Content Tagged 'fraud'

34-year-old Latori S. Sanders of Little Rock, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for bank fraud, identity theft, and credit card fraud.

A new trial date is set for an indicted Ouachita County judge.

Roger Stephen Clary, age 60, of Little Rock, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and had four counts of wire fraud dismissed.

A Georgia man was found guilty on 10 counts of wire fraud after he took $300,000 from an elderly relative in Bentonville with the promise to invest it, but instead used the money to pay for his personal expenses.

Kitty Smith, the former Assistant Director of the Benton Parks and Recreation Department, pled guilty Tuesday to charges related to the theft of funds from the Tyndall Park concession stand.

The University of Central Arkansas is asking faculty, students and staff to be watchdogs against fraud.

Federal prosecutors have charged a woman who worked as a school nurse in Searcy with fraud and identity theft for allegedly using information from legitimate nurses to get and keep her job.

A former Vice President of USA Drug was sentenced to 33 months in prison for mail fraud and money laundering.

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas has announced the indictment of a former Arkansas insurance company executive on bank fraud, money laundering and other charges.

A woman who worked for 37 years as the financial officer for the Black River Area Development Corp. has pleaded guilty to a charge for allegedly embezzling more than $390,000 over an 11-year period.

A former Little Rock bank executive has who pleaded guilty to bank fraud and other charges has been sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison.

A grand jury has handed up a 12-count federal indictment against a former director and treasurer of the Little Rock Civitan Club.

A federal appeals court has upheld the sentences of three men who challenged their convictions that followed an investigation into marriage fraud, illegal gambling and drug trafficking.

An east Arkansas lawmaker resigned Wednesday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit election fraud, and a spokesman said Gov. Mike Beebe was weighing whether to call an election for the remaining four months.

A bookkeeper who worked for the Little Rock School District for 18 years has been arrested for fraudulent use of a district credit card.

A Conway insurance agent says someone stole thousands of dollars from her business and her customers resulting in several cancelled policies and she thinks it is an inside job.

A federal judge in central Arkansas on Friday sentenced the owner of a former Little Rock medical equipment business to 27 months in prison for health care fraud.

A Fort Smith bail bondsman is charged with converting to his own use $120,000 he received in collateral on a bond.

A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by a convicted former Arkansas mayor against various state and federal officials and members of the media.

The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is seeking help from the public in finding a check forgery suspect.

You know to be suspicious of counterfeit purses… even counterfeit cash… but counterfeit food?? It's a growing threat in the US and beyond.

Monday, managers at Haynes Machine Shop say about eleven thousand dollars went missing from their bank account.

A federal appeals court says it won't review the case of a former Garland City mayor convicted of mail fraud.

Hot Spring County deputies say someone took satellite T.V. smart cards and did a very dumb thing.

A former Jonesboro pastor has pleaded guilty to defrauding an Oklahoma bank and failing to pay payroll taxes.

A Little Rock man who defrauded investors out of more than $700,000 pleaded guilty to mail fraud Thursday. One of his victims, the wife of a solider who died in Iraq, lost nearly all of the death benefit she received.

Officials from the Bryant Police Department arrested a man suspected of multiple fraud crimes over the weekend.

The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a woman who has 14 felony warrants for forgery.

Malvern police arrest a man for forging multiple pain killer prescriptions. Police think the man stole a prescription pad from a doctor and filled the prescriptions in on his own.

Arkansas lawyer and businessman Kevin Lewis was sentenced to 121 months in prison Friday after pleading guilty to bank fraud. Lewis was also ordered to pay $40 million in restitution.

An audit of a volunteer fire department in southwest Arkansas has found nearly $12,000 that the audit says was apparently stolen or fraudulently spent.