“Law and crime” on The Daily Caller

Russian authorities arrested a man Tuesday in connection with dismembered body parts that were scattered around Moscow, police said according to reports. (more)

A 32-year-old Houston man butchered his best friend with a chainsaw and stashed his body parts in a trash bag under an abandoned house, police said. (more)

A man has killed and beheaded a British woman in a supermarket on the Spanish island of Tenerife. (more)

A 19-year-old American man has blamed the narcotic effects of bath salts* for sparking an episode that resulted in the death of a pygmy goat. (more)

A former Miss Russia who was busted for forging prescriptions to get painkillers was arrested Tuesday for shoplifting in a Manhattan clothing store, sources said. (more)

The first trial against former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was a bust. (more)

41 years after the murder of 15 year old John McCabe of Tewksbury, three suspects finally go before the judge. (more)

After a government prosecution that lasted nearly seven years, a federal jury Wednesday convicted home-run king Barry Bonds on one charge of obstruction of justice for allegedly lying about using performance-enhancing drugs. (more)

APRIL 8–Earlier this week, Magistrate Daniel Cook, who handles small claims cases in Lorain, Ohio, was on the bench when he reached for his gavel and discovered it was missing. After checking “every possible place it could be,” police reported, Cook concluded that someone had actually stolen his gavel. (more)

The hunt for a suspected serial killer in Long Island took a dramatic new turn yesterday when the discovery of eight bodies were linked to murders of four prostitutes in Atlantic City, in neighbouring New Jersey, in 2006. (more)

For 17 years, Matthew Kluger and Garrett Bauer assiduously avoided each other, communicating through a go-between—and over that time, made each other rich in one of the longest-running insider-trading schemes ever uncovered, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday. (more)

BROOKSVILLE — A Sumter County woman has been arrested and accused of stealing more than $500,000 from her in-laws to support a gambling habit that saw her spend more than $14 million at a Tampa casino over two years. (more)

The recent conviction of former lobbyist Kevin Ring under the “honest services” fraud statute marks the continuing mission creep of federal criminal law. Ring’s case is a cautionary tale of the terrible legal outcomes that can come about when a thoroughly dislikable — although statutorily innocent — defendant is in the dock. (more)

The vacuum remains at large, but Lincoln police ticketed a man who they believe used one to suck a bunch of quarters out of several apartment house laundry machines. (more)

Prosecutors in the Barry Bonds perjury trial stunned the court Monday by revealing the discovery of a secret recording of Bonds’ orthopedic surgeon, who denied last week that he had discussed the player’s alleged steroid use with others. (more)

The Staten Island terror charged with viciously bashing a young female middle-school classmate while demanding to know “Are you a Muslim?” is himself the son of a Muslim woman, his dad revealed today. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California workplace safety officials have fined Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video and another porn producer for not using condoms on set to protect sex performers from exposure to disease. (more)

Google Inc., has agreed to implement a comprehensive privacy policy and undergo 20 years of independent audits as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in connection with charges that it used deceptive tactics and violated promises to customers when launching its Buzz social network last year. (more)

WASHINGTON — AARP lobbied for the new health care law and now it stands to profit, Republican lawmakers charged Wednesday as they called for the IRS to investigate whether the powerful interest group representing older Americans should be stripped of its federal tax exemption. (more)

Imagine waking up one Sunday morning and reading the headline in your local newspaper: “Supreme Court rules that the press can’t question the president,” and imagine that their ruling cited international case law from nations like China or Cuba, where it is illegal to question the word of the executive branch. While this idea may seem far-fetched, it is a daunting possibility. (more)