CHARLOTE, NC Thirty-seven members of the street gang “La Mara Salvatrucha,” or “MS-13,” were indicted for numerous felonies including racketeering conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, assault and firearms violations, officials said. Law…
Peter Pan Salmonella Criminal Fine Largest Ever Paid in Food Safety Case
GEORGIA The company that makes Peter Pan peanut butter agreed to plead guilty to selling contaminated peanut butter linked to a 2006 through 2007 nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning, officials said. ConAgra…
Southwest Airlines Baggage Handlers Allegedly Used Positions for Drug Dealing
OAKLAND Federal officials charged a group of Southwest Airlines baggage handlers with using their positions at the airport to sneak bags of marijuana past security checkpoints before handing them off to passengers….
FBI Internet Report: People Getting Scammed Out of Money on Social Media
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center or IC3 released its report Tuesday. The report states that two new trends took shape during 2014: criminals increasingly taking advantage of personal data found on social…
Chinese Professor Among Six Defendants Indicted for Economic Espionage
CALIFORNIA A Tianjin University Professor Hao Zhang was arrested last weekend when he arrived in the United States from the People’s Republic of China and charged with economic espionage, officials said. Zhang and five other…
Leader of a Violent Street Gang: “I know how it feels to be a CEO.”
How Law Enforcement Took Down the Leader of Violent California Gang Who Trafficked in Drugs and Firearms. FBI BLOG (May 19, 2015) Luis Manuel Tapia was a high-powered leader of one…
Man Who Produced Child Porn While in Philippines Sentenced to Life
LOS ANGELES – A federal judge on Monday sentenced a man, who had been convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl, to life in prison for producing child porn in the Philippines, officials…
Lawyer Arrested for Accepting $6,000 to Smuggle Witness Out of U.S.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. Law enforcement agents arrested an immigration attorney who tried to help a Chinese national get out of the United States after the woman had been designed as a…
Lawyer Who Stole More than $2 Million from Clients Sentenced to Five Years
ATLANTA A federal judge sentenced former Gwinnett County, Georgia, lawyer Michael Rene Berlon to five years and three months in prison for stealing more than $2 million from clients of his former…
Rabbi Sentenced to Six Years for Secretly Video Recording Women Showering
WASHINGTON D.C. A federal judge sentenced a 63-year-old rabbi who worked for a Jewish congregation in Washington D.C. to six years and six months in prison for secretly recording at least 52…
Misidentified People, Jail Time and Countless Lawsuits – Year 2015
CALIFORNIA The year, 2015 – we have the technology to pinpoint and identify a truck full of ISIS terrorists with weapons moving down an Iraqi highway to some goat-herding village and take…
Company Duped VA to Get Business Contracts Earmarked for Disabled Servicemen
LOS ANGELES A Santa Maria company paid $1 million because it falsely claimed it was a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business to get landscaping and cemetery restoration contracts with the U.S. Department…