Helen Kwong

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Kevin Collier |Helen Kwong

Scammers are making money by stealing the identities of some of the most isolated people in the U.S.: inmates on death row. A report published Monday by the identity verification company SentiLink finds that an ongoing scam operation takes the identities of inmates slated for execution in the state of Texas in order to build credit and steal money from lenders.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.