ICE arrests, removes Salvadoran gang member wanted for homicide BOSTON — Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran gang member Friday, who was…
Category: Courts & Cases
Lawyer Guilty of felony Crimes Including Paying Bribes to Two Federal Law Enforcement Officials
LOS ANGELES A Calabasas man plead guilty to five federal offenses – one related to a credit card “bust-out” scheme, and the others related to more than $250,000 in bribes he paid…
Two San Francisco Women Charged with Robbery While Threatening to Spread CONVID-19
SAN FRANCISCO A criminal complaint was unsealed charges last week charging Carmelita Barela and Rosetta Shabazz with committing robbery from Walgreens while saying she had CONVID-19, according to officials. “It is an…
California Man Arrested for Cyberstalking Two Teenage Girls Who Rejected His Sexual Advances
LOS ANGELES FBI agents on Tuesday arrested a San Gabriel Valley man and online promoter of the involuntary celibate (incel) subculture on a federal cyberstalking charge, according to officials. Carl Bennington conducted…
Victims of Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme Will Divide More Than $378 Million in Forfeited Funds
The Department of Justice this week announced that on April 20, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its fifth distribution of approximately $378.5 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in…
California Pastor Guilty of Conning Investors Out of $33 Million
SANTA ANA, CALIF. The pastor of the Westminster-based Church of the Healthy Self has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he orchestrated a church-based investment scam that took in…
Feds Denounce Hate Targeting Asians and Others During Coronavirus Pandemic
PORTLAND Federal officials denounced discrimination and acts of hate targeting Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and other racial and ethnic minorities and called on Oregonians to take steps to counter xenophobia…
Laboratory, Former Executives to Pay $41 Million to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Urine Drug Testing
FLORIDA Flordida-based Logan Laboratories Inc., Tampa Pain Relief Centers Inc. (Tampa Pain), a pain clinic along with two of their former executives, Michael T. Doyle and Christopher Utz Toepke agreed to pay…
Louisiana Agrees to Pay Millions to Resolve Allegations of Mishandling the Federal Food Stamp Program
WASHINGTON Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services agrees to pay more than $3.9 million to resolve disputes pertaining to the operation of the food stamp program or SNAP, according to officials….
N.M. Accountant Guilty of Stealing More than $1.5 Million from Victims During a Real Estate Scam
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Thomas Laws, 62, of Silver City, New Mexico pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico to four counts of wire…
ICE: Salvadoran Gang Member Wanted for Capital Murder Re-Arrested in Texas
DALLAS Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a Salvadoran man Thursday night in Arlington, Texas, who was wanted for capital murder, according to officials….
Feds Distribute More Than 500,000 Medical Supplies Confiscated from Price Gougers
WASHINGTON D.C. The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday the distribution of hoarded personal protective equipment (PPE), including approximately 192,000 N95 respirator masks,…