An upstate New York man has pleaded guilty to charges that he snatched away a police officer’s can of pepper spray during a chaotic clash with officers guarding the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. Source link
A former crime victim coordinator for a Texas district attorney has pleaded guilty to smuggling illegal immigrants across the Texas-Mexico border. Bernice Annette Garza, formerly of the Starr County District Attorney’s Office, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of conspiring to transport people in the country illegally, according to KURV-TV. Garza was arrested on Dec. […]
HONOLULU — A jury found Honolulu’s former top prosecutor not guilty Friday in a bribery case that alleged employees of an engineering and architectural firm bribed him with campaign donations in exchange for his prosecution of a former company employee. A U.S. grand jury indicted former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro and five others in […]
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump‘s onetime fixer and lawyer, testified Tuesday his world “turned upside down” when the FBI raided his hotel room and his under-construction apartment in April 2018, triggering a breakup with his famous boss. The raids unfolded as investigators looked into alleged hush payments to porn star Stormy […]
LOS ANGELES — The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case in which prosecutors allege he stole nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The scandal surrounding Ippei Mizuhara shocked […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The man charged with starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office earlier this month pleaded not guilty to a federal charge on Tuesday. Shant Michael Soghomonian, 35, was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of maliciously damaging or attempting to damage and destroy by fire a […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A second former Arkansas law enforcement officer has pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of a man he repeatedly punched during a violent arrest in 2022 that was caught on video and shared widely. Former Crawford County sheriff’s deputy Levi White changed his plea during a hearing in federal court […]
An Indianapolis mother who allegedly told police she had smothered her 2-month-old daughter to death has been set free after her trial. Marion County Superior Court Judge Mark Stoner released Dacia Lacey after ruling that charges of neglect resulting in the death of her baby were not proved. If convicted, she could have faced 20 to […]
CHICAGO — A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly five years ago pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Clarisa Figueroa, 51, seated in a wheelchair and wearing a bright yellow jumpsuit, […]
WILLIAMSPORT. Pa. — The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said she shipped stolen human body parts — including hands, feet and heads — to buyers. Denise Lodge, 64, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in the Middle […]
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