A former West Virginia firefighter plead guilty to raping a 16-year-old victim in a bunk room at the Danville Fire Department in Danville, West Virginia, federal officials announced Thursday. During the plea…
Category: Federal Court
Pharmacist Illegally Distributed Thousands of Doses of Controlled Substances
A federal jury in Texas convicted a pharmacist last week of unlawfully distributing controlled substances from a now-shuttered Houston pharmacy, officials announced Tuesday. According to the evidence, Hieu “Tom” Truong, 58, of…
Four Men Arrested For Fraud Against Elderly Timeshare Owners of More Than $5 Million
SANTA ANA, California Federal authorities this week arrested four defendants charged in a 29-count grand jury indictment, officials stated. The indictment alleges that they scammed dozens of timeshare owners out of more…
Three Kentucky Correctional Officers Indicted for Allegedly Beating Inmates
LONDON, KENTUCKY A grand jury indicted three U.S. Big Sandy federal correctional officers — two officers and a lieutenant for assaults against two inmates and subsequent cover-ups, officials announced Friday. Officers Samuel…
Ex-Marine Admits to Three Counts of “Sextortion” Cyberstalking Young Women
LOS ANGELES A South Bay man pleaded guilty today to cyberstalking multiple young women in a “sextortion” campaign He waged the campaign while he was an active-duty member of the United States…
Federal Bureau of Prisons Corrections Officer Admits to Raping Female Inmate
LOS ANGELES A corrections officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law for sexually…
Two Child Sex Offenders, Five MS-13 and a Paisas Gang Members Arrested Trying to Enter U.S.
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) agents arrested two child sex offenders, five Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) and a Paisas gang member. On May 19, McAllen Border Patrol Station (MCS) agents apprehended Israel Umana, a…
Defendants Sentenced for Multimillion-Dollar National Telemedicine Pharmacy Fraud
A federal judge in Greeneville, Tennessee, sentenced seven individuals this week along with seven related corporate entities for their roles in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme, officials stated. According…
Former Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Sex Trafficking
A former Brockton, Massachusetts, resident was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison for participating in a sex trafficking conspiracy, federal officials stated. Matthew Engram, 35, had previously pleaded guilty to one…
U.S. Citizen and Four Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged with Spying on Dissidents, Human Rights Leaders and Democracy Activists
The Defendants Allegedly Conspired to Silence Critics of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the United States and Abroad A U.S. citizen and four officials from China’s Ministry of State Security…
Feds: Ohio Woman Guilty of Illegally Selling “Dangerous” Marbled Crayfish
An Ohio woman plead guilty to violating the Lacey Act for selling marbled crayfish (also known as self-cloning crayfish) in interstate commerce. Marbled crayfish were recently declared an injurious aquatic invasive species…
Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sexually Abusing Vietnamese Minors
A Florida man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for traveling from Florida to Vietnam to engage in sex acts with numerous Vietnamese minors he had met on the internet, officials…