Criminal

NEW YORK (AP) — A law enforcement official says a man in custody who has implicated himself in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz was picked up late Wednesday in Camden, N.J., and has been tied to the case in the past. The man was being questioned Thursday by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which is heading the probe by the FBI and police...

GLENROCK, Wyo. (AP) — A woman who pleaded guilty to embezzling $100,000 from the small Converse County town of Rolling Hills has been denied parole. Alyssa Stewart is the town’s former treasurer and clerk. She has been behind bars since 2009, when she was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the appeal of a Sheridan teenager convicted of murder in a 2009 home invasion killing. The court on Wednesday will hear the appeal of Dharminder Vir Sen. He is serving a life sentence in the killing of Sheridan businessman Robert Ernst...

LANDER, Wyo. (AP) — Lander police are hoping “America’s Most Wanted” can help them find a fugitive wanted for sexual abuse of a minor. Forty-four-year-old Wes Nesbecker has been missing since November, when detectives attempted to serve him with a warrant in the case but couldn’t find him...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — An inmate who died at the Natrona County jail in March committed suicide. Thirty-two-year-old Larry Turner, Jr. was found dead March 24, a day after being booked into the jail for allegedly violating his bond. According to the Associated Press, Natrona County coroner Connie Jacobson said that Turner intentionally overdosed on morphine and left a note explaining his intention...

Don’t try and steal a dollar’s worth of soda from McDonald’s.

For years, Osama bin Laden had a regular spot atop the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. But in an effort to prove the agency isn’t focused solely on international terrorists, it’s now put a former third-grade teacher at number one  — Eric Toth, who’s accused of possessing and producing child porn. He replaces the late al Qaeda leader nearly one year after his death.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say three people bilked $3.7 million from investors by claiming to develop wind farms in Wyoming and South Dakota. The projects never were built. A federal indictment filed in Cheyenne says phone solicitors made cold calls to investors nationwide, telling them the wind farms were being built by a private firm and the U...