Two police officers spotted a 26 year old suspect smoking marijuana at 6:15 PM at a street corner, a New York Criminal Lawyer said. The officers approached the suspect and attempted to place him under arrest when the suspect became unruly and decided to resist arrest. The officers were attempting…
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SEC Whistleblower Program Results Not Very Promising
In July 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched a new program for government and corporate sector employees that allowed them to safely provide information about possible fraud and other illegal activities they have witnessed or heard about. This program is part of the financial reform bill passed last…
Bombing suspect faces foreclosure, says New York Criminal Lawyer
The suspect in the failed Times Square bombing is in a state of foreclosure on his home and may be losing his home in the near future. Faisal Shahzad stopped his mortgage payments on his Connecticut home in June of 2009. This coincided with a trip he took to Pakistan.…
Drunk Driving Police Officer causes accident, says a Long Island Criminal Lawyer
An intoxicated New York City police officer was killed after causing a deadly car crash that also injured four others, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. He had attended a surprise party for a fellow officer before the incident, and the guests at the event had seen the cop…
Dead squirrel lands man in jail, states a Brooklyn Criminal Lawyer
An eighty-one year old man has been convicted of misdemeaner animal abuse and will be spending 30 Days in jail for the killing of a squirrel, says a New York Criminal Lawyer. Last February, the man was reported for abuse using a pellet gun to shoot the animal at his…
Roosevelt Cabbie along with two men that robbed him face criminal charges in Nassau County
A 25 year old cab driver noticed two men were following him as he drove on Franklin Street in Hempstead. The cabbie stopped his cab and pursued the two men bearing a knife. The two men also left their car with bats. It has been reported that the two men…
Deportation of Haiti convicts resumes despite earthquake
Just weeks after a January earthquake killed more than 300,000 people, devastating the country of Haiti, officials there will soon be faced with yet another task; caring for and housing immigrants with criminal backgrounds who have been deported from the United States, claims an officer . According to a New…
Former murder suspect living as a woman, says New York Criminal Lawyer
John Mark Karr, who became semi-famous in 2006 for associating himself with the death of JonBenet Ramsey, is living here in the United States as a woman, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. Karr falsely confessed to the murder of Benet Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado but it was later…
Immigration Attorney Could Spend Decades in Prison
A 40 year-old immigration attorney faces charges for 28 counts of fraud, conspiracy activity, and 42 counts of alien harboring with the intent of personal financial gain, so reports a New York Criminal Lawyer. The accused attorney held a great understanding of the US visa program, and used his inside…
E-Mail Protected by Fourth Amendment
The role of emerging technology and how the government, in particular those branches of the government charged with public protection and order, deal with it is one of the great challenges of the twenty first century, said a New York Criminal Lawyer the other day. In particular, the issue of…