Category: Crime

United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Matthew McCann, 24, was sentenced in federal court for distributing child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced McCann to an 80-month term of

RIVERSIDE, CA—A federal grand jury has indicted eight people—four of whom allegedly are members of a South Los Angeles street gang—on charges related to the sex trafficking of teenage girls who were

Andy Hoffman, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – Two 13-year-olds charged with arson in connection with a fire at Corse Elementary School were released from custody Wednesday, but will be required to

David Owens, The Hartford Courant A Windham man is to be arraigned Thursday in Superior Court in Rockville on voyeurism and child pornography possession charges. Jacob A. Harper, 30, was arrested Wednesday

By Steve Schmadeke, Matthew Walberg and Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — As jurors furiously took notes, a state-hired pathologist explained Thursday why he believed the bathtub drowning of Drew

By Justin Fenton and Allan Vought, The Baltimore Sun – BALTIMORE — Alexander Kinyua, the college student accused of killing a family friend and ingesting his heart and brain, has been declared

By Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A veteran postal carrier admitted Thursday to stealing nearly 30,000 letters containing cash, checks or money orders that he was supposed to deliver to

David Owens, The Hartford Courant – A Windham man is to be arraigned Thursday in Superior Court in Rockville on voyeurism and child pornography possession charges. Jacob A. Harper, 30, was arrested

By Joseph Ryan and Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Two years ago, Roy McCampbell said in a Chicago Tribune investigation that he earned every penny of his $472,000 salary by

By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — Ecuador said Thursday it would grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the controversial founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks website who has been holed

By Denise-Marie Ordway, The Orlando Sentinel – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Trustees at Florida A&M University asked their attorney Thursday to try negotiating a settlement with the family of drum major Robert Champion,

Darren Douglass-Griffin, 35, a former member of the Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Macon State Prison (MSP) in Oglethorpe, Ga., pleaded guilty to a two-count bill of information charging him with

By Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press – STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Authorities said what appear to be human body parts were found Wednesday in a sanitary sewer inceptor line in Sterling Heights where

MINNEAPOLIS—A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charged seven individuals with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. Heriberto Sanchez, age 24; Musaaleh Waheed Muhammad, age 35;

By Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The Will County, Ill., jury in the upcoming trial of Christopher Vaughn will hear evidence about a coded poem he wrote while jailed in the

United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that 13 individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for drug conspiracy and distribution offenses alleged to have occurred in Jackson County and

Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – CEDAR RAPIDS – The former chief executive officer of Peregrine Financial was indicted Monday in federal court on 31 charges stemming from a $200 million fraud scheme.

Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – The murder trial of a Cedar Rapids man accused of killing a cab driver in 2011 was delayed Wednesday due to a medical condition of the assistant

By Richard Cowen, Nick Clunn and John Petrick, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – PATERSON, N.J. — With tears steaming down her face, a Paterson woman who police say was kept by her

Brandon Stahl, Duluth News Tribune – Duluth police are investigating state Rep. Kerry Gauthier, DFL-Duluth, in connection with an incident last month at the Thompson Hill rest area off Interstate 35 near

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — A military judge refused to delay the trial of an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting, fining him for refusing

By Richard Cowen, Hannah Adely and Nick Clunn, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – PATERSON, N.J. — New Jersey State Police got what they came for when they raided a Paterson apartment last

By Lisa Black and Erin Meyer, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The powerboat was speeding straight toward Tony Borcia as the 10-year-old bobbed in the water in his life jacket. Horrified, three

By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times – SANTA ANA, Calif. — Can federal agents, acting in the name of counterterrorism, be sued for their actions? That was the question at the center

By Jay Weaver, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Sandra Avila Beltran, the reputed “Queen of the Pacific” in the Colombian-Mexican drug trade, must stay behind bars in a Miami detention center

By Mike Rosenberg and Jason Green, San Jose Mercury News – PALO ALTO, Calif. — Kariem McFarlin told detectives he was desperate for easy cash when he saw the Palo Alto home

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Virginia man was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release Monday for receiving child pornography over the Internet. He was also ordered

Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – NORTH LIBERTY — A 24-year-old North Liberty man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after being hospitalized with a blood alcohol level of 0.627 percent,

Jeffrey Arnold Williamsen, an inmate assigned to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center, died Friday, August 10, 2012 at the University of Iowa Hospitals. Williams died of natural causes due complications of

DES MOINES, IA – A federal jury in Des Moines, Iowa, convicted former Des Moines Police Department Officer Mersed Dautovic of violating a person’s civil rights, through the use of excessive force,

MINNEAPOLIS—A federal indictment unsealed late yesterday charges a 28-year-old Cass Lake man with kidnapping and assaulting a girl while on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Robert Elliot Roybal, Jr., was charged with

DAVENPORT, IA – On August 9, 2012, Cordell Lashell McDowell, age 24, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, having previously pleaded guilty to arson and possession of a firearm

By Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — A senior officer with the nation’s spy satellite agency is being investigated over criminal allegations related to contracting even as the agency’s No. 2

By Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — An appellate court denied a request Monday that it order forensic testing on a piece of evidence that Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyers

By Anthony Lonetree, Joy Powell and Tim Harlow, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — The daylight shooting death of a 19-year-old Hamline University student was the fourth instance in a week in

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – DURHAM, N.C. — A 32-year-old Army specialist pleaded guilty Monday to hazing and mistreating Pvt. Danny Chen, a 19-year-old Chinese-American who committed suicide in Afghanistan

PITTSBURGH—A resident of Verona, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison, five years’ supervised release, $64,266.28 restitution, and forfeiture of four firearms on his conviction of assaulting

Leon, IOWA — On August 10, 2012, at 10:32 PM, the Leon Police Department, Decatur County Sheriff’s Department, and Iowa State Patrol were dispatched to 706 NE 2nd Street in Leon after

By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Prosecutors in the Drew Peterson murder trial will attempt to clear the first hurdle in their case this week — convincing jurors that the

By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — The top federal prosecutor in South Dakota, stepping into the middle of a bitter dispute between the Oglala