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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Suspect arrested in Navy veterans fundraising scam Oklahoma executes man sentenced to death twice New Jersey Mom Arrested After Taking 5-Year-Old To Tanning Salon Feds seek death penalty in Somali yacht hijacking Five arrested in alleged Cleveland plot to blow up bridge 4 months for husband of Ohio ex-fraud fugitive Fort Dix plot convict appeals to US Supreme Court Hungry homeless man gets arrested intentionally Would-Be Subway Bomber Found Guilty Ex-student wants hate crime convictions dismissed Oklahoma man sentenced to death twice set to be executed FBI: 5 men arrested, wanted to blow up Ohio bridge US to seek death penalty in Somali yacht hijacking South Dakota man to plead guilty in grudge killing Pair arrested over body on queen's estate Five arrested for trying to blow up Ohio bridge Spot-fixing convict Asif due for release May 5 UK police: 2 arrested over body on queen's estate AP source: 5 arrested in alleged bombing plot Mexico passes law to compensate crime victims Man sentenced in LA in turtle smuggling case What Happened to Those 732 Occupiers Arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge? Mexico to compensate crime victims Tigers' Young banned seven days for hate crime Celebrity chef's Lamborghini recovered at teenager's storage shed; boy arrested in bold caper Suspect arrested in Navy veterans fundraising scam Tue,1 May 2012 06:04 PM PDT Associated Press - A fugitive on the run for more than two years has been arrested on accusations that he ran a scam that collected $100 million in donations from people in dozens of states who believed they were helping U.S. Navy veterans, Ohio's attorney general and the U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday. Full Story Top Oklahoma executes man sentenced to death twice Tue,1 May 2012 05:32 PM PDT Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A convicted Oklahoma killer who was spared execution once but asked for a new trial and was sentenced to death a second time was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday. Michael B. Selsor, 57, was the 18th person executed in the United States this year and the third person executed in Oklahoma in 2012. He was pronounced dead at 6:06 p.m. local time (1106 GMT) at the state prison in McAlester, Oklahoma, a prison spokesman said. He was executed for killing convenience store clerk Clayton Chandler on September 22, 1975, during an armed robbery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ... Full Story Top New Jersey Mom Arrested After Taking 5-Year-Old To Tanning Salon Tue,1 May 2012 04:24 PM PDT Good Morning America - A New Jersey mother was arrested after her 5-year-old daughter sustained burns from time she spent in a tanning booth. Patricia Krentcil, 44, is out on bail following her arrest on a second degree child endangerment charge. "The little girl went to school and reported... Full Story Top Feds seek death penalty in Somali yacht hijacking Tue,1 May 2012 02:41 PM PDT Associated Press - Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against three Somalis charged with murder in the fatal shooting of four Americans aboard a hijacked yacht last year, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday. Full Story Top Five arrested in alleged Cleveland plot to blow up bridge Tue,1 May 2012 02:33 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON/CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Authorities arrested five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area for allegedly plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge, but they were caught by an FBI undercover sting and had no ties to foreign terrorism, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. The suspects, ranging in ages from 20 to 37, placed what they believed were bombs on the bridge last night and tried to detonate them by calling and sending text messages to cell phones attached to the explosives, authorities said. ... Full Story Top 4 months for husband of Ohio ex-fraud fugitive Tue,1 May 2012 01:59 PM PDT Associated Press - The husband of a former fugitive who spent more than two years in Mexico following her conviction in Ohio in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud has been sentenced to four months house arrest. Full Story Top Fort Dix plot convict appeals to US Supreme Court Tue,1 May 2012 01:38 PM PDT Associated Press - A man convicted in 2008 of conspiring to kill military personnel on the Army's Fort Dix base is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a key aspect of the case. Full Story Top Hungry homeless man gets arrested intentionally Tue,1 May 2012 01:11 PM PDT Associated Press - Lance Brown was hungry and homeless, so he decided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building. Full Story Top Would-Be Subway Bomber Found Guilty Tue,1 May 2012 12:50 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - A jury convicted the guy accused of plotting to bomb the New York subway system Tuesday, putting an end to what has seemed like a relatively quiet trial.  Full Story Top Ex-student wants hate crime convictions dismissed Tue,1 May 2012 12:24 PM PDT Associated Press - A former Rutgers University student who was found guilty of hate crimes for using a webcam to view his roommate kissing another man has asked a judge to overturn the jury's conviction. Full Story Top Oklahoma man sentenced to death twice set to be executed Tue,1 May 2012 11:28 AM PDT Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A convicted Oklahoma killer who was spared execution once but asked for a new trial and was sentenced to death a second time is set to be put to death on Tuesday. Michael B. Selsor was convicted of killing a Tulsa convenience store clerk in 1975. After he was sentenced to death, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that Oklahoma's capital punishment law was unconstitutional and his sentence was modified to life in prison. ... Full Story Top FBI: 5 men arrested, wanted to blow up Ohio bridge Tue,1 May 2012 11:23 AM PDT Associated Press - Five men, at least three of them anarchists, plotted to blow up a bridge near Cleveland and were nabbed because they were working with a man who was actually an FBI informant, law enforcement officials said Tuesday in announcing the men's arrests. Full Story Top US to seek death penalty in Somali yacht hijacking Tue,1 May 2012 11:21 AM PDT Associated Press - Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against three Somalis if they are convicted of murder in the deaths of four Americans who were shot aboard a hijacked yacht last year. Full Story Top South Dakota man to plead guilty in grudge killing Tue,1 May 2012 11:21 AM PDT Associated Press - A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate will plead guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge, his attorney said Tuesday. Full Story Top Pair arrested over body on queen's estate Tue,1 May 2012 09:04 AM PDT AFP - Police arrested two men on Tuesday on suspicion of murdering a Latvian teenager whose remains were found at Queen Elizabeth II's Sandringham estate. Full Story Top Five arrested for trying to blow up Ohio bridge Tue,1 May 2012 08:32 AM PDT AFP - Five self-described anarchists were arrested in a plot to blow up an Ohio bridge but the public was never in any danger, the FBI said Tuesday. Full Story Top Spot-fixing convict Asif due for release May 5 Tue,1 May 2012 07:37 AM PDT AFP - Pakistan's former paceman Mohammad Asif is expected to be released from a British prison on May 5 after completing half his one-year sentence for spot-fixing during the 2010 Lord's Test against England, a friend and cricket coach said Tuesday. Full Story Top UK police: 2 arrested over body on queen's estate Tue,1 May 2012 07:33 AM PDT Associated Press - British police say they have arrested two men on suspicion of murdering a Latvian teenager whose body was found on Queen Elizabeth II's rural Sandringham estate. Full Story Top AP source: 5 arrested in alleged bombing plot Tue,1 May 2012 07:12 AM PDT Associated Press - The Justice Department says five men have been arrested in a plot to bomb a bridge outside Cleveland. Full Story Top Mexico passes law to compensate crime victims Tue,1 May 2012 06:05 AM PDT Associated Press - Mexico's congress passed a law Monday to recognize and protect the rights of crime victims, a longstanding demand in a country where more than 47,500 people have died in 5½ years of drug-related violence, and thousands more have disappeared. Full Story Top Man sentenced in LA in turtle smuggling case Tue,1 May 2012 05:41 AM PDT Associated Press - A man accused of smuggling dozens of live turtles and tortoises from Japan into the U.S. by hiding them in snack food boxes was sentenced Monday to nearly two years in prison. Full Story Top What Happened to Those 732 Occupiers Arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge? Tue,1 May 2012 05:14 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - As Occupy Wall Street plans big, nationwide demonstrations for Tuesday's "general strike," the City of New York is still dealing with the protesters it rounded up in the biggest single Occupy-related mass arrest: The 732 taken into custody on the Brooklyn Bridge last October. So far, about 90 percent of those cases have been resolved, almost all through either outright dismissals or what's called an adjournment in contemplation of a dismissal, in which charges are dismissed for six months and then permanently if the defendant has stayed out of trouble. ... Full Story Top Mexico to compensate crime victims Mon,30 Apr 2012 11:42 PM PDT AFP - Mexico's Congress approved a bill to set up funds to compensate thousands of victims of the country's ongoing drug war. Full Story Top Tigers' Young banned seven days for hate crime Mon,30 Apr 2012 07:58 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Detroit Tigers outfielder Delmon Young has been suspended seven days following his arrest in New York City for allegedly yelling anti-Semitic remarks during a scuffle with tourists, Major League Baseball (MLB) said on Monday. Young, 26, was in New York for a three-game series with the Yankees when he was arrested early last Friday and charged with a hate crime. "An incident like this cannot and will not be tolerated," MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. "I understand that Mr. Young is regretful, and it is my expectation that he will learn from this unfortunate episode. ... Full Story Top Celebrity chef's Lamborghini recovered at teenager's storage shed; boy arrested in bold caper Mon,30 Apr 2012 05:52 PM PDT Associated Press - SAN FRANCISCO - A celebrity chef's Lamborghini sports car has been recovered from a teenager's storage container a little more than a year after it was reported stolen from a San Francisco exotic car dealership. Full Story Top

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