Being locked up inside a maximum security prison didn’t stop one of Britain’s most dangerous criminals from using Facebook to intimidate his enemies.
Colin Gunn, a criminal mastermind who ordered the killing of his own grandparents, was able to stay in touch with as many as 565 Facebook friends over the past two months.
Gunn is currently [...]

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It’s time to pay the piper.
Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene turned himself in on Monday at the Larimer County Detention Center in Colorado to begin serving his 90-day prison term.
Heene pleaded guilty in November to a felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant.
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Prosecutors said he and his [...]

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Time to pay the piper, Richard Heene!
The Colorado dad who reported that his son, Falcon Heene, had floated away in a runaway balloon was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail on Wednesday for staging the elaborate hoax.  Most of that time will be on a work-release basis, however.
Mayumi Heene, the boy’s mother, does not [...]

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Lil Wayne now knows then his one-year prison sentence will be begin.
Wayne (A.K.A. Dwayne Carter), 27, was presented with the charges following an incident 2 years ago where a loaded gun was found in his tour bus.
He will begin his sentence on February 9th, just one week after his new album hits stores.
Wayne remained [...]

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Director Roman Polanski will stay in prison outside Zurich until at least Monday, according to a Swiss official on Friday.
Polanski will not be placed under house arrest in Switzerland for at least three more days, as he has not yet fulfilled all the requirements to make sure he remains in his chalet in the luxury [...]

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Pamela Smart, the school teacher / seductress played by Nicole Kidman in the movie To Die For, has received an $23,875 payday from the state of New York.
Smart is currently serving a life sentence for recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet approved the settlement agreement on Monday to [...]

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Remember Rodell Vereen? Back in July, we told you that he had been busted for having sex with a horse – again. He’s a repeat offender.
Vereen was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to buggery. The presiding judge also ordered Vereen, of South Carolina, to get counseling and [...]

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Lil Wayne is heading to prison.  The rap star pleaded guilty to felony gun possession on  Thursday and has agreed to spend a year in jail.
Wayne (A.K.A. Dwayne Carter), 27, was presented with the charges following an incident 2 years ago where a loaded gun was found in his tour bus.
He pleaded guilty [...]

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New York rap artist Shyne is slated to be released from prison today. The 30 year-old rapper (real name: Jamal Barrow) was handed 10 years in prison back in June of 2001 for charges related to a much publicized 1999 shooting involving Diddy and Jennifer Lopez.
Shyne has been incarcerated for more than 8 years at [...]

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A woman in Florida was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Monday for storing her mother’s corpse in a bedroom in her house for several years while collecting more than $230,000 in benefits.
Penelope Sharon Jordan pleaded guilty to theft of government funds back in June, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office [...]

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