A southwestern Idaho woman who pleaded guilty to defrauding the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s Medicaid program by falsely claiming services to participants with developmental disabilities has been sentenced to 180 days in the Ada County Jail and must repay more than $146,000 in criminal restitution.
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A Fort Hall man was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
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Stacker has collected information to help readers understand the varying hate crime laws across the U.S.
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Former Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland will not be going to trial.
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By Amir Vera and Kacey Cherry, CNN Law enforcement officials believe the body found in a submerged vehicle Sunday is “more than likely” that of Kiely Rodni, the missing 16-year-old last seen almost three weeks ago at a campground party in Northern California, authorities said Monday. Kiely was at the Prosser Family Campground on August
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The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating 28-year-old Justin Wayne Gould.
Continue Reading Two men were sentenced to federal prison in separate drug distribution cases this week, announced Josh Hurwit, the United States Attorney for the District of Idaho.
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Edward Vance, 64, of Hagerman, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced Friday.
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Denise Royal, CNN A US magistrate judge started the process of potentially releasing some information from the affidavit that the Justice Department used to obtain a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Judge Bruce Reinhart said during a hearing at the West Palm Beach
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Two men from southern Idaho were sentenced to federal prison in separate firearms cases this week, announced Josh Hurwit, the United States Attorney for the District of Idaho.
Continue Reading Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced Idaho joined 49 other states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the federal government to settle allegations of fraud against Mallinckrodt ARD, LLC (formerly known as Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.).
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Lori Vallow-Daybell made an appearance in court Tuesday morning.
Continue Reading Amarachi Orie, CNN A painting believed to be by Pablo Picasso and estimated to be worth millions of dollars has been found during a drugs raid in Iraq, according to authorities. The allegedly stolen artwork was discovered on Saturday in the possession of three people in the Diyala province in central-eastern Iraq, reports the state-run
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The Idaho Department of Correction is searching for a Treasure Valley Community Reentry Center resident who walked away from his job in the community.Michael Frangesh, IDOC #113000, was last seen at a job site near Boise Airport around at 8:00 a.m. Saturday.
Continue Reading By Zahra Ullah, CNN Brittney Griner’s legal team has filed an appeal against a Russian court’s verdict sentencing the WNBA star to nine years in prison for smuggling drugs into Russia, Griner’s lawyer told CNN on Monday, days after the Russian government confirmed for the first time discussions about a potential prisoner swap involving a
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During the past few weeks, Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies have responded to multiple vehicle burglaries at boat ramps in the Swan Valley area along the Snake River.
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Sean Robert Wathen, 50, was sentenced in United States District Court for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
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Three people were arrested Wednesday on criminal charges in three separate indictments filed in the District of Idaho.
Continue Reading A Nampa man was sentenced to 126 months in federal prison for distribution of
methamphetamine.
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A man was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison for sending threatening emails to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., 56, was sentenced in US District Court in Maryland to 37 months in federal prison, followed by three years of
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We now have a plea from the woman once accused of causing the death of a Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputy.
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A Wilder man was sentenced to 124 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.
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The Idaho Supreme Court held two hearings on Wednesday, Aug 3, surrounding Idaho’s abortion laws.
Planned Parenthood has petitioned for the court to overturn the State’s Fetal Heartbeat abortion ban and pause Idaho’s abortion trigger ban set to go into effect on August 25th.
A federal jury in Idaho convicted five defendants for their roles in operating a $41 million dollar scheme wherein they sold counterfeit cellphones and cellphone accessories on Amazon.com and eBay.com which they misrepresented as new and genuine Apple and Samsung products.
Continue Reading A 51-year-old of Boise was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
Continue Reading A Caldwell man was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Continue Reading A Lewiston man was sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Carolyn Sung, CNN A grand jury in Lake County, Illinois, has returned 117 felony counts against Robert E. Crimo III, the man accused of shooting into a crowd during a July 4th parade in Highland Park, killing seven people and woounding dozens of others. Crimo, 21, is charged with 21 counts
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On Wednesday at approximately 10:30 a.m. Madison County Sheriff’s Office deputies pursued and apprehended a wanted subject in the Burton area of Madison County.
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Pocatello Police are looking for 3 children who may be with their mother.
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A new trial date has been set for Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland a day after he announced he will resign from office.
Continue Reading Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland will resign from office on Aug. 1, 2022.
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Kevin Conlon, CNN After carrying out a massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school that left 17 dead, gunman Nikolas Cruz sat next to the brother of a victim at McDonald’s, surveillance footage played in court showed. Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student John Wilford, whose sister Maddy Wilford was
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Early Thursday morning, Idaho Falls Police Officers and Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies located Peter Lewis, a known fugitive who recently did not return to Bonneville
County Jail after court order furlough.
It all started as a regular day for Aubree Ours when she started on her route, to deliver meals to the seniors on the Meals On Wheels program. Except when she pulled up onto a home on Rigby’s 400 N street something would be different.
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies are seeking the public’s help locating three inmates who cut their ankle monitor’s off and failed to return to the jail.
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 60-year-old woman Tuesday night after a traffic stop produced multiple illegal drugs in her vehicle.
Continue Reading Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced Tuesday Idaho’s participation in a $34.2 million multistate agreement with a New York-based jewelry company that defrauded thousands of U.S. servicemembers and veterans.
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The Idaho Department of Correction is searching for a walkaway from the Idaho Falls Community Reentry Center.
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The Blackfoot-Bingham County Joint Detective Division was investigating a possible narcotics violation inside the city limits of Blackfoot Monday.
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The Idaho Republican Party has rejected adding language to their platform to allow an abortion to save the life of the mother.
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Six of the 31 members of a white supremacist group who were arrested near a northern Idaho pride event last month will be in court on Monday afternoon, facing misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to riot.
Continue Reading The trial of Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland has been postponed.
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker US Customs and Border Protection officers in Texas have seized nearly 90 pounds of hard narcotics with an estimated street value of more than $690,000, the agency said. Border Patrol officers and Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers seized 32 packages containing nearly 90 pounds of alleged cocaine, CBP said in a
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Earlier Friday, Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies made contact with 58-year-old Randy Michael Larkin in Chubbuck and placed him under arrest for the murder of Morey Pelton.
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The Idaho Falls Police Department is investigating a burglary that occurred early Friday morning at Planet Doom on 1st Street.
Continue Reading Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced a Twin Falls woman was sentenced on Monday for provider fraud and obstruction of a Medicaid fraud investigation.
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The man charged with shooting two Pocatello police officers will be heading to trial.
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Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputies served a search warrant Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at 797 E. 2700 N. Monteview located in Jefferson County.
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon’s smart-doorbell company, Ring, has provided surveillance footage to law enforcement without a warrant or the consent of doorbell-owners 11 times this year alone, according to a letter Amazon (AMZN) sent to Congress earlier this month. The disclosure highlights the degree of Amazon’s control over data generated by the doorbells’ cameras
Continue Reading By David Shortell, CNN One day late last month, as new abortion restrictions began taking shape in US states, three Mexican women quietly crossed into the country at different points along the border, dozens of abortion-inducing pills hidden in their belongings. The medication, an FDA-approved two-drug combination, had traveled across the interior of Mexico in
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A 51-year-old Genesee man was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
Continue Reading By Josh Campbell, Melissa Alonso and Dakin Andone, CNN Casey White, the inmate who escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, has been indicted for felony murder in connection to her death, according to Lauderdale County Circuit Court documents. The indictment alleges Casey White, while committing first-degree escape, “caused the death of
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An Oklahoma man is in the Bannock County Jail after allegedly shooting at police officers Saturday night.
Continue Reading A 43-year-old Dallas man was arrested and charged with trafficking methamphetamine after agents seized 115 gallons of liquid methamphetamine and nearly 9 lbs of crystal methamphetamine that officials say has the potential street value of more than $2.5 million.
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN The US Marshals Service has arrested 13 of the most wanted sex offenders in Iowa, authorities say. All of the fugitives were non-compliant with Iowa’s Sex Offender Registry, and seven had former convictions for “crimes against children under the age of 13,” US Marshals said in a news release on Friday.
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Attorneys for Amber Heard have asked the court to declare a mistrial and order a new trial in the defamation case with her ex-husband Johnny Depp. In court documents dated July 8 in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, which supplemented an earlier filing, attorneys for Heard claim the information
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Conservation Officers with the Idaho Fish and Game are seeking information from the public regarding two mule deer bucks shot and left to waste sometime between June 24 and June 29 in the White Owl Butte Area of Madison County.
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The Pocatello Police Department said on June 19, two suspects took more than $1,700 worth of perfume.
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies are seeking the public’s help in locating 27-year-old Larry Mathew Robinson II.
Continue Reading By Paul Vercammen and Steve Almasy, CNN Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will serve 245 months in federal prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Senior US District Court Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced Chauvin to 252 months but subtracted seven months for time served. US attorneys asked the court for Chauvin’s sentence to run
Continue Reading By Anna Chernova, Abby Phillip, Dakin Andone and Alaa Elassar, CNN Two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Russian court near Moscow, her lawyers confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Griner, whom the US State Department has classified as wrongfully detained, faces up to 10 years in
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Mexico’s army and National Guard announced Thursday what they called a “historic” seizure of over a half-ton of fentanyl at a warehouse in the northern city of Culiacan.
Continue Reading On Friday, Dakota James Hoffman, 29, of Bellevue, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced.
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Pocatello Police Department officers are seeking witnesses to a physical disturbance that occurred at 420 North Main Street during Revive on June 29.
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies and Idaho Falls Fire responded to a vehicle accident last Friday evening just before 7 p.m. on N. 5th W. near 97th N.
Continue Reading Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit arrested a Chubbuck man on Thursday for alleged sexual exploitation of a child.
Continue Reading Francesca Street, CNN French railway aficionado Arthur Mettetal was watching a video on YouTube when some parked train carriages in the corner of the frame caught his eye. The cars were painted a distinctive night-blue hue once associated with the Orient Express, the famed long-distance trans-Europe passenger train synonymous with 20th century travel glamor. While
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN A gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people and injured dozens more on a July Fourth parade route on Monday, setting off a manhunt that paralyzed the Chicago region before a suspect was apprehended by police later in the day. The wounded ranged from ages 8 to 85. All the
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Idaho State Police completed a 2021 Crime in Idaho Report, primarily detailing statistics collected from police agencies.
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A Mountain Home man was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for unlawful possession of a firearm.
Continue Reading A Nampa man was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Continue Reading A Star woman was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for falsely claiming that a business she controlled qualified as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business.
Continue Reading After a three-day trial, a federal jury sitting in Coeur d’Alene found Qaya Mikel Gordon, 20, guilty of two counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit.
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Days after meal-kit service Daily Harvest announced the voluntary recall of one of its products, the company has been hit with two lawsuits from individuals who said they had their gallbladders removed after consuming it. Daily Harvest, a direct-to-consumer brand that relied on a network of online influencers to promote
Continue Reading Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has announced Thursday investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit arrested an Ammon man on Wednesday for alleged sexual exploitation of a child.
Continue Reading By Jalen Beckford, CNN Human remains found in West Texas in 2013 have been identified as a teen reported missing more than 20 years ago, state officials said. The remains, now identified as Sylvia Nicole Smith, were found in Midland County while workers were surveying near an oil field well site, the Texas Department of
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22-year-old Caleb McCall-Teigen of Boise was sentenced to 204 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting the production of child pornography.
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe and Dakin Andone, CNN Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from his efforts over years to use his fame to ensnare victims he sexually abused. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe and Dakin Andone, CNN Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from his efforts over years to use his fame to ensnare victims he sexually abused. Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence
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The Pocatello Police Department is asking for help from the public concerning a fatality crash that occurred in the evening hours of June 23.
Continue Reading By Inke Kappeler and Ben Brown, CNN A 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been sentenced to five years in prison by a German court for aiding and abetting the murder of 3,518 people during the Holocaust. The man had been charged in 2021 with “knowingly and willfully” aiding and abetting the killing of
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies arrested three individuals over the weekend for multiple drug charges after observing the use of illegal fireworks.
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Breaking and entering is a crime, and $2,000 worth of damage is a felony.
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Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies and Idaho Falls Fire responded to the intersection of 1st St. and Nassau Dr. Wednesday to a reported vehicle versus pedestrian crash.
Continue Reading Attorneys in the case against Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland were in court Thursday discussing when the case will go to trial.
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An Idaho woman has been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison for attempted murder after prosecutors said she put a plastic bag over her husband’s head while he slept.
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez and Tina Burnside, CNN Leanna Taylor has long maintained that her ex-husband did not mean to leave their 22-month-old son Cooper to die in the back of a sweltering SUV eight years ago. In 2016, Taylor took the stand at the trial of Justin Ross Harris, the Georgia father sentenced to life
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa, CNN A 5-year-old boy died after his mother left him inside a car outside the family’s home in Houston while she prepared for her daughter’s birthday party on Monday, a law enforcement official told CNN affiliate KTRK. The mother was in a rush when she got home with her son and 8-year-old
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The much anticipated trial of Lori Vallow-Daybell and her husband Chad Daybell is still months away.
Continue Reading A Caldwell man pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine.
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Police in a small southwestern Idaho town shot and killed a 39-year-old man Wednesday morning, authorities said.
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Two Treasure Valley men, were sentenced for the unlawful taking of a golden eagle without permission.
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A 24-year-old man is behind bars for felony aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN An Australian teenager has been charged with gun offenses after police seized a fully functioning firearm he allegedly made at home with a 3D printer. Police in Western Australia found the weapon and a number of other firearms after executing a search warrant at the 18-year-old man’s home in early June.
Continue Reading The United States District Court entered judgment against Nurse Practitioner Kenneth Lowther for violating the Controlled Substances Act and ordered him to pay $30,000 in fines.
Continue Reading As hate speech targeting LGBTQ people increases among some far-right influencers and others online, experts are warning that extremist groups may see the rhetoric as a call to action.
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The Pocatello Police Department said an arrest was made Monday in connection to a drive by shooting on Friday.
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The Idaho Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on whether the state’s constitution gives a governor the power to veto a state commission’s clemency decision for a death row inmate, but held off making a ruling.
Continue Reading After the arrest of more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group near a northern Idaho pride event, including one identified as its founder, LGBTQ advocates said Sunday that polarization and a fraught political climate are putting their community increasingly at risk.
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