Category: Crime

By Hannan Adely, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — New Jersey’s law enforcement leaders have pledged to improve diversity training and expand recruitment in Muslim communities in an effort to

By Marjie Lundstrom, The Sacramento Bee – SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A federal watchdog agency has initiated an investigation into the care of three University of California, Davis patients who died after undergoing experimental treatments

BEAUMONT, Texas – A local man was sentenced to 6 ½ years in federal prison Tuesday for child pornography violations, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales, Eastern District of Texas. The investigation

By Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A hacker group known as AntiSec claims it stole the identification numbers for 12 million Apple devices and has posted information on a

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – Massachusetts prison officials must provide a publicly funded sex reassignment surgery to an inmate serving a life sentence for killing his wife, a federal judge in

By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s U.S.-backed naval special forces have captured a man believed to be one of the two top leaders of the Gulf Cartel, a

The Yomiuri Shimbun – NAGOYA, Japan — A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of holding a primary school girl captive for nearly 12 hours in his Nagoya apartment, which may have

By David Ovalle, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Griselda Blanco, the drug kingpin known for her blood-soaked style of street vengeance during Miami’s “cocaine cowboys” era of the ’70s and ’80s, was

By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — An appellate court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a former Afghan Taliban member who’s serving a first-of-its-kind life sentence in the Southern California desert.

By David Ovalle, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Griselda Blanco, the drug kingpin known for her blood-soaked style of street vengeance during Miami’s “cocaine cowboys” era of the ’70s and ’80s,

By Hannan Adely, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J. — An outreach committee created to improve relations between New Jersey law enforcement and Muslims in the wake of a police surveillance

By Maggie Clark, Stateline.org – WASHINGTON — For Ron Briggs, California’s ballot initiative to repeal the death penalty isn’t just a policy change, but a chance to right the “ineffective legal beast

By Andy Furillo, The Sacramento Bee – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stanford legal minds conceived the measure. A prosecutor from Los Angeles vetted it. The godfather of its original design is fighting it.

By Denise-Marie Ordway and Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida A&M University drum majors Robert Champion and Keon Hollis grew close in 2011, working together to direct the school’s famous

By Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A former exotic dancer testified Tuesday that Christopher Vaughn visited her several times at a club in the weeks before his wife and three children

Ellen Jean Hirst and Antonio Olivo, Chicago Tribune – Chicago: Sunday morning. One man dead after taking three bullets — one to the head, two to the chest. Cocaine clasped in hand, and

William Lee, Chicago Tribune – Four people, including an 11-year-old girl, were shot and wounded late Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a family party in the Pill Hill neighborhood on the

Manya Brachear, Chicago Tribune – A grave site in the Muslim section of Evergreen Cemetery in Evergreen Park has been defaced for the second time in two weeks. Evergreen Park Police will review

Trey Mewes, Austin Daily Herald, Minn. – An Austin man who allegedly broke into an apartment and stole a guinea pig pleaded not guilty to theft and trespassing charges in Mower County Court.

Chicago Tribune – A 17-year-old has been charged with killing another teen who was with his mother and brother outside of a laundromat in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said.

The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — The sniper who opened fire in the woods northeast of Arlington, Wash., on Sunday, wounding one man and peppering vehicles with gunfire, apparently acted alone, according

Naomi Nix, Chicago Tribune – Friends and family mourned after a 45-year-old mother and neighborhood beauty shop owner was killed early Sunday, apparently in her apartment building in Chicago’s Uptownneighborhood. Yolanda Holmes, of

Melissa Jenco, Chicago Tribune – Chicago police are still searching for the gunmen in a pair of shooting incidents in a South Side neighborhood that hadn’t seen much of that kind of violence

A man who defrauded numerous people out of thousands of dollars through multiple schemes was sentenced August 23, 2012, to more than eleven years in federal prison. Donald K. Washburn, age 63,

By Steve Schmadeke and Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Jurors in the Drew Peterson murder trial will hear closing arguments Tuesday morning after listening to five weeks of evidence

A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty August 24, 2012, in federal court in Sioux City. Antonio Lara-Pantoja, 27, from Denison, Iowa, was convicted of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. At

Ziva Branstetter, Tulsa World, Okla. – A dispute between two agencies has led to state drug agents being evicted from the McAlester office they shared with DEA agents for a decade and

A man and woman who conspired together to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine were sentenced August 23, 2012, to several years in federal prison. Stacy Hanson, 40, and Daniel Rial, 48, both from

By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — Eduardo Arellano Felix, one of a band of brothers who headed what was once Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking organization, was extradited to

For the past 14 years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been responsible for training ICE officers and special agents to become computer forensic investigators. ICE teaches the class in conjunction with

By Scott Glover and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—A deputy U.S. marshal was arrested Friday on suspicion of fatally shooting a man who intervened in a late-night argument between the

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A citizen and national of El Salvador and a member of the MS-13 street gang who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a child in Fairfax County, Va., was

Anthony Lonetree, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – A St. Paul man was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison for a rampage last November during which he stabbed his wife in the eyes

By Andrew Blankstein, Richard Winton and Sam Allen, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Three violent altercations caught on tape involving Los Angeles Police Department officers have rekindled the long-running debate about

The Waterloo Police Department enforcement initiative for September is the enforcement of violations for littering. Fines for these violations, plus costs, range from $200 to $750. This initiative is being done in

By Casey Grove, Anchorage Daily News – ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A federal grand jury has indicted 11 people for their alleged roles in dealing large amounts of cocaine in Anchorage and Fairbanks. According to the

Matt Campbell, The Kansas City Star – A Kansas City, Kan., man forced two boys to perform oral sex on him by holding a gun to their heads, according to federal court documents.

Alison Gene Smith, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho – FILER • A Filer man who police investigated in 2010 and 2011 for possession child pornography was arrested after a concerned citizen spotted him

Michael Hinkelman, Philadelphia Daily News – FEDERAL PROSECUTORS charged a Mayfair man Thursday with producing child porn and pimping out an underage girl for sex. Authorities said that Enoch Smith, 35, a/k/a “Drees”