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U.S. NEWS Monday 7 august 2017

Northwestern professor, Oxford staffer jailed in stabbing

old Trenton James Cornell- courthouse in Oakland.
Duranleau was found in Supervisory Deputy U.S.
Lathem’s Chicago apart- Marshal Frank Conroy told
ment July 27. The Associated Press the
Police said Lathem had a telephone negotiations
relationship with Cornell- began late Friday after-
Duranleau, who moved to noon and by evening,
Chicago from the Grand Lathem arrived by car at
Rapids, Michigan, area af- the courthouse. No guns
ter receiving his cosmetol- were drawn, but Lathem
ogy license. Investigators was ordered to carefully
have not elaborated on step out of the vehicle and
how Cornell-Duranleau or was taken into custody in
Lathem knew Warren, or if a courtyard area, Conroy
Warren knew them before said.
This combination of photos show Andrew Warren (left), and he arrived in the United According to Conroy, Lath-
Wyndham Lathem (right). Warren and Lathem were jailed in
the San Francisco area on Saturday after eight days as fugitives States. em stated that he would
in the death of a young hairdresser in Chicago. Lathem faces Chicago police said War- not answer questions on
a Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 court appearance in the city of ren was 56; he was booked the advice of a lawyer, and
Pleasanton, Calif. into jail as age 49. no questions were asked.
(Chicago PD/Alameda SO via AP) A deputy U.S. marshal said Investigators talked with
Lathem’s surrender came Lathem’s friends during the
By DAISY NGUYEN in the crime he called “the after fast-paced negotia- week, including people
Associated Press worst mistake of my life,” tions through an attorney from his graduate and un-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — according to investigators. that led to the fugitive turn- dergraduate days, along
Far from their prestigious Lathem, 42, was being held ing himself in at the federal with his colleagues.q
campuses, a Northwestern without bail in Alameda
University professor and County and faced a Mon-
a University of Oxford fi- day court appearance
nance officer were jailed in in the city of Pleasanton.
the San Francisco area on Lathem was under inten-
Saturday after eight days sive observation Saturday
as fugitives in the death in jail, Alameda County
of a young hairdresser in Sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Kelly said.
Chicago who was repeat- The other suspect, Andrew
edly stabbed until the knife Warren, a treasury assis-
broke, police said. tant at one of Oxford’s
The Northwestern microbi- residential colleges in Eng-
ologist, Wyndham Lathem, land, was being held at the
had a personal relationship county jail in San Francisco.
with the victim, although Both men surrendered sep-
the nature of it wasn’t arately and peacefully on
clear. While on the run, Friday evening in the Bay
Lathem had sent a video Area.
to family and friends apolo- They had been fugitives
gizing for his involvement since the body of 26-year-

Barbados fugitive nabbed in

South Carolina over fraud

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A convince elderly people
fugitive who’s been on the to pay him money by say-
run for months from Barba- ing he was a needy rela-
dos authorities was arrest- tive. Authorities believe
ed in South Carolina on Browne defrauded his vic-
charges that he scammed tims of $130,000.
elderly victims out of more Investigators received in-
than $100,000, federal of- formation that he had
ficials said Sunday. come to South Carolina
The U.S. Marshals Service late last year after flee-
said in a news release that ing Barbados and was at-
Hainsley DaCosta Browne tempting to run the same
was arrested in Fairfield scams in the U.S. The Mar-
County, South Carolina, shals Service said he had
hours after a media alert been using multiple aliases
was sent Friday asking for and also went by the
the public’s help. nickname “Barbados.”
He was wanted in Barba- Authorities say he has a
dos on accusations that lengthy criminal history in
he ran a phone scam to Barbados.q