8 d. ago Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies sentenced to 20 years in prison

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court Friday for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 aid. Jon Hallford, owner of Return […]

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8 d. ago Samurai sword murderer gets life in prison for rampage that killed London schoolboy last year

LONDON — A man armed with a samurai sword who murdered a London boy on his way to school during a rampage that seriously injured five other people was sentenced Friday to life in prison. Marcus Arduini Monzo was condemned as “wicked” by Daniel Anjorin’s father, who described the agony of finding his 14-year-old son […]

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8 d. ago Wander Franco convicted of sexually abusing child, gets suspended sentence

Prosecutors had requested a five-year prison sentence against Franco, the Tampa Bay Rays' former shortstop.

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1 week ago Canadian conman flees U.S. sentencing after learning how long his prison term might be

Antonio Palazzolo kept pulling an almost identical fraud as the one he pleaded guilty to — after he was allowed to remain free in Canada pending sentencing, U.S. prosecutors said

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1 week ago Nigerian man convicted of sextorting B.C. teen who died afterward

Olukeye Adedayo was sentenced to prison terms totalling 76 years, after offences that the RCMP said resulted in the boy's 'sudden death' in February 2023

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1 week ago Nigerian judge convicts man of sextorting B.C. teen who died by suicide

Olukeye Adedayo was sentenced last week to prison terms totalling 76 years, but the longest sentence he’ll serve is seven years for each of four counts

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2 w. ago Dutch soccer star extradited from Dubai to face prison in cocaine smuggling case

Dutch soccer player Quincy Promes was being extradited Friday from Dubai to the Netherlands, where he faces a prison sentence for involvement in cocaine smuggling, the prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press. The Dutch public prosecution service confirmed to the AP that Promes was en route to the Netherlands, in Dutch custody. Promes, who scored […]

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2 w. ago Man found guilty of killing Calgary woman sentenced to life in prison

Micheal Adenyi was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 death of Vanessa Ladouceur, a verdict that comes with the automatic sentence.

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2 w. ago Nova Scotia woman who killed daughter granted day passes from prison, but not parole

Boudreau was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the Jan. 27, 2008, death of Karissa Boudreau, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for strangling her only child.

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2 w. ago Michigan couple, believing prayer would cure baby, gets at least 20 years for child’s death

A religious Michigan couple were each sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the murder of their baby girl after they chose prayer over urgent medical care. A jury found Joshua Piland, 44, and Rachel Piland, 38, guilty of second-degree murder and first-degree child abuse following a trial in March, ending an eight-year […]

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3 w. ago Accused in Quebec truck attack threatens prosecutor, tells judge to shut up at trial

Steeve Gagnon, accused in the deadly Amqui truck attack, gave volatile testimony, threatening court officials and asking to be sentenced to life in prison.

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3 w. ago Oklahoma executes a man who was transferred from federal custody by Trump officials

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday whose transfer to state custody was expedited by the Trump administration. John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m., prison officials said. Hanson was sentenced to die after he was convicted […]

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3 w. ago Former British soldier sentenced to four years for ‘vicious, unprovoked’ fatal bar beating

A visiting U.K. soldier who killed a Manitoba businessman in a Toronto bar has been sentenced to 52 months in prison for manslaughter. Less credit for pre-trial custody, Craig Gibson has 49 months left to serve. The Scotland-born Gibson, 30, was convicted by a jury last December of killing Brett Sheffield at the Locals Only […]

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3 w. ago U.S. man sentenced to 40 years in prison after B.C. family contacts local police

Police said that on April 26, 2020, a 12-year-old girl's parents reported that they had discovered sexually explicit messages on their daughter's phone and computer.

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3 w. ago Doula defrauder gets prison for breaching probation: 'Egregious'

The now infamous doula-duper, Kaitlyn Braun, 26, was given the sentence she asked for after pleading guilty four months ago: she’ll serve the rest of a conditional sentence in jail and then be sent to prison for a three-year term. “The waiting has been difficult,” said Braun’s lawyer Alison MacDonald. “She just wants to be […]

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3 w. ago 'Complete and total shock': Family of man who died in sheriffs' custody at Edmonton courthouse looking for answers

Loved ones of the man who died in a cell at the Edmonton courthouse are looking for answers after three sheriffs were charged with failing to keep him alive. Trevor Jason Freeman, 43, died in custody on June 16, 2023, shortly after a judge sentenced him to 6-1/2 years in prison for manslaughter with a […]

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4 w. ago Alberta judge rejects robber's Indigenous identity claims, proposes test for deciding who should and shouldn't get Gladue reports

An Alberta judge is proposing new guidelines for how courts handle people who say they are Indigenous during sentencing hearings, but don’t have proof to back up their claims. Last month, Justice Jordan Stuffco of the Alberta Court of Justice sentenced Jonathan Anthony Ninan to 33 months in prison for robbing a Leduc sports bar, […]

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4 w. ago Toronto man who deliberately shot an unarmed stranger given life sentence

A Toronto man who shot and killed an unarmed stranger has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years.

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4 w. ago Langley man who killed two sentenced to almost 15 years in prison

A Langley man who shot to death two men months apart was sentenced to 15 years on Friday for the killings and for firearms trafficking.

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4 w. ago British TV expert who sold art to suspected Hezbollah financier sentenced to prison

LONDON — An art expert who appeared on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt show was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison for failing to report his sale of pricey works to a suspected financier of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group. At a previous hearing, Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, had pleaded guilty to eight offenses […]

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