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Colorado police chief on leave amid probe into teen’s alleged rape at home

A Colorado police chief has been placed on administrative leave after his stepson and three men were accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in his home while he slept upstairs.

The city of Ouray announced Monday that Police Chief Jeff Wood would remain on leave “pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings of the alleged rape” during a May 2023 party the stepson threw at Wood’s home.

The city did not clarify the exact reason why Wood was asked to step down, but the move comes more than a week after a man unsuccessfully tried to smother a local newspaper’s reporting on the alleged crime by stealing stacks of papers from its racks, instead amplifying the story to nation-wide attention.

The city had previously stated that it had been monitoring the case and Wood’s familial ties to it since Wood was first made aware of the investigation in July 2023.

Wood did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

His stepson, Nate Dieffenderffer, 18, was arrested in December along with Gabriel Trujillo, 20, and Ashton Whittington, 18, with felony sexual assault, a case that is being handled by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

Dieffenderffer is accused of initiating a night-long gang rape horror after a 17-year-old guest at a party he was throwing at Wood’s home passed out from intoxication.

The alleged rape took place in Police Chief Jeff Wood’s home during a party thrown by his stepson. City of Ouray County

The police chief’s stepson restrained her when she tried to fight back and scream before he and Trujillo dragged her into the bathroom and took turns violently abusing her, according to an arrest affidavit.

Whittington allegedly did not participate but did not intervene.

The next morning, the survivor woke up naked and grabbed a sweatshirt from a pile of laundry, which turned out to belong to Wood. His DNA turned up in a subsequent investigation, but not in a significant amount to reflect wrongdoing.

Accused rapist Nathan Dieffenderffer, then 17, is Wood’s stepson. Colorado Bureau of Investigation

According to the victim, the police chief was home the entire time, but slept throughout the hours-long torture.

Wood told The Post last week that he “was first made aware of [the rape allegations] approximately two months after the incident was alleged to have occurred.”

“I anticipate being called as a witness at trial so I feel it is not appropriate to comment on the plausibility of the young lady’s allegations at this time,” Wood said in a statement over email.

Hundreds of newspapers were stolen the morning the Ouray County Plaindealer ran a front-page story on the rape allegations. Ouray County Plaindealer

The charges became widely known when a local restaurant owner stole hundreds of copies of the Ouray County Plaindealer on Jan. 18, the morning it ran a front-page story on the horrifying accusations.

Paul Choate, 41, accused the Plaindealer of attempting to profit off the story and claimed on social media he pulled off the heist to protect the victim.

Shockingly, Choate does not appear to have any ties to the police department, Wood, his stepson or the other three men named in the criminal case.

The upsetting case had triggered intense calls from the community for Wood to resign.

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Bruce Whitehead wanted for mutilating Orlando, Florida woman

A registered sex offender with the word “Sacrifice” tattooed on his face is being sought in Florida for a horrific rape in which authorities said the victim was mutilated.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that deputies were searching for 54-year-old Bryce Whitehead — described as a “brutal rapist” — in connection with a violent sex assault that took place in Orlando Saturday.

According to a redacted incident report obtained by the station ClickOrlando, the victim was approached by Whitehead while walking near a strip club off Pine Hills Road near North Lane and got into his car willingly.

Whitehead stopped off at a 7-Eleven store to buy water and then drove to a different location, where he pulled over and walked around to the passenger door where the woman was sitting.

The report stated that the ex-convict ordered the woman to get out of the car at knifepoint and then raped her after she refused to have consensual sex with him.

In the course of the attack, Whitehead also allegedly mutilated the victim, although officials did not elaborate on her injuries.

Bruce Whitehead is wanted in connection with a violent sex assault that took place in Orlando on Saturday.
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After Whitehead fled, deputies were called to the scene and found the victim “scared and shocked.” She told the officers she thought Whitehead was going to kill her.

The woman was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center and was expected to recover, officials said.

According to Orange County authorities and information available on the Duval County Sex Offender Registry’s website, Whitehead was convicted of kidnapping, armed sexual battery and first-degree attempted murder in 1986 and spent 20 years in prison.

The victim met Whitehead near a strip club off Pine Hills Road near North Lane.
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Whitehead has the word “Sacrifice” written in gothic style tattooed across his forehead, along with several teardrop tattoos on his left cheek.

“His tattoos are unmistakable. If you spot him, call 911 immediately,” the sheriff’s office urged the public.



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Canadian pop singer Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years in jail for rape

BEIJING – A Chinese court in Beijing sentenced Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape, according to state media on Friday.

The local court in Chaoyang District of Beijing said investigations showed that from November to December 2020, Wu Yifan raped three women.

The court said they found him guilty of rape as well as of the crime of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity.

Investigations proved that pop-star Kris Wu raped three women from November to December 2020.
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Officials from the Canadian embassy in China attended the sentencing, according to state media.

The Canadian embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on Friday.

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Zeldin won’t let hecklers stop his anti-crime remarks at site of NYC rape

Hecklers tried to disrupt a Friday appearance by Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in Manhattan  — but their shouts failed to silence his anti-crime broadsides against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

During a news conference near the scene of the Thursday morning rape of a tourist jogging in Hudson River Park, Zeldin said, “It is important that we are doing everything in our power to make our streets and our subway safe.”

“Now, unfortunately, Kathy Hochul doesn’t want to be here talking about these issues,” he said. “She wants to send her supporters to make sure that we aren’t talking about fighting crime.”

Zeldin also blasted Hillary Clinton for accusing Republicans of trying to keep voters “scared” while she campaigned for Hochul with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday night.

In response to a question from The Post, Zeldin said Clinton and Hochul should be telling New Yorkers, “I understand your concerns. I want to do absolutely everything in my power to be able to fix it. Here are my solutions and I’m committed to getting it done.”

“But instead, a strategic decision was made by them, that they didn’t want to talk about crime, that they wanted to talk about other issues,” he said.

“Why is it that the polls are close? What you are hearing right now is why the polls are close. Last night, when you listened to that rally, that is why the polls are close.”

Although the small band of protesters from the progressive “Rise and Resist” group made noise throughout Zeldin’s 20-minute appearance, he managed at one point to get them to change their tactics.

When Zeldin said, “They want to drown out the conversation,” the activists instead started cheering and clapping.

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‘Superfly’ actor Kaalan Walker sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for rape charges

A Los Angeles-based rapper who acted in the 2018 movie “SuperFly” was sentenced Monday to 50 years to life in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting seven victims — including three minors.

Kaalan Walker, 27, was also ordered to register as a lifetime sex offender for the series of crimes dating back to 2013, according to City News Service.

The performer was convicted of three counts of forcible rape, two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, two counts of rape of an intoxication victim and one count of assault with intent to commit oral copulation by a Van Nuys jury on April 18.

Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Wallace said she believes Walker is “truly a predator” for his assaults on young women and teenagers between 2013 and 2018, according to City News Service.

Walker used Instagram and Twitter to find his victims — who were often aspiring models and actresses — and lure them to locations by saying he had booked them for photo shoots and music video productions that never happened.

Kaalan Walker, who was ordered to register as a lifetime sex offender for the crimes, used Instagram and Twitter to find his victims.
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Instead the rapper raped as well as assaulted the women and underage girls, prosecutors said.

“When they said ‘Stop,’ he didn’t care,” Deputy District Attorney Yasmin Fardghassemi told the jury of Walker during the trial in March, the news service reported.

Walker’s attorney said he didn’t force the women and girls and that they were seeking revenge against his client for the false promises he made of music shoots and opportunities to meet his famous and well-connected friends.

Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Wallace said Kaalan Walker is “truly a predator” for his attacks on his victims.
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The lawyer, Andrew Flier, added that the rapper’s career has been ruined and that he has suffered “a living nightmare” due to the allegations he was later convicted of.

Walker — who also appeared in the 2017 film “Kings” starring Halle Berry and Daniel Craig — was arrested in September 2018 and released on bond. He was taken into custody again after he was found guilty.

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Rapper Mystikal pleads not guilty to rape, drug charges

NEW ORLEANS — The Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman at his home in Louisiana and of possessing several drugs.

The 51-year-old performer whose given name is Michael Tyler is innocent of all charges, attorney Joel Pearce said after the arraignment in Ascension Parish court in Gonzales, about 15 miles from Baton Rouge.

The charges include first-degree rape, which carries an automatic life sentence.

Pearce said he has not been able to get copies of the two indictments, but they were read aloud in court.

Charges also include simple criminal damage to property, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, possession of heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine and Xanax, and possession of drug paraphernalia, he said.

“My client doesn’t even do drugs, so he has absolutely no idea what they were talking about,” Pearce said in a telephone interview during his 250-mile (402-kilometer) drive from Gonzales to Shreveport.

Mystikal pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, on charges accusing him of raping and choking a woman.
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He said bond may be discussed at a hearing Oct. 17. Prosecutors said they plan to bring up Tyler’s 2003 guilty plea to sexual battery and extortion as evidence of prior crimes, said Pearce.

Tyler and two bodyguards had videotaped themselves in sex acts with Tyler’s hairstylist. The prosecutor in that case, Sue Bernie, said in 2003 that the woman told investigators that Tyler accused her of stealing $80,000 worth of his checks and told her he would not go to police if she did something “degrading.” The woman denied stealing any money, Bernie said.

A letter in court records before Tyler’s sentencing stated that he had paid the woman $350,000.

He served six years in prison on that conviction, which came the same year that he was nominated for two Grammy awards. He also received a Grammy nomination in 2001.

Pearce said he doesn’t know what the woman who is now accusing Tyler allegedly was robbed of, but the criminal damage charge accuses him of breaking the band of her Apple watch.

Pearce represented Tyler on rape and kidnapping charges that prosecutors in northwest Louisiana dropped in December 2020. Those charges, brought in 2017, had kept Tyler jailed nearly 18 months before he was released on $3 million bond.

“People keep saying it’s his third time to be charged” with rape, Pearce said, but Tyler pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in Baton Rouge. “And in Caddo Parish, after a grand jury indicted him, they un-indicted him.”

Mystikal told The Associated Press in April 2021 that he used to be “a nasty lil’ rapper” but now is proud of lyrics he can imagine rapping to God.

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