Hoaxer jailed for Â£45k sea search
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A man who admitted making a hoax call which led to a Â£45,000 air and sea search is imprisoned.
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Hunt for man believed to have absconded from control order on June 18.
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The BBC is fined Â£50,000 after the results of a Blue Peter competition were faked last November.
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A man has agreed to plead guilty to trying to extort more than $1m (Â£494,000) from actor Tom Cruise.
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A man convicted of participating in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt was sentenced Monday to more than 23 years in prison.
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Illegally handled aphrodisiac 'oosiks' An Alaskan man faces a possible one year's jail and a $20,000 fine after pleading guilty to one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act, viz: flogging 100 fur seal penises, aka "oosiks", to a gift shop "that intended to sell the items as an aphrodisiac".â¦
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RUTLAND, Vt. - A man who helped his friend fake a fall that had actually occurred during a botched burglary in another town could go to prison for it. Louis Stevens, 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud under a plea deal calling for up to 20 years in prison.
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The British government didn't violate the human rights of a man sentenced to 45 years in prison for plotting to blow up an Israeli airliner by preventing him from being considered for early release, a court ...
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A federal judge sentences one of the largest U.S. software pirates to pay $5.4 million and forfeit homes, cars and a boat that he bought with proceeds from his scheme -- and spend 87 months in the hoosegow.
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A Briton who headed a net piracy gang is jailed in the US for 51 months.
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Further fooling of the international art market by a brilliant fraudster was revealed yesterday at a court hearing to sentence his 84-year-old father
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British police said on Sunday they had arrested a man after a hoaxer posing as a government official emailed relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami, saying their loved ones had been confirmed dead.
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British police said on Monday they had charged a man with sending hoax emails to relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami, saying their loved ones had been confirmed dead.
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Â· Pair allegedly claimed to know where child was Â· Target said to have been Â£2.5m reward fund
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By KATHARINE BARNEY  A MAN who made Pounds 170,000 a year selling fake fashion goods on eBay has been jailed for 12 months.   Simon Waugh, from Tolworth, was found guilty of importing thousands of counterfeit items.
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A man thought to have smuggled more than Â£350m worth of drugs into Britain is jailed for 26 years.
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Police and coastguards are considering whether to prosecute an amateur diver who faked his disappearance at sea, reports have said.