On August 28, 2013, at approximately 11:00 p.m., an officer with the Beaumont Police Department responded to a radio dispatch concerning a suspicious vehicle near the intersection of Seventh Street and the I-10 service road in Beaumont, Texas. When the officer arrived at that location, he observed a blue Toyota Corolla that had left the service road and come to rest in a grassy area next to a... More...   $0 (11-03-2016 - TX)

Los Angeles, CA - Australian Man Who Traveled to U.S. to Have Sex with 6-Year-Old Boy Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison

An Australian geneticist who pleaded guilty to a federal charge of traveling to Los Angeles to engage in criminal sexual conduct with a 6-year-old boy was sentenced today to 144 months in prison.

Michael Quinn, 33, of Melbourne, was sentenced ... More...   $0 (10-31-2016 - CA)

Appellant was charged and convicted of felony driving with a suspended or revoked license in violation of section 322.34(2)(c), Florida Statutes (2014) (Count I), and leaving the scene of a crash involving damage to an attended vehicle in violation of section 316.061(1), Florida Statutes (2014) (Count II). The State concedes error in his conviction for leaving the scene of a crash on Count II, a... More...   $0 (10-29-2016 - FL)

A grand jury indicted Hoff for driving while intoxicated, third or more. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. §§ 49.04, 49.09(b) (West Supp. 2016). The indictment also alleged that Hoff used a deadly weapon, namely, a motor vehicle, during the 2 commission of the offense. Additionally, the indictment included enhancements for two previous felony convictions. Hoff pleaded “[n]ot guilty[.]” Hoff stipulat... More...   $0 (10-25-2016 - TX)

In 2014, the Federal Government indicted former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, on bribery charges. The charges related to the acceptance by the McDonnells of $175,000 in loans, gifts, and other benefits from Virginia businessman Jonnie Williams, while Governor McDonnell was in office. Williams was the chief executive officer of Star Scientific, a Virginia-bas... More...   $0 (10-23-2016 - DC)

On Tuesday, March 1, 1988, at about 10:45 p.m., Joseph Wayne Daggett left his
girlfriend Sheridan Porter’s house to go back to his own home on the Slaughter Ranch outside of
Fort Stockton, Texas. He told Porter that he had planned to travel to a Chevrolet dealership in
Odessa the next day to have repairs made to his new truck. At trial, Porter, who divorced
Appellant in 1987,... More...   $0 (10-18-2016 - TX)

During a summer evening in 2007, Ordway was traveling in the front
passenger seat of a stolen car with two acquaintances. Rodriquez "Hot Rod"
Turner was the car's driver and Patrick "Lee Lee" Lewis was in the back
passenger seat directly behind Ordway. According to Ordway, the group was
traveling from Louisville to Lexington to traffic in narcotics. The plan was for
Ordway... More...   $0 (10-15-2016 - KY)

After Larry Joe Jones’ extremely brief flight from Texas Department of Public Safety
Trooper Kurt Kelm, in his motor vehicle in Brazos County,1 Jones’ vehicle violently collided with
another vehicle occupied by Britt and Shara Watson and the Watsons’ two-year-old child. Later,
after a brief jury trial, Jones was convicted of evading arrest with a vehicle, the offense was
enhan... More...   $0 (10-12-2016 - TX)

On an otherwise quiet Sunday afternoon in May 2007, Kansas Highway Patrol Master Trooper Michael Gruber observed a speeding car and began what ordinarily would be a routine traffic stop. But the driver, Charles Barker, sped away, which resulted in a high-speed chase on I-635 and K-32 (Kansas Avenue) in Wyandotte County. The chase ended when Barker drove into traffic coming from the other direction... More...   $1100000 (10-11-2016 - KS)

Buffalo, NY - Orleans County Sentenced For Distributing Methylone

Allen M. Young, 40, of Barker, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute methylone, was sentenced to 200 months in prison.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank T. Pimentel, who handled the case, stated that between October 21, 2011, and December 13, 2012, the defendant conspired with Peter Viera to obt... More...   $0 (10-05-2016 - NY)

On January 12, 2013, at approximately 3:00 p.m., Keller was involved in a collision with
another vehicle at a busy intersection in Frisco. Prior to the collision, a motorist traveling behind
Keller called 911 to report that she was driving erratically. That same motorist recorded her
erratic driving and the collision on his cell phone.
The Frisco police department dispatche... More...   $0 (10-03-2016 - TX)

San Diego, CA - Seaworld Manager Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Stealing More Than $1 Million

Former SeaWorld San Diego manager Wilfred David Joseph Jobin-Reyes (known as “Sebastian Jobin”) was sentenced to 30 months in custody for embezzling $818,000 from SeaWorld over more than eight years while he was employed there.

Jobin-Reyes created fake invoices for a sham company... More...   $0 (09-30-2016 - CA)

Los Angeles, CA - British Man Who Came to U.S. to Have Sex with Pre-Teen Boys Pleads Guilty and Agrees to 13-Year Sentence

A British man who traveled to the Coachella Valley to have sex with pre-teen boys pleaded guilty today to transportation of child pornography and agreed to a 13-year prison sentence.

Paul Charles Wilkins, 70, of Littleport in East Cambridgeshire, ... More...   $0 (09-28-2016 - CA)

During a summer evening in 2007, Ordway was traveling in the front
passenger seat of a stolen car with two acquaintances. Rodriquez "Hot Rod"
Turner was the car's driver and Patrick "Lee Lee" Lewis was in the back
passenger seat directly behind Ordway. According to Ordway, the group was
traveling from Louisville to Lexington to traffic in narcotics. The plan was for
Ordway... More...   $0 (09-27-2016 - KY)

In 2006, a jury convicted Victor Anzua-Torres of second-degree reckless murder and several other offenses related to a fatal 2005 automobile collision in which Anzua-Torres was driving while intoxicated. His convictions and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal. He later filed a K.S.A. 60-1507 motion alleging, among other things, that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for fail... More...   $0 (09-23-2016 - KS)

During the evening of March 29, 2014, Brian Ybarra, Chad Jackson, and Chris
Martens went to the Corner Pocket in Fort Wayne where they drank beer, ate,
socialized, and watched sports on television. Washington and his friends
Rebecca Ford, Clayton Delong, and Cristen Kolander were also socializing at
the Corner Pocket. Kolander left the bar a little before midnight. Soon afte... More...   $0 (09-18-2016 - IN)

Pierre, SD - Texas Man Acquitted of Involuntary Manslaughter

Daniel York, age 29, was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 14, 2015.

The charge related to the alleged accident on July 12, 2015, when an adult male was killed in a car crash in Indian country.

The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement... More...   $0 (09-13-2016 - SD)

Thach's trial spanned 7 days and included testimony from 29 witnesses. We need not recount the entirety of the trial and will instead focus on the testimony most relevant to Thach's appeal—that of Vat Sana Khamvongsa, who participated in the crimes; law enforcement officers who took Thach's statement; and the coroner. Khamvongsa testified Thach picked him up around 9 p.m. on August 3, 2012. Th... More...   $0 (09-09-2016 - KS)

Donald Burgess challenges his conviction and sentence for violating
section 322.34(5), Florida Statutes (2012), which makes it a third-degree felony for one
to drive a motor vehicle when his or her driver's license has been revoked for being a
habitual traffic offender. Mr. Burgess pleaded guilty to this offense but specifically
reserved for appeal the denial of his motion to ... More...   $0 (09-06-2016 - FL)

Russell County 911 dispatch received a call reporting a black Camaro
passed them at a high rate of speed and appeared to have entered Twin Creek
Estates, a sparsely populated residential development in a rural area. Sheriffs
Deputy Nick Bertram' was dispatched to investigate. Roughly twenty minutes
after the 911 call, Deputy Bertram turned onto Wooldridge School House Road
... More...   $0 (09-04-2016 - KY)

At around 7:30 p.m. on January 9, 2014, Bryan Willis and his then
girlfriend, Sara Moran, were sitting in a parked late model SUV on the side of
the road near a gravel pit in Leitchfield. Officer Jesse Townsend noticed them
as he came from the other direction and stopped to make sure everything was
okay. Willis then drove off. In response, Officer Townsend turned on his lights <... More...   $0 (09-04-2016 - KY)

The State charged appellant Debra Fawcett with criminal vehicular operation,
Minn. Stat. § 609.21, subd. 1(2) (2012).1 Fawcett moved to suppress “all evidence of the
presence of drugs” found in her blood, arguing that the warrant application and
supporting affidavit failed to provide a lawful basis to test her blood for controlled
substances. The district court granted Fawcet... More...   $0 (08-26-2016 - MN)

Long Island Doctor Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Illegally Prescribe Oxycodone

Former Health Minister of Guyana Sold Oxycodone Prescriptions for Cash

Noel Blackman, a medical doctor and the former Health Minister of Guyana, who operated from “pain management” clinics in Elmhurst in Queens County, Franklin Square in Nassau County, and Cypress Hills in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to ... More...   $0 (08-24-2016 - NY)

Brooklyn, NY - Long Island Doctor Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Illegally Prescribe Oxycodone

Former Health Minister of Guyana Sold Oxycodone Prescriptions for Cash

Noel Blackman, a medical doctor and the former Health Minister of Guyana, who operated from “pain management” clinics in Elmhurst in Queens County, Franklin Square in Nassau County, and Cypress Hills in Brooklyn, tod... More...   $0 (08-24-2016 - NY)

Tucson, AZ - Tohono O’odham Woman Sentenced to Prison for Involuntary Manslaughter

Monique Pablo-Johnson, 47, of Sells, Ariz., a member of Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 11 years in custody. Pablo-Johnson had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter.

On June 6, 2013, Pablo-Jo... More...   $0 (08-22-2016 - AZ)