Crime Wire Weekly 10/3/25 | Logan Federico’s Dad is Pissed, Michigan Church Shooting, Bath and Body Works Candle Crisis (Preview)

0:00 All right, folks, we are back in another jam packed show is headed your way today, and look at some of the topics we will be covering. In North Carolina, a pissed off dad went viral when he spoke to lawmakers regarding the murder of his daughter. We have learned more about the church shooting in Michigan that killed four people and wounded another eight. In Florida, a man eats his own peacocks to prove a point to his neighbor. We're going to bring you that crazy story. In Texas, a candle crisis at a bath and body works location led to the arrest of an employee. In New York, the sentencing of Sean Combes is on the horizon, actually occurring today, and we're going to bring you our final thoughts all this plus much more today. This is Crime Wire Weekly, And I'm Jim.

0:59 Chapman, and I'm Kelly Jennings. And you are the feral Kelly Jennings. I am, y'all may wonder why I make a point of Kelly being feral Kelly. I gave you a phone call yesterday? Did I not? You did so, y'all, I just want to tell you quickly that Kelly had posted something on her I think it was her personal Facebook, if I'm not mistaken, that was, and in that she mentioned that she was still feral. So, Jim Chapman, I've always been of the belief that Ferrell had a different meaning. So I called Kelly because I'm like, man, she sure is coming out there with it. And I said, Kelly, did you mean that?

1:45 You do you know what ferrell means? And she says, yeah, I know what it means. And I said, it means your horny. I didn't know what to say to you. I was like, no, it doesn't, and that's exactly what she said. And I'm like, yes, it does when you're feral. And look, I'm completely serious about this, y'all. He was. And so of course, like me and Kelly always do when we have a disagreement, we google it. And so I'm like, I'm gonna prove her wrong, and I googled it, and of course Kelly was right. What did it mean? Again? The actual means when you're wild. If you're feral, you're not domesticated, you're wild, and you're you're running free. Yeah, so feral animal, that's right. And in my mind, I thought when people said and it's so funny because people say that pretty often, and I'm like, damn, everybody talks about how horny they are on the facebood. Yeah, a bunch of people been saying they faral lately. I'm like, shit, what are y'all on progester drone or whatever? I mean?

2:38 Damn anyway, handle you sometimes. So y'all, I am feral as in wild toward me. But thanks for checking. On the gym. I just want to make sure because I'm like she telling the world girls anyway. So that was, uh, that was an exciting part of my day yesterday was to find out what you exactly meant when you wrote that word. I'm glad. Yeah, so I'm glad I know the true definition now, so feel free to let me know when you're far from now on people, I won't get the wrong idea. But we'll jump into our articles for today. How about that. Kelly's all right, and we're gonna start off in North Carolina, and I'm gonna start off this episode without reading you an article of any sort. I'm just gonna tell you the story because I know this one pretty good and it's really what happens when you mess with the wrong dad. I'm gonna take you to South Carolina rather uh uh, North Carolina for this story, and I'm gonna tell you the details of what happened.

3:45 I'm gonna play you a clip of the dad in this story who spoke to the delegation of legislators in North Carolina, and you're gonna get a good grasp here in this clip of not only his pain as he articulates what happened to his daughter, but you're also going to get an idea of what happens when the justice system fails those they intend to protect. So before we get into the story, listen to this club Carolina. How many of y'all have kids. I'm just curious. Here's what I need you to do when I tell you this story. Think about your kids. Think about your child coming home from the night out with their friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them and drag her out of bed, naked, forced on her knees with her hands over her head. Beg you for her life, Beg you for her hero, her father, me that couldn't be there. She was five foot three, She waited a one hundred and fifteen pounds, Bang.

5:07 Dead gone. Why because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested thirty nine goddamn times twenty five felonies, was on the street. How about that? How good are we doing for our family? How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over one hundred and forty years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he's spent in prison, a little over six hundred days in ten years. He's only thirty years old.

5:49 He was committing two point sixty five crimes a year since he was fifteen years old. But nobody could figure out that he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't that the idea of prison? But no, my daughter wanted to be a teacher. She finally figured it out two weeks before she was executed. And I haven't heard a damn word from Byron Gibson in South Carolina, not one word, four months, no communication. His biggest concern was that he was pissed off about my interview and how I made him look on the Fox News channel with Trey Gowdi. How pathetic is that that we're letting our twenty two year old kid visiting friends. It's all she ever wanted to do was visit friends, and she literally was executed while on her knees, begging for her life.

6:57 Her name's Logan, Federico not and you will not forget her. I promise you will be sick and tired of my face and my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You need to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocence, and stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us. Please, you have the power. We put you in the power to do what you have to do. We're asking you, we're begging you all to stop this. Thirty nine crimes in ten years, twenty five felonies.

7:51 Can anybody here explain to me. Well, how possibly he could be on the street, possibly be on the street. How is it possible? I could sit down a room and I can explain the whole process. I have it failed? How South Carolina failed? Logan? Okay, how lack of communication? What y'all did? You woke up a beast and you pissed off the wrong daddy, because I'm gonna put it out there and I'm not going to be quiet until somebody helps. Logan deserves to be heard. Everyone on this panel deserves to be heard, and we will trust me. My daughter laid on the floor for seven hours before somebody in that house recognized that something was wrong, and that curer criminal an hour later, went on a spending spree with her debit card.

8:48 When they saw his face on a video, they didn't have to do a check. He was arrested so many times. They knew who he was, They knew exactly where to go get him. Pathetic, absolute pathetic that I'm here today, thank you for your time. So here's a quick overview of what happened in this case. This man's daughter, twenty two year old Logan Federico, was shot and killed by a repeat defender. And when I say a repeat defender, as you just heard over twenty five felonies in nearly forty arrest. This incident occurred on May third of twenty twenty five. Now, Logan was visiting friends when this jackass by the name of Andrew Dicky breaks into her friend's home and kills her now, after he kills her, he steals firearms, he steals credit cards, he stole some other items. He flees the scene in a stolen vehicle, and then he goes on a damn shopping spree. The vehicle eventually breaks down in another county and Dickie takes off into the woods. He ends up stealing yet another car and sets a house on fire before he is eventually caught. Now, as you heard in the clip I just played, he messed with the wrong dad, and this guy has made it his life, his life

10:21 mission to keep this from happening to another family. So the benefit for you and I in this case is that my co host actually carries a master's degree in criminal justice. So kJ one, how the hell does this happen? How the hell does the criminal justice system release this guy over twenty five times when he has felonies? How does he overcome some forty arrests to get back on the streets and destroy a family? How does any of this make sense? So I haven't got a copy of hisn'time record, and I haven't reviewed it or anything like that, So I'm just going off of basic things that tend to happen here.

11:07 But probably pleading down. Probably a lot of the things that he's done have been plugged down in the beginning of his criminal career, and he's picked up on that. They learned. These people learn, criminals like this learn they know the drill. They know when they go before they know it's going to get knocked down. They know the things that they should say and do, and so pled down. I don't know if he also had a juvenile record or not, and so I don't know if these thirty nine include a juvenile record, which then again would have not been do you know. I actually his dad said in that clip that since the age of fifteen, this particular individual was averaging over to a rest a year.

11:49 So that's my point. So if he was a juvenile, then those wouldn't have rolled over into his adult record, so you would have knocked those off, so it wouldn't have even really been accounted for, you know what I'm saying. So then he becomes an adult and they give him chance after chance, they do a plea down, and what tends to happen here, and I'm not blaming prosecutors, but I'm just going to give you the reality here, is that a conviction is a conviction no matter how you get it in terms of how effective a prosecutor is. And so if this guy steps forward and says, look, i'll plead guilty. If we can plea down to a lesser charge, well, then the prosecutor would be almost a fool to not take it. It's a win. It's an easy win. And there's so many people in the criminal justice system every single day they're just you know, we're rolling through it. And so he gets arrested and then he gets released, He gets arrested, and he gets released.

12:34 And we also don't know specifics on where every arrest took place. So if this is different states that he did crimes freeze in the courts may not speak to one another, you know what I'm saying. So there's a million things that can happen, and in twenty twenty five, I think the average person thinks that it's more of a well oiled machine than it really is, right, And that's what happens, and the criminals benefit every single time. Well, and I think he nailed when you said that you learn as a criminal, Okay, I can do this. It's going to get pled down to this and I'm not going to get much, if any, jail time. It's similar to raising kids. If you say, how many of us that have kids out there have told our children, Hey, if you do that again, I'm going to take your phone away. And you take it away for an hour and it was supposed to be a day and you end up giving it back or whatever. Same situation here.

13:30 Those kids, they eventually figure out that mom or dad is not going to do what they really say they're going to do. They're not going to grind me for a week, they end up grinding me for a day. That sort of thing. The problem is you're playing with lives here, and in this case, this guy got released so many times that you know, it doesn't take no Stradamis to figure out that eventually he's probably going to kill somebody, and he did. And I don't blame the uh well, I do kind of blame the justice system. I think there's got to be some way to stave off all these plea bargains. These plea bargains have taken over the justice system in such a way that it seems like there are tons of people running around on the streets that shouldn't be.

14:18 Yeah, in this one, I mean, these are violent offenses, you know, and felonies. It's not like these are misdemeanors of you know, adult Yeah, it's not. Well, they may have been, we don't know, but all of them aren't. And clearly he had to have gone before a judge at some point in this criminal record, have been a nuisance, and that judge look at this and go all right, buddy, we're tired of dealing with you. We are tired of dealing with you. I mean, that's the point of three strikes and you're out in Louisiana, you know. But they have to meet a certain muster. And so for example, in Louisiana, you know, it's not just three any three drug offenses and you go to prison for the rest of your life. Now, I mean, these have to be a violence of certain amounts, has got to be drugs that are punishable by certain amounts of time. And so he probably and again this is a guestimation here, but he's probably falling right underneath that that you know.

15:12 That line. Yeah, And so he continues to get to ride the waves, and. He probably knows where that line is, and so you know, he's cognizant of those three strike laws. And people of that come from the gutter. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, educate yourself on this. But people who come from like nothing, for example, they grew up in households where it's a single mom, maybe low income. They don't have much, they've never had much, and then they become adults and then you take them and you put him in jail where they get fed regularly and they have a bed, and they're getting medical care, and they're getting their friends are there, literally, their friends are there. Jail is not Jail is more of a punishment to someone who doesn't break the law than someone who consistently breaks the law.

15:58 I think he just nailed. Yeah, someone that appreciates their freedom doesn't like being in jail. Someone that never has really had freedom. I mean, they're on the streets hanging out with their boys, and now their boys are in jail. Where do you think they want to be? Well? And when life is a and I'm not giving this guy an ounce of victim here, but when life is not sunshine and rainbows from the jonp then it's like comparing jail is just like regular life. You just can't walk free. I mean that. I think that's part of the issue there, and we just catch and release doesn't do anything right, you know, I want I would guess just what I've heard from this dad. I'd guess he's unemployed. I guess that he's got no education. I would guess that he doesn't have a car, you know, I would guess all of these things, and no wonder. Yeah, he's running around stealing from other people so he can make money.

16:55 That's right. And I'll tell you he absolutely did mess with the wrong dad because this guy letting up, he has a fire in his heart and in his ass right now that he is going to push until there's change. And I love that part of it. Well, he's taken the most horrible thing in his life and he's doing something good with it. Yeah, And I like the part too where he says, I don't know if this this part is in that actual clip you just played, but that he couldn't protect his own daughter, but he can look out for other people and that's his job. Now. Is that this is ridiculous? Thirty nine arrests thirty nine Are you kidding me? Because in schools where it's the offenses aren't even that serious. I mean, you get enough, they kick you out of the school. Right, these are serious offenses. And think of all the victims here now too.

17:50 Also think of how many people have had their shit stolen, how many people have been offended in whatever manner of all of these crimes, and now we have a young girl dead. People should be ashamed, We should be as when we say the system. By the way, you can't blame the system. The system is not a thing. It's a multiple part complex, you know, intertwined grouping of things that have to take place. But we should as a society should be ashamed that this was allowed to happen. When someone has been arrested thirty nine times, when someone tells you who they are, or they show you who they are, we need to believe them. That's right, he's a criminal, that's right. All right. Well, let's move on to Michigan. Now, this one's horrid, but two days after a devastating attack on a church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, it shattered this small Michigan community. The investigators are coming through the wreckage of the burned out chapel, trying to find clues that may help them make sense of what the FBI says may have been a quote targeted act of violence. The attacker and Iraq war veteran who made disparaging comments about the LDS faith in the weeks before unleashing bullets and fire on all of the constituents, drove his car into the chapel where he opened fire and set ablaze the building, where improvised explosive devices later were found. Now he was killed in a police shootout. Four people were killed and eight were wounded by gunfire, according to the Grand Blanc Township police chief, and he said that all that were

19:21 injured or wounded are expected to recover. Three others suffered smoke inhalation. It could have been much worse had it not been for the heroic response, authority said. And here is what we know. Congregants had gathered at the Grand Blanc church for the ten am service, and it was a monthly fast Sunday when LEDs members around the world are encouraged to forego two meals and donate the food or the money that they would have spent on food to the poor. Worshippers. By late morning had finished the sacrament, which was the first half of the two hour service, after which some congregants leave. That's whenever we heard a big bang and the doors flew open. According to a church goer named Paula, the attack had rammed his four door pickup truck into the front of the chapel, and then he fired several rounds from an assault weapon at worshippers before somehow setting the building on fire and sending huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky. The congregants shielded children and they helped them move to safety.

20:17 Medical residents that were attending the service jumped straight into action, acting as the first responders to help the wounded, and nearby there were some nurses that were on strike or were striking, and they left their picket line and ran to the church to try and help. Police were on the scene in less than a minute after the first nine one one call, and Sandford was killed in the parking lot eight minutes after police arrived. The man police say committed the attack. His name was Thomas Sandford, who was forty years old, had served in the Marines and he worked as a mechanic in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was an avid hunter who grew up in Flint and he was known in the small Michigan town of Burton for his distinctive pickup truck, which he often drove with two American flags flying from the bed behind him. It seems to be the same truck he used to ram the church. Sandford was married. He had a young son that was born with a rare genetic disorder, and social media accounts that were linked to his family were the ones that gave that information. The family did launch a go Fundme campaign to fundraise for treatment for the child's congenital hyperinsulinism, which required a lengthy hospital stay and surgeries that had to remove portions of his pancreas. And so it had been they were documenting this long and very difficult journey of his son now. Sandford was a quote fun, loving family guy according to a longtime friend of his name, Kara Pattison, but he also harbored unkind feelings towards certain groups and he definitely talked about groups of people in

21:48 ways that were not acceptable. That also was, according to Pattison, that included openly declaring his hatred for the LDS Church. Sandford had a relationship with a woman in the LDS Church while he lived briefly in Utah and Sanford heavily abused drugs at that time. There appears to be no motive outside of pure hatred. And I will add to this that I saw this morning, right before we were recording this. Do you know that those church people got together the victims of this very man's crimes against them and raised I think over two hundred thousand dollars to give to his son for his medical expenses. Wow, that's beyond anything I expected.

22:32 I would say the same. And you know, this case, I've seen a lot out there people not excuse Obviously, there's no excuse for what he did, but there are people that are out there and they're hypothesizing that he had some stuff from the war going on in his head. And of course, look, I don't give a shit. None of that excuses us at all. I mean, it's certainly people out there that are war get their heads screwed up, but none of you know, there are very few go out there and just shoot up churches. In this case, it also seems like he had a lot of hate, a lot of hate for this particular religion. And I don't know a whole lot about this religion, but he had hate in his heart, and that's what this seems like.

23:22 A hate crime. Absolutely, I would I would absolutely say this was a hate crime. One. How can you just hate people you've never met? I just don't. I can't relate to that. I don't hate people I've never met. You know, I talked about this too. Get your thoughts. I talked about this with my husband recently that you know, there's people around the world who hate Americans, like just hate us, and I don't hate them like I don't hate other people. Like. Hate is such a strong, heavy thing to have for someone. And if I don't have a personal relationship with you, I have a hard time hating you. How do you get there? And so to me, I almost feel like maybe he had self indoctrinated into some weird fanaticism and it sounds like he had.

24:09 A relationship with some people that were in that religion. Yeah, and it didn't go well, And maybe that awesome manipulated of his head. But what a what a piece of shit to kill a bunch of innocent people just because you disagree with whatever it is, and. To leave your own child, yeah, Like, and I'm not discounting those other victims but you're willing to go leave your own child because you hate someone else strangers that much. That's that's wild, that's not normal. And I don't I hate whenever veterans get brought into these types of things. Oh will he served in the war, Well, no doubt that can cause problems in people. But you don't get to turn around and hurt other people as a result of that.

24:51 That's right, And veterans will be the first one to tell you absolutely that you're a piece of shit for doing that, you know. So we'll move on to the friendly skies and I'm gonna tell you a pretty wild story that you don't come around often, and it involves American Airlines, which has been slaped with an eleven million dollar bill after a jury rule the carrier failed to adequately treat a man even though he showed signs of a stroke before takeoff of his transatlantic flight. This verdict came after a six day trial in September, where jurors sided with the passenger and his wife, California resident Jesus Placina, then sixty seven, displayed worrying symptoms while the plane was still parked at the gate. Plincina briefly lost motor control and the ability to speak. His wife noticed he was in distress. She immediately flagged down crew members and she urged those flight attendants and the captain to get medical help.

25:57 But instead of following company rules, Silet allegedly laughed off the incident. The suit claimed the captain joked with the wife, brushed aside the concerns, and then cleared the plane for departure. Protocols state the airlines should have called in medical experts before the plane left the ground, and lawyers argued that the rules have been that had the rules been followed, doctors would have quickly spotted the emergency. Instead, the flight took off with Plancina on board, and disaster soon struck. Hours into the nearly eight hour TRUP, he suffered a major stroke over the Atlantic Ocean. Not a whole lot you can do then, right. Medical professionals on the plane stepped in, but they said that the jet didn't have the equipment that you would need, such as a blood pressure cuff, and that surprised me. The crew had little to no choice but to continue the journey to Spain.

26:56 When the plane landed in Madrid, Plancina was rushed to a high biddle. He remained in critical condition for more than three weeks before being flown back to the US. So, wow, you know, eleven million dollars, but shocking that before the plane even took off. I couldn't even believe what I was reading when I came across this article, because normally, if you would bring that to the attention of a flight attendant and say I think my husband's having a stroke, they would say get the hell off. The plane right like immediately. And this is a lawsuit that has been covered and it's a done deal, and he's getting eleven million dollars, which I'm not saying any amount of money is worth that, but it's you know, it's one of those things where you say, it's got to be true. The captain actually laughed this off when they told him. It's bizarre to me.

27:50 I would think you were you were lying to me if you told me that story ahead of time, before it's been settled. Yeah, Oh, I don't know. I wonder if maybe they were worried but then kind of minimize the symptoms, because then he was like, well, I don't know, I'm kind of feeling better, and maybe they kind of chuckled about it, and he was like you okay, And he's like, yeah, I think I'm okay. You know what I'm saying. Maybe it was that kind of interaction. Well not according to the lawsity, I mean, according to the lawsuit, the captain said, we're taking off anywhay they took off. They take drunk people off for less than that. Yeah, I don't Yeah, I don't get that, and that this was. Bad judgment at its bestment. Yeah. Really, And then you're wondering, I wonder if this was all about, like if they were on schedule or not. Yeah, sit down, sir, buckle up. We have places to go, but then not to have a blood pressure cup or any type of thing. You know, you're about to be gone over a waterway. That's kind of Yeah.

28:42 You're not flying from Atlanta the Louisiana. I mean, you're not taking a forty five minute fly. Like, what do they have? What do we have? Any airline people that listen to this, I'd be curious to know what do you have on the plane or should. You have typically would have something. Like that something, I mean, I wonder, I don't know. I believe they even have. Uh, the shocking the paddles. Get the shocking paddles that shocked your heart in case you have a heart attack on the plane. Yeah, they probably got an aed Yeah is what you're talking about. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I got you. Yeah, I would think so clear. Yes, yeah, I was thinking it was like charged in the wall, like you have them hung up like a phone in the wall of the plane. Everybody please put your please put your phones in airplane mode. We need to shock a passenger. Yeah, not even lie of it, but yeah, that's that's wild. And I hope that do better, you know, because that could have killed him. Yeah, definitely could have killed him. Now we're gonna move on to another crisis.

29:38 I wouldn't say it's quite as serious, but some women might think it is because a twenty six year old bath and body works associate in Houston was arrested Thursday after what police described as a candle crisis, which sparked was sparked by a heated sail dispute. According to shoppers, Rachel Morgan was stocking shelves during the stores three three wick candle promotion when a customer tried to apply an expired coupon. Morgan allegedly slammed the registered shut and shouted, these deals are hot enough already, golly. Witnesses say she then lit one of the display candles, held it aloft like a torch, and declared no discounts shall pass while blocking the exit. The scent, ironically named comb Breeze filled the store as chaos broke out. Police say Morgan refused to leave until every customer recited the words limit ten per customer, get out. Some onlookers praised her as a defender of seasonal savings, while others said she had turned smellgood into jail time.

30:49 That's awesome. Listen, these three wicks are serious in my house. I do appreciate a good three Wi candle. Yeah, and how dare her try to use that koopa a fixed by coopon? The sales were good enough people. Yeah, it's a hot enough deal, my gosh. Trying to get more sounds like. An employee that may have been working too many hours. That sounds to me like a man. She plays dungeons and dragons and loves renfest. I guarantee no discount shall pass. I love it. And that was Houston, Texas, that was Houston, Texas. Wow, I would want to go to that store just just to see the scene of the crime. People be serious at bath and body work.

31:30 Hey, Christmas time, you better get out of the way. Yeah, and it's getting close. She was probably getting her mind mentally prepared. And maybe it was all the toxicst sight. They say the candles have permanent toxins. When you burn them in your house, you can never get rid of them. Maybe she was affected. There may be something to that so allegedly. Yeah, all right, Well we'll move on to some pretty big news as this case is finally coming to a close. Shan Combed Day of reckoning is almost here and things saying looking good for the bad boy Mogul. Hey everyone, Crime Wire Weekly has moved to its own new channel.

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