A Florida man has been sentenced to five months in prison for stealing personal information from bank customers to make purchases.
Prosecutors say 26-year-old Roger Ernesto Ballester Caser of Hialeah, Florida was sentenced last week in federal court in Wheeling on one count of using an unauthorized access device. He also was ordered to pay more than $11,000 in restitution.
Prosecutors say Caser admitted to using Main Street Bank of... [...]
Civil rights activists have been begging Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle for weeks to arrest county police officer Alejandro Giraldo, who was filmed brutally arresting Dyma Loving, a woman who was simply trying to report that a man had threatened to murder her with a shotgun.
Today, Rundle's office finally announced the state is taking action. Prosecutors have charged Giraldo with one count of misdemeanor... [...]
Against the wishes of pretty much everyone involved in education, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature this week passed a bill that would allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom. The deeply controversial move, which was approved after hours of debate that sometimes brought lawmakers to tears, would ostensibly make schools safer in the wake of last year's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
But the... [...]
A Miami man, who was a former adjunct professor at the University of Miami and Florida International University, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for maintaining two storage units that contained more than 5,000 images of child pornography, Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced Tuesday in a news release.
Adolfo Zayas-Bazan Albaisa, 56, pleaded guilty to one count... [...]
A substitute teacher at Ben Gamla Preparatory High School, a charter school in Hollywood, sexually abused a 15-year-old student, and her mother wants both the school and the teacher to pay for her daughter's suffering, according to a civil lawsuit filed in Broward County court.
The girl's mother filed lawsuits against the teacher identified as Roman Jose Fondon Jr., the school and Academica, the Florida... [...]
