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Archive for the ‘2011 guilty pleas’ Category

December 16, 2011       1:31 pm After evading capture for more than two years in what prosecutors called “a brazen disrespect for the law,” Colton Harris-Moore pleaded guilty Friday to more than 33 counts of burglary, theft and other charges in a two-year crime wave that earned him an international cult following as the “Barefoot [...]

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October 31, 2011     11:19AM A BARMAID who threw a wet tampon at a McDonald’s worker “for a laugh” says the drunken prank has ruined her life. Rebecca Leigh Crimmins, who pleaded guilty to common assault in the Noosa Magistrates Court, said she had “pretty much lost everything” since the tampon-tossing incident in the early hours [...]

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Oct 18, 2011     6:19 PM ET A Canadian scientist pleaded guilty to economic espionage and theft for sending U.S. trade secrets on a pesticide and a new food product to China and Germany, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. An employee of the American food giant Cargill Inc. stands next to the company logo. Canadian Kexue Huang [...]

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August 22, 2011     2:56 pm A Yorba Linda man pleaded guilty Monday to raping three women, two of whom he met on a social networking website, officials said. Jason Ara Erpinar, 22, is expected to be sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in state prison. Orange County prosecutors say he met two of the women, [...]

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August 19, 2011    3:36 pm An 85-year-old Chula Vista woman accused of illegally bringing immigrants into the U.S. through San Diego pleaded guilty Friday to charges that she led the family-operated smuggling ring. Thomas Matthews confirmed Friday that his client, Felicitas Gurrola, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to bring in illegal aliens [...]

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August 18, 2011   2:32PM A MELBOURNE man who once attacked former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett in a pub has admitted murdering a friend in a frenzied hammer attack. Fergal Downey, 36, killed his friend Kenneth Rolfe, 53, by hitting him more than a dozen times with the hammer in the garden of Mr Rolfe’s Bentleigh [...]

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10:01 AM on Fri., Aug. 12, 2011 Eugene Lockhart Jr. is scheduled to plead guilty in a mortgage fraud case this afternoon before a federal judge. He faces up to 10 years in prison after filing paperwork late Thursday indicating he was pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Lockhart, who got the nickname [...]

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August 10, 2011    3:28 pm A Maryland attorney who has pleaded guilty to being part of a national “baby-selling” ring allegedly organized by a San Diego attorney is expressing regret. But the San Diego attorney at the center of the case, who has also pleaded guilty, has asked not to be judged harshly by [...]

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4:41 PM, July 12, 2011 Two New York women — one of them a former city worker — have copped to a $7 million fake food stamp scam. Alice Bradford, 50, of Brooklyn, and cohort Lois Johnson, 57, of Staten Island, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court today to a scheme that involved using mailing [...]

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07/3/11 11:13 PM ET A Michigan jail inmate says he’s being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he can’t have pornography. In a handwritten lawsuit, 21-year-old Kyle Richards claims his civil rights are being violated at the Macomb County Jail. Richards says denying his request for erotic material subjects him to a “poor standard [...]

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22 June 2011 Last updated at 13:52 ET Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has returned home having been freed after more than two months’ detention. He was bailed late on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion, Xinhua news agency said. An outspoken critic of China’s human rights record, his arrest in [...]

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