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 [...]
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 [...]
Verdict Expected for Kercher Murder Appeals Trial
An Italian jury began deliberating Tuesday in the appeals trial of a man convicted of murdering a British student and sentenced to 30 years in jail. Rudy Hermann Guede of Ivory Coast denies killing Meredith Kercher and has appealed his conviction. A verdict by the eight-member jury is expected later Tuesday. Also convicted in the [...]
NC Woman Appears in Court in Corpse-Hiding Case
A woman who is accused of hiding her mother’s corpse in the family’s North Carolina home has made her first court appearance. Forty-seven-year-old Amy Stewart did not enter a plea. She was charged Wednesday with concealing a dead body, a felony. Stewart posted bond and was released from jail. Police responded to the family’s home [...]
Woman Killed Mother, Had Son Bury Remains
Vermont Police say that a seventy-eight-year-old woman who was reported missing three years ago was actually killed by her daughter, police say. Mary Wilcox’s body was then burned and disposed of by her daughter’s son. Fifty-nine-year-old Jeanne Sevigny told police her mother had Alzheimer’s disease and wandered from their home Nov. 9, 2006. But police [...]
Honolulu Spy Found Competent to Stand Trial
A Maui man who has been accused of selling military secrets to China has been found competent to stand trial. Noshir Gowadia is accused of providing data on making cruise missiles and other sensitive information to Chinese officials. Gowadia’s lawyer, Birney Bervar, did not comment on U.S. Magistrate Kevin Chang’s ruling that just because Gowadia [...]
Trial Date Set for Man who Worked for Iraq
A trial date has been set for a Detroit-area man charged with conspiring to act as an agent of Iraq, and illegally obtaining two million barrels of oil. Muthanna Al-Hanooti was indicted about two years ago, and is accused by the United States Department of Justice of working with the former regime between 1993 and [...]
Teen to be Tried as Adult in Death of Girl
A judge in Missouri has ordered a fifteen-year-old girl to stand trial as an adult for the killing of a nine-year-old neighbor. Judge John Beetem of the Cole County Circuit ruled on Wednesday that the killing of Elizabeth Olton was “vicious,” and that the state did not have adequate facilities or services to treat the [...]
NY Jurors Get Case at Hedge Trial
The case of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers that are charged with lying to federal investigators is now moving into its final stages. Deliberations began on Monday at the trial of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin in Brooklyn. They have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges. It is the first criminal [...]