Category: Crime

MCALLEN, Texas – Two south Texas men, father and son, were arrested and charged Thursday with assaulting a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced

Dan Hinkel, Chicago Tribune – A man charged in the robbery and fatal stabbing of a 75-year-old man in his Calumet Heights home had been in a relationship with the man for

By Tracey Kaplan, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — For weeks as the priest-beating trial unfolded, it was the victim’s name that was dragged through the mud. Even the

By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — When Lupe Mercado and Barry Gilton were arrested last month in the slaying of their daughter’s alleged pimp, defense attorneys

By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that a Modesto, Calif., man convicted of setting a fire that killed his tenant and her two

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — Attorneys for the Army psychiatrist charged in connection with the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood questioned the jury screening process during a

McClatchy Newspapers – CAYCE, S.C. — The manager and owners of the Cayce, S.C., recycling operation that burned for several days have been arrested and charged with unlawful burning, according to Cayce police.

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – Justice is blind, and that’s good, or she might be embarrassed by the case of a Phoenix-area man who stripped naked during a recent madcap

By David O’Reilly, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has announced it is restoring to ministry four priests who were accused of sexual abuse or inappropriate conduct with

By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber was stopped and cited for driving in a “reckless manner” on the busy 101 Freeway on Friday

Located in a remote area of Arizona that shares a 76-mile stretch of land with the Mexico border, the Tohono O’odham Nation became a thoroughfare for smugglers. “It’s the reality of living

David Hanners, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – A Blaine hacker’s 18-year prison sentence was just and proper, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, July 5. In considering the appeal of Barry Vincent

By Erika Pesantes and Rafael A. Olmeda, Sun Sentinel – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The jurors who convicted a teenager of aggravated battery for the 2009 burning attack of Deerfield Beach Middle School

By Garth Stapley, McClatchy Newspapers – MODESTO, Calif. — Scott Peterson’s attorney formally appealed his death sentence Thursday, seeking freedom a day after Independence Day and more than seven years after he was

By Denise-Marie Balona, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Three days before the hazing death of FAMU drum major Robert Champion, the dean of students had urged top administrators to impose a

By Brian Bennett, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — A computer specialist is suing the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security after a controversial fingerprint-sharing program incorrectly identified him as an illegal

By Ian Duncan, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — A parade of District of Columbia politicians and operatives keeps passing through the doors of the federal courthouse, pleading guilty to felonies. They leave

By Rene Stutzman, The Orlando Sentinel – SANFORD, Fla. – A judge Thursday ordered George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, released on $1 million bail but

ST. PAUL (Minn.) — Special Agent in Charge Bernard J. Zapor of the St. Paul Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Timothy Dolan, Minneapolis Police Department,

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal grand jury in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday returned a two-count indictment charging a Chinese national with selling and importing counterfeit tobacco products into the United States from

ATLANTA — Federal and state law enforcement officials today announced the takedown of a long–term storefront sting operation designed to focus on illegal gun trafficking in Atlanta, which resulted in the arrest

A director of a bank in southern Georgia who has been missing for two weeks has been charged in the Eastern District of New York with embezzling approximately $17 million in bank

TRENTON, NJ—Mordchai Fish, the principal rabbi of Congregation Sheves Achim in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiring to launder approximately $900,000 he believed was criminal

A former Chicago resident who has been the subject of a global manhunt since February of 2009 was arrested last week at O’Hare International Airport without incident by special agents assigned to

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced today for his role in two

Mike Mendnenhall, Newton Daily News, Iowa – A Lynnville teen told authorities she was forcibly fondled early Saturday morning after she woke to find a 42-year-old man rummaging through bags in her

By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Be careful what you tweet. Those 140-character missives may be used against you in a court of law. On Saturday, Criminal Court Judge

By Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Anthony Wayne Smith, a former Oakland Raiders defensive end who is awaiting a retrial for his alleged role in the 2008 murder

By Ken Dilanian, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Spurred by complaints from women working for the CIA in war zones, the spy service is stepping up efforts to enforce what it calls

By Kate Mather and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — In Mexico, the media called her la bonita (“the pretty one”) or la chula ( “the beautiful one”) or la

By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The bathtub Drew Peterson’s third wife drowned in won’t be brought into court at his trial later this month, a judge ruled Tuesday, but jurors

By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A former U.S. Marine from Southern California could face up to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted of illegal possession of

By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — The nation’s highest military appeals court has agreed to hear an appeal on behalf of a Marine from Camp Pendleton, the last Marine

Mara H. Gottfried, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – Two separate cases of road rage in St. Paul reportedly escalated to violence: One man is accused of pointed a gun at a car

By Anne Danahy, McClatchy Newspapers – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania lawmaker is introducing legislation that would strip Jerry Sandusky of his pension, one of several moves to change the state’s retirement

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — The morning after he killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman went to a clinic with what appeared to be a broken nose, two black eyes and

Emily Gurnon, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. – He beat her, choked her, held her against her will and forced sex on her, then the St. Paul man told his girlfriend, “I need

Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune – Prosecutors confirmed for the first time Monday that three NATO protesters were caught on secret recordings as they allegedly plotted to use Molotov cocktails to blow up

William Lee, Chicago Tribune – Authorities accused a man of trying to ram Chicago police officers with his SUV after they say he shot his girlfriend and her sister in the South