NORTH CAROLINA A federal judge Tuesday sentenced two Costa Rican men to 25 and 20 years for their roles in a $10 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the…
Mississippi Sheriff Sentenced to 10 Months for Fraud and ID Theft
St. Louis, MO Cory Hutcheson, 35, of East Prairie, MO, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis for illegally monitoring the location of other law enforcement officers and civilians…
California Man Arrested for Planning to Detonate Explosives and Kill People
LOS ANGELES A San Fernando Valley man was arrested Friday night after he received what he thought was a live bomb, but in fact was an inert explosive device that was delivered…
ICE: MS-13 Gang Member Deported for Aggravated Homicide in El Salvador
HOUSTON — A Salvadoran fugitive and known MS-13 gang member wanted for aggravated homicide in his home country was removed Thursday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Victor…
California Man Who Claimed to be CPA Convicted in $1 Million Fraudulent Tax Schem
LOS ANGELES A San Bernardino County tax preparer was found guilty late Thursday of filing false and fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service as part of a scheme that illegally…
Feds Indict Gang Members for Drug Trafficking, including Smuggling Drugs into Jail
RIVERSIDE, California More than 250 law enforcement personnel this morning arrested 24 members and associates of the Westside Verdugo street gang in San Bernardino who are charged in eight federal indictments, according…
Military Dependant Convicted of Attempted Manslaughter of Several U.S. Airmen
ARKANSAS After a three day trial, a federal jury in Little Rock, Arkansas, convicted a man who was then-residing on the Misawa Air Base, a military base in Japan, of multiple charges,…
Two Chinese Nationals Indicted for Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods
Baltimore, Maryland A federal grand jury indicted Xiaoying Xu, age 34, a Chinese citizen, and Yiwen Zhu, age 34, a Chinese citizen and legal permanent resident of the United States, both residing in…
Former GE Engineer and Chinese Businesssman Charged with Economic Espionage
NEW YORK An indictment unsealed Wednesday charges Xiaoqing Zheng, 56, of Niskayuna, New York, and Zhaoxi Zhang, 47, of Liaoning Province, China, with economic espionage and conspiring to steal General Electric’s (GE’s)…
American Spy Who Worked at the State Department Admitted to Getting Gifts from Chinese
WASHINGTON D.C. Candace Marie Claiborne, a former employee of the U.S. Department of State, plead guilty Wednesday to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, by lying to law enforcement…
6th Circuit: Chalking Tires Constitutes Unreasonable Search
BY AMANDA ROBERT POSTED APRIL 23, 2019 Photo by AmorSt-Photographer/Shutterstock.com. Parking enforcement officers in Saginaw, Michigan, who use chalk to mark the tires of cars to track how long they have been parked are…
Former Sheriff’s Deputy Charged with Using Excessive Force on Suspect
TENNESSEE A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Gregory Higgins, 42, for using excessive force against an arrestee while Higgins was a deputy with the Grundy County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office, according to…