Known child predator Timothy Lyle Chappell was arrested in Dekalb County, Georgia on charges of allegedly causing a 15-year-old female to be involved in the commercial sex trade and facilitating her exploitation by others.
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Christopher Plummer, of Lyme, Connecticut, and Maureen Clark, of Stonington, Connecticut, were indicted on conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering offenses stemming from an alleged investment fraud scheme that defrauded at least 12 individuals out of more than $1.7 million.
Victim Joel Weinberger, 26, was walking home from Be’er Torah Yeshiva in Williamsburg at 7:20p.m. when up to three men jumped him from behind and pummeled him.
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Dr. Abdur Razzak Tai, of Orlando, Florida, was indicted in Pennsylvania on 13 counts of mail fraud and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to submit fraudulent Fen-Phen claims. Tai was charged in connection with his review of the echocardiograms of more than 1,100 patients who filed claims with the American Home Product Settlement Trust in Philadelphia. According to the indictment, Tai falsely certified that these patients’ tests showed that they had sustained heart damage whereas, in fact, many of these claimants had not been harmed.
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A mob wannabe and his bride will live happily ever after – once he’s finished serving his prison sentence.
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John Anthony Sanchez, of Boise, Idaho, a member of the Lost Soul Trece gang, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm.
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Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $48 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to certain customers in the U.S. and elsewhere for international air shipments. Including today’s charge, as a result of this investigation, a total of 20 airlines and 17 executives have been charged in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into price fixing in the air transportation industry. To date, more than $1.7 billion in criminal fines have been obtained and four executives have been sentenced to serve prison time. Charges are pending against the remaining 13 executives.
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Elwyn “Jack” Has The Eagle, of Lodge Pole, Montana, was sentenced to 108 months in prison for obstruction of justice and witness tampering. The investigation was conducted as part of the newly created Fearless Justice Initiative, designed to strengthen public safety efforts in Montana’s Indian communities through the suppression of intimidation and coercion of victims and witnesses to crime.
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Dimitri Long, of Norwood, Massachusetts, pled guilty to eight counts of armed bank robbery. Long committed a number of violent bank robberies in spring and summer months of 2009 in the communities of Needham, Wellesley, Newton, Dedham, and Walpole, Massachusetts.
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Jamie Paul Lybrand, of Baltimore, Maryland, pled guilty to using the Internet to entice a person he believed to be a 12-year-old boy to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
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