Cleveland Suspect Withdraws Insanity Plea
A Cleveland man charged with killing 11 women and hiding their remains in and around his home has withdrawn his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. Anthony Sowell’s plea was changed to not guilty during a pretrial hearing on Wednesday. Defense attorney John Parker tells The Plain Dealer newspaper that the switch was [...]
Court Throws Out Death Penalty for Slayer of Three
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing for a death row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young children around the holidays in 2006. Justices on Thursday upheld James Aaron Miller’s murder conviction but ordered that he be resentenced. Miller was convicted of killing Bridgette Barr, 5-year-old Sydney Barr and [...]
Virginia Company Pleads Guilty to Arms Dealing
An Arlington company has pleaded guilty to trying to sell guns, night vision goggles and other military equipment to people in Yemen and Libya. At a hearing Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, a representative for Taipan Enterprises Ltd. pleaded guilty to unlawfully brokering sales of military equipment. The company was ordered to pay a [...]
Mom Leaves Kids in Freezing Car While Tanning
Police in Connecticut say a 28-year-old mother is charged with leaving her two young children in her car in freezing temperatures while she went tanning in a salon. Candy Ann Rock of Enfield was charged Monday with reckless endangerment and risk of injury to children. Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza (sver-AH’-zah) told the Journal Inquirer [...]
Man Threatens Jews; Kicked Off Plane
Police say an airline passenger in Miami proclaimed “I want to kill all the Jews” before officers forced him off a Detroit-bound plane. Miami-Dade police said in a statement Thursday that 43-year-old Mansor Mohammad Asad of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested. He faces several charges including disorderly conduct. Police say a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight turned [...]
Ronald Reagan’s Grandson Arrested
Los Angeles police say the grandson of President Ronald Reagan has been arrested. Officer April Harding says 31-year-old Cameron Reagan was booked for allegedly resisting arrest about 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Harding says police were called to a home believed to belong to his father, talk show host Michael Reagan, but she didn’t know why. Officers [...]
Nude Jogger’s Run Near White House Cut Short
A man was taken into custody and later hospitalized for a mental evaluation after he took off his clothes and began a jog a few blocks from the White House. The man was seen taking off his clothes Wednesday evening around 5 p.m. He left the clothes near the northeast corner of the Ellipse, the [...]
Guilty Plea Date Set for Ponzi Scheme Case
A judge has set a Jan. 27 date for a disbarred South Florida lawyer to plead guilty to charges stemming from what authorities call a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. The date was set at a hearing Wednesday after Scott Rothstein’s attorney announced he will plead guilty. Rothstein had initially pleaded not guilty to racketeering, fraud [...]
Missouri Officer Faces Child Sex Charges
A Boy Scout leader who is also the top police officer in the Missouri town of Fredericktown is facing statutory sodomy charges for allegedly having sex with children. The Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested 42-year-old Kenneth Tomlinson II on Tuesday. Details about the victims weren’t immediately available. Tomlinson is jailed on $100,000 cash-only bond in [...]
Deputy-Slaying Fugitive Caught
The man charged with murder in the shooting death of a Utah’s sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday after authorities found him asleep inside a shed. Roberto Miramontes Roman, 37, was captured around 8 a.m. in Beaver County, authorities said. Roman, the subject of an intensive manhunt, was charged with capital murder and tampering with evidence [...]