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Jacksonville Sailor Gets 10 Years For Attempting To Entice Minor Into Sexual Activity
Jail Cell, TFP File Photo
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville man and U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for using [...]
Lakeland Man Charged With Bank Fraud After Arrest For Bringing Gun To Tampa Airport
FBI Agent, Source: FBI
LAKELAND, Fla. - Abraham Othman Yacoub, 26, of Lakeland, is facing new legal trouble after being indicted on 10 counts of f [...]
Maryland Woman Convicted Of International Parental Kidnapping After Taking Child To Côte d’Ivoire
FBI Agent: Source: FBI
A federal jury has convicted a woman from Côte d'Ivoire of taking her child out of the United States and leaving the child [...]
Maine Man Arrested For Assaulting Officers During January 6th Capitol Riot
J6 Protest (File)
A Maine man has been arrested on felony charges for his alleged role in the January 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
And [...]
Ohio Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Bringing Meth To West Virginia
Methamphetamine (File)
An Ohio man caught transporting a large amount of methamphetamine has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison. [...]
Georgia Man Faces Federal Prison After Alabama Deputies Discover Explosives In His Car
ATF Agent (SOURCE: ATF)
A Georgia man is facing up to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted of possessing unregistered destructive devi [...]
Georgia Man Gets Nearly 7 Years In Case That Placed The Public In “Insidious Danger”
Pharmaceutical, Pills Source: TFP File Photo
Gregory Buckner, a 48-year-old from Decatur, Georgia, has been sentenced to nearly seven years in fed [...]
Florida Man Leads Deputies On ‘World’s Slowest’ Police Chase, Then Tries To Bite Them: Video
Kyle McNary, 33
In a story that proves truth is stranger than fiction, a Florida man recently treated Flagler County deputies to what might be the [...]
Polk County Sheriff’s Office Arrests Lakeland Man After Dogs Found Malnourished, One Dead
26-year-old Andrew Whitehurst
LAKELAND, Fla. - The Polk County Sheriff’s Office Animal Cruelty Investigations Unit has made another arrest for ani [...]
Pennsylvania Brothers Indicted On Federal Drug Trafficking Charges
Handcuffs, TFP File Photo
Akilees Kadeem Hobson, 26, of Edwardsville, and Armand Kierran Hobson, 27, of Plymouth, were indicted on Tuesday by a fe [...]