An unregistered Santa Fe investment adviser dubbed a "mini-Madoff" was ordered to pay nearly $10.4 million in restitution and penalties after engaging in a Ponzi scheme for 20 years involving . Patricia spent the next seven months in jail. IRVING, Texas A Texas father was sentenced last week to serve life in prison for murdering his two teen daughters in 2008 in what prosecutors described as "honor killings.". Join Facebook to connect with Tahir Utas and others you may know. 2022; June; 9; patricia said charged; patricia said charged Amina was around eight years old at the time, while Sarah was seven years old. This is the only way I could protect my family's honor.". Patricia said she herself was moved to perform an act of kindness . Patricia Graham, a 71-year-old teacher at South Lenoir High School, was caught on camera using the cord to hit one of the teens in a classroom, according to WITN and the Lenoir County Sheriff's. Patricia made call after call to Amina begging her to come home throughout the day saying her father had forgiven her and they were all going to go out to eat but Amina again refused. Armed homeowners Mark T. and Patricia N. McCloskey standing in front their house along Portland Place as they confront protesters marching on Sunday, June 28, 2020, in the Central West End of St.. Snell has found that in March 1996, the now 43-year-old. At one level, it is quite simple to understand: "Tissie" behaves in the same way that any normal, uneducated Arab Muslim wife might behave. Said was the last witness to testify. But justice is not convicting an innocent man.. 241 U.S.C. Patricia Lacina assumed the office of Charge d'Affaires at the US Embassy last year. The mother, Patricia Said, failed as a parent as a mother to protect her daughters, who repeatedly confided to relatives and friends that their father abused them both, physically and sexually. Owens said she has since been diagnosed with several medical conditions, including severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. And he kept his money to himself or so they think. Hopefully, with Yaser facing the consequences of his actions, Patricia will be able to start moving on with her life. She returned to The Morning News in 2021 as a reporter covering primarily Dallas County criminal courts. America was their culture. Maggie previously worked at the Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch. Patricia Owens. It was at about that time that Sarah called 911 two times, saying that she was dying after being shot by her father. The girls were found shot to . Their families testify against them. The entire murder had been taped by federal Owens knew the girls boyfriends and approved. 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Or political. Said was on the FBIs Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list before his capture in August 2020 at a Denton County family home. Their desire to live as Americans, and not as Arab Muslims in Egypt is precisely what doomed them. Owens testimony was at odds with what Aminas boyfriend told jurors: He said Amina did not want to return. Even though they remember incidents in which Yasser did not let "Tissie" leave the house and an incident in which he once blocked her car "Tissie" could have left at some other time. It worked. Owens said the girls wanted to leave because Said prohibited them from dating. "Tissie" also worked as a store clerk, as did her daughters. Missing woman found alive after more than 30 years; family reacts, A Pennsylvania woman who has been missing for more than 30 years is found alive in an adult care home in Puerto Rico. People named Patricia Owens. I will address this question in a future article. Mr Said told Ms Owens to stay home while he went for a drive with the teens to talk. The circuit attorney in St. Louis, Kimberly M. Gardner , said the couple created a dangerous situation . Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the Central West End couple who confronted protesters June 28 with a rifle and a gun in Mayor Lyda Krewson's neighborhood, have been charged with unlawful use of a . According to my interviewees, "Tissie" also went to jail for her man when she was caught collecting welfare and a housing subsidy based on Yasser's presumed absence. The siblings of Ricks' granddaughter, who also lived at their grandmother's home, have been placed in the custody of Nash County social services. Renard Spivey, a sheriff's deputy in Texas who appeared on a popular TV show, has been charged with murder after his wife was found shot twice in their bedroom closet, according to the . Tahir Utas is on Facebook. What is the "American" thing to do? She removed her glasses, looked up and locked eyes with Yaser Said. The defense team tried to cast suspicion on the boyfriends, alleging they created the narrative that Amina and Sarah feared their father. Once, long ago, "Tissie" had also admitted that Yasser had been sexually abusing Sarah and Amina when they were seven and eight years old. Patricia moved in with Said's brother after he fled upon killing Amina and Sarah. What makes such behavior unexpected, or culturally "abnormal," is that "Tissie" was born in America and raised in a Christian (although not in an especially religious) household. For example, in 2003, on the West Bank, Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud, brutally murdered her 13 year-old daughter Rofayda who had been raped and impregnated by her two brothers. Their families often give them up. She commented, Now the girls can rest in peace. She gave birth to their three children in the first three years of marriage. In her opening statement on Tuesday, prosecutor Lauren Black said that he controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date. BOTH RESEARCH AND ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE document that women collaborate, both directly and indirectly, in honor killings. That was when she and her mother learned what was happening to Patricia. The only thing youve done for your familys name is stain it with Amina and Sarahs blood, Moggio said. hear the girl's heartbreaking cries and found both parents guilty. I just thought he would, like, punish them, like take their phone away and stuff like that, she said. I'm happy Amina Said (18) and Sarah Said (17) are finally getting some justice after their piece of shit father Yaser Said murdered both of them January 1, 2008. Victims of Muslim Honor and Political Correctness. Upon arrival Patricia tells her aunt the girls were going to run away with their friends and she couldnt let that happen, then Amina spoke up and said; "my mom said she always wanted to leave my dad so we let her come with us." ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPXI) - A Pennsylvania man who has been searching for his wife for over 30 years has just learned that she is alive and well and has been living in Puerto Rico for decades. Irving Police Department not only refuses to bring charges against Patricia Owens, Islam Said or any of the bothers of Yaser Said but they didn't even care to officially interrogate them. Its a missing persons case thats sat unsolved inside Ross Township police for over 30 years. In what could only be described as a horrid evil act of honorcide. If it were him, hed have made the bodies disappear. Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond. Deciding to run away with two friends they confined in their mother their plans to escape their father. She claims that her first-born son Islam needs her, and that he has grown up with his first cousins on his father's side. In August, 1996, a grand jury indicted Patricia and Dietrich each on one charge of aggravated. Colombia wants to deport "cocaine hippos" to stop them from multiplying, Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murders of wife and son, Skeletal remains found in Pennsylvania identified as man missing since 2013. He reported them missing the next day, forcing Ms Owens to call the Lewisville Police Department to say she was alive and well but that she was scared of Mr Said, The Daily Beast reported. We were contacted by an agent from Interpol as well as a social worker from Puerto Rico who believed they had her in an adult care home in Puerto Rico, Ross Township Police Deputy Chief Brian Kohlhepp said. One such time was when the abuse allegations were revealed in 1998. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date. Their father Yaser Abdel Said is wanted by the FBI for their murders. On New Years Day, Said started chewing the inside of his cheek, which Owens said he did when he was angry. Muse suggested Amina had plans to marry another young man and Ruiz was upset when he found out. Please join us in the fight for justice for Amina and Sarah Said by calling on the Irving Police to revise this case and interrogate Patricia Owens Said and Islam Said. Patricia makes one fatal mistake to contact the father. The girls, who were both students at Lewisville High School, were reportedly shot multiple times. She knew about the home videos. Even after 12 years of frustration and dead-ends, the pursuit for their killer never ceased. . And then "Tissie" called her daughters and begged them to come back to Dallas to accompany her to put flowers on their grandmothers' grave (the very grandmother who, a decade before, had turned their father in for child sexual abuse). The mothers actions in the days leading up to the murders are extremely suspicious. In pleading guilty, Islam Said admitted that evidence proved he committed the crimes charged in the superseding indictment filed in November 2020. Hennig testified Irving police rejected that characterization of the slayings. The jury deliberated for three hours after six days of testimony before reaching a verdict. She was overworked, treated "like dirt," chronically beaten and constantly abused, both verbally and psychologically. The abuse was permitted (or at least not stopped) by their American mother, Patricia. Law enforcement finally captured the girl's father Yaser Said last year. In December 2007, Mr Said put a gun to Aminas head and threatened to kill her, prompting the mother and daughters to plan an escape before Christmas that year. The relatives were identified as Said's son, 32-year-old Islam Said, and his brother, 59-year-old Yassein Said. Police have said the AuSable Forks woman and her ex-boyfriend, Brandon Bushey, 25, of New Jersey, were responsible for the . This seems a likely possibility in "Tissie's" case which, however, does not mean that she is morally or even legally innocent in the matter of her daughters' abuse and death. Owens said Said had previously threatened Amina with a gun. Palestinian Abu Nidal terrorist operative, murdered her. I do not have a simple answer. America did nothing. He said she had some mental health issues and talked about wanting to go to Puerto Rico where it was warm. Therefore, despite certain statements and beliefs that Patricia might have lured her daughters to their deaths, one cannot deny how heartbroken the mother has been over her losses. Initially we were looking at the two boyfriends, and then we focused on the defendant, he testified. Patricia Owens face grew red and her lips pursed as she pointed to the man accused of killing her two daughters. Maggie writes about public safety in the D-FW suburbs. Their chastity has to be guarded, their modesty ensured. But police did not test for gunshot residue on their hands, defense lawyers pointed out, and two other detectives who testified Thursday said they were not suspects. Part of me didnt.. Amina and Sarah were honor students who dreamed of becoming doctors. She told the jury how she married Said in 1987, when she was just 15 and he was 29. The manager gave Patricia days off from work to take the girls to a safe place and call the police, even taking donations among the store employees to help Patricia get her daughters protection. Owens claimed she left Said multiple times during the marriage and described him as controlling. Sign Up. Conspiracy Against Civil Rights, for her involvement in an actual conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Amina Said that. At the same time, there has been little discussion of the larger number of Jews that were forced out of Middle Eastern and North African countries where they had lived for thousand of years. At fifteen, she married Yasser, who apparently presented himself to her family as a wealthy Egyptian "prince" someone who had property and other holdings back in Egypt. Update: Updated at 1:19 p.m. with additional information throughout. "She said. Owens looked up at the ceiling before answering. Said was on the run for more than 12 years after he was charged with his daughters' murders. They said that traces of ethylene glycol were found on Ryan's baby bottle, the same bottle that she had used to feed him on September 1st. The honour killing allegedly occurred outside Dallas after he found out that they had begun dating and that he wasnt able to control them. Her eyes shifted around the courtroom during the nearly two hours she was on the stand. At one point, state District Judge Chika Anyiam told Lollar to instruct Said to sit quietly so the family can say their piece., You have their blood on your hands, Owens said. Indeed, Islam's need for her perhaps her need for Islam is the reason "Tissie" gave for having to return to Yasser, leaving her girls behind somewhere in Oklahoma. "We have had information throughout this investigation that hes been in multiple places," DeSarno said. . If you commit a crime, you will pay for it.". brother of the honor murdered Dallas girls has. Shes screaming out from the grave right now. Liesbeth Powers/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Pakistan arrests man in honor killing of teen daughter who rejected arranged marriage, Indian woman murdered, dumped in suitcase by parents for marrying a man from different caste, Honor killings trial starts for Texas father accused of gunning down daughters, Brother acquitted for honor killing of Pakistans Kim Kardashian, murdering his two daughters in honor killings. Patricia Owens, YaserSaids former wife, had not seen him since New Years Day of 2008 when he took their daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, to dinner and insisted on going alone so they could talk. The girls subsequently told relatives that their recantation was false. Reports suggest that she's in Arlington, Texas, having resided in several places before - including Bedford and Lewisville. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7045530-Yaser-Abdel-Said.html, Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. They do not shelter them. The film furthers speculation the girls' father objected to his daughters living an "American lifestyle.". Patricia Ann Ricks, 72, is being held without bond in Nash County, North Carolina, following her arrest this week on multiple charges including first-degree murder. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. Yaser found out that both girls were dating in the fall of 2007 and like many times before he pulled a gun on Amina and Sarah and threatened to kill them for not following his rules. "Tissie" Said is not the first mother to have participated in an honor She said that she didnt finish the process to get the order because they went back to Mr Said. After "Tissie" left her daughters in Tulsa, she returned home to Dallas. Krista graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a major in journalism and a minor in criminal justice. Texas father Yaser Said stands accused of shooting and killing his daughters in his taxi, in what has been reported as an honour killing. The trial will continue Tuesday. It is that of Patricia Said, the mother. Patricia Stallings was arrested and charged for the murder of her son because the authorities said that she had poisoned Ryan during her last visit. The authorities and the prosecutor of Texas needs to press charges on Patricia Said. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Peter Navarro, a former top adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, was charged on Friday with contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House of Representatives. How can a mother do such a thing? Tafal insisted Said fill out paperwork with its owner to replace Tafals name on the lease. And because of this mistake, both of her daughters ended up killed on New Years Day. They all headed for Kansas to Patricias aunts home. Until the trial, Owens said she hadnt seen Said since the day of the slayings. She and the three children left Said for about four months. He leaned forward and watched her testify. All signs point to Yaser Said. He put the girls in his taxicab and left their home in Lewisville for Irving where he allegedly shot them both as they sat in his cab. Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond. During her trial, Krenwinkel reportedly showed little regret. Patricia McCloskey was also initially charged with the two felonies, but pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine. Here his FBI profile: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/murders/yaser-abdel-said. Yaser was abusive.. Said, who was arrested in August 2020 after more than a decade on the lam, has maintained his innocence and his lawyer has argued that he is being targeted by law enforcement for being Muslim in a post-Sept. 11 world. Ms Owens said he left messages claiming to have changed and that he would vacate the house they wanted him to. And, according to her Owens relatives, "Tissie" laughed it off, "giggled," minimized it all. Owens repeatedly called Said the devil in her impassioned victim impact statement. Weeks later, Ramirez turned up dead, but it would take decades before his killers were found. Amina Said's mother Patricia Owens Said was not charged with murder. I am very happy now. Irving detective Joe Hennig said he listened to Sarahs 911 call when he got to the police station that night and heard her say, Help, my dad shot me. Jurors heard the call on Wednesday. But she kept their secrets from Said. August 27, 2020 / 1:30 PM / CBS DFW DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The mother of two sisters found shot to death in their father's taxicab in 2008 says justice will be served now that FBI agents have. Part of me did, Owens said. They moved to Oklahoma but later went back to Texas when Mr Said reported them as missing. That said, his denial seemed heartfelt and genuine. Conspiracy Against Civil Rights, for her involvement in an . Updated at 1:19 p.m. with additional information throughout. Her husband, Mark . The girls were discovered in an orange Jet Taxi cab that police said Said borrowed from a fellow driver. PACOLET, S.C. . Krista graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a major in journalism and a minor in criminal justice. When Patricia Owens was asked to identify her ex-husband in court, she pointed at Yaser Said, saying: "That devil there." Said, 65, is charged with capital murder, accused of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year's Day in 2008. As CrimeOnline previously reported, FBI agents arrested Yaser Abdel Said, 63, without incident in Justin, Texas, on Wednesday, according to an FBI statement. Maggie Prosser, Suburban Public Safety Reporter. Patricia Said's two daughters Amina and Sarah were allegedly murdered by her Muslim husband their father. Amira was quoted as saying that "I had to protect my children. I think that "Tissie's" hand steadied that trigger far more fatefully. Speaking outside the courtroom, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot called Said the epitome of evil. Creuzots office has not sought the death penalty in any case since he assumed office in 2019. We've received your submission. However, they are not entirely sure since she has behaved in secretive ways. Owens turned over a box of ammunition from their house, Johnson said. Yaser was on the run for so long, and its hard to wrap my brain around it. The girls fled with their mother to Oklahoma where Patricia leased a apartment , even got all new phones and numbers so the father wouldn't be able to . Yaser was abusive.. Some of "Tissie's" female relatives believe that she converted to Islam. The mother must be charged with conspiracy to murder her daughters. Maggie writes about public safety in the D-FW suburbs. Earlier this week, prosecutors played a recording of a 911 call placed by Sarah after she had been shot, but was still alive. On television, Islam Said insisted that the boyfriends of Amina and Sarah were the ones who pulled the trigger. I just thought he would, like, punish them, like take their phone away and stuff like that, Owens said. Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie) Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past New Years Day in Dallas. The girls managed to run away of the home to their mothers job where the girls also had part time jobs. Taxi drivers lease vehicles for short stints, often weeks at a time, from fleet owners whom the cars are registered to. Mr. Said harbored his father, Yaser, inside an apartment in Bedford, Texas, where a maintenance worker spotted Yaser on Aug. 14, 2017. Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were shot dead on New Year's Day in 2008 and their bodies left in cab at hotel parking. Patricia Owens held up glossy pictures of her smiling teenage daughters and read softly from a statement directed at their murderer. Yasser only worked as a taxi driver "when he felt like it." hellcat vs p938; simple small front yard landscaping ideas low maintenance; jenny's super stretchy bind off in the round; senate democratic media center Read More: Movies About Abusive Relationships. They said they had responded to "a disturbance call involving an unruly passenger." According to my interviewees, "Tissie," not Yasser, was the main support of the family. Instead, prosecutors say, Said shot the girls multiple times in the cab he drove and left them for dead outside a hotel in suburban Irving. While none of that worked, she was right where he thought she might be. Indeed, in Texas "Tissie's" favor, let me note that in late December, she ran away with her girls, whom she also calls her "angels." Or at least to protect them? He still needs her. 0 "We were in shock," Juana said. She commented, That was the day I lost my whole family and my life as I knew it was gone forever. Owens and the girls fled Said again in December 2007. And she never left him because he battered their daughters. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. By contrast, over the years, the Said girls were notoriously bruised, and had red welts visible on their bodies. Unlike many American girls who cleave to their families of origin, "Tissie's" primary alliance is not with her own family but with her son, her husband, and with her husband's family. She told our partners at The Dallas Morning News Wednesday, "All I can say is theres going to be justice.". Yaser had plans for the girls to marry in an arranged marriage. He will die in prison, which is our goal for him, Creuzot said. EVEN NOW, WHEN HER DAUGHTERS ARE DEAD and her man is still on the run, "Tissie" has chosen to live with one of Yasser's brothers and she has warned her great-aunts not to speak out and not to call this cold-blooded murder an "honor killing." And he controlled everything in his household. "Just imagine coping with this kind of thing, the murder of two, young, beautiful children. She knew he would beat the girls. But Owens said she and the girls wished to go home so they could finish the school year. He had been wanted on capital murder charges for the deaths of his daughters, Lewisville High School students, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18. It was the happiest moment he is caught, and justice can be served for Amina and Sarah.. The girls were brilliant young ladies dreaming of nothing more than to live their lives as Americans and become doctors. The girls fled with their mother to Oklahoma where Patricia leased a apartment , even got all new phones and numbers so the father wouldn't be able to track them. A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. Owens and her sister, Connie Moggio, addressed Said in a crowded courtroom Tuesday afternoon.
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