Category: Crime

United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota man charged with sexual abuse of a person incapable of consenting was sentenced on September 10, 2012, by United

San Antonio, TX – Latray Whitley, 23, was arrested yesterday evening by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in San Antonio without incident. An arrest warrant was issued by the San Antonio

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Mary Galligan, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — The latest development in the unfolding sex scandal at San Antonio’s Lackland Air Force Base: An instructor was acquitted of sexually assaulting a boot

By Andrew Blankstein, Joel Rubin and Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Even in the land of police chases, it was a wild ride. A pair of bank robbery suspects

WASHINGTON – A Minneapolis man was sentenced today to serve 72 months in prison for sexually abusing two minor boys, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal

Vanessa Miller, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – A brother and sister from Iowa City, along with an Ohio man, have been arrested on suspicion of federal sex-trafficking charges after investigators found

By Ashley Powers and Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times – An attorney for Steve Wynn asked jurors Tuesday to award the casino mogul an additional $20 million in his slander suit against “Girls

By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — The detainee found dead in a maximum-security cell at Guantanamo was a long-despairing Yemeni captive with a history of suicide attempts who at one

EL PASO, Texas — An indictment was unsealed Thursday charging four individuals with a cocaine distribution and money laundering conspiracy based in El Paso. These indictments resulted from an investigation by U.S.

By Juan O. Tamayo, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — The wife of U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross, serving a 15-year prison term in Cuba, says she recently visited him in Havana and

A man who possessed a firearm after having been convicted of two previous felonies, pled guilty on August 29, 2012, in federal court in Sioux City. Terry Leo Wirkus, age 57, from

Bill Sperfslage, Deputy Warden of the Anamosa State Penitentiary, has been selected as the 2012 Deputy Warden of the Year by the United States Deputy Warden’s Association. Sperfslage began his corrections career

By Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Drew Peterson has fired the attorney who loudly warned against calling Kathleen Savio’s divorce lawyer as a defense witness — a move which Peterson’s

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack — a.k.a. “Napoleon,” “the Little Guy” and “Honey Fitz” — was released on bond Monday after his arrest

Vanessa Miller, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – A 22-yar-old woman caught using her teenage sister in a sex trafficking business before she was arrested during a sting in Coralville in April that netted

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — A Dallas-area man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 16-year-old girl who was expected to testify at his

By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Big Dog beat the guy in the Big Chair. And a guy talking to an empty chair beat the guy trying

MILWAUKEE – A Wisconsin man was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for traveling to a foreign country and having illicit sexual conduct with a minor. This sentence was announced

By Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Just days after a jury found him guilty of murdering his third wife, lawyers for Drew Peterson filed a motion Monday to dismiss a wrongful-death

By Jim Schaefer and Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — In a matter of days, when the jury is finally seated, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will stride into federal court

By George Anastasia, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — Joe Ligambi, the reputed Philadelphia mob boss, spent a decade operating in the shadows. Unlike his predecessor, the flamboyant Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino,

By Joseph A. Slobodzian, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — A former employee of a cookie manufacturer in Philadelphia was found guilty of two counts of murder in the 2010 shooting that left

From the Iowa Department of Corrections – Wilbert Walter Eickert, an inmate assigned to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center hospice program, died Sunday, September 9, 2012. Eickert was 87 years old

Washington – The U.S. Marshals Service is selling the first 93 of the Rita Crundwell herd of quarter horses via an online auction starting noon Friday. The auction, at www.professionalauction.com, closes on

By Stacy St. Clair, Steve Schmadeke and Matthew Walberg, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — They arrived in Joliet, Ill., bursting with bravado and bluster, promising an acquittal for the ages. Five weeks

By Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—A prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial said this week that he believes defense attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. tampered with the famous “bloody

By Shelby Grad and Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—A member of O.J. Simpson’s defense team on Saturday vigorously rebutted a former prosecutor’s charge that lead attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.

The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – MOUNT PLEASANT – Police are investigating the death of a 2-month-old infant found dead Friday morning in a car seat inside a Mount Pleasant mobile home.

By Jeff Weiner and Rene Stutzman, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — After months of defending George Zimmerman and reacting to state-gathered records, his lawyers late this week shifted gear and began

By Peter Mucha, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — A 26-year-old Philadelphia man faces federal charges for making false threats Thursday that led to a US Airways flight turning around and a

ATLANTA – A 37-year-old Douglasville, Ga., man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty of six counts of human trafficking, two counts of aggravated child

Katie Dahlstrom, Clinton Herald, Iowa – CLINTON — A Clinton man has been charged with third-degree criminal sexual abuse for an alleged relationship with a 14-year-old female as well as assault on a

By Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel – HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — A strip mall where arson destroyed a Judaica store last year became the site of a second fiery attack Friday, when two masked

By Matthew Walberg, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Jurors in the Drew Peterson trial said they never doubted his third wife, Kathleen Savio, was murdered. But it took statements from a divorce

By Patrick M. Walker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram – FORT WORTH, Texas — In a surprise move, the co-owner of an Arlington, Texas, strip club pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of

HARTFORD, Conn. — A Mexican national pleaded guilty today to one count of illegally reentering the United States after deportation. He faces up to two years in federal prison and a $250,000

John Welbes, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – A jury on Thursday found four Minnesota men guilty of charges related to their roles in a multistate, $2 million identity theft ring. Joel

By Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Stacy Peterson’s words helped convict her husband for Kathleen Savio’s murder. Now her family hopes she’ll be given her own day in court.

By Mark Morris and Judy L. Thomas, The Kansas City Star – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Once relatively anonymous in the Catholic world, the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph on Thursday made