Category: Crime

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (UPI) — A 17-year-old New York youth was charged Saturday with critically injuring a 9-year-old neighbor by throwing him off a five-story building, authorities said. Freddy Martin was

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 (UPI) — Police in San Francisco have begun enforcing the city’s new ban on public nudity, starting with four naked activists they found in front of City Hall.

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 2 (UPI) — Chefs who worked at a now-closed sushi restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif., have been indicted on felony charges for allegedly importing illegal whale meat. Kiyoshiro

CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (UPI) — A Chicago-area man has been charged with running a “sex trafficking house of horrors” where women were forced to work as prostitutes. Charges were announced Friday against

NEW DELHI, Feb. 2 (UPI) — Five men pleaded not guilty Saturday to the rape and murder a woman on a bus in a case that has stirred protests across India. Police

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 1 (UPI) — Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American, has been found guilty in U.S. District Court of attempting to bomb the Portland, Ore., town square. U.S. District Judge Garr

BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 1 (UPI) — Birmingham, England, police say they are searching for carjackers who forced a woman from her car, then abandoned the two children in the car a half

SYRACUSE, NY—United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that a Syracuse federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Alexandru Turcan, 29, with wire fraud, false use of a passport, and aggravated

DETROIT, Feb. 1 (UPI) — A former aide testified Friday staffers frequently gave Kwame Kilpatrick cash presents when he was mayor of Detroit. Kizzi Montgomery said she once gave Kilpatrick $100 although

HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 1 (UPI) — A special prosecutor will investigate Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s handling of the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, the state attorney general said. Kathleen Kane, a

PITTSBURGH—On January 29, a resident of Allegheny County was sentenced in federal court to 36 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of

OKLAHOMA CITY—Safiyyah Tahir Battles, formerly a real estate agent with T&T Realty in Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mortgage fraud and money laundering, announced Sanford C.

FILLMORE, Calif., Feb. 1 (UPI) — Authorities said a man who fatally shot a dog was shot and killed by a deputy in California. Josue Jimenez, 33, allegedly had two handguns and

ORANGE CITY, Fla., Jan. 31 (UPI) — Authorities in Florida said they arrested a man who accidentally called 911 while allegedly talking about selling drugs. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said dispatchers

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 31 (UPI) — Devan Dumes, a former Indiana University basketball player, has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot a man in the neck, officials say. It was

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 31 (UPI) — Country music star Randy Travis was sentenced Thursday to 180 days in jail after pleading guilty to drunk driving in Texas, officials said. Travis, 53, was

EASTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 31 (UPI) — A Massachusetts appeals court upheld a judge’s order for a 12-year-old tagger to get a job so he can pay $1,000 restitution to his victim. The

CHICAGO, Jan. 30 (UPI) — Two teenage boys raped and slain in Michigan in the 1970s may be victims of notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy, investigators in Chicago said. The Michigan

SLIDELL, La., Jan. 30 (UPI) — A jury convicted a Slidell, La., woman accused of depositing her dead father’s body in an ice chest and stealing his Social Security checks. Deborah Ann

FORT HOOD, Texas, Jan. 30 (UPI) — The death penalty will stay a possibility in the outcome of the trial of accused Fort Hood, Texas, shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, a judge ruled

MIAMI, Jan. 30 (UPI) — A Miami judge Wednesday ordered home confinement for a 15-year-old boy police say killed a girl when he accidentally fired a pistol aboard a school bus. Circuit

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 30 (UPI) — Convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky is not entitled to a new trial, a judge in Pennsylvania ruled Wednesday. Judge John Cleland rejected contentions by attorneys for

ATLANTA, Jan. 30 (UPI) — A former Atlanta security guard testified at his trial Wednesday he killed a young woman during a period of mental blankness after a fight with his boss.

SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 30 (UPI) — Police in Southern California said they were looking into whether a man killed his father to collect his Social Security benefits. Larry Dominguez, 65, of

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 30 (UPI) — A U.S. Army budget analyst has filed a federal lawsuit saying she was raped by her boss and filmed with a government camera as she

EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 30 (UPI) — Federal agents arrested five people and seized more than 1,700 pounds of drugs at checkpoints along the U.S. border with Mexico recently, officials said. A

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (UPI) — A New York woman said she will sue the New York Police Department for $250 million for allegedly mishandling her 7-year-old son’s arrest for a robbery

MEDIA, Pa., Jan. 30 (UPI) — A 16-year-old Pennsylvania girl pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail for her role in the videotaped beating of a mentally ill woman by several girls.

ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. 30 (UPI) — The uncle of a New Mexico teen charged with killing his parents and three younger siblings said an advocate should have been present when police questioned him.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (UPI) — A Los Angeles-area man was arraigned in federal court Tuesday for allegedly conning hundreds of women into posing for racy online images. Karen “Gary” Kazaryan, 27,

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis., Jan. 29 (UPI) — Police have begun sifting through a Menomonee Falls, Wis., landfill in search of the body of rap artist Evon Young, also known as Yung LT.

HOWELL, Mich., Jan. 30 (UPI) — A man charged in a series of random shootings along Michigan’s I-96 corridor is competent to stand trial, a court determined. Raulie Casteel, 43, of Wixom,

ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 28 (UPI) — A St. Paul, Minn., man is facing charges for allegedly pointing an AK-47 rifle at his teenage daughter during an argument about grades, police said.

KRASNOYARSK, Russia, Jan. 28 (UPI) — A 31-year-old Siberian man was accused of killing his parents by setting them on fire after they complained about him being unemployed, investigators said. The attack

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 28 (UPI) — Retired Catholic priest Neil Doherty, an accused serial child rapist who pleaded no contest in one case, was sentenced in Florida Monday to 15 years

DETROIT, Jan. 28 (UPI) — Prosecutors in the Detroit City Hall corruption case showed jurors photographs of hidden safes full of cash and checks as they wrapped up testimony. Former Mayor Kwame

OKEMAH, Okla., Jan. 28 (UPI) — A preliminary hearing for a man charged with killing two young Oklahoma girls began Monday with the grandfather of one victim telling how he found the

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 28 (UPI) — A suspected serial killer pleaded not guilty in White Plains, N.Y., to the slayings of two women, one a prostitute killed in 1993, court records

EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 28 (UPI) — A Washington state man allegedly tied up his step-daughter and shot her with a BB gun more than 30 times, police said. The young girl’s grandmother

From Waterloo police: On January 25, 2013 Officers with the Waterloo Police Department’s Violent Crime Apprehension Team conducted a traffic stop in the area of Edwards/Logan Ave. reference an equipment violation. The