Convicted Ore. Cave Looter Faces Charges
439238
Former insurance agent Jack Harelson maintained he did nothing wrong when he excavated an ancient American Indian gravesite in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Now he faces charges he paid &#36;10,000 in opals in an attempt to have the judge, chief investigator and an informant in the case murdered.
37570
Federal prosecutors contend a businessman known for pledging money to help track down criminals has pocked $3.2 million of income over the past several years while not paying federal taxes since 2000.
157097
Just a month before the elections, a former Republican fundraising star is set to go on trial on charges that he stole millions of dollars from a state investment in rare coins.
702021
PROVO, Utah - A man accused of planning to rob a credit union and get away by floating down the Provo River was sent to prison for 27 months. "What in the world were you thinking?" U.S. District Judge Dee Benson asked Patrick Burr, 46.
749865
CHARDON, Ohio - A trucker is accused of throwing iron ore at passing motorists over the past three months because he was angry they wouldn't turn off their bright headlights.
602051
By Pat Reavy Deseret Morning News  A man accused of damaging more than 30 natural-gas meters in Salt Lake City, Midvale and South Salt Lake was arrested Thursday.  Since Jan. 8, more than 30 meters have been damaged, all at businesses, causing slight to moderate gas leaks.
561051
LaFAYETTE, Ga. -- A former crematory operator pleaded guilty Friday to dumping more than 330 corpses on his property and giving the relatives of the dead cement dust instead of ashes. Under a deal with prosecutors, Ray Brent Marsh could get up to 12 years in prison.
674536
Michael Griffith is about to pay with his life for violating the law he once swore to enforce.
356116
ORANGE, Calif. - A $25,000 diamond was found stuck in a shower drain at the prison housing the man accused of stealing it two years ago.  Bret Allen Langford, 39, allegedly asked the owner of a Jewelry Express store to show him a 2-carat colorless diamond in April 2005.
322283
By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 30--LIBBY, Mont. -- After finishing a shift at the vermiculite mine, Les Skramstad would come home covered in the white dust of asbestos.   He'd find the dust in deep recesses of his wallet.
186084
The legal saga of O.J. Simpson went further into left field yesterday, when the former murder defendant and former football star was accused of stealing a cache of his own sports memorabilia at gunpoint from a Las Vegas hotel room.
538743
A contract employee at a nuclear material cleanup site in Tennessee was charged Thursday with allegedly stealing classified data about enriching uranium to sell to foreign governments, law enforcement officials said.
489982
A South African businessman has appeared in a Zimbabwean court to face charges of attempting to smuggle three rifles and 108 rounds of ammunition, a state-run daily reported Thursday.
740282
By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  Criminal charges will not be filed in the case of a man who paid more than $3,000 to participate in an outdoor wilderness survival school and died in the harsh deserts of Garfield County.
511313
W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air and tried to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said.
662699
O.J. Simpson, the former American  football star acquitted of double murder in 1995, was charged  on Tuesday with kidnapping, armed robbery and assault in a  dispute over sports memorabilia at a Las Vegas hotel.
459850
The Finnish state prosecutor has decided to bring charges against a Wrtsil employee in the so-called Gotland corruption case.