Former Mayor of Guayama, Puerto Rico Sentenced for Accepting Bribes
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The former mayor of the Municipality of Guayama, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Cintrón-Suárez, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his involvement in a…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The former mayor of the Municipality of Guayama, Puerto Rico, Eduardo Cintrón-Suárez, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his involvement in a…
WASHINGTON – Three alleged members of a drug trafficking organization based in Puerto Rico have been indicted in the District of Columbia, following an…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On May 17, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 41 violent gang members from the municipality…
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico –US Border Patrol Agents apprehended Saturday 60 Haitian migrants after they disembarked in Cabo Rojo. “People who venture to sea to enter the United States illegally not…
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico –US Border Patrol Agents apprehended Wednesday morning 59 Haitian migrants after they disembarked in the coast of Rincon. Ramey Station Border Patrol Agents detected a makeshift “yola”…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On May 6, 2022, following a ten-day bench trial, the Honorable Silvia Carreño-Coll found defendant José Padilla-Galarza guilty as charged in Counts 1, 2, 3,…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON – The mayors of two municipalities in Puerto Rico were arrested on public corruption charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday, confirming an earlier media…
WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico returned an indictment yesterday charging Javier García-Pérez, the Mayor of Aguas Buenas, with conspiracy, soliciting bribes, and extortion. In…
LOS ANGELES – A federal jury today found a long-time senior leader of the South Los Angeles-based East Coast Crips (ECC) street gang guilty of federal criminal charges for…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Former Puerto Rico police officer Carlos Boyrie-Laboy was sentenced today to 48 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release by District Judge Francisco…
Akron, OH – This afternoon, members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested wanted fugitive, Luis Joan Diaz-Rojas. Diaz-Rojas, 41, was wanted by the Puerto Rico Police Department…
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the conviction of JULIO MARQUEZ-ALEJANDRO, a/k/a “Chino,” and LUIS BLONDET for racketeering conspiracy, murder in…
(Reuters) – More than a third of all homes and businesses in Puerto Rico remained without power on Friday, the second day of a massive outage on the Caribbean island…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On March 31, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 20 violent gang members from the municipality…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On March 23, 2022, a federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment charging three individuals for drug trafficking, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A former Puerto Rico legislator and two employees who worked in his office pleaded guilty this week to engaging in a bribery and kickback scheme.…
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico— US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents intercepted a center console vessel near Cabo Rojo, finding 695 pounds (315.4 Kilos) of cocaine…
BOSTON –The leader of a local MS-13 clique pleaded guilty on Friday, March 18, 2022 in federal court in Boston to RICO conspiracy. Manuel Adan Yanez Cruz, a/k/a “Rocky,” a/k/a…
BOSTON – An MS-13 member was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy and for his participation in the July 2018 murder of a teenage boy who…
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAUL ROBLES, 38, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in…
WASHINGTON – A federal indictment was unsealed yesterday charging 18 alleged members of the Simon City Royals gang with a racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, narcotics trafficking, witness tampering,…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On March 3, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 20 violent gang members from the municipality…
EL PASO – A Mexican national was sentenced today to life in prison for his role in the Sinaloa Cartel’s narcotics distribution operations. According to court documents, Arturo Shows Urquidi,…
San Juan, PR – The U.S. Marshals-led Puerto Rico Violent Offenders Task Force arrested a suspected leader of a drug trafficking organization (DTO) wanted in the Southern District of New…
San Juan, PR – U.S. Marshal Wilmer Ocasio-Ibarra announces the arrest of Juan Sierra Jimenez, a dangerous fugitive and main suspect of a shooting that left five people dead. On…