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T.I.'s wife enters not guilty plea to ecstasy possesion stemming from Los Angeles traffic stop
Beverly Hills, CALIF. — Rapper T.I.'s wife has pleaded Not Guilty to a Misdemeanor charge of ecstasy possession. Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Tameka "Tiny" Cottle entered the Plea through her Attorney on Monday. She was Arrested Sept. 1 along with her husband during a Traffic Stop on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. The 35-year-old is not required to appear in person on the case. It will be called for a pretrial hearing on Jan. 6. Cottle's attorney, Bla...

T.I.'s wife enters not guilty plea to ecstasy possesion stemming from Los Angeles traffic stop
Beverly Hills, CALIF. — Rapper T.I.'s wife has pleaded Not Guilty to a Misdemeanor charge of ecstasy possession. Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Tameka "Tiny" Cottle entered the Plea through her Attorney on Monday. She was Arrested Sept. 1 along with her husband during a Traffic Stop on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. The 35-year-old is not required to appear in person on the case. It will be called for a pretrial hearing on Jan. 6. Cottle's attorney, Bla...

Charlie Sheen makes it official
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor Charlie Sheen cited "Irreconcilable Differences" when he filed for Divorce from Brooke Mueller Monday afternoon, a marriage that apparently hit the rocks when he was arrested last Christmas Day. Sheen listed December 25, 2009, as their date of separation and the day their twin infant sons began living solely with him. The couple married on May 30, 2008. The Divorce petition, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, requested jointed legal and ...

N.J. prison inmate pleads guilty in drug-trafficking case
The head of a violent, Bloods-affiliated street Gang, who authorities say oversaw drug dealing in Camden from his Trenton State Prison cell, has pleaded Guilty to leading a narcotics-trafficking network, the State Attorney General's Office said. Michael Anderson, 38, known as the "original, original gangster" or "godfather" of the Nine Trey Headbustas, faced Superior Court Judge Samuel D. Natal in Camden County on Friday. He became the last to plead among 15 Gang Members indi...

Minnesota man pleads guilty to stealing $388,000 from computer parts maker Cisco Systems
Minneapolis — A Minnesota man has pleaded Guilty to scheming to cheat computer parts maker Cisco Systems Inc. out of about $388,000. The U.S. Attorney's office says 46-year-old Phillip Webb of Brooklyn Park pleaded Guilty Monday to one count of Mail Fraud. Webb was manager of network services for Woodbury-based Postal Credit Union. In his Plea agreement, Webb admitted that from June 2007 to October 2009 he falsely notified Cisco that parts in PCU's computer Systems were faulty. Webb sol...

Capitola man faces trial in shooting, body dumping
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. — A Capitola man will face trial on charges of fatally shooting a man and leaving his body in a car in a High School Parking Lot. A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge ruled Monday that there was enough evidence to try 44-year-old Federico Castillo Lozoya for Murder. Prosecutors alleged that Lozoya shot Juan Carlos Garcia at point blank because he was upset about Garcia's alleged link to the Sexual Assault of a woman. A sheriff's investigator testified that two neighbors ...

Woman 'stabbed MP Stephen Timms in stomach after Iraq war confrontation'
A Muslim woman tried to kill a Labour MP by stabbing him in the stomach 'in revenge' for him voting for the Iraq War, a court heard today. Roshonara Choudhry, 21, is accused of knifing Stephen Timms twice in a shock attack during a constituency surgery meeting after she greeted the MP with a smile and offered him the hand of friendship. A second later the accused allegedly lunged forward, repeatedly plunging a three inch kitchen knife into his stomach, sending the MP 'reeling and staggering' bac...

Defense rests in Conn. home invasion case
Defense rests in Conn. Home Invasion case New Haven, Conn. — Attorneys trying to persuade a jury to spare a Connecticut man the death penalty for a deadly Home Invasion rested their case Monday as a judge refused to dismiss the only remaining alternate juror over an embarrassing romantic note. Trial set for man accused in Colo. school shooting The sentencing Defense for Steven Hayes ended after nine days of Testimony and about a dozen witnesses. Prosecutors plan to call a few witnesses Tu...

T.I.s wife pleads not guilty to drug possesion
Wesley Snipes to argue for new tax trial in Fla. Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP) — Rapper T.I.’s wife has pleaded Not Guilty to a Misdemeanor charge of ecstasy possession. Los Angeles County District Attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison says Tameka “Tiny” Cottle entered the plea through her Attorney on Monday. She was Arrested Sept. 1 along with her husband during a Traffic Stop on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. The 35-year-old is not required to appear in person on the...

Ex-New Orleans tech chief pleads guilty
NEW Orleans (AP) — The former technology chief for the City of New Orleans pleaded guilty Monday in a Fraud scheme that prosecutors said brought him more than $860,000 in bribes and Kickbacks, paid by a businessman to whom he allegedly steered $4 million in city contracts. Greg Meffert, at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon, pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy and one count of filing a false Tax Return — two of the 63 counts in the indictment. Charges against his...

Ex-New Orleans tech chief pleads guilty; in exchange charges against wife to be dismissed
New Orleans — The former technology chief for the City of New Orleans pleaded guilty Monday in a Fraud scheme that prosecutors said brought him more than $860,000 in bribes and Kickbacks, paid by a businessman to whom he allegedly steered $4 million in city contracts. Greg Meffert, at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon, pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy and one count of filing a false Tax Return — two of the 63 counts in the indictment. Charges against his ...

MTV dance judge ordered to trial on sex charges
LOS Angeles (AP) — A Los Angeles hip-hop choreographer who was a judge on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” has been ordered to trial on eight sex counts involving an Underage girl in the 1990s. A Superior Court judge ruled after a preliminary hearing Monday that there was enough evidence for 41-year-old Melvin Shane Sparks to stand trial on six counts of lewd acts on a child and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16. He is scheduled to be arraigned Nov...

Condit to testify on Chandra Levy
Former congressman Gary Condit is set to testify on Monday at the trial of the man accused of the 2001 Murder of his former intern, Chandra Levy. Ms Levy's disappearance generated huge media coverage in the US, fuelled by claims Mr Condit was having an affair with the 24-year-old. Mr Condit was cleared of involvement in the Murder, but his career was ruined. Ingmar Guandique, an El Salvadorian man, has been charged with sexually assaulting and murdering Ms Levy. Ms Levy had been missing for...

Senator to plead guilty to fraud
PROVIDENCE — A Johnston State Senator resigned Monday after he notified the U.S. District Court that he intends to plead Guilty to falsifying bank statements and Tax filings in an elaborate scheme to obtain $1.7 million in loans. Sen. Christopher B. Maselli, a Democrat and self-employed Real-estate attorney, was indicted in June on seven counts of bank Fraud and accused of inflating his income, lying about personal assets and submitting falsified bank statements and Federal Tax returns as ...

Former OC sheriff's deputy facing federal charges
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Prosecutors say a former Orange County Sheriff's deputy is expected to plead Guilty to a federal Charge involving the illegal importation of Japanese muscle cars made famous by "The Fast and the Furious" movies and selling them to enthusiasts and collectors. Authorities said Monday that Daryl Alison has agreed to plead Guilty to a Misdemeanor Charge of removing the markings from an imported vehicle. According to Court documents, Alison's former company, Kaizo Industr...

Cuomo On Hevesi Sentence, Closing Deficit
The projected $8 Billion Deficit for 2011-12 has to be closed with Cuts in spending, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Cuomo today told a crowd of more than 100 union members in Albany. Cuomo, speaking with Running Mate Robert Duffy, the Rochester mayor, Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings and Democratic Attorney General Candidate Eric Schneiderman, were wrapping up the final leg of the campaign at a get-out-the-vote rally in Albany. In introducing Cuomo, Duffy said the difference between the De...

Aust surfer denies indecent act
AAP Australian professional surfer Mitch Coleborn has entered a not Guilty Plea to an indecent act charge in Canada. Coleborn is accused of exposing his genitals and fondling himself in front a group of Children and adults near a school in Tofino, British Columbia on October 15. Coleborn will fight the charge at a trial set for March 8. Advertisement: Story continues below Police believe Alcohol played a factor in the alleged morning incident. Coleborn and other surfers were competing in th...

Scrugs jury meets after closing arguments
A Common Pleas Court jury is to resume deliberations Wednesday on the fate of Rasheed Scrugs: life in Prison or death for last year's killing of Police Officer John Pawlowski. The eight women and four men met for an hour late Tuesday afternoon after closing arguments by prosecution and Defense Lawyers and legal instructions on the state's death-penalty statute by Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes. In deciding a sentence for Scrugs, 35, a paroled robber from West Philadelphia, the jury must weigh aggra...

Gitmo former 'child soldier' sentenced to 8 years
GUANTANAMO BAY Naval Base, Cuba -- A judge sentenced a former teenage al-Qaida fighter Sunday to eight more years in custody, bound by a Plea agreement that compelled him to ignore a Military jury that said he should serve 40 years for War Crimes that included the killing of an American Soldier. Omar Khadr's sentencing brings to an end a case that attracted intense scrutiny and criticism because the Canadian Prisoner was 15 when he was captured, badly wounded after a fierce firefight at an al-Q...

Man to plead guilty in scheme to transport marijuana in suitcases on 14 Calif.-to-Ohio flights
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A California man is ready to plead Guilty to his role in a scheme that shipped hundreds of pounds of marijuana to Ohio on 14 airplane trips. Court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Columbus indicate David Garrett of Culver City, Calif., will plead Guilty to conspiring to distribute more than 2,000 pounds of the drug. Garrett is one of six California residents charged in September with Conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute. He faces a minimum...

Ex-lawyer gets 15-years for producing child porn
A Fort Washington man was sentenced to 15 years in Prison Tuesday for producing Child Pornography. Ernesto Cacanindin, 46, was sentenced in Federal Court in Greenbelt. He pleaded Guilty in July. The FBI collected photographs of Child Pornography from Cacanindin’s desk at a D.C. Law Firm where he used to work. Cacanindin’s former colleagues found the pictures when cleaning out his desk after he was dismissed. In his Guilty Plea, Cancanindin admitted that he performed oral sex on the v...

Carthage man sent to prison for knife-point heist at store
A Carthage man who robbed a village store at knife-point was sentenced Monday in Jefferson County Court to three years in state Prison for the act. John L. Austin,26, whose last known address was 942 State St., also will have to undergo 11/2 years of additional supervision upon his release from Prison for a Sept. 1 Guilty Plea to second-degree attempted Robbery. He also admitted violating Probation. He admitted that he brandished a knife when he jumped over a counter at the Carthage Market, 12...

Brooklyn rabbi preyed on 'rich Jew': feds
A Brooklyn rabbi ran an unholy scam on a $16 Billion Hedge Fund -- because he knew that its founder was "Jewish and . . . rich," a Prosecutor told jurors yesterday. Rabbi Milton Balkany demanded $4 million from SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen by threatening that a Prison inmate he was counseling would go to the feds with Insider-trading allegations against the firm, Manhattan Federal Prosecutor Jesse Furman said. Balkany -- whose "statements were lies, pure and simple," according t...

Man accused in Ohio pot transport to plead guilty
Rapper T.I. reports to Ark. federal Prison again COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A California man is ready to plead Guilty to his role in a scheme that shipped hundreds of pounds of marijuana to Ohio on 14 airplane trips. Court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Columbus indicate David Garrett of Culver City, Calif., will plead Guilty to conspiring to distribute more than 2,000 pounds of the drug. Garrett is one of six California residents charged in September with Conspiracy and posse...

Status of Former EPA Fugitives | Criminal Enforcement | US EPA
Deleon, through ECT, issued fraudulent asbestos training certificates to hundreds of individuals who did not complete the training mandated by state and federal law. Deleon and others significantly benefited from the illegal enterprise by selling fraudulent training certificates and making false statements to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Additionally, she employed the fraudulently licensed workers through her temporary employment agency, Methuen Abatement Staffing. An Arrest Warrant was is...