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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Honolulu man convicted of transferring obscenity to a minor under 16 years old residing in Australia, over the Internet, was sentenced to nine months in prison by United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright on October 3. Kyle Kaponiokalani Saito, 22, pleaded guilty to the offense on June 23, 2011 in United States District [...]

United States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales announced that, this morning in Albuquerque federal court, Marvin Antonio Aguilar-Lopez, 24, entered a guilty plea and admitted killing Stephanie Anderson during the armed robbery of the Denny’s Restaurant located at 1602 Coors Blvd. NW in Albuquerque on June 20, 2009. Ms. Anderson was employed as a cook at [...]