Wednesday, March 27th:
*Pretrial Hearing (
Aniah) (@ 1pm ET) - AL -
Aniah Haley Blanchard (19) (last heard from Oct. 23, 2019 text with friend, Auburn, Lee County; car found early morning hours of Oct. 24 along South College St; officially reported missing Oct. 24, 2019; found Nov. 25, 2019 near Highway 80 in Shorter, Ala., which is about 25 miles east of Montgomery, Macon County off County Road 2 near New Hope Baptist Church several feet into the woods.) –
*Ibraheem Yazeed aka Laquetta Nicole Lamar, Ibraheema Yazeed, Ibraheen Yazeed (29/now 32) arrested (12/4/19 in Escambia County) & charged (11/7/19 Lee County) with 1st murder & 1st degree kidnapping. Held with no bond. Lee County.
Case was moved to Macon County.
*Indicted (11/14/22),
charged & arraigned (3/6/23 in
Macon County) with 1 count of 1st degree capital murder (during a kidnapping), 1 count of 1st degree murder (during robbery) & 1 count of 1st degree murder involving a victim in a vehicle. Plead not guilty (3/6/23). Held with no bond. Held in Lee County jail. Macon County
Previous crimes & court info from 11/10/19 thru 3/4/20 reference post #963 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...ee-county-23-oct-2019-arrest-6.488028/page-49
11/15/22 Update: Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Yazeed has been indicted on three counts of capital murder in Blanchard’s death. The case was presented before a grand jury on Nov. 4, 2022. Specifically, the indictment charges Yazeed with one count of capital murder during a kidnapping in the first degree, one count of capital murder during robbery in the first degree, and one count of capital murder involving a victim in a vehicle. The indictment further charges Yazeed with intentionally causing the death of Blanchard by shooting her with a gun during the course of abducting her & robbing her of her vehicle. Arraignment hearing 3/6/23 in Macon County.
3/6/23 Update: Yazeed plead not guilty to all counts of capital murder. He was indicted on 3 counts on 11/14/22. He also asked for additional counsel at his arraignment. The defense has 10 days to file any special motions or pleas on the indictment. Yazeed could face the death penalty if convicted. Yazeed was initially to be tried in Lee County before the case was moved to Macon County.
3/23/24 Update: Macon County: Hearing set on 3/27/24 @ 1pm with Judge William I. Whorton presiding.
Lee County: Yazeed is now
charged (4/20/20) with 2nd degree assault in connection with the 3/23/20 incident at the Lee County Detention Center. Lee County
Previous court info from 11/10/19 thru 3/23/20 reference post #963 here:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/t...ee-county-23-oct-2019-arrest-6.488028/page-49
5/27/20 Update: Lee County judge Steven Speakman indicted Yazeed Wednesday on the assault charge & will send the case to a grand jury. Yazeed will be back in court on June 3rd for the preliminary hearing in the capital murder case of Aniah.
*AL –
Stephen Hamby (29) (Dec. 1, 2018, Montgomery) & injured
Geraldine Talley (54) shot in face, but later died of natural causes - *Ibraheem Yazeed (29)
charged (6/25/20) with murder & attempted murder. Montgomery County
Investigators cite newly-discovered witnesses & the re-examination of evidence collected at the scene developed Yazeed as a suspect in Hamby's murder. Yazeed is expected to face prosecution in Lee County first.
*Antwon “Squirmy” Shamar Fisher (35) was arrested & charged (11/22/19) & arraigned on (11/25/19) with first-degree kidnapping. No plea entered yet. $50K bond. Preliminary hearing on 12/18. 12/17/19: Charges dismissed “with prejudice” by Judge.
*David Lee Johnson, Jr. (63) –Montgomery County: Hearing on 12/4/23.
*AL – Yazeed was out on bond on
charges of attempted murder & 2 counts of 1st degree kidnapping, 2 counts of 1st degree robbery & possession of marijuana in connection with a January 2019 crime. According to court records, two male victims – one of them
77-years-old - were held against their will in a hotel room (SureStay Motel) in January 2019 on the 1200 block of Eastern Blvd. The older man was beaten until “unconscious, unresponsive, severely injured and near death” & robbed of a Rolex, rifle, handguns, wallet, bank card, clothing & unknown amount of currency. The
other man was also beaten & robbed of at least $40. Bond was $295K has been revoked (12/5/19). Montgomery County
12/5/19 Update: Due in court for bond hearing 12/5/19 in reference to the January 2019 of 1st kidnapping & attempted murder charges. Preston Presley did not oppose the judge’s order for bond revocation, reserving the option to revisit the issue if the counts in Lee County were dropped. The Montgomery case is currently bound over for grand jury consideration.