Opinion List - Crime & Justice
Newswire Services
November 08, 2009
WASHINGTON,D.C. -- Representatives of three federal law enforcement agencies told a House Judiciary Subcommittee today that more needs to be done to combat organized retail crime (ORC) in the U.S.
In testimony before the House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, off...
Newswire Services
November 08, 2009
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Laura Wang-Woodford, a U.S. citizen who served as a director of Monarch Aviation Pte Ltd., a Singapore company that imported and exported military and commercial aircraft components for more than 20 years, was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn to 46 months in prison for conspi...
Joseph Raglione
November 08, 2009
Carly Fiorina begins negative attack campaign.
Joseph Raglione
November 08, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, as most of you know, I am a Canadian. Unlike most Americans however, the fact that I am a Canadian does not make me particularly proud! The reason is simply because I am an unwilling participant in a crime. Canada, led by our Conservative government, is...
David Swanson
November 07, 2009
Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Activists are building better media outlets, educating young people, educating old people, keeping military testing and recruiting out of schools, and discouraging the Army from building real-weapon video arcades in shopping malls. But when it comes to stopping our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, our citizens are less clear how to go about it.
Michelle Malsbury, BSBM, MM
November 06, 2009
In the days and months after Michael Jackson died a number of conspiracy theories began to take shape. There are still many unanswered questions. For more insight into the possibility of whether Michael Jackson was murdered or not please read my article in its entirety.
Joseph Raglione
November 07, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, common sense will tell you that poor and destitute American citizens need your protection. The best way to provide that protection is to provide decent health care for poor citizens when they need it most. With decent health care, most citizens will be ...
Joseph Raglione
November 07, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, they continue unabated and unashamed and they are the most horrendous acts Man can impose upon Nature!! I write of the Mountain Top blasting in West Virginia, for the purpose of extracting dirty Coal and which is comparable only to the monstrous hole cr...
California Political Desk
November 07, 2009
LOS ANGELES – Assemblymember Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) joined Los Angeles County Assessor Rick Auerbach and other local officials to warn homeowners about misleading and official-looking letters asking for fees to file their property tax reduction requests and to highlight a new law, Assembly Bill 992 ...
National Desk
November 06, 2009
HOPE Program would reduce recidivism through closely-monitored probations paired with strict consequences for violators.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressmen Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Ted Poe (R-TX) introduced legislation that will create a new program to fight drug use and crime. The Honest Opportunity ...
National Desk
November 06, 2009
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor today in support of H. Res. 895, honoring the lives of the brave soldiers and civilians who died or were wounded in the tragic attack yesterday at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. The House will vote on the legislation later today. B...
Crime Blotter
November 06, 2009
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Yesterday, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a suspected smuggler and seized a significant amount of crystal methamphetamine being transported northbound on Interstate 5.
At around 11:15 a.m., agents on patrol stopped a Dodge Durango truck near the Avenida Magdalen...
Crime Blotter
November 06, 2009
Vehicle was found inside of a container bound to Europe.
LOS ANGELES — As a result of an outbound operation at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials seized a 1965 Volkswagen Bus which was reported stolen in Spokane, WA more than 35 years ago.
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Muhammad Khurshid
November 05, 2009
President Barack Obama faces his own dilemmas on the subject of Afghan policy. Should he go for reconstruction or counter-terrorism? Since reconstruction is impossible without control, he has to beef up the ability of the allied troops in Afghanistan to handle the Taliban aggression. The US army chief in Afghanistan, General McChrystal says 40,000 more American troops are needed, but that balks the Pakistan army on other counts. The last time the Taliban came under pressure from the American troops they made a beeline for Pakistan. When the additional troops put pressure on the Taliban they will retreat into Pakistani territory for regrouping and in the process negate the success achieved in the Tribal Areas by the Pakistan army. Clearly, both sides are pointing to the same weaknesses that they actually share. The only way is to coordinate and tackle the menace jointly.
Joseph Raglione
November 06, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, posting a message on your grocer's post-it board is nothing like this! Here is an opportunity to reach millions of people...>
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Today, just one week after launch, the 15,000th supporter of a clean energy future posted a message on The Wall:...
Joseph Raglione
November 06, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the Patriot Act needs fixing and if you don't do it, who will? How important is your personal liberty? If you honestly love Democratic freedom, than contact your Congressman and demand he take action to change and improve the Patriot Act. It must be re...
Gary Ater
November 04, 2009
More proof that there is a group of far-right zealots out there that is frighteningly for real.
Joseph Raglione
November 05, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the concept of representative government harbors the concept (true or false) that your government Senator is your representative in Washington. In the following sad case, the answer is false! Maybe there is something you could do to change the answer?
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Joseph Raglione
November 05, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the time for change is here and the struggle continues between the top executive directors of the current health care insurance industry and the rest of us. Our problem is that we are controlled and dominated by business executives who do not honestly k...
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
November 04, 2009
Dwek apparently spent 29 months as a cooperating witness, setting up rabbis and others in the religious community, as well as leaders which included sitting mayors, current political candidates and public officials
California Desk
November 05, 2009
Two-day undercover operation catches more than one dozen phony contractors.
SACRAMENTO – A Contractors State License Board (CSLB) sting operation conducted in San Clemente last week highlights the risks consumers face if they hire unlicensed contractors for home or business improvement projects....
Michael P. Ehline, P.C.
November 05, 2009
Authorities stated that the text message that was sent one minute prior to the accident said "need bars?" This according to authorities is the street name used for the prescription drug Xanax.
Gary Ater
November 03, 2009
Well, here we are again. One more time we get to ask ourselves why did this man get elected as VP…and then get re-elected?
Michelle Malsbury, BSBM, MM
November 02, 2009
For those of you who love a spy novel steeped in espionage and black ops this is a must read. Haggai Carmons' book "Triangle of Deception" is a thriller extraordinaire!For more insight into this spectacular book please read my review in its entirety.
Jared Church
November 03, 2009
Express Pardons can help you lose your record for ridiculous convictions.
Congressional Desk
November 04, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congressman Adam Schiff, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, commended the appointment of Charlie Beck as Los Angeles Police Chief. Rep. Schiff is the author of comprehensive legislation to fight gang violence and has been a champion in promoting the use of DNA forensi...
International Desk
November 03, 2009
Joint Statement on the Release of Martenus Bere – Indicted for Crimes Against Humanity in Timor-Leste
For the past ten years the disinterest of the international community and active efforts by Indonesia have blocked efforts to end impunity for serious crimes committed during the Indonesian occu...
Hundreds Demand Obama End Afghan And Iraq Wars, Close Guantanamo And Bagram, Surge Spending On Housi
International Desk
November 03, 2009
Washington – As the U.S. led war in Afghanistan begins its ninth year this week, 82 were arrested bringing a strong message to the White House that war, torture and drone bombing are outrageous, unacceptable and must end immediately. National anti-war groups and people from around the country joined...
Sam Vaknin
November 03, 2009
None of these pernicious facts was a secret. Everyone treated the derivatives markets as glorified gambling dens. Losses were expected and a Ponzi scheme fatalism prevailed long before the cash dried out in 2007. The lack of trust that manifested later and the resultant lack of liquidity were no surprise (though the financial community feigned a collective shock).
Joseph Raglione
November 03, 2009
Why are Republicans hunting Alan Grayson?
Jim Kouri, CPP
October 29, 2009
Federal agents working on a counterterrorism task force in Detroit, Michigan reported that during a gun battle they shot and killed the Imam of a radical Islamic group. Agents say the gunfight began after Luqman Ameen Abdullah failed to surrender and face with various criminal charges.
Abdullah i...
Gary Ater
November 02, 2009
Just more examples showing why Fox Non-News is just a tool for the right-wing, "wing-nuts".
Joseph Raglione
October 31, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, Sarah Jackson Han has information dealing with the Guantanamo Prison detainees. Personally, I believe that keeping Uyghurs in prison at Guantanamo simply because they were refugees from China, was an extreme travesty of both justice and human rights.......
Ajmer Alam
October 30, 2009
Farooq Gani puts all Muslim J&K Journalists under scanner, embarrassment
Subhash Kandpal
October 30, 2009
In recent times the requirement for qualified and well trained physical therapy assistants and technicians has boomed rapidly. In fact, with the rise in health care standards and number of health care centers and clinics, in the next few years the medical industry expects to look for more qualified physical therapist assistants.
Subhash Kandpal
October 30, 2009
Physical therapist assistants (PTAs) perform a variety of tasks under the track and supervision of physical therapists. Their prime responsibilities generally consist of conducting therapeutic exercises, provide therapeutic massage, and observe patient´s recovery along with evaluate data on a patient's progress.
Jailed New York City's former police chief Bernard Kerik is in a psychiatric unit and on suicide wat
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
October 30, 2009
Kerik is displaying worrisome, risky behavior in jail, a federal judge said Friday after speaking with the jail's psychiatric director
David Swanson
October 30, 2009
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Gary Ater
October 30, 2009
The Republicans just hate it when the other side uses the same tactics that they use.
Subhash Kandpal
October 29, 2009
Over the past few years making a career as a dental assistant has gained enormous popularity in the United States. In fact, it has emerged as one of the few professions in the health care industry that has pulled the interests of many people in last few years.
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today announced the addition of Semion Mogilevich to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. Mogilevich is being sought for his alleged involvement in racketeering, fraud, and money laundering activities. He should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
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Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
A Los Angeles man wanted by multiple agencies in connection with at least four murders and various other crimes has been added to the FBI´s list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, it was announced today by Keith Bolcar, Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles, and officials wi...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the addition of Eduardo Ravelo, aka "Tablas," to its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. Ravelo is being sought for his alleged involvement in the Barrio Azteca transnational gang and their racketeering, money laundering and drug-related activities i...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
JACKSONVILLE, FL—U.S. Attorney Brian A. Albritton announces that U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Marvin Leigh Madkins (age 29, of Virginia) to 50 years in federal prison for sex trafficking of minors and transporting minors across state lines for prostitution. A feder...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mouyad Mahmoud Darwish, age 48, formerly of Maryland, today to 15 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for making a false statement in connection with an immigration matter, announced United States Attorne...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
More than 1,000 police officers and federal agents executed dozens of arrest and search warrants this morning in a coordinated operation in which members of a violent street gang were taken into custody for their alleged roles in the widespread distribution of narcotics. The results of today´s...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Tommy Handy, aka "Tom Tom," waved indictment and pleaded guilty in federal court in Little Rock, Ark., to a federal charge of sex trafficking of an underage female, announced Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Jane W. Duke, U.S. Attorney for t...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—A former U.S. Army contracting official was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for accepting more than $80,000 in bribes in exchange for corruptly providing contract work to two Afghan trucking companies, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Bre...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mouyad Mahmoud Darwish, age 48, formerly of Maryland, today to 15 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for making a false statement in connection with an immigration matter, announced United States Attorne...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
TUCSON, AZ—Joseph William Nichols, 31, of Tucson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 33 months in federal prison, to be served following his sentence for bank robbery. Nichols pleaded guilty on August 13, 2009 to possessing contraband in prison.
Nichols was an inmat...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
HOUSTON—Elliott R. Hernandez, 44, of Houston, a District Adjudications Officer with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), has been charged with bribery, fraud in connection with a computer and receiving something of value in exchange for perfor...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced dispositions in five separate cases in federal court in San Diego involving child pornography. United States Attorney Hewitt stated that the number of prosecutions of child pornography cases prosecuted by the United States Attorney´s Office in S...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
BIRMINGHAM—A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former bank president to 10 months in prison on charges he stole $171,913 from the bank where he worked, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor sentenced BOBBY SORRELLS, 72, of Hartford, and ordered him...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated Amroggang Development Bank (Amroggang) as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 for being owned or controlled by North Korea's Tanchon Commercial Bank (Tanchon). Treasury also today designate...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Division, announced that one-time Norte Valle Cartel kingpin and former FBI Top Ten fugitive Diego Montoya Sanchez, a/k/a ...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Cr...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Three Ohio residents, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 29, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 46, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 28, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from more than eight years to 20 years for conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military person...
Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON—Erin Sharma, a former corrections officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was sentenced today in federal court in Orlando, Fla., on federal civil rights charges related to the fatal assault of an inmate, announced Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez of the Civil Rights Di...
Joseph Raglione
October 29, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, Barbara Boxer is absolutely on the right path but she needs your help! Come to think about it, unless you like natural disasters, you need her help a great deal more than she needs yours, but who is quibling? It is way past the time to get serious about...
Jared Church
October 28, 2009
Political Activism comes with a price.
David Swanson
October 28, 2009
ADD YOUR NAME TO THOSE OF 83 HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS AND LEADERS
Rev. Michael Bresciani
October 11, 2009
Is leftism rising to the defense of evil even as it sinks to the depths of hell? Perhaps this question would have made a better title for this article but why scare readers away with what may only be construed as preachers pious platitudes.
America is busy with economic problems, the war in Afgh...
Gary Ater
October 26, 2009
A request for more troops for Afghanistan sat on Cheney´s and Bush´s desks for 8 months before their political terms ended, and Cheney, in his recent speech, now has the gall to accuse President Obama, who is trying to decide on the right strategy, of....."dithering".....?
Congressional Desk
October 26, 2009
Protects Main Funding Source for Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault Victims
Washington, DC – Legislation introduced by Idaho Senator Mike Crapo and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) that protects funds for programs that assist victims of domestic violence and sexual ass...
Mike Colpitts
October 26, 2009
The biggest buyers housing market is forecast by Housing Predictor for 2010.
Gary Ater
October 26, 2009
As long as Fox continues its misinformation campaign and to sponsor and organize the right-wing organization´s "Tea Parties", Fox must then stop trying to market themselves as a real "News Network".
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
October 25, 2009
Laguna Beach Mayor Kelly Boyd told the media he was shocked when he heard news of the murder.
"It's just so rare to hear about a murder in Laguna Beach," he said, adding that he can't recollect when the most recent murder took place in the city.
Laguna Beach is a small, tight-knit community where neighbors look out for each other, Boyd said
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
October 18, 2009
While everyone in the world are always in favor of protecting minority rights, it is also equally expected from the religious minorities in the world that they won´t use religious sentiment in covering any form of illegal activities, as some of the Hindu leaders in Dhaka [Bangladesh] have committed in the mentioned case.
Patrick Lockyer
October 25, 2009
I did not give it a thought as a ten year old in Wales watching cowboys and Indians movies. The slaughter of the native was not an issue. The cowboy riding and shooting skills were the awesome feature. Sliding down the side of the horse and leaping aboard on the run.
Martin Underwood
October 24, 2009
While there are many benefits to home security alarm monitoring, there are some downsides as well. The ongoing cost of having such security can be quite substantial and you may also consider being locked into a contract to be another downside. Why then is security alarm monitoring so popular?
Donia S. Najar
October 24, 2009
Rape, abuse, treating one another unequally and losing one´s self steam. Today we live in a society that calls itself for modern and developed but still we continue having outrageous behavior and emotional instability from many of us. Why would we hurt one another? Why would we try to abuse one another? Is it the feeling of controlling and having the power over someone that is weaker or are we mentally sick and we try to deny it?
Subhash Kandpal
October 23, 2009
A surgical technician is a trained professional who plays a very vital role to any undergoing surgery. Though there may be slight variation in the role of a technician depending upon the different medical facilities within the United States.
John Cain
October 23, 2009
Because you can model your security precautions around their tactics, it is important to categorize the different types of burglars. Knowing the enemy always helps in any situation.
John Cain
October 23, 2009
If an intruder has broken into your home, your security system will notify you with blaring sirens . But what then? Here are some tips to help you construct a plan to protect you and your family when the unthinkable happens.
Michael Ellement
October 24, 2009
The Supreme Court likely to extend further rights to gun owners.
Joseph Raglione
October 24, 2009
P.M. Harper, A Bush of the North.
Joseph Raglione
October 23, 2009
Women Pay More Than Men For Health Insurance.
Jim Kouri, CPP
October 23, 2009
Tarek Mehanna, 27, was charged on Wednesday in federal court in Boston with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, according to reports obtained by the Terrorism Committee of the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police.
The federal complaint alleges that, beginning...
Sophia Tesfamariam
October 23, 2009
On my flight back from London, UK, I decided to catch up on my reading and began by going through some articles that were compiled for me by a friend. It was amongst the pile that I found the piece on Somalia by J. Peter Pham; it turned out to be yet another lazy analysis… I say lazy because his ent...
Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
October 23, 2009
The remarkable thing about this case is one of the defendants as a high ranking cartel boss of Richard Padilla Cramer a former United States Government agent with ICE
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—A Maryland scientist who once worked in varying capacities for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been arrested for attempted espionage, David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Channing ...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Solomon Nathaniel of Sterling Heights, Mich., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg of the Ea...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
HOUSTON—A former accounting supervisor for a Houston area chemicals company has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $3.6 million from her employer, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.
Diana Simon, 49, of Sugar Land, Texas, appeared before United States District Judge Kenn...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—Habib Khan, 49, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for crimes relating to his operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. Khan, a citizen of Pakistan, pleaded guilty last April, admitting that h...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
BECKLEY, WV—A federal inmate serving a prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley, West Virginia was sentenced today to 27 months' imprisonment for possessing a weapon inside the prison. Miguel Rodriguez, 33, of Brandenburg, Kentucky, previously pled guilty in June 2009...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
NEWPORT NEWS, VA—Two men were sentenced today for operating an elaborate scheme seeking to defraud financial institutions—largely servicing military members—of approximately $1.5 million.
Joseph M. Cherry, II, 29, of Norfolk, Va., was sentenced to 112 months in prison followed b...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
PHILADELPHIA—S. Michael Palermo, 69, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with former State Senator Vincent Fumo to receive a contract from the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee ("SDAC"), under which Palermo received $287,000 in state funds between 1999 and...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
BOSTON—PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC., a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc ("Pfizer") today was sentenced today in federal court for a felony violation of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, for misbranding the drug, Bextra, with the intent to defraud or mislead. PHARMACIA & UPJOHN COMPANY, INC. was sente...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY P. HEIDEL, 53, of Kings Mills, Ohio, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, fo...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VICTOR ESTEVES, also known as "Gadget," 35, of Hillside Avenue, Hartford, was sentenced on Friday, October 16, by Senior United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonmen...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
Former Naval Recruiter Sentenced for Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Child
Human Trafficking Rescue Project: Operation Guardian Angel
KANSAS CITY, MO—Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Olathe, Kan., man was sentenced in fede...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
OAKLAND, CA—Hassan Swaid was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for conspiring to purchase stolen merchandise from major retailers and shipping the stolen goods to out of state customers, and for structuring his finances to avoid currency transaction reports, United States Attorney Joseph ...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Mark Allen Jackson, 43, of Alexandria, Va., pleaded guilty today to traveling across state lines to have sex with a high school student.
Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Joseph Persichini Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the F...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Two members of MS-13 were sentenced today to life in prison for killing a rival gang member outside the Cerro Grande restaurant in Springfield, Va. Another gang member, Jorge Parada, aka "Rama," 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 300 months in prison for conspiring to di...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and J. Thomas Cardwell, Commissioner, State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation, announced that defendant Michael Riolo, 38, of Boc...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
BALTIMORE, MD—U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Kara McIntosh, age 47, of Bethesda, Maryland, today to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud arising from the fraudulent purchase of properties in Maryland and the District of Columbia u...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
HUNTINGTON, WV—Matthew D. Pennington, 29, of Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers to 27 months' imprisonment for aiding and abetting the theft of mail. Pennington pled guilty on April 27, 2009, admitting he helped take four bags of m...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Great Falls on October 16, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, R-LYNN DEAN LITTLEDOG, a 22-year-old resident of Browning, pled guilty to abusive sexual contact. Sentenc...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Cr...
Crime Blotter
October 23, 2009
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Great Falls on October 16, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, R-LYNN DEAN LITTLEDOG, a 22-year-old resident of Browning, pled guilty to abusive sexual contact. Sentenc...