A former northeastern Pennsylvania deputy coroner has been sentenced to six to 23 months in prison in an arson-for-profit scheme. Fifty-eight-year-old Joseph Swoboda of Clarks Summit pleaded guilty in March to arson with the intention of collecting insurance. Prosecutors in …
A former southwestern Illinois grain elevator owner has been sentenced to a year and three months in federal prison for committing mail fraud. Forty-eight-year-old John Kniepmann of Breese also was ordered in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis to …
A former Mississippi insurance agent will serve four years in prison for mail fraud and false pretense. Attorney General Jim Hood says 45-year-old Elisa Odom of Bailey pleaded guilty Monday in Lauderdale County Circuit Court to five counts of mail …
A teenage former volunteer firefighter has been ordered to spend at least 19 years in prison for setting a series of fires in west-central Pennsylvania. Nineteen-year-old Anthony Overbeck didn’t speak Wednesday as he was sentenced for the fires he set …
A disbarred former Cranston, R.I., lawyer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing about $1.1 million from his clients. The Providence Journal reports that Robert Natal of East Greenwich cried and took responsibility for his crimes during …
A Colorado man accused of falsifying the driver’s licenses of at least 1,500 people who took tests at the American Driving Academy in Arvada has been sentenced to six months in prison. The Denver Post reports Dennis Sieving was sentenced …
A Tampa, Fla., woman was sentenced to two years in prison for trafficking in counterfeit goods, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). According to court documents, in March 2011 HSI special agents …
A federal judge has sentenced an Evansville, Ind., man to three years in prison for helping a Kentucky woman burn down her home in an effort to claim insurance money. The Evansville Courier & Press reports 39-year-old Leslie Vashaun White …
A North Texas man was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly five years in federal prison, and ordered to pay $402,417 in restitution, following his June 2011 guilty plea on copyright infringement, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern …
A former Picayune, Miss., woman has been ordered to serve nine months in prison and to repay $20,666.18 for double-dipping on disaster housing assistance after Hurricane Katrina. The Sun Herald reports Stephanie Ordogne was sentenced Wednesday on a guilty plea …