New Jersey is Home to America’s Safest Drivers, New Report Claims
Trenton, NJ – If you live in New Jersey or have ever driven through New Jersey, you might have just raised your eyebrows, but a new study actually suggests New Jersey is…
Member of Gregory Butler Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for His Role in the Drug Distribution Conspiracy
Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Tirrel Saunders, a/k/a “Pretty”, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release,…
Puerto Man Apprehended on a Vessel with $ 316,930 in U.S. Currency Pleads Guilty to Making a False Statement to Federal Agents; Vessel and U.S. Currency are Forfeited
ST. Thomas, USVI – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert of the District of the Virgin Islands announced that a Puerto Rico man pleaded guilty in federal court today to making a false…
Former CEO Of Publicly Traded Houston Company Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Accounting Fraud And Misappropriation Schemes
Damian Williams, the United State Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JEFFREY HASTINGS, the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAExploration…
Des Moines Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for His Role in Bringing Methamphetamine from Mexico to Iowa
A Des Moines man, who was involved in the importation and distribution of multiple kilograms of methamphetamine was sentenced today to 16 years in federal prison. Rogelio Lemus Hernandez, age 21, from…
Former Toledo Physician Sentenced for Sex Trafficking and Drugging Victims
Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Manish Raj Gupta, 50, of Sylvania, Ohio, was sentenced today by Judge James G. Carr to more than 19 years in prison after Gupta,…
Inmate admits to assault charge, sentenced
CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Irvin Johnson, an inmate at Federal Corrections Institution Hazelton in Preston County, has admitted to an assault charge and was sentenced to 15 additional months of incarceration, United…
Archdiocese of New Orleans Agrees to Pay More Than $1 Million to Resolve Hurricane Katrina-related False Claims Act Allegations
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans (Archdiocese of New Orleans) has agreed to pay more than $1 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting…
Harrison County man sentenced for his involvement in bank robbery
CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Blaine Allen Ash, of Bristol, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 49 months of incarceration for his involvement in the robbery of Summit Community Bank in November 2020,…
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Two for Child Exploitation Offenses as a Result of Undercover Law Enforcement Operation in Owensboro
BOWLING GREEN, KY – A federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned two indictments on November 10, 2021, charging a Utica, Kentucky man and a Georgetown, Indiana man with federal child exploitation…
Two Mexican Natives Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Heroin in the Central Valley
RESNO, Calif. — Antonio Valencia-Hernandez, 65, and Jose Reyes-Pineda, 48, natives and citizens of Mexico, were sentenced today to 12 years and three months and one and a half years in prison,…
CBP at the LA/Long Beach Seaport Reports Record-Breaking Year for Seizures of Counterfeit and Prohibited Merchandise
LOS ANGELES—In Fiscal Year 2021 (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021), amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport identified and…
Human smuggler arrested for transporting over 60 noncitizens, including 4 children, in box truck
ALPINE, Texas – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested a Las Cruces, New Mexico, man Tuesday in Brewster (Texas) County on federal criminal charges related…
Military veterans train with HSI to become ‘HEROs’ in battle against child predators
WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) today announced that twenty-three military veterans have graduated from the eleventh class of the HERO Corps internship program. The program…
Four MS-13 Gang Members Arrested in the Rio Grande Valley Within 14 Hours
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector (RGV) agents arrested four Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members and two other migrants previously arrested for sexual crimes. Within a 14-hour time span,…
Multiple Human Smuggling Cases Stopped by RGV Border Patrol Agents
EDINBURG, Texas –Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents continue to disrupt human smuggling as smugglers attempt to transport migrants further into the United States. On Nov. 10, at approximately 7:00…
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents intercept tractor trailer human smuggling scheme
LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents intercepted a tractor trailer human smuggling scheme at the I-35 immigration checkpoint north of Laredo. The incident occurred during the late morning of Nov.…
20 Charged in Superseding Indictment with Trafficking Significant Quantities of Multiple Drugs
PITTSBURGH – A federal grand jury returned a five-count Superseding Indictment charging 20 members of a drug trafficking organization with trafficking significant quantities of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl, Acting United…
Rapid City Man Charged with Illegal Possession of Firearm
Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.…
Steel company forfeits $6 million as part of sentence for immigration violations
DAYTON, Ohio – A steel carport business headquartered in Muncie, Indiana, is forfeiting $6 million for knowingly employing dozens of undocumented immigrants. Company executives paid to smuggle the undocumented workers from Mexico…
Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Firearms Offenses
Lonnie Leroy Coffman, 71, of Falkville, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to federal and local firearms offenses stemming from the discovery of weapons in his pickup truck parked near the U.S. Capitol on…
