Tyrone Hines, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges stemming from a week-long bank robbery spree in 2010.
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Everette Spencer Barnett, of Bristol, Tennessee, pled guilty to transporting a minor from Tennessee to North Carolina to engage the minor in sexual intercourse.
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A construction giant will pay almost $20 million to avoid prosecution for using a sham minority-owned firm to win lucrative government contracts, the feds said Thursday.
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Thomas Lowell Ketchum, of Saltillo, Mississippi, a fugitive who has been hiding out in Romania since he was investigated by the FBI in 2005, was arrested and extradited to the United States to face charges stemming from an indictment that was returned against him by a grand jury in March of 2006. Ketchum faces charges of possession of firearms by a convicted felon, possession with the intent to defraud of more than 15 unauthorized credit cards, and possession of a United States passport and Social Security number without lawful authority.
A 13-year-old Muslim girl whose head scarf was yanked by an 11-year-old punk told Thursday how fellow students on Staten Island terrorized and beat her.
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Former New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Officer David Warren was sentenced in connection with the post-Katrina shooting death of Henry Glover, and current NOPD Officer Greg McRae was sentenced for the subsequent burning of Glover’s remains and obstruction of justice. Warren was sentenced to 25 years and nine months in prison, and McRae was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
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A Queens woman shot and killed her older sister as she celebrated her 27th birthday in Long Island City over the weekend, cops said.
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A young gay man was left with two black eyes and multiple stitches after a beating at the West Village McDonald’s that cops are investigating as a hate crime.
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Marilyn Bagley, of Lebanon, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury, joining her husband and four other co-defendants who were indicted last year for their roles in a commercial sex trafficking conspiracy in which a young, mentally deficient woman was sexually abused and tortured for several years at a Lebanon residence and forced to work as an exotic dancer at local strip clubs. Today’s indictment also contains additional charges against the original defendants related to a murder-for-hire scheme, witness and victim tampering and witness retaliation, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and child pornography.
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Christopher Cavounis and Jagdesh Cooma, both of Fresh Meadows, New York, were charged for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to defraud several banks of at least $10 million by obtaining commercial loans and lines of credit using false and fraudulent documents. The defendants also allegedly paid bribes totaling over $135,000 to an employee of Citibank to obtain $2.45 million worth of loans.