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A Cleveland man charged with killing 11 women and hiding their remains in and around his home has withdrawn his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.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 [...]
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 [...]
Defendant Pleads Not Guilty in Mass. Arson Case
A 25-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to setting a fire at a western Massachusetts home that killed two of his neighbors. It was one of nine fires set within hours of one another in the community of Northampton. Anthony P. Baye was ordered held without bail Tuesday at his arraignment on two counts of [...]
Man Pleads Guilty to 1982 Murder
A Vermont man has admitted to killing an 18-year-old girl in 1982 in a plea deal with prosecutors. Forty-seven-year-old Theodore Caron of Barre was arrested in February in the strangulation death of Pamela Brown. A DNA sampled linked Caron to the slaying. Caron initially pleaded innocent to first-degree murder. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to [...]
Bait Farmer Sentenced in Illegal Importation Case
A Wisconsin bait farming business that pleaded guilty to illegally importing fish has been sentenced to probation. Gollon Bait & Fish Farm was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation, fined $6,000 and ordered to pay the cost of additional monitoring of the health of bait fish by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb. The business pleaded [...]
Rajaratnam Pleads Not Guilty
Hedge fun operator Raj Rajaratnam, one of the wealthiest men in the United States, has pleaded not guilty to charges in an insider trading case. He entered the plea Monday to charges in an indictment returned last week. Prosecutors say Rajaratnam played a key role in a $52 million insider trading case that has resulted [...]
Arizona Man Pleads Guilty to Exporting Tech
An Arizona man has pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to export technology to Iran without the proper authorization, federal prosecutors say. Forty-year-old James Larrison of Avondale, Ariz., entered the plea on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Wilmington. No sentencing date has been set. According to court documents, Larrison tried to export from the [...]
Alabama Arms Dealer Pleads Guilty in Smuggling Case
A Belgian arms dealer has entered a guilty plea in an Alabama court to conspiracy to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and other parts from the United States to Iran. Jacques Monsieur and Dara Fotouhi (an Iranian national residing in France) were charged with six counts of conspiracy, money laundering, and smuggling. Monsieur, age [...]
Man Pleads Guilty in Washington Rampage
The man who is accused of having killed six people, including a sheriff’s deputy, in a Washington state shooting last year has pleaded guilty. Press sources reported that Isaac Zamora entered guilty pleas to eighteen charges, including murder, attempted murder, and burglary on Tuesday. Zamora pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on two of [...]