• Wayne Gallant, sheriff of Oxford County, Maine, admits he sent a lewd photo from his office but is refusing to resign, saying he "absolutely" denies allegations that he solicited two employees for sex and threatened to fire one who rebuffed him, his attorney said.
• Ronald Strickland, 69, a retired Tennessee Highway Patrol sergeant who pleaded guilty to smuggling a 22-year-old woman from Honduras to his home in Franklin in 2016, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, federal prosecutors said.
• Daniel Seuzeneau, a police spokesman in Slidell, La., said a 14-year-old boy who crashed as he led police in a car chase, told officers he took a luxury SUV owned by a friend's father on a "test drive" because he was considering buying it.
• Sean Ramsey, 48, arrested in Atlanta in mid-September for illegal soliciting by holding a sign reading "homeless please help," was released from jail after being held for two months because he couldn't afford to pay $200 bail, his attorney said.
• Bjorn Samstrom, 41, was convicted of rape under Swedish laws and sentenced to 10 years in prison for coercing young teenagers in Canada, Britain and the United States to perform sexual acts in front of webcams by threatening them or their families, prosecutors said.
• Steven Spolidoro, 41, of Woburn, Mass., was arrested in the theft of $1,000 from a bank after he crashed his vehicle as he was being chased by police and was caught when he fled on foot and tried to hide in a portable toilet in downtown Boston.
• Donte Henley and Josiah Zachery, who assured their supervisor at a Boston nonprofit that steers young people away from crime that they could work peacefully with a rival gang member, were convicted of shooting the man in the head as the three shoveled snow in 2015, prosecutors said.
• Adam Gloe, a police sergeant in Placentia, Calif., said workers at a Goodwill thrift store found an inert hand grenade in a box dropped off by an unidentified woman, prompting the evacuation of neighboring businesses until a bomb squad removed the device.
• William Greer, 51, a Texas fugitive on the U.S. Marshal's 15 Most Wanted list because of the death of his girlfriend in 2006, was captured in Mexico when authorities, acting on a tip, confirmed that he had a missing toe, matching a description released when he disappeared 11 years ago.
A Section on 12/01/2017