Andre Whitfield, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
More: continued here
A federal grand jury in San Francisco, California indicted 11 defendants for participating in three separate but related conspiracies to distribute controlled substances through online pharmacies outside the scope of professional medical practice.
More: continued here
David Yen Lee, a former chemist for paint manufacturing company Valspar Corp., pled guilty in Chicago, Illinois to theft of trade secrets, admitting that he stole numerous formulas and other proprietary information valued up to $20 million as he prepared to go to work for a competitor in China.
More: continued here
Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to certain customers for international air cargo shipments between the United States and Australia.
More: continued here
Khalil Robinson was inside his Blake Ave. apartment near Linton Park in East New York when gunfire outside sent two slugs through the window about 9:20 p.m., cops and family said.
More: continued here
Dorothy Ellis, of Texas City, Texas, a former senior employee of a U.S. military contractor, pled guilty to conspiracy to pay $360,000 in bribes to U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at a U.S. military base in Kuwait.
Dozens of mourners gathered at the St. Lucia house in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Wednesday to raise money so the family of a soccer star shot execution-style can bury him in his homeland.
More: continued here
Charles K. Schwartz, the founder and president of Allied Health Care Services Inc., an Orange, New Jersey durable medical equipment corporation, was charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $87 million from banks based on phony lease agreements.
More: continued here
His life was spared by less than an inch.
Anthony Brashears, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged with attempting to rob a Citizens Bank branch in Philadelphia.
More: continued here