Thu, 11/04/2010 - 06:58 by harsheeb
Newport -- Police in Virginia said a man arrested on forgery and money laundering charges had a dollar sign tattooed on his forehead.
Newport News police said they received a Crime Line tip leading to the Monday arrest of Elias Sedale Jones on eight felony charges, the Newport News Daily Press reported Wednesday.
Investigators said Jones has a dollar sign tattooed in a prominent position on his forehead.
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Wed, 11/03/2010 - 07:51 by harsheeb
San Francisco-- San Francisco police made six arrests during the celebrations that followed the Giants' World Series victory over Texas, authorities said.
Revelers poured into the streets of the city Monday night after the team wrapped up its first world championship since the franchise moved to San Francisco in 1958, celebrating the squad's victory in Arlington, Texas.
San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Li Lyn Tomioka told the Los Angeles Times that rioters stormed vehicles, set fires and broke the windows of businesses, including a memorabilia store at the Giants' home of AT&T Park.
Tomioka said one officer required stitches after being injured.
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Wed, 11/03/2010 - 07:26 by harsheeb
Houston-- An appeals court in Houston is considering new standards that could overturn 19 convictions of former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeff Skilling.
The three-panel court is reviewing the case based on a Supreme Court ruling that defined charges of a deprivation of "honest services" as acts that include bribery or kickbacks, The Houston Chronicle reported Tuesday.
In short, executives cannot be charged with various crimes if they did not profit from their misdeeds. Skilling, although convicted of 19 counts, was not charged with bribery or theft.
In a 30-minute presentation, defense attorney Daniel Petrocelli said the panel needed to judge if a "reasonable jury" would convict Skilling.
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Wed, 11/03/2010 - 07:22 by harsheeb
Capitola -- California police are searching for a bank robber who is believed to have offered $1,000 to passersby for a ride.
Investigators said the man, who did not display a weapon, entered a bank in Capitola at about 11:40 a.m. and took an undisclosed amount of money from a till, the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel reported Tuesday.
Witnesses said the man stopped several passersby near the bank and offered them $1,000 for a ride to Santa Cruz.
Police said they are searching for the man, described as in his 40s or 50s with poor hygiene, and anyone who may have taken him up on his $1,000 offer.
"That $1,000 belongs to the bank," Capitola Sgt. Mark Gonzalez said.
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Tue, 11/02/2010 - 05:13 by harsheeb
Washington -- Theft of banking information at points consumers swipe their debit and credit cards c
ould rise as the economy falters, a bank trade group spokeswoman said.
"As the economy gets worse and people get more desperate for money, the amount of fraud tends to go up," Margot Mohsberg, a spokeswoman for the American Bankers Association, told Monday's Detroit News.
Banks have noted the equipment required to have account and personal identification numbers recorded where cards are swiped is now available online.
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Tue, 11/02/2010 - 05:01 by harsheeb
York -- Police in York, Pa., said two men who allegedly stole from a neighbor's apartment were arrested after fighting over purloined marijuana.
Investigators said Shawn David Cromer, 43, and Zachary Jordan Cassel, 21, broke into the home of their neighbor, from whom they had previously purchased marijuana, Friday night. Police said the two men took $60 cash, a bag of marijuana, a safe, a .45-caliber pistol, a laptop computer and a BlackBerry cellphone, the York Daily Record/Sunday News reported Monday.
Police said the two men fought the next morning when Cassel woke up and "realized that Cromer smoked most of the marijuana."
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Mon, 11/01/2010 - 08:15 by harsheeb
Chicago -- Chicago police jailed "Superman" and "Batwoman" in full costume in separate incidents of drunkenness this weekend.
Mario Reyes, 21, of Hoffman Estates, Ill., was intoxicated and was kicked out of a West Side party around 3 a.m. Saturday, police told the Chicago Sun-Times. He broke bottles in the hallway, frightening other partygoers.
Reyes was charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and spent the night in the Harrison District lockup in his Superman costume, cape included, police said.
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Mon, 10/25/2010 - 09:14 by harsheeb
New York -- An aspiring New York model is suing Apple and an app-maker for $1 million for allegedly using racy photographs of her without permission, court documents show.
In her lawsuit, Rebecca Battino, 19, said someone copied the photographs from her computer, and before long the sexy portraits she took of herself when she was 16 popped up in an online iTunes application called "extreme Cam Girls," The New York Post reported.
In her lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, Battino didn't say who allegedly stole the photographs. Apple removed the iTunes application, but Battino is angry she never received credit or cash for the pictures.
"I was just upset that I'm not being paid for my pictures," she told The Post. "I'm not embarrassed."
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Wed, 10/20/2010 - 10:31 by harsheeb
Severna Park -- Maryland police and state officials said they are investigating after officers checking on an elderly woman concluded she was dead when she was still alive.
Anne Arundel County Police said a Severna Park woman called 911 Oct. 2 to report she had not seen her neighbor, Shillinglaw Johnson, 89, in five days. Responding officers said they detected "a decomposition smell" in her house, The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday.
Johnson was found on her bathroom floor and the officers concluded she had died, the report said. The woman spent a further three hours on the floor until a funeral service worker preparing the move the body noticed her breathe and move her arm.
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Tue, 10/19/2010 - 04:53 by harsheeb
Lansing -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan denied Justice Department charges it had agreements with hospitals that raised prices for consumers.
The Department of Justice suit filed suit Monday, saying Blue Cross Blue Shield had made deals with acute care hospitals that "stifle competition, resulting in higher health insurance prices for consumers in Michigan."
The lawsuit says Blue Cross Blue Shield deals prevent hospitals from billing other insurance companies at rates lower than Blue Cross Blue Shield receives, The Detroit News reported.
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Sun, 10/17/2010 - 21:38 by Deepika Garg
Federal law enforcement agencies will continue to oppose marijuana, even if California's voters approve Proposition 19, which seeks legalizing the drug for recreational purposes.
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Sun, 10/10/2010 - 05:42 by harsheeb
Jakarta-- Erwin Arnada, a former editor of Indonesian Playboy, was arrested in Bali Saturday after ignoring three orders to turn himself in for indecency.
Arnada was first tried in 2007 and cleared of all charges, but in August he was sentenced to two years in prison for indecency.
"We picked him up from Bali today to fly him to Jakarta," South Jakarta chief prosecutor Mohammed Yusuf told the BBC Saturday.
Islamist groups forced Indonesian Playboy to shut down in 2006 after its first few issues were distributed, and the Islamist Defenders Front, or FPI, called Arnanda a "moral terrorist."
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