Paul Haggis, an Oscar-winning director and producer was arrested in Italy this week for allegedly committing sexual assault and aggravated personal injury, according to Italian law enforcement. The 69-year-old filmmaker, who won two Academy Awards for the film ‘Crash,’ was in Italy to go to a popular film festival in Ostuni, a tourist town in… Read More »
‘Tiger King’ star ‘Doc’ Antle was charged this week with money laundering and could get up to 20 years in federal prison. Antle, 62, allegedly laundered at least $500,000, which is thought to be proceeds of a human smuggling operation to bring illegal aliens across the Mexican border into the US. It also is believed… Read More »
A Kansas man who pretended to be a doctor and fooled people into paying him for autopsies that his company didn’t perform is expected to plead guilty this week to federal charges. Shawn Parcells from Leawood, Kansas, filed his intent to plead guilty to autopsy fraud in Topeka. His attorney, David Magariel, declined to comment.… Read More »
A former GOP congressional candidate in Idaho pleaded guilty this week to stealing COVID-19 relief money that was intended for his workers. Instead, he used the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds for his personal expenses and a political campaign in 2020. The US Department of Justice reports that Nicholas Jones, 36, also gave a guilty… Read More »
Former Kentucky state representative Robert Goforth pleaded guilty last week to federal fraud and money laundering charges. The former Republican lawmaker will soon be convicted for using his Hometown Pharmacy business in Clay County, Kentucky, to bill insurance companies for $2.5 million in extra prescriptions that were not picked up. They were then sold later… Read More »
Federal agents are conducting a manhunt this week for a woman in Texas who is accused of shooting and killing a professional cyclist from San Francisco. Several members of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force are searching for Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 35, who is believed to have killed Anna Wilson, 25, a native of Vermont… Read More »
A man from Texas who once played the Red Power Range in the TV show from the 1990s was among 20 people who were arrested last week in a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud case. The case involves stolen funds in excess of $3.5 million. Jason Geiger, better known as Austin St. John, was… Read More »
Texas law enforcement visited remote Loving County last week to arrest the county judge for a serious Texas crime – cattle theft. Judge Skeet Jones, 71, has been the top elected politician since 2007 in the most sparsely populated county in the continental US. He faces three felony charges of livestock theft and one count… Read More »