Category: Crime

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – BEAUMONT, Texas—An Army appeals court in Virginia ruled Thursday that a judge is entitled to order Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused in a 2009 shooting rampage

BOSTON — The owners of two massage parlors — one in Wellesley, Mass., and the other in Revere, Mass. — have been arrested in connection with human trafficking and prostitution. This investigation

By Frances Robles, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — The Duval County state attorney has a message for George Zimmerman’s defense attorney: Zip it. Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda filed papers

By Jan Hefler, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — A flamboyant, longtime advocate of marijuana legalization was acquitted Thursday of drug-related charges, even after admitting that he had a pound in his car

By Jay Weaver, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — An offshore remittance company called Caribbean Transfers financed a complex money-laundering ring that moved more than $30 million in stolen Medicare money from South

By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun – BALTIMORE — A man accused of plotting to attack the Federal Reserve in New York considered striking a lightly guarded military installation in Baltimore, according

By Deanna Boyd, Fort Worth Star-Telegram – FORT WORTH, Texas—A 38-year-old Grand Prairie businessman has been charged with bigamy on accusations that he was married to two unsuspecting Tarrant County women at

By Mark Morris, The Kansas City Star – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It may have been a not-so-innocent employee prank gone wrong that sickened a Kansas City woman. Barbara J. Nelson isn’t

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Three men suspected of covering up a robbery have been arrested in connection with five homicides and arson fire at a Denver

By Phil Trexler, Akron Beacon Journal – AKRON, Ohio — A suitcase filled with weapons was found in the bedroom of a Stow teen accused of conspiring with his mentor and carrying

By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors have charged a prominent restaurateur with multiple counts of attempted murder, claiming he attempted to cause his pregnant girlfriend to miscarry

Keosauqua, IOWA — On October 16, 2012, at approximately 11:00 AM, Van Buren County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched after receiving numerous 911 reports of a male subject wearing a military uniform and

NEW YORK — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested Eric Prokopi, 38, of Gainesville, Fla., earlier today pursuant to a federal criminal complaint charging him

The following offender has escaped from a residential work release facility.  The offender was transferred to this facility after being granted a work release by the Iowa Board of Parole.  Work Release

By Richard Marosi and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — A woman claiming to be the daughter of the world’s most wanted drug trafficker was arrested at a California port

By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald – GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — In a bid to illustrate the absurdity of knee-jerk secrecy at Guantanamo, a Navy defense lawyer on Tuesday invoked none

By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — In a case that has dogged Anglo-American relations for a decade, Britain said Tuesday that it would not send a confessed computer hacker to

By Dianna Hunt, Fort Worth Star-Telegram – FORT WORTH, Texas — Convicted killer Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death Tuesday for the brutal suffocation death of an Arlington, Texas, pastor during a

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Officials are investigating the Arizona National Guard after a series of news reports disclosed that military recruiters engaged in repeated misbehavior, including sexual

WICHITA, KS—A Kansas man has been charged with sex crimes that allegedly occurred while he was being held in the Kansas Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned State Hospital, U.S. Attorney Barry

By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – FORT MEADE, Md. — Pretrial hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged top al-Qaida terror operatives opened Monday with a ruling that

INDIANAPOLIS – An east-central Indiana man was indicted Friday on charges he produced child pornography. These charges resulted from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI),

By Phil Trexler, Akron Beacon Journal – AKRON, Ohio — Accused Craigslist killer Richard Beasley wrote an Ohio woman, giving her instructions on where she could find a dead’s man’s wallet and computers

By Michael Linhorst, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – TRENTON, N.J. — A bill that would require the New York Police Department to alert state officials before conducting surveillance inside New Jersey was

By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — The first of 20 individuals indicted in 2011 on charges of buying high-powered firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug

MINNEAPOLIS—This week in federal court, a 51-year-old Minneapolis man was indicted for robbing four separate banks out of more than $13,000 in total. Phillip Leo Nietz was charged with four counts of

United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Glen Eagle Thunder, age 38, of Lower Brule, South Dakota, appeared before United States District Judge Roberto A. Lange on October 10, 2012, and

By Robert E. Kessler – NEW YORK — A man has been charged by federal prosecutors with three alleged frauds worth close to $5 million, including bilking the producers of a Broadway

Nikolas Saul, who escaped from work release placement on October 6, 2012 was apprehended on Friday, October 12, 2012 and is in the Woodbury County Jail.

Joseph Lindberg, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – A report of a dead goat, a condom and hair gel on a Grant Township farm in early August prompted authorities to use DNA testing

Andy Hoffman, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – KEOKUK – A Keokuk man is facing 109 years in prison if convicted of numerous drug charges after investigators said they found a “tank of

William Smith, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – SELMA – A shooting in this tiny Van Buren community sent one person to the hospital Saturday afternoon, but further details weren’t available. The Van

By Audra D.S. Burch, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — For weeks, Carlos Aguilar made the 350-mile trip to Gainesville to continue the agonizing search for his missing son, Christian Aguilar, a University

Matt Peterson, Austin Daily Herald, Minn. – A 40-year-old Austin man will serve two years’ supervised probation for beating a woman during a March 11 church service. Agwak Othow Omat, 40, pleaded guilty

Adam Sege, Carlos Sadovi and Peter Nickeas, Chicago Tribune – OCT. 14 – Two teenagers were killed and 24 others were wounded during a city night filled with gun violence. The youngest victim,

By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Nadya Suleman, otherwise known as “Octomom,” will not face criminal charges from a child-neglect probe by La Habra, Calif., police, Orange County

Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – At the start of the second quarter in the Iowa Hawkeye game against Central Michigan on Sept. 22, three people were behind bars in Kinnick Stadium’s holding

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Two Salvadoran criminal fugitives recently captured in northern California – one wanted for murder, the other for weapons trafficking – were handed over to authorities in their

MIAMI—Federal charges were filed today against 40 defendants in 20 separate cases, dealing with thousands of stolen identities and millions of dollars of fraudulent identity theft tax filings. Today’s cases reaffirm the