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Former LDS bishop accused of investor fraud

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 1:42pm

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A federal grand jury has indicted a former LDS bishop on charges he cheated investors including members of his congregation out of more than $400,000, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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In this arrest mug released by the Lynn Haven, Fla. Police Dept. shows Tyree Lincoln Smith on Monday, Jan. 23. 2012. Smith was arrested after arriving from Bridgeport, CT. where he allegedly killed and ate a homeless man in that city. Smith told family members that he killed Angel "Tun Tun" Gonzalez with a hatchet and ate pieces of Gonzalez' s brain and eye. (AP Photo/Lynn Haven Police Dept., HO)

Ax murderer ate victim's eyeball, brains

David Owens The Hartford Courant

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 6:16pm

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Police and U.S. Marshals in Florida have taken a former Connecticut resident into custody on charges that he used an ax to kill a man, then ate a portion of his victim's brain and one of his eyeballs.

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Child-porn photos on web lead to 45-year sentence

Edmund H. Mahony, The Hartford Courant

Last updated Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 6:05pm

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A detail pulled five years ago by an investigator in France from a notorious series of obscene Internet photographs resulted in the imposition Tuesday of the most severe sentence ever in a child pornography prosecution in Connecticut, and one of the longest in the U.S.

A federal judge sentenced truck driver William Oehne, who is 50 years old, to 45 years in prison for taking pornographic photographs of the 9-year old daughter of a former girlfriend and using the Internet to distribute the images to pedophiles around the world.

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