Category: Crime

The Department of Justice and the FBI, along with international law enforcement partners, announced the arrests of 10 individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and

ATLANTA—Jason Barbour, 40, of Manhattan Beach, California, who trafficked in large amounts of high-grade marijuana and cocaine, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Richard W. Story to serve 11 years

SAN DIEGO—Nima Yusuf, 25, received a custodial sentence of eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to provide material support to al Shabaab, a foreign

WASHINGTON—A Texas man was sentenced today to serve 330 months in prison for his participation in an international child pornography distribution ring, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice

SACRAMENTO, CA—United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. today sentenced Latrelle Alicia Hornbuckle, 24, and Tammy Rena Brown, 44, of Sacramento, to six-and-a-half years and three years in prison, respectively, United

FBI agents in Oregon have received information from the FBI’s Anchorage Division that narrows the search for a woman who was allegedly raped by accused serial killer Israel Keyes. Keyes committed suicide

WASHINGTON—A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise as a member of the Playboy Bloods criminal street gang, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny

WASHINGTON – Legislation sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley that would allow federal law enforcement officers who acted under their official duties and charged with a crime in state court an opportunity to

BURLINGTON, Iowa – Joseph S. Schier, Jr., 21, and Douglas C. Metcalf, 22, both from Burlington, were each formally charged on Dec. 7th with one count of Boating While Intoxicated causing death,

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Patrick Pinto, 44, of Bohemia, New York, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with conspiracy

MINNEAPOLIS—Today in federal court, a 39-year-old Faribault man was charged with bank fraud for allegedly writing 127 false checks to himself. Ronald Lea Schaeffer was charged via an information with one count

RICHMOND, Va. – A Mexican national wanted for kidnapping in Mexico was escorted out of the United States by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers Friday

DALLAS—Jonathan Ryan Vittitow, 30, of Mesquite, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 210 months in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release following his guilty

NORFOLK, VA—Robert Patrick Hoffman, II, 39, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to provide classified information to individuals who he believed to be representatives

By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — George Zimmerman, the man charged with murder in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, on Thursday sued NBCUniversal Media over its coverage of

By Andy Furillo, The Sacramento Bee – SACRAMENTO, Calif.—His eyes welled red Thursday when he shared a moment of emotion with the families of the murdered college kids, but they burned like

MINNEAPOLIS—Yesterday in federal court, a 24-year-old Hastings man was indicted for producing child pornography. Mark Matthew Cortes was charged with one count of production of child pornography. The indictment was filed on

Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – A 24-year-old North Liberty man has been ordered to serve a short jail sentence, pay a $1,250 fine and complete drunken driving courses after he was arrested

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — Police on Wednesday filed murder charges against a homeless man who is accused of pushing another man onto a subway track, where the

By Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Back in the 1990s when he was a teenager, Israel Keyes picked his first victim, a teenage girl in Oregon, he later told

Chao Xiong, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – Jesse Mendoza grew up a poor kid in St. Paul, rising to hometown stardom as a break dancer who performed widely at rented dance halls in town.

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Michael Ottinger, Jr., the sergeant at arms of the San Diego Chapter of the Hells Angels and a career offender, was sentenced today in

Paul Walsh, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – A 12-year-old boy brought a baggie of methamphetamine to school and alerted his principal that his mother was an addict, according to authorities in Wright County. Sabina

Chao Xiong, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – A St. Paul man reported that 40 to 45 racing pigeons worth $10,000 were stolen from his Dayton’s Bluff home last month. The pigeons were taken between

A man who stalked his estranged wife and transported her from South Sioux City Nebraska to Sioux City, Iowa was convicted by a jury on November 30, 2012, after a 5– day

By Andrew Blankstein and Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Police Department detectives have arrested a suspect in connection with the shooting deaths of four people in Northridge,

Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A man who says he was molested by a scout leader when he was 10 is suing the Boy Scouts of America and the Chicago Area Council,

TRENTON—An Ocean County, New Jersey school bus driver today admitted distributing images of child sexual abuse over the Internet through his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Frank J. Bognar,

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — It’s a subway rider’s worst nightmare: being pushed onto the tracks. On Monday, it happened in midtown Manhattan where, according to witnesses, one

By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Former New York Mets star and self-styled financial guru Lenny Dykstra, who was already sentenced to three years in state prison for

By Michelle Theriault Boots and Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Israel Keyes was a serial killer who traveled from Alaska to Vermont for the “specific purpose of kidnapping

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM PAUL PATRICK, 68, of Glastonbury, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Warren W. Eginton in

By David Heinzmann, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration asked a federal judge Monday to set aside a jury verdict in the infamous videotaped beating of a female

By Kate Mather and David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times – NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — From the street, the tidy two-story ranch house didn’t stand out in the suburban Northridge tract northwest of Los

Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – A 20 -year-old former University of Iowa student was found guilty Friday by a Johnson County jury of sexually assaulting another student along the west side of

Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – Jury selection starts Monday in the murder trial of Zyriah Schlitter, who is accused in the death of his 17-month-old toddler in 2010. There will be about

RICHMOND, Va. – A Mexican murder suspect captured in Charlottesville, Va., was removed from the United States Friday and turned over to Mexican law enforcement officials by officers from U.S. Immigration and

By Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times – SANTA ANA, Calif. — A panel of Superior Court judges has challenged a controversial Orange County, Calif., law that bans sex offenders from parks, beaches

By Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Two Pakistani brothers from Oakland Park, Fla., have been arrested on terrorism charges, accused of conspiring to deploy explosive weapons against an American target,