Crime and police news Crime briefs for Saturday, Nov. 14
Hanover seeks man who robbed Advance America HANOVER — Hanover County sheriff’s deputies are hunting for a robber who stole a company’s money and an employee’s car. They would like the public’s help in...
View ArticleFormer Bartow And Plant City Insurance Agent Sentenced For Fraud (United...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida) Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Heidi Y. Calonge (34) to 18 months in...
View ArticleProsecutors argue against allowing former Morgan County official to appeal...
Former Morgan County Judge-Executive Tim Conley's appeal of his guilty plea in a corruption case should be dismissed, a federal prosecutor has argued. Conley waived his right to appeal his plea and...
View ArticleWarren physician gets prison for health care fraud
A Warren physician was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday for writing prescriptions for oxycodone and other controlled medications without medical justification and for health care fraud....
View ArticleAlstom Sentenced to Pay $772 Million Criminal Fine to Resolve Foreign Bribery...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Washington Field Office) WASHINGTON-Alstom S.A., a French power and transportation company, was sentenced today to pay a $772,290,000 fine to resolve criminal...
View ArticleSan Fernando Valley men sentenced in $134 million ponzi scheme
City News Service Two Woodland Hills men were each sentenced Monday to multiple years behind bars for running what prosecutors characterized as one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in the...
View ArticleBitter pill to swallow: mainland Chinese woman jailed for 28 months over Hong...
A mainland woman who swallowed a fake diamond during a heist targeting a 3.54 carat diamond worth at least HK$1.6 million has been jailed for 28 months along with her accomplice. Hunan resident Liu...
View ArticleGang jailed after trafficking Latvian woman to Manchester
A gang that trafficked a Latvian woman to the UK and kept her prisoner in Manchester has been jailed. The 36-year-old woman was forced into a sham marriage to a man who wanted to avoid deportation. She...
View ArticleStudio City man jailed in ‘revenge porn’ website case
LOS ANGELES — A Studio City man was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for hacking into women’s email accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on a “revenge...
View ArticleOperators of Ponzi involving Non-Existent ATMs that Cost Victims Over $135...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California) LOS ANGELES - Concluding one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever seen in Southern California, two men who operated a...
View ArticleOrange County Attorney Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Tax Evasion Charges in...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Los Angeles Field Office) LOS ANGELES-An attorney who prosecutors believe took at least $8 million in investment capital from clients and used the funds for...
View ArticleNY Papa John's pizza franchise owner gets jail time in wage theft case
NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of nine Papa John's pizza franchises in the Bronx has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after...
View ArticleTwo Brooklyn, New York, Men Sentenced To Prison For Traveling To New Jersey...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey) TRENTON, N.J. - Two Brooklyn, New York, men were each sentenced today to more than three and a half years in prison for crossing...
View ArticlePsychic pleads guilty to defrauding man of $500,000 to get dead girlfriend back
A New York psychic conned Niall Rice, a British man, into believing she could reunite him with his former girlfriend, who died in early 2014 at a rehab clinic...
View ArticleLilburn Man Sentenced to Prison for Hoax Bomb Threat and Threatening a...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Atlanta Field Office) ATLANTA-Maksim Mikhaiov Pikulev was sentenced to seven months in prison after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a plot to obtain...
View ArticleFormer Bartow and Plant City Insurance Agent Sentenced for Fraud (Federal...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Tampa Field Office) TAMPA, FL-United States District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Heidi Y. Calonge (34) to 18 months in federal prison, followed by...
View ArticleCab driver pleads guilty to assaulting passenger
A refugee of Somalia who was accused of raping a woman in his taxi cab pleaded guilty today to a reduced charge after the victim failed to cooperate with the prosecution. Mahad EyBakar, 40, pleaded...
View ArticleMethuen Executive Convicted in Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy (United States...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts) BOSTON - A Methuen business executive pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to defraud banks and mortgage...
View ArticleBaltimore man sentenced to prison for pharmacy fire in riot
(Reuters) - A Baltimore man who pleaded guilty in connection with the torching of a CVS drugstore during April rioting was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said....
View ArticleWaterbury Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Manufacturing and...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut) Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HATEM SALEM, 46, of Waterbury,...
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