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November, 2010

Four FBI Agents Arrested in Steroid, Human Growth Hormone Scandal

Added: 2010-11-15 09:26:14

Four employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigations have been charged with lying about their use of steroids and human growth hormone (HGH), announced officials. Three of the accused employees are agents of the FBI, while one is an investigative analyst. All four live in Northern Virginia, an...

South Dakota Teen Plotted To Bomb School, Rape Women

Added: 2010-11-12 10:23:34

A South Dakota teenager who wanted to become known as “the world's most infamous sociopath” was arrested on August 23, after an alert tipster contacted a police school resource officer at Sisseton High School. Joseph Thomas Hansen, 18, had written a list of the actions he wanted to take, inc...

Two Police Officers Fatally Wounded in Rural Alaska Shooting

Added: 2010-11-11 11:22:10

Alaska police are engaged in a standoff with a man who is accused of having fatally shot two rural law enforcement officers, say authorities. Matthew Tokuka, 39, and Sergeant Anthony Wallace, 32, were shot in what was later described by Alaska State Troopers as “an ambush.” The troopers were...

U.S.-Born Drug Kingpin, Who Smuggled Tons of Cocaine, Captured At Last

Added: 2010-11-10 17:19:22

A notorious drug kingpin who is alleged to have trafficked tons of cocaine from Mexico to America is in custody, along with six others, say Mexican authorities. It's the capture of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, an American-born man known in Mexico as “La Barbie” because of his light complexion an...

Van der Sloot Indicted On Extortion Charge in Holloway Case

Added: 2010-11-09 10:34:34

A Dutch citizen who is believed to have killed two women, and who is imprisoned in Lima, Peru pending trial for the murder of one of them, has now also been charged with wire fraud and extortion. Joran van der Sloot, 22, is widely believed to have killed American teen Natalee Holloway, who was o...

Mortgage Broker Who Defrauded Lehman Brothers Sentenced

Added: 2010-11-08 11:16:21

Last week a former Southern California mortgage broker who had pled guilty to a number of charges related to a mortgage and real estate scheme was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison. Mark Alan Abrams, 49, was charged with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and loan fraud, making a...

Federal Judge: “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” Is Unconstitutional

Added: 2010-11-05 12:45:46

The United States military's ban on openly gay and lesbian service members, familiarly known as “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in Riverside, California. U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips issued the ruling, marking the first successful le...

Federal Judge Impeached By House Goes to Trial

Added: 2010-11-04 16:27:53

Getting under way this week is the impeachment trial of federal judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., who stands accused of corruption, accepting kickbacks and lying to the Senate and the FBI in order to gain acceptance to the federal bench. Porteous, who is from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern ...

Maryland Man Gets Life Sentence In Strangulation Death of Wife

Added: 2010-11-03 11:13:08

After having been found guilty of first-degree murder in June, a Prince George's County, MD man has been sentenced to life in prison. Spencer Ellsworth Chase, 50, killed his wife Antoinette Chase in May, 2008 by strangling her with an extension cord. At the time of his wife's death, Chase called...

Former Superintendent's Wife Will Likely Plead Guilty To Theft

Added: 2010-11-02 14:26:16

The wife of an ousted schools superintendent in the Florida Keys is expected to plead either no contest or guilty to six felony charges of theft later this week. Monique Acevedo is accused of having used a credit card issued by the Monroe County School District to purchase a wide variety of item...

Father, Son Could Face Death Penalty In Bombing Case

Added: 2010-11-01 08:25:27

Jury selection is set to begin this week in the case of a father-son pair accused of bombing an Oregon bank, an attack that left two police officers dead and wounded several more. The pair are charged with aggravated murder and could face the death penalty if convicted—a punishment that, while le...

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