HONOLULU – Federal authorities on Friday arrested the fugitive owner of an embattled Hawaii shipbuilding company who tried to flee Hawaii on his boat ahead of his hearing. Curtiss E. Jackson, 71, was wanted by U.S. Marshals on a federal arrest warrant for violating his terms of pretrial release. Jackson is accused in a decade-long…
DetailsShankar Mishra, the former Wells Fargo executive fired by the bank after he urinated on an elderly woman while intoxicated during an Air India flight in late November, was arrested in New Delhi, according to Indian media reports. Mishra, a resident of Mumbai, was sought by police for days. In an apparent attempt to evade…
DetailsAviv Talmor, the Founder and CEO of the algo-trading company UTrade, has received a four-year prison sentence for defrauding investors of NIS 77 million ($22 million), along with other charges. Additionally, he was fined NIS 250,000 (about $78,900). The sentencing on Wednesday came after the District Court in Tel Aviv convicted him in September 2022.…
DetailsCOPENHAGEN – Danish police said on Thursday they had arrested 135 people in a large-scale operation on suspicion of laundering money defrauded from elderly people. The money was defrauded by contacting elderly people and convincing them to transfer money from their bank accounts or provide personal banking information. Those arrested were not the organisers of…
DetailsSARASOTA, Fla. – A Port Charlotte man was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of a North Port woman in September, police say. North Port Police are accusing Michael Douglas, 53, of brutally murdering a woman he had been pursuing romantically. According to the probable cause affidavit in the case, on…
DetailsA father-of-two was arrested after ‘intentionally’ launching his Tesla with his family inside off California’s ‘Devil’s Side’ cliff, police said. Doctor Dharmesh Arvind Patel, 41, of Pasadena, was charged with attempted murder and child abuse after he, his wife, also 41, and their two children, four and seven, were found 250 feet down a cliffside…
DetailsThe day in December 2008 when FBI agents put Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff in cuffs will be remembered for generations — and not just by the people who lost everything. The numbers were staggering. A whopping $19 billion, all gone, stolen from more than 40,000 investors — the New York Mets, Larry King, Kevin Bacon,…
DetailsAccused cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has asked a judge to keep secret the identities of two people who agreed to sign his bond, claiming they’d face harassment if their names were released. Bankman-Fried was charged in a Manhattan federal indictment in December on eight counts related to an alleged sprawling fraud, money-laundering and campaign-finance scheme…
DetailsAn elderly married couple was murdered in their apartment at a Florida retirement community on New Year’s Eve in what cops are calling a “heinous” crime. Officers from the Mount Dora Police Department were called to the Waterman Village independent living community just after 4 p.m. Saturday after receiving a 911 call from security guards…
DetailsVolunteers of the ‘Hashomrim’ organization in Bnei Brak were called this morning (Monday) following a report to the organization’s hotline about a woman being assaulted by an Arab in the Vizhnitz housing complex. The volunteers who arrived at the scene took testimony from the woman who told them that she got stuck in the elevator…
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