three women who went missing TEN YEARS ago are found ALIVE with a young child in a house in the same city after neighbor heard cries of 'Help, get me out' and kicked in door
Three women discovered in Ohio house after neighbor heard screams
Girl, six, also found alive after one of the women gave birth in captivity
Police arrest 52-year-old 'captor' who owned house and his two brothers
Amanda Berry, 26, went missing in 2003 when she was 16
Gina DeJesus, 23, disappeared when she was aged 14 in 2004
Michelle Knight, 32, disappeared in 2000 when she was 20
They were kidnapped on the same street, just three miles from where they were found
Police found 'chains hanging from ceilings' inside the home

By Meghan Keneally and Jill Reilly
PUBLISHED: 19:08 EST, 6 May 2013 | UPDATED: 07:10 EST, 7 May 2013

Three girls who were abducted more than a decade ago have been found alive in the basement of a house in Ohio - where they were apparently held captive in chains.

Amanda Berry, 26, and Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32, escaped from the Cleveland house just a few miles from the city where they disappeared.

The extraordinary rescue came after a neighbor heard Amanda, who went missing at the age of 16, screaming for help when their captor left the house.

Ariel Castro, 52, has been arrested and is in police custody in connection with the kidnapping case along with his two unnamed brothers, who are 50 and 54.

Amanda's relatives have confirmed that one of the children in the house is her daughter that she gave birth to while being held against her will; the girl is thought to be aged about six.

Discovery: Amanda Berry, 26, (left) and Gina DeJesus (right), 23, were found alive in a house in Cleveland after being missing for 10 years. Berry disappeared aged 16, while DeJesus went missing at 14

Reunited: Amanda Berry (centre) at the Cleveland Hospital alongside her emotional sister (left) and the daughter that she gave birth to during the 10 years she was held against her will

Arrested: The prime suspect has been identified as 52-year-old Ariel Castro


The women and child were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center, as they are reportedly suffering from severe dehydration and slightly malnourished but alive.

The disappearances of Amanda and Gina captured the attention of the entire city for the past decade, as their relatives have continually held vigils and kept the story alive in the local press.

The women were kidnapped on the same street and found at the home just three miles away as their alleged kidnappers hid in plain sight.

After 10 years being held against their will, the women were finally freed after neighbor Charles Ramsey, heard screaming from the house as he sat down to eat a meal in his home.

Mr. Ramsey, told WEWS-TV he saw Amanda, who he didn't recognize, at a door that would open only enough to fit a hand through screaming, 'Help me get out! I've been in here a long time.'

'We had to kick open the bottom,' he said. 'Lucky on that door it was aluminum. It was cheap. She climbed out with her bastard daughter.'

When Amanda fled the home and ran across the street to call police, she was holding the hand of a young girl.

'Help me I'm Amanda Berry... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for ten years and I'm here. I'm free now,' Berry is heard saying in the call to police that has been publicly released.

Escape: A neighbor managed to kick down a door at the home, pictured, freeing the women


The Plain Dealer reported that Castro was arrested at a nearby McDonald's.

Castro has lived in the house since 1992 and he was arrested for domestic violence in 1993.

Sources close to local station WOIO are telling the station that the women were reportedly tied up during their captivity and police found chains hanging from one of the ceilings

They also reported that there were signs that dirt had recently been moved in the backyard of the house, though police continue to investigate whether or not the dirt will lead to any new evidence in the case.

Michelle went missing in 2000 when she was 20.

Amanda disappeared on April 21, 2003, a day before her 17th birthday.

A year after Gina, then 14 went missing on April 2, 2004, on her way home from school.

Amanda disappeared shortly after she called her sister to say that she was getting a ride home from her job at Burger King.

Amanda's mother, Louwana Miller, who had been hospitalized for months with pancreatitis and other ailments, died in March 2006.

She had spent the previous three years looking for her daughter, whose disappearance took a toll as her health steadily deteriorated, family and friends said.

In November 2004, she even turned to a psychic, Sylvia Browne, on Montel Williams' television show.

'She's not alive, honey,' Browne told her. 'Your daughter's not the kind who wouldn't call.'

But Councilwoman Dona Brady said she had spent many hours with Miller, who never gave up hope that her daughter was alive.

'She literally died of a broken heart,' Brady said.

At the hospital Amanda with her daughter was photographed with her older sister Beth Serrano, who has maintained the search for her sister since their mother died in 2006.

Beth's husband Ted Serrano told local station WOIO that his wife is overjoyed about her sister's return.

'She said (Amanda)'s okay, she's got a spic bastard daughter. She said she's okay, she looks good,' Mr Serrano told the station.

Beth has worked closely with the DeJesus family, whose daughter Georgina 'Gina' DeJesus was found in the same home as Amanda.

On Monday evening, DeJesus' cousin Sylvia Colon spoke to CNN, saying that the missing girl's mother Nancy Ruiz confirmed to relatives that Gina is alive and well in hospital.

'What a phenomenal mother's Day gift this is,' Ms Colon told the station.

Earlier in the case, DeJesus' mother Nancy Ruiz raised the alarm that her daughter was the victim of human trafficking.

'I always said it from the beginning; she was sold to the highest bidder,' Ms Ruiz said in April 2012.

The disappearance of Knight did not attract the local media attention of the Berry and DeJesus cases.

Her grandmother, Deborah Knight, told the Plain Dealer that some family members had concluded, based in part on suggestions by police and social workers at the time, that she had run away.

But her mother Barbara Knight, who now lives in Florida, told the newspaper she never believed her daughter would have vanished without a trace on her own and that she kept searching long after police gave up looking for her.

'I'm praying that if it is her, she will come back with me, so I can help her recover from what she has been through,' the mother was quoted as saying.

'I'm going to hold her, and I'm going to squeeze her and I probably won't let her go,' Amanda's cousin Tesheena Mitchell told The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A childhood friend of Gina, Kayla Rogers, said she couldn't wait to hug her.

'I've been praying, never forgot about her, ever,' Rogers told The Plain Dealer newspaper.

Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson was the first public official to speak out about the case, confirming the identities of the three women.

'I am thankful that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive. We have many unanswered questions regarding this case and the investigation will be ongoing. Again, I am thankful that these three young ladies are found and alive,' he said.

Charles Ramsey, the neighbor who rescued the girls, said that he was shocked about the discovery because the man who owns the home - who is thought to be the kidnapper- did not stay hidden from those around him.

'I've been here a year. I barbeque with this dude, we eat ribs and what not and listen to salsa music.

Not a clue that that girl was in that house or that anyone else was in there with,' Mr Ramsey said of Castro

'He's somebody you look and then you look away because he's just doing normal stuff.

'You got some big testicles to pull this one off because we see this guy every day,' he told NewsNet5.

Local news reporters told CNN that Castro is said to have worked as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan schools, though it is unclear whether that was the case when the women were kidnapped.

He was a school bus driver in the Cleveland area and was let go after taking a school bus home, according to local reports.

Only Ariel Castro lived at the home. The brothers lived elsewhere, police told reporters.

Castro's Facebook page depicts a man with a passion for motorcycles and the bass guitar.

His last post to the social networking site on May 2 says: 'Miracles really do happen, God is good '

Remarkably, Castro's son - also named Ariel who now goes by 'Anthony' - penned an article for the Cleveland Plain Press about the disappearance of Miss DeJesus back in 2004.

Anthony Castro told WKYC-TV reporter Sara Shookman: This is beyond comprehension… I’m truly stunned right now.

Also struck by the allegations, the suspects' uncle, Julio Castro, told CNN: 'I never want to see them again.'

In January, a prison inmate was sentenced to 4 1/2 years after admitting he provided a false burial tip in the disappearance of Berry.

A judge in Cleveland sentenced Robert Wolford on his guilty plea to obstruction of justice, making a false report and making a false alarm.

Last summer, Wolford tipped authorities to look for Berry's remains in a Cleveland lot. He was taken to the location, which was dug up with backhoes.

Two men arrested for questioning in the disappearance of DeJesus in 2004 were released from the city jail in 2006 after officers didn't find her body during a search of the men's house.

One of the men was transferred to the Cuyahoga County Jail on unrelated charges, while the other was allowed to go free, police said.

In September 2006, police acting on a tip tore up the concrete floor of the garage and used a cadaver dog to search unsuccessfully for DeJesus' body.

Investigators confiscated 19 pieces of evidence during their search but declined to comment on the significance of the items then.

 

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VIDEO: Cleveland man who found missing woman Amanda Berry: 'I thought that girl was dead'
Posted: 11:44 PM 5/7/13

CLEVELAND - After going missing more than 10 years ago, Amanda Berry shouted to a man from a Seymour Avenue house on Monday.

Charles Ramsey and Angel Cordero broke down the door and freed Berry, who was 16 when she disappeared in 2003. Cordero told NewsChannel5's Stephanie Ramirez that he recognized Berry from posters and that she was with a 4 or 5-year-old child.

[Click the video player to watch his interview. Mobile users click here http://bit.ly/10fhGUS ]

John Kosich: Walk me through what happened this afternoon. You heard screaming?

Charles Ramsey: Heard screaming, I’m eating my McDonald’s, I come outside, and I see this girl going nuts, trying to get out of the house. So I go on the porch. I got on the porch and she said “Help me get out. I’ve been here a long time.” I figured it was a domestic violence dispute. So I open the door. And we can’t get in that way ‘cause of how the door is, it’s so much that a body can’t fit through; only your hand. So we kicked the bottom. And she comes out with a little girl and she says ‘Call 911. My name is Amanda Berry.

Kosich: Did you know who that was when that?

Ramsey: When she told me, it didn’t register. Until I got the call to 911 and then I’m like “I’m calling 911 for Amanda Berry. I thought that girl was dead.” You know what I mean? And she got on the phone and she said “Yeah, this is me.” And the detective… Det. Gregory Cook said “Charles, do you know who you rescued?”

Kosich: And when did you see Gina?

Ramsey: About… About five minutes after the police got here. See that girl Amanda, told the police “I ain’t the only one. There’s some more girls up in that house.” So they go up in there, 30, 40, deep. And when they came out, it was just astonishing. ‘Cause I thought they would come up with nothing. Like I said my neighbor, you got to have some pretty big testicles to pull this off, bro. Because we see this dude every day. I mean every day.

Kosich: How long have you live here?

Ramsey: I’ve been here a year. You see where I’m coming from? I barbeque with this dude. We eat ribs and whatnot and listen to salsa music. You see where I’m coming from?

Kosich: And you had no indications?

Ramsey: Bro, not a clue that that girl was in that house. Or anybody else was in there against their will. Because how he is. He just comes out to his backyard, plays with the dogs, tinkering with his cars and motorcycles, go back in the house. So he’s somebody you look, then look away. He’s not doing anything, but the average stuff. You see what I’m saying? There’s nothing exciting about him. Well, until today.

Kosich: What were the reactions on the girls’ faces? I can’t imagine to see the sunlight…

Ramsey: Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway.

 

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http://www.cleveland.com/metro/inde..._police_detail_missin.html#incart_maj-story-1

Pictured from left to right are brothers Ariel Castro, Pedro Castro and Onil Castro.

 

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Let's see the media bury this story!! Three evil amigos for sure!! Hang them high muy pronto!!

 

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Let's see the media bury this story!! Three evil amigos for sure!! Hang them high muy pronto!!

Those zipperheaded cockroach mongols shouldn't be in our nation, period. But then neither should Barack Obongo be here either.:barf2:

 

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Questions still remain about Michelle Knight's disappearance
Updated: May 07, 2013 8:03 PM PDT

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -

When Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found, a lesser known woman was also found with them. Mention Gina or Amanda's name in Cleveland, and chances are someone knows who you're talking about, but Michelle Knight remains a mystery.

We do know that she disappeared on August 23rd, 2002 from W. 106th and Lorain, the same area as Gina and Amanda.

Unlike the other 2 girls, Michelle was an adult, 21-years-old when she went missing.

There was no mention of Michelle on any websites we searched, from F.B.I. websites to the Ohio Attorney General's website.

We know that at the time she disappeared, she lived at a house on Walnut Avenue. The police report said she suffered from a mental condition. She was also the mother of a young child, who was taken by Social Services.

Investigative reporter Carl Monday talked with a family member of Michelle who said that Michelle's mother let the family years ago, abandoning Michelle's younger brother in a dumpster.

Her brother, who was a twin, said he and his sister were products of an abusive home.

That brother, Freddie, went to the hospital Monday to see his sister.

 

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T-shirts honoring hero Charles Ramsey for sale
Updated: May 08, 2013 6:13 AM PDT

Due to Ramsey's bravery and charm, he has become an Internet sensation.

Artwork by Cleveland's own Okpants designed the t-shirts with 100% of the profits going directly to the families of Berry, DeJesus and Knight.

 

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Kidnapping Case: Castro gave all the girls rides and sexually abused them

 

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/monster_spawn_slashed_her_baby_wyQAxxuOAJsj6GnkYsYvvL

Monster’s spawn slashed her baby
By BOB FREDERICKS
Last Updated: 10:10 AM, May 8, 2013
Posted: 2:22 AM, May 8, 2013

This rotten apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

Ariel Castro’s daughter is serving a 25-year prison sentence in Indiana for slashing her 11-month-old daughter’s throat in April 2008.

“I want you to know I am a very good mom!” a sobbing Emily Castro, now 25, told the judge during her 2008 trial for the attack on her little girl, Janyla.

Emily freaked out a day after she was dumped by her baby daddy, Deangelo Gonzalez.

She took Janyla into the garage of her mother’s home and sliced her throat four times with a knife. Castro then handed her bleeding daughter to her sister, punched her sister, and ran off.

Emily Castro


She was later found trying to jump from a tree with minor cuts to her own wrists and throat.

A passer-by called cops, believing the baby had been attacked by a dog.

Castro’s lawyers claimed she was depressed and paranoid in the weeks leading up to the assault, from which the baby fully recovered.

Her brother, who is also named Ariel Castro but goes by the first name Anthony, testified in her defense.

Judge John Surbeck found Emily Castro guilty of attempted murder, but mentally ill.

The girl, now 5, lives with Emily’s sister, Angie Gregg, in Cleveland.

 

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Three brothers arrested: what's known so far about alleged Cleveland captors

Three brothers arrested – Ariel, Pedro, and Onil Castro – are accused of kidnapping and holding Amanda Berry and two other women captive for 10 years. Cleveland neighbors and family members are beginning to talk about the suspects.

May 8, 2013

Authorities could file charges against three brothers accused of kidnapping and holding three women captive for 10 years as early as Wednesday morning, officials say.

Suspects Ariel Castro, Pedro Castro, and Onil Castro were arrested Monday night after Amanda Berry escaped from a house owned by Ariel Castro and called 911. Police also found missing persons Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in the house. The three women disappeared in separate incidents between 2002 and 2004, and all had been held captive in the Seymour Avenue house on the west side of Cleveland.

Cuyahoga County authorities have 48 hours after an arrest to file charges against the suspects, FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said Tuesday. Federal and local law-enforcement officials will interview the suspects Wednesday, she said.

Details about the three men have emerged as neighbors and family members ask how and why the women could have been held for so long.

"The [brothers] were all good kids," Nelson Roman, a lifelong friend of them, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer Tuesday. "That's why this news is devastating. It's not only horrifying to the families of the kidnapped girls, it's devastating to us, because these brothers were all very good kids who grew up in a very good family. I was shocked to see their pictures on television involved in kidnapping. We've stayed friends over the years and had no idea they were keeping girls hostage."

The Castro family was among the first Puerto Rican immigrants to settle in Cleveland after World War II. The brothers grew up in a family of nine children, and their father owned a car lot in the West 25th Street neighborhood, Adrian Maldonado, who owns a construction consulting company in the area, told The Plain Dealer.

Pedro Castro, the oldest of the three brothers, was a straight-A student in high school, but dropped out his junior year because of a problem with alcohol, Mr. Roman said. Pedro worked a punch-press machine in a factory, but his drinking habits forced him to stop working. In recent years, he was receiving Social Security benefits, Roman said.

Onil Pedro, the youngest brother, also had a problem with drinking, Roman said. He made his living doing odd jobs as a handyman until he was injured while working as a laborer five years ago. Since then, he has been receiving workers' compensation, Roman said.

Middle brother Ariel Castro, who owned the house where the women were found, was known by most people in his neighborhood. He was a school bus driver for 22 years, but he was fired by the Cleveland School District last November after several incidents of “bad judgment,” including leaving a child alone on the bus, making an illegal U-turn, and using the bus to go grocery shopping, according to records released Tuesday.

Mr. Castro also played bass guitar in salsa and merengue bands.

However, he struggled to control his temper, The Plain Dealer reported.

According to a 2005 filing in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court, viewed by The Plain Dealer, Castro fought over the custody of his children with his former wife, Grimilda Figueroa. She had full custody of the children, but Castro allegedly took the daughters and kept them from his wife. In the filing, Ms. Figueroa’s attorney asked the judge to "keep [Castro] from threatening to kill [Figueroa]." She suffered a broken nose, broken ribs, and two dislocated shoulders, among other injuries.

Ariel Anthony Castro, his son, told The Plain Dealer that the news of his father’s alleged involvement is “beyond comprehension.”

In 2004, Anthony Castro, as he goes by, wrote an article as a journalism student for the Plain Press, a neighborhood newspaper, about the community’s anxiety after Ms. DeJesus’s and Ms. Berry’s disappearances. He interviewed Nancy Ruiz, DeJesus’s mother, for the article.

“That I wrote about this nearly 10 years ago – to find out that it is now so close to my family – it's unspeakable,” Anthony told The Plain Dealer.

Arlene Castro, one of Ariel’s daughters, told the TV program “America’s Most Wanted” in 2005 that she was the last person to see DeJesus alive, reported WEWS-TV in Cleveland. In the years after DeJesus’s disappearance, Ariel performed at a fundraiser held in her honor and passed out fliers with her photo on it. At a candlelight vigil a year ago, he comforted Ms. Ruiz.

Anthony said that he speaks to his father only a few times a year and rarely visited the house. He told London’s Daily Mail that his last visit was two weeks ago, and his father would not let him inside.

"The house was always locked," he said. "There were places we could never go. There were locks on the basement. Locks on the attic. Locks on the garage."

City officials said Tuesday that there was no record of anyone calling to report criminal activity at the house, but they would continue to search the emergency databases. However, two of Ariel Castro’s neighbors said they called the police for separate incidents.

In November 2011, Israel Lugo heard pounding on the doors of the house. Police officers knocked on the front door, but no one answered. "They walked to the side of the house and then left," Mr. Lugo said Tuesday.

Elsie Cintron lives three houses down from Castro. Several years ago, her daughter saw a naked woman crawling in the backyard, but the “police didn't take it seriously," she said Tuesday.

 

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/amanda-berry-three-captive-women-1875026

Amanda Berry: Three captive women chained up in grim dungeon for a decade gave birth to five babies
7 May 2013 22:56

Gina DeJesus, 23, Michelle Knight, 30, and Amanda Berry, 26, and her six-year-old daughter fled the house in Cleveland, Ohio

Three women held captive in a dungeon for a decade gave birth to five babies during the ordeal.

Police sources said suspect Ariel Castro kept Michelle, Amanda and Gina tied up with chains and tape at the home in Cleveland, Ohio.

The insider said they were kept in different rooms and were possibly untied at different times.

Officers also revealed the three women had “multiple” pregnancies.

There was evidence of as many as five children being born while the women were held hostage.

One of the victims suffered as many as three miscarriages because she was so malnourished.

Reports also told how the women were beaten so badly they lost other babies.

Police were today seen examining dug up areas in the back garden.

 

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http://www.19actionnews.com/story/2...ected-to-be-announced-at-5-pm-news-conference

BREAKING: Charges against Ariel Castro announced
Updated: May 08, 2013 3:13 PM PDT


CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -

Charges were officially handed down Wednesday against Ariel Castro, three days after three women were found in his house.

Castro is charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, all first degree felonies.

The charges were announced by City Prosecutor Victor Perez at Public Hall on Lakeside Avenue.

Amanda Berry, her daughter, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found in a house on Seymour Avenue Monday afternoon.

Berry was heard by a neighbor screaming for help. The neighbor, Charles Ramsey, helped free Berry and her six-year old daughter.

At Wednesday's news conference Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said the women only left the house two times in 10 years. Both times they went from the house to the garage, and they were in disguise.

Meantime Ariel's brothers, Onil Castro and Pedro Castro, will not face any charges at this time.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7bTVigeqHs

Why was Puerto Rican flag replaced with the American flag at the crime scene?

 

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Why is only one of the spics being charged???
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22459435

 

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/cleveland-hero-charles-ramsey-8702415

May 8, 2013
Cleveland Hero Was A Repeat Domestic Abuser
Charles Ramsey battered his wife, did prison time for three attacks

MAY 8--The Cleveland man credited with helping free female captives from a house of horrors is a convicted felon whose rap sheet includes three separate domestic violence convictions that resulted in prison terms, court records show.

Charles Ramsey, whose 911 call and subsequent TV interviews have made him a microcelebrity, was once a repeat spousal abuser whose marriage ended in divorce following a 2003 felony conviction for battering his wife.

Ramsey, 43, has said that when he heard captive Amanda Berry screaming and trying to escape from neighbor Ariel Castro’s home on Monday, "I figured it’s a domestic violence dispute.” Ramsey has also reportedly said that he went to help Berry because he “was raised to help women in distress.”

Ramsey’s first domestic violence charge came in February 1997. He entered a no contest plea a year later and was found guilty of the count by a Cleveland Municipal Court judge. While waiting to be sentenced, Ramsey was again arrested for domestic violence.

At the time of Ramsey’s second collar, in July 1998, he was already the subject of an arrest warrant issued in connection with his failure to appear for a court hearing in the first domestic violence case. As a result, Ramsey was jailed for violating terms of his release on bond. Ramsey subsequently entered a no contest plea to the second case and was, again, found guilty by a Cleveland judge.

The domestic violence cases apparently were consolidated for sentencing in August 1998, when Ramsey was ordered to serve six months in jail, placed on five years probation, and directed to attend a domestic violence counseling program.

Following his release from custody, Ramsey violated probation terms, according to an April 1999 court docket entry. While an arrest warrant was issued for Ramsey, it is unclear from court records whether it was executed before both misdemeanor cases were formally closed several years later.

Ramsey was again busted for domestic abuse in January 2003. He was subsequently indicted for felony “domestic violence with prior conviction,” a reference to his previous abuse cases.

The 6’ 2”, 230-pound Ramsey’s victim was his wife Rochelle, whom he assaulted in their Cleveland Heights residence. Following Ramsey’s felony collar, a judge issued a protective order covering his wife, the couple’s daughter (who is now 15), and Rochelle’s son from a prior relationship.

In a TSG interview, Rochelle, now remarried, referred to a series of “domestic disputes” that resulted in her ex-husband’s arrests (and which prompted her to file for divorce in September 2003, while Ramsey was incarcerated in state prison). In her divorce complaint, Rochelle accused Ramsey--whom she married on Valentine’s Day in 1995--of “gross neglect of duty” and “extreme cruelty.”

After pleading guilty to the felony abuse charge, Ramsey was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered, following his release from custody, to be placed on “post release control” supervision for the maximum term allowable by Ohio law.

Ramsey served his time at the Lorain Correctional Institution, where he posed for the above 2003 mug shot. He had previously done two separate one-year stretches at Lorain, for early-90s convictions for drug abuse, criminal trespassing, and receiving stolen property.

Ramsey’s ex-wife Rochelle, who secured a divorce decree after her former spouse was locked up, told TSG that Ramsey eventually apologized for battering her. However, Rochelle said, “The only thing is he never paid child support,” which was mandated at $51 per month in the divorce decree. She added that, “The county has taken his driving privileges away for non-support.”

While Rochelle, a licensed nurse, said that she is on “an okay basis” with Ramsey, the couple’s daughter has a rockier relationship with him, and has even carefully cut her father out of many photos taken at her parents’s wedding.

But a pair of blurry photos of Ramsey, who works as a dishwasher, have survived his daughter’s scissors. Rochelle yesterday posted those two images to her Facebook page, along with the caption “For my daughter sake I show he didn't always look hood ! The young charles ramsey.” (3 pages)

http://business.time.com/2013/05/08...w-a-viral-marketing-opportunity-can-backfire/

The Charles Ramsey-McDonald’s Episode: How a Viral Marketing Opportunity Can Backfire

Using a story about women being kidnapped and held against their will for years for marketing purposes is questionable enough. Now that the hero in the story turns out to have a history of domestic violence convictions, the Charles Ramsey-McDonald’s episode is shaping up as an argument that perhaps brands should respond to viral marketing opportunities slowly, cautiously—and sometimes not at all.

Read more: http://business.time.com/2013/05/08...eting-opportunity-can-backfire/#ixzz2SnhnrfM8

 

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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...Abductor-Lived-in-Berks-County-206745341.html

Alleged Cleveland Abductor Lived in Berks County
Uncle tells NBC10.com "it seems like" his nephew is guilty
By Vince Lattanzio | Thursday, May 9, 2013 | Updated 9:57 AM EDT

Ariel Castro appears in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Ariel Castro was charged while his brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no immediate charges. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)


The man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them hostage for a decade inside a Cleveland home grew up in Berks County.

Julio Castro, uncle of Ariel Castro, tells NBC10.com the alleged abductor and his brothers Pedro and Onil lived in Reading, Pa. as kids after moving from Puerto Rico. The connection was first reported by The Reading Eagle Thursday.

Castro allegedly abducted three women -- Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus – between 2002 and 2004 and held them captive for 10 years. In each case, the 52-year-old former bus driver offered the women a ride, according to investigators.

Authorities say Castro raped the women, impregnating Knight, now 32, five times before forcing her to miscarry by punching her in the stomach. Castro also allegedly fathered another child with Berry. He made Knight deliver the now 6-year-old girl into a kiddie pool. Police plan to conduct a paternity test.

Authorities tell NBC News the women were initially chained up in the basement of the Seymour Street home. They were later kept barricaded on the second floor. There were only two occasions where the women were allowed outside, never allowed to leave the property, investigators said.

Julio said he visited the brothers in Reading once when they were between 5 and 10-years-old in the late 1960s or 1970s. The family later moved to Cleveland, Ohio.

The 77-year-old who owns a grocery store near the home where the women were held says he was shocked to learn about his nephew's connection to the alleged crimes.

"I was terrified," he told NBC10.com Thursday morning. "I couldn't believe it."

The women were able to escape captivity when Berry, now 27, was able to break through a locked storm door, get a neighbor’s attention and call 911. The women told police Castro had left a large inside door unlocked, something he would do from time to time to test them.

When police descended onto Ariel's home, Julio says he was in disbelief and initially yelled at the authorities.

“I told the police officer, ‘No! It can’t be possible, this is my nephew’s home. It can’t be possible'”

He says he's never been inside the Seymour Street home and did not know anyone was being held captive. Castro says some of Ariel's friends had been in the house over the years and had no indication the women were there.

While he at first believed his nephew was not involved in the case, Castro says details now lead him to believe Ariel may be guilty.

“Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but according to the information from the girls that were held captive, it seems like it’s true,” he said.

Castro says the family is large and he's angry at how the 52-year-old has disgraced their name.

“You’re an animal," Julio said of his nephew. "Look what you have done to our family. We can’t believe what you have done to our family.”

Ariel Castro is charged with four counts of kidnapping, and three counts of rape. A $8 million bond was set Thursday at an Ohio court appearance. Pedro and Onil have not been implicated in the crimes.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7bTVigeqHs

Why was Puerto Rican flag replaced with the American flag at the crime scene?

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Gawd bless the Kwa ?

 

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/hey_we_re_clean_Zo8XD61Aqcdg9RieiIsqUJ

Brothers of Cleveland 'kidnapper' say monster paraded 'daughter'
By JENNIFER BAIN
From Post Wire Services
Last Updated: 3:29 AM, May 14, 2013
Posted: 2:26 AM, May 14, 2013

CLEVELAND — For at least a year, Ariel Castro brazenly showed off the daughter he allegedly had with one of his kidnap victims, taking her to a neighborhood park and local fast-food restaurants.

“I seen Ariel with a little girl at McDonald’s, and I asked him, ‘Who’s that?’ ” his brother Pedro Castro told CNN. “And he said, ‘This is a girlfriend’s of mine.’ ”

Pedro made the revelation in a CNN interview, for which he and his other brother, Onil, appeared clean shaven and in slacks and ties — in stark contrast to their haggard court and mug-shot appearances shortly after their arrests.

EXTREME MAKEOVER: Onil Castro (left) and Pedro Castro (right), the brothers of kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro, appear freshly shaven and finely clad in shirts, slacks and ties in a CNN interview — a far cry from their first disheveled appearance in a Cleveland courtroom last week in the days after their arrests.

Neighbor Moses Cintron, 64, says he, too, would see the girl out in public, spotting her in Cleveland’s Roberto Clemente Park as recently as May 4, the day before Ariel Castro’s house of horrors was exposed. The 6-year-old girl, Jocelyn, is believed to be Castro’s with kidnap victim Amanda Berry.

“I’ve been seeing Castro with that little girl since last year at least twice a week and a lot this past summer,” Cintron told The Post. “She got friendly with my dogs. She used to come and pet them.”

“They pulled up in his red pickup truck, and he helped her out because it was so high.”

Cintron noticed “she looked slightly slender and malnourished, like she wasn’t fed healthy food.”

A neighbor, Israel Lugo, 39, said he was stunned after the three captive women escaped.

“Sunday [the day before the rescue] was the first time I really saw [Jocelyn’s] face, so the next day, when she came out of the house and her mother was screaming, it brought tears to my eyes, and my stomach just dropped,” he said.

Onil Castro said he suspected Ariel wanted to be caught after a decade of hiding the women — Berry, now 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, 23.

Onil said he was riding in Ariel’s car May 6, the day of the rescue, when Ariel suddenly turned into a McDonald’s parking lot and was stopped by a cop.

“Maybe he wanted to get caught. Maybe time was up. Maybe he was inside too much,” Onil told CNN.

Onil and Pedro, both of whom say they are innocent, have been cleared in the case. Ariel is being held in lieu of $8 million bail.

Meanwhile, Cleveland police released a firsthand account yesterday from officer Anthony Espada, who was the first cop to enter Castro’s house of horrors just after Berry’s escape, and was the one to free the other two victims.

“As we were going up the steps, it was so quiet, like peaceful,” Espada said. “Then you hear this scuffling . . . I’m looking that way just waiting to see what’s going to happen, and it was Michelle.

“She came charging at me. She jumped onto me . . . She’s like, ‘You saved us! You saved us!’ And I’m holding on to her so tight.”

Within seconds of finding Knight, DeJesus came out of the same room, Espada said.

“Very overwhelming. I mean it took everything to hold myself together,” Espada said. “I have Michelle in my arms . . . And then you got Gina coming out. It was like one bombshell after another.”