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July 29, 2020 By: Staff Report, DOJ PR ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Six defendants have been sentenced to a combined 81 years in prison for their respective roles in the sex trafficking of a minor victim and an adult victim at multiple locations in Northern Virginia…
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July 29, 2020 By: Staff Report LUTZ, Fla.- At approximately 3 a.m. on Wednesday, deputies were called to a home on the 14000 block of N 30th Street for reports of shots fired. The incident appears to have occurred during a house party. When deputies…
Read More One Dead in Lutz House Party Shooting, Investigation Underway
July 28, 2020 By: Staff Report, DOJ PR ORLANDO, Fla. – Todd Joseph Simmerman (30, Titusville) has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting two minors and committing the offenses while required to register as a sex offender. The court also…
Read More Florida Man Gets 60 Years For Sexually Exploiting Children
July 28, 2020 By: Staff Report, DOJ PR NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey-based securities trader today admitted orchestrating a massive, long-running market manipulation scheme and tax fraud that netted more than $17 million in illegal profits between 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito…
Read More Jersey Man Nets More Than $17 Million in Illicit Profits
July 28, 2020 By: LEO Round Table, Chip DeBlock PORTLAND, OR. – Portland being condemned by Mayor Ted Wheeler and commissioners for destruction by the protesters. Also mentioned: Chad Wolf, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Commissioner JoAnn Hardest; Deputy Director of Operations Richard…
Read More Portland Leaders Want War with Feds – LEO Round Table
July 28, 2020 By: Staff Report FBI PR SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Rashawn Wynn, age 43, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 92 months in prison for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) as part of the 110 Gang, announced United States…
Read More NY Man Sentenced to Nearly Eight Years in Racketeering Gang Case
RIVERVIEW, Fla. – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in a double shooting that occurred early Monday morning, in Riverview. Jordan Jaime Silver, 20, is facing felony charges of First Degree Attempted Murder Premeditated with a Firearm and Second Degree Murder with…
Read More Riverview Double Shooting Monday, Jordan Silver Arrested
July 27, 2020 By: Staff Report, DOJ PR Ocala, Florida – Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Carlos Eduardo Hampton (23, Cocoa) to eight years and one month in federal prison for robbery and for possessing a firearm as a convicted…
Read More Rural King Robber Sentenced To More Than 8-Years In Federal Prison
July 27, 2020 By: Staff and HCSO PR TAMPA, Fla.- The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man after he burglarized a local church, stealing a safe and laptop during the crime. A suspect was seen on surveillance video burglarizing the ALTAR Church located at…
Read More Tampa Man Burglarized Church, Arrested
July 27, 2020 By: Staff Report SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A Rochester, Ill., man, Randall E. Tarr, today entered a plea of guilty to making a threat against U.S. Congressman Rodney Davis. Tarr, 65, of the 200 block of E. Mill St., Rochester, Ill., entered his…
Read More Illinois Man Pleads Guilty, Threatening to Shoot U.S. Congressman