NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a federal case that accuses him of stockpiling the largest number of finished explosives in FBI history and using President Joe Biden’s photo for target practice. Chained at his legs and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Brad Spafford, 36, said little beyond answering mostly […]
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn real estate magnate accused of working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge tied to the scheme, federal prosecutors said Monday. Erden Arkan, the owner of a real estate construction firm, was […]
“The defendant was not using Tarrio as a source; it was the other way around,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Monday in finding the former officer guilty on all counts. “He knew then and he knows now that it was wrong.”
A court sentenced Mr. Pelicot to 20 years after he admitted to drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, for nearly a decade, and inviting strangers to join him. The case has made her a feminist hero.
The 18-year-old suspect in the fatal knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England pleaded not guilty to the 16 charges against him, including three counts of murder, the BBC reports. Axel Rudakubana appeared in a Liverpool court Wednesday, Dec. 18, via video but refused to speak when asked to confirm his name […]
U.K. rapper Slowthai was acquitted on rape charges stemming from an allegation that he and a co-defendant attacked two women at a party following a concert in Oxford in 2021, the BBC reports. The rapper, real name Tyron Frampton, and co-defendant Alex Blake-Walker were both found not guilty on three counts of rape following 10 […]
Former Ireland U20 rugby international Denis Coulson has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was found guilty of the rape of a woman in Bordeaux, France, in 2017. Dublin-born Coulson, who also played for Connacht and French side Stade Français, was one of two former Irish international rugby players sentenced on Friday […]
The prolific rapper will receive credit for time served back to May NBA YoungBoy finally resolved his dueling federal firearms cases Tuesday by pleading guilty to one count linked to his 2020 gun possession arrest in Louisiana and a separate count tied to a more recent gun charge filed in Utah. He was sentenced on […]
Former world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis has pleaded guilty over a car incident in Australia which killed his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins. Hoskins died in hospital on 30 December 2023, after being struck by a vehicle being driven by Dennis outside their home in Adelaide. The 34-year-old was initially charged with dangerous driving causing […]
An Ohio man named Larry Dean Harmon will serve three years in prison and forfeit more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency and other assets, the Department of Justice announced on Friday. Harmon was indicted in 2020 on money laundering conspiracy charges related to Helix, a darkweb cryptocurrency “mixer” service he ran. Also known as […]
