Archive for July, 2009

Jury awards $675K in Boston music downloading case

Friday, July 31st, 2009

A federal jury on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student who admitted illegally downloading and sharing music online to pay $675,000 to four record labels.

Via: Crime

Man Indicted in Conspiracy to Kill Witness in Pr. George’s

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Prince George’s County prosecutors announced Friday that they have obtained indictments charging the man accused of killing a well-known music engineer with conspiring with his younger brother to kill a key state witness.

Via: Wash Post Crime

Md. Man Killed by Montgomery Officer Had Altercation With Police in 2007

Friday, July 31st, 2009

The Germantown man killed this week by a Montgomery County police officer had had a run-in with officers in 2007, when, armed with a knife, he told them to “shoot me,” according to a police report.

Via: Wash Post Crime

D.C. Judge Rejects Request to Delay Trial in Levy Slaying

Friday, July 31st, 2009

A D.C. Superior Court judge denied repeated requests Friday for a delay in the trial of Ingmar Guandique, the suspect charged in Chandra Levy’s slaying.

Via: Wash Post Crime

Man who threatened Obama sentenced to probation (AP)

Friday, July 31st, 2009

AP - A Texas man who pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack Obama and the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis was sentenced Friday to four years of probation and home detention.

Via: Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News

Tuesday’s Night Out unites San Jose neighbors against crime

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Members of the Hayes Neighborhood Association in San Jose often feel like they’re living in a small Southern town.

Via: Crime

Former Cortez Man Sentenced for Making Threats Against the Then President-Elect

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Timothy Ryan Gutierrez, age 21, formerly of Cortez, Colorado, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 4 years of probation, with the first 10 months in home detention with electronic monitoring, for threatening the then President-elect of the United States.

Via: FBI in the News

Video Offers Glimpse Into Jacks’s Mental State

Friday, July 31st, 2009

After a D.C. Superior Court judge on Wednesday found Banita Jacks guilty of killing her four daughters, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District made public copies of a video of her eight-hour interrogation with D.C. police detectives.

Via: Wash Post Crime

Court transcript reveals account of editor Chauncey Bailey’s murder

Friday, July 31st, 2009

OAKLAND — The Your Black Muslim Bakery CEO pondered killing his brother-in-law because he was giving information to journalist Chauncey Bailey about the bakery, according to a transcript of grand jury testimony.

Via: Crime

Family didn’t know baby was cut from womb

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Julie Corey is arrested in Plymouth, N.H., on Wednesday, accused of kidnapping a baby that had been cut out of the womb of a dead friend.Relatives of a man whose girlfriend is accused of kidnapping a baby girl who’d been cut from her mother’s womb thought they had a new member of the family.

Email this Article
Add to Newsvine

Via: msnbc.com: Crime & courts