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A Florida police officer has been charged after allegedly orchestrating a "complex scheme" to control a deceased person's home, according to an incident description from the Broward County Sheriff's Department and an arrest affidavit.Brian Louis Sguros, an officer with the Lauderhill Police Department in South Florida, was arrested on Oct. 20 on charges including "official misconduct, criminal use of deceased personal identification, criminal use of personal identification information, offense against […]

A former New York City police detective pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he shot and killed a motorist on New York's George Washington Bridge Wednesday night.Victor Romero, 62, was initially arrested on a murder charge but was arraigned on a lesser count of first-degree manslaughter stemming from the rush-hour shooting of 46-year-old Koran Irvine, an off-duty Con Edison worker and a married father of two children, that occurred after […]

Getty Images / Stock Photo Federal prosecutors charged 15 people across multiple states in connection with an alleged Medicare and insurance fraud schemes they allege collectively took in $2 billion, the Justice Department said on Thursday.Eight of the defendants, some of whom were physicians, were arrested by federal agents on Thursday, with most of the arrests taking place in California, according to officials.The alleged schemes included billing private insurers for phony substance […]

Multiple California parents are facing child endangerment charges in connection with letting their children "illegally ride E-Motos," the Orange County District Attorney announced Wednesday.According to the district attorney's office, the charges come after multiple accidents, including one that left an 11-year-old with a broken collarbone and an arterial bleed and another in which a 13-year-old died after crashing into a light pole.E-motos, or electric motorcycles, are two-wheeled, off-highway motorcycles that […]