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NEW YORK - Crimesider has obtained Leah Ignagni's mug shot, which was taken by Nashville police after she was arrested for three drug charges on Aug. 24, 2009, according to affidavits on the Nashville Criminal Court Clerk Web site.

Police say Ignagni was dating former NFL star Steve McNair, who was found dead with another lover, 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, who they believe killed the married quarterback then herself due to mounting financial pressure and the recent discovery that she wasn't the only one sleeping with McNair.

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NEW YORK - Crimesider has just unearthed arrest records for Leah Ignagni, murdered NFL star Steve McNair's other-other-woman.

Igagni, 25, was arrested in August on three drug charges, two of which are felonies, after police conducted a sting operation and executed a search warrant on her home.

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NEW YORK - New exclusive photos of Leah Ignagni, NFL great Steve McNair's other-other-woman, have surfaced and only Crimesider has them.

Ignagni has been named by Nashville authorities as the second woman McNair was having an affair with in the time leading up to his death on July 4, 2009. McNair was married.

According to her MySpace page, which has since been erased, Ignagni is 25-years-old.

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NEW YORK - "Im gonna have all of u soon," Sahel Kazemi told Steve McNair, her married lover and former NFL star, approximately 24 hours before she shot and killed him, then herself, in his Nashville condo, according to police.

The text message conversation between Kazemi, 20, and McNair, 36, in the day before their death's paints a picture of a frantic woman burdened by financial woes who was heavily dependent on her lover, for both emotional and monetary support.

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NEW YORK - Last night Nashville police released the name of Leah Ignagni, slain former NFL great Steve McNair's possible second girlfriend.

Sahel Kazemi, the woman who had been carrying on a relationship with McNair, allegedly shot and killed McNair and then herself on July 4, 2009. Ignagni told police that a woman in the same model car that Kazemi owned had been following her a few weeks prior to McNair's murder, according to a revised police case summary released Monday, Oct. 19.

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NEW YORK - Sahel Kazemi, a sexy young waitress, shot her boyfriend, NFL star Steve McNair, four times, killing him, and then turned the gun on herself, Nashville police say.

But is that the full story? How exactly did a waitress, who had never owned a firearm, suddenly wind up with a loaded, black-market 9mm pistol just one day before the killing?

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NEW YORK - Four days after the shooting death of former NFL star Steve McNair, police delivered their verdict on the Fourth of July killing: it was a murder- suicide. McNair's jilted girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, 20, shot the former quarterback four times inside his rented Nashville condo, then turned the gun on herself, authorities said.

Now, a CBS News exclusive is raising questions about the police findings, and whether Kazemi was really intent on taking both their lives, as police believe.

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NEW YORK - On Monday, CBS News will release surprising new revelations in the death of NFL star Steve McNair and his lover Sahel Kazemi.

Both were found shot to death in McNair’s Nashville apartment on July 4. The police ruled it a murder-suicide and pinned Kazemi as the shooter, but new information, including never before seen photos and video unearthed by CBS News, raises serious questions about the claims that Kazemi was suicidal and in financial trouble.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Someone had better call James Bond, because a creative Nashville woman allegedly hatched a jailbreak plot that involved a convicted gang leader directing his underlings to build a small helicopter and learn how to fly it.

An arrest was made by federal agents this week.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Associates of the late Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa plotted to ambush a group of FBI agents during his 1962 trial in Nashville, newly released transcripts of federal grand jury testimony indicate.

Walter J. Sheridan, a Justice Department official, told the Nashville grand jury in March 1963 that Hoffa's supporters planned to trap the agents in an alley "and have a bunch of business agents waiting for them."

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