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Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:36 PM PDT
Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Child sex convict Sandusky sent to Pennsylvania maximum security prison Top former Dominican anti-drug official arrested on drug charges Green Party presidential hopeful arrested in pipeline protest Silicon Valley exporter sentenced to prison Dad Who Taped Tot's Mouth Acquitted Thai man acquitted of insulting king on Facebook

Child sex convict Sandusky sent to Pennsylvania maximum security prison  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 09:36 PM PDT HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child sexual predator Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his days in a maximum security prison in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the state corrections system decided on Wednesday. Sandusky, 68, who was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison this month for sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, was transferred to the State Correctional Institution at Greene County, near Pittsburgh, where he was put in protective custody. ... Full Story	Top
Top former Dominican anti-drug official arrested on drug charges  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 05:46 PM PDT SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) - - Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday arrested a former police colonel accused of being a "powerful drug trafficker" responsible for sending tons of cocaine to the United States. Francisco Hiraldo Guerrero, chief operating officer of the country's main counter-drug agency, the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), between 2006-2008, would be extradited to the United States where he faces four counts of drug trafficking in the Southern District of New York, the government said. ... Full Story	Top
Green Party presidential hopeful arrested in pipeline protest  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 05:36 PM PDT (Reuters) - Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested in Texas on Wednesday for criminal trespass when she tried to bring food and other supplies to protesters opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline, a local official said. Ty Oaks, a corrections officer at the Wood County jail, said Stein, 62, was released after she promised to return to appear in court on the trespass charge. Oaks did not know when Stein's court date would be. Calls to the Green Party, an environment-oriented left-leaning party, requesting comment on Stein's arrest were not immediately returned. ... Full Story	Top
Silicon Valley exporter sentenced to prison  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 01:06 PM PDT A Silicon Valley electronics exporter was sentenced to a little more than a year in prison for selling sensitive technology to China without a license. Full Story	Top
Dad Who Taped Tot's Mouth Acquitted  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 06:13 AM PDT Attorney Calls Dad a Good Father Who Was Just Being Playful Full Story	Top
Thai man acquitted of insulting king on Facebook  Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 05:51 AM PDT A Thai criminal court has acquitted a 41-year-old computer programmer of charges that he insulted the country's king on Facebook. Full Story	Top

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