43+ min ago   (1488+ words) WASHINGTON, DC, August 22, 2026 — Walter Presha Junior was arrested and released on June 18, 2026, one day after a federal grand jury indicted him for allegedly steering Medicare beneficiaries toward Leigh Tesar’s extraordinarily profitable wound-care practice in exchange for kickback compensation. Court records…...

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (734+ words) A Texas resident became suspicious when his printed bank statements suddenly stopped arriving. When he checked his account, he found an unauthorized withdrawal and asked his bank to freeze everything. But police say the accounts were not frozen. By the…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (467+ words) Former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright must pay thousands of dollars after admitting to ethics violations involving the hiring of his son and the use of a county credit card for personal purchases. According to South Carolina Ethics Commission documents,…...

9+ hour, 16+ min ago   (805+ words) A Connecticut man who prosecutors say recruited financially vulnerable people into a sprawling check-kiting operation that cost banks more than $350,000 has been sentenced to five years behind bars. Eric Christian, 44, of Mansfield, received a 20-year prison sentence with execution suspended…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (178+ words) BERN TOWNSHIP, PA — Police have charged a Harrisburg woman with negotiating counterfeit checks using stolen identification at multiple banks. Tonya Braun was charged with theft by deception, receiving stolen property, access device fraud and related offenses following an investigation that…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (98+ words) UPPER ALLEN, PA — A Harrisburg man was arrested Friday on charges of forgery and identity theft after an investigation into fraudulent use of a victim’s personal information. Upper Allen Police received a report Tuesday of identity theft occurring at a…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (128+ words) NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — Police are warning residents about a phone scam in which callers are impersonating North Brunswick police officers and the chief of police. The North Brunswick Township Police Department said scammers are spoofing the department’s phone number to…...

10+ hour, 44+ min ago   (386+ words) A Dallas-Irving man and a Chicago woman face federal charges after prosecutors accused them of using fraudulent applications to generate more than $11 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans and collect kickbacks. A federal grand jury indicted Latrina Dorsey, 50, of Chicago,…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (70+ words) Cook Islands News Saturday 22 August 2026 | Written by Losirene Dasalusalu | Published in Crime, Local, National An example of the advance fee fraud through Facebook. POLICE MEDIA/26082130 Cook Islands Police have received five complaints of fraud where victims were ‘baited’ through promises…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (472+ words) A Gujarat-born man has been sentenced to more than nine years in a US federal prison for his role in a financial fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims, with his lawyer citing his childhood in extreme poverty in India as…...