Tag: Crime and Incidents

FBI Reports Over $10 Billion in Losses From Online Scams in 2022

Over $10 billion in losses from online scams were reported to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2022—the highest number in the last five years. Over 480,000 Americans suffered financial losses. Though the number of impacted scam victims increased only moderately (13,000 up from 2021), the accumulated financial losses expanded by $3 billion….


Sheriff: Missing Texas Girl Found Locked in North Carolina Outbuilding

LEXINGTON, N.C.—A missing 13-year-old Texas girl was found locked in an outbuilding near a North Carolina home, authorities said Monday. Investigators with the Dallas police and the FBI say a 34-year-old man enticed the girl to leave her home while communicating with her on social media, then picked her up in his vehicle, Sheriff Richie…


Sheriff: Missing Texas Girl Found Locked in Outbuilding in NC; Suspect Charged With Human Trafficking, Rape

LEXINGTON, N.C.—A missing 13-year-old Texas girl was found locked in an outbuilding near a North Carolina home, authorities said Monday. Investigators with the Dallas police and the FBI say a 34-year-old man enticed the girl to leave her home while communicating with her on social media, then picked her up in his vehicle, Sheriff Richie…


7 Killed in Capsized San Diego Boats Were Mexican Migrants

At least seven of eight people killed when two boats capsized in shallow but turbulent surf off the San Diego coast were Mexican migrants, Mexican officials said Monday. Preliminary identification was based on records found with people’s bodies when they were recovered, the Mexican consulate in San Diego said in a news release. The nationality…


10 More Charged in $250 Million Scheme to Defraud Federally-Funded Child Nutrition Program

Ten more people have been charged over their alleged roles in a scheme to exploit a federally-funded child nutrition program in Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors announced on March 13. The 10 defendants are charged across four separate indictments on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and bribery, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for…


Jurors See Cellphone Data of XXXTentacion’s Accused Killers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Jurors in the trial of three men accused of murdering rapper XXXTentacion concluded their fourth day of deliberations Monday by reviewing almost 1,200 text messages and several videos and photos seized from two of their cellphones. Some of the videos and photos showed the defendants flashing fistfuls of $100 bills hours after the…


Evoqua Water to Pay $8.5 Million to Settle SEC Accounting Fraud Charges

Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. will pay an $8.5 million fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that the water treatment company used improper accounting to fraudulently inflate revenue in 2017 and 2018, including during its initial public offering. The SEC said on Monday that its civil settlement with the Pittsburgh-based company also…


New York Bike Path Attacker Spared Death Penalty After Jury Deadlocks

NEW YORK—Sayfullo Saipov, the man convicted of killing eight people in an attack on a Manhattan bike path in 2017, was spared the death penalty on Monday after a federal jury deadlocked on whether he should be executed. As a result, Saipov will be sentenced to life in prison without parole. A unanimous decision had…


Investigations Accuse Family Court Judges of Sending Children Into Danger

The murder of at least a dozen children in the past three months puts a tragic spotlight on a disturbing pattern of an American court system that appears to be deliberately putting custody in the hands of a dangerous parent. According to the Center For Judicial Excellence, a national organization that closely tracks the trend,…


Police: 4 Die in Shooting at Dallas Apartment Building

DALLAS—A man and woman have been arrested and charged after four people were found fatally shot in a Dallas apartment where an infant was found unharmed, police said Monday. Artemio Maldonado, 18, and Azucena Sanchez, 20, have been charged with capital murder, police said. Jail records did not list an attorney for either suspect. Police…