WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A former account pleads guilty to allegedly stealing $1.5 million from his employer. On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam announced that 39-year-old Lawrence Malachefski from Wilkes-Barre pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion to wire fraud. According to U.S. Attorney Karam, from March 2023 and June 2023, []
The state has agreed to cap its sentence recommendation at nine years. Ten other counts were dismissed but read in.
Despite receiving warnings from an auditor with the Office of Inspector General, the chief executive officer of International Educational Services Inc., or IES, advised his financial director “not to adjust the salaries to the cap limit” as they were told, according to a plea agreement between federal prosecutors and IES’ finance director.
Candace Chapman Scott of Little Rock, 37, worked at a mortuary and arranged to transport remains to buyers across state linesA former mortuary worker in Arkansas has admitted to stealing parts of corpses and trying to sell them.On Thursday, the US attorney for the eastern district of Arkansas announced that 37-year-old Candace Chapman Scott of Little Rock, Arkansas, had pleaded guilty to transporting stolen body parts across state lines and conspiring to commit mail fraud. Continue reading
A former Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) inmate has pleaded guilty to assaulting three corrections officers at State Farm Correctional Center.
Former Crawford County sheriff's deputy Levi White was taken into custody after pleading guilty to committing to a federal civil-rights violation.
A San Gabriel Valley woman who was accused of using counterfeit postage on tens of millions of packages pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding the United States Postal Service out of more than $150 million. Lijuan “Angela” Chen, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and one count of using counterfeit postage, according to a statement from the U.S. Justice Department. Chen, a resident of Walnut, has been in federal custody since she was arrested in May 2023. A...
DOÑA ANA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A former Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office deputy pled guilty to sexually assaulting a female arrestee in his patrol car and then trying to destroy video evidence. According to the plea agreement, in April 2023, Deputy Michael Martinez arrested a woman for drunk driving. After she received medical clearance, he []
A former Marine who carried a tiki torch ahead of a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., pleaded guilty Friday in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tyler Bradley Dykes, of Bluffton, S.C., pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers who were protecting the Capitol. The crime carries a maximum penalty of eight years in prison, a $250,000 fine and up to three years supervised release, according to the plea agreement....
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York attends a news conference. Officials say he stole around 40 checks payable to the law department. [ more › ]
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A man who initially told authorities he was picking up a friend’s relatives at 2 a.m. at the base of a mountain straddling the Mexican border has pleaded guilty to migrant smuggling. Armando Fierro Jr. on Wednesday signed a plea agreement in U.S. District Court for the District of []