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Fired Austin officer convicted in drug case. A former Austin police officer could be sentenced to up to two years in state jail after a Travis County jury found him guilty Tuesday of giving crack cocaine to a North Austin man while on the force in 2006. Scott Lando, 48, convicted of delivery of a controlled substance, will be sentenced Sept. 9 by visiting state District Judge Fred Moore, who presided over the weeklong trial. Lando also faces other charges, including prostitution and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors said they would wait until after Lando's sentencing before deciding whether to take those cases to trial.

His lawyers are seeking probation. Lando, who has been free on bail, left the courthouse without comment. The jurors ruled Tuesday after deliberating for 13½ hours over two days. Lando was accused of giving drugs and money to prostitutes and their boyfriends, people he met while patrolling a high-crime North Austin area. But after the verdict, juror Kellie Ramirez said that Easely was believable.

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Policeman arrested in hacking probe - UK, Local & National. 28 January 2012 Senior Sun staff Chris Pharo, 42, and Mike Sullivan, 48, along with former executives Fergus Shanahan, 56, and Graham Dudman, 48, were named by sources as suspects facing corruption allegations. They were arrested separately, along with an unnamed serving officer, in the busiest day of activity yet for detectives investigating police payments. Officers also searched News International's headquarters in Wapping in a bid to gain new evidence surrounding the Sun's newsgathering activities. Mr Pharo is one of the best-selling tabloid's most senior news executives while Mr Sullivan is a long-serving and respected crime editor with the paper.

Operation Elveden - which runs alongside the Met's Operation Weeting team - was launched as the phone hacking scandal erupted last July with allegations about the now-axed News of the World targeting Milly Dowler's mobile phone. Clarence Cash, Ex-NYPD Cop, Confesses To Murder Of Wife Tracey Young. An ex-cop turned himself in Sunday for the shooting murder of his wife in their Queens apartment.

Clarence Cash, 49, walked into the Midtown South stationhouse at 6 AM with a bag of guns, and admitted to shooting Tracey Young, his wife of two years. Young, 42, one of the state's top criminal investigators for the tax and finance department, died from four bullet wounds in the torso and three in the face, inside the couple's eighth-floor condo in Briarwood on 84th Drive, just after 11 PM Saturday.

What had started as a date-night, according to The New York Post, turned deadly when Young and Cash got into an argument over holiday money: Building resident Maple Dong, 28, said Young had recently told her Cash "bought a lot of gifts for her for Christmas," including the handbag. In the heat of the argument, Young "mushed" Cash in the face. Young's mother, according to a relative, was also murdered 31 years ago. Cash is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Officers Indicted Amid Supporters. Here are a list of Police Officer names that beat US Berkeley students : occupywallstreet.

Former policeman jailed for £330m VAT fraud. 11 November 2011Last updated at 16:36 The volume of VAT fraud has been slashed in recent years A former policeman has been sent to jail for organising a huge VAT fraud involving bogus sales of mobile phones. Nigel Cranswick, from Dinnington in South Yorkshire, was sentenced to 10 years and three months for his part in trying to defraud HM Revenue & Customs of £330m in VAT refunds. He and five others used fake paperwork to invent sales of six million phones worth £2.4bn in eight months. The judge said the fraud against the HMRC had been "unprecedented". His Honour Judge Brian Forster QC told Newcastle Crown Court that "the figures in this case are astonishing and reveal a blatant nature of the fraud". "They persisted in dishonest trading, despite numerous warnings from HMRC," he added.

The fraud was just one of a large number of so-called "carousel" VAT frauds that plagued the tax authorities in the last decade. How it worked.