Cryptocurrency Fraudster Sentenced To 15 Years For Money Laundering And Securities Fraud In Multi-Million Dollar Investment Scheme

SAN FRANCISCO – Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson, citizen of Sweden, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering charges that defrauded thousands of victims. The…

St. Jude Medical Agrees to Pay $27 Million for Allegedly Selling Defective Heart Devices

Baltimore, Maryland – St. Jude Medical, Inc. (St. Jude) has agreed to pay $27 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that, between November 2014 and October 2016, it knowingly…

Former Louisiana Construction Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud

WASHINGTON – A Louisiana man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the IRS. According to court documents, from 2011 to at least June 2019, Mathew Reck, of St. Tammany Parish, conspired…

Gardena Man Charged in Indictment Alleging Five-Day Armed Robbery Spree of Donut Shops, Pet Clinic, and Other Businesses

LOS ANGELES – A South Bay man has been indicted on federal criminal charges alleging he committed a five-day armed robbery spree of nearly a dozen Los Angeles-area businesses, including four…

Methamphetamine Possession with Intent to Distribute Nets 10-Year Prison Sentence

COEUR D’ALENE – Denvil Alan Baldwin, 46, of, Spokane Valley, Washington, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison based upon his March 2021 guilty plea to possession of methamphetamine with intent…

West Virginia Man Sentenced To 70 Months In Prison For Bank Robbery

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A West Virginia man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing a bank in Moorhead, Minnesota. According to…

Jefferson Parish Man Indicted For Making Threatening Phone Calls

NEW ORLEANS – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans today announced RUSSELL VENNELL, age 59, of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, was charged on July 1, 2021 in a one-count indictment by a federal…

Oath Keepers Member Arrested on Conspiracy Charges Related to Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

A Florida man and member of the Oath Keepers was arrested Friday for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the…

Don’t Bring Your Weed Into Baltimore, Border Patrol Warns

BALTIMORE – U.S. Customs and Border Protection continues to see travelers violate federal marijuana possession laws after officers seized multiple marijuana-based products from the baggage of a traveler departing Baltimore Washington International…

Police Blotter

Youth prison guard smuggled contraband for kids

Tacoma – A former guard at the Green Hill School, a juvenile rehabilitation facility in Chehalis, Washington, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to extortion under the color of…

Biden vaccine corps will go door to door to to get more unvaccinated Americans vaccinated

WASHINGTON, DC – It happened last week in New Jersey. The COVID-19 corps went door to door under the direction of Governor Phil Murphy. Now, President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki…

Politics·US and World News

36th Street Bang Squad Member Sentenced for Gang-Related Murders and Shootings

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Newport News man was sentenced yesterday to four life sentences in prison for his role in a gang-related racketeering conspiracy, murder, and attempted murder. According to court…

Tyson Chicken Recall: Company says 8 million pounds tainted, here’s why

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2021 – Tyson Foods Inc., a Dexter, Mo. establishment, is recalling approximately 8,492,832 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department…

Food & Dining

Joe Biden says BBQ’s 16 cents cheaper under him versus Trump

WASHINGTON, D.C. – There’s great news. The cost of food for your Fourth of July BBQ will be 16 whole cents cheaper than it was last year. That’s the great weekend news…

New Jersey News·Politics

Former Boston Police Officer Pleads Guilty in Overtime Fraud Scheme

BOSTON – A former Boston Police officer pleaded guilty today in connection with an ongoing investigation of overtime fraud at the Boston Police Department’s evidence warehouse. Craig Smalls, 55, of Roxbury, pleaded…

Romanian National Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty for His Role in A Conspiracy to Steal Checks Intended for Religious Institutions

Greenbelt, Maryland – Daniel Velcu, age 43, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal bank and wire fraud conspiracy, in which the conspirators received approximately $1,244,056.77 in stolen checks intended…

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