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Drug Trafficker Pleads Guilty In Sumter County Court
Antoine Lamar Whitter (Office of the State Attorney-5th JC)
SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. - Antoine Lamar Whitter, 42, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of T [...]
Guatemalan Man Sentenced In Massachusetts For Repeated Illegal Re-Entry To U.S. After Multiple Deportations
Border Patrol agents (CBP)
A 34-year-old Guatemalan man, Genaro Romero-Romos, received a seven-month prison sentence in a Boston federal court for [...]
Georgia Women Sentenced For Fraud: Receiving Dead Relatives’ Social Security Benefits
Prison Photo (TFP File Photo)
Two Georgia women, Teresa Carter and Sharon Crowder, received sentences Friday for stealing over $269,000 in Social [...]
FBI ‘Most Wanted’ New Jersey Fugitive Arrested In California
Kofi Edwards (FBI)
A man wanted for a violent armed robbery in New Jersey in 2009 was arrested in Sacramento, California today. Kofi Edwards, 51, [...]
Colombian Citizen Pleads Guilty To Illegally Exporting Firearms From Florida
Long Rifles (File)
Jorge Giovanny Gonzalez-Lopez, a 42-year-old Colombian citizen, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle firearms from the U [...]
Former Grace Christian School Music Teacher Arrested After Student Gets Pregnant: HCSO
Denzel Proctor (HCSO)
VALRICO, Fla. - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has arrested a former teacher from Grace Christian School for havin [...]
Former “Teacher Of The Year” In South Carolina Arrested For Stalking 11-Year-Old Student
Dylan Robert Dukes (ACSO)
Dylan Robert Dukes, a 27-year-old former music teacher at Starr Elementary School and the district's 2023 "Teacher of th [...]
Dundee Man Arrested For Repeated Indecent Exposure In Winter Haven Walmart Parking Lot
Trinell Alexander Webster (WHPD)
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A 33-year-old Dundee man, Trinell Alexander Webster, faces three charges of Exposure of Sex [...]
Appeals Court Confirms Sentence For Florida Woman Gretchen Buselli In Murder-For-Hire Plot
Gretchen Buselli (LCSO)
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of Gretchen Buselli, a Tallahassee woman con [...]
Indiana Man Gets 14 Months For Threatening To Kill Michigan Election Worker
Handcuffs, Source: Pexels
Andrew Nickels, a 38-year-old man from Carmel, Indiana, was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison for sending a [...]