crimes
A Colorado funeral home operator who made headlines back in 2020 after being arrested alongside her mother for illegal body part sales has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars. On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced that 46-year-old Megan Hess had received a 20-year sentence after her prior guilty […]
Tinder will provide users with the opportunity to run a background check on their matches, CNN reports. Match Group, Inc., which also owns such dating apps as Match.com, OkCupid, and Hinge, partnered with the women-founded non-profit Garbo last year in an effort to provide people with “more transparency and information about whomever they connect with.” The program […]
YoungBoy Never Broke Again secured a win in his ongoing federal gun case. According to legal documents obtained by XXL magazine, a U.S. district judge has granted YoungBoy’s request to suppress video evidence that was seized during his 2020 arrest. Attorneys for the 22-year-old rapper—legal name Kentrell Gaulden—argue the footage was inadmissible in court because the camera was […]
The Vatican announced Saturday that it’s indicting nine people and a cardinal on financial crimes, including extortion, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, and abuse of office, regarding investments reportedly made in 2018. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and two top officials at the Vatican’s intelligence unit are going on trial on July 27, CBS News reports. Becciu was indicted “for the crimes of […]
Bernie Madoff, notorious convicted fraudster who pleaded guilty in 2009 to 11 federal felonies, is dead at 82. According to a source quoted in an Associated Press report, Madoff died from natural causes at the Federal Medical Center in North Carolina on Wednesday. Last year Madoff’s legal team attempted to get Madoff released from prison due […]
Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is reportedly the subject of a sex trafficking investigation. Three sources briefed on the matter told the New York Times the inquiry is part of a broader investigation stemming from the prosecution of Joel Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector who has been accused of child sex trafficking. Federal agents are reportedly trying to determine if […]
A pair of former New York City mortuary workers have been charged with stealing from the deceased. Federal prosecutors announced the charges Tuesday, accusing 66-year-old Charles McFadgen and 50-year-old Willie Garcon of swiping multiple bank cards from dead bodies at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City. The former suspect, who worked at the office between 2003 […]
Baltimore will no longer waste time and resources prosecuting low-level crimes. On Friday, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced to the media that the city will stop prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic violations, and other low-level offenses. Per NBC News, the city created this initiative at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce the virus’s spread in local […]
Billie Eilish is requesting a court-ordered restraining order against a man who has allegedly been threatening and harassing her while also camping out near her Los Angeles home, TMZ has learned. Eilish claims in court docs that she has seen a man named John Hearle stationed at a school across the street from her house since the summer. Hearle allegedly […]
The 23-year-old rapper Silento, who is best known for his debut 2015 single “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” was arrested on murder charges on Monday, TMZ reports. Silento, real name Ricky Lamar Hawk, was arrested and booked into DeKalb County Jail after he was accused of fatally shooting his 34-year-old cousin Frederick Rooks last month, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. […]
