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New Mexico man to serve 15 years for kidnapping and beating girlfriend to death with golf club
lawandcrime.com > crime...Ninth Judicial District Court Judge Donna J.... ...Thomas Lopez (Ninth Judicial District Attorney's Office).... ...Prosecutors say that Roosevelt County sheriff's deputies on Feb. 24, 2022, responded to a call from Roosevelt General Hospital regarding a woman... ...Court records obtained by ABC affiliate KAMC provided additional details regarding the brutal crime....

'Not convinced he's dead': Police say they received tip about long-missing disabled boy from a passenger on same plane as his family after they fled the country...
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'The ultimate violation': Indiana man allegedly hid cameras at home and work to record women and children undressing and using bathroom...
lawandcrime.com > crime...A 43-year-old man in Indiana was arrested last week for allegedly using hidden cameras in his home and places of employment to secretly film more... ...According to a press release from the Fishers Police Department, the investigation into Deweese began when the National Center for Missing and Exploited... ...Investigators say they were subsequently able to connect the Google email account to Deweese.... ...She told the station that she did not have any idea what Deweese was up to prior to police entering her home with a search warrant....

Family of man who died from "positional asphyxiation" on chairlift settles wrongful death lawsuit against ski resort...
lawandcrime.com...Jason Varnish, 46, died on Feb. 13, 2020, shortly after attempting to board a chairlift at Blue Sky Basin at Colorado's Vail Ski Mountain.... ...Jason Varnish (via the Burg Simpson law firm).... ...Varnish was preparing to board came into the load line with the seat in the up position against the backrest of the chair," the Burg Simpson law... ...The complaint also says the bottom lift operator failed to tell ski patrol and lift operators that Varnish had said he was not able to breathe, implying...

$1M warrant issued for arrest of super Kansas City Chiefs fan "Chiefsaholic" who skipped court date for violent Oklahoma bank robbery...
lawandcrime.com > crime...The wolf-costumed Kansas City Chiefs superfan "Chiefsaholic" cut his GPS ankle monitor while free on bail and skipped a court hearing for bank robbery... ...Xaviar Badubar was arrested in December for a robbery at a credit union in Oklahoma.... ...Babudar's lawyer, Tracy Tiernan, told the New York Times he knew nothing about it.... ...&Crime said about the Dec. 16 heist at the Tulsa Teacher Credit union in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, a suburb of Bixby....

'Romance Scammer" who claimed to be combat vet and Navy SEAL will spent years behind bars
lawandcrime.com > crime...District Judge Mark Scarsi handed down a 10-year prison sentence to Ze'shawn Stanley Campbell on Monday, the Justice Department announced in a press... ...Ze'shawn Stanley Campbell, also known as the "Romance Scammer." (Images via U.S. Justice Department.).... ...Campbell, 35, had pleaded guilty in October to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges.... ...Although Campbell lived in Southern California when he carried out his schemes, he was ultimately taken into custody at the Dallas Forth Worth Airport...

Donald Trump loses bid to toss E. Jean Carroll defamation claim based on Truth Social post
lawandcrime.com..."She completely made up a story that I met her at the doors of this crowded New York City Department Store and, within minutes, "swooned" her," Trump... ...Former President Donald Trump cannot toss one of E.... ...Carroll and her rape accusation against him, CNN and its journalist Anderson Cooper, and Ms. Carroll's counsel.".... ...The other adds a defamation count for the Truth Social post....

Sam Bankman-Fried bribed Chinese officials with $40M in crypto to unfreeze his accounts: Feds
lawandcrime.com...FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried directed payments to Chinese officials of at least $40 million in cryptocurrency bribes for them to unfreeze his... ...Alameda Research was the proprietary crypto hedge fund that prosecutors say Bankman-Fried used to "divert billions of dollars in FTX customer funds... ...District Judge Lewis Kaplan has expressed skepticism that Bankman-Fried should remain out of jail on a $250 million pre-trial bond, after the FTX... ...founder sent an encrypted message asking the company's general counsel to "vet things" with him....

Florida babysitter faces felony charge for allegedly filming herself making 1-year-old smoke marijuana...
lawandcrime.com > crime...A 17-year-old babysitter in Florida landed herself behind bars last week after she allegedly made a video of herself placing a lit marijuana cigarette... ...Naledi Roberts was taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count of felony child abuse in connection with the incident, law enforcement...