Category: Crime

RICHMOND, Va., April 3 (UPI) — Virginia’s anti-sodomy law should be allowed to stand because it protects minors, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says. A 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel

CHICAGO, April 3 (UPI) — A bank robber was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for holding up two banks in Chicago in 2007 and killing a teller at one of them.

WILLIAMSON, W.Va., April 3 (UPI) — Mingo County, W.Va., Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot and killed Wednesday and police shot a suspect as he tried to get away, authorities said. Crum was

KAUFMAN, Texas, April 2 (UPI) — A federal law enforcement official says investigators are looking at a former local official as a person of interest in the slaying of two Texas prosecutors.

LINCOLN, Neb., April 2 (UPI) — Officials in a Nebraska county are offering overnight stays in a newly constructed jail for $30 donations. Lancaster County officials said donors will be allowed to

SULPHUR SPRNGS, Texas, April 2 (UPI) — Schools in a small east Texas town were locked down Tuesday after officials said two inmates, one a capital murder suspect, escaped from the county

NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) — About 12.4 million viewers tuned in for the Season 3 finale of the Georgia-set zombie drama “The Walking Dead” Sunday night, AMC announced Monday. The viewership

SALT LAKE CITY, April 1 (UPI) — Police in Salt Lake City said a man charged with setting fire to his wife’s clothing while she slept was upset about the woman’s snoring.

LOS ANGELES, April 1 (UPI) — A suspected pimp and prostitute in California were arrested for allegedly forcing a 14-year-old runaway to walk the streets seeking men to pay her for sex.

FRESNO, Calif., April 1 (UPI) — Police in Fresno, Calif., said gang members are threatening retaliation after officers shot a man suspected of a gang-related homicide. Police said two officers tried pulling

MEMPHIS, April 1 (UPI) — Police in northern Mississippi raided a dogfighting event, arrested a number of people and seized 20 dogs, officials said. The raid occurred early Sunday at a rural

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 31 (UPI) — A Swedish court cleared a former police officer of sexual molestation when he explained he was trying to scratch an itch, not masturbate in front of

PHOENIX, March 31 (UPI) — An Arizona man who said he killed his wife because she suffered intolerable pain from multiple sclerosis was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation. George Frazey

SIOUX CITY – A Sioux City couple who conspired to distribute methamphetamine were sentenced on March 27 and 28, 2013. Mavis Juarez, 56, and William Sun, 50, both from Sioux City, Iowa,

Woodbury County, IOWA — The State Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy of Anthony R. Josta on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at their office in Ankeny, Iowa. Preliminary autopsy results indicate there

JUMEIRAH, United Arab Emirates, March 31 (UPI) — Police in the United Arab Emirates arrested a woman who allegedly buried her dead newborn girl at the Jumeirah Open Beach. The mother, identified

CHICAGO, March 31 (UPI) — Police in Chicago arrested 28 young people during two incidents on the Magnificent Mile and an elevated train car, officials said. The first incident occurred near Chicago

MIAMI, March 31 (UPI) — Miami police say a man accused of human trafficking arranged to have his nickname tattooed on an eyelid of a 13-year-old girl who threatened to leave him.

SANTA ANA, Calif., March 31 (UPI) — A California hockey mom convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old boy has had a second mistrial declared on charges she sexually assaulted a 13-year-old

WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) — Bio-diesel fuel fraudster Jeffrey Gunselman was sentenced to nearly 16 years in a U.S. prison Friday and ordered to repay nearly $55 million. The 30-year-old businessman received

ENGLEWOOD, Colo., March 31 (UPI) — A once-wealthy Minnesota car dealer convicted of fraud is traveling the country at taxpayer expense, having been moved to his ninth prison in eight months. U.S.

BISMARCK—U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 27, 2013, Raymond Blue Arm, 40, of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge

CASHTON, Wis., March 29 (UPI) — An Illinois man is facing charges after being arrested in New Jersey with a truckload of stolen Wisconsin cheese, authorities say. Veniamin Konstantinovich Balika, 34, of

ATLANTA – A Jamaican criminal alien with prior felony convictions for the possession and distribution of marijuana was sentenced to more than 7 years in federal prison Tuesday for illegally re-entering the

VILLA PARK, Ill., March 28 (UPI) — A mayoral candidate in Villa Park, Ill., has apologized for images of him that surfaced on a sex website. Candidate John Heidelmeier, the town’s former

HUDSON, Wis., March 28 (UPI) — A Wisconsin judge ordered the defendant in a triple-homicide case to return to court Thursday after an expected guilty plea failed to materialize. Aaron Schaffhausen, 35,

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 28 (UPI) — Kansas City, Mo., police are investigating a pair of eyeballs that were found in a gas station trash can, officials said. The eyeballs were discovered

Alexandria, VA – U.S. Marshal Bobby Mathieson announces the capture of Ronald Orville Garcia. Garcia was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in Virginia after failing to appear for court in

PORTLAND, Ore., March 28 (UPI) — A former Roman Catholic priest convicted in a child-molestation scandal in Oregon died at the age of 87, the Portland archdiocese said this week. Thomas Laughlin

SAGINAW, Mich., March 28 (UPI) — A Michigan man was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of killing his neighbor — a decision that took jury members just 15

GREENWOOD, S.C., March 28 (UPI) — Police in South Carolina said a woman arrested on a domestic violence charge allegedly stabbed her boyfriend and threw his prosthetic leg into the yard. Greenwood

HOQUIAM, Wash., March 28 (UPI) — Police in Hoquiam, Wash., said they killed a man in a shootout Thursday following a standoff at a home in the Pacific Coast town southwest of

NETANYA, Israel, March 28 (UPI) — A soccer player was arrested for his alleged involvement in the death of a woman whose strangled body was found at a Netanya, Israel, hotel, authorities

BALTIMORE, March 26 (UPI) — The FBI Tuesday called the death of a woman passenger aboard the cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas “suspicious” and was investigating. The Royal Caribbean International ship

TACOMA, Wash., March 27 (UPI) — Police arrested a 67-year-old man Tuesday who allegedly walked through a neighborhood in Tacoma, Wash., firing randomly at houses. The man was described as having problems

MINNEAPOLIS—A federal indictment unsealed late Friday charges a 40-year-old Blooming Prairie man with producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. The indictment, which was filed on March 19, 2013, charges Brian Luke Broulik

CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced March 14, 2013, to more than six years in federal prison. Esmelin Belloso-Valle, 49, from Sibley, Iowa, received the prison

CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who made a false statement to a U.S. Postal Inspector conducting a fraud investigation was sentenced today to more than one year in federal prison. Raymond Cortez,

CEDAR RAPIDS – Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr., age 50, from Dubuque, Iowa, has been charged with one count of distribution of heroin resulting in death and four counts of distribution of heroin

SEATTLE, March 25 (UPI) — Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment Monday for plotting to kill U.S. military personnel and workers at a Seattle processing facility. Abdul-Latif, 35, formerly