Police operated sting operations can be set up for many different reasons. Most of the time, they are set up like drag net to catch everyone that they can in a determined crime and location. However, sometimes, a sting operation can be set up in order to trap one person…
A man was indicted for assault in the first degree and for criminal possession of a loaded firearm as a felony. The man was accused of having assaulted another man by aiming and discharging a loaded pistol at him, with an intent to kill the other individual. At the close…
Whenever an incident of domestic violence occurs, the courts and law enforcement officers are required to file reports and take other actions without discretion. One of the prescribed actions that is required of officers is that they must make an arrest if the domestic violence occurred in the presence of…
Avery Maggio was charged with eight counts involving different sex crimes. According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, the charges were based on claims that he had sexually abused another child who rode the school bus with him on different occasions in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Mr. Maggio was convicted…
The suspect in the failed Times Square bombing is in a state of foreclosure on his home and may be losing his home in the near future. Faisal Shahzad stopped his mortgage payments on his Connecticut home in June of 2009. This coincided with a trip he took to Pakistan.…
A New York Criminal Lawyer has learned that three additional District of Columbia police officers have been arrested as part of an Internal Affairs corruption probe. These arrests happened just one day after another D.C. police officer was arrested as part of an unrelated investigation. The three officers were arrested…
A twenty year-old man from Macomb faces charges for driving under the influence, marijuana possession, and a possible charge for contempt, as he spit on the floor in the courtroom during his hearing. The Illinois State Police arrested the accused early on Sunday, where he was driving with a suspended/revoked…
The Maryland State Police Department is encouraging friends to tell on their friends, states a New York Criminal Lawyer. The State Police are encouraging motorists to call in to 911 if they see people driving erratically or dangerously on the roads during the winter months. They believe that residents in…
An 8-year old boy was taken into custody by police after he assaulted a school employee in Florida. After disrupting his classroom, the boy, a special-education student, left the school grounds followed by one of the school’s behavioral specialists. When the boy returned to the school, he found a pile…
A question of individual rights regarding a child who was rumored to have been allegedly sexually abused by her father has caused great controversy in the courts and between different interest groups In 2003 in the state of Oregon, a nine-year-old girl was suddenly removed from her public school classroom…