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Ocala, FL – David Shaw (36, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Shaw had been indicted on May…
Read More Ocala Convicted Felon Pleads Guilty To Federal Firearm And Ammunition Offense
by: LEO Round Table, Chip DeBlock LOS ANGELES, CA. – We discuss the two Los Angeles County (California) sheriff’s deputies being critically wounded after a man ambushed and shot them while they were sitting in their patrol vehicle. Also discussed, the wave of non-proactive officers…
Read More Cops Shot While Sitting In Car On Video – LEO Round Table
GULF BREEZE, Fla. – Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement today arrested Edward Merrill Gray III, 58, of 1 Gray Oaks Lane, Gulf Breeze on eight counts of video voyeurism, one count of interception of oral communication, and the misdemeanor charges of stalking…
Read More FDLE Arrests Former Mayor for Voyeurism and Stalking
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN- Jeffrey R. Jones was charged on Aug. 25, 2020, with federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses. “The defendant is alleged to have maintained an arsenal of firearms to facilitate his drug trafficking,” said U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Krueger for the Eastern District of…
Read More Wisconsin Man Charged with Trafficking Heroin, Fentanyl, and Meth, Illegally Possessing Numerous Firearms
TAMPA, Fla. – A Tampa gang leader and drug dealer has been sentenced. United States District Judge Virginia M. Covington has sentenced Craigory Reeves (29, Tampa) to 23 years and 4 months in federal prison for possessing approximately 13 grams of eutylone with the intent…
Read More 23-Years In Prison, Tampa Gang Leader Sentenced
St. Louis, Missouri – Daquan Sanders, 20, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 104 months in prison for his involvement in an armed carjacking committed in April 2019. In June 2020, Sanders pled guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm…
Read More Armed Carjacker Sentenced to 104-Months in Prison
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla.- UPDATED STORY, CLICK HERE. Hillsborough County Sheriff announced moments ago, that with collaborative efforts by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Florida Highway Patrol, Plant City Police Department, and Tampa Police Department led to the arrest of multiple…
Read More Multiple Arrests Made in the I-4 Shooting Death
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., has a new “Use-of-Force Data Collection” program that launched January 1, 2019, following a fairly successful pilot study. It was developed in response to requests by local, state, federal, and tribal law enforcement…
Read More The FBI’s New Police Use-of-Force ProgramPASCO COUNTY, Fla. – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced the return of an indictment charging Christina Lynn Catalano (38, Holiday) with disaster assistance fraud regarding Hurricane Irma. The indictment also charges Catalano and her husband, Joseph Samuel Catalano (54), with making false statements…
Read More Pasco County Couple Arrested For Submitting False Claims For FEMA Benefits Related To Hurricane Irma
by: LEO ROUND TABLE, Chip DeBlock San Leandro, CA.- New Jersey City Police Lt. Kelly Chesler being awarded $626,000 after she was wrongfully charged for falsifying timesheets and Tennessee Trooper Harvey Briggs being charged with assault after he pulled the mask off a man on…
Read More CA Cop Arrested For Killing Bat-Wielding Man On Video – LEO Round Table (VIDEO)