Category: charges

Navy Charges Sailor With Setting Fire That Destroyed Warship

SAN DIEGO—The U.S. Navy charged a sailor on Thursday with starting a fire last year that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard docked off San Diego, marking the maritime branch’s worst warship blaze outside of combat in recent memory. The amphibious assault ship burned for more than four days. Left with extensive structural, electrical and mechanical…


3 Men Arrested Near All-Star Game Face Federal Gun Charges

DENVER—Three men arrested with more than a dozen weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at a Denver hotel near the site of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game have been charged with federal firearms crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday. The number of weapons found May 9 near the event and a request by…


Adrian’s Kickback Ricochets as Police File Charges

Authorities in Huntington Beach, Calif. submitted charges July 8 against 35 minors in connection with an unruly beach gathering that garnered Internet infamy. “To the Adrian’s Kickback crowd—I hope you didn’t think we forgot about you,” Huntington Beach police said in a Facebook post. “This is just the beginning.” The charges stemmed from a May 22…


Dershowitz Predicts Charges Against Trump Organization’s CFO Will Be Tossed

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Saturday he believes federal tax fraud charges filed in New York City against the Trump Organization’s longtime finance chief will end up being dismissed. “You can’t get a city district attorney indicting somebody for failing to pay federal income taxes when the IRS hasn’t even gone after him,” Dershowitz…


Man Faces Federal Charges After Explosion in Los Angeles Neighborhood

LOS ANGELES—A 27-year-old man was charged Saturday with illegally transporting tons of explosives he purchased in Nevada—including several that left a trail of destruction and injuries after they blew up in a Los Angeles neighborhood. Arturo Ceja III faces the federal charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Seventeen people were hurt…


Ghislaine Maxwell Makes Third Attempt at Bail on Sex Charges

NEW YORK—Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite awaiting trial on charges that she recruited teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, says she’ll renounce her UK and French citizenships if she can be freed on bail, according to a court filing Tuesday. Maxwell’s attorneys made the offer in a third try at getting Maxwell out…


Charges Against Non-Violent Capitol Protesters Should Be Dropped: Matt Braynard

Matt Braynard, former director of Data and Strategy for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, told The Epoch Times that charges against the non-violent protesters at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 should be dropped. “Anybody that engaged in any violence on January 6, who may have assaulted a police officer or committed serious property damage…


Convicted Felons Charged with Unemployment Benefit Fraud 

A trio of Southern California felons—including a convicted murderer—were charged with allegedly swindling the state for unemployment benefits during the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus pandemic. Rosalva Bahena, from Fullerton, was among those charged for allegedly conspiring to defraud the Economic Development Department (EDD). Her latest charges add to an already colorful criminal history, which…