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Mon, 21/03/2011 - 17:05 by Jaspreet Virk
Defriending your wife on Facebook doesn't mean that you are divorced. That's precisely what a 34-year-old Michigan man didn't seem to realize.
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Thu, 02/12/2010 - 10:03 by Prince damin
Philadelphia -- The U.S. Marshals Service has informed actor Wesley Snipes he has a week to surrender to a Pennsylvania prison to begin his sentence for tax crimes, TMZ said.
The film star's 2008 conviction and three-year prison sentence for failure to file tax returns and pay federal income taxes were upheld by an appellate court in July. However, he has remained free on bond and his legal team requested a new trial.
A federal judge in Florida recently denied that petition and Snipes was ordered Wednesday to check in to begin his sentence Dec. 9.
"Failure to report at the designated place and time may result in additional criminal charges," TMZ quoted the U.S. Marshals Service as saying in a statement Wednesday.
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Thu, 25/11/2010 - 06:43 by Prince damin
Ocala, Fla. -- Lawyers for Wesley Snipes have asked a federal judge to extend his bail while they consider petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court about his prison sentence.
The Orlando Sentinel said the motion was filed Tuesday.
The film star's 2008 conviction and three-year prison sentence for failure to file tax returns and pay federal income taxes were upheld by an appellate court in July. However, he has remained free on bond and his legal team requested a new trial.
A federal judge in Florida last week denied that petition and ordered Snipes to surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to begin his prison sentence.
The Sentinel said it was not clear where and when Snipes must turn himself in.
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Sat, 20/11/2010 - 08:08 by Prince damin
Miami -- Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes has been taken into custody by federal authorities and is set to begin his three-year prison sentence for tax evasion, TMZ said.
Snipes was taken into custody Friday after a federal judge in Florida ordered the actor to surrender, the report said.
His 2008 conviction and prison sentence for failure to file tax returns and pay federal income taxes were upheld by an appellate court in July. However, he has remained free on bond while his legal team requested a new trial.
The petition was denied this week.
Snipes, 48, is the star of the "Blade" trilogy, "U.S. Marshals" and "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar."
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Sat, 13/11/2010 - 06:47 by Prince damin
Knoxville, Tenn. -- A former University of Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail account during the 2008 campaign was sentenced to one year in prison.
David Kernell, who was convicted in April of two counts related to hacking the former Alaska governor's personal e-mail account, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, CNN reported Friday.
Prosecutors told the Knoxville, Tenn., court Kernell accessed Palin's e-mail account in 2008, when she was running as the Republican nominee for vice president, by resetting her password and posted screenshots containing personal information to a public Web site.
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Fri, 05/11/2010 - 00:02 by Prince damin
New York -- Hip-hop star Lil Wayne has been released from New York's Rikers Island jail complex after serving eight months for attempted weapon possession, officials said.
The rapper admitted in October 2009 to having a loaded gun on his bus after a New York concert.
UsMagazine.com said his family and friends are planning a welcome home party for him this weekend in Miami.
Lil Wayne's latest album "I Am Not a Human Being" is No. 4 on the Billboard 200 this week.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Sat, 23/10/2010 - 23:13 by Prince damin
Atlanta -- U.S. rapper T.I. should be sent to drug rehabilitation, and not prison, for violating his parole, an unnamed person said in court documents in Atlanta.
Someone calling him or herself "Citizens of the State of Atlanta Georgia," filed the documents in federal court, the Internet entertainment Web site TMZ.com reported.
A judge in Atlanta sentenced the rapper to 11 months in prison last week for violating his probation in a 2007 federal weapons case.
Neither the rapper, nor prosecutors, knows who filed the new court documents, the report said.
In the motion asking for the rapper's jail sentence to be amended, the filer said it is a waste of money to jail someone for drug use.
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Sat, 16/10/2010 - 09:54 by Rakhi
Atlanta -- A U.S. judge in Atlanta sentenced rapper T.I. to 11 months in prison Friday for violating his probation in a 2007 federal weapons case, officials said.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. as saying the hip-hop star "has had about the limit of second chances."
"I screwed up," the rapper told the court. "I screwed up big time, and I'm sorry. I'm truly and sincerely sorry. I don't want and I don't need to use drugs anymore. I want them out of my life."
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Thu, 14/10/2010 - 09:48 by Prince damin
Bremerton, Wash. -- Officials in a Washington county say they are rewriting their policy for awarding "good time" to prison inmates after a prisoner discovered a math error.
Robert "Doug" Pierce, 48, who was jailed in December for possession of methamphetamine and earned his GED behind bars, said he wound up serving 10 extra days in jail because Kitsap County did not correctly take his time served into account when calculating his good time, the time taken off his sentence for good behavior, the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton reported Wednesday.
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Sun, 12/09/2010 - 09:34 by Prince damin
Fort Pierce, Fla. -- A Florida man who claims his phony $20 bills were a protest against President Andrew Jackson's treatment of Indians is going to prison.
Circuit Judge James McCann imposed an 18-month sentence Friday on Ronald Jensen, 53, of St. Lucie County, Treasure Coast Newspapers reported. Because Jensen has already spent 406 days in custody, he will spend a few months more behind bars.
In a 2009 raid, St. Lucie County sheriff's deputies said they found more than $1,800 in funny money in Jensen's apartment. He had a roll of bills sitting on the toilet and burned money in the toilet bowl.
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Sat, 11/09/2010 - 23:39 by Prince damin
Reynosa, Mexico -- Mexican authorities are questioning prison personnel, including the director, after 85 prisoners escaped Friday, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Prisoners made it over the fence of the state prison in Reynosa, Mexico, in the state of Tamaulipas near the U.S. border using ladders early Friday morning. In August, a breakout from a nearby prison in Matamoros allowed 40 prisoners to escape.
Many of the prisoners are involved in drug trafficking or have been arrested for violent crimes related to the war on drugs, which has taken 28,000 lives in Mexico since 2007.
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Fri, 10/09/2010 - 01:34 by Prince damin
Jensen Beach, Fla. -- A Florida man who blamed his cat for downloading child pornography pleaded no contest to 25 felony charges, earning him 12 1/2 years in prison.
Keith Griffin, 49, of Jensen Beach, Fla., pleaded no contest to the 25 felony charges, which involved possession of child pornography images on his computer, after initially telling Martin County sheriff's deputies in August 2009 that the images were downloaded as a result of his cat jumping on his keyboard while he was away from home, TCPalm.com reported Thursday.
Circuit Judge Sherwood Bauer sentenced Griffin to 12 1/2 years for each count with the sentences to be served concurrently. He was given credit for 397 days served and added to the state's sex offender registry.
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