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This Monday, June 5, 2017, photo provided by the Lake County, Calif., Sheriff's Office shows Derick Almena. Authorities say Almena illegally rented out space in an Oakland warehouse that caught fire, killing 36 partygoers. Almena and Max Harris, another man who organized the event, were each charged Monday with three dozen counts of involuntary manslaughter. (Lake County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the Lake County, California, Sheriff's Office shows Anthony Hammond at the Lake County Jail in Lakeport, California. Hammond was charged with hate crime and other counts after police in Clearlake, California, say he stabbed a black man with a machete after yelling racial slurs on May 27, 2017. (Lake County, California, Sheriff's Office via AP)

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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Richland County, S.C., Sheriff's Office, shows Officer Greg Alia. Jarvis Hall charged with killing Alia in September 2015 at a South Carolina shopping mall nearly two years ago is expected to plead guilty Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (Richland County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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This photo made available by the Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows LaDarrius Divonta Jackson, 22, under arrest, Monday, May 1, 2017. Jackson, a University of South Florida football player, was charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment. (Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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In this photo provided by the Noble County, Okla, Sheriff's Office, Nathan Aaron LeForce is pictured in an undated booking photo. Leforce, the suspect in the Tuesday, April 18, 2017 fatal shooting of Logan County Sheriff's Deputy David Wade, has been taken into custody. (Noble County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This Wednesday, April 19, 2017 booking photo released by the Calcasieu Parish (La.) Sheriff's Office shows Justin W. Gray. Gray has been jailed on charges he financially exploited a federal judge while working as her personal assistant. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office said in a statement that Gray turned himself in Wednesday after investigators obtained a warrant to arrest him on charges of forgery and unauthorized use of a credit card. (Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)

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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo released by the Gwinnett County (Ga.) Sheriff's Office, Demetrius Bryan Hollins poses for a photograph after being arrested. A Georgia police officer is under investigation after authorities say he kicked Hollins in the head during a traffic stop in Lawrenceville, Ga., just outside Atlanta. The incident was captured on cellphone video by a witness stuck behind the stopped car and the police vehicle. The police statement says the video is "very disturbing and speaks for itself." (Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This photo provided by the Clark County, Indiana., Sheriff's Office shows Joseph Oberhansley. Oberhansley is charged with murder, rape and abuse of a corpse in the September 2014 slaying of 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton. The southern Indiana man accused of killing his former girlfriend and eating parts of her body will undergo psychiatric evaluations, despite his insistence that he's competent for trial. (Clark County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This Kansas Highway Patrol photograph provided by the Ellsworth County, Kan., Sheriff's Office shows 28-year-old Alex Deaton. Deaton, accused of killing two in Mississippi, was arrested in Kansas after police ran a stolen SUV off the road in a fiery crash Wednesday, March 1, 2017. (Ellsworth County Sheriff's Office via the Kansas Highway Patrol via AP)

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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Hamilton County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office shows Deasia Watkins, who pleaded guilty to murder Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in the stabbing and decapitation of her 3-month-old daughter Jayniah Watkins in March 2015. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Kubicki Jr. sentenced Watkins to 15 years to life in prison. (Hamilton County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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This undated photo provided by the Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff's Office shows Charles Leon Thompson Jr., 33, of Waldorf, Maryland, who turned himself in Feb. 13, 2017, to face a charge of first-degree murder in a Feb. 4, 2017, shooting outside a Waldorf bar. A co-defendant, Anthony Wilkins, was found Feb. 12, 2017, in Emporia, Virginia, after being wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police. (Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff's Office shows Anthony Dangelo Wilkins, 33, who was wounded in what police say was an exchange of gunfire with officers Feb. 12, 2017, in Emporia, Virginia. Wilkins was wanted on a warrant for first-degree murder for a shooting Feb. 4, 2017, outside a Waldorf, Maryland, bar. (Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, arrest photo made available by the Troup County, Ga., Sheriff's Office, shows Mary Rice, who faces multiple charges in Alabama and Florida in the deaths of four women. An arrest warrant says the 37-year-old woman was "a willing participant" and ammunition before a two-state killing spree ended with the other suspect, William "Billy" Boyette, fatally shooting himself in a motel room as a SWAT team closed in. (Troup County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016, file booking photograph provided by the Logan County, Colo. Sheriff's Office, shows Sedgwick County, Colo. Sheriff Thomas Hanna after being arrested on sex assault and misconduct allegations. Hanna was recalled from office by voters on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (Logan County, Colo. Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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This undated photo provided by the Laramie County, Wyo., Sheriff's Office shows Logan Hunter Rogers. Wyoming authorities have arrested Rogers in connection with the death of a 13-month-old Cheyenne boy. The search for the boy's body is set to begin Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, at a landfill in northern Colorado. Rogers is scheduled for an initial court appearance Friday, Oct. 28 in Cheyenne on charges of manslaughter and reckless child endangering. (Laramie County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This undated photo provided by the Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office shows Michelle Marie Bastian. Bastian, a bookkeeper in Arizona, was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 on suspicion that she mailed bomb-making instructions and promotional materials from terrorist groups to a state prison. Investigators say she sent the materials in a plot to plot to kill a warden at the prison where her husband is serving a life sentence. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Franklin County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office shows Raymond Gates. Charged with raping a 17-year-old girl during a February 2016 assault that prosecutors say was livestreamed, Raymond Gates pleaded guilty to one count of rape Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, and was immediately sentenced to nine years in prison, according to Franklin County, Ohio, Prosecutor Ron O'Brien. (Franklin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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An undated photo provided by the Spotsylvania County, Va., Sheriff's Office shows K-9 Dax. Authorities are looking for a man they say shot Dax after he chased after the man in Virginia. The Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office says in a news release that 34-year-old Joseph Conway shot the dog Sunday night, Oct. 2, 2016, while attempting to flee from deputies. The K-9 was taken to a veterinary hospital where it was listed in serious condition. (Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This booking photo released Tuesday, May 12, 2015, by the Orange County (N.C.) Sheriff's Office shows Christopher James Hawkins, 32, a former college football player who was arrested on Monday, May 11, and charged with acting as an agent and violating North Carolina's law that bars illegally luring collegiate athletes into contracts. (Orange County (N.C.) Sheriff's Office via AP Photo)