Fraud trial resumes for ex-‘cocaine cowboys’ pilot

MIAMI (AP) — Trial in an auto fraud case is resuming for a pilot who once flew loads of drugs for Colombian cartels during Miami’s “cocaine cowboys” era. Prosecution testimony resumes Tuesday in the trial of 72-year-old Mickey Munday, who has become well known through his open bragging about his past in interviews, social media... Read More

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Fraud, Mickey Munday

January 16, 2018

Danish man charged with killing reporter on his submarine

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Inventor Peter Madsen was charged Tuesday with killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall during a trip on his private submarine, with prosecutors saying he either cut her throat or strangled her before dismembering her body and dumping it into the sea. Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen called the case “very unusual and extremely disturbing.”... Read More

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Peter Madsen

January 15, 2018

Georgia Tech’s Pastner files suit, claims fraud, extortion

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Tech coach Josh Pastner says he and his family are victims of fraud and extortion, and he is seeking protection through a lawsuit filed in Arizona. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported Saturday that Pastner filed a civil lawsuit against former Georgia Tech booster Ron Bell and his girlfriend, Jennifer Pendley, who... Read More

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Josh Pastner, NCAA College Basketball

January 15, 2018

Judge dismisses 1 charge in female genital mutilation case

DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed one of the criminal counts against two doctors charged in connection with a female genital mutilation case. U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman wrote in an opinion Sunday that Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and Dr. Fakhruddin Attar didn’t commit conspiracy to transport a minor with intent to... Read More

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Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, Dr. Jumana Nagarwala

January 15, 2018

Amish leader convicted in beard-cutting attacks files appeal

CLEVELAND (AP) — The leader of a breakaway Amish group in Ohio convicted in hair- and beard-cutting attacks is asking a federal judge to overturn his 2012 convictions. Samuel Mullet Sr. is arguing in an appeal filed Friday that his former attorney made a series of mistakes during the trial and in his previous appeals.... Read More

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Amish Beard Cutting, Religion, Sameul Mullet Sr.

January 15, 2018

Women taking their right to go topless to state’s high court

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — In a case that pits freedom of expression and equality against public decency, three women are challenging a New Hampshire city ordinance prohibiting public nudity and taking it to the state’s highest court. Heidi Lilley, Kia Sinclair and Ginger Pierro were ticketed in 2016 in Laconia after they went topless at... Read More

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Topless, Women Rights

January 15, 2018

Ex-MIT prof pleads not guilty to scheme to swindle family

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A former business professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has pleaded not guilty to accusations that he tried to swindle his dead son’s family out of millions. The Salem News reports that 75-year-old John Donovan Sr., of Hamilton, pleaded not guilty in Salem Superior Court on Friday to charges including larceny, forgery... Read More

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Fraud, John Donovan Sr.

January 15, 2018

Suspect in postal worker deaths to be tried in federal court

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A disgruntled postal worker accused of fatally shooting his supervisor at an Ohio post office and then killing a postmaster outside her apartment will be tried in federal court. County and federal prosecutors in Columbus said Friday that sending the case to federal court was a joint decision. Police say 24-year-old... Read More

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DeShaune Stewart

January 15, 2018

Ohio opioid woes one reason drug lawsuits brought to state

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The role that drugmakers and drug distributors played in contributing to the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic is now front and center in a federal courtroom in Cleveland. Judge Dan Polster is overseeing more than 200 lawsuits against drug companies brought by local communities across the country, including those in California, Illinois,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Opiods

January 13, 2018

The Latest: Lawyers say woman ‘betrayed’ over Greitens audio

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ admission that he had an extramarital affair (all times local): 6:35 p.m. Attorneys for the woman who had an affair with Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens say her ex-husband “betrayed her confidence” when he released a secret recording of her detailing the sexual encounter.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Eric Greitens

January 13, 2018

Man who escaped Hawaii hospital had fake IDs, phones, cash

HONOLULU (AP) — A man who escaped from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital and flew to California was caught with two high-quality fake IDs, two cellphones and more than $6,000 in cash, according to court documents. Randall Saito’s escape from Hawaii State Hospital in November “was not a matter of happenstance or a crime of opportunity,... Read More

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Randall Saito

January 13, 2018

Man convicted of 3 killing civil rights workers dies in jail

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted decades later in the “Mississippi Burning” slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the state’s corrections department announced. Killen was serving three consecutive 20-year terms for manslaughter when he died at... Read More

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Edgar Ray Killen, Ku Klux Klan

January 13, 2018

Records: FBI knew Las Vegas gunman had big gun stashes

LAS VEGAS (AP) — FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind big caches of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his properties and online accounts, according to court documents released Friday. However, new questions were raised after a U.S. judge in Nevada... Read More

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Stephen Paddock

January 12, 2018

WBC heavyweight champion Wilder sentenced in marijuana case

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A municipal court judge has sentenced WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder to 60 hours of community service for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Judge Ricky McKinney found Wilder, 32, guilty Thursday and ordered him to perform the community service at a local YMCA. Wilder received a 30-day suspended sentence and two years of... Read More

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Deontay Wilder

Fraud trial resumes for ex-‘cocaine cowboys’ pilot

Danish man charged with killing reporter on his submarine

Georgia Tech’s Pastner files suit, claims fraud, extortion

Judge dismisses 1 charge in female genital mutilation case

Amish leader convicted in beard-cutting attacks files appeal

Women taking their right to go topless to state’s high court

Ex-MIT prof pleads not guilty to scheme to swindle family

Suspect in postal worker deaths to be tried in federal court

Ohio opioid woes one reason drug lawsuits brought to state

The Latest: Lawyers say woman ‘betrayed’ over Greitens audio

Man who escaped Hawaii hospital had fake IDs, phones, cash

Man convicted of 3 killing civil rights workers dies in jail

Records: FBI knew Las Vegas gunman had big gun stashes

WBC heavyweight champion Wilder sentenced in marijuana case

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