Anchorage Police Department has received 10 reports and multiple other complaints regarding the “Grandparent Scam.†In one case a person sounding just like the grandmother’s grandson called to tell her he had been in a wreck and needed money for medical bills.
LOS ANGELES—A member of the Pueblo Bishops Bloods, a criminal street gang that had used violence and intimidation to control the Pueblo del Rio housing project in South Los Angeles, pleaded guilty this morning to federal racketeering charges, specifically admitting that he was involved in the murders of two people not affiliated with any gang […]
Company Agrees to Pay $20 Million Criminal Fine
CHICAGO—A Chicago man pleaded guilty today to federal charges for placing a backpack that he thought contained a powerful explosive device into a curbside trash container on a crowded North Side street near Wrigley Field in September 2010.