Cops: 2 charged after aiming guns at police
Carlos Sadovi, Chicago Tribune – Two men have been charged with aiming guns at police in separate incidents over the weekend which resulted in police fatally shooting an alleged accomplice of one of
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Carlos Sadovi, Chicago Tribune – Two men have been charged with aiming guns at police in separate incidents over the weekend which resulted in police fatally shooting an alleged accomplice of one of
FBI Kansas City Special Agent in Charge Michael Kaste issued the following statement: The FBI is aware of media reports concerning the person who walked into the Kansas City Federal Building today.
TRENTON, N.J. – A Nigerian man, who came to the U.S. in 1989 and assumed the identity of a murder victim to remain in the country illegally, has pleaded guilty to exhibiting
By Kim Christensen and Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the
By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times – An Illinois teen has been arrested on suspicion of trying to detonate a car bomb in front of a Chicago bar, authorities said Saturday. The device
Lance Benzel, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) – A former Colorado Springs tavern where a June melee led to the shooting death of an Afghanistan war veteran was supposed to be off-limits to
Jonathan Phelps, The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass. – ANDOVER — Federal agents raided the home of an Andover pediatrician yesterday morning finding more than 500 photographs and as many as 100 DVDs containing
Steve Woodhouse, The Knoxville Journal-Express, Iowa – Knoxville — The Knoxville Police Department reported in a press release this morning that, at about 1:22 a.m. on Sept. 13, officers were called to an
Sarah Hogsed, Richmond Register, Ky. – RICHMOND — A man involved in a shooting on Brandy Lane was given immunity from prosecution based on a Kentucky law that allows the use deadly force
Jermaine Pigee, The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa – COLUMBUS JUNCTION – Remigio Ramirez is unable to ride the school bus to Roundy Elementary School in Columbus Junction without fear. That’s because the 5-year-old
Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – A woman severely beaten by a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Cedar Rapids woman said Thursday she’s speaking out because she doesn’t want the
Nick Heynen, The Wisconsin State Journal – A 21-year-old man was arrested Friday after allegedly pointing a handgun at a car full of children on a highway in Janesville. The incident happened in
By Ed Meyer, Akron Beacon Journal – AKRON, Ohio—Moments before Brogan Rafferty’s first interview with a detective in November, the teen reviewed and signed his Miranda warning in a Stow-Munroe Falls High
EL PASO, Texas — Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Tuesday deported a man from El Salvador who was wanted for aggravated homicide in his
By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO —A Joliet, Ill.-area priest removed from ministry over an allegation of sexual abuse has been reinstated because his alleged relationship with a teenager in
MASON CITY – A Mason City woman didn’t play nice at a Clear Lake bar and now has been found guilty of assault causing injury. According to Clear Lake Police, Elizabeth Michelle
By Diana Moskovitz, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Broward prosecutors charged former Miami Dolphins player Chad Johnson on Wednesday with one count of misdemeanor domestic battery. The charge is connected to Johnson’s
By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers – MEXICO CITY — The arrest of the alleged kingpin of the Gulf Cartel is likely to send a further jolt of instability across Mexico’s violent northeastern
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Marshals Service added a convicted child predator to its 15 Most Wanted fugitive list today. Clyde Hall Jr., a career sex offender, who is wanted in the Northern
LOS ANGELES – Ten Mexican nationals and three U.S. citizens made their initial appearances in federal court Monday on drug charges stemming from their alleged role in an effort to smuggle nearly
Vanessa Miller, CR Gazette – Fake IDs aren’t what they used to be. Once crudely manufactured licenses only good enough to survive a cursory glance in a shadowy bar have been enhanced
MINNEAPOLIS—Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 31-year-old felon from Austin was sentenced for possessing an assault rifle. United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Samuel James Johnson
TRENTON, NJ—Trenton Mayor Tony F. Mack; the mayor’s brother, Ralphiel Mack; and his close associate, Joseph A. “JoJo” Giorgianni, were arrested by federal agents this morning and charged by criminal complaint in
Trish Mehaffey, CR Gazette – CEDAR RAPIDS — Former Peregrine Financial Group founder Russell Wasendorf Sr. should remain jailed pending his formal guilty plea in a $200 million fraud case, a federal
CLEVELAND—Three men pleaded guilty today to three counts each for their roles in a conspiracy to use explosives to destroy a bridge near Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the
US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls man charged with making a false statement was sentenced on September 10, 2012, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann. Michael Todd
(Washington) – Drug Enforcement Administration’s Administrator Michele M. Leonhart announced on August 23rd the signing of a new memorandum of cooperation (MOC) between the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the Government
CHICAGO—Three defendants have been arrested in Iowa and Ohio on federal charges filed in Chicago for allegedly engaging in sex trafficking of three minor girls they transported earlier this year from Iowa
United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota man charged with sexual abuse of a person incapable of consenting was sentenced on September 10, 2012, by United
San Antonio, TX – Latray Whitley, 23, was arrested yesterday evening by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in San Antonio without incident. An arrest warrant was issued by the San Antonio
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Mary Galligan, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times – HOUSTON — The latest development in the unfolding sex scandal at San Antonio’s Lackland Air Force Base: An instructor was acquitted of sexually assaulting a boot
By Andrew Blankstein, Joel Rubin and Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Even in the land of police chases, it was a wild ride. A pair of bank robbery suspects
WASHINGTON – A Minneapolis man was sentenced today to serve 72 months in prison for sexually abusing two minor boys, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal
Vanessa Miller, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – A brother and sister from Iowa City, along with an Ohio man, have been arrested on suspicion of federal sex-trafficking charges after investigators found
By Ashley Powers and Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times – An attorney for Steve Wynn asked jurors Tuesday to award the casino mogul an additional $20 million in his slander suit against “Girls
By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — The detainee found dead in a maximum-security cell at Guantanamo was a long-despairing Yemeni captive with a history of suicide attempts who at one
EL PASO, Texas — An indictment was unsealed Thursday charging four individuals with a cocaine distribution and money laundering conspiracy based in El Paso. These indictments resulted from an investigation by U.S.
By Juan O. Tamayo, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — The wife of U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross, serving a 15-year prison term in Cuba, says she recently visited him in Havana and
A man who possessed a firearm after having been convicted of two previous felonies, pled guilty on August 29, 2012, in federal court in Sioux City. Terry Leo Wirkus, age 57, from