Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to help overhaul the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the ...

Aurora Phelps is being accused of drugging several elderly men and stealing their financial information, according to court ...

Aurora Phelps, who is in custody in Mexico, faces 21 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, kidnapping and ...

Aurora Phelps​ was indicted in Nevada over a series of romance scams that allegedly led to at least two deaths and one ...

The agency described the scheme as one of the most nefarious it has encountered, with nearly a dozen known victims and ...

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She used online dating apps to lure older men to meet her in person, then drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, the FBI said.

William Phelps had no idea that the woman he married had a secret life. Prosecutors say she lured, drugged and stole from ...

Karl Jess was jailed after pleading guilty to four counts of making gain by deception before Dublin’s Circuit Court ...

In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico ...

In one instance Phelps is alleged to have kidnapped a victim by heavily sedating him and taking him across the U.S.-Mexico ...