CrimeAmerica.com debuts as outlet for crime news in the United States

Crime in the United States comes in many forms and is an endlessly fascinating topic. CrimeAmerica.com features crime reports across the spectrum, with particular emphasis on underpublicized crime against consumers at the state and local levels.

The CrimeAmerica.com website can be accessed at: http://crimeamerica.com

“CrimeAmerica.com readers often will be left scratching their heads and asking a single question: ‘My neighbor did WHAT!’” said Patrick Hernan, editor and publisher of CrimeAmerica.com.

Hernan, who graduated in 1981 from the Pennsylvania State Police Academy’s Northwest Training Center for Municipal Police Officers, was a police officer for seven years in Oil City, Pa., before embarking on a writing career.

In 1982, he received a Service Award from the Tri City Chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police for assisting victims of a devasting flood in western Pennsylvania. He later received a commendation from the Pennsylvania Senate and the Lion’s Club Award for Community Service.

Hernan left law-enforcement in 1988 to pursue a full-time writing career, eventually becoming an editor at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publications, later known as Edgell Communications.

While at Edgell, Hernan received awards for coverage of Hurricane Hugo and the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. He later served as a judge for the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Business Press Editors.

In 1991, Hernan embarked on a full-time career as a freelance writer. After exposing real-estate and mortgage fraud in a newspaper series in 2002, Hernan received awards from the Associated Press for Investigative Reporting and Public Service. He continues to write full-time from his home.

Recent content on CrimeAmerica.com includes stories about arrests over deaths at nursing homes; arrests of Internet predators; the break-up of a prison drug ring and check-forging operation; a California lawsuit that alleges fraud by H&R Block; the arrest of an elementary school teacher accused of having sex on her desk with an 11-year-old pupil; the suspension of a New Jersey doctor’s license amid allegations of Medicaid fraud; a lawsuit against a man accused of practicing law without a license and posing as a lawyer for the NAACP; a Pennsylvania doctor accused of writing prescriptions for patients without their knowledge and diverting the drugs for his own use; and the arrest of a Rabbi in an Internet child-sex sting; a court action against a man accused of claiming that a machine can make a car engine run on pickle juice or cola.

“CrimeAmerica.com often will cover unusual crime, crime in rural areas and crime against the most vulnerable members of society,” Hernan said.

“All of our online content is free,” Hernan pointed out. “We have partnered with advertisers that will appeal to fans of crime novels, crime shows, mysteries and movies.”