Category: Crime

On May 25, 2012, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a bank robbery occurred at the TCF Bank branch located at 1186 W. Broadway Street in Forest Lake, Minnesota. The robber approached a bank

WASHINGTON — A Wisconsin man was found guilty yesterday in the Western District of Louisiana for his participation in an international criminal network, known as Dreamboard, dedicated to the sexual abuse of

FRESNO, Calif. — A Delano man was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison on federal child pornography charges stemming from a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security

LAS VEGAS – A former Bosnian-Serb police commander wanted in his native country for genocide and atrocities against thousands of Bosnian Muslims was deported Wednesday, capping a successful effort by U.S. Immigration

Veniamin Gonikman, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Ukraine, was sentenced today in federal court for his role in an international conspiracy to compel Eastern European women to work in exotic

By Peter Mayer – VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has been left “hurt” by the arrest last week of his butler on charges of stealing papal documents, the pontiff’s spokesman said

Peter Passi and Brandon Stahl, Duluth News Tribune, Minn. – Two men were arrested after an alleged assault at an abandoned gravel pit in New Independence Township shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday, according

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Two Israeli police officers were convicted Monday of negligent homicide for removing a suspected Palestinian car thief from a prison hospital and leaving him

By Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times – LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair defended his relationship with media owner Rupert Murdoch during questioning Monday before a panel looking into the practices

By Daniela Guzman and Diana Moskovitz, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Only the police tape, the bloodstain on the ground and a grotesque mystery remained after the brutal attack on the MacArthur Causeway

By Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — Nick Fairley is in trouble again. This time, for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and attempting to elude police. Fairley, the

By Jason Meisner and Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — It was shortly before 2 a.m. on the eve of the NATO summit when the criminal-defense lawyer emerged from a West

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — The fight between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin began with two people huffing and puffing in the dark, and then a brief exchange of

WASHINGTON – An Atwater, Calif., woman was charged today in a one-count indictment filed in the Eastern District of California for impersonation of an officer or an employee of the United States,

Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – A suspended Catholic priest will spend at least five years in federal prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to possessing and receiving thousands of child porn images on his

Kathy Lynn Gray, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio – U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus was not swayed by the apologies and admission of guilt by a man who collected child pornography and secretly

Robert Gavin, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. – ROTTERDAM — A Colonie man who taught at a Tae Kwon Do martial arts school in Duanesburg has been charged with raping a child on two

Peter Nickeas, Chicago Tribune – Three people were killed and five others wounded in shootings across the city Friday night, according to authorities. Two people were found dead inside a Woodlawn home in the 6500

Bo Emerson and Craig Schneider, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Atlanta attorney Rand Csehy made his mark prosecuting drug dealers; somewhere along the way, police say, he joined the enemy. Before he was arrested

John Mangalonzo, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – A Burlington woman authorities said had a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, has accepted an agreement from Des Moines County prosecutors. Lynsey Rae-Ann Brobston

Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for the Northern District of Ohio, in conjunction with Brian D. Lamkin, Special Agent

By Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Brian Banks logged onto Facebook last year, and a new friend request startled him. It was the woman who, nearly a decade ago,

By Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — Pentagon prosecutors argued in a motion Thursday against splitting up the joint death-penalty prosecution at Guantanamo of the five men accused of orchestrating the 9/11

By Jeff Weiner and Rene Stutzman, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — If George Zimmerman goes to trial in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a jury will be asked to determine whether

By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Police Department detectives want to review some interviews between a Manson Family convicted murderer and his attorney to

By Susan Jacobson, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The director of Orlando Sanford International Airport said Thursday that a cultural misunderstanding over a bathroom ritual led to a group of Muslims

By Jeremy Schwartz, Austin American-Statesman – WACO, Texas — A federal jury on Thursday needed slightly more than an hour to find Pfc. Naser Abdo guilty of all six charges against him relating

By Jeff Weiner, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Prosecutors want a judge to seal key evidence in the case against George Zimmerman from the public until trial, including the statements he

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — New York Police on Thursday had someone in custody in connection with one of the city’s and country’s most gripping missing-child cases:

By Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Thousands of pages of previously confidential records related to Franciscan clergymen accused of child sexual abuse have been posted online, three years after

By John Monk, McClatchy Newspapers – COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jamael “JGood” Goodman posted his intentions on Facebook just hours before he shot his girlfriend to death and then committed suicide. “Ima set an

MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier this week in federal court, a 59-year-old man from the northern Minnesota community of Grygla was charged in a superseding indictment for sexually abusing two additional girls while on the Red

United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced today that 17 individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for drug distribution offenses alleged to have occurred in and around the Pine

By Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman – AUSTIN, Texas—Texas’ highest criminal court should overturn the capital murder conviction of Cathy Lynn Henderson, once two days from execution for the 1994 death of an infant

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — A year before George Zimmerman killed a Miami Gardens teenager, he stood before a City Hall community forum with a grievance: Sanford cops are lazy,

By Joe DePriest, McClatchy Newspapers – CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A former Gaston County pastor has denied having illicit sex with two minors in Haiti while he was giving them food and clothing through

By Jeff Kunerth, Stephen Hudak, Denise-Marie Balona and David Breen, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The beatings began well before the Nov. 19 hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major

By Richard Winton, Garrett Therolf and Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — In the stream of photos on their Facebook pages, Javier Bolden and Bryan Barnes look like the life

Mt. Pleasant, Iowa- On May 22, 2011, Jackie Douthart was reported missing to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department by her fiancé and family members.  At the time, Jackie Douthart was 24 years old.