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An estimated $80 billion in health care fraud occurs every year. As a recent CNBC article points out, the problem has gotten worse in recent years, shifting from the typically suspect being an individual physician to organized crime among people who have no background...
Last week, a State Library employee turned herself in for allegedly embezzling $110,000 of privately donated funds. The 39-year-old employee was arrested and booked on 174 counts of unauthorized use of a credit card and 94 counts of forgery and felony theft according...
Amid growing efforts to stop child pornography, it is becoming increasingly well known that one doesn't need to actually photograph an underage person in a pornographic manner; one simply needs to be in possession of the images. Our readers should also understand that...
Murder is always a serious charge. It is even more serious when the person who is killed is a police officer. Such is the case in the indictments that were handed down last week which charged a 27-year-old man with five murders that took place in 2007. One of those he...
New IRS policies designed to facilitate fast online tax returns are reportedly causing an increase in tax fraud, according to law enforcement officials. How are they doing it? First they obtain Social Security numbers and other personal information from hospitals,...
Our readers are probably aware of the recent divorce between Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller and their ensuing custody battle. In the midst of that fight, Sheen pointed to Mueller's drug abuse problems in support of denying her custody of their two young sons. While...
On Thursday, a grand jury in East Baton Rouge indicted two Baton Rouge men on drug and weapons charges. The charges came after the pair was accused of selling synthetic marijuana from a convenience store on Florida Boulevard. Both men were indicted on two counts of...
According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, police arrest 1.4 million people for DWI. The group said that about 1.2 million of those arrested are convicted. Only about 249,000 people convicted for DWI use an interlock device. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...
A 61-year-old man lost his coveted knighthood title from Antiqua after he was arrested and convicted of fraud and several other charges. Some of the charges include conspiracy and obstructing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into the matter....
In our previous post, we noted that homicide rates in Baton Rouge have law enforcement officials concerned and looking for strong solutions. As we mentioned last time, much of the increase in crime is connected to illegal drugs operations made possible by an influx of...
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