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In April 2009, music Producer and mogul Phil Spector, known for his collaborations with the biggest names in the music industry ever, was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 19 years in jail. Spector began his sentence shortly after being served with it, but wife Rachelle is now telling the media in... |
28 July 2009
09:38 GMT |
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The case of Alexander Draper, the 14-year-old boy who weighs an impressive 555 pounds, has brought a very sensitive issue up for discussion again. His mother, Jerri Gray, was arrested in June and charged with criminal neglect, but that does not stop the question from arising: is she really responsible for the state h... |
23 July 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Over the weekend, a 19-year-old man learned the hard way never to mistake the reality on film for the one he sees on an everyday basis. Sean Stanley Smith was arrested for indecent exposure and resisting arrest after he ran into Harrah’s Lake Tahoe casino arcade without any clothes on, claiming to be a Terminat... |
7 July 2009
02:37 GMT |
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She has kept her silence for so long, but there is only so much that Rachelle Spector can take, especially now that her husband has been sentenced to 19 years in jail for second degree murder. The wife of the once-famous music producer is speaking out against the California State prison and the staff there, saying he... |
9 June 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Yesterday, just a few hours after a shooting that took place at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles and that ended in the death of 21-year-old Atlanta rapper Dolla, a suspect was apprehended at LAX, as he was trying to make good his escape. According to TMZ, the suspect has already been booked for murder, but the polic... |
20 May 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Gerard Butler is, admittedly, the nicest guy around Hollywood at this point in time. However, even he has a limit that must not be crossed because bad things can happen, as the misdemeanor criminal charge just brought against him shows. According to TMZ, the “300” star has been charged and is now waiting ... |
15 May 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Gamers can be found everywhere and almost anywhere around the world. Even though most of them can be found on a comfy sofa in their living room or at a desk while playing their favorite titles on their platforms of choice, we can also find them in prisons, as criminals who have nothing better to do. But even though ... |
14 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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In April 2007, a “drug-crazed” Boy George picked up a male escort on the street, took him to his apartment, chained him to a wall and then started to beat him. The singer, real name George O’Dowd, was subsequently arrested, charged and sentenced in January to 15 months imprisonment, of which he serv... |
12 May 2009
08:32 GMT |
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The music industry is constantly changing, and so are those who make it happen. Long gone are the days when producers were just those who sat behind the desk in the studio, mixing beats, having come to mean stars who are even more famous than the artists they work with. Yet not even they are immune to the terrible di... |
16 April 2009
09:16 GMT |
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Six years after the body of struggling actress Lana Clarkson was found in Spector’s 30-bedroom mansion, and only after a second trial, the once famous music producer was found guilty and convicted of second degree murder, the Los Angeles Times informs. In finding the 69-year-old Spector guilty, the jurors have ... |
14 April 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., also known as T.I. or T.I.P. / Tip, has just been sentenced to one year and a day in prison following weapons charges stemming from his arrest in October 2007. The rapper must present himself voluntarily to prison to start serving his sentence within six to eight weeks, the presiding judge... |
28 March 2009
05:14 GMT |
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It is not uncommon for rappers to also have a criminal sheet, yet few can hold a candle to that of former golden boy DMX, real name Earl Simmons. Now in prison awaiting sentencing on several counts, including animal cruelty and drug and weapon charges, DMX is in hot waters again and on “lockdown status” a... |
10 February 2009
05:18 GMT |
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It's a known fact that cell phones get smaller, lighter, better and harder to detect, since they're largely made of non-metallic materials, and can easily fit into hardly accessible places. This has caused the number of smuggled phones in some state prisons to increase by as much as 100% this year, as comp... |
9 December 2008
11:06 GMT |
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British prisoners are not the only ones affected by personal information loss. The News of the World tabloid claims that prison workers are in the same situation of having their personal data in the open, technically at anyone's disposal, once a portable hard-drive disk got lost. Names, birthday dates, ins... |
8 September 2008
04:35 GMT |
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A 47-year-old man from Cyprus will spend four years behind bars for spying on a teenager on her webcam and threatening her. The man, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested back in 2005 for infecting the computer of a 17-year-old, at the time, with a Trojan horse, which was attached to an email the man had sent to... |
6 September 2008
06:45 GMT |
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An Australian boy pleaded guilty to 33 counts of fraud. Between March 10 and July 3, the 15-year-old attempted to trick several banks into accepting fake checks. Although he was planning to gain 300,000 Australian dollars, the equivalent of 250,000 USD, fortunately for the institutions, only few of his chec... |
6 September 2008
04:54 GMT |
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A 24-year old man in Oakland, Florida, was convicted to 15 months in prison and is forced to pay $415,900 for pirating and distributing at least 76 video games, most of them belonging to Nintendo. Kifah Maswadi developed an online business and used to sell "Power Player" consoles to which he added a "present" - at le... |
18 August 2008
11:31 GMT |
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The concept of online pharmacies sounds pretty attractive because patients could receive medical advice without having to visit the doctor. However, Jorge Alan Rodriguez Sanchez took the online pharmacy idea to another level: he established an illegal drug store online in order to sell all kinds of prescription based... |
26 May 2008
05:17 GMT |
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Posting entries on a blog is usually a pleasant activity and some people managed to do a real business out of it. However, publishing messages on a blog sometimes may bring you more trouble than you have ever expected according to recent reports concerning a blogger who may go to jail due to comments posted on his bl... |
22 May 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Five members reportedly from the D.O.M. Team hacking group got busted in Spain as part of an investigation of the local police, FOXNews.com informed today. According to the report, two of the suspects were minors, aged 16. "The others are 19 or 20," the same publication adds. It seems like the group of websites attac... |
19 May 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The short story so far goes something like this: a 13-year-old girl who met a 16-year-old boy on the social networking service MySpace fell in love with him after chatting on the website. The 49-year-old mom of the boy got involved into the relationship and posed as her son while chatting with the girl. After several... |
16 May 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Although it happens in various countries in the world, a Romanian pirate thought it could never happen to him: Kiss Adalbert Daniel, 28-year-old, was found guilty of possession with the purpose of distribution of pirated materials and received a sentence of five years and six months in jail. Beside that, the pirate h... |
8 May 2008
06:06 GMT |
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The fight against pirates who simply ignore the copyright laws records one more win as David M. Fish, a 26-year-old man living in Woodbury, Conn., has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after he was involved in multiple illegal activities. According to a statement signed by the Department of Justice, David Fish di... |
7 May 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil turned 26 yesterday - however, his beehived, crack-loving, Grammy-winning wife did not bother to grace her incarcerated better half with her presence, leaving Blaaaaake to entertain himself and find solace in his own jail cell at London's Pentonville prison. Which... |
18 April 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Because more and more girls are tempted to step into the pro-anorexia side, the French government tries to stop the phenomenon by promoting new laws that would reduce the number of websites encouraging this matter. According to Reuters, the pages or blogs supporting anorexia may get two years in jail and a fine of ap... |
15 April 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Amy Wino's private life has never been a bed of roses, and it's been taking an increasingly heavier toll on the singer the longer she's been left to battle with her documented drug addiction outside rehab. However, Amy's drug use and her notoriously stubborn "no, no, no" said to receiving professi... |
31 March 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Amy Wino's Blaaaaake is such a drama queen. I mean, really. This guy is slowly trying to steal the spotlight from his beehived wife, and is doing quite a good job of it too. A couple of days ago, Blake Fielder-Civil (also known as "Bad Blake", also known as the manipulative druggie who is married to jazz diva Am... |
18 February 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Yung-Hsun Lin, 51-year-old, from Montville, New Jersey, will get an unexpected holiday behind bars, as he has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Yung-Hsun was hired as a sys admin at Medco Health Solution, and just after he found out that he might lose his job, he decided to build a computer virus and to deploy i... |
10 January 2008
16:56 GMT |
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The cases of bloggers being held for what they have written are too many to be looked over and, to be honest, are quite common in the countries where human rights are often breached. The latest case is that of Fouhad al-Fahran, held in the conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia for over a month. As per usual, a ... |
7 January 2008
09:31 GMT |
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The Dutch police today announced that it had arrested 14 people suspected to be involved in several phishing scams, conducted by Russian and Ukrainian hackers. The 14 persons put their ABN Amro accounts at hackers' disposal and allowed them to transfer stolen money into their accounts. The illegal funds, which w... |
20 December 2007
09:18 GMT |
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I will always remember Kiefer Sutherland as a melancholic musketeer in a movie in which he starred long before he became a household name by playing Jack Bauer on the hit TV series "24". His character was drunk for about half the movie, and I always imagined he was a great actor for faking it so well. But judging fro... |
6 December 2007
09:35 GMT |
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Yep, you've read it right, a pedophile hacker received a sentence of 110 years in prison after he was found guilty of hacking MySpace accounts and harassing underage girls. In fact, all the hacker wanted was pornographic content but he managed to cause an extremely high fear after he threatened the girls with al... |
4 December 2007
08:02 GMT |
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48-year-old Thomas Montgomery will spend his next 20 years in prison, after he pleaded, in August, guilty of murdering his 22-year-old colleague, Brian Barrett, out of jealousy. At least, this is what the investigators told AP. But here's the entire and complicated story: Thomas Montgomery (the killer), who wa... |
29 November 2007
02:58 GMT |
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How would it feel if you heard that anything you wrote on your blog could send you to jail? Imagine how Abdel Karim Suleiman felt when he was charged with insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak in eight of his blog articles written since 2004. He was also the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for Internet wr... |
20 November 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Although I don't see any reason for stealing virtual furniture, a 17-year-old boy did this and he's now arrested by the Dutch police after being accused of this illegal activity. It all happened on the Habbo Hotel platform, a service that allows registered members to create their own rooms and decorate them... |
14 November 2007
08:59 GMT |
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Bradley Gilbert, a 20-year-old man from Bethlehem, was sent to prison for money fraud after he used his ex-employer's bank account to access pornographic content, The Morning Call reports today. In case you're saying this is no big deal, you should know that Mr. Gilbert spent no less than $3,196 on the adul... |
14 November 2007
06:08 GMT |
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John Kenneth Schiefer, a 26-year-old American security expert from Los Angeles, faces a sentence of 60 years in prison and a fine of $1.75 million after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and others, The Register reported today. The hacker, who used nicknames such as "Acid" and "Acidstorm", managed ... |
12 November 2007
06:34 GMT |
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Todd Moeller, a 28-year-old man from New Jersey, received a sentence of 27 months in prison after he was found guilty of sending spam messages to 1,2 million AOL consumers, Reuters reported. It seems like the man made a deal with a government informer to advertise a security software solution which could bring him no... |
5 November 2007
06:25 GMT |
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Two of the biggest spammers on the web were sent to prison by a federal judge after they caused a lot of problems to numerous Internet consumers and to AOL. In case you missed the news, Jeffrey A. Kilbride from California and James R. Schaffer from Arizona used spam messages to promote hardcore pornographic websites ... |
15 October 2007
08:02 GMT |
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There are some places where mobile phone use is simply unacceptable. Prisons would be one of them, this being a good enough reason for the introduction of a mobile phone jamming technology. A 12-month trial conducted in New Zealand prisons has just been successfully completed, as the Minister of Corrections, Vodafone... |
22 August 2007
05:07 GMT |
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A new YouTube clip attracts an impressive amount of viewers as it shows more than 1,000 prisoners dancing on the Michael Jackson hit, Thriller. It all starts with some interesting zombie moves. It continues with amazing dancing moves made by the prisoners, all of them being dressed in orange prison suites. In the bac... |
26 July 2007
15:06 GMT |
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An interesting case was reported in Hong Kong where Olwan Lam, a blogger who wrote about pornography, might a face a sentence of 12 months in prison. In addition, he may have to pay for approximately HK$400.000. Why, you'll ask. Well, it all started when the blogger, being disappointed by the country's auth... |
12 July 2007
03:42 GMT |
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Darrel Uselton, 40, and his uncle, Jack Usleton, 69, from Texas were both arrested after they were suspected for email spam campaigns meant to influence the stock market and allow them to earn money with ease. Security company Sophos said that the attackers received no less than $4.6 million from the spam campaign th... |
10 July 2007
09:35 GMT |
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An 18-year-old teenager has been sentenced to 4 months in prison after he filmed himself driving with approximately 120 miles per hour and posted the clips on the popular online video sharing service YouTube. The recordings were made with a cellphone and were created on a quite busy motorway from Fenwick Street, Burn... |
9 July 2007
10:18 GMT |
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The troubles keep coming at Lindsay Lohan, not because she might be terribly unfortunate, but because she's got trouble written all over her. For what is worth, Li-Lo stands a very big chance to serve time, just like her good friend Paris Hilton. Lohan messed it up really bad when - after a wild Memorial Day wee... |
29 June 2007
03:23 GMT |
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Paris Hilton made her first post-prison video appearance last night on CNN's "Larry King Live". The media had been stirring a real hype surrounding Paris and her release, and everyone wanted the see what the (self-called) reformed heiress had to say after her life changing experience. CNN capitalized on this and... |
28 June 2007
03:18 GMT |
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As of yesterday, Paris Hilton is out of jail. That means we have our hands full once again. What should we pick first?Remember when Paris went to jail in the first place? She remained there for, like, only three days, then she was released to home detention. The media tackled the subject at the time, but the Paris sa... |
27 June 2007
04:09 GMT |
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James Schaffer, Paradise Valley, Arizona and Jeffrey Kilbride, Venice, California, were both convicted by a federal judge, being accused of conspiracy, fraud, transportation of obscene materials and money laundering. Security company Sophos said that the two men sent spam messages to millions of users, most of the em... |
26 June 2007
08:55 GMT |
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Paris Hilton will be released from jail (damn!) this Tuesday, and all the major TV networks are fighting over her. The 26-year-old has served 23 days out of her 45-days sentence in the Los Angeles Century Regional Detention Center, but will be released early for good behavior. As her release date was getting closer, ... |
25 June 2007
03:23 GMT |
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Julie Amero, the teacher who was convicted in January 2007 for showing pornographic pictures to her students, received a new trial today. The case was at least interesting: her PC was left unattended and opened pornographic images that were then viewed by the students. Although it wasn't a clear sign of ignoranc... |
7 June 2007
11:41 GMT |
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