A school superintendent in Indiana was criminally charged after she allegedly pretended a student was her own son in order to get medical treatment for the child. KFSM reports Casey Smitherman was accused of taking the student to a doctor on January 9 after he didn’t come to school due to a sore throat. Reportedly suspecting that the …
By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company’s owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor. It wasn’t until that night when the executive, hours after …
Authorities in Wisconsin say individuals received what they believed to be expert medical advice and treatment from a man now facing criminal charges of posing as a doctor. According to the New York Post, 32-year-old Kyle Grant Larsen is accused of purchasing medical equipment in private sales including listings on Craigslist. He has reportedly worked …
Authorities in Georgia say a man set up a fake online fundraiser he claimed would benefit relatives of a local teen who died on while playing football earlier this year. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 17-year-old Pike County High School football player Dylan Thomas collapsed on the field in September and died a short …
Three people in upstate New York allegedly scammed residents out of hundreds of dollars by pretending to fundraise for a girl stricken with cancer, WSYR-TV reports. Police in Syracuse on Thursday arrested the suspects, identified as 44-year-old Roger Dunn, 34-year-old Nicole Dunn and 27-year-old Earl Woodridge. Each faces charges of first-degree scheme to defraud, first-degree attempt …
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 …
