Tag: guilty
-
Two found guilty of robbing off-duty Secret Service agent at gunpoint after Joe Biden fundraiser
Two men have been convicted of robbing an off-duty Secret Service agent at gunpoint after the agent had finished working at a Los Angeles fundraiser that President Joe Biden attended, prosecutors said Monday. The robbery unfolded on June 15 after the agent, who was not identified, had attended the star-studded campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles,…
-
Man found guilty of killing 4 relatives, pregnant woman during fight about staying out late when he was a teen
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man was convicted of murder Friday in the shooting deaths of five people, including family members and a pregnant woman who was nearly due to give birth, prosecutors said. A jury deliberated about three hours before finding Raymond Childs III guilty of six counts of murder in the killings, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office…
-
Man pleads guilty to killing Eliza Fletcher, Memphis teacher who was kidnapped on morning run
The Tennessee man charged with kidnapping and killing a kindergarten teacher during a morning run two years ago pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, officials said Monday. Cleotha Abston, 40, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, for the Sept. 2, 2022, murder of Eliza Fletcher, 34, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office said…
-
Florida woman accused of zipping boyfriend in suitcase and leaving him to suffocate found guilty of murder
A Florida woman accused of zipping her boyfriend in a suitcase and leaving him in there to suffocate was found guilty of murder on Friday, four years after what she had initially described to authorities as a case of drunken hide-and-seek gone wrong. Sarah Boone was convicted by an Orange County jury of second-degree murder…
-
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries pleads not guilty to sex trafficking charges
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and an alleged accomplice pleaded not guilty on Friday to sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges. Jeffries and James Jacobson entered their pleas during a brief appearance at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, N.Y. Entering the courtroom, Jeffries did not acknowledge Jacobson and let his lawyer, Brian…
-
Owners of Colorado funeral home where decomposing bodies were found plead guilty
Two co-owners of a Colorado funeral home where around 190 decomposing bodies were found last year pleaded guilty Thursday to federal fraud charges, officials said. Jon Hallford, 44, and his wife Carie Hallford, 47, co-owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in…
-
Miami-Dade jurors vote death for man guilty of fatally beating woman in Hialeah
Eight years after a woman’s body was found in a grassy area on a Hialeah motel, completely naked, and covered in blood, a Miami-Dade jury recommended her killer should also die. Last week, those same jurors found Ronald Lopez Andrade guilty of raping and later killing 30-year-old Yaimi Guevara Machado. Late Wednesday evening, despite not all jurors…
-
Man found guilty of kidnapping after woman escaped cinderblock cell in Oregon
A man who was arrested last year after a woman escaped a makeshift cinderblock cell where was holding her has been convicted of kidnapping and other charges. Negasi Zuberi was found guilty of two counts of kidnapping, two counts of felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, two counts of felon in possession of…
-
Arizona official pleads guilty in 2022 election certification case
A Republican county supervisor in Arizona pleaded guilty Monday after she tried to delay certification of the 2022 midterm election results, state Attorney General Kris Mayes announced. Peggy Judd, a Cochise County supervisor, pleaded guilty to failing to perform duties as an election officer, a misdemeanor. She acknowledged that she failed to canvass the election…
-
TD Bank pleads guilty in money laundering case, will pay $3 billion in penalties
TD Bank pleaded guilty Thursday in a criminal money laundering case and agreed to pay a whopping $3 billion in fines and other penalties to the Department of Justice and federal financial regulators for failing to monitor money laundering by drug cartels. As part of the deal, TD Bank, whose U.S. unit is the 10th-largest American bank by assets, is…