Archive | July, 2011

Notorious New Mexico Gang Members Arrested

On July 19, 2011 Officers with the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force arrested Santos Ochoa and Marshals Service Deputies and Detectives from the Roswell Police Department arrested Tino Rodriguez. Both Rodriguez and Ochoa were on the United States Marshals Service’s “New Mexico’s Most Wanted’ as Gang affiliated Fugitives. Ochoa has been a fugitive from justice [...]

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Cyber Attackers Who Crippled PayPal Servers Busted By FBI

Fourteen individuals were arrested today by FBI agents on charges related to their alleged involvement in a cyber attack on PayPal’s website as part of an action claimed by the group “Anonymous,” announced the Department of Justice and the FBI. Two additional defendants were arrested today on cyber-related charges. The 14 individuals were arrested in [...]

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Two Arkansas Men Plead Guilty To Cross Burning

Tony Branscum, 25, and James Bradley “Brad” Branscum, 23, both of Salado, Ark., pleaded guilty today to criminal violations of housing rights related to their role in the Aug. 28, 2010, cross burning in front of an African-American man’s apartment in Salado, the Department of Justice announced. The two men, who are first cousins, along [...]

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WANTED – Criminal Trio Wanted For Spartanburg Robberies

On June 28th and again on June 29th, a trio of criminals targeted unsuspecting female senior citizens by stealing their wallets from their purses. The first incident took place on June 28th at the Sam’s Club located on Peachwood Centre Drive in Spartanburg County, SC. The trio, a black male, a black female and a [...]

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New Mexico Most Wanted Captured In Georgia

On July 15, 2011, members from the United States Marshals Service South East Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Jesse Sosa. Sosa is one of The Marshals Service District of New Mexico’s Most Wanted Violent Fugitives. On October 15, 2010, Jesse Sosa was to be sentenced in a New Mexico District Court for Aggravated Assault with [...]

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Spartanburg Men Receive 40 Years for Armed Robberies

Two Spartanburg men received 40 year sentences today for their involvement in multiple armed robberies of Lil’ Cricket and Kangaroo stores in Spartanburg County. Xavier L. Perry, 22, pled guilty to 8 counts of Armed Robbery and Chadwick Anderson, 24, pled guilty to 6 counts of Armed Robbery and 2 counts of Accessory After the [...]

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Pennsylvania Man Indicted for Soliciting Jihadists to Kill Americans

Emerson Winfield Begolly, 22, of New Bethlehem, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., today for allegedly soliciting Islamic extremists to engage in acts of terrorism within the United States and posting bomb-making instruction materials online. The indictment was announced by Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of [...]

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Inman Man Receives 20 Year Sentence for Shooting

An Inman man received a 20-year prison sentence today after a Spartanburg County jury decided he shot another man in the head.Louie A. Chapman, 58, was found guilty of attempted murder at the conclusion of a two-day jury trial. He will serve 80 percent of Circuit Judge Derham Cole’s prison sentence before he is eligible [...]

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Charleston Fugitive Remains At Large

Rodney Wayne Smith Jr. was on work release from Charleston County when he didn’t return from his work release program on July 4th. Smith was originally arrested on a bench warrant for failing to pay his child support, and he was allowed work release permitting he return to the prison at the end of the [...]

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Three Philadelphia-Area Men Sentenced for Robbery and Murder of a Police Officer

Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announced today that MARION PEGESE, age 38, ROBERT WARD, age 32, and TOUSSAINT DAVIS, age 42, all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Syracuse, New York following their convictions for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robberies and the murder of [...]

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