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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Miley's VMAs date is a wanted man

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She posted their picture on social media with the caption Miley Cyrus was excited about Jesse Helt escorting her to the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. She posted their picture on social media with the caption "My date :) #jesse #myfriendsplace #mtvVMAs2014."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":true,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":1,"title":"Miley and Jesse"}The pair joined rapper Snoop Lion's daughter Cori Broadus and Snoop on the red carpet before the awards show began at the Forum on August 24 in Inglewood, California. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":2,"title":"Miley and Jesse"}No one is quite sure what Cyrus is up to as she marches Helt up to the stage after she was named the winner of the Video of the Year for her single No one is quite sure what Cyrus is up to as she marches Helt up to the stage after she was named the winner of the Video of the Year for her single "Wrecking Ball." cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":3,"title":"Miley and Jesse"}Helt accepts the Video of the Year award on behalf of Cyrus from late night host Jimmy Fallon. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":4,"title":"Miley and Jesse"}Helt reads a speech about the issue of youth homelessness as he accepts Cyrus' award. He is reportedly a representative of My Friend's Place, an organization that aids homeless youth and it is there that he and the singer met. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":5,"title":"Miley and Jesse"}Cyrus cries during Helt's speech and hugs him as they leave the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards stage. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":6,"title":"Miley and Jesse"}Cyrus and Helt embrace following his acceptance speech given on behalf of the singer who won Video of the Year for Cyrus and Helt embrace following his acceptance speech given on behalf of the singer who won Video of the Year for "Wrecking Ball" during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":7,"title":"Miley and Jesse"}HIDE CAPTIONMiley and JesseMiley and JesseMiley and JesseMiley and JesseMiley and JesseMiley and JesseMiley and Jesse<<<1234567>>>Event.observe(window,'load',function(){if(typeof(cnn_adbptrackpgalimg) == 'function' && typeof(cnnArticleGallery) != 'undefined'){cnn_adbptrackpgalimg(cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[0].image,"Miley Cyrus' 'homeless' VMA date is a wanted man, faces arrest in Oregon ");}});STORY HIGHLIGHTSAn arrest warrant was issued for Jesse Helt in 2011, a corrections official saysHelt stopped checking in with probation officer after criminal trespass conviction, he saysCyrus: "You've chosen to go after Jesse instead of covering" the youth homelessness issueHelt could spend a year in jail for his probation violation, the official says

(CNN) -- The young man Miley Cyrus chose to represent homeless youths at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday faces arrest in Oregon, a corrections official said.

An arrest warrant was issued for Jesse Helt, 22, when he stopped checking in with his probation officer for a criminal trespass conviction in November 2011, said Polk County, Oregon, Community Corrections Director Martin Silbernagel.

"Reportedly, he has returned to the Polk County area," Silbernagel said. "We will be attempting to serve him his warrant, at which time he will be taken into custody."

Polk County sheriff's deputies are not actively searching for Helt because of a staff shortage, but they would arrest him if they encounter him, spokesman Dean Bender said Wednesday.

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Cyrus, whose "Wrecking Ball" video was being honored, appeared to be near tears as she watched Helt, who said he was homeless, read the acceptance speech calling attention to the large population of homeless young people in Los Angeles.

"I've survived in shelters all over this city," he said. "I've cleaned your hotel rooms. I've been an extra in your movies. I've been an extra in your life. Though I may have been invisible to you on the streets, I have a lot of the same dreams that brought many of you here tonight."

Along with raising awareness of the problem of young people living on the streets of Los Angeles, Helt's story caught the attention of corrections officials in northwest Oregon, where he grew up and where his mother lives.

If police find Helt, who some media reports said returned to Salem, Oregon, to visit his mother, he will be taken before a judge to decide whether he will spend up to a year in jail or be allowed to resume his probation, Silbernagel said.

Helt was initially arrested in October 2010 on burglary, criminal mischief and criminal trespass charges. The burglary count was dismissed, but he was convicted of the mischief and trespass counts, Bender said.

"The media never fails to disappoint. You've chosen to go after Jesse instead of covering the issue of youth homelessness :(" Cyrus said on Twitter after online reports of his arrest warrant were first published Tuesday.

"While the media obsesses over one homeless mans legal issue, let's help the other 1.6 million homeless youth http://www.prizeo.com/miley," Cyrus said in an Instagram posting.

In a video posted on her Facebook page, she instructs fans to donate through a Prizeo fundraising site to My Friend's Place, a Los Angeles-area charity that provides support for homeless people ages 12 to 25.

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CNN's Carolyn Sung contributed to this report.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Police: Man who fired in Cannes 'wanted to change world'

A 43-year-old suspect is due to appear in court Sunday, a police spokesman saysThe man fired two rounds from a starter pistol on a Canal+ set in Cannes, police sayChristoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were doing a live interview at the timeCanal+ anchor tells viewers: "The shots fired were blanks and the grenade was fake"

(CNN) -- A man arrested at Cannes Film Festival after firing a gun loaded with blanks during a live TV interview is due to appear in court Sunday, Cannes police said.

Canal+ was interviewing Christoph Waltz, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actor in "Django Unchained," and actor Daniel Auteuil when a man fired two shots from a starter pistol on Friday, according to authorities and the French television station.

The man allegedly had a dummy grenade in one hand, and footage and images of the incident showed Waltz and Auteuil being taken offstage and attendees scrambling for cover.

The 43-year-old suspect, who fired twice into the air, told police he believed in God and wanted to change the world, a Cannes police spokesman said Saturday.

He has been examined by a psychiatrist who concluded that he "is not mentally ill," the spokesman said.

Many police officers were present at the time of the shooting and the suspect was caught immediately, he said.

The court is expected to consider the case against the man, who remains in custody but whose name has not been made public, on Sunday, he said.

'Fake grenade'

The incident, which occurred on the Canal+ set along the popular Promenade de la Croisette -- the main boulevard in Cannes -- briefly interrupted the show.

But Canal+ anchor Michel Denisot came back on the air a short time later and told viewers: "The shots fired were blanks and the grenade was fake. That's what we know."

No injuries were reported.

Pictures of the arrest obtained by The Hollywood Reporter showed police wrestling the man to the ground.

The man said to a woman next to him, 'If I were you, I wouldn't stick around here'," Denisot later told France 24.

It was far from the typical scripted fare of the Cannes Film Festival, where chaos plays out on screen and not among the audience.

The annual festival brings together the rich and famous from around the world for movie screenings and glittering parties.

Stolen jewels

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Chopard later said in a statement that the value of the stolen pieces was "far lower than those in the figures circulating in the media."

The theft of the jewels occurred Thursday night, on the second day of the festival, which opened Wednesday and runs through May 26.

Commandant Bernard Mascarelli, of the Nice police, said the jewelry was stolen from a room in the Suite Novotel hotel on Boulevard Carnot in Cannes.

A Chopard employee who was staying in the room left it for several hours to go to dinner, he said. She returned to discover the whole safe containing the jewels had been unscrewed and taken away.

No detailed description has yet been given of the stolen jewels, but a Chopard spokeswoman said they were not part of the firm's "Red Carpet Collection 2013" and were not due to be worn by any actresses in Cannes.

Chopard, which is an official sponsor of the festival, has provided the Palme d'Or trophy awarded to the director of the best feature film for the past 15 years. The trophy features a 24-carat gold palm attached to a piece of cut crystal.

CNN's Chelsea J. Carter, Pierre Meilhan and Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report.

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Sunday, March 31, 2013

'America's Most Wanted' canceled

Hosted and executive produced by John Walsh, Hosted and executive produced by John Walsh, "America's Most Wanted" helped capture more than 1,100 fugitives in the U.S."Most Wanted" premiered on Fox in 1988 That network canceled the show in 2011 and Lifetime picked it upThe show may be shopped around to other networks

(EW.com) -- Lifetime has canceled long-running, crime-busting show "America's Most Wanted," EW has confirmed. Though there's another show on the horizon for host John Walsh, who is developing a pilot with Lifetime. (TV Guide exclusively reported the news.)

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"Most Wanted" premiered on Fox in 1988 and since has helped lead to the capture of over 1,100 fugitives both in the United States and 30 additional countries. Lifetime picked up the series in 2011 after Fox canceled the program, citing a lack of profitability.

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As to the possibility that Walsh's production company or 20th Television will shop the show around to other networks, reps for AMW had not responded to EW's request for comment at time of publication.

See original story at EW.com.

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

'Most wanted' Nazi suspect in custody

Hungarian police arrested Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary, 97, top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's wanted list, at dawn Wednesday, Budapest prosecutors said, but he maintained his innocence.

Csatary, accused by the Wiesenthal Center of having helped organise the deportation of some 15,700 Jews to the Auschwitz death camp during World War II, "has been taken into custody," the public prosecutors office said in a statement.

"He denies being guilty of the crimes he is accused of," state prosecutor Tibor Ibolya said. "One of his arguments in his defence is that he was obeying orders."

Csatary was being questioned by an investigating magistrate about alleged war crimes and could be charged afterwards, after which he may be allowed to return home but under house arrest, Ibolya said.

"In view of the seriousness of the allegations, but also the need to respect the presumption of innocence and also taking into account his age and health, the judge could for the time being assign him to his residence.

"In this case the police would confiscate his passport ... Our viewpoint is that at this age, being under house arrest is already quite a shock. We have to make sure that this man remains alive and is able to stand trial."

Csatary, full name Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary, was a senior police officer in Kosice, which at that time was occupied by Nazi ally Hungary and is now in Slovakia.

He added: "The suspect is in good physical and mental health. He is being cooperative. He was surprised (about being arrested) but he expected to be questioned."

In 1948, a Czechoslovakian court condemned Csatary, who the Wiesenthal Center said was in charge of the Jewish ghetto in Kosice, to death in absentia.

But he had made it to Canada, where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto until the 1990s, when he was stripped of his citizenship and was forced to flee.

He ended up in Budapest where he has lived freely ever since until the Wiesenthal Center alerted Hungarian authorities last year, providing them with evidence it said implicated Csatary in war crimes.

British tabloid The Sun raised publicity his case in a report at the weekend after tracking down the old man, photographing him and confronting him at his front door.

Acting on the information provided by the Wiesenthal Center, which was supplemented by fresh evidence last week over other deportations of some 300 other Jews in 1941, prosecutors began an investigation in September.

An earlier statement by prosecutors had appeared to limit the chances that Csatary will end up in the dock, stressing that the events took place a long time ago and in another country, and that finding any witnesses would also take time.

Efraim Zuroff, the Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter, told AFP on Sunday that he has been "very upset and very frustrated" about the lack of action by Hungarian authorities.

The fact that Csatary lived freely in Hungary for some 15 years and the lack of progress by prosecutors also added to worries about the direction of the EU member state under right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Almost exactly a year ago, a court in Budapest acquitted Hungarian Sandor Kepiro, 97, of charges of ordering the execution of over 30 Jews and Serbs in the Serbian town of Novi Sad in January 1942.

The Wiesenthal Center, which had also listed Kepiro as the most wanted Nazi war criminal and helped bring him to court, described the verdict as an "outrageous miscarriage of justice." Six weeks later Kepiro died.

Recent months, meanwhile, have seen something of a public rehabilitation of controversial figures, most notably of Miklos Horthy, Hungary's dictator from 1920 until falling out with his erstwhile ally Adolf Hitler in 1944.

Anti-Semitic writers like Albert Wass and Jozsef Nyiro, a keen supporter of the brutal Arrow Cross regime installed in power by the Nazis in 1944, have also been reintroduced into the curriculum for schools, meanwhile.

Other incidents include the verbal assault of a 90-year-old rabbi, Jozsef Schweitzer, when a stranger came up to him in the street and said "I hate all Jews!"

The decision by the speaker of the Hungarian parliament, Orban ally Laszlo Kover, to attend a ceremony in May honouring Nyiro, prompted Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel to return Hungary's highest honour in disgust.

Holocaust survivor Wiesel, 83, said "it has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past."

The speaker of Israel's parliament followed this up by withdrawing an invitation to Kover to a ceremony this week in Israel paying tribute to Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved Jews during the war.


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