Category: Courts & Cases

A Las Vegas resident was sentenced Wednesday to five years and five months in prison today for his role in a stolen identity tax fraud, officials announced According to court documents and…

WASHINGTON D.C. Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was charged Wednesday with transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national with apparent connections to Hizballah, a foreign…

GEORGIA A fugitive for nearly five years who was extradited to the U.S. plead guilty to being involved in a bid-rigging conspiracy involving the sale of instrument panel clusters to several auto…

  SANTA ANA, CALIF An Orange County man surrendered to federal law enforcement Tuesday to face criminal charges that he traveled out of state to have sex with six-year-old and produce child pornography,…

OKLAHOMA A former associate scientist was sentenced to 24 months in prison in federal court today for stealing proprietary information worth more than $1 billion from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company,…

WASHINGTON D.C. A dual U.S.-Mexican citizen had her initial appearance in federal court Wednesday related to her alleged involvement in five businesses that allegedly were used to support the international drug trafficking…

WASHINGTON  Four racially motivated violent extremists from across the U.S. were arrested and charged Wednesday in U.S District Court in Seattle with a conspiracy to threaten and intimidate journalists and activists, the…

ILLINOIS Javier Aguilera, 27, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Philip P. Simon to 216 months in prison following his guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as…

WASHINGTON D.C. A federal judge on Monday sentenced the leader of a Guatemalan drug trafficking organization to 23 years in prison for his participation in an international drug trafficking conspiracy, according to…

FLORIDA The Department of Justice announced Monday that Florida Department of Corrections officer, Terrance Reynolds, 30, was convicted Friday following a 14-day trial for conspiring to assault youthful offender inmates. The jury…

            LOS ANGELES  FBI agents Friday arrested a Santa Monica man on federal charges stemming from a series of distributed denial-of-service – or DDoS – attacks on a website for a candidate who…