San Diego, CA - Pharmaceutical Executive Defrauds Investors Out of Millions by Selling Fake Stock in Medical Research Company

Oceanside businessman Greg Ruehle, age 64, admitted swindling more than 160 people out of investments totaling nearly $2 million.

As part of his plea to securities fraud charges, Ruehle admitted being hired by local medical research firm ICB International,... More...   $0 (02-11-2016 - CA)

TULSA, OK - THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA charged AKILIA CARTER, SHARONICA RENEE CARTER, SEDRICK ISAIAH CAMPBELL and MANDERSON KEITH JONES with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FORG, PUBLISHING COUNTERFEITED INSTRUMENTS OR COINS AS TRUE, in violation of 21 O.S. 1592
Date of Offense: 04/09/2014

Party Name

Disposition Information

CARTER, AKILIA Disposed: DEFERRED, 06/11... More...   $0 (02-10-2016 - OK)

Oklahoma City, OK - Former Financial Officer at Local Oil and Gas Company Pleads Guilty to Forgery and Signing a False Tax Return

Larry Sanford Waters, of Edmond, Oklahoma, pled guilty yesterday to check forgery and signing a false federal income tax return, in connection with a $1.5 million embezzlement from a local oil and gas company.

On January 27, 2016, Waters was charged b... More...   $0 (02-10-2016 - OK)

Albuquerque, NM - Armed Career Criminal from Albuquerque Sentenced to 22 Years for Firearms Offenses Arising Out of Armed Robbery in Santa Fe

Atencio Prosecuted Pursuant to “Worst of the Worst” Anti-Violence Initiative

Elias Atencio, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 22 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for ... More...   $0 (02-08-2016 - NM)

In 2012, Aherns was facing criminal charges for possession of a controlled
substance with intent to deliver, failure to affix a tax stamp, forgery as a class “D”
felony, and possession of a controlled substance. After arriving at a plea
agreement with the State, Aherns pled guilty to possession of a controlled
substance with intent to deliver and a lesser-included charge of fo... More...   $0 (02-08-2016 - IA)

In 2012, Aherns was facing criminal charges for possession of a controlled
substance with intent to deliver, failure to affix a tax stamp, forgery as a class “D”
felony, and possession of a controlled substance. After arriving at a plea
agreement with the State, Aherns pled guilty to possession of a controlled
substance with intent to deliver and a lesser-included charge of fo... More...   $0 (02-06-2016 - IA)

Appellant, Diane Culley, attempts to appeal a conviction for forgery. The trial
court has certified that “the defendant has waived the right of appeal.” See TEX. R. APP.
On January 4, 2016, this Court notified appellant’s counsel of the trial court’s
certification and ordered counsel to: (1) review the record; (2) determine whether
appellant has a right to appeal; and (3) for... More...   $0 (02-04-2016 - TX)

"[W]here's Phyllis?" A bank teller posed that
question to the defendant who was seeking to withdraw $300 from
the checking account of an absent bank customer. The defendant,
who worked as a customer service representative at the bank, had
presented a withdrawal slip purportedly signed by Phyllis Wall,
an elderly customer who relied on a walker and was well known to
... More...   $0 (02-03-2016 - MA)

On January 11, 2008, Winners pled guilty to Count I, forgery, a Class C felony
and Count II, theft, a Class D felony. On Count I, Winners was sentenced to
six years at the Department of Correction (DOC), with four years executed and
the remaining two years suspended to probation. As for Count II, Winners was
sentenced to two and one-half years executed. Winners’ sentences we... More...   $0 (02-02-2016 - IN)

Kenneth D. Vanhoozier appeals his conviction for aggravated burglary and misdemeanor theft. Vanhoozier challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his aggravated burglary conviction, alleges the trial court should have given a compulsion jury instruction, and argues the cumulative effect of these errors requires a new trial. He also challenges the use of a prior 1979 person felony convic... More...   $0 (02-02-2016 - KS)

The Defendant was indicted for theft of property valued at $1000 or more but less than $10,000 and fourth offense driving on a revoked license. Before the trial, the Defendant pleaded guilty to fourth offense driving on a revoked license. Although the plea agreement and the transcript of the guilty plea hearing are not contained in the appellate record, the record indicates that the length and ... More...   $0 (01-28-2016 - TN)

Eric L. Hill was convicted by a jury of continuous family violence, based on allegations
that he had done violence to his girlfriend, Raven Thomas, on three occasions within twelve
continuous months. The charge alleged that he had committed such violence once on
February 22, 2013, and that there were two such acts of violence committed by him June 29,
2013 (one of these was al... More...   $0 (01-25-2016 - TX)

Craig Myers was an inmate at the Wood County Justice Center, awaiting
trial for the July 16, 2011 abduction and felonious assault of his former girlfriend. In
December of 2012, attorney William Hayes was appointed by the trial court to represent
Myers. He estimates that he was the fourth attorney appointed to Myers’ case.
{¶ 3} On February 21, 2013, after receiving numerous ... More...   $0 (01-22-2016 - OH)

Following the Defendant’s involvement in a January 9, 2014 stabbing attack on the victim, Jamie Phelps, the Defendant was charged with attempted first degree murder, a Class A felony, and aggravated assault, a Class C felony. He entered a “best interest” plea to aggravated assault on November 14, 2014, and the attempted murder charge was dismissed. In exchange for his plea to the Class C felony,... More...   $0 (01-16-2016 - TN)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA V. DAVID LESLIE LANE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR CREEK COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

1. FORGERY IN THE SECOND DEGREE

2. FALSELY PERSONATE ANOTHER TO CREATE LIABILITY

3. OBTAINING CASH OR MERCHANDISE BY BOGUS CHECK/FALSE PRETENSES

4. OBTAINING CASH OR MERCHANDISE BY BOGUS CHECK/FALSE PRETENSES

5. OBTAINING CASH OR MERCHANDISE BY BOGUS ... More...   $0 (01-15-2016 - OK)

Under the Kansas sentencing guidelines, the more serious a defendant's past offenses are, the greater the presumptive sentence if the defendant commits a new felony offense. After Michael Pearce, Jr., was convicted of his fifth burglary, however, the district court did not include Pearce's past residential burglary—a person felony— when calculating his criminal-history score because the court had... More...   $0 (01-13-2016 - KS)

Oakland, CA - Alameda Real Estate Developer And Its President Plead Guilty To Securities Fraud And Wildlife Violations

An Alameda County development company, Wildlife Management, LLC, and its President, James Tong, pleaded guilty to crimes related to the illegal submission to the City of Dublin of a forged payment receipt. The two plea agreements relate to charges that the defendants, af... More...   $0 (01-12-2016 - CA)

On March 28, 2011, judgment was entered in the Sebastian County Circuit Court
reflecting that James Brian Wright had entered a plea of guilty to two counts of forgery in case
no. 66CR-10-882. An aggregate sentence of 60 months’ imprisonment was imposed.
On October 22, 2015, Wright tendered to this court a certified copy of the 2011
judgment with his pro se motion for leave to ... More...   $0 (01-10-2016 - AR)

On October 15, 2012, David Purvis, vice president of safety at Ergon Trucking in
Flowood, Mississippi, noticed suspicious activity in the Ergon parking lot involving a man
in a Chevrolet Trailblazer.1 Purvis reported the suspicious activity and the Trailblazer’s
license-plate number to the Flowood Police Department.
¶3. On October 19, 2012, at 8:15 a.m., Barton Lampton parked hi... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - MS)

At issue is the search of a vehicle driven by the defendant, which was reported to contain a stolen
cellular telephone (cell phone). The defendant makes two arguments on appeal with respect to the search. First, he
contends that the police did not have probable cause to believe he had committed a crime at the moment he was arrested and
therefore there was no valid search incident ... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - MA)

On June 12, 2013, the State filed an information charging defendant Sandro Espinoza with domestic battery (720 ILCS 5/12-3.2(a)(2) (West 2012)). The information stated that, “said defendant, knowingly, without legal justification made physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with a minor, a family or household member, in that said defendant struck the minor about the face, in violation... More...   $0 (01-09-2016 - IL)

Possession of a controlled substance requires specific intent to exercise control over the substance, with knowledge of the nature of the substance. The possession of a controlled substance may be immediate and exclusive, jointly held with another, or constructive as where the drug is kept by the accused in a place to which he or she has some measure of access and right of control. Proof o... More...   $0 (01-03-2016 - KS)

At 5:30 p.m. on May 24, 2009, a masked gunman entered Church's Chicken on Two Notch Road in Columbia. He held one of the employees at gunpoint while the employee emptied the cash registers. Three other employees locked themselves in the kitchen. The gunman was wearing a striped shirt, had a distinctive "lazy eye," and carried a clear plastic bag.
After the employee filled the bag with mone... More...   $0 (12-28-2015 - SC)

On February 14, 2010, Kenton Wesley Wolf was shot with a BB gun and stabbed to death in his Smyrna residence. The police arrested Juan Restrepo Duque (“Restrepo”), an eighteen-year-old Colombian national who had been living in the U.S. for seven years, and charged him with Wolf’s murder. A Superior Court jury found Restrepo guilty of second degree murder, possession of a deadly weapon during th... More...   $0 (12-20-2015 - DE)

Patrick Dean Palmer was convicted by a jury of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, felony possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to affix a drug tax stamp, and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. In this appeal, Palmer claims the district court erroneously instructed the jury in several respects. He also argues the cumulative effect of the alleged instructional e... More...   $0 (12-13-2015 - KS)