Looks like it’s game over for a pack of video game thieves from New York suspected of a massive Toys ‘R’ Us shoplifting spree down the East Coast.
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Six individuals were charged in Honolulu, Hawaii with engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and document servitude. The defendants allegedly coerced the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the U.S. from Thailand to work on farms across the country under the U.S. federal agricultural guest worker program.
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Alfredo Rasco and Niurka Rasco, both of Miami, Florida, and Iris Oswald, of St. Simons Island, Georgia, pled guilty in Savannah, Georgia to their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare of $6.5 million.
Nathan Allen Kriegler, Ryan A. Pollack, and Evan F. Appel were indicted in Pennsylvania on wire and mail fraud charges in connection with a scheme to defraud approximately 19 retail corporations out of approximately $543,500.67 worth of merchandise.
Douglas L. Lepo, of Sterling Heights, Michigan, was charged in Ohio with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with allegedly devising a scheme to defraud various consumers in Ohio and elsewhere by fraudulently enticing them to purchase a business opportunity from the company he worked for.
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Lucius T. Solomon, III, of Atlanta, Georgia, formerly an officer with the Atlanta Police Department, pled guilty to corruption and drug charges in connection with providing protection in exchange for money for what he believed to be multi-kilogram cocaine deals.
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Adam Oliveri, a former inmate at Big Sandy Prison in Inez, Kentucky, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for stabbing a corrections officer in the head, back, and arm with a prison made weapon. As a result of Oliveri’s attack, the officer suffered from several injuries.
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A painfully malnourished 4-year-old girl was found dead in a filthy Brooklyn apartment Thursday – and cops found evidence she had been bound to her bed.
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“Please don’t do this to me,” the 21-year-old woman is heard telling the heartless fiend on the recording played Tuesday for jurors. “Oh, my God, sir. Please.”
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Mahmoud Mamduh Salim was re-sentenced in New York to life in prison for his brutal assault on Corrections Officer Louis Pepe. Salim attacked Pepe while incarcerated and awaiting trial on charges that he participated in a global conspiracy to kill Americans in connection with the operations of al Qaeda, and that he was a trusted aide to Usama bin Laden.
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