A Virginia woman was accused of posing as a psychologist for at least three years, treating hundreds of patients which mostly comprised of children. Sharonda L. Avery, 42, was indicted this month on 13 charges, including obtaining money by false pretenses, two counts of passing a forged document, perjury and three counts of practicing psychology …
A West Virginia woman has been criminally charged days after allegedly admitting that she manufactured the story about her 5-year-old daughter’s attempted abduction at a mall—a fabrication which resulted in the arrest of a male shopper. According to WSAZ, Santana Adams, 24, has been charged with falsely reporting an emergency incident in connection with Monday’s incident …
An Ohio man who pretended to be a boy who disappeared in 2011 is behind bars facing federal charges. Bryan Michael Rini, 23, was booked into the Hamilton County Jail on Thursday night, according to FOX 19. The FBI took custody of the man at around 10:30 a.m. Friday morning. He’s been charged with giving a …
An Oregon father is facing criminal charges for allegedly staging a home invasion in an attempt to cover up his theft of $740 from his daughter’s Girl Scout cookie sales. Brian Couture, 40, reportedly called Forest Grove police to his home on March 6, claiming an unknown assailant entered his home through a sliding door. Couture …
Along with 13 other parents, actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman made their first court appearances Wednesday as they face criminal charges for their alleged participation in a college admissions fraud ring. According to NBC News, Huffman, 56, arrived three hours early to federal court in Boston while Loughlin, 54, and her fashion designer husband, …
In the wake of an alleged college admissions scam ring that included some celebrity suspects, the process has seen increased scrutiny over the apparent prevalence of fraud. As The Hollywood Reporter noted, a student at Harvard-Westlake, a Los Angeles college preparatory school, wrote a school newspaper article calling attention to reports that parents had been …
A woman and a homeless man whose feel-good holiday story garnered $400,000 on GoFundMe before it was exposed as a scam pleaded guilty to various federal charges Wednesday in a New Jersey court. Katelyn McClure, 28, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud while Johnny Bobbitt Jr., 36, confessed to conspiring to commit money laundering …
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a Georgia mother and her mentally disabled son who remain unaccounted for after the mother’s alleged scam to take his trust fund fell apart. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Lee Earnest Longmire, 20, hasn’t been heard from in several years. Meanwhile, his mother, Yvonne Longmire, 58, is accused of presenting …
A New Jersey man is facing fraud charges after surveillance cameras reportedly showed him intentionally throwing ice on the floor of his former workplace and fake a fall that he later filed an insurance claim for. As part of a statewide crackdown on insurance fraud, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office released footage they allege shows a fake …
A Girl Scouts troop leader in New Jersey has reportedly been ousted from the organization after authorities determined that her story about someone stealing $1,000 in cookie sales was just that: a story. According to NJ.com, Jessica Medina claimed an envelope containing $500 and several checks was stolen on the afternoon of January 18 when …
A Virginia woman who managed to dupe dozens of victims out of millions of dollars with claims that she was investing in a healthcare software program—but instead was living a life of luxury—learned her fate Friday. The Washington Post reported that 43-year-old Keisha Williams, of Ashburn, was handed down a sentence of 15 ½ years …
Johnny Bobbitt, the homeless man accused of conspiring with a couple in a GoFundMe scam that raked in nearly half a million dollars, was reportedly rearrested Wednesday in Philadelphia for failing to appear in a New Jersey Court. According to the New York Daily News, a warrant was issued for Bobbitt, 35, Tuesday after didn’t …
