Category: Crime

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

By Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune  – CHICAGO — A Morton Grove, Ill., resident accused of shooting at a mosque during Friday night’s heavily attended Ramadan evening prayer service has complained for years about

By Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Each day of Drew Peterson’s murder trial, his defense team argues his case for several hours in front of jurors in a tiny Will County

By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times – Now that a defense attorney for Colorado shooting suspect James E. Holmes has referred in court to his client’s unspecified “mental illness,” it is a

By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said it would not pursue criminal charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or its employees related to allegations by a

JACKSONVILLE, FL—United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Alfredo Roberto Townsend (48, Columbus, Georgia) to 90 months in federal prison and a 15-year term of supervised release for receiving child

The Justice Department released a letter of findings today determining that the Lauderdale County Youth Court, the Meridian Police Department (MPD), and the Mississippi Division of Youth Services (DYS) are violating the

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Shasta County, Calif., man was formally indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on a criminal charge stemming from a far-reaching international child pornography probe by U.S. Immigration

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Steven J. Bogdalek and Anaheim Police Chief John Welter today announced the conclusion of a joint investigation

By Casey Grove, McClatchy Newspapers – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — About $4 million cash stolen from an Anchorage bank vault by its manager in 2011 remains, along with the alleged thief, in the

By Casey Grove, McClatchy Newspapers – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 29-year-old man who shot his own mother this past week was once her co-defendant in the largest-ever Alaska cocaine bust, according to

A Waterloo man being held in the Black Hawk County Jail since May 20, 2012 has been charged with sixteen (16) additional counts of Burglary. James Jack Cowan, age 46, of Waterloo

By Kathleen Gray, Joe Swickard and Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — In announcing election fraud charges Thursday against four members of former U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter’s congressional staff, Michigan Attorney

By Jay Weaver, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Former Seminole Tribe leader David Cypress, believed to be the first Native American ever convicted of a federal tax offense, must surrender next month to

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – Criminal charges were dismissed Thursday against U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Walter Taylor, who had faced potential imprisonment for negligent homicide in the 2011 death of

By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—It was a promise that spoke to high school girls of humble means and less than stable homes — quick money to get their hair

OKLAHOMA CITY — While targeting a previously deported illegal alien, officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) discovered another illegal alien who was in possession methamphetamine

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Prosecutors preparing to try George Zimmerman on a second-degree murder charge accidentally released protected private academic transcripts Thursday, showing that the neighborhood watch volunteer who

By Steve Schmadeke, Matthew Walberg and Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — On the day after his 18th birthday, the youngest son of Drew Peterson and Kathleen Savio visited the courtroom where

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — Leiby Kletzky wanted to walk home alone from day camp, and one day last summer, his protective parents relented. They lived among close-knit

By Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman – WACO, Texas — A federal judge Friday sentenced Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo to two consecutive life sentences, plus 60 years in prison for plotting to bomb and

By Steve Schmadeke, Andy Grimm and Matt Walberg, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — One of Kathleen Savio’s friends clutched her neck with her right hand as she demonstrated to jurors Thursday where

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Chronically homeless and recently blinded, Ronald Poppo calmly told detectives about the sudden savage assault that cost him parts of his face. A man

By Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times – RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. —The sentencing hearing of a former Westminster, Calif., police detective convicted of kidnapping and rape was postponed Thursday after the officer’s attorney

By Christopher Goffard and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – Years before Wade Michael Page stormed into a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee, killing six and critically wounding three others, he spent

Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – A 16-year-old Iowa City teen was arrested Monday in connection with the armed robbery of a pizza delivery person in April and on a new charge of

Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – A former Olin High School resource teacher and volleyball coach convicted of sexual exploitation and other charges in 2011 will be resentenced because the trial court considered