Authorities today arrested 11 defendants who are accused of using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to receive and possess – and, in some cases, distribute – child pornography.
Dentist Who Billed Medicaid for $407,000 for Work He didn’t Do Charged with Medicaid Fraud
OHIO Federal authorities charged a Cleveland Dentist for billing Medicaid $407,000 for work never done, such as fillings on patients with dentures, officials announced this week. Robert Rouzaud, 59, operated Five Points Dental…
One judge is Responsible for Most of the Student Debt-related Arrests in America
In February, a guy in Houston was arrested by U.S. Marshals for failing to show up to court to pay off student debt he owed from the ‘80s.
I wrote a followup story suggesting that if this was one district, it was possible there were hundreds of such arrests occurring across the country.
I was wrong.
Mali Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Murdering a U.S. Diplomat Stationed in Niger
A federal judge sentenced a Mali man to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to murder a U.S. diplomat in Niger in 2000, officials announced today.
Alhassane Ould Mohamed, aka Cheibani, 46, a citizen of Mali, was sentenced in federal court.
Russia Arrests Scientologist for Stealing $2 Million and Giving to Church
A woman is accused of defrauding apartment buyers, taking their deposits, and giving much of it to the church in Moscow.
Authorities in Russia say a woman stole money given to her for dream homes and donated it to the Church of Scientology.
Sheepdog heads home to Aberystwyth 240 miles
A sheepdog originally from a farm in Ceredigion appears to have made the 240-mile solo journey back to its birthplace from its new home in Cumbria.
Pero, a four-year-old working sheepdog, escaped from Cockermouth on 8 April only to reappear on the doorstep of Alan and Shan James’ Farm near Aberystwyth a fortnight later.
City Official Arrested and Charged with Stealing More than $21,000 from Police Pension Fund
Police today arrested James Griegel, 71, of Sauk Village, for embezzlement in connection with the alleged looting of the Sauk Village police pension of more than $21.000, according to officials.
Feds Want Sheriff Held in Contempt of Court for Jail Conditions and Want Monitor to Take Over New Orleans Jail Operations
The Orleans Parish Jail is not in compliance with a federal court order and Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman should be held in contempt of court, federal officials allege.
The jail is allegedly still fraught with problems including prisoner supervision, use of force, incident reporting and tracking, prisoner grievances, investigations, classification, young inmates, supervision and jail sanitary conditions, according to federal prosecutors.
Just Saying: Racehorses Heads, Red Lobster and Catering to Millennials
The heads of horses photographs still haunt me even to this day. Then I remember what they did when the Internet arrived, and it all made sense.
Long before the Internet, newspapers sometimes published in the sports pages a row of black and white photographs of the heads of racehorses with the horse’s names underneath the photo.
Fort Worth Police Officer Fired After Body Camera Shows He Lied About What Happened
A police officer has been fired after body camera footage helped reveal that he lied about a suspect’s actions, prompting a charge in the case to be rejected, police said.
Fort Worth officer Aaron Cade, who had been with the department since July 2009, has appealed.
“The burden is on the City to prove the allegations they’ve alleged,” said Craig Driskell, Cade’s attorney with the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas. “We’ll see how that plays out at arbitration.”
Two Alleged Terrorists Who Conspired to Kill People in U.S. in “Martyrdom Operation” Plot Indicted in Federal Court
A federal grand jury indicted David Daoud Wright, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, 26, of Everett, Massachusetts, and Nicholas Alexander Rovinski, aka Nuh Amriki, aka Nuh Andalusi, 25, of Warwick, Rhode Island, officials announced this week.
The two were charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries
Feds: Man Used Fake Checks and 16 Accomplices Including former Prison Inmates to Steal $650,000 in Postage Stamps and Other Merchandise
U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Jimmy Lee Williams, 48, of Charlotte to eight years and eight months in prison for masterminding a fraudulent check scheme resulted in the theft of $650,000 in postage stamps and other merchandise