The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/author/stephenh/)
An oncology nurse lost her $340,000 life savings to a man who said he was an FBI agent. Nearly 40,000 fraud cases were reported this year involving people who claimed to be from the Social Security Administration.
The Justice Department inspector general says an FBI employee may have altered a document connected to court-approved surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, but the IG concluded that the conduct did not affect the overall validity of the surveillance application.
Attorney General William Barr spoke after two corrections officers were accused of sleeping and browsing the internet shopping for furniture and motorcycles instead of watching Jeffrey Epstein, who was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.
New York City’s Legal Aid Society realized it needed to buy the same tools the police had: forensic devices and software from companies including Cellebrite, Magnet Forensics and Guidance Software. The expensive technology unearths digital evidence that is otherwise hard to find, and it captures it in a format that can hold up in court.
President Donald Trump took to the phone in the Oval Office and notified three U.S. service members accused of war crimes that he was intervening on their behalf and issuing full pardons in two of the cases. Some veterans and legal experts said his actions will weaken U.S. credibility abroad.
A jury awarded more than $13 million to the children of a man who died after a confrontation with Anaheim, Ca., police in 2016, deciding that officers used unreasonable force and were negligent. The city says police took “measured, reasonable actions.”
The .45-caliber handgun used by Nathaniel Berhow to kill two fellow students and wound three others at Saugus High School was built from parts that can be easily purchased online.
Nearly 4,900 people in Ohio died from unintentional overdoses in 2017 and nearly 27,000 children were taken from their homes last year, with addiction a leading reason for their removal. Many of the cases send kids to a foster care system described as “broken.”
Many residents of East St. Louis, Il., and other low-income communities are fed up with the violence around their neighborhood stores, even as officials in Washington turn a blind eye to the storefront gunbattles.
The forced nomadic existence creates a host of challenges for law enforcement agencies charged with keeping track of offenders. Florida doesn’t know where 1,000 of them actually are and many others have registered addresses that are suspect.