Helen Kwong

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | David K. Li |Austin Mullen |Helen Kwong

A disgruntled former Disney employee was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking into a menu-creating system used by the park's restaurants to falsely say foods were safe from certain "allergies, when they were not," Florida federal prosecutors said Thursday. Michael Scheuer, a 40-year-old Winter Garden resident, pleaded guilty earlier in January to several computer-related crimes, authorities said.

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | David K. Li |Austin Mullen |Helen Kwong

/ Updated A Florida man ran down and pinned an 11-year-old girl he had suspected of egging his home in a "reprehensible" confrontation that was caught on video, authorities said Monday. The girl was screaming for help and insisting she had done nothing wrong after 43-year-old Marius Mutu put her on the ground Saturday afternoon, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | David K. Li |Lindsay Good |Helen Kwong

A former California resident made hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling fake celebrity memorabilia, including forged signatures of the Kardashians and President Donald Trump, federal authorities said Monday. Anthony J. Tremayne, 58, who used to live in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina but now resides in Rosarito, Mexico, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, according to federal prosecutors in Southern California.

Nov 14, 2024 | autos.yahoo.com | Helen Kwong |David K. Li

David K. Li and Helen KwongNovember 14, 2024 at 2:59 PM·2 min readA Georgia woman was arrested and accused of allegedly endangering her son — all because the unsupervised 10-year-old walked less than a mile away from home, officials said. Brittany Patterson, 41, had taken another son to a doctor on Oct.

Nov 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | Toby Lyles |Helen Kwong |Kimmy Yam

The recall last week of two Bay Area officials who both championed progressive crime policies reflects long-held frustrations around a previous increase in violence targeting the Asian American community, experts say. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price were ousted by roughly 2 to 1 in races last week. The vote is indicative of Asian Americans’ rightward shift toward tougher crime policies like much of the the state, analysts say.