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A white Kansas City police officer was convicted Friday in the 2019 fatal shooting of a Black man. NBC News reports Eric J. DeValkenaere, 43, was facing charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the Dec. 3, 2019, shooting of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb. Jackson County Circuit Court Presiding Judge Dale Youngs announced the verdict Friday following […]
El Chapo’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, might be facing a 4-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. CBS News reports that the Department of Justice asked for this sentencing, with prosecutors also requesting she has five years of supervised release and pays a fine of $1.5 million. Aispuro previously pleaded guilty to the […]
A California couple, both fugitives, have been sentenced to federal prison time in connection with a multimillion-dollar pandemic relief fraud plot. Per a KTLA report, the couple—identified as 43-year-old Richard Ayvazyan and 37-year-old Marietta Terabelian—are alleged to have removed their monitoring bracelets prior to this week’s sentencing. Over the summer, the two were among those convicted for […]
Travis Scott’s legal woes continue as an attorney has just outlined a $750 million lawsuit brought against him, Drake, Apple, and Live Nation by 125 Astroworld Festival attendees. The family of Axel Acosta, a 21-year-old who died after attending Astroworld, is also included in the suit, TMZ reports. Houston attorney Tony Buzbee took to Instagram to lay out […]
A woman pleaded guilty last week to charges or solicitation of murder and using a computer to commit a crime after trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband from a fake website, MLive.com reports. Michigan State Police were contacted by the owners of a website called “Rent-A-Hitman.com” after someone filled out a “service request form” seeking consultation […]
Text messages released amid Meghan Markle’s lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Limited reveal the royal family “berated” Prince Harry over Markle’s strained relationship with her father. In text messages obtained by People magazine, The Duchess of Sussex told her former communications chief, Jason Knauf, about her plans to write her father a letter after he revealed he’d be skipping her May 2018 royal wedding […]
About 500 National Guard troops have been activated as the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse nears its end. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced the authorization in a statement on Friday, just days before the trial’s closing arguments are expected to take place. “We continue to be in close contact with our partners at the local level […]
The owner of solar energy company based in California was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for swindling investors as part of a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the Department of Justice announced. U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez handed down the sentence after Jeff Carpoff, 50, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering […]
Casanova’s legal battle has become much more complicated. According to a superseding indictment obtained by AllHipHop, the 35-year-old Brooklyn rapper is now facing an attempted murder charge in his federal racketeering case. The allegations stem from an October 2020 shooting outside the King of Diamonds nightclub in Miami. The New York Post reports an altercation ensued after a […]
A New Jersey man was sentenced to over three years in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, AP News reports. Scott Fairlamb, 44, a gym owner, security guard, and former MMA fighter, was given 41 months behind bars, and three years probation […]
