Category: Crime

By Meredith Rutland, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — When brazen thieves stole Henri Matisse’s painting “Odalisque in Red Pants,” replacing the 1925 masterpiece with a forgery, they left a Venezuelan museum with

Valerie Schremp Hahn, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – O’FALLON, MO • A man from O’Fallon, Mo., faces felony charges after police said he attempted to molest a thirteen-year-old girl, left her apartment, and then reentered

(DES MOINES, Iowa)  An Orange City company that pleaded guilty to federal felony charges of conspiring to manipulate the ready-mix concrete market will pay the State of Iowa $145,000 in exchange for

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — George Zimmerman went through almost $36,000 of contributions in 18 days spent mostly in jail, spending a bulk of his newfound cash on telecommunications,

By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — The three people accused of killing a 22-year-old Marine wife were engaged in a sadistic sexual lifestyle that may be linked to

WASHINGTON – Cincinnati landlord Henry E. Bailey agreed to the entry of an $855,000 civil judgment against him, after admitting that he violated the Fair Housing Act as alleged in a complaint

WASHINGTON – Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card

WASHINGTON – A Maine resident was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed today in the District of New Hampshire for allegedly engaging in a type of cyber extortion known as “sextortion,” announced

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Henry Pierson Curtis, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. – KISSIMMEE – The investigation of the American Front neo-Nazi group in Osceola County grew out of an FBI domestic terrorism investigation of ties between Florida motorcycle clubs and white

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Devante Fortune, also known as “Pooty,” 20, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge

The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Rutherford County, Tenn., alleging that the county violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA)

By Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Two hooded men, their faces covered, went into a Florida Internet cafe Friday, hefting a baseball bat and toting a handgun. What they

By Dan Browning, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Just months before the state Department of Natural Resources is planning to let hunters harvest 400 wolves in Minnesota, a federal grand jury in

By Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times – Two men, two days in a row, tried to assault an Idaho woman in her home. Now her husband is accused of putting an ad on

MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, the former vice president and branch manager of the Star Bank in Bertha, Minnesota, was sentenced for stealing $80,000 from the bank. United States

A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced June 27, 2012, to 10 years in federal prison. Carlos Zamudio-Hernandez, 30, from Riverside, California, received the prison term after a February 7,

By Deanna Boyd, McClatchy Newspapers – FORT WORTH, Texas — In an emotional 911 call, the mother of Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant can be heard telling friends that her son “tried to

By David O’Reilly, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — Citing the sex-abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia and at Pennsylvania State University, the Orthodox Church in America has dismissed its

Las Cruces, NM – On July 8, 2012, United States Marshals were notified by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) that accused child sex offender, Sergio Luevano self-surrendered to U.S. authorities at

By Danny O’Neil, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch was arrested early Saturday morning in Northern California on suspicion of DUI. The arrest was made by the

By Rosemary R. Sobol, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A GPS tracking device is responsible for the capture — less than a half an hour after the crime — of a 29-year-old

By Glenn E. Rice and Sangeeta Shastry, McClatchy Newspapers – KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Platte County, Mo., authorities Monday charged Clifford D. Miller of Trimble, Mo., with the methamphetamine-fueled slaying of two

By Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — The innocent man wrongfully convicted of beating, raping and killing a 63-year-old Milwaukee woman in 1984 was sentenced to life in prison. The

Jennifer Barrios, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. – Newly signed New York Knicks point guard Jason Kidd was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated early Sunday after his sport utility vehicle struck a

WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has returned a superseding indictment charging Parviz Khaki, a citizen of Iran, and Zongcheng Yi, a resident of China, for their

DENVER—Jeffrey Allan Mueller, age 39, of Douglas County, Colorado, pled guilty earlier this week before U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to five counts of production of child pornography and one

HOUSTON—Following their pleas of guilty earlier this year, four members of the 4th Street Bloods criminal street gang have been sentenced to federal prison, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. U.S.

An indictment unsealed today in the Eastern District of Michigan charges 41 members and associates of the Devils Diciples Motorcycle Gang, including National President Jeff Garvin Smith and National Vice President Paul

Sylvester Bruce, 44, a former corrections officer with Navajo Nation’s Shiprock Detention Center (SDC) in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court on charges related to the sexual abuse of an

WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) seized 70 websites that were illegally selling counterfeit merchandise. The 70 websites

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 14 stolen and looted cultural paintings and artifacts to the government of Peru at a repatriation ceremony at the Embassy of Peru

By Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times – A fugitive on the U.S. Marshals Service’s most-wanted list was captured in Cancun after nearly 24 years on the run. Vincent Legrend Walters, 45, was

Washington – The U.S. Marshals Service is selling the first of Rita Crundwell’s assets, a luxury motor home, via a sealed bid sale. Crundwell, 59, has been federally charged with wire fraud

A woman who conspired to manufacture methamphetamine was sentenced July 3, 2012, to 4 years in federal prison. Lindsey Myers, 30, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, received the prison term after a February

A man who conspired to manufacture methamphetamine was sentenced July 2, 2012, to 5 years in federal prison. William Bass, Jr., 30, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, received the prison term after a

A woman who conspired to manufacture methamphetamine was sentenced July 2, 2012, to more than 6 years in federal prison. Stephanie Svoboda, 37, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, received the prison term after

By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The name who was falsely accused of beating up Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium last year said his arrest was the result

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — In the height of the national outrage over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman hid out for over a month in nearby Lake

By Susan Snyder, The Philadelphia Inquirer  – PHILADELPHIA — Seven months before the child sexual-abuse case exploded into a national story at Pennsylvania State University, a lone trustee on the school’s 32-member