Recent Updates
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NY immigration agent pleads guilty to sex coercion
Criminal Law 04/16/2010A federal immigration officer who was recorded demanding sex from a woman in exchange for a green card has pleaded guilty.Isaac Baichu pleaded guilty to all the charges against him Wednesday in Queens. The 48-year-old is expected to receive a prison ...
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Texas man threatened deadly force to stop abortion
Criminal Law 04/06/2010A Texas man faces charges after he filed documents in federal court threatening to use deadly force to stop an abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't immediately act to outlaw the practice, federal officials said Monday.Erlyndon Joseph "Joey" Lo, ...
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Judge dismisses 1 case against ex-Lion Tommie Boyd
Criminal Law 03/25/2010A judge has dismissed one of the criminal sexual conduct cases against former Detroit Lions wide receiver Tommie Boyd.Boyd was accused of forcing the girl to have sex in 2006 at Fraser High School, where he was a substitute teacher and track coach. T...
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Feds: Guns, cash stashed in reputed mobster's home
Criminal Law 03/25/2010Federal officials say seven loaded firearms, jewelry and more than $700,000 in cash have been found in a secret compartment of a reputed mobster's home in suburban Chicago.An affidavit filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday says the FBI and U.S. M...
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Condemned Texas man says DNA tests could clear him
Criminal Law 03/24/2010Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner insists DNA testing could exonerate him in the New Year's Eve 1993 slayings of his girlfriend and her two adult sons.Skinner is scheduled to die Wednesday in Huntsville. On Tuesday, he visited with his French-born ...
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Court hearing 'Fatal Vision' appeal after 40 years
Criminal Law 03/23/2010A former Army doctor convicted in the 1970 slayings of his pregnant wife and two daughters is asking a Virginia-based federal appeals court for a new trial.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond will hear arguments i...
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Woman sentenced after embezzling from law firm
Criminal Law 03/22/2010A woman was sentenced Monday after she pleaded guilty to stealing from the law firm she worked for.In January, 24-year-old Christina Coronado admitted she had stolen more than $30,000 from her former employer, Zimmerman Law Firm in Waco. She claimed ...
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Marine pleads not guilty to arranging rape online
Criminal Law 03/04/2010A California Marine accused of using Craigslist to arrange the rape of an ex-girlfriend in Wyoming has pleaded not guilty to five felonies. Jebidiah James Stipe of Twentynine Palms, Calif., entered his plea in Wyoming's Natrona County District Court ...
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Court orders new look at Fla. murder case
Criminal Law 03/01/2010The Supreme Court has thrown out a Florida court ruling favorable to a former male model sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his friend and an office worker.The justices on Monday ordered the Florida Supreme Court to take a new look at the case o...
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Valrico man arrested for damaging law firm's computers
Criminal Law 02/18/2010The FBI today arrested a Valrico man accused of damaging computers at a Tampa law office.Edwin Vega Jr., 41, initially ignored agents who went to his house around 9 a.m., according to FBI spokesman David Couvertier. Agents believed Vega was inside hi...
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Court papers: Alaska man acknowledges killing 2
Criminal Law 02/17/2010Court papers filed Tuesday indicate a 29-year-old Anchorage man has acknowledged that he killed his neighbor and another woman for whose murder he was acquitted.The plea agreement is between federal prosecutors and Joshua Alan Wade, who is charged wi...
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Man accused in attorney death in court
Criminal Law 02/16/2010The man accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend - defense attorney Margaret Allen - and killing a witness in the case will make his first court appearance at 2 p.m. today in Butler County Common Pleas Court.Calvin McKelton, 32, will be arraigned on a...