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Career Criminal Behind Bars After FBI Investigation in Baltimore

U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg sentenced Curtis Allen Thomas, age 44, of Baltimore, today to 27 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbery, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, and being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition. Judge Legg enhanced Thomas’ sentence upon [...]

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Alleged Child Rapist Caught After 9 Years Running

U.S. Marshals have arrested Pasquale Patrick Senatore a 45 year old male in New Jersey for a 2002 warrant out of El Dorado County. In 1998 Senatore is alleged to have forcibly raped a 14 year old female victim repeatedly over a 3 month period. In approximately 2002, investigators opened up a case after the [...]

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Seventeen Convicted In International Sex Trafficking Conspiracy

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MI SUN CHO was convicted yesterday for her role in an international sex trafficking conspiracy. After a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood, CHO was found guilty of conspiring with others to induce or entice women [...]

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Cali Predator Lures Oklahoma Child On Xbox Live

JOHN KENNETH CALDERON BASTO (a/k/a Tribal x MoDzz), 22, of Long Beach, California, pled guilty today to causing the distribution of child pornography of a 10-year-old Oklahoma boy, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. According to court records, Basto and the elementary schooler met playing the video game [...]

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Hate Group Murders Two Tampa Homeless Men

U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces that a federal jury today found James Robertson (32) guilty of two counts of murder in aid of racketeering. Robertson faces a mandatory penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled. Robertson was indicted on May 22, 2008. According to testimony and evidence [...]

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Members of Florida Crack Cocaine Distribution Ring Indicted

United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jude Sereme (27), Neheme Ductant (27), Rick Jean (25), Wilmane Jean (22), Rashid Francois (26), Fritzco Desir (23), Jophaney Hyppolite (28), and Eric Bonita (25), all residents of Miami, and Jennifer Nicole Sander (30) and Michael Dupin (29), both residents of Fort [...]

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U.S. Marshals Arrest Man Who Threatened to Kill Wife and Cops

The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force (FRFTF) from Pensacola apprehended a man who according to police reports said he would kill his wife, her family and law enforcement should they try to stop him. According to a report taken by the Sheriff’s Office in Santa Rosa taken earlier this week James Walter Robinson [...]

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Atlanta Man Lies to FBI About Plans to Hire Hit Man to Murder Competing Butcher

JAVIER ACOSTA-CAUDILLO, 37, of Woodstock, Georgia, pled guilty today to lying to a federal agent concerning his role in a murder-for-hire scheme. “Every day, federal agents conduct investigations of serious criminal conduct that threatens the safety of our community. Agents depend upon the honesty of the people they interview to make sure that they can [...]

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Atlanta-Area Man Arrested for Attempting to Meet Minor Child for Sex

Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Lamkin announces, on behalf of the FBI’s Northwest Georgia Safe Child Task Force, the following arrest at Ringgold, Georgia: Jessie Lipscomb, 21 years of age, of Temple, Georgia, was arrested on Monday, October 10, 2011, by FBI agents and task force officers after coming to the attention of undercover [...]

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FBI Shuts Down 18 Child Porn Websites

In another example of the increasingly international nature of crime, a man was recently indicted on federal charges of running 18 Chinese-language child pornography websites out of his apartment in Flushing, New York. The websites were being advertised to Chinese-speaking individuals in China, in the U.S., and other countries. This case serves as an example [...]

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