Probation for man in Tom Cruise photo extortion bid
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A computer technician involved in a bid to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise for copies of the actor's stolen wedding photographs was sentenced on Thursday to two years probation.
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A man was sentenced to probation Monday for snatching the hairpiece off the head of another man at a restaurant.
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A HAMPTON man who tried to smuggle nearly 1,000 ecstasy tablets in his underwear has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Actor Tom Sizemore is sent to jail for 16 months for violating his probation in connection with a drugs charge.
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The ex-chief finance chief at US Foodservice, a unit of Dutch retailer Ahold, gets three years' probation.
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A Florida man who made millions of dollars selling illegal copies of computer programs was sentenced Friday to six years in prison in one of the nation's largest software piracy cases.
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Owner of one of the nation's largest software piracy Web sites receives the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy.
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Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps was sentenced to 18 months' probation Wednesday after pleading guilty to drunken driving.
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A man known for brokering deals involving compromising celebrity photos and videos has agreed to plead guilty in a plot to extort more than $1 million from Tom Cruise for the actor's stolen wedding photos, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.
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A Canadian man is put on probation after pleading guilty to e-mailing death threats to Michael Jackson.
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An extradited British national that was living in Australia has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for leading one of the oldest Internet software piracy groups.
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A U.S. judge sentenced two former Enron energy traders involved in the scheme to manipulate California energy prices to two years' probation and a $10,000 fine each on Wednesday after they cooperated with authorities in the case.
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LOS ANGELES: A Malaysian resident who ran a website which charged users to watch pirated films was ordered by a California court to pay US$23.8mil (RM90.4mil) to movie studios, the industry&#39;s trade group said on Tuesday.
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Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months&#39; probation after pleading guilty in a Salisbury, Md.
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His driving was too swift, but his thinking wasn't. A 28-year-old man who blew up a speed camera, hoping to destroy evidence of his speeding, was sentenced to four months in prison on Wednesday.
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PITTSBURGH - A man who botched the castration of a transgendered woman will spend the next three years on probation. "I have no intention of doing this again to animals or humans," Douglas Lenhart, 49, told Allegheny County Judge John Zottola on Monday. "I'm completely out of this.
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A man in prison for extorting a business competitor was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of possessing ricin and nicotine sulfate, both possible biological weapons.