#extortion

#extortion

Prosecutor James Brown KC stated that Wazabanga and Belfon did not intend to kill Aladejana but wanted to confront him about a grievance related to a failed business arrangement.

Carlo Tritta, 19, has been locked up for 28 months after pleading guilty to various offences including making indecent images of a child and sexual communications with a child.

Dublin City Council confirmed this week it is liable for levies, potentially amounting to tens of thousands of euro, due to the continued dereliction of the Kinahan gangster's former home on Kildare Road, Crumlin.

People talk about Jeffrey Epstein as though he's special or as though he's mysterious in some way. That takes away from the truth of it, which is that there are lots of people like him.

Godden deliberately targeted men who were seeking companionship and a genuine emotional connection. He abused their trust, manipulated their vulnerabilities and caused significant financial and emotional harm. This was a calculated pattern of offending, not a misunderstanding or a civil dispute, but a clear case of fraud by false representation.

The scheme began in March 2023, when Rambhai Patel, then 36, carried out staged armed robberies with co-conspirators at at least six convenience stores, liquor stores, and fast food restaurants in Massachusetts and other states. Prosecutors said the robberies were designed to help store clerks falsely claim they were victims of violent crimes in applications for U nonimmigrant status, commonly known as a U visa.

Economic abuse, a pervasive form of coercive control, is linked to the death of a victim every three weeks across England and Wales, new analysis reveals. The charity Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) described the findings as a 'wake-up call', emphasising that this type of abuse 'is not just a money problem' but a significant danger.

An extortionist who demanded €20,000 from two innocent victims - threatening one that their children's throats would be slit and warning another he would be killed - has argued that his five-year sentence was twice as severe as that handed to his co-accused.

He wanted something in return for returning files to the Dutch police. What he got in return was an arrest. A press release from Dutch police sums it up: On Thursday evening around 7:00 PM, police arrested a 40-year-old man from Ridderkerk on Prinses Beatrixstraat in Ridderkerk for computer hacking. Due to a police error, the man had inadvertently gained access to confidential police documents.

They blocked the door, kind of pointed some guns at some of the customers in the front, told everyone to stay back,

"Coercive control" is the term for a diabolical relationship pattern that can have devastating consequences. It occurs when one person unreasonably interferes with another person's free will and liberty (Pisarra, 2022). The seriousness of coercive control is being increasingly acknowledged, and in some places, it is now a criminal offence. As heinous as coercive control is, the dynamics of controlling may be key to understanding what is occurring.

Five Dublin criminals with over 120 previous convictions carried out a prolonged attack on a man by branding him with the word 'rat' using a hot-poker iron, waterboarding him, and running over him with an electric bike.

In a notice sent to customers on Monday and seen by The Register, the EV charging outfit said that it detected "unusual activity" on its AWS cloud platform on March 7 and quickly discovered that attackers had launched a ransomware attack against parts of its infrastructure. According to the message, some databases were both encrypted and copied during the intrusion, meaning that the crooks likely walked off with user information before the company pulled the plug.

The 38-count superseding indictment names defendants whom prosecutors identified as members or affiliates of the Anti-Tren gang that emerged from Tren de Aragua, which federal authorities on Jan.20, 2025 designated a foreign terrorist organization. Prosecutors used racketeering conspiracy or RICO statutes, tying groups to crimes, for a wide range of actions, including some linked to an April 15, 2024 double murder in the Bronx.

Pima County police shared that one arrest has been made in relation to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie's mother. On February 5, the FBI arrested Derrick Callella for sending ransom texts asking for bitcoin to the Guthrie family. The FBI traced the phone number from the text message to Torrance, California, where he was arrested. "My next message is to those impostors who are trying to take advantage and profit from this situation. We will investigate and ensure you are held accountable for your actions," FBI agent Heith Janke shared during the press conference on February 5.

At least 14 boys aged 14 to 17 were allegedly lured into Meyers' scheme to send him nude photos and sex videos, which he used to blackmail the minors. Meyers was charged with trafficking in minors, sexual extortion, unlawful contact with a minor, distribution of child sexual abuse material, criminal use of a communication facility, and more following his arrest.

A 47-year-old man arrested by police in Poland for allegedly being involved in cybercriminal activities has been linked to the Phobos ransomware operation. According to Poland's Central Cybercrime Bureau, officers found hacking tools, credentials, payment card numbers, and server IP addresses on the unnamed suspect's devices during a search. They also discovered that the suspect had exchanged messages with the Phobos ransomware group.