Category: Crime

FAIRFIELD, Calif., Feb. 8 (UPI) — A 32-year-old man was arrested Friday in the rape and killing of a 13-year-old girl found naked in a park in Fairfield, Calif., authorities said. Antony

CASSELBERRY, Fla., Feb. 9 (UPI) — A Florida man was arrested for allegedly threatening a pet-store employee with an HIV-infected syringe during a robbery, police said. Casey Garlick was taken into custody

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 (UPI) — A ground search resumed Saturday in the Big Bear mountains near Los Angeles for a former police officer wanted in the deaths of three people, police

NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (UPI) — A man convicted of killing two undercover New York City police officers is not mentally impaired and can be sentenced to death, a judge ruled Thursday.

ATLANTA, Feb. 7 (UPI) — A former NFL player could lose his job as an Atlanta-area school football coach after his arrest on public indecency charges, officials said. Reginald Burnette, who played

OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 7 (UPI) — A ruling by the Washington Supreme Court backs a police officer’s contention he can sue for distress suffered after finding phlegm on his Burger King hamburger.

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a Bangladeshi man accused of trying to detonate a bomb outside the New York Federal Reserve Bank, pleaded guilty Thursday. “I

FORT BRAGG, N.C., Feb. 7 (UPI) — Supporters of a U.S. Army general charged with fraud and forcible sodomy have set up a website to press their argument he is being unfairly

MAPLEWOOD, Minn., Feb. 7 (UPI) — Police in Maplewood, Minn., said a toddler was hospitalized and his parents were charged with neglect after police found them drunk in a home filled with

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 7 (UPI) — A Florida jury awarded $1.7 million to the family of a girl who was molested by a 15-year-old on a school bus when she

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Los Angeles County plans to fire seven sheriff’s deputies for membership in a secret group called the Jump Out Boys, officials said. The clique’s members allegedly

ASHLAND, Ore., Feb. 6 (UPI) — Two Oregon men were charged with fraud for allegedly making and selling industrial bleach as a cure for numerous illnesses, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Louis Daniel

CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (UPI) — A 9-year-old boy and two others were arrested for pulling a paintball gun and robbing two 12-year-old boys at a McDonald’s on the Chicago Skyway, police said.

SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 7 (UPI) — A convicted Minnesota swindler was charged in California with a $21 million Ponzi scheme that fleeced 55 investors, Orange County prosecutors said Tuesday. Gerard Cellette,

SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 5 (UPI) — A Texas Catholic school teacher will serve the next 20 years in prison for sexually abusing young girls in his classroom, prosecutors said. Arturo Flores, 56,

MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier today in federal court, a 47-year-old St. Paul man was indicted in connection with the December 13, 2012 armed robbery of the U.S. Bank branch located at 711 Cleveland Avenue South

CEDAR RAPIDS – A marijuana user who unlawfully possessed a gun with an obliterated serial number pled guilty January 31, 2013, in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Geromey Gilliand, age 23, from

DAVENPORT, IA – On January 31, 2013, Robert Leslie Ranck, age 46, was sentenced to 130 months imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 (UPI) — Pop star Rihanna accompanied beau Chris Brown to a Los Angeles court Wednesday where prosecutors alleged he lied about completing his community service. TMZ said Rihanna

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (UPI) — Prosecutors have asked a Los Angeles judge to decline singer Chris Brown’s documentation of the community service he was sentenced to perform. Brown was ordered to

MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Feb. 5 (UPI) — Authorities in Connecticut said a woman is facing charges after having two boys, ages 10 and 11, walk home on their own at 4:30 a.m. Police

OXFORD, Tenn., Feb. 5 (UPI) — A Tennessee police chief said a circus has canceled a previously announced boxing match involving a clown and a kangaroo. Oxford Police Chief Joey East said

ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Omer Fadhel Saleh Mohammed, 31, of Rochester, New York, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making false bomb threats. The

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 5 (UPI) — The lawyer for a Colorado man accused of hiding in bathrooms to spy on women using the toilet said his client is not guilty by reason

PAULS VALLEY, Okla., Feb. 5 (UPI) — An Oklahoma lawyer allegedly offered a client a price break in exchange for sexual favors or nude pictures of her teenage daughters, investigators said. Jeremy

PORTLAND, OR—After a 14-day trial, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 21, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Oregon, was convicted today by a federal jury in the District of Oregon

LUBBOCK, TX—Donnie Wright, 53, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared yesterday in federal court and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to one count of embezzlement of funds by a bank

ALEXANDRIA, LA—United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Isaac Hashi, 32, of San Diego, California, was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years in prison for stabbing a federal prison guard

BOSTON—A Williamstown man who is a registered sex offender was charged today with sexually exploiting a 16-year-old boy. Ronald Brown, 50, was charged in a complaint with sexual exploitation of children. According

AMARILLO, TX—Larry Boyd Wren, II, 40, appeared in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, yesterday, and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to one count of mailing a threatening communication.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 46-year-old Scranton resident pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to attempting to

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 3 (UPI) — An Anchorage man was arrested and charged for receiving in the mail more than four pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside six papayas, officials said. San Saechao,

CONCH KEY, Fla., Feb. 4 (UPI) — A Florida Keys woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a man who refused to give her a beer. Carolyn Dukeshire, 62,

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla., Feb. 4 (UPI) — One person was killed when gunfire erupted outside a Super Bowl party in Miami Gardens, Fla., police said. The shooting occurred around 6 p.m. Sunday,

GLEN ROSE, Texas, Feb. 3 (UPI) — A jobless ex-Marine was jailed on $3 million bail in Texas Sunday, suspected of gunning down a highly decorated former Navy SEAL and a neighbor

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 3 (UPI) — Mohamed Mohamud’s lawyers said they will likely appeal his terrorism conviction in Oregon by targeting the alleged violation of his constitutional rights. Defense lawyers said the

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (UPI) — A New York lawyer filed suit against his sister-in-law, who he said falsely accused him of sexual assault after the two allegedly had sex to get

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3 (UPI) — Jurors at the Philadelphia mob-racketeering trial said they are at an impasse and revealed that they are split on the case for the first time. The Philadelphia

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3 (UPI) — Police in Pittsburgh say a 7-year-old girl stole her mother’s car Sunday morning and drove about a half-mile, crashing into several cars along the way. The girl’s

TORONTO, Feb. 3 (UPI) — Canadian Myles Wilkinson says his all-expenses-paid trip to the Super Bowl was derailed by a 32-year-old conviction for possessing a small amount of marijuana. The Victoria, British