Category: Crime

One of our ninjas sent us a link to the story of Brandon Hurley who was arrested for impersonating a cop in Louisville, Kentucky. Hurley picked a vehicle to pull over which turned out to be driven by an off-duty police officer;

Brandon Hurley, 24, did a U-turn and pulled up behind a vehicle driven by an off-duty officer with the Louisville Metro Police Department on Saturday night. Hurley began flashing his lights and honking his horn to get the officer to pull over, authorities said.

“The officer passed the defendant. The defendant then did a U-turn in the road and got behind affiant’s vehicle,” Judge Sean Delahanty said. “That’s just some bad luck there.”

The off-duty officer pulled over, thinking Hurley needed help. But Hurley approached the vehicle and asked the driver if he knew he had hit a curb and how fast he was going, WLKY reports.

Officials said Hurley identified himself as a Jefferson County officer when the off-duty cop asked for identification. Hurley said he didn’t have his badge and was confused when the driver identified himself as a police officer. When the real cop asked for his badge number, Hurley quickly got back in his car and sped off in the other direction.

The off-duty officer wrote down Hurley’s license plate number which officers used to find him. Also, the off-duty officer remembered Hurley from his high school class.

KARE11 reports that Derek Alldred, the phony SEAL who has been ripping off women across the country has been charged in Texas.

An alleged con man who poses as a war hero and is accused of ripping off women all across the country has been indicted on federal criminal charges.

Derek Alldred could be facing years in federal prison thanks in part to the efforts of Minnesota women who say they were among his victims. Both Joann and Linda tell KARE 11 Investigates they feel vindicated by the federal charges. They ask that their last names not be used to protect their privacy.

“Validated, vindicated,” said Linda of Woodbury. “It makes you feel like it’s not all in your head.” “Not crazy,” added Joann.

KARE 11 first exposed Alldred a year ago, tracking down victims across the country.

Joann and Linda are two of nearly 20 women who say they were scammed by Alldred after meeting him on online dating sites.

The article continues that Alldred was indicted on 10 federal charges including identity theft, mail fraud, and felon in possession of a firearm.

Earlier this year, we talked about Elizabeth Honig who admitted in court that she managed to rip off the VA to the tune of about $2.8 million when she enrolled veteran students in her school, despite the fact most of them weren’t eligible to study at the Computer Insight Learning Center.

Well, according to NJ.com, she was sentenced this week;

The owner of a computer training school program in Monmouth County was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for stealing $2.8 million from a federally funded program for veterans.

Elizabeth Honig, 52, of the Morganville section of Marlboro, previously pleaded guilty to theft of government funds.

Honig was also ordered to pay $2,831,455 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said Monday. She will be subject to three years of supervised released after completing her prison stint.

I’ll be over here holding my breath until she coughs up the 3 million bucks.

We talked about Air National Guard Colonel Michael Shawn Garrett when he was arrested last Spring while he was attempting to meet with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy for sex in Panama City, Florida. Stars & Stripes reports that he was convicted yesterday.

Air Force Col. Michael Shawn Garrett, 45, arranged to meet with an undercover police officer who he believed was a 14-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity, according to evidence U.S. attorneys presented during a two-day trial in Panama City, Justice Department spokeswoman Amy Alexander said Wednesday in a prepared statement.

Garrett is set to be sentenced Jan. 11. He faces at least 10 years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment without parole.

Ten years ain’t enough. Apparently the conversation Garret had with the person he thought was a 14-year-old boy lasted for 90 minutes and Garret was explicit in what his intentions were with this minor child.

Garrett is assigned to the 101st Air and Space Operations Group at Tyndall Air Force Base, near Panama City, according to the Air Force. He has served in Air Force since 1991 and was assigned to Tyndall since 2015.

I guess “don’t ask, don’t tell” didn’t work.

The other day, we mentioned Floyd R. May of Moline, Illinois in our feel good stories when he kidnapped a woman and she ended up shooting him at her first opportunity. According to Quad-Cities Online he’s been charged;

Floyd R. May, 61 , Moline, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated battery with a weapon in relation to that case, according to Rock Island County court records.

Two other charges — unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and aggravated assault — were related to separate incident in which Mr. May allegedly threatened a man with a knife.

I’m only mentioning the story because the dude should have been locked up a long time ago, just for looking felonious. I’ll bet there are some bodies buried in his basement, too.