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UPDATE: Niles teen sentenced in sex extortion case
NILES – Parnell Martin, one of five Niles High School students accused in a Facebook sex extortion case, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 4 years but no more than 15 years in prison.
Both Trey Nichols and Parnell Martin pleaded guilty....Tags: Blackmail and Extortion, Punishment, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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Top Chicago gang leader sentenced to 60 years
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago gang leader who prosecutors say used murder and other violence to protect his drug-selling operation — even while behind bars — has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. Fifty-one-year-old Augustin Zambrano's...Tags: Blackmail and Extortion, Chicago, Punishment, Trials, Gang Activity
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Niles teen gets three years in sex video case
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentNILES -- The latest of the five Niles teens to be sentenced in the sex video extortion scandal has received the lightest sentence so far. Trey Nichols was sentenced Tuesday morning in Berrien County Trial Court to three years in prison. Nichols had faced...Tags: Blackmail and Extortion, Sex Crimes, Punishment, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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93-5 'KHY Rock Report
Headlines for Friday, May 17, 2013
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: 2013 Induction Ceremony Airs Saturday
The 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony premieres on HBO Saturday at 9pm ET. The show will be repeated several times in coming weeks....Tags: PROTECT IP Act, Football, Human Rights, Peter Criss, Alicia Keys
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Deputy Who Tried to Smuggle Heroin in Burrito Gets 2 Years
KTLA NewsDEL AIRE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who pleaded no contest to smuggling drugs into a courthouse jail in a burrito has been sentenced to two years in jail. Henry Marin, 27, pleaded no contest to one count of bringing drugs...Tags: Trials, Heroin, Drugs and Medicines, Drugs and Medicines, Organized Crime
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Legendary Lawmen, Part 7: Four who got Capone
Al Capone was a scourge of the city of Chicago. The brutal gangster controlled not only many illegal enterprises, namely beer and booze, but also influenced the legal ones through bribes and threats. It took the full weight and power of the federal...Tags: Chicago Tribune, U.S. Secret Service, Robin Hood, Trials, Butch O'Hare
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Rothstein has spoken ... so what did we learn?
For more than 70 hours, billion-dollar fraudster Scott Rothstein talked and talked, answering questions for the first time under oath. He mapped out how he constructed the largest financial swindle in South Florida history, leveled damaging accusations at...Tags: Bankruptcy, Trials, Corporate Crime, Business Enterprises, Crime, Law and Justice
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1-800-GET-THIN is sued by former workers
Workers at weight-loss surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign persuaded patients to have medically unnecessary surgeries and billed insurance companies for procedures that were never performed, a new lawsuit alleges.
Two women who...Tags: Litigation, Elections, Trials, Music, Crime, Law and Justice
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2 Arrested for Installing Skimming Device at Chase Bank
KTLA NewsTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (KTLA) -- Police arrested two men Sunday on suspicion of installing a skimming device at a Chase Bank in Thousand Oaks. The men -- identified as Aram Dzhanszyan, 31, and Ter Mkrtchyan, 37 -- were arrested near the bank in the 1600...Tags: Organized Crime, Police Arrests
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12th police officer guilty in towing extortion scheme
A 12th Baltimore police officer has pleaded guilty to being involved with a towing kickback scheme, prosecutors said Thursday. Rafael Concepcion Feliciano Jr., a 31-year-old officer from Baltimore, pleaded guilty to extortion and conspiracy in a U.S....Tags: Rosedale (Baltimore, Maryland), Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Blackmail and Extortion, Punishment, Trials
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Baltimore cop from Edgewood pleads guilty in towing extortion scheme
A Harford County resident who prosecutors say was actively involved in a towing scandal involving Baltimore City police officers entered a guilty plea Monday to extortion charges in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Baltimore City police officer...Tags: Rosedale (Baltimore, Maryland), Disasters and Accidents, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Rod J. Rosenstein
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Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
Last of four parts
Reporting from Calexico, Calif., and Badiraguato, Mexico
The towering iron gates opened onto a palm-lined driveway that led past the family church, a twisting water slide and two man-made lakes, one stocked with fish, the other with...Tags: Human Interest, New Jersey, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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