April 3, 2024 Man, 72, charged with stealing $57,000 from his 95-year-old widowed mother A senior citizen is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from his 95-year-old mom, who had to be placed in “emergency housing” when she couldn’t make rent.
March 28, 2024 He printed fake checks, withdrew cash, destroyed evidence in shredder and washer, feds say A young man with a history of arrests has been indicted on five charges stemming from creating fake checks and cashing them.
March 25, 2024 He disguised himself as ‘Karla’ to solicit nude pics of sister’s young friends, cops say A man is accused of using a woman’s name to solicit and pay his half-sister’s underage friends for nude pictures. Police say it went on until he made a mistake.
March 19, 2024 His elderly mom canceled doctor visits since he left her without $10 copays, deputies say A convicted felon is facing new charges involving drugs, weapons, and abuse of an elderly person, and authorities say the victim is his own mother.
January 31, 2024 Sentenced to prison years after shooting her mom, sister to death, staging murder-suicide A woman who killed her mother and her sister has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for those crimes, plus an additional six years in prison.
January 11, 2024 Bank employee charged with stealing $100,000 from elderly customers’ accounts An employee at a bank is under arrest, accused of stealing more than $100,000 from accounts belonging to elderly customers.
November 22, 2023 Car dealership owner convicted in $1 million murder-for-hire to cover up affair, stop extortion A former executive for his family’s car dealerships was convicted of wiring more than $1 million to have his mistress and her estranged boyfriend murdered.
November 21, 2023 Bank robber did it again, just one month into supervised release for robbing 5 banks A man with a history of robbing banks has been sentenced to federal prison again for his latest heist. He’s already serving three years for violating his last supervised release, which didn’t go well.
November 16, 2023 Convicted armed bank robber indicted again for same crime, 22 years later An armed bank robber is up to his old tricks, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and a grand jury.
October 24, 2023 Retired hospital director charged with stealing $600,000+ from charity fund over 14 years The former director of a hospital outside Philadelphia has been charged with embezzling more than $600,000 from a hospital charitable account.
October 20, 2023 ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Florida lawmaker sentenced to federal prison for fraud, other crimes Former Florida state Rep. Joseph Harding has been sentenced to 4 months in federal prison for wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements in connection with a COVID-19 relief fraud.
October 9, 2023 School bus driver arrested after unknowingly driving sleeping girl, 4, around town for hours A school bus driver is in trouble for forgetting about a sleeping girl on board and driving her around on errands for a few hours. That girl is just four years old.
October 3, 2023 Trump trial: Limited gag order for disparaging judge’s principal law clerk on social media Donald Trump and lawyers for both sides met with the judge in his civil business fraud trial and Trump deleted a disparaging social media post from the morning about the judge’s principal law clerk.
March 22, 2023 Big bank makes big mistake buying bags of nickel, getting stones instead Good investors know how to buy but the experts at JP Morgan Chase wound up with a booby prize when they were trying to add nickel bags to the conglomerate’s portfolio.
January 1, 2023 Wanted: Police searching for man in violent ‘jugging’ incident, 4 others arrested Police are searching for the latest suspect in a string of violent robberies known as “jugging.”
May 9, 2022 Woman under arrest 2-1/2 years after allegedly making a big jewelry buy with a bogus check The owner of a jewelry store had to wait a long time for justice. He called police to report a customer he didn’t want to return. That was back in October, 2019.
March 27, 2022 Insurance company busts former cancer patient for 63 fraudulent claims worth $37,000 A woman went through cancer treatments but is accused of submitting dozens of fraudulent insurance claims.
March 22, 2022 DeSantis says he’ll sign controversial ‘Parental Rights in Education’ bill Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will sign the controversial bill titled “Parental Rights in Education” bill soon.
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