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POLK COUNTY, Fla. -The Polk County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for first-degree murder for 26-year-old Enrique Martinez, 5’6″ tall, 146 lbs, in November 2023 for the murder of an adult Hispanic male in a homeless camp on November 8, 2023. Martinez is now a…
Read More Polk County: Warrant Issued For Enrique Martinez In The Murder Of Sierra Hernandez
A federal jury on Friday in Virginia convicted a couple of conspiracy to commit forced labor, forced labor, harboring for financial gain, and document servitude in connection with their operation of a gas station and convenience store. The evidence presented at trial showed that between…
Read More Virginia Couple Convicted Of Forced Labor At Convenience Store, Gas Station
A Florida man has been charged with possession of a firearm as a nineteen-time convicted felon. If convicted, Luis Rosado, 28, Winter Park, faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Rosado that the United States intends to forfeit…
Read More 19-Time Convicted Felon In Florida Now Charged With Firearm Possession
A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Thursday in federal court in Boston to his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Melvin Antonio Perez Medina, 33, of Lawrence, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 64 months in prison, followed…
Read More Massachusetts Man Gets 5 Years In Prison After Feds Find 2 Kilos Of Fentanyl In His Cereal Boxes
An American Airlines flight attendant has been arrested for allegedly recording or attempting to record a minor female passenger using a bathroom aboard an aircraft he was working in September 2023. The defendant is also alleged to have possessed recordings of four additional minor female…
Read More North Carolina Flight Attendant Arrested For Filming Kids Using Bathroom On The Plane
New homeowners in Colorado bought more than the bargained for after finding a human head and hands inside their freezer while cleaning it out. On Friday, January 12, 2024, at approximately 2:30 pm, Deputies with the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office were called to a home in…
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On today’s LEO Round Table, we discuss a new act urged to pass by NPA being re-introduced in Congress, a cop happens to pop in on an active robbery at a gas station, and a taser deployment on escaping suspect turns deadly on video, and…
Read More Taser Deployment On Escaping Suspect Turns Deadly On Video, LEO Round Table
An inmate serving 40 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections for child sex crimes, was sentenced Thursday to an additional 235 months in federal prison for using a contraband cell phone to send and seek out images of child sexual abuse material from behind…
Read More Mississippi Man, Jailed For Child Sex Crimes, Gets 19 Years For Distributing Child Porn Behind Bars
A former resident of Pennsylvania was sentenced on Wednesday to 27 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl. James West, 48, formerly of Sharon, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon. In pleading guilty in this case last year, West admitted…
Read More Pennsylvania Man Gets 27 Months In Prison For Fentanyl Distribution Conspiracy
ST. LOUIS, MO. – A mother and her son have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy in the St. Louis area. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Frederick Mopkins, 32, to 10 years in prison. Mopkins…
Read More St. Louis Mom And Son Sentenced For Trafficking Fentanyl Conspiracy