A 53-year-old woman illegally obtained systems and components for marine submersible vehicles from U.S. companies while working with co-conspirators for Harbin Engineering University, which is a state-owned entity in China, officials announced today.
Last of Three Corrupt East Cleveland Cops Sentenced to Prison For Pocketing Thousands of Dollars from Drug Dealers
A federal judge sentenced a former East Cleveland police detective to nearly six years in prison for his role in a conspiracy in which he kept thousands of dollars from alleged drug dealers, much of which was seized through illegal searches and fabricated reports, law enforcement officials said.
Mississippi Aryan Brotherhood Prison Gang Members Latest of 42 Felony Convictions After 2 1/2 Year Investigation
A federal jury in Mississippi convicted two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi on gang for their participation in various criminal acts, including racketeering conspiracy, methamphetamine production and trafficking, kidnapping, murder and other federal offenses, officials announced Tuesday.
High Court Unanimously Rules Arizona Redistricting Maps Were Drawn to Comply with Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court upheld an Arizona redistricting commission’s right to draw legislative districts in a way that ensures minority representation, delivering a crushing rebuke on Wednesday to a group of Arizona tea party activists who’d sought to strike down the state’s redistricting maps in order to increase the voting power of rural white voters.
In Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the plaintiffs were taking on Arizona’s Independent Election Commission, a body created through a 2000 ballot initiative intended to make redistricting less partisan.
FBI Blog: Chinese National Wanted to Sell “Simple and Easy Death” Poison Pills and “100 Percent Risk-Free Murder”
It was a very scary scenario: Chinese national Cheng Le, living in New York City, attempted to order ricin through the so-called dark web.
Ricin, of course, is a highly potent and potentially fatal toxin with no known antidote. And the dark web includes a number of extensive, sophisticated, and widely used online criminal marketplaces that allow participants to buy and sell all kinds of illegal and often dangerous items, including drugs, firearms, and hazardous materials, like ricin.
Unloaded gun ‘dry-fired’ at Head of Police Officer during Police Meeting, Cop Supervisor Claims It Was “Training Exercise”
An officer in the Metropolitan Police Department’s first district “dry-fired” an unloaded weapon at the head of another officer during a roll-call meeting on Saturday afternoon, possibly under orders from a sergeant as part of a training exercise, four MPD sources tell WUSA9.
Those sources say a Sergeant later told officers in the room that they had secretly ordered the officer to unload his weapon and then pretend to fire on his colleague as part of a “training exercise” on situational awareness. The officer then pulled the trigger of the unloaded weapon while pointing it at the head of an officer until it audibly clicked, the sources say.
Convenience Store Owner Admits to Million Dollar Food Stamp Fraud — Exchanged Cash for Food Stamps
Sami Almuhtaseb, 45, of Smithfield, R.I., owner of Oasis Market, a convenience store located in Providence, plead guilty in federal court to defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP of more than $1.1 million dollars, federal officials announced today.
School District Spends $12,300 to Buy 10 Bushmaster Semiautomatic long Rifles for its Security Force
A Colorado school district is set to arm its security force with 10 semiautomatic rifles, FOX31 reported.
Douglas County School District Director of Safety and Security Rich Payne said he bought the Bushmaster long rifles for a total of $12,300. The district neither discussed nor voted on the purchase, The Denver Post reported.
The guns, which will be used by trained security officers, won’t be stored on school grounds. Instead they’ll be kept locked up in patrol vehicles, officials say.
Man Who Didn’t Want to Go Back to Prison and Tried to Run Over U.S. Marshal With Minivan Sentenced
A man who was found guilty of assaulting a deputy U.S. marshal by trying to run him over with a minivan was sentenced to eight years in federal prison, according to officials.
U.S.District Judge R. Gary Klausner sentenced Keith Leon Smith, 47, of Carson, on Thursday.
The judge said in court that the defendant was “really lucky on two grounds” – that he did not kill the deputy marshal and that he was not killed by law enforcement as he assaulted the deputy marshal.
Man Who Allegedly Argued and Made Racial Remarks at 81-Year-Old Man Before Running Him Over With Truck Denied Bond
When Broward Sheriff’s detectives drove up to the Dania Beach home of Kyle Christopher Hannover on Thursday morning, they found him hosing off his Ford Ranger truck beneath the watchful gaze of two home security cameras, according to court documents.
Hannover, 26, was later arrested, accused of running over and killing Luis Angel Dominguez, 81, of Pembroke Pines Wednesday night after the strangers argued at Everglades Holiday Park, near Weston.
Texas Killer Almost Got Out of Prison by Forging Judge’s Signature
Kwaneta Harris is serving a 50-year sentence for the 2006 murder of Michael Giles. (File photos)
A Texas inmate who murdered her lover and hired help to encase him in a concrete grave in his Garland backyard forged a judge’s signature this year in a scheme to get out of prison.
Kwaneta Yatrice Harris faked paperwork ordering her sentence to be decreased from 50 years to eight. That could have led to her release this year.
Man Pleads Guilty to Arson at Mosque and Attempted Arson at Planned Parenthood
Thirty-two-year-old Jedediah Stout, of Joplin, Missouri, plead guilty in the Western District of Missouri today to the arson of a Joplin mosque and two attempted arsons of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Joplin, officials announced today.