There were recently two embezzling cases that ended with two very different sentences for the defendants. One of the defendants is a former clerk-treasurer for Amherst and the other is an ex-football player for the Browns. Both of the individuals stole over $100,000....
Year: 2016
What is mass marketing fraud?
Mass marketing fraud is a type of fraud scheme that uses more than one kind of mass-communication technique. The techniques could include the Internet, mail, telephone, email or even meetings with large groups of people. There are two general categories of mass...
Limo stolen, Facebook video allegedly shows crime
Social media helps keep us in touch with family and friends, share music and generally let others know what we're doing. There are some people, though, that use social media for something a bit different -- showing off their crimes. That is what police allege happened...
Anthony Lemons still has murder on his criminal record
It's been two years since Anthony Lemons was released from an Ohio prison after a judge in a Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court set him free. He had spent the last 18 years in prison for the murder of a man back in April 1994. While Lemons thought his troubles were finally...
Authorities accuse 56-year-old of internet sex crimes.
A man in West Virginia was accused of trying to arrange sex with a teenage girl in the Cleveland area. However, the "girl" was not in fact a girl at all; it was actually an investigator employed by the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force who had been...
Grandmother overdoses on heroin with grandbaby in truck
A 56-year-old woman has been charged with child endangerment in Ohio after police found the woman allegedly overdosed on heroin and unconscious in her pickup. Her 11-month-old grandson was in the pickup as well. According to a news report in which the woman spoke with...
Cleveland Cavaliers’ Shumpert arrested for DUI, drug possession
Iman Shumpert, a guard with the Cleveland Cavaliers, is facing several charges relating to a traffic stop near Atlanta. Shumpert, who arrived in a trade with the New York Knicks in January, established himself as a solid defender, playing three positions and scoring...
Former bank teller pleads guilty to 1 count of bank fraud
A woman who was employed at a First Tennessee bank as a teller has accepted a plea bargain and pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud. When she was indicted back in March, she faced seven counts of theft, embezzlement or misapplication by a bank employee involving...
Police make arrest for 30 suspicious fires in Cleveland
For the last eight months, someone has been setting fires in one Cleveland neighborhood -- more than 30 fires. For the residents of that neighborhood, the news of an arrest has them feeling very relieved. The only affected area has involved three or four streets. The...
Man acquitted of disrupting public service for fake Facebook page
A 27-year-old man has been acquitted of charges related to the creation of a fake Facebook page made as a parody of the Parma Police Department's official page on the social media site. The man was arrested while exiting a convenience store in March. Afterward, he was...