Bernard and Carole Szuhaj, both seventy-three years old, suffered from health
issues that required them to hire in-home caregivers. Several individuals
employed by the Visiting Angels organization, including Kinser, came to the
Szuhajes’ home in Fort Wayne to provide them with the care they needed.
Kinser worked in the Szuhajes’ home on July 14, 15, 16, 22, and 23, 2015. <... More...   $0 (07-23-2016 - IN)

During a break in their on-again-off-again relationship, defendant Dunn and Tracy Shaw, who had obtained a protection order against Dunn, encountered one another at a bank in Parsons. Shaw visited the bank daily as part of her job as a courier. According to bank employees, Dunn had been wandering around outside the bank before Shaw's arrival, and he eventually entered the bank, inquired about open... More...   $0 (07-17-2016 - KS)

Monte Stava owned and operated Hymark, a full-service
lockout and towing business. As part of the business, Monte
sometimes sold unclaimed vehicles in satisfaction of towing
and storage debts pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-2404
(Reissue 2010). In order to sell the vehicles, Hymark had to
obtain titles to the abandoned vehicles, which could be done
through a sheriff’s offi... More...   $0 (07-17-2016 - NE)

Del Rio, TX - Former Del Rio Police Officer Sentenced to Seven Years in Federal Prison

A federal judge sentenced 43-year-old former Del Rio police officer Raymond Villarreal to seven years in federal prison for drug distribution.

At sentencing, United States District Judge Alia Moses also ordered that Villarreal pay a $3,000 fine and be placed on supervised release for a period o... More...   $0 (07-14-2016 - TX)

East Saint Louis, IL - Glen Carbon Man Sentenced for Armed Robbery

Jonathan Michael Malone, 53, of Glen Carbon, Illinois, was sentenced in the United States District Court in East Saint Louis, Illinois for armed robbery. Malone was charged with Interference of Commerce by Robbery, with Brandishing a Firearm During and In Relation to a Crime of Violence, and with Unlawful Possession of a F... More...   $0 (07-14-2016 - IL)

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, the
following facts are supported by the trial record. See State v. Reed, 2013 ME 5,
¶ 9, 58 A.3d 1130. In the afternoon of October 23, 2012, the body of the victim,
Poulin’s paternal grandmother, was discovered in her home in Old Orchard Beach.
She had been struck in the head with blunt objects and stabbed many... More...   $0 (07-14-2016 - ME)

On the evening of March 13, 2013, DPS Trooper Colby Jones was patrolling a farm to
market road in Pecos County. He met up with Baltazar Urias, who was traveling in the opposite
direction. Urias failed to dim his pickup truck headlights, which caused Trooper Jones to
immediately make a U-turn and activate his overhead lights to initiate a traffic stop. Texas law
prohibits lea... More...   $0 (07-12-2016 - TX)

In three separate indictments, Defendant was charged with two counts of aggravated burglary, one count of aggravated assault, one count of theft of property valued $1000 or more but less than $10,000, one count of domestic assault, one count of
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vandalism of property valued at $500 or less, and one count of simple assault. On November 3, 2014, Defendant entered a guilty plea to one... More...   $0 (07-05-2016 - TN)

Minneapolis, MN - Jordan Davis Convicted of Conspiring to Steal Money from Community Action of Minneapolis

Davis took more than $140,000 in payments for no-show job

Jordan James Davis, age 35, was convicted for conspiring with his father, William James Davis, to steal funds from Community Action of Minneapolis (CAM). JORDAN DAVIS was convicted today after a jury trial before U.S.... More...   $0 (06-28-2016 - MN)

The victim in this case, Gerald Peters (“Peters”) was a sixty-nine-year-old
retired school teacher. In his retirement, Peters was a part owner of an ice
cream parlor and sandwich shop and was also involved with the local Main
Street Theater. Peters had lived at a house on Walker Street in Michigan City,
Indiana for most of his life.
[4] Prior to his death, Peters met Rya... More...   $0 (06-28-2016 - IN)

John Turner Gray keyed his ex-girlfriend’s 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and threw a rock at its
hood. After a jury convicted Gray of criminal mischief, he was sentenced to 180 days’
confinement in state jail and was ordered to pay a $1,800.00 fine. On appeal,1 Gray challenges
the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support the finding that the pecuniary loss amounted to
$1,500.00 o... More...   $0 (06-27-2016 - TX)

Charles Dewayne Hooks appeals his murder conviction.1 Appellant entered a guilty plea
but elected that a jury assess his punishment. A jury sentenced appellant to confinement for life
and a $10,000 fine. In two points of error, appellant argues the trial court abused its discretion in
admitting into evidence photographs of his tattoos and the judgment should be modified to
r... More...   $0 (06-26-2016 - TX)

Naylor was arrested and charged as a prior and persistent offender with one count of first
degree burglary (Count I), one count of stealing (Count II), and one count of driving with a
revoked license (Count III). Count I charged that Naylor committed first-degree burglary “in
that on or about May 16, 2014, in the County of Ste. Genevieve, State of Missouri, the defendant
knowin... More...   $0 (06-25-2016 - MO)

A jury convicted Bright for the first-degree murders of Derrick King and
Randall Brown. Bright v. State, 90 So. 3d 249, 254 (Fla. 2012). The jury
recommended death by a vote of eight to four for the murders of both victims, and
the trial court sentenced Bright to death for both murders. Id. at 256.
On direct appeal, we previously detailed the facts leading to Bright’s death ... More...   $0 (06-21-2016 - FL)

At around 4:40 a.m. on the morning of December 4, 2013, Erin Floyd,
manager of the EZ Shop in Henderson, was training an employee, LaStar
McGuire, when three black men wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks
entered the store. One of the assailants was armed with a hatchet, and the
other two were armed with knives.
The women were ordered to lie on the floor. Floyd was then gr... More...   $0 (06-21-2016 - KY)

Massengale worked for Tuttle’s Tree and Landscaping, which is owned by
Robert Tuttle. Tuttle ran the business out of his home office and kept work
trucks and equipment in his driveway. Employees routinely met Tuttle at his
house each morning to gather the equipment they needed for that day’s job, but
employees were not permitted in Tuttle’s home when he was not there.
... More...   $0 (06-20-2016 - IN)

The complainant, Al Dehghani, was an Iranian student, who came to the United States to attend college at the University of Houston; he met and married Brenda Allen and they remained married for almost 25 years. He invested in real estate and, by 2013, at age 63, he owned and rented out approximately fifty homes.
When complainant’s rental property required maintenance, the complainant perfor... More...   $0 (06-18-2016 - TX)

Belleville, IL - Cahokia Man Sentenced To Over 44 Years In Prison For Armed Robberies

Cases Were Brought as part of the United States Attorney’s Office Anti-Robbery Initiative

LaMarcus D. Jackson, 29, of Cahokia, Illinois was sentenced to 44 ½ years in prison on a six-count indictment charging him with two counts of Conspiracy to Interfere with Commerce by Robbery and Interferenc... More...   $0 (06-16-2016 - IL)

In a medical malpractice action we are asked to review orders excluding testimony from plaintiffs' two expert witnesses and a summary judgment granted to defendants based upon the excluded testimony. We conclude the testimony should not have been excluded. We reverse the orders of the District Court excluding the testimony and granting summary judgment, and remand the cause for further proceedings... More...   $0 (06-14-2016 - Ok)

For the third time in seven years, we confront an effort by the Federal Communications Commission to compel internet openness— commonly known as net neutrality—the principle that broadband providers must treat all internet traffic the same
8 regardless of source. In our first decision, Comcast Corp. v. FCC, 600 F.3d 642 (D.C. Cir. 2010), we held that the Commission had failed to cite any s... More...   $0 (06-14-2016 - DC)

Houston, TX - Houston Man Convicted of Wire Fraud

A 56-year-old Houston man employed at the Alcoa Operations Plant in Point Comfort was convicted of wire fraud.

Jack Kennedy was employed in the machine shop tool room at the plant. In his position, Kennedy was responsible for inventorying and ordering parts, tools and supplies used by Alcoa employees. Kennedy ordered and stole lar... More...   $0 (06-10-2016 - TX)

This appeal raises questions about the competency of a
child witness and the process that a trial court should apply to
address that issue. Under the New Jersey Rules of Evidence, a
witness is considered competent to testify unless the court
makes a finding that he or she lacks the capacity to express his
v or her testimony so as to be understood, or is incapable of
... More...   $0 (06-10-2016 - NJ)

Weber was a janitor at Sidney High School. A Thermal Dynamics Cutmaster 82
plasma cutter, a tool used to cut metal and steel, went missing from the high school shop
classroom on a night Weber was working. The high school principal later identified
Weber as the person on surveillance video in the shop the night the plasma cutter
disappeared. After an investigation, the State ... More...   $0 (06-07-2016 - MT)

According to the State’s evidence, during relevant times, appellant owned an auto repair shop. Complainant, Antonio Robayo, owned a Corvette and a BMW. Apparently, Robayo met appellant when Robayo took the Corvette to appellant’s shop, and at some point, Robayo performed work on appellant’s home. Subsequently, in early 2013, appellant called Robayo “out of the blue” about the possibility of app... More...   $0 (06-05-2016 - TX)

On the morning of June 22, 2011, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a suspicious, large, wooden crate at Land Air Express, a freight forwarding company. Officers John O’Brien, Jonathon Sandel, and Patrick McIntyre, members of the sheriff’s DEA Task Force, were assigned to investigate the package. Officers O’Brien and McIntyre testified at the hearing on appellant’s motion to s... More...   $0 (06-05-2016 - )