Phoney prescription leads to house arrest

Phoney prescription leads to house arrest
Six months of house arrest is awaiting a 30-year-old Fredericton man after he appeared in provincial court for sentencing Thursday on a trio of charges, including forging a prescription.
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Accused Jamaica sex trafficker caught in Virginia: Queens DA
with his crimes, the Queens district attorney said.Nov. 24 on 13 criminal counts, including kidnapping, sex trafficking and unlawful imprisonment, Queens DA Richard Brown said. Vargas, who was extradited from Virginia following a seven-month manhunt, allegedly locked a 13-year-old girl in his apartment and pimped her out for weeks…
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Financial crisis hits hard at the county level, too
These days, balancing county budgets has become an exercise in backfilling a sinkhole, one that threatens to swallow the levers of government whole.
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