Louis Simpson, of Indianapolis, was sentenced in Plano, Texas to 15 years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that bilked investors out of $948,000.
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The lone survivor of a New Jersey schoolyard massacre riveted a courtroom Thursday with chilling details of how she, her brother and two friends were targeted by gang members wielding guns and a machete.
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William Ciccotto, of Micco, Florida, pled guilty to producing child pornography. Ciccotto posed as a young girl on MySpace, sent “friend requests” to young girls, talked to them about sex, and persuaded them to use their cell phones to take pictures of themselves engaging in sexually explicit conduct. He then directed these young girls to send the pictures to his e-mail account.
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Jerry Dewitt Smith, of Odessa, Texas, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for robbing the Security Bank in Odessa on November 6, 2009.
Ismael Acosta Juarez, of Odessa, Texas,was sentenced seven years in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy.
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U.S. citizens Wesam El-Hanafi and Sabirhan Hasanoff, of Brooklyn, New York, were indicted for allegedly conspiring to provide material support, including computer advice and assistance, to al Qaeda.
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Farshid Jahedi, the former president of the Alavi Foundation, was sentenced in New York to three months in prison on charges of obstruction of justice. The charges arose from Jahedi’s destruction of documents concerning the Alavi Foundation’s relationship with Bank Melli Iran–a bank controlled by the government of Iran–and the ownership of an office tower in Manhattan.
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Jennifer Arenivar, of Texarkana, Arkansas, was indicted for allegedly murdering Joshua Xavier Arenivar by inflicting blunt force trauma in the commission or attempted commission of child abuse.
A Queens man was sentenced to 14 years Thursday for the brutal beating of a Queens granny – who still has nightmares.
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