
Owner of Lighthouse Properties pleads guilty to wire fraud
A Forest man who owned and operated Lighthouse Properties of Virginia Inc. pleaded guilty this week in connection with an embezzlement scheme in excess of $550,000.

A Forest man who owned and operated Lighthouse Properties of Virginia Inc. pleaded guilty this week in connection with an embezzlement scheme in excess of $550,000.

Attorney General Mark Herring’s lawsuit against Charles D. Warren, Jr., the founder and CEO of Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers Inc., will move forward.

Attorney General Mark Herring has filed a suit against Libre by Nexus and its parent company, Nexus Services, alleging that the company preys on immigrants held in federal detention centers.

A Roanoke woman who failed to disclose her family’s ownership stakes in a series of show ponies as part a bankruptcy proceeding was sentenced today in U.S. District Court.

A Roanoke woman who failed to disclose her family’s ownership stakes in a series of show ponies as part a bankruptcy proceeding pleaded guilty earlier this week in U.S. District Court.

Local, state and federal law enforcement have spent the past year pursuing roughly 50 new tips related to the tragic deaths of two Virginia Tech students on Aug. 26, 2009.

A Roanoke gang member pleaded guilty today in federal court to racketeering and firearms charges and faces life in prison.

A California man who used to live in Charlottesville has been charged with threatening to bomb Charlottesville city school buildings.

A Marion man, James Brown, was arrested last week on a charge that he lied to federal agents about his involvement in the burning of a cross on the front lawn of an African-American woman’s home.

Federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint in Roanoke today to recover more than $543,000 from individuals based in China who purported to sell face masks and N-95 respirators at inflated prices but never shipped the products.
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