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NEWARK, N.J. – A Romanian national wanted on human trafficking and prostitution charges in his home country was removed from the United States Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s
PORTLAND, Ore. — A former Maryland resident who moved to Ecuador where he sexually abused young boys and produced child pornography was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison. Kenneth Robert
SPENCER – Police nabbed a Spencer man for his second operating while intoxicated offense recently. A Clay county deputy arrested 35-year-old Chad Kruger on January 18th at about 1:36 AM near the
EL PASO, TX – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents working at the El Paso port of entry seized 14.65 pounds of cocaine Monday. The drugs were
Falfurrias, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector saved the lives of two men, two juveniles and found the skeletal remains of another individual Tuesday. The two
Tucson, Ariz. – Over two consecutive days, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents seized 4,800 pounds of marijuana worth more than $2.4 million, recovered two stolen pick-up trucks and arrested 14 undocumented migrants.
MINNEAPOLIS – United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Martin, South Dakota man convicted of benefits fraud was sentenced on February 3, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.
NEW YORK – The FBI, in partnership with more than 50 law enforcement agencies, recovered 16 juveniles during an enforcement action focused on commercial child sex trafficking. Additionally, more than 45 pimps
IOWA CITY – Iowa City Police received a report of a strong-arm robbery at the north entrance of the Old Capitol Mall, which houses the University Capitol Center, at 9:45 a.m. Monday, Feb.
DES MOINES – The Des Moines police department will conduct automated traffic control at the following locations this week: Monday February 3rd, 2014 4300 NW 2nd Street ——————————– Monday February 3rd, 2014
DENVER – In a press conference held late last week, FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle and Westminster Police Department Chief Lee Birk provided additional details of the violent take-over
DES MOINES – United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced that Dr. Palaniappa Molian, of Ames, pled guilty on January 24, 2014, to two felony counts relating to false statements made to
SPRINGFIELD, MO – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Weaubleau, Missouri man was charged in federal court today with producing, receiving, and possessing child
OMAHA – United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Michael Partain, 44, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha for distributing child pornography. The Honorable Lyle E. Strom, Senior District Court
MINNEAPOLS – United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Yates, North Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for sexual abuse of a person incapable of
COUNCIL BLUFFS – On January 28, 2014, Nathan Wayne Smith, a 48-year-old resident of Lexington, Missouri, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James Gritzner to 77 months in prison,
NEWARK – Hudson County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for sexually abusing a sleeping woman aboard a flight from Phoenix to Newark Liberty International Airport in August
Salton City, Calif. – Today, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents last week arrested a suspected narcotics smuggler and seized more than 26 pounds of methamphetamine and 17 pounds of cocaine, concealed
LAS VEGAS—A northern California man pleaded guilty today to transporting a minor female from San Jose, California to Las Vegas, Nevada, to work as a prostitute during May 2013, announced Daniel G.
Calexico, Calif., — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Calexico downtown port of entry Tuesday discovered approximately $265,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine concealed inside the cargo area of an
CEDAR RAPIDS – Former Agriprocessors’, Inc., manager Hosam Amara was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison. Amara, age 49, received the prison term after an August 30, 2013,
DES MOINES – Five men in southern Iowa were sentenced recently in separate prosecutions to nearly 44 years in prison combined for their unrelated roles in trading online child pornography. These sentences
TAMPA, Fla. — A Tampa Bay man was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years, nine months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on sex trafficking and drug charges. The sentence
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced January 8, 2014, to ten years in federal prison. Leroy Raffaelli, 44, from Sheldon, Iowa, received the prison term after
BEAUMONT, Texas — A task force of federal, state and local law enforcement Thursday began arresting 32 defendants charged with racketeering and immigration violations throughout Texas and Louisiana. These arrests were announced
OSKALOOSA – The Oskaloosa Police Department and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are working a death investigation regarding an 18 month old girl in Oskaloosa, Iowa. On Friday, January 24, 2014,
OMAHA – United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on January 24, 2014, United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Cameron Mitchell, age 53 of Lincoln, to 370 months in
JACKSONVILLE – United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced James Daniel Kasper (29, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for using a child to produce child pornography. Kasper was also
Toledo, OH – At approximately noon on Saturday, members of the Rossford Police Department and the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF) arrested Adolphus Hollingsworth on charges he murdered his estranged
LONDON – Saint Joseph Health System Inc., d/b/a Saint Joseph London Hospital (Saint Joseph) has agreed to pay the U.S. government $16.5 million to resolve civil allegations that it submitted false or
DENVER—Pastor Charles Lawrence Kennedy, Jr., age 71, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve one year and a day in federal prison
KANSAS CITY, MO—Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Chillicothe, Missouri, husband and wife were indicted by a federal grand jury today for filing a
WASHINGTON – Pavel Zborovskiy, 57, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks in connection with a $13 million health care fraud and money
WASHINGTON – Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a Russian national also known as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman,” has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud for his role as the primary developer
AMES – University police Ames are looking for a man in foreign car who displayed a gun. According to ISU police, they are investigating an incident near Lied Recreation Center in which
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A recently retired captain for the Los Angeles County Fire Department pleaded guilty in federal court Monday, admitting he ran an illegal gambling business for more than a
From the Ames Police Department – What a strange weekend. We started out with some pretty descent temperatures, then the “Polar Vortex” dropped down and put us in the deep freeze late
DES MOINES – A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Corrections said Friday that two inmates assigned to the Newton Correctional Release Center (CRC) and employed by the Sully Truck Wash Company
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, IOWA – On January 23rd, 2014, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department arrested Carlton John Dolph, age 31, of Villisca, on a Montgomery County warrant for one count of Terroristic Threats,
WASHINGTON – For the first time, members of mobile device app piracy groups have been charged with crimes, the U.S. Justice Department announced this week. Four individuals have been charged in the