On the night of her arrest for drunken driving, prominent Seattle attorney Anne Bremner told the sheriff’s deputy who arrested her June 4 that she was the “attorney for Seattle police,” that she was “famous,” and that this “will be bad for you guys,” according to a copy of the officer’s report. “I represent Seattle [...]
A transient, who was nicknamed “The Box Cutter,” was sentenced to more than 400 years in prison for a knifing rampage against several California women. Charles Juan Proctor was convicted this month of 22 charges including robbery and attempted murder in connection with the slashing spree, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said. On [...]
A former Osama bin Laden aide who stabbed a federal prison guard in the eye was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after telling the court he’s not a terrorist and hearing his victim tell him he will go to hell. U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts said Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 52, deserved a life sentence [...]
A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Marcial Anguiano, 47, of Duncanville, was taken from the Dallas County courthouse on a stretcher with his neck [...]
Lynn Turner, who was convicted in 2007 of killing her husband and boyfriend with antifreeze, has died in prison. Officials said Turner, 42, died in Metro State Prison in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday. A release from corrections officials said Turner was found in her cell at 6:55 a.m. Monday and that prison medical staff and [...]
Dozens of law officers, some in helicopters or leading tracking dogs, searched a remote desert area in northern Arizona early Friday for a gunman who allegedly shot and killed a Utah sheriff’s deputy. Deputies on foot were chasing burglary suspect Scott Curley, 23, when he allegedly shot a Kane County (Utah) sheriff’s deputy with a [...]
Three years ago, James M. Cameron held a position of power and trust as the top drug prosecutor for the Maine Attorney General’s Office. His stunning fall from that post began in December 2007, when state and federal agents showed up at his Hallowell home with search warrants for the four computers inside. The fall [...]
A Morroccan man charged in the daffy scheme to peddle Disney financial secrets to hedge funds pleaded guilty Monday to insider trading charges. Yonni Sebbag, 30, pleaded guilty to two federal crimes and faces a prison sentence of 27-to-33 months. Sebbag and his girlfriend were charged last May with offering hedge funds an advanced look [...]
A massive, three-week long manhunt came to an end last night as an escaped inmate and his fugitive fiancee were cornered by police in an Arizona campground. John McCluskey, 45, and Casslyn Welch, 44, who have been dubbed a latter-day ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, were dramatically arrested after being spotted by an alert forest ranger. The [...]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Randy Ertman knows the road to the Texas death chamber too well. He’s set to make the trip again, to witness for the third time the execution of one of the gang members responsible for the rape and murder of his teenage daughter and her schoolmate. This time, it will be the lethal injection [...]
Philip Markoff, the Boston University medical student dubbed the “Craigslist Killer” after he allegedly went on a murderous crime and gambling spree, committed suicide today in jail, officials said. Steve Tompkins, the chief of external affairs at the Suffolk County, Mass., Sheriff’s Deptartment said Markoff died today of apparent suicide. He was pronounced dead at [...]
Through a sign-language interpreter at the Dallas County Jail, Stephen Brodie cops to all sorts of crimes save the one that put him behind bars for 10 years: sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl. He insists he is innocent, and there’s support for his claim. A fingerprint at the crime scene matches another man convicted [...]
Los Angeles jury of eight women and four men found former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Oscar Grant III on the BART Fruitvale station platform in the early morning of Jan. 1, 2009. Mehserle was placed in handcuffs and taken away after the verdict. He turned [...]
The poker-playing playboy is reportedly making one more gamble. Joran van der Sloot is hoping someone will shell out $1 Million for a sit-down television interview with him. The two-time murder suspect is in jail in Peru for allegedly murdering a 21-year-old woman, and has been the long-time suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. [...]
Earlier this week videotape of Officer David London beating Iraq vet Walter Harvin was released as part of the cop’s assault trial. In the video, London is shown striking Harvin at least 20 times before and during his arrest. But now a new tape of the altercation has been released, and this one is substantially [...]
A Pakistan-born U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing, saying he wanted it known that unless the U.S. stops attacking Muslim lands, “we will be attacking U.S.” Faisal Shahzad, 30, entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan just days after a federal grand jury indicted him [...]
The fatigue was palpable by the eighth day of Curtis Flowers’ sixth murder trial. On the ninth day — Friday — Curtis, 40, was found guilty of four counts of murder in the July 16, 1996 shooting deaths of four people inside the Tardy family’s furniture store in downtown Winona. The seven women and five [...]
Lee Farkas, the former head of bankrupt mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, has been charged with fraud in a scheme that led to the misappropriation of more than $1 Billion. The ex-TWB executive is also alleged to have siphoned more than $50 Million from the Florida mortgage lender for his own “personal financial gain”. [...]
A South Carolina sheriff dealt drugs from his police SUV and when state and federal agents gave him a list of possible drug dealers in his county, he immediately started calling to tip them off or extort money to get them off the list, according to the FBI. The FBI tapped then-Lee County Sheriff E.J. [...]
A US watchmaker said he hid funds in a Swiss bank account because of “survival behavior” learned from the Holocaust. The 65 year-old watchmaker, Jack Barouh, argued his secretive behavior was motivated by his fear as a Jew of persecution and sudden loss. He is just one of many US citizens being tried for tax [...]
The man convicted of killing Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller last year was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole eligibility for 50 years. Scott Roeder, 52, was facing a minimum mandatory life sentence, but a Kansas judge had the power to decide whether he could be eligible for parole after 25 years [...]
A judge on Tuesday sentenced serial killer Rodney Alcala to death before hearing emotional testimony from the families of four women and a 12-year-old girl he strangled in the 1970s. Alcala showed little emotion when his sentence was announced and kept his head down afterward as families took their turn condemning the 66-year-old amateur photographer. [...]
Capping one of the most unusual child abuse cases in Massachusetts history, a South Shore father was convicted yesterday of first-degree murder for killing his 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of a psychotropic drug, which he and his wife had nicknamed “happy medicine’’ and routinely dispensed to their three children to manage their day-to-day behavior. [...]
In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored one of the biggest hauls of its kind — not diamonds, gold bullion or Old World art, but about $75 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs. The pills — stolen from the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly [...]
The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart mapping out criminal turf in Florida – part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob. Wiretaps and surveillance revealed that suspected Gambino solider [...]
Authorities have arrested three Spaniards suspected of infecting 13 million computers with a program that allowed them to steal personal and financial data worldwide, Spain’s Civil Guard said Wednesday. The Civil Guards worked with the FBI and computer security firms in Canada, the United States and Spain to investigate what a Spanish official called the [...]
A Los Angeles businessman who was arrested for investigation of draping a huge movie billboard over a historic Hollywood building is due in court after a weekend in jail. City attorney spokesman John Franklin says 49-year-old Kayvan Setareh is being held on a $1 Million bail and will be arraigned Monday on three misdemeanor city [...]
A jury convicted an amateur photographer Thursday of murdering a 12-year-old girl and four women in the late 1970s, setting the stage for a possible death penalty in a legal saga that has dragged on 30 years. Jurors took less than two days to reach guilty verdicts against Rodney Alcala after six weeks of testimony. [...]
Terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to detonate explosives in the United States. In an appearance before a federal judge, Zazi, a native of Afghanistan who lived in Colorado, admitted his role in the conspiracy, saying, “In spring 2008, I conspired with others to join the Taliban, to fight along with the [...]
Two men were charged Sunday morning with setting fire to a church in east Texas and federal authorities said the men may face charges in nine other church fires. The men, Jason Robert Bourque, 19, of Lindale, Tex., and Daniel George McAllister, 21, of Ben Wheeler, Tex., were arrested and charged with arson of a [...]
Authorities have issued sketches of three people sought in connection with the spate of eastern Texas church fires. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released the drawings Friday at a news conference in Tyler, Texas. We have a serial arsonist out there,” said Robert Champion, special agent in charge of ATF’s Dallas, Texas, [...]
Jesse James Hollywood was sentenced to life in prison Friday for orchestrating the kidnap-murder of a teenager, ending a 10-year legal odyssey that included an international manhunt and a movie inspired by the high-profile crime. Superior Court Judge Brian Hill sentenced Hollywood, 30, to life without the possibility of parole in a Santa Barbara courtroom [...]
Self-help guru James Ray was arrested Wednesday after a grand jury indictment charging him with three counts of manslaughter in the deaths of three participants at an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he organized last year. Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh said Ray was arrested at his attorney’s office in Prescott, Arizona, Wednesday afternoon. He will [...]
A conservative activist who has caused problems for the community organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested and accused of trying to interfere with phones at U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office. Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and [...]
Former President Alfonso Portillo of Guatemala faces money-laundering charges in the United States, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. The indictment charges Portillo with embezzling tens of millions of dollars in public funds, “a portion of which he then laundered through bank accounts located, among other places, in the United States and Europe,” the [...]
Weizhen Tang – a Toronto money manager accused of allegedly operating a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme – was taken into police custody Wednesday after arriving at Pearson International Airport from China. Mr. Tang, the self-proclaimed “Chinese Warren Buffett,” arrived at 51 Division around 8:30 p.m., Constable Brent Bennett said. A Canada-wide arrest warrant was issued for [...]
Prosecutors in New York have given up their case against John Gotti Junior, the son of the city’s most powerful modern gangster. In the course of five years, juries in four trials failed to reach a verdict against John Gotti on charges of murder and racketeering. Justice officials said they would not seek a fifth [...]
A former US lawyer has pleaded guilty to charges he ran an investment scheme that defrauded clients of more than $1 Billion. Authorities said on Wednesday that Scott Rothstein had instructed his attorney to plead guilty during a brief morning appearance with his client in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A January 27, 2010 [...]
Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a major crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million in separate scams. Arrests in Miami, Brooklyn and Detroit included a Florida doctor accused of running a $40 million home health care scheme that falsely listed patients as blind diabetics so [...]
Federal agents investigating a prominent Florida lawyer suspected of running an elaborate Ponzi scheme said on Thursday the amount involved could exceed $1 billion, and they asked bilked investors to come forward. At a news conference, investigators from the FBI and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made a public appeal for information from individuals [...]
Galleon Group’s analysts, portfolio managers and traders in New York are seeking legal advice and updating their resumes after the arrest of Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge-fund firm’s founder, led to a flood of redemption requests, people familiar with the matter said. Rajaratnam, arrested on Oct. 16 for alleged insider trading and released on $100 million [...]
A Spanish judge has ordered that an Argentine-born pilot be held pending extradition to his home country over his alleged role in carrying hundreds of dissidents to their deaths during the 1976-1983 war. Judge Eloy Velasco gave the order in Madrid, the Spanish capital, on Tuesday after he finished questioning Julio Alberto Poch over his [...]
The trial of a former US judge accused of having sex with male inmates in exchange for leniency is set to start in Mobile, Alabama. Herman Thomas, 48, denies the charges, which include sodomy, kidnapping, extortion, sex abuse and assault. Up to 15 current and former prisoners are set to testify against him at the [...]
Desperate and debt-ridden, TV producer Robert Joe Halderman threatened to ruin David Letterman in a $2 Million blackmail plot as his life unraveled, prosecutors and sources said Friday. Halderman, who pleaded not guilty to shaking down the “Late Show” host, went through a costly divorce and was anguished after his ex-wife moved to Colorado and took their 11-year-old [...]
Roman Polanski, the award-winning film director, has been arrested in Switzerland on a US arrest warrant, dating from 1978, for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss justice ministry on Sunday confirmed the arrest of the film-maker, whose life has on occasion resembled the often violent world of his work. A Swiss justice ministry spokesman [...]
Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, Florida who stole more than 130 Million credit card numbers from a variety of retail businesses and payment processors, pleaded guilty to the charges in Massachusetts today. Gonzalez is facing 15-25 years in federal prison for the crime plus the forfeiture of $2.7 Million in cash, a Miami [...]
Image via Wikipedia Bradley Birkenfeld, a U.S. citizen residing in Florida, was sentenced today to 40 months in a federal penitentiary for his role as an agent of Swiss banking giant UBS AG. UBS signed a “Qualified Intermediary” agreement with the IRS in which UBS was required to disclose the identity of any [...]
Image by nrv75 via Flickr Frank DiPascali was the Chief Financial Officer at Bernard Madoff Securities and essentially ran the business on a daily basis. Seemingly untouched by the Madoff criminal investigation, DiPascali provided the information prosecutors needed to generate the evidence of Madoff’s fraud.
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton announced today that he will resign as Chief of Police, effective immediately, to join an international security firm called “Altegrity” located in Falls Church, Virginia where he will take the position of Chief Executive Officer consulting with police departments worldwide. Bratton leaves [...]
Another New Jersey mayor snared in a federal corruption sting is stepping down after his arrest.
Bangladesh Anthrax Spreads, Public Panics
Top Police Official In Siberia Accused Of Taking $450,000 In Bribes
Russian Banker Shot Dead In Moscow
Russian Performers Drop Fish-Eating Circus Act
Taliban Chief Says Victory Imminent
North Korea Marks 62nd Founding Day
Fear Of Fresh Violence In Nigeria
Rachel Corrie Trial: During War There Are No Civilians
Egypt’s Leprosy Colony Lives On, VIDEO
US Soldiers ‘Kept Afghan Body Parts’
China’s Blind Activist Lawyer Released From Prison
9th Circuit Throws Out CIA Torture Lawsuit For National Security Reasons
Mexican Mayor Gunned Down Inside Own Office
Giant Rats Put Noses To Work On Africa’s Land Mine Epidemic
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Russian Rokot Carrier With Three Satellites Blasts Off From Plesetsk Space Center
Police In Kamchatka Seize Poached Caviar Worth $1 Million
Europe Raids File-Sharing Groups Including Sweden
Kabul Bank Freezes Assets of Directors And Major Borrowers
Meeting The Taliban In Baghlan, VIDEO
United Nations ‘Failed’ Congo Rape Victims
California Regulators Seek Up To $9.9 Billion In Fines From PacifiCare
18 Murdered In Shoe Factory Shooting In Honduras
The Amazing World Of The Praying Mantis
9/11 Koran Burning Would Put US Troops’ In Danger, Petraeus Warns
Dozens Of Homes Burn Across Detroit, VIDEO
John Lennon’s Killer Denied Parole For The 6th Time
Belize Mob Torches Americans’ Animal Sanctuary
Pastor Wonders If It’s Wise To Burn Qurans Amid U.S. Warnings, VIDEO
Italian Crime Fighting Mayor Is Killed In Mafia-Style Execution
With A Little Help From My Friends
In Russia, No Kasha Creates Political Tension
Thieves Steal 3 Ancient Icons From Moscow Region Church
George Soros Donates $100 Million To Human Rights Watch
Congolese Poachers Destroy Protected Birds
French Unions Stage Nationwide Strike
Oracle Hires Former HP’s Mark Hurd
LAPD Kills Unarmed Migrant, Community Protests
El Salvador: 3rd Migrant Survived Mexico Massacre
Mexican Soldiers Open Fire On Family’s Car At Checkpoint, Killing 15-Year-Old And Father
U.S. Considers Boosting Funds For Mexico Drug War
California’s Union Jobs Take Hit From Recession
Israeli Minister: Speed Up Building, A Promise Is A Promise
Miners Seeking Gold Destroy Suriname Ecosystem
Little Rock Nine Member, Jefferson Thomas
Putin Compares Himself To Roosevelt As He Hints At Third Term
Condoleezza Rice ‘Ordered Bush To Stay Out Of Washington’ After 9/11
Stone Mason Sparks Cathedral Row With ‘Muslim’ Gargoyle
John Travolta Drops Charges In Extortion Case
150 Arrested In Mozambique Following Deadly Protests
U.S. Investors Sue For Payback For Pre-World War II German Bonds
Saad al-Hariri Retracts Charge That Syria Killed His Father
North Korea Plans Succession Meeting
The Arrest And Trial Of Human Rights Activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari
Arsenic Scare Hits Argentina, VIDEO
President Obama Unveils $50 Billion Infrastructure Plan
Cockroach Immune To Deadly Super-Bacteria
Gulf Residents Test Positive For Oil In Blood
