Jonathan Peña sentenced in reckless driving death of Portland mom Ashlee McGill
A grieving mother was sentenced after an Oregon court handed down a “light” sentence to her daughter’s killer for speeding, losing control and crashing into her daughter, who was waiting for a bus, near Portland. He is complaining. Jonathan Peña became the latest driver to benefit from a new Oregon law that gives reckless drivers […]
Killer nurse sentenced to hundreds of years behind bars for deaths of 17 patients
A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after pleading guilty to three charges, including murder. Heather Presdy, 41, was sentenced at a hearing in Butler, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Pittsburgh, to three consecutive life sentences and additional […]
Scuba boat Captain Jerry Boylan sentenced to four years in prison
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday sentenced the captain of a scuba diving boat to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for criminal negligence after a fire on board killed 34 people. The September 2, 2019, fire was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, sparking changes in […]
Convicted Sex Trafficker Who Had Victim’s Teeth Pulled Out Sentenced
A California man was sentenced to life in prison and a lifetime of supervised release Tuesday for sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, the Department of Justice said in a press release. Michael Deon Fulcher, 54, of Gardena, was found guilty in January 2024 after abducting an […]
Sex Offender Sentenced Over ‘Deepfaked’ Explicit Images Of Child Celebrities
A Pittsburgh court sentenced 57-year-old James Smelko to 14 years and seven months in prison for possessing deepfake child abuse material depicting child stars, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Political Affairs says in a press release. Court documents and physical evidence were presented at trial, noting that Smelko “possessed and accessed” images that […]
Ex-Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months prison for crypto crimes
Binance’s former chief executive Qiao Changpeng was sentenced to four months in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to violating U.S. money laundering laws at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle, who requested a three-year prison sentence for Mr. Chao, 47, after prosecutors […]
Ex-NSA employee sentenced to 21 years after sending classified documents to FBI agent posing as Russian agent
A former National Security Agency official was sentenced Monday to more than 21 years in prison for selling classified materials to suspected Russian agents. The man that Jarre Sebastian Dalke thought was a Russian official was actually an undercover FBI agent. Dalke pleaded guilty last year to six counts of attempting to transmit national security […]
2 more sentenced in carjacking, kidnapping of FBI employee in South Dakota
The last two members of a trio convicted of carjacking and kidnapping an FBI agent in Rapid City, South Dakota, have been sentenced. On Friday, Davin Morales, 29, was sentenced to 47 years in prison. Carla Lopez Gutierrez, also 29, was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison at the same hearing. A third […]
Washington Man Sentenced for Burying Wife Alive Claims He Was ‘Overmedicated’
A Lacey, Washington, man who was recently sentenced to 13 years in prison for burying his wife alive claimed he had a mental illness and was “overmedicated and undertreated” for PTSD. The first incident occurred in 2022 when 54-year-old Choi Kyung-an beat, stabbed and tied up his wife, who identified himself as Young-an, before burying […]
Ex-MLB player Dustan Mohr sentenced for sex crimes against girl, 13
A former MLB player learned his fate Friday when he pleaded guilty to a sex crime against a teenage girl he had assigned to his softball practice. Dustan Mohr, 47, was sentenced to nine years in prison in Indiana on three separate charges for sexually fondling a 13-year-old girl multiple times over a six-month period. […]