A twice-deported undocumented citizen from Tijuana, Mexico, managed to rake in $361,000 in government benefits by assuming an American’s identity for nearly four decades. According to California court records obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune, Andres Avelino Anduaga admitting to using a fake birth certificate in 1980 to obtain a drivers license, Social Security number, and …
A Texas woman was indicted last year on a series of charges including three felony counts related to her allegedly falsified claims of rape at the hands of a gang of black offenders. According to the Herald Democrat, 19-year-old Breana Rachelle Harmon was arrested in March after she was reported missing by her boyfriend and …
Authorities in Ohio say a Cleveland woman is at the center of an investigation dating back more than a decade and packed with alarmingly brazen lies in an apparent attempt to elicit sympathy and cash. According to Cleveland.com, 45-year-old Dawn Brown convinced multiple men to marry her based on false claims of pregnancy and cancer …
Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors in Montrose has been accused in the past of stealing valuables, including gold fillings, from dead bodies.
Authorities in Michigan arrested a 19-year-old woman accused of fabricating allegations that she was kidnapped from an area shopping mall. According to the New York Post, Alexis Marie Bradish told a friend about the alleged crime. When that individual contacted authorities, she reportedly repeated the claims in conversations with investigators. “The allegation she made is …
A Pennsylvania man is serving out a jail sentence, to be followed by a decade on probation, for marrying a woman while he was still married to his new bride’s mother. According to the Patriot-News, 44-year-old Christopher I. Hauptmann married the first woman, Shannon Deitrich, in 2015. The following year, he reportedly married her daughter, …
An ABC affiliate in Los Angeles revealed new details about the suspect behind a hoax that turned deadly for an innocent man in Kansas. According to KABC, Tyler Raj Barriss was convicted in 2015 on charges that he made false bomb threats to the station. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Witchita police officers responded to the …
Several human fetuses were found preserved in the warehouse of a former Detroit body broker accused of selling clients diseased specimens. According to an exclusive Reuters report this week, four fetuses were found in 2013 by federal investigators conducting a raid on Arthur Rathburn’s facility. The news outlet reportedly viewed images taken during that raid …
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli had his bail revoked and was headed to jail Wednesday while awaiting sentencing for a securities fraud conviction. A judge heard arguments about whether the provocative online antics of Shkreli, dubbed the Pharma Bro, were bad enough to put him behind …
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sports radio personality Craig Carton was arrested Wednesday on fraud charges alleging he and others used a Ponzi scheme and a concert ticket-selling scam for acts including Katy Perry to try to raise millions of dollars to pay off gambling debts. Conspiracy, securities and …
