A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., convicted the rapper Sean Kingston and his mother on Friday in a scheme involving more than $1 million worth of fraud, according to prosecutors. Mr. Kingston, 35, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, and his mother, Janice Turner, 62, both of Southwest Ranches, Fla., had been charged with five … Read more
Two tractor-trailers picked up some 80,000 pounds of beef from a slaughterhouse in northeastern Tennessee, and then vanished, the authorities said this week. They can’t figure out where the beef is, but a fake trucking company made off with enough meat to make about 320,000 quarter-pounders, the Grainger County Sheriff’s Office said. The meat was … Read more
Every few weeks, fireworks light up the night sky in Cambodia, set off by scammers to salute their biggest swindles. By the time the shells pop and crackle, somebody’s life savings are probably gone. Maybe the victim fell for an online romance scam or bought into a fake cryptocurrency exchange. Whatever the scheme, the money … Read more
“Am I going to be charged with what’s in my stomach?” Jaythan Gilder asked a Florida jail employee on Feb. 26. The answer, apparently, was yes. The next day, the authorities charged Mr. Gilder, 32, with first-degree grand theft and third-degree robbery with a mask. They say that he had stolen two pairs of diamond … Read more
The woman in the hotel security camera video showing the final hours of a sports reporter’s life needed no introduction. For a group of men who said they had in recent years been drugged, robbed of tens of thousands of dollars, and had their identities stolen on nights out in New Orleans, the name of … Read more
A man who once worked as a sound engineer for the rapper Eminem was charged on Wednesday with leaking and selling his unreleased music online for about $50,000 in Bitcoin, according to federal prosecutors. The man, Joseph Strange, 46, of Holly, Mich., worked for four years at Eminem’s studio in Ferndale, Mich., near Detroit, but … Read more
A Louisiana woman accused in a string of druggings of men whom she defrauded was charged on Tuesday with second-degree murder in the death of Adan Manzano, a Telemundo reporter whose body was found in a New Orleans hotel room in February while he was in town to cover the Super Bowl. The woman, Danette … Read more
Ever since a hooded gang smashed its way into Blenheim Palace — an English stately home that was Winston Churchill’s birthplace — and stole a fully functioning 18-karat gold toilet more than five years ago, the glittering john has been missing seemingly without a trace. On Tuesday, two men were found guilty over the theft … Read more
One of the two men charged in connection with the 2005 theft of a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” died on Sunday before his case could be resolved in federal court. Citing the death of the man, Jerry Hal Saliterman, a federal judge on Monday dismissed a … Read more