A man faces stalking and burglary charges after allegedly breaking into Taylor Swift's three-story apartment in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood for the third time. The 23-year-old Florida native was previously convicted for breaking into the same apartment last year when he took a shower and a n...
A Washington man has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence for the eighth time. The man has also been charged with a hit and run involving a parked car and for driving without an ignition interlock device in violation of a requirement for his previous DUI convictions. Police a...
A Kitsap County man has been charged with first-degree murder in a case that shines light on the differences between first- and second-degree murder. Love Triangle Shooting Leaves One Dead The situation involves one woman and two men in the Suquamish area across the Sound from Seattle. Accordin...
Washington State Police have committed numerous officers towards enforcing safe driving on the Interstate 5 corridor in Pierce County. Unlike most other efforts, though, this one does not focus on driving under the influence (DUI). Instead of using so-called “saturation patrols” to detect drunk d...
A woman in Iowa was arrested charged with theft and driving under the influence after allegedly stealing a car and shoplifting. The woman drove the stolen car to Family Dollar where she stole $99.24 worth of merchandise. Police later found the woman after she drove the stolen vehicle into a snowb...
While beer, wine, and liquor certainly contribute the majority of alcohol-related DUI arrests, it isn't the only intoxicating substance that can land a person in legal trouble. A Connecticut woman was arrested this week for driving under the influence of alcohol after consuming several bottles of...
An Arkansas truck driver was sentenced to over six years in prison following a multi-car accident which caused injuries to several people. The trucker was charged with aggravated driving under the influence due to one of the individuals was seriously injured, suffering a broken vertebra. The chai...
A Mississippi man faces charges of driving under the influence after attempting to use his all-terrain vehicle (ATV) in order to tow his truck off of a highway. The young adult was driving his truck--which was hauling an ATV on a trailer--on the highway when the truck ran out of gas. The driver t...
Former Microsoft sports marketing director Jeff Tran is currently facing embezzlement charges after being accused of trying to embezzle $1.5 million from the technology empire. Prosecutors believe that Tran used falsified bills for services that were never received in order to siphon money from M...
Over the past few months, Seattle has become the host of a serial armed robber. Targeting restaurants such as Baskin Robbins and Subway, the unidentified individual has committed three armed robberies since October. In November, a worker at a Baskin Robbins on Rainier Avenue faced the robber when...
There are many crime rates that rise during the holiday season, particularly theft. A report released earlier this month revealed that the state of Washington has the most holiday thefts in the nation. A team at VivantSource.com analyzed four different types of theft: larceny, burglary, robbery, ...
Earlier this week three people were taken to the hospital after a car accident in the 6700 block of Slyvain Way Southeast in west Seattle. Law enforcement says that a 33-year-old woman's car crossed the center line and caused a head-on collision with the pickup truck of a 38-year-old man. The wom...
The holiday season is a happy and busy time. The holiday season is supposed to be a time of joy and togetherness, but the theft of personal information seems to climb during this time of year. Under the common law system, fraud is considered a white-collar crime and is “defined as an intentional ...
Crime can be an issue no matter where you live, but it is common knowledge that some places are more dangerous to live than others. In the same regard, people may differ in opinion on what they consider to be a “safer” crime. Some may feel being mugged on the street is more invasive than their ho...
The Washington State Patrol reported a car accident on State Route 509 in Seattle. Officers reported that the impact from the crash, which caused the vehicle to roll over, was so great that the engine was ejected from the vehicle. When police arrived on the scene they found a Nissan Altima upside...
Over the holiday weekend, an off-duty New Orleans police officer led Louisiana State Police on a high-speed chase on Interstate 10 through New Orleans. Officers were called to a CVS on Saturday night when a clerk refused to sell the off-duty NOPD officer, Carlos Peralta, any alcohol. Peralta enga...
The owners of Total Reclaim Inc., a large Northwest electronics recycler, are facing federal conspiracy fraud charges after they were found to have lied to customers about their recycling process of mercury-containing flat screen monitors. Documents filed in a Seattle court show that the company ...
Recently, celebrity Alec Baldwin was arrested for allegedly punching someone in the jaw for taking his parking space. Baldwin, of course, claims innocence. Celebrity and crime can often seem to go hand-in-hand, any wrongdoing ultimately amplified because the person is in the spotlight and under a...
Malicious harassment, another term for a hate crime or bias crime, is the legal term in Washington for such motivated crimes. This weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a hate crime was committed when a man shot up a Synagogue resulting in the deaths of 11 people and the injuries of 6 others, incl...
A Maryland woman was convicted on “17 counts including conspiracy, lying on a loan application and several charges of bank, wire, and securities fraud.” The woman was a licensed financial adviser who also had a weekly radio show. She started a sportswear company and convinced many people to inves...
Every so often, a real-life criminal investigation may play out similar to how fantasy television investigations play out. Such an investigation happened in Washington earlier this week, albeit not in hasty television series fashion. Depression-era glassware and a few other items were stolen from...
In April 2018, former-MLB player Jayson Werth was arrested in Arizona for allegedly driving under the influence. The Scottsdale police officer pulled Werth over for driving with an expired registration at which time he suspected that Werth had been drinking. A video recently surfaced which shows ...
In early September, a small, family-owned vineyard in Virginia had two and a half tons of grapes stolen from them overnight. It is believed that the thieves had expert knowledge on how to harvest the product as 3.5 acres of grape vines were harvested, packed up, and stolen between sundown and daw...
The ruby slippers from the "Wizard of Oz" film recently resurfaced after being stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in 2005. For more than a decade, law enforcement in Minnesota has been receiving bizarre tips pertaining to the whereabouts of the ruby slippers. Finally, in July, the Grand Rapids p...
A Texas woman was killed when a non-impaired driver hit her as he was performing a court-mandated “ignition interlock” test while driving. The former cheerleader was backing out of her driveway when the passenger side of her car was hit by a pickup truck. The driver stated that he did not see the...
