CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — A former MTV reality star was arrested in Clearwater Thursday after a year on the run from police in Illinois. Connor Smith, 33, was taken into custody on an open warrant from Lake County, Ill. The warrant was issued last February after he was accused of chatting with a detective posing … Read more
A Moscow court on Friday ordered a Russian journalist who covered the trials of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and other dissidents to remain in custody pending an investigation and trial on charges of extremism. Antonina Favorskaya, also identified by court officials as Antonina Kravtsova, was arrested earlier in March. On Friday, Moscow’s Basmanny … Read more
Taylor Swift’s father, Scott Swift, will not face any charges after allegedly assaulting a paparazzi photographer in Australia last month. In a statement to ET, a member of the New South Wales Police Media Unit told ET that Aussie police “conducted an investigation following a report of an assault” on Feb. 27 involving “Papa Swift,” … Read more
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a children’s book about grief, now faces another attempted murder charge for allegedly drugging him weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of killing her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at … Read more
Sean “Diddy” Combs on August 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia – Credit: Paras Griffin/Getty Images A 25-year-old man accused in a recent lawsuit of being Sean Combs’ drug “mule” was arrested on Monday on cocaine and marijuana possession charges, according to arrest records obtained by Rolling Stone. Brendan Paul was taken into custody by Miami-Dade … Read more
Diddy’s alleged “mule” — as described in a recent lawsuit — was arrested Monday while Diddy and his crew were stopped by federal law enforcement agents … TMZ has confirmed. According to the affidavit, obtained by TMZ, 25-year-old Brendon Paul was booked on two separate drug charges after the feds intercepted Diddy’s plane at the … Read more
One of two Binance executives detained in Nigeria has escaped custody, while the Nigerian government has filed new tax evasion charges against the global cryptocurrency exchange. Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Monday announced that four new charges relating to tax evasion had been filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, according to multiple … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A corruption case involving a former high-ranking Singaporean official expanded Monday with new charges alleging that the ex-transport minister received bottles of whisky and wine, golf clubs and a luxury Brompton bike from a contractor who had dealings with the government. S. Iswaran, a former senior politician in the long-ruling People’s … Read more
STORY: Russia on Sunday charged four men it says are responsible for gunning down scores of people at a concert outside Moscow days earlier– the deadliest attack inside Russia in two decades. Russian media previously identified the men as citizens of the ex-Soviet republic of Tajikistan living in Russia. After unverified and brutal videos of … Read more
S. Iswaran, Singapore’s transport minister, leaves the Singapore State Courts in Singapore, on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Iswaran was charged with corruption, the latest development in the biggest political scandal to hit the city state in close to four decades. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Singapore’s former Transport Minister … Read more