Anthony Wayne Ransom was arrested after turning himself in to police in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ransom was wanted for his alleged commission of four bank robberies, as well as for escaping from the custody of a federal halfway house.
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Mark A. Fetter, of Toledo, Ohio, was charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion; sex trafficking of a juvenile; and obstruction of a sex trafficking investigation. Fetter was arrested after detectives found a 17-year-old developmentally delayed girl being forced to prostitute herself at a motel.
Four firefighters and nine others were hurt early Monday by a ferocious blaze that raced through a Brooklyn brownstone – and may have been set deliberately.
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A fight in the ocean that moved to the sand left three people stabbed on Coney Island Beach Sunday, police said.
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Ripley Ridenour, of Jacksonville, Florida, pled guilty to receiving images of child pornography over the Internet. A search of Ridenour’s computer revealed more than 200 images and 11 videos of child pornography.
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Terry I. Hershey, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to three years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution regarding her embezzlement of $1.7 million from her employer, Custom Power Services, Inc., a Chambersburg-based manufacturer of battery powered generators.
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A devstated Bronx father lashed out Sunday at the hit-and-run driver who left his 5-year-old son near death, calling the missing driver “a coward and a maniac.”
The owner of a Detroit-area medical clinic, Juan De Oleo, and his wife, Dr. Rosa Genao, who helped falsify files at the clinic, were convicted by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme.The defendants submitted approximately $2.3 million in claims to Medicare for injection therapy services that were never provided and were not medically necessary.
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Convicted felon Joel William Corwin, of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced to four years in prison in connection with selling a Leinad Model PM-11 9mm pistol that he knew to be stolen, along with an attached high-capacity magazine, to a confidential informant working for the FBI.
Police have obtained video of the man believed to have fired a stray bullet that wounded an 87-year-old man sitting in his car with his wife in Brooklyn.
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