PCSO: Inmate Roberto Venegas-Fernandez killed cellmate to stay in prison

11-26-2013 Arizona:

FLORENCE, AZ - A Mexican citizen illegally in the United States killed a prison cellmate in order to remain in custody, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

The Sheriff's Office said it is recommending that prosecutors charge 43-year-old Roberto Venegas-Fernandez with first-degree murder in the Nov. 16 killing of 55-year-old Michael Patrick McNaughton

Both men were prisoners of the U.S. Marshals Service, which has said they were from the San Diego area and housed at a Corrections Corp. of America prison in Florence pending their transfer to the Bureau of Prisons.

The killing occurred during what was initially reported as a fight between the two men.

Man who killed friend, buried body agrees to serve 38 years

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Robbery was motive in killing of man at Myrtle Beach motel, warrant says

11-14-2013 South Carolina:

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) - Two men have been charged in connection with a Myrtle Beach motel homicide of a Hemingway man who was a registered sex offender, Myrtle Beach Police say.

Now, authorities say the incident happened during a robbery, according to an arrest warrant.

According to a press release, officers were notified of a homicide at the Atlantic View motel on Flagg Street in Myrtle Beach on Monday.

Officers said the victim of the crime, a 57-year-old Helbert Woodberry, was not located until late Tuesday afternoon.

The body was found on Postal Way, a road parallel to US 501 that links Carolina Forest shopping areas to Carolina Forest High School, police say.

Mitchell Monroe Weatherall, age 32, was charged with murder on Tuesday afternoon.

On Wednesday morning, Weatherall appeared in front of a judge for an unrelated shoplifting charge. Bond was set at the maximum penalty of $1,092 for that charge. Weatherall remains in jails and awaits a bond hearing with a circuit court judge for the murder charge.

If a sex offender dies will she or he still appear on the state and national registry?

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they are soaking the taxpayer when it is unnecessary!
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Plea deal nearly reached with man charged with murdering man, burying remains

11-9-2013 California:

Prosecutors are close to reaching a plea deal with a defendant accused of killing his friend and burying the body in order to collect the man's Indian tribal reservation checks.

Prosecutor Ken Green said in court Wednesday that he and defendant Frank Jude Valles have come to terms on how many years Valles will serve, but are still working out the exact charges he'll plead to. Green said he believes they'll have an agreement by the next court hearing on Nov. 15.

Valles was open to the deal, Green said afterward, because he wanted a determinate sentence, not the potential 25 years to life he faced if convicted of murder. The prosecutor said he could not reveal the number of years agreed to until the plea deal is complete.

Valles, 46, was arrested in August 2012 after investigators dug up human remains in two Bakersfield locations. The remains were determined to be those of Alphonso John Hyde, who had lived with Valles and his wife, Consuelo.

Family members of Hyde said they hadn't heard from him in four years. They filed a missing persons report in early August 2012.