Thursday, April 4th, 2013
A second chemist at the Massachusetts State Crime Laboratory has been charged with stealing controlled substances that were presumably being held as evidence, according to a press release from Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. Sources say 35-year-old Sonja Farak will have to find a criminal defense attorney to defend her against charges of tampering with [...]
Friday, March 1st, 2013
By Mary Ann Pekara A Phoenix, Arizona elementary school physical education teacher and coach was charged Wednesday with 3 counts of sexual assault with a minor. 36 year old Nicole Wooten, who has been working at Herrera School for the Fine Arts and Dual Language since 2000, is being accused of sexually abusing an 8th [...]
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
William Bryan Jennings, a senior investment banker with Morgan Stanley, has been placed on leave after Connecticut police arrested him for allegedly stabbing a taxi driver with a pen after yelling racial slurs at the Middle Eastern man, according to a Reuters report. Jennings, who helps head Morgan Stanley’s North American fixed-income capital markets unit, [...]
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Predator drones have historically been used by American authorities in foreign countries, particularly in armed conflicts, to spy on enemy combatants. While this tactic disturbed some privacy advocates in the United States, it did not raise too many eyebrows. More controversially, however, federal law enforcement officials have started using Predator drones to help bring criminal [...]
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
A prison guard’s worst nightmare is for inmates to get their hands on handmade, and often makeshift, weapons, but the introduction of a gun brings a whole different level of danger to an already tense situation. Because of the gravity of this scenario, courts do not hesitate to level serious criminal charges against people who [...]
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
A new criminal arrest has been made for a 1986 murder for which an innocent man spent more than two decades in prison. The news is bittersweet for both the wrongly convicted man and the family of the victim. According to a recent report from the Associated Press, the Texas Attorney General called the attorney [...]
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
A police officer in the New York Police Department (NYPD) was convicted of planting drugs on innocent people, which caused them to be arrested for a href=”http://www.totalcriminaldefense.com/crimes-a-z/drug/” title=”Drug Charges”>drug crimes they didn’t commit. This incident is the latest in a string of accusations against the country’s largest metropolitan police force. And the details surrounding the [...]
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
In the wake of a frightening and grisly crime, a court in the state of Washington has leveled criminal charges against a teenage boy for the murder of his sleeping father. According to KOMO News in Olympia Washington, the boy, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, has been accused of second-degree [...]
Monday, November 7th, 2011
This week’s bizarre crime story comes courtesy of a woman in New Mexico who faces assault charges for stabbing a man after a dispute over the rules of the popular board game Monopoly. According to The Smoking Gun, 60-year-old Laura Chavez and her boyfriend were playing monopoly at the woman’s Santa Fe apartment when the [...]
Monday, October 31st, 2011
A woman in Illinois was recently acquitted after she faced criminal charges for the punching death of a young man at a party. According to a recent report in the Chicago Sun-Times, Tiffany Startz, 22, had been arrested in 2010 and convicted of murdering 25-year-old John Powell at a party in Joliet, Illinois. The party [...]
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