Showing posts with label mug shots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mug shots. Show all posts

Saturday, May 7, 2011

This Day In History



May 7 1959
Small-time boxing promoter Don King is arrested in Cleveland on suspicion of drug dealing. His criminal record includes a 1955 arrest for arson, a 1954 arrest for murder, and others.



May 7 2001
Ronnie Biggs, England's escaped "Great Train Robber," returns to face the music after 35 years as a fugitive. After serving just fifteen months of a 30-year sentence, Biggs escaped from prison and fled to Brazil, where he avoided extradition by fathering the baby of a 19-year-old stripper. Partially paralyzed by a couple of strokes, Biggs returns to England for one last pint of beer before he dies. Instead he is taken into custody at Heathrow airport and promptly sent to Belmarsh prison to serve out the remainder of his sentence.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Nice Mug Shot - Man Sentenced In Beating Death Of Woman

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A man who was indicted in July in connection with a woman's death entered a surprise plea in court and was immediately sentenced on Friday afternoon.

Officers arrested and charged 52-year-old Harold French in the assault and eventual death of Carla Pedraza this past summer.

Investigators said Pedraza was attacked in an open lot underneath Northeast Cesar Chavez Boulevard near Interstate 84 and Halsey Street on June 30.

Pedraza was rushed to the hospital but died on July 6 of injuries caused by blunt force trauma, police said.

French was scheduled to appear in court on a bail hearing but instead entered a plea of no contest to the murder charge and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Dreamin' Demon is Hilarious

Big shout out to Dreamin' Demon (www.dreamindemon.com), they are so ridiculously funny:
"Breaking News: Sasquatch Captured In Iowa!"

Read about why this woman was arrested on Dreamin' Demon's site.. It might make you wanna hurl a bit.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Holy Duck!


News Channel 3 Mugshots -

Anna Clifford was stopped for erratic driving in the early hours after a night out to celebrate her birthday with friends in Memphis, Tennessee.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Prison mug shot reveals the true Phil Spector

(CNN) -- California corrections officials released a startling new prison mug shot of Grammy-winning music legend Phil Spector, convicted last month of second-degree murder and serving 19 years to life in prison.

Spector, 69, is being held at North Kern State Prison, where he is being evaluated before receiving a permanent prison assignment, corrections spokesman Gordon Hinkle said. The process could take up to 70 days.

The mug shot, which shows a bald-pated Spector, was taken on June 5 as part of the routine intake process.

California prison inmates are not permitted to wear wigs under Title 15, Article 5, Section 3062 of the state's prison regulations, which addresses inmate hygiene. Corrections officials also are concerned that wigs can be used to hide contraband.

A judge in Los Angeles sentenced Spector last month to the maximum sentence for second-degree murder in the February 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.

Spector, 69, won't be eligible for parole until he is 88 years old.

Clarkson, 40, was found dead, slumped in a chair in the foyer of Spector's Alhambra mansion with a gunshot wound through the roof of her mouth.

Spector's retrial began in October and ended in April. It took jurors 30 hours to convict him.

His first murder trial in 2007 ended in a mistrial when the jury deadlocked 10 to 2 in favor of conviction after 15 days of deliberations.

Clarkson starred in the 1985 B-movie "Barbarian Queen" and appeared in many other films, including "Deathstalker," "Blind Date," "Scarface," "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and the spoof "Amazon Women on the Moon." She was working as a VIP hostess at Hollywood's House of Blues at the time of her death.

At both trials, Spector's attorneys argued Clarkson was depressed over a recent breakup and her flagging Hollywood career. They said she grabbed a .38-caliber pistol and killed herself while at Spector's home.

But prosecution witnesses painted Spector as a gun-toting menace. Five women took the stand and testified he threatened them with firearms. His driver testified he heard a loud noise and saw Spector leave the home, pistol in hand, saying, "I think I killed somebody."

Spector's professional trademark was the "Wall of Sound," the layering of instrumental tracks and percussion that underpinned a string of hits on his Philles label, named for Spector and his business partner, Lester Sill, in the early 1960s.