LOS ANGELES An Illinois man was sentenced Monday to 24 months in federal prison for running websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, according…
Beverly Hills Man Wanted to Hire Hitman to Murder Woman He Briefly Dated but Later Rebuffed
LOS ANGELES A Beverly Hills man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal murder-for-hire charge, according to federal officials. Scott Quinn Berkett attempted to hire a hitman to kill a woman he…
Woman Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Selling More Than a Half-Pound of Meth in Front of Minors
LOS ANGELES A Riverside woman with a lengthy criminal history, including a prior drug trafficking conviction for selling methamphetamine, was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison, federal officials stated. Prosecutors said…
Mexican Man Sentenced to More than 15 years in Prison for Producing Child Porn of Teen
LOS ANGELES A former Inglewood resident has been sentenced to 15 years and eight months in federal prison for the production of child pornography of a teenage girl, federal officials stated. The…
Feds: South Carolina Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking
WASHINGTON D.C. Rodregiz Antwon Cole, 37, of Manning, South Carolina, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for sex trafficking a minor in Washington, D.C….
Leavenworth Prison Officials Smuggled Cell Phones, Drugs, including Meth and Tobacco , to Inmates
Four former prison officials have been sentenced to prison for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Leavenworth Detention Center, a maximum-security federal prison in Kansas, officials stated. Janna Grier, 36, of Horton,…
Department of Justice Investigating the Louisiana State Police for Civil Rights Violations
The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has opened a “pattern or practice” investigation into the Louisiana State Police. This civil investigation will assess whether Louisiana State Police Department uses excessive force…
Rio Grande Border Patrol: Thirty-Percent Increase in Border Crossings, More than 287,000 Migrants.
EDINBURG, Texas – (press release) As of the end of April 2022, Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents have encountered more than 287K migrants, a nearly 30 percent increase over the same…
Company Will Pay $1.25 Million to Federal Government’s Superfund for Asbestos Cleanup
The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement on Wednesday under which Fred D. Godley Jr. and two of his companies – 436 Cone Avenue LLC and F.D….
Woman Who Lead Terrorist Battalion Pleads Guilty to Training More Than 100 ISIS Females
A U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Virginia to organizing and leading an all-female military battalion in Syria on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS),…
Former L.A. Executive Sentenced to Prison for Lying to FBI About Lucrative Job in Exchange for Contracts
LOS ANGELES A former top–level Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) executive was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for lying to the FBI about a lucrative job offer,…
U.S. Seizes Two Airplanes of Russian Oligarch Worth More Than $400 Million
Federal Officials were authorized to seize a Boeing 787-8 aircraft and a Gulfstream G650ER aircraft owned and controlled by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, officials announced Monday. The seizure warrant came from the…