Alleged Ind. Soda Thief Jailed 17 Months
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CROWN POINT, Ind. - Officials are at a loss to explain how they allowed a homeless, mentally ill man accused of stealing a soda to languish in jail for 17 months.
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A computer technician who prosecutors say touched off the largest identity theft in U.S. history was sentenced to 14 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who said the damage he caused was "almost unimaginable."
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Ronald Isley has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for tax evasion.
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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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Former investment banker Frank Quattrone was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 months in prison, two months more than the harshest recommended penalty, for obstructing probes into suspected kickbacks involving some of the hottest stock offerings of the 1990s.
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A technician at a cancer center has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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LONDON - A veteran criminal received the longest prison sentence of his career Monday, after being caught because of the dandruff he had left behind at the scene of an armed robbery.
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A German tax official who stole more than $230,000 (114,950 pounds) from the state by inventing taxpayers and claiming money owed to them has been handed jailed for three years and three months, authorities said on Tuesday.
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MIAMI -- Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations.
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The ruling is a vindication for Martin H. Tankleff, who has been imprisoned for 17 years for the grisly 1988 murders of his parents.
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KIEL, Wis. - Robbing a store apparently caused this suspect to work up a thirst. A 46-year-old man accused of robbing a Dollar General store at knifepoint Saturday was arrested about 15 minutes later at a bar less than a mile away. Police said he was taken into custody without incident.
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Since the boy is a juvenile he cannot be put in jail. He is now being held in the Economic Offences Wing in New Delhi. The 17-year-old boy, who was reportedly arrested at the Delhi airport, will be produced in court tomorrow.
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Joya Williams, 42, had faced up to 10 years in prison in a failed scheme to sell Cokeâs trade secrets to PepsiCo for at least $1.5 million.
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A top Colombian court on Thursday sentenced three Irishmen to 17 years in prison, overturning an acquittal on charges they were IRA members who taught Marxist rebels how to make bombs.
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Former investment banker Frank  Quattrone was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 months in prison,  two months more than the harshest recommended penalty, for  obstructing probes into suspected kickbacks involving some of  the hottest stock offerings of the 1990s.
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CHICAGO -- A former employee was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from public broadcasting station WTTW-TV.
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A former executive with Computer Associates who pleaded guilty to securities fraud was sentenced to seven months in prison and seven months of home detention.