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Credit Card Counterfeiter Gets Five Years In Prison
Criminal Law 04/06/2007[##_1L|1383702488.jpg|width="142" height="117" alt=""|_##]United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced that defendants Ming Li and Zhou Ru Tan have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay fines in connection with their roles in a counterfeit...
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Charge upgraded after lieutenant's death
Criminal Law 04/04/2007A man accused of driving drunk and fatally injuring a Gainesville Police lieutenant in the aftermath of Tuesday morning's national championship celebration could be prosecuted under a law passed following the death of another GPD officer in 2001.Atto...
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Alameda man gets prison for groping girl
Criminal Law 04/03/2007[##_1L|1405409978.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]An Alameda man will spend seven months in prison for groping a 14-year-old girl he was sitting next to on a flight home from the Philippines last July, U.S. Attorney Scott Schools announced to...
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Milan woman indicted on bank fraud charges
Criminal Law 04/01/2007A Milan woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Jackson on bank fraud and income tax evasion charges, according to a Friday release from David Kustoff, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.Donna L. Hardy, 48, of Mil...
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Two former Rangers Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery
Criminal Law 03/10/2007[##_1L|1084554093.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Two former Army Rangers based at Fort Lewis pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to an August 2006 bank robbery. Alex Blum, 19, of Greenwood Village, Colo., and Scott A. Byrne, 32, of Ca...
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Ohio Man Sentenced for Criminal Civil Rights Charges
Criminal Law 01/18/2007[##_1L|1115390354.jpg|width="142" height="117" alt=""|_##]David Fredericy, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to serve 33 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit and for committing hate crimes targeting African-American residents of Cl...
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N.Y. City Man Pleads Guilty for Human Trafficking
Criminal Law 01/12/2007A man from Queens, N.Y., pleaded guilty today to attempting to recruit a Korean woman whom he believed to be a minor to work as a prostitute, the Justice Department announced today.Do Hyup Bae pleaded guilty to charges relating to the operation of a ...
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Enron CFO Goes to Prison
Criminal Law 11/13/2006After a delay of nearly two months, former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow is going to prison in the federal correctional system. The purpose of the delay was to allow him to give a deposition in the securities fraud class action against the company's banks....
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Victim's Boyfriend Arrested in S.C. Ditch Murders
Criminal Law 11/03/2006Authorities said Friday, that a scond man, identified as Charles Gamble, 24, was arrested and charged with assisting in the murder and cover-up of three people, discovered in a drainage pipe near a downtown apartment complex. According to Columbia Po...
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Excess of $1 Million in Cocaine Seized in N.M.
Criminal Law 11/01/2006U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents working in New Mexico made significant narcotics seizures this week by seizing more than 400 pounds of marijuana and 43 pounds of cocaine through a combination of traffic checkpoint operations a...