A man with a 34-year criminal record who was secretly recorded talking about two slayings and other crimes pleaded guilty this morning to a federal weapons charge. ...more

February 5, 2009

A man with a 34-year criminal record who talked in secretly recorded conversations about two slayings and other crimes has agreed to plead guilty to a federal weapons charge. ...more

January 21, 2009

A British national who started out trying to sell a radioactive isotope from Russia pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge. ...more

January 20, 2009

A man at the center of a case that began with a plan to sell a radioactive, dirty bomb component has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug charge. ...more

January 17, 2009

A man at the center of a case that began with a plan to sell a radioactive, dirty bomb component has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug charge. Christopher Benbow, 64, was sentenced in 2007 to life in prison, but had his drug conviction overturned by a federal appeals court. He was scheduled to go on trial again later this month. ...more

January 16, 2009

A man with a 33-year-long criminal record who talked in secretly recorded conversations about two slayings and other crimes may not be mentally competent to stand trial, his defense attorney says in a court filing. ...more

September 3, 2008

The case, a federal appeals court said, "began like something out of a James Bond novel." ...more

August 21, 2008

The case, a federal appeals court said, "began like something out of a James Bond novel." The U.S. investigation of a British national that started with a proposal to sell a component for dirty bombs "morphed into an international drug conspiracy sting," the appeals court said. This week, the court overturned the drug conspiracy conviction of Christopher Benbow, 64, who was sentenced last year in Tampa to life in prison. ...more

August 20, 2008