Federal officials stated that a former case manager with the Mississippi Department of Corrections pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to kicking an inmate in the head. According to authorities, the inmate,…
Category: American Justice
Former L.A. Pediatrician Guilty of Possessing Child Pornography
LOS ANGELES A former pediatrician pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on dozens of DVDs and to possessing hundreds of such images on his personal computing devices, officials…
Former Arkansas State Senator Sentenced to Prison for Role in Bribery Scheme
Federal officials stated that a former Arkansas state senator was sentenced Tuesday to four years and two months in prison for accepting bribes. The plea agreement indicated that Jeremy Hutchinson, 48, of…
Los Angeles Man, Two Others Sentence to Prison for Soliciting Millions of Dollars in Contributions for Scam PACs
WASHINGTON D.C. Officials stated that three individuals have been sentenced to federal prison for orchestrating and implementing a scheme to solicit millions of dollars in contributions to two political action committees (PACs)….
Texas Man Who Allegedly Threatened to “Cut the Throat” of a U.S. Representative Indicted
LOS ANGELES A federal grand jury today indicted a Houston man on federal charges for allegedly making a series of phone calls to the Hawthorne office of U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and…
Colombian Admits to Conspiring to Smuggle Tens of Million of Dollars of Cocaine Bound for U.S.
LOS ANGELES The lead defendant plead guilty Thursday to conspiring to smuggle tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine by aircraft from Colombia to Mexico for distribution in the United States….
Indiana Woman Charged with Hate Crime for Allegedly Attacking Woman of Chinese Descent
A federal grand jury in Evansville, Indiana, indicted a woman with committing a hate crime for her racially motivated attack on a woman of Chinese descent, officials stated. The indictment returned by…
84-Year-Old Homeowner Charged with the Shooting of Black Teen Who Rang the Wrong Doorbell
Lawyers for the family of Ralph Yarl, 16, said he was in critical condition after being shot twice in Kansas City, Mo. An 85-year-old white man was charged with first-degree assault, according…
Supreme Court Will Rule on Whether Postal Worker Should Get Day Off on Sabbath Sunday
WASHINGTON (Courthouse News) — A decade ago the U.S. Postal Service announced it was teaming up with Amazon to do something it had never done before: making deliveries on Sunday. While aiming…
Two Police Detectives Charged with Assault for 2020 On-Duty Shooting of Unarmed Man
LOS ANGELES COUNTY Two Whittier police detectives have been charged for their roles in the April 2020 daytime shooting that left Nicholas Carrillo paralyzed, officials stated Wednesday. “The decision by these two…
Calif. Man Allegedly Embezzled $2.2 Million in Cash and Real Estate from Elderly Victim
SANTA ANA, California – A Burbank man was arraigned Monday on a federal grand jury indictment alleging he embezzled about $2.2 million from a sizable estate left to an elderly man by the…